Conceptually this is how memory management works on post 8086 processors.  The
8086/8 doesn't have any mechanism for trapping memory accesses, thus tables
are not possible.

--Perry

> 
> I really don't see where this is a problem. User level processing does not
> need
> hardware memory protection; it could be implemented as a strictly software
> solution. For example, a table defined within the OS giving the user and the
> level. Then, all memory access could interrogate this table and give pseudo
> memory level security.
> 
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