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What is virtual memory?

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I was double checking my notes for 'Virtual Memory' and the definition in my text book is: Process of allocating a section of secondary storage to act as part of the main memory Where as Wikipedia says: Virtual memory is a computer system technique which gives an application program the impression …

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Virtual memory is a layer of abstraction provided to each process. The computer has, say, 2GB of physical RAM, addressed from 0 to 2G. A process might see an address space of 4GB, which it has entirely to itself. The mapping from virtual addresses t…

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