Retrocomputing Beta

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How can Windows 98 shut down in less than 5 seconds?
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When did file based communication / design patterns became obsolete in enterprise applications? [closed]
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History of non-American software/hardware/CS theory development, 1940s-1980s?
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Are the last 4 bytes in .SCL disk image files for Spectrum clones meaningful or spurious?
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Did the 6502 need both ADC immediate and SBC immediate?
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How does the “Small fire-Mario” glitch in SMB1 work?
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Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest?
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Why does the 80486 take longer to execute simple instructions than complex ones?
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BASIC09 and I-Code
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Is it true that Pentium III was faster than its successor Pentium 4?
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Is it true that Pentium III was faster than its successor Pentium 4?
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How long should I expect the Apple IIc self test to run?
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Why does the 80486 take longer to execute simple instructions than complex ones?
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Is the ZX Spectrum multithread capable? [closed]
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Why did the original design of COM on Windows rely on the registry?
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How picky are CRTs about power cleanliness?
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Why were optical drives not used as secondary storage instead of magnetic drives?
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Commodore 64 board dimensions
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What are these weird long ISA slots on this 386 board? (not VLB)
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What is this programming language having PROC, DCL, LABEL keywords?
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Is there any virtual hard disk driver over serial port?
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How much time and how many people were required to develop Delphi version 1?
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Why did the original design of COM on Windows rely on the registry?
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Why did the original design of COM on Windows rely on the registry?
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Siemens PG675 monitor problem
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Was photographic film ever used for digital data storage?
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How is it possible that they used to type “Mb” when they meant “MB” in printed computer magazines in the 1990s?
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Was it possible programmatically to manipulate the volume as well as the pitch on computers with no sound chip?
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Was there ever a functional EGA emulator for the Hercules graphics card?
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How is it possible that they used to type “Mb” when they meant “MB” in printed computer magazines in the 1990s?
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Did any RISC CPU ever take more than one clock cycle per instruction?
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Networking WfW 3.11 between modern ethernet and 56k internal modem card
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Price of original Apple ][ in 1980?
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How does Windows 9x determine which disk drivers correspond to which BIOS disks/DOS drive letters?
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C64 BASIC: How to suppress the '?' sign when using the INPUT command?
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Why did scandisk exist?
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What 20th-century computers besides KDF9 replicated hardware for each concurrently-running program?
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What file formats were used for binary executable files on later Sinclair ZX Spectrums?
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What 1970's terminal was black on white and had an orange keyboard?
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Imaging a HDD from DOS over Serial
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ES688 AudioDrive 4-bit proprietary codec: Any way to decode?
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When connecting to the Internet via Dial-Up, were computers directly accessible via their allocated IP address?
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How do I interpret these instructions for decompressing game data?
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How do I extract the program from the Radiohead “Nude” tribute by James Houston?
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What are these 3COM connectors for?
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What DOS games used Mode X as described by Michael Abrash?
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Why does the .z80 emulator-snapshot format have separate fields for the 8-bit refresh register and bit 7 of R?
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What are these 3COM connectors for?
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Why did 8-bit computers choose BASIC dialects as “de facto” command-line interface, instead of contemporary Shell/Lisp dialects?
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Data length module of 3.2^n confusion in IBM system/360 architecture
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Is the ZX Spectrum multithread capable?
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Loading ZX Spectrum tape audio in a post-cassette world
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Why did the C64 use a separate “CAN” +5 V power supply for some chips?
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Why were most PC's and electronics beige back in the day?
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Why were most PC's and electronics beige back in the day?
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Is this a mini computer, a novelty monitor or something else?
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How did old games from 8-bit era game consoles store music?
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