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silverfrost

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    Comment #48106494

    18 years ago! I haven't used it myself but I know there are plenty of people who love it.

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    Comment #46305003

    Real programmers can write FORTRAN in any language...

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    Comment #46107602

    Back on the Z80 'xor a' is the shortest sequence to zero A

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    Comment #44817353

    unusable for me

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    Comment #44056707

    26000 year period and yet it has still been around the sun 2000+ times since the dinosaurs went extinct. Make me feel a bit insignificant and awed at the same time.

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    Comment #43829574

    In other news a screen recorder app is a 250MB (presumably compressed) download...

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    Comment #39984085

    Proposed - not discovered. He put it forward as an explanation, he didn't make the actual discovery.

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    Comment #36001895

    404 for me

  9. comment
    Comment #35652021

    Witchcraft

  10. comment
    Comment #35568624

    returns an empty page for me

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    Comment #35402139

    In my experience the French are very tolerant provided you are not making a nuisance of yourself.

  12. comment
    Comment #34069458

    Red Gate's SQL Prompt for SQL Server Management Studio. Saved countless hours in very small increments: https://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-prompt...

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    Comment #30821786

    Error 512, website is down for me.

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    Comment #30640421

    They tried adding a tax in the UK but it never got there: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/09/endless-cycl...

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    Comment #30639784

    In the mid 80s I bought some 720KB 3.5" disks at the (what seemed) cheap price of £25 for five. At the time that would have been around $40.

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    Comment #30443171

    mb and MB - beings out the pedant in me...

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    Comment #30337991

    A constellation is a pattern of stars in the sky -- all of which were determined with the naked eye. Polaris is a triple star -- appearing to us as a single point of light.

  18. comment
    Comment #30334415

    "Polaris, a constellation of three stars more commonly known as the North Star...". Nope. It is a triple star system, something completely different.

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    Comment #28660255

    7 years old?

  20. comment
    Comment #28114182

    and Fortran 77 is compatible with Fortran 66

  21. comment
    Comment #25983677

    I think it sold out a while ago. There was a kickstarter and then some cancelled orders were put on the shop.

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    Comment #18485848

    How do I load a game into the 48K Emulator - I notice there are some in the github repo.

  23. comment
    Comment #14874959

    The website seems very light on information about its own service