User talk:BrianFennell

Welcome!
Thanks for the welcome! --BrianFennell (talk) 05:42, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Samantha Bond - April 2008
Samantha Bond - Per WP:NFC, screenshots cannot be used in the infoboxes for actors who played the character portrayed. Dismas |(talk) 21:46, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Notablility - Thomas F. Fennell - May 2008
Notablility - Thomas F. Fennell extra boiler plate text dropped Toddst1 (talk) 02:41, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi, Toddst1! Thanks for your message.  I have addressed the Notability issues on the Talk:Thomas F. Fennell page. --BrianFennell (talk) 05:42, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Your recent edits - talk pages - May 2008
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 * Thanks, SineBot. I forgot, but I went back and added the signatures. -- BrianFennell (talk) 05:42, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Working memory - November 2010
An article that you have been involved in editing, Working memory, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. EldKatt (Talk) 16:29, 5 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Specifically, you suggested on the talk page that there is a distinction between working memory and short-term memory, which is precisely what the merge is about. I'm not aware of the distinction, so if you have anything to contribute to the discussion it would be most welcome. EldKatt (Talk) 16:29, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * The following article talks about the difference -
 * On the Division of Short-Term and Working Memory: An Examination of Simple and Complex Span and Their Relation to Higher Order Abilities - Copyright 2007 by the American Psychological Association - Nash Unsworth & Randall W. Engle
 * http://www.psychology.gatech.edu/renglelab/Publications/2007/Uns&Eng_2007_PsychBull.pdf
 * --BrianFennell (talk) 20:33, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

PDB - Palm OS and Mac OS - October 2019
Hi Brian, I'm curious of the source of your information, "there were close links between Palm OS and Mac OS during early development" on the PDB (Palm OS) page. Could you expand a little on what you meant? Is that personal knowledge, or is there a source you would recommend I look into? I'm not aware of the history, but I'm interested in both Palm OS and Mac OS history. Thank you! pinchies (talk) 07:36, 12 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Pinchies - the documentation on the internals of Palm OS and its history are hard to track down. Much of the information is either in Copyrighted documentation which was released only to Developers who had paid for a Developer license (and occasionally leaked via a PDF here or there).  Some of the information is "hear-say" - that is repeated by those with specialized personal knowledge or with access to non-public information on discussion forums, listservs, etc.  I will try to find a reference-able source for the information about the connection between Mac development and Palm development.  I believe that the statement is correct - but I do not recall a specific source at this time.  It may have been a pattern of references that I noticed over many different sources, but I may be able to find a single source which is reference-able. BrianFennell (talk) 18:42, 23 November 2019 (UTC)


 * I wasn't able to find a single source - but basically: Mac Classic used Motorola 68000 cpus, and Palm devices used Motorolla 683xx cpus. Both had Metrowerks CodeWarrior for the officially supported development environment.  The history of Metrowerks and CodeWarrior clearly show that the Mac developer community was the place of birth for that.  You can look at the history of Mac OS Classic and Machines that used that OS and the history of Palm OS and the Devices that used that OS, also the history of Motorolla and Freescale and the 68000 chip set, and the following related Wikipedia pages: BrianFennell (talk) 22:46, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Macintosh 128K
 * Macintosh 512K
 * Macintosh Programmer%27s Workshop
 * Mac OS 9
 * List of Macintosh models grouped by CPU type
 * CodeWarrior
 * Pilot 1000
 * Palm OS
 * PalmPilot
 * Palm III
 * Palm V
 * Freescale DragonBall
 * Freescale Semiconductor
 * Motorola
 * Motorola 68000
 * Palm OS
 * Classic Mac OS
 * Epoch (computing)
 * MacOS
 * MacOS version history
 * Palm OS
 * Macintosh Programmer%27s Workshop
 * Metrowerks
 * CodeWarrior
 * Epoch (computing)

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