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21 September 2024
- 08:4408:44, 21 September 2024 diff hist +2,089 Talk:Operating system →UNIX vs Unix-like Darwin vs FreeBSD VM vs OS: Cleaned up. current
- 08:3608:36, 21 September 2024 diff hist +102 Operating system →Microcomputers: Android is, at the lowest level, based on the Linux kernel and a C library that includes code from various BSDs. That's a more complete and less misleading description than "UNIX-based". current
- 08:2508:25, 21 September 2024 diff hist −4 Operating system →Microcomputers: Jobs was not the sole member of the Macintosh project.
- 08:2408:24, 21 September 2024 diff hist −104 Operating system →Microcomputers: Remove comment about macOS that is not relevant to the rest of the sentence, which is discussing Macs from long before Mac OS X/OS X/macOS as being the first personal computers with a GUI. (It'd be more relevant in the final sentence, which discusses UN*Xes, but it's also a bit incomplete and potentially misleading - in what way does having *some* FreeBSD code make it "UNIX-based"?)
- 07:2807:28, 21 September 2024 diff hist 0 Hypervisor Fix capitalization. current
- 07:2707:27, 21 September 2024 diff hist −74 Operating system →Virtual machine: A virtual machine is not an operating system. A hypervisor is software that implements a virtual machine in which an operating system can run; it could be thought of as a type of operating system (it's the "true operating system" referred to by the source you're citing).
- 06:4806:48, 21 September 2024 diff hist +3 Mac (computer) →1997–2011: Steve Jobs era: At that time it was called Mac OS X.
20 September 2024
- 23:2423:24, 20 September 2024 diff hist +1 UTF-8 →Error handling: Fix tpo.
- 23:2223:22, 20 September 2024 diff hist +6 BIOS Mention the legacy BIOS support in UEFI before we mention that it's going away. current
- 22:2022:20, 20 September 2024 diff hist −103 BIOS Put all the UEFI stuff together at the end. Just say that the BIOS comes installed on the motherboard, without implying that all PCs have one (few, if any, new PCs do, at this point). Split off the naming and history into a separate paragraph, and rewrite the sentence about reverse-engineering the BIOS to be clearer.
- 21:5821:58, 20 September 2024 diff hist −1 BIOS Combine the last two paragraphs, as they're both about the replacement of BIOS with UEFI, and put the initial description of UEFI first.
- 21:5321:53, 20 September 2024 diff hist +353 BIOS Reference for the Compatibility Support Module in (U)EFI. That module also supports older add-on cards that only have a BIOS extension. Consistently speak of "IBM PC–compatible computer(s)".
- 21:4121:41, 20 September 2024 diff hist −5 BIOS It's a book, not a journal article, so don't use journal=.
- 21:3921:39, 20 September 2024 diff hist +62 BIOS Newer PC compatibles have UEFI, which may - or may not - have BIOS compatibility.
- 20:4020:40, 20 September 2024 diff hist +1,944 Talk:Low-level programming language →Very poor wiki page: rp current
- 19:4819:48, 20 September 2024 diff hist +1,162 Talk:List of tz database time zones →Colours of the map: tl;dr - offsets from UTC are complicated. current
- 19:3619:36, 20 September 2024 diff hist −2 PUBG Mobile Undid revision 1246736847 by 142.114.13.50 (talk) - rvv current Tag: Undo
- 10:0910:09, 20 September 2024 diff hist +139 Null pointer →C: It may be, in practice, that, on most systems, "a null pointer" and "a pointer to address 0" have the same value (it is *NOT* a requirement of C that they have the same value!), but let's not mix those two concepts. current
- 09:5509:55, 20 September 2024 diff hist +1,133 Talk:Null pointer →VM claim: Yes, it's dubious. current
- 09:4709:47, 20 September 2024 diff hist +19 Null pointer →Mitigation: Mark "User code running in interpreted or virtual-machine languages generally does not suffer the problem of null pointer dereferencing.", pointing to a section of the talk page where somebody brought that up.
- 09:3209:32, 20 September 2024 diff hist +2,864 Talk:MacOS Sequoia →Is Sequoia "Unix"?: The correct answer to the question is "Unknown, unless you have contacts within Apple or The Open Group".
- 08:5308:53, 20 September 2024 diff hist +1,463 Talk:Low-level programming language →C as a low-level language: rp
- 07:4707:47, 20 September 2024 diff hist +18 IBM System/390 →Models: IBM has that document online. current
- 07:3707:37, 20 September 2024 diff hist −652 Talk:Link register Not relevant to contents of article. current Tag: Undo
- 07:3507:35, 20 September 2024 diff hist +13 IBM System/370 Explain why looking for "IBM 370" would bring you here, even if you want the IBM 370 printer. current
- 07:3407:34, 20 September 2024 diff hist −1,175 IBM System/370 Update a Bitsavers link. Combine duplicate references.
- 07:1307:13, 20 September 2024 diff hist −14 IBM System/360 Model 44 More removal of Mr./Ms. IBM Corporation as an author. current
- 07:1007:10, 20 September 2024 diff hist −153 IBM System/360 Model 44 →Architecture: Update a Bitsavers link. I know of no person whose parents were so cruel to name their child "IBM", whether they had the family name "Corporation" or not. That's the publisher, not the author.
- 07:0407:04, 20 September 2024 diff hist −548 IBM Basic assembly language and successors Update some Bitsavers links. current
- 06:5006:50, 20 September 2024 diff hist +8 Fldigi Use a citation template. current
- 06:4306:43, 20 September 2024 diff hist +16 Fldigi Mark a now-dead link as such.
- 06:3906:39, 20 September 2024 diff hist +171 Fldigi Use the Wayback Machine for a now-dead link.
- 06:3606:36, 20 September 2024 diff hist +176 Fldigi Use the Wayback Machine for a now-dead link. Fix title and website.
- 06:2806:28, 20 September 2024 diff hist +224 Fldigi Use the Wayback Machine for a now-dead link. Fix title.
- 06:2206:22, 20 September 2024 diff hist +128 Fldigi Use the Wayback Machine for a now-dead link.
- 06:1706:17, 20 September 2024 diff hist +153 Fldigi Use the Wayback Machine for a now-dead link.
- 06:1106:11, 20 September 2024 diff hist −10 Fldigi Update link.
- 06:0506:05, 20 September 2024 diff hist −5 Fldigi Update link.
- 02:5502:55, 20 September 2024 diff hist +1 Pages (word processor) →Compatibility: Pages 5 is an application bundle which is difficult, at best, to convert to a PDF, EPUB document, or Word document. However, it can export its fils *as* PDFs, etc. current
- 02:5202:52, 20 September 2024 diff hist 0 Pages (word processor) →Features: "however" is in the midle of a sentence, after a semicolon, so it shouldn't be capitalized.
- 02:5002:50, 20 September 2024 diff hist +29 Pages (word processor) →History: Link universal binary, and note that providing it as a universal binary is what makes it available on iPhones and iPod Touch devices, in addition to the iPads it already supported.
- 00:5500:55, 20 September 2024 diff hist −17 Pages (word processor) Get rid of unnecessary piping.
19 September 2024
- 09:2509:25, 19 September 2024 diff hist +7 VisionOS The <nowiki></nowiki> is noise, and other pages (tvOS, watchOS) say "N.x" for all of the major release N tables, so it's not obvious what is improved by removing the ".x" here. Tag: Undo
18 September 2024
- 23:0923:09, 18 September 2024 diff hist +26 Talk:Filename extension →Comments: Give a topic-specific section name, so people don't just dump arbitrary comments here. current
- 23:0223:02, 18 September 2024 diff hist 0 Talk:Filename extension Sort a new section into its correct place by the time stamp of the first comment.
- 23:0123:01, 18 September 2024 diff hist +38 Talk:Filename extension →Comments: Not related to the original topic of this thread; put it in a separate section.
- 22:5622:56, 18 September 2024 diff hist +18 Talk:Filename extension →Questions: Give the section a meaningful title.
- 22:5422:54, 18 September 2024 diff hist 0 Talk:Filename extension Sort sections in order by the first comment.
- 22:5222:52, 18 September 2024 diff hist +1,201 Talk:Filename extension →NTFS not 8.3?: rp
- 22:5022:50, 18 September 2024 diff hist −58 Filename extension →Executable programs: No, a #! line isn't like a "degenerate resource fork", as it's part of the file data, not an alternative data stream. current