Apr 21, 2026 Post comments count4 Post likes count1 Sure, xor’ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out, but why not sub? Raymond Chen Somehow xor became the most popular version.
Apr 17, 2026 Post comments count1 Post likes count4 Forgotten message from the past: LB_INITSTORAGE Raymond Chen Preallocating memory to avoid quadratic behavior.
Apr 14, 2026 Post comments count2 Post likes count3 Why was there a red telephone at every receptionist desk? Raymond Chen Not a direct line to Bill Gates's office.
Apr 7, 2026 Post comments count9 Post likes count6 Were there any Windows 3.1 programs that were so incompatible with Windows 95 that there was no point trying to patch them? Raymond Chen The permanently ineligible list.
Mar 24, 2026 Post comments count6 Post likes count6 Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older version Raymond Chen A very primitive version of recovery.
Mar 10, 2026 Post comments count3 Post likes count5 A snappy answer when asked about dressing casually at IBM Raymond Chen Oh, this old thing?
Mar 3, 2026 Post comments count18 Post likes count2 Just for fun: A survey of write protect notches on floppy disks and other media Raymond Chen Just some useless trivia.
Feb 10, 2026 Post comments count11 Post likes count6 How did Windows 95 get permission to put the Weezer video Buddy Holly on the CD? Raymond Chen Asking nicely, and asking a lot of people.
Feb 3, 2026 Post comments count0 Post likes count8 Some small stories about the giant satellite dish antenna that was behind Microsoft Building 11 Raymond Chen A little trivia.
Jan 19, 2026 Post comments count8 Post likes count7 What was the secret sauce that allows for a faster restart of Windows 95 if you hold the shift key? Raymond Chen An old flag from 16-bit Windows.