Mintywhite has just posted an article to educate you about Virtual Memory and what it does for you and your system. A good read for everyone to further understand VM.
I was reading a newsletter the other day that was using he words Swap File, Paging File and Virtual Memory, interchangeably. Now this confused me and I realized that this might be a great topic for an article. I
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