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2010 Newsgroup Postings (12/19 - 12/31)

Card Fraud: 'Flash Attacks' and Wireless Transmissions
Why we build big computers
"Compound threats" to appear in 2011 ?
Orientation - does group input (or groups of data) make better decisions than one person can?
The Great Cyberheist
Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside
Off-topic? When governments ask computers for an answer
TCM's Moguls documentary series
XML-based formats vs. ISO8583
Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside
EXTERNAL: Re: Problem with an edit command in tso
Mainframe upgrade done with wire cutters?
Card Fraud: 'Flash Attacks' and Wireless Transmissions
X-memory POST question
"Compound threats" to appear in 2011 ?
Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and mayby even an O)
TCM's Moguls documentary series
TCM's Moguls documentary series
WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell
Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside
E-commerce and Internet Security: Why Walls Don't Work
Mainframe upgrade done with wire cutters?
Ernst & Young called to account -- should Audit firms be investigated for their role in the crisis?
Who hasn't caused an outage? What is the worst thing you have done?
WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell
Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
Economic espionage discussed
Who hasn't caused an outage? What is the worst thing you have done?
WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell
Ernst & Young called to account -- should Audit firms be investigated for their role in the crisis?
Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
IBM Historic computing
Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
IBM Future System
IBM S/360 Green Card high quality scan
VMSHARE Archives
VMSHARE Archives
Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
Looking for a real Fortran-66 compatible PC compiler (CP/M or DOS or Windows, doesn't matter)
Is email dead? What do you think?
Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
Old EMAIL Index
Who hasn't caused an outage? What is the worst thing you have done?
Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
Is email dead? What do you think?
Is email dead? What do you think?
IBM S/360 Green Card high quality scan here
Is email dead? What do you think?
Is email dead? What do you think?
I actually miss working at IBM
Is email dead? What do you think?
I actually miss working at IBM
Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
Is email dead? What do you think?
Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
Microsoft Wants 'Sick' PCs Banned From The Internet
Is email dead? What do you think?
Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
Boeing Plant 2 ... End of an Era
I actually miss working at IBM
Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and maybe even an O)
Is email dead? What do you think?
VMSHARE Archives
IBM Future System
They've changed the keyboard layout _again_
Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
ibm 2321 (data cell)
My Funniest or Most Memorable Moment at IBM
No command, and control
VMSHARE Archives
Domain Name of Russia's Largest Online Payment Processor Hijacked
Mainframe discussion with lots of CP67 & VM370 mention
zLinux OR Linux on zEnterprise Blade Extension???

Card Fraud: 'Flash Attacks' and Wireless Transmissions

From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 19 Dec, 2010
Subject: Card Fraud: 'Flash Attacks' and Wireless Transmissions
Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security
Card Fraud: 'Flash Attacks' and Wireless Transmissions
http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/podcasts.php?podcastID=898

from above:
Gartner's Litan says emerging card-fraud schemes such as 'flash attacks' highlight the need for stronger cardholder authentication and transactional analytics.

... snip ...

something you have, something you know, and something you are authentication that involves "static data" with skimming/evesdropping/harvesting exploits and some form of replay attacks (reproducing the "static data") has been around for decades.

misc. past posts mentioning 3-factor authentication paradigm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#3factor

misc. past posts mentioning static data harvesting attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#harvest

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Why we build big computers

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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Why we build big computers
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 10:03:47 -0500
nmm1 writes:
Yes, they do, but often the knowledge is too compartmentalised. One of the reasons that IBM employed (employs?) outsiders as temporary staff is to get a wider view. I was amused at how often I was telling one part of IBM what other parts of IBM were doing. I have good reason to believe that most large companies are similar.

I thot it had to do with no long term commitments and ease of letting them go.

Long ago and far away ... one of my hobbies was providing enhanced operating systems to numerous internal datacenters ... including HONE. HONE was (virtual machine based) online system that provided worldwide sales&marketing support (lots of applications, various kinds of wordsmithing for proposal/contract writing, sanity checking that had to be done before submitting customer mainframe orders, etc).

The US HONE datacenters were consolidated in silicon valley in the mid-70s and approx. 1980 had approaching 40k users (but there were lots of other HONE datacenter clones in other parts of the world). misc. past posts mentioning HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone

One of my other hobbies was outside information. TYMSHARE (also in silicon valley and virtual machine based online commerical timesharing service bureau) started providing (free) online computer conferencing to the IBM SHARE (customer) organization in aug76. archives are here:
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/

I made arrangements with SHARE & TYMSHARE to get regular feed of the VMSHARE information and provide it on various internal online systems (including HONE). A large stumbling block was getting executive and legal approval to put up the information because of worries that the information would "contaminate" employees. misc. old email mentioning VMSHARE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmshare

I also sponsored col. boyd's briefings at IBM in the 80s. The first time, I tried to have it done through the employee education department. Initially they agreed, but then reversed their decision and recommend that I limit the briefings to only employees in competitive analysis organizations (worried about a form of employee contamination). misc. past posts mentioning Boyd (&/or OODA-loops)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html#boyd1

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"Compound threats" to appear in 2011 ?

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 19 Dec, 2010
Subject: "Compound threats" to appear in 2011 ?
Blog: Financial Cryptography
re: "Compound threats" to appear in 2011 ?
http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001302.html

not only compound ... but also "flash" ... the (OODA-loop) tempo significantly accelerates.

Card Fraud: 'Flash Attacks' and Wireless Transmissions
http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/podcasts.php?podcastID=898

from above:
Gartner's Litan says emerging card-fraud schemes such as 'flash attacks' highlight the need for stronger cardholder authentication and transactional analytics.

... snip ...

something you have, something you know, and something you are authentication that involves "static data" with skimming/evesdropping/harvesting exploits and some form of replay attacks (reproducing the "static data") has been around for decades

i would contend that capatchas aren't countermeasure to replay attacks ... but trying to slow-down automated attacks (trying to force a real human somewhere in the loop). The attackers are responding with better technologies (w/o human in the loop) and/or semi-automated with some human participation (somewhat analogous to large call center operation).

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Orientation - does group input (or groups of data) make better decisions than one person can?

From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 19 Dec, 2010
Subject: Orientation - does group input (or groups of data) make better decisions than one person can?
Blog: Boyd's Strategy
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#72 Orientation - does group input (or groups of data) make better decisions than one person can?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#75 Orientation - does group input (or groups of data) make better decisions than one person can?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#77 Orientation - does group input (or groups of data) make better decisions than one person can?

individuals have self interest ... and experts frequently are narrowly focused (effectively blinders). individual "predictions" would tend to be off when the self-interest is in conflict with the rest of the group and/or blinders limits taking into account significant details. crowds would tend to avg. out individual self-interest and also can provide lacking information. the other side of the coin is that aggregation may lack sufficient motivation to make something happen ("predictions" in terms of whether something happens; where individuals with sufficient self interest can have the motivation to achieve something).

one aspect of "organic design" is to align individual self-interest with that of the group.

a slightly different perspective was observation that for large organization (creativity oriented) about the 90/10 rule; that 90 percent of the productivity comes from 10 percent of the people (the remaining may still be needed to sustain the organization). however management tends to spend 90 percent of their time dealing with the 10percent worst performers (resulting in almost zero effect on organization productivity). The suggestion was that if management would spend 90 percent of their time supporting the 10percent best performers ... it could double their productivity (increasing organization productivity by 1.8 times).

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The Great Cyberheist

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 19 Dec, 2010
Subject: The Great Cyberheist
Blog: Boyd's Strategy
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#40 The Great Cyberheist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#47 The Great Cyberheist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#49 The Great Cyberheist

response to followup in same blog:

"Compound threats" to appear in 2011 ?
http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001302.html

not only compound ... but also "flash" ... the (OODA-loop) tempo significantly accelerates.

Card Fraud: 'Flash Attacks' and Wireless Transmissions
http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/podcasts.php?podcastID=898

from above:
Gartner's Litan says emerging card-fraud schemes such as 'flash attacks' highlight the need for stronger cardholder authentication and transactional analytics.

... snip ...

something you have, something you know, and something you are authentication that involves "static data" with skimming/evesdropping/harvesting exploits and some form of replay attacks (reproducing the "static data") has been around for decades

i would contend that capatchas aren't countermeasure to replay attacks ... but trying to slow-down automated attacks (trying to force a real human somewhere in the loop). The attackers are responding with better technologies (w/o human in the loop) and/or semi-automated with some human participation (somewhat analogous to large call center operation).

In the early 70s, the company had a "pentagon papers" like scenario ... when a copy of (unannounced) product description made it into the press. copiers had showed up all over the corporation ... and deterrent to future such exploits ... all the corporation copiers were retrofitted with a unique serial number (that would appear on all copies made from that copier).

In the future system period ... there were further measures. future system documentation was made softcopy only, available only on specially secured online systems which would only show the documents on "local displays" (dumb, before PCs & terminal emulation), aka no hard copy. One weekend, I had some test time in a machine room with one of these special systems. Being the brash expert ... they needled me that even I wouldn't be able to access the documents (even left alone in the datacenter; because of all the special security features; aka being considered the brash new upstart that knew everything). It was one of the few times I took the bait ... and said it would take less than five minutes. I first had to disable all non-datacenter access to the system ... and then i did a one bit/byte patch in computer memory (in the password routine, which changed valid password checking so that anything entered would be treated as valid). As end-user display devices have became more sophisticated ... it became much more difficult to prevent such leakage (as recent wikileaks event has shown).

In approx. the same time frame the corporation got a new CSO (common for large corporations in the period was somebody coming background in gov. "physical" security ... in this case, at one time having been head of presidential detail) ... and I was asked to run around with him (providing some orientation on computer security; again brash young know-it-all *and* refusing to participate in the future system activities) ... while some amount of physical security orientation rubbed off.

For the past 20 yrs or so ... as electronic crime has become increasingly prevalent ... there have been increasing comments about the lack of (electronic) orientation among the LEO agencies (with their extensive physical experience/orientation). One of the observations/claims a decade ago ... after one of the federal LEO agencies won the turf war for cybercrime responsibility ... and computer forensics was assigned to their existing (biological) forensics operation; was that the forensics biological contamination procedures increased the cost of computer forensics by a factor of ten times.

Note the comment about computer forensics may or may-not be related to some recent references about federal agency IT appropriations being spent on other things

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Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 19 Dec, 2010
Subject: Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside
Blog: IBM Alumni
In the very early 70s, the corporation had a "pentagon paper" like incident where unannounced product document (370 virtual memory) made into the hands of the press. As a countermeasure the corporation retrofitted all (paper) copiers with unique serial number (that would appear on every page copied).

A little later, in the "future system" effort ... misc. past posts (died before ever being announced)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys

there was an effort to make all documentation softcopy that could only be read on local 3270s from specially secured vm/cms systems (eliminate both being able to make hardcopy and/or softcopy). I was brash young know-it-all (including ridiculing the future system effort) and one weekend had dedicated time in machine room with such a system ... and they taunted me that if I was left alone over the weekend in the machine room ... even I wouldn't be able to access the documents. One of the few times I took the bait ... and replied it would take less than five minutes; most of the time was spent disabling all external access to the system ... before I made a one bit/byte core patch to the password checking routine so anything/everything entered would be accepted as valid.

However, as end-user display devices became more & more sophisticated ... especially as IBM/PCs with terminal emulation became available ... it became nearly impossible to preclude those kinds of information leakage (as recent wikileaks indicated).

For other drift ... I was tangentially involved in the (original) cal. data breach notification legislation ... having been brought in to help wordsmith the cal. electronic signature legislation. Several of the organizations were heavily involved in privacy issues and had done in-depth citizen privacy surveys. The number one issue that came up was "identity theft" ... primarily the form of "account fraud" resulting from leakage of financial transaction details enabling fraudulent financial transactions.

Normally organizations take security measures for threats against the organization. This form of information leakage had no direct threat to the organization (fraudulent transactions was against their customers) and there appeared to be little or nothing done in the area. The organizations appeared to have some hope that the publicity resulting from the breach notifications would motivate countermeasures to such leakage.

Additional issues complicating this form of leakage

• the same transaction detail information that is required in dozens of business processes at millions of locations around the world ... is also sufficient for crooks to perform fraudulent activity (dual-use vulnerability) ... which pretty well precludes plugging all possible leaks

• the transaction detail information is worth the profit on the transaction ... possibly a few dollars to the merchant and a few cents for the transaction processor. The same information is worth the account limit/balance to the crooks. As a result, the crooks may be able to afford to outspend the "defenders" by a factor of 100 to 1000 times.

This form of data leak/breach is what has been the major publicity in the past and the resulting fraudulent financial transactions affect the largest number of people. The real solution to this particular leakage is to slightly tweak the paradigm so crooks can no longer use information from previous transaction details for fraudulent financial transactions (i.e. "static data" paradigm for various forms of replay attacks)

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Off-topic? When governments ask computers for an answer

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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Off-topic? When governments ask computers for an answer.
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:52:22 -0500
MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> writes:
It seems rather odd that given the budget deficit and the excess spending on military and intellegence stuff, that we won't be considering cutting TSA, CIA, NSA, DOD, and ending the occupations. An almost FREE $500 Billion/yr.

a little more than a decade ago ... there were lots of former federal gov. employees showing up in silicon valley ... frequently applying for various security related positions in internet startups. the story was that there was an attempt to show no budget bubble with the balkan conflict ... and so a lot of (especially more expensive, more experienced) people were turfed. at the time, the story line was that technology could be used to achieve all the tasks that had previously been done by people. recently there have some comments/items that avg. experience in various of these agencies is now under a decade (and that technology wasn't all that it had been cracked up to be).

that is coupled with increasing reliance on outsourcing and contractors ... which don't necessarily have their objectives aligned with the agencies they are working for. there was relatively recent article that the major beltway bandits have evolved a culture of failures being more profitable than success. past article The Success Of Failure
http://www.govexec.com/management/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/

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TCM's Moguls documentary series

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: TCM's Moguls documentary series
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:33:21 -0500
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
but with no substantive difference between the parties ... the party politics is just part of misdirection & distraction for the populace (purely staged facade). jaundiced view is when the parties rachet up the rhetoric in public ... wonder what is actually going on in the backrooms (the more that the populace gets involved in the public party political rhetoric ... they less they are likely to pay attention to what is actually happening)

re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#55 TCM's Moguls documentary series

another flavor of the above

Symbols and Substance
http://baselinescenario.com/2010/12/19/symbols-and-substance/
A Must Read
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2010/12/a_must_read.html

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XML-based formats vs. ISO8583

From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 19 Dec, 2010
Subject: XML-based formats vs. ISO8583
Blog: Payment Systems
GML was invented at the science center in 1969 and then morphed into ISO standard SGML nearly a decade later ... and then into HTML after another decade or so (before morphing into XML). some of the HTML history
http://infomesh.net/html/history/early/

FSML was originally done to take (financial) bit-field elements and digitally sign them ... transmit as bit-fields (along with digital signature) and then at the destination, re-assemble as FSML for signature verification. Eventually FSML was merged into XML digital signature work.

UK pilot EMV was done by IBM & safeway in '97 .... reference:
http://www-07.ibm.com/solutions/hk/banking/payments/emv/technical.html

I've mentioned before that there was a rather large EMV pilot in the states in the early part of this century ... it was during the EMV YES CARD period ... which then seem to disappear w/o a trace. Current situation is that there may be some additional waiting before it is attempted again. Some of this was gone over in some detail in "The Credit Card Criminals Are Getting Crafty" discussion in this Payment Systems Group.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#3 The Credit Card Criminals Are Getting Crafty

For lots of topic drift ... misc. posts about the science center at 545 tech sq (W3 offices at 32 vassar st is just a couple blks from tech. sq ... although tech sq bldgs have since been remodeled and renumbered)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech

for some additional time-scale ... merchant/acquiring x9.15 wasn't merged until iso8583-2003. as referenced, xml could come into bigger play as financial transactions include more information not covered by traditional 8583 ... like sku-level transaction details. the other approach is just to carry it as purely opaque/appended data

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Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 20 Dec, 2010
Subject: Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside
Blog: IBM Alumni
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#4 Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside

similar post in (linkedin) Boyd Strategy discussion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#3a The Great Cyberheist

but with a cybercrime & law enforcement twist ... references common orientation to physical threats & crime ... & in the 70s ... the company got a new CSO (common in the period for large corporation was somebody that had come from gov. involved in physical security ... in this case, at one time head of presidential detail). being the brash young computer wizard ... I got asked to run around with him ... to help provide a cyber/computer orientation (with some of his physical security orientation rubbing off).

As mentioned in the above post ... one of the big industry short-comings was dealing with financial transaction information that could be leveraged by crooks to perform fraudulent transactions. An important issue is corporations normally provide security/countermeasures in response to threats to the corporation ... the problem with the majority of the breaches (making the news) was such threats weren't to the corporations ... but to individuals (usually customers). The cal. state breach notification legislation at least possibly introduced a little reputational/image threat.

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EXTERNAL: Re: Problem with an edit command in tso

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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Problem with an edit command in tso
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 20 Dec 2010 11:36:16 -0800
dennis.roach@LMCO.COM (Roach, Dennis , N-GHG) writes:
Let's get the timeline right
1966 MFT
1967 CP/CMS (IBM internal)
1969 Unix
1972 VM/379 (public release of CP/CMS)
1972 OS/VS1
1972 OS/VS2R1 - SVS
1974 OS/VS2R2 - MVS


note that folklore is that unix was "simplified" version of multics ... after the people having worked on multics.

some number of the CTSS (ibm 7094) went to the science center on the 4th flr of 545 tech sq and first did cp40/cms on a specially modified 360/40 with virtual memory. when 360/67 become available (with virtual memory standard), cp40/cms morphed into cp67/cms. cp67/cms was then installed out at lincoln labs in 1967 and then at univ. where i was undergraduate in the last week of jan1968.

cp67 split off from the science center and moved to the 3rd flr of 545 tech sq ... absorbing the boston programming center ... which had been involved in cps ... interactive basic & pli that ran under os/360. the development group (now working on morph of cp67 to vm370) eventually outgrew the 3rd floor and moved out to burlington mall, taking over the (vacant) SBC bldq (service bureau corporation having gone to CDC in settlement of some litigation).

some of the other CTSS people went to multics project on 5th flr of 545 tech sq. so some lineage is
ctss -> cp40 -> cp67 -> vm370 (4th flr & 3rd flr of 545 tech sq)

and

ctss -> multics -> unix (5th flr of 545 tech sq)


os/vs2 svs was essentially MVT laid out in 16mbyte virtual memory ... with a little bit of bailing wire that setup the 16mbyte virtual memory table and interrupt handler for page fault.

The biggest change from MVT to SVS was translating (EXCP/SVC0) channel programs ... i.e. EXCP application channel programs all had virtual memory addresses ... EXCP processing had to duplicate the application channel program, replacing the virtual addresses with real addresses ... along with pining the associated virtual pages to their real addresses (so they wouldn't get replaced while the application channel program was in progress). This started out by borrowing the cp67 CCWTRANS routine (which implemented the channel program translation function for virtual machines) and crafting it into EXCP processing.

online cp67 systems were somewhat the 60s & early 70s flavor of cloud computing ... both inhouse operations as well as public online commercial service bureaus. Early cp67 commericial service bureau spin-offs of science center and lincoln labs were IDC and NCSS. Both IDC and NCSS quickly moved up the value chain providing online financial information. IDC still exists ... providing web-based financial information. NCSS was bought by Dunn&Bradstreet. Another operation providing online commercial (virtual machine based) service bureau was TYMSHARE.

TYMSHARE started providing a "free" version of its online computer conferencing to SHARE organization in aug1976 ... as VMSHARE ... archived here:
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/

probably the largest such operation was the internal (virtual machine based, first with cp67 and then moving to vm370) HONE system ... providing world-wide sales&marketing support ... some past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone

fairly early ... mainframe orders couldn't be entered w/o having first been run through various HONE applications.

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Mainframe upgrade done with wire cutters?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Mainframe upgrade done with wire cutters?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:12:09 -0500
Al Grant <algrant@myrealbox.com> writes:
I once heard a legend that some mainframes could be shipped with inactive processors, memory etc. that would be activated (when the customer paid for an upgrade) by the CE snipping a single wire. I was hoping someone could point me to a specific quotable reference for this - ideally, the first such example.

back in the 50s & 60s ... machines were leased ... not bought ... there was processor "meter" that was read (like public utility electric meter) for billing. monthly lease charges were based on usage and processing power (also, software was "free").

the meter would run whenever the processor was executing instructions and/or there was active/running channel (i/o) programs (and meter would "coast" for 400ms after everything was idle).

in the 60s ... this was major stumbling block for moving to 7x24 (virtual machine based) online timesharing service ... since early on, offshift & weekend tended to be extremely sporadic ... but at least I/O channel program had to be active that would accept new terminal connections (dialup calls). There was eventual hack to come up with channel program that would accept new terminal connections ... w/o having the meter run. the other road block for 7x24 was requiring human operator ... being able to support "dark room" operations also help reduce off-shift operations cost ... and make it more tolerable leaving systems available 7x24. misc. past posts mentioning this early online timesharing period (sort of the "60s" & "70s" cloud)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#timeshare

in the early 70s ... it was possible some executive near end of service, helped with converting leases to outright sales ... giving big one-time revenue boost (sort of as a departing gift) ... but resulting in big reduction in subsequent periods (since there was no more re-occurring lease revenue).

in the late 70s ... the really big mainframes was major production to replace, upgrade, install ... requiring lengthy planning and preparation (as well as significant physical facility support). the mid-range machines (both from dec and ibm) was much lower incremental cost ... but also enormously lower planning & prep work. 43xx sold into similar mid-range market as dec/vax and sold in similar numbers involving small number orders. the big difference in 43xx numbers (and dec/vax) were the large corporate 43xx orders of several hundred at a time (this was also somewhat the leading edge of applications leaking out of the datacenter for "distributed" computing ... before appearance of large numbers of PCs).

as part of high-end mainframes partially addressing the competition from the mid-range ... there were standard high-end mainframes with slow-downs added to operate at lower capacity (and price) ... however it didn't do a lot to address the significant physical planning&prep associated with a large mainframe. by comparison, internally the proliferation of 43xx distributed machines resulted in shortage of conference rooms (since large number of departments were installing 43xx computers in converted conference rooms). misc. past emails mentioning 43xx stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx

The enormous disruptive impact on customers involved with large mainframe updates/switch-overs ... resulted in revisiting the much earlier lease period and being able to install significantly greater capacity than customer contracted for ... and being able to do "upgrades" with little or no physical activity (there is currently some crypto magic that allows for activating additional capacity remotely).

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Card Fraud: 'Flash Attacks' and Wireless Transmissions

From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 21 Dec, 2010
Subject: Card Fraud: 'Flash Attacks' and Wireless Transmissions
Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#0 Card Fraud: 'Flash Attacks' and Wireless Transmissions

The speed of the "flash" attacks appear to have increased. Common countermeasure to lost/stolen card as well as fraudulent transactions from skimming, evesdropping, & breaches ... is to deactivate account (so online transactions are declined). The attackers have been increasing the sophistication of countermeasures to account deactivation.

Flash attacks attempts to increase the (OODA-loop) tempo and fraud ROI before the bank countermeasures kick in deactivating an account. In the past, many skimming & data breach attacks went to extremely sophisticated measures to obfuscate the point of compromise (resulting in all possible affected accounts being deactivated).

OODA-loop (& tempo) originated applied to opposing forces in conflict scenarios ... but has spread into MBA programs applied to business in competitive situations. It has also been applied to various scenarios involving crooks attacking systems related to fraudulent financial transactions (can the crooks attacking the systems operate at a faster tempo than the defenders).

That is independent from the current "static data" paradigm becoming more & more like defenders being in valley floor with no cover and the opposing forces occupying all the high ground. disclaimer, I sponsored Col Boyd and his OODA-loop briefings at IBM in the 80s ... some refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html

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X-memory POST question

From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: X-memory POST question
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 21 Dec 2010 09:02:13 -0800
hal9001@PANIX.COM (Robert A. Rosenberg) writes:
I assume that this is safe since you can not stop being the running task between the test and your updating the ECB (and there is not

compare&swap was invented by charlie at the science center when he was working on fine-grain locking for cp67 (instruction name was chosen because CAS are charlie's initials).

the initial attempt to get CAS included in 370 was rebuffed because the favorite son operating system in POK claimed that test&set was more than sufficient for multiprocessor operation. the "owners" of 370 architecture then laid down the challenge that to have CAS included in 370, CAS example applications ... other than multiprocessor kernel locking ... was needed.

thus were born a number of example operations for multithreaded (multiprogramming) operation (not necessarily purely multiprocessor) ... many of them still are included in principles of operation.
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dz9zr003/A.6?DT=20040504121320

large multithreaded/multiprogrammed DBMS started adopting CAS (to significantly improve thruput) ... initially on IBM platforms and later on other platforms as the instruction was picked up by other vendors.

specific ECB example in recent principles of operation
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dz9zr003/A.6.3?SHELF=&DT=20040504121320&CASE=

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"Compound threats" to appear in 2011 ?

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 21 Dec, 2010
Subject: "Compound threats" to appear in 2011 ?
Blog: Financial Cryptography
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#2 "Compound threats" to appear in 2011 ?

there has been lots of discussions that financial institution have some interest in preserving fraud ... since significant amount of interchange fees have been fraud "pro-rated". A couple years ago there was report that payment transaction fees account for less then 10% of european institution bottom line but 40% (or in some case more) for US institutions.

specifically with respect to internet fraud ... there were a number of "secure" internet payment products being pushed at the beginning of the century ... with high acceptance rates by the major internet merchants. then came the word that the interchange fees for these products would effectively be an additional surcharge on top of the highest interchange fraud rate. This resulted in major cognitive dissonance among merchants who had been conditioned for decades that fees are proportional to fraud/risk (and had been expecting major fee decrease with the new products).

Plugging the payment transaction fraud ... is also likely to drive the crooks to other forms of attacks ... likely involving "identity theft" form involving opening new accounts (as opposed to payment transactions "identity theft" with fraudulent transactions against existing accounts). This would become purely a financial institution risk (not easily charged off to merchants) and also involves various gov. "know your customer" mandates. Customers have taken some hits by financial institutions (for this kind of "identity theft") ... but an increasing number have involved "synthetic IDs" (where there is no corresponding real person).

One might claim that the institutions are playing a delaying game, maintain the current paradigm for as long as possible (with only small incremental changes) ... since it is so enormously profitable for them. The other issue is the game-changing paradigms in the payment landscape is likely to commoditize the payment business; significantly reducing costs and opening it up to lots of competition (that would come with any significant reduction in risk/fraud).

My other analogy for the current paradigm is occupying a valley floor with little cover and the opposing forces having all the high ground ... resulting in an enormously target rich environment.

this is discussed quite a bit in naked payment metaphor posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#payments

also here in previous financial cryptography naked payment threads:
http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000745.html
http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000744.html
http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000747.html
http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000749.html

and recent related discussion in (linkedin) ibm alumni disucssion group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#4 Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#8 Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside

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Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and mayby even an O)

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 21 Dec, 2010
Subject: Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and mayby even an O)
Blog: Boyd's Strategy
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#21 Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and maybe even an O)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#39 Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and maybe even an O)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#60 Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and maybe even an O)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#70 Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and maybe even an O)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#74 Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and maybe even an O)

been working my way thru (kindle) "Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How To Think Differently" ... just read the section that mentioned .2 second response time (i.e. pitched ball takes less than .5 seconds to cover the distance so there isn't a lot of time for a batter to respond).
https://www.amazon.com/Iconoclast-Neuroscientist-Reveals-Think-Differently/dp/1422115011

Spring '71(?), there was a corporate technical conference at the old Marriott motel near the virginia end of 14th st (potomic) bridge. The person responsible for the chief/super programmer concept did a presentation, also a human factors researcher from YKT. The human factors person had been doing response time perception studies of his colleagues at YKT (relatively uniform population) ... and found that there was (unaccounted for) variation from just over .1 seconds to just over .2 seconds.

A decade or so later there was some attention being paid to productivity and online (subsecond) system response (did the increase in productivity justify additional resources to achieve "instantaneous" response). About the same time there was an academic report that found individual differences in the speed that signals propagated through the brain (with some speculation that it might correlate with human response time and/or IQ).

The productivity research found that there was no difference between true (zero elapsed time) instantaneous response and the individual's response time threshold perception (which varied between .1+ and .2+ seconds for different individuals). If the system response was more than the person's expected perception, the individual's attention would start to wonder. When the system response finally did occur, it would take about the same elapsed time for the person to re-establish their attention to the matter at hand (as their attention had spent wondering); in effect, lost productivity was twice the system response time delay.

There were some amount of computer system human productivity publicity wars over this in the early 80s ... especially involving computer systems that had extreme difficulty even achieving one second response (not even coming close to .2 second response).

In that early 80s timeframe, YKT had some people publicizing how good their internal online service ... providing hardware and local enhancements to achieve an avg. .24 second system response (even recommending local people for awards for their effort). I then raised an issue regarding a system that I had crafted that with nearly identical hardware and workload, I was achieving .11 second response (or better) for 90 percent of responses (i.e. much better than simple .11 second avg as well as significantly better than avg .24 sec response).

Leading up to mention of the .2 second response time in the Iconoclast book ... there is a discussion of the brain going through all sorts of optimization & shortcuts in visual processing to get to that threshold level (which can be related to training and expectation/assumption).

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TCM's Moguls documentary series

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: TCM's Moguls documentary series
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:03:29 -0500
Canbear <nospam@nospam.com> writes:
We have a glut of information that is difficult to prioritise. Time capsules are good example. At the 1939 World Fair, they didn't put in Lloyds registers or a tube radio (maybe?). They put in a lot of trivial junk that is interesting to a point; most of it will keep future historians busy for about 15 minutes.

There is a strange phenomenon emerging from our current data collections. The past seems to be almost 'catching up' to the present. For instance, in the 1960s, the 1930s was an era of 'firm' nostalgia. At our point, the 1980s is less firmly set in the past as far more things we can view from that period are strikingly modern - compared to 1930s to 1960s. A good example could be a music video. A carefully selected 1980s video versus a 2000s video shown to an audience to decide which was made first would have a very interesting ballot count.


Digitized Book Analysis Reveals Culture's Quirks; A text analysis of Google's digital book archive tracks 200 years of language and societal trends.
http://news.discovery.com/human/google-digitized-books-culture-101217.html

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TCM's Moguls documentary series

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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: TCM's Moguls documentary series
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:06:25 -0500
maus <greymausg@mail.com> writes:
Pity, it was ignoring the lessons learned in 1929-193* that created the present economic problems.

reference to spending a lot of time with the scanned Pecora hearings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#58 OCR scans of old documents
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#73 Should Glass-Steagall be reinstated?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#40 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#56 What's your personal confidence level concerning financial market recovery?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#65 Just posted third article about toxic assets in a series on the current financial crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#5 Do the current Banking Results in the US hide a grim truth?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#22 China's yuan 'set to usurp US dollar' as world's reserve currency
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#25 The Paradox of Economic Recovery
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#29 Analysing risk, especially credit risk in Banks, which was a major reason for the current crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#2 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#20 U.K. lags in information security management practices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#53 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#73 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#6 Bookshelves under BookMangler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#54 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#28 Our Pecora Moment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#38 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#16 Rare Apple I computer sells for $216,000 in London

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WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 22 Dec, 2010
Subject: WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell
Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#43 WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#48 WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell

some wikileaks (banking) news from today ...

AllGov - News - As WikiLeaks Prepares for Bank Exposure, Federal Regulators Cringe
http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/As_WikiLeaks_Prepares_for_Bank_Exposure_Federal_Regulators_Cringe_101222

No, WikiLeaks Has Not 'Confirmed' It Will Target Bank Of America
http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/12/22/no-wikileaks-has-not-confirmed-it-will-target-bank-of-america/?boxes=Homepagechannels

Bank of America Prepares to Get WikiLeaked by Buying Up Negative Domain Names
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/12/wikileaks_newest_ally_gorbache.html

The latest on Wells Fargo, Wikileaks, Bank of America
http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blog/jeff-blumenthal/2010/12/the-latest-on-wells-fargo-wikileaks.html

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Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 22 Dec, 2010
Subject: Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside
Blog: IBM Alumni
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#4 Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#8 Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside

WTF? OMG, LOL! CIA gives WikiLeaks taskforce naughty name
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/22/cia-wikileaks-taskforce-wtf

recent post regarding somewhat better choice (CAD?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#4

i.e. installation code at (IBM user group) SHARE ... it also shows up in the SHARE online computer conferencing (provided by TYMSHARE starting in AUG76), archives here
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/

reference to even earlier period:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml

to go along with this item:
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2010/12/journal-cia-wikileaks-task-force-aka-wtf-one-down-from-remf/

reference in the above, responsibility for state dept. cables were moved from cia to dod

and this reference: (old email from 1983):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#email830420

there is now this:

State Department Announces Cybersecurity Post; The position, planned before the recent WikiLeaks exposure, will report directly to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and work to prevent data breaches involving confidential diplomatic information.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229219339

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E-commerce and Internet Security: Why Walls Don't Work

From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 22 Dec, 2010
Subject: E-commerce and Internet Security: Why Walls Don't Work
Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security
E-commerce and Internet Security: Why Walls Don't Work
http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Security/Internet-Security-Why-Walls-Dont-Work-825711/

from above:
What we're facing is more akin to infectious disease control than it is to warfare: So how do we design an 'immune system' for global e-commerce?

... snip ...

two of the people mentioned in this post (about jan92 meeting in ellison's conference room) later show up at small client/server startup responsible for something called commerce server.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13

we were then brought in as consultants because they want to do payment transactions on the server; the startup had also invented this technology called "SSL" they wanted to use; the result is now frequently called electronic commerce.

this is recent thread about payment/commerce transaction security
http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001302.html

the above references several threads from a few yrs ago which refers to the "naked payments" metaphor ... some of the posts also archived here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#payments

rather than infectious disease ... it is more like going out the airlock in deep space w/o a spacesuit (or other protection).

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Mainframe upgrade done with wire cutters?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Mainframe upgrade done with wire cutters?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:14:30 -0500
isw <isw@witzend.com> writes:
I was once involved briefly with an IBM desk-sized "mini" system (System 3 ???). I noticed a switch at the rear of the disk drive drawer (15in platters) labelled "5" "10". I asked the field service guy about it, and was told that if we anted up a bunch more per month on the lease, he'd flip it and we'd get 10 megabytes of disk instead of 5.

re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#10 Mainframe upgrade done with wire cutters?

past posts mentioning possibilty of offering a half capacity 3380 disk at a higher price (via controller microcode feature) as a high-performance option (for installations where the technical people weren't able to convince management that not fully populating a disk drive was actually more cost effective)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#42 Fix the shuttle or fly it unmanned
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#14 Xah Lee's Unixism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005l.html#41 25% Pageds utilization on 3390-09?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#62 3350 failures
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#60 z10 presentation on 26 Feb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#65 Crippleware: hardware examples

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Ernst & Young called to account -- should Audit firms be investigated for their role in the crisis?

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 23 Dec, 2010
Subject: Ernst & Young called to account -- should Audit firms be investigated for their role in the crisis?
Blog: Financial Cryptography
Ernst & Young called to account -- should Audit firms be investigated for their role in the crisis?
https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001303.html

as been referred to many times, the person that had tried for a decade to get SEC to do something about Madoff, testified in congressional hearings that tips turn up 13 times more fraud than audits.

also as has been mentioned several times in the past, congress passed Sarbanes-Oxley in the wake of Enron ... in theory requiring stricter audit requirements. However, possibly because GAO didn't believe it had any affect, GAO started doing reports of public company financial filings ... showing uptick in fraudulent filings even after SOX; so SOX (audits)
• have no effect on fraudulent filings • encouraged the uptick in fraudulent filings • if it hadn't been for SOX, all filings would be fraudulent

There were comments that motivation was fraudulent filings enabled significant boost in executive compensation and even if filings were later corrected, the executive compensation wasn't reclaimed.

SOX also had provision that SEC look at the rating agencies ... who played pivotal roles in the financial crisis. One of the comments during the fall2008 congressional hearings into the role played by rating agencies, there was comment that the rating agencies could blackmail the federal gov. into taking no punitive action with the threat of credit rating downgrade.

There are recent news items that the rumors about new wikileaks (giving substantial information about US financial institutions activity leading up to the crisis), has federal agencies "apprehensive", since it could also expose the lack of agency diligence.

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Who hasn't caused an outage? What is the worst thing you have done?

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 23 Dec, 2010
Subject: Who hasn't caused an outage? What is the worst thing you have done?
Blog: MainframeZone
In my resource manager ... I periodically did some complicated calculations along with "running" values for lots of different kinds of activity ... this used a time-base of approx. 30 minutes. It turns out that if somebody had pushed the (processor) stop button (or did compare stop; on the front panel) ... and it happened to be within the calculations .... and the stop last for more than 30 minutes ... the kernel would crash with a divide check when the start button was resumed.

decade earlier ... cp67 had been installed at the univ. & included 1052 & 2741 terminal support ... done in such a way that it did automagic terminal identification (including dynamically switching to the correct port scanner in the 2702 using the "SAD"). The univ. had a number of TTYs/asciis terminals and I had to add TTY support ... and did it in such a way that it preserved the dynamic identification (and dynamic port scanner switch with the 2702 SAD command). Because TTY terminal was limited to 80 chars ... I did some stuff that only used one byte arith. This was picked up and shipped in the standard product.

Later somebody at MIT installation changed some of the TTY code to support 1200 char line-lengths (to support some sort of ASCII plotting device down at harvard) ... but didn't fix the fiddling with one bytes ... which resulting in buffer overrun and 27 crashes in single day ... reference here:
http://www.multicians.org/thvv/360-67.html

for a little drift ... it turns out short cuts had been made with the 2702 and being able to dynamically change port scanner ... while I could switch any port scanner to any port ... the line speeds were hard-wired (couldn't actually run a 2741 on a port with 110 baud hard wired). this somewhat was motivation to start clone controller project based on Interdata/3 (reverse engineering the channel interface and bldg channel interface board for the Interdata). This later got written up blaming four of us for the clone controller business. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm

The clone controller business has also been written up as motivation for the (failed) Future System effort ... that almost took down the corporation and cast a shadow over the company for decades. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys

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WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell

From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 23 Dec, 2010
Subject: WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell
Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#43 WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#48 WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#17 WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell

the latest wikileaks ... business tv interview from yesterday
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40787717/ns/us_news-wikileaks_in_security/

and some more on buying up negative domain names:

Wow! Bank Of America Bought "Sucks" And "Blows" URLs For Like Everyone At The Company
http://www.businessinsider.com/wow-bank-of-america-bought-sucks-and-blows-urls-for-like-everyone-at-the-company-2010-12

total aside ... we were called in to consult with small client/server company that wanted to do payment transactions on their server; the company had also invented this technology called "SSL"; the result is now sometimes called "electronic commerce".

Part of that effort including something called a "payment gateway" (handled payment transactions between merchant webservers and acquiring payment networks). Part of that internet activity included registering a number of domain names and their variations in the various domain name hierarchies.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#gateway

For other topic drift ... the person responsible for originally creating the domain name system ... a decade earlier had done a stint at the science center (4th flr, 545 tech sq)

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Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 23 Dec, 2010
Subject: Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#21 Ernst & Young called to account -- should Audit firms be investigated for their role in the crisis?

not this is any way new, Lehman, Ernst & Young references from last spring

Lehman autopsy throws Ernst & Young into spotlight
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/lehman-autopsy-throws-ernst-young-into-spotlight-2010-03-12

from above:
Ernst & Young came under fresh public scrutiny after a report on the Lehman Bros. collapse alleged that the accounting firm's audit failed to challenge transactions that essentially hid $50 billion of the investment bank's assets.

... snip ...

a few others

Lehman, Ernst & Young and accounting
http://insider.accountancyage.com/2010/03/lehman-ernst-yo.html
Will Ernst & Young Survive The Lehman Fiasco?
http://www.businessinsider.com/will-ernst-and-young-survive-the-lehman-fiasco-2010-3
Ernst & Young faces legal action over Lehman collapse
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article7059469.ece
Lehman Fraudulently Cooked Its Books, Accounting Giant Ernst & Young Helped, Geithner and Bernanke Winked and Slapped Them on the Back
http://www.prisonplanet.com/lehman-fraudulently-cooked-its-books-accounting-giant-ernst-young-helped-geithner-and-bernanke-winked-and-slapped-them-on-the-back.html

and from Dec2008:

Corporate Fraud and Misconduct Risks Driven by Pressure to do 'Whatever It Takes'; Fewer episodes reported by companies with ethics and compliance programs
http://www.informationweek.com/financialservices/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=215801487

from above:
Of more than 5,000 U.S. workers polled this summer, 74 percent said they had personally observed misconduct within their organizations during the prior 12 months, unchanged from the level reported by KPMG survey respondents in 2005. Roughly half (46 percent) of respondents reported that what they observed "could cause a significant loss of public trust if discovered," a figure that rises to 60 percent among employees working in the banking and finance industry.

... snip ...

With overall industry avg. of 46% ("could cause a significant loss of public trust if discovered") and the financial industry specific avg. of 60%, which should place the non-financial industry avg. below 40%. That would make the financial industry avg. somewhere between 50% and 100% worse than other industries.

misc. past posts mentioning KPMG study
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#27 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#29 Let IT run the company!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#30 How reliable are the credit rating companies? Who is over seeing them?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#35 Is American capitalism and greed to blame for our financial troubles in the US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#36 What is the top security threat prediction of 2009?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#47 Executive pay: time for a trim?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#11 Amid Economic Turbulence, Mainframes Counter IT Cost-Cutting Trend
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#17 Fraud -- how can you stay one step ahead?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#25 The recently revealed excesses of John Thain, the former CEO of Merrill Lynch, while the firm was receiving $25 Billion in TARP funds makes me sick
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#36 A great article was posted in another BI group: "To H*** with Business Intelligence: 40 Percent of Execs Trust Gut"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#53 Credit & Risk Management ... go Simple ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#73 What can we learn from the meltdown?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#75 Whistleblowing and reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#36 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#37 How do you see ethics playing a role in your organizations current or past?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#41 Profiling of fraudsters

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Economic espionage discussed

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 23 Dec, 2010
Subject: Economic espionage discussed
Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security
three decades ago there was civil legal action brought against a company for theft of disk trade secrets ... for a couple billion dollars. this was the difference in sales being able to ship a clone on the same day the original product was shipped ... vis-a-vis the six month delay that clone maker would take to reverse engineer and build clone product from scratch.

the judge had some ruling that trade secrets were analogous to swimming pool for minors ... that people couldn't be blamed for stealing stuff worth enormous amounts of money (anymore than minors could be blamed for going swimming in a swimming pool). The company had to show that security measures had been taken that were proportional to the value of the trade secrets (security proportional to risk) ... analogous to swimming pools having fences to keep out neighborhood children (otherwise any child drownings would be considered the fault of the swimming pool owner; aka people around valuables can be considered no more responsible than minors around swimming pools). Significant layers of security were required as well as lots of repeated employee education and reminders.

misc. past posts about getting to play disk engineer in bldgs 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk

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Who hasn't caused an outage? What is the worst thing you have done?

From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 23 Dec, 2010
Subject: Who hasn't caused an outage? What is the worst thing you have done?
Blog: MainframeZone
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#22 Who hasn't caused an outage? What is the worst thing you have done?

on the other side ... if you were extremely diligent and avoided any kind of outage for an extended period of time ... the executives and users would start to believe that it wasn't actually that difficult to provide dataprocessing services.

with regard to the 4341 ... it wasn't the 4341 power-units ... it was the whole computer. it was one of the issues that created problem with the high-end POK ... since it was possible to have a cluster of 4341s that had better price/performance than 3033, higher aggregate thruput at lower price with much less physical & planning requirements.

There was big explosion in the mid-range starting in late 70s ... both DEC/VAX and 43xx. 43xx and dec/vax sold similar aggregate numbers in the small number of machine orders ... the big difference for 43xx (compared to dec/vax) was the multi-hundred machine orders from large corporations. these were the leading edge of distributed computing (before PCs). internally, it contributed to scarcity of conference rooms ... since depts were installing vm/4341 systems in converted conference rooms. This also contributed to big explosion in size of internal network in the first half of the 80s (internal network was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until late '85 or early '86)

misc. old email with 43xx references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx

misc. old email with internal network references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vnet

old post with decade of dec/vax numbers (similar to 43xx numbers if the large corporate orders were removed):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0

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WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 24 Dec, 2010
Subject: WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell
Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#43 WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#48 WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#17 WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#23 WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell

related forbes article: Merrill Story Has Fresh Dirt On Wall Street's Shell Game
http://blogs.forbes.com/steveschaefer/2010/12/23/merrill-story-has-fresh-dirt-on-wall-streets-shell-game/?boxes=Homepagechannels

which references:

The 'Subsidy': How a Handful of Merrill Lynch Bankers Helped Blow Up Their Own Firm
http://www.propublica.org/article/the-subsidy-how-merrill-lynch-traders-helped-blow-up-their-own-firm

note that the NY comptroller published some numbers that aggregate wall street bonuses spiked over 400% during the period (in large part based on such dealings) ... and there has been lots of effort since the crash to try and keep their bonuses from returning to pre-bubble levels.

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Ernst & Young called to account -- should Audit firms be investigated for their role in the crisis?

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 24 Dec, 2010
Subject: Ernst & Young called to account -- should Audit firms be investigated for their role in the crisis?
Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#21 Ernst & Young called to account -- should Audit firms be investigated for their role in the crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#24 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman

with financial industry serious misconduct possible twice as bad as other US industries ... it is little wonder that there are articles like:

Reference: The Fraud-Based US Economy
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2010/12/reference-the-fraud-based-us-economy/

and

Wall Street Whitewash
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/opinion/17krugman.html?_r=2&src=twrhp

and one of the refs in the above ...

"Washington and the Regulators Are There To Serve the Banks"
http://baselinescenario.com/2010/12/17/washington-and-the-regulators-are-there-to-serve-the-banks/

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Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 25 Dec, 2010
Subject: Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#21 Ernst & Young called to account -- should Audit firms be investigated for their role in the crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#24 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#28 Ernst & Young called to account -- should Audit firms be investigated for their role in the crisis?

In the wake of ENRON, in theory, Sarbanes-Oxley supposedly significantly increased accountability & audits ... but as previously mentioned nothing seemed to have changed (if anything, it got worse) ... some background.

Phil Gramm's Enron Favor
https://web.archive.org/web/20080711114839/http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-01-15/news/phil-gramm-s-enron-favor/

from above:
A few days after she got the ball rolling on the exemption, Wendy Gramm resigned from the commission. Enron soon appointed her to its board of directors, where she served on the audit committee, which oversees the inner financial workings of the corporation. For this, the company paid her between $915,000 and $1.85 million in stocks and dividends, as much as $50,000 in annual salary, and $176,000 in attendance fees,

... snip ...

People to Blame for the Financial Crisis; Phil Gramm
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html

from above:
He played a leading role in writing and pushing through Congress the 1999 repeal of the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial banks from Wall Street. He also inserted a key provision into the 2000 Commodity Futures Modernization Act that exempted over-the-counter derivatives like credit-default swaps from regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Credit-default swaps took down AIG, which has cost the U.S. $150 billion thus far.

... snip ...

Gramm and the 'Enron Loophole'
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/business/17grammside.html

from above:
Enron was a major contributor to Mr. Gramm's political campaigns, and Mr. Gramm's wife, Wendy, served on the Enron board, which she joined after stepping down as chairwoman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

... snip ...

Greenspan Slept as Off-Books Debt Escaped Scrutiny
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&refer=home&sid=aYJZOB_gZi0I

from above:
That same year Greenspan, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt opposed an attempt by Brooksley Born, head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to study regulating over-the-counter derivatives. In 2000, Congress passed a law keeping them unregulated.

... snip ...

Born must have been fairly quickly replaced by Gramm's wife, before she then left to join Enron (and the Enron audit committee)

misc. other recent posts mentioning the above:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#54 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#28 Our Pecora Moment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#67 The Python and the Mongoose: it helps if you know the rules of engagement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#38 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#36 Idiotic programming style edicts

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IBM Historic computing

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 25 Dec, 2010
Subject: IBM Historic computing
Blog: IBM Alumni
recent post in mainframezone mentioning 43xx & vax mid-range
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#26

some old email mentioning 43xx
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx

decade of vax numbers in this old post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0

old post about even older report comparing 360/67 operation with 3081 operation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/93.html#31

based on some performance and disk related work I was doing in the 70s.

for other topic drift ... misc. posts about getting to play disk engineer in bldgs. 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk

I had been making comments about relative system disk thruput declining by an order of magnitude over a period of time (system thruput getting much faster than disks were improving). This upset some disk division executives who assigned the division performance group to refute the comments. After a period, they came back and essentially said that i had somewhat understated the issue. Eventually the analysis was reworked and turned into SHARE presentation recommending how to configure disks for better system thruput (b874 @ share 63) ... recent post ("the naked mainframe") on the subject
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#1

for semi-related old ibm systemsmag article (some stuff slightly garbled)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190524015712/http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/stoprun/Stop-Run/Making-History/

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Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 25 Dec, 2010
Subject: Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#21 Ernst & Young called to account -- should Audit firms be investigated for their role in the crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#24 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#28 Ernst & Young called to account -- should Audit firms be investigated for their role in the crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#29 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman

possibly because GAO figured that neither SOX nor SEC was having any effect:

Financial Restatement Database
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d061053r.pdf
and update
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-06-1079sp

from above:
The database consists of two files: (1) a file that lists 1,390 restatement announcements that we identified as having been made because of financial reporting fraud and/or accounting errors between July 1, 2002, and September 30, 2005, and (2) a file that lists 396 restatement announcements that we identified as having been made because of financial reporting fraud and/or accounting errors between October 1, 2005, and June 30, 2006.

... snip ...

earlier report that mentions public listed companies declined by 20% between 1997 and 2002 while the number of financial restatements increased by 165%
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-03-138

as previously mentioned, an explanation for the fraudulent filings was to significantly increase bonuses ... and any subsequent restatements wouldn't recover earlier compensation.

It is pretty sad comment that auditors would feel the need to agree to questionable practices because it is business as usual for the industry (and they would otherwise loose business to competition).

past posts mentioning the GAO reports:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#36 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#81 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#33 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#15 The Revolving Door and S.E.C. Enforcement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#16 The Revolving Door and S.E.C. Enforcement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#67 The Python and the Mongoose: it helps if you know the rules of engagement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#84 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#46 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#38 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#35 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#7 What banking is. (Essential for predicting the end of finance as we know it.)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#68 TCM's Moguls documentary series

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IBM Future System

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 26 Dec, 2010
Subject: IBM Future System
Blog: IBM Historic Computing
Effort was to completely replace 370 ... but failed before even being announced. Overview here

IBM Future System (FS) - 1970s
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html

above references this memo on FS description & plans
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm

it also mentions various and sundry postings I've made over the years on FS:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys

a recent post discussing FS in (linkedin) Boyd Strategy group (I had sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM in the 80s):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#77

the dark shadow of the FS failure hung over the corporation for decades

The folklore is that some number of the FS people retreated to Rochester and did the S/38.

Some folklore drift ... my brother was a regional marketing rep for Apple (having the largest physical area in CONUS) ... and figured out how to dial into the corporate hdqtrs datacenter to track machine build and ship ... which was a s/38.

The follow-on to S/38 was going to be the AS/400.

After FS ... there was 801/risc effort ... I've periodically claimed that it was (at least partially motivated) to go to the opposite extreme of FS. Staring around '80 ... there was an effort to replace the large variety of internal microprocessors with 801/risc (iliad) risc chips ... follow-on to 4331/4341 would have Iliad microprocessor (i.e. 4361 & 4381), the as/400 would have iliad microprocessor ... lots of controllers would be 801/risc. some past 801 related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#801

for various reasons, the iliad strategy floundered and there was a round of CISC microprocessor instead ... including AS/400 quickly doing a CISC chip. A decade or so later, AS/400 finally did move to 801/risc (power/pc variant). misc. past posts mentioning 801, risc, romp, iliad, rios, power, power/pc, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801

recent posts mentioning that somewhat in response to having copies of (unannounced) 370 virtual memory leak outside the company ... there was effort to make a lot of the FS document softcopy only that could only be read on local 3270 terminals (no hardcopy and no way to make take-away computer copies).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#3a
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#4

as mentioned in some of the previous references ... during the FS period ... nearly all competition was killed off ... allowing 370 software & hardware product pipelines to go dry. when FS was killed ... there was mad rush to get hardware & software products back into the 370 product pipeline. In parallel with starting 370/XA (known for awhile as "811"), there was also Q&D effort to turn out 303x machines.

They took the integrated channel microcode from the 370/158 to make a 303x channel director. A 3031 was a 158 engine with the 370 microcode (and w/o the integrated channel microcode) coupled with a 158 engine with the integrated channel microcode (and w/o the 370 microcode). The 3032 was a 168 with different panels and reworked for the 303x channel microcode. The 3033 started out as the 168 wiring diagram map to chips that were 20% faster (but also with ten times the circuits per chip, mostly went unused). During the 3033 product cycle (somewhat in response to clone processor competition), parts of the 168 logic was redesign to better use the higher circuit density and 3033 eventually came out about 50% faster than 168.

A couple posts/quotes that one of the prime motivations for FS was clone controller (also mentions that I bucked the conventional corporate wisdom at the time and would ridicule the FS effort)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#47

For slight PLS/FS tie-in ... some past posts mentioning original relational/sql (System/R) implementation was using PLS ... and problems when FS also killed off PLS support discussed in "MIPENVY". .... old email reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801006
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801016

... above mentions Jim palming off bunch of stuff on me when he left for Tandem (writing MIPENVY was part of the departure). Copy of one of the MIPENVY versions in this post (about Jim having gone missing), including PLS reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#17

The MIPENVY post also mentions "Tandem Memos" (and IBM Jargon file). I had gotten blamed for computer conferencing on the internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until possibly late '85 or early '86) in the late 70s and early 80s. When the executive committee (chairman, ceo, pres, etc) was told about computer conferencing (and the internal network), the folklore is that five of six wanted to fire me. misc. past posts mentioning internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet

For other FS drift ... past posts mentiion seminar that Amdahl gave in large MIT auditorium in the early 70s. One of the questions from the audience was what justification did he use to get funding for his clone processor startup. He replied something about customers already having hundreds of billions of investment in 360 software and even if IBM were to completely walk away from 360/370 (might be considered a thinly veiled reference to FS), there was enough of that software to keep him in business through the end of the century.

As previously mentioned, clone controllers has been given as major motivation for FS ... however FS (and killing off 370 products) is considered as allowing clone processors to get foothold in the mainframe market.

Now unbundling announcement was 23Jun69 ... in response to various litigation ... which started charging for software, services, maintenance, etc. However, they did make the case for keeping kernel software "free". However, it appeared that the mad rush to get products back into the 370 product pipeline and also respond to the clone processor competition, the decision was made to start charging for kernel software ... and then later to start moving to object-code-only. Misc. past posts mentioning unbundling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle

Now, I've mentioned that I continued to work on 370 stuff (and somewhat ridicule the FS effort) ... so after FS was killed and the mad rush to get stuff back into 370 product pipeline ... there was decision to start shipping some amount of stuff I had been doing. One of the things was my "resource manager" (a lot of the dynamic adaptive resource management that I had done as undergraduate was picked up and shipped as part of cp67 ... but much of it was then dropped in the morph from cp67 to vm370) ... which was also selected to be ghe guinea pig for starting to charge for kernel software. As a result, I got to spend some amount of time with business and legal people about policies and pricing for kernel software. misc. past posts mentioning dynamic adaptive resource management
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare

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IBM S/360 Green Card high quality scan

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 26 Dec, 2010
Subject: IBM S/360 Green Card high quality scan
Blog: IBM Historic Computing
I have several green cards, s/370 yellow cards, hasp song book, (old) ibm song book and a 360/67 "blue" card (along with bunch of other stuff). I've also done a quick & dirty conversion of the green card ios3270 file to HTML .... available here (I tried to match the background color to real green card):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/gcard.html

I've also been trying to SHARE permission to put scan of LSRAD report up on bitsaver in the ibm section. LSRAD report was published in dec79 ... the copyright law had changed slightly earlier ... otherwise the copyright would have expired and it wouldn't be necessary to get permission.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lsradcover.jpg

LSRAD cover

ibm document section at bitsavers
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/

some random gcard ios3270 topic drift ... the service processor for the 3090 started out being 4331 running a highly modified version of vm370 release 6 and all the service panels done in cms ios3270. by the time 3090 shipped, the service processor had been upgrade to a pair of redundant 4361s (running vm370 release 6).

some old email mentioning ios3270
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#email781010
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#email781011

in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#9

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VMSHARE Archives

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 26 Dec, 2010
Subject: VMSHARE Archives
Blog: IBM Historic Computing
TYMSHARE was virtual machine based commercial online service bureau. Starting in aug1976, the provided their online computer conferencing function for free to SHARE organizations.
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/

old email mentioning vmshare (&/or making vmshare files available on various internal corporate machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmshare

one of the big problems I had on getting copies of vmshare files up on internal machines was internal legal & executives worried that it might "contaminate" IBMers.

An earlier instance of that was a report that CERN presented at SHARE in 1974 ... describing a bake-off/comparison they had done of vm370/cms and MVS/TSO. There was significant corporate concern about the findings in the report that copies available internally were stamped "IBM Confidential -Restricted" ... aka available on a "need-to-know" basis only. There was concern (especially by the favorite son operating system in POK) that IBMers might find it in conflict with the official party line.

misc. recent posts mentioning vmshare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#10 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#87 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#98 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#46 Mythical computers and magazine reviews
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#85 Apple iPad -- this merges with folklore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#2 Apple iPad -- this merges with folklore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#27 HONE & VMSHARE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#57 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#65 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#84 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#29 HONE & VMSHARE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#31 Terse for PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#72 Subpools - specifically 241
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#9 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#53 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#75 What is the protocal for GMT offset in SMTP (e-mail) header
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#13 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#25 Was VM ever used as an exokernel?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#22 Old EMAIL Index
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#28 Mainframe Hacking -- Fact or Fiction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#73 Mainframe hacking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#1 origin of 'fields'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#1 Why we build big computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#9 EXTERNAL: Re: Problem with an edit command in tso
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#18 Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside

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VMSHARE Archives

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 26 Dec, 2010
Subject: VMSHARE Archives
Blog: IBM Historic Computing
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#34 VMSHARE Archives

For little humor ... large, long-time mainframe customer ... a reference to its SHARE installation code (that also shows up in various vmshare postings)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#4
installation also mentioned here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#1

much earlier reference (extracted from Melinda's history ... Melinda's history URL pointer at the VMSHARE archives page):
https://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml

for other (historical) drift ... one of the issues for providing 7x24 commercial online service was the processor meter. these computers used to all be leased and the mainframe leased charges were based on the processor meter (sort of like electric company utility meter). The meter would run whenever the processor was executing instructions and/or any channel had an active I/O channel program. In the early days ... off-shift usage tended to be "light" ... with the use charges (online service charging their users) not covering the lease charges.

The challenge was to come up with an I/O channel program ... that allowed the processor meter to stop ... but still allowed accepting new incoming connections and characters (from terminals, typically dialup). The other challenge was to move as much as possible to "dark room" operation ... not needing full human operator coverage during the offshift period (also reducing offshift operating costs when actual use could be extremely sporadic).

In some sense ... these operations were the 60s & 70s flavor of modern day "cloud computing" ... misc. past posts mentioning virtual machine based commercial online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#timeshare

Note one of the earliest of these was the internal HONE system. It was originally created to give branch SEs "hands-on" experience to operating systems running in (remote) virtual machines. However, the science center had also ported apl360 to cms for cmsapl ... and there started being a growing number of marketing and sales support applications. The APL marketing and sales support applications came to dominate all HONE activity (with the guest operating system use disappearing). Eventually all mainframe orders had to be first processed by a HONE application. misc. past posts mentioning HONE (&/or APL)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone

The US had consolidated the HONE datacenters in silicon valley during the mid-70s (actually not too far from TYMSHARE) ... but there were HONE "clones" also sprouting up all over the world. The US HONE operation by the late 70s was possibly the largest single system image operation in the world at the time (large number of SMP processors sharing large "DASD" farm with load-balancing and fall-over capability across the cluster). In the early 80s, the US HONE operation was replicated first in Dallas and then a 3rd in Boulder ... for availability (countermeasure to cal. earthquakes). A couple posts from last year in thread titled "From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#43
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#46

A couple of earlier (cp67) virtual machine based online service bureaus were spin-offs in the 60s from the science center and lincoln labs; IDC and NCSS. Both IDC and NCSS quickly moved up the value chain to providing online financial services information. NCSS was eventually bought by dun&bradstreet. IDC still operates ... providing online financial information over the web. a few recent posts mentioning IDC and/or NCSS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#54
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#55
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#58
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#66
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#21
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#26

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Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Programmer Charged with thieft  (maybe off topic)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 26 Dec 2010 08:44:20 -0800
joarmc@SWBELL.NET (John McKown) writes:
Man, I will never get anywhere near that salary. Complaint was that he downloaded the source to a software system which did their trades. I guess to sell it to other companies. Or maybe to examine to see if any flaws could be exploited. The article doesn't say. The source code to which I have access wouldn't be worth the cost of transmitting it. Unless there is a big market for old COBOL code to be used as an example of how to __NOT__ code in COBOL. <grin>

there were periodic past references that his job may have been to develop the software ... used in high-speed trading ... wiki page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov

wiki references articals from july2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jul/06/golman-sachs-computer-codes-stolen
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aFeyqdzYcizc
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a2GvteRoihQE

above references that typically there is very little information about trading activities. for other topic drift ... recent thread about efforts to try and obtain trading information (possibly in conjunction with showing illegal naked short sales):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#43
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#48

above is part of thread about possible future wikileaks involving large financial institutions. to somewhat bring it back to mainframe ... this discussion about past leakage issues involving corporate mainframe (unannounced products) information (in linkedin ibm alumni group discussion)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#4 Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#8 Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#18 Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside

and another corporate mainframe trade-secret theft discussion (in linkedin financial crime risk, fraud and security group)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#25 Econimic espionage discussed

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Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Programmer Charged with thieft  (maybe off topic)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:08:02 -0500
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#36 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

oh ... and in the early 90s ... when we were doing ha/cmp product and talking to some number of trading operations (including SIAC which ran datacenter operations for NYSE) ... with respect to what would the impact of an outage be. One computer in tall skyscraper in LA supposedly earn more money in 24hr period than the aggregate annual salary of everybody that worked in the bldg ... plus the annual lease on the bldg. there was another instance when a trading operation had an environmental outage and the NYSE traffic volume was down 1/3rd that day.

misc. past posts mentioning ha/cmp
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp

I had coined the terms geographic survivability and disaster survivability (to differentiate from disaster/recovery) when I was out marketing ha/cmp. I had also been asked to write a section for the "corporate continuous availability strategy" document ... however the section got pulled after complaints from both Rochester and POK (basically at the time, they weren't able to meet the requirements). misc. past posts mentioning availability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#available

semi-related ... misc. past posts mentioning assurance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#assurance

for a little other mainframe "available" topic drift ... long ago and far away ... my wife had been con'ed into going to POK to be in charge of loosely-coupled architecture ... while there she did peer-coupled shared data architecture ... misc. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata

which, except for IMS hot-standby, saw very little uptake until sysplex. Both because of the little uptake (focus on tightly-coupled multiprocessing at the time) and constant battles with communication group (insisting loosely-coupled operation needed to use SNA ... there were temporary truces where she could use anything she wanted within walls of the datacenters ... but SNA had to be used for everything that crossed walls of the datacenter) ... she didn't remain long in the position.

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Looking for a real Fortran-66 compatible PC compiler (CP/M or DOS or Windows, doesn't matter)

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Looking for a real Fortran-66 compatible PC compiler (CP/M or DOS or Windows, doesn't matter)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:36:00 -0500
"Dave Wade" <dave.g4ugm@gmail.com> writes:
The IBM really old IBM Operating systems are all copywrite free and you can bundle up a Hercules that will run batch jobs, but I agree its over kill for a few Fortran programs. The oldest compiler I know of that available for download that runs on a PC is FTN-77 from here:-

http://www.silverfrost.com/53/ftn77/ftn77_dbos_history.aspx

but its really strict. I actually found that Open Watcom was a better bet and has compiled most of the Fortran-66 without too many issues...

http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/Main_Page


aka ... the company was somewhat forced into unbundling announced 23jun69 ... and starting to charge for (application) software (among other things); however the company did managed to make the case that kernel software should still be free. misc. past posts mentioning 23jun69 unbundling & starting to charge for software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle

the company then started the Future System effort, somewhat motivated by clone controllers ... but it failed w/o even being announced. During Future System ... much of the other activity was killed off ... allowing the 370 hardware&software product pipelines to go dry ... then when Future System was killed ... there was mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 hardware&software product pipeline. recent post mentioning Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#33 IBM Future System

shutting down 370 "competition" for FS and then having a dry 370 (hardware) product pipeline (when FS was killed) is credited with clone processors getting a foothold in the market.

Rushing to get stuff back into the 370 product pipeline ... and facing the clone processors is possible motivation for the transition to starting to (also) charge/license kernel software (as well as the transition to object-code-only).

above Future System post also references these web page:
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
and
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm

as well as other past posts mentioning FS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys

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Is email dead? What do you think?

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 26 Dec, 2010
Subject: Is email dead? What do you think?
Blog: Greater IBM
It would be nice if somebody convinced the spammers.

In the mid-to-late 90s, I was on a business trip and was having dinner in a mexican restaurant in scottsdale "old town" (near phoenix). A man and a couple came in and sat behind me and the man proceeding to tell the couple how he could produce an enormous amount of spam advertising their business ... as well as the mechanisms he had in place to make sure the spam kept flowing (to deal with ISPs shutting down his accounts as complaints flowed in). There were also some number of recommendations about how to configure their webserver so all the email complaints addressed to them would be ignored (i.e. no email server or other functions, have everything performed as web forms).

It made me think that person might be associated with the Green Card spam:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Siegel

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Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 27 Dec, 2010
Subject: Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
Blog: Financial Cryptography
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#21 Ernst & Young called to account -- should Audit firms be investigated for their role in the crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#24 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#28 Ernst & Young called to account -- should Audit firms be investigated for their role in the crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#29 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#31 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman

Note a similar excuse was brought up during the fall2008 congressional hearings into the pivotal role that the rating agencies played in the financial mess; selling triple-A ratings on toxic CDOs (when both the sellers and the rating agencies knew that the toxic CDOs weren't worth triple-A rating) .... aka that the seller would just go to one of the other rating agencies to buy a triple-A rating (if they didn't sell/give a triple-A). One of the other comments made during the hearings was that the rating agencies might blackmail the gov. to not taking any punitive action (with the threat of downgrading the gov's credit rating).

misc. past posts mentioning rating agencies & giving triple-A ratings on toxic CDOs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#44 Fixing finance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#71 lack of information accuracy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#23 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#23 Michigan industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#39 The human plague
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#52 Why is sub-prime crisis of America called the sub-prime crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#68 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#71 Why is sub-prime crisis of America called the sub-prime crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#75 In light of the recent financial crisis, did Sarbanes-Oxley fail to work?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#78 Who murdered the financial system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#80 Can we blame one person for the financial meltdown?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#3 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#8 Global Melt Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#9 Do you believe a global financial regulation is possible?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#47 In Modeling Risk, the Human Factor Was Left Out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#60 Did sub-prime cause the financial mess we are in?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#70 Is there any technology that we are severely lacking in the Financial industry?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#11 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#12 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#19 Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#20 How is Subprime crisis impacting other Industries?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#49 Have not the following principles been practically disproven, once and for all, by the current global financial meltdown?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#50 Obama, ACORN, subprimes (Re: Spiders)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#54 Obama, ACORN, subprimes (Re: Spiders)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#58 Obama, ACORN, subprimes (Re: Spiders)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#69 if you are an powerful financial regulator , how would you have stopped the credit crunch?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#4 Basel Committee outlines plans to strengthen Basel II
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#10 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#35 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#58 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#64 Is This a Different Kind of Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#8 Top financial firms of US are eyeing on bailout. It implies to me that their "Risk Management Department's" assessment was way below expectations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#9 Blind-sided, again. Why?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#20 Five great technological revolutions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#23 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#24 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#30 How reliable are the credit rating companies? Who is over seeing them?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#35 Is American capitalism and greed to blame for our financial troubles in the US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#55 Is this the story behind the crunchy credit stuff?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#59 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#60 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#14 What are the challenges in risk analytics post financial crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#15 What are the challenges in risk analytics post financial crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#21 Banks to embrace virtualisation in 2009: survey
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#42 Lets play Blame Game...?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#52 The Credit Crunch: Why it happened?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#73 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#74 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#77 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#79 The Credit Crunch: Why it happened?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#1 Are Both The U.S. & UK on the brink of debt disaster?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#25 The recently revealed excesses of John Thain, the former CEO of Merrill Lynch, while the firm was receiving $25 Billion in TARP funds makes me sick
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#49 US disaster, debts and bad financial management
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#51 Will the Draft Bill floated in Congress yesterday to restrict trading of naked Credit Default Swaps help or aggravate?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#52 What has the Global Financial Crisis taught the Nations, it's Governments and Decision Makers, and how should they apply that knowledge to manage risks differently in the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#53 Credit & Risk Management ... go Simple ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#54 In your opinion, which facts caused the global crise situation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#57 Credit & Risk Management ... go Simple ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#59 As bonuses...why breed greed, when others are in dire need?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#73 What can we learn from the meltdown?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#78 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#79 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#80 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#1 Audit II: Two more scary words: Sarbanes-Oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#6 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#16 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#39 'WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GLOBAL MELTDOWN'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#51 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#61 Accounting for the "greed factor"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#65 is it possible that ALL banks will be nationalized?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#0 PNC Financial to pay CEO $3 million stock bonus
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#22 Is it time to put banking executives on trial?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#28 I need insight on the Stock Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#37 NEW SEC (Enforcement) MANUAL, A welcome addition
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#42 Bernard Madoff Is Jailed After Pleading Guilty -- are there more "Madoff's" out there?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#62 Is Wall Street World's Largest Ponzi Scheme where Madoff is Just a Poster Child?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#73 Should Glass-Steagall be reinstated?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#77 Who first mentioned Credit Crunch?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#8 The background reasons of Credit Crunch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#30 Timeline: 40 years of OS milestones
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#53 Are the "brightest minds in finance" finally onto something?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#70 When did "client server" become part of the language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#31 What is the real basis for business mess we are facing today?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#41 On whom or what would you place the blame for the sub-prime crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#49 Is the current downturn cyclic or systemic?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#65 Just posted third article about toxic assets in a series on the current financial crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#27 Flawed Credit Ratings Reap Profits as Regulators Fail Investors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#37 Future of Financial Mathematics?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#52 Future of Financial Mathematics?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#53 We Can't Subsidize the Banks Forever
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#40 Analysing risk, especially credit risk in Banks, which was a major reason for the current crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#1 IBM to Build Europe, Asia 'Smart Infrastructure'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#57 In the USA "financial regulator seeks power to curb excess speculation."
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#60 In the USA "financial regulator seeks power to curb excess speculation."
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#12 IBM identity manager goes big on role control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#38 what is mortgage-backed securities?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#13 UK issues Turning apology (and about time, too)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#17 UK issues Turning apology (and about time, too)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#20 UK issues Turning apology (and about time, too)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#47 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#62 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#68 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#23 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#37 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#48 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#4 alphas was: search engine history, was Happy DEC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#8 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#52 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#54 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#76 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#81 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#15 The Revolving Door and S.E.C. Enforcement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#22 In the News: SEC storms the 'Castle'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#31 In the News: SEC storms the 'Castle'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#58 S.E.C. Moves to Tighten Rules on Bonds Backed by Consumer Loans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#67 The Python and the Mongoose: it helps if you know the rules of engagement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#4 Goldman Sachs -- Post SEC complaint. What's next?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#7 The Enablers for this "Real Estate Crisis"- Willful Blindness, Greed or more?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#34 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#48 "Fraud & Stupidity Look a Lot Alike"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#49 "Fraud & Stupidity Look a Lot Alike"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#79 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#12 Warren Buffett faces hearing over ratings agencies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#6 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#29 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#38 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#40 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#6 Five Theses on Security Protocols
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#8 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#9 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#72 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#29 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#33 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#35 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#50 TARP Bailout to Cost Less Than Once Anticipated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#24 What Is MERS and What Role Does It Have in the Foreclosure Mess?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#37 WHAT, WHY AND HOW - FRAUD, IMPACT OF AUDIT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#6 What banking is. (Essential for predicting the end of finance as we know it.)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#7 What banking is. (Essential for predicting the end of finance as we know it.)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#17 What banking is. (Essential for predicting the end of finance as we know it.)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#69 Moody's hints at move that could be catastrophic for US debt

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Old EMAIL Index

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 27 Dec, 2010
Subject: Old EMAIL Index
Blog: IBM Historic Computing
Old EMAIL Index
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html

The email index also has a couple of pictures ... including home terminal setup ... but not home 2741 from spring 1970 ... but does have 2741 APL typeball.

this refs converting my cp67 modifications to vm370 base (during the future system period) ... some amount had been previously shipped in cp67 (and dropped in the morph of cp67 to vm370) and others were purely internal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430

it also mentions doing "csc/vm" ... i.e. one of my hobbies was building and supporting my own operating system release for internal datacenters. In part because of the mad rush to get stuff back into 370 product pipeline (after the distraction of Future System), some amount of the mentioned changes were picked up and shipped in vm370 release 3. Some number of the other changes were packaged for release in my "resource manager".

The science center was on 4th flr of 545 tech sq (and by 1975, the vm370 group had outgrown the 3rd flr and moved out to old SBC bldg. in Burlington Mall; aka the development group had previously split off from the science center and moved to the 3rd flr, taking over the Boston Programming Center); some old posts mentioning science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech csc/vm (&/or sjr/vm) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#cscvm

Some number of the CTSS (ibm 7094) people had gone to the science center on the 4th flr, but others had gone to Multics project on the 5th flr. In the spirit of friendly competition, I would sometimes chide the Multics people that at one time, I had more internal CSC/VM installations than the total number of Multics installations that had ever existed.
http://www.multicians.org/sites.html

later ref to doing internal SJR/VM distribution ... after transferring to SJR:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#email830705
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#email830709
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#email830711

Part of SJR/VM was body of integrity changes that I had done for the disk engineering labs. At one time they had tried doing disk "testcell" development testing under MVS and found MVS MTBF was 15 mins (crash and/or hang requiring reboot). I had done a bunch of changes for I/O supervisor to never crash/hang. misc. past posts getting to play disk engineer in bldgs. 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk

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Who hasn't caused an outage? What is the worst thing you have done?

From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 27 Dec, 2010
Subject: Who hasn't caused an outage? What is the worst thing you have done?
Blog: MainframeZone

https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#22 Who hasn't caused an outage? What is the worst thing you have done?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#26 Who hasn't caused an outage? What is the worst thing you have done?

sort of the opposite ... DASD "testcell" development testing ran "stand-alone", mainframe processor dedicated scheduled time (being scheduled 7x24 around the clock). They had once tried running under MVS, but found MVS to have 15 min. MTBF (in that environment), aka crash &/or hang requiring reboot. I undertook to rewrite i/o supervisor to make it never hang, never crash .... so they could do on-demand, multiple, concurrent testing. that got me sucked into playing disk engineer ... being periodically asked to diagnose/analyze issues. misc. past posts getting to play disk engineer in bldgs 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk

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Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Programmer Charged with thieft  (maybe off topic)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 27 Dec 2010 09:36:00 -0800
Howard Brazee <howard.brazee@cusys.edu> writes:
But it appears that the salary was normal. Probably thought of as a pittance to the people who think stock brokering is worth what they get.

re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#36 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#37 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

as previously referred to, high-speed computerized trading can turn enormous profit (easily justifying the best people that money can buy; easily being worth more than top sports players).

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Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Programmer Charged with thieft  (maybe off topic)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 27 Dec 2010 11:34:17 -0800
tlk_sysprog@YAHOO.COM (Thomas Kern) writes:
They did not get quite the best thief that money could buy. Maybe if they were more concerned with quality rather than sheer profit, they might have gotten a more honest reliable programmer.

If they still have that opening, I can come up with a team of programmers for that amount, all considered very trustworthy by certain government agencies.


re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#36 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#37 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#43 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

considering lots of the other stuff going on ... absolutely honesty might not be a top requirement ... there was fair amount of obfuscation and misdirection in the financial mess about computer software being involved ... until the stories about business people were directing the risk & computer people to fiddle the inputs until the business people got the desired outputs (GIGO).

there is past folklore about large financial institution in manhatten outsourcing y2k remediation to lowest bidder ... they didn't find out until later that it was front for a criminal organization

there has been some amount about high-frequency trading with huge amounts of other peoples money (available at zero or near zero cost) ... being able to rack up fraction of percent profit every day ... resulting in enormous annual profits. some of it may have also involved illegal naked short selling (could almost be considered a form of pump&dump ... but sort of in reverse). some of related discussion in linkedin fraud groups:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#43 WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#48 WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#24 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman

I mentioned in the above that prior to NSCC & DTC merging, I had been asked by NSCC to look at improving integrity of trading transactions. After putting some amount of effort into the project, it was called off with some comment that a side-effect of the integrity work would have been significantly improved transparency and visibility (apparently not a highly desired quality in the industry). The DTCC wiki page mentions fight over making transaction details public ... which could possibly be used to show illegal naked short selling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depository_Trust_&_Clearing_Corporation

one of referenced posts includes quote from 2008 KPMG survey that found 60% of employees in banking and finance industry personally observed misconduct that "could cause a significant loss of public trust if discovered" (a rate possibly twice that of other industries).

misc. other posts in the discussions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#28 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#29 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#31 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman

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Is email dead? What do you think?

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 27 Dec, 2010
Subject: Is email dead? What do you think?
Blog: Greater IBM
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#39 Is email dead? What do you think?

I had gotten blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal network in the late 70s and early 80s ... nearly all of it email based. The folklore is that when the executive committee was informed (about online computer conferencing as well as the internal network), five out of six wanted to fire me. Various old email referenced here:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html

Most of my email (and lots of other stuff) prior to 1977 was lost ... it was on triple replicated tapes in the Almaden tape library ... but was "lost" in the mid-80s when their operations went thru a period with random tapes being mounted for scratch.

I periodically mention the difficulty with reading email back in the states from Paris ... when I was asked to go over in the early 70s and help with a datacenter install that was part of EMEA hdqtrs moving from the states to Paris.

Univ BITNET/EARN networks (significantly funded by IBM) got a form of email-based online computer conferencing with LISTSERV ... wiki page mentions "first" ... but it was preceded by stuff on internal network ... LISTSERV reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISTSERV
and
http://www.lsoft.com/products/listserv-history.asp

misc past posts mentioning BITNET &/or EARN
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet

old email from 1984 about setting up EARN
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#email840320

Note that in this period, "online" was much more analogous to today's "cloud" computing (online at home since Mar1970).

with regard to PROFS; there was a very early pre-release 1.0 internal email client that was distributed widely internally ... along with source. that very early source was picked up by the PROFS group and used within the PROFS infrastructure for email handling. at one point the original author offered to upgrade PROFS with a significantly enhanced version. The PROFS group came back and claimed that they had developed everything themselves and then tried to have the original author fired. The original author pointed out that every PROFS email carried his initials in a non-displayed control field. Part of the PROFS issue apparently was there were awards given for having "written" the original code. After that, only three of us had copies of the source code.

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Is email dead? What do you think?

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 27 Dec, 2010
Subject: Is email dead? What do you think?
Blog: Greater IBM
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#39 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#45 Is email dead? What do you think?

some number of the CTSS people went to the science center on 4th flr of 545 tech sq (where they did virtual machines, cp67, cms, bunch of other stuff). CMS script somewhat started out as a port of CTSS runoff. GML was invented at the science center in 1969 and GML tag processing added to CMS script. Nearly a decade later an international (ISO) standard was made as SGML (late 70s). And a decade after that (two decades after GML was invented), SGML was morphed into HTML at CERN. some discussion of the SGML to HTML morph:
http://infomesh.net/html/history/early/

the first webserver (outside cern) was on the SLAC vm/cms system
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/history.shtml

misc. past posts mentioning GML and/or SGML
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml

misc. past posts mentioning science center at 545 tech sq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech

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IBM S/360 Green Card high quality scan here

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 27 Dec, 2010
Subject: IBM S/360 Green Card high quality scan here
Blog: IBM Historic Computing
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#33 IBM S/360 Green Card high quality scan

old email related to using vm370 release 6 in the 3090 service processor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#email861031
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#email861223

I had helped out when the project first started ... but it carried on for so long ... along with people turn-over ... people involved lost track that I had been involved helping when it first started.

The email references an internal problem & dump analyzer that I had implemented ... and the service processor people wanted to pick up responsibility. I had originally done the implementation in the very early days of REX(X) ... wanted to help demonstrate that REXX wasn't just another pretty scripting language. The demonstration was to take the existing assembler implemented IPCS program ... and working half-time over 3 months ... re-implement the function in REXX with ten times the function and running ten times as fast.

I had originally figured that it would be shipped to customers as an IPCS replacement ... which never happened ... however, it did become the dominate tool internal and also in use by nearly all the PSRs.

Slightly green card related ... there was option to display storage locations as instruction sequences (with symbolic opcodes). There was another option that allowed for specifying a MACRO DSECT ... and it would display storage using the specified DSECT from the macro library.

misc. past posts mentioning DUMPRX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dumprx

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Is email dead? What do you think?

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 27 Dec, 2010
Subject: Is email dead? What do you think?
Blog: Greater IBM
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#39 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#45 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#46 Is email dead? What do you think?

the internal network was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until possibly late '85 or early '86. the first big change in internet size came with the big switch-over to tcp/ip (technology basis for modern internet) on 1/1/83. some past posts on the subject
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm

one of the big issues about internet overtaking the internal network ... was that on the internet PC & workstations became nodes while on the internal network, PCs & workstations were limited to terminal emulation ... part of communication group attempting to preserve the terminal emulation install base. this became so severe that in the late 80s, a senior disk engineer got a talk scheduled at the internal, world-wide, annual communication group conference ... and opened the talk with the statement that the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division (while terminal emulation saw early uptake for PCs ... later on it represented severe bottleneck strangling the datacenter participation in the distributed computing environment ... and all sorts of data was starting to flee the datacenter to other platforms). misc. past posts mentioning the terminal emulation issues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#emulation

My HSDT effort was involved with several of the entities that would participate in the NSFNET backbone (operational precursor to modern internet) and we expected to be involved. However, some internal politics prevented us from bidding. The director of NSF wrote a letter to the corporation asking for participation (copying the CEO) ... but that just aggravated the internal politics ... as did comments like what HSDT already had running was at least five years ahead of all NSFNET backbone bid submissions (to build something new). misc. past posts mentioning HSDT effort
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt

misc. old email related to NSFNET
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet

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Is email dead? What do you think?

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 28 Dec, 2010
Subject: Is email dead? What do you think?
Blog: Greater IBM
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#39 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#45 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#46 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#48 Is email dead? What do you think?

@Paul ... trivia question, what does "GML" stand for? "G", "M", and "L" started out as the first letters of the three peoples' last names at the science center that invented GML in 1969.

Somewhat as the result of being blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal network in the late 70s and early 80s ... a researcher was paid to sit in the back of my office for nine months, taking notes on how I communicate; they also went with me to meetings, got copies of all my incoming & outgoing emails and logs of all instant messages. The result was research report and a stanford phd thesis (joint between language and computer AI) and material for various books and papers. A later book

Knowledge Machines: Language and Information in a Technology Society (Language in Social Life Series)
https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Machines-Language-Information-Technological/dp/0582071313

misc. past posts mentioning "computer mediated communication"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc

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I actually miss working at IBM

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 28 Dec, 2010
Subject: I actually miss working at IBM
Blog: Greater IBM
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#79 I actually miss working at IBM

1992 was the year the company went into the red, executives were looking at selling off all the pieces as independent operations, there were jokes about would the last person to leave POK, please turn off the lights; excess vacation days were going to start evaporating and there was the last really good program paying people to leave. Since I had a year of accumulated vacation that was about to start evaporating ... I elected to take the paid departure (with extra years bonus for the accumulated vacation).

after having done things like ridicule the Future System project (from just about the start) and being blamed for online computer conferencing ... I was repeatedly told that I had no career in the company (promotions, etc). The paid departure started with "leave of absence" (with no possibility of return), bridging to 30 yrs. The day after my last day at work (and the first day of my leave of absence), I get a letter at home saying I had been promoted ... effective the first day of my leave of absence.

recent post in "future system" discussion in the "IBM Historic Computing" Group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#32 IBM Future System

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Is email dead? What do you think?

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 28 Dec, 2010
Subject: Is email dead? What do you think?
Blog: Greater IBM
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#39 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#45 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#46 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#48 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#49 Is email dead? What do you think?

lot of the company got their EMAIL via HONE (world-wide sales and marketing support, effectively an early "cloud" computing service). HONE started out after 23jun69 unbundling announcement as a way of providing SEs with "hands-on" operating system experience running in CP67 virtual machines. misc. past posts mentioning 23jun69 unbundling announcement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundling

After the initial 370 was announced (before 370 virtual memory, but still with a few additional instructions that weren't in 360), cp67 (running on 360/67) was enhanced to provide "370" virtual machines via simulating the new 370 instructions. HONE was one of the internal installations installing this specially modified cp67. misc. old email mentioning HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#hone

the science center had also ported apl360 to cms for cmsapl ... and there started to be a whole lot of sales & marketing support applications being made available on HONE. Eventually the sales & marketing (APL) activity came to dominate all HONE activity (with the "hands-on" guest operating activity disappearing). I frequently mentioned that one of my hobbies was highly enhanced operating systems that I would distribute and support for internal datacenters ... and HONE was one of my long-time customers. recent post on the subject in "Old EMAIL Index" discussion in (linkedin) "IBM Historic Computing"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#41

One of my other hobbies was making external information available on internal systems ... like VMSHARE ... recent posts is "VMSHARE Archives" discussion in (linkedin) "IBM Historic Computing"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#34
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#35

This is old email from brance office rep in Kuwait asking about some information he saw in (HONE copy of) VMSHARE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#email830227
and another email from somebody in Helsinki
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#email830112

old email mentioning VMSHARE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmshare

i got a 2741 at home in mar1970 ... i don't have any pictures of that 2741 ... but there are a couple pictures of 2741 APL typeball (that I still have) here:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#oldpicts

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I actually miss working at IBM

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 28 Dec, 2010
Subject: I actually miss working at IBM
Blog: Greater IBM
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#79 I actually miss working at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#50 I actually miss working at IBM

Kingston had (at least) the VM group, engineering & scientific lab, and the supercomputer group.

I had done various things off & on over the years with the VM group in Kingston.

As part of my HSDT effort, I worked with the person running the E&S lab dataprocessing to have an "HSDT" node in his lab. misc. past posts mentioning HSDT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt

This is reference to jan92 in ellison's conference room on cluster scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13

in conjunction with our HA/CMP product, misc. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp

and old email about cluster scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa

the last item in the above is possibly only hrs before the effort was transferred to Kingston and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors. This also contributed to decision to take the lump sum payment and leave.

this is past post that mentions sequence leading up to the above ... starting with the retirement of senior executive in oct91:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#71

The guy doing the E&S lab dataprocessing ... I had previously worked with on HSDT project when he was in Boulder supporting the IMS folks there. The IMS people in STL & Boulder got moved to offsite bldgs ... and were being faced with remote 3270 support back to datacenter. I did the support for "channel-extension" that allowed them to have "local 3270" channel-attached at the remote sites back to their respective datacenters. Misc posts mentioning effort for Boulder IMS:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#23
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#137

This is unrelated to when Jim left and palmed off various DBMS related stuff on me ... including DBMS consulting to the IMS group ... misc old email reference:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801006
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801016
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#1

the above email also mentions being on the east coast when Jim departed, teaching a VM scheduling & performance class to the VM development group.

And another reference to Jim (going missing)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#4
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#6
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#8

total unrelated trivia ... two of the other people at the meeting in ellison's conference room

later show up at a small client/server startup responsible for something called the "commerce server"; we get brought in as consultants because they want to do payment transactions on the server. The startup had also invented this technology they call "SSL" they want to use; the results is now frequently called "electronic commerce". Some past posts mentioning part of the effort for "electronic commerce" ... the "payment gateway" that handle financial transactions forwarding between the internet and the payment networks.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#gateway

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Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Programmer Charged with thieft  (maybe off topic)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 28 Dec 2010 12:54:51 -0800
rfochtman@YNC.NET (Rick Fochtman) writes:
Unfortunately, averice (greed) is not a property limited to the middle class. Bernie Madoff is a prime example of how greed engenders more greed.

I submit that when the oppurtunity is presented, the temptation can be overwhelming, even to the best of us. It takes a hard man indeed to resist ALL temptations, no matter how momentous or trivial.


in congressional hearings into Madoff, the person, that had tried (unsuccessfully) for a decade to get the SEC to do something about Madoff, testified that while new regulations may be necessary, it is much more important to have transparency and visibility ... somewhat related to my prior post about being asked by NSCC to look at improving the integrity of trading transactions:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#44 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

note that sarbanes-oxley, in the wake of enron ... specified increase in audits of financial statements of public companies (and oversight by SEC) ... possibly because GAO didn't think SEC was doing anything ... they started looking at such financial statements and found uptick in fraudulent filings ... even after SOX ... recent post with (GAO) references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#31 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman

references about ENRON (leading up to SOX) and Time article about people responsible for recent financial mess (and ENRON mess)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#38 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?

there were also fall2008 congressional hearings into pivotal role played by rating agencies in the financial mess ... recent reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#40 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman

at the time, there were comments that the rating agencies could blackmail the federal gov to avoid punitive action with the threat of downgrading the govs. credit rating.

note that SOX also had item having SEC look into the rating agencies ... but there was nothing except a SEC report; reference in the post on "blame for financial crisis".

The "blame" post also mentions that early 2009, I was asked to take the recently scanned Pecora hearings (senate hearings into the Great Depression), html'ize them with heavy indexes ... as well as URLs between what happened then and what happened this time (apparently some expectation that the new congress might have an appetite for doing something similar). After putting quite a bit of effort into it, I got a call that nobody was really interested after all.

with respect to greed and temptation ... recent post referencing 30yr old legal action regarding industrial espionage and theft of (DASD) trade secrets:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#25 Economic espionage discussed

slightly related post getting to play computer security sidekick to new CSO (one time had been head of presidential detail, long ago and far away):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#3a The Great Cyberheist
similar post in (linkedin) IBM Alumni thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#8 Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside

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Is email dead? What do you think?

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 28 Dec, 2010
Subject: Is email dead? What do you think?
Blog: Greater IBM
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#39 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#45 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#46 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#48 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#49 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#51 Is email dead? What do you think?

semi-related HONE post from last year From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#43
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#46

mentioning that the US HONE datacenters in the mid-70s were consolidated in silicon valley ... where "single image" cluster support was done (loosely-coupled load-balancing and fall-over with large DASD farm) ... possibly largest in the world at the time. Now, 30 yrs later something similar was being released in the product.

Above posts also mentions something similar regarding the ha/cmp cluster scale-up work (nearly 20 yrs later).

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Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 28 Dec 2010 15:54:53 -0800
mike.a.schwab@GMAIL.COM (Mike Schwab) writes:
Also, I would like to see that you can't buy a commodity without taking delivery. They drove the crude prices up to $100 a barrel in 2008 despite oil tankers unable to load due to the storage tanks being full.

re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#6 What banking is. (Essential for predicting the end of finance as we know it.)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#57 TCM's Moguls documentary series

i.e. commodity trading required that players had to have significant interest in the commodity in order to play ... because speculators resulted in wild irrational price swings ... then there were 19 "secret letters" allowing specific entities to play.

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Microsoft Wants 'Sick' PCs Banned From The Internet

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 29 Dec, 2010
Subject: Microsoft Wants 'Sick' PCs Banned From The Internet
Blog: Information Security Network
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#67 Outgunned: How Security Tech Is Failing Us

The threat & vulnerability model is that the PCs are at risk ... instead of looking for physical correspondence ... look at it from security aspect along with what is at risk. In the physical traffic model ... it is relatively clear that the autos & people are both is what is traveling as well as what is at risk.

One of the issues in today's security landscape is frequently knee-jerk reaction to "point" events ... failing to do comprehensive, detailed, end-to-end threat and vulnerability study. In the internet scenario ... while the IP packets are the things traveling ... that IP traffic is putting the PCs at risk (threat and vulnerability).

There is significant analogy between earlier days of personal automobiles and personal computers ... with things like traffic fatalities being blamed on the operator/driver. However, there has been lots of human engineering to both compensate for human limitations as well as mitigate the severity of accidents: safety glass, bumpers,. crash zones, speed limits, traffic lights, traffic law enforcement, guard rails, safety belts, air bags, change in highway engineering, collapsing crash zones around sign posts and other fixed obstacles (bridges). All of these countermeasures have drastically reduced the accident rate as well as accident severity.

A few years ago, I took a pass at doing a taxonomy of the CVE database (at the time managed by Mitre) ... attempting to profile and categorize the CVE entries (effectively would be part of any detailed threat & vulnerability study for developing comprehensive countermeasures). The CVE entries turned out to be quite free-form and difficult to categorize. Talking to the Mitre people at the time ... their response was that it was hard enough to get the vendors to do any kind of report .... that trying to get the vendors to follow any sort of organized methodology might inhibit them from doing anything at all. old post with some of the summary of that effort
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#43 security taxonomy and CVE

followup post referencing above (the following also draws some of the similarities between highway traffic and internet ... from a threat & vulnerability standpoint)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#20 Why does Windows allow Worms?

posts from the following year about NIST report on threats & vulnerabilities ... showing similar conclusions to my investigation the previous year
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#20 Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#28 Buffer overruns

followup summary (in same thread) with some of the info from CVE entries
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#32 Buffer overruns

later post referencing articles about Mitre working on CVE categorization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#20 Hackers Attack Apps While Still in Development

for somewhat unrelated topic drift ... post referencing an old friend badgering me into interviewing for chief security architect in redmond
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#7

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Is email dead? What do you think?

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 28 Dec, 2010
Subject: Is email dead? What do you think?
Blog: Greater IBM
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#39 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#45 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#46 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#48 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#49 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#51 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#54 Is email dead? What do you think?

It isn't so much obsolete stuff ... it is if there is something having entrenched position and has significant existing use ... it is hard to displace. small x-over from the "I actually miss working at IBM" thread ... also archived here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#52

two of the people mentioned in this jan92 cluster scale-up meeting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13

... later showup at small client/server startup and we get brought in as consultants because they want to do payment transactions on their server. The startup had also invented this technology called "SSL" that they wanted to use; the result is now sometimes called "electronic commerce".

Part of organizing "SSL" for use in "electronic commerce" were several requirements for how it would be deployed and used. For various reasons, immediately several of those requirements were violated ... opening the way for all sorts of compromises. Once the conventions became entrenched it is now nearly impossible to change them ... even tho it allows/enables a wide variety of exploits. for other topic drift ... msic past posts on the subject of "assurance"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#assurance

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Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 29 Dec 2010 10:10:00 -0800
hal9001@PANIX.COM (Robert A. Rosenberg) writes:
Such as you are not allowed to use a skill to win their games when you are playing against them.

IOW: In Poker against other players it is ok to use your skill at the game. Card Counting to keep track of what cards have been dealt is banned when playing Blackjack/21.


re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#36 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#37 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#43 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#44 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#53 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#55 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

when I was undergraduate at the univ. ... the datacenter got a new head ... happened to have been a graduate student of & part of the team that went to Las Vegas to demonstrate the techniques ... and then had lifetime ban from playing at their tables.

in the case of greed and my reference to 30yr old case of industrial espionage and theft of (DASD) trade screts, the judge effectively said that individuals can't be held accountable for stealing extremely valuable items if insufficient countermeasures have been taken (security proportional to risk) ... analogy is minors and swimming pools w/o fences (owners can be held responsible for any drownings, people & greed are no more responsible than minors and swimming pools).

early in the days of SOX there was big deal made that the (onerous) additional auditing would prevent most of the public company fraudulent reporting ... along with SEC oversight and the additional provisions for sending executives to jail.

GAO reports shows that there has been actual increase in fraudulent reporting after SOX ... with apparently little SEC oversight and nobody sent to jail.

There have been a few multi-hundred million fines reported ... but it had little effect on the individuals or corporations involved, i.e. 1) low probability of fine or other punitive action, 2) individuals getting multi-hundred million compensation didn't have to return the money (or go to jail), and 3) many cases corporations involved multi-hundred billions ... so even in the rare cases of a fine ... the fine could be considered a very small percent cost of doing business.

There have been jokes about "RICO" may be necessary, in combination with high precentage of activity actually being prosecuted ... i.e. executives actually going to jail and three times the money involved be confiscated (instead of a rare cases involving fines that are very small percentage of the actual money).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act

of course when they are systemic important, too-big-to-fail institutions ... that the gov. is already leaning over backwards to keep afloat, it can become awkward i.e. the four largest had aggregate $5.2T in toxic assets being held "off-books", a few deals with several tens of billions had gone for 22 cents on the dollar; TARP wouldn't have dented the problem ... so they had to re-purpose the TARP funds; after a lot of legal action, FEDRES has recently been forced to divulge some of what it has been doing, including quietly buying up these toxic assets at 98cents on the dollar. recent post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#17
mentioning old article about the $5.2T (toxic assets held "off-book")
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
and some of the recently divulged FEDRES activity
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/1201/Federal-Reserve-s-astounding-report-We-loaned-banks-trillions

there was recently some cases of DEA following money trail (used to buy planes involved in drug smuggling) to some of these too-big-to-fail institutions. Rather than throwing the executives in jail and shutting down the institutions (for criminal activity), they effectively asked the institutions if they would please stop. recent post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#24

a few of the news items:

Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal - Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/banks-financing-mexico-s-drug-cartels-admitted-in-wells-fargo-s-u-s-deal.html
Wall Street Is Laundering Drug Money And Getting Away With It
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zach-carter/megabanks-are-laundering_b_645885.html?show_comment_id=53702542
Too Big to Jail - How Big Banks Are Turning Mexico Into Colombia
http://www.taipanpublishinggroup.com/tpg/taipan-daily/taipan-daily-080410.html
Banks Financing Mexico Drug Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/06/28/bloomberg1376-L4QPS90UQVI901-6UNA840IM91QJGPBLBFL79TRP1.DTL

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Boeing Plant 2 ... End of an Era

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 29 Dec, 2010
Subject: Boeing Plant 2 ... End of an Era
Blog: Greater IBM
re:
http://www.rbogash.com/Plant%202/2Plant2.html

In the 60s, I did stint in the corporate hdqtrs bldg next door, helping with the startup of Boeing Computer Services (although official company website says that it wasn't officially formed until the following year)

When I came in, corporate hdqtr datacenter was a 360/30 that was used for company payroll. The machine room was extended for a 360/67 "simplex" and I setup & supported CP67 virtual machine ... for online "service bureau" operation. I was among the initial dozen or so "BCS" employees.

That summer, the 360/67 "duplex" in Boeing Huntsville was also moved to Seattle. I also got to periodically visit the Renton datacenter ... at the time, I thought to be the largest in the world. They claimed something like $200m-$300m in IBM equipment. 360/65 orders were arriving faster than they could be installed. All summer there appeared to always parts of 2-3 360/65 sitting around in the hallways (outside the datacenter) waiting to be installed.

747 "3" could be seen periodically flying certification flts in the Seattle skys. Boeing was also in the process of planning for replicated the Renton datacenter up at the new 747 plant. There is a disaster scenario where Mt. Rainier warms up causing a huge mud slide that takes out the Renton datacenter (some estimate that the loss of the Renton datacenter for a week costs the company more than the cost of replicating the center).

In the 80s, I sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM ... and more recently one of Boyd's biographies mentions that he did a stint in charge of "spook base" (about the time I was at Boeing) ... and "spook base" was a $2.5B windfall for IBM ($17+B in today's dollars). I've commented that windfall would have help offset the enormous losses of the failed "Future System" effort. misc. past posts mentioning Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys

misc. past posts mentioning Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html

I had tripped across this description of NKP (aka spook base) ... which has since gone 404 ... but lives on at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html

mentions sophisticated dual 360/65 (and some number of other pieces of IBM equipment) ... by itself, it couldn't account for $2.5B

and for 747 trivia ... the cockpit was above to allow for nose door opening & loading/unloading for freight. also the tour of the passenger version mockup .... part of the presentation was that there was so many passengers that 747 would always be serviced by at least four jetways (when was the last time you saw four jetways for a plane?)

posts from earlier this year on 747 freight version
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#54 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#55 Favourite computer history books?

including this reference:
http://www.airways.ch/files/2005/0805/001/boeing-airbus-freighter.htm
from above:
The 747 was originally conceived as a freighter for the USAF and that when Boeing lost, to the Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, it took the losing design and turned it into a passenger airliner -- which is why the 747 has a nose-door, and why the cockpit is perched on the top of the fuselage, where drag, cockpit-noise and visibility are at their worst

... snip ...

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I actually miss working at IBM

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 29 Dec, 2010
Subject: I actually miss working at IBM
Blog: Greater IBM
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#79 I actually miss working at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#50 I actually miss working at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#52 I actually miss working at IBM

There were a number of "fast-track" positions .... as previously mentioned ... I would never have been considered for any of them (having been repeatedly told over the years that I had no career in the company), however I would be periodically asked if I had any recommendations for fast-track positions. These were typically middle to upper management position where somebody would be placed for 6-12 months before being moved to the next position. It turned out to frequently be a disaster for the organization that would have its upper level management designated as "fast-track" position (with the frequent churn of people w/o experience passing thru the position)

with respect to "fast track" ... it was at least going on in the '80s and numerous of the accounts of the Future System was that the failure cast a dark shadow over the corporate culture that lasted for decades. misc. past posts mentioning Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys

I mention in the "Boeing Plant 2" discussion about Boyd, "spook base", "$2.5B windfall for IBM", "Future System" and having sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM in the '80s.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#59 Boeing Plant 2 ... End of an Era

This is quote supposedly from the dedication of Boyd Hall, United States Air Force Weapons School, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. 17 September 1999
"There are two career paths in front of you, and you have to choose which path you will follow. One path leads to promotions, titles, and positions of distinction.... The other path leads to doing things that are truly significant for the Air Force, but the rewards will quite often be a kick in the stomach because you may have to cross swords with the party line on occasion. You can't go down both paths, you have to choose. Do you want to be a man of distinction or do you want to do things that really influence the shape of the Air Force? To be or to do, that is the question." Colonel John R. Boyd, USAF 1927-1997

The To be or to do has somewhat turned into a theme. Note however, the Air Force had pretty much disowned Boyd while he was alive and it was the Marines that were out in force at Arlington in 1997 ... and Boyd's papers and effects went to the Marine library at Quantico.

misc. past posts mentioning Boyd:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html

"water under the bridge" may be my middle name ... I was accused of spending too much time on it in the days of the internal network .... and then afterwards on public networks. This is profile from ibm systems mag ... although some of the info is slightly garbled
https://web.archive.org/web/20190524015712/http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/stoprun/Stop-Run/Making-History/
and then there is this that is slightly related (gone 404)
https://web.archive.org/web/20110727105535/http://www.mainframezone.com/blog/mainframe-hall-of-fame-four-new-members-added/
full list
https://www.enterprisesystemsmedia.com/mainframehalloffame

Boyd is credited with battle plan for Desert Storm and in the more recent conflicts there have been comments that a major problem is that Boyd had died in '97. Boyd's is one of the few "shrines" in the lobby of the library at Quantico. There was a two day "Boyd" meeting in Oct at the "university" across the street from the library. Quite something for an air force fighter pilot.

Within a couple months of joining IBM I was asked to take a management position. I asked to read the manager's manual and then told them that my supervisor experience was based on being foreman on construction crew and resolving issues in the parking lot. I was never asked again to take a management position.

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Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and maybe even an O)

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 29 Dec, 2010
Subject: Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and maybe even an O)
Blog: Boyd's Strategy
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#14 Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and mayby even an O)

Little digression with respect to "Iconoclast" and the example of feynman, o-rings, and the challenger disaster. There was article at the time with theme that how o-rings operated was obfuscation and misdirection. It had a parody with influential member of the Queen's court convincing her that columbus ships should be built up in the mountains (where the trees were) and then be sawed into three pieces for transportation to the harbor; where the three pieces were glued back together (reference that congressional influence played a part in choice of company doing booster rockets, which required them to built in sections because of transportation limitations between the Rockies and launch pad ... as opposed to alternatives that would be built as single unit).

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Is email dead? What do you think?

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 29 Dec, 2010
Subject: Is email dead? What do you think?
Blog: Greater IBM
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#39 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#45 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#46 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#48 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#49 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#51 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#54 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#57 Is email dead? What do you think?

Part of the issue was that VTAM & NCP didn't support networking (layer, ala OSI model) and distributed ... it was basically mainframe terminal controller.

In some sense HASP/JES2 "networking" was much more analogous to the pre-tcp/ip arpanet. The JES2 networking had evolved from HASP networking ... the source of which tended to included the four letters "TUCC" out in cols. 68-71. Part of the issue is that HASP/JES2 job control was intermixed with networking fields ... as a result, traffic that originated at a site at different release level from the receiving site ... would frequently result in the receiving site crashing. On the internal network this resulted in JES sites be restricted to boundary nodes with special VM370 nodes in front. The VM370 networking had much more cleanly separated the function ... and as a result a whole body of non-VM370 drivers grew up for VM370 networking to support talking to HASP/JES. Over time, these vm370 "NJI" drivers would contain code to convert NJI specific fields into canonical form and then the vm370 NJI driver directly talking to a receiving JES host ... would convert into format specific for that JES release (otherwise the whole MVS system comes crashing down). misc. past posts mentioning internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet

There was infamous case of new JES release installed in San Jose resulting in crashing MVS systems in Hursley ... and the Hursley VM370 systems being blamed because they hadn't be adequately modified (to prevent the Hursley MVS systems from crashing). some past posts mentioning HASP/JES
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp

For political correctness ... in the 80s on BITNET & EARN ... the VM370 product moved to just shipping the HASP/JES NJI compatible drivers (even for vm370 to vm370) .... even tho they had much less thruput and performance than the native vm370 drivers.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet

For other topic drift ... at one time I had tried to get a project going that took SSCP/NCP (pu4/pu5) emulation implemented on Series/1 and turn it out as product; the Series/1 implementation simulated NCP w/cross-domain to host VTAM ... and carried SNA RUs within a real networking infrastructure (resources were actually owned within the outboard network). I was planning on quickly moving the Series/1 implementation to RIOS ... further enormously increasing performance, price/performance and function. Old post with part of presentation that I had made in '86 to the SNA architecture review board ... this alternative had enormous advantages (including an underlying infrastructure that has real networking)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#67
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#70

the resulting politics would be something out of truth is stranger than fiction.

... other trivia from outcome of being blamed for online computer conferencing (on the internal network) in late 70s and early 80s ... was a corporate "task force". brought in as consultants were two NJIT professors that were authors of "The Network Nation"
https://www.amazon.com/Network-Nation-Human-Communication-Computer/dp/020103140X

The reference to alternative to vtam/ncp ... it is possible that the communication group already didn't care for me ... part of it may have been HSDT ... which was T1 & higher speeds ... misc. past posts mentioning HSDT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt

recent post with reference to an old announcement from communication group about new "high-speed" online discussion group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#6 When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd

this historical document "Crisis And Change: The Rise And Fall Of IBM"
https://www.ecole.org/en/session/49-the-rise-and-fall-of-ibm
https://www.ecole.org/en/session/49-the-rise-and-fall-of-ibm

refers to major motivation for FS being clone controller business ... quote here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#47 origin of 'fields'?

one could reasonably conclude that a major motivation for the convoluted design of VTAM & NCP was motivated by clone controllers. The above post also mentions as undergraduate being written up as one of four people responsible for producing clone controller and subsequent clone controller business. other past posts mentioning clone controllers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm

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VMSHARE Archives

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 29 Dec, 2010
Subject: VMSHARE Archives
Blog: IBM Historic Computing
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#34 VMSHARE Archives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#35 VMSHARE Archives

Melinda's virtual machine history ("VM and the VM Community: Past, Present, and Future", much of original is in VMSHARE ... but also can be found here:
http://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda#VMHist

also at the above: "Development of 360/370 Architecture: A Plain Man's View" and "What Mother Never old You About VM Service"

Some other Tymshare references (including both IBM and non-IBM system offerings):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare

Tymshare's online vm370 service was in competition with (at least other virtual machine online services) NCSS and IDC. Some that is mentioned here with respect to NOMAD, RAMIS and Focus:
http://corphist.computerhistory.org/corphist/view.php?s=stories&id=139&PHPSESSID=ccd241...
and
http://corphist.computerhistory.org/corphist/view.php?s=stories&id=160&PHPSESSID=ccd241...
also mentioned here:
http://www.decosta.com/Nomad/tales/history.html

Tymshare also had developed its own IBM 370 operating system "GNOSIS" and when Tymshare was sold to MD in 1984, GNOSIS was spun off to Key Logic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOSIS

I was brought in to do audit/review of GNOSIS as part of the spin-off to Key Logic (and still have the original documentation).

Unrelated to IBM hardware, at the time of the sale to MD, Engelbart was at Tymshare ... and I sat up interviews for him at IBM, trying to get IBM to make him an offer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart

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IBM Future System

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 29 Dec, 2010
Subject: IBM Future System
Blog: IBM Historic Computing
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#32 IBM Future System

from same person that brought one of the above FS descriptions ... a description of IBM ACS machine:
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_technical.html

the above web page has a lot of hardware detail comparisons for various IBM (and clone) processors. Sowa's FS reference mentions 3081 had (relative) enormous number of circuits ... also mentioned in above.

more ACS
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs.html

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They've changed the keyboard layout _again_

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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: They've changed the keyboard layout _again_
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:07:13 -0500
jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
Unix didn't use <esc> as a special character?

A Proposal for Character Code Compatibility -- the Original Paper on the ESCape character
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/ESCAPE0.HTM

from the person that brought you

EBCDIC and the P-Bit (The Biggest Computer Goof Ever)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM

other computer history articles
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/HISTORY.HTM

past posts mentioning bob bemer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#26 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#27 Origins of EBCDIC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#39 Mainframe Utility for EBCDIC to ASCII conversion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#41 Disksize history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#63 CAPS Fantasia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#4 Happy DEC-10 Day

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Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 23 Dec, 2010
Subject: Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#21 Ernst & Young called to account -- should Audit firms be investigated for their role in the crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#24 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#28 Ernst & Young called to account -- should Audit firms be investigated for their role in the crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#29 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#31 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#40 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman

Consequences are somewhat countermeasures/deterrent to greed and corruption ... however start of the century has been the moral hazard decade ... individuals and much of wall street realizing that there is little or no consequences to their actions (reminds me of old book "Robber Barons" about the early part of the last century) something from summer 2009:

The Baseline Scenario; What happened to the global economy and what we can do about it; Secrecy and Moral Hazard
http://baselinescenario.com/2009/08/31/secrecy-and-moral-hazard/

includes references to FED fighting court order to divulge what it has been doing ... some of it finally showing up more than year later:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/1201/Federal-Reserve-s-astounding-report-We-loaned-banks-trillions

mentioned in this post (in ibm mainframe group) ... regarding effectively ignoring various activities of too-big-to-fail institutions:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#58

more recent "baseline" mention of too-big-to-fail:

Bankers' Pay On The Line Again
http://baselinescenario.com/2010/12/23/bankers-pay-on-the-line-again/

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ibm 2321 (data cell)

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 30 Dec, 2010
Subject: ibm 2321 (data cell)
Blog: IBM Historic computing
The univ. library (where i was undergraduate) got an ONR grant to do online catalog ... and some of the money went for a ibm 2321 data cell ... some pictures and further 2321 details
http://members.optushome.com.au/intaretro/2321DCD.htm
and
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/datacell.html
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2321_Data_Cell

Some of the old-timers are passing on, one of the original CICS people had extensive information at his webpages. Now he has gone, the pages have gone 404 ... but they still live on at the wayback machine ... i.e.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070216111715/http://www.yelavich.com/
CICS information
https://web.archive.org/web/20050407233731/www.yelavich.com/4100cont.htm
CICS history
https://web.archive.org/web/20050409124902/www.yelavich.com/cicshist.htm

some of my past posts mentioning CICS (and/or BDAM)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#cics

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My Funniest or Most Memorable Moment at IBM

From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 30 Dec, 2010
Subject: My Funniest or Most Memorable Moment at IBM
Blog: Greater IBM
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#1 My Funniest or Most Memorable Moment at IBM

In the very early 70s, I used to have regular weekend and evening (dedicated, stand-alone) time on the science center's 360/67. The science center was on the 4th flr of 545 tech sq ... but the machine room was on the 2nd flr. The machine room had exterior class along two walls .. and a wall of offices along another wall. One of the offices was effectively a small tape library ... which I had to periodic access for "backup" tapes ... to restore system to previous production version (after I had built some new flavor for testing).

The tape library door would sometimes be locked ... so I would have to go up and over the wall through the ceiling tiles. One weekend, it was late at night and I found the door was locked. I was tired and not feeling like going over the top ... so I kicked the door once right next to the door knob. Now these were solid heavy wood doors ... but the wood split from the top to the bottom along the edge ... and opened. It turns out it was no longer the tape library ... which had been moved to another location in the machine room ... it now held the center's personnel records.

Monday, the door was removed and "tape" was placed across the opening. The "old" door was taken to the 4th floor and used to create a "memorial" table (laid across two, two drawer file cabinets) ... in hallway at one-end of the science center area (stayed there for years, I guess as a reminder to me to not kick a door).

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No command, and control

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 30 Dec, 2010
Subject: No command, and control
Blog: Boyd's Strategy
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#8 No command, and control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#66 No command, and control

for other unrelated drift ...

The Brainy Learning Algorithms of Numenta; How the inventor of the PalmPilot studied the workings of the human brain to help companies turn a deluge of data into business intelligence.
http://www.technologyreview.com/business/26811/?p1=BI

some related to previous post (some amount of the stuff is coming from what has been learned from past decade MRI studies of the human brain and how it operates)

New Cognitive Robotics Lab Tests Theories of Human Thought
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101230114808.htm

a lot of more recent technlogy projects are possibly by people w/o the needed experience and/or motivation ... recent reference to growing culture of failure (including finding that there is more money in failures than in successes). recent post in computer architecture (including lots of processor engineers) discussion group (about former gov. employees showing up in silicon valley):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#5
including this reference to Success of Failure article
http://www.govexec.com/management/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/

possible major difference between many of the failed efforts and the more successful ones ... is people with necessary experience in the actual subject.

there are a numbers of forces at play. one of the reports in the wake of the 1990 census claimed half the 18yr olds were functionally illiterate, another report from the same period said that foreign auto makers setting up in the US had to require junior college degree in order to get workers with high school education. recent reports are that the quality of us math and science education ranks 52nd.

also in the 90s there a number of gov. organizations claiming that they were replacing their large mainframes with commodity consumer desktop technology ... because they had open vacancies for extended period of time, that they were unable to fill (sort of leading edge of experienced baby boomer retirements) ... only people coming in for interviews were much lower skilled and educated.

one of the major national financial networks in the 90s attributed (we had periodic meetings with the person running the operation) having 100% availability for extended number of years to
• ims hot-standby • automated operator

hardware and software had gotten to point that failures and outages were primarily 1) environmental and 2) human mistakes

environmental were things like power outages, earthquakes, floods, etc. ims hot-standby provided replicated operation at geographically separated locations.

automated operator replaced a large number of manual operations (eliminating human mistakes).

the peson running the operation periodically claimed that the (remaining) #1 risk to the operation was looming retirements of the experience people (their houses were paid for and all the children were through college)

old presentation from 1984 about outages increasingly shifting to environmental and human error (with advances addressing the other kinds of failure modes)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/grayft84.pdf

there is somebody that i've worked with in the past that had been in ARPA and claimed credit for much of COTS. In theory, COTS was to free up money so that be used more effectively ... didn't turn out as expected.

a lot of outsourcing activity is similar to what has happened with COTS. there is instance of major national financial institution that "outsourced" much of the Y2K remediation for critical infrastructure to the lowest bidder. They found out much later that the operation was front for criminal organization (when they found extra special surprises left in the software)

,,, and a couple other past posts from earlier this year mentioning the federal gov. Success of Failure culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#19 STEM crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#78 TCM's Moguls documentary series

as an aside, in Boyd briefings ... he would mention being accused of supporting "technology for the sake of technology" (things like heavy use of supercomputers as part of F16 design) ... and gave as counter example his early opposition to F16 heads-up-display. It wasn't so much the HUD technology ... but the people behind the HUD technology had no concept what a fighter pilot was about ... and the information being displayed turned out to be more of interference/distraction than a help. It wasn't until people that understood about being a fighter pilot became involved ... that the HUD information became useful.

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VMSHARE Archives

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 30 Dec, 2010
Subject: VMSHARE Archives
Blog: IBM Historic computing
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#34 VMSHARE Archives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#35 VMSHARE Archives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#63 VMSHARE Archives

I would periodically drop by Tymshare for one reason or another. One of the visits they demo'ed/talked about a new game. They got it off Stanford PDP machine and put it up on their PDP machine and also ported it to vm370/cms. They told story that when Tymshare executives first heard about customers "playing" games on CMS ... they said that games should be removed because they weren't business professional. Then they told the executives that game playing had grown to 30%(?) of their revenue ... and the executives changed their mind. adventure history ...
http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/a_history.html

I then started looking to get a copy of the source ... faster than waiting for Tymshare to send me a tape. I finally got a copy from an IBM location in UK ... where somebody walked the copy from customer machine over to the IBM machine. A couple old emails
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email780405b at 8:08 am (west coast time)
response
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email780405 at 9:36

I then made executable available on a number of machines and made it available for distribution on the internal network ... and said that I would send the source to anyone that demonstrated that they had finished the game with all points.

Some number of internal locations had issue with apparent employee mania for playing the game

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Domain Name of Russia's Largest Online Payment Processor Hijacked

From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 31 Dec, 2010
Subject: Domain Name of Russia's Largest Online Payment Processor Hijacked
Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security
Domain Name of Russia's Largest Online Payment Processor Hijacked
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Domain-Name-of-Russia-s-Largest-Online-Payment-Processor-Hijacked-175471.shtml

note that this is actually one of the things that SSL was designed to deal with ... although there is vulnerability that hijackers (once they've hijacked the domain) could followup getting a valid digital certificate from one of the Certification Authorities.

What you missed: A major Internet security hole was finally plugged
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/032311-fraudulent-certificates-issued-for-major.html

some of the DNSSEC related proposals included countermeasures to Domain Name Hijacking ... which would help close exploit involving certificate authorities giving valid digital certificate to the hijackers ... misc of past posts mentioning that it could represent a catch-22 for the industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#catch22

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Mainframe discussion with lots of CP67 & VM370 mention

From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 31 Dec, 2010
Subject: Mainframe discussion with lots of CP67 & VM370 mention
Blog: z/VM
x-over from some other linkedin discussion groups about cp67 at boeing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#59 Boeing Plant 2 ... End of an Era

while at Boeing, I made several CP67 enhancements, including

• kernel "BALR" linkages ... previously all internal kernel calls were via SVC, the change significantly reduced a lot of "remaining" CP67 overhead (I had previously done significant kernel pathlength reduction). This was picked up and shipped in cp67

• pageable kernel ... reducing the fixed storage kernel footprint ... more significant on the 512kbyte and 768kbyte storage sizes. this didn't show up in product until vm370

• symbolic loadmap ... as part of doing pageable kernel ... the kernel build software received control from loader routine ... which actually passed in registers its internal symbol table used for loading & resolving symbols. I appended this to the end of the pageable kernel image written to disk. This was available for symbolic use during live execution and also as part of dump processing. This didn't ship in VM370

... later I did make the "symbolic loadmap" changes available for internal vm370 datacenters ... and used it (if available) in my IPCS replacement ... DUMPRX ... misc. past posts mentioning DUMPRX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dumprx

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zLinux OR Linux on zEnterprise Blade Extension???

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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 31 Dec, 2010
Subject: zLinux OR Linux on zEnterprise Blade Extension???
Blog: Mainframe Zone
for the fun of it ... recent post in (linkedin) "Greater IBM" group ("Is email dead"?) discussion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#62

mentions JES2/NJI on the internal network as well as SNA (vtam/ncp) not being "real" networking (along with trying to get out real networking product that simulated NCP to boundary VTAM mainframe nodes).

The original mainframe tcp/ip was on vm370 implemented in pascal/vs ... and could be crippled in various ways. I then added the RFC1044 support to the product and in some tests at cray research ... between 4341 and cray ... got channel media speed thruput with aporox. 500 times improvement in number of instructions executed per byte moved. misc. past post mentioning RFC10444 support

https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044 The base VM TCP/IP was made available on MVS by coding a simulation for VM diagnose function.

The Greater IBM support also mentions that convoluted/baroque pur/pu5 support could be considered furthering the "future system" objectives and countermeasure to clone controllers.

Calling it SNA networking is somewhat oxymoron. In the early days of SNA ... my wife was co-author of AWP39 ... basically real network ... but since communication group was referring to large "terminal control" infrastructure as networking ... AWP39 had to be differentiated by calling it "peer-to-peer networking" (which is nominal assumed in other environments).

Later she was con'ed into doing a stint in POK in charge of loosely-coupled achitecture ... and produced Peer-Coupled Shared Data architecture ... which saw little uptake, except for IMS hot-standby, until sysplex. There were also periodic battles with the communication group over mandates to implement loosely-coupled controls with SNA; there would be temporary truces where she could use anything she wanted within the datacenter ... but SNA had to be used when crossing the walls of the datacenter. Lack of update and battles over SNA contributed to her not remaining long. misc. past posts mentioning Peer-Coupled Shared Data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata

for random drift ... some context about AWPs ... much later APPN was AWP164.

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