10 Jul
2012
10 Jul
'12
1:20 a.m.
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of
Mark Benson
Sent: 10 July 2012 07:24
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: PDP-11 Wiki
On 9 Jul 2012, at 22:53, Richard wrote:
I can no doubt find some simple way of coming up with all the fields.
I gathered this stuff over a number of years. As it's a bunch of mildly
formatted text files, it's not terribly consistent. Plus many fields for
(say) VAX are not applicable to (say) disks. My 20s spent looking at
media wiki templates suggests that you feed each template a bunch of
parameters, the same set everywhere a template is used. How does that
work if you want people to come along and edit an entry later? For
example, if you have data for 20 or so different VAX systems and only
then realise that you've completely forgotten about the "Compatibility
mode" property. You can add it to the template, but do you need to go
back and change every template invocation to add the new parameter?
I should point out that the [CU-V6-5A] part is a "reference" field. That
one happens to be "Customer Update. Volume 6 Issue 5A. 1st May 1995".
When I turned some of this into webpages then that ended up as "[1]",
"[2]" etc. and the references were spelled out at the foot of the page.
You might want to make provision for that so that future page editors
have some guidelines to follow.
Anyway, it's currently text and I can turn it into whatever text you
think is suitable.
Antonio
I would turn that into a mediawiki template
invocation, something
like:
{{system
| name = ALPHA AS1000 AS1000-4-233
| announcement = [1 May 1995][CU-V6-5A]
| bus_eisa = [7 slots][CU-V6-5A]
| bus_pci = [2 slots][CU-V6-5A]
| bus_pci_or_eisa = [1 slot][CU-V6-5A]
| cpu_clock = [233MHz][CU-V6-5A]
| max_memory = [512MB][CU-V6-5A]
| mem_checking = [ECC][CU-V6-5A]
| num_proc = [1][CU-V6-5A]
| os_support_vms = [OpenVMS V6.1-1H2][]
| specfp92 = [222.9][CU-V6-5A]
| specint92 = [165.3][CU-V6-5A]
| sys_name = [AlphaServer 1000 4/233][]
| tpc_a = [300:(e)][CU-V6-5A]
}}
...and then let the template do all the formatting.
Yup I can do a template to fit that as long as I have a
comprehensive list of every field that the filed uses
throughout the entries.