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Curt J. Sampson, <cjs@cynic.net>.

Developer/DevOps/agile coach/etc.
I like agile development, functional programming (especially Haskell) and retrocomputing.

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Why did IBM make the PC BIOS source code public?
Aug 13 '19
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How slow was the 6502 BASIC compared to Assembly
Sep 29 '19
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Where and when did the `0x` convention for hexadecimal literals originate?
Aug 16 '20
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What's the relationship betweeen MS-DOS and XENIX?
Aug 15 '19
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Was 10BASE5 a mistake?
Nov 12 '21
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When did 5.25″ floppies exceed the capacity of 8″?
Nov 6 '21
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Why did post-8008 CPUs not keep the on-chip stack idea?
Jun 5 '20
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Late 1970s and 6502 chip facilities for operating systems
Sep 19 '19
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When low-level formatting a floppy, how does one ensure any existing sector markers are overwritten?
Mar 1 '20
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Was there a clearly identifiable "first computer" to use or demonstrate the use of virtual memory?
Nov 7 '19
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