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user:	SeenNotHeard
created:	April 13, 2020
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1.	When Japan Tried to Create Artificial Intelligence in the 1980s(tokyoweekender.com) 9 points by SeenNotHeard 1 day ago \| 1 comment
2.	Was x86 segmented address aliasing a pitfall or an advantage actual code used?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) 2 points by SeenNotHeard 8 days ago \| 0 comments
3.	Why does DOS include "get interrupt vector" and "set interrupt vector" syscalls?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) 4 points by SeenNotHeard 40 days ago \| 0 comments
4.	AttoChess, a complete, playable chess program for 16-bit x86 DOS in 278 bytes(nicholas-afk.github.io) 35 points by SeenNotHeard 47 days ago \| 18 comments
5.	The Relaunch of the Old West and Why I Chose Vanilla PHP(blog.alexseifert.com) 5 points by SeenNotHeard 90 days ago \| 1 comment
6.	IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields(devblogs.microsoft.com) 397 points by SeenNotHeard 119 days ago \| 240 comments
7.	San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names(j-nelson.net) 29 points by SeenNotHeard 124 days ago \| 47 comments
8.	Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) 105 points by SeenNotHeard 181 days ago \| 82 comments
9.	Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) 66 points by SeenNotHeard 188 days ago \| 76 comments
10.	How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) 7 points by SeenNotHeard 285 days ago \| 5 comments
11.	A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice(utcc.utoronto.ca) 116 points by SeenNotHeard 287 days ago \| 107 comments
12.	The old church where one trillion webpages are being saved(cnn.com) 3 points by SeenNotHeard 288 days ago \| 1 comment
13.	There's No Rust on This Ironclad Kernel: An OS Written in Ada(hackaday.com) 8 points by SeenNotHeard 292 days ago \| 0 comments
14.	Who was "Paul's Method" named after (a.k.a. the MOS 6502 RTS trick)?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) 2 points by SeenNotHeard 312 days ago \| 0 comments
15.	Why Unix requires mount points(utcc.utoronto.ca) 2 points by SeenNotHeard 312 days ago \| 0 comments
16.	1 points by SeenNotHeard 319 days ago \| discuss
17.	Univ. of Minnesota seeks photos to archive national parks signs before removal(sites.google.com) 7 points by SeenNotHeard 1 year ago \| 2 comments
18.	Neuromancer is in production(bsky.app) 4 points by SeenNotHeard 1 year ago \| 0 comments
19.	I tried to hire a North Korean scammer [video](youtube.com) 1 points by SeenNotHeard 1 year ago \| 0 comments
20.	The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish(scottandrew.com) 191 points by SeenNotHeard 1 year ago \| 45 comments
21.	Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux(arstechnica.com) 7 points by SeenNotHeard 1 year ago \| 0 comments
22.	What UI first distinguished radio and check buttons with circles and squares?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) 3 points by SeenNotHeard 1 year ago \| 0 comments
23.	The initial version of the /etc./magic file used by the file(1) command(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) 35 points by SeenNotHeard 1 year ago \| 15 comments
24.	1 year ago \| discuss