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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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How much does it matter that an answer actually answers the question?
Oftentimes I come across an answer that reads something like
On a related note, this other thing happened in the same decade on a completely different computer than the one you're asking about.
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Is Intel Itanium on-topic here?
Intel Itanium is probably more-or-less "legacy" now, like the z80 or m68k not what you expect to see inside a computer that's in current mainstream use. That's the impression I got.
But it's rather r …
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Are questions about very early computing devices on topic?
I am thinking about the machines envisaged and built by Charles Babbage and contemporaries. These are general-purpose computing devices which are not current.
Are questions about these systems on-top …
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Lately some questions have asked about things which didn't actually happen
Here on Retrocomputing.SE we've lately had more than a few questions (including some of my own) about
Hey what about this idea, did that ever happen?
What if instead of doing it this way, they had …
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What's up with the emulation questions lately?
As I am sure many have seen, there is an ongoing barrage of posts about how awful N64 emulators are.
These are constantly being posted under various user names, and being deleted shortly after being p …
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Should the tags for the closely related PDPs be synonymised or something?
I mean, what really is the difference between a PDP-6 and a PDP-10 or DECSYSTEM-20? From the programmers' point of view, not much.
The same goes for PDP-4, -7, -9 and -15.
The same goes for the PDP-5 …
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Is the RC2014 on topic or not?
The RC2014 is a computer based on a Z80, and designed to run Microsoft BASIC
From the front page of their website,
RC2014 is a simple 8 bit Z80 based modular computer originally built to run Microsof …
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Introducing a stochastic superoptimizer for retro CPUs
I'm writing to introduce my software project strop. Like a compiler, it takes a function as input, and it emits assembly language that computes the given function. But unlike a compiler, the way it ge …
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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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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 prot …
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Did I do something wrong by writing and accepting a self-answer after reading answers from o...
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 wa …
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