Talk:John Harrison Wharton

Creator of this article
I did not create this page. I simply copied it from a draft, added a few categories, and made some minor format changes. The entire original article was written by User:DavidSHRosenthal.--Toploftical (talk) 16:36, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Wharton's contribution to MCS-51
I'm grateful for Toploftical's help. Here's some background on one of the changes in question, from "architected" to "designed" in reference to Wharton's contribution to the Intel MCS-51.

I think the change is strictly correct, in that MCS-51 refers to a series of compatible products, not just to the original 8051. The belief is that John's work was the instruction set and the functional block structure of the chip, others did the detailed design, chip layout, etc. as described in the Computer History Museum Oral History Panel. A lay person reading "Wharton designed" would likely come away with an exaggerated idea of John's contribution but its hard to see how to explain that without getting deep in the weeds. DavidSHRosenthal (talk) 18:11, 2 December 2018 (UTC)