Interview Q&A / Operating Systems
Operating Systems interview questions
Processes, threads, scheduling, memory and deadlocks, in plain words.
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- What is the difference between paging and segmentation?
Paging divides memory into fixed-size pages invisible to the programmer; segmentation divides it into variable-size logical units like code, stack and heap. Paging causes internal fragmentation, segmentation causes external.
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