User:Dgpop
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Most of my edits are on video game and computer history topics. I've cleaned-up many older game articles that had become disorganized. I've done major restructuring and editing of some large articles: TI-99/4A, TRS-80 Color Computer, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari ST.
Articles I've created
Listed chronologically within each section.
==People==
==Video games==
==Other==
Some stuff I've worked on
Listed alphabetically within each section.
==Video games==
==Other tech==
==Other other==
==Lists==
==Templates==
==Categories==
==Major moves==
For reference
- [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=50&offset=0&profile=default&search=%22it+should+be+noted+that%22&advancedSearch-current=%7B%7D&ns0=1 "it should be noted that"]
- User:BOZ/Early computer game reviews
DOS vs. MS-DOS
MS-DOS was released in 1981 along with an IBM rebranded version, IBM PC DOS. For the first seven years of the IBM PC's existence, that was the story: MS-DOS or MS-DOS under a different name. On May 28, 1988, Digital Research released an enhanced, MS-DOS compatible operating system as DR-DOS. Since then there has been a clone of MS-DOS designed for embedded systems (ROM-DOS), a clone developed in Russia (PTS-DOS), and an open source clone (FreeDOS). My interpretation is that there's MS-DOS and clones of MS-DOS, and it's fair to lump the entire group under the MS-DOS header.
A more revisionist view is that there's a family of disk operating systems for IBM PC compatibles, and one of those is MS-DOS. The collective name for this family is "DOS." Complicating things is that "DOS" is both a general acronym for disk operating system and within various communities it's shorthand for a particular system's DOS (e.g., Atari DOS, Commodore DOS).
The DOS slang feels more and more incorrect as time goes by.
Tech company name prefixes aren't needed
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|{{tick}} Amiga, {{cross}} Commodore Amiga
|{{tick}} GameCube, {{cross}} Nintendo GameCube
|{{tick}} Master System, {{cross}} Sega Master System
|{{tick}} TI-99/4A, {{cross}} Texas Instruments TI-99/4A
|{{tick}} TMS34010, {{cross}} Texas Instruments TMS34010
|{{tick}} VIC-20, {{cross}} Commodore VIC-20
|{{tick}} ZX Spectrum, {{cross}} Sinclair ZX Spectrum
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Sometimes the name doesn't work without the manufacturer, such as Apple II and Atari ST, but in general there's no reason to add bulk repeating company names.
Other
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| style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | WOW! So you're the other person on Wikipedia who comprehends correct tense! I bet I've edited 100 articles to eliminate the childishly nostalgic past tense about classic technology. The stuff about Amiga and Nintendo has been a bear, and there is a perpetual tense edit war on Nintendo Power, lol. So if the product was a computer, then when did it become something else and what did it become then? :-D — Smuckola(talk) 18:57, 23 November 2015 (UTC) |
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Thank you for all your service to WP:APPLE. I meant to include you in the recent mass messaging but here it is. So please check my new Welcome message and see what you think. — Smuckola(talk) 08:50, 19 March 2019 (UTC) |
