Hardware Characteristics Relevant to
Operating Systems

Daniel A. Menascé

Slide 13 of 15:

The diagram illustrates a pair of registers, base and limit registers, used to indicate the current allowed address ranges. The machine checks every address generated against the values indicated by the base and limit registers and generates an interrupt if the address is out of bounds. The OS maintains a table with the proper memory mapping (base and limit register values) for each process.