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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 larger programs than would fit into real memory ([[RAM]]) | |||
Revision as of 10:53, 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 larger programs than would fit into real memory (RAM)