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You mean pages like [[wikipedia:Sound_blaster]]? If you use the Sound Blaster as an example, we probably shouldn't a single Sound Blaster page, instead we should have a category page that provides a brief intro description to the sound blaster family, links the the wikipedia articles, and has links to our pages that cover more programming specific info by major card type.<br /> |
You mean pages like [[wikipedia:Sound_blaster]]? If you use the Sound Blaster as an example, we probably shouldn't a single Sound Blaster page, instead we should have a category page that provides a brief intro description to the sound blaster family, links the the wikipedia articles, and has links to our pages that cover more programming specific info by major card type.<br /> |
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-[[User:Chase|Chase]] 18:29, 2 December 2006 (CST) |
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I agree. It would be useful to have a small introduction for each device and then list articles and resources for it. Then in another section of the article list our pages that go into details about interaction with the device and writing code for it. For writing code do you think things should be in C when they can be? -[[User:Telexicon|Telexicon]] 00:06, 3 December 2006 (CST) |
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In the hardware section on the main page I have noticed that some of the links go to categories and some of them go to articles. Would you prefer each of those be articles with links to more articles all of which are in the same category? Or would you rather have each of those links be categories with a small description and listing each of the sub-articles in that category? -[[User:Telexicon|Telexicon]] 00:06, 3 December 2006 (CST) |
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Revision as of 06:06, 3 December 2006
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Should there be articles about specific devices (that seems like repeating wikipedia) or should the articles be focused on
how the devices are related to designing an OS. Instead of having an article about what some device is, have it be about
writing drivers for it, how the device operates and what the OS needs to do to communicate with it.
-Telexicon 18:04, 2 December 2006 (CST)
You mean pages like wikipedia:Sound_blaster? If you use the Sound Blaster as an example, we probably shouldn't a single Sound Blaster page, instead we should have a category page that provides a brief intro description to the sound blaster family, links the the wikipedia articles, and has links to our pages that cover more programming specific info by major card type.
-Chase 18:29, 2 December 2006 (CST)
I agree. It would be useful to have a small introduction for each device and then list articles and resources for it. Then in another section of the article list our pages that go into details about interaction with the device and writing code for it. For writing code do you think things should be in C when they can be? -Telexicon 00:06, 3 December 2006 (CST)
Layout
In the hardware section on the main page I have noticed that some of the links go to categories and some of them go to articles. Would you prefer each of those be articles with links to more articles all of which are in the same category? Or would you rather have each of those links be categories with a small description and listing each of the sub-articles in that category? -Telexicon 00:06, 3 December 2006 (CST)