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Windows stack limit checking retrospective: ARM64, also known as AArch64 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 20 hours ago | past | discuss Taxes: Geopolitics (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by stevefan1999 3 days ago | past | discuss Windows stack limit checking retrospective: x86-32 also known as i386 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ibobev 7 days ago | past | discuss Windows stack limit checking retrospective: MIPS (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ibobev 8 days ago | past | discuss Windows stack limit checking retrospective: PowerPC (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by LorenDB 9 days ago | past | discuss A survey of write protect notches on floppy disks and other media (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ingve 21 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 22 days ago | past Intercepting messages inside Is­Dialog­Message, installing the message filter (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 9 points by ibobev 25 days ago | past Microspeak: Escrow (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 29 points by ibobev 33 days ago | past | 9 comments Could Write­Process­Memory be made faster by avoiding the intermediate buffer? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 33 days ago | past Studying compiler error messages closely: Input file paths (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 39 days ago | past What should I do if a wait call reports WAIT_ABANDONED? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 41 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 42 days ago | past | 161 comments Why does Windows keep your BIOS clock on local time? (2004) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ryukoposting 49 days ago | past | 1 comment Why did I lose the data even though I called Safe­Array­Add­Ref? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 53 days ago | past How can I retain access to the data in a SAFEARRAY after my method returns? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 54 days ago | past C++ has scope_exit for running code at scope exit (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by firesteelrain 60 days ago | past Faster restart of Windows 95 when you hold the shift key (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 15 points by todsacerdoti 64 days ago | past Clipping the focus item when looking for its on-screen location (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 64 days ago | past Using Active Accessibility to find out where the focus item is (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 64 days ago | past When programs assume the system will never change, episode 4: Stealing strings (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by zdw 68 days ago | past Swapping two blocks of memory that reside inside a larger block, in constant mem (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 77 days ago | past | 1 comment Swapping two blocks of memory that reside inside a larger block, in constant (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 78 days ago | past Understanding and mitigating a stack overflow in our task sequencer (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by mooreds 79 days ago | past Swapping two blocks of memory inside a larger block, in constant memory (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 48 points by paulmooreparks 82 days ago | past | 26 comments Swapping two blocks of memory inside a larger block, in constant memory (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ingve 82 days ago | past How can I detect that the system is running low on memory? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by ibobev 84 days ago | past Can I throw a C++ exception from a structured exception? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 64 points by birdculture 86 days ago | past | 15 comments C++ says “We have try... finally at home” (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 149 points by ibobev 87 days ago | past | 143 comments Why are we worried about memory access semantics? Full barriers are enough? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by signa11 87 days ago | past More

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