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Max address space 16 KB

From the program’s perspective, its address space starts at address 0 and grows to a maximum of 16 KB; all memory references it generates should be within these bounds.

In the above statement, why is the max 16 KB?


Course: Operating Systems: Virtualization, Concurrency & Persistence - Learn Interactively
Lesson: An Example - Operating Systems: Virtualization, Concurrency & Persistence

Hi @Harsh_Sharma,

At the start of the lesson, we see an example of the address space that has a size of 16 KB. That is why the max size for that particular example is 16 KB.