A walkthrough of OSTEP Chapter 15 covering hardware-based address translation via dynamic relocation. Explains how base and bounds registers work together to translate virtual addresses to physical ones, the OS/hardware collaboration required (PCB save/restore, free lists, exception handlers), and the key limitation of internal fragmentation caused by fixed-size memory slots — a problem addressed in the next chapter on segmentation.

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