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Are MS-DOS and Windows 9x vulnerable to Meltdown?
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How was early randomness generated?
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What algorithm did Microsoft use to dither colour in early versions of Windows?
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Why would a NES game use an undocumented 1-byte or 2-byte NOP in production?
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How were bugs reported for compilers that were shipped on floppy disks?
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Where did the popularity of the `i` variable come from?
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How can tilting a N64 cartridge cause such subtle glitches?
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Why does the kill-screen glitch occur in Pac-man?
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How exactly does Sonic & Knuckles' 'Lock-On Technology' work?
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What exactly is a cycle-accurate emulator?
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Why is a BIOS dump not required to emulate Nintendo 64 games in most modern emulators?
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What was the first arcade game to use a microprocessor instead of discrete logic?
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What was the first programming book
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Why use static RAM addresses instead of the stack?
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