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When dealing with computers, there are typically two types of memory.
"Real" or "physical" memory is the same thing as RAM. They usually come as cards that you can install into slots on your computer's motherboard.
"Virtual" memory, also known as "swap space" or (in Windows) a "paging file" is a dedicated partition or (in Windows) a file on your hard drive that acts like physical memory does.
Even though both types of memory do the same thing (that is, storing things temporarily for easy access), physical memory is substantially faster than the typical hard drive. Don't consider virtual memory a replacement for RAM, but more of a complement - to catch the overflow, if you will.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 9y agoVirtual memory is memory that supplements physical memory known as RAM.
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How do you read virtual memory?
Find a virtual psychic to read your virtual memory.
How does virtual memory work?
virtual memory works just like as temporary memory does
What is deffernce between virtual and physical memory?
The difference between virtual and physical memory is that virtual memory refers to memory space while physical memory are chips like RAM. The memory space for virtual memory is made by operating system when there is insufficient physical memory.
What does the computer use when RAM is full?
Virtual memory, the answer is virtual memory.
When virtual memory is invented?
Virtual memory was invented in the early 1960s
Under Windows 2000XP physical memory and virtual memory are both managed by what?
Virtual Memory Manager
What is the difference between bitween pagefile and virtual memory?
pagefile is the virtual memory
What is another name for virtual memory?
Virtual Memory-: Virtual Mem is also known as Swap memory. Swap memory:- Swap mem is the type of memory which allocates by the harddisk in the form of extra RAM for better functioning of the application in the case if you are facing a lack of RAM in order to run that software
What type of memory stores data in a swap file on a hard drive high memory virtual memory extended memory random access memory?
virtual memory
How do you delete virtual memory?
Don't delete the virtual memory. It is essential to the running of your operating system.
What is the use of virtual memory?
Virtual memory is used to increase the size of working memory in the system main memory by using the locations in secondary storage such as harddisk.
Is cache memory equal to virtual memory?
No! ; Cache memory is integrated in the CPU. Virtual memory is a part of the hard drive that the OS use as ram memory, when running out of real ram memory.
