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Leo B.
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Soviet retrocomputing enthusiast.

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Why were the /\ (min) and the \/ (max) operators abandoned in the C language?
Nov 1, 2017
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Was there any technological reason that C was designed to return only a single thing from a function?
Feb 1, 2023
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Executable ASCII files before x86?
Sep 7, 2017
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Where does the branch…of/back control flow construct in a Soviet dialect of Pascal come from?
Jun 20, 2017
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C64: Why is POS(π) faster than POS(0)?
Sep 27, 2017
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Why does the Z80 have a half-carry bit?
Sep 9, 2017
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What is the relative code density of 8-bit microprocessors?
Aug 13, 2017
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How was the C language ported to architectures with non-power-of-2 word sizes?
Aug 3, 2017
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The origins of fork()
Apr 20, 2018
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What implementations of BASIC had a robust flood fill operator?
May 28, 2017
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Are questions about modern re-implementations on-topic?
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What is the policy on questions depending on links to third party sites?
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Who discovered the "AGM-like" approximation of arctangent?
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Reverse-engineering a quadratic fit?
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Is there a tool capable of reconstructing structured code from arbitrary assembly code?
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Understanding a Hardware Description Language, circa 1965
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