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imported>Derek Hodges (New page: <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude> An important concept in computer science that lets a program use more memory than is physically available for it.) |
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A concept in computer science whereby an [[operating system]] can use alternate (usually slower) data storage to impersonate real memory and run programs that ordinarily would not fit into real memory ([[RAM]]) | |||
Latest revision as of 10:54, 4 July 2009
A concept in computer science whereby an operating system can use alternate (usually slower) data storage to impersonate real memory and run programs that ordinarily would not fit into real memory (RAM)