determine any difference and any similarity between physical memory and virtual memory?

Answer 1

Physical memory is actually your RAM memory. You know, 256Mb, 512Mb, 1Gb. It is used as a buffer between your processor and the data being sent from your video card, hard drive, etc.

Virtual memory (or Paging file) is a dedicated amount of space on your hard drive used as a secondary buffer after the Physical Memory. It works similar to physical memory, but since it is on the hard drive the data transfer rates are significantly slower than physical memory.

Both physical and Virtual memory simply store data in queue until the processor is free to process that data.

Answer 2

Physical memory (hard disk) is used for permanent storage of data while virtual memory is for temporal storage of data. Virtual memory is lost when the PC is turned off

Answer 3

virtual memory (RAM) only stores information until the PC is swithced off or reset.

physical memory is you HDD. stores info until u uninstall it

Answer 4

actual memory is memory it quite is saved interior the ram, it quite is your memory chips. digital memory is area it quite is reserved on your not uncomplicated stress on your pc to position in writing to even as it runs out of actual memory. it really is plenty slower than actual memory.