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"COM" programs as seen in MS DOS and earlier CP/M systems contain only relative addresses, and can run from any "segment" of RAM, as the addresses are relative to the value of a segment register. This was used to load "background" services, typically servicing hardware devices.

MCUs with MMUs are starting to appear, such as the ESP32-S31.

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