<memory management> In a paged virtual memory system, an
access to a page (block) of memory that is not currently
mapped to physical memory. When a page fault occurs the
operating system either fetches the page in from secondary
storage (usually disk) if the access was legitimate or
otherwise reports the access as illegal.
(1995-11-11)
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