OnCore Systems has developed a port of its embedded operating system (OS) for the PowerPC 405 that uses features of the on-chip memory management unit (MMU) to reduce the effects of using memory ...

Memory management is a critical aspect of modern operating systems, ensuring efficient allocation and deallocation of system memory. Linux, as a robust and widely used operating system, employs ...

Linux processes are made up of text, data, and BSS static segments; in addition, each process has its own stack (which is created with the fork system call). Heap space for Linux tasks are allocated ...

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