Oct 04, 2008 15:52
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
... "There are some major differences though. These differences vary considerably based on how you choose to handle memory on the system.
Memory-management code in an operating system is affected by the following things (this list is not all inclusive, but touches on the important things):
1. How the processor handles addressing. This greatly affect the next three items.
2. The memory model you choose.
3. Whether or not you use paging hardware, if available.
4. Whether you allow variable-sized chunks of memory to be allocated."
No, I don't have any normal books by my computer. Why do you ask? :)
~Z
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