Write a short note on: Contiguous Memory allocation

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Module 5: Memory Management

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Contiguous Memory allocation

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Contiguous Memory Allocation

Each process occupies one contiguous block. Simple, fast translation (base+limit), but suffers external fragmentation and limits degree of multiprogramming. Fixed/variable partition are variants. Paging removes need for contiguous.

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