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Best answer 6 votes 6 votes Both are memory management techniques. But in case of overlays whole system memory management is done by programmer ,But in case of paging operating system has the responsibility of managing system memory . Have a look at it http://8051-microcontrollers.blogspot.in/2015/01/memory-virtual-memory-overlays-and.html#.VZYSmPmqqko shekhar chauhan answered Jun 4, 2016 • selected Jul 9, 2017 by Bikram shekhar chauhan comment Share Follow See all 4 Comments See all 4 4 Comments reply cse23 commented Jun 4, 2016 reply Follow Share thanks...so overlays are transparent to user but virtual memory is not transparent to user..??? 2 votes 2 votes Sanjay Sharma commented Jun 6, 2016 reply Follow Share so is it same as segmentation which is used to implement user view of memory 0 votes 0 votes shekhar chauhan commented Jun 6, 2016 reply Follow Share yes you are absolutely right. 0 votes 0 votes Pankaj Joshi commented Jan 22, 2017 reply Follow Share @cse23 virtual memory is transparent overlays are not because overlay is implemnted by user 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.