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Why not use fractions instead of floating point?

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Why is EEPROM called ROM if it can be written to?

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Why did 1950s-60s computers have such wide words?

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Why did the PDP-11 include a JMP instruction?

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Fastest 8-bit microprocessor for multiply-accumulate?

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Why was desktop CPU frequency so low in the late 1990s?

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What motivated the weird boolean instruction repertoire of the PDP-11?

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What did the "programs" that "human computers" executed look like?

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Is there still no "digital version of PCBs and ICs" software that all future emulators can use?

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What "unusual" syntax assembly languages are/were there?

32 votes

Did Forth's inventor Charles Moore really write a CAD program in only 5 lines of code?

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What is this US(?) Terminal or Screen?

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How did 16-bit MS-DOS programs use a large (> 64KB) stack?

29 votes

Did MS-DOS cache the FAT?

29 votes

68000 and memory access speed

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Could you manually eject a floppy quick enough to prevent data loss?

26 votes
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Purpose of two disk drives on the Osborne 1

25 votes

Executable ASCII files before x86?

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How did the IBM PC handle multiple physical devices serving memory at the same physical address?

23 votes

Size of the PDP-8

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How did Apple II BASIC programs protect against listing?

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6510 clock rate of C64: Why was it considerably slower than the 6502 of the Atari 800?

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How do I use my adapted PS/2 keyboard & mouse on a Windows 10 computer?

19 votes

Why did they switch from phone numbers to IP addresses?

18 votes

How can I reverse-engineer the game Wizardry (1981) for PC, based on UCSD Pascal?

18 votes

What is the use of the variable `B%` in DONKEY.BAS written by Bill Gates?

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What was the first programming language with generics?

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How did the Commodore PET 80 column display work?

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How were files transferred between different systems in the late 1980s?

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Did personal computers ever support 8" floppies?

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