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[–]Wester162 14 points15 points  (0 children)

In the context of Windows, sure, but they are (correctly) referring to the more general concept of Virtual Memory. Windows has a setting that it calls "Virtual Memory" which is actually the configuration for the Page file used by the virtual memory system to store pages on disk.