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31.

Color of text on monochrome terminals with green-on-black and amber-on-black?

retrocomputing.stackexchange.com

4 years ago

75 points

32.

What UI first distinguished radio buttons from checkboxes with circles/squares?

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a year ago

72 points

33.

What purpose did the lower-right Enter key serve on original Mac 128k keyboard?

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2 years ago

69 points

34.

Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory

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4 months ago

66 points

35.

Are retrocomputers best left on or off?

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2 years ago

66 points

36.

Why does the 80486 take longer to execute simple instructions than complex ones?

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6 years ago

64 points

37.

What actual purpose do accent characters in ISO-8859-1 and Windows 1252 serve?

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2 years ago

49 points

38.

Why did post-8008 CPUs not keep the on-chip stack idea?

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6 years ago

theandrewbailey

48 points

39.

Since when does Windows support forward slash as path separator?

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2 years ago

45 points

40.

Could we have avoided the whole UTF-16 fiasco? (2020)

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4 years ago

41 points

41.

The initial version of the /etc./magic file used by the file(1) command

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a year ago

35 points

42.

When was the term ‘directory’ replaced by ‘folder’?

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3 years ago

31 points

43.

How did it come that SATA HDD use ATA while SATA CD drives use SCSI as protocol?

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3 years ago

25 points

44.

How Exactly Does Sonic and Knuckles' 'Lock-On Technology' Work?

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10 years ago

19 points

45.

Mega Drive Cartridge I/O and Sega's 'Lock-On Technology' for Sonic and Knuckles

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10 years ago

16 points

46.

Was OS/2 a viable alternative for daily DOS and Windows tasks?

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7 years ago

14 points

47.

Why did 80x25 become the text monitor standard?

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7 years ago

14 points

48.

How did people use ed?

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6 years ago

13 points

49.

How was the Soviet STRELA computer designed to function during a nuclear winter?

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5 years ago

13 points

50.

Was bootloading from punch cards possible on System/370 machines?

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3 years ago

11 points

51.

How similar were the MC6800 and MOS 6502?

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2 years ago

10 points

52.

How did people get apps on their computer before the Internet?

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4 years ago

7 points

53.

How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s?

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7 months ago

7 points

54.

Why did Tim Berners-Lee bother to create HTTP?

retrocomputing.stackexchange.com

2 years ago

6 points

55.

What was the intention with the Commodore 128?

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2 years ago

6 points

56.

Why were early (personal) computer connectors so bulky?

retrocomputing.stackexchange.com

2 years ago

6 points

57.

Could we have avoided UTF-16?

retrocomputing.stackexchange.com

4 years ago

6 points

58.

Why were programs entered on punch cards instead of paper tapes?

retrocomputing.stackexchange.com

5 years ago

5 points

59.

Why were the /\ (min) and the \/ (max) operators abandoned in the C language?

retrocomputing.stackexchange.com

9 years ago

5 points

60.

Retro Stack Exchange – for all your burning old school questions

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9 years ago

myrandomcomment

5 points