Write down the advantages of segmented memory.

Advantages of memory segmentation:

(i) Segmentation provides a powerful memory management mechanism.

(ii) It allows programmers to partition their programs into modules that operate independently of one another.

(iii) Segments allow two processes to easily share data.

(iv) It allows to extend the address ability of a processor i.e. segmentation allows the use of 16-bit registers to give an addressing capability of 1 MB. Without segmentation, it would require 20-bit registers.

(v) Segmentation makes it possible to separate the memory areas for stack, code and data.

(vi) It is possible to increase the memory size of code data or stack segments beyond 64 KB by allotting more than one segment for each area.