Computer concepts question

Discussion in 'School Work Help' started by 3liminator, Jan 13, 2011.

  1. 3liminator

    3liminator Well-Known Member

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    George’s computer has only 64 Mega bytes of RAM (main memory). He opened up a window to run a program which has 512 Mega bytes in size. The process/program is running without any problem. What does the operating system do to make this possible?

    Is it because of operating system managing memory. It allocates the memory it uses and then freeing up the memory when the program is closed.
     
  2. zylo

    zylo Well-Known Member

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    look up paging
     
  3. wensher2sammi

    wensher2sammi New Member

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    probably indexing? cache? virtual memory..