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Virtual memory

Virtual memory

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Virtual memory

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- If there's an old adage that says you can't be too rich or too thin. Now, I may not totally agree with that, but I'll put a corollary to it and I'm going to say, you can't have too much RAM in a computer. Everything you do on your computer counts on your RAM. Every active program that's running needs RAM in order to have the workspace that needs to do what it needs to do. Now, if you run out of RAM, you can run into a big problem. Let me show you what I'm talking about using a beaker I've got over here. Here's a graduated beaker. Now this beaker's going to represent all of the memory, all the RAM in my computer. So you'll see I've got a graduated from zero up to 16 gigabytes, because, well, that's how much memory I have in my PC. Now when I boot that computer up, some of this is going to be used for the operating system itself. So in Windows it's usually around two gigs. Now as we begin to load more and more programs, they begin to take up more and more space in this beaker. So some…

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