Summary: March 29, 2008 Operating Systems: Main Memory 1
Main Memory
Chapter 8
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Chapter Outline
Background
Contiguous Memory Allocation
Paging
Structure of the Page Table
Segmentation
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Objectives
To provide a detailed description of various ways of
organizing memory hardware
To discuss various memory-management techniques,
including paging and segmentation
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- Background
Program must be brought (from disk) into memory and placed
within a process for it to be run

Source: Adam, Salah - Department of Information and Computer Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

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