Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions Case 4-3 Cindy Is Trying to Understand

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Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions Case 4-3 Cindy is trying to understand operating systems. You tell her you had a course in OS and you will be glad to answer any of her questions. Cindy wants to know how a computer can run more than one program at a time. You explain to her that when you want to run more than one program at a time, the operating system has to allocate specific areas of memory for each program. This memory is called ____.

• A) RAM
• B) ROM
• C) virtual
• D) buffered

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