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virtual memory
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operating system level memory management technique
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Vinony's link graph records 907 inbound references to virtual memory, and connects out to fragmentation, C dynamic memory allocation and computer storage media.
It is catalogued under topics including Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Virtual memory and Wikisource templates with missing id.
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- VM
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Encyclopedic overview
Virtual memory combines active RAM and inactive memory on DASD to form a large range of contiguous addresses.
In computing, virtual memory, or virtual storage, is enabled by a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that are actually available on a given machine" which "creates the illusion to users of a very large (main) memory".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “virtual memory” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.