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 Discussion on answer by Raffzahn: Did…

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chthon
Feb 17 22:49
Makes me wonder how much the census of 1890 could also have had an influence on this through Herman Hollerith and IBM.
 

 Discussion on question by Paul J. Luc…

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chthon
Oct 14, 2024 16:39
Like Larry Wall said: "Explicit is better than implicit"
 

 Discussion on question by Hennes: "Ma…

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chthon
Mar 18, 2023 18:36
@Hennes Interesting. Maybe you should ask input from other people, "What would you do with 50 Z80 CPUs?" (But I think this is the wrong place, because it would be an opinion based question)
chthon
Mar 18, 2023 18:36
@Hennes How did you come up with this question?
 

 Discussion on question by Psychonaut:…

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chthon
Mar 7, 2023 17:29
@jwh20 The 360 architecture is an instruction set architecture implemented over different micro-architectures. It has nothing to do with virtual machines.
 

 Discussion on question by Michael Sta…

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chthon
May 21, 2022 07:52
I have used (a long time ago) the call mechanism to obtain the program counter, to emulate far relative jumps on a Z80. But it's probably more structured doing this with a call, followed by the offset, than to do the same inline.
 

 Discussion on question by Abdullah Ib…

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chthon
Jan 4, 2022 10:19
By the way, C predates home computers by a reasonable margin, being originally developed between 1972 and 1973.
chthon
Jan 4, 2022 10:19
Seems that Burroughs was the first with ESPOL for the B5000 MCP. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_MCP. More experienced people here will probably be able to expound more on this.
 

 Discussion on question by Moshe Katz:…

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chthon
Oct 15, 2021 09:26
Where is the time? I got rid of my last tower in 2013, I think. A 200 MHz Pentium Pro system with 256 MB of memory...