Talk:Peter Samson

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Did not meet criteria for speedy delete on 10 June. Proposed deletion was suggested. Maybe someone else will try if they agree "Peter_Samson" would have been nicer. --- Susanlesch 20:52, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi, Susan. You proposed the page for deletion because

"Unfortunately Wikipedia software changed this page created as "Peter Samson" to "Peter samson" (which someone in the pump kindly redirected here). Perhaps the reason for this 'feature' is that two words are usually not someone's name. The "s" unfortunately shows up in in the URI, the Web and Wikipedia search results, and on the page itself when searched for in lowercase. I have a copy and would like to create a new page from an existing link to "Peter Samson". Thanks for anything you can do.

I'm not sure what happened. I've never seen the Wikimedia software itself fail to honor the case of names as typed in. Instead of deleting this page, what I did was to delete the redirect page, so that there is no longer an article on "Peter samson" for any search engine to index.

Be aware that search engines are slow to catch up, and that there are many levels of caching going on. I'm mumbling here because I don't understand it all myself. But web browsers cache pages, and Wikipedia itself uses some kind of caching system called "SQUID." Furthermore, when the servers are heavily loaded, there can be a lag on operations involving the database itself. The result is that sometimes changes take a long time to show up. I think deleting the "Peter samson" page should solve the problem. Dpbsmith (talk) 12:52, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. Of course it could have been a typo but I don't remember it that way. Looks fine now. --Susanlesch 16:51, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Sketchpad

In the Computer History Museum video celebrating the PDP-1 restoration, there is a mention of T-Square possibly being the "first electronic drafting" program, and that it used the Spacewar! controllers. Spacewar! apparently first ran in February 1962. In his MIT PhD thesis published in 1963, Ivan Sutherland explains he completed an early version of Sketchpad that could draw parallel and perpendicular lines in November 1961. Sutherland goes on to say, "Somewhat before my first effort was working, Welden Clark of Bolt, Beranek and Newman..." showed him a "similar program" running on a PDP-1. It would be interesting to know what program that was. --Susanlesch 17:17, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

• Paragraph saying relationship is "unknown" copied to new stub T-Square (software). Clark's publications might or might not hold an answer. --Susanlesch 22:26, 27 December 2006 (UTC)