Definitions for "Memory protection"
Keywords:  corrupt, kernel, partition, serial, mac
A system of memory management in which programs are prevented from being able to modify or corrupt the memory partition of another program. Although Mac OS X has memory protection, Mac OS 8 and 9 do not.
A system of memory management in which programs are prevented from being able to modify or corrupt the memory partition of another program. Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 do not have memory protection; Mac OS X does.
Any system that prevents one process from accessing a region of memory being used by another. Memory protection is supported in most serial computers by the hardware and the operating system and in most parallel computers by the hardware kernel and service kernel of the processors.