virtual address

(thing) by Platypus Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:15:39

The location to/from which executing code "thinks" it is transferring data. Thanks to the magic of virtual memory the code doesn't need to know that it may actually be transferring to/from a different physical address than a different process&using the same virtual address.

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