High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! x86 memory segmentation refers to the implementation of memory segmentation on the x86 architecture. Memory is divided into portions that may be addressed by a single index register without changing a 16-bit segment selector. In real mode or V86 mode, a segment is always 64 kilobytes in size (using 16-bit offsets). In protected mode, a segment can have variable length. In 16-bit real mode, enabling applications to make use of multiple memory segments (in order to access more memory than available in any one 64K-segment) was quite complex, but was viewed as a necessary evil for all but the smallest tools (which could do with less memory). The root of the problem was that no appropriate address-arithmetic instructions suitable for flat addressing of the entire memory range were available.

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