Talk:Gordon Bell

message: This page is all messed up.  The two most significant contributions of Gordon Bell are missing, and they are : The PDP-11 computer (not mentioned), and his work as a co-founder of Encore (one of the first multiprocessor computers to support > 2 or > 4 CPU's efficiently, using snoopy caches I believe.)
cgordonbell comments based on my page of articles http://research.microsoft.com/users/gbell/gbvita.htm
 
A PDP-11 Reference:  Bell, C. G., R. Cady, H. McFarland, B. Delagi, J. O'Laughlin, R. Noonan and W. Wulf, "A New Architecture for Mini-Computers -- The DEC PDP-11, Sprint Joint Computer Conference, pp. 657-675 (1970).
Bell, G., W. Strecker, "Computer Structures:  What Have We Learned from the PDP-11"  IEEE Computer Conference Proceedings, Florida (November 1975).
:What was his draft nubmer .  ... I thought so  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.163.218.83 (talk) 21:02, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: This is Wikipedia so you know what to do: be bold! If you can improve this, have at it. But I think you'll find his earlier work long-predates Encore Computer; witness the Cmp multiprocessor that was built at Carnegie-Mellon University. :Atlant 12:00, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know aenough about Bell (yet) to edit this article, but here's a partial timeline of his career, taken from the New Yorker article (which I've added to the page):
 1957 - graduated from MIT with an M.S. 
(user:cgordonbell). 1958 - Fulbright Scholar at the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia (user (user:cgordonbell). see Microsoft web page for viate
(user:cgordonbell). 1959 - began work at MIT Speech Research Lab, including start of studies for a doctorate.
 1960 - went to work for DEC
 1966 - went on sabbatical to teach at MIT... 
(user:cgordonbell). NO IT WAS CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY AS THE PAGE CORRECTLY SAYS.
 1972 - went back to DEC.
 1972 - wrote "Law of Computer Classes".
 1983 - left DEC.
 (don't have a date for when he started working for Microsoft) 
        August 1995 User:cgordonbell
--Michael K. Smith 14:35, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
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message: The neutrality of this article disputed ?
Why ?
It is all true, what has been written there.
C. Gordon Bell is really a pioneer in computing of his time.
I am familiar with his publications and with the history of DEC.
Important items missing?
This is a matter of space in Wikipedia.
Most biographies will be more or less incomplete.
Best regards,
87.177.248.130 11:08, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality ? 

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Support - Based on the article traffic tool this is the right thing to do.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD)  13:39, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: How does this prove that the computer engineer is not the primary topic?  How do you know that half of the page views are click throughs?  Some other qualitative evidence should accompany this nomination.  —  AjaxSmack  06:24, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
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message: I understand this individual is Gordon Bell but there are many other Gordon Bells within Wikipedia. Why not make the default land on a neutral page which would direct you to other persons of the same name? Check out Gordon Bell here!   HJKeats (talk) 18:03, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Page traffic statistics suggests the current arrangement enables the majority of readers to arrive at the desired article. The current standard requires that the primary topic is much more likely than any other topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for that term. Traffic for Gordon Bell was 6435 for the last 90 days. Total traffic for all the other pages listed on the disambiguation page (including the dab page) was 2651. Absent any other evidence (such as long term significance), it seems the current arrangement is satisfactory. older ≠ wiser 18:40, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does Gordon Bell default to this article? 

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message: User:2600:8807:4400:3cb0:503e:cacb:1ddc:a61d added disappearance hoax a few days ago. Why target this person and this article?  Blue Rasberry (talk) 23:06, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
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