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Virtual memory is a special file on the harddisk that the operating system can swap pages of physical RAM back and forth with to allow more programs than fit in physical RAM to run on the machine at the same time. For example on the computer I am writing this on right now the installed physical RAM is only 1GB, but the virtual memory file is about 50GB. Thats a lot more resident programs and data than the machine could support without the virtual memory!

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