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it's said that virtual memory solves the problems of raw physical memory, namely lack of memory, fragmentation, and protection. but does it provide a guarantee that two processes don't map to the same physical memory? how does, when "allocating" a space for a new process, virtual memory manager...

i'm reading tanenbaum's book. here it says that when the "shift" key is presses and then the letter "m", the os knows that the user wants an uppercase "M" rather than a lowercase "m". i'm wondering how this is handled by the cpu? here's what i think. since both keypresses are interrupts, and...