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What led to the fall of shell accounts?

answered Feb 24 at 14:49

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How was the first assembler for a new home computer platform written?

answered Jul 18, 2017 at 21:42

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How did the Apple II forward binary instructions to the Z80 software card with CPM?

answered Jan 9, 2017 at 21:30

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How could early UNIX OS comprise so few lines of code?

answered Jan 9 at 10:29

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Why did some old MS-DOS games lack the ability to exit them?

answered Aug 27, 2021 at 8:43

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Were later MS-DOS versions still implemented in x86 assembly?

answered Oct 8, 2018 at 8:38

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What "Write your own RPG/Adventure game" books were available for 8-bit computers?

answered Jun 12, 2017 at 20:27

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Why was the "Space-cadet keyboard" called that?

answered Dec 22, 2022 at 10:37

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Why does cat with no argument read from standard input?

answered Mar 17 at 8:42

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Why have MS-DOS device drivers if the ROM BIOS provides access to the same devices already?

answered May 17, 2022 at 14:57

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What init system was used in early Linux distributions?

answered Nov 16, 2018 at 21:54

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How fast were BASIC interpreters in the 80s? (Is this optimization for speed really necessary?)

answered Jun 22, 2021 at 10:47

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Did type-in-programs or type-in-listings teach programming in the 70s and 80s or was it just tedious typing of the source code?

answered Jul 21 at 9:04