In Multics, a process could have up to 256K segments, but each segment was limited to ___________ 64K words.
64K
32K
1024K
112K
Correct Answer :
A. 64K
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client
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Distributed shared memory
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Paging
virtual memory
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64K
32K
1024K
112K
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