Talk:PDP-8
From Academic Kids
Sounds like a case of bad memory to me. But he did say "if i remember correctly" (or something like that). I guess he didn't... RTC 06:55 Nov 5, 2002 (UTC)
I have a problem with this article. There's a lot of technical language that is not explained. What is a "word of memory", for instance?
I've now defined what a word of memory is, and will go back and re-read the entire article as time permits. In the best Wikipedia fashion, everyone else, of course, is also welcome to pitch in!
Atlant 13:14, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Another comment (I made the first observation, above). I recently took a course in Technical Communication, and would like to try and make this article more accessible to readers without a technical background. I'm going to detail the whole process in this discussion area, so editors know what I'm doing and why I'm doing it.
My intent is not to delete any information already present, but to break it down into chunks for more specific audiences. A high school student doing a report about the history of computing should find this article as useful as an antique computing enthusiast looking for an example of assembly code.
--JonBuck
JonBuck, I think that the Wikipedia tradition is that you don't need to convince any of us about why you're doing it as long as you're doing it right. None of us "own" the PDP-8 page, and we'll all appreciate attempts to improve it. (See Wikipedia:Be bold in updating pages.) And if you manage to put some technical fact askew, we'll all manage to get it fixed.
By the way, you can "sign" your name to talk pages by typing three tildes in succession (but with no intervening spaces): ~ ~ ~. Four tildes will sign your name and the current timestamp.
Atlant 13:55, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Okay, I've re-read the article (and expanded on a few things), but I don't see where it needs a lot of jargon explained. Remember, the idea here is that we don't need to explain everything "in place" as long as everything is suitably hyper-linked to an explanation. For example, we don't need to explain core memory, just ensure that it's hyperlinked to an article that does explain it.
Obviously, you're free to disagree with me, but please read and edit the article with that in mind.
Atlant 18:00, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
