Q. What are the three main activities of an operating system in regard to memory management?

Answer:

a. Keep follows of which parts of memory are currently being used and by whom.

b. Choose which processes are to be loaded into memory when memory space becomes available.

c. Allocate as well as deallocate memory space as needed.

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