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When TCP was first invented, was the initial sequence number required to be random?
Dec 30, 2018
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Identifying late 1990s embedded 486 UNIX-like system
Jun 14, 2020
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Did any compilers hash long symbol names when truncating them?
Sep 28, 2021
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Does any computer resemble the model taught in UK secondary education?
Jul 3, 2022
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Why was desktop CPU frequency so low in the late 1990s?
Apr 24, 2023
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How did it come that SATA HDDs use ATA while SATA CD drives use SCSI as protocol?
Jan 31, 2023
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Discovering intended cable orientation with an older IDE controller
Feb 2, 2023
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Why did IBM PC have horizontal cursor instead of vertical or block cursor?
Oct 5, 2022
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Transition from static to dynamic shared libraries
Aug 3, 2021
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Why did 1990s-2000s LCD all use 60 Hz refresh?
Aug 29, 2023
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Why don't we use weights to store energy?
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A planet you can take off from, but never land back
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How do you know you have reached North or South Pole without GPS?
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What are the benefits of tracking solved bugs?
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If I sliced the universe in half, would the slice go through a star?