Oct 31, 2023
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What is the thread reaper?
Should you fear the thread reaper?
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Oct 20, 2023
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On the failed unrealized promise of RegOverridePredefKey
An early attempt to sandbox the registry for a process.
Oct 3, 2023
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A complaint about Links the Cat, the Office assistant
Do all cats do that?
Sep 26, 2023
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Why is kernel32.dll running in user mode and not kernel mode, like its name implies?
It's just a name, and it comes from the days before user-mode/kernel-mode separation.
Sep 19, 2023
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Why did the 16-bit _lopen and _lcreat function return -1 on failure instead of 0?
Trying to look like somebody else.
Sep 4, 2023
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Just for fun: What happens when you shift a register by more than the register size?
A comparative study of processor architectures.
Aug 29, 2023
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The popularity of DOS/4GW made Windows 95 game compatibility a little easier, but with higher stakes
A popular path to protected mode.
Aug 28, 2023
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Just for fun: Which processors prefer sign-extended loads, and which prefer zero-extended loads?
Another pointless chart.
Mar 14, 2023
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Did Vienna ever exist or was it just misinformation?
It could be neither.
Feb 27, 2023
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The unintentionally-expanding scope of the SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX flag
Other suppressions caught in its net.