Labels:book | daily | hakham | sky OCR: OPERATING SYSTEMS AND FILE MANAGEMENT 1 87 How does an operating system manage memory? micro- FIGURE 4-5 processor works with data pue executes instructions stored in RAM -one The operating system allocates of your computer's most important resources. When you want to run more specific area of RAM for each than one program at time the operating system has to allocate specific program that is open and run- areas of memory for each program, as shown in Figure 4-5 ning. The operating system is When multiple programs are running the os should prevent memory itself program, so i requires leak situation in which instructions and data from one area of memory RAM space, too overflow into memory allocated to another program. If an os falls down on RAM the job and fails to protect each program's mem ...
