I have someone telling me that malloc() requests a contiguous physical address space in real RAM chips, and fails if it doesn't exist. From everything I've read (I'm not a programmer myself), there is ...

A quick look at the pinouts of an Intel 8086 & 8088 processor reveals a 20 bit address bus. There was high demand for the ability to address 1 meg (2^20) of address space, and Intel delivered. However ...

Logical block addressing (LBA) for NAND Flash memory—that's what Toshiba says its done with the LBA-NAND, a new range of high-capacity devices integrating the new addressing method. NAND Flash memory ...