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unusual facts about memory management



Berkeley Timesharing System

The TENEX operating system for the PDP-10 mainframe computer, used many features of this system, but extended the memory management to include demand paging.


see also

DPMS

DOS Protected Mode Services, a set of 286/386 extended DOS memory management services to allow slightly modified drivers and applications to relocate and run in extended memory.

GART

Graphics address remapping table, a memory management unit used in computer graphics cards

Mac OS X v10.0

Mac OS X introduced the new Darwin Unix-like core and a totally new system of memory management.

System Global Area

From Oracle Database version 10g, Automatic Memory Management (AMM) allows simplified and dynamic configuration of the SGA.