Question

The process of organizing the memory into two banks to allow $8$ and $16$ bit data operation is called

• A. Bank switching
• B. Indexed mapping
• C. Two-way memory inter leaving
• D. Memory segmentation

Answer 1

The correct option is D Memory segmentation

The process of organizing the memory into two banks to allow 8 and 16 bit data operation is called Memory segmentation.

Memory segmentation is the division of a computer's primary memory into segments or sections. In a computer system using segmentation, a reference to a memory location includes a value that identifies a segment and an offset (memory location) within that segment.