Incomplete address decoding

Okay, pretend you have a big toy box with lots of compartments, and you have small toy cars that need to be sorted into each compartment. Now, you can only put one car in each compartment, but each car can fit in many different compartments.

So, you need a way to know which compartment a car belongs in, right? That's where address decoding comes in. It's like a label or tag that tells you which compartment a car goes in. You use the label to figure out which compartments a car can fit in, and then put it in the right one.

But what if you're missing some labels? That's like having an incomplete address decoding. Let's say, for example, you only have labels for some compartments, but not for all of them. Now, you don't know which compartment to put your toys in, and you can't sort them effectively.

The same thing happens in computer systems when there is incomplete address decoding. It means that the computer doesn't have enough information to figure out where to put data or instructions in the memory, so it can't work properly. It's like trying to sort your toys without any labels or tags – chaos!