-The segment:offset scheme requires only a 16bit number to represent the base address for a segment and only 16bit offset to access any location in a segment.
- This means that the 8086 has to manipulate and store only 16 bit quantities instead of 20bit quantities.
This makes for an easier interface with 8 and 16bit wide memory boards and with the 16 bit registers in the 8086.
- Each time the CPU switches from one user's program to the next, it must access a new section of data. Segmentation makes this switching quite easy.
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