nany process whose size is less than or equal to a partition size
can be loaded into the partition
nif all partitions are occupied, the operating system can swap a process out of a partition
na program may be too large to fit in a partition. The
programmer must then design the program with
overlays
uwhen the module
needed is not present the user program must
load that module into the program’s partition,
overlaying whatever program or data are there