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Which programming language/environment pioneered row-major array order?
Awarded 2 days ago
Is there a standardised 6502 assembly syntax?
Awarded Sep 5 at 7:33
Are there architectures with alignment greater than the size of machine word in the pre-32-bit era?
Awarded Sep 4 at 10:48
Which version of Netscape, on which OS, appears in the movie “Cut” (2000)?
Awarded Aug 31 at 5:04
Why is one of the Intel 8042 keyboard controller outputs inverted?
Awarded Aug 31 at 0:09
Which cards use −5 V and −12 V in IBM PC compatible systems?
Awarded Aug 25 at 5:51
Why is the original Altair BASIC (for the 8080 CPU) source code not available on-line?
Awarded Aug 23 at 21:04
What HyperCard extensions did Myst use?
Awarded Aug 19 at 9:15
How to read data from Philips P2000C over its serial port to a modern computer?
Awarded Aug 17 at 22:36
Why HIMEM was implemented as a DOS driver and not a TSR
Awarded Aug 15 at 16:52
Has anyone run the Dhrystone MIPS 2.1 benchmark on a stock, 2.8MHz, Apple IIgs?
Awarded Aug 8 at 18:21
Was there ever a functional EGA emulator for the Hercules graphics card?
Awarded Aug 8 at 13:07
Are there official, standard, or conventional names for the screen RAM addresses on the ZX Spectrum?
Awarded Aug 6 at 14:46
Why did Amstrad choose such bank combinations for its all-RAM mode in +2A and +3 Spectrum computers?
Awarded Aug 5 at 10:40
Good Z80 disassembler/decompiler on modern equipment?
Awarded Aug 1 at 1:10
What was the format for .OBJ files produced by M80.COM for CP/M?
Awarded Jul 31 at 11:56
Did the BBC ask for extra line spacing?
Awarded Jul 31 at 10:12
Did any Famicom game use microphone for random seed?
Awarded Jul 31 at 1:46
What programming language was used in Dijkstra's response to Frank Rubin's article about "Go To Statement Considered Harmful"
Awarded Jul 30 at 0:15
Why does the 68000 have Immediate addressing modes for byte-width instructions?
Awarded Jul 28 at 14:26
How did the NES's RP2A03 noise generator produce 32k bit long sequences despite only being 15 bits wide?
Awarded Jul 23 at 21:47
Did a combined RAM+ROM chip ever exist?
Awarded Jul 22 at 9:18
Did any 8-bit machine select palette by character name instead of color memory?
Awarded Jul 21 at 15:25
How do people print text on GUI on Win3.1/95/98/... before Win2000?
Awarded Jul 21 at 9:50
Which Old World ROM machines could officially run OS X?
Awarded Jul 20 at 4:56
What was the purpose of the SCAN commands on the Intel 8272 / NEC μPD765 floppy disk controllers?
Awarded Jul 18 at 1:38
What is stored in the 0x0010 to 0x0100 offset range of classic Mac resource forks?
Awarded Jul 17 at 6:48
What happened to the job market for assembly programmers once high level languages became mainstream?
Awarded Jul 11 at 23:20
Identify this bouncing ball screensaver in DOS
Awarded Jul 10 at 20:15
Mac Mini G4 not reinitialized
Awarded Jul 7 at 16:34
What non-Spectrum computers did Sinclair sell 4 million of?
Awarded Jul 6 at 23:09
Usage of Windows default 20-color palette
Awarded Jul 2 at 12:30
Is the FOCAL syntax for Alphanumeric Numbers ("0XYZ") documented anywhere?
Awarded Jul 1 at 10:42
Was BCD a limiting factor on 6502 speed?
Awarded Jun 30 at 14:15
BIOS support for 286 Protected Mode
Awarded Jun 25 at 9:04
Why did the UNIVAC 1100-series Exec-8 O/S call the @ character "master space?"
Awarded Jun 20 at 21:57
Why did Acorn use the 6502?
Awarded Jun 20 at 3:55
Why was the SNES color gamut RGB?
Awarded Jun 19 at 12:02
Where can one find "the Puzzle benchmark" from Hennessy’s MIPS paper?
Awarded Jun 18 at 2:57
Why was the 1540 a computer in its own right?
Awarded Jun 13 at 15:11
How reliable is the floppy content listing information on a C64?
Awarded Jun 11 at 18:40
What was the 6-bit length instruction(s) in the Intel iAPX 432?
Awarded Jun 11 at 14:02
How is the Apple II text flash mode timed?
Awarded Jun 10 at 18:25
Graphics Editor for 16-Bit Games
Awarded Jun 10 at 1:41
Which program is used in this shot of the movie "The Wrong Woman"
Awarded Jun 8 at 7:36
How did wolfenstein do 3D graphics when 3D graphics couldn't exist?
Awarded Jun 6 at 17:16
How did ALT + F4 become the shortcut for closing?
Awarded Jun 6 at 17:16
Why does Windows still use FAT and NTFS for filesystems?
Awarded Jun 5 at 19:48
Is there a technical reason why Datel Action Replay on PC required a card?
Awarded May 30 at 12:06
Why would email transmission change the 6-char sequence "0rom "?
Awarded May 26 at 14:30
Was the purported 1968 standard for encoding ASCII on punched cards ever used?
Awarded May 21 at 18:01
Did Windows 2.x actually receive support until end of 2001?
Awarded May 21 at 16:51
Is there any DOS game before Quake era (1996) that makes heavy use of the FPU?
Awarded May 19 at 18:37
How does the 8086 jump instruction work when the target address overflows?
Awarded May 14 at 12:52
What's the story behind the "mysterious" 486DX3?
Awarded May 11 at 14:25
Why did Acorn use LF+CR instead of CR+LF as a line ending?
Awarded Apr 29 at 22:18
In the RL02 disk system, why does the “read” command take CHS coordinates, when there is also a separate “seek” command?
Awarded Apr 20 at 12:41
Using audio tape recorders on non-personal computers?
Awarded Apr 18 at 3:16
Educational DOS game involving teddy bears
Awarded Apr 17 at 21:06
After creating HTML, why did Tim Berners-Lee bother creating HTTP? Why didn't he just write a HTML renderer for a FTP client?
Awarded Apr 16 at 5:50
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