Hi, q3a of the 2017 asks about this and I was wondering if my understanding is correct. Is Segmentation of memory just a different way of saying Dynamic Partitioning? Paging stores allocates each process a fixed size in the physical memory whilst segmentation stores each process's unique size, is that correct? How much detail would be required to achieve the full five marks here?

ANONYMOUS wrote: Kind of, they are very similar techniques, the only difference is memory segmentation can provide a process with multiple partitions (or segments) whereas dynamic partitioning only provides one partition per process. e.g. With dynamic partitioning |Process 1|Process 2|Process 3|Process 4| With segmentation |Process1|Process4|Process2|Process3|Process4| Yes. It would help if you provided the question because it takes a while for me to find it. Usually, 1 mark is assigned to doing "1 thing". E.g. 1 mark for stating advantage. 1 mark for stating disadvantage. 2 marks for describing each process. So, yes, I would say you are thinking well. Keep thinking!