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Top Questions
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When and why did high-level language compilers start targeting assembly language rather than machine code?
assembly
compilers
asked May 25, 2020 at 18:08
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
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Was leaving all xxxxxx11 opcodes unused on the 6502 a deliberate design choice?
6502
instruction-set
design-choices
asked Sep 23, 2021 at 15:15
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
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votes
Was the design of MS-BASIC for 6502 based on MS-BASIC for 8080?
basic
6502
microsoft-basic
asked Oct 28, 2017 at 17:47
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
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Did any microcomputers back in the day accelerate standard-cassette performance
cassette-tape
8-bit-microcomputers
asked May 14, 2016 at 16:04
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
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Is this use of unions strictly conforming?
c
gcc
clang
strict-aliasing
asked Sep 13, 2017 at 19:49
stackoverflow.com
19
votes
Best pattern for WFI (wait-for-interrupt) on Cortex (ARM) microcontrolers
arm
cortex-m3
sleep
asked Apr 5, 2011 at 16:35
electronics.stackexchange.com
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votes
Did any computers use automatically-operated mechanical storage as electronically-read-addressable memory
memory
eniac
relay-computer
edsac
asked Oct 28, 2016 at 19:47
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
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votes
Was the value of thorn pawns fully appreciated in decades past?
pawns
terminology
asked Dec 13, 2018 at 8:35
chess.stackexchange.com
17
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Cycle counting with modern CPUs (e.g. ARM)
microcontroller
arm
programming
cortex-m3
asked Jul 6, 2011 at 16:05
electronics.stackexchange.com
16
votes
Touching matchsticks with compass and straightedge
math
geometry
matches
asked Jan 30, 2015 at 3:00
puzzling.stackexchange.com
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Top Answers
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Call one constructor from another
stackoverflow.com
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Why is the 0 next to 9, not next to 1?
ux.stackexchange.com
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What is the point of finally in a try catch/except finally statement
stackoverflow.com
115
Why did the Apple IIe make a hideous noise if you inserted the disk upside down?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
84
Why doesn't Java 8 include immutable collections?
softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
83
What is the difference between Flash memory and EEPROM?
electronics.stackexchange.com
78
Why is the time constant 63.2% and not 50% or 70%?
electronics.stackexchange.com
75
Why is "log and throw" considered an anti-pattern?
stackoverflow.com
70
Why did C use the arrow (->) operator instead of reusing the dot (.) operator?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
68
What is the best file compression of random binary data that you can achieve?
stackoverflow.com
60
How can anyone use a microcontroller which has only 384 bytes of program memory?
electronics.stackexchange.com
58
Why are Edison screws allowed to be used?
electronics.stackexchange.com
54
When are lock free data structures less performant than mutual exclusion (mutexes)?
stackoverflow.com
54
What character is the MS-DOS cursor?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
53
Why are old CPUs like MOS Technology 6502 and Motorola 68000 considered better for real time systems applications than modern x86 based CPUs?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
51
How can this structure have sizeof == 0?
stackoverflow.com
49
What does the "x" in "x86" represent?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
49
Why are mutable structs “evil”?
stackoverflow.com
47
Does pressing a car remote many times offer denial of service attack for rolling codes?
security.stackexchange.com
46
Did any PC software floating point use non-IEEE format?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
46
What is the difference between a fluent interface and the Builder pattern?
stackoverflow.com
45
Why do I get an error instantiating an interface?
stackoverflow.com
45
Hash table vs Balanced binary tree
stackoverflow.com
44
Why is merge sort worst case run time O (n log n)?
stackoverflow.com
43
Why should a function have only one exit-point?
stackoverflow.com
41
Efficiently checking if a number is divisible by 3
codereview.stackexchange.com
41
Why is 3333360 the maximum score in Pac-Man?
gaming.stackexchange.com
40
Typical dpi of dot matrix printers available in the 1980s
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
39
Why couldn't early C compilers handle variable declarations between statements?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
38
What was the first mainstream advanced debugger?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
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