Write the C++ programs that emulate the operating system’s responsibility of allocating memory to certain programs. This will be a very simple page-based view of memory management. On startup, your program will have some 32 pages of contiguous, unused memory. Each page will be 4 KB long.
It should then allow the users (i.e., your TAs) to “run” programs that require chunks of this memory for some period of time. It should also allow the users to “kill” programs (i.e., “Ctrl-c” or “kill -9” in most OSs) that are in progress. The pages used by programs that are killed can then be re-used for future programs.
The purpose of this project is two-fold. First, you need to get practice with linked lists and pointers. Secondly, you should examine critically the results of different algorithms of allocating memory on the “fragmentation” of the memory.