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 ==== Banking and segmentation ====
-While banking is common on many retro consoles, memory segmentation implemented in the 16-bit 8086 architecture is fairly unique - and the WonderSwan does banking *on top* of that. As such, it's a good idea to look at it closer.
+While banking is common on many retro consoles, memory segmentation implemented in the 16-bit 8086 architecture is fairly unique - and the WonderSwan does banking //on top// of that. As such, it's a good idea to look at it closer.
 The CPU exposes a 20-bit memory bus. This means it's capable of directly addressing 1 megabyte of memory. However, it's also a 16-bit CPU - the instruction pointer, data offsets and other registers are all, at most, sixteen bits in width. How does it address more memory?