Timeline for Are questions about historical web APIs on topic?
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| Feb 28, 2019 at 9:20 | comment | added | JeremyP | @DrSheldon What explicit list? | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 17:27 | comment | added | DrSheldon | @JeremyP: That doesn't matter. There are two paths to being on-topic: the implicit path (the 3 questions), and an explicit path of specific topics. Processors less than 32 bits are retro and should be on the explicit list, regardless of the answers to the 3 questions. | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 16:15 | comment | added | JeremyP | I think question 3 is problematic. For example, there is no question that 6502 is retro and yet, you can discuss it on Stack Overflow. | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 16:13 | comment | added | JeremyP | @Kaz all implementations of Ethernet are buses. It's just that sometimes the physical bus is contained entirely within a switch or hub. | |
| Feb 21, 2019 at 6:51 | comment | added | Kaz | You put Wired Ethernet in "not retro". That's certainly the case for 10/100/1000baseT, but what about older implementations such as 10base2 or 10base5 (thinnet and thicknet, iirc)? I'd consider a bus implementation of Ethernet to be retro. | |
| Feb 21, 2019 at 2:49 | comment | added | DrSheldon | @wizzwizz4: The idea is that there are two paths to being considered "retro". The implicit path is to answer NNN to the questions. The explicit path is being on a list made by the community, regardless of the answers to the questions. Plan 9, USENET, and classic Macs would be on the explicit list and therefore be on-topic. | |
| Feb 20, 2019 at 13:44 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 Mod | Upon further reflection: Plan 9 is YNN, USENET is NYN and old Macs are NNY, and I can come up with more very easily, so this system doesn't work for determining what's not retro. | |
| Feb 18, 2019 at 16:19 | history | edited | DrSheldon | CC BY-SA 4.0 | add examples |
| Feb 18, 2019 at 11:15 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 Mod | Ooh. Controversial! How would this proposed policy affect other technology? Discontinued iPhones would be NNY, so we wouldn't have to worry about that. | |
| Feb 18, 2019 at 2:25 | history | answered | DrSheldon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |