Oct 1, 2019
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Reminiscences on 5.25″ floppy drives of the early 1980’s
Because you may have forgotten, or perhaps never knew.
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Sep 30, 2019
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Where did DirectX code names come from?
From too much pizza.
Sep 24, 2019
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How did MS-DOS decide that two seconds was the amount of time to keep the floppy disk cache valid?
A stopwatch and a race against time.
Sep 11, 2019
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The sad history of the MFC TRY/CATCH macros
Because standard C++ exception handling didn't exist yet.
Sep 10, 2019
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Trying to wrangle a site visit to Paul Allen’s superyacht “Octopus”
An unsuccessful play for a site visit.
Aug 30, 2019
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The sad history of Unicode printf-style format specifiers in Visual C++
Getting ahead of the standard, which went a different way.
Aug 28, 2019
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The sad history of Visual Studio’s custom __if_exists keyword
When times were simpler and bytes were precious.
Aug 27, 2019
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One byte used to cost a dollar
The cost of software distribution.
Aug 26, 2019
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Custom-printing your own attendee pass to the Windows 95 launch
Only the highest quality forgeries will do.
Aug 23, 2019
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The SuperH-3, part 15: Code walkthough
Taking this thing for a spin.