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Why did CPU designers in the 70s prioritize reducing pin count?

hardware microprocessor asked Apr 2, 2018 at 14:45

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How did an IBM 5150 with 16KB RAM work?

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Origin of word "matrix" used to describe a virtual reality environment?

doctor-who the-matrix history-of terminology neuromancer asked Jul 4, 2014 at 6:30

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Separate code and data address spaces on the Z80

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25 votes

Retrieving UTC DATETIME field from MySQL in Java when server timezone is not UTC

java mysql date datetime jdbc asked Apr 19, 2015 at 9:03

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Parallel RAM without large number of pins?

integrated-circuit memory component-selection asked Sep 14, 2018 at 10:06

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How did the Commodore PET 80 column display work?

hardware commodore-pet 6845 asked Jul 28, 2018 at 11:36

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15 votes

Embedding Jetty 9 - where is jetty-all.jar?

java jetty asked Aug 2, 2013 at 6:27

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14 votes

Spring Data JPA streaming query methods cause an exception about transactions

spring hibernate transactions spring-data spring-data-jpa asked Aug 7, 2017 at 11:25

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Remove item from "Android Private Libraries" that is not in my project's libs folder

android eclipse adt asked Feb 13, 2014 at 3:58

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Only allow properties that are declared in JSON schema

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How are globals any different from a database?

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Scam or Real: A woman from Facebook apparently needs my bank account to send money

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What's the point of "javascript:" in code (not URLs)?

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What is the difference between node.nextSibling and ChildNode.nextElementSibling?

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Why was nil defined as a reserved word in Pascal?

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Why are floats still part of the Java language when doubles are mostly recommended instead?

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What makes a floppy disk bootable?

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Why is (position < size) such a prevalent pattern in conditionals?

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What are the functional equivalents of imperative break statements and other loop checks?

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Is there a reason why MS-DOS didn't use more English words for commands?

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The easiest way to transform collection to array?

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Is there a reason to prefer earlier versions of MS-DOS over later?

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Did any computers use the Z80B?

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What are the differences between shift register ICs?

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Why do we need frameworks for dependency injection?

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Sort list with string dates

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Android - ClassCastException - on LayoutParams from LinearLayout to AbsListView

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Java annotation for Null but neither Empty nor Blank

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Java Stanford NLP: Part of Speech labels?

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What's the name of the antipattern opposite to "reinventing the wheel"?

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How did the BBC Micro stay cool?

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What limited the use of the 6809 CPU in personal computers?

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Why was UNIX never backported to the PDP-7?

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In what adaptation of Return of the Jedi did Jabba brag about killing Jedi in the old days?

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Why did 80x25 become the text monitor standard?

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Is a license header in source files required when applying the Apache Software License 2.0 to a project?

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How can I change the Java Runtime Version on Windows (7)?

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The start of x86: Intel 8080 vs Intel 8086?

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Prevent page scroll on drag in IOS and Android

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