User talk:Letdorf

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[edit] NetBSD

Hey, I just wanted to say that it's good to see someone taking an interest in working over the NetBSD article. It had been the most out of date and incomplete of the BSD articles for a while and I had only done a tiny bit to improve it to complement the OpenBSD one. Anyways, you may want to check OpenBSD's for some ideas on what to do and how if you want to take this article further, we've pretty much completed an overhaul of it over the past 4 months and it's pretty slick now. Like I say, it's good to see someone take an interest in fleshing it out. Janizary 01:10, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] AIX/ESA based off OSF/1?

I was editing the AIX article and saw a previous editor had said that AIX/ESA was based off of OSF/1 and I saw it again on the OSF/1/Tru64 page. I didn't see anything in IBM docs about this (although they probably wouldn't mention it anyways), I was just wondering what source you got the information from. TimP 03:06, 19 January 2006 (UTC)


[edit] FYI

[edit] Y-MP photo

Thanks for catching that slight memory lapse on my old Cray photo. Davepape 15:14, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MagTape

Thanks for getting some facts straight on the Stringy floppy page and the formats template. I find the endless tape loop concept fascinating. Do you have any more info on the topic? Maybe you know the dates for the Entrepo product? -- Austin Murphy 23:38, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Number system in British Aircraft identification

Thanks for your comments; I, too, have gone back and forth on the number system; however, not that this is a passion of mine, but some of the sites that I was recently editing, other editors had indicated that this is now the common convention for British designations. I am an author myself and consulted a number of style guides to find that the most recently published manuscripts now all had adopted this style. You may also notice that nearly all historical sites on significant British aircraft, e.g. [[1]] will use this system. One of the other aspects of adopting a commonality is to move away from the inevitable mixing of different numbering systems. Bzuk 02:40, 19 November 2006 (UTC).

Following up on the site that you had given me, I noticed that the de Havilland Comet [[2]] used the new convention while all the other articles did not but seemed to be done by the same author. In checking, it turns out to be not a historian but a commercial site that was responsible: [3] Look at the following reputable site for the modern numbering system: Hawker Hurricane [4] Supermarine Spitfire [5] Avro Lancaster [6] Modern aircraft [7]

Bzuk 03:49, 19 November 2006 (UTC).

I would tend to agree with you on your latest comments except for the fact there are more sources that now use the contemporary marking and designations. The site you indicated RAF Museum Aircraft Thesaurus, with a foreword by Dr. Michael A. Fopp, Director General has on the first page, at least four grammatical errors, two spelling mistakes and even two errors in his name, not a great start! LOL :} Bzuk 13:26, 24 November 2006 (UTC).

[edit] British military aircraft designations

Oops Sea Mosquito missed that - thanks. Just to say sorry I changed the article to a table in the middle of your editing efforts ! - I just though it would make it clearer. MilborneOne 21:22, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pentium - 5th generation

Thanks. I thought I'd heard of some PC compatibility issue with the 186 that meant it couldn't be used in clones, but I didn't remember any details. Guy Harris 23:38, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of active United Kingdom military aircraft

Thanks for your support - most of the air force articles appear to be in this format so I decided to change. I agree with your comment on "foreign designations" I will change the article. MilborneOne 21:18, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AH

Thanks for your changes regarding AH being Army Helicopter, I just wanted to make the point that the Apache is also an Army Helicopter, the military dont normally have two designation with different meaning. I just suspect that there is confusiuon with the american terminology. MilborneOne 10:36, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] fdisk

Just wanted to say thanks for your new intro to the article fdisk. Daniel B. Sedory 17:52, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meiko CS-2

Dear Letdorf,

I wanted to let you know that I was doing some editing (adding sections) on the Meiko Scientific article when I noticed that the CS-2 information in the separate article was almost verbatim so I merged the two. I felt it did not make sense to have both given the brevity of each article, but I do apologize if this bothers you since I noticed that you had been working on both articles.

I also think that Meiko Computing Surface and MeikOS should probably be merged into the Meiko article as well and that that would make it a much more comprehensive an encyclopedic article. If you like I could set up a sandbox page and work up an introductory summary and article mock-up we could work on together. Thank you.Awotter (talk) 19:30, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DEC 7000/10000

Hi! It seems that you know the Alpha based systems well. Since the DEC 7000/10000 is the last of the early Alpha based systems without an article, I am wondering if you would be interested in a collaborative effort to write an article for it. If you are interested, just leave a message in my talk page and we'll sort out how to do it there. Thanks. Rilak (talk) 12:53, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Just want to let you know I've got a bit of the article here. Rilak (talk) 13:44, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
After reading through the article, I think that it has enough content to be released. If you agree, feel free to create the article. Also, thanks for your contributions to the article and the numerous corrections and suggestions. Rilak (talk) 15:52, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Sorry for the late reply, I've haven't been able to get online lately. Anyways, I just wish to say thanks and happy editing! Rilak (talk) 05:33, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Linux text editors category

Offhand I don't recall any (notable...) Linux-only text editors (though before changing categories, I assume you do as I would, and inspect the source code). However, the same applies to the "Mac OS X Text editors" category - most of those listed are vanilla ports with no Mac OS X specific code. (OpenVMS and Windows are a different matter). Tedickey (talk) 15:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] DEC 3000 AXP - Thanks!

Thank you for correcting introduction dates. May I ask where you found those press releases? Just asking since I collect press releases from Digital. Rilak (talk) 11:29, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NeXT article

Thank you for your numerous edits. They are most helpful. — Wackymacs (talk) 17:00, 2 May 2008 (UTC)