erklärt Gustavo Duarte in sehr anschaulichen Artikeln, die ich jedem der etwas hinter die Kulissen des Betriebssystems blicken will nur wärmstens empfehlen darf.

• Motherboard Chipsets and the Memory Map
• How Computers Boot Up
• The Kernel Boot Process
• Memory Translation and Segmentation
• CPU Rings, Privilege, and Protection
• What Your Computer Does While You Wait
• Cache: a place for concealment and safekeeping
• Getting Physical With Memory
• Anatomy of a Program in Memory
• How The Kernel Manages Your Memory
• Page Cache, the Affair Between Memory and Files