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Why did the Apple IIe make a hideous noise if you inserted the disk upside down?

75 votes

Why did C use the arrow (->) operator instead of reusing the dot (.) operator?

54 votes

What character is the MS-DOS cursor?

52 votes
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Why are old CPUs like MOS Technology 6502 and Motorola 68000 considered better for real time systems applications than modern x86 based CPUs?

51 votes

What does the "x" in "x86" represent?

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Did any PC software floating point use non-IEEE format?

40 votes

Why couldn't early C compilers handle variable declarations between statements?

40 votes

Typical dpi of dot matrix printers available in the 1980s

38 votes
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Why did the Z80 break 8080 compatibility?

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What was the first mainstream advanced debugger?

37 votes

Why was desktop CPU frequency so low in the late 1990s?

36 votes

Why did the monsters have "infinite invisible pillars" of hitboxes vertically in all versions of the DOOM engine?

34 votes
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In the ISO 1990 C standard library, what was the rationale for having memcpy return one of its inputs?

32 votes

Why do Game Boy games have explicit save functions, instead of using battery-backed non-volatile cartridge SRAM to store the game state?

32 votes

What languages are better fit for generating efficient code for popular 8-bit CPU's than C?

31 votes
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What order were files/directories output in dir?

30 votes

Why did some old MS-DOS games lack the ability to exit them?

30 votes

Status of brute forcing all possible memory states of a video game

29 votes

Did something like floppy disk jukeboxes for home computers exist in the 70s or 80s? Would that have been a feasible concept?

29 votes

How much did IBM save by limiting the PC to 4.77 MHz?

29 votes

Use of undocumented opcodes

26 votes
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Why was it possible to cause an Apple //e to shut down with SHIFT and paddle button 2?

26 votes

Intel CPU bug in the 90s

24 votes
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How can a Z80 assembly program find out its own memory address?

24 votes
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Building an 8080 based computer

23 votes
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What happens when I declare multiple register variables in C on older compilers?

23 votes

Could you see what you are typing in a Teletype?

22 votes

Reason for the Amiga clock speed

22 votes

Would a C compiler for the Apollo Guidance Computer be plausible?

22 votes
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Besides the VIC-20 did any other micros have fewer than 32 columns available for text mode?

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