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-This is a guide to setting up paging. It will teach you the basic concepts behind paging and how it can help you with your OS. This example will concentrate on Legacy Non-PSE Non-PAE paging. Paging normally should not be the first part of your memory manager that you write. It is generally considered a good idea to first write a Page Frame Allocator (see [[Page_Frame_Allocation]]) that will manage the computer's physical memory for you. You can then design your paging system to not have to manage the physical memory on which it sits.
+This is a guide to setting up paging. It will teach you the basic concepts behind paging and how it can help you with your OS. This example will concentrate on Legacy Non-PSE Non-PAE paging.
+Paging is a term that refers to the management of the computer's ''virtual'' memory. If you have not yet created a ''physical'' memory manager, please read and follow [[Page_Frame_Allocation]] before continuing with this article.
 ==Basic Paging==
-Paging allows you to have more than one address space mapped into the real address space. The [[MMU]] uses what is called a Page Directory to map virtual addresses to physical addresses.
+Paging allows you to have more than one virtual address space mapped into the physical address space. The [[MMU]] uses what is called a Page Directory to map virtual addresses to physical addresses.

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