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History of computers, digital electronics, hardware manufacturers, and software developers.
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What "unusual" syntax assembly languages are/were there?
I guess this is a "on the way to assembler" answer.
The FA-5 "Automatic coding system" for BESK doesn't have mnemonics for instructions, those are just notated in normal octal. But, it allows symbolic …
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What was the design rationale behind multi-port and multiple connections (and back-connectio...
For NFS (and portmapper), it's down to it being implemented as a SunRPC service. The whole idea is that you have your services randomly scattered on non-reserved ports, with the portmapper knowing whe …
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When connecting to the Internet via Dial-Up, were computers directly accessible via their al...
This is one of those "it depends" answers. Source, I used to work as a network engineer, focusing primarily on "the internal backbone" and "dialup termination" at an ISP.
We would, by default, provid …
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History of non-American software/hardware/CS theory development, 1940s-1980s?
Sweden had BARK (relay-based, more a dataflow hardware than a "runs code" computer, from what I understand), BESK[1] (IAS-type architecture, inspired SMIL and DASK (Denmark)) and the D-series of machi …
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