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I thought this was more due to the 'embedded' culture. After all, under VxWorks, isn't all memory addressable by all processes?

That's ancient VxWorks (sadly still shipping in some places, however).

More recent VxWorks - i.e. anything 6.x, since 2004 - has memory protection.

He, it's been a while. Thanks for the correction.