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Ciro Santilli 37  Updated 2025-07-01  +Created 1970-01-01

Paging is done by the Memory Management Unit (MMU) part of the CPU.

Like many others (e.g. x87 co-processor, APIC), this used to be by separate chip on early days.

It was later integrated into the CPU, but the term MMU still used.

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