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paler

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    Comment #14752503

    The Game Boy has a Z80-like processor, though. Generally, Z80 instructions take more clock cycles to execute than 6502 instructions, so the clock speeds are not directly comparable…

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    Comment #12564481

    {#} would be a grinning mouth with teeth showing, and \__/ is a smiling mouth.

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    Comment #11959585

    For the same reason that they also include symbols for many obsolete (dead) languages and writing systems, as well as (per a comment above) a character used by the 1959 IBM 1401 co…

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    Comment #11594037

    Some of their home computers competed pretty well. The Atari 8-bit series (400/800) had a significant chunk of market share in the early 80's. Not among the top three, but there we…

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    Comment #11172877

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IOMMU-supporting_hardw...

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    Comment #11170342

    I'm happy to hear that gaming works well, and apparently my decidedly older CPU (AMD Phenom X4 965) supports the technology as well, which is interesting to learn. However, my main…