[rlu]

It's funny reading this and then remembering that on top of all this, there's paging (i.e. fetching from hard drive).

It's like registers are refrigerators, RAM is like the grocery store around the corner, and Page faults are like the grocery stores in a neighboring town

woooooo memory!

[grogenaut]

Don't forget DMA which is like drop shipping with a guaranteed delivery date, like 3 days later, but they just shove it directly into the shelf