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Why does the -X question need more focus, when the DOS question doesn't?
This question is about Why did so many OS names end in "x?" [closed] and Why were there so many OSes that had the name "DOS" in them?. The questions are very similar, (but ...
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Based on my long search, I have a detailed answer to this question and would like to answer it for the benefit of the community if it can be opened
I had asked a question about the demonstrated capabilities of the pioneering Mark I Perceptron. While it generated significant interest from some of the experts, others considered it a bad question ...
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Do we really consider questions about early-2000s computers off-topic?
So this question just got closed as off-topic, I looked at it because an answer had been flagged, and then answered myself because I realised that some software I use could help. I'm just curious to ...
Matt LaceyMod
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One step from being closed but nothing wrong with the question
Help identifying a platform game for UNIX from 1990s There is nothing wrong with my question, and was nothing wrong from the beginning. What is wrong is the unjustified negative opinions to close it, ...
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Abuse of moderator fiat vote
Not so long ago, the question https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/q/25438/15334 has been asked. As originally written, and even after revisions, I would consider it somewhat problematic (and ...
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Please reopen this question, I can make a good answer
Please re-open What was the most popular operating system on the PDP-11 computers?. I would make a partial answer (albeit, extended) regarding the PDP-11 analogs in the USSR.
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Is debugging, programming, etc. [assembly]?
Is "scroll tearing" a symptom of scanline interrupts taking too long? was tagged assembly, graphics, 8080 and game-boy. I took 8080 off, because the Game Boy doesn't have an 8080 in it, and ...
wizzwizz4Mod
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Why is the question about running Windows 95 in DOSBox supposedly off-topic?
The meta question Is emulation on topic? has multiple highly upvoted answers, all of which agree that emulation of retro systems is generally on-topic, to one extent or another. The top-voted answer (...
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