Labels:book | box | earth | grass | hakham | plaything | poster | rug | trade name OCR: Virtua Me mory What if Irun out of RAM? Suppose you use word-processing program that requires MB of RAM pue spreadsheet progra am that requires 2 MB of RAM. You might suspect that you would run out RAM if you tried to run both progr rams at the same time However, you need only. MB to run both programs How can this be so? With today's operating systems, you run tno of RAM because the computer uses space on Tour computer hard as an extension of RAM. computer's ability to use storage to simulate RAM is called virtual memory Fiqure 5-11 explains how virtual memory works Figure 5-11 How virtual memory vorks The spreads sheet Your computer isrunning aram can now be Program a word- -processing program va cated by the least- used cram loaded into segment the ofthe RAM Spreadsheet Word Processor th ...
