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Is there any way to read current Interrupt Mode in Z80 machine code?
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After creating HTML, why did Tim Berners-Lee bother creating HTTP? Why didn't he just write a HTML renderer for a FTP client?
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High-capacity floppy drives from the early 2000s, what were they?
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Has anyone ever made a quiet floppy drive?
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What were the major things that caused TCP/IP to become the internet standard protocol?
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Building hello world on a Macintosh IIfx with MPW
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Did any processor implement an integer square root instruction?
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Did any processor implement an integer square root instruction?
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Was the MS-DOS window in Windows 95 an emulator like current DOSBox?
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Minimum game cartridge manufacturing time
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Did the UNIVAC I really have a 2.25 MHz clock speed?
Awarded Mar 27 at 21:57
Why was the DOS kernel discarded?
Awarded Mar 24 at 17:51
Historically speaking, why is man-db a separate package that is not part of the GNU project?
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Fastest non-emulated CP/M Z80-based computer ever built?
Awarded Mar 22 at 3:27
How did the Atari 2600 achieve a resolution of 160 x 192 pixels with only 128 bytes of memory?
Awarded Mar 20 at 12:57
How did the Atari 2600 achieve a resolution of 160 x 192 pixels with only 128 bytes of memory?
Awarded Mar 19 at 1:21
Is it possible to know which lines in the Gameboy Color cartridge connection is missing by looking at the glitched Nintendo logo?
Awarded Mar 18 at 2:26
What is this large device labelled 'Telefunken Datenspeicher' and how does it work?
Awarded Mar 15 at 8:06
What were wait-states, and why was it only an issue for PCs?
Awarded Mar 11 at 14:35
Which ports are which on this Soviet ZX Spectrum clone?
Awarded Mar 8 at 21:20
How did the AOL software provide internet access to other applications running on Windows 95/98?
Awarded Mar 7 at 1:03
Why is the RM Nimbus PC-186 not IBM PC compatible?
Awarded Mar 6 at 17:02
Slash versus backslash as directory separator – what/who caused this rift?
Awarded Mar 6 at 14:31
The almost-was Atari IBM PC
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What are uses of the byte after BRK instruction on 6502?
Awarded Mar 1 at 17:58
Is there a reason why Apple servers did not catch on?
Awarded Feb 28 at 20:07
Is there a reason why Apple servers did not catch on?
Awarded Feb 28 at 19:21
Does this 8088 code in the Leisure Suit Larry 2 game actually do anything?
Awarded Feb 28 at 0:46
Does this 8088 code in the Leisure Suit Larry 2 game actually do anything?
Awarded Feb 26 at 22:50
Why did nobody ever succeed in "clean room" cloning the Apple Macintosh?
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Why did nobody ever succeed in "clean room" cloning the Apple Macintosh?
Awarded Feb 25 at 23:11
What is the technical definition of "clone" that makes the K1810VM88 (К1810ВМ88) not a clone of the 8088?
Awarded Feb 21 at 19:17
Did any 8-bit device ever merge a CPU core?
Awarded Feb 19 at 13:10
Why didn't PC games eschew MS-DOS and deal with BIOS directly?
Awarded Feb 16 at 14:36
Did any MS-DOS program ever use the System Request interrupt?
Awarded Feb 15 at 21:56
What did corporations use for long-distance networks in the 1980s?
Awarded Feb 15 at 21:56
What did corporations use for long-distance networks in the 1980s?
Awarded Feb 14 at 16:57
Why didn't PC games eschew MS-DOS and deal with BIOS directly?
Awarded Feb 13 at 13:25
How did 16-bit MS-DOS programs use a large (> 64KB) stack?
Awarded Feb 12 at 20:48
Why does PC video memory base address change depending on video mode?
Awarded Feb 10 at 0:17
When did Nintendo switch from assembly to a higher programming language?
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Did 486 SMP systems provide Total Store Ordering?
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First use of an OS in gaming consoles?
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Does DB15 actually exist?
Awarded Feb 1 at 23:18
Did any x86 CPU optionally trap unaligned access?
Awarded Feb 1 at 14:58
Since when does Windows support forward slash as path separator?
Awarded Jan 29 at 20:08
Why did Windows 95 crash the whole system but newer Windows only crashed programs?
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Why do we use caret (^) as the symbol for ctrl/control?
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Why do keyboards have an asterisk key?
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Did any computer use a 7-bit byte?
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What is this programming language having PROC, DCL, LABEL keywords?
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How should we interpret Dave Cutler's criticism of Unix?
Awarded Jan 23 at 13:50
Filesystems with versioning
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What was the first operating system called DOS?
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Why did MacOS Classic choose the colon as a path separator?
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What was the first Object Oriented programming language?
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Origin of the 8.3 file names scheme
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When was this C function definition style, with type declarations of parameters after the parameter list, invented?
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What are the "virtual machines" that were running on 80386 and later x86 CPUs before full hardware virtualization?
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What is the simplest UNIX system with a MMU?
Awarded Jan 23 at 13:50
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