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What warning was given on attempting to post to USENET, circa 1990?

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Why did computers use a power supply with a socket?

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Can an x86 CPU running in real mode be considered to be basically an 8086 CPU?

60 votes

Why were some early PC 3D cards unsuitable for 2D graphics?

60 votes
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What did AOL use for pre-web GUI client?

60 votes
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Detect ancient web browser server-side to present appropriate HTML?

59 votes
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Is it true that Netscape Navigator eventually became Mozilla Firefox?

58 votes
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Did Windows NT 4 emulate x86 on non-Intel platforms?

58 votes

How does the LOADALL instruction on the 80286 work?

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Did the computer mouse always output relative x/y and not absolute?

57 votes

What was the last x86 CPU that did not have the x87 floating-point unit built in?

57 votes
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Can anyone identify this unknown 1988 PC card from The Palantir Corporation?

56 votes
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Is DOS being shipped with or as an installed OS?

54 votes
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Why is there only one PS/2 port on my computer?

53 votes

Why did "protected-mode MS-DOS" never happen?

52 votes
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How does the command.com shell work with MS-DOS?

51 votes
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Why did base64 win against uuencode?

51 votes
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Did they forget to add the physical layout to the USB keyboard standard?

51 votes
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Was Windows 95 really released in 1995?

51 votes

Could we have avoided the whole UTF-16 fiasco?

50 votes
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What do the keys on this Symbolics Space Cadet keyboard do?

50 votes
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Can x86 processors run 8-bit applications?

50 votes

Why were floppy disks invented after hard disks?

48 votes

How can I tell whether a DOS-looking exe. requires a 32-bit CPU to run?

48 votes
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Why does make only accept tab-indentation?

47 votes
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How fast were BASIC interpreters in the 80s? (Is this optimization for speed really necessary?)

47 votes
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When did HTTP start compressing text?

46 votes

Why did ones' complement decline in popularity?

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Why did Intel abandon unified CPU cache?

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Correct pronunciation of `vi` (Unix editor)?

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