User talk:Arch dude

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Hello, Arch dude, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Howdy. People differ on where they prefer replies. I think the majority answer in the original threads location, and expect whoever left the comment to watchlist the page, or check back later. Other people hope you'll answer at their page.
The welcome message was just because i saw a redlinked name (usually means a new user), had contributed positively to an article that I watchlist (The Story of Civilization). Getting a welcome msg was what prompted my own full wiki-addiction, so now I spread the curse.. ;) --Quiddity·(talk) 03:20, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Your message inspired me to at least introduce myself, so thanks. Please see my page. In high school, I reacted to the required reading by rejecting any non-required reading except science fiction: I finally read "Story of Civilization" when I was 30 ( it took me about six months to finish.). When I hit it on a "Random article" and noticed the forlorn missing section, I felt I owed it to the memory of Will Durant to add the missing section. Arch dude 03:45, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Tangential: I read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, whilst in the midst of reading and learning all the background details around here. I recommend them both :) --Quiddity·(talk) 04:43, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problem bypassing a PG disambig

I've checked that this is the same "Edward Tyson", and yes, it does appear to be. So I've added his birth and death dates in the PG catalog, (they will not be visible until tomorrow) and used them to disambig the PG link. Andrew Sly 01:17, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hawthorn

Hi. Linking to Crataegus seems the best plan - I shall do this in any future articles. Richard Barlow 09:05, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Work on the CPU article

Addressing your first concern, the article states "A CPU that is manufactured as a single integrated circuit is usually known as a microprocessor." [emphasis added] I did try to avoid implying that any CPU that uses ICs is, in fact, a microprocessor. If you read down a little bit in the article, I mention the PDP LSI-11 as an example of a CPU that was implemented with LSI ICs but was not actually a microprocessor. I don't agree with your conclusion that the article asserts that "integrated circuit" implies "microprocessor". The entire "Discrete transistor and IC CPUs" section should prevent this sort of misconception. The reason I removed the LSI distinction was largely that the distinction between LSI/VLSI/ULSI/whatever is usually poorly-defined, and I'd really rather not introduce these terms in the introduction if its not necessary to do so.

Your second concern is, I think, much more valid and requires some additional thought. I'd really rather not devote an entire section to FPGAs; a sentence or two should cover it. I would suggest posting this concern on the talk page of that article to seek other editors' input. On content issues it's usually more appropriate to get as many people involved in the discussion as possible rather than making a decision based on talk page dialogue. In the mean time, I'll try to think of good ways to include information on cores and FPGAs without devoting undue space to them. -- mattb @ 2006-12-02T20:07Z

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