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John Doty
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Did any processor implement an integer square root instruction?
Apr 5
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Is there a reason why Apple servers did not catch on?
Feb 26
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Was there any computer since about 1960 without interrupt support?
Nov 27, 2023
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How did Multics make library calls available as shell commands?
Jan 1, 2023
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What are the major technical difference between Multics and Unix?
Jul 21, 2020
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Was the purported 1968 standard for encoding ASCII on punched cards ever used?
May 17
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Why did Visual Basic use parentheses for both function call and array access?
Apr 30, 2021
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Undocumented instructions in x86 CPU prior to 80386?
Jun 5, 2021
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Why did Linux standardise on RTS/CTS flow control for serial ports
Nov 7, 2023
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What actual purpose do accent characters in ISO-8859-1 and Windows 1252 serve?
Jun 27
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Why do exploration spacecraft like Voyager 1 and 2 go through the asteroid belt, and not over or below it?
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Why do scientists use specialized units for distance when metric units are perfectly adequate?
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Are human eyes interferometers?
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Why did NASA need to observationally confirm whether DART successfully redirected Dimorphos?
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Where is there visible light inside the Sun?