Question

The paging unit works under the control of

(a) memory management unit

(b) segmentation unit

(c) execution unit

(d) instruction unit

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The origin of the question is Architecture and Signal Descriptions of 80386 topic in division 32-bit Processors-80386, 80387 and 80486 of Microprocessor

Answer 1

Right answer is (b) segmentation unit

To elaborate: The paging unit works under the control of the segmentation unit; i.e. each segment is further divided into pages.