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Why is rwallace's question about Acorn being closevoted?
This question
Why did Acorn use the 6502?
is receiving close votes!
I found this surprising, since my very similar question, Why did Sinclair choose the Z80 for its range of home computers?, was well-...
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Based on my long search, I have a detailed answer to this question and would like to answer it for the benefit of the community if it can be opened
I had asked a question about the demonstrated capabilities of the pioneering Mark I Perceptron.
While it generated significant interest from some of the experts, others considered it a bad question ...
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Would this vacuum-tube logic question be a good fit for the site?
In StackExchange ElectricalEngineering there is the question:
Were Vacuum Tube Computers made of Logic Gates?
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/704329/were-vacuum-tube-computers-made-of-...
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Do we really consider questions about early-2000s computers off-topic?
So this question just got closed as off-topic, I looked at it because an answer had been flagged, and then answered myself because I realised that some software I use could help.
I'm just curious to ...
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What should we do with invalidated answers to a reopened question
Did type-in-programs ...? was closed as being opinion-based, but not until it had garnered a whole lot of anecdotal answers. Now the question has been greatly improved to ask for actual evidence, it'...
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One step from being closed but nothing wrong with the question
Help identifying a platform game for UNIX from 1990s
There is nothing wrong with my question, and was nothing wrong from the beginning. What is wrong is the unjustified negative opinions to close it, ...
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Question about MS DOS
I asked this question a month ago. I asked in the comments why there are downvotes and received a comment saying:
My guess is that the question got downvoted because it contains an unsupported, and ...
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Abuse of moderator fiat vote
Not so long ago, the question https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/q/25438/15334 has been asked. As originally written, and even after revisions, I would consider it somewhat problematic (and ...
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Changing the close reason of a question
The question How does the BIOS distinguish Interrupt(08h-12h) from INT instructions, vs. actual exceptions inside the CPU? was originally written in a rather confusing way, to the point where I ...
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Please reopen this question, I can make a good answer
Please re-open What was the most popular operating system on the PDP-11 computers?. I would make a partial answer (albeit, extended) regarding the PDP-11 analogs in the USSR.
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What was unclear about this question?
This question about Unix and virtual memory was deleted because it "needs details or clarity".
What was unclear about it?
Certainly, the questioner had some wrong ideas, but it seemed pretty ...
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Is debugging, programming, etc. [assembly]?
Is "scroll tearing" a symptom of scanline interrupts taking too long? was tagged assembly, graphics, 8080 and game-boy. I took 8080 off, because the Game Boy doesn't have an 8080 in it, and ...
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Question mischaracterized as off-topic
A while back I posted a question about GoldenEye glitching out when you press down on a chip in the N64 controller. The question was closed for being off-topic, presumably because it was about a ...
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Why is the question about running Windows 95 in DOSBox supposedly off-topic?
The meta question Is emulation on topic? has multiple highly upvoted answers, all of which agree that emulation of retro systems is generally on-topic, to one extent or another. The top-voted answer (...
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How can the VHS steganography question be made on-topic?
This question is about this question: How can extra (digital) data be hidden on VCR/VHS tapes?
I think this is a good question. I like it, it's interesting, and its answers provide insight into the ...
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Please delete 17394
Can somebody please delete my obscure question about technology nobody uses, and which seems unlikely to lead to anything useful. The existing answer does not even attempt to address the question, it ...
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Elaborate clarifications lost with chat room deletion
Under this question, I asked the poster a number of clarifying questions in the comments. The clarifications have quickly become rather unwieldy, so I decided to move the discussion to chat (with the ...
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How is it "opinion-based" to ask about the fact that all current emulators "suck" when it actually is true?
I tried asking this yesterday: How is it possible that video game console emulators perpetually suck?
Actually, I asked it earlier in the day, but it was mysteriously "memoryholed", as if ...
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Venting about an opinion-based question
I'm a little disappointed right now that a completely subjective and opinion-based list-question has not been closed already. On the contrary, it has become popular enough to be protected: Simplest ...
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Did I do something wrong?
I recently put up a question about how each byte in the PMD-85's video RAM is used.
I got two answers, which while informative, didn't quite give me exactly what I wanted. Raffzahn's in particular ...
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Moderator Bans Using "Father"
The original question was...
(Title) "Father of Assembly Language"
The C Programming Language was originally developed by Dennis Ritchie who
also co-designed the Unix operating system with which ...
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How would this question be received if I asked it?
I wonder about early processor such as 4-bit microprocessor. Specifically I would like to know about the instruction set and see example program. I found one link about it but I didn't find any ...
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Should "Which original retrocomputer OS's are still maintained and updated today, for original hardware?" be a community wiki Q&A pair?
Which original retrocomputer OS's are still maintained and updated today, for original hardware?
This question is based on my upvoted comment here.
To me, this is a list question. Answers would ...
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My question, being very broad, attracted a lot of answers
I recently put a question up about computers that had more than one CPU. In hindsight I see this question is very broad, and that's why it has attracted a lot of short answers. And so it has been ...
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