memory management A system to prevent one
process corrupting the memory (or other resources) of any other,
relies on a combination of hardware (a
memory managementunit) and software to allocate memory to processes and handle
The effectiveness of memory protection varies from one
operating system to another. In most versions of
Unix it is
almost impossible to corrupt another process' memory, except
in some archaic implementations and
Lunix (not
Linux!).
leading to one or more
GPFs. Currently (April 1996) neither
memory protection.
Windows NT has it, and Mac OS System 8
will offer a form of memory protection.
(1996-09-10)