jjss

It's a nice headline and a nice theory, but I don't think it can be blanket-applied to geeks. Remember, geeks are the ones tirelessly defending Emacs and UNIX and who were endlessly cynical about the iPod, iPhone, and iPad. There's some kind of brain that wants to keep moving outside its comfort zone, but geeks is too broad of a classification.

Nope, the 65816 address space is flat. If you read the docs and look at the opcodes I see how it can give the impression of being segmented (with all the "bank" terminology), but it's a full 24-bit address space with no restrictions.