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Is an X Window System older than release 10 available online?
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Looking for a 90's sorcery game on Atari ST
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How did FOCAL convert strings to a number?
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What exactly was the intent and implementation of Apple DOS 3.3's volume concept?
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1980s arcade game with overhead perspective and line-art cut scenes
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Identify a vertical arcade shooter from the very early 1980s
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Was QotD (and RFCs 862-867) actually insecure?
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Why did Extended BASIC on the TI-99/4A only allow 28 of the 32 sprites?
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Why did the IBM PC design twist 7 wires in the FDC cable and not 3
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What happened to Doug Engelbart's NLS?
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Why does invoking a bat file from another bat interrupt the first?
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When did CPUs start using page mode DRAM?
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When did HTTP start compressing text?
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Is there a common name for this 'switch' like 6800 assembly routine?
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How does the Atari ST's VDI polygon filling algorithm work?
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What is a DVD add on card?
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What's this mysterious dynamic RAM board in my Heathkit H8?
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First x86 Software Development Manual
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Does anyone have any information on GUTS (Gothenburg University Timesharing System)?
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Did MS-DOS have any support for multithreading?
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Why does cat with no argument read from standard input?
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when did command line applications start using "-h" as a "standard" way to print "help"?
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Did mechanical hard drives often malfunction in high elevation places such as Bogota?
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Was there an input device capable of entering all Algol 60 symbols with correct appearance?
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Why did 1970s front panels prefer momentary toggle switches to push buttons?
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How were rackmount workstations wired-up to mice, keyboards, monitors, etc?
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How much extra die area did a CMOS CPU take?
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Detecting the version of i486 CPU
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Origin of UNIX symbolic links?
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What was 'Maclogal'?
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Are any CP/M systems still in commercial use today?
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Can anyone help provide more information regarding an operating system called I/OS by Infosoft in the early 1980's?
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Why did Windows 3.0 fail in Japan?
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What did Ctrl+NumLock do?
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Did any DOS compatibility layers exist for any UNIX-like systems before DOS started to become outmoded?
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Did Digital Research clean-room MS-DOS?
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Why do Java classfiles (and JNI) use a "Frankenstein's monster" encoding crossing UTF-8 and UTF-16? [closed]
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Identify these old accounting machines
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Intel "Kernel processor" or "OS Kernel"
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Long Term Prevalence of 8080 Code Over Z80 Code in Software Packages
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What 386-specific features did Linux use?
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What led to the fall of shell accounts?
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How did the Tandy 1000 select its drives?
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Why is QEMU cutting off the last cylinder of the disk image?
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Layout of pre-APM Apple partition map
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Looking for help understanding a 'Reciproot' routine on the Manchester Mark I (1951)
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How much slower was the 286 in protected mode?
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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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What did Windows 2 do about varying aspect ratio?
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Help identifying format of old tape backup
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When did the 386 overtake the 286?
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Managing registers/memory effectively on the Z80
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Was the Amiga 1000's front expansion port capable of anything other than the 256KB card?
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How is the ‘Coprocessor segment overrun’ exception supposed to be handled?
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Was there a keyboard layout starting with "TBSY"?
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Did Pascal programmers really move on to Java in the 90s?
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Ada and its candidate languages
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Was there a way to play an hourly custom sound on Macs circa 1985-1995?
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Intel 80188 & 8087 clock frequency differences
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