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This is more of a preliminary review with the full one to follow, but right now I have an issue with the hook. Specifically, it seems to be reliant on tech knowledge and may not easily be understandable to general readers, especially with the mention of "pseudo-static" RAM. Perhaps people may be vaguely familiar with what RAM is, but not what pseudo-static RAM is. Maybe a new direction is needed here?
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Article meets DYK requirements and is free from close paraphrasing. A QPQ has been done. Either ALT1 or ALT1b are acceptable, though I have a slight preference for ALT1b since it's shorter and has less links (I fear that the mention of the GameCube and Wii could direct readers to those article instead). I can't access the source for that hook fact so assuming good faith here.
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We need a more exact citation for Academics called the name a misnomer: "[1-transistor static RAM] is not really possible, but it makes for a catchy name". Who, specifically, said that? --
RoySmith(talk)16:32, 9 November 2022 (UTC)reply
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RoySmith: Specifically, Bruce Jacob, Spencer W. Ng, David T. Wang of the book Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk (2008). That's a bit of a mouthful, so I just said academics of "Academics writing in the book Memory Systems (2008)".
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RoySmith: Okay, I have expanded the sentence to include all three names. Hopefully that's better? I read the discussion and I'm not seeing the issue with the hook itself. The problem Amakuru had with the French protests hook is that the quote was delivered in the passive voice without attribution. My hook is in the active voice with attribution ("academics called the chip..." as opposed to "the chip was called ...").
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RoySmith: There's no set guidelines to this, so it's open to interpretation – I think just "writers/academics in <book> say..." is fine, honestly. Some works, particularly journals, have dozens of credited authors. It'd be absurd to list them all in prose.
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09:41, 13 November 2022 (UTC)reply
The article states "Access time was rated at 15µs, compared to 60 µs of contemporary chips."
This is the wrong dimension, RAM access times were (and still are) measured in nanoseconds (ns), not microseconds (µs), which are one thousand times longer than nanoseconds.
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This is more of a preliminary review with the full one to follow, but right now I have an issue with the hook. Specifically, it seems to be reliant on tech knowledge and may not easily be understandable to general readers, especially with the mention of "pseudo-static" RAM. Perhaps people may be vaguely familiar with what RAM is, but not what pseudo-static RAM is. Maybe a new direction is needed here?
Narutolovehinata5 (
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01:07, 21 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Article meets DYK requirements and is free from close paraphrasing. A QPQ has been done. Either ALT1 or ALT1b are acceptable, though I have a slight preference for ALT1b since it's shorter and has less links (I fear that the mention of the GameCube and Wii could direct readers to those article instead). I can't access the source for that hook fact so assuming good faith here.
Narutolovehinata5 (
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02:54, 5 November 2022 (UTC)reply
We need a more exact citation for Academics called the name a misnomer: "[1-transistor static RAM] is not really possible, but it makes for a catchy name". Who, specifically, said that? --
RoySmith(talk)16:32, 9 November 2022 (UTC)reply
@
RoySmith: Specifically, Bruce Jacob, Spencer W. Ng, David T. Wang of the book Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk (2008). That's a bit of a mouthful, so I just said academics of "Academics writing in the book Memory Systems (2008)".
DigitalIceAge (
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16:44, 9 November 2022 (UTC)reply
@
RoySmith: Okay, I have expanded the sentence to include all three names. Hopefully that's better? I read the discussion and I'm not seeing the issue with the hook itself. The problem Amakuru had with the French protests hook is that the quote was delivered in the passive voice without attribution. My hook is in the active voice with attribution ("academics called the chip..." as opposed to "the chip was called ...").
DigitalIceAge (
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16:55, 12 November 2022 (UTC)reply
@
RoySmith: There's no set guidelines to this, so it's open to interpretation – I think just "writers/academics in <book> say..." is fine, honestly. Some works, particularly journals, have dozens of credited authors. It'd be absurd to list them all in prose.
theleekycauldron (
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09:41, 13 November 2022 (UTC)reply
The article states "Access time was rated at 15µs, compared to 60 µs of contemporary chips."
This is the wrong dimension, RAM access times were (and still are) measured in nanoseconds (ns), not microseconds (µs), which are one thousand times longer than nanoseconds.