Memory Management & Multitasking
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Why must a program be loaded from secondary storage into RAM before it can be run?
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Understand how the operating system manages programs in RAM, handles memory fragmentation, uses virtual memory, and enables multitasking through time-slicing.
14 slides.
Lesson outline
- Quick Recall
- Why Memory Management Matters
- OS Memory Management
- Memory Fragmentation
- Check Understanding
- Virtual Memory
- Multitasking
- Multitasking Check
- Interrupts
- Task: Memory Management Diagram
- Task: Virtual Memory Explanation
- Task: Exam-Style Question
Unit bundle1.5 Systems Software
