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It's worth pointing out the Commodore Amiga had proper pre-emptive multitasking on a single M68000 all the way back in July '85

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Thank you for your incredibly detailed correction :)

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The ZX Spectrum ROM loader is 1500bps and some games loaded at over 3000. There wasn't any encoding, just straight-up 1s and 0s straight into RAM.

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The 68k has both signed and unsigned 32/16 bit divide instructions.

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We did this same experiment in school, with a tiny pinprick of oil, estimating the volume of the drop as a sphere, and a small water tank, and then estimated the area of oil slick as a circle.

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University of New South Whales!

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If everyone starts using cheap off-peak power, will it continue to be cheap?

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The Amiga didn't have any hardware assistance for scaling sprites, so almost certainly the former.

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pizza isn't, and can't be, opaquely modified by the topping adder this way.

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I don't like the side effects of the second addToppings. I'd much prefer

pizza.Toppings = getToppings(kind string)

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