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| 2 points by rwallace on April 12, 2024 | past |
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| 251 points by rwallace on April 7, 2024 | past | 72 comments |
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| 151 points by cl3misch on March 16, 2024 | past | 74 comments |
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| 310 points by Luc on Feb 27, 2024 | past | 93 comments |
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| | Since when does Windows support forward slash as path separator? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 45 points by signa11 on Jan 29, 2024 | past | 68 comments |
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| | Since when does Windows support forward slash as path separator? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 3 points by azeemba on Jan 28, 2024 | past |
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| | Since when does Windows support forward slash as path separator? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 3 points by daveoc64 on Jan 28, 2024 | past |
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| 3 points by azeemba on Jan 14, 2024 | past |
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| 1 point by behnamoh on Jan 9, 2024 | past |
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| | When did computer manuals start using monospace fonts for code and why? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 2 points by azeemba on Jan 5, 2024 | past |
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| 2 points by accrual on Jan 5, 2024 | past |
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| 4 points by susam on Dec 24, 2023 | past |
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| 2 points by susam on Dec 24, 2023 | past |
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| 153 points by SeenNotHeard on Dec 14, 2023 | past | 149 comments |
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| | Why did Steve Jobs choose Motorola 68030 for the first NeXT and not Intel 80386? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 2 points by SeenNotHeard on Dec 12, 2023 | past | 3 comments |
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| | Was there any computer since about 1960 without interrupt support? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 2 points by SeenNotHeard on Nov 29, 2023 | past |
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| | Was bootloading from punch cards possible on System/370 machines? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 11 points by ldite on Nov 29, 2023 | past | 2 comments |
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| | How did the X-Men game for Sega Genesis have its state survive a console reset? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 4 points by hidden80 on Nov 27, 2023 | past | 1 comment |
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| | How did Atari lose money on home computers? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 1 point by SeenNotHeard on Nov 22, 2023 | past | 1 comment |
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| | Why didn't Microsoft use a well-known algorithm like RSA for phone activation? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 3 points by SeenNotHeard on Nov 20, 2023 | past |
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| | Why did base64 win against uuencode? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 225 points by egorpv on Nov 20, 2023 | past | 103 comments |
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| | What is the origin of the default 256-color VGA palette? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 4 points by azeemba on Nov 8, 2023 | past |
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| | Who invented file extensions in file names? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 243 points by azeemba on Nov 2, 2023 | past | 200 comments |
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| | Who invented file extensions in file names? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 1 point by SeenNotHeard on Nov 1, 2023 | past |
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