Talk:Central processing unit

Article Checklist for "Central processing unit"

Workgroup category or categories	Computers Workgroup [Categories OK]
Article status	Developed article: complete or nearly so
Underlinked article?	No
Basic cleanup done?	Yes
Checklist last edited by	David Martin 09:50, 14 May 2007 (CDT)

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Greg Woodhouse has nominated this version of this article for approval. Other editors may also sign to support approval. The Computers Workgroup is overseeing this approval. Unless this notice is removed, the article will be approved on May 21, 2007.

Hi Matt, thanks for importing an article from WP that you wrote. Can I hope that you'll be working on it here at least as much as there? Also, if anyone else made any other edits, we must check that "Content is from Wikipedia?" box. --Larry Sanger 13:23, 16 February 2007 (CST)

Of course. I'm going to remove a lot of red links that I don't think will have articles here in the near future and try and clean up some of the templates that don't exist on CZ. I'm also importing the images it uses that can be used here. I did actually check the box you mentioned in the original import, but it doesn't automagically stay checked in subsequent revisions. Do I need to manually check it for each revision I commit here (assuming that these subsequent revisions are applied on CZ exclusively)? -- Matt Britt 13:32, 16 February 2007 (CST)

Some changes have been done to the article to simplify the summary of the definition, move the CPU operation section above the history section for better visibility, and restructure the CPU operation section for the purpose of a more concise description. Also, the terms instruction set architecture and program counter have been given their own entries and their ref tags removed from the main body of this article. None of the core information has been changed; simply reworded in more concise terms to allow for an easier read. No changes have been made to the history and implementation sections, as they are largely the advanced explanations of the term and need no simplification. Thanks! --Dominic DeStefano 16:03, 30 March 2007 (CDT)

Wikipedia Status?

Can we get some clarification on the article status vis a vis Wikipedia? Does it need to be marked or not? Greg Woodhouse 11:13, 14 May 2007 (CDT)

HUGE article

Can this article could be broken out a little more? On CZ the policy is more of a "layman's definition" on the main article, and if someone wants to dig deeper they can. Maybe History of the CPU, CPU Manufacturing, CPU Design and Implementation etc. need to get broken out into their own articles? --Eric M Gearhart 16:01, 8 April 2007 (CDT)

I'm not sure it's necessary. The article seems rather accessible to me, covering the fundamentals of processors in enough depth to be of value to a layperson, without using a great deal of jargon or requiring specialist knowledge to understand. Greg Woodhouse 10:51, 14 May 2007 (CDT)

I should add that I think there is plenty of room for subarticles such as those you mention. In fact, I had originally thought that such things as RISC vs. CISC processors, multi-core processors would have been covered here, but it may be more appropriate to go into detail in other articles. Greg Woodhouse 11:05, 14 May 2007 (CDT)

history of computing

We are starting work on history of computing, and if no one objects, I might move the history part of this somewhere to match the style we're using there. The contents of this history section of this article is much more about computers and computer architecture as a whole than just about the CPU part of a computer. It's useful material (thanks to those who created it).Pat Palmer 09:07, 12 May 2007 (CDT)