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Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 31 minutes ago | past | discuss Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 6 points by ingve 1 day ago | past | 2 comments The case of the progress callback that never got called when progress happened (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 2 days ago | past | discuss What happens if you change a window class's GCL_CB­WND­EXTRA? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 2 days ago | past | discuss What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 361 points by soheilpro 3 days ago | past | 178 comments The great Polish Sea -or- We forgot Poland (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by theanonymousone 3 days ago | past | discuss Microspeak: Funded / Unfunded (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 10 days ago | past | discuss Awe does not require PAE, though PAE makes it more useful (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ibobev 11 days ago | past | discuss Wrapping a callable in a lambda that just calls it with the same parameters (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 14 days ago | past Forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 2 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 14 days ago | past Wrapping a callable in a lambda that just calls it with the same parameters (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 15 days ago | past How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 12 points by ibobev 15 days ago | past | 1 comment In the product end game, every change carries significant risk, episode 2 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 15 days ago | past Forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 16 days ago | past In the product end game, every change carries significant risk (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by anitil 16 days ago | past | 1 comment Why didn't the Windows Entertainment Pack run a DOS version inside an emulator? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ibobev 17 days ago | past A little helper class for managing LPPROC_THREAD_ATTRIBUTE_LISTs (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 18 days ago | past Forcing an ARM64X executable to run as a specific architecture (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 18 days ago | past Wrapping a callable in a lambda that just calls it with the same parameters (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 18 days ago | past Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 18 days ago | past Comparing the two holograms on the Windows 95 box (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ibobev 18 days ago | past Comparing the two holograms on the Windows 95 box (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by st_goliath 19 days ago | past Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ingve 23 days ago | past Comments that go into code vs. those that go into the pull request description (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by csmantle 24 days ago | past Why is there no programmatic access to the Start menu pin list? (2003) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ano-ther 24 days ago | past Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 359 points by luu 24 days ago | past | 137 comments Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it had Tetris? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 78 points by tybulewicz 24 days ago | past | 54 comments How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ibobev 24 days ago | past Forcing an ARM64X executable to run as a specific architecture (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by supermatou 25 days ago | past How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 70 points by ingve 26 days ago | past | 73 comments More

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