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 ...

Toshiba Corp. today said it has brought logical block addressing (LBA) to NAND flash memory in an effort to speed time to market, simplify design and eliminate the need for the host to handle NAND ...