OSTEP Chapter 13: The Abstraction of Address Spaces
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Chapter 13 of OSTEP provides a primer on how and why modern operating systems abstract physical hardware. This is part of our series going through OSTEP book chapters. The OSTEP textbook is freely available at Remzi's website if you like to follow along. Multiprogramming and Time Sharing In the early days of computing, machines didn't provide much of a memory abstraction to users. The operating system was essentially a library of routines sitting at the bottom of physical memory, while a single