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iAPX 286 Operating System Writers Guide 1983

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GLOSSARYvirtual address: an address that consists of a selector and an offset value. The selector chooses adescriptor for a segment; the offset provides an index into the selected segment.virtual address space: The set of all possible virtual addresses that a 'task can access, as defined by theGDT and the task's LDT. The maximum possible virtual address space for one task is one gigabyte.virtual memory: a style of memory management that permits the virtual address space to exceed thephysical address space of RAM. With the help of processor features, the operating system simulatesthe virtual address space by using secondary storage to hold the overflow from RAM.word count: a field of a gate descriptor that specifies the number of words of parameters to be copiedfrom the calling procedure's stack to the stack of the called procedure.writable segment: a data segment that can be written to. A writable segment is identified by a Booleanin its descriptor.XOS (Example <strong>Operating</strong> <strong>System</strong>): an imaginary operating system, portions of which are used in thisbook as examples.Glossary-12 121960-001

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