Simulating more random access memory (RAM) than actually exists. Virtual memory allows the CPU to execute larger programs than it would normally be capable of, and it enables multiple programs to be ...
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Reserving memory for specific purposes. At startup, operating systems and applications reserve fixed amounts of memory (RAM) and may allocate more as needed. Although a virtual memory function ...