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I've been messing around with programming since childhood on random 8-bit home computers, now I mostly use C# professionally, or C or C++ on my hobbies

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62 How was C ported to architectures that had no hardware stack? Aug 6 '18
61 Why do C to Z80 compilers produce poor code? Mar 28 '18
61 Why did some early CPUs use external math chips? Apr 4 '18
50 What early home computers have more than one CPU, where both could be used by the programmer? [closed] Jan 21 '17
46 How were Western computer chips reverse-engineered in USSR? Dec 5 '16
44 Why not use fractions instead of floating point? Oct 1 '18
42 Why did line printers have 132 columns? Oct 3 '18
41 Why did the PDP-11 include a JMP instruction? Apr 12 '17
39 The history of the NULL pointer Feb 6 '18
39 How did 8 bit processors perform 16 bit arithmetic? Jun 5 '18
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