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Why were there so many OSes that had the name "DOS" in them?

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Are there something like standard documents for 8.3 filename which explicitly mention about the folder names?

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Why did early ASCII have ← and ↑ but not ↓ or →?

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What was the main implementation programming language of old 16-bit Windows versions (Windows 1 - Windows 3.11)?

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Origins of the term 'stack' and relationships to the related terms 'substack' and 'full stack' [closed]

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List of Intel 8086-compatible CPUs? [closed]

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What was the typical amount of disk storage for a mainframe installation in the 1980s?

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What is the operating frequency of the 8085 in the System/23 Datamaster computer?

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What was IBM VS/PC?

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Split screen function before 1970

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Which version of Netscape, on which OS, appears in the movie “Cut” (2000)?

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Which cards use −5 V and −12 V in IBM PC compatible systems?

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Why did Borland ignore the Macintosh market?

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Whatever happened to Chessmaster? [closed]

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Dongle Support for 16 bit Program with Win 11 using WineVDM

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What typeface was used on the DEC PDP-8/F faceplate?

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Why HIMEM was implemented as a DOS driver and not a TSR

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Was CP/M 2.1 released, and if so can it still be found?

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about flag changes in 16-bit calculations on the MC6800

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Which programming language/environment pioneered row-major array order?

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Why is one of the Intel 8042 keyboard controller outputs inverted?

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How to read data from Philips P2000C over its serial port to a modern computer?

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Which BASIC dialect first featured a single-character comment introducer?

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Were there mistakes in converting Dijkstra's Algol-60 compiler to Pascal?

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What Cherry MX mechanical keyboard switch is closest to an Apple Extended Keyboard II? [closed]

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SNES sprites - are they rendered using shift registers or with a line buffer?

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What is the layout of Atari VCS/2600 ROM files?

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Commodore 64 game top down tank on alien moon. Radioactive craters and repair stations for damage

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Did any attendees write up accounts of pre-1980 Homebrew Computer Club meetings?

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Installing Windows 2K using an external CD/DVD Drive on slightly modern hardware [closed]

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Windows 98 Msgsrv32 error during Setup

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When did the PC bus start slowing access to video RAM?

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How can I reverse-engineer the game Wizardry (1981) for PC, based on UCSD Pascal?

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Why does the BRK instruction set the B flag?

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Is there a standardised 6502 assembly syntax?

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Why was BASIC's INT() a floor, and not a truncate?

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When was the original version of the DICE C compiler for the Amiga released? And when did it become free?

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PDP-8 conditional skip and 2-word instructions

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How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporaneous x86?

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Fast-paced, windowed multimedia board or puzzle game for Windows 3.x, featuring the “Toasty!” sound effect

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Were VGA palette's HSV math properties used in practice?

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Finding a vertical scrolling arcade game from the '90s

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Does the PDP-8/E service an interrupt after any instruction, or after instructions not referencing memory only?

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Why was the "Space-cadet keyboard" called that?

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Looking for an open source DOS .com program written in assembly

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Were later MS-DOS versions still implemented in x86 assembly?

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Where can I find info about OS/A WASP operating system for Soviet BK series computers?


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