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What made the Amiga "Genlock-able"?
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doener
2 days ago
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How did 8088/86 PCs implement flood-fill before SSE and GPUs?
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2 points
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azeemba
26 days ago
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Why do we use \C to end the output of the shell echo command?
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2 points
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susam
55 days ago
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How did the C64 lockup bug and its workarounds work?
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5 points
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gnoll_of_gozag
61 days ago
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What UI first distinguished radio buttons from checkboxes with circles/squares?
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72 points
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azeemba
66 days ago
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56 comments
What UI first distinguished radio and check buttons with circles and squares?
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3 points
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SeenNotHeard
68 days ago
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Assembly – Space Invaders ships remaining not initialized
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1 point
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rrauenza
69 days ago
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The initial version of the /etc./magic file used by the file(1) command
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35 points
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SeenNotHeard
89 days ago
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15 comments
Are there any MP/M multiplayer games?
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2 points
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rbanffy
5 months ago
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2 comments
Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20?
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277 points
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SeenNotHeard
6 months ago
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499 comments
Why was hardware diversification an asset for the IBM PC ecosystem?
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1 point
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rwallace
8 months ago
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Where can one read archived Microsoft Knowledge Base articles?
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3 points
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SeenNotHeard
8 months ago
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Why is the term "card" used in "expansion card"?
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2 points
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SeenNotHeard
9 months ago
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When was the famous "sudo warning" introduced? (2019)
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158 points
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Boogie_Man
9 months ago
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176 comments
Where does this esoteric Pascal operator come from? (2017)
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1 point
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peter_d_sherman
10 months ago
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1 comment
Are retrocomputers best left on or off?
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66 points
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azeemba
10 months ago
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76 comments
How were 70s versions of games like Pong built without a programmable computer?
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240 points
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SeenNotHeard
11 months ago
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122 comments
How similar were the MC6800 and MOS 6502?
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10 points
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SeenNotHeard
11 months ago
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2 comments
Did Microsoft Release a "Critical Update Notification Tool"?
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1 point
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SeenNotHeard
11 months ago
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2 comments
What was the intention with the Commodore 128?
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6 points
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amichail
11 months ago
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Why does the Commodore C128 perform poorly when running CP/M?
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4 points
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amichail
11 months ago
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Why were there so many OSes that had the name "DOS" in them?
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3 points
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SeenNotHeard
11 months ago
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1 comment
Why did Borland ignore the Macintosh market?
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135 points
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SeenNotHeard
on Aug 13, 2024
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164 comments
What purpose did the lower-right Enter key serve on original Mac 128k keyboard?
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69 points
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SeenNotHeard
on Aug 6, 2024
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60 comments
Why were early (personal) computer connectors so bulky?
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6 points
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azeemba
on July 13, 2024
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Why didn't C++ specify filename extensions?
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1 point
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susam
on July 13, 2024
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What actual purpose do accent characters in ISO-8859-1 and Windows 1252 serve?
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49 points
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azeemba
on June 28, 2024
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75 comments
Why are the Intel 8080's rotate instructions opposite to intuition? (2021)
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3 points
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userbinator
on May 18, 2024
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Why did Tim Berners-Lee bother to create HTTP?
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6 points
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cl3misch
on April 17, 2024
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1 comment
What were the major things that caused TCP/IP to become the standard protocol?
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2 points
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rwallace
on April 12, 2024
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