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Memory Management (cont)

The good-old-days ... one process/computation at a time
  • the process can use the entire memory
  • addresses within process code are absolute

[Diagram:Pics/opsys/one-process.png]

Or, if the process did not need the entire memory

[Diagram:Pics/opsys/one-small-process.png]

Easy to implement by initialising $sp to psize-8