15 Aug
2016
15 Aug
'16
11:41 a.m.
On 08/15/2016 11:18 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
I just looked at Wikipedia, and found some amazing
errors, such as
statement that IBM mono came along much later than CGA, caling it
MDA instead of MDP, that Hercules innovatively had a "Centronics
port" (sic) because that was much faster than the serial printing
with the IBM mono, that PCs HAD TO HAVE both displays, because "no
business software would work on CGA", no mention of the "Hercules
clones" that Jenkins had tantrums about, etc. I edited a few of
them, but there is just too much misinformation.
On matters of historical technical accuracy, I've pretty much given up
on WikiP. Oh, it's still useful, but I find myself muttering to myself
"Vass you dere, Shollie?" when reading some of the stuff.
It doesn't really matter--in a couple of decades, we'll all be dead and
the "historians" can write whatever they want without being challenged.
--Chuck