Section 12.1
Review Questions
Basic Concepts of Virtual Memory
  1. What is an overlay and when it is used?
  1. In what year was virtual memory first implemented?
  1. Match: 
              chunks of physical memory                       frames
          
              chunks of virtual memory                        pages
  1. How big are frames in relation to pages? Bigger, smaller or the same size?
  1. What is the name of the area on the hard disk where pages that are not in current use are stored?
  1. What is demand paging?
  1. What adjective do we use for a page that has been modified in memory and must be written back to disk before its frame can be reclaimed?