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What "spectacular to watch" algorithms were used for sorting tapes?

answered Aug 13, 2022 at 7:29

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Did personal computers ever support 8" floppies?

answered Sep 21, 2018 at 10:18

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Why were programs entered on punch cards instead of paper tapes?

answered Apr 12, 2021 at 18:50

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What were the actual memory model definitions in MS-DOS?

answered Mar 1, 2022 at 9:03

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The move to protected mode on x86

answered Jan 10 at 23:08

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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?

answered Apr 1, 2021 at 17:48

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Why was preemptive multitasking so slow in coming to consumer OS's?

answered Sep 27, 2018 at 0:24

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What were the real competitors to the early IBM PC?

answered Jul 12, 2018 at 15:27

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Why did post-8008 CPUs not keep the on-chip stack idea?

answered Jun 6, 2020 at 8:00

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Why was the shrinking from 8″ made only to 5.25″ and not smaller (4″ or less)?

answered Apr 4, 2019 at 17:33

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How does the ‘real mode flat model’ work?

answered Sep 13, 2019 at 13:41

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What monitor did Atari recommend for its 8 bit product line?

answered Jul 7, 2018 at 17:41

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What was the earliest system to explicitly support threading based on shared memory?

answered Feb 12, 2021 at 9:43

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Why did 5.25″ floppies invert the meaning of the write-protection notch?

answered Jun 2 at 13:59

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Was there ever a compiler type that was just large enough to contain a memory segment?

answered Jul 13, 2018 at 4:16

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Was the picture area of a CRT a parallelogram (instead of a true rectangle)?

answered Mar 27, 2019 at 15:29

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Besides the VIC-20 did any other micros have fewer than 32 columns available for text mode?

answered Oct 1, 2020 at 6:07

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What "spectacular to watch" algorithms were used for sorting tapes?

Did personal computers ever support 8" floppies?

Why were programs entered on punch cards instead of paper tapes?

What were the actual memory model definitions in MS-DOS?

The move to protected mode on x86

Why did the VIC-20 and C64 have only 22 and 40 columns when the earlier PET had 80 column text?

Why was preemptive multitasking so slow in coming to consumer OS's?

What were the real competitors to the early IBM PC?

Why did post-8008 CPUs not keep the on-chip stack idea?

Why was the shrinking from 8″ made only to 5.25″ and not smaller (4″ or less)?

How does the ‘real mode flat model’ work?

What monitor did Atari recommend for its 8 bit product line?

What was the earliest system to explicitly support threading based on shared memory?

Why did 5.25″ floppies invert the meaning of the write-protection notch?

Was there ever a compiler type that was just large enough to contain a memory segment?

Was the picture area of a CRT a parallelogram (instead of a true rectangle)?

Besides the VIC-20 did any other micros have fewer than 32 columns available for text mode?