-process is provided with abstract addr space broken into pages by segment -process generates virtual addr -os: virtual -&gt; physical -paging system manages free space
-process is provided with abstract addr space broken into pages by segment -process generates virtual addr -os: virtual -&gt; physical -paging system manages free space
provides virtual address mapping between applications and hardware memory. can also multitask and allow multiple processes to access the same shared library in memory, swapping and others.