Memory Management

The D3 Virtual Machine is based on a system that uses Virtual Memory. Virtual Memory is like a vast source of RAM. The Monitor manages the hardware RAM as a series of buffers or blocks of RAM that hold one frame each. Therefore, after the Monitor is loaded in RAM, any additional RAM is used as buffers.

See Also

Frames

Linking Frames

I/O Devices

Monitor

Frame Requests and Frame Faults

Concept of a Process

Process Identification Blocks

User Pibs and Phantom Pibs

Scheduler

Scheduling Algorithm

Super High Priority Process