bank-switchedadj.
/ˌbaŋkˈswɪtʃt/, U.S. /ˈbæŋkˌswɪtʃt/ Computing.
Designed with or incorporating bank switching; forming part of a system of bank switching.
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bank-switched1974
1974 Conf. Computer Syst. & Technol. 67 To allow access to the store to perform scaling and outputting operations a simple bank switched address translation is performed in the interface unit.
1979 Proc. COMPSAC 79: IEEE Computer Soc. Third Internat. Computer Software & Applic. Conf. 612/1 This report describes a set of software tools which automate the task of generating load modules for a processor with bank switched memory.
2012 C. Walls Embedded Software (ed. 2) i. 15 Little, if anything, can be done with a C compiler to accommodate bank-switched memory.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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