Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/General purpose computer

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The result of the debate was keep. Eugene van der Pijll 19:24, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

General purpose computer

Nothing really notable in the article that we don't already know. --Hooperbloob 03:06, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Incompletely nominated (step 3 missing) May 28th. Finished now.RJFJR 18:37, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

• Would this serve as a good redirect to computer or some other article? Meelar (talk) 19:01, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not a notable term - nor even one that is in use, surely. Those who do telecomms will be offended that such garbage is attributed to their field! Also, it doesn't appear on the Federal Standard 1037C page, which gets the blame for many substandard technical articles. Further, that page says "insubstantial articles ... should not be copied into Wikipedia", which doesn't qualify as a policy, but still. I don't think there's much point in a redirect, either - else we'll end up redirecting small computer, big computer and my sister's computer too - none of which will be searched for any more than this one will.-Splash 20:24, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep for historical reasons, and expand. Once upon a time general purpose computers were not taken for granted. This definition (which is attributed in the article to Federal Standard 1037C) dates from the 1950s when, for instance, floating point units were the exception and computers intended for use in business often used hard-coded binary coded decimal logic. The definition here represents a computer that would be fit for both scientific and business applications. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 23:07, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. Agree with Tony Sidaway. JamesBurns 23:32, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep this still is a term in use! Its usage is now more towards CPUs specifically, but it still has wide use. Search not only google, but google news. [1] when the term was used to compare against the xbox. SchmuckyTheCat 04:18, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand, for historical reference if nothing else. Was once a significant term in computing. Kaibabsquirrel 23:34, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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