| 1. | | How were 70s versions of games like Pong built without a programmable computer? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
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240 points by SeenNotHeard 42 days ago | past | 122 comments
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| 2. | | So It Goes: GHQ, Kurt Vonnegut's WWII Board Game (spacebiff.com) |
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2 points by SeenNotHeard 45 days ago | past
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| 3. | | The $621M Legal Battle for the 'Soul of the Internet' (rollingstone.com) |
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7 points by SeenNotHeard 46 days ago | past
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| 4. | | How similar were the MC6800 and MOS 6502? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
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10 points by SeenNotHeard 50 days ago | past | 2 comments
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| 5. | | Did Microsoft Release a "Critical Update Notification Tool"? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
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1 point by SeenNotHeard 52 days ago | past | 2 comments
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| 6. | | Why were there so many OSes that had the name "DOS" in them? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
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3 points by SeenNotHeard 65 days ago | past | 1 comment
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| 7. | | There is no clear etymology for calloc (hachyderm.io) |
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3 points by SeenNotHeard 67 days ago | past
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| 8. | | What Happened to Egghead Software? (homeip.net) |
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2 points by SeenNotHeard 87 days ago | past | 1 comment
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| 9. | | Why did Borland ignore the Macintosh market? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
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135 points by SeenNotHeard 3 months ago | past | 164 comments
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| 10. | | What purpose did the lower-right Enter key serve on original Mac 128k keyboard? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
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69 points by SeenNotHeard 3 months ago | past | 60 comments
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| 11. | | Generative AI Will Be a Boon for Public Domain Unless Copyright Blocks It (techdirt.com) |
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23 points by SeenNotHeard 10 months ago | past | 5 comments
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| 12. | | Why did older computers and OSes use UPPER case instead of lower case? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
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153 points by SeenNotHeard 11 months ago | past | 149 comments
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| 13. | | Why did Steve Jobs choose Motorola 68030 for the first NeXT and not Intel 80386? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
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2 points by SeenNotHeard 11 months ago | past | 3 comments
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| 14. | | Was there any computer since about 1960 without interrupt support? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
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2 points by SeenNotHeard 11 months ago | past
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| 15. | | How did Atari lose money on home computers? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
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1 point by SeenNotHeard 11 months ago | past | 1 comment
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| 16. | | Why didn't Microsoft use a well-known algorithm like RSA for phone activation? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
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3 points by SeenNotHeard 12 months ago | past
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| 17. | | Specimen cards holds complete snapshot of last type foundries in Germany (letterformarchive.org) |
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5 points by SeenNotHeard on Nov 3, 2023 | past
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| 18. | | Who invented file extensions in file names? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
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1 point by SeenNotHeard on Nov 1, 2023 | past
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| 19. | | The Journalist and the Influencer (compactmag.com) |
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2 points by SeenNotHeard on Oct 27, 2023 | past
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| 20. | | Did Apple advise customers to lift up and then drop their computers? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
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2 points by SeenNotHeard on Oct 17, 2023 | past | 2 comments
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| 21. | | Andrew Plotkin: Microsoft consumes Activision; and a plea (zarfhome.com) |
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1 point by SeenNotHeard on Oct 13, 2023 | past
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| 22. | | Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of use in PCs? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
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204 points by SeenNotHeard on Oct 6, 2023 | past | 248 comments
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| 23. | | Why was BASIC's INT() a floor, and not a truncate? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
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1 point by SeenNotHeard on Oct 6, 2023 | past
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| 24. | | Survey: State of HTML 2023 (devographics.com) |
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4 points by SeenNotHeard on Sept 22, 2023 | past
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| 25. | | Dt: Duct tape for your Unix pipes (dt.plumbing) |
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4 points by SeenNotHeard on July 12, 2023 | past
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| 26. | | Interactions Impacts Coincidences in First Golden Age of Computer Architecture [pdf] (techviser.com) |
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2 points by SeenNotHeard on June 8, 2023 | past
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| 27. | | John Mashey offers tidbits on Unix and C early history (mstdn.social) |
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3 points by SeenNotHeard on June 8, 2023 | past
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| 28. | | What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified? (Mac OS X) (quora.com) |
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1 point by SeenNotHeard on June 5, 2023 | past
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| 29. | | Technical Debt Is Over-Used (peakd.com) |
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1 point by SeenNotHeard on June 2, 2023 | past
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