Anyone have experience with Acer netbooks ?

[James Knott]

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> I think that MS has been a little better this time than for the 16->32
> bit transition.  The hacks for addressability that DOS and Windows
> users had to endure were horrible (users didn't seem to blame the
> perpetrator).
>   
Most people simply didn't know better.  I was working with VAX/VMS on a
VAX 11/780 long before I ever touched a "PC" and knew better.
> | PAE is a disgusting hack, has very high overhead, and is no solution.
>
> PAE is standard practice, repeated each time memory grows beyond
> address space.  I remember bank switching on the PDP-8 when memory
> grew beyond 4K 12-bit words of core memory.  Unix as we know it grew
> for years on the PDP-11 with 16-bit addresses but a wider address bus.
>   

I remember "overlays" on a Date General Nova, using a head per track
disk (all of 256 or 512KB).  There was also a memory mapping board for
the DG Eclipse that allowed much more than the base 32K 16 bit words. 
Of course, in the PC world, there was everybody's favourite, the LIM
boards, which provided a more or less standard method of memory mapping.
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