User contributions for Guy Harris

6 December 2024

• 09:5109:51, 6 December 2024 diff hist −1 Computing platform →Components: "Firmware" is not a countable noun. current
• 09:4709:47, 6 December 2024 diff hist +9 Booting →Detection of an erroneous state: ce current
• 09:4609:46, 6 December 2024 diff hist +2 Booting →SoCs, embedded systems, microcontrollers, and FPGAs: Add an article.
• 09:4509:45, 6 December 2024 diff hist +1 Booting ce
• 09:3809:38, 6 December 2024 diff hist +252 Xerox Alto →Software: Put back the name of the IC editor, and add a reference for it. current
• 09:3209:32, 6 December 2024 diff hist +11 Session Manager Subsystem →Operation: Copyedit, request a citation.
• 09:2409:24, 6 December 2024 diff hist −12 Apple II →Legacy: Speak of "the game *port* I/O" so nobody thinks it's referring to a game named "I/O" (it isn't, it's referring to I/O done through the game port). current
• 09:2209:22, 6 December 2024 diff hist +4 Apple II →Software: "File system" is not a hyphenated term. Link the phrase hierarchical file system.
• 09:1909:19, 6 December 2024 diff hist 0 Apple II →Hardware: Electronics is more relevant than electricity here.
• 09:0909:09, 6 December 2024 diff hist +1 MIPS architecture Less colloquial. current
• 08:5808:58, 6 December 2024 diff hist +149 List of Apple Inc. media events Use the Wayback Machine for a page that's now for WWDC 2024. current
• 08:5408:54, 6 December 2024 diff hist 0 List of Apple Inc. media events Mark a now-dead link as such.
• 08:5308:53, 6 December 2024 diff hist +16 List of Apple Inc. media events Mark a dead link as such.
• 08:5208:52, 6 December 2024 diff hist −104 List of Apple Inc. media events Fix a bunch of CNET references - mark them as usurped, as news.com.com no longer belongs to CNET and that site no longer has the pages in question, and fix the titles for several of them not to be the titles of the usurping page.
• 08:3308:33, 6 December 2024 diff hist +16 List of Apple Inc. media events Mark a now-dead link as such.
• 08:3208:32, 6 December 2024 diff hist +221 List of Apple Inc. media events Use the Wayback Machine for a now-dead link.
• 08:0508:05, 6 December 2024 diff hist +13 List of Apple Inc. media events →Macworld Expo, New York (July 19, 2000): It has two citations. Maybe more are needed, but it clearly isn't united.
• 07:0307:03, 6 December 2024 diff hist −65 List of compilers →COBOL compilers: fix-attempted=yes, fix-succeeded=yes, link-updated=yes. current
• 03:1503:15, 6 December 2024 diff hist −69 Boot ROM →Texas Instruments: Remove duplicate wikilinks.
• 03:1303:13, 6 December 2024 diff hist −76 Boot ROM →Texas Instruments: There's an echo in here. Use the plural.
• 03:1003:10, 6 December 2024 diff hist +21 Boot ROM →Operation: Is "booting over USB" anything other than "booting from a USB hard drive or a USB serial port or a USB Ethernet adapter"? Speak of serial ports (whether they involve a UART or not) and Ethernets as examples of communications ports
• 03:0503:05, 6 December 2024 diff hist +51 Boot ROM Link the phrase "mask boot ROM", not just the word "mask". Not all writable "ROM"s are EEPROMs.
• 03:0303:03, 6 December 2024 diff hist +3 Mask rom Even better, go to the same place as mask ROM. current Tag: Redirect target changed
• 03:0203:02, 6 December 2024 diff hist −19 Mask rom Go to the section about ROM ICs, which is the section that discusses mask ROMs. Tag: Redirect target changed
• 02:5302:53, 6 December 2024 diff hist 0 Boot ROM →Operation: Fix capitalization.
• 02:5202:52, 6 December 2024 diff hist +53 Boot ROM →Operation: Start out the list of boot peripheral examples with hard disk drives and solid-state drives.
• 02:4502:45, 6 December 2024 diff hist −47 Boot ROM →Operation: On what systems other than SoCs is the boot ROM on the same die as the CPU?

5 December 2024

• 23:0023:00, 5 December 2024 diff hist +258 Talk:Boot ROM →No all boot ROMs are mask ROM: {{subst:unsigned IP}} a comment. current
• 22:5822:58, 5 December 2024 diff hist +6 Boot ROM →Operation: If the bootloader is run from RAM, it can't initialize *all* of RAM. Needs a citation that would probably clarify the claim.
• 22:5622:56, 5 December 2024 diff hist −4 Boot ROM →Operation: Same with "system[s] on a chip".
• 22:5622:56, 5 December 2024 diff hist −4 Boot ROM →Operation: And another.
• 22:5622:56, 5 December 2024 diff hist −12 Boot ROM →Operation: No need to link every occurrence of "bootloader".
• 22:5422:54, 5 December 2024 diff hist −134 Boot ROM →Specific implementations: This section is about hardware implementations of the boot ROM, not about the boot process of operating systems..
• 22:5222:52, 5 December 2024 diff hist −95 Boot ROM →Operation: No need to repeat what the previous paragraph says.
• 22:5022:50, 5 December 2024 diff hist −1 Boot ROM →Operation: Damn you, autocorrect.
• 22:5022:50, 5 December 2024 diff hist −32 Boot ROM →Operation: Loading the next-stage bootloader is already mentioned in the next paragraph as happening after the hardware initialization.
• 22:4822:48, 5 December 2024 diff hist −8 Boot ROM →Operation: Just link the term and let the redirect to the heavy lifting.
• 22:4622:46, 5 December 2024 diff hist +32 Boot ROM →Operation: Buzzwords - Just Say No^WLink To A Page That Lets The Reader Know What They Are.
• 22:4422:44, 5 December 2024 diff hist +697 Boot ROM Undid revision 1261399003 by Moustafa guler (talk) - rvv Tag: Undo
• 22:1722:17, 5 December 2024 diff hist −6 Harold M. Manasevit Not sure what "---BN" is supposed to be, so remove it. (If it's attributing some text, We Don't Do That here.) current
• 22:1522:15, 5 December 2024 diff hist −8 Harold M. Manasevit Fix capitalization. Pull the parenthesized initialism out of the link. Fix tense.
• 22:1222:12, 5 December 2024 diff hist +1 Semiconductor device fabrication →20th century: Copyedit. Bardeen's work is the basis of MOSFET technology in general, not just CMOS; CMOS is mentioned in the very next sentence.
• 21:5921:59, 5 December 2024 diff hist −41 Hewlett-Packard Revenue for what year? If it's after the split, it belongs on HP Inc.. If it's before the split, give its year. current
• 21:2521:25, 5 December 2024 diff hist +312 Harold M. Manasevit Use a citation template. Use the Wayback Machine for a now-dead link.
• 20:3720:37, 5 December 2024 diff hist +242 Harold M. Manasevit This is how you do inline references.
• 20:1020:10, 5 December 2024 diff hist −5 Semiconductor device fabrication →20th century: Link the first occurrence of "bipolar". Remove duplicate links.
• 20:0320:03, 5 December 2024 diff hist 0 Semiconductor device fabrication Fix capitalization.
• 02:4202:42, 5 December 2024 diff hist −229 Philippine Standard Time →Time in the Philippines: "Unix time" wasn't based on an epoch of 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC until somewhere around 1972; before that, Unix time was done differently. (Yes, I've read ancient Unix manuals; it's true.) According to the Coordinated Universal Time page, "On 1 January 1972, GMT as the international civil time standard was superseded by Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)". current
• 02:3502:35, 5 December 2024 diff hist 0 Philippine Standard Time →History: ce
• 01:4401:44, 5 December 2024 diff hist +5 Newline →In programming languages: Link to C standard library for the C library. Speak of I/O methods in the Java Class Library. current