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  SEGMENTATION IN OPERATING SYSTEM Segmentation is another memory management technique that gives the user's view of a process. The user's view is mapped into the Physical Memory. In Segmentation, a process is divided into multiple segments. The size of each segment is not necessarily the same which is different from paging. In Paging, a process was divided into equal partitions called pages. The module contained in a segment decides the size of the segment. Why Segmentation is Needed? We used Paging as one of the memory management techniques. In Paging, the process was divided into equal-sized pages irrespective of the fact that what is inside the pages. It also divides some relative parts of a process into different pages which should be loaded on the same page. It decreases the efficiency of the system and doesn't give the user's view of a process. In Segmentation, similar modules are loaded in the same segments. It gives the user's view of a process an...