Explore: Memory Areas

As the 640 KB memory restriction became ever more of an obstacle, techniques were found to fill the empty areas with RAM. These areas were referred to

memory segment (64 KB) of the conventional memory area is named lower memory or low memory area. The remaining 384 KB beyond the conventional memory area

to areas of the brain that are associated with memory storage, such as the hippocampus. Finally, the retrieval of information from long-term memory can

In DOS memory management, the high memory area (HMA) is the RAM area consisting of the first 65520 bytes above the one megabyte in an IBM AT or compatible

Memory management (also dynamic memory management, dynamic storage allocation, or dynamic memory allocation) is a form of resource management applied to

In DOS memory management, extended memory refers to memory above the first megabyte (220 bytes) of address space in an IBM PC or compatible with an 80286

address 1 MiB (220 bytes) of memory. Different areas of this address space were allocated to different kinds of memory used for different purposes. Starting

choice-points, tail call optimization, and memory reclamation on failure. The WAM has the following memory areas: The global stack or heap, used to store

In DOS memory management, expanded memory is a system of bank switching that provided additional memory to DOS programs beyond the limit of conventional

In computing, virtual memory, or virtual storage, is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that