Alternative and Successor Techniques
Bank switching was later supplanted by segmentation in many 16-bit systems, which in turn gave way to paging memory management units. In embedded systems, however, bank switching is still often used, for its simplicity, low cost, and often better adaptation to those contexts than to general purpose computing.
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