Section 11.1
Review Questions
Memory Issues
  1. List the four categories of computers, from large down to small.
answer...
mainframe
minicomputer
workstation
personal computer
  1. What are the two memory issues that must be dealt with in computers that have more than one user?
answer...
protection and relocation
  1. What are two reasons why we must have memory protection?
answer...
  1. to protect programs against errors in other programs
  2. to prevent unauthorized access of information
  1. Most programs are written with the idea that they will be loaded into memory starting at which address?
answer...
0
  1. What do we call memory whose addresses are near 0, rather than near the largest possible memory address?
answer...
low memory