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I'm curious, when did OSes first begin zeroing out pages. Did the first operating systems already zero the memory?
by jcarrano 4y ago
I'm curious, when did OSes first begin zeroing out pages. Did the first operating systems already zero the memory?
- saagarjha 4y agoOSes that have paging (and generally memory protection) have been zeroing them out from very early on, because part of the reason you have this is to avoid processes being able to mess with or spy on each other.