Multiple choice

What do you mean by an overlay?

  1. A specific memory location

  2. Overloading the system with many files

  3. A part of operating system

  4. Single contiguous memory to run large programs

  5. Storing the files on hard disk
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Overlay was used in older days to run a large program in small memory by swapping.

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