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Re: [OT]Good introduction to CPU/Memory terms

Morris Dovey

2006-06-30, 6:56 pm

er (in Xns97F2AC5D0529Ehpnajfvgnphrk@193.92.150.76) said:

| "osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> wrote in news:4gkjguF1mfimvU1
| @individual.net:
|
|| I don't think it goes
|| into paging, aka virtual memory
|
| I thought paging is not virtual memory. That's what I understood
| from the wikipedia article at least.

On some systems, when resident (physical) pages are all in use, page
swapping (to/from external storage) is initiated. There are also
systems in which there is more memory than can be addressed, so
physical memory areas (pages) are mapped into/out of the address space
without involving external devices.

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto

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