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The high page of physical memory is reserved for various special registers associated with the processor and the peripheral devices. By sacrificing one page of memory space in this way, the PDP11 designers have been able to make the various device registers accessible without the need to provide special instruction types.
The method of assignment of addresses to registers in this page is a black art: the values are hallowed by tradition and are not to be questioned.
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