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by Someone 1033 days ago
Sorry, I wasn’t clear enough. The point was (and is) that I don’t see why limiting the address space to 64kB in one of the chips would require using segmented memory, not that they could have reused the same design between the two.

I mentioned the 6507 as an example where a CPU has a larger address space in the instruction set than the hardware allows.

I could also have mentioned the 68000 (32-bit addresses in the instruction set, but its address bus only had 24 bits, and it initially didn’t support virtual memory, so a byte was wasted (or, in some cases, put to creative use) in every pointer.