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Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 213 points by ankitg12 2 days ago | past | 92 comments Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 97 points by aragonite 6 days ago | past | 29 comments Another crash caused by uninstaller code injection into Explorer (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by r4um 11 days ago | past | discuss XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 231 points by ingve 12 days ago | past | 216 comments Why XOR a register with itself instead of subtracting (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by LorenDB 12 days ago | past | discuss How did code handle 24-bit formats with video cards with bank-switched memory? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ingve 14 days ago | past Hyrum's Law: The hunt for a faster syscall trap (2004) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by signa11 15 days ago | past The cover of C++ The Programming Language raises questions not answered by cover (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ibobev 17 days ago | past | 1 comment Why is a delay between a thread exiting and Wait­For­Single­Object returning? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 17 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 17 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 20 days ago | past The cover of "C++: The Programming Language" raises questions (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by krylon 32 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 34 days ago | past It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway (2006) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by JoshTriplett 35 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 36 days ago | past | 100 comments Window 95 defenses against installers overwriting files with older versions (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by supermatou 38 days ago | past Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ibobev 40 days ago | past Windows stack limit checking retrospective: ARM64, also known as AArch64 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 40 days ago | past Taxes: Geopolitics (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by stevefan1999 43 days ago | past Windows stack limit checking retrospective: x86-32 also known as i386 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ibobev 47 days ago | past Windows stack limit checking retrospective: MIPS (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ibobev 48 days ago | past Windows stack limit checking retrospective: PowerPC (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by LorenDB 49 days ago | past A survey of write protect notches on floppy disks and other media (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ingve 61 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 62 days ago | past Intercepting messages inside Is­Dialog­Message, installing the message filter (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 9 points by ibobev 65 days ago | past Microspeak: Escrow (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 29 points by ibobev 74 days ago | past | 9 comments Could Write­Process­Memory be made faster by avoiding the intermediate buffer? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 74 days ago | past Studying compiler error messages closely: Input file paths (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 80 days ago | past What should I do if a wait call reports WAIT_ABANDONED? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 81 days ago | past How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 201 points by ingve 82 days ago | past | 161 comments More

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