Examples
Uses of addresses include, but are not limited to the following:
- Memory addresses for main memory, memory-mapped I/O, as well as for virtual memory;
- Device addresses on an expansion bus;
- Sector addressing for disk drives;
- File names on a particular volume;
- Various kinds of network host addresses in computer networks;
- Uniform resource locators in the Internet.
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