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A fact from Rockwell PPS-8 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 January 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Rockwell PPS-8 microprocessor had a number of features that made Adam Osborne call it "most unusual" and "difficult to understand"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2025/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rockwell PPS-8.

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 19:19, 6 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

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... that the Rockwell PPS-8 microprocessor had a number of features that made Adam Osborne call it "most unusual" and "difficult to understand"? Source: Osborne's classic, page 8.1, cited in the lede as well
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Hauptfriedhof Mainz

Created by Maury Markowitz (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 203 past nominations.

Maury Markowitz (talk) 15:53, 18 December 2024 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

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Looks good — Interesting read. C F A 04:14, 25 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

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