THE LIVING ARCHIVE

From punched cards to autonomous collaborators: the ideas, people, languages and systems that taught machines to follow—and increasingly interpret—human intent.

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Virtual Memory and the Invention of an Address Space Larger Than RAM

Virtual memory let programs work in logical address spaces larger and more flexible than physical main memory, with hardware and operating systems moving pages between fast memory and backing storage.

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