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when did command line applications start using "-h" as a "standard" way to print "help"?

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Old game, probably electronic in movie Phantasm (1978)

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Managing registers/memory effectively on the Z80

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Identify these old accounting machines

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WIDTH command in MSX BASIC

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Which is the first version of DOS to support more than one reserved sector in a FAT file system?

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Identify those arcade games from a 1983 Brazilian music video

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Basic page layout program from the PrintMaster 2.0 era

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BASIC line input buffer location on ZX Spectrum

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Math and French practice floppies

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