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What Is the Thread Reaper? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by vintagedave 4 days ago | past | discuss What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 58 points by supermatou 7 days ago | past | 16 comments The case of the Create­File­Mapping that always reported ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 9 days ago | past | discuss Why do Windows editions on 32-bit x86 systems artificially limit RAM to 4 GB? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 6 points by supermatou 12 days ago | past | discuss IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 397 points by SeenNotHeard 22 days ago | past | 240 comments How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 73 points by ingve 22 days ago | past | 71 comments Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 216 points by ankitg12 25 days ago | past | 97 comments Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 98 points by aragonite 29 days ago | past | 29 comments Another crash caused by uninstaller code injection into Explorer (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by r4um 34 days ago | past XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 231 points by ingve 35 days ago | past | 216 comments Why XOR a register with itself instead of subtracting (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by LorenDB 36 days ago | past How did code handle 24-bit formats with video cards with bank-switched memory? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ingve 37 days ago | past Hyrum's Law: The hunt for a faster syscall trap (2004) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by signa11 38 days ago | past The cover of C++ The Programming Language raises questions not answered by cover (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ibobev 41 days ago | past | 1 comment Why is a delay between a thread exiting and Wait­For­Single­Object returning? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 41 days ago | past Finding a duplicated item in an array of N integers in the range 1 to N − 1 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 41 days ago | past Finding a duplicated item in an array of N integers in the range 1 to N − 1 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by birdculture 43 days ago | past The cover of "C++: The Programming Language" raises questions (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by krylon 55 days ago | past | 4 comments How to change a dialog box's message loop to do a Msg­Wait­For­Multiple­Objects (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 57 days ago | past It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway (2006) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by JoshTriplett 58 days ago | past | 1 comment Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 168 points by michelangelo 59 days ago | past | 100 comments Window 95 defenses against installers overwriting files with older versions (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by supermatou 62 days ago | past Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ibobev 63 days ago | past Windows stack limit checking retrospective: ARM64, also known as AArch64 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 64 days ago | past Taxes: Geopolitics (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by stevefan1999 67 days ago | past Windows stack limit checking retrospective: x86-32 also known as i386 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ibobev 70 days ago | past Windows stack limit checking retrospective: MIPS (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ibobev 72 days ago | past Windows stack limit checking retrospective: PowerPC (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by LorenDB 72 days ago | past A survey of write protect notches on floppy disks and other media (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ingve 84 days ago | past How did MS-DOS decide on two seconds to keep the floppy disk cache valid? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 16 points by paulmooreparks 85 days ago | past More

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