11. The family supports bank switching , allowing programs to choose between internal ROM and external RAM for select addresses. 12. Bank switching can be considered as a way of extending the address bus of a processor with some external register.13. Bank switching was used to achieve this larger address space by organizing memory into separate banks of up to 64KB each.14. Bank switching was later supplanted by 16-bit systems, which in turn gave way to paging memory management units.15. This increases portability, as programs are not required to deal with systems that have disjointed memory maps or require bank switching . 16. The 6509 had a reputation for being difficult to program, due to its bank switching scheme, and never fared well. 17. The paged memory system in the expansion chassis used bank switching to allow the NewBrain to take advantage of several 64 kB modules. 18. Early cartridges were 2 KB Palladium Video-Computer-Game ) supported up to 31 KB without any need for bank switching . 19. The 128-channel Data Harvester was invented in 1984 to provide sensor power and speed modal analysis by offering automatic bank switching capability. 20. The Datamaster was an all-in-one computer with text-mode 8085, with bank switching to manage 256 kB of memory.
