Computer Science GCSE
Memory management
What Memory management means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Memory management
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Reference: OCR
Allocates RAM to programs, keeps track of free and used areas, and prevents programs overwriting each other.
Topics that use Memory management
- Operating systems (OCR GCSE)
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