Computer Science / Unit 6 CS 0313 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Virtual Memory
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The idea
A running process deals only in virtual addresses, never seeing physical memory — address translation maps its view onto real memory in units called pages, each process inside its own map.
In practice
Two apartments numbered 1 in two buildings never collide, because the street knows the difference.
Where people slip
The illusion of private memory is load-bearing.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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