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Comment by mantrax4

In short, private virtual addressing is legacy cruft from a time when this was the only way to organize things due to a constrained memory block identifier namespace.

Think about it like IPv4 vs. IPv6, i.e. hacks like NAT, vs. "everything has its own IP address in a single flat address space of IPs".

It's the same, but with computer memory. And it has the same benefits.

parent mantrax4 12 years ago

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