User contributions for Brouhaha

2 September 2024

• 04:5604:56, 2 September 2024 diff hist +31 m Dimond ring change memory to (linked) read-only memory current

28 August 2024

• 08:3508:35, 28 August 2024 diff hist +839 Talk:RCA 1802 →cycles: comparing cycles current
• 08:2608:26, 28 August 2024 diff hist +284 Talk:RCA 1802 →1802 and 1804/5/6 differences: note instruction set difference betwen 1804/05/06 and 1804A/05A/06A
• 08:2308:23, 28 August 2024 diff hist +384 Talk:RCA 1802 →VHDL cores: requesting link removal again, three years later
• 08:1908:19, 28 August 2024 diff hist +215 Talk:RCA 1802 →Origins: Reply Tag: Reply

27 August 2024

• 04:5804:58, 27 August 2024 diff hist −1 m Read-only memory fix whitespace/newlines
• 04:5404:54, 27 August 2024 diff hist +3,227 Read-only memory It's "Dimond Ring", not "Diamond Ring". Split transformer-coupled matrices from resistor and capacitor matrices, as they operate substantially differently, and have their own historical line of development. There are two types of core rope memory.

22 July 2024

• 05:4005:40, 22 July 2024 diff hist +27 List of Intel processors →i860 a.k.a. 80860: "mid-life kicker" was the 80960XP, not a entirely ficticious i870

9 November 2022

• 07:4807:48, 9 November 2022 diff hist −107 Silicon on sapphire →Applications: The HP Nut processors (1LA5, 1LE3, 1LF5, 1LM2, 1LQ9, 1RR2) used bulk CMOS, not SOS.
• 07:4607:46, 9 November 2022 diff hist −15 HP-16C →Features: The Nut processor was fabricated in bulk CMOS, not SOS.
• 07:4507:45, 9 November 2022 diff hist −15 HP-12C →{{anchor|Blue 12c|12C|F1637A|F2230A|12c 30th Anniversary Edition|NW258AA}}HP-12C: The Nut chips were fabricated with bulk CMOS, not SOS.
• 07:4407:44, 9 November 2022 diff hist −16 Hewlett-Packard Voyager series →See also: All HP Nut processors (used in 41C/CV/CX, 10C, 11C, 12C, 15C, 16C) were fabricated with ordinary bulk CMOS technology, not SOS.
• 07:4207:42, 9 November 2022 diff hist −15 HP-15C →{{anchor|15C}}HP-15C: The 15C uses plain old bulk CMOS technology, not Silicon on Sapphire, just as the 41C/CV/CX, 11C, and 12C do.

13 April 2022

• 08:1108:11, 13 April 2022 diff hist −44 Motorola 88100 The MC88110 is not super scalar, despite having multiple pipelines execution units, and uses in-order dispatch. The MC88200 CMMU chips are not "required", though they were usually used.

7 April 2022

• 08:0608:06, 7 April 2022 diff hist +8 Seymour Cray →Control Data Corporation: need citation for "in terms of hardware the 6600 was not on the leading edge"

8 March 2022

• 05:3705:37, 8 March 2022 diff hist 0 How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All →Issues and reissues: Mobile Fidelity of HCYB is MFCD-834. MFCD-762 was WFTE.

21 February 2022

• 17:1317:13, 21 February 2022 diff hist +425 Talk:Intel iAPX 432 →Price ?: component pricing

1 February 2022

• 01:1001:10, 1 February 2022 diff hist +1,342 Talk:Disk partitioning →Where did the term "partition" originate?: Corvus "virtual drive" as another early instance of the concept, but not called "partition"
• 00:5000:50, 1 February 2022 diff hist +1,679 Talk:Disk partitioning →Definition of partition in this article is wrong: The IBM DOS First Edition (January 1983) Version 2.00 manual defines partition

26 January 2022

• 03:2003:20, 26 January 2022 diff hist +2 Flange focal distance →Standard mounts: There are many more Canon RF mount lenses now than when it was initially added to the table.

29 November 2021

• 20:5220:52, 29 November 2021 diff hist −73 Xerox Network Systems XNS didn't influence NCP, the predecessor of TCP/IP, but it definitely did influence the development of TCP/IP, which was introduced in 1983.

10 November 2021

• 18:0518:05, 10 November 2021 diff hist +621 Talk:Tallgrass Technologies →Claim of being "first" hard disk for IBM PC is questionable: new section
• 16:4616:46, 10 November 2021 diff hist +1,218 Talk:Tallgrass Technologies →Patented all-digial data separator was not used for hard disk: new section
• 07:1507:15, 10 November 2021 diff hist −84 Signetics 2650 Signetics did not second-source the 6502. Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit

6 October 2021

• 21:5121:51, 6 October 2021 diff hist −8 An Open Letter to Hobbyists →Reaction: Aple, Radio Shack, etc. did not "receive" money from Microsoft for a BASIC license, they PAID money to Microsoft.

26 July 2021

• 07:2207:22, 26 July 2021 diff hist +11 BLAKE (hash function) →BLAKE3: BLAKE 3 has a binary tree structure, but its structure is not a Merkle tree.

3 June 2021

• 07:1607:16, 3 June 2021 diff hist +709 Talk:RCA 1802 →VHDL cores: new section
• 06:5606:56, 3 June 2021 diff hist −2 Kudzu (computer daemon) superseded/supplanted, not supplemented

3 January 2021

• 07:5207:52, 3 January 2021 diff hist +224 The Kinsey Sicks →Music videos: Added more 2020 and 2021 videos

19 December 2020

• 03:1503:15, 19 December 2020 diff hist +774 Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives →Notable Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivatives: add recently-announced RHEL clone distros

31 August 2020

• 17:4117:41, 31 August 2020 diff hist +28 Isotopes of nickel →Notable isotopes: clarify use of Nickel 63 in surge protectors

30 July 2020

• 21:0221:02, 30 July 2020 diff hist +220 TRS-80 Model II →Hardware: Original keyboard supplier was Keytronic

7 July 2020

• 19:5219:52, 7 July 2020 diff hist −354 Silicon on sapphire →Applications: Although HP used SOS for some CMOS chips, they didn't use it in the Nut processor of the 41C family or Voyager calculators; ordinary bulk CMOS was used. See March 1980 Hewlett-Packard Journal, page 20 ff.
• 19:4319:43, 7 July 2020 diff hist +8 SATA Express →{{Anchor|SRIS}}Availability: "failed standard" is just the writer's opinion unless a citation can be provided Tag: Reverted

19 June 2020

• 16:5816:58, 19 June 2020 diff hist +22 Paper size →North American paper sizes: better link for fanfold

18 June 2020

• 18:0318:03, 18 June 2020 diff hist +249 IEEE 854-1987 No edit summary
• 18:0318:03, 18 June 2020 diff hist +8 HP-71B →Description: The card reader not being popular sounds like the writer's opinion, so it needs a source.
• 18:0118:01, 18 June 2020 diff hist +28 HP-71B The HP-71B implemented the IEEE 854 radix-independent floating point standard. It is unclear whether it was the first handheld implementing IEEE floating point in general.
• 17:5317:53, 18 June 2020 diff hist −117 IEEE 854-1987 IEEE Std 854-1987 was not superceded until IEEE Std 754-2008.
• 17:4617:46, 18 June 2020 diff hist +360 Talk:IEEE 854-1987 No edit summary

9 June 2020

• 18:2418:24, 9 June 2020 diff hist +12 BKM algorithm →References: New URL for "... A New Version of BKM" journal article.

27 May 2020

• 07:0807:08, 27 May 2020 diff hist +148 Telebit →PEP and the TrailBlazer: The use of an MC68000 in the modem was arguably less significant than the use of a TMS32010 DSP, which is what made PEP possible.
• 07:0207:02, 27 May 2020 diff hist +107 Telebit →PEP and the TrailBlazer: PEP was based on OFDM.
• 06:5906:59, 27 May 2020 diff hist −385 Telebit →Legacy: OFDM didn't "have its roots in PEP"; OFDM was invented in 1966, and PEP in 1985.
• 06:5706:57, 27 May 2020 diff hist 0 Telebit →NetBlazer: typo, low cost NetBlazer model was LS
• 06:4606:46, 27 May 2020 diff hist −23 Telebit →NetBlazer: Only the low-end model of the NetBlazer used the MC68EN360, which wasn't a microcontroller (no onboard main memory), wasn't a derivative of the MC68030, and was actually more expensive than the 386, though more highly integrated..

24 May 2020

• 22:0022:00, 24 May 2020 diff hist −73 HP Saturn →Architecture: The 64 bit A, B, C, and D registers, and R0 through R4 are basic to the Saturn architecture, not special features of a specific SoC. Only some Saturn SoCs have the parallel data and address bus conversion.

13 April 2020

• 21:4821:48, 13 April 2020 diff hist −15 ARCNET →History: Removed "cassette-based" re introduction of IBM PC; irrelevant, and also both cassette and floppy disk were offered at the initial IBM PC introduction

23 March 2020

• 17:4417:44, 23 March 2020 diff hist −109 PDP-15 →Hardware: The CRT display was not mandatory on the PDP-1, it was the Type 30 option, and it worked on the PDP-4 as well. However, it was not vector, it was point-plot. The early-designed displays were not the 340 series, and the mapping wasn't exactly 34n for PDP-n.

20 March 2020

• 20:5220:52, 20 March 2020 diff hist +477 Pentium III →Controversy about privacy issues: Added new CPU serial number "PPIN"