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Memory management is the next layer of our ‘onion’. We put it next to the nucleus because unless a process possesses some memory there is very little it can do. It certainly cannot execute, since there is no room for the associated program, nor can it perform input or output without space for buffers.
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Lister, A.M. (1984). Memory Management. In: Fundamentals of Operating Systems. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17540-6_5
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