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30 December 2012

• 08:2508:25, 30 December 2012 diff hist +135 Mork (file format) →Obsolescence: SeaMonkey still uses Mork for mail. (It might also use more for its address book or something else--I didn't check that.)
• 00:4300:43, 30 December 2012 diff hist −1 Arbitrary-precision arithmetic There are still new 8-bit CPUs being sold. Also, the best selling home computer mode of all time, the C64, has an 8-bit ALU. (If "most ALU hardware" was meant to refer to a specific time period or economic market, that should be stated explicitly.)

16 December 2012

• 15:0515:05, 16 December 2012 diff hist +3,643 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman →Overview: thorough copy edit, and some rewritten parts and additions.
• 09:1009:10, 16 December 2012 diff hist +1 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman copy edit: "with Clark Kent as the true..." is a fact about the TV series, not (just) a statement of Byrne's comic philosophy
• 09:0709:07, 16 December 2012 diff hist 0 Dissociative fugue →In fiction: spelling
• 09:0609:06, 16 December 2012 diff hist +980 Dissociative fugue →In fiction: Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (5-episode Lex Luthor/frog-eating-clone plot arc)

14 December 2012

• 09:5009:50, 14 December 2012 diff hist +7 Fast Ethernet accuracy of mathematical claim improved
• 09:0009:00, 14 December 2012 diff hist −7 Autopatch (latter? what former?)
• 08:5808:58, 14 December 2012 diff hist +100 Autopatch note about Space Shuttle exception being obsolete

30 November 2012

• 22:4722:47, 30 November 2012 diff hist +116 Thermal radiation →Overview: Clarification about why Fresnel lenses.
• 22:4222:42, 30 November 2012 diff hist +127 Thermal radiation →Overview: The greenhouse effect not only effects climate change, but is also a key of climate stability. Without it, Earth would be an ice planet. This is a complex subject; gas content, particulates, & even Earth surface conditions all play roles.
• 22:1022:10, 30 November 2012 diff hist +11 Thermographic camera →Theory of operation: copy edit

10 November 2012

• 22:2922:29, 10 November 2012 diff hist 0 Commodore 1541 →Introduction: spelling (my typo?)
• 22:2822:28, 10 November 2012 diff hist +5 Commodore 1541 →Introduction: copy edis
• 22:2622:26, 10 November 2012 diff hist +12 Commodore 1541 →Introduction: copy edit--with the previous grammnatical structure, the edited sentence said that the demand struggled.
• 22:2122:21, 10 November 2012 diff hist +152 Commodore 1541 clarification--The drive lever is not just a disk retaining mechanism, it mechanically loads the disk.
• 22:1622:16, 10 November 2012 diff hist +13 Commodore 1541 clarification--c-64 was not Commodore's only home computer, nor its first--the VIC-20 was an earlier Commodore home computer, and some PET models might count as well.

9 November 2012

• 06:0606:06, 9 November 2012 diff hist +86 Protected mode →386: clarification & copy edits
• 05:5405:54, 9 November 2012 diff hist +55 Protected mode →Entering and exiting protected mode: wiki links
• 05:5205:52, 9 November 2012 diff hist +10 Protected mode →The 286: 80286 real mode is not exactly identical to 8086 and 8088 behavior--the A20 line is one example, and a few other instructions and features behave differently
• 05:4905:49, 9 November 2012 diff hist +247 Protected mode →Entering and exiting protected mode: clarifications, especially about which details are IBM-specific
• 05:4305:43, 9 November 2012 diff hist +119 Triple fault →Other uses: clarification--the documented method described only works on IBM AT-compatible hardware, and is not a feature of the 80286 CPU itself (or of any Intel CPU)
• 05:3805:38, 9 November 2012 diff hist +18 Protected mode →386 additions to protected mode: clarification
• 01:2201:22, 9 November 2012 diff hist +83 X86 assembly language →Registers: a few clarifications
• 00:0100:01, 9 November 2012 diff hist +29 Intel 8086 →Microcomputers using the 8086: added 1 detail (3 words)

8 November 2012

• 23:5923:59, 8 November 2012 diff hist +241 Intel 8086 →Hardware modes: details about max mode in PC & PC/XT
• 23:0823:08, 8 November 2012 diff hist −17 Semaphore (programming) →Important observations: copy edit

28 October 2012

• 12:4512:45, 28 October 2012 diff hist +19 Lithium-ion battery →Recalls: clarification

27 October 2012

• 06:0006:00, 27 October 2012 diff hist −5 History of display technology →Color CRT: This ViewSonic monitor does not date to 1954! Try 1994 or 2004. Anything with a CRT in 1954 had knobs and dials in a wood or woodgrain cabinet, not plastic with digital control buttons!
• 05:5105:51, 27 October 2012 diff hist +84 Light-emitting diode →Disadvantages: Polarity problem is easily solved (though imperfectly, e.g. with losses).
• 05:0705:07, 27 October 2012 diff hist +860 Retina display →Retina Display trigonometrical pixel density: Clarification and expounding on PPD definition and meaning.

23 October 2012

• 21:2121:21, 23 October 2012 diff hist +245 Motorola 6800 →Move to Austin: copy edit; 6845 CRTC in IBM CGA and IBM EGA cards.
• 09:3609:36, 23 October 2012 diff hist +367 MOS Technology 6508 Correction & details. The SO pin is not an augmentation in the 6508, because the 6502 has it. Furthermore, it seems uncertain if any standard 6508 has an SO pin. (The 6510 has 3 pinout variants, none of which offers SO.)
• 09:1109:11, 23 October 2012 diff hist +97 MOS Technology 6502 →Bugs and quirks: copy edit
• 08:5408:54, 23 October 2012 diff hist +42 MOS Technology 6502 →Technical description: copy edit, esp. present tense where needed
• 08:3408:34, 23 October 2012 diff hist +133 MOS Technology 6502 →Computers and games: Atari 2600 uses 6507, not 6502 per se.
• 07:1807:18, 23 October 2012 diff hist +1,204 Dynamic logic (digital electronics) == Static versus dynamic logic == dynamic NAND gate example: sync of next stage; power consumption
• 06:4606:46, 23 October 2012 diff hist +1,574 Dynamic logic (digital electronics) →Static versus dynamic logic: added detail paragraph; copy edit
• 06:4506:45, 23 October 2012 diff hist +229 WDC 65C02 →Introduction and features: Brief further explanation in introduction
• 06:1306:13, 23 October 2012 diff hist +3 Dynamic logic (digital electronics) →Static versus dynamic logic: clarification--a low AC impedance with a high DC impedance would not make for a static logic output
• 05:5205:52, 23 October 2012 diff hist +467 MOS Technology →6502 family: Correction about differences--the on-chip clock oscillator, and to a lesser extent the SYNC/DBE/BA pin changes, make the 6502 substantially not identical in function to the 6501, despite essentially identical cores.

22 October 2012

• 08:5208:52, 22 October 2012 diff hist +3,703 Master boot record →System bootstrapping: copy edits and clarifications and additons to my preceding (multifaceted) edit.
• 07:3807:38, 22 October 2012 diff hist +1,926 Master boot record →System bootstrapping: added detail & clarifications (& examples