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What is virtual memory? Clarification Needed

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I was double checking my notes for 'Virtual Memory' and the definition in my text book is:

Process of allocating a section of secondary storage to act as part of the main memory

Where as Wikipedia says:

Virtual memory is a computer system technique which gives an application program the impression that it has contiguous working memory (an address space)

and (Wikipedia also says)

Note that "virtual memory" is more than just "using disk space to extend physical memory size"

Can anyone offer any clarification as to which is correct?

I was double checking my notes for 'Virtual Memory' and the definition in my text book is:

Process of allocating a section of secondary storage to act as part of the main memory

Where as Wikipedia says:

Virtual memory is a computer system technique which gives an application program the impression that it has contiguous working memory (an address space)

and

Note that "virtual memory" is more than just "using disk space to extend physical memory size"

Can anyone offer any clarification as to which is correct?

I was double checking my notes for 'Virtual Memory' and the definition in my text book is:

Process of allocating a section of secondary storage to act as part of the main memory

Where as Wikipedia says:

Virtual memory is a computer system technique which gives an application program the impression that it has contiguous working memory (an address space)

and (Wikipedia also says)

Note that "virtual memory" is more than just "using disk space to extend physical memory size"

Can anyone offer any clarification as to which is correct?

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Yacoby
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What is virtual memory? Clarification Needed

I was double checking my notes for 'Virtual Memory' and the definition in my text book is:

Process of allocating a section of secondary storage to act as part of the main memory

Where as Wikipedia says:

Virtual memory is a computer system technique which gives an application program the impression that it has contiguous working memory (an address space)

and

Note that "virtual memory" is more than just "using disk space to extend physical memory size"

Can anyone offer any clarification as to which is correct?