Chapter 2 - Terms

Question 1

address

Answer 1

a number that designates a particular memory location

Question 2

best-fit memory allocation:

Answer 2

a main memory allocation scheme that considers all free
blocks and selects for allocation the one that will result in the least amount of wasted
space.

Question 3

bounds register:

Answer 3

a register used to store the highest location in memory legally
accessible by each program.

Question 4

compaction of memory:

Answer 4

the process of collecting fragments of available memory space
into contiguous blocks by relocating programs and data in a computer’s memory.

Question 5

deallocation

Answer 5

the process of freeing an allocated resource, whether memory space,
a device, a file, or a CPU.