Why did Borland ignore the Macintosh market?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)115 points by SeenNotHeard 2 years ago | 145 comments
Why did base64 win against uuencode?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)200 points by egorpv 2 years ago | 91 comments
How were 70s versions of games like Pong built without a programmable computer?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)214 points by SeenNotHeard 2 years ago | 108 comments
Since when does Windows support forward slash as path separator?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)34 points by signa11 2 years ago | 40 comments
Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of use in PCs?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)175 points by SeenNotHeard 3 years ago | 220 comments
How could the early Unix OS comprise so few lines of code?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)200 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 130 comments