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Peter Cordes

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The start of x86: Intel 8080 vs Intel 8086?

answered May 15, 2018 at 19:20

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Did any compiler fully use Intel x87 80-bit floating point?

answered Apr 19, 2019 at 12:06

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How can a 32-bit x86 CPU start with reset vector 0xFFFFFFF0 even though it starts in 16-bit real mode?

answered May 26 at 4:00

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Was there a 'git' in the 1990s?

answered Aug 20, 2017 at 0:52

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Why are first four x86 General Purpose Registers named in such unintuitive order?

answered Dec 2, 2017 at 4:11

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Have programming languages driven hardware development?

answered Jan 22, 2019 at 15:25

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What 8086 instructions accept REP?

answered Feb 1, 2021 at 20:33

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Help porting nasm code down from 386 to 8088 (shifts by more than 1 bit)

answered Apr 25 at 4:13

11 votes

How does the BIOS distinguish Interrupt(08h-12h) from INT instructions, vs. actual exceptions inside the CPU?

answered May 26, 2022 at 15:31

10 votes

What's the relationship between early 90s Pentium microprocessor and today's Intel designs?

answered Jul 27, 2017 at 11:27

8 votes

Why did 1990s-2000s LCD all use 60 Hz refresh?

answered Aug 29 at 19:05

7 votes

Are MS-DOS and Windows 9x vulnerable to Meltdown?

answered Jan 6, 2018 at 8:41

6 votes

Are there any good, non-abandoned PC emulators?

answered Aug 21, 2021 at 2:14

6 votes

Why was video, audio and picture compression the poorest when storage space was the costliest?

answered Nov 8, 2022 at 10:56

4 votes

Will PC-DOS run faster on 4 or 8 core modern machines?

answered Feb 6, 2019 at 0:21

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Power of university computer in the '70s?

answered Dec 31, 2018 at 3:04

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How do I best simulate a 80386?

answered Jul 25, 2022 at 20:12

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Why does cat with no argument read from standard input?

answered Mar 17 at 21:53