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+# UPEM / System programming / Project: Memory paging simulator
+
+This file document explains the motivation behind implementation choices that have been made during the development of this paging simulator.
+
+
+## Language choice
+
+This program has been implemented in Python.
+This language choice has been approved by Sylvain Cherrier on 2018-03-17.
+
+Python has been chosen for its conciseness, expressiveness, object and inheritance support and its various libraries easing the development of the interactive command line interface and swappable algorithms.
+
+The simplicity of this language enabled the developers to focus on the different paging strategies and their algorithmic value, freeing them from string management in the context of a simulator.
+
+Of course, a real paging system implementation would have been made in a lower level programming language, or even been made at the hardware level.
+
+
+## Architecture
+
+The different paging algorithms all satisfy an implicit interface in the simulator.
+
+Possibility is offered to the user to select a paging algorithm of their choice.
+
+
+## Page replacement algorithms
+
+### Available strategies
+
+The following paging algorithms have been implemented and shortly described in the attached man pae:
+
+* FIFO (clock-variant)
+* random
+* LRU
+* second chance
+
+The following algorithms have NOT been implemented, but can easily be added:
+
+* NRU
+* NFU
+* aging
+* LDF
+
+### Observations
+
+No useful conclusion regarding the efficiency of each algorithm could have been drawn from the use of the manually, user-operated simulator. Real-world in-context use is required.