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Simple Segmentation
nIn contrast with paging, segmentation is visible to the
programmer
uprovided
as a convenience to organize logically programs (ex: data in one segment, code
in another
segment)
umust
be aware of segment size limit
nThe OS maintains a segment table for each process. Each
entry contains:
u the starting physical addresses of that segment.
uthe
length of that segment (for protection)