 The 8080 was an 8-bit CPU, meaning it processed 8 bits of information at a time. However, it had 16 address lines coming out of it. The bitness of a CPUhow many bits wide its general-purpose registers areis important, but to my view the far more important measure of a CPUs effectiveness is how many address lines it can muster in one operation. In 1974, 16 address lines was aggressive, because memory was extremely expensive, and most machines had 4K or 8K bytes (remember, that means 4,000 or 8,000) at mostand some had a lot less.Sixteen address lines will address 64K bytes. If you count in binary (which computers always do) and limit yourself to 16 binary columns, you can count from 0 to 65,535. (The colloquial 64K is shorthand for the number 66,536.) This means that every one of 65,536 separate memory locations can have its own unique address, from 0 up to 65,535.my questions are how 16 bits address lines can address 64KB?,since 16 bits can only address 64kbps.and what is segment?thanks in advance
how 16 bits address lines address 64KB?
computer architecture