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When did the floppy disk icon become the standard symbol for the “save” function in user interfaces?
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What does an ADC (add with carry) instruction following ADD do?
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oldest free assembler targeting the 386 CPU
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Historically speaking, why is man-db a separate package that is not part of the GNU project?
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How did the Atari 2600 achieve a resolution of 160 x 192 pixels with only 128 bytes of memory?
Awarded Mar 18 at 16:19
How did Microsoft take over Winsocks (Windows Sockets)?
Awarded Mar 6 at 2:56
Atari SIO vs IEEE 488
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Did VMS ever acquire filesystem cross-links?
Awarded Feb 20 at 2:33
What did corporations use for long-distance networks in the 1980s?
Awarded Feb 13 at 22:49
How did 16-bit MS-DOS programs use a large (> 64KB) stack?
Awarded Feb 11 at 19:09
Why does PC video memory base address change depending on video mode?
Awarded Feb 7 at 21:10
Did 486 SMP systems provide Total Store Ordering?
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Which 8 bit computer could display the most colors?
Awarded Dec 22, 2023 at 5:16
How much memory did the PlayStation development kit have?
Awarded Nov 28, 2023 at 20:15
Why does NT4 fail on boot if you give it an x64 CPU?
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How do you find the EBDA address?
Awarded Sep 23, 2023 at 18:31
Were there any PCs using the i376?
Awarded Sep 20, 2023 at 18:01
What is the arcade game played in the "The Boys Next Door" movie?
Awarded Sep 13, 2023 at 22:49
Why does the Manchester Baby have two jump instructions?
Awarded Sep 6, 2023 at 17:11
In what ways was the Windows NT POSIX implementation unsuited to real use?
Awarded Jul 13, 2023 at 18:35
Beep command with letters for notes (IBM AT + DOS circa 1984)
Awarded Jun 28, 2023 at 14:47
Is the source for the original Elite public?
Awarded Jun 27, 2023 at 10:27
How was the @ sign added to keyboards and character sets?
Awarded Jun 13, 2023 at 18:20
What is the best way to set up multiple operating systems on a retro PC?
Awarded Jun 6, 2023 at 3:26
How can a 32-bit x86 CPU start with reset vector 0xFFFFFFF0 even though it starts in 16-bit real mode?
Awarded May 26, 2023 at 3:19
Where/when did the sentence "a good developer is lazy" first appear?
Awarded May 23, 2023 at 1:56
Using Clang to compile MS-DOS executables
Awarded May 22, 2023 at 19:10
Did the rm project remove itself during early development?
Awarded May 13, 2023 at 14:07
Why did DOS-based Windows require HIMEM.SYS to boot?
Awarded May 1, 2023 at 15:26
What were the most popular text editors for MS-DOS in the 1980s?
Awarded Apr 30, 2023 at 13:46
How was the order of Unicode block-quadrant characters chosen?
Awarded Apr 26, 2023 at 18:57
Original purpose of the Rich Header in PE files
Awarded Apr 19, 2023 at 23:27
How to convert .ttf to .fnt for use with M10_SCR.COM DOS font driver
Awarded Apr 9, 2023 at 11:03
When did HTTP start compressing text?
Awarded Mar 27, 2023 at 13:27
Detecting the version of i486 CPU
Awarded Mar 12, 2023 at 0:04
Origin of UNIX symbolic links?
Awarded Mar 10, 2023 at 13:09
What did Ctrl+NumLock do?
Awarded Mar 4, 2023 at 8:57
Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 "DIVIDE BY ZERO" command
Awarded Mar 3, 2023 at 23:41
Did any DOS compatibility layers exist for any UNIX-like systems before DOS started to become outmoded?
Awarded Mar 2, 2023 at 13:47
What 386-specific features did Linux use?
Awarded Feb 28, 2023 at 16:40
How much slower was the 286 in protected mode?
Awarded Feb 23, 2023 at 3:07
What did Windows 2 do about varying aspect ratio?
Awarded Feb 22, 2023 at 16:56
When did the 386 overtake the 286?
Awarded Feb 20, 2023 at 13:32
Did PATA controllers break backwards compatibilty at some point?
Awarded Feb 17, 2023 at 18:25
Memory requirements for undelete command
Awarded Feb 11, 2023 at 19:58
Media formats in Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Awarded Feb 7, 2023 at 5:31
Intel 80188 & 8087 clock frequency differences
Awarded Feb 6, 2023 at 3:27
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Awarded Feb 1, 2023 at 16:11
How did it come that SATA HDDs use ATA while SATA CD drives use SCSI as protocol?
Awarded Jan 31, 2023 at 2:16
How do 80x25 characters (each with dimension 9x16 pixels) fit on a VGA display of resolution 640x480?
Awarded Jan 25, 2023 at 20:33
Why did "protected-mode MS-DOS" never happen?
Awarded Jan 23, 2023 at 20:09
How were Acorn Archimedes used outside education?
Awarded Jan 16, 2023 at 11:56
Where can I find macrofun.hlp?
Awarded Jan 16, 2023 at 11:03
Disk compression risks in MS-DOS
Awarded Jan 15, 2023 at 0:26
Why is Ctrl-V the Paste shortcut?
Awarded Jan 13, 2023 at 18:10
Did any software attempt to perform 8086 emulation on the 80286 using LOADALL, in the vein of the later virtual 8086 mode of the 80386?
Awarded Jan 12, 2023 at 1:10
How to use all memory on an IBM PC with 8086
Awarded Dec 23, 2022 at 17:17
Were Windows 3.x applications dependent upon 80286 instructions?
Awarded Dec 19, 2022 at 21:57
Why does the FAT file system have separate ‘hidden’ and ‘system’ attributes?
Awarded Dec 16, 2022 at 7:34
How did SmartDrive work?
Awarded Dec 13, 2022 at 17:11
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