Addressing & Registers (OS micro deck 1)

Question 1

logical address

Answer 1

an address generated by the CPU during a program’s execution that is then translated to a physical address

Question 2

physical address

Answer 2

the actual memory location in hardware where data is stored

Question 3

address binding

Answer 3

the process of mapping a program’s symbolic addresses to physical addresses in memory

Question 4

base register

Answer 4

A register that stores the starting physical address of the memory allocated to a process

Question 5

A register that holds the upper limit of a processes addressable memory space

Answer 5

Bounds Register

Question 6

frame

Answer 6

a fixed-size block of physical memory used in paging systems to hold pages of virtual memory