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How did old MS-DOS games utilize various graphic cards?
Jun 3, 2019
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Why is the Intel 8086 CPU called a 16-bit CPU?
Jul 18, 2019
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Strange math syntax in old basic listing
May 28, 2019
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Why wasn't ASCII designed with a contiguous alphanumeric character order?
Jun 26, 2019
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Why did the VIC-20 and C64 have only 22 and 40 columns when the earlier PET had 80 column text?
Mar 30, 2021
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What was the design rationale behind multi-port and multiple connections (and back-connections) designs of the early protocols like NFS or FTP?
May 13, 2020
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Why (historically) include the number of arguments (argc) as a parameter of main?
Dec 13, 2017
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Why did the VT100 terminal have to be connected to a host computer if it already had a processor?
Jun 14
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What is the difference between the "Return" and "Enter" keys in the VT100 terminal?
May 23, 2017
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Does the Intel 8085 CPU use real memory addresses?
Jul 15, 2019
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How slicing in Python works
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How do I make Git ignore file mode (chmod) changes?
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