In computing, virtual address space (abbreviated VAS) is a memory mapping mechanism available in modern operating systems such as OpenVMS, UNIX, Linux, and Windows NT. This is beneficial for different purposes, one is security through process isolation. An address generated by the process is called logical address (virtual address) and it is mapped to the virtual address space.
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