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    Bank switching is a technique used in computer design to increase the amount of usable memory beyond the amount directly addressable by the processor instructions...
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    for every interrupt mode. x86 processors use context switching and fast interrupts for switching between instruction, decoder, GPRs and register files...
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  • identical memory banks of RAM, and use bank switching to switch between them. Harvard architecture computers have (at least) two very different banks of memory...
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  • addressing up to 1 megabyte of RAM via bank switching. While numerous 6502-based processors can perform bank switching, they achieve this via separate logic...
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    In DOS memory management, expanded memory is a system of bank switching that provided additional memory to DOS programs beyond the limit of conventional...
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    produced by Microchip Technology. The memory architecture makes use of bank switching. Software tools for assembler, debug and programming were only available...
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    Combat was only 2 KB. Later games circumvented this limitation with bank switching. The console has 128 bytes of RAM for scratch space, the call stack...
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  • hardware. The reservation may be permanent, or temporary (as achieved via bank switching). An example of the latter is found in the Commodore 64, which uses...
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    with earlier third-party 80-column cards) for adding more memory via bank-switching RAM cards. Through this slot it also includes built-in support for an...
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  • make 64+ KB) of Executable ROS (ROM) and up to 64 KB of RAM. A simple bank switching scheme was used to extend the address space. In 1973, the IBM Los Gatos...
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    away from the CPU, an extensive implementation of ANSI BASIC and a bank switching system to allow for larger amounts of RAM than the Z80 natively supported...
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    2x2 tile group), highly configurable program ROM and character ROM bank switching, and a scanline-based IRQ counter. The MMC5 supports up to 2MB total...
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    limits on the current and voltage they can handle, finite switching time, etc. The ideal switch is often used in circuit analysis as it greatly simplifies...
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  • for bank-switching 16 kB, organized as four 4 kB blocks, mapped onto 8kB of address space. The lower 4 kB did not change, and system could bank switch between...
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  • the included BASIC language interpreter in ROM); without exploiting bank switching, which allows for breaking the 64 KB (RAM) limit in some systems. Other...
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    technical manual. Unlike version 2.2, this edition of CP/M supports bank switching memory, which allows compatible programs to use more RAM. An alternative...
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    PBI connection. The 130XE has 128 KB of memory, accessible through bank switching. The additional 64K can be used as a RAM drive. The 130XE includes the...
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    systems, especially 8-bit systems, used very simple MMUs to perform bank switching. Modern MMUs typically divide the virtual address space (the range of...
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    System's major advantages by using discrete logic chips to perform bank switching. Nintendo also demanded half of the copyright ownership for each game...
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  • memory), a block of virtual memory Paging, a method of data retrieval Bank switching, sometimes known as paging Electronic page, formatting digital documents...
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  • available memory locations without having to resort to any sort of bank switching, memory segmentation or paging schemes. Memory management and address...
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    pins of the processor are used to control the computer's memory map by bank switching, and for controlling three of the four signal lines of the Datasette...
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    function registers, and 232 bytes of general-purpose RAM), with awkward bank-switching in the models that supported more. In 2000, Microchip introduced the...
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    (NTSC), 128 colors, 128 bytes of RAM with 4 KB on cartridges (64 KB via bank switching). The design experienced many makeovers and revisions during its 14-year...
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    memory was mapped on to the I/O area, so it was controlled without bank switching. These features made the X1 very powerful for game software. Despite...
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    tubes) were commonly used as switching elements; a useful computer requires thousands or tens of thousands of switching devices. The overall speed of...
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    Cromemco introduced the concept of bank-switching to the S-100 bus which allowed memory to be place in one of 8 banks of 64 Kbytes, thus expanding the effective...
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  • limits can be overcome using special techniques. Bank switching allows blocks of RAM memory to be switched into the processor's address space when required...
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    became to mean any switching system including its facilities and operators. It is also used generally for the building that houses switching and related inside...
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    entry. Mapping a memory range smaller than the framebuffer memory, then bank switching as necessary. The framebuffer organization may be packed pixel or planar...
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