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How did DoubleDOS work?
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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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Did the Sega Saturn support homogeneous transformations for graphics or only affine transformations?
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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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What was the main implementation programming language of old 16-bit Windows versions (Windows 1 - Windows 3.11)?
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What was the first preprocessor for a programming language?
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Why did early ASCII have ← and ↑ but not ↓ or →?
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Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of use in personal computers in the 21st century?
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Why were there so many OSes that had the name "DOS" in them?
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Why were there so many OSes that had the name "DOS" in them?
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What was the typical amount of disk storage for a mainframe installation in the 1980s?
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What was the typical amount of disk storage for a mainframe installation in the 1980s?
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Are there any old and nowadays active Operating Systems which has only BASIC Programming Language?
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Is there a standardised 6502 assembly syntax?
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Are there architectures with alignment greater than the size of machine word in the pre-32-bit era?
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What is the story behind 'goto' vs 'go' 'to' in ALGOL-60?
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What is the first computer architecture that knew code from data?
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Which version of Netscape, on which OS, appears in the movie “Cut” (2000)?
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Whatever happened to Chessmaster?
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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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Why is the keyboard and cellphone / telephone numbers in a different order?
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Which cards use −5 V and −12 V in IBM PC compatible systems?
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Why is the original Altair BASIC (for the 8080 CPU) source code not available on-line?
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Which BASIC dialect first featured a single-character comment introducer?
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Which BASIC dialect first featured a single-character comment introducer?
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How to read data from Philips P2000C over its serial port to a modern computer?
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What HyperCard extensions did Myst use?
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How to read data from Philips P2000C over its serial port to a modern computer?
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Were there mistakes in converting Dijkstra's Algol-60 compiler to Pascal?
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Why did tactile-feedback keyboards lose popularity?
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Why HIMEM was implemented as a DOS driver and not a TSR
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Why HIMEM was implemented as a DOS driver and not a TSR
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Why did Borland ignore the Macintosh market?
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Why did Borland ignore the Macintosh market?
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In relation to the Tandy TRS-80 Model 1 and Model III, what are "ISAM" and "PDS"?
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Apple II: ProDOS, zero length prefix and MLI calls
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Is there a pre-defined compiler macro for legacy Microsoft C 5.10 to get the compiler's name and version number?
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Has anyone run the Dhrystone MIPS 2.1 benchmark on a stock, 2.8MHz, Apple IIgs?
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What ever happened to Perl?
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What purpose did the lower-right "Enter" key serve on the original Mac 128k keyboard?
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What ever happened to Perl?
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What purpose did the lower-right "Enter" key serve on the original Mac 128k keyboard?
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Are there official, standard, or conventional names for the screen RAM addresses on the ZX Spectrum?
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How did the PL/I designers not understand environments?
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Why did Amstrad choose such bank combinations for its all-RAM mode in +2A and +3 Spectrum computers?
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What acceleration features did 2D PC video cards have?
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What acceleration features did 2D PC video cards have?
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Which programming language first used negative indexing to mean counting from the end?
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Which programming language first used negative indexing to mean counting from the end?
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What acceleration features did 2D PC video cards have?
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Graphics chips in 1980
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How similar were the X68000 and Capcom CP system?
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What was the format for .OBJ files produced by M80.COM for CP/M?
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Did the BBC ask for extra line spacing?
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Why not use fractions instead of floating point?
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What does “teletext” exactly refer to in BBC Micro specifications?
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What is the historical origin of lone CR as a line terminator?
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Why does the 68000 have Immediate addressing modes for byte-width instructions?
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