memory management unit
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computer hardware unit having all memory references passed through itself, primarily performing the translation of virtual memory addresses to physical addresses
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- memory management
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Encyclopedic overview
A 68451 MMU, which could be used with the Motorola 68010 VLSI VI475 MMU Apple HMMU from the Macintosh II used with the Motorola 68020
A memory management unit (MMU), sometimes called paged memory management unit (PMMU), is a computer hardware unit that examines all references to memory, and translates the memory addresses being referenced, known as virtual memory addresses, into physical addresses in main memory.
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