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48
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Why does the 80486 take longer to execute simple instructions than complex ones?
hardware
microprocessor
architecture
80486
asked May 21, 2020 at 22:37
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
11
votes
Judge Dredd story involving use of a device that stops time for theft
story-identification
episode-identification
2000ad
asked Dec 11, 2020 at 14:20
scifi.stackexchange.com
6
votes
Why is the chess.com analysis of this position -5?
analysis
asked Dec 1, 2022 at 16:50
chess.stackexchange.com
6
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How were UHF channels allocated to home computers?
television
home-computers
asked Mar 12, 2021 at 10:09
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
5
votes
Did Narcissa and Andromeda stay in contact?
harry-potter
asked Jun 19, 2020 at 19:53
scifi.stackexchange.com
Top Answers
32
Is there any text to speech program that will run on an 8- or 16-bit CPU?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
21
Was it actually possible to do the cartoon "coin on a string trick" for old arcade and slot machines?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
17
Are there any practical use cases for subtyping primitive types?
langdev.stackexchange.com
14
Ideal resolution for color computer on PAL/SECAM
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
13
Back in the day, were games coded to run better with more (not faster) RAM?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
11
Why would accessing uninitialized memory necessarily be undefined behavior?
langdev.stackexchange.com
10
Get himem.sys working on an AMI 1.06.09 bios (not on VM)
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
10
What role does the 4-bit shift register play in the Leningrad video generation?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
8
What "unusual" syntax assembly languages are/were there?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
8
Did any RISC CPU ever take more than one clock cycle per instruction?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
7
Was it possible to write a novel on a BBC Micro 16kb/32kb memory era computer without expansions?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
7
Was any indentation-sensitive language ever used with a teletype or punch cards?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
7
Pros and cons of semantically-significant capitalization
langdev.stackexchange.com
6
How much did it cost to develop the 8-bit era graphics chips?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
6
What's the reason for not using C++17's [[nodiscard]] almost everywhere in new code?
softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
5
How did the NSA use vector supercomputers?
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com
5
Why might a language avoid reallocation?
langdev.stackexchange.com
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