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physical memory

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physical memory

Refers to the actual memory bank made of RAM chips. The term is generally used when discussing virtual memory to differentiate what is in RAM versus what has been swapped temporarily to disk. See virtual memory.


(memory management)physical memory - The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.


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Because we have made the physical memory of the piece automatic, it is quite possible, and indeed frighteningly easy for the fingers and arms to go on playing while the mind goes blank.
The processor supports up to 1 terabyte (TB) of physical memory and 256 TB of virtual memory.
According to AMD's Opteron documentation, the new processor's 40-bit physical and 48-bit virtual addressing remove this limitation, permitting up to 1 Terabyte of physical memory space and 256TB of virtual memory addressing space.
 
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