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Patrick Schlüter
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Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of use in personal computers in the 21st century?
Sep 25, 2023
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When if ever was the C language 'int' size altered from the host machine word (register) size into a literal 32 bit size?
Sep 29, 2020
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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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Why did they create PC games relying on a fixed CPU frequency instead of a clock function?
May 5, 2023
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Was there any computer since about 1960 without interrupt support?
Nov 27, 2023
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Most modern C compilers targeting DOS 8086, running on DOS 8086 (16-bit)
Nov 24, 2022
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Can DOS make use of more than 640 KB of conventional memory on 80186?
Mar 5
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Did any 8-bit device ever merge a CPU core?
Feb 8
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Did any CPUs have a special instruction for multiplying or dividing by ten?
Mar 1
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What was novel about the Atari ST? Did it introduce any innovations?
Jul 2, 2020
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Why is the use of alloca() not considered good practice?
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strdup() - what does it do in C?
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The role of #ifdef and #ifndef
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When should I use mmap for file access?
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How do I achieve the theoretical maximum of 4 FLOPs per cycle?