A Dialogue on Virtualization

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This dialogue outlines the point of virtualization - making it appear as though multiple clients have exclusive access to a resource simultaneously.

The Operating System’s job is to virtualize physical memory, by giving each process a time slice and its own unique memory locations where it cannot read other processes nor can other processes read its memory.

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