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21 July 2025

• diffhist Timeline of operating systems 09:10 +2,122 Timtjtim talk contribs (Reverting edit(s) by 124.83.111.238 (talk) to rev. 1300454438 by Bumm13: Unexplained content removal (RW 16.1)) Tags: RW Undo
• diffhist Timeline of operating systems 09:09 −2,122 124.83.111.238 talk (→1950s) Tags: Reverted section blanking Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• diffhist m Time-sharing 09:09 +17,756 Criticize talk contribs (Reverted Edit(s) by 124.83.111.238 (Talk) (AV)) Tag: Manual revert
• diffhist Time-sharing 09:08 −17,756 124.83.111.238 talk Tags: Reverted blanking Mobile edit Mobile web edit

20 July 2025

• diffhist Compact disc 22:22 +24 Concord19 talk contribs (→Disc shapes and diameters: Switching order so that the source is identified prior to his assertion. This arrangement helps to prevent a reader from seeing the assertion as hard established uncontested fact. Immink's version of the story is that 12cm was selected due to it being a neutral size [one source being YouTube at v=djjZ64-LsVM&t=2m25s]. Also providing info as to what Immink's position was, instead of presenting just some random name.)
• diffhist Compact disc 22:11 +39 Concord19 talk contribs (→Disc shapes and diameters: "begins at the center of the disc"? The center of the disc is an empty hole. How long has this article been presenting such nonsense to the public? And why has no one corrected this? Well it is fixed now.)
• diffhist Exokernel 21:49 +101 Guy Harris talk contribs (→Bibliography: Use {{cite thesis}}, not {{cite journal}} for a Ph.D. thesis. Use {{cite tech report}}, not {{cite journal}}, for a research paper (later published as a HOTOS conference paper). Link to PDF versions of both. Use {{cite conference}} for a conference paper, and giv e its correct title.)
• diffhist Kernel (operating system) 21:31 −302 Guy Harris talk contribs (→Exokernels: United since 2021 - an exokernel does *not* require every use to write their own library operating system; they can use an already-written one. Remove.)
• diffhist Kernel (operating system) 21:29 −10 Guy Harris talk contribs (→Exokernels: I'm not sure there's a Wikipedia page to describe the sort of multiplexing of access to the raw hardware is being provided, but mutliplexing (bus) isn't that page.)
• diffhist Kernel (operating system) 21:06 −58 Guy Harris talk contribs (→Hybrid (or modular) kernels: *Most* commercial operating systems? Only a few mainstream ones, such as NT and Darwin derivatives. Copyedit and simplify the first stenence about monolithic kernels with LKMs;)
• diffhist Kernel (operating system) 21:00 −68 Guy Harris talk contribs (→Microkernels: Microkernels and monolithic kernels can be written mostly or even exclusively in a high-level language; the key characteristic of a microkernel server is that it runs in user mode. In a microkernel, there isn't necessarily a *single* program providing the OS services, and they may not be normal application programs - the kernel may grant them privileges not granted to applications.)
• diffhist Kernel (operating system) 20:53 +26 Guy Harris talk contribs (The Linux kernel is not the only, or even the first, monolithic kernel with modules.)
• diffhist Kernel (operating system) 20:50 +68 Guy Harris talk contribs (Fix capitalization. Request an explanation of what a "hardware process" is.)
• diffhist Kernel (operating system) 20:45 −14 Guy Harris talk contribs (Get rid of unnecessary piping.)
• diffhist Kernel (operating system) 20:42 −5 Guy Harris talk contribs (Call it GNU Hurd.)
• diffhist Kernel (operating system) 20:39 +60 Guy Harris talk contribs (→Monolithic kernels: Link to Memory management (operating systems) rather than Memory management - the latter is for memory management in userland. Consistently refer to it as "memory management" rather than sometimes calling it "memory handling".)
• diffhist Kernel (operating system) 20:27 −64 Guy Harris talk contribs (→Monolithic kernels: Get rid of unnecessary piping.)
• diffhist Kernel (operating system) 20:24 −9 Guy Harris talk contribs (→Monolithic kernels: 1) Not all kernels have a "main kernel thread". For example, most Un*x kernels run system calls in the same thread as the user-mode code that made the system call, and many of them also have multiple kernel threads separate from any user-mode thread. 2) In any case, the init process isn't the "main kernel thread" - init or its equivalent is a (possibly multi-threaded) user-mode program.)
• diffhist Kernel (operating system) 20:19 −23 Guy Harris talk contribs (→Kernel-wide design approaches: Spell out "microkernels" rather than saying "micro and monolithic kernels". Get rid of unnecessary piping.)
• diffhist Kernel (operating system) 20:17 −1 Guy Harris talk contribs (That's a restrictive clause, limiting "objects provided to user code" to the ones that "allow limited access to an underlying object managed by the kernel", so use "that" rather than "which".)
• diffhist Plan 9 from Bell Labs 17:23 +217 Closed Limelike Curves talk contribs (Describe additional important features) Tag: Visual edit
• diffhist Plan 9 from Bell Labs 01:17 −20 Closed Limelike Curves talk contribs (Not just for distributed systems) Tag: Visual edit

19 July 2025

• diffhist Operating system 18:35 −4 SeaHaircutSoilReplace talk contribs (→Diversity of operating systems and portability: you mean for?)
• diffhist m USB flash drive 11:49 +3 Frost talk contribs (Reverted edits by 49.146.235.192 (talk) (HG) (3.4.12)) Tags: Huggle Rollback
• diffhist USB flash drive 11:49 −3 49.146.235.192 talk Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• diffhist m Thread (computing) 10:50 −4 Eddie891 talk contribs (Removing link(s) Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beginthread closed as delete (XFDcloser))
• diffhist Floppy disk 07:23 −717 The Bushranger talk contribs (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Floppy disk closed as keep (XFDcloser)) Tag: Manual revert
• diffhist Floppy disk 02:57 +717 Locke Cole talk contribs (WP:TNT it is) Tag: Reverted

18 July 2025

• diffhist Compact disc 19:05 +110 2a02:3100:8661:8a00:90e4:ae12:1d1:5572 talk (→Physical details: Moved pits and lands illustration to the right section) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• diffhist Compact disc 19:03 −108 2a02:3100:8661:8a00:90e4:ae12:1d1:5572 talk (→VinylDisc: Moving misplaced illustration) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• diffhist Compact disc 18:54 −34 2a02:3100:8661:8a00:90e4:ae12:1d1:5572 talk (Moce) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• diffhist Inter-process communication 17:53 +34 175.29.133.161 talk
• diffhist USB flash drive 08:44 +6 2402:800:6114:f860:98da:a639:51cf:47df talk (→Secure storage of data, application and software files) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• diffhist Classic Mac OS 06:14 −287 GhostInTheMachine talk contribs (Restored revision 1299373019 by 71.70.166.171 (talk): Revert removal of ref) Tags: Twinkle Undo
• diffhist Computer network 05:58 −3 Nixleovel talk contribs (Reverting edit(s) by 109.107.230.212 (talk) to rev. 1300669762 by Guy Harris: Vandalism (UV 0.1.6)) Tags: Ultraviolet Undo
• diffhist Computer network 05:58 +3 109.107.230.212 talk Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• diffhist Classic Mac OS 05:38 +324 AnomieBOT talk contribs (Rescuing orphaned refs ("appleconfidential2" from rev 1299373019)) Tag: Reverted
• diffhist m Classic Mac OS 03:02 −37 Contreraslion89 talk contribs Tags: Reverted references removed Mobile edit Mobile app edit iOS app edit App full source

17 July 2025

• diffhist OpenVMS 20:35 0 Vt320 talk contribs (→Origin and name changes: fix wrong version)
• diffhist Defragmentation 16:32 +12 Localwerewolfenjoyer talk contribs (Link suggestions feature: 3 links added.) Tags: Visual edit Newcomer task Suggested: add links
• diffhist RAM drive 16:05 +4 Guy Harris talk contribs (→Performance: Link ext2, for the benefit of uncool people who aren't familiar with it (but it may be old and tired, too; are all the cool kids using ext3 or ext4 or btrfs or...?).)
• diffhist RAM drive 16:00 −23 Guy Harris talk contribs (→Performance: HFS is long dead, HFS+ is not the *current* Mac file system (that's APFS), but it's still actively supported and used.)
• diffhist Data recovery 15:57 −10 Guy Harris talk contribs (Not sure what "formatted" means here, but if it means "destroyed by the disk having been formatted", that's covered by one or more of the other words in that list - "formatted data" usually means "the data is in a particular format".)
• diffhist Data recovery 15:53 −36 Guy Harris talk contribs (Not sure how this relates to transaction processing except *maybe* for journaling file systems, but that's not a particularly strong tie.)
• diffhist Data recovery 15:44 +30 Guy Harris talk contribs (→Consistency checkers: Versions of fsck (there are multiple fsck versions for multiple file system types) ares also used by UN*Xes that aren't based on AT&T code or aren't licensed to use the Unix trademark - e.g. Linux distributions - so list both "Unix and Unix-like systems". (Disk Utility uses it, as GParted does, but I'd have to dig up a reference for that.))
• diffhist Data recovery 15:40 −3 Guy Harris talk contribs (→File recovery: Disk Drill survived two name changes for Apple's current Unix-for-Macs, and is still being developed, so update the OS name.)
• diffhist Debian 05:15 −10 RickyCourtney talk contribs (LXDE is discontinued) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

16 July 2025

• diffhist Linux distribution 18:38 +1 RickyCourtney talk contribs (correction) Tag: Visual edit
• diffhist m Gentoo Linux 16:33 −39 Ccawley2011 talk contribs
• diffhist m Finnix 16:31 +2 Ccawley2011 talk contribs