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Once an Operating System has paging, it can also make use of other benefits and workarounds, such as linear framebuffer simulation for memory-mapped IO and paging out to disk, where disk storage space is used to free up physical RAM.
== 32-bit Paging (Protected Mode) ==
Paging is achieved through the use of the [[Memory Management Unit]] (MMU). On the x86, the MMU maps memory through a series of tables, two to be exact. They are the paging directory (PD), and the paging table (PT).
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