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Curt J. Sampson, <[email protected]>.

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I like agile development, functional programming (especially Haskell) and retrocomputing.

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Why did IBM make the PC BIOS source code public?
Aug 13, 2019
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Where and when did the `0x` convention for hexadecimal literals originate?
Aug 16, 2020
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How slow was the 6502 BASIC compared to Assembly
Sep 29, 2019
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What's the relationship betweeen MS-DOS and XENIX?
Aug 15, 2019
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Was 10BASE5 a mistake?
Nov 12, 2021
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Why did post-8008 CPUs not keep the on-chip stack idea?
Jun 5, 2020
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When did 5.25″ floppies exceed the capacity of 8″?
Nov 6, 2021
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What was the release date of the MOS 8502?
May 11, 2023
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How did the IBM 5153 color display detect and modify the signal to make low-intensity yellow into "brown"?
Jul 27, 2022
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What is DRAM refresh and why is the weird Apple II video memory layout affected by it?
Mar 3, 2020

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Does Retrocomputing want to be featured as a place to go for identifying retro games on Arqade?
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Why are we so unfriendly to novices?
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Where, exactly, are the jurisdictional boundaries between Retrocomputing and the other computer-related Stack Exchanges (such as Super User)?
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Should edits that only add links to Wikipedia be allowed?
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What does the exclamation mark mean in a Haskell declaration?
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Really Cheap Command-Line Option Parsing in Ruby
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