[Notes]Virtual Memory

The main memory can act as a "cache" for the secondary storage, usually implemented with magnetic disks. This technique is called virtual memory. Historically, there were two major motivations for virtual memory:

1. To allow efficient and safe sharing of memory among multiple programs

2. To remove the programming burdens of a small, limited amount of main memory.

A Page Table Register is used in every process to point to the start address of its Page Table

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