Memory Management and Multitasking - Word Drop

Memory management is one of the functions of an ______. Programs and data are held on secondary storage until they are needed. When a program is ______, the operating system copies it and its data into ______, so the CPU can access them. When the user saves, that data is transferred from RAM back to ______. When a program is closed, the operating system removes it from memory.

Each running program is given its own ______ of RAM. The operating system keeps track of which parts of memory are in use. It makes sure that one program cannot ______ the data of another.

Memory management allows ______, which means more than one program can run at the same time. Several programs can be held in RAM at once, each in a separate part of memory, without interfering with the others. If one program ______, it stops working suddenly and the operating system can end it without affecting the rest.

A user might have a music player, a word processor and a web browser running at the same time. Because the programs are kept apart in memory, the music keeps playing while the user types. When the user closes the web browser, its memory is ______ so another program can use it.