User contributions for 2001:44B8:4146:600:2E1:50FF:FE00:256

15 May 2021

• 15:1215:12, 15 May 2021 diff hist +31‎ OSF/1 ‎ →‎Background: you're guessing right? otherwise you should cite a reference. Here's how you can phrase your guess so people know it's a guess.
• 15:1015:10, 15 May 2021 diff hist 0‎ OSF/1 ‎ →‎OSFMK: hyphen to distinguish built-in collaboration from built in-collaboration or any other way of putting the words together
• 15:0915:09, 15 May 2021 diff hist +1‎ OSF/1 ‎ →‎OSF/1 AD: even though it's hard to anticipate when a wikipedia page might be read, I think it safe to assume this was written long after the products mentioned became defunct, let alone when they were created, so please use past tense consistently except when (if) mentioning some present use of such a thing
• 15:0515:05, 15 May 2021 diff hist +1‎ OSF/1 ‎ →‎Vendor releases: don't learn english by watching tv
• 14:3914:39, 15 May 2021 diff hist +361‎ Talk:BCPL ‎ →‎NULL-terminated strings: new section
• 14:2814:28, 15 May 2021 diff hist +82‎ Talk:BCPL ‎ →‎Confused mixture of tenses: clarification
• 14:2714:27, 15 May 2021 diff hist +1‎ Talk:BCPL ‎ →‎Confused mixture of tenses: typo
• 14:2514:25, 15 May 2021 diff hist +22‎ Talk:BCPL ‎ →‎Confused mixture of tenses
• 14:2414:24, 15 May 2021 diff hist +1,599‎ Talk:BCPL ‎ →‎Confused mixture of tenses: new section
• 14:0914:09, 15 May 2021 diff hist +24‎ TRIPOS ‎ →‎Features: I smell bs
• 14:0614:06, 15 May 2021 diff hist +24‎ TRIPOS ‎ →‎Features: modern Linux and Unix use shared libraries too, afaik, so what do you mean?
• 14:0014:00, 15 May 2021 diff hist +29‎ Null-terminated string ‎ →‎History: you still have to find the length in the first place
• 13:5813:58, 15 May 2021 diff hist −9‎ Null-terminated string ‎ →‎History: tense consistency, encyclopedic facts are not posited at some distant time in the past, with other later facts yet to occur as if written by a time traveler, they are all either in the past, or 'at time of writing' considered present tense or future tense. I think this tense was used to soften the obvious conflict of opinions. If people's opinions collide, this is just a dry fact, softening such facts represents PoV, antithetical to encyclopedic factuality & wiki neutrality
• 03:5303:53, 15 May 2021 diff hist +28‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎Trademarks: uncertain perhaps only to me
• 03:5203:52, 15 May 2021 diff hist +4‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎History: sold => provided, I didn't check what cost if any to licensees

14 May 2021

• 13:4513:45, 14 May 2021 diff hist +402‎ Talk:A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎Wording of synopsis section vaguely familar: new section
• 13:4213:42, 14 May 2021 diff hist −8‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ re
• 13:4213:42, 14 May 2021 diff hist +3‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ since it's actually two books, avoid confronting the contradictory term 'the book'
• 13:4013:40, 14 May 2021 diff hist −3‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ simplicity and high quality are in fact correlates
• 13:3913:39, 14 May 2021 diff hist −6‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ less words in par 2, via typography
• 13:3413:34, 14 May 2021 diff hist 0‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎Synopsis: UNIX again, not to be confused with unixish, unix-like, etc, which might be Unixish, Unix-like, etc, since they are not the proper name of UNIX, which ALWAYS HAS ALL CAPS
• 13:3213:32, 14 May 2021 diff hist 0‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎See also: they called it UNIX all in CAPS as parody of MULTICS, you see, and ALGOL and so on. Too bad for the 21st C.
• 13:3113:31, 14 May 2021 diff hist +15‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎"You are not expected to understand this": re
• 13:3013:30, 14 May 2021 diff hist 0‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎History: re
• 13:3013:30, 14 May 2021 diff hist 0‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎Synopsis: yes its annoying that they put it all in caps, but they did
• 13:2713:27, 14 May 2021 diff hist 0‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎Trademarks: reword to avoid assuming that the trademark is in fact currently registered, because of potential of a race condition
• 13:2613:26, 14 May 2021 diff hist +492‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ Trademarks, IANAL
• 13:2213:22, 14 May 2021 diff hist 0‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎History: UNIX
• 13:2113:21, 14 May 2021 diff hist 0‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎History: re
• 13:2013:20, 14 May 2021 diff hist 0‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎History: UNIX not Unix
• 13:1813:18, 14 May 2021 diff hist +12‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎History: more words to again lessen run-together of entity names
• 13:1713:17, 14 May 2021 diff hist +23‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎History: more of same
• 13:1613:16, 14 May 2021 diff hist +4‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎History: linkify USENIX
• 13:1613:16, 14 May 2021 diff hist +14‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎History: make mention of UNIX News and the date of the volume not run together, and explain who/what is UNIX News a little
• 13:1313:13, 14 May 2021 diff hist +24‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎History: citation needed, resolved in one case
• 11:5011:50, 14 May 2021 diff hist −10‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ try to find less cumbersome wording for same par
• 11:4811:48, 14 May 2021 diff hist +303‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ it was formatted in nroff
• 11:3711:37, 14 May 2021 diff hist 0‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎Further reading: guess
• 11:3611:36, 14 May 2021 diff hist +77‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ guess the word
• 11:3011:30, 14 May 2021 diff hist +4‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎History: emphasise the particular point in discussion, wrt UNIX being a means to self-publish
• 11:2911:29, 14 May 2021 diff hist −26‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎History: not say innovation so many times
• 11:2811:28, 14 May 2021 diff hist −1‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎History: rm y
• 11:2711:27, 14 May 2021 diff hist +2‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎History: fix -- typo
• 11:2411:24, 14 May 2021 diff hist −2‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎History: there is no law against in-class discussions, afaik
• 11:2111:21, 14 May 2021 diff hist +81‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎Further reading: as metaphore
• 11:1611:16, 14 May 2021 diff hist +12‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎History: reword sentence on the book's move to Bell Labs, and still seeking citation for this
• 11:1211:12, 14 May 2021 diff hist +88‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎History: the licensing issues are confusing and I don't understand them, but it's probably education to sketch out at least what seems to be relevant, and seek further detail
• 11:0811:08, 14 May 2021 diff hist +16‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ display according page for USENIX announcement
• 10:5810:58, 14 May 2021 diff hist −26‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ →‎History: reword sentence wrt Bell's financing of UNIX being based on need for technical manual publications, so as to affirm that UNIX was a successful publishing platform
• 10:5510:55, 14 May 2021 diff hist +14‎ A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System ‎ is it safe to assume the 1996 printing was the most recent? how can this be asserted in a wikipedia-compliant way? I will just say it because it seems correct, people can check for theselves and fix it if they find a more recent printing