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1. 1. ▲ IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields (devblogs.microsoft.com) 392 points · 2 days ago · 237 comments
2. 2. ▲ San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names (j-nelson.net) 29 points · 7 days ago · 47 comments
3. 3. ▲ Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) 105 points · 2 months ago · 82 comments
4. 4. ▲ Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) 66 points · 2 months ago · 76 comments
5. 5. ▲ How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) 7 points · 5 months ago · 5 comments
6. 6. ▲ A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice (utcc.utoronto.ca) 116 points · 5 months ago · 107 comments
7. 7. ▲ The old church where one trillion webpages are being saved (cnn.com) 3 points · 5 months ago · 1 comment
8. 8. ▲ There's No Rust on This Ironclad Kernel: An OS Written in Ada (hackaday.com) 8 points · 5 months ago · 0 comments
9. 9. ▲ Who was "Paul's Method" named after (a.k.a. the MOS 6502 RTS trick)? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) 2 points · 6 months ago · 0 comments
10. 10. ▲ Why Unix requires mount points (utcc.utoronto.ca) 2 points · 6 months ago · 0 comments