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Why did IBM make the PC BIOS source code public?
Aug 13 '19 at 14:06
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How slow was the 6502 BASIC compared to Assembly
Sep 29 '19 at 3:25
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What's the relationship betweeen MS-DOS and XENIX?
Aug 15 '19 at 0:10
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Late 1970s and 6502 chip facilities for operating systems
Sep 19 '19 at 3:31
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When low-level formatting a floppy, how does one ensure any existing sector markers are overwritten?
Mar 1 at 16:58
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Was there a clearly identifiable “first computer” to use or demonstrate the use of virtual memory?
Nov 7 '19 at 5:15
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What causes the traces to wrinkle like this and should I be worried
Sep 19 '19 at 21:40
24
What's the timeline of Motorola 6800-family CPUs from 1974 to 1979?
Jul 31 '19 at 20:18
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NES chips usage
Jan 23 at 4:31
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What is DRAM refresh and why is the weird Apple II video memory layout affected by it?
Mar 3 at 15:01
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Why did the Apple IIe use a 2 MHz-rated 6502, even though it ran at only 1 MHz?
Mar 17 at 3:32
20
What was the first LISP compiler?
Sep 9 '19 at 3:44
20
Intel 8080-based home computers
Jul 16 '19 at 9:20
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What do the '80/40' and 'keyboard' buttons on my Apple IIc do?
Feb 29 at 4:17
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On a Gameboy, what happens when attempting to read/write external RAM while RAM is disabled?
Jul 22 '19 at 6:47
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cprintf printing invisible characters in C program on VIC 20
Oct 4 '19 at 7:24
17
What was the rationale behind 36 bit computer architectures?
Jul 24 '19 at 3:24
16
How were the 70's and 80's coin-op programmed?
Feb 28 at 17:53
15
How was a line of Commodore 64 BASIC code stored in its memory?
Mar 8 at 2:09
15
Were internet costs ever billed per packet?
Mar 7 at 6:50
14
Zilog Z80 freezes while binary counting up to 65 536 (2^16)
Feb 4 at 1:18
14
Where did the free parameters of IEEE 754 come from?
Jan 27 at 8:41
14
What is the hex versus octal timeline?
Aug 21 '19 at 9:18
13
Did this analogue computer from 1960 really have Internet?
Mar 7 at 6:22
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Why are branches relative in many 8-bit CPUs?
Nov 24 '19 at 3:57
11
Could we have avoided the whole UTF-16 fiasco?
Mar 19 at 0:57
11
What differentiated the Master System's Sega Card format from cartridges?
Nov 6 '19 at 3:50
10
what is DMA and how does it work?
Oct 24 '19 at 13:54
10
Why not build an “approximate” Analytical Engine before the complete one?
Oct 1 '19 at 15:52
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8086 stack segment and avoiding overflow in interrupts
Jul 29 '19 at 11:44
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