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Discovering intended cable orientation with an older IDE controller
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Was there any technological reason that C was designed to return only a single thing from a function?
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Why was the graphical user interface version of Defrag removed?
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Install a DOS application consisting of 5 .IMG files (when expanded) on Windows 10 running DOSBox-X [closed]
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How did it come that SATA HDDs use ATA while SATA CD drives use SCSI as protocol?
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When did type punning through violating the strict aliasing rule become disallowed?
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History of High Availability in the mainframe and minicomputer eras?
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Did RapidLok etc knock floppy drives out of alignment?
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What type(s) of compressed files was the MS-DOS EXPAND command able to decompress?
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How do 80x25 characters (each with dimension 9x16 pixels) fit on a VGA display of resolution 640x480?
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Which font with slashed zero is being used in this screengrab?
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Origin of "string"
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How did relay computers handle inductor flyback?
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In what sense would the Atari 3200 have been a 10-bit machine?
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Why did "protected-mode MS-DOS" never happen?
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Has there ever been a pressed optical disc containing a computer virus?
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Who invented garbage collection?
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Did the Amiga change CPU frequencies when switching between PAL and NTSC mode?
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When was the term ‘directory’ replaced by ‘folder’?
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How were Acorn Archimedes used outside education?
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What did it sound like when you played a cassette tape with programs on it?
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What cable is needed to connect a drive to an older IDE controller socket with all 40 pins?
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Disk compression risks in MS-DOS
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Why is Ctrl-V the Paste shortcut?
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How are the randomizer values on the Apple II maintained?
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Which version of BASIC uses RANDOM for seeding the random number generator (RNG)?
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How to write Win16 program with only a single segment (combined code+data)?
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Different escape codes for the same keyboard keys -- where did they come from?
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Source code control on an MS-DOS system
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Why did Windows 9x allow ring-3 software to change IDT?
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What did Richard Stallman have against VMS?
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How could early UNIX OS comprise so few lines of code?
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What is the history of SysV i386 calling convention for struct return?
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What sequence of instructions is the equivalent to `fcomip` on i486?
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Daisy-chained cassette drive?
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What is the maximum allowable error when aligning the magnetic heads of a floppy drive?
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Why was the VIC-II restricted to a hard-coded palette?
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Any historical references to links between JOSS and BASIC?
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Did anyone ever run out of stack space on the 6502?
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Early 1982 PCW article about pseudo random dungeon mapping
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How were Amiga games cracked circa 1987?
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How did Multics make library calls available as shell commands?
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Why did the Atari 800 have a flying RF lead?
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When was the CHS (cylinder - head - sector) system invented and what was before it?
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How did the X-Men game for Sega Genesis have its state survive a console reset?
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Are there any open-source C64 DOS wedges and fast loaders?
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References for the complexity of the COBOL language
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What was the last terminal to include a physical bell?
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What was the first Lisp implementation that could generate machine code?
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Did Microsoft really reserve secret APIs in Windows?
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Did Microsoft BASIC ever use Z80 only instructions?
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The MAC-360 programming language developed in the mid 1960s
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Did blowing into an N64 cartridge really affect whether or not the game would run?
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Were Windows 3.x applications dependent upon 80286 instructions?
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Why was the "Space-cadet keyboard" called that?
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How could the SNES take advantage of in-cartridge coprocessors that weren't invented when the SNES came out?
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Can you program an arcade game and have MAME or another emu run it?
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Did any SNES games use the fast ROM?
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Why does the FRE() function in CBM BASIC v2 return negative values?
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What was the first commercial route planning software for home computers?
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