From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 01 Jan 2013 Subject: IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees Blog: IBMersre:
There had been some use of securitized mortgages during the S&L crisis
to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages. In the late 90s, I had been
asked to work on improving the integrity of the securitized mortgage
supporting documents ... as countermeasure to such
fraud. However, in the congressional hearings into the pivotal role
that the rating agencies played in the economic mess, the testimony
was that the sellers were paying the rating agencies for triple-A when
both the sellers and the rating agencies knew that they weren't worth
triple-A. It turns out that triple-A rating trumps documentation and
loan originators could start doing no-documentation loans. With
no-documentation ... there is no longer an issue with integrity of the
documents. A big motivation for paying for the triple-A ratings was to
open the toxic CDO (securitized mortgage) market to large
institutional retirement funds and other operations that are
restricted to only dealing in such "safe" investments
... significantly contributed to being able to being able to do $27T
in triple-A rated toxic CDOs during the mess:
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
also with triple-A rating, the loan originators no longer needed to
care about loan quality and/or borrowers qualifications (as well as no
documentation). Number one on times list of those responsible for the
financial mess:
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877339,00.html
The issue of gov. forcing CRA loans is well under hundred billion and is primarily obfuscation and misdirection. Those loans don't even make a ripple in the economy compared to the $27T in triple-A rated toxic CDOs. AT $1B/inch, the CRA activity is well under a 100inch wave compared to the half-mile high tsunami wave from the $27T triple-A rated toxic CDOs.
The GAO reports are on public company financial restatements because the original public company financial statements were incorrect (either because of fraud and/or accounting errors). Under SOX, executives and auditors are liable for jail terms for filing incorrect financial statements ... but nothing was being done. Nearly all of the incorrect financial statements had corporations doing significantly better than shown in the restatements. News articles at the time of the reports were that major motivation for the fraudulent financial statements was to increase top executive bonuses ... and that even after the restatements (showing actual and primarily poorer corporate performance), the inflated bonuses weren't retracted.
At the time of passing of SOX, the joke was that nothing would actually change ... that SOX was just a full employment gift to the audit lobby. In 2004, I was invited to European conference of the CEOs and presidents of major European company and exchanges. The primary discussion was that SOX audit requirements (and costs) were leaking into Europe (issues with international corporations and cross-border operation). My discussion was how to fraudulently create audit records that would pass SOX audit ... assuming that auditors weren't part of the fraud. However, much of the events since then is that auditors and regulators weren't doing anything ... back to the original joke at the time SOX passed that it was purely a full-employment gift to the audit lobby.
from:
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-06-1079sp
... 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 ...
SOX requires that SEC investigate to determine whether fraud and/or accounting errors ... but SEC wasn't doing anything. These are just GAO review of restatements not all public company financial statements (which also had nothing being done about).
for other drift ... there is a similar discussion in (linkedin) "Greater IBM" group started by this Forbes article:
IBM Leader in Gutting 401(k)s
http://www.forbes.com/sites/edwardsiedle/2012/12/18/ibm-leader-in-gutting-401ks/
with some cross-over from this group's discussion ... but w/o the books & articles references showing how things have gone downhill for workers over the past three decades.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 01 Jan 2013 Subject: IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees Blog: IBMersre:
The onerous audit provisions in SOX was supposedly justified that they would prevent any more erroneous public company financial filings ... in part (supposedly) by guaranteeing that top executives and auditors would do jail time. The GAO reports only looked at very small percentage of public company financial filings ... but showed that erroneous public company financial filings actually increased after SOX passed ... which would seem to negate the stated justification for having SOX .... however it did have a built in assumption that the SEC would actually do something.
Early 1980s there was a call for a 100% unearned profit tax on the US auto industry. The justification was that the foreign import quotas stated purpose was to reduce competition and give the industry highly profitable years where they would use the money to completely remake themselves. Instead the excess profits was used for executive compensation and stock dividends. Nearly a decade later, in 1990 the US auto industry had the C4 taskforce to completely remake themselves. Since they were planning on heavily leveraging technology ... representatives from major technology vendors were asked to participate. In the taskforce meetings, the industry could accurately describe the competitive landscape, the state of the US auto industry compared to the foreign competition ... and what the US auto industry needed to do to become competitive. However, the vested interests were too strong and they still weren't able to make the changes.
However, part of the issue was that the industry had restructured how it accounted for its business ... so that the profit from actually making and selling automobile is only 10% that of the profit from selling the auto loan. Something similar happened in the restructuring of GE during the same period ... where GE Financial accounting for half the bottom line (i.e. shifting the accounting so that the making and selling of something is cut to the bone ... and increasing amount of profit shows up as from the associated financial transaction which also has only a very tiny percentage of the employees). It is one of the reasons why ILCs came to be such prized commodities ... allowing the institutional owner to be able to originate loans in all 50 states w/o needing 50 individual state charters and/or a federal charter (auto loan origination wasn't nearly on the same magnitude as the mortgage origination problem).
The airline industry has done something similar. In the mid-90s, we were asked in to look at the ten impossible things in the largest airline reservation system. It turns out it was in period of time when the airline operation was loosing money but the parent company was making a significant profit because the profit made by the reservation system selling tickets. BTW. after two months, I returned with a completely different implementation that did all ten impossible things ... achieved by totally changing the approach and paradigm (which essentially hadn't changed since the 60s). They wanted it to disappear since it effectively commoditized the business ... ran 100 times faster as well as automating an enormous number of manual operations.
Note the above referenced article (and associated graphics)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/jobs-will-follow-a-strengthening-of-the-middle-class.html
effectively has had US worker compensation (pay plus benefits) essentially nearly flat since the late 70s.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Search Google, 1960:s-style Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:17:01 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
also ...
FBI knew of assassination plot against Occupy but gave no warning
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/340232
FBI investigated Occupy Wall Street as 'domestic terrorists'
http://digitaljournal.com/article/339723
FBI Documents Reveal Secret Nationwide Occupy Monitoring
http://www.justiceonline.org/commentary/fbi-files-ows.html
... and
Will The Next Bear Market Be A Planned Event Or A Failure Of Central Planning?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-01/guest-post-will-next-bear-market-be-planned-event-or-failure-central-planning
Will the Next Bear Market be a Planned Event or a Failure of Central Planning?
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2013/01/will-next-bear-market-be-planned-event.html
from above:
Consider the possibility that the banksters now effectively control the
stock market in ways never before possible, using the NY Fed acting in
concert with the dark pools, offshore shell companies and pass-through
entities, PTFs, and high-frequency trading (HFT) via the for-profit
exchanges. How much would it "cost" the primary dealers to manage the
markets using leveraged derivatives, assuming a complicit counterparty
or counterparties?
... snip ...
and from "Economists and the Powerful" pg88/loc1765-71:
To this day, the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks, which are in charge
of regulating banks, are owned and governed by their member
banks. Before the subprime crisis, this fact was never advertised and
often concealed by the pretence that the Federal Reserve System was a
public institution. It became a little more widely known when Stephen
Friedman, board member and former head of Goldman Sachs, was forced to
step down in 2009 as the chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York. He had overstepped by making large deals with Goldman
shares while presiding over the board of a Federal Reserve, which was
intimately involved in rescuing the financial sector (including Goldman)
with large amounts of public money. The Friedman case exposed the fact
that there are no safeguards against bankers using their control over
the Federal Reserve Banks to promote the interest of banks at the
expense of the public.
... snip ...
as well as pg56/1177-80
In July 2009, Sergey Aleynikov, a US and Russian national, was arrested
on charges of theft just after he left his job as a programmer at
Goldman Sachs. He had copied the trading program of the firm, on which
he had been working, and transferred it to a server in Germany. What
makes this case interesting is the warning that prosecutor Joseph
Faccioponte issued based on information from Goldman Sachs. He said that
because of the way this software interfaces with the various markets and
exchanges it could be used to "manipulate markets in unfair ways."
... snip ...
some followup:
Dear SEC, This Is HFT "Cheating" At Its Most Obvious. Regards, Everyone Else
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-04/dear-sec-hft-cheating-its-most-obvious-regards-everyone-else
The HFT-Induced Extinction Of Retail Investors
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-06/guest-post-hft-induced-extinction-retail-investors
High-frequency stock trading of little value to investors, public
http://news.illinois.edu/news/13/0110highfrequencytrading_MaoYe.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Is Microsoft becoming folklore? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:40:55 -0500hancock4 writes:
Also, the internal politics during FS killing off &/or suspending 370 efforts is credited with giving clone processors a market foothold.
with the demise of FS, there was a mad rush to get products back into
the 370 product pipelines ... both kicking off 3033 (remaped 370/168
logic remapped to 20% faster chips) and 3081 (other warmed over FS
technology). some discussed here
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
the enormous convoluted complexity of SNA and the vtam/ncp implementation is given as example of the FS objectives that continued after the demise of FS.
past posts mentioning Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
However, during the 3033 product cycle (and later into 3081), there were microcode features added to 3033 for MVS operation that have been claimed to specifically be to thwart clone processor competition (folklore that some of the 3033/mvs microcode features were claimed to be justified on providing faster performance, actually resulted in slower performance). Futhermore, latest releases with the newest features were done such that they wouldn't operate w/o the latest microcode enhancements.
Later in the early 80s, there was foklore that one of the clone processor competitors responded to the sporadic microcode changes with "MACROCODE" layer. The highend 370 processors were done with horizontal microcode that was very expensive and time-consuming to change. MACROCODE was a modified 370 instruction set that operated in special hardware mode that could provide microcode like function but w/o the enormous overhead, delay, and expense needed for real (horizontal) microcode development. MACROCODE was so successful that not only did it significantly cut the time&effort to respond to what appeared to be the nearly constant IBM (hardware/microcode) feature changes, but also allowed the development of their own vendor specific added value features (an example was the machine/microcode hypervisor)
misc. past posts mentioning macrocode:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#44 Linux paging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#48 Linux paging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#9 Mainframe System Programmer/Administrator market demand?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#56 Wild hardware idea
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#59 Misuse of word "microcode"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#60 Misuse of word "microcode"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#24 Description of a new old-fashioned programming language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#14 Multicores
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#29 Documentation for the New Instructions for the z9 Processor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#40 POWER6 on zSeries?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#43 POWER6 on zSeries?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#48 POWER6 on zSeries?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#38 blast from the past ... macrocode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#9 Mainframe Jobs Going Away
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#32 Code density and performance?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#35 Code density and performance?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#39 Using different storage key's
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#42 old hypervisor email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#33 Assembler question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#34 Assembler question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#20 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#1 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#3 Has anyone ever used self-modifying microcode? Would it even be useful?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#9 Has anyone ever used self-modifying microcode? Would it even be useful?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#84 VLIW pre-history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#74 Non-Standard Mainframe Language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#96 some questions about System z PR/SM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#32 New Opcodes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#33 New Opcodes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#42 New Opcodes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#26 Op codes removed from z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#27 CPU time/instruction table
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#74 z millicode: where does it reside?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#93 Irrational desire to author fundamental interfaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#102 Question on PR/SM dispatcher
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 02 Jan 2013 Subject: HSBC's Settlement Leaves Us In A Scary Place Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security... note cumulative thread started 12Dec
HSBC's Settlement Leaves Us In A Scary Place
http://compliancex.com/hsbcs-settlement-leaves-us-in-a-scary-place/
Stories dating back a couple years referencing how TBTF drug cartel money laundering is turning Mexico into Colombia: GLBA -> repeal glass-steagall -> TBTF -> too-big-to-jail -> big upswing in drug cartel money laundering -> bug upswing in cartel drug violance
Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213
Neil Barofsky: Too Big to Jail -- Our Banking System's Latest Disgrace
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/neil-barofsky-too-big-to-jail-our-banking-systems-latest-disgrace.html
Note with regard to fraudulent financial filings, possibly because GAO
didn't believe SEC was doing anything, it started doing reports on
public company fraudulent financial filings ... even showing an uptic
after sarbanes-oxley (aka chose 1) SOX had no effect on fraudulent
filings, 2) SOX encouraged fraudulent filings, 3) if it hadn't been
for SOX, all filings would now be fraudulent).
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-03-395R .
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-06-678 .
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-06-1079sp
Bloomberg TV picked up on the too-big-to-jail theme this morning
The Punishment and the Crime; Banks Don't Go to Prison
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/12/21/banks-dont-go-to-prison/
something similar in the libor discussion calling for the death penalty
UBS Libor Manipulation Deserves the Death Penalty
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-23/ubs-libor-manipulation-deserves-the-death-penalty.html
and
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-12-24/does-libor-manipulation-deserve-death-penalty
also, responsible regulators that were informed early and did nothing ... can they be prosecuted under RICO provisions.
tv playing in the background, I'm not paying any attention ... am
using my computer doing other stuff. Something catches my ear and turn
around to check. Leverage (season finale) is playing ... and there are
these (false) flashbacks ... staged events to look like something
else, all obfuscation and misdirection. They are after the world LEO
agencies' file on the investigation of the crimes in the financial
mess where 1000 make off with 1/3rd of the world's wealth. It all
leads up to the team walking off with the physical disk containing the
file (the world LEO agencies decided to deep six the investigations
and not prosecute).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leverage_%28TV_series%29
Number one on times list of those responsible:
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877339,00.html
Wharton article (behind paywall, but lives free at wayback machine)
estimating 1000 responsible for majority of the mess:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080606084328/http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1933
Insight: How Colombian drug traffickers used HSBC to launder money
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/01/us-hsbc-idUSBRE90002Q20130101
from above
But to U.S. authorities the case was anything but ordinary. Chaparro,
prosecutors alleged, helped run a money-laundering ring for drug
traffickers that took advantage of lax controls at UK-based
international banking group HSBC Holdings Plc. It was one of the most
important leads for U.S. investigators pursuing a case against the
bank that eventually led to a $1.9 billion settlement on December 11.
... snip ...
too-big-to-jail
other recent posts mentioning too-big-to-jail:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#20 HSBC, SCB Agree to AML Penalties
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#24 OCC Confirms that Big Banks are Badly Managed, Lack Adequate Risk Management Controls
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#30 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#39 UBS Faces Potential LIBOR Fine Of $1 Billion -- Twice What Barclays Paid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#48 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#62 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#64 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Its the 30th birthday of the ARPANET transition to TCP/IP Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:16:07 -0500re:
some old previously posted email about possible ARPANET service
disruption (sent to csnet-liaisons distribution list)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#email821230
followup that there are still lingering problems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#email830202
old posts with either &/or both of the above:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#18 Is Al Gore The Father of the Internet?^
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#3 Arpa address
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Is Microsoft becoming folklore? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:42:47 -0500Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
for a time, the person responsible for APPN and I reported to the same person ... I kept needling him to come work on "real" networking (aka tcp/ip) and stop trying to add networking to SNA (aka "real" SNA doesn't have a networking layer), and that the SNA crowd was never go to appreciate him. In fact, when it came for APPN to be announce, the SNA group non-concurred (aka didn't want it to be announced). APPN announcement was held up for several weeks ... eventually the APPN announcement letter was released ... carefully crafted as to not imply any relationship between SNA and AAPN.
misc. past posts mentioning APPN
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#51 APPC vs TCP/IP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#53 APPC vs TCP/IP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#89 "Database" term ok for plain files?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#54 WHAT IS A MAINFRAME???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#31 3745 and SNI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002.html#28 Buffer overflow
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#54 Computer Naming Conventions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002c.html#43 Beginning of the end for SNA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#48 Why did OSI fail compared with TCP-IP?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#12 Why did OSI fail compared with TCP-IP?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#48 Why did OSI fail compared with TCP-IP?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#20 Vnet : Unbelievable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#49 unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#9 Why did TCP become popular ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#55 History of Computer Network Industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#2 History of Computer Network Industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#39 Mainframe Emulation Solutions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#12 network history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#31 IBM 3705 and UC.5
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#8 EBCDIC to 6-bit and back
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#9 EBCDIC to 6-bit and back
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#15 DUMP Datasets and SMS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#20 Ethernet, Aloha and CSMA/CD -
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#52 Need Help defining an AS400 with an IP address to the mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#21 Sending CONSOLE/SYSLOG To Off-Mainframe Server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#45 Mainframe Linux Mythbusting (Was: Using Java in batch on z/OS?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#48 6400 impact printer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#49 6400 impact printer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#55 Is computer history taugh now?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#39 sizeof() was: The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#62 Friday musings on the future of 3270 applications
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#46 Are there tasks that don't play by WLM's rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#10 IBM System/3 & 3277-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#42 windows time service
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#61 CHROME and WEB apps on Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#37 What if the computers went back to the '70s too?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#56 When did "client server" become part of the language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#26 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#3 VTAM security issue
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#43 SNA: conflicting opinions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#83 Small Server Mob Advantage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#62 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#29 someone smarter than Dave Cutler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#73 zLinux OR Linux on zEnterprise Blade Extension???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#26 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#92 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#41 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#68 ESCON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#13 Should you support or abandon the 3270 as a User Interface?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#52 PC/mainframe browser(s) was Re: 360/20, was 1132 printer history
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 03 Jan 2013 Subject: From build to buy: American Airlines changes modernization course midflight Blog: IBMersFrom build to buy: American Airlines changes modernization course midflight; The airline's still revamping core legacy apps, only in a different way.
from above:
The plan still calls for a gradual migration off of an inflexible and
outdated mainframe architecture in favor of a modern, distributed
computing platform. But while the FOS focus has always been buy rather
than build whenever possible, the focus for the PSS project has turned
sharply away from rewriting all of the applications that make up the
system in house in favor of buying existing software whenever possible
and modifying it as needed.
... snip ...
you may be interested in this part of one of the latest post in (IBMers) "Here is the Latest Email That Has Outraged Some IBM Employees" discussion (which has gotten quite long-winded and wandered into several aspects of IBM business):
"The airline industry has done something similar. In the mid-90s, we were asked in to look at the ten impossible things in the largest airline reservation system. It turns out it was in period of time when the airline operation was loosing money but the parent company was making a significant profit because the profit made by the reservation system selling tickets. BTW. after two months, I returned with a completely different implementation that did all ten impossible things ... achieved by totally changing the approach and paradigm (which essentially hadn't changed since the 60s). They wanted it to disappear since it effectively commoditized the business ... ran 100 times faster as well as automating an enormous number of manual operations."
... aka the dataprocessing and airline reservation system was separated from the operation of the airline.
posts in that discussion:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#11 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#19 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#64 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#0 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#0 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#1 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
first time I had seem something similar was in summer of 1969 ... while still an undergraduate I was brought in to Boeing (some slight of hand since I was listed as mid-level full-time employee ... even tho I was undergraduate and it was for the summer) to help set up Boeing Computer Services (I was among the first half dozen or so employees). Dataprocessing was being moved into its own unit to help monetize the operation (allowing it to sell services outside the corporation in addition to its internal operational responsibilities). Core of BCS was coporate dataprocessing which had 360/30 for doing payroll. There were all sorts of politics involved taking over dataprocessing in the other operations. Renton datacenter had couple hundred million in 360s ... the summer of 1969, 360/65s were arriving faster than they could be installed ... the halls around the perimeter of the renton datacenter constantly had pieces of 2-3 360/65s waiting to be installed.
Renton datacenter then was in the process of being replicated at the new 747 plant (there is disaster scenario where mt. rainier warms up resulting in massive mud slide that takes out the renton datacenter).
At the time, I thought Renton was possibly the largest 360/mainframe
datacenter in the world. Later I would sponsor Col Boyd's briefings at
IBM ... his biographies has him doing stint in command of "spook base"
(about the same time I was at Boeing) ... also mentions that it was a
$2.5B windfall for IBM (nearly $20B in today's dollars). posts &
URLs from around the WEB mentioning Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Is Microsoft becoming folklore? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:49:37 -0500Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> writes:
there is also the hordes versus small highly skilled & experienced. in many situations the hordes of inexperienced progrommers were given designs that had been "thrown over the wall" (aka all the skill was in the design and thousands of inexperienced programmers were expected to turn out the code like an assembly line).
the argument was used at the science center in the 60s where there was
12 people doing cp67/cms ... and something like 1200 involved in
tss/360. tss/360 was "decommitted" and the group reduced to something
like 20. by the late 70s, the (then) tss/370 had turned into a much
better product ... and early 80s, I was involved in some analysis
comparing tss/370 with the then vm370. a couple old references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#24 mainframe question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#25 mainframe question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#53 TSS/360
of course vm370 had suffered because of the constant threats from POK to kill it off. in the wake of the FS failure ... POK had even convinced corporate to kill vm370, shutdown the development group and move everybody to POK for MVS/XA (or otherwise MVS/XA wouldn't make its ship schedule 7-8 yrs later). Endicott finally was able to save the vm370 product mission ... but had to reconstitute a development group from scratch ... combination of little or no experience or experience in doing totally different kind of operating system (combination severely polluting vm370 product).
there was joke scenario that the frequent near disasters by the hordes in POK resulted in justification in increasing the size of the their organizations (solution was always more people). Executive corporate standing was nearly always proportional to size of the associated organization ... so the more near failures requiring more & more people ... resulted in increasingly higher corporate standing rather than the reverse (in effect efficiently executing a plan with a couple tens of people resulted in less corporate standing). The associated corollary was that heads rolled uphill.
btw, the tss/370 analysis was part of something that was for a time
referred to as "ZM" ... proposing for doing new kernel from scratch,
misc. past posts mentioning "ZM" effort:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#27 VM/SP sites that allow free access?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#25 mainframe question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#53 TSS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#46 Blinking lights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#61 Google Archive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#35 PKI Implementation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#14 Z/OS--anything new?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#56 Reviving Multics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#57 ANN: Microsoft goes Open Source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#63 CHROME and WEB apps on Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#17 Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer (warning: Conley rant)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#72 Entry point for a Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#51 Information on obscure text editors wanted
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#5 Does an 'operator error' counts as a 'glitch?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#20 IBM Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#35 Regarding Time Sharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#57 Regarding Time Sharing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Is Microsoft becoming folklore? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:11:23 -0500Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
A max. configured z196 with 80 processors and rated at 50BIPS has a price tag of $28M ... the 6.25 multiplier implies that total customer costs is closer to $175M for such a system (including software, services and storage).
There has also been claims that there are no more than 10,000 mainframe systems in operation in the world currently. However, the total annual mainframe hardware revenue ... translates into only approx. 180 max. configured z196 systems.
some of the large financial operations have had datacenters with 40 or more max configured mainframe systems (and will have multiple such datacenters) implying a very large chunk of the mainframe business comes from a relatively few very large customers (which are constantly upgrading to the latest hardware). the rest is a whole lot of lingering legacy stuff.
to keep current with maintenance requires periodically upgrading to the latest systems (as maintenance is dropped for older software) ... and even though a lot is made of 1960s customer application software still being able to run on the latest processors ... periodically upgrading to latest system software (to stay with service maintenance) also requires periodically buying new mainframe systems.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 03 Jan 2013 Subject: From build to buy: American Airlines changes modernization course midflight Blog: Enterprise SystemsFrom build to buy: American Airlines changes modernization course midflight; The airline's still revamping core legacy apps, only in a different way.
similar discussion in linkedin IBMers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#7 From build to buy: American Airlines changes modernization course midflight
Note that HP bought EDS, a large dallas mainframe services&consulting firm. EDS had previously been bought by GM and then spun-off ... but with long-term (decade?) EDS contracts. HP is recently in the news this week over several top people leaving and joining GM.
So HP is also major PC company having bought compaq (dec, tandem, etc).
Some of the higher value applications aren't as vendor cost sensitive ... but for those that can be a big issue. max configured z196 with 80 processors is rated at 50BIPS and goes for $28M or $560,000/BIPS.
Major blade server component in clouds and other distributed efforts is e5-2600 which has processing rating of 527BIPS and IBM has base price of $1815(although major cloud vendors claim they do blades for 1/3rd the cost of brand name price) or $3.44/BIPS.
FCS effort originally started in 1988 with work on stardardizing some technology in use at LLNL. Later in the 90s, ibm channel engineers became involved with layering protocol on top of FCS ... significantly restricting FCS thruput called FICON.
Recent peak z196 i/o benchmark has 104 FICON channels with 14 storage subsystems and 14 system assist processors peaking at 2M IOPS. However it comments that 14 z196 SAPs peak at 100% busy with 2.2m SSCH/sec and recommends operating SAPs at no more than 70% busy (or 1.5m/sec).
In comparison there was recent (single/individual) FCS (announced for e5-2600) claiming over million IOPS (compared to max 2M IOPS for 104 FICON channels ... FICON being an enormously heavyweight protocol layer on top of underlying FCS).
Further comparison is that IBM aggregate mainframe customer revenue is 6.25 times the base hardware revenue ... rest coming from storage, services, and software ... i.e. the cost of a $28M z196 comes closer to $175M (when the rest of the IBM costs are factored in) or $3.5M/BIPS (compared to $3.44/BIPS for e5-2600)
one of the issues is that for a long time risc processors had significant throughput advantage over 86 processors having had out-of-order execution, branch prediction, speculative executive, etc for decades. However, the recent 86 processor generations have been risc cores with hardware layer translating 86 instructions into risc micro-ops. Part of the issue is the significant cost of cache misses ... when a cache-miss memory access elapsed time is measured in processor cycles ... it tends to be on the same order as the number of 360s processor cycles that it took to do a disk access (in the 60s). out-of-order execution is basically a simple attempt to get additional work done while processor is stalled with instruction waiting for memory operation.
Z10 with 64 processors is rated at 30BIPS or 469MIPS/processor. The z196 with 80 processors is rated a 50BIPS or 625MIPS/processor ... much of the improvement is attributed to the introduction of out-of-order execution (something that has been in risc processors for decades). The zEC12 with 101 processors is rated at 75BIPS or 743MIPS/processor ... again much of the gain is attributed to further improvements of out-of-order technology.
By comparison an e5-2600 blade is dual 8core chips or 16 processors with rating of 527BIPS is 33BIPS/processor ... aka each processor is more than fully configured Z10 ... and the two chips are over ten times that of fully configured z196. Also note that while zEC12 with 75BIPS is 50% more processor than z196 (@50BIPS), the press mentions that it expects only 30% more DBMS throughput (max zEC12 compared to max z196).
There is also recent press that the brand name vendors (HP, IBM, DELL, etc) are no longer the major consumers of server chips ... that the big cloud operations (both private and public) are buying the chips directly and building their own servers ... in some cases hundreds of thousands at a time.
other recent discussions about z196 max i/o benchmark:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#4 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#5 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#13 Intel Confirms Decline of Server Giants HP, Dell, and IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#28 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#43 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#67 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than any of the other countries in the world including the USA.?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#13 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#48 Under what circumstances would it be a mistake to migrate applications/workload off the mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#70 Under what circumstances would it be a mistake to migrate applications/workload off the mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#72 Mainframes are still the best platform for high volume transaction processing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#6 Mainframes are still the best platform for high volume transaction processing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#21 Assembler vs. COBOL--processing time, space needed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#25 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#46 Random thoughts: Low power, High performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#5 What is a Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#12 HCF [was Re: AMC proposes 1980s computer TV series "Halt &Catch Fire"]
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 04 Jan 2013 Subject: How do we fight bureaucracy and bureaucrats in IBM? Blog: IBMersre:
very small part of fighting BUREAUCRACY discussion from Tandem Memos, spring 1981 (which was a decade old at that time ... linkeding/browser/web won't preserve the original spacing)
+-----------------------------------------+ | "BUSINESS ECOLOGY" | | | | | | +---------------+ | | | BUREAUCRACY | | | +---------------+ | | | | is your worst enemy | | because it - | | | | POISONS the mind | | STIFLES the spirit | | POLLUTES self-motivation | | and finally | | KILLS the individual. | +-----------------------------------------+ "I'M Going To Do All I Can to Fight This Problem . . ." by T. Vincent Learson, Chairmanalso redistributed in tandem memos:
"How To Stuff A Wild Duck", 1973, IBM poster
https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18618011/
and as mentioned in Ferguson & Morris book, the internal culture got much worse during Future System effort and the subsequent failure.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 04 Jan 2013 Subject: How do we fight bureaucracy and bureaucrats in IBM? Blog: IBMersre:
sort of goes along with Watson's "Wild Duck" (employees) and the "how
to stuff a wild duck" poster. Note that in the recent IBM centennial
there was a "wild duck" segment ... but it was not an employee (the
idea of non-conformist employee has evaporated) but was a "wild duck"
customer. Post from fall of 2011 in "Greater IBM" group in "What is
IBM culture" ... about "wild duck"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#1
and post with url reference to the "IBM Centennial Film: Wild Ducks"
on youtube
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#30
related post this year in another "Greater IBM" discussion "Original
Thinking Is Hard, Where Good Ideas Come From":
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#59
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#72
above has URL for image of the IBM "how to stuff a wild duck" poster (aka take-off on Learson's bureaucracy "kills" the individual).
and I've reproduced the above post with the spacing preserved in
Learson's poster
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#11
you could declare Jan18 "T. Vincent Learson fight bureaucracy & don't kill the individual" day ... also "Watson don't tame the wild duck" day
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Is Microsoft becoming folklore? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:22:35 -0500Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
one of the people that I had known & worked on&off with since the early 70s had done a lot of work on AFP ... afterwards he wrote some non-mainframe support for AFP output ... being able to archive AFP output as well display/print on wide variety of devices. I did part of the versioning and archiving of different pieces of AFP output. He had some of the major banks & credit card processors as customers. One of the issues was that the contents of a statement was separate from the format and common elements of the statement ... one of the objectives was that help desk and call center support could pull up exact representation on PC display of the customer's credit card &/or bank statement. While the versioning of the statement common elements could change from month to month ... it was necessary to exactly reconstruct the display from the specific version of common elements as well as the customer's specific elements (as well as have call-center support be able to generate exact printed duplicate on non-mainframe printer to mail out as replacement statement).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Is Microsoft becoming folklore? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:34:46 -0500Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> writes:
I had sponsored advanced technlogy conference spring of 1982
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#4a
... first after advanced technology was severely cut back in the wake of
demise of future system effort ... when lots of corporate resources
"pivoted" to mad rush getting products back into the 370 product
pipeline ... some past future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
one of the talks was the vm/370 support for unix (i.e. direct address space fork support, scheduling of the address spaces, concurrent execution, etc).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Search Google, 1960:s-style Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:56:56 -0500re:
White House Petition Pushes For Trillion-Dollar Platinum Coin
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/04/trillion-dollar-coin-petition_n_2409704.html
Trillion dollar coin
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-trillion-dollar-coin-and-the-republican-debt-ceiling-fight-2013-1
Trillion Dollar Coin To Wipe Out U.S. Debt
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1095921-trillion-dollar-coin-to-wipe-out-u-s-debt
Triumphant plutocracy; the story of American public life from 1870 to 1920
http://archive.org/details/triumphantpluto00pettrich
loc754-62:
In 1872, the ring of bankers in New York sent the following circular
to every bank in the United States: "Dear Sir: It is advisable to do
all in your power to sustain such prominent daily and weekly
newspapers, especially the agricultural and religious press, as will
oppose the issuing of greenback paper money, and that you also
withhold patronage or favors from all applicants who are not willing
to oppose the Government issue of money. Let the Government issue the
coin and the banks issue the paper money of the country, for then we
can better protect each other. To repeal the law creating National
Bank notes, or to restore to circulation the Government issue of
money, will be to provide the people with money, and will therefore
seriously affect your individual profit as bankers and lenders. See
your Congressman at once, and engage him to support our interests that
we may control legislation."
leads up to to the deal with wallstreet creating the Federal Reserve.
overall the book reads like precursor to
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405
and the inequality part reads like precursor to
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/jobs-will-follow-a-strengthening-of-the-middle-class.html
extended the graph
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic.html
to higher peaks through much of the 1800s
past posts mentioning "vampire squid" &/or inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#21 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#130 vampires in financial infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#77 Vampire Squid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#7 Adult Supervision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#80 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#3 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#18 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#27 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#1 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#48 Thousands Of IBM Employees Got A Nasty Surprise Yesterday: Here's The Email They Saw
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#7 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#13 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#53 CALCULATORS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#85 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#39 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#42 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#65 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#73 These Two Charts Show How The Priorities Of US Companies Have Gotten Screwed Up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#44 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#64 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#1 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 06 Jan 2013 Subject: From build to buy: American Airlines changes modernization course midflight Blog: IBMersre:
The issue wasn't directly that z196 was only 80 processors ... it was that a max configured z196 was $28M (which happens to be 80 processors) or $175M when fully loaded comes in (based on ratio of all IBM mainframe revenue to just IBM mainframe hardware revenue)... that at 50BIPS rating it comes out to $560,000/BIPS or fully loaded $3.5M/BIPS. Compared to IBM base price of $1815 for e5-2600 blade at 527BIPS which comes out to $3.44/BIPS. Mainframe price/BIPS premium is 1,000,000 times.
At announced annual mainframe hardware revenue, it comes out to be approx. 180 fully configured z196 per year. There as been estimate that there are no more than 10,000 mainframe systems worldwide (of all kinds). If every one was a max configured z196 that would be a world-wide mainframe processing aggregate of 500TIPS ... however, more realistic based on total mainframe sales over past decade, the total world-wide mainframe processing capacity is no more than 5-10TIPS. Any one of the large number of public cloud mega-datacenters with several millions of cores ... are into the thousands of TIPS range ... (any one of the numerous cloud mega-datacenters has several orders of magnitude more processing than the aggregate of all mainframes in the world today). Recent press is that the brand name vendors (HP, DELL, IBM, etc) are no longer the major customer of server chips ... it is the big cloud operations (both private and public) that build their own servers ... which have claimed that they build their servers at 1/3rd the price of brand name servers ... that would put mainframe processor capacity at 3,000,000 times price premium over what is being deployed in large cloud operations (as well as several orders of magnitude short in processing capacity).
disclaimer: long ago and far away, my wife was con'ed into going to
POK to be responsible for loosely-coupled architecture where she
created Peer-Coupled Shared Data architecture. She didn't remain long,
in part because of poor uptake (except for IMS hotstandy) until
SYSPLEX. misc. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata
when we were doing High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing scale-up, I was asked to
do write a section for the corporate continuous availability
strategy document ... however the section was pulled when both
Rochester and POK complained that they couldn't meet the same
requirements (either in terms of availability or aggregate processing
capacity for both DBMS operation as well as scientific and numeric
intensive). misc. past ha/cmp posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
and continuous availability posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#available
Note that aa/saber has been on leading/bleading edge for loosely-coupled scale-up and availability for decades. One of my wife's failures while in POK and responsible for loosely-coupled architecture was fixing trotter (aka 3088, 8-way ctca) ... mainstream was focused on faster processors and not multiple cec operation, trotter being minimum necessary over ctca to expand to 8-way interconnect). For a time, AA/saber ran HYPERchannel as interconnect for mainframe system scale-up (in part because of 3088 shortcomings).
misc. past posts mentioning e5-2600 $3.44/BIPS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#95 printer history Languages influenced by PL/1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#96 The older Hardware school
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#20 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#27 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#28 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#42 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#51 Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#81 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#13 Intel Confirms Decline of Server Giants HP, Dell, and IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#31 Still think the mainframe is going away soon: Think again. IBM mainframe computer sales are 4% of IBM's revenue; with software, services, and storage it's 25%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#43 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#67 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than any of the other countries in the world including the USA.?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#13 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#44 Under what circumstances would it be a mistake to migrate applications/workload off the mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#48 Under what circumstances would it be a mistake to migrate applications/workload off the mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#25 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#26 Mainframes are still the best platform for high volume transaction processing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 06 Jan 2013 Subject: Still think the mainframe is going away soon: Think again. IBM mainframe computer sales are 4% of IBM's revenue; with software, services, and storage it's 25%. Blog: Enterprise Systemsre:
Note that the issue with z196 @ $3.5M/BIPS and e5-2600 @ $3.44/BIPS isn't two orders of magnitude (aka percents) ... it is six orders of magnitude (factor of million times). Recent news is that major server vendors (HP, DELL, IBM, etc) are no longer the major customer of server processor chips ... it is the large cloud operations (public & private) that are buying the server chips directly and creating their own servers ... they've been claiming that they can do it for 1/3rd the price of brand name servers ... dropping price/BIPS to close to a dollar (factor of 3 million times).
In part because the computer costs have dropped so drastically ... it is becoming relatively small percentage (say couple million for more processing than the aggregate of all mainframes in the world today) of total cloud mega-datacenter cost operation ... as a result the large cloud operations have become the major force behind drastically reducing all the other datacenter costs; power, cooling, administrative, packaging, floor-space, maintenance, etc. Also in the cloud operation with enormous "on-demand" requirements they've also been major driver behind systems designs that drop to near zero power consumption when idle and being able to instantaneously come to full operation.
Various reports over the last year have been about "on-demand" public cloud customers being able to spin-up several hundred TIPS processing capacity (more than the aggregate of all mainframe processing in the world today) for a couple hrs and then turn it off ... all electronically without even speaking to anybody at the cloud vendor (including paying for it with credit card). The going rate has been dropping ... but covers total datacenter costs .... including provisioning and capital costs of idle on-demand resources ... was around $5/TIPS per hr a year ago (aka TIPS is a thousand BIPS)
IBM hardware revenue has been relatively steady for the past several years ... about equally divided between power/risc, i86, and mainframe ... if anything mainframe slightly dropping in absolutely dollars ... which also seems to be a decreasing piece of the computer market ... with previous mention that brand name vendors (HP, DELL, IBM, etc) are no longer the major customers for i86 server chips ... that the big cloud operations (both public and private) now are longer customer base ... also large cloud operation (as well as competition) helping drive lots of the optimization work that has been going on in the server chip market place
I think most recent revenue was 83% software & services and 17% everything else ... with 4% being mainframe hardware ... leaving 13% for everything else ... which would seem to be slight increase for power/risc and i86 (previously the three hardware server lines being about 5% each).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 06 Jan 2013 Subject: How do we fight bureaucracy and bureaucrats in IBM? Blog: IBMersre:
more from Learson
A few weeks ago this poster arrived in the mail from a "group of
concerned employees." They didn't sign it, apparently because they
didn't know what I'd think of it.
I wish they HAD signed it because that's the way I like to receive
mail, and because I'd like to have told them personally just this: I
think it's exactly on target. I agree with it completely.
When I suggested we publish it, one general manager said, "Not unless
you announce some new action to go with it."
Well, we've done just that. You will find at the beginning of this
issue details about our recent organization changes.
Months ago I sent out a Management Briefing to condemn a principle
feature of bureaucracy--the tendency of some people in IBM to pass the
buck, play it safe, run from risks. But today we have still too many
orginizational procedures, still too many safeguards to keep people
out of trouble, still too much refusal to delegate, still too much
group thinking--the kind that almost never produces brilliant insight
or decisive action.
Some signs are in the wind that many of you are beginning to rebel
against excessive administration. This poster is one such
sign. Another is a series of complaints I've been getting from IBMers
giving examples of what they call "spinning our wheels": The army of
sign-offs needed to approve a new product; the multiplication of task
forces--proof that the assigned team has broken down; internal
competition that ceases to be productive; minor non- concurrences,
just for the record, which escalate simple decisions.
One of our top facility managers recently told me that no subject of
any consequence could come up in his location without somebody's
calling a meeting and having 30 people show up. His observation in
itself proves his inability to correct this problem. Another IBMer
wrote to me, almost in despair, of his concern--middle management has
no conviction--and ended his letter, "Mr. Learson, maybe our company
is too big to be productive. I sometimes yearn for the days when we
were innovative and responsive to customer needs."
I'm seriously distrubed by the signs of bureaucracy, especially in
times like these. And I'm delighted that people are calling a
halt. Here's an assurance I want to give you: In this new year, I'm
going to do all I can to fight this problem in these ways:
• Through taking a continuing hard look at the company's organization,
in light of this problem, to see how we can tighten up;
• Through getting people at the top of the business to focus more on
long-term goals, less on day-to-day monitoring;
• Through encouraging people to take on accountability for a job,
leaving them the details of how they do it;
• Through pushing decisions down the ladder where they belong, giving
more IBMers a chance to exercise responsibility.
On all these projects I want your help.
• Question every procedure: if it doesn't make sense, break your back
to replace it with one that does;
• Lean into the wind: don't take yesterday's prescription as an answer
tomorrow;
• Don't go by the rule book and use the system as an excuse for
senseless action or no action at all;
• Finally, move the ball forward by doing the little things: picking
up the phone, making a quick call and getting the job done yourself;
getting out of your office chair and walking to where the answer is;
following through on something without bringing in an international
conference to help you; scribbling a note instead of having it typed
with 20 copies; trying to keep your organization small and your
responsibilities increasing.
If you are a manager, I expect you to FIND, RECOGNIZE, and REWARD
people with this kind of style. No employee should ever again have to
write me on this subject. If all of us get as hot under the collar as
the IBMers who sent me this poster, maybe we can start to turn this
whole bureaucracy thing around.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 06 Jan 2013 Subject: How do we fight bureaucracy and bureaucrats in IBM? Blog: IBMersre:
note TYMSHARE made its online computer conferencing available to SHARE
for free starting in Aug1976. archive here
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
one of the big bureaucratic issues that I had was getting VMSHARE
information made available inside the company. I had set up a process
to get regular distribution tapes of all VMSHARE information from
Tymshare to be placed on various internal networked systems (including
HONE, the world-wide sales&marketing support system). It turns out
first I had to spend a lot of time dealing with corporate lawyers
because executives were worried that making VMSHARE information
available inside the company would contaminant employees. misc. old
email mentioning vmshare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmshare
misc. old email mentioning HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#hone
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 06 Jan 2013 Subject: The Big Fail Blog: FacebookThe Big Fail
from above:
It's that time again: the annual meeting of the American Economic
Association and affiliates, a sort of medieval fair that serves as a
marketplace for bodies (newly minted Ph.D.'s in search of jobs), books
and ideas.
... snip ...
"Inside Job" references how leading economists were captured similar
to the capture of the regulatory agencies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Job_(2010_film)
"Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts,
Ample Rewards" goes into the capture of economists in more detail
https://www.amazon.com/Economists-Powerful-Convenient-Distorted-Economics-ebook/dp/B01B4X4KOS/
loc72-74:
"Only through having been caught so blatantly with their noses in the
troughs (e.g. the 2011 Academy Award -- winning documentary Inside
Job) has the American Economic Association finally been forced to
adopt an ethical code, and that code is weak and incomplete compared
with other disciplines."
... another quote loc957-62:
The AEA was pushed into action by a damning research report into the
systematic concealment of conflicts of interest by top financial
economists and by a letter from three hundred economists who urged the
association to come up with a code of ethics. Epstein and
Carrick-Hagenbarth (2010) have shown that many highly influential
financial economists in the US hold roles in the private financial
sector, from serving on boards to owning the respective
companies. Many of these have written on financial regulation in the
media or in scholarly papers. Very rarely have they disclosed their
affiliations to the financial industry in their writing or in their
testimony in front of Congress, thus concealing a potential conflict
of interest.
... snip ..
recent reference:
Glenn Hubbard, Leading Academic and Mitt Romney Advisor, Took 1200 an
Hour to Be Countrywide's Expert Witness (gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140504010711/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/glenn-hubbard-leading-academic-and-mitt-romney-advisor-took-1200-an-hour-to-be-countrywides-expert-witness-20121220?print=true
past posts mentioning above:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#21 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#28 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#51 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#52 How Many Divisions Does Standard and Poors Have?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#4 Geithner, Bernanke have little in arsenal to fight new crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#5 AIG's Bank Of America Suit Puts Trashy Paper On Display
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#47 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#51 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#62 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#64 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#2 Search Google, 1960:s-style
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 09 Jan 2013 Subject: AIG may join bailout lawsuit against U.S. government Blog: Google+re:
AIG may join bailout lawsuit against U.S. government
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre9070gr-us-aig-lawsuit-government/
Stories at the time AIG was negotiating to settle for 50cents on the
dollar with the CDS betters ... when the sec. of treasury (former head
of GS) jumped in and said that was illegal, forced them to take
bailout to settle at 100% on the dollar with the CDS betters (largest
being GS); also sign document that they couldn't sue the CDS betters
... some more:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/102794881687002297268/posts/Z8RxnZTwezz
i.e.
Secrets and Lies of the Bailout; The federal rescue of Wall Street
didn't fix the economy -- it created a permanent bailout state based
on a Ponzi-like confidence scheme. And the worst may be yet to come
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/secret-and-lies-of-the-bailout-20130104
a different slant: After Getting A Gigantic Bailout, AIG Is
Considering Suing The Government
http://www.businessinsider.com/aig-reportedly-considering-suing-the-government-in-a-25-billion-lawsuit-2013-1
and like above:
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/01/07/rescued-by-a-bailout-a-i-g-may-sue-its-savior/
A Heaping Helping of Chutzpah: AIG Considers Suing the U.S. Government
For Bailing It Out
http://business.time.com/2013/01/09/a-heaping-helping-of-chutzpah-aig-considers-suing-the-u-s-government-for-bailing-it-out/
from above:
This is true. But those institutions were either banks that were
already closely regulated by the Fed or became bank holding companies
and submitted themselves to Federal Reserve regulation in return for
access to the Fed's lending facilities.
... snip ...
Note the rhetoric on the floor of congress was that the primary purpose of GLBA (better known for repeal of Glass-Steagall, also responsible for much of the mess) was that if you weren't already a bank, you wouldn't be able to get a bank charter (targeted at limiting bank competition). One of those receiving a bank charter (which shouldn't have been allowed under GLBA) as part of Federal Reserve bailout was also the largest beneficiary's of AIG CDS payouts.
past posts mentioning AIG bailout
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#51 independent appraisers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#19 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#63 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#28 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#38 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#48 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#53 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#55 Who will give Citigroup the KNOCKOUT blow?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#65 is it possible that ALL banks will be nationalized?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#10 Who will Survive AIG or Derivative Counterparty Risk?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#11 Congress Set to Approve Pay Cap of $500,000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#16 The Formula That Killed Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#18 HSBC is expected to announce a profit, which is good, what did they do differently?
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#42 Bernard Madoff Is Jailed After Pleading Guilty -- are there more "Madoff's" out there?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#61 Quiz: Evaluate your level of Spreadsheet risk
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#63 Do bonuses foster unethical conduct?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#64 Should AIG executives be allowed to keep the bonuses they were contractually obligated to be paid?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#73 Should Glass-Steagall be reinstated?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#74 Why is everyone talking about AIG bonuses of millions and keeping their mouth shut on billions sent to foreign banks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#0 What is swap in the financial market?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#8 The background reasons of Credit Crunch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#13 Should we fear and hate derivatives?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#17 Why is everyone talking about AIG bonuses of millions and keeping their mouth shut on billions sent to foreign banks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#23 Should FDIC or the Federal Reserve Bank have the authority to shut down and take over non-bank financial institutions like AIG?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#31 Should FDIC or the Federal Reserve Bank have the authority to shut down and take over non-bank financial institutions like AIG?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#35 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#36 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#40 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#43 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#70 When did "client server" become part of the language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#2 CEO pay sinks - Wall Street Journal/Hay Group survey results just released
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#29 What is the real basis for business mess we are facing today?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#38 On whom or what would you place the blame for the sub-prime crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#43 On whom or what would you place the blame for the sub-prime crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#47 TARP Disbursements Through April 10th
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#3 Do the current Banking Results in the US hide a grim truth?
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/2009g.html#7 Just posted third article about toxic assets in a series on the current financial crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#8 Just posted third article about toxic assets in a series on the current financial crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#33 Treating the Web As an Archive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#34 Board Visibility Into The Business
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#76 Undoing 2000 Commodity Futures Modernization Act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#77 A new global system is coming into existence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#3 Consumer Credit Crunch and Banking Writeoffs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#17 REGULATOR ROLE IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT FINANCIAL SCANDALS
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/2009i.html#13 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#40 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#54 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#60 In the USA "financial regulator seeks power to curb excess speculation."
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#74 Administration calls for financial system overhaul
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#77 Financial Regulatory Reform - elimination of loophole allowing special purpose institutions outside Bank Holding Company (BHC) oversigh
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#12 IBM identity manager goes big on role control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#21 The Big Takeover
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#30 An Amazing Document On Madoff Said To Have Been Sent To SEC In 2005
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#35 what is mortgage-backed securities?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#36 Average Comp This Year At Top Firm Estimated At $700,000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#71 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#75 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#81 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#2 Big Bonuses At Goldman Should Be Applauded, Not Criticized
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#5 Internal fraud isn't new, but it's news
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#89 Audits V: Why did this happen to us ;-(
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#13 UK issues Turning apology (and about time, too)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#56 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/2009o.html#23 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#25 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#44 Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#48 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#56 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#84 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
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/2009p.html#23 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#51 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#77 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#35 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#47 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#53 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#61 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#45 Audits VII: the future of the Audit is in your hands
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#37 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#82 Oldest Instruction Set still in daily use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#34 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#51 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#8 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#11 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#13 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#15 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#28 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#56 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#4 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#54 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#62 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#28 Our Pecora Moment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#31 In the News: SEC storms the 'Castle'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#32 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#34 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#47 "Fraud & Stupidity Look a Lot Alike"
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/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#36 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#16 Rare Apple I computer sells for $216,000 in London
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#54 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#63 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#29 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#19 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#23 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#26 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#27 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#38 On Protectionism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#52 Are Americans serious about dealing with money laundering and the drug cartels?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#30 Bank email archives thrown open in financial crash report
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#40 Fight Fraud with Device ID
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#6 Home prices may drop another 25%, Shiller predicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#7 Home prices may drop another 25%, Shiller predicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#22 Is BitCoin a triple entry system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#25 US Housing Crisis Is Now Worse Than Great Depression
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#29 Obama: "We don't have enough engineers"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#40 Delinquent Homeowners to Get Mortgage Aid from Government
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#8 'Megalomania, Insanity' Fueled Bubble: Munger
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#13 'Megalomania, Insanity' Fueled Bubble: Munger
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#18 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#49 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#24 rating agencies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#41 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#4 Geithner, Bernanke have little in arsenal to fight new crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#5 AIG's Bank Of America Suit Puts Trashy Paper On Display
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#16 Feds Launch Probe Into S&P Mortgage Rates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#25 Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Fed's Secret Loans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#54 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#56 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#76 FIA shocked and outraged after Senator leaks oil trading data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#39 Kabuki Theater 1603-1629
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#62 The true cost of 9/11: Trillions and trillions wasted on wars, a fiscal catastrophe, and a weaker America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#67 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#74 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#2 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#18 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#71 Don't Dump the Volcker Rule Just Because It's Not Perfect
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#24 AMERICA IS BROKEN, WHAT NOW?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#41 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#52 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#79 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#82 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#62 Civilization, doomed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#76 How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#77 How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#80 How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#72 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#93 World faces 1930-type Depression
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#32 Wall Street Bonuses May Reach Lowest Level in 3 Years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#19 "Buffett Tax" and truth in numbers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#65 Why Wall Street Should Stop Whining
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#95 Bank of America Fined $1 Billion for Mortgage Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#0 New theory of moral behavior may explain recent ethical lapses in banking industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#13 Study links ultrafast machine trading with risk of crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#31 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#32 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#37 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#39 Greek knife to Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#52 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#32 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#52 Goldman Exec Quits In A Scathing NYT Op-Ed About How The Firm Abuses Its Clients
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#69 Memory versus processor speed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#30 Senators Who Voted Against Ending Big Oil Tax Breaks Received Millions From Big Oil
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#42 Who Increased the Debt?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#57 speculation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#59 Why Hasn't The Government Prosecuted Anyone For The 2008 Financial recession?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#70 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#1 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#36 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#94 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#38 Four Signs Your Awesome Investment May Actually Be A Ponzi Scheme
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#39 History--punched card transmission over telegraph lines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#32 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#50 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#51 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#56 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#59 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#71 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#1 STOP PRESS! An Auditor has been brought to task for a failed bank!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#20 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#18 U.S. Treasury, AIG are poised to sever ties
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#45 Nate Silver is Not Just Wrong, but Maliciously Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#51 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#54 UBS Faces Potential LIBOR Fine Of $1 Billion -- Twice What Barclays Paid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#20 The Big Fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Is Microsoft becoming folklore? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:48:52 -0500Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> writes:
I had referenced remembering seeing Ludlow on 360/67 3rd shift crafting copy of cp67 ccwtrans into MVT for early operation of os/vs2 svs i.e. SVS was little different than MVT running in 16mbyte virtual machine ... major change was SVS EXCP had to do its own ccw translation ... it also had to manage its own virtual memory tables and page i/o ... but that was much simpler than what was required to support channel program translation.
Ludlow reference here
http://donludlow.com/obituary.html
and references to Ludlow also author of SuperZap and SuperC
http://donludlow.com/guestbook.html
big issue has been extensive use of pointer-passing API ... major issue with OS/VS2 change from SVS to MVS giving 16mbyte virtual address space to every application ... but half of each virtual space was image of MVS kernel. Also with MVS ... operating system subsystems (called by applications but outside the kernel) were moved into their own virtual address space. In order for pointer-passing API to continue to work, parameter lists needed to appear in both the application calling address space and the sub-system address space. For this, MVS created the common segment (1mbyte area) that also appeared in every virtual address space ... used for passing parameters. However, it somewhat needed to be proportional to the number of concurrent applications as well as subsystems ... so it quickly morphed into common system area (CSA) growing to 4-5 mbytes and threatening to increase to 5-6 mbytes ... leaving applications with only 2mbytes out of their "dedicated" 16mbyte virtual address space.
another periodic issue even after addition of 31bit (and more recently 64bit) addressing is things that still required 24bit address and needed to be located in first 16mbytes of storage ... creating competition for that area.
a little x-over in linkedin Enterprise Systems discussion
http://lnkd.in/RsuUyw
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#26 Mainframes are still the best platform for high volume transaction processing
where somebody had claimed that zos had the most support for 64bit.
x86-64
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64
details how x86-64 is compatible superset of earlier i86 and is radically different than IA-64 which was designed by Intel and HP. Trivia: primary person at HP responsible for IA-64 was previously at IBM (before going to HP in the early 80s) and was responsible for dual-address space mode for 3033 (among other things).
also from article:
Linux was the first operating system kernel to run the x86-64
architecture in long mode, starting with the 2.4 version in 2001
(prior to the physical hardware's availability).[46][47] Linux also
provides backward compatibility for running 32-bit executables. This
permits programs to be recompiled into long mode while retaining the
use of 32-bit programs.
... snip ...
System z
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_z
z/Architecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/Architecture
above mentions restricting code execution to the first 2GB (31bits) for each virtual address space ... except 64bit version of Linux what allows code to execute from 64bit address ranges (possibly implying that Linux has been the most successful at adapting to 64bit ... regardless of the hardware platform).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 11 Jan 2013 Subject: AIG may join bailout lawsuit against U.S. government Blog: Google+re:
rollingstone weighs in
Hank Greenberg Should Be Shot into Space For Suing the Government over
the AIG Bailout
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/hank-greenberg-should-be-shot-into-space-for-suing-the-government-over-the-aig-bailout-20130109
above mentions Federal Reserve was selective in handing out its bank charters (which theoretically should have been precluded by GLBA).
The Delicious Irony of Morris Greenberg's AIG Suit Against the US Treasury
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/01/11/the-delicious-irony-of-morris-greenbergs-aig-suit-against-the-us-treasury/
from above:
This deception was put forth in a panic atmosphere to bamboozle
Congress into letting Geithner (then head of the New York Federal
Reserve) and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson pay Goldman Sachs
(Paulson's alma mater) and other Wall Street's heavy winners. But
there was no truth to the claim that French law prevented banks from
taking a loss, or that the U.S. Government had to apply the same
giveaway offer to Wall Street.
and
The effect was to funnel "tens of billions of dollars of government
money ... directly to the banks. We therefore labeled the deal what it
was, a 'backdoor bailout of the banks.'" This inspired AIG's head,
Maurice R. Greenberg, to sue the U.S. Government, claiming that it
"used billions of dollars from A.I.G. to settle credit-default swaps
the insurer had with banks like Goldman Sachs"
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Is Microsoft becoming folklore? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:52:36 -0500Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
1401 was replaced with 360/30 on path to replacing 709/1401 with 360/67 for tss/360. tss/360 never got to any sort of production level and when 360/67 came in, it ran os/360. os/360 fortgclg took well over a minute elapsed time for each student job (about 100 times slower than 709). hasp got the elapsed time down to around 30secs for student jobs.
this is part of share presentation at fall '68 SHARE meeting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#18 CP/67 & OS MFT14
references tearing the stage2 sysgen apart and totally re-organizing it to optimize arm seek as well as rotational delay (ordering of files on disk and library members in PDS datasets). Part of the issue of ordering members in PDS datasets is not only arm seek distance but the rotational delay in multi-track search of the PDS directory (aka a full cylinder search of 20 track 2314 cylinder at 2000rpm takes 2/3rds second elapsed time for each i/o operation ... then a seek-arm-access to load the actual library member). You wanted the library member near the PDS directory (where the arm spent most of its time) to minimize arm seek distance ... but you also wanted its entry in the directory as close to the front of the directory as possible (to minimize the number of rotations to find the entry).
The job scheduling/job step overhead was especially egregious in requiring lots of PDS member load operations. A 3-step fortran-g compile, link-edit & execut/go "null" fortran program short negligible elapsed time difference from typical student fortran (aka 99.9999% of the time was operating system overhead). The careful ordering achieved nearly 3times speedup. The presentation also has numbers about significant rewrite I did of large parts of cp67 that also improved throughput of os/360 running in virtual machine.
recent posts about multi-track search
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#58 ISO documentation of IBM 3375, 3380 and 3390 track format
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#62 ISO documentation of IBM 3375, 3380 and 3390 track format
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#64 Random thoughts: Low power, High performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#66 ISO documentation of IBM 3375, 3380 and 3390 track format
It wasn't until WATFOR was installed that elapsed student job time would beat 709. WATFOR was single step monitor ... so the job-step overhead was 4-10+ seconds elapsed time (depending on vanilla or optimized system). Typically would "batch" a tray of student jobs in a single run ... tray could hold 3000 cards ... typical run was 2000-3000 cards with typical student job of 40-60 cards ... or 35-70 jobs.
WATFOR did minimal compile ... frequently quick translation into calls to internal WATFOR subroutines ... little better than interpreter ... so execution efficiency wasn't very high ... but student jobs tended to be negligible execution. I have vaque recollections that WATFOR was rated at compiling 20,000 statements per minute on 360/65 ... or 333 statements per second. A tray of 3000 cards would take 4seconds elapsed time for the job step overhead (more like 10-12seconds on "standard" system) and 9 seconds for student job compile and maybe another second or two for job executions ... say 15 seconds elapsed time for 70 jobs ... or .2secs/job (down from approx second on 709/ibsys and 30+sec on standard os/360 fortgclg w/HASP).
misc. past posts mentioning ckd, fba, and multi-track search for vtoc
and pds directories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Is Microsoft becoming folklore? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:23:36 -0500Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
the multi-track search of PDS directory shows up all over the place that requires a lot of library member loading that has short execution.
I would periodically be brought into customer situations when all other avenues failed. This time it was a large national retailer that had multiple 370/168 loosely-coupled os/vs2 operation. They had large transaction environment with load from regional stores spread across several 168s. As load built up during the day ... throughput across all machines dropped to a crawl. They had brought in "experts" from all over the company that couldn't identify the source of the problem.
I was brought into classroom with several tables covered with foot-high printouts of system activity data. After 30 minutes or so ... I noticed that the aggregate I/O activity (summed across all system printouts) peaked around 6-7 i/os sec when datacenter was at peak throughput duress.
Turns out that the disk (3330) had the shared application PDS library for all systems. It had large number of transaction application for all the store operations ... including a 3cylinder PDS directory.
Each transaction required reloading transaction from the PDS library, each load required multi-track lookup on the PDS directory which required on the avg. a 1.5 cylinder search. That is one multi-track search I/O for the first cylinder involving 19revolutions ... plus a second multi-track search I/O for avg. 9.5 revolutions ... plus third I/O operation to move the arm and load the PDS member.
Normally 3330 would be expected to do 30-45 disk I/Os ... depending on things like arm motion queueing, and length of transfer (pure random access is 30ms, avg. arm motion plus avg. rotational delay).
However, two of the i/os involved total of 28.5 revolutions at 3600RPM ... or 475mills plus 30+mills for the third (member load) i/o ... 505mills or half-second elapsed time to load each library transaction application (with no overlap) ... which met that the peak transaction rate across all 168s for all stores in the country was two/second.
The net was that the transaction application was split into multiple PDS libraries on different disks ... per disk then became about 10 search+load per second per disk ... possibly aggregate of 20-30/second ... and replicating unique copy for each 370/168 system (so each system could do 20-30/second ... rather than peak of two across all systems)
misc. past posts mentioning ckd, fba, multi-track search, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 14 Jan 2013 Subject: Cultural attitudes towards failure Blog: Boyd Disciples
recent Mahan references
"Mahan, Bean-Counting and Ideas"
http://thediplomat.com/the-naval-diplomat/2013/01/14/mahan-bean-counting-and-ideas/
"Chasing ghosts; The notion that geography is power is making an
unwelcome comeback in Asia"
http://www.economist.com/node/13825154
this is contemporary of Mahan and member of congress ... has some
things to say about both Teddy as well as US imperialism in the period
"Triumphant plutocracy; the story of American public life from 1870 to
1920"
http://archive.org/details/triumphantpluto00pettrich
has description from viewpoint of congress to much of period covered
by "War Is A Racket"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
above also references
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war
also one of Spinney's themes The Domestic Roots of Perpetual War
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
"Triumphant Plutocracy" also references Perpetual war ... I have
couple quotes in this post over in Chet's blog:
http://slightlyeastofnew.com/2013/01/08/apres-moi-le-deluge/
but back to Teddy (from Triumphant Plutocracy) loc5390-94:
Roosevelt thereupon sent out navy and our marines to Colon, which is
the port on the Gulf side of the Isthmus of Panama, and secretly
notified the government of the State of Panama that, if they would set
up a republic and revolt against the Republic of Colombia, he would
give them the ten millions of dollars for the canal strip, and would
also see that Colombia did not send any troops to suppress their
rebellion. The Governor of Panama agreed to this arrangement, and, at
the proper time, started a rebellion to set up an independent
government
... snip ...
there are also quite a few other choice comments about Teddy.
from the Economist article:
A CENTURY ago the ideas of an American naval officer, Alfred Thayer
Mahan -- pal of Teddy Roosevelt, inventor of the term "the Middle
East", advocate of American expansionism in Asia and father of the
modern American navy -- were much in vogue among military strategists
and great-power leaders
... snip ...
other past posts mentioning Mahan &/or Perpetual War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#76 (old) list of (old) books
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#71 "Rat Your Boss" or "Rats to Riches," the New SEC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#32 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#8 The True Cost of 9/11 -- Includes 18 Veteran Suicides a Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#17 Washington's Cult of Continuous Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#34 Scotland, was Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#34 21st Century Management approach?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#142 We are on the brink of a historic decision [referring to defence cuts]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#26 Strategy subsumes culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#25 We are on the brink of historic decision [referring to defence cuts]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#70 Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#71 Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#78 Time to Think ... and to Listen
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#104 Time to Think ... and to Listen
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#88 Defense acquisitions are broken and no one cares
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#21 The Age of Unsatisfying Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#63 Is this Boyd's fundamental postulate, 'to improve our capacity for independent action'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#68 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#0 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#51 Is this Boyd's fundamental postulate, 'to improve our capacity for independent action'? thoughts please
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#87 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#5 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#50 Arming for the Navy's Return to History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#58 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#97 What a Caveman Can Teach You About Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#32 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#34 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#64 Guest Post: Beakley on Boyd, Aerial Combat and the OODA-Loop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#29 Jedi Knights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#83 Protected: R.I.P. Containment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#1 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#71 Is orientation always because what has been observed? What are your 'direct' experiences?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#59 How do we fight bureaucracy and bureaucrats in IBM?
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Java Security? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 16 Jan 2013 07:15:38 -0800jwglists@GMAIL.COM (John Gilmore) writes:
we had been asked to look at running a effort to commercialize and
release SUNs object-oriented "SPRING/DOE" operating system (this was
back in the day when object-oriented programming, applications and
operating systems were all the rage ... apple was doing one, sun did
one, others were doing stuff) ... SUN was in the process of shutting
down SPRING/DOE and transferring everybody over to JAVA. old email
touching on the subject
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#email960203
we've had past discussions about how much did the SPRING/DOE client
implementation influence GREEN (which morphs into JAVA)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#51 A Speculative question
above includes URL/references to GREEN as well as description of the SPRING/DOE client-side interpreter (taken from the SPRING/DOE documents).
previously we had been brought in to consult at small client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their server, the startup had invented this technology called SSL they wanted to use; the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce". Part of the effort, we had done detailed, end-to-end, threat & vulnerability analysis for mapping SSL technology to payment transactions and came up with some number of deployment and use requirements. Some number of these requirements were almost immediately violated ... contributing to many of the exploits that have continued to this day.
at the time (and since then), all the various browser client-side implementations (IE's visual basic, java, javascript, etc) were under significant pressures to take short-cuts to provide support for the latest & greatest client-side feature.
for the payment transaction stuff ... I had sign-off authority on everything to do with the payment gateway and webserver interfaces to the payment gateway ... but could only recommend regarding the browser/client ... and their interfaces to webserver ... as well as webserver operation (other than the protocol to the payment gateway).
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Java Security? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 16 Jan 2013 09:14:12 -0800re:
for a long time the majority of exploits used buffer length related vulnerabilities that have been epidemic in C-language implemented applications & systems.
Note that the previously mentioned mainframe Pascal was eventually
released as product and was used to implement IBM's original mainframe
tcp/ip product. There were some performance issues with the base
product ... however there was *never* any buffer length related
vulnerabilties. As to the performance issues, I did the changes to
support RFC1044 and in some tests at cray research between cray and
4341 got channel speed sustained throughput using only modest amount
of 4341 processor time (aka possibly a factor of 500 times improvement
in bytes moved per instruction executed over the base
product). misc. past posts mentioning rfc1044
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
I then had to do both detailed failure mode and detailed vulnerability
analaysis when we were doing IBM's ha/cmp product ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
C-language related buffer length problems continued to be the major
source of exploits up through the late 90s. By 2004 that had shifted to
approx. 1/3rd buffer length, 1/3rd client-side downloaded executable
code, and 1/3rd social engineering. I did some work on the mitre exploit
database trying to further work on my merged security taxonomy &
glossory ... post attempting to characterize all exploits:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#43 security taxonomy and CVE
part of the issue was (at the time) exploit reports were free text ... I talked to mitre about possibly introducing a little more structure and categories ... but they said that it was hard enough to get the reports as free text w/o trying to enforce structure.
lots of past posts pontificating about the buffer length vulnerability
issue
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#buffer
trivia ... relationship between ha/cmp, supercomputers and electronic
commerce ... old reference to early jan92 meeting in ellison's
conference room on ha/cmp cluster scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
at the end of jan, the scale-up work was transferred and a couple weeks later announced as supercomputer (and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors). this contributed to our decision to leave. not long later, two of the other people in the ellison meeting also leave and show up at a small client/server start responsible for something called the "commerce server". as mentioned in previous post, we are brought in as consultants because they want to do payment transactions on their server.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Java Security? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 16 Jan 2013 10:55:45 -0800martin_packer@UK.IBM.COM (Martin Packer) writes:
student versions of fortran, pascal, pli, etc tended to do a lot more checking that production versions.
pascal & pli have much better (length related) storage, buffer, & array paradigm than c-language. part of the issue is that c-language has convetion of implicit lengths with null terminator ... while other languages have had convention of explicit lengths. the null terminator & implicit length paradigm contributes significantly to a huge increase in programming errors (there have been long drawn out discussions about expert programmers are subject to such errors ... but the analogy has been used with auto & highway safety engineering ... countermeasures for the most common types of failings).
note there was ibm review of the air force security audit of multics
(some number of the mit 7094/ctss people went to 5th flr to do multics
and other went to the ibm science center on 4th flr and did virtual
machines, internal network and bunch of other things). One of the ibm
references was that multics (implemented in pli) also didn't have any
buffer length related exploits. old reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#42 Thirty Years Later: Lessons from the Multics Security Evaluation
the paper was originally at:
domino.watson.ibm.com/library/cyberdig.nsf/papers/FDEFBEBC9DD3E35485256C2C004B0F0D/$File/RC22534.pdf
but now found at
http://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf
note I had done a mainframe "dump reader" ... for some reason it was
never shipped ... but at one time it was in used at majority of the
internal datacenters and a huge percentage of all (customer support)
PSRs. Part of the effort I did study of most common mainframe failures
and then did library of code for the dump reader that automatically
checked for large percentage of identifiable failure signatures. One of
the most common system failures were dangling pointers ...
i.e. asynchronous activity where a pointer was being used after the
storage area had been released for other pointers.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dumprx
One of the benefits claimed for JAVA ... was automagically handling the dangling pointer failure mode.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Searching for storage (DASD) alternatives Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 16 Jan 2013 10:57:57 -0800beattiem@UK.IBM.COM (Malcolm Beattie) writes:
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Java Security? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 16 Jan 2013 11:02:17 -0800lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
IBM's CPS (conversational programming system) that supported both interactive basic and pli ... system offering included special microcode assist for the 360/50 ... did a lot of checking
Waterloo's WATFOR (student fortran for ibm mainframes) did an enormous amount of checking.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Java Security? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 16 Jan 2013 15:16:34 -0800lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
there is a similar thread running in usenet newsgroup comp.arch
... google group comp.arch archive:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/comp.arch/pVll8uhRKY4
including comments about java isn't totally free from buffer length vulnerabilities ... because of lots of jvm implementations being done in C-language (post by andy glew yesterday)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: caches in virtual Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:30:24 -0500jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) writes:
801/risc romp was going to be displaywriter follow-on running cp.r operating system with pl.8 programming language ... when that got canceled ... they looked around for something else to use it for and hit on unix workstation market ... but that involved a totally different system paradigm ... including needing to add hardware protection. they got the company that had done at&t unix for "pc/ix" (for the ibm/pc) ... to do a port for romp ... to become aixv2 and pc/rt.
rios chip set, rs/6000 and aixv3 was follow-on to romp & pc/rt.
long ago and far away i was sucked into working out packing multiple
shared libraries into single shared segment ... old email:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#email841116
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email841127
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#email850301
other old 801/risc email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#801
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 16 Jan 2013 Subject: How Bankers Help Drug Traffickers and Terrorists Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityHow Bankers Help Drug Traffickers and Terrorists
Past articles are that TBTF are facilitating enormous amounts of money for the drug cartels ... contributing to large increase in their acquiring military supplies to provide for their growing private armies as well as large increase in violence ... references to turning Mexico into Colombia. Lots of stories about the illegal activity has been identified (just with the laws currently in place) ... but instead of throwing people in jail and shutting down the institutions they are being given slap on the wrist ... leading to the references about too-big-to-jail (in addition to too-big-to-fail).
recent news reference: "Mexico's drug war undiminished in some areas
close to Texas, authorities say"
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/nationworld/mexico/20130112-mexico-s-drug-war-undiminished-in-some-areas-close-to-texas-authorities-say.ece
from above:
The leader of the Zetas paramilitary group, Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano,
was killed in Progreso, in Coahuila state, in October.
CIUDAD JUÃREZ, Mexico -- A new surge of killing, kidnapping and
extortion is the latest sign that the violent crime wave in Mexico has
not subsided since President Enrique Pea Nieto took office Dec. 1
and could grow further in the weeks to come, U.S. law enforcement
officials say.
... snip ...
that isn't a lot different from the economic mess ... when there was lots of articles about blame for risk managers not doing their job and the mathematical models not being correct. However, there were some number of articles that the business people forced the risk managers to fiddle the inputs to the models until the business people got the desired results (as well as calls for risk managers to be placed at corporate level where they would be able to resist the pressures of the business people).
The other was that there was $27T in CDOs done during the bubble and
rating agencies were taking money for triple-A rating on CDOs (even
when both the sellers and the rating agencies knew they weren't worth
triple-A) ... totally subverting any possible risk modeling. None of
that seems to have created any reputational risk. End of 2008, the
four largest too-big-to-fail were carrying $5.2T of triple-A
rated toxic CDOs "off book".
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
past posts referencing too-big-to-jail:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#24 Little-Noted, Prepaid Rules Would Cover Non-Banks As Wells As Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#58 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#50 What do you think about fraud prevention in the governments?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#52 Are Americans serious about dealing with money laundering and the drug cartels?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#49 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#16 Wonder if they know how Boydian they are?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#35 The Dallas Fed Is Calling For The Immediate Breakup Of Large Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#37 The $30 billion Social Security hack
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#88 Defense acquisitions are broken and no one cares
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#9 JPM LOSES $2 BILLION USD!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#20 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#14 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#25 This Is The Wall Street Scandal Of All Scandals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#37 If all of the American earned dollars hidden in off shore accounts were uncovered and taxed do you think we would be able to close the deficit gap?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#30 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#0 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#55 U.S. Sues Wells Fargo, Accusing It of Lying About Mortgages
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#10 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#73 These Two Charts Show How The Priorities Of US Companies Have Gotten Screwed Up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#20 HSBC, SCB Agree to AML Penalties
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#24 OCC Confirms that Big Banks are Badly Managed, Lack Adequate Risk Management Controls
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#30 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#39 UBS Faces Potential LIBOR Fine Of $1 Billion -- Twice What Barclays Paid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#48 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#62 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#64 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#4 HSBC's Settlement Leaves Us In A Scary Place
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 16 Jan 2013 Subject: Does the UK Government Really Want us to Report Fraud? Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityReporting fraud and the new culture of complaining
old item about reporting fraud to banks ... but not to the police or
gov. authorities
http://www.moneyexpert.com/news/article/18106248
numerous related articles were about little or nothing seemed to being done about the problems
institutions behind not reporting fraud to legal authorities were also involved in libor fraud, money laundering faud, mortgage fraud, tax evasion fraud and some number of other illegal activities.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 16 Jan 2013 Subject: JPMorgan Chase slammed by regulators for control failings after botched derivatives bet Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityJPMorgan Chase slammed by regulators for control failings after botched derivatives bet
Once Again, Jamie Dimon Gets Special Treatment
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/marcy-wheeler-once-again-jamie-dimon-gets-special-treatment.html
from above:
That last one is the real peach. You see, in spite of the fact the
order includes 22 pages of things JPMC "shall" do to fix this problem,
the order did not include any fine. Remember, it has been less than 18
months since JPMC got caught -- among other things -- sending a ton of
gold bullion to Iran in violation of sanctions. That time, at least,
Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Controls fined JPMC, if only $88.3
million.
... snip ...
OCC Issues Cease and Desist Order Against JPMorgan Chase, N.A.,
Related to Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering
http://compliancex.com/occ-issues-cease-desist-order-against-jpmorgan-chase-n-a-related-bank-secrecy-actanti-money-laundering/
past posts mentioning Dimon:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#21 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#24 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#9 JPM LOSES $2 BILLION USD!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#16 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#61 Why Hasn't The Government Prosecuted Anyone For The 2008 Financial recession?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#82 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#87 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#45 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#79 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#17 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#25 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#29 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#50 The Games Played By JP Morgan Chase
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#31 History--punched card transmission over telegraph lines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#75 What's the bigger risk, retiring too soon, or too late?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#63 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#59 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#1 STOP PRESS! An Auditor has been brought to task for a failed bank!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#20 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#14 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#32 Does the IBM System z Mainframe rely on Obscurity or is it Security by Design?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#60 Today in TIME Tech History: Piston-less Power (1959), IBM's Decline (1992), TiVo (1998) and More
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 16 Jan 2013 Subject: Kaspersky identifies 'Red October' cyberespionage network Blog: Information SecurityKaspersky identifies 'Red October' cyberespionage network
'Red October' cyber-espionage campaign revealed
http://www.tgdaily.com/security-brief/68757-red-october-cyber-espionage-campaign-revealed
Red October relied on Java exploit to infect PCs; Unearthed attack
site reveals some inner workings of espionage malware
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/massive-espionage-malware-relied-on-java-exploit-to-infect-pcs/
Digital fingerprints on Red October spyware point to Russia ... or do
they?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2013/0115/Digital-fingerprints-on-Red-October-spyware-point-to-Russia-or-do-they
semi-related a couple of long-winded discussions on java vulnerability
(& java "security" in general) in usenet comp.arch newsgroup
.... archived here in google groups:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/comp.arch/pVll8uhRKY4
similar discussion in the mainframe ibm-main mailing list ... also
archived in google groups:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/3vtD8YG6MMo
my posts in the recent java threads:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#27 Java Security?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#28 Java Security?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#29 Java Security?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#31 Java Security?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#32 Java Security?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: DEC/PDP minicomputers for business in 1968? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:58:14 -0500Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
also mentions i7 860 at 3.46ghz has 2790mwips rating ... nearly thousand times that of 168-3 (but i7 may be based on aggregate of four cores which would be 698mwips/core)
national lab was looking at possible large compute farm of 4341s ... and I had
done (rain/rain4) benchmarks on engineering 4341 in late 70s. old
emails with benchmark results
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790212b
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790220
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790226
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#21 moving on
and in followup post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#23 moving on
some more
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790122
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790123
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790123b
then old email (decade later) on drystones, whetstones, & linpack for
various workstations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#email890709
bunch of benchmarks (including whetstone) for e5-2690, e5-2660, x5690,
i7-3690x, & amd6274
http://www.istorya.net/forums/computer-hardware-21/485176-intel-xeon-e5-2690-and-e5-2660-8-core-sandy-bridge-ep-review.html
recent posts mentioning above benchmarks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#50 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#64 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#59 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#81 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#45 Under what circumstances would it be a mistake to migrate applications/workload off the mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#6 Mainframes are still the best platform for high volume transaction processing
old email mentioning 4300 machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: ICSF Symmetric Key being sent to a non-zOS system Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 18 Jan 2013 10:08:33 -0800SFinch@RECOVERYPOINT.COM (Steve Finch) writes:
Relying party needs secure repository of trusted public keys that is distributed by some trusted out-of-band process.
Then the relying party can use public key from their secure respository to validate some digitally signed information.
SSL, HTTPS, PKI, etc uses a level indirection. A repository of (certification authority) "trusted" public keys are embedded in browser distribution.
Individuals can present public key to certification authority which does some validation process and generates a digitally signed (using a certification authority private key) digital certificate that attests to some equivalence between something that the individual claimed (like a name, or url, etc) and the presented public key.
Subsequently an individual can transmit some digitally signed information (with their corresponding private key), with their appended digital certificate.
The recipient (relying party) validates the CA's issued digital certificate by using the CA's public key from the previously distributed trusted repository (part of the browser distribution). Once the digital certificate has been validated, the recipient can extract the sender's public key from the digital certificate and validate the sender's digital signature on the transmitted message (to validate that the message really originated from the entity that the sender claims to be).
In SSL, the recipient/client can also generate a session symmetric secret key, encrypt it with the server/sender's public key (from the validated digital certificate) and return it to the sender. Only the originally sender with the corresponding private key can decrypt the client's generated session symmetric secret key. Subsequent SSL communication then takes place with the client's session symmetric secret key
In any case, for limited environment ... it is possible to exchange your own public keys out-of-band and keep them in your own trusted repository for future session key exchange w/o requiring 3rd party digital certificates (and having out-of-band distribution of the public keys from digital certificate issuing Certification Authorities kept in your trusted public key repository).
lots of disclaimers:
long ago and far away we were brought in to small client/server startup
that wanted to do payment transactions on their servers, the small
startup had also invented this technology called SSL they wanted to use;
the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce". Along the way
we had to map the technology to payment business operations as well as
establish some requirements for operation and use of SSL (some of which
were almost immediately violated ... resulting in many of the exploits
that continue until this day). some related posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#gateway
we had been brough in to help word-smith the cal. electronic signature
act .... which was under heavy pressure from the certification authority
industry to mandate that electronic signatures could only be done
with digital signatures and digital certificates. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
Some past RSA show, the IBM executive that crypto reported to, was showing some Certification Authority (now defunct) CEO around the show ... and insisted on introducing the CEO to me. The CEO asked me what I did. I said that I was working on eliminating Certification Authorities from the face of the earth.
I've frequently pointed out that the SSL Certification Authority
industry is dependent on the domain name system integrity and that
their proposal to improve the integrity of the domain name system can
also result in no longer needing SSL (&/or their digital certificates)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#catch22
we have dozens of (assigned) patents in the area of public key use
w/o using Certification Authorities and/or digital certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadssummary.htm
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Searching for storage (DASD) alternatives Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 18 Jan 2013 16:14:44 -0800alan_altmark@US.IBM.COM (Alan Altmark) writes:
CP/CMS used ckd search paradigm as if it was fixed-block ... so when
real FBA came along, it was trivial to remap to fixed-block. Note that a
lot of CP/CMS had heavy influence from MIT CTSS/7094 ... which predated
360 CKD. ctss reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System
aka some number of the CTSS people went to the 5th flr to do Multics
and others went to the IBM science center on the 4th flr and did
virtual machines, internal network, bunch of other stuff. misc.
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
OS/360 made heavy use of CKD multi-track search especially for vtoc and
pds directories. I've frequently pontificated it was mid-60s trade-off
between real-storage to maintain the information and
channel/controller/device resource to perform the search outboard ....
and the trade-off had inverted by the mid-70s; I would even get called
into OS/VS2 multi-system accounts that were experiencing serious
throughput problems because of the heavy use of multi-track search ...
recent post about getting called into large national retailer ... after
all the usual POK experts had been tried
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#25
I've also periodically mentioned that I was told that even if I provided MVS with integrated and fully-tested FBA support ... that I still needed to show a $26M business case to cover education, documentation, training ... basically several hundred million dollars in incremental FBA disk sales ... and specifically could not use total lifecycle savings ... and by-the-way ... customers were buying disks as fast as they could be produced ... so any FBA support would result in just changing from CKD sales to FBA sales ... not incremental new sales.
This is despite the fact that all DASD was heading in the
direction of FBA ... furthermore real CKD hasn't been manufactured in
decades ... and just getting initial ECKD hardware working (to pickup a
little of FBA benefit) cost on par with what they quoted me for MVS FBA
support. misc. past posts mentioning CKD, FBA, multi-track search, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
Of course, I've had somewhat similar encounter in the early 90s over
fiber-channel support ... I had been asked in the 80s to help LLNL
standardize some serial stuff that they had .... that eventually morphs
into FCS in the early 90s. Then some POK channel engineers get involved
and layered some heavy-weight stuff on-top of FCS that eventually
becomes FICON ... and enormously reduces throughput ... compared to the
native/underlying FCS throughput. recent post discussing fcs, ficon,
& z196 max i/o benchmark
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#10 From build to buy: American Airlines changes modernization course midflight
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 19 Jan 2013 Subject: More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityMore Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
from above:
No wonder the Fed and the OCC snubbed a request by Darryl Issa and
Elijah Cummings to review the foreclosure fraud settlement before it
was finalized early last week. What had leaked out while the Potemkin
borrower reviews were underway showed them to be a sham, as we
detailed at length in an earlier post. But even so, what actually took
place was even worse than hardened cynics had imagined.
... snip ...
refs:
Cummings criticizes mortgage servicer settlement
http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/real-estate/wonk/bs-re-cummings-criticizes-mortgage-servicer-settlement-20130109,0,7969992.story
Pending Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Achieves New Level of Abject Regulatory Failure
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/pending-foreclosure-fraud-settlement-achieves-new-level-of-abject-regulatory-failure.html
Foreclosure Review Insiders Portray Massive Failure, Doomed From The Start
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/14/foreclosure-review-failure-start_n_2468988.html
more recent:
New Ruling on Mortgage Putbacks a Potential Huge Win for Banks
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/new-ruling-on-mortgage-putbacks-a-potential-huge-win-for-banks.html
from above:
Investors in mortgage-backed securities were not quite as dumb as the
crisis aftermath had made them look. The sponsors of the
securitizations made promises in the offering documents (called
representations and warranties) about the quality of the loans. It
turns out they lied.
... snip ...
misc. past posts mentioning mortgage settlement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#30 Bank email archives thrown open in financial crash report
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#18 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#30 21st Century Management approach?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#87 Wall St likes your amnesia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#92 Bank Failures Cost $88 Billion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#94 Bankruptcy a reprieve for some companies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#10 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#13 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#48 The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#68 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#68 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#11 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#12 Why Auditors Fail To Detect Frauds?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 19 Jan 2013 Subject: Professor Coffee Hits a Nerve at SEC Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityProfessor Coffee Hits a Nerve at SEC
more recent
Has Departing SEC Enforcement Chief Robert Khuzami Become Damaged Goods?
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/schadenfreude-alert-has-departing-sec-enforcement-chief-robert-khuzami-become-damaged-goods.html
misc. past posts mentioning Madoff hearings (and person that had tried
unsuccessfully for a decade to try and get SEC to do something about
Madoff)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#65 What can agencies such as the SEC do to insure us that something like Madoff's Ponzi scheme will never happen again?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#73 What can we learn from the meltdown?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#80 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#0 Audit II: Two more scary words: Sarbanes-Oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#20 Decision Making or Instinctive Steering?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#51 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
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#47 Bernard Madoff Is Jailed After Pleading Guilty -- are there more "Madoff's" out there?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#61 Quiz: Evaluate your level of Spreadsheet risk
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#63 Do bonuses foster unethical conduct?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#75 Whistleblowing and reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#0 What is swap in the financial market?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#15 The background reasons of Credit Crunch
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/2009e.html#53 Are the "brightest minds in finance" finally onto something?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#2 CEO pay sinks - Wall Street Journal/Hay Group survey results just released
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#45 Artificial Intelligence to tackle rogue traders
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#51 On whom or what would you place the blame for the sub-prime crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#67 Just posted third article about toxic assets in a series on the current financial crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#7 Just posted third article about toxic assets in a series on the current financial crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#29 Transparency and Visibility
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#33 Treating the Web As an Archive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#17 REGULATOR ROLE IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT FINANCIAL SCANDALS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#23 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX? (Are settlements a good argument for overnight batch COBOL ?)
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#30 An Amazing Document On Madoff Said To Have Been Sent To SEC In 2005
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#71 "Rat Your Boss" or "Rats to Riches," the New SEC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#47 Audits VII: the future of the Audit is in your hands
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#56 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#31 In the News: SEC storms the 'Castle'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#41 Profiling of fraudsters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#43 COBOL - no longer being taught - is a problem
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/2010h.html#69 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#34 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#38 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#37 WHAT, WHY AND HOW - FRAUD, IMPACT OF AUDIT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#71 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#76 E-commerce smackdown as PCI standards revised
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/2010q.html#53 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#46 What do you think about fraud prevention in the governments?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#48 What do you think about fraud prevention in the governments?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#21 New-home sales in 2010 fall to lowest in 47 years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#42 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#56 In your opinon, what is the highest risk of financial fraud for a corporation ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#82 Bank email archives thrown open in financial crash report
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#88 Court OKs Firing of Boeing Computer-Security Whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#5 How they failed to catch Madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#40 Fight Fraud with Device ID
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#47 Lords: Auditors guilty of 'dereliction of duty'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#52 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#5 Home prices may drop another 25%, Shiller predicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#66 Senate Democrats Ask House to Boost SEC Funding
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#19 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#67 U.S. can't account for $8.7 billion of Iraq's money: audit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#11 Innovation and iconoclasm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#38 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#15 Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#37 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#60 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#76 FIA shocked and outraged after Senator leaks oil trading data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#1 As Pressure Grows to Cut Spending, the True Cost of Weapons Is Anyone's Guess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#33 Deloitte sued for $7.6 billion, accused of missing fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#1 Banks Awash in Cash, Which Isn't Good News
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#24 AMERICA IS BROKEN, WHAT NOW?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#30 Have you ever wondered why some people seem to get rich easily
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#49 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#80 How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#12 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#16 John Robb on the OODA-Loop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#29 21st Century Management approach?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#110 Loan Originators
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#137 The High Cost of Failing Artificial Hips
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#5 We are on the brink of a historic decision [referring to defence cuts]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#18 SEC v. Citigroup, How to Avoid (Greater) Disaster
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#26 What's your favorite quote on "accountability"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#70 Regulatory Agency logo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#44 What's the most interesting thing you do in your non-work life?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#54 The New Age Bounty Hunger -- Showdown at the SEC Corral
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#0 New theory of moral behavior may explain recent ethical lapses in banking industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#4 Bank of America Fined $1 Billion for Mortgage Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#13 Study links ultrafast machine trading with risk of crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#25 Goldman Sachs P.R. Chief's Accidental Exit Interview
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#36 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#54 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#12 Gordon Gekko Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#16 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#23 Are mothers naturally better at OODA because they always have the Win in mind?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#57 speculation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#25 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#74 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#86 The Dangers of High-Frequency Trading; Wall Street's Speed Freaks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#6 Adult Supervision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#78 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#85 Study: One in Five Firms Misrepresent Earnings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#13 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#22 Four Signs Your Awesome Investment May Actually Be A Ponzi Scheme
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#0 Quelle Surprise! SEC Plans to Make the World Safer for Fraudsters, Push Through JOBS Act Con-Artist-Friendly Solicitation Rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#14 The growing openness of an organization's infrastructure has greatly impacted security landscape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#19 Why Auditors Fail To Detect Frauds?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#77 U.S. banks on high alert against cyberattacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#63 Is it possible to hack mainframe system??
possibly even GAO didn't think SEC was doing anything, other past posts
mentioning GAO reports about fraudulent public company financial filings,
even showing uptic after Sarbanes-Oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#96 Bush - place in history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#25 IBM's 2Q2008 Earnings
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#48 The blame game is on : A blow to the Audit/Accounting Industry or a lesson learned ???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#49 US disaster, debts and bad financial management
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/2009c.html#29 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#0 PNC Financial to pay CEO $3 million stock bonus
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#3 Congress Set to Approve Pay Cap of $500,000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#73 Should Glass-Steagall be reinstated?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#29 What is the real basis for business mess we are facing today?
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/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/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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#31 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#36 On Protectionism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#35 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#0 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#9 The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#23 Security 2012: Blood in the Water
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#24 Case Study: SOX IT Compliance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#92 Bank Failures Cost $88 Billion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#147 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#1 The war on terabytes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#19 "Buffett Tax" and truth in numbers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#53 Can America Lead the World's Fight Against Corruption?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#87 The Benefit and The Burden
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#31 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#45 Fannie, Freddie Charge Taxpayers For Legal Bills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#5 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#10 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#39 Fannie and Freddie must go - here's how
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#30 Senators Who Voted Against Ending Big Oil Tax Breaks Received Millions From Big Oil
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#66 Predator GE: We Bring Bad Things to Life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#84 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#59 Why Hasn't The Government Prosecuted Anyone For The 2008 Financial recession?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#67 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#42 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#89 Auditors Don't Know Squat!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#1 STOP PRESS! An Auditor has been brought to task for a failed bank!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#20 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#14 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#24 OCC Confirms that Big Banks are Badly Managed, Lack Adequate Risk Management Controls
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#30 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#48 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#64 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#0 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#4 HSBC's Settlement Leaves Us In A Scary Place
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virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: AT&T Holmdel Computer Center films, 1973 Unix Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:14:49 -0500Lawrence Greenwald <lawrence.greenwald@sbcglobal.net> writes:
above mentions Bell Labs having "network connections to at least 4 IBM 168s in Holmdel"
MIP ENVY from ibm jargon:
MIP envy - n. The term, coined by Jim Gray in 1980, that began the
Tandem Memos (q.v.). MIP envy is the coveting of other's facilities -
not just the CPU power available to them, but also the languages,
editors, debuggers, mail systems and networks. MIP envy is a term
every programmer will understand, being another expression of the
proverb The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
... snip ...
a copy of MIP ENVY here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#email800920
Tandem Memos from ibm jargon:
Tandem Memos - n. Something constructive but hard to control; a fresh of
breath air (sic). That's another Tandem Memos. A phrase to worry middle
management. It refers to the computer-based conference (widely
distributed in 1981) in which many technical personnel expressed
dissatisfaction with the tools available to them at that time, and also
constructively criticized the way products were [are] developed. The memos
are required reading for anyone with a serious interest in quality
products. If you have not seen the memos, try reading the November 1981
Datamation summary.
... snip ...
I was blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal network
in the late 70s and early 80s ... misc. past posts mentioning internal
network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
folklore is that when the executive committee was told about online computer conferencing (and internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me.
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virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 20 Jan 2013 Subject: How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size Blog: LinkedInHow to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
There have been several threads in financial crime, risk & fraud that the too-big-to-fail ... have also used their size for too-big-to-jail ... all sorts of illegal activities ... for which they periodically get slapped on the hand ... but no serious penalty (fines are small proportion of the amounts involved) and nobody going to jail
A decade ago, there was a periodic industry publication that gave the avg of thousands of measures for the largest national banks compared to the avg of the major regional banks. even at that time, the regional banks were slightly more profitable than the national banks (implying that going past regional size starts to exceed limits where there is efficiency of scale ... and becomes bloated and non-optim). There have also been references that congressional "bribes" have the largest corporate ROI ... couple hundred million resulting in GLBA and repeal of Glass-Steagall ... and billions more since.
Actually the rhetoric on the floor of congress was that the primary purpose of GLBA was if you already had a bank charter you got to keep it, but if you didn't already have a charter you couldn't get one (aka primary purpose of GLBA was to limit bank competition, not repeal of Glass-Steagall). The major bail-outs were done by Federal Reserve behind the scenes (i.e. end of 2008 just the four largest TBTF were still carrying $5.2T in toxic assets off-balance; amount appropriated for TARP wouldn't have made a dent in the problem) ... including handing out new bank charters which theoretically should have been in violation of GLBA.
from last spring:
The Dallas Fed Is Calling For The Immediate Breakup Of Large Banks
http://www.businessinsider.com/dallas-fed-calls-for-breakup-of-big-banks-2012-3
Banking Regulator Calls for End of 'Too Big to Fail'
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/banking-regulator-calls-for-end-of-too-big-to-fail/
past posts mentioning too-big-to-jail:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#24 Little-Noted, Prepaid Rules Would Cover Non-Banks As Wells As Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#58 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#50 What do you think about fraud prevention in the governments?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#52 Are Americans serious about dealing with money laundering and the drug cartels?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#49 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#16 Wonder if they know how Boydian they are?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#35 The Dallas Fed Is Calling For The Immediate Breakup Of Large Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#37 The $30 billion Social Security hack
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#88 Defense acquisitions are broken and no one cares
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#9 JPM LOSES $2 BILLION USD!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#20 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#14 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#25 This Is The Wall Street Scandal Of All Scandals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#37 If all of the American earned dollars hidden in off shore accounts were uncovered and taxed do you think we would be able to close the deficit gap?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#30 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#0 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#55 U.S. Sues Wells Fargo, Accusing It of Lying About Mortgages
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#10 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#73 These Two Charts Show How The Priorities Of US Companies Have Gotten Screwed Up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#20 HSBC, SCB Agree to AML Penalties
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#24 OCC Confirms that Big Banks are Badly Managed, Lack Adequate Risk Management Controls
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#30 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#39 UBS Faces Potential LIBOR Fine Of $1 Billion -- Twice What Barclays Paid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#48 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#62 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#64 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#4 HSBC's Settlement Leaves Us In A Scary Place
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#34 How Bankers Help Drug Traffickers and Terrorists
other recent posts mentioning Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#0 Revolution Through Banking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#25 You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#70 Regulatory Agency logo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#16 Interview of Mr. John Reed regarding banking fixing the game
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#65 Why Wall Street Should Stop Whining
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#95 Bank of America Fined $1 Billion for Mortgage Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#0 New theory of moral behavior may explain recent ethical lapses in banking industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#13 Study links ultrafast machine trading with risk of crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#31 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#32 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#37 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#39 Greek knife to Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#44 New Citigroup Looks Too Much Like the Old One
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#52 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#54 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#5 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#32 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#68 Memory versus processor speed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#69 Memory versus processor speed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#1 The Dallas Fed Is Calling For The Immediate Breakup Of Large Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#30 Senators Who Voted Against Ending Big Oil Tax Breaks Received Millions From Big Oil
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#41 Why Are the Fed and SEC Keeping Wall Street's Secrets?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#31 Rome speaks to us. Their example can inspire us to avoid their fate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#71 When Mobile Telecommunications Routes Become Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#75 Fed Report: Mortgage Mess NOT an Inside Job
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#12 JPM LOSES $2 BILLION USD!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#16 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#28 REPEAL OF GLASS-STEAGALL DID NOT CAUSE THE FINANCIAL CRISIS - WHAT DO YOU THINK?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#56 Why Hasn't The Government Prosecuted Anyone For The 2008 Financial recession?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#59 Why Hasn't The Government Prosecuted Anyone For The 2008 Financial recession?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#61 Why Hasn't The Government Prosecuted Anyone For The 2008 Financial recession?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#64 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#71 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#82 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#84 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#87 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#1 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#25 US economic update. Everything that follows is a result of what you see here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#36 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#45 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#55 The Invention of Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#82 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#25 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#29 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#30 US Senate proposes national data breach notification act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#35 US Senate proposes national data breach notification act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#63 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#76 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#86 Should the IBM approach be given a chance to fix the health care system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#94 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#28 Why Asian companies struggle to manage global workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#47 Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#56 Failing Gracefully
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#7 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#9 Sandy Weill's About-Face on Big Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#12 The Secret Consensus Among Economists
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#13 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#31 History--punched card transmission over telegraph lines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#75 What's the bigger risk, retiring too soon, or too late?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#53 CALCULATORS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#60 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#62 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#63 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#12 Does the IBM System z Mainframe rely on Security by Obscurity or is it Secure by Design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#51 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#56 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#58 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#59 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#63 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#71 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#1 STOP PRESS! An Auditor has been brought to task for a failed bank!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#3 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#12 Why Auditors Fail To Detect Frauds?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#20 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#57 Bull by the Horns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#7 Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#14 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#26 Why bankers rule the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#69 Can Open Source Ratings Break the Ratings Agency Oligopoly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#18 U.S. Treasury, AIG are poised to sever ties
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#45 Nate Silver is Not Just Wrong, but Maliciously Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#47 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#51 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#21 AIG may join bailout lawsuit against U.S. government
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#42 Professor Coffee Hits a Nerve at SEC
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: New HD Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:56:25 -0500"Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
the banners at the conference all proclaimed support for internet ... but the constant subtheme was protect your investment.
previously there was lots of various kinds of basic scripting, including automatic execution of scripts embedded in application files. the environment had been closed, safe, small business lans ... but that networking paradigm was then opened to the wild anarchy of the internet ... w/o the countermeasures for the multitude of looming exploits.
misc. past posts mentioning 1996 msdc:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#49 Virus propagation risks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#45 Computer programming was all about:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#22 Why did TCP become popular ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#34 Next generation processor architecture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#51 Specifying all biz rules in relational data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#50 DOS C prompt in "Vista"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#18 Oddly good news week: Google announces a Caps library for Javascript
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#87 CompUSA to Close after Jan. 1st 2008
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#26 realtors (and GM, too!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#43 The 50th Anniversary of the Legendary IBM 1401
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#63 who pioneered the WEB
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#66 What is the protocal for GMT offset in SMTP (e-mail) header
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#37 (slightly OT - Linux) Did IBM bet on the wrong OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#36 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#9 The IETF is probably the single element in the global equation of technology competition than has resulted in the INTERNET
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#40 The Great Cyberheist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#50 IBM and the Computer Revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#58 IBM and the Computer Revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#15 Identifying Latest zOS Fixes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#57 Are Tablets a Passing Fad?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#18 John R. Opel, RIP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#59 The lost art of real programming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#141 With cloud computing back to old problems as DDos attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#81 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#93 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#2 What are the implication of the ongoing cyber attacks on critical infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#18 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#32 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#37 Simulated PDP-11 Blinkenlight front panel for SimH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#93 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#97 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 20 Jan 2013 Subject: The China Threat: The MICC Pivots Obama Back to the Future Blog: FacebookThe China Threat: The MICC Pivots Obama Back to the Future
What I told the Chinese
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/01/18/what_i_told_the_chinese
The United States, by contrast, wants to stay in Asia in order to keep
China from establishing a dominant position there. Since the
U.S. became a great power, a core principle of its grand strategy was
to prevent any single power from dominating either Europe or
Asia. That's why the United States opposed Germany in World War I,
fought Germany and Japan in World War II, and worked to contain the
Soviet Union in the Cold War.
... snip ...
Triumphant plutocracy; the story of American public life from 1870 to 1920; loc6141-48
http://archive.org/details/triumphantpluto00pettrich
We went into the war because the great financial and industrial
interests centered in New York, who are the real government of the
United States, conceived it to be for their gain or profit to put the
United States into the European conflict. They had sold billions of
dollars' worth of material to England, Russia, France and Italy, at
enormous prices, reaping a marvelous profit. But as the war progressed
and the demands on the part of those nations for credit increased, the
financiers and controllers of American industry who were furnishing
war material, became alarmed, and feared they would not be able to
collect their claims against these European nations who were
approaching bankruptcy, and they therefore determined to put the
United States into that controversy, and have the United States loan
money to the European nations, to pay off the obligations which they
held against them.
and loc3906-13
An examination of these minutes discloses the fact that a commission
of seven men chosen by the President seems to have devised the entire
system of purchasing war supplies, planned a press censorship,
designed a system of food control, and selected Herbert Hoover as its
director, determined on a daylight saving scheme and, in a word,
designed practically every war measure which Congress subsequently
enacted—and did all this, behind closed doors, weeks and even months
before the Congress of the United States declared war against
Germany. For months before the United States declared war, Wilson was
planning war with a secret committee of New York representatives of
Big Business that he, Wilson, had appointed for that purpose.
... snip ...
misc. recent posts mentioning Spinney &/or "Triumphant plutocracy":
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#13 We are on the brink of a historic decision [referring to defence cuts]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#15 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#75 The Winds of Reform
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#14 Strategy subsumes culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#36 McCain calls for U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#25 We are on the brink of historic decision [referring to defence cuts]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#68 Glory Days of Army Acquisition Were Not So Glorious
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#70 Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#71 Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#72 Sunday Book Review: Mind of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#78 Time to Think ... and to Listen
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#104 Time to Think ... and to Listen
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#3 Time to Think ... and to Listen
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#5 Hardware v. People
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#23 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#25 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#31 Rome speaks to us. Their example can inspire us to avoid their fate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#88 Defense acquisitions are broken and no one cares
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#17 Hierarchy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#21 The Age of Unsatisfying Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#24 Baby Boomer Guys -- Do you look old? Part II
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#63 Is this Boyd's fundamental postulate, 'to improve our capacity for independent action'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#68 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#0 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#24 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#51 Is this Boyd's fundamental postulate, 'to improve our capacity for independent action'? thoughts please
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#20 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#40 Core characteristics of resilience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#79 Romney and Ryan's Phony Deficit-Reduction Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#87 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#2 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#5 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#45 Introducing John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#50 Arming for the Navy's Return to History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#58 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#97 What a Caveman Can Teach You About Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#29 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#64 Guest Post: Beakley on Boyd, Aerial Combat and the OODA-Loop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#23 Jedi Knights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#29 Jedi Knights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#38 Jedi Knights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#83 Protected: R.I.P. Containment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#1 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#71 Is orientation always because what has been observed? What are your 'direct' experiences?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#59 How do we fight bureaucracy and bureaucrats in IBM?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#15 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#26 Cultural attitudes towards failure
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: AT&T Holmdel Computer Center films, 1973 Unix Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:55:22 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
tandem memos really began after i distributed some notes after visiting
Jim at Tandem. first two entries in "tandem memos"
Date: 04/02/81 17:13:54
From: wheeler
re: visit to Tandem & Jim Gray
Tandem system written in high level language. In all the time Gray has
been there, the system has never gone down. There have been two power
failures in that time tho. For the duration of the power failure
system operation was "suspended". When power came back on, operation
resumed from the point where it was interrupted. Only complaint was
that the grafic displays don't have emergency power supply so that any
modifications to the screen at the time of the failure were lost.
Somebody (didn't get his name but have seen him around) from STL IMS
design had just joined Tandem two weeks earlier. Pay is attractive,
also stock plan is option to buy any time within two years. Gray said
typical offer is somewhere around a stock a day. Apparently stock has
gone up 10 pts(?) in last month or so & there are lots of people at
Tandem that are tens of thousands of dollars richer. Over next year
Tandem is good stock buy even if you don't join company. 3x5 pictures
of everyone in software & firmware plus new hardware design all fit on
one cork board. Average productivity for the software group (which
includes design, documentation, implementation, debug, & the first
year maintenance) is over 10,000 lines of code per year. Software
people carry a project completely thru from design to having
responsibility for 1st year maintenance. They also have a large share
in the monthly lease of any product they produce. Four people who just
had a new software product announce got $25k each which represents
their share of just the initial three months of the product lease
(this is over and above their salary). Which is pretty good for 1) new
product announcement (sales should increase) and 2) percentage take on
each install.
... snip ... top of post, old email index
Date: 04/03/81 09:03:12
From: wheeler
Re: visit to Tandem and Jim Gray:
also bears remembering that the cited 10000 lines of code per year is
RELEASED code. Tandem was said to be very interested in developing
code which their 300 customers want to run now ... in other words not
the best code or code which can be seen to advance the state of the
art but code which will sell the most copies and thus make its authors
richer (direct relation there as opposed to us galley slaves).
At that, there are a lot of programs that Tandem has not got yet, such
as the SCRIPT that Gray may be writing, SCANFILE, DIFF, and on. Lots
of effort will be needed to reinvent these. Another point Gray made
was that the employees are indeed using their machines for timesharing
but the custmer base does nothing of the sort and is not much
interested (industrial control etc is what Tandem machines do).
... snip ... top of post, old email index
in reaction to various legal actions, there was 23jun69 unbundling
announcement that started to charge for application software, se
services, other things ... however they made the case that kernel
software should still be free. misc. past posts mentioning unbundling.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundling
FS was going to completely replace 360/370 and had totally different
architecture ... during the effort, lots of the 370 activities and/or
canceled; ... the lack of 370 products during the period is credited
with clone processors gaining market foothold. misc. past posts
mentioning FS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
in the wake of the FS failure, there was then mad rush to get 370
hardware & software products back into the pipeline ... and also
to start charging for kernel products ... with my "resource manager"
being the guinea pig ... misc. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
data processing division provided for "field" division employees that produced software products for sale ... the equivalent of the first two months lease for all software products. the science centers were considered part of the field ... and the month before my resource manager was released, another software product was released from the science center ... and the people got payed. In the month between the release of that product and my product, the science centers were reclassified as hdqtrs (not field) ... and i wouldn't get anything for the resource manager ($895/month ... well over 1000 customers)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: New HD Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:20:04 -0500Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:
old post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#78
referencing
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/01/mundie_mundie/
from above:
Microsoft, to its credit, has multi-threaded the calculations in Office
Excel 2007. But that's about where the credit ends.
Intel and AMD executives fail to hide their disappointment with
Microsoft well on the multi-threaded software front.
During a speech last June, Intel SVP Pat Gelsinger said the following:
"A couple of years ago, I had a discussion with Bill Gates (about the
multi-core products). He was just in disbelief. He said, 'We can't write
software to keep up with that.'"
Gates ordered the Intel executive to keep pumping out faster product.
"No, Bill, it's not going to work that way," Gelsinger informed him.
... snip ...
Sequent had 32-way in the 80s/90s supported by their dynix version of unix ... and in the 90-s were one of the companies doing 256-way with sci. we did some work with sequent about their 256-way Numa-Q ... and they mentioned that they done most of the work on NT to take it past 4-way scale-up.
i've mentioned before that charlie had invented compare-and-swap when he
was working on cp67 fine-grain multiprocessor locking (instruction named
compare-and-swap because CAS are charlie's initials) at the science
center. misc. past posts mentioning science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
past posts mentioning compare-and-swap and/or multiprocessor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
effort was then made to have compare-and-swap added to the upcoming 370
... but was initially rebuffed by the owners of 370 architecture. they
claimed that the corporate favorite-son batch operating system people
were claiming test-and-set (multiprocessor locking) instruction (from
360s) was more than adequate for multiprocessor operation. The
"challenge" was to come up with other compare-and-swap uses (than kernel
multiprocessor locking) in order to get compare-and-swap added to 370
... the result was the application multi-threaded examples (whether
running on multiprocessor or not) ... which still appear in principles
of operation
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dz9zr003/A.6?DT=20040504121320
misc. past posts mentioning 256-way &/or numa-q
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#46 Small IBM shops
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#54 VM & VSE news
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#55 VM & VSE news
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#83 HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#45 M$ SMP and old time IBM's LCMP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#6 Memory Affinity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#13 Performance and Capacity Planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#43 Numa-Q Information
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#46 Numa-Q Information
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005v.html#0 DMV systems?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#40 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#9 Is no one reading the article?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#3 University rank of Computer Architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#78 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#13 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#1 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#2 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#5 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#5 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#5 While watching Biography about Bill Gates on CNBC last Night
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#20 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#59 Problem with XP scheduler?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#27 Oldest Instruction Set still in daily use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#68 Entry point for a Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#13 What was the historical price of a P/390?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#48 Nonlinear systems and nonlocal supercomputing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#19 How many mainframes are there?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#61 IBM to announce new MF's this year
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#54 IBM Unleashes 256-core Unix Server, Its Biggest Yet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#85 SV: USS vs USS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#79 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#122 Deja Cloud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#94 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#15 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 21 Jan 2013 Subject: Insider Fraud: What to Monitor Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityInsider Fraud: What to Monitor; Cases Showcase Risks Posed by Trusted Employees
Note that claim is that SEC already had the authority needed to
prevent ENRON and/or WORLDCOM ... but Sarbanes-Oxley added additional
authority and penalty ... claim at the time that top executives and
auditors would go to jail for incorrect public company financial
filings ... however, it still required SEC to do something. Apparently
even GAO didn't think SEC was doing anything and started doing reports
of public company fraudulent financial filings ... even showing uptic
after Sarbanes-Oxley
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-03-395R .
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-06-678 .
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-06-1079sp
where both executives and auditors should be going to jail. There was some snide remarks at the time of Sarbanes-Oxley passing that major reason for SOX was gift to the audit industry ... and otherwise wouldn't make any difference.
Other tidbits no.2 responsible for financial crisis:
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
glba, commodities futures act, Enron, Worldcom, AIG, repeal Glass-Steagall, preventing CDSs from being regulated, eliminating regulations, cutting regulation funding, and pressure to not enforce regulation.
Gramm and the 'Enron Loophole'
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/business/17grammside.html
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 ...
and an older article: Phil Gramm's Enron Favor
https://web.archive.org/web/20080711114839/http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-01-15/news/phil-gramm-s-enron-favor/
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 ...
Note that while other regulatory agencies were enabling financial
institutions for the economic mess ... the move of loans and mortgages
to securitized instruments also brought them under the authority of
SEC. There were $27T of such instruments done during the bubble
... significantly enabled by being able to pay for triple-A ratings
(congressional hearings into role that rating agencies played in the
financial mess were that both the sellers and the rating agencies knew
they weren't worth triple-A)
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
Sarbanes-Oxley even included provision for SEC to do something about rating agencies.
Paying for the triple-A rating eliminated anybody needing to care about borrower's qualifications, loan quality and/or even needing supporting documents. It was even possible for institutions to specifically create triple-A rated toxic CDOs to fail, sell them to their customers and then take out CDS bets that the CDOs would fail (where CFTC was now prevented from doing anything about the CDS part).
Another view was that during the congressional hearings into the role that the rating agencies played in the mess was that their business model was misaligned ... and that it is enormously more difficult to regulate operations that had business model where the entities are motivated to do the wrong thing. It was pointed out that while ratings were for the benefit of the buyers ... the sellers were paying for the ratings .... aligning the rating agencies on behalf of the sellers, not the buyers. The objectives of the sellers paying for triple-A ratings was to open up the market of toxic CDOs to the institutions limited to only dealing in "safe" investments (like the large institutional retirement funds).
The rating agencies business model became misaligned in the early 70s ... when you found things like rating agency selling off their pricing&valuation division.
disclaimer: securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages. In the late 90s, we were asked to look at improving the integrity of the mortgage supporting documents (as countermeasure to fraudulent mortgages). However, with being able to pay for triple-A ratings ... it was then possible to do no-documentation mortgages (triple-A rating trumped documentation) ... and w/o documentation there was no longer issue with supporting documentation integrity.
One of the reasons for complaints later (as the economy was crashing & burning) about difficulty being able to evaluate triple-A rated toxic CDOs ... was the missing documentation.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 21 Jan 2013 Subject: How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityHow to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
from last spring:
The Dallas Fed Is Calling For The Immediate Breakup Of Large Banks
http://www.businessinsider.com/dallas-fed-calls-for-breakup-of-big-banks-2012-3
cross-over discussion from last spring in Google+
https://plus.google.com/u/0/102794881687002297268/posts/YjChaKhL2t6
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#1 The Dallas Fed Is Calling For The Immediate Breakup Of Large Banks
comment from above:
Scary fact from the article:
The top 10 banks now account for 61 percent of commercial banking
assets, substantially more than the 26 percent of only 20 years ago;
their combined assets equate to half of our nation's GDP.
... snip ...
also:
Banking Regulator Calls for End of 'Too Big to Fail'
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/banking-regulator-calls-for-end-of-too-big-to-fail/
the other periodic theme is that the too-big-to-fail have taken advantage of the situation for lots of illegal activity and also have become too-big-to-jail.
posts mentioning above:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#21 AIG may join bailout lawsuit against U.S. government
more along similar lines, also
Secrets and Lies of the Bailout; The federal rescue of Wall Street
didn't fix the economy -- it created a permanent bailout state based
on a Ponzi-like confidence scheme. And the worst may be yet to come
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/secret-and-lies-of-the-bailout-20130104
from above:
America's six largest banks -- Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase,
Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley -- now have a
combined 14,420 subsidiaries, making them so big as to be effectively
beyond regulation. A recent study by the Kansas City Fed found that it
would take 70,000 examiners to inspect such trillion-dollar banks with
the same level of attention normally given to a community bank.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 22 Jan 2013 Subject: How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityre:
part of my reply to your original post in general linkedin
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#44 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
A decade ago, there was a periodic industry publication that gave the avg of thousands of measures for the largest national banks compared to the avg of the major regional banks. even at that time, the regional banks were slightly more profitable than the national banks (implying that going past regional size starts to exceed limits where there is efficiency of scale ... and becomes bloated and non-optimally). There have also been references that congressional "bribes" have the largest corporate ROI ... couple hundred million resulting in GLBA and repeal of Glass-Steagall ... and billions more since.
Actually the rhetoric on the floor of congress was that the primary purpose of GLBA was if you already had a bank charter you got to keep it, but if you didn't already have a charter you couldn't get one (aka primary purpose of GLBA was to limit bank competition, not repeal of Glass-Steagall). The major bail-outs were done by Federal Reserve behind the scenes (i.e. end of 2008 just the four largest TBTF were still carrying $5.2T in toxic assets off-balance; amount appropriated for TARP wouldn't have made a dent in the problem) ... including handing out new bank charters which theoretically should have been in violation of GLBA.
...
ref to the 5.2T in triple-A toxic CDOs being held off-balance (more
refs on $27T toxic CDOs and triple-A ratings in the recent "Insider
Fraud What to Monitor" discussion in this group):
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#49 Insider Fraud: What to Monitor
disclaimer: Jan2009 I was asked to "HTMLize" the recently scanned (fall2008 at Boston Public Library) Pecora Hearings (congressional hearings into crash of 29 that resulted in Glass-Steagall) with heavy internal cross-links and lots of URLs between what happened then and what happened this time (some anticipation that the new congress would have appetite to do something). After working on it for some time, I got a call that it wouldn't be needed to after all (some reference to enormous pile of wallstreet money blanketing capital hill).
reference to Greenspan allowing the enormous amount of off-book toxic
assets:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&refer=home&sid=aYJZOB_gZi0I
note the fall of 2008, several tens of billions of triple-A rated toxic CDOs had been sold for 22cents on the dollar. The $700B appropriated in TARP to buy toxic assets wouldn't even have purchased all of the $5.2T at 22cents on the dollar (but at that price, the four largest TBTF would have been declared insolvent and forced to be liquidated). Later in the shadow bail-out by the Federal Reserve, it was buying off-book triple-A rated toxic CDOs at 98cents on the dollar
past references to the federal reserve shadow bailout
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#23 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#46 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#58 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#66 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#48 What do you think about fraud prevention in the governments?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#45 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#3 Greed, Excess and America's Gaping Class Divide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#11 Innovation and iconoclasm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#39 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#4 Geithner, Bernanke have little in arsenal to fight new crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#23 Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Fed's Secret Loans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#73 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#49 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#57 The Mortgage Crisis---Some Inside Views
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#37 Civilization, doomed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#74 The Wall Street Pentagon Papers: Biggest Scam In World History Exposed: Are The Federal Reserve's Crimes Too Big To Comprehend?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#93 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#3 The Obama Spending Non-surge
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#7 FDR explains one dimension of our problem: bankers own the government
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#30 21st Century Management approach?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#63 21st Century Management approach?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#32 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#45 Fannie, Freddie Charge Taxpayers For Legal Bills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#46 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#55 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#45 Banks Repaid Fed Bailout With Other Fed Money: Government Report
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#26 US economic update. Everything that follows is a result of what you see here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#14 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#65 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#50 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#69 General Mills computer
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: New HD Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:54:46 -0500Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:
while the number of different applications may not have been heavily threaded ... large critical applications that were major server use were ... like all the major RDBMS.
Earlier in this thread, I mentioned Charlie having invented compare-and-swap while doing fine-grain multi-processor locking work on cp67 at the science center. By the mid-80s most of major server platforms had support for compare-and-swap ... or instructions with similar semantics ... that were used for large multi-threaded applications (regardless of running on single processor or multi-processor machine).
some past posts about original RDBMS/SQL implementation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
also referenced here
http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/
and the '95 SQL Reunion
http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/index.html
discussion that incorrectly attributes compare-and-swap to Dick Case
(some amount of memory fade by the participants between the work in the
70s and the reunion in '95)
http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-Shoot-ou.html#Index311
past posts mentioning compare-and-swap and/or multiprocessor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
rs/6000 (rios chipset) was risc single processor only and didn't have
support for compare-and-swap semantics. in the unix world, large
multi-threaded DBMS when running on hardware platforms w/o
compare-and-swap semantics ... would fall back to kernel calls for
appropriate serializations. the rs/6000 DBMS benchmarks suffered greatly
(in comparison with platforms with support for compare-and-swap
semantics). Finally AIXV3 was modified to provied a supervisor-call
simulation for compare-and-swap (only works on single processor machine)
which supported compare-and-swap semantics in the supervisor-call
interrupt routine ... with very short pathlength and return to
application. past posts mentioning risc, 801, romp, rios, pc/rt,
rs/6000, somerset, power, power/pc, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
for other drift ... since rios chipset was single-processor only ...
the only other available path for scale-up was cluster/loosely-coupled
... which we started doing in our ha/cmp product ... some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
there were lots of activity working with national labs and other
institutions on scientific and numerical intensive workloads ... but the
primary straight-forward commercial was the large RDBMS that had both
vax/vms cluster support and portable versions to unix platforms. the
deal in ha/cmp was to provide vax/vms cluster global lock manager
semantics to aid in port of unix platform. Some number of the RDBMS
vendors had list of things that had been done wrong in the vax/vms
cluster global lock manager ... and since I was started from scratch, I
could implement the same API semantics ... while avoiding doing the
"wrong" things ... including some fixing some performance bottlenecks
blocking some of the higher scale-up levels. old post about early jan92
meeting in ellison's conference room on cluster scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
and some old email about cluster scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
as periodically mentioned ... possibly within hrs of the last email referenced ... end of jan92 ... the scale-up stuff was transferred and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors.
then a couple weeks later ... rs/6000 scale-up is announced as
supercomputer for scientific and numerical intensive only; 17Feb1992
press reference:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
later press reference 11May1992 about having been caught totally by
surprise by the interest in cluster (i made lots of snide comments at
the time)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
in any case it significantly contributed to motivation for leaving later that summer.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: slightly O/T but interesting Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 23 Jan 2013 12:20:37 -0800R.Skorupka@BREMULTIBANK.COM.PL (R.S.) writes:
1) something you know (pin, password, mothers maiden name) 2) something you have (hardware token) 3) something you are (biometrics)
past posts about 3-factor authentication paradigm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#3factor
biometrics at remote unattended locations may be compromised by network exploit ... where somebody skims known biometric value and uses it in replay attack (aka analogous to password/pin skimming and replay attack).
biometrics tend to work better with secure stations ... especially if under constant surveillance by armed guards
recent references to Google authentication proposal
Google Ring of Power Could Render Passwords Obsolete
http://www.hotforsecurity.com/blog/google-ring-of-power-could-render-passwords-obsolete-5084.html
Google suggests jewelry or a device as a next-gen password
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2025794/google-suggests-jewelry-or-a-device-as-a-next-gen-password.html
Google Declares War On the Password
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/01/18/1721203/google-declares-war-on-the-password?sbsrc=md
Google Declares War On the Password
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/01/18/1721203/google-declares-war-on-the-password?sbsrc=md
Google Declares War on the Password
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/google-password/
Google looks to kill passwords, but experts say not so fast
http://www.csoonline.com/article/727053/google-looks-to-kill-passwords-but-experts-say-not-so-fast
Google looks to kill passwords, but experts say not so fast
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/011913-google-sees-one-password-ring-265979.html
Google sees one password ring to rule them all
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/022213-us-urged-to-take-comprehensive-266974.html
Google sees one password ring to rule them all
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9235971/Google_sees_one_password_ring_to_rule_them_all
and from Schneier
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/googles_authent.html
old post from 1998 about form factor agnostic authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm2.htm#straw
disclaimer: we have dozens of (assigned) patents in the area
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadssummary.htm
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 23 Jan 2013 Subject: How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityre:
I think that the original purpose of being able to buy triple-A ratings
on toxic CDOs (when both sellers and rating agencies knew they weren't
worth triple-A) was to enable victimizing both the people getting the
loans (the loan originators no longer had to care about either the
borrowers' qualifications or the loan quality) as well as opening the
market to the large institutional (retirement & other) funds that are
restricted to dealing in triple-A ... victimizing the rest of the
world was sort of collateral damage. Reference to $27T done during the
economic mess:
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
wallstreet was possibly able to skim off $4T-$5T (of the $27T) which is major factor in claims that the industry tripled in size (as percent of GDP) during the bubble. The other claim is that much more is still held inside the country than outside the country. Lots of other stuff has been obfuscation and misdirection.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: IBM reveals a monster 36-core mainframe module Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 23 Jan 2013 13:42:58 -0800butlerj@US.IBM.COM (Jon Butler) writes:
101 zE12 processors are rated at 75BIPS (or 743MIPS/processor) compared to 80 z196 processors at 50BIPS (or 624MIPS/processor) ... for a factor of 1.2 times increase (per processor). 16 zE12 SAPS then might have peak of almost 3M SSCH/sec (100% utilization) or approx 2M/sec at 70% utilization.
past posts mentioning 2.2M SSCH/sec & peak z196 I/O benchmark
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#4 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#5 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#13 Intel Confirms Decline of Server Giants HP, Dell, and IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#28 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#43 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#67 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than any of the other countries in the world including the USA.?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#9 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than any of the other countries in the world including the USA.?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#13 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#44 Under what circumstances would it be a mistake to migrate applications/workload off the mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#46 history of Programming language and CPU in relation to each
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#48 Under what circumstances would it be a mistake to migrate applications/workload off the mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#70 Under what circumstances would it be a mistake to migrate applications/workload off the mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#72 Mainframes are still the best platform for high volume transaction processing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#6 Mainframes are still the best platform for high volume transaction processing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#21 Assembler vs. COBOL--processing time, space needed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#25 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#46 Random thoughts: Low power, High performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#10 From build to buy: American Airlines changes modernization course midflight
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: New HD Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:23:59 -0500scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
except for ... from above:
The culprit was T. Vincent Learson. The only thing for his defense is
that he had no idea of what he had done. It was when he was an IBM Vice
President, prior to tenure as Chairman of the Board, those lofty
positions where you believe that, if you order it done, it actually will
be done. I've mentioned this fiasco elsewhere.
... snip ...
by the "father of ascii"
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/FATHEROF.HTM
ascii papers
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/PUBS-ASC.HTM
other recent references to learson (and fighting bureaucracy)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#11 How do we fight bureaucracy and bureaucrats in IBM?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#12 How do we fight bureaucracy and bureaucrats in IBM?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#18 How do we fight bureaucracy and bureaucrats in IBM?
past posts mentioning "father of ascii"
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#65 They've changed the keyboard layout _again_
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#9 Typewriter vs. Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#67 Wondering if I am really eligible for this group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#6 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#45 HP getting out of computer biz
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#23 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#5 Any candidates for best acronyms?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#45 CRLF in Unix being translated on Mainframe to x'25'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#55 "Geek" t-shirts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#100 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#52 M68k add to memory is not a mistake any more
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#55 Just for a laugh... How to spot an old IBMer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#73 END OF FILE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#36 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#84 72 column cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#52 8-bit bytes and byte-addressed machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#56 Reduced Symbol Set Computing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 23 Jan 2013 Subject: How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityre:
sort of take-off on predictions, models and the "insider fraud: what
to monitor" discussion.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#49 Insider Fraud: What to Monitor
there are periodic references to how wallstreet has "captured" the
regulatory agencies and congress. "Inside Job" goes into some detail
about various institutions being captured, including the economist
profession
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Job_(2010_film)
"Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts,
Ample Rewards" talks about specifically economists having been
"captured" ... going back century.
https://www.amazon.com/Economists-Powerful-Convenient-Distorted-Economics-ebook/dp/B01B4X4KOS/
more recent reference loc72-74:
Only through having been caught so blatantly with their noses in the
troughs (e.g. the 2011 Academy Award -- winning documentary Inside
Job) has the American Economic Association finally been forced to
adopt an ethical code, and that code is weak and incomplete compared
with other disciplines.
and loc957-62:
The AEA was pushed into action by a damning research report into the
systematic concealment of conflicts of interest by top financial
economists and by a letter from three hundred economists who urged the
association to come up with a code of ethics. Epstein and
Carrick-Hagenbarth (2010) have shown that many highly influential
financial economists in the US hold roles in the private financial
sector, from serving on boards to owning the respective
companies. Many of these have written on financial regulation in the
media or in scholarly papers. Very rarely have they disclosed their
affiliations to the financial industry in their writing or in their
testimony in front of Congress, thus concealing a potential conflict
of interest.
...
and old book that covers the early era covered in "Economists and the
Powerful": "Triumphant plutocracy; the story of American public life
from 1870 to 1920"
http://archive.org/details/triumphantpluto00pettrich
at the wayback machine ... in several formats. As an aside, the scanned Pecora Hearings are also available at the wayback machine
other recent posts mentioning references:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#51 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#62 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#64 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#20 The Big Fail
it also covers some of the deal with wallstreet for creating the
federal reserve ... and has a couple items that are sort of related to
the recent uproar about creating trillion dollar coin. loc754-62:
In 1872, the ring of bankers in New York sent the following circular
to every bank in the United States: "Dear Sir: It is advisable to do
all in your power to sustain such prominent daily and weekly
newspapers, especially the agricultural and religious press, as will
oppose the issuing of greenback paper money, and that you also
withhold patronage or favors from all applicants who are not willing
to oppose the Government issue of money. Let the Government issue the
coin and the banks issue the paper money of the country, for then we
can better protect each other. To repeal the law creating National
Bank notes, or to restore to circulation the Government issue of
money, will be to provide the people with money, and will therefore
seriously affect your individual profit as bankers and lenders. See
your Congressman at once, and engage him to support our interests that
we may control legislation."
... snip ...
It also covers some of Teddy Roosevelt's colonialism ... and that
Mayan was pal of Teddy. Mahan & his writing has shown up recently with
reference to countries in the far east being devout students of
Mahan. from recent economist article:
A CENTURY ago the ideas of an American naval officer, Alfred Thayer
Mahan -- pal of Teddy Roosevelt, inventor of the term "the Middle
East", advocate of American expansionism in Asia and father of the
modern American navy -- were much in vogue among military strategists
and great-power leaders
....
I've mentioned periodically sponsoring Col. Boyd's briefings in the
80s ... one of Boyd's major acolytes has theme on perpetual war
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
from "Triumphant plutocracy" loc6265-74:
XXX. THE LEAGUE TO PERPETUATE WAR The war has just begun. I said that
when the Armistice terms were published and when I read the Treaty and
the League Covenant I felt more than ever convinced of the justice of
my conclusion. The Treaty of Versailles is merely an armistice -- a
suspension of hostilities, while the combatants get their wind. There
is a war in every chapter of the Treaty and in every section of the
League Covenant; war all over the world; war without end so long as
the conditions endure which produce these documents.
... snip ...
also talks about lots of interactions between wallstreet and politics for perpetual war.
While Boyd was Air Force, wrote fighter pilot manual used by air
forces all over the world and major force behind the design of F15,
F16, and F18 ... by the time he died, he had been pretty much disowned
by the Air Force ... but had been adopted by the Marines (his effects
are at the Marine Corps Library at Quantico). A Marine perspective
about wallstreet behind perpetual war during early part of last
century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
and then there is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war
Spinney's tribute to Boyd that appeared in the Naval Institute
proceedings (now at wayback machine)
http://radio-weblogs.com/0107127/stories/2002/12/23/genghisJohnChuckSpinneysBioOfJohnBoyd.html
for institute members
http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1997-07/genghis-john
another recent Mahan reference (Mahan works are at both Gutenberg and
wayback)
http://thediplomat.com/the-naval-diplomat/2013/01/14/mahan-bean-counting-and-ideas/
ends with tribute to Boyd
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Was MVS/SE designed to confound Amdahl? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:49:51 -0500Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
i.e. Future System effort was going to completely replace 360/370 and
internal politics was killing off 370 efforts; the lack of 370 efforts
during (and after) the FS period is credited with giving clone
processors (like Amdahl) a market foothold. Then with the demise of FS
there was mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 product pipelines.
misc. past posts mentioning FS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
a series of lots of these little tweaks were required for operating system use ... but not apparent to application software. at the time, I was told, it was major motivation for Amdahls "macrocode" ... i.e. a variation on 370 instruction in special microcode mode ... made it enormously easier to do machine architecture tweaks (compared to the enormous effort required with horizontal microcode). The ease of "macrocode" then also resulted in Amdahl's "hypervisor" implementation (subset of virtual machine function not requiring separate operating system). That essentially reversed the situation ... with IBM eventually having to respond with PR/SM for the 3090 (but was much more difficult to develop since it required traditional horizontal microcode implementation).
misc. past posts mentioning macrocode:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#44 Linux paging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#48 Linux paging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#9 Mainframe System Programmer/Administrator market demand?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#56 Wild hardware idea
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#52 Virtual Machine Concept
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#59 Misuse of word "microcode"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#60 Misuse of word "microcode"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#24 Description of a new old-fashioned programming language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#14 Multicores
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#29 Documentation for the New Instructions for the z9 Processor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#40 POWER6 on zSeries?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#43 POWER6 on zSeries?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#48 POWER6 on zSeries?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#38 blast from the past ... macrocode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#9 Mainframe Jobs Going Away
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#32 Code density and performance?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#35 Code density and performance?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#39 Using different storage key's
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#42 old hypervisor email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#33 Assembler question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#34 Assembler question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#20 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#1 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#3 Has anyone ever used self-modifying microcode? Would it even be useful?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#9 Has anyone ever used self-modifying microcode? Would it even be useful?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#84 VLIW pre-history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#74 Non-Standard Mainframe Language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#96 some questions about System z PR/SM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#32 New Opcodes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#33 New Opcodes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#42 New Opcodes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#26 Op codes removed from z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#27 CPU time/instruction table
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#74 z millicode: where does it reside?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#51 speculation: z/OS "enhancments"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#93 Irrational desire to author fundamental interfaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#102 Question on PR/SM dispatcher
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#92 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#3 Is Microsoft becoming folklore?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Was MVS/SE designed to confound Amdahl? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:58:04 -0500re:
high-end 370s were horizontal microcode while entry & mid-range were vertical microcode (similar to standard programming most people are familiar with).
horizontal microcode could get multiple things going at once ... so measure was done in avg. number of machine cycles per 370 instruction (since there could be some overlap). 370/165 had avg. of 2.1 machine cycles per 370 instruction. 370/168-1 had some microcode rework that got it down to 1.6 machine cycles per 370 instruction ... but also went to new memory technology that was better than four times faster (than 165) reduce cache miss latency. 370/168-3 doubled the cache size (of 168-1) that improved avg. MIP rate (by having fewer cache misses).
the mad rush to get stuff back in 370 product pipeline involved some slight cosmetic changes of 158-3 for 3031 and 168-3 for 3032. The 3033 started out being 168-3 logic remapped to chips were 20% faster. The chips also had ten times the circuits per chip ... initially went unused. Some last minute logic rework to use more circuits per chip and some tweaking of microcode got 3033 up to 1.5 times 168-3 and as well as avg. of approx one machine cycle per 370 instructions.
MVS/SE was theoretically to do something similar on 3033 for MVS as had
been done for ECPS (vm microcode assist) originally done for 138/148
(and later on 4331/4341). The issue was that these were vertical
microcode machines that avg. 10 vertical microcode instructions per 370
instruction (somewhat similar to the 370 simulators that run today on
non-370 machines). For typical kernel/supervisor instruction mix, there
was approx 1:1 mapping between 370 instructions and vertical microcode
... resulting in an approx. speedup of ten times. I had gotten con'ed
into helping do VM/ECPS for 138/148 ... this is old post with some of
the kernel analysis that led to selection of kernel pieces to drop
into microcode:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21
doing something similar for MVS on 3033 was nearly impossible to see any speedup ... since the 3033 was already doing approx. one 370 instruction per machine cycle; and even had issue that it could run slower (even tho MVS/SE was publically justified because if was suppose to run faster)
vm370 had two types of microcode speedups ... 1) pieces of the kernel dropped into microcode ... where the microcode ran faster than the corresponding 370 instructions and 2) doing virtual machine privilege instruction simulation directly in microcode avoiding the interrupts, state change saving registers, doing simulation, state change restoring register and resuming virtual machine execution. Things in category #1 could see 10:1 speedup on low/mid range machines ... but zero or even degradation on high-end machines. Things in category #2 could see speedup on all machines. MVS/SE on high-end 3033 didn't have any category #2 speedups ... just things in category #1. Amdahl "hypervisor" were category #2 speedups as well as eliminating the need for software virtual machine operating system.
About the time Amdahl was starting work on "hypervisor" I had gotten permission to give a Baybunch talk (held monthly at SLAC in palo alto) on all the work and details of vm/ecps. Offline they would ask more detailed questions of the vm/ecps work as well as sharing some of the stuff that they were doing.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 26 Jan 2013 Subject: Choice of Mary Jo White to Head SEC Puts Fox In Charge of Hen House Blog: FacebookChoice of Mary Jo White to Head SEC Puts Fox In Charge of Hen House
periodic theme here
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com
is that there is no difficulty proving case under provisions of sarbanes-oxley and all the executives (and auditors) go to jail. none of joe kennedy's difficulty in figuring out what they did or what regulations are needed, are an issue.
point here
https://www.amazon.com/Confidence-Men-Washington-Education-ebook/dp/B0089LOKKS/
is that all of the economic advisers instrumental in getting president elected the 1st term, wanted to hold those responsible accountable ... none of the people that the president appointed were from that group.
also: "Something Sinister About the Lack of Prosecutions at Lehman
Brothers"
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/ian-fraser-something-sinister-about-the-lack-of-prosecutions-at-lehman-brothers.html
For Once, Maybe Lying Does Not Pay: Do's Lanny Breuer Resignation
Leaked After Frontline Appearance
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/for-once-maybe-lying-does-not-pay-dojs-lanny-breuer-resigns-abruptly-after-frontline-appearance.html
This is nonsense. We've discussed at length how top bank executives
could be prosecuted for making false certifications under Sarbanes
Oxley, which requires at a minimum that the bank certify the adequacy
of internal controls, which for a large trading firm, includes risk
management. We've also written about collusion and lack of arm's
length pricing in the CDO market, which would lend themselves to
antitrust charges (price fixing is criminal under the Sherman Act).
misc. past posts mentioning "Confidence Men":
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#67 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#73 A question for the readership
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#74 Derivatives and free trade
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#79 Financial Crimes Bedevil Prosecutors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#83 Heading For World War III | Gerald Celente Trends Blog
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#88 Fed Report Finds Speculators Played Big Role in Housing Collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#91 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#17 What's your favorite quote on "accountability"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#44 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#47 Avoiding a lost decade
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#43 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#63 The Economist's Take on Financial Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#13 The White House and Mortgage Fraud: So Far It's All Talk, No Action
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#66 Predator GE: We Bring Bad Things to Life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#83 Why Can't Obama Bring Wall Street to Justice?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#16 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#25 US economic update. Everything that follows is a result of what you see here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#77 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#1 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#6 Good article. Friday discussion type
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#86 Study: One in Five Firms Misrepresent Earnings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#36 Race Against the Machine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#40 Core characteristics of resilience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#79 Romney and Ryan's Phony Deficit-Reduction Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#48 The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#53 CALCULATORS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#64 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#61 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#57 Bull by the Horns
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Was MVS/SE designed to confound Amdahl? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 08:24:39 -0500James Dow Allen <jdallen2000@yahoo.com> writes:
Some recruiter contacted about interviewing for technical assistant to the president of one of the clone processor companies (not Amdahl). It turns out during the interview they started hinting about internal IBM documents ... I shut the discussion down by mentioning that I had contributed to rewrite of some sections of the IBM corporate "code of contact" manual ... that every employee had to sign once a year that they had read (because it didn't specifically prohibit certain kinds of activity).
Turns out that I had a complete set of Registered Confidential documents for (unannounced) 370/xa (would be introduced in 3081). Registered Confidential requires special locked cabinet with special combination lock and is subject to periodic auditing by site security. I conjectured that somebody with access to list of those with Registered Confidential documents had leaked the information. All registered confidential documents have document copy serial number and banner printed on every page ... and requires special need-to-know justification.
There was later a justice legal action against the company and I got to spend several hrs with fbi agent describing what went on during the interview.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 26 Jan 2013 Subject: Taleb On "Skin In The Game" And His Disdain For Public Intellectuals Blog: Google+re:
Taleb On "Skin In The Game" And His Disdain For Public Intellectuals
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-25/taleb-skin-game-and-his-disdain-public-intellectuals
The "flawed model" refrain was frequently obfuscation and misdirection
... from the period were reports that the business people forced the
risk managers to fiddle the inputs until they got the desired results
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/how-wall-streets-quants-lied-to-their-computers/
Also from congressional hearings into pivotal role that rating
agencies played ... triple-A ratings were being purchased for toxic
CDOs even when both the sellers and the rating agencies knew that they
weren't worth triple-A. The triple-A ratings trump documentation and
loan originators could start doing no-documentation loans, also no
longer needed to care about borrower's qualifications or loan
quality. Institutions even purposefully created triple-A toxic CDOs
designed to fail, sold them to their customers and then took out CDS
bets that they would fail. All facilitating being able to do $27T
during the bubble
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
past posts referencing the "Quants lied" &/or $27T article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#49 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#52 Technology and the current crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#53 Your thoughts on the following comprehensive bailout plan please
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#56 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#65 Whether, in our financial crisis, the prize for being the biggest liar is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#69 Another quiet week in finance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#72 Why was Sarbanes-Oxley not good enough to sent alarms to the regulators about the situation arising today?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#78 Isn't it the Federal Reserve role to oversee the banking system??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#80 Why did Sox not prevent this financal crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#82 Fraud in financial institution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#15 Financial Crisis - the result of uncontrolled Innovation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#18 Once the dust settles, do you think Milton Friedman's economic theories will be laid to rest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#19 What's your view of current global financial / economical situation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#26 SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act), is this really followed and worthful considering current Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#28 Does anyone get the idea that those responsible for containing this finanical crisis are doing too much?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#34 The human plague
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#82 Greenspan testimony and securization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#83 Chip-and-pin card reader supply-chain subversion 'has netted millions from British shoppers'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#8 Global Melt Down
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#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/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#23 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#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#62 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#63 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#80 Are reckless risks a natural fallout of "excessive" executive compensation ?
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#54 In your opinion, which facts caused the global crise situation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#65 What can agencies such as the SEC do to insure us that something like Madoff's Ponzi scheme will never happen again?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#4 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#28 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#7 Are Ctibank's services and products so vital to global economy than no other banks can substitute it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#9 HSBC is expected to announce a profit, which is good, what did they do differently?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#16 The Formula That Killed Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#18 HSBC is expected to announce a profit, which is good, what did they do differently?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#30 I need insight on the Stock Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#36 Bernanke Says Regulators Must Protect Against Systemic Risks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#40 Bernanke Says Regulators Must Protect Against Systemic Risks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#59 Quiz: Evaluate your level of Spreadsheet risk
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#64 Should AIG executives be allowed to keep the bonuses they were contractually obligated to be paid?
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#23 Should FDIC or the Federal Reserve Bank have the authority to shut down and take over non-bank financial institutions like AIG?
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#35 US banking Changes- TARP Proposl
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#38 On whom or what would you place the blame for the sub-prime crisis?
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#53 What every taxpayer should know about what caused the current Financial Crisis
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#1 Future of Financial Mathematics?
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/2009g.html#27 Flawed Credit Ratings Reap Profits as Regulators Fail Investors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#31 OODA-loop obfuscation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#3 Consumer Credit Crunch and Banking Writeoffs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#10 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/2009h.html#49 IBM to Build Europe, Asia 'Smart Infrastructure'
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#35 what is mortgage-backed securities?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#38 what is mortgage-backed securities?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#49 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#21 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#87 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#8 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#10 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#40 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#66 No command, and control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#50 What do you think about fraud prevention in the governments?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#53 What do you think about fraud prevention in the governments?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#75 America's Defense Meltdown
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#27 The Zippo Lighter theory of the financial crisis (or, who do we want to blame?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#42 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#36 On Protectionism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#48 On Protectionism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#60 In your opinon, what is the highest risk of financial fraud for a corporation ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#30 Bank email archives thrown open in financial crash report
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#56 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#10 Cracking the code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#69 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#41 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#57 The Mortgage Crisis---Some Inside Views
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#73 Did You Hear the One About the Bankers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#36 Civilization, doomed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#37 Civilization, doomed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#83 The banking sector grew seven times faster than gross domestic product since the beginning of the financial crisis and Too-Big-to-Fail: Banks Get Bigger After Dodd-Frank
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#3 The Obama Spending Non-surge
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#31 21st Century Management approach?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#41 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#70 No One Telling Who Took $586B in Fed Swaps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#135 Estimate that WW1 cost $52B
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#32 Wall Street Bonuses May Reach Lowest Level in 3 Years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#19 "Buffett Tax" and truth in numbers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#65 Why Wall Street Should Stop Whining
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#67 How Economists Contributed to the Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#82 Mathematics < Integrity = Financial Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#95 Bank of America Fined $1 Billion for Mortgage Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#30 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#32 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#45 Fannie, Freddie Charge Taxpayers For Legal Bills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#46 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#54 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#32 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#42 China's J-20 Stealth Fighter Is Already Doing A Whole Lot More Than Anyone Expected
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#23 Are mothers naturally better at OODA because they always have the Win in mind?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#40 Who Increased the Debt?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#58 Word Length
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#31 Rome speaks to us. Their example can inspire us to avoid their fate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#63 One maths formula and the financial crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#66 Predator GE: We Bring Bad Things to Life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#69 Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#75 Fed Report: Mortgage Mess NOT an Inside Job
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#80 The Failure of Central Planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#87 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#6 Adult Supervision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#7 Adult Supervision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#20 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#28 REPEAL OF GLASS-STEAGALL DID NOT CAUSE THE FINANCIAL CRISIS - WHAT DO YOU THINK?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#71 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#76 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#26 US economic update. Everything that follows is a result of what you see here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#32 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#75 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#14 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#17 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#60 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#4 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#28 Why Asian companies struggle to manage global workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#65 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#48 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#56 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#12 Why Auditors Fail To Detect Frauds?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#7 Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#69 Can Open Source Ratings Break the Ratings Agency Oligopoly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#73 These Two Charts Show How The Priorities Of US Companies Have Gotten Screwed Up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#47 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#51 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#64 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#0 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#49 Insider Fraud: What to Monitor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#54 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: what makes a computer architect great? Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:24:05 -0500nmm1 writes:
this was in parallel when future system effort was trying to emulate the
single level store from tss/360 ... w/o any corrections ... which
possibly contributed to FS failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
s/38 is periodically described as simplified future system implementation ... however, for the s/38 entry level market ... the enormous performance penalties of simple single-level store design was never really an issue (simplicity outweighed performance).
the poor performance reputation of single-level-store from tss/360 and future system possibly contributed to decisions to not allow me to ship my cms paged mapped filesystem ... even tho i had benchmarks where it significantly outperformed that of standard cms filesystem.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: OT -- hackers Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 26 Jan 2013 10:53:21 -0800zedgarhoover@GMAIL.COM (zMan) writes:
there use to be reference that there were really only 200 people in silicon valley (most of them hacker attendees), there just seemed like more because they kept moving around a lot.
before things got so commercial, competitors could bring unannounced products to the conference and play with each others toys.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: what makes a computer architect great? Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:06:31 -0500nmm1 writes:
I actually was able to improve RAS, security and parallelism ... including support old-style filesystem semantics. a big performance benefit was 360/370 style channel program paradigm was performance disaster ... aka aligned the file system semantics with the virtual memory paradigm; i supported "windowing" as paradigm to emulate multiple buffer overlapped operation; could use "window" semantics to simulate old-style buffer i/o ... or single large memory map with demand page ... or spectrum between the two.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 27 Jan 2013 Subject: How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityre:
Why the World Economic Forum and Goldman Sachs are Capitalism's Worst
Enemies
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/davos-still-pushes-failed-global-vision.html
Large, individual accounting control frauds cause greater financial
losses than all other forms of property crime -- combined. Accounting
control frauds are weapons of mass financial destruction. Epidemics of
accounting control fraud drove the national crisis that produced the
Great Recession. We have reliable information on this in the United
States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Iceland. Spain has kept the
facts about lending too opaque to determine reliably what caused their
bubble to hyper-inflate, but the lending pattern is consistent with
accounting control fraud. These accounting control fraud epidemics
drove crisis that caused a loss of over $20 trillion in wealth and
cost roughly 20 million workers their jobs.
... snip ...
Zombie Banks: How Broken Banks and Debtor Nations Are Crippling the
Global Economy
https://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Banks-Crippling-Bloomberg-ebook/dp/B0060IWMNY
Has intro Sheila Bair saying the gov. chose the "Japan" zombie bank solution.
Confidence Men: Wall Street Washington, and the Education of a President
https://www.amazon.com/Confidence-Men-Washington-Education-ebook/dp/B0089LOKKS/
Had the president's "A-team" (instrumental in getting him elected), pushing for accountability and in the "Japan-or-Sweden" choice opt'ing for the Swedish solution. Then the president appoints the B-team that takes the "Japan" solution and not interested in holding those responsible accountable (some having been part of the problem).
Taleb On "Skin In The Game" And His Disdain For Public Intellectuals
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-25/taleb-skin-game-and-his-disdain-public-intellectuals
Taleb drew wide attention after the 2007 publication of The Black
Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, which warned that our
institutions and risk models aren't designed to account for rare and
catastrophic events. Among other things, the book cautioned that
oversized and unaccountable banks using flawed investment models could
bring on a financial crisis
... snip ...
The flawed model refrain was frequently obfuscation and misdirection
... from the period were reports that the business people forced the
risk managers to fiddle the inputs until they got the desired results
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/how-wall-streets-quants-lied-to-their-computers/
Also from congressional hearings into pivotal role that rating
agencies played ... triple-A ratings were being purchased for toxic
CDOs even when both the sellers and the rating agencies knew that they
weren't worth triple-A. The triple-A ratings trump documentation and
loan originators could start doing no-documentation loans, also no
longer needed to care about borrower's qualifications or loan
quality. Institutions even purposefully created triple-A toxic CDOs
designed to fail, sold them to their customers and then took out CDS
bets that they would fail. All facilitating being able to do $27T
during the bubble
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
How Iceland Overthrew The Banks: The Only 3 Minutes Of Any Worth From
Davos
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-26/only-3-minutes-worth-listening-davos
Simply put, he says, "we didn't follow the prevailing orthodoxies of
the last 30 years in the Western world." There are lessons here for
everyone - as Grimson explains the process of creative destruction
that remains much needed in Western economies
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Was MVS/SE designed to confound Amdahl? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:18:58 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
the 138/148 ecps work was starting just as Future System was being
killed off.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
following FS being killed there was mad rush to get products (software & hardware) back into 370 product pipeline. POK also started a campaign to kill off the vm370 product, shutdown the vm370 group in Burlington Mall, and transfer all the people to POK to work on mvs/xa (justification to corporate that otherwise they would not be able to meet the mvs/xa ship shedule in the 80s.
in parallel with this, Endicott attempted to have every 138/148 shipped pre-installed with vm370. Corporate overruled this ... in part because agreeing with POK to kill vm370 product. Endicott eventually managed to save the vm370 product mission ... but had to reconstitute a development group from scratch.
Part of vm370 on every machine ... a combination of ECPS, highly optimised vm370 and VS1-handshaking ... it was possible for VS1 to run faster under VM370 than it could on the bare hardware (even tho available real storage was reduced by vm370 fixed kernel size).
Part of the issue was that under vm370, the virtual machine memory size was defined the same as VS1 virtual address space ... with a one-to-one mapping ... so that VS1 never directly did any paging. VS1-handshaking under vm370 would reflect to the VS1 supervisor when a page fault occurred (allowing VS1 to task switch to some other application) and when the page fetch had completed. I had vm370 page handling instruction pathlength that was much shorter than VS1 (as well as even enormously shorter than MVS) and I also had a much better page replacement algorithm ... as a result is was much more efficient for VS1 to let VM370 do its paging operations.
misc. past posts mentioning POK getting vm370 killed off (with excuse
that they needed the people in order to make the mvs/xa product ship
schedule ... even tho it was over 6yrs away).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#47 TSS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#67 Hercules etc. IBM not just missing a great opportunity...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#14 Multics on emulated systems?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#53 Alpha performance, why?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#22 303x, idals, dat, disk head settle, and other rambling folklore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#52 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#24 |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| questions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#35 network history (repeat, google may have gotten confused?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#23 US fiscal policy (Was: Bob Bemer, Computer Pioneer,Father of
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#58 Where should the type information be: in tags and descriptors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#59 Where should the type information be: in tags and descriptors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#25 IBM Plugs Big Iron to the College Crowd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#54 Q ALLOC PAGE vs. CP Q ALLOC vs ESAMAP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#25 auto reIPL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#30 auto reIPL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#14 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#35 Filemode 7-9?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#36 Filemode 7-9?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#25 Mainframe Linux Mythbusting (Was: Using Java in batch on z/OS?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#25 Mainframe Limericks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#51 The Fate of VM - was: Re: Baby MVS???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#28 Assembler question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#23 How to write a full-screen Rexx debugger?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#32 IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO levels
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#41 IBM S/360 series operating systems history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#7 IBM S/360 series operating systems history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#25 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#28 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#55 IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#18 sizeof() was: The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#43 z/VM usability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#67 Operating systems are old and busted
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#35 IBM obsoleting mainframe hardware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#29 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#38 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#33 Age of IBM VM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#36 Oracle Introduces Oracle VM As It Leaps Into Virtualization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#68 T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#76 T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#96 source for VAX programmers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#19 Tap and faucet and spellcheckers [was: Re: What do YOU call
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#30 VMware signs deal to embed software in HP servers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#48 How did third-party software companies deal with unbundling being sprung on them?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#78 How powerful C64 may have been if it used an 8 Mhz 8088 or 68008? microprocessor (with otherwise the same hardware)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#75 Intel: an expensive many-core future is ahead of us
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#58 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#47 pc/370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#67 IBM tried to kill VM?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#14 Assembler Question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#54 THE runs in DOS box?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#32 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#36 SEs & History Lessons
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#37 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#62 Hercules; more information requested
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#44 SNA: conflicting opinions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#74 Best IEFACTRT (off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#80 IBM driving mainframe systems programmers into the ground
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#19 Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#33 While watching Biography about Bill Gates on CNBC last Night
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#38 While watching Biography about Bill Gates on CNBC last Night
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#41 While watching Biography about Bill Gates on CNBC last Night
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#51 "Portable" data centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#4 360 programs on a z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#22 Why is JCL so bad was Re: Basic question on passing JCL set symbol to proc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#37 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#44 sysout using machine control instead of ANSI control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#100 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#59 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#66 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#78 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#11 Crazed idea: SDSF for z/Linux
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#8 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#1 History: Mark-sense cards vs. plain keypunching?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#19 Old EMAIL Index
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#45 PROP instead of POPS, PoO, et al
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#41 IBM 3883 Manuals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#18 IBM Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#43 CKD DASD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#98 History of copy on write
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#6 Mainframe upgrade done with wire cutters?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#18 Melinda Varian's history page move
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#25 Melinda Varian's history page move
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#70 vm/370 3081
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#77 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#52 Maybe off topic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#30 vm370 running in "XA-mode"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#47 junking CKD; was "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#8 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#63 Before the PC: IBM invents virtualisation (Cambridge skunkworks)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#42 assembler help!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#9 Was there ever a DOS JCL reference like the Brown book?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#79 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#90 New IBM Redbooks residency experience in Poughkeepsie, NY
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#41 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#34 CMS load module format
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#6 John R. Opel, RIP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#9 John R. Opel, RIP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#44 Data Areas?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#92 Question regarding PSW correction after translation exceptions on old IBM hardware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#81 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#82 Migration off mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#114 Start Interpretive Execution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#6 NASA unplugs their last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#65 FAA 9020 - S/360-65 or S/360-67?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#70 Mainframe System 370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#38 A bit of IBM System 360 nostalgia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#39 SIE - CompArch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#17 Co-existance of z/OS and z/VM on same DASD farm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#52 The dbdebunk revival
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#8 International Business Marionette
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#33 Using NOTE and POINT simulation macros on CMS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#76 END OF FILE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#47 Official current definition of MVS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#52 history of Programming language and CPU in relation to each
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#64 Should you support or abandon the 3270 as a User Interface?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#34 Regarding Time Sharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#35 Regarding Time Sharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#53 What is holding back cloud adoption?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#8 Is Microsoft becoming folklore?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 28 Jan 2013 Subject: Choice of Mary Jo White to Head SEC Puts Fox In Charge of Hen House Blog: Facebookre:
... in reference to comment that around 700 S&L executives went to jail
long-winded post from jan99 that includes a bit about S&L
crisis.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#riskm
securitized mortgages had been used during S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages. in the late 90s, we had been asked to look at improving the integrity of the supporting documents used in securitized mortgages (as countermeasure to mortgage fraud); however being able to pay for triple-A ratings trumps supporting documents and loan originators were able to start doing no-documentation mortgages.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 28 Jan 2013 Subject: What is a Mainframe? Blog: Enterprise Systemsre:
recent posts in long winded thread in alt.folklore.computers started
out with discussion of mvs/se (on 3033) but gets into various kinds of
microcode, ecps, Amdahl's hypervisor and pr/sm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#58 .
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#59 .
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#61 .
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#67 .
part of effort in 138/148 time-frame included vm/ecps microcode assist but also included vs1 handshaking ... where vs1 virtual address space was laid out 1-for-1 mapping in a vm/370 virtual machine (so vs1 didn't do any paging) ... and vm370 could present interrupts to vs1 supervisor when it started to do virtual page operation on behalf of vs1 (allowing vs1 to do task-switch) and when the operation completed. As mentioned, vs1 could even run faster under vm370 ... in part because my instruction pathlength for paging was significantly better than vs1 (and enormously better than mvs) ... as well as my page replacement algorithm was much better than vs1 (or mvs).
and for other drift ... recent posts in ibm-main mailing list on DASD,
CKD, FBA, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#30 .
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#40 .
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Lotus 1-2-3 rebooted: My trip back to the old (named) range Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:12:27 -0500Lotus 1-2-3 rebooted: My trip back to the old (named) range
from above:
Bricklin and Frankston initially formed a company called Software Arts
to commercialise the software. But VisiCalc was also marketed by another
company with which Software Arts signed an agreement. This was Personal
Software, run by Dan Fylstra. VisiCalc was so successful that Personal
Software was renamed VisiCorp in 1982. Two of its other products were
VisiTrend and VisiPlot, which covered statistics and business
charting. These were written by Mitch Kapor, who worked at VisiCorp but
owned personal rights to his software. VisiCorp bought out those rights
for $1.7m, giving Kapor the resources to start his own company, Lotus
Development Corp (LDC).
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: New HD Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:06:08 -0500"Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
370 virtual memory was similar but different to 360/67 virtual memory ... and there were also additional/new instructions that required simulation.
compounded the problem was that the original work was done on the science center production system ... which included non-employee users (students, staff, professors from various educational institutions in the boston area).
first all the code was added to copy of (virtual machine) cp67 to provide 370 virtual machine operation (different virtual memory simulation and simulation of new instructions). this version of cp67 was run in a cp67 virtual machine (rather than on real hardware) in order to eliminate any possible exposure to non-employees (while 370 had been announced, virtual memory feature for 370 hadn't been announced).
then a copy of cp67 was modified to operate on 370 ... rather than
360/67 which ran in a virtual machine. a copy of cms was then run
under this cp67
real 360/67
running cp67-l (cambridge production cp67)
in 370/67 virtual machine running cp67-h (provided 370 virtual machines)
in 370 virtual machine running cp67-i
in 370 virtual machine running cms
the "cp67-i" system was then used to test when the first engineering
370/145 with virtual memory became operational (turns out the hardware
had a "bug" for that initial boot of cp67i). when 370/145 machines with
virtual memory started shipping internally ... cp67sj (cp67i with the
addition of drivers for 3330s & 2305) was regular product system until
well after vm370 was available.
past post mentioning science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
past posts mentioning cp67-l, cp67-h, cp67-i
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#0 HONE was .. Hercules and System/390 - do we need it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#31 determining memory size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#27 Vintage computers are better than modern crap !
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#50 IBM 3614 and 3624 ATM's
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#59 intel's Vanderpool and virtualization in general
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#66 Virtual Machine Hardware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005g.html#17 DOS/360: Forty years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#18 Exceptions at basic block boundaries
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#39 Behavior in undefined areas?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#50 virtual 360/67 support in cp67
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#27 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#38 Is VIO mandatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#7 About TLB in lower-level caches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#5 3380-3390 Conversion - DISAPPOINTMENT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#21 Virtual Virtualizers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#26 Mainframe Limericks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#19 Source maintenance was Re: SEQUENCE NUMBERS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#1 Materiel and graft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#45 Was FORTRAN buggy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#49 Was FORTRAN buggy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#3 IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#20 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#12 FBA rant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#16 when was MMU virtualization first considered practical?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#74 GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#23 GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#68 EXCP access methos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#69 EXCP access methos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#36 SEs & History Lessons
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#38 While watching Biography about Bill Gates on CNBC last Night
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#49 "Portable" data centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#1 PDP-10s and Unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#3 "Portable" data centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#17 old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#51 Source code for s/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#63 Source code for s/360 [PUBLIC]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#60 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#23 Item on TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#31 Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#74 CSC History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#69 Boeing Plant 2 ... End of an Era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#72 IBM Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#80 TSO Profile NUM and PACK
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#27 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#34 Data Areas?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#62 Any cool anecdotes IBM 40yrs of VM
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: IBM documentation - anybody know the current tool? (from Mislocated Doc thread) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 28 Jan 2013 08:21:07 -0800k60ekgmc@US.IBM.COM (Kevin Minerley) writes:
GML was invented at the science center in 1969 (letters chosen
because they are first letter of last name of the inventors)
and gml tag processing support added to cms script. past posts
mentioning gml/sgml
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
one of the earliest standard documents moved to cms script was principles of operation. there was something called the architecture "redbook" (because it was distributed in red 3-ring binders). principles of operation was a subset of the architecture "redbook" ... using cms script command-line options, either the full redbook was produced or just the principles of operation subset.
after a decade, gml morphs into iso standard sgml
https://web.archive.org/web/20231001185033/http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/roots.htm
after another decade, sgml morphs into html at cern
http://infomesh.net/html/history/early/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Date: 29 Jan 2013 Subject: More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityre:
Bank of America Foreclosure Reviews: Whistleblowers Reveal Extensive
Borrower Harm and Orchestrated Coverup (Part I -- Executive Summary)
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/bank-of-america-foreclosure-reviews-whistleblowers-provide-extensive-evidence-of-borrower-harm-and-orchestrated-coverup.html
Bank of America Foreclosure Reviews: Whistleblowers Reveal Extensive
Borrower Harm and Orchestrated Coverup (Part II)
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/37705.html
there was just a note that part3 is being delayed because of trying to turn massive amount of technical detail into narrative ... while waiting:
A Professor, a Whistleblower, and Ethics For Quants
https://web.archive.org/web/20130202014831/http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-01-28/professor-whistleblower-and-ethics-quants
and now
Bank of America Foreclosure Reviews: Why the Cover-Up Happened (Part IIIA)
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/bank-of-america-foreclosure-reviews-new-part-iii.html
We found four basic problems:
The reviews showed that Bank of America engaged in certain types of
abuses systematically
The review process itself lacked integrity due to Promontory
delegating most of its work to Bank of America, and that work in turn
depended on records that were often incomplete and unreliable. Chaotic
implementation of the project itself only made a bad situation worse
Bank of America strove to suppress and minimize evidence of damage to
borrowers
Promontory had multiple conflicts of interest and little to no
relevant expertise
... snip ...
Bank of America Foreclosure Reviews: Why the Cover-Up Happened (Part
IIIB)
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/bank-of-america-foreclosure-reviews-why-the-cover-up-happened-part-iiib.html
Here we'll discuss:
"Garbage in-garbage out" problem of unintegrated, unreliable records
"Fire, aim, ready" approach to launching the tests
... snip ...
... and related to ethics for quants in the financial industry, there
is the expose in "Inside Job" about prominent economists having been
"captured" by wallstreet ... as discussed in "Economists and the
Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards":
https://www.amazon.com/Economists-Powerful-Convenient-Distorted-Economics-ebook/dp/B01B4X4KOS/
loc72-74:
Only through having been caught so blatantly with their noses in the
troughs (e.g. the 2011 Academy Award -- winning documentary Inside
Job) has the American Economic Association finally been forced to
adopt an ethical code, and that code is weak and incomplete compared
with other disciplines.
... another quote loc957-62:
The AEA was pushed into action by a damning research report into the
systematic concealment of conflicts of interest by top financial
economists and by a letter from three hundred economists who urged the
association to come up with a code of ethics. Epstein and
Carrick-Hagenbarth (2010) have shown that many highly influential
financial economists in the US hold roles in the private financial
sector, from serving on boards to owning the respective
companies. Many of these have written on financial regulation in the
media or in scholarly papers. Very rarely have they disclosed their
affiliations to the financial industry in their writing or in their
testimony in front of Congress, thus concealing a potential conflict
of interest.
... snip ..
also references "Inside Job" ... BofA's purchase of Countrywide is big part of its mortgage exposure
Glenn Hubbard, Leading Academic and Mitt Romney Advisor, Took $1200 an
Hour to Be Countrywide's Expert Witness (gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140504010711/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/glenn-hubbard-leading-academic-and-mitt-romney-advisor-took-1200-an-hour-to-be-countrywides-expert-witness-20121220?print=true
and #1 on times list responsible for economic mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877339,00.html
Angelo Mozilo, Former Countrywide CEO, Claims He Doesn't Know What
'Verified Income' Is
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/angelo-mozilo-former-countrywide-ceo-claims-he-doesnt-know-what-verified-income-is-20121228
and of course rolling stone has more to say
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan Apparently Can't Remember Anything
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/no-evidence-he-was-stoned-but-bank-of-america-ceo-brian-moynihan-apparently-doesn-t-remember-much-of-the-last-four-years-20121127
references
Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail; The bank has defrauded everyone
from investors and insurers to homeowners and the unemployed. So why
does the government keep bailing it out?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
misc past posts mentioning #1 on times list:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#54 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#56 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#25 US Housing Crisis Is Now Worse Than Great Depression
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#29 Obama: "We don't have enough engineers"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#19 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#49 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#77 Did You Hear the One About the Bankers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#72 Chris Dodd's SOPA crusading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#95 Bank of America Fined $1 Billion for Mortgage Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#5 Too big not to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#31 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#46 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#13 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#20 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#28 REPEAL OF GLASS-STEAGALL DID NOT CAUSE THE FINANCIAL CRISIS - WHAT DO YOU THINK?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#59 Why Hasn't The Government Prosecuted Anyone For The 2008 Financial recession?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#67 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#76 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#77 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#58 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#47 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#55 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#0 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#4 HSBC's Settlement Leaves Us In A Scary Place
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: mainframe "selling" points Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 29 Jan 2013 07:38:28 -0800eamacneil@YAHOO.CA (Ted MacNEIL) writes:
then about the time various gov. sanctions expired in the early 80s, IBM "ACIS" was formed ... which was provided with significant amount of money for educational institutions. MIT Project Athena was jointly funded by DEC & IBM ... each providing $25M ... CMU got $50M ... I think ACIS initially got $300M for disbursement ... and when that was gone, they got more. I don't know of any ACIS money that was used for mainframes.
As an example, CMU did unix "work-alike" MACH ... which was leveraged by
Jobs at NeXT for its operating system, and became basis for MAC
operating system replacement when Jobs returns to Apple.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_%28kernel%29
Kerberos was done in Project Athena. At the time, we are asked to do
periodic corporate visit to Project Athena to review their projects. I
remember being there the week cross-domain protocol was being worked
out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_%28protocol%29
A decade ago, a small Kerberos service company in Seattle area ... at the time, CEO was former head of IBM mainframe ... does a contract with Microsoft to integrate Kerberos into Windows as its authentication mechanism. We are working for a large financial services company and were periodically on-site at the company for various reasons.
indirect reference in this article (although some is little garbled)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190524015712/http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/stoprun/Stop-Run/Making-History/
BITNET (where this ibm-main mailing list originated) & its sibling
in Europe (EARN) was funded by IBM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
note above is slightly garbled with respect to NJE & RSCS. RSCS was
originally done at the science center ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
some past posts about BITNET/EARN
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
RSCS/VNET was used for the internal network. JES2 with NJI/NJE had some nodes on the internal network (much of the code was from HASP that had source code identifier TUCC ... installation where it originated). The RSCS had layered design (which JES didn't) and RSCS could do drivers (like NJE) for other infrastructures. NJE used spare entries in the 255 psuedo-device table for network definitition ... (typically around 150 entries). Internal network was quickly greater than 255 nodes ... and NJE would trash traffic where it didn't have entry for either the origin or the destination. As a result JES2 systems were limited to boundary network nodes. Also NJE design was that traffic between JES2 systems at different release levels ... had tendancy to crash JES2 and their respective MVS systems. As a result, a library of RSCS NJE drivers appeared early that could translate JES2 formats into whatever was acceptable by the JES2 on the other end.
JES2 eventually got around shipping support for 999 nodes ... but it was
after the internal network had exceeded 1000 nodes. misc. past posts
mentioning internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
eventually the company stopped shipping the RSCS native drivers to customers ... just the NJE drivers ... although the native RSCS continued to be used internal ... in part because they were much more efficient and had higher throughput.
person at the science center responsible for RSCS & internal network
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks
from above:
Meanwhile, in the fall of 1974, IBM announced System Network
Architecture (SNA) as its official communications strategy. SNA was
incompatible with VNET and with many of the networking ideas being
developed for what would be called the Internet, particularly with
TCP/IP. Hendricks and others lobbied vigorously within IBM for a change
in direction, but were rebuffed.
In 1976, MIT Professor Jerry Saltzer accompanied Hendricks to DARPA,
where Henricks described his innovations to the principal scientist,
Dr. Vinton P. Cerf. From that point on, Vint and other DARPA scientists
adopted Hendricks' connectionless approach. The result developed
into the Internet as we know it today.
... snip ...
note that tcp/ip is the technology basis for the modern internet,
NSFNET backbone was the operational basis for the modern internet, and
CIX was the business basis for the modern internet. Some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
NSFNET backbone originally started out to be interconnection of the
NSF supercomputer centers and we were to get $20M to do it. Congress
cuts the budget and various other things happen and it gets reformed
and an RFP is released. Internal politics get in the way and prevents
us from bidding. The director of NSF tries to help and writes a
letter to the company 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO), ... but that just
aggravates the internal politics (references to things like what we
already had running is at least five years ahead of all bid responses
doesn't help). misc. old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: mainframe "selling" points Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 29 Jan 2013 09:24:24 -0800lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
modulo the references to funding bitnet ... which was mainframe technology ... similar to what was used for the internal network.
as referenced in edson's wiki article there was enormous resistance by the sna/communication organisation to anything that wasn't sna (including opposing tcp/ip use inside the company).
the sna/communication organization in the late 80s spread a lot
of mis-information as part of moving the internal network to
sna (when it would have been enormously more efficient and less
expensive to move to tcp/ip). various old internal network
related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vnet
the sna/communication organization was also spreading mis-information as
sna/vtam applicable to the NSFNET backbone ... as well as blocking us
doing the NSFNET backbone. Somebody in their organization collected a
lot of the misinformation communication and forwarded it ... small
amount reproduced here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
and some other mis-information and/or related
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email870302
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#email870306
that also possibly contributed to the original mainframe tcp/ip
product being exceedingly inefficient (about 44kbyte/sec thruput using
3090 processor). I did the enhancements to the product to support
RFC1044 and in some throughput tests at cray research got sustained
channel throughput between cray and 4341 ... using only modest amount
of 4341 processor (possibly 500 times improvement in bytes moved per
instruction executed) ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
and as I've periodically referred in the past, this was also in the period when a senior disk engineer got a talk scheduled at the internal, annual, world-wide communication group conference and opened with the statement that the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division. the issue was that the communication group had stranglehold on datacenters (strategic ownership of everything that crossed the datacenter walls, trying to preserve their terminal emulation install base and fight off client/server and distributed computing). The disk division was starting to see the effects of data fleeing the datacenters to more distributed computing friendly platforms with dropoff in disk sales. The disk division had come up with several products to correct the situation ... but they were constantly being vetoed by the communication group.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: mainframe "selling" points To: <ibm-main@bama.ua.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:52:41 -0500steve@TRAINERSFRIEND.COM (Steve Comstock) writes:
20yrs ago IBM had gone into the red (significantly accelerated by
stranglehold that the communication group had on datacenters). corporate
executives had been preping the company for breakup ... recent
references to old time article "baby blues" ... restructuring as part of
preparation for breakup
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#61 What is holding back cloud adoption?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#63 Today in TIME Tech History: Piston-less Power (1959), IBM's Decline (1992), TiVo (1998) and More
the board then brings in Gerstner to resurrect the company and for a
complete make over ... other recent posts mentioning Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#34 Co-existance of z/OS and z/VM on same DASD farm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#72 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#74 Why So Many Formerly Successful Companies Are Failing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#82 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#87 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#4 Think You Know The Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#12 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#16 Hierarchy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#17 Hierarchy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#35 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#54 How will mainframers retiring be different from Y2K?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#55 The Invention of Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#65 What are your experiences with Amdahl Computers and Plug-Compatibles?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#16 Think You Know The Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#25 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#69 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#9 Sandy Weill's About-Face on Big Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#15 Microsoft's Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#19 SnOODAn: Boyd, Snowden, and Resilience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#21 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#31 History--punched card transmission over telegraph lines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#34 History--punched card transmission over telegraph lines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#46 Slackware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#49 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#65 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#70 END OF FILE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#75 What's the bigger risk, retiring too soon, or too late?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#20 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#27 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#63 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#69 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#24 Does the IBM System z Mainframe rely on Security by Obscurity or is it Secure by Design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#58 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#1 STOP PRESS! An Auditor has been brought to task for a failed bank!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#8 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#20 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#14 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#32 Does the IBM System z Mainframe rely on Obscurity or is it Security by Design?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#60 Today in TIME Tech History: Piston-less Power (1959), IBM's Decline (1992), TiVo (1998) and More
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#61 What is holding back cloud adoption?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#64 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: OT: but hopefully interesting - Million core supercomputer To: <ibm-main@bama.ua.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:06:31 -0500mpost@SUSE.COM (Mark Post) writes:
senior vp retires oct91, followed by audit of several products he
sponsored including supercomputer effort, part of the result is scouring
the company for technology to use, including corporate technology
conference middle of jan92. by the end of jan92 (possibly within hrs of
the last referenced email in above), cluster scale-up is transferred and
we are told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors
(significantly contributes to motivation deciding to leave). a couple
weeks later there is supercomputer announcement (17feb1992 press
reference ... but no commercial; numeric intensive & scientific ONLY)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
later that spring another press item that clusters had taken the company
completely by surprise (11May1992 press reference):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
i've mentioned before having worked with LLNL off&on dating back
to benchmarks when they were looking at large numbers of 4341s
in compute farm in the late 70s ... some old 4341 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
also later in 1988, I'm asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff
... that eventually morphs into fibre channel standard (FCS). Some pok
channel engineers then become involved and layer protocol on top that
severely restricts native/underlying FCS thruput ... that eventually
morphs into FICON. some recent ficon posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#10 From build to buy: American Airlines changes modernization course midflight
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#40 Searching for storage (DASD) alternatives
for other topic drift ... past posts about original RDBMS/SQL
implementation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
it and derivatives were mainframe only. In the time of ha/cmp, some of the other rdbms vendors had "portable" implementations for unix, vax/cluster and other platforms. IBM is just starting on its implementation for OS/2 (but isn't available for other platforms or with cluster support until much later). To aid in easing deploying vax/cluster support on unix platforms, I work on global lock manager that emulates the vax/cluster's API. However, the various vendors have list of dozen or so things done wrong in vax/cluster ... which are easy to correct since I get to start from scratch. The mainframe DB2 folks complain that if I'm allowed to continue, I'll be at least five yrs ahead of them (which presumably contributes to cluster scale-up being transferred and being told couldn't work on anything with more than four processors).
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