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Virtual memory does not physically exist while physical memory does.

Where there is not enough physical memory available for the required application, the application and its data are staged through the physical memory with the excess mapped onto a section of hard disk drive. Using this technique the memory appears to be bigger that it actually is (although it is slowed down by the staging process). The bit on the disk is called the virtual memory.

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