Peter Cordes

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The start of x86: Intel 8080 vs Intel 8086?

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

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Was there a 'git' in the 1990s?

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

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Have programming languages driven hardware development?

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

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

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

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

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