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[Acting Press Sec Joel Valdez @JoelValdezDOW]

Our team at the Department of War is looking into this report.

If there is anything we uncover, we will release it under PURSUE on https://t.co/gbAdmjQJPP.

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@RaminNasibov Why is everyone coming up with this now... It was nice the first time.

[LBW @losblancoswrld]

There's absolutely NOTHING likeable about this Argentina team. The most disgusting set of players in the tournament.

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@shairnn 18

[East German Visuals @GDRvisuals]

Strausberger Platz U-Bahn station in East Berlin, 1963.

[Animation Obsessive @ani_obsessive]

From: Miracle (1973), dir. Anatoly Petrov, Soyuzmultfilm

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@roots_herb @Polymarket Serving!

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

"Let's Get Acquainted." Excerpt from Russian language TV course, USSR, 1981.

[East German Visuals @GDRvisuals]

Factory workers in a sauna near Karl-Marx-Stadt, 1970s.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

Ever run MEMMAKER or edit CONFIG.SYS? Here's a story...

One of my very first projects at Microsoft was for MS-DOS 6.2, and it involved moving the Doublespace compression engine and parts of SmartDrv into the HMA, or High Memory Area.

Then you could run MEMMAKER, and it would find up to 25K more than you had before. 25K was a big deal in that place and time!

The only problem was that I was new to x86 and had no idea what the HMA even was. It turns out that on an 80286, when you get to the top of the 1M area, what happens if you point "past" it by combining your segment and offset registers to a value greater than 1M?

In other words, does your pointer wrap at 1M or go up into high memory that might be installed?

On an 8088, all it can do is wrap. But on an 80286, it COULD be resolved into the next higher pages of memory. But which behavior should the system do?

To solve this, IBM used the A20 line on the PC, which is actually a keyboard line. If set, your pointers wrapped, and if not, they went into high memory.

This gave you the ability to reach into "memory above 1M" even on a 1M system, which is kinda crazy, but that's how it worked.

So I put all the code I could stuff into the 64K right above the 1M boundary, then stubbed everything with jump tables in low memory. I forget why the net was only 25K and not 64K - but there were probably other HMA consumers as well, I imagine.

Anyway, that's how I spent the first month of the summer of 1993! And there was much rejoicing.

[East German Visuals @GDRvisuals]

Once upon a time in East Germany

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@_kittypunk 🥰

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@Bitcoin_Teddy You're bad at satire

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https://t.co/B4hrLIqbDs ist ein Marktplatz ganz ohne Geld. Ein Raum für das, was sich keiner Preisliste fügt: Dinge, Können, Zeit, Ideen, kleine Gesten, große Hilfe. Du stellst ein, was du geben kannst & was du dir wünschst und unser KI-Matching-Algorithmus hilft dir beim Finden.

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@TrisH0x2A You are 24?

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@BitcOnlys @RobEllisonNY YOU posted the BTC chart.
And what coin dropped 60%?
It obviously is not alt season... Why would you be in alts a way...

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@RaminNasibov Maniac Mansion

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@carlmoon Now one knows Corrrrrl

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@DeFi_Hanzo So he always keeps 20-50% of cash on the sideline and this at some point in time can profit from low prices. What a f genius. Must be a crystal ball.

[East German Visuals @GDRvisuals]

Erich Honecker with cosmonauts Sigmund Jähn and Valery Bykovsky following their successful Soyuz 31 spaceflight, East Berlin, 1978.