From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: By Any Other Name Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:25:20 -0400Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
don't find anything more on JIB' ... some on microcode development
system ... used for developing JIB' code on 370
above mentions have difficult time moving MDS from MVS to CMS (in part
because using various MVS features not supported by CMS).
other email mentioning mds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email800624
in this post
finally instead of changing application code to work with cms features
... they wrote 12k code to add simulation for the unsupported MVS
features to CMS (there use to be joke about the 64k-byte os/360
simulation in cms was a lot more efficient than the 8mbyte os/360
simulation in MVS)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email800903
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#email810128
JIB' was done at los gatos lab ... designed to management requirements
... so it can't be said that LSG is to blame (besides getting to play
engineer in bldg14&15, I got to play in LSG/bldg29)
LSG also did "blue iliad" ... first 32bit risc/801 chip ... really
large and never got beyond sampling. however, LSG pioneered use of
scanning electronic microscope in chip debugging. misc. old email
mentioning 801/risc ... including iliad and blue iliad references
I had several offices and labs in LSG (even tho I was in research and
had office in research bldg). LSG also did the LSM (Los Gatos State
Machine ... although in publication LSM became logic simulation
machine). It was one of the few logic simulation machines that included
clock support ... most assumed synchronous clock. Clock support allowed
support of chips w/o global synchronous clock as well as digital chips
with analog circuits (i.e. thinfilm r/w disk heads).
HSDT included 4.5m TDMA satellite dish in LSG back parking lot and a 7m
TDMA satellite dish in Austin next to the AWD engineering bldg (had
transponder on SBS4 which went up on 41D ... I was invited to launch
party at the cape). High-speed link between Austin and the LSM in Los
Gatos is credited with helping bring in the RIOS (aka rs/6000) chipset a
year early. misc. past posts mentioning HSDT
past posts mentioning LSM
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finger slip 2314
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vax sold into the same mid-range market as 4300s and except for large
corporate orders, in about the same numbers. the large corporate 4300s
orders hundred to large hundreds at a time to be placed out in
departmental areas was sort of the leading edge of the distributed
computing tsunami wave. these distributed vm/4300s inside ibm
contributed to scarcity of conference rooms inside ibm (i.e. they were
going out into departmental supply rooms and conferences rooms) and big
contributer to the internal network passing 1000 nodes in 1983 ... the
internal network was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about
the beginning until sometime late '85 or early '86 ... some past posts
it also contributed to ibm coming out with the 3375 ... emulated CKD on
FBA 3370. I had been told that even if I provided fully integrated
and tested FBA support to MVS, I still needed a $26M business case
to cover education, training, and documentation ... oh and I couldn't
use long-term life-cycle changes ... I could only use incremental
new sales ... and customers were already buying as much disk as
could be made ... so customers would just switch from same amount
of FBA as they had been buying CKD. some past posts
the issue was that 3380s were the high-end disk ... and the only disks
in the low&mid-range were FBA. MVS couldn't participant in this huge
explosion in distributed processing on 4300s ... in part because it
didn't have support for disk that was suitable in non-datacenter
environments. Disk division was forced into producing 3375 (CKD emulated
on 3370) ... however MVS support paradigm also didn't scale well to
running on hundreds of distributed systems.
old post with decade of vax sales, sliced&diced by US/non-US, year,
model
clusters of 4300s also represented threat to 3033 ... they had more
aggregate processing power than 3033 and were significantly cheaper and
required significantly less floor space and environmental resources. at
one point, POK 3033 was playing internal politics and got the allocation
of critical 4300 manufacturing component cut in half. old 4300-related
email
in the decade of vax sales, towards the end, it is possible to see
workstations and large PCs moving up into the mid-range market.
something similar happened to 4300s ... the 4331/4341 follow-ons
(4361/4381) was expecting to continued explosion in sales ... but the
mid-range market was already starting to move (4361/4381 suffering same
effects as vax).
before 4300s shipped, there were engineering 4341 models in disk
engineering&test ... and I had better access to 4341 for doing
benchmarks than the performance group in (endicott) 4341 manufacturing.
one of the benchmarks that I ran was for national lab ... that were looking at
buying 70 4341 for compute cluster ... if they met certain performance &
price/performance requirements. old reference
sort of start of being involved with LLNL compute clusters ... reference
to more than decade later on cluster scale-up ... recent post with
old email
other old email on cluster scale-up
within hrs of the last email in the above, cluster scale-up was
transferred and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than
four processors ... and within week or two, it was announced as IBM
supercomputer.
I was also working with Jim Gray on original relational/SQL
implementation ... system/r ... originally done on vm 370/145 in
bldg. 28 (san jose research). early joint study on system/r
was with bank of america. Old email from Jim about BofA
doing 60 vm/4341s and I needed to further reduce the effort
to manage large numbers of distributed machines.
later when Jim was leaving for Tandem ... he was palming
bunch of stuff on me (including dealing with BofA, DBMS
consulting with IMS group, etc)
system/r folklore is that mainstream corporate attention was focused on
EAGLE ... and was able to do technology transfer and get System/R out
(under the radar) through Endicott as SQL/DS. Later when EAGLE
imploded, the System/R group was asked how fast could they do a port to
MVS ... which eventually comes out as DB2. misc. past posts
the late 80s was when senior disk engineer got a talk scheduled at
annual, world-wide, internal communication group conference and opened
the talk with the statement that the communication group was going to
be responsible for the demise of the disk division. the issue was that
the communicatin group had strategic responsibility for everything
that crossed the datacenter walls and were fiercely fighting off
distributed computing and client/server in support of their dumb
(emulated) terminal install base. the disk division was starting to
see data fleeing the datacenter to more distributed computing friendly
platforms with drop in disk sales; they had come up with several
solutions to correct the problem ... but they were constantly being
vetoed by the communication group. this was significant factor in the
corporate downturn and the company going into the red in the early
90s. some past posts
Time magzine had article 28Dec1992 about the downfall of IBM "How
IBM Was Left Behind" ... includes a discussion of the re-organization
of the company into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking
up the company ... behind paywall but lives free at wayback machine:
my archived posts in recent thread in (closed linkedin) IMBers
discussing the company board bringing in new executive
that stopped the breakup and "resurrected" the company
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recent posts mentioning above:
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commodore had the volumes in the home market and ibm/pc had the volumes
in the business market. ibm/pc with 3270 emulator card was about the
same price as real 3270 terminal ... so it was no-brainer business case
for a company to switch from justified real 3270s to ibm/pc with 3270
emulation and some local computing in single desktop footprint at the
same price.
total microvax numbers were less than the numbers of ibm/pc at single
large corporate customer ... previous reference:
the large profit margin and market size attracted the clone pc makers
... which started snowball effect, the lowered price increased the size
of the market and the increased volumes further lowered the price ... at
some point breaking threashold into home market displacing commodore
(and other players in the home market). Late 80s, the fareast clone
makers were building up huge inventory for the xmas season. 386sx
machines were then introduced that wiped out the 286 market ... which
then saw huge clearance sales (of the 286 inventory built up for xmas
season). one of the issues was that the decreasing circuit size,
increased the circuits per chip, increased the performance, and also
decreased the number of support chips needed for system ... further
reducing system costs. The decreasing circuit size and increase in
circuits per chip ... increased the upfront costs for chip design as
well as each new generation of chip manufacturing facilities. as upfront
costs exceeded billions ... market size of billions became important to
spread the upfront costs so it became only a few dollars per chip (along
with technology reaching billions of circuits per chip).
enormous numbers of 3270s had logistic problem with each (real or
emulated) 3270 having coax cable running from each 3270 back to the
datacenter. the coax cable trays were starting to exceed weight
loading limits in buildings. the communication group positioned
token-ring as solution to the coax cable weight loading problem
... single token-ring LAN run serving 300 or more IBM/PC emulated
3270s
the communication group fight to preserve its (emulated) dumb terminal
install base would generate enormous amount of FUD in token-ring
comparisons with ethernet (just part of its stranglehold on mainframe
datacenter fighting off distributed computing and client/server). recent
posts about the communication group FUD in news articles on anniversary
of ethernet
in the middle of all this, the new Almaden research bldg was coming
online that had significant CAT-5 provisioning for token-ring
... however they found that 10mbit ethernet over CAT-5 had both higher
aggregate LAN thruput and lower latency than 16mbit token-ring. This
was also in period when 16mbit token-ring cards were going for $900
and high-performance ethernet cards (even with some protocol offload)
were dropping below $100.
there was another problem. the communication group had 16mbit
token-ring per card throughput designed for terminal emulation. The
AWD workstation division had done its own 4mbit token-ring card for
the PC/RT (with AT-bus). For RS/6000, the division was mandated to use
PS2 microchannel cards. The problem was (with the dumb terminal
emulation design point) the PS2 16mbit token-ring microchannel card
had lower per-card throughput than the PC/RT 4mbit token-ring card (a
PC/RT server with 4mbit token-ring card had higher throughput than
RS/6000 with 16mbit token-ring microchannel card).
trying to save the PC market ... with proprietary PS2 ... the head of
POK mainframe division was also transferred to boca to try and turn it
around. there were lots of internal FUD/claims about PC clone market
... I started posting to internal corporate forums the quantity one
prices from sunday issues of silicon valley paper (showing actual
numbers were drastically less than internal business cases). past
posts with some of those long-ago prices from sunday paper
The new head of PS2 also contracted with Dataquest (before gartner
bought dataquest) for large report about the pc market over the
following 5-10 yrs ... which was to include several hrs video taped
roundtable of dozen silicon valley experts. I knew the person at
Dataquest handling the ibm contract and was asked to be one of the
silicon valley experts. I cleared participation with my immediate
management on the condition they garble my introduction on the video
tape
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during the Future System period ... 370 (hardware & software)
development was being killed off (and lack of new products
is credited with giving clone processors market foothold).
with death of FS ... there was mad rush to get products
back into the 370 pipeline ... misc. past posts
part of that was 303x in parallel with 3081 & 370/xa. The head of POK
also managed to convince corporate to kill off the vm370 product,
shutdown the burlington mall development group and move all the people
to POK ... or otherwise he wouldn't be able to meet the mvs/xa ship
schedule.
the burlington mall group wasn't going to be told until the very last
moment in order to minimize people being able to escape ... however it
leaked a few months early ... and quite a few people were able to escape
the move to POK ... quite a few going to DEC to work on vax/vms (this
was in the very early days of starting vax/vms development)
... resulting in the head of POK being considered one of the biggest
contributors to vax/vms.
endicott eventually managed to save the vm370 product mission ... but
had to reconsitute a development group from scratch ... the resulting
learning curve resulted in quite a few comments regarding code quality
during the period on VMSHARE
there was also quite a bit of enhancements to vm370 lost in the
burlington mall shutdown ... including a major expansion of MVS
emulation in cms.
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In the 80s, M/D bought the company and spun off several units (its telco
front-end sold to BT) ... and gnosis is spun off into KeyKOS (I'm
brought in to audit gnosis as part of the spin-off). For KeyKOS all the
accounting pathlength is stripped away and they have benchmarks that
show capability based applications beating throughput of TPF (besides
edfficient pathlength, they claim that higher-level abstractions
allowing optimization that can't be done in the extremely low-level TPF
environment).
tymshare
GNOSIS
and spawns
EROS
IBM's high-performance transaction processing facility, originated for
the airline industry as ACP ... but rebranded 1979 as TPF when financial
and other reservation industries were using it
recent posts mentioning GNOSIS
past posts mentioning virtual machine based online services
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over in a.f.c. there are quite a few former DEC people ... and while
they don't criticize the influx of people from the vm370 burlington mall
development group (at the very start of vax/vms development) ... they
don't have any kind words for the former IBM middle managers. recent
mention shutdown of vm370 burlington mall development group (i.e. name
comes from location of the bldg. in burlington mall ... when the group
outgrew the space in 545 tech sq. ... they move out to the vacant former
SBC building ... SBC having gone to CDC as part of legal settlement).
more details about DEC ... Compaq then bought DEC (there have been lots
of comments that Compaq wanted DEC's field service division) ... then HP
buys Compaq. Just recently comment that HP has decommitted OpenVMS
and hoping that HP would release source of open use.
Note that as the Time magazine article details ... IBM only narrowly
missed similar fate with the perparation for breaking up into the "baby
blues" ... 28Dec1992 ... downfall of IBM "How IBM Was Left Behind"
we had left early in the year ... 31July1992 coincidentally the same day
they shutdown all the scientific centers (had been part of the
sales&marketing division and major interface to academia). old email
reference
note that the split up into the 13 "baby blues" ... was a lot more
complicated that one might thought. Early 1993 (before board brought
in new executive that reversed the breakup and resurrects the
company). We were invited in to do detailed examination of all the
contractual arrangements ... one business unit might have contract
with outside supplier ... but other business units would be relying on
the same contract. All of those implicit business arrangements were
going to have to be explicitly recognized
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advice to self: have to be really careful when going out drinking with
john. I've often contended that, in part, John did 801/risc as reaction
to the horrible complexity in Future System ... misc. past posts
79-80 there was big push to move vast array of internal
microprocessors to 801/risc ... microprocessors in low&mid range 370,
control microprocessors, the as/400 (merged follow-on to s/36 & s/38),
etc. these were in large part Iliad chips of one form or another. for
various reasons, the efforts faltered and you saw some number of the
engineers leaving to do risc at other vendors. ... misc. old 801 email
The 4331&4341 follow-ons (4361&4381) were going to be Iliad (801/risc)
... I helped with whitepaper that derailed those efforts. An issue was
that circuits were getting small enough that it was possible to directly
implement much of 370 directly in hardware (rather than having to resort
to the microcode implementations of previous generations).
one of the efforts was ROMP chip for what was going to be the
displaywriter follow-on ... however that got canceled (lot of word
processing was moving to personal computing). the group looked around
and decided to retarget it to the unix workstation market. they got the
company that had done the unix port for ibm/pc (pc/ix) to do one for
romp ... and it came out as pc/rt and aix. follow-on to ROMP was RIOS
chipset for rs/6000.
recent post about los gatos lab doing "blue iliad" ... first 32bit
801 ... never got much past sample chips:
past posts mentioning 801, risc, fort knox, iliad, romp,
rios, power, power/pc, etc
however, there is the tale of ACS360 ... which ibm management
shutdown because they were afraid that it would advance computing
technology too fast, and they would loose control of the market.
above also discusses features from ACS360 showing up more than 20yrs
later in ES/9000. other recent posts referencing ACS360
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for the fun of it, i periodically post ... recently in (closed
linkedin) IBM'ers ... partially archived here:
and as for ms/dos
additional lineage is that some of the CTSS people went to the 5th flr
and did Multics, others went to the science center on the 4th flr and
did cp/67-cms (actually 360/67 wasn't ready yet so they did hardware
modifications to 360/40 for virtual memory and did cp/40-cms ... which
later morphs into cp/67-cms when 360/67 becomes available). past posts
mentioning 545 tech sq
folklore is that unix is outgrowth of Multics work (and the name a play
on Multics).
ctss
Last year, Les sent me scan of his 82SEAS CP/40 talk, I OCR'ed it
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1) lots of attacks are proportional to number of deployed machines (and
public coverage of such attacks tends to be proportional to number of
machines).
2) lots of attacks are value of the expected returns making big
financial industry mainframes attractive targets. the financial
industry is extremely publicity adverse about such attacks ... lots
will not be made public. at financial industry critical infrastructure
meetings ... one of the biggest issues was insisting that any
information sharing would not be subject to FISA.
we were also tangentially involved in the cal. state data breach
notification legislation (the original, many other states have passed
similar legislation since then). the issue was that little or nothing
was being done ... normally entities take security measures in
self-protection ... in the case of many of the data breaches, the
institutions with the breaches had nothing at risk ... it was
individuals. there was some hope that the publicity resulting from the
notifications would result in institutions taking corrective actions (as
well as allowing individuals to take countermeasures ... like closing
account).
however, account from long ago and far away (note I didn't learn
about these guys until much later)
one the installations became quite active in SHARE and their installation
code was CAD (cloak-and-dagger) ... also shows up in vmshare archives
misc. other recent posts mentioning P-bit
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of course there was also some amount of rivalry between the 5th flr
(multics) and 4th flr (cp/67). they (also) had a lot of very security
oriented customers. 545 tech sq postings
recent reference to IBM research report "Thirty Years Later: Lessons
from the Multics Security Evaluation":
one of the points was the Multics was implemented in PLI and lacked the
common vulnerabilities that are epidemic in C-language based software.
specifically related to exploits in networking ... the original
mainframe tcp/ip product had been implemented in vs/pascal ... and also
had none of the common vulnerabilities and exploits that are epidemic in
C-language based implementations.
part of the rivalry was number of sites (list of all Multics installations)
one of my hobbies was production systems for internal datacenters ...
first with cp/67 and then moved to vm370 with csc/vm. It wasn't fair
to compare numbers with actual vm370 customers or even total internal
vm370 customers ... so the comparison was just the number of csc/vm
installations with total Multics customers (with peak csc/vm internal
installations possibly 50% larger than total Multics customers).
One of Multics premier sites was AFDS (#71 on above list). so it was
*fun* when AFDS was looking at 210 vm370 systems ... old email posted
in multics discussion group
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The Oct2008 congressional hearings into the pivotal role that the
rating agencies played in the financial mess ... had testimony by
rating agency employees saying that they raised warnings that both the
sellers of the toxic securities and the dept. doing the ratings knew
they weren't worth triple-A. News commentators at the time said the
the rating agencies would likely avoid federal prosecution with threat
of blackmailing the gov. with rating downgrade.
The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis; It's long been suspected
that ratings agencies like Moody's and Standard & Poor's helped
trigger the meltdown. A new trove of embarrassing documents shows how
they did it
You F--ked Up, You Trusted Us': Talking Ratings Agencies With Chris
Hayes
past posts mentioning congressional hearings into the rating agencies:
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the science center did a port of apl\360 to cp/67-cms for cms\apl and
made it available on the science center cp/67-cms system (in addition to
marketing to customers).
cms\apl opened up apl to real-world applications with both virtual
memory sized workspaces (most apl\360 systems limited workspace size
to 16kbytes) and system call APIs (being able to do things like file
opertions). remote users in armonk started using it for business
modeling and loaded the most valuable and holiest of corporate assets
on the science center cp/67-cms system.
this required some security considerations since the science center
allowed remote dialins and access by staff and students from educational
institutions in the boston/cambridge area.
misc. past posts mentioning science center
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IBM CEO Ginni Rometty Handed This Man A New $7 Billion Business Unit
from above:
Supposedly the epiphany for Guestner when he was brought in to
resurrect the IBM company (including stopping splitting up the company
that had been re-organized into the "baby blues" for the split up) was
to redirect it from a product company into a services company.
The article mentions that Clementi was responsible for "reviving"
mainframe business in the mid-2000s ... which would correspond with
the z9s & z10s ... although financial reports is that total mainframe
business is 6.25 times mainframe hardware sales (i.e. mainframe
customers pay $5.25 for software & services for every $1 they pay for
hardware ... mainframe hardware only accounts for 4% of total
revenue).
If Amazon Beats IBM For CIA Cloud Deal, It Could Shake Up A Whole New
Market
Look At Facebook's Gorgeous New Data Center Built With Its
Game-Changing Servers
GAO sheds light on IBM-Amazon CIA battle
from above:
GE intros 'cloud agnostic' data platform with Pivotal, Amazon Web
Services; Summary: GE is also touting that the value of its new
Industrial Internet scheme will reach nearly $1.3 trillion by 2020
AOL was one of the dialup online service providers in the 80s
they were hit by the emergence of WWW in 1994 (referenced in above)
and had to compete with emerging ISPs which were offering flat-rate
service:
from above:
some of the people that I knew from NSFNET backbone days went to work
for AOL around the mid-90s ... corresponding with the rise of the
web. In fact, June 17, 1995 AOL internet-facing servers started
crashing. Over the next two months lots of experts were brought in to
look at the problem. Finally one of their people flew out to the west
coast Aug 17 and offered to buy me a hamburger after work. While I ate
the hamburger, he described the problem ... I mentioned that it was an
internet issue we had identified several years earlier and gave him a
q&d fix which he applied later that night.
Report: The CIA Picked Amazon To Build Its Cloud Even Though IBM
Would've Been Cheaper
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We recently had a little vax/vms discussion over in ibm-main
... vax/vms sold about the same aggregate numbers in small number
orders ... as 4300s ... big difference with 4300s was the large
corporate orders ... some multiple hundreds at a time ... it was the
leading edge of the distributed computing tsunami ... and inside ibm,
it contributed to the big explosion in the size of the internal
network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning
until late '85 or early '86) and scarcity of conference rooms
(machines were going out into departmental supply rooms and conference
rooms).
decade of vax sales sliced&diced by model, US/non-US, year, etc.
from the numbers, by the middle 80s the mid-range started to be taken
over by workstations and large PCs. something similar happened with
4300s ... there was anticipation that the 4331/4341 follow-on
(4361/4381) would see the same continued growth ... but they saw
similar mid-range collapse as vax.
big issue for MVS was that 3380s were the high-end disks for
datacenter environments ...the mid-range disks that could go out in
non-datacenter environments were all FBA (3370 & 3310) ... and MVS
didn't have FBA support (to this day). Eventually 3375, emulated CKD
on 3370, came out ... giving MVS an opportunity to play in the big
mid-range explosion. It didn't help a whole lot since the people
resources for MVS support and maintenance didn't scale well to large
numbers (large hundreds) of distributed systems.
old email about AFDS wanting to come by to talk about 20 vm/4341
systems
In this time-frame, i also did some national lab benchmarks who were looking
at 70 vm/4341s for a cluster cmpute farm (sort of precursor to present
day supercomputers). of course decade later, I was working with LLNL
on cluster compute farms involving RS/6000s (instead of 370s). other
old 4300 related email
the other problem was POK was threatened by 4341 ... clusters of 4341
had higher throughput than 3033, a lot less expensive, and required
significantly less floor space and environmental resources. at one
point head of pok got internal allocation of critical 4341
manufacturing component cut in half as a way of reducing the 4341
threat.
--
Remembering 'Baby' - first computer to run electronically stored program
65 years ago
from above:
PDF reference:
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In the late 80s, a senior disk engineer got a talk scheduled at the
annual, world-wide, internal communication group conference and open
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 strategic ownership of everything that
crossed the datacenter walls (had stranglehold on datacenter) and was
preserving in dumb (emulated) terminal install base, fiercely fighting
off client/server and distributed computing. The disk division had
seen data fleeing the datacenter to more distributed computing
friendly platforms with the drop in disk sales. The disk division had
come up with several solutions to the problem, but they were
constantly vetoed by the communication group. This was a major factor
in the downturn and the company going into the red a couple years
later. Time article from 28Dec1992 about the company being reorganized
into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breakup ... the downfall
of IBM "How IBM Was Left Behind"
In this time-frame we had come up with 3-tier architecture and out
presenting it in corporate executive marketing presentations ... and
taking a lot of arrows from the communication group. My wife had also
written it into a response to large gov. distributed computing
RFI. Old posts in thread about the origins of middleware ... with
pieces from the presentation
the above showed the cost of putting in a mainframe at the top of
3-tier network could be significantly less expensive and have much
higher throughput that using the communication group dumb terminal
components
some more pieces from later thread also on where middleware came from
Another example is the communication group fought hard to have the
mainframe tcp/ip product from being announced. When they couldn't
actually stop the announcement, they switched gears and claimed that
it had to be announced through the communication group and with
communication group products (since they had "strategic" ownership of
everything that crossed the datacenter walls). The resulting product
got 44kbytes/sec throughput using a whole 3090 processor. I did the
changes to support RFC1044 and in some tuning tests at Cray Research
got channel throughput between cray and 4341 using only modest amount
of 4341 processor (possibly 500 times improvement in bytes moved per
instruction executed). misc. past posts mentioning RFC1044 support
... oh, and more old posts mentioning 3-tier
the original mainframe tcp/ip was eventually ported to MVS by
emulating some number of vm370 functions (and throughput managed to be
as slow or worse than the original implementation w/o my rfc1044
changes).
the communication group then hired a contractor to do tcp/ip stack
implementation in vtam ... and when he demonstrated it, tcp ran much
faster than lu6.2. The communication group then told him that
everybody knows that a *valid* tcp implementation is much slower than
lu6.2 ... and they would only pay for a *valid* tcp implementation.
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including becoming chairman of carlyle after leaving ibm.
more detailed histories talk about him being in competition to be
the next CEO of AMEX ... the looser then leaves ... and eventually
does take over some other companies and eventually citibank ...
in violation of glass-steagall ... greenspan gives him an exemption
while he lobbies congress for repeal of glass-steagall ... originating
too-big-to-fail and major factor in the financial mess.
AMEX and KKR are in competition for private-equity take-over of RJR
... KKR wins ... but runs into trouble with RJR and hires Gerstner
away to turn it around ... before the IBM board hires Gerstner away to
resurrect IBM. Gerstner then leaves to be chairman of another major
private equity company.
RJR
It mentions that private equity leveraged buyout of RJR had been the
largest buyout up until that point.
Carlyle
gerstner posts
recent posts mentioning gerstner and/or resurrection of ibm
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wais inc
there are more activities with library of congress than smithsonian.
some presentation has large array with blinking blue lights on
the alter in a dim room. recent post
above has this reference w/some pictures of the "new" location
--
Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life
more detailed histories talk about him being in competition to be the
next CEO of AMEX ... the looser then leaves ... and eventually does take
over some other companies and eventually citibank ... in violation of
glass-steagall ... greenspan gives him an exemption while he lobbies
congress for repeal of glass-steagall ... originating too-big-to-fail
and major factor in the financial mess.
AMEX and KKR are in competition for private-equity take-over of RJR
... KKR wins ... but runs into trouble with RJR and hires Gerstner
away to turn it around ... before the IBM board hires Gerstner away to
resurrect IBM. Gerstner then leaves to be chairman of another major
private equity company.
RJR
It mentions that private equity leveraged buyout of RJR had been the
largest buyout up until that point.
wiki
after IBM, becomes Chairman of
which does private equity buyout of
Booz Allen, the World's Most Profitable Spy Organization (and in the
middle of the recent controversy)
marines small wars manual
based on their experience dealing with small scale conflicts was written
about the same time (and based on same experience) as "War Is A Racket"
characterizes same events done in support of MICC and wallstreet. "War
Is A Racket" wiki references perpetual war,
includes references to several Boyd's acolytes ... misc. past posts
& web references to Boyd
also references: "The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the
Carlyle Group"
In the past I do a security chip ... in the 90s, I semi-facetious say I
would take $500 mil-spec chip, cost reduce it by 2-3 orders of magnitude
(eventually under a dollar) while making it more secure. Problem is that
eliminating all costs tends to 1) eliminate profit for 3rd party
operators (both in financial and security industries) and 2)
significantly reduces barriers to entry (both anathema to what is taught
in business schools). Lots of patents (includes person-centric also
reduing costs, opportunity for profit, and barrier to entry) ... all
assigned
company we are at when doing the AADS chip ... was spun out of AMEX
(about the time IBM was going into the red) ... largest IPO up until
that time. More recently KKR does a leveraged buyout, reverse-IPO of
the company ... largest reverse-IPO up until that time (15yrs after
being the largest IPO).
Long ago and far away, my wife transfers to company IBM forms with Aetna
and Comsat to do satellite computer data, however, mainstream company
communication protocol products hardly work over satellite,
significantly reducing business opportunity. Her office is in bldg. they
have in Tyson's corner. IBM eventually dissolves the company, satellites
going to Hughes (now Boeing) and most of the people going to MCI
(although she returns to IBM). The bldg. eventually is taken over by
BAH. During the AADS period, BAH wants a meeting to discuss the subject
and want to hold it in conference room that is outside the office of a
former agency head (office is approx. same location where my wife's
office had been). During the meeting, somebody in BAH concludes that
they don't see how to make a profit ... also during the meeting, there
is reference to
AADS prototype chips are done in security chip fab. it includes circuits
to do keygen as part of fab initial power-on/test process ... and
exporting the public key (with the power-on/test data) ... but there are
no facilities for divulging the private key
past posts mentioning communication group having stranglehold on
datacenters and major factor in IBM downturn (not just difficulty
working over satellites) and going in the red in the early 90s (trying
to protect their dumb terminal paradigm) ... resulting in board bringing
in new CEO to "resurrect" the company:
gerstner posts
past posts mentioning Tyson's corner:
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references "The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'"
Presidential telephone tapes ... has LBJ talking about investigation
into the Vietnam peace talks being undermined by Nixon ... in order to
improve Nixon's election chances.
some amount of this was related to anniversary of Iraq invasion ... and
lots of fabrication that went on to justify the invasion.
there were comments about later presidents stopped recording calls
... because of things being released. Release of presidential records
can turn up all sorts of things. Note at the start of the century, it
was time to release the Reagan presidential records (under the
presidential records act), but the incoming new administration signed
executive order to keep them classified (possibly because there would be
references to members of team b activities in conjunction with Iraq
during the 80s ... some of the same team b members part of the new
administration planning for invasion of iraq ... even before 9/11).
recent posts mentioning executive order to counter release of records
under presidential records act:
other recent posts mentioning team b
--
the Nixon treason also discussed in this recent a.f.c. thread
--
with regard to the reagan period ... a major email event was the contra
affair ... and then all the executive branch emails had to be searched
for contra references (however, all these supposedly clearly said that
it was official gov. servers and official gov. email ... no expectation
of privacy):
i.e. in the 80s, administration was backing iraq in the iran/iraqi war
... and then it turns out they were also selling arms to iran ...
becoming arms merchants to both sides ... some recent posts
Iran-Contra affair
above has pictures of members of team b meeting with Saddam.
team b wiki
more on Nixon's treason (also points out team b around nixon)
Nixon's treason still shapes the Republican Party
past posts mentioning PROFS
--
the iran/contra affair somewhat demonstrated what could be done if you
saved everything (except it was gov. email, no expectation of privacy
and not violating bill of rights).
for some time there has been assumptions that the gov. was illegally
electronically evesdropping on everything ... predating the prospect
that everything could be saved/recorded (i.e. millions of multi-terabyte
disk drives) ... example is emacs has had function that would add words
to email that were purported to be on list of keywords used in domestic
surveillance.
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petabyte in 42u rack
this claims 240TB in 4U ... so possibly 2petabytes in a rack?
500 racks, 1,000 petabyte or exabyte
a zettabyte would be 500,000 racks
--
How Booz Allen Hamilton Swallowed Washington
Does Carlyle have a Booz Allen problem?; Carlyle has made lots of money
on Booz Allen, but the NSA scandal could tamp down future returns.
Spies Like Us
from above:
aka, privatizing of the us government.
older reference to growing Success of Failure culture
not just in the intelligence community but across the government
(long term revenue is higher with a series of failures than
an immediate success).
gerstner posts
recent posts referencing Success of Failure
--
... except the first sentence says that "an incident when a case of
simple human error by those running critical systems resulted in a
crisis" ... I thot the part of migrating everything to the newest
generation of mainframe was interesting ... even after the crisis.
Long ago and far away, my wife had been con'ed into going to POK to be
in charge of loosely-coupled architecture where she did peer-coupled
shared data architecture ... which saw little uptake (except for IMS
hotstandby) until sysplex. some past posts
In more recent years, we would periodically drop in on the guy running
one of the largest financial network and he attributed 100%
availability to 1) triple-redundant, geographically separated IMS
hot-standby and 2) automated operator ... aka an increasing number of
outages were becoming the result of human error
There was lots of work done on CP67 in the 60s ... not only for
security but also for automation ... so it could be left up 7x24. Part
of the issue was IBM mainframes were leased and IBM charged on the
basis of the cpu meter ... the cpu meter ran whenever the processor
and/or channels were busy ... and datacenter costs were recovered by
charging for online user resource use. In the early days of offering
7x24, there was little use ... but in order to encourage 7x24 use, the
system had to be left up 7x24 (even with little or no use). As a
result there was lots of attention to reducing off-shift costs as far
as possible. One of the efforts was special channel programs that
would accept incoming data from online users ... but allow channel to
go idle when there was no incoming data (and therefor allow the cpu
meter to stop when system was otherwise idle). The other CP67 effort
in the 60s was to automate as much as system operation allowing dark
room with no operator off-shift (for instance, CP67 could fail,
automatically record all the information, and automagically reboot and
be up & running within minute or two). some past posts about 7x24
cp67 online operation
Later in the 70s, I was doing lots of automatic benchmarking offshift
on weekends ... I need the system to automatically reboot between
benchmarks and automagically execute the next benchmarking script
... and reboot hundreds of times for different benchmarks. This
required doing what we called was automated operator. This was then
moved from (internal) cp67 to (internal) vm370 ... csc/vm production
system. some past posts
In parallel with this ... more and more services (back then service
virtual machines modern vernacular virtual appliance) were being
deployed in virtual address spaces ... and so it was no longer
necessary just to have the system back up and running automagically
... but it was also necessary to get all this virtual services back up
and running. The automated operator done for automated benchmarks
... was trivial to adapt for this purpose.
I've periodically mentioned that during the FS period, lots of 370
stuff was being killed off ... and then with the failure of FS
... there was mad rush to get products back into the 370
pipeline. This contributed to decision to start releasing some of my
csc/vm stuff to customers (I had continued to do 360/370 stuff during
the FS period, even periodically ridiculing their activities). some
past posts
old email mentioning moving from cp67 to csc/vm (including support
used for automated operator)
The automated startup was released ... but CSC/VM also included SPM
code ... originally done for CP/67 by the Pisa Science Center
... which supported computer processing of system & operator messages
... which was not released.
Note even if not automated ... there has also been lots of work on
fail safe ... if person makes a mistake ... that any damage is
strictly limited.
Triva: the internal network implementation included support for SPM
... even across different systems in the network. This was leveraged
by internal multi-user spacewar game where players could be on the
same machine or different machines.
Other trivia: the cpu meter required that both processor and all
channels be idle for 400ms before it came to a stop. Long after
business moved from rental/sales to purchase (and cpu meter was no
longer an issue), MVS still had an internal timer operation that would
go off every 400ms. (which would make sure that the cpu meter would
never stop as long as MVS was running)
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It Wasn't All Magic: The Early Struggle to Automate Cryptanalysis
--
vax-11/780 supposedly was considered closer in performance to 4341
than 145.
370/145 Announced 23Sep1970
there was a lot of simplification in the morph from cp/67 to vm/370
... dropping a lot of performance enhancements I had done. I did some
work to re-introduce some instruction pathlength optimization that was
re-introduced in vm/370 release 2. However, much of cp/67 to vm/370
migration wasn't done until after release 2 ... for csc/vm internal
use. Old email
some of csc/vm was shipped to customers as part of vm/370 release 3.
other parts of csc/vm was shipped to customers as part of separate
charged-for addon to vm/370 release 3.
I also got sucked into working on ECPS for 138/148. Engines avg. 10
native instructions for every 370 instruction. 370 instructions dropped
into native nearly on 1:1 basis (for 10:1 performance improvement). Was
told that the machines had 6kbytes for ECPS instructions, so objective
was to identify that highest used 6kbytes of instructions. This old post
has some of the kernel pathlength analysis (highest 6kbytes accounted
for 79.55% of kernel cpu time). ECPS shipped for 138/148 (late in
release 3 cycle)
recent post mentioning head of POK (high-end mainframe) considered
one of the biggest contributors to vax/vms:
i.e. head of POK convinced corporate to kill-off vm370 product, shutdown
the burlington mall development group and transfer all the people to POK
to support mvs/xa (or otherwise mvs/xa wouldn't make ship schedule in
the 80s). objective was to not tell the group until just before shutdown
(to minimize number of people that would escape), however it managed to
leak a couple months early ... allowing many developers to escape (some
number going over to dec). endicott eventually managed to save the vm370
product mission ... but had to reconstitute a development group from
scratch. share user group had some number of comments about code quality
on online discussion group (originated aug1976) ... archived here
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undergraduate in late 60s, got to play with 768kbyte 360/67 on weekends
(ran as 360/65 with os/360 during the week) with cp67 ... trading off
some when IBM SE played with tss/360.
we did simulated fortran edit, compile, and execute script ... tss/360
script running 4 simulated users with the script had worse response and
throughput than cp/67-cms had running 35 simulated uses. this had some
of the pathlength rewrite that i had done by late summer 1968 ... but
not all ... part of SHARE presentation i did late summer 1968
release 1 of cp67 didn't do lru page replacement with references bits
and didn't have page thrashing control. Lincoln labs did a fixed
configuration page thrashing controls ... which was run for above.
I then did dynamic adaptive page thrashing controls, (global) clock-like
page replacement with reference bits and dynamic adaptive resource
management (achieved similar objective to working set acm paper
published in 1968). I also then did order seek queueing for queued disk
requests and chained requires for queued page requests on drums or same
head position on disk. All significantly further improved throughput and
response of "large" number of cms users.
tss/360 looking for bright spot ... did some benchmarks with 1mbyte
360/67 single processor and 2mbyte 360/67 dual processor ... with the
2mbyte dual processor having 3.8 times the throughput of single
processor. The spin was that tss/360 was the most advanced
multiprocessor operating system since it could get nearly four times the
throughput with twice the resources. it actually turns out that the
tss/360 kernel was so bloated ... needed much more than 1mbyte real
storage for any significant resources available for applications.
much later in the early 80s ... there was co-worker of jim gray's at
tandem trying to get his stanford phd on clock/global LRU page
replacement ... and was being fiercely fought by the forces behind the
1968 acm working set article (which turned out to also be local lru page
replacement). Jim knew that I had done a lot of work as undergraduate in
the 60s and asked me to help with his co-worker.
It turns out my stuff was running in the standard cp67 release 3
... including the 768kbyte single process 360/67 (104 pages for paging
after fixed kernel requirements) at the cambridge science center. Thea
Grenoble Science Center had 1mbyte 360/67 (154 pages for paging after
fixed kernel requirements). Grenoble then modified the cp67 system to
implement what was described in the 68 acm working set paper. That
grenoble system with 30-35 users had about the same response and
throughput as the cambridge system running similar workloads with 70-75
users (half as many users and 50% more real storage for paging). old post
past posts discussing Jim's request
past posts mentioning the paging work
Jim had originally made the request at the 14-16Dec81 SIGOPS conference
... but research management wouldn't let me send a response until nearly
a year later (hopefully it wasn't management taking sides in the
academic dispute ... but trying to punish me because they blamed me for
online computer conferencing on the internal network in the late 70s and
early 80s).
trivia: the thesis adviser later became stanford president
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tss/360 (360/67) predated s/38 ... same time something similar in
multics ... "single-level-store" in the 60s.
early 70s, ibm was going to completely replace 360/370 with "future
system" ... completely different than 360/370 ... and also "single level
store". Both tss/360 and FS had very poor throughput (although they
never actually got around to actually building FS, it died w/o even
being announced ... although not before dumping billions ... in 1970
dollars ... down the hole).
at the univ. in the 60s, i played with cp/67-cms on the weekends (on
360/67) ... sometimes alternating with the IBM SE playing with
tss/360. we did fortran edit, compile and execute synthetic benchmark
and ran on both cp/67-cms and tss/360. cp/67-cms running it with 35
synthetic users had better response and throughput than tss/360 running
4 synthetic users (same hardware, same workload)
at the science center in the early 70s ... i continued to work on
cp/67-cms and did a page-mapped filesystem for cms (drawing on lots of
things that i considered short-comings in tss/360 single-level-store
implementation) ... i also would periodically ridicule the FS activities
... considering what I had running better than their blue-sky
stuff. There was also somewhat of rivalry between the science center on
4th flr of 545 tech sq and project mac & multics on 5th flr.
lots of stuff that I had done for cp/67-cms (and later vm370-cms)
shipped to customers ... but not the paged-mapped filesystem stuff ...
could be considered the bad rep that single-level-store got as result of
FS failure (although I could show three times the throughput for
moderate filesystem intensive workload compared to standard cms
filesystem).
folklore is that some of the FS people retreated to Rochester and did
S/38. the issue there is that in the low-end business machine market
... throughput wasn't as much of an issue ... and could be partially
compensated for with hardware (one of the nails in the FS coffin was
analysis that if FS was built out of the fastest available hardware
... 370/195 ... a workload from 370/195 would have throughput of 370/145
... about 30 times slowdown).
misc. past posts mentioning FS
some other web FS refs:
multics web site:
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Jean was at the ibm boston programming center on the 3rd flr of 545 tech
sq (ibm science center was on the 4th flr and project mac, multics was
on the 5th flr).
the cp/67-cms group split off from the science center and in the process
of morphing into the vm370 group took over the boston programming center
on the 3rd flr ... absorbing most of the people (although Jean and one
or two others effectively became attached to the science center).
I would sometimes bring my kids with me when I went in to do some work
on weekends ... and they could get noisy running up and down some of the
halls. Usually the only other person that was in on the weekends was
Jean ... and she would periodically look me up to complain about how
noisy my kids were.
misc. past posts mentoning 545 tech sq
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however out-of-order execution, branch prediction, speculative execution
and multi-threading are hardware mechanisms for giving execution units
stuff to do while waiting on cache miss (memory latency masking,
hardware equivalent of 60s multiprogramming and multithreading).
I first encountered multi-threading when in the early 70s, I was asked
if I could help with 370/195 multiprocessor (never got announced). 195
pipeline had out-of-order execution but neither branch prediction nor
speculative execution ... so conditional branch would stall the pipeline
(analogous to cache miss instruction stalls) ... and most codes ran at
half 370/195 peak rate because of conditional branches.
idea was to have to have simulated multiprocessor with dual i-stream
... instructions in the pipeline would be flagged with one-bit
indicating which i-stream they were associated with (two i-streams,
running concurrently had chance of keeping execution units feed).
system/38 had a lot of simplification for single-level-store (in
addition to throughput issues) ... one was treating all disks as common
pool and doing scatter allocation. As a result, system backups required
stopping the whole system and doing complete backup of everything as an
integral whole. Single disk failures were common failure mode at the
time ... any single disk failure required stopping the whole system
replacing the physical disk and then doing a complete system restore
(which could take as much as 24hrs elapsed time). It was one of the
motivations making system/38 an early adapter of raid disks (original
raid disk patent was by engineer at the ibm san jose disk plant in the
70s ... that I happened to do some work with).
for higher performance systems, one of the scenarios is attempting to do
contiguous allocation on disk and having larger sequential transfers.
--
there were two drums for 360 ... 2303 and 2301 ... both had 4mbyte
capacity and the 2303 transferred about 300kbytes/sec.
the 2301 was very similar to 2303 but transferred 4tracks in parallel
... transfer rate 1.2kbytes/sec ... each 2301 "track" was four times
larger than 2303 track ... and there was only 1/4th as many tracks.
original cp67 did single request at a time to 2301 ... so was avg.
rotational delay for each transfer resulted in peak 80 4k page i/os.
per second. As undergraduate in the 60s, I modified cp67 to do ordered
seek gueuing for moveable arm disk ... and channel program chained
requests ... doing multiple transfer in same operation ... requests were
chained to maximize transfers per revolution ... being able to peak at
270 4k page i/os per second (and with ordered seek queuing easily got
twice the throughput on 2314s ... compared to fifo). This was all
changes that were picked up and shipped in standard cp67 product.
As configurations and number of users increased ... available space on
2301 became proportionally smaller. in the 70s, csc still only had
360/67 with 768kbyte real memory ... but number of users increasing and
number of 2314 drives increase to 45 drives (5 8+1 drive strings and one
5 drive string). Paging was to 2314 if there wasn't 2301 and/or 2301
fills up. I add drum<->disk page migration to keep most active pages on
2301.
purely demand paging ... recent reference
other recent posts mentioning cp/67:
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Some Hard Numbers On The Western Banking System
from above:
The Oct2008 congressional hearings into the pivotal role that the
rating agencies played in the financial mess had lots of testimony
that the rating agencies were selling triple-A ratings for mortgage
backed securities when they knew they weren't worth triple-A. News
commentator at the time commented that the rating agencies would
likely avoid federal prosecution with ability to blackmail the
gov. with threat of rating downgrade. Nothing came up it at the time,
but more recently more information has come to light that
substantiates the congressional testimony:
recent posts mentioning those triple-A ratings:
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note: similarly "add-on" vs1 (or mvs) in a virtual machine and you have
batch facilties.
note that original objective of CICS was to be a subsystem that avoided
the use of os/360 system services (initially MVT and later MVS) because
they were enormously heavy weight. CICS would acquired system resources
at start up ... and then while runing provide its own system services
... in lieu of os/360 system services ... as much as possible (doing
eveything possible to minimize/avoid using standard os/360 services)
disclaimer: as undergraduate, the univ. library got an ONR grant to
do online catalog ... and the project was also selected to be beta-test
for the original CICS product release; I got tasked to support/debug
CICS for that effort. misc. past posts mentioning CICS (&/or BDAM)
one of the problems with mvs was that it continued to use CKD DASD (and
not support FBA ... to this day, even though real CKD hasn't been
manufactured for decades) and multi-track search. misc. past posts
mentioning ckd, fba, multi-track searches
long ago and far away ... at one point in time, san jose research
datacenter had upgraded 370/195/MVT to 370/168/MVS in shared dasd
configuration with 370/158 vm370/cms. even tho the dasd strings were
physically shared ... there were dasd strings that were suppose to be
dedicated to mvs and others dedicated to vm370/cms.
one day, an operator mounted a mvs pack on a vm370/cms string ... and
within five minutes, the datacenter was receiving irate calls from cms
users regarding severe cms performance degradation. besides all the
other limitations in mvs for interactive computing ... the extensive use
of CKD multi-track search results in enormous i/o degradation with
shared resources (in this case the disk controller for the vm370 cms
disk string was being locked up by the multi-track searches going on
with the mvs disk).
mvs operations was immediately asked to move the disk pack and they
refused ... saying that they would wait until after first shift. the
vm370 group had an highly optimized vs1 system for running in virtual
machine environment ... they then mounted the vs1 system pack on an a
drive on an MVS "string" and started some of our own activity. The VS1
pack on MVS "string" managed to bring the 168/mvs system to its knees
... providing significant throughput release to the cms users (this was
even tho the mvs was running on 168 system, and the vs1 system was
running in a virtual machine on a heavily loaded 158 system). mvs
operations immediately agreed to move the mvs pack off vm370 string, if
we would move the vs1 pack.
In the past, I was called into large customer accounts that was having
horrible performance problems ... after all the traditional experts had
been brought in and failed to resolve the issue ... an example was a
very large national retailer that had numerours systems in
loosely-coupled environment ... turns out the performance problem would
be the extensive use of CKD multi-track search locking up channels,
controllers, and disk. In the national retailer case ... it had a large
PDS application library shared across all systems. The PDS directory was
3cyls ... avg. application load was two PDS directory multi-track taking
approx. 0.5sec elapsed time followed by the load of the application. The
aggregate application load throughput across all the systems in the
configuration was less than two per second. With large hundreds of
stores across the country all constantly trying to load applications
... things got really, really, bad.
During vm370 life, there was increasing support in the hardware for
virtual machine operation. 360/370 making virtual machines possible was
the strong separation between problem state instructions and supervisor
state instructions ... where virtual machine was run in problem mode and
all supervisor state instructions would interrupt into the virtual
machine supervisor for simulation. Increasingly there was special mode
for hardware handling execution of supervisor state instructions in
virtual machine mode (eliminating the overhead of simulation by virtual
machine supervisor).
A major step was when Amdahl did "hypervisor" ... implemented in
macro-code ... that provided a subset of virtual machine operation
totally supported by the hardware eliminating requirement for
a software virtual machine operating system.
Eventually IBM responded with PR/SM for the 3090 ... this was
significantly more difficult effort. Amdahl was a flavor of
standard 370 instructions ... which significantly simplified
programming. 3090 PR/SM had to be implemented in the horizontal
microcode which was a significantly larger effort.
PR/SM eventually is extended to the current LPAR ... where nearly all
systems are run in (LPAR) virtual machine mode.
Trivia: After then 23jun1969 unbundling announcement, IBM had a hard
time adapted to charging for software, one of the rules was that the
price charged users had to cover the software development and support
costs. misc. past posts mentioning unbundling
There were some number of os/360 products that weren't viable because of
their development&support costs were greater than what customers were
willing to pay. However, company found some bookkeeping tricks to
address the opportunity. For instance MVS JES2 networking support wasn't
able to justify announce and ship because their costs was so high. On
the otherhand, the corporation was trying to kill off vm370 and wouldn't
approve the announcement of VM370 networking support (even tho its
costs were close to zero). JES2 eventually cooked a deal with VM370
networking where they were announced as a joint product ...
taking the combined JES2&VM370 costs spread across all the VM370
customers ... reduced the product price to level that JES2 customers
would pay (in effect vm370 customers were subsidizing JES2).
Another case was ISPF ... the bookkeeping was done a different way
... they put the VM370 performance products in the same development
group as ISPF and did the accounting for the group. They cut the VM370
performance products staff back to 3 people and used the revenue from
VM370 performance products to subsidize the 200 people in the ISPF
development.
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I got sucked into IMS periodically.
In 1980 when STL (now renamed silicon valley lab) was bursting at the
seams they were moving 300 people from the IMS group to off-site bldg.
with remote connection back to STL datacenter. They tried remote 3270s
but found the response and human factors totally unacceptable ... they
were use to doing their work with channel-attached vm370/cms 3270s. I
got con'ned into doing support for channel extender so they could have
local channel attached 3270s at the remote site ... turns out some of
the stuff done for channel extender resulted in them not seeing
difference between real channel attached and the remote channel attahced
... as well as improving the thruput of the local systems by 10-15%
(3270 channel programs were down loaded as data to remote channel
emulator, offloading some amount of processing from local machine and
improving efficiency and throughput). ... some past posts mentioning
channel-extender and other high-speed work
same year, Jim Gray was departing for Tandem and palming off some number
of things on me ... including DBMS consulting to the IMS group ... some
old email
later I was doing some work with VTAM/NCP emulator done on series/1 by
one of the babybells ... getting sucked into turning it out as
product. The series/1 had a huge number of enhancements ... compared to
the base SNA ... that the IMS group became extremely interested in.
some old posts
IMS hot-standby could fall over almost immediately ... the problem was
that it then required VTAM re-establishing sessions. For some of their
environments with 30k-60k connections ... it could take an 2-3hrs
before it was back up and running (VTAM session establishment was
enormously resource hungry ... in both cpu cycles as well as real
storage requirements ... resulting in heavy paging).
It turns out one of the features supported by series/1 was shadow
sessions ... when the initial session was established ... a shadow
session could be established with the backup ... somewhat like
tandem was doing ... old tandem availability overview summary
done by Jim
... so all sessions were ready as soon as hot-standby was ready.
There were lots of internal politics to get around the communication
group (since s/1 sales in another division would displace their 37x5
sales). One of the largest 37x5 customers offered to completely
underwrite all my funding getting the product out (so I was independent
on any internal IBM budget) ... they justified that having s/1 based
product ... they would recover all my costs (of turning out the product)
in under a year.
what the communication group did next to bury the effort could only be
described as truth is stranger than fiction.
--
recent discussion about 360 fixed-head drums 2301 & 2303 (head per
track).
2303 was standard head r/w with 300kbytes/sec
2301 r/w four heads in parallel for 1.2mbytes/sec transfer with each
"track" four times larger and 1/4 as many tracks (same amount of total
capacity).
cp67 initially delivered to the univ did single page request at a time
to the 2301 ... resulting in "random access" avg. rotational delay per
request ... peak at 80 4kbyte page transfers/sec. I did the changes to
do page i/o requests with all queued requests in single operation
orgranized to maximize number of page transfer per revolution ...
increasing peak throughput to approx. 270 4kbyte page requests/sec.
(sort of think of it as analog to ordered-seek queueing for moveable
arm disks).
later in the 70s there was 2305 fixed-head (head per track) that did
1.5mbytes/sec transfer ... still big difference between throughput of
single request at a time random access (avg. rotational delay per
request) and careful maximum transfers per rotation.
there was a special model 2305 that did 3mbyte/sec with two heads in
parallel. There were the same number of physical heads as 2305 by pairs
of heads were located on the same track offset by 180degrees ... so
there was half as many tracks and total capacity was half. Avg.
rotational delay was only quarter revolution ... since the two halfs of
the track only had to rotate to half the distance before it was at the
dual heads position.
in 1980, 3380 moveable arm disks came out with 3mbyte/sec transfer
... and to compensate for lack of new generation of head/track devices
... software was developed to do paging i/o operation in "big page"
(full-track) operations (got ten 4kbyte page transfers for every arm
access + rotational delay).
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past posts mentioning ha/cmp
past posts mentioning atex:
--
I never did PoPs ... but did help with ios3270 "greencard" ... a q&d
to HTML here
Over 30yrs ago, I did do a rexx replacement for IPCS (at a time when it
was huge amount of assembler) ... my original object was in less than
half time over 3months ... re-implement IPCS with ten times the function
and ten times the performance (little slight of hand going from
assembler to rexx). For this, I did do the problem determination and
abend code manual ... converting it to fully index, with (dumprx) being
able to pick pieces from the manual on the fly. ... misc. past posts
mentioning dumprx
dumprx rexx could be run either by itself or within xedit ... so had full
capability of xedit to operate.
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How Edward Snowden Snuck Through
a lot of this seems to misdirect from the mechanics of being able to
obtain all the information at all. 20yrs ago, open security literature
had gov. agency state-of-the-art was not only strict access controls
but also behavior based monitoring that would catch employee atypical
activity. all of that appears to have gone by the wayside as part of
privatising the intelligence community and transition to for-profit
operation. It appears that they not only aren't doing monitoring but
don't appear to even have any idea what may have been
taken. References to super administrative privileges imply that
provisions requiring multiple individuals have also gone by the
wayside.
NSA Networks Might Have Been Missing Anti-Leak Technology
Would appear to be regression from 20yrs ago ...possibly associated
with transition to for-profit operation Also possibly more technology
monitor public than internal security. In the financial industry in
the past, open security literature claims that as much as 70-80% of
breaches have involved insiders ... although it might be more ... in
the financial services presidential critical infrastructure meetings,
a major concern was making sure that the exploit information sharing
ISAC not be subject to FOIA.
... also not exactly unexpected given the stories about classified
details of major weapons systems leaking out over the internet for
years.
reference to growing Success of Failure culture
Booz Allen, the World's Most Profitable Spy Organization
from above:
the whistleblower in the Success of Failure case was treated very
badly. The scenario is for-profit operations have discovered that a
series of failures is a lot more revenue than an immediate success
(sort of natural evolution of the beltway bandits "leave no money on
the table" paradigm). The congressional investigation put the agency
on probation for five years (but did little for the whistleblower) and
not able to manage its own projects. However, that may have been just
a ploy ... further privatizing the gov. (solution to the problem of
for-profit companies in projects is to have more for-profit
involvement ... of course, some quarters claim that there is
guaranteed 5% kickback to congress on appropriated funds to for-profit
companies ... which doesn't happen if it is straight gov. agency)
oh and a little IBM connection.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life
more detailed histories talk about him being in competition to be the
next CEO of AMEX ... the looser then leaves ... and eventually does
take over some other companies and eventually citibank ... in
violation of glass-steagall ... greenspan gives him an exemption while
he lobbies congress for repeal of glass-steagall ... originating
too-big-to-fail and major factor in the financial mess.
AMEX and KKR are in competition for private-equity take-over of RJR
... KKR wins ... but runs into trouble with RJR and hires Gerstner
away to turn it around ... before the IBM board hires Gerstner away to
resurrect IBM. Gerstner then leaves to be chairman of another major
private equity company.
RJR
It mentions that private equity leveraged buyout of RJR had been the
largest buyout up until that point.
wiki
gerstner posts
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recent posts about IBM research review of Multics security ... written
in PLI and not having any of the string related issues epidemic
in c-language implementation
also, original mainframe tcp/ip stack was implemented in vs/pascal and
had none of the string related issues epidemic in c-language
implementations
lots of past posts on the subject
for various reasons the original vs/pascal tcp/ip implementation had
some performance issues ... only getting about 44kbytes/sec throughput
using full 3090 processor. I did the rfc1044 changes and in some tuning
tests at cray research between 4341 and cray ... got sustained channel
speed using only modest amount of 4341 processor (possibly 500 times
improvement in bytes moved per instruction executed) ... some past posts
but not as bad as the subsequent implementation that the communication
group contracted for a tcp/ip stack support in vtam. Initial demo had
tcp much faster than lu6.2. The communication group told the contractor
that everybody knows that for a valid tcp/ip implementation, lu6.2 is
much faster than tcp ... and they would only be paying for a *valid*
implementation.
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it isn't just that the oldtime standard never bothered to check that
from string length exceeded target buffer
typical C buffer is string array and programmer has to manually manage
that buffer length (aka the value used for length). other languages
would do the equivalent of the strn functions w/o the programmer
manually having to specify the length.
there are additional addons for C that track the target buffer lengths
to eliminate the numerous *mistakes* ... even with strn operators (since
the values have to be filled in).
--
not only that ... other us rockets that are going up are using russian
engines
--
--
i've mentioned several times that we were brought in to consult with
small client/server startup that wanted to do payments on their server,
they had also invented this technology called "SSL" that they wanted to
use; the result is now frequently called electronic commerce.
As part of that effort we had to audit the "SSL" process including these
new businesses called "certification authorities" ... and establish
several requirements for deployment and operation. Almost immediately
some number of the requirements were violating ... contributing to some
number of the exploits that continue to this day. About that time, I
started making references to "comfort" (SSL) digital certificates
(i.e. not real security but provides the facade).
for a little drift:
Google making the Web faster with protocol that reduces round trips
above talks about mapping HTTPS, reducing round-trips, reduce latency.
I've mentioned before that when HTTP originally was mapped on top of TCP
... it changed the paradigm. The TCP implementations assumed long-lived
sessions and had relatively inefficient session shutdown. The
HTTP(/HTTPS) process had new session for each request ... which
enormously drove up session shutdowns. There was point in mid-90s, as
webserver traffic scaled up where lots of the large webservers were
running 95% of cpu doing FINWAIT (session shutdown) processing. At one
point NETSCAPE moved more a whole lot of large SUN servers to a single
SEQUENT server. Turns out that SEQUENT had encountered the FINWAIT
problem some time before in UNIX commercial markets servicing 20,000
concurrent TELNET sessions.
However, I've also pontificated about some of the techniques for
improving integrity of HTTPS/SSL, certification authorities and SSL
digital certificates ... but part of the improved integrity then also
eliminates majority of the requirement for SSL digital certificates
In the posts, I periodically mention XTP and mapping public key exchange
and lightweight HTTPS/SSL piggy-backed on XTP exchange. I had been on
the XTP technical advisery board in the 80s ... which did a 3-packet
minimum exchange for reliable transport (compared to 7-packet minimum
for TCP) ... and SSL/HTTPS then has additional protocol chatter exchange
within the TCP session ... the piggy-backing would accomplish public-key
encryption for "SSL-light" within the standard XTP minimum 3-packet
(significantly reducing latency and round trips).
Earlier in HSDT, also had done dynamic rate-based pacing as congestion
control mechanism ... which I then wrote up for XTP protocol
part of the issue is in the transition from extremely heavy-weight
ARPANET, IMP ... as opposed to light-weight, low latency operation for
internetworking ... discussed in this wiki entry for former co-worker at
science center
from above:
IMPs had used end-to-end buffer reservation as congestion control
... which scaled extremely poorly. internetworking dropped that but was
increasingly subject to congestion/overload.
In '88, Van Jacobson introduce slow-start as mechanism for congestion
management
however, ACM SIGCOMM had article same year how slow-start is non-stable
in large heterogeneous networks. One scenario has slow-start trying to
approximating spreading out packet transmission indirectly with
adjusting number of outstanding packets ... to prevent back-to-back
packet transmission ... and buffer overload at intermediate nodes.
However, in large heterogeneous networks, returning ACKs are subject to
clumping/batching ... so several arrive at one time, resulting in
several back-to-back packets being transmitted.
Dynamic rate-based control can explicitly controls the time-interval
between packet transmissions and is immune to back-to-back packet
transmission caused by ACK clumping. I've periodically pontificated that
Van Jacobson may have had to resort to windowing as a indirect state
control mechanism because many of the platforms from the period had
extremely poor timer facilities.
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Making mainframe technology hip again
mainframe channel paid enormous penalty for end-to-end half-duplex
operation ... with channel program serialized one CCW at a time in
mainframe memory.
1980, I get con'ed into doing support for channel extender allowing
300 people from the IMS group to be moved to offsite bldg, with
channel-attached 3270 back to the STL datacenter. Part of this was
downloading complete channel program to the remote end for remote
execution. This resulted in the 300 not seeing any difference in human
factors and response (compared to local execution) and also improved
local mainframe throughput by 10-15 percent (improved channel i/o
efficiency).
1988 I was asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they had
... this morphs into fibre channel standard ... includes downloading
channel program to remote end and efficient concurrent transfer in
both directions (note this is before ESCON, which is already obsolete
by the time it ships). Then some POK channel engineers got involved
defining heavy duty layer on top of FCS that drastically reduced
native throughput ... which then evolves into FICON.
Recent z196 peak i/o benchmark got 2M IOPS using 104 FICON. Also,
reports that max. 14 system assist processors run 100% busy at 2.2M
SSCH/sec ... and recommends keeping utilization to 70% or less (1.5M
SSCH/sec). By comparison a recent "native" FCS was announced for
E5-2600 claiming over 1M IOPS (two such FCS having more thruput than
104 FICON ... even though 104 FICON are built on top of 104 FCS)
It is actually worse than that. Channel program requires real
addresses. In the 60s, CP67 running virtual machines required
CCWTRANS to scan the channel program of the virtual machine and
create a duplicate that substituted real addresses for the virtual
addresses.
OS/360 has a paradigm where the access methods are running in the
application space, creating the channel programs and doing an
EXCP/SVC0. In the transition from MVT to OS/VS2 ... Ludlow took
CCWTRANS from CP67 and crafted it into the side of EXCP processing
... i.e. OS/VS2 EXCP has the same problem with channel programs built
in the virtual address space as does CP67(/VM370) with channel
programs built by virtual machine ... i.e. the channel program has to
be scanned by software with a duplicate program built where the access
method virtual channel program (with virtual addresses) and a
duplicate channel program built that substitutes real addresses for
the virtual addresses.
Disclaimer: visiting POK, I would periodically wander thru the 706
machine room 3rd shift ... when Ludlow was busily trying to get the
initial implementation of OS/VS2 up and running. This is old post with
reminiscenes by one of the other people involved ... including
difficulty moving the real memory 360 paradigm (including real memory
channel programming) to a virtual memory paradigm
above also mentions that one of the major HASP developers had done
another approach for moving MFT to virtual memory environment that he
called RASP (however that wasn't used). The above also mentions work
on extended CCWs to handle virtual addresses which never got done.
There were lots of trade-offs in 360 ... especially with respect to
real addresses ... that should have been completely changed for
virtual memory ... but didn't get done. One of the reasons is that
shortly after decision to have all 370s be virtual memory based
(compared to just the 360/67 for 360) ... there was also a decision to
start the FS project ... which was going to completely replace 370
(and significantly different from 370) ... during the FS period, there
was lots of 370 development shutdown (which is also credited with
giving the clone processors a market foothold). There was billions
spent on FS ... and when it imploded w/o even being announced
... there was mad rush to get products back into the 370
pipeline. This was a major contributor that 370 never evolved more
graceful migration to virtual memory environment (lots of stuff
haphazard, rushed and not cleanly thought out).
There are various things around the web about it was going to take the
company decades to recover from the FS failure ... and by that time
there was big downturn in the mainframe market, the company had gone
into the red, the company had been re-organized into the 13 "baby
blues" in preparation for breaking up the company (saved at the last
minute by the board bringing in Gerstner to reverse the process)
... and people in POK mainframe were sending out email that would the
last person to leave POK, please turn out the lights (take-off on
billboard from the 60s in Seattle during a Boeing downturn).
A single FCS for e5-2600 capable of doing over 1M IOPS ... says
something about the paradgim ... when peak I/O z196 doing 2M IOPS
requires 104 FICON and 14 system assist processors all running nearly
100% busy
I'm saying that preserving some of the trade-offs made for 360 50 yrs
ago affects its competitiveness. There is the alternate scenario
... there is no real intention to be competitive ... just try and
preserve maximum compatibility and milk the current install base for
as long as possible
... consider that they have made i/o programming enhancements to some
of these server platforms ... e5-2600 is two chips, 8 core(processors)
per chip ... 16 core (processors) total ... A single e5-2600 FCS
claiming over 1M IOPS has got to have sophisticated/efficient
programming model.
80 processor z196 peak I/O at 2M IOPS has 104 FICON and 14 i/o system
assist processors (running nearly saturation). There are almost as
many dedicated i/o SAP processors (running flat out) as there are
total e5-2600 processors.
other recent posts mentioning FICON:
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Google making the Web faster with protocol that reduces round trips;
Chrome testers to get faster speed with QUIC, an experimental network
protocol.
as mentioned upthread, I was on XTP technical advisery board which
would do reliable transport in minimum of 3packets (compared to
minimum of 7packets for TCP). I also wrote the specification for XTP
dynamic rate-based transmission for congestion management ... and
several times more recently I've written about doing HTTPS/TLS
piggy-backed on XTP reliable 3packet exchange.
Google's New Secure UDP-Based Protocol
recent discussion in a.f.c.
from last year here in linkedin IETF
little drift (from last month) ... my "catch22" theme about having
some public key as part of domain name lookup
Google now the largest public DNS provider in the world
I had lots of gripes about PKI after doing whats now frequently called
electronic commerce with SSL (getting close to 20yrs ago) ... and
after one particular session with a few people ... they appeared to
kickoff OCSP to try and address some of the issues ... which carefully
avoided actually eliminating the certificate part.
I worked on XTP back in the 80s ... was looking at real-time flow
... for things like video on demand ... but also reliable transaction
with minimum of 3packet exchange (compared to 7packet minimum exchange
for tcp/ip). HTTP was supposedly datagram/atomic ... but implemented
on top of TCP for reliable. One of the consequences was TCP had been
long-term session ... and handle inefficient mechanism for FINWAIT
processing (session shutdown) assuming few on the list. There was
period in the 90s as webservers scaled up and found that they were
spending 90+% of total CPU time in FINWAIT processing.
The other opportunity is replacing PKI stale/static digital
certificate processing with real-time information ... part of this
shows up in this item about little security progress in almost 20yrs
related to latency ... not simply real-time
How One Second Could Cost Amazon $1.6 Billion In Sales
False Start's sad demise: Google abandons noble attempt to make SSL
less painful
reference to above ... also "too expensive" ... one of the things
potentially part of SPDY.
Note part of the original "SSL" as part of e-commerce ... there was
criteria that "SSL" be used for the initial connection and used for
the whole session with the website. Fairly early, websites found that
"SSL" cut their throughput by 90-95% and so they dropped back to just
using "SSL" for checkout/paying ... which violated a fundamental "SSL"
security criteria.
"SSL" security/integrity requires that user understands the
relationship between the website they think they are talking to and
the corresponding URL that they've entered into the browser. Then the
browser "SSL" establishes the relationship between the entered URL and
the webserver actually being talked to.
*BOTH* are required to establish the integrity that the webserver that
the user thinks they are talking to is actually the webserver they
are talking to. Dropping back to user clicking on pay/checkout buttom
violates fundamental "SSL" requirement ... since an unvalidated
webserver is providing the URL (not the user) for the SSL session
... potentially degrading to simply the webserver is whatever
webserver that the webserver claims to be.
Google gives Apache a SPDY boost; Google's SPDY protocol could speed
delivery of Web pages from Apache servers
and ....
Going With the Flow: Google's Secret Switch to the Next Wave of Networking
Part of the original use of SSL for e-commerce ... it was also used
for the payment transaction interaction between the e-commerce servers
and something called the "payment gateway" (sat on the internet and
provided gateway to the payment networks). For this communication, I
mandated "mutual SSL authentication" (implementation didn't yet exist)
... which used public-key authentication for the parties at both
ends. However, the servers and the payment gateway needed to be
pre-registered with each other ... so digital certificates were
redundant and superfluous (purely a side-effect of the SSL library
being used) ... effectively much more akin to PGP public key (w/o
requirement to have digital certificates).
Not as SPDY as You Thought
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way upthread for the fun of it ... i periodically reference "EBCDIC
and the P-BIT (The Biggest Computer Goof Ever)"
i.e. 360 was originally suppose to be an ASCII machine and it was
really big goof when it became an EBCDIC instead
The downturn of mainframe accelerated in the late 80s. In the mid-80s,
top management was predicting that the business would double ($60B to
$120B) mostly based on mainframe sales .... even when that business
was starting to go in the opposite direction. Top management had
massive building program to double mainframe manufacturing capacity. A
senior disk engineer got a talk scheduled at annual, world-wide,
internal communication group conference and open with statement that
the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of
the disk division. The problem was that the communication group had
strategic responsibility for everything that crossed the datacenter
walls ("stranglehold" on datacenters), attempting to preserve their
dumb (emulated) terminal install base and fiercely fighting off
client/server and distributed computing. The disk division was
starting see data fleeing the datacenter for distributed computing
friendly platforms. The disk division had come up with a number of
solutions to fix the problem ... but were constantly vetoed by the
communication group
In the mid-90s, one of the last major bastions of mainframe was the
financial industry ... however they were spending billions of dollars
to redo overnight batch settlement to parallel processing on large
number of "killer micros" for straight-through processing The issue
was that old time financial batch processing had been front-ended with
real-time transactions in the 70s&80s ... but completion of
transactions still waited until overnight batch for completion. The
problem was globalization was both increasing the amount of business
that needed to be done and shrinking the size of the overnight window.
It turns out that they were using some parallelization technology that
introduced a factor of 100 times overhead increase (compared to batch
cobol) ... totally swamping any anticipated throughput increases from
large numbers of killer micros ... and didn't bother to pay any
attention to throughput issues (even when presented with numbers)
until deployments.
As an aside at least up until start of the century ... start of fall
semester saw a big upswing in homework questions on usenet newsgroups
... at the time, university frequently was the first major exposure
that they had to internet and online.
IBM-MAIN originated as BITNET mailing list during the 80s.
A co-worker at the science center had originated the ibm internal
network ... larger than arpanet/internet from just about the start
until sometime late '85 or early '86.
In the early 80s, the corporation started sponsoring BITNET (in the
US, EARN in Europe) with technology similar to that used for the
internal network (vm370 rscs/vnet). First part of the 80s, BITNET/EARN
was also larger than arpanet/internet.
The big change in arpanet/internet was the switch from (IMP-based)
arpanet to internetworking on 1Jan1983. At the time of the switch-over
ARPANET had 100 IMP network nodes (and possibly 255 connected hosts)
... when internal network was about to pass 1000. IMPs were tightly
controlled resource by the government and implementation didn't scale
well (there were jokes that periodically nearly all ARPANET bandwidth
was taken up with IMP administration overhead protocol chatter).
disclaimer: I was blamed for online computer conferencing on the
internal network in the late 70s and early 80s. Folklore is that when
the executive committee was told about online computer conferencing
(and the internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me (rumor is that what
saved me from being fired was over 25,000 employees were reading &/or
participating; mostly happening w/o the executive even being aware of
the internal network and/or online computer conferecing).
from ibm jargon:
This particular discussion started Spring 1981, when I visited Jim
Gray at Tandem, wrote up and distributed a trip report (he had left
IBM the fall before ... palming a bunch of stuff on to me ... DBMS
consulting with the IMS group ... interfacing with early customers of
the original relational/SQL implementation).
There was several reasons that early BITNET was primarily vm/370
rscs/vnet. The MVS/JES2 networking support traces back to TUCC where
unused entries in the HASP 255 psuedo-device table was used to define
network nodes (typically around 150-170 nodes). Well up to release,
some of the source code still carried "TUCC" in cols. 68-71.
The JES2 code would trash traffic if the origin and/or destination
node wasn't locally defined in the table (which became increasingly
difficult as total nodes exceeded max number that could be defined)
The internal network (vm/370 rscs/vnet) had cleanly defined layers
... and as result was able to cleanly do native line-drivers as well
as foreign line-drivers to things like JES2.
JES2 had intermingled network information with other JES2 fields
... JES2 systems had to be kept to boundary nodes ... in part because
of their propensity for trashing traffic (not being able to define all
nodes).
However, the other problem JES2 had was because the fields weren't
cleanly separated ... two JES2 at different release levels
... exchanging traffic had tendency to crash JES2 and bring down
MVS. Internally, a large number of foreign JES2 drivers grew up for
RSCS/VNET that were specific for JES2 releases. It was the
responsibility of the RSCS/VNET JES2 drivers to have canonical
representation of JES2 header fields and covert to specific format
expected by JES2 release it was talking to. There was infamous case of
JES2 system in San Jose resulting in MVS system in Hursley
crashing. ... and it was blamed on the Hursley VM370 system not using
the appropriate JES2 driver (that would keep the San Jose MVS system
from crashing the Hursley MVS system)
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a co-worker had left IBM and was doing various projects in silicon
valley. One project he did was for Apple ... he had Cray machine with
with 100mbyte/sec graphics device and they were doing lots of human
factors studies ... being able to simulate various graphical Apple
operations on the Cray with 100mbyte/sec graphical device
the 3090 group trying to show they played as supercomputer ... had added
vector facility ... although some of the 3090 engineers would complain
that it was just for show ... that they had increased performance of
scalar floating point that it kept up with memory bandwidth ... vector
adds multiple (slow) floating point units that operate in parallel
... being able to utilize excess memory bandwidth
the other thing they had to show was being able to connect HiPPI devices
being able to do 100mbyte/sec. The 3090 i/o interface barely does
4.5mbyte/sec ... so some kingston engineers came up with gimick to hack
into the side of the 3090 extended store bus (which could handle the
data rate). Unfortunately the 3090 extended store interface was purely
4kbyte move operations ... so they had to resort to reserved addresses
on the extended store bus and using peak/poke i/o progrmaming paradigm.
1988 we were also asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they
have ... which morphs into fibre-channel standard ... parallel 1gbit/sec
in both directions. The HiPPI group was then doing stuff for
serial-HiPPI (HiPPI being parallel half-duplex operation).
In 1980, I was con'ed into doing channel extender support for STL which
was moving 300 people from the IMS group to offsite building with remote
servuce back into the STL datacenter. Part of that was downloading the
mainframe channel program to a remote channel simulator (significantly
cutting the protocol handshaking that channel operation required back
into mainframe processor memory). The vendor then tries to get
agreement that they can ship my support. There is a group in POK that
has been playing with some serial stuff ... and they make sure that the
corporate doesn't approve ... they were afraid if it is in the
marketplace ... it might inhibit the ability to ship their serial stuff.
some past posts mentioning doing high-speed stuff
However, they don't ship until a decade later in 1990 as ESCON with
ES/9000 ... by which time it is already obsolete. FCS is starting to
emerge ... and it has i/o programming download support (part of cutting
latency operation) ... ESCON is much slower and doesn't have I/O
programming download support ... continuing to simulate half-duplex
operation (lots of bandwidth idle/lost because of sequential protocol
chatter latency)
Some mainframe channel engineers eventually get involved with
fibre-channel standard and define a heavy-weight layer on top of FCS
that drastically cuts throughput (effectively simulating ESCON and
half-duplex operation on faster fiber) ... which eventually emerges as
FICON.
The fibre-channel wiki
from above:
we had been involved with SSA precursor in HA/CMP
but wanted it to morph into inter-operable as fractional FCS ... but
instead it morphs into incompatible standard (aka it didn't need to play
out that way with "either/or"). Also the part in above of not being
concerned with increasing speeds is disingenuous
FICON wiki
for a little more topic drift ... recent post about cutting protocol
chatter for minimizing latency
other recent posts mentioning FICON:
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wiki entry for co-worker responsible for the internal network as well as what was used for bitnet
This also goes into some detail
and there is a physical book that can be ordered from amazon and other
booksellers.
somewhat in the wake of being blamed for online computer conferencing
... there was taskforce to investigate. part of the outcome was
setting up officially sanctioned discussions using automated tool
(TOOLSRUN) that could ooperate in both usenet news mode as well as
(listserv) mailing list mode.
old email from somebody that just moved to Paris to setup EARN
... asking if I had any network applications for universities:
bitnet listserv then done in Paris in 1986
precursor internet/public-cloud ... interconnected supercomputers as
information utility:
we had been working with director of NSF and the NSF supercomputer
centers and were suppose to get $20M to connect them all
together. Congress then cut the budget and several other things
happen. Finally NSF releases an RFP ... but internal politics prevent
us from bidding. Director of NSF tries to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO), but that just makes the internal politics
worse (as well as comments about what we already had running was at
least five years ahead of all bid submissions). Some old email
Recent posts discussing some new stuff Google pushing for
internet/public-cloud that we had running nearly 30yrs ago
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RSCS/VNET used spool ... vm370 spool was a serialized synchronous API
... and loaded vm370 might only be able to provide 4-5 4kbyte
records/sec to RSCS/VNET ... say 20kbyte/sec or 200kbits/sec. For HSDT
i had multiple T1 links (and faster links) ... each link 1.5mbit/sec
full duplex, 3mbits/sec aggregate ... I needed on the order of minimum
3mbytes/sec effective, sustained out of the spool API for HSDT
RSCS/VNET. I rewrote vm370 spool in vs/pascal running in a virtual
address space ... did whole bunch of really fancy stuff ... contiguous
allocation, multi-page writes, multi-page reads, asynchronous
operation .
I also tried making it available for the internal backbone machines
(which were starting to have multiple 56kbit duplex links ... needing
100kbit/sec sustained per link). This is old email where it was in
period that the communication group trying to force the internal
network (starting with the internal backbone machines) to SNA. Email
referenced that the corporate backbone meetings were restricted to
managers only as part of forcing the SNA ... and started precluding
technical people ...
Original mainframe tcp/ip product was also implemented in VS/Pascal
... but had some throughput issues ... got 44kbyte/sec using nearly
full 3090 processor. I did the changes to support RFC1044 and in some
tuning 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.
other posts mentioning internal network
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keeps marching on: Amazon's $600 Million CIA Deal Really Is For A
Game-Changing 'Private' Cloud
from above:
archived past posts in thread:
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Off-shoring jobs is one of the short-term boost to numbers during the
private equity flipping process.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life
more detailed histories talk about him being in competition to be the
next CEO of AMEX ... the looser then leaves ... and eventually does
take over some other companies and eventually citibank ... in
violation of glass-steagall ... greenspan gives him an exemption while
he lobbies congress for repeal of glass-steagall ... originating
too-big-to-fail and major factor in the financial mess.
AMEX and KKR are in competition for private-equity take-over of RJR
... KKR wins ... but runs into trouble with RJR and hires Gerstner
away to turn it around ... before the IBM board hires Gerstner away to
resurrect IBM. Gerstner then leaves to be chairman of another major
private equity company.
RJR
It mentions that private equity leveraged buyout of RJR had been the
largest buyout up until that point.
wiki
Booz Allen, the World's Most Profitable Spy Organization (and in the
middle of the recent controversy)
for-profit companies privatizing intelligence
Spies Like Us
from above:
Spying on the EU is an exercise in futility
well there is economic espionage (and the for-profit companies running
intelligence)
How Much Are the NSA and CIA Front Running Markets?
part of the long winded details of tax havens and money laundering
Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens
competition between the US and Britain in the race to the bottom for
tax haven secrecy and money laundering.
gerstner posts
past posts in this thread:
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when i was undergraduate, univ library got ONR grant to do online
catalog ... effort was selected for betatest for original cics program
product and i got tasked to support/debug cics. part of the ONR grant
went to 2321 datacell.
years later, i ran into one of the former san jose engineers that worked
on development of 2321 ... he left in about the same time frame as
shugart ... and shows up at memorex ... and then forms database machine
startup with somebody from memorex.
i don't understand if it is a ibm product picture with it attached to
370 .... i could understand if it was in some customer shop that had
upgrade from 360 to 370 and was still using 2321. I don't recognize the
front panel, maybe it is really early picture with 360 front panel
mockup
sort of replacement for 2321 is 3850 mss
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NLS (augment)
with cord keyboard.
about that time, the human factors group had a cord keyboard for 3277
somewhat the shape of large mouse with depressions for each finger and
rocker switch at the finger tips. claims of 2-3 times typing speed of
standard 3277 qwerty keyboard (with one hand) ... would allow one handed
keyboard with other hand on (real) mouse
other reference "five-key keyset" on left and 3-button mouse on right
past posts mentioning engelbart, augment, and/or cord keyboard
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note ... see upthread comments about FICON (& SSCH)
throughput/overhead compared to underlying fibre-channel .... aka
FICON heavy-weight layered ontop of fibre-channel standard. Peak z196
I/O benchmark was 2M IOPS, 104 FICONs (layered on top 104
fibre-channel) & 14 SAPs (near saturation, 14 SAPs rated at 2.2M
SSCH/sec running 100% busy, but recommendation SAPs kept to 70% busy
or 1.5M SSCH/sec). By comparison, recent fibre-channel announced for
e5-2600 claims over 1M IOPS (on single fibre-channel, in effect, two
such FCS would have higher throughput than 104 FICON).
As mentioned up thread, in 1980, STL (since renamed silicon valley
lab) con'ed me into doing channel-extender support for 300 people from
IMS group being moved to off-site bldg with remote access to services
back in STL datacenter. Part of that was downloading channel programs
to remote end to significantly reduce channel latency &
overhead. Later in 1988, I was asked to help LLNL standardize some
serial technology they have ... which morphs into fibre-channel
standard. Later some POK channel engineers become involved and define
a heavy-weight layer on top of FCS that significantly cuts the native
throughput and eventually morphs into FICON.
max. configured z196 has 80 processors and rating of 50BIPS and goes
for $28M or $560,000/BIPS. IBM financial has the mainframe group
avg. $6.25 in total revenue for every dollar of processor revenue
... aka on avg, IBM revenue from $28M z196 would total $175M or
$3.5M/BIPS. IBM has base list price for E5-2600 blade of $1815
... which have processor rating of 527BIPS ... or $3.44/BIPS. Large
cloud operators are claiming they build their own blades for 1/3rd the
cost of brand name blades ... making it closer to $1/BIPS (compared to
$3.5M/BIPS for z196; more than million times difference).
Note that the server chip manufacturers are claiming that they now
ship more server chips directly to large cloud operators (building
their own blades) than they ship to brand name vendors (the numbers
for the large cloud operators don't even show up in the server market
numbers).
Also note that one of the reasons that large cloud operators are the
pioneers in green technology is that with the massive reduction in
their system costs ... the other datacenter costs (power, floor space,
cooling, etc) are starting to dominate their total cost of operation.
for different discussion on throughput (and latency) see this
long-winded discussion over in the internet standards group:
it references this item that one second can cost Amazon $1.6B in sales
archived posts in the IETF thread:
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There is big difference between the capability of the 80s&90s PC
chips ... and the most recent generation. Trivial example is the
FICON/FCS comparison. FCS is the underlaying technology used for FICON
... recent claim that single FCS for e5-2600 capable of over 1M IOPS
while peak z196 i/o benchmark is 2.2M IOPS with 104 FICONs.
x86 chips have fared poorly with RISC chips last few decades
... however the last several generations of x86 server chips have
moved to RISC cores with hardware layer that translates x86
instructions into risc micro-instructions ... largely closing the gap
with RISC chips. recent posts mentioning current x86 server chips
have risc cores
There are lingering comparisons with mainframes and more familiar
desktop operations. A large cloud megadatacenter now have hundreds of
thousands of systems ... with millions of processors ... there are
large number of such megadatacenters around the workd, each with more
aggregate processing capacity than the total of all mainframes in the
world today. There have been enormous progress in the TCO by public
cloud operators of these megadatacenters, system costs, power costs,
cooling costs, administration costs, support costs, etc.
public cloud megadatacenters are at least as far past mainframe
datacenters as mainframe datacenters are past desktop operation.
trivia ... late 84, early 85 I tried to start a project with large
number of server racks ... with each rack containing large number of
370 chips intermixed with risc chips. didn't get very far. We were
also working with the director of NSF and various NSF supercomputer
centers. At one point, we were to get $20M to interconnect the NSF
supercomputer centers ... however, congress cut the budget and some
number of other things happen ... eventually NSF releases a
RFP. Internal politics prevent us from bidding ... director of NSF
tries to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) ... but that just makes the internal politics worse. there is
description here ... which later morphs into modern internet
and also precursor to modern public cloud as information utility. some
old email
above includes reference to Mar85 email where i'm caught between doing
presentation to director of NSF and doing meeting on rack clusters
with mixture of 370s&risc chips
recent posts mention megadatacenters:
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Big Data Is Opening Doors, but Maybe Too Many
www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/technology/big-data-and-a-renewed-debate-over-privacy.html?pagewanted=all
Note recent discussion about gov. agencies collecting all phone and
email metadata (and in some cases ... all of the actual content also).
The equivalent metadata in financial transactions is account owner,
who got paid, and how much they got paid.
I was co-author of the financial industry X9.99 privacy standard. As
part of work we had number of meetings with the gov. HIPAA
people. Leaking "who got paid" turns out can be in violation of HIPAA
since it can show personal identifiable medical conditions.
also
Multiple Government Agencies Are Keeping Records Of Your Credit Card
Transactions
especially with the huge privatizing of the intelligence community by
for-profit companies ... there is also issue of leverage the huge data
collections for economic espionage and various kinds of financial
operations
How Much Are the NSA and CIA Front Running Markets?
slight IBM connection:
Booz Allen, the World's Most Profitable Spy Organization (and in the
middle of the recent controversy)
from above:
gerstner posts
recent posts mentioning private-equity companies and/or privatising the
gov:
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The original mainframe tcp/ip product used 8232 (industrial pc/at with
channel interface cables) ... which was bridge, not a router ... and
exorbitantly overpriced. Being a LAN bridge helped account for the
tcp/ip product getting approx. 44kbytes/sec using nearly full 3090
processor. I did the rfc1044 support changes for the product and in
some tuning 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). past posts mentioning rfc1044 support
The communication group was violently opposed to having tcp/ip product
... and when eventually they couldn't completely stop it ... they
invoked the clause that the communication group has strategic
responsibility for everything that crosses the datacenter walls
... and took over responsibility. Note later, they also contracted out
tcp/ip stack support in vtam ... and when the contractor initially
demo'ed it having significantly higher throughput than LU6.2 ... he
was told that everybody knows that a *proper* tcp/ip implementation is
much slower than LU6.2 ... and they would only be paying for a
*proper* implementation.
Note that one of the primary architects for Itanium (the original
64bit server) had previously been the person behind 3033 dual-address
space (when he was at IBM) ... and included a lot of super security
features in the Itanium design. Itanium has pretty much lost out to an
alternative 64bit extension to traditional x86 ... in part because of
competition between multiple x86 server chip vendors (the competition
between multiple vendors is also credited with much of the pace of new
features and accelerated price/performance). In any case, the person
is now at a niche software operation specializing in super security
software for Itanium platform. Itanium
trivia ... at one point, Sequent (before IBM bought them) was looking
at offering mainframe emulator on Itanium platform and I was brought
in as consultant.
misc. past posts mentioning 8232:
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I didn't learn about these guys until much later
as undergraduate, I was making lots of operating system enhancements
and would periodically get requests from the vendor for changes ... I
didn't know it at the time, but in retrospect, the nature of some of
the requests could have originated from that community.
oh and a little x-over from another discussion in this group
and similar posts in this discussion in another group ... currently
last two posts in the discussion
when the communication group was actively fighting off client/server
and distributed computing ... we had come up with 3tier architecture
... it was written into a large gov. RFI ... and we were out pitching
it to corporate executives ... the mainframe was at the center ... and
it "knew" tcp/ip ... since we could make it significantly more
efficient than other mainframe-based communication facilities. we were
taking lots of FUD and arrows in the back from the communication group
... misc. past posts mentioning 3-tier
old post with bits & pieces of the 3-tier presentation from the 80s
other trivia ... upthread I mention having done channel-extender
support in 1980 for STL and 300 people from the IMS group being moved
to off-site bldg. The vendor then wants to release my support
... however, a group in POK manages to block approval. They have some
serial technology they've been playing with ... and they are concerned
if my channel extender support is in the market ... it will make it
harder for them to justify release of their serial stuff.
In 1988, I'm asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they
have ... which evolves into fibre-channel standard (FCS, and includes
performance stuff like what I had done in 1980 for channel-extender
work). When the POK serial stuff finally ships in 1990 (with es/9000)
as ESCON, it is already obsolete.
POK channel engineers then get involved in the FCS and define an
extremely heavy-weight layer that drastically cuts the native FCS
throughput ... that eventually shows up as FICON. FICON eventually
gets an enhancement called TCW ... that is somewhat analogous to what
I did for channel-extender in 1980 .. that claims a 30% throughput
improvement over original FICON ... but that only slightly narrows the
difference with native FCS throughput.
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this is old reference to 360/370 "mastheads"
from above:
also references this "eight-bar ibm logo" for 370s ... although most of
mastheads came to have model number (as seen in above url)
the above could be a 370 mockup also (doesn't have model number)
various 360
reference 1965 press-pack with picture of 360/70
360/70 (360/60) were upgraded to 360/75 (& 360/65) before actual ship
... (original models were to have 1ms memory ... models that actually
shipped had been upgraded to 750ns memory).
more here:
as an aside ... the newer versions of ibm archive pages have to click to
get enlarged photo in popup ... however, earlier versions at te wayback
machine have pictures on the same page ... 360/50
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a lot of this seems to misdirect from the mechanics of being able to
obtain all the information at all. 20yrs ago, open security literature
had gov. agency state-of-the-art was not only strict access controls
but also behavior based monitoring that would catch employee atypical
activity. all of that appears to have gone by the wayside as part of
privatising the intelligence community and transition to for-profit
operation. It appears that they not only aren't doing monitoring but
don't appear to even have any idea what may have been
taken. References to super administrative privileges imply that
provisions requiring multiple individuals have also gone by the
wayside.
If the surveillance stories are to be believed ... if the extraction
of the information had occurred over the open internet, they would at
least be able to determine what has been taken.
Spies Like Us
from above:
aka, privatizing of the us government ... and growing Success Of Failure culture
the whistleblower in the Success of Failure case was treated very
badly. The scenario is for-profit operations have discovered that a
series of failures is a lot more revenue than an immediate success
(sort of natural evolution of the beltway bandits "leave no money on
the table" paradigm). The congressional investigation put the agency
on probation for five years (but did little for the whistleblower) and
not able to manage its own projects. However, that may have been just
a ploy ... further privatizing the gov. (solution to the problem of
for-profit companies in projects is to have more for-profit
involvement ... of course, some quarters claim that there is
guaranteed 5% kickback to congress on appropriated funds to for-profit
companies ... which doesn't happen if it is straight gov. agency)
from open literature, would appear to be regression from 20yrs ago
... possibly associated with transition to for-profit operation(?)
NSA Networks Might Have Been Missing Anti-Leak Technology
In the financial industry in the past, open security literature claims
as much as 70-80% of breaches have involved insiders ... although
stats are hard to come by ... in the financial services presidential
critical infrastructure protection meetings, a major concern was
making sure that the exploit information sharing ISAC not be subject
to FOIA.
maybe not totally unexpected ... there are stories that classified
details of major weapons systems leaking out over the internet for
years
The Criminal N.S.A.
The equivalent metadata in financial statements is account holder, to
whom it was paid, and how much was paid. I was co-author of X9.99
financial industry privacy standard. One of the things we had to take
into account was HIPAA regulations where listing the name of a testing
laboratory in financial statement would leak privacy information
covered by HIPAA (aka an enormous amount of privacy information can
leak out just using metadata)
Multiple Government Agencies Are Keeping Records Of Your Credit Card
Transactions
Spying on the EU is an exercise in futility
how about economic espionage
How Much Are the NSA and CIA Front Running Markets?
part of the long winded details of tax havens and money laundering
Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens
competition between the US and Britain in the race to the bottom for
tax haven secrecy and money laundering.
along with privatising intelligence with for-profit corporations
some past posts:
more news URLs
More Snowden Revelations: Australia has FOUR U.S. Spy Sites
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Amazon slashes price of dedicated virtual servers by 80 percent;
Summary: Amazon Web Services has lowered the price of renting
dedicated virtual server instances on its EC2 compute platform by up
to 80 per cent.
competition between multiple server chip vendors have accelerated
features and price/performance ... competition between large cloud
operators has also accelerated features and price/performance
.... part of this is the large cloud mega-datacenters have also been
on the forefront of TCO ... power, cooling, maintenance, service,
administration, etc ... as mentioned in other discussions operation of
large mega-datacenters are as far beyond traditional mainframe
datacenters as mainframe datacenters are beyond desktop operation
Amazon cuts prices by 80 percent on some compute-on-demand offerings
past archived posts in discussion:
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from above:
Note that the science center ... some past posts
ported apl\360 to cms for cms\apl ... expanding workspace size to
virtual memory (typical apl\360 workspace size was 16kbytes) and adding
API to system services (like read/write files) ... as a result it really
expanded being able to do real world applications.
one of the early online apl users on the csc cp67 system were the
business people down in armonk corporate hdqtrs ... who loaded the most
valuable corporate asset on the system (all the customer data) to do
business modeling in APL. This required some security issues since
science center also had online access to students & staff at various
institutions in the boston area.
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from above:
Next was CMU's MACH unix work-alike (which was then used for make-over
of apple MAC) ... which was all the rage in the 80s (ucla's locus,
berkeley's BSD, etc). Object-oriented operating system's became the
rage ... including SUN's "spring" Apple spins off "pink" stuff into
taligent as object oriented development environment. At one point, my
wife and I spend a week with Taligent ... going through all the stuff
that was needed to turn it into base for doing "industrial strength"
computing ... we also get asked if we would consider taking on
"commercializing" Sun's spring ... and turning it out as product.
mach basis for lots of stuff:
... i would claim the original microkernel was cp67 that I worked on
as undergraduate in 60s
other trivia ... in 1969, GML was invented at science center (also did
CP67 and bunch of other stuff), a decade later it morphs into ISO
standard SGML, and after another decade it morphs into HTML at
CERN. while 1st webserver at CERN was on next, 1st webserver outside
europe was on CERN's sister location SLAC (in silicon valley) on VM370
system (descendent of cp67):
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I periodically tell this story about realizing in the 80s there was
three kinds of crypto 1) the kind they don't care about, 2) the kind
that you can't do, 3) the kind that you can only do for them. There
would be periodic news about prohibited crypto (type #2).
I had HSDT project with T1 and faster links. All the links on the
internal network were required to have link encryptors (some comment
that in the mid-80s that the internal network had more than half of
all link encryptors in the world).
T1 link encryptors were really expensive and it was almost impossible
to get anything faster than T1. I got involved in project where the
objective was to have hardware encryptors that could handle LAN speed,
cost less than $100 and be able to change key on every packet.
The crypto products group reviewed it and claimed that it
significantly reduced the crypto strength compared to standard DES. It
took me three months to figure out how to convince them that it was
actually much stronger than standard DES. However, it was hollow
victory ... I then got told we could build as many as we wanted
... but there would be only one customer ... all would be shipped to
location on the east cost (aka type #3).
Old email about benchmarking software DES where it would take a
dedicated mainframe processor to handle sustained 1.5mbits/sec and two
dedicated mainframe processors to handle full-duplex T1.
old email about proposal for pgp-like implementation for the internal
network
another aspect, recent posts mentioning there might also be economic
espionage by for-profit companies involved in intelligence:
past posts mentioning 3 kinds of crypto:
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my wife is co-inventor (under earlier name) ... I think it was used in
series/1 "chat-ring"
recent posts:
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Disclaimer: after leaving IBM ... we were asked about taking on turning
Spring out as commercial product
and green reference:
trivia: general manager of the sun business group that included JAVA had
previously been VP of software development at MIPS ... done some
startups before that ... and earlier had been at the Los Gatos VLSI
tools group and one of two people responsible for what became IBM's
vs/pascal (although I was in research, I also had offices and labs in
LSG bldg).
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this is the "token ring" patent
has priority date 23nov1967 and filing date 29oct1974, which predates
4195351 (filing&priority date 27Jan1978), but the above talks about
master/terminal as opposed to what sounds much more like lan in 4195351
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2nd hand about testimony in the gov. legal action ... claim that top
executive from one of the seven dwarfs testified that by the late 50s
every computer company realized that the single most important market
criteria had become a compatible product line ... however, in the 60s,
only ibm management was able to force the lab managers responsible for
different products to toe the compatibility product requirement. the
implication was that since IBM was the only company that provided the
single most important market requirement (compatibility) ... they
might even be able to get every other detail wrong and still dominate
the market. ibm and the 7 dwarfs
old post about end of 360 advance computing system
mentions that ibm executives shut the project down because they were
afraid that it would advance computer technology too fast and they
would loose control of the market ... shortly after Amdahl leaves and
starts his clone 360 company. end of the page has features from
ACS-360 showing up in es/9000 more than 20yrs later.
note that this was in the time that clone controllers were starting to
appear. IBM responded with the Future System effort ... which was to
make the controller interface so tightly integrated and complex that
it would significantly raise the bar for clone controller
businesses. lots of past posts (and various web references) to future
system
Future System was completely different and incompatible with 360/370
... and internal politics were shutting down 370 projects ... the
resulting lack of 370 products during the period is credited with
giving the clone processors a market foothold
the subsequent failure of future system effort is claimed to cast dark
shadow over the company for decades (as well as significant change in
corporate culture to sycophancy and make no waves under Opel and
Akers) ... contributing to the big downturn and going into the red in
the early 90s ... although another major contributing factor was the
stranglehold that the communication group had on datacenters
... trying to fight off client/server and distributed computing and
preserve its (emulated) dumb terminal install base. some past posts
also it wasn't until 3090 that you see new computer ... both 303x &
3081 are q&d efforts using left-over technology ... some reference
here:
trivia ... as an undergraduate in the 60s i did lots of changes to
both os/360 and cp/67. when cp/67 was first delivered to univ. it had
terminal support for 1052 & 2741 terminals (and did automatic
terminal identification ... any terminal could be connected to any
controller port and cp/67 would figure out type of terminal). The univ
had lots of tty/ascii terminals ... and I added tty support to cp67
... doing it so that it was also dynamically recognized (any terminal
type on any port). I wanted to have a single dial-up number for all
terminals ("hunt group") ... finding the available line to the
controller ... however it didn't quite work. While the ibm 360
terminal controller allowed type of line-scanner to be dynamically
associated with any port ... they had done a short-cut and hard-wired
line-speed oscillator to each port.
this was major motivation for univ. to start clone controller project
... started with interdata/3 minicomputer (instruction set very
similar to 360), reverse engineer the channel interface and built
channel interface board for interdata/3, the interdata/3 was
programmed to emulate ibm controller ... but in addition to
dynamically associate line-scanner type with each port ... it could
also dynamically determine terminal baud rate. later four of us are
written up as being responsible for (some part of) clone controller
business. some past posts
it was then enhanced with an interdata/4 to handle the channel
interface and cluster of interdata/3s handling the port
interfaces. later perkin-elmer buys interdata and the product
continues to be sold under the perkin-elmer logo. A decade ago,
visiting a large east coast financial transaction datacenter ... there
is one such perkin-elmer box handling significant percentage of
point-of-sale dial-up terminals in the eastern part of the country.
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the server market is combined risc & cisc (mostly x86) chips. as
mentioned the server market is brand name vendors and doesn't include
the huge explosion in number of servers being built by the large cloud
operators (claim is that the number of cloud servers is larger than the
total brand name server market) ... and is the major growth market.
news the last couple weeks is IBM is aggresively looking at moving into
this high growth cloud market ... but it is meeting steep competition.
this is really long-winded discussion on linkedin
on "The Cloud is killing traditional hardware and software"
part of the issue is that cloud operators have claimed for some time
they are building servers for 1/3rd the price of brand name
servers. there are various rumors that some of the large server vendors
have moved into "white box" assemblies for cloud operators (matching
large cloud operators price) and selling to smaller private cloud
operations (that aren't large enough to setup their own server build
operations).
--
for the fun of it ... from today at computer history museum
--
from a different perspective, posted recently a number of times
How Edward Snowden Snuck Through
a lot of this seems to misdirect from the mechanics of being able to
obtain all the information at all. 20yrs ago, open security literature
had gov. agency state-of-the-art was not only strict access controls
but also behavior based monitoring that would catch employee atypical
activity. all of that appears to have gone by the wayside as part of
privatizing the intelligence community and transition to for-profit
operation. It appears that they not only aren't doing monitoring but
don't appear to even have any idea what may have been
taken. References to super administrative privileges imply that
provisions requiring multiple individuals have also gone by the
wayside.
NSA Networks Might Have Been Missing Anti-Leak Technology
Would appear to be regression from 20yrs ago ...possibly associated
with transition to for-profit operation. Also possibly more technology
monitor public than internal security. In the financial industry in
the past, open security literature claims that as much as 70-80% of
breaches have involved insiders ... although it might be more ... in
the financial services presidential critical infrastructure protection
meetings, a major concern was making sure that the exploit information
sharing ISAC not be subject to FOIA.
... also not exactly unexpected given the stories about classified
details of major weapons systems leaking out over the internet for
years.
reference to growing Success of Failure culture
Booz Allen, the World's Most Profitable Spy Organization
from above:
the whistleblower in the Success of Failure: case was treated very
badly. The scenario is for-profit operations have discovered that a
series of failures is a lot more revenue than an immediate success
(sort of natural evolution of the beltway bandits "leave no money on
the table" paradigm). The congressional investigation put the agency
on probation for five years (but did little for the whistleblower) and
not able to manage its own projects. However, that may have been just
a ploy ... further privatizing the gov. (solution to the problem of
for-profit companies in projects is to have more for-profit
involvement ... of course, some quarters claim that there is
guaranteed 5% kickback to congress on appropriated funds to for-profit
companies ... which doesn't happen if it is straight gov. agency)
oh and a little IBM connection.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life
more detailed histories talk about him being in competition to be the
next CEO of AMEX ... the looser then leaves ... and eventually does
take over some other companies and eventually citibank ... in
violation of glass-steagall ... greenspan gives him an
exemption while he lobbies congress for repeal
of glass-steagall ... originating too-big-to-fail
and major factor in the financial mess.
AMEX and KKR are in competition for private-equity take-over of RJR
... KKR wins ... but runs into trouble with RJR and hires Gerstner
away to turn it around ... before the IBM board hires Gerstner away to
resurrect IBM. Gerstner then leaves to be chairman of another major
private equity company.
RJR
It mentions that private equity leveraged buyout of RJR had been the
largest buyout up until that point.
wiki
a little more on privatizing gov. by for-profit companies and economic
espionage
Penalties Are Weak for Misbehaving Contractors
gerstner posts
--
from above:
I managed to pontificate on the subject several times in this blog
entry: The Failure of Cyber Defence - The Mindset is against it
disclaimer: early last decade the top technical director in
information assurance at the agency asked me to be on a panel
discussion on information assurance in trusted computing track at
Intel developer's conference. In the 90s, I semi-facetiously said I
was taking a $500 mil-spec security chip, aggressively cost reducing
by 2-3 orders of magnitude (eventually under a dollar) while improving
the security. In my presentation, I quipped that my chip was at least
as good as anything the agency was doing ... also the person running
the trusted computing module was in the front row ... and I comment
that it was nice to see after a couple years their chip was starting
to look at lot more like mine; he quipped back that I didn't have a
committee of 200 people helping me design a chip. I had also gotten
into dustup with GSA over chips used in CAC badges.
this is reference to old NASA high dependability computer workship
where I'm one of the keynotes with Jim Gray
I had worked with Jim over 30years ago in research on the original
sql/relational DBMS implementation ... and at the time of the NASA
conference he was running San Fran microsoft research center. A couple
years later (before he disappears), he cons me into interviewing for
chief security architect in redmond ... the interview goes on for
several weeks ... but we could never come to agreement on the terms.
As I mentioned in previous references, I would contend that big part
of current issues are the privatizing the gov with for-profit
companies that have little or no interest in many of the problems
... akin to reference to comments in recent discussion about data
breach notification (and they may actually have an interest in there
being problems)
Penalties Are Weak for Misbehaving Contractors
Forget Snowden: What have we learned about the NSA? Pay attention to
the organ grinder, not the monkey
... except the organ grinder is for-profit companies
--
Marine's small wars manual
Boyd, Boyd acolytes, and reform movement did concentrate on MICC
(Eisenhower tried to warn about in his goodby speech). Earlier this
year was 30yr anniv. of the time article with Spinney on the cover
that Boyd had largely engineered. The objective of MICC was to siphon
as much money as possible which has accelerated with increasing focus
on quarterly profits and privatising the goverment. The anniv of the
time article was closely followed by the anniv. of Iraq invasion
... where there was quite a bit more written (by Spinney and others)
about continuous conflict and perpetual war as way of maximizing
profits, I've archived my postings in the two threads: "A Matter of
Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army" and "Lessons Learned
from the Iraq War" here (has quite a few URLs for Spinney's writing):
possibly a better title would be something about lots of effort to
keep the real "grand strategy" obfuscated ... discussed here
"Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism"
Boyd would have lots of stuff to say about having much more effective
fighter jet than F16 ... something along the lines of the
F20/tigershark. With the lock-hold that MICC had on the US market
... they thought they could sell to overseas market (possible 10times
the flying hrs per dollar ... i.e. more planes per dollar than f16 and
more flying hrs per maint. hours than f16). MICC then got congress to
pass ear-marked USAID for all F20 candidate countries ... where the
USAID could only be spent on F16s. Recent news has another round of
F16s going to Egypt (as aside over the last decade some of the same
F20 words have been used about F35 ... even though it is total
fabrication)
America's True Stake in Egypt
I don't read it as believing there are any white hats ... I read it as
comments about lots of meddling in the affairs with all the money that
was being spread around ... and not clear that there is any higher
level strategic direction behind the meddling.
first iraq invasion involved getting various indigenous people to
cooperate-based on all sorts of promises ... and then abandoning them
to be slaughtered (also after playing arms merchants to both sides in
iraq/iran war) ... 2nd invasion is beginning to look like repeat
... question is whether there is a real strategy or is it hidden under
lots of layers of misdirection and obfuscation.
slightly earlier article from chuck:
How to Thwart Democracy? In Egypt the Military is Supreme
--
they had televised economic round table where the economists joked
about if there was actual move to "flat tax" and eliminating the graft
& corruption related to tax loopholes ... congress would find some
other mechanism for graft & corruption. they also semi-facetiously
joked about major lobbying against "flat tax" has been by
Ireland. This came up recently in news about major technology
companies using Ireland to pay zero percent tax rate (in part Ireland
allows companies to declare earnings in some other jurisdiction
... w/o verifying that they reported the earnings in that
jurisdication ... and telling the other jurisdictions that they are
Ireland companies).
Double Irish arrangement
so part of the congress graft&corruption is that they have been getting
one-time payments for the loopholes ... even though that the loopholes
provide benefits year after year ... recently congress has been looking
for mechanism for getting annual reoccurring payments for the loopholes.
the congressional graft&corruption shows up a different way in the
privatising of the federal gov ... there are claims that congress
expects 5% kickback on federal gov. appropriations that go to for-profit
companies (i.e. federal agencies are bared from making payments to
congress, so congress has motivation in the privitization).
Booz Allen, the World's Most Profitable Spy Organization (and in the
middle of the recent controversy)
from above:
this actually has a computer industry tie-in ... referenced recently a
few times in these posts:
misc. past posts mentioning flat tax discussion:
--
thats approx. $1T/annum lost in the economy because of the complexity of
the current tax code (6% of GDP) ... all that complexity eliminated by
going to flat-rate.
also ... 2010 there was CBO report that the baseline budget had all
federal debt retired in 2010 ... however congress allowed the fiscal
responsbility act to expire in 2002 (required federal spending be
matched by tax revenue) ... and then made changes in tax code that cut
tax revenue by almost $1T/annum and also increased federal spending by
almost $1T/annum ... so by 2010 they had created a (additional) $12T
budget gap (much of this happening immediately after allows fiscal
responsibility act to expire). this was big motivation in the middle of
the last decade for the comptroller general to start including in
speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle schoole
arithmetic (for how congress was savaging the budget).
part of the tax code changes was to give special treatment to certain
kinds of income so that it was reclassified as gains (cutting tax rate
in half) ... which also allowed lots of it to be hidden offshore
(cutting tax revenue on lots of it to zero).
misc. past posts mentioning comptroller general speeches
--
one of the interesting comparisons between private equity buyouts
flipping companies and speculators flipping houses ... is in flipping
houses ... the speculator pays off their original mortgage with the
proceeds from the flip.
private equity buyouts can walk away with enormous profits from flipping
a company ... even when the company is sold at a loss ... because they
transfer the original buyout loan to the books of the purchased company
(the private equity company get enormous fees for the reverse-IPO
... that also goes on the books of the purchased company ... and then
walk away with all the proceeds of the flip).
reverse-ipo (private equity buyout) companies have enormous debt loads
(private equity company skimming off everything not nailed down). Claim
is that half of corporate debt default are companies that have had
private equity buyout. Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore
Banking and Tax Havens, pg216/loc4511-14:
--
hot off the presses
Insight: Apple controversy lays bare complex Irish tax web
note that it is rather interesting that back in 2008, it was supposedly
an Irish (or possibly front for large corporations) lobbying congress to
stay with current tax code paradigm ...
some recent posts referencing huge document leak from offshore tax
havens
--
recent post mentioning ACM SIGCOMM '88 article on slow-start
non-stable in large heterogeneous network
it had another article on ethernet ... that in typical 30station enet
with low-level device driver code in every station continuously
transmitting minimum sized packets as fast as possible ... effective
10mbit enet throughput dropped off to 8mbits/sec (which is still better
than effective throughput of 16mbit t/r)
as i've mentioned before ... corporate forces generated an enormous
amount of FUD in the period (not simply restricted to t/r):
other recent ethernet postings:
--
push the $1T/annun improvement in GDP into actual jobs and reducing the
unemployment rate. early on when Federal Reserve had started pumping
trillions into too-big-to-fail ... there was a statement that they had
anticipated that it would trickle-down to main street ... but they found
that it wasn't ... the too-big-to-fail were just pocketing the windfall
... and Federal Reserve claimed that they couldn't do anything to force
them; note however, the federal reserve could have stopped giving away
the largess ... however recent comments are that wallstreet and
too-big-to-fail are now addicted to the federal reserve stimulas ...
even if it isn't helping the rest of the country.
top 1% has 43% of financial wealth, bottom 80% of americans has 7% of
financial wealth ... i.e. top 20% has 93% of wealth. construct flat rate
so that top 1% would pay 43% of taxes (top 20% would pay 93% of
taxes)
there is also shift from corporate taxes to individual taxes. in the
30s, there was approx. same corporate tax revenue as individual tax
revenue ... currently there is 4-5 as much individual tax revenue as
corporate tax revenue.
eliminating enormous loopholes and returning to 30s where there was
approx. as much corporate tax revenue as individual tax revenue would go
a long ways to reducing individual tax rate.
getting balanced budget and eliminating federal debt ... also reduces
the budget by significant amount devoted to carrying debt load ($12T
budget gap opened last decade by congress cutting tax revenues and
increase spending ... of the current $16T debt).
above has total debt payments of $432B for 2012 ... although some funny
money ... general fund has borrowing from SS trust fund ... which it has
to pay interest on ... out of total budget of $3,539B (debt load is
12% of total).
--
the recent sequestering involves returning defense spending to 2007
level ... lockheed responded that lots of jobs would be lost ... the
response was that while lockheed revenues went up since 2007 ... the
number of workers decreased ... and that lots of people would be glad if
lockheed returned to 2007 employment levels ... as well as the 2006
executive compensation levels. there is lots of fabrication about
employment levels and obfuscation and misdirection about the profits
being siphoned off.
the 2010 cbo report previously mentioned ... after allowing fiscal
responsibility act to expire in 2002, tax revenues were decreased by $6T
and spending was increased by $6T during the last decade (compared to
baseline that had all federal debt retired by 2010 ... for $12T budget
gap) ... the increase included slightly over $2T (of the $6T) increase
for DOD ... slightly over $1T for the two wars and can't explain where
the other slightly over $1T disappeared (GAO constantly submits reports
that DOD financial accounting is in violation of federal laws and
standards ... and keeps putting off into the future estimates about when
DOD financial accounting may come into compliance). There is constant
fabrication, obfuscation and misdirection that the huge amount of money
being siphoned off in some way goes to large number of employee.
recent posts mentioning lockheed
--
at least in the case of the Iraq invasion last decade, the original
estimate was that total cost would be $50B ... recent estimates are that
long term costs (including veterans benefits and medical expenses) it is
pushing $5T ... a factor of 100 times increase ... with lots of it being
siphoned off and disappearing into various pockets.
recent posts mentioning Iraq invasion
--
except in this case, the picture of the "home location" in ireland
appears to be a one room office staffed by person that operates on
behalf of multiple corporations ... pure tax dodge ... ireland gains a
trivial amount in taxes as part of deal ... more like kickback for
helping with the scam.
in other cases there are references to shoebox corporations ...
corporations setting up home office ... in a tax location done by
somebody that specializes in the activity ... each corporation little
more than a shoebox on a wall with hundreds (or thousands) of other
shoebox corporations.
--
note that there is a lot of fabrication by special interests that have
huge stake in preserving the current status quo .... manufacturing a
whole series of arguments about jobs, poor people, unfair taxes, etc ...
as obfuscation and misdirection ... the current operation is enormously
profitable to the special interests that don't want anything changed
... and, of course, the graft&corruption for congress selling the tax
loopholes is also extremely profitable.
in congress's case there are periodic references to it being Kabuki
theater ... nothing is really what it seems ... fabricated conflict
between the different parties both encourages the flow of money from
various supporters as well as contributes to nothing changing.
--
"Merchants of Doubt" portray group of public relations from the 50s
formed for fabricating positions and influencing public opinion for the
tobacco industry ... but then moves on in support of other special
interests (energy, military, pharmaceutical, financial, etc).
"Economists and the Powerful" has special interests capturing economists
... going back to the start of last century ... combination then leads
up to capture of financial regulatory agencies.
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.
... snip ...
The capture of economists have them respinning theory in support of
the special interests. There was business news article as the economy
was imploding that a high level consultant was advising
too-big-to-fail to tie-up as many economists as possible ... in
order to influence the public spin on what had happened (as well as
recommendations regarding corrective action). Given how capture of
economists has been protrayed, it was remarkable that there were any
to take position on eliminating tax loopholes.
A big turning point was GLBA and repeal of Glass-Steagall. About the
same time, CFTC had proposal to regulate derivatives (played major role
in both ENRON and later AIG) ... the wife of the person behind GLBA was
put in as chairwoman of CFTC until her husband got law passed
prohibiting derivative regulation. She then resigned and joined the
ENRON board ... and on the financial audit committee.
past posts mentioning congress as Kabuki theater, "Merchants of Doubt"
and/or "Economists and the Powerful".
--
US blocks crackdown on tax avoidance by net firms like Google and
Amazon; France fails to win backing for tough new international rules
targeting online companies in run-up to G20 summit
--
article (may require registration)
mentions that 1975, 47% of woman with children under 18 working and 2008
it had risen to 71% ... i.e. increase percent of two wage-owner
households helped with median household income.
recent posts mentioning the article
then there is
Income Growth For Bottom 90 Percent Of Americans Averaged Just $59 Over
4 Decades: Analysis
... and avg $116,071 for the top 10%
--
from above:
recent posts:
--
another graph ... from today
About That "Incomes Are Rising" Claim...
... "the truth is the economy is only improving for a thin slice of the
households"
1920 bottom 90% earned 60% of total income, dropping to 50% of total
income in 1930 ... raises to approx. 70% 1950-1980 and then starts
dropping to 50% of total income ... approx. corresponds to avg. hourly
income in the sept2011 nytimes article. The top 0.1% (making more than
$1.7m) increase to 10.4% of total income.
a little on jobs:
David Brooks Wonders Why Men Can't Find Jobs: Comedy Ensues
wiki: Income inequality in the United States
a few recent posts referencing web resources on income inequality
a few of the references:
Income inequality in America: The 99 percent
--
slightly related is the article from the early 80s calling for 100%
unearned profit tax on the US auto industries ... supposedly the import
quotas was to reduce competition allowing us industry to significant
raise prices and to use the big jump in profits to remake the
industries. however they just pocketed the money and continued business
as usual.
1990, nearly a decade later, the industry had the C4 task force
... looking at total remake ... they were planning on heavily leveraging
technology for the remake so invited representatives from technology
companies to participate. they could accurately describe the compeititon
and what they needed to do ... but again they just continued business as
normal.
two decades later ... they are still business as usual and require
additional gov. bailouts ... and claims are that even after the bailouts
... they continue business as usual. the auto industry has effectively
been on the gov. dole for over three decades. most recently they also
managed to skim off much of the industry retirement funds and dump the
obligation on the federal gov (something that has been going on in a
number of other industries)
misc. past posts mentioning c4 task force and/or call for 100% unearned
profit tax:
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https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#17
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email791010
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email791010b
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email791010c
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email800717
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#19
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#23
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#25
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#40
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#801
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#3 Chip Emulators - was How does a chip get designed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#55 Multics hardware (was Re: "Soul of a New Machine" Computer?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#77 Pipelining in the past
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#82 Future architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#26 LSM, YSE, & EVE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#31 asynchronous CPUs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#3 Ping: Anne & Lynn Wheeler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#14 Ping: Anne & Lynn Wheeler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#38 When nerds were nerds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#16 US fiscal policy (Was: Bob Bemer, Computer Pioneer,Father of ASCII,Invento
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#25 CKD Disks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#65 360 longevity, was RISCs too close to hardware?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#6 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#33 Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#42 Was FORTRAN buggy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#11 Was FORTRAN buggy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#73 Is computer history taught now?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#61 Fast and Safe C Strings: User friendly C macros to Declare and use C Strings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#53 Drums: Memory or Peripheral?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#58 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#61 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#22 What if phone company had developed Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#67 1401 simulator for OS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#68 CA to IBM TCP Conversion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#68 Toyota Beats GM in Global Production
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#75 Disksize history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#63 What happened to computer architecture (and comp.arch?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#71 using an FPGA to emulate a vintage computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#83 Notes on two presentations by Gordon Bell ca. 1998
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#52 Basic question about CPU instructions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#50 The Credit Card Criminals Are Getting Crafty
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Minicomputer Pricing
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Minicomputer Pricing
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:45:02 -0400
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> writes:
2341? The 2311 attached to a 2841 and the 2314 to a 2844. According to
the 145 Functional Specifications manual, the IFA attached to a 2319,
which would make it the equivalent of a 2844.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#81 Minicomputer Pricing
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IBM commitment to academia
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: IBM commitment to academia
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 19 Jun 2013 06:22:26 -0700
jwglists@GMAIL.COM (John Gilmore) writes:
The classic business-school analysis of DEC's misfortunes makes them
an instance of the effects of "disruptive technology": microprocessors
replacing mnicomputers.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#76 DataPower XML Appliance and RACF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#78 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790220
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#email910808
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email800311b
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801016
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#77
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#87
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Ported Tools - Unix
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Ported Tools - Unix
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 19 Jun 2013 07:22:34 -0700
PaulGBoulder@AIM.COM (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
I hate EBCDIC!
old reference that EBCDIC was one of the biggest goofs for 360 ... was
supposed to have been ascii ... "EBCDIC and the P-Bit (The Biggest
Computer Goof Ever)"
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#56 New HD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#72 One reason for monocase was Re: Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#14 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#61 32760?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: IBM commitment to academia
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:37:53 -0400
gerhard@VALLEY.NET (Gerhard Postpischil) writes:
That might answer the how, but not the why. I attribute it to bad
management that failed to innovate in a timely fashion, didn't provide
proper technical direction (1), nor effective sales. Ultimately I
blame Ken Olsen: "There is no reason for any individual to have a
computer in his home." (2) As a glaring example of this. DEC
marketed three distinct lines of PCs, all failures.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#76 DataPower XML Appliance and RACF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#78 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#2 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#31 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#32 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#33 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#34 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#40 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#27 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#84 Metcalfe's Law: How Ethernet Beat IBM and Changed the World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#79 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#81 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#82 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
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IBM commitment to academia
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: IBM commitment to academia
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 19 Jun 2013 12:02:57 -0700
shmuel+gen@PATRIOT.NET (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
It didn't help that the MVS address space was painfully small compared
to the VAX. It wasn't until MVS/ESA that IBM caught up.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#76 DataPower XML Appliance and RACF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#78 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#2 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#4 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
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The Subroutine Call
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: The Subroutine Call
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:13:04 -0400
Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
This is always used as a knock on capability-based systems, but if the
industry put half as much effort into optimizing such things in
hardware as they have into other areas, the speed differential
probably wouldn't be significant.
GNOSIS was capability based system for ibm 370, by one of the virtual
machine based commercial online service companies. part of it was
designed to be platform for 3rd party offerings ... a dbms or
application could be offered and gnosis would not only accurately
account for all resources by users ... for charging purposes ... but
also accurately account by specific resource to enable remittance to 3rd
parties (calls not only checked domain crossing and checking
capabilities but had significant pathlength for resource accounting)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOSIS
KeyKOS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeyKOS
documents and references
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOSIS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Reliable_Operating_System
CapROS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CapROS
Coyotos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyotos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_Processing_Facility
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#80 Still not convinced about the superiority of mainframe security vs distributed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#55 Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet, 1974
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#33 Delay between idea and implementation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#timeshare
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
IBM commitment to academia
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: IBM commitment to academia
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 20 Jun 2013 07:41:00 -0700
gerhard@VALLEY.NET (Gerhard Postpischil) writes:
Unless one is in the possession of detailed data, unlikely to become
public, it is difficult to judge why a company makes decisions. It is
doubtful that clinical kainophobia is pertinent; more likely factors
are cash flow, risk aversion, sales projections, and other
non-technical issues. For a successful company like DEC, technical
aspects were the least of their problems, as they had exemplary staff,
including some ex-IBMers. This is why I conclude that their collapse
and sale was due to poor management, even if that doesn't provide any
specifics.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#76 DataPower XML Appliance and RACF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#78 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#2 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#4 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#5 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#5 IBM commitment to academia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#email920722
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
DEC Demise (was IBM commitment to academia)
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: DEC Demise (was IBM commitment to academia)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 20 Jun 2013 13:01:35 -0700
jwglists@GMAIL.COM (John Gilmore) writes:
Other, sublethal examples abound. John Cocke invented RISC as an IBM
employee/fellow. IBM did not quite ignore it, but it was left to
others to exploit it (as something more than a sea anchor to windward)
until its much later reincarnation as millicode.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#76 DataPower XML Appliance and RACF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#78 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#2 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#4 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#5 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#7 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#801
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#0 By Any Other Name
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#10 The Knowledge Economy Two Classes of Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#18 What in your opinion is the one defining IBM product?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#26 The Big, Bad Bit Stuffers of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#52 32760?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#1 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#10 SAS Deserting the MF?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#13 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#40 The Mainframe is "Alive and Kicking"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#44 Why does IBM keep saying things like this:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#72 Minicomputer Pricing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#83 Minicomputer Pricing
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
IBM commitment to academia
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: IBM commitment to academia
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 20 Jun 2013 21:46:18 -0700
waynevb@GMAIL.COM (Wayne Bickerdike) writes:
When I left IBM my manager asked what I was going to work on. I told
him, "micro computers, non-IBM stuff, XENIX, CP/M, Apple IIs,
Cromemco, Altos, Northstar". He said, "I don't ever see IBM getting
into those markets". A couple of years later the PC was launched and
IBM still didn't get it.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#76 DataPower XML Appliance and RACF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#78 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#2 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#4 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#5 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#7 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#8 DEC Demise (was IBM commitment to academia)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#0 What is you opinion is the one defining IBM product?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
before ms/dos there was seattle computer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products
and before seattle computer there was cp/m
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M
and before cp/m, kildall worked on cp/67-cms at npg school (gone 404
but lives on at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20071011100440/http://www.khet.net/gmc/docs/museum/en_cpmName.html
npg reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Postgraduate_School
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System
multics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
cp/40-cms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP-40
cp/67-cms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/CMS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/cp40seas1982.txt
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
EBCDIC and the P-Bit
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: EBCDIC and the P-Bit
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 21 Jun 2013 07:20:39 -0700
RJKinsman@HOTMAIL.COM (Roland Kinsman) writes:
So, this is going to sound extremely naïve, but I wonder if having
EBCDIC instead of ASCII helped make IBM mainframe OS less penetrable
to hackers.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#3 Ported Tools - Unix
https://www.fsisac.com/about
critical infrastructure protection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_infrastructure_protection
https://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#56 New HD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#72 One reason for monocase was Re: Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#14 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#61 32760?
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
EBCDIC and the P-Bit
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: EBCDIC and the P-Bit
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 21 Jun 2013 08:29:55 -0700
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#3 Ported Tools - Unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#10 EBCDIC and the P-Bit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
csc/vm (&/or sjr/vm) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#cscvm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#35 Some Things Never Die
can now be found here
http://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf
original evaluation:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/karg74.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
https://www.multicians.org/sites.html
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#email790404
above mentions that they were original looking for 20 ... but
further explanation in this post has it increasing to 210
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#15 departmental servers
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Corrupted credit ratings: Standard & Poor's lawsuit and the evidence
From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: Corrupted credit ratings: Standard & Poor's lawsuit and the evidence
Date: 21 June 2013
Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security
Corrupted credit ratings: Standard & Poor's lawsuit and the evidence
http://www.voxeu.org/article/corrupted-credit-ratings-standard-poor-s-lawsuit-and-evidence
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-last-mystery-of-the-financial-crisis-20130619
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/you-f-ked-up-you-trusted-us-talking-ratings-agencies-with-chris-hayes-20130621
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#30 How reliable are the credit rating companies? Who is over seeing them?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#14 What are the challenges in risk analytics post financial crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#78 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
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/2010d.html#4 alphas was: search engine history, was Happy DEC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#31 In the News: SEC storms the 'Castle'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#9 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#69 Moody's hints at move that could be catastrophic for US debt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#25 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#36 On Protectionism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#55 Mobius Says Financial Crisis 'Around the Corner'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#44 S&P Downgrades USA; Time to Downgrade S&P?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#2 First Website Launched 20 Years Ago Today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#16 Feds Launch Probe Into S&P Mortgage Rates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#71 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#7 Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#49 Insider Fraud: What to Monitor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#35 Adair Turner: A New Debt-Free Money Advocate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#53 Should Bethany McLean Be Bothered by the Government Lawsuit Against S&P?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#66 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#64 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#68 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
EBCDIC and the P-Bit
From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: EBCDIC and the P-Bit
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 21 Jun 2013 15:10:31 -0700
Efinnell15@AOL.COM (Ed Finnell) writes:
I remember the 'security paper' CIA published after MVS got B1 rating.
There was a tuning paper that came out about the same time. One was green and
one was yellow. Anyway, long story short, last paragraph in security report
says
"if it's attached to a network none of this applies"
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#3 Ported Tools - Unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#10 EBCDIC and the P-Bit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#11 EBCDIC and the P-Bit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
Date: 21 June 2013
Blog: Old Geek
re:
http://lnkd.in/mGd4j5
recent posts in thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#3 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#4 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#5 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#6 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#8 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#10 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#14 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#15 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
http://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-hands-clementi-a-new-7b-unit-2013-6
When you add up all the different kinds of cloud computing services,
you're looking at a $131 billion market, Gartner figures. IBM says it
plans to nab at least $7 billion of in the next 18 months.
... snip ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-and-ibm-fight-for-cia-cloud-2013-6
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-newest-data-center-2013-6
http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2013/06/14/cia-cloud-contract-gao.aspx
IBM said it could build the CIA's cloud computing infrastructure for
less, but the CIA thought Amazon's more expensive solution was
technically superior, according to the Government Accountability
Office.
But GAO ruled in favor of IBM's protest after finding that the CIA was
"unreasonable" in how it evaluated the pricing offered by the two
companies.
... snip ...
http://www.zdnet.com/ge-intros-cloud-agnostic-data-platform-with-pivotal-amazon-web-services-7000016962/
GE moves into 'Industrial Internet' service with Amazon
http://news.yahoo.com/ge-moves-industrial-internet-amazon-172419770.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_service_provider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_service_provider
In contrast to the online services' multitiered per-minute or per-hour
rates, many ISPs offered flat-fee, unlimited access plans.
... snip ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-building-private-cloud-for-cia-2013-6
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Should we, as an industry, STOP using the word Mainframe and find (and start using) something more up-to-date
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: Should we, as an industry, STOP using the word Mainframe and find (and start using) something more up-to-date
Date: 21 June 2013
Blog: Mainframe Experts
re:
http://lnkd.in/hG8_tP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#2 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#4 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#5 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#7 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#email790404
however, by the time they came by, it had grown to 210 vm/4341 systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
65 Years Ago, Manchester's 'Baby' Ran Electronically Stored Program
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: 65 Years Ago, Manchester's 'Baby' Ran Electronically Stored Program
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 09:54:59 -0400
65 Years Ago, Manchester's 'Baby' Ran Electronically Stored Program
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/06/22/0247220/65-years-ago-manchesters-baby-ran-electronically-stored-program
http://paritynews.com/science/item/1149-remembering-baby-first-computer-to-run-electronically-stored-program-65-years-ago
The 'Baby' was developed by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff
Tootill at the Manchester University and it wasn't any ordinary system
that you would find today [PDF]. 'Baby' served as a testbed for the
experimental Williams-Kilburn tube - a cathode ray tube that was used to
store binary digits aka bits. The reason this became a milestone in
computing history was that up until 'Baby' ran the first electronically
stored program, there was no means of storing and accessing this stored
information in a cost-effective and flexible way.
... snip ...
http://www.mosi.org.uk/media/34352414/the%20baby,%20the%20world%27s%20first%20stored-program%20computer.pdf
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Should we, as an industry, STOP using the word Mainframe and find (and start using) something more up-to-date
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: Should we, as an industry, STOP using the word Mainframe and find (and start using) something more up-to-date
Date: 22 June 2013
Blog: Mainframe Experts
re:
http://lnkd.in/hG8_tP
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#15 Should we, as an industry, STOP using the word Mainframe and find (and start using) something more up-to-date
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#16 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#17 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#202
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#3tier
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life - Washington Post
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life - Washington Post
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:32:14 -0400
gabe@GABEGOLD.COM (Gabe Goldberg) writes:
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-07/business/39803388_1_computer-giant-ibm-gerstner-jr-life
this has a lot more
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_V._Gerstner,_Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RJR_Nabisco
KKR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlberg_Kravis_Roberts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_Group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#76 mainframe "selling" points
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#3 New HD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#34 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#77 Spacewar! on S/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#53 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#4 Live-Blogging Senate Hearing Tomorrow, When J.P. Morgan Chase Will Be Torn a New One
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#20 Y2K hacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#33 IBM Spent A Million Dollars Renovating And Staffing Its Former CEO's Office
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#35 Ex-Bailout Watchdog: JPMorgan's Actions "Entirely Consistent With Fraud"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#76 IBM Spent A Million Dollars Renovating And Staffing Its Former CEO's Office
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#17 The Big, Bad Bit Stuffers of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#19 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#42 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#79 As an IBM'er just like the Marines only a few good men and women make the cut,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#15 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#46 As an IBM'er just like the Marines only a few good men and women make the cut,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#49 As an IBM'er just like the Marines only a few good men and women make the cut,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#61 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#63 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#43 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#40 The Mainframe is "Alive and Kicking"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#76 DataPower XML Appliance and RACF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#77 IBM going ahead with more U.S. job cuts today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#87 IBM going ahead with more U.S. job cuts today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#2 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#7 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#14 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
"Archive": Online documentary on future of long-term digital storage & attempts to preserve its contents on a massive scale
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: "Archive": Online documentary on future of long-term digital storage & attempts to preserve its contents on a massive scale
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 18:35:49 -0400
jsavard@excxn.aNOSPAMb.cdn.invalid (John Savard) writes:
And here I thought the Internet Archive belonged to the Smithsonian
Institution, and was being paid for by the U.S. taxpayer.
I first met brewster when he formed wais inc, and moved to cal. wais
inc. was in old house just over the palo alto line in menlo park a few
blocks from el camino. AOL then bought wais inc, and he did incubator in
the old presidio in san fran. recently, he moved wayback machine
into former church
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_information_server
internet archive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive
note that it is mirrored
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotheca_Alexandrina
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#9 The round wheels industry is heading for collapse
http://www.archive.org/details/InternetArchiveNewBuildingAt300Funston
and
http://www.archive.org/details/300FunstonStSanFranciscoCa
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Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 08:07:02 -0400
article on former IBM Chairman (recently posted to ibm-main)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#18
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-07/business/39803388_1_computer-giant-ibm-gerstner-jr-life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RJR_Nabisco
KKR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlberg_Kravis_Roberts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_V._Gerstner,_Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-20/booz-allen-the-worlds-most-profitable-spy-organization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Wars_Manual
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
https://www.amazon.com/The-Iron-Triangle-Carlyle-ebook/dp/B008N9I4N0/
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadssummary.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#19 Tysons Corner, Virginia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#23 Tysons Corner, Virginia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#27 Tysons Corner, Virginia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#56 South San Jose (was Tysons Corner, Virginia)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#57 South San Jose (was Tysons Corner, Virginia)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#58 South San Jose (was Tysons Corner, Virginia)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#60 South San Jose (was Tysons Corner, Virginia)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#56 YKYBHTLW....
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#35 Cybersecurity Today: The Wild, Wild West
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#31 Colossal Cave Adventure in PL/I
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
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Subject: Re: OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 10:10:47 -0400
Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> writes:
Of course, it wasn't just "Nixon". There were hundreds of different
police, military, corporate, and intelligence agencies that had
motives to spy. Individual police departments often had "Red squads",
if the department was large enough, that's a tradition that went back
to the 1920s.
recent thread: Lessons from the Iraq War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#5
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21768668
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#53 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#69 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#58 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#62 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#74 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#5 Lessons Learned from the Iraq War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#20 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#54 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#56 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#76 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#7 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#30 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#53 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#92 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#41 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
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Subject: Re: OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 10:17:13 -0400
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
references "The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21768668
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#21 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#38 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#93 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 11:12:28 -0400
Ibmekon writes:
Another simple technique to prevent accountability is to use secret
email accounts.
Presumably they are given to the NSA for exclusion from tapping.
From
http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/06/04/Obama-secret-email-released-after-FOIA-fight/6051370364155/
"Agencies that keep private emails said that, while the addresses are
not made public, the content of those emails is searched in official
investigations and records are turned over when requested"
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#21 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#22 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#68 Our Pecora Moment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#53 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#69 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#82 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#53 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#69 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#82 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
Iran-Iraq War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
United States support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/24/1196597/-Nixon-s-treason-still-shapes-the-Republican-Party
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#46 Does the word "mainframe" still have a meaning?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#35 Newbie TOPS-10 7.03 question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#39 Newbie TOPS-10 7.03 question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#40 Newbie TOPS-10 7.03 question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#58 history of CMS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#59 history of CMS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#64 history of CMS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#50 CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#4 HONE, ****, misc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#34 VSE (Was: Re: Refusal to change was Re: LE and COBOL)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#45 hyperblock drift, was filesystem structure (long warning)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#69 Gartner Office Information Systems 6/2/89
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#56 Goodbye PROFS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#26 Microsoft Internet Patch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#13 Mainframe Virus ????
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#43 FULIST
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#23 sorting was: The System/360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#4 Another BIG Mainframe Bites the Dust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#42 vmshare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#31 IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO levels
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#32 IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO levels
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#4 The Genealogy of the IBM PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#13 Why is switch to DSL so traumatic?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#50 Using rexx to send an email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#29 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#54 An old fashioned Christmas
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#55 An old fashioned Christmas
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#46 Whitehouse Emails Were Lost Due to "Upgrade"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#59 Happy 20th Birthday, AS/400
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#8 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#16 Mainframe hacking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#41 another item related to ASCII vs. EBCDIC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#34 IBM Poughkeepsie?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#33 U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#38 U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#43 The 50th Anniversary of the Legendary IBM 1401
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#64 spool file tag data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#1 DEC-10 SOS Editor Intra-Line Editing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#8 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#87 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#97 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#88 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#61 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#4 When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#45 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#4 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#10 Rare Apple I computer sells for $216,000 in London
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#65 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#67 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#83 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#81 A History of VM Performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#82 A History of VM Performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#13 I actually miss working at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#12 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#57 SNA/VTAM Misinformation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#77 Internet pioneer Paul Baran
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#88 Would mainframe technology be relevant in the age of cloud computing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#92 PDCA vs. OODA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#95 VM IS DEAD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#11 History of APL -- Software Preservation Group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#73 We list every company in the world that has a mainframe computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#6 Robert Morris, man who helped develop Unix, dies at 78
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#59 FW: Mysterious Email (original had no subject)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#44 CMS load module format
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#60 How old is the oldest email in your current email inbox?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#62 JCL CROSS-REFERENCE Utilities (OT for Paul, Rick, and Shmuel)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#15 John R. Opel, RIP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#30 Any candidates for best acronyms?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#38 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#78 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#81 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#141 With cloud computing back to old problems as DDos attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#17 Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#24 Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#37 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#47 You Don't Need a Cyber Attack to Take Down The North American Power Grid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#49 Do you know where all your sensitive data is located?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#55 Just for a laugh... How to spot an old IBMer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#77 Just for a laugh... How to spot an old IBMer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#42 The IBM "Open Door" policy
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/2012n.html#61 Should you support or abandon the 3270 as a User Interface?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#66 Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet, 1974
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#69 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 13:50:43 -0400
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
past posts mentioning PROFS
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#21 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#22 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#23 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 17:37:18 -0400
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
for some time there has been assumptions that the gov. was illegally
electronically evesdropping on everything ... predating the prospect
that everything could be saved/recorded (i.e. millions of multi-terabyte
disk drives) ... example is emacs has had function that would add words
to email that were purported to be on list of keywords used in domestic
surveillance.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#21 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#22 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#23 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#24 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
http://www.aberdeeninc.com/abcatg/petabyte-storage.htm
http://www.sunstarco.com/Storage/Nexsan/NexSAN_E60X.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life
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Subject: Re: Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 18:16:05 -0400
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
after IBM, becomes Chairman of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_Group
which does private equity buyout of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton
Booz Allen, the World's Most Profitable Spy Organization (and in the
middle of the recent controversy)
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-20/booz-allen-the-worlds-most-profitable-spy-organization
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#18 Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-23/visualizing-how-booz-allen-hamilton-swallowed-washington
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/06/12/does-carlyle-have-a-booz-allen-problem/
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Private contractors like Booz Allen now reportedly garner 70 percent of
the annual $80 billion intelligence budget and supply more than half of
the available manpower.
... snip ...
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#62 America Is Basically Helpless Against The Chinese Hackers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#63 NBC's website hacked with malware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#16 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#39 NPC Luncheon with Thomas Drake, NSA Whistleblower
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#54 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#50 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#53 NSA phone records
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#54 NSA phone records
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
RBS Mainframe Meltdown: A year on, the fallout is still coming
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: RBS Mainframe Meltdown: A year on, the fallout is still coming
Date: 23 June 2013
Blog: IBMers
RBS Mainframe Meltdown: A year on, the fallout is still coming; When
the totally brand new kit comes on ... what do you think will happen?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/21/rbs_chernobyl_one_year_on/
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#timeshare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#benchmark
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430 ..
and discussion of releasing csc/vm features in standard product ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#8 ..
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
NSA Releases Secret Pre-History of Computers
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: NSA Releases Secret Pre-History of Computers
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:45:21 -0400
NSA Releases Secret Pre-History of Computers
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/06/24/1136255/nsa-releases-secret-pre-history-of-computers
http://www.governmentattic.org/8docs/NSA-WasntAllMagic_2002.pdf
A Collection of Writings on Traffic Analysis.
http://www.governmentattic.org/8docs/NSA-TrafficAnalysisMonograph_1993.pdf
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By Any Other Name
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: By Any Other Name
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:58:28 -0400
Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> writes:
Major performance degradation? These machines were DOGS! From the
360/30 with a totally laughable 40 K instructions/second, as long as
all programs used only RR instructions, to the 370/145 which was a bit
faster with MST logic, but still ran just a few hundred K
instructions/second (.36 or .46 mips depending on version).
For the first machine with semiconductor memory, it ought to
have done better. It did have pretty good I/O throughput, which
of course was IBM's strong suit. We had TSO running on a 3145,
and they got FOUR users to tie up the whole machine! Geez, wasn't
just a few years later we had 25 users on a VAX 11/780 with no
problems. (Note: we NEVER, EVER bought a 360 or 370 new, and often
bought them a bit too late, when they were past obsolete.)
Note that VM370 typically supported ten times as many users as TSO (on
same hardware), with much better interactive response and throughput ...
and much better graceful degradation as workload increased.
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP3145.html
370/148 Announced 30Jun1976
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP3148.html
vax-11/780 25Oct1977
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX-11
4341 Announced 30Jan1979
https://web.archive.org/web/20190105032753/https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP4341.html
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#5
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
By Any Other Name
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: By Any Other Name
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:05:41 -0400
John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> writes:
At Princeton, I don't think they ever got more than a dozen users
running under TSS on a 360/67.
The problem wasn't the hardware, it was bloated code and a virtual
memory system that predated the idea of a working set.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#29 By Any Other Name
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#18
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#46
with part of the response
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email821019
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#clock
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DRAM is the new Bulk Core
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: DRAM is the new Bulk Core
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 09:59:58 -0400
John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> writes:
It works fine, but it's still just a way to look at files on the disk.
When I mentioned the S/38 and AS/400, and now I suppose IBM i, I
wasn't kidding. They don't have files, just persistent objects.
DRAM is more like the new disk. Bulk core (LCS) for 360 was more like a
factor of 4-10 times slower than normal memory. Common recent
observation is if latency is measured in processor cycles ... the
current latency to memory is comparable to number of processor cycles
for disk accesses in the 60s.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
misc. past posts mnetioning doing paged-mapped filesystem for cms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
https://www.ecole.org/en/session/49-the-rise-and-fall-of-ibm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Future_Systems_project
http://gdrean.perso.sfr.fr/papers/promises.html
https://www.multicians.org/index.html
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Jean Sammet quotation
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Jean Sammet quotation
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 25 Jun 2013 07:07:39 -0700
jwglists@GMAIL.COM (John Gilmore) writes:
Sammet, Jean E. "Brief survey of languages used for systems
implementation." ACM SIGPLAN Notices. Vol. 6. No. 9. ACM, 1971.
A Google Scholar search using "Jean Sammet" as the search argument
yielded 768 references, a number of which any decently informed person
in this field should be acquainted with.
wiki page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_E._Sammet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
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DRAM is the new Bulk Core
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: DRAM is the new Bulk Core
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:38:13 -0400
jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) writes:
Disks are random-access. Sequential is mag tapes.
The main difference i see is that with disk I/O, it's expected that the
current thread will -not- continue, for now that is.
Start the I/O, then call the scheduler to find something to do.
We don't do this with cache, because it's not that slow.
processor: program missed in L1!
operating system: OK, what the hell am i supposed to
processor: now *you* missed in L1!
operating system: !?
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#31 DRAM is the new Bulk Core
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65 Years Ago, Manchester's 'Baby' Ran Electronically Stored Program
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: 65 Years Ago, Manchester's 'Baby' Ran Electronically Stored Program
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 20:03:00 -0400
jsavard@excxn.aNOSPAMb.cdn.invalid (John Savard) writes:
There certainly was a drum available for the System/360, the 7320. It
was a swap device, though, not directly part of main memory.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#16 65 Years Ago, Manchester's Baby' Ran Electronically Stored Program
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#29 By Any Other Name
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#30 By Any Other Name
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#9 IBM ad for Basic Operating System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#14 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#16 How about the old mainframe error messages that actually give you a clue about what's broken
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#31 I/O Optimization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#32 Getting at the original command name/line
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#35 Some Things Never Die
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#45 Storage paradigm [was: RE: Data volumes]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#47 Storage paradigm [was: RE: Data volumes]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#51 Search for first Web page takes detour into US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#67 Minicomputer Pricing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#69 cp67 & vm370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#71 cp67 & vm370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#73 Storage paradigm [was: RE: Data volumes]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#75 cp67 & vm370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#76 DataPower XML Appliance and RACF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#84 Minicomputer Pricing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#85 Before the PC: IBM invents virtualisation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#9 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#11 EBCDIC and the P-Bit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#13 EBCDIC and the P-Bit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#27 RBS Mainframe Meltdown: A year on, the fallout is still coming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#31 DRAM is the new Bulk Core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#32 Jean Sammet quotation
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Some Hard Numbers On The Western Banking System
From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: Some Hard Numbers On The Western Banking System
Date: 26 June 2013
Blog: Google+
re:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/102794881687002297268/posts/WG2eEvXftME
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-25/some-hard-numbers-western-banking-system
The rest of customer deposits are mostly invested in residential
mortgage backed securities (similar to those which collapsed in 2008)
and commercial loans. In fact, the bank's loan portfolio exceeds total
customer deposits. Not exactly the picture of financial health.
... snip ...
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/you-f-ked-up-you-trusted-us-talking-ratings-agencies-with-chris-hayes-20130621
and
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/the-daily-show-does-ratings-agencies-20130625
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#34 How Bankers Help Drug Traffickers and Terrorists
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#49 Insider Fraud: What to Monitor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#51 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#54 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#62 Taleb On "Skin In The Game" And His Disdain For Public Intellectuals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#66 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#68 Choice of Mary Jo White to Head SEC Puts Fox In Charge of Hen House
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#30 Email Trails Show Bankers Behaving Badly
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#35 Adair Turner: A New Debt-Free Money Advocate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#38 Adair Turner: A New Debt-Free Money Advocate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#39 The Alchemy of Securitization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#41 Adair Turner: A New Debt-Free Money Advocate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#44 Adair Turner: A New Debt-Free Money Advocate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#46 Bankers Who Made Millions In Housing Boom Misled Investors: Study
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#54 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#26 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#66 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#25 Senator Sherrod Brown Drops a Bombshell in Mary Jo White's Hearing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#64 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#67 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#68 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#70 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#71 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#72 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#94 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#2 Too-Big-To-Fail, Too-Big-To-Prosecute, Too-Big-To-Jail, not just a problem in the USA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#23 What Makes bank regulation and insurance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#59 What Makes bank regulation and insurance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#90 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#48 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#49 As an IBM'er just like the Marines only a few good men and women make the cut,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#61 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#63 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#5 SAS Deserting the MF?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#55 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#65 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#66 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#68 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#12 Corrupted credit ratings: Standard & Poor's lawsuit and the evidence
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The Subroutine Call
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: The Subroutine Call
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:23:54 -0400
Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
Here you seem to be defining "system" as either TSO or VM/CMS.
Of course, both can run on the same hardware at the same time.
Ignoring the "bolted together" aspect, it's an example of one system
doing both batch and interactive.
But I don't think I'd put forth IBM as an example of what a system can
do. IBM with it's "business case" philosophy sometimes restricts itself
from producing state of the art software.
That said ISPF and MVS batch are more integrated and do both batch and
interactive pretty well. Add on CICS or IMS/DC and we have the 3rd leg,
transactional.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#6 The Subroutine Call
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#cics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
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The Subroutine Call
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: The Subroutine Call
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:33:54 -0400
Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
Somehow I've managed to almost completely avoid CICS and fell into
the IMS/DLI/DC world instead.
I suppose at this time, there's nothing on this planet that will bring
z/OS into the FBA world.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#6 The Subroutine Call
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#36 The Subroutine Call
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801016
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#67
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#70
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/grayft84.pdf
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DRAM is the new Bulk Core
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: DRAM is the new Bulk Core
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:30:32 -0400
Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> writes:
Only in the context of the times. Eliminating seeks back then (when
you had 80-100ms seeks), left you with only rotational delay (12.5ms,
typically, for 2400rpm devices), so that was a substantial (about six
or eight-fold) improvement. And 12.5ms was fast only in the sense
that most machines only managed to execute a few thousand instructions
in that time.
As seek times dropped towards the rotational delays in the late
seventies and early eighties, you started seeing increases in
rotational rates.
These days seek times are similar to the rotational delays, so you'd
only get about a factor of two improvement, but tracks are so much
shorter relative to disk capacity now that such a thing would be
utterly pointless (it would be far more expensive than the equivalent
amount of RAM, not to mention slower).
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#31 DRAM is the new Bulk Core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#33 DRAM is the new Bulk Core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#34
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_2305.html
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_3380.html
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1969 networked word processor "Astrotype"
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: 1969 networked word processor "Astrotype"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:43:17 -0400
jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
You didn't have to have a PDP-10 in the backend but newspapers had
typeset-10 running on the -10. I suppose some setups may have had
Typeset-8s in "lcoal" areas which then transferred the end product
to the -10 for page setup.
The typesetting products for the 10 and 8 were two different
products. We didn't run Typeset-8 in Marlboro; we did run
Typeset-10.
in the early 90s worked with atex to port from vax/cluster to ha/cmp
http://www.atex.com/
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#22 DOS history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#23 DOS history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#1 Home mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#21 DOS C prompt in "Vista"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#57 Ikea type font change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#58 Ikea type font change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#60 Ikea type font change
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Reader Comment on SA22-7832-08 (PoPS), should I?
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Reader Comment on SA22-7832-08 (PoPS), should I?
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 28 Jun 2013 08:02:00 -0700
charlesm@MCN.ORG (Charles Mills) writes:
I could picture a very 21st century, "electronic" PoP that presented an
"index" to the detailed descriptions in the form of a table that could be
sorted on name, on mnemonic, on hex opcode, etc.
triva ... PoPs was one of first major IBM pub to move to CMS
script. CTSS runoff had been ported to CMS "script" at the science
center in the mid-60s ... then in 1969, GML was invented at the science
center and GML tag processing added to script. Issue for PoPs. was that
it was subset of the architecture "redbook" (for distribution in red
3-ring binder). File had conditional directives and CMS script command
line options would output either full "redbook" or the Pops subset
(i.e. whole sections that were architecture only and each instruction
might have architecture and/or engineering notes about trade-offs,
implementation issues, etc).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/gcard.html
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dumprx
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Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
Date: 28 June 2013
Blog: Old Geek
re:
http://lnkd.in/cN9fFJ
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#13 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#41 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#43 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions
http://nation.time.com/2013/06/26/how-edward-snowden-snuck-through/
http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2013/06/nsa-networks-might-have-been-missing-anti-leak-technology/65708/
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-20/booz-allen-the-worlds-most-profitable-spy-organization
Spies Like Us
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Private contractors like Booz Allen now reportedly garner 70 percent
of the annual $80 billion intelligence budget and supply more than
half of the available manpower.
... snip ...
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-07/business/39803388_1_computer-giant-ibm-gerstner-jr-life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RJR_Nabisco
KKR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlberg_Kravis_Roberts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_V._Gerstner,_Jr.
after IBM, becomes Chairman of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_Group
which then does private equity buyout of ... guess who?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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Theology question: Parameter formats
From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Theology question: Parameter formats
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 28 Jun 2013 14:50:54 -0700
jwglists@GMAIL.COM (John Gilmore) writes:
The elephant in the room is being studiously ignored.
The crucial objection to C's nul-delimited strings of 'conceptually
unlimited' length has so far gone unmentioned here. They have been
the all but exclusive foci of security breaches, thousands of them, of
systems written in C/C++ and their dialects.
I had exceeded my quota on null-delimited string rants for the month.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#35 Some Things Never Die
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#11 EBCDIC and the P-Bit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#34 CLECs, Barbara, and the Phone Geek
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#80 Minicomputer Pricing
as well as
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#11 EBCDIC and the P-Bit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#buffer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
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Theology question: Parameter formats
From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Theology question: Parameter formats
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 28 Jun 2013 16:45:44 -0700
PaulGBoulder@AIM.COM (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
You have, in the past, deprecated "nanny languages", those which
enforce compile time or run time validity constraints. Yet Wheeler is
praising Pascal for so protecting against security breaches.
It's as easy in C as in assembler to check for buffer overrun (and
easier in both cases not to check; damn the consequences). C
provides safer versions for many standard library functions:
o instead of strcpy(), strncpy()
o instead of strcat(), strncat()
o instead of strcmp(), strncmp()
o instead of sprintf(), snprintf()
o instead of gets(), fgets()
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#42 Theology question: Parameter formats
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65 Years Ago, Manchester's 'Baby' Ran Electronically Stored Program
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: 65 Years Ago, Manchester's 'Baby' Ran Electronically Stored Program
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:35:08 -0400
Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> writes:
We can't even put people in orbit, we have to rent a boost from Russia.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#16 65 Years Ago, Manchester's Baby' Ran Electronically Stored Program
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#34 65 Years Ago, Manchester's Baby' Ran Electronically Stored Program
http://www.spacenews.com/article/launch-report/35956orbital-sues-ula-seeks-rd-180-engines-515-million-in-damages
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Tech Time Warp of the Week: IBM STRETCH, 1961
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Tech Time Warp of the Week: IBM STRETCH, 1961
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 09:36:59 -0400
Tech Time Warp of the Week: IBM STRETCH, 1961
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/06/ibm-stretch-nsa/
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OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:40:37 -0400
Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:
I didn't claim there was.
But there *are* things in Firefox which are worth a lot of money.
Being on the list of search engines; being on the initial list of
useful bookmarks and so on. If I recall correctly money changes hands
when those lists are created.
For better information, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#Affiliations
for all the browsers since invention of SSL ... paying to be
certification authority included in the root list shipped
as part of the browser has also been source of income.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#sslcert
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/google-making-the-web-faster-with-protocol-that-reduces-round-trips/
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#catch22
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#xtphsp
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/xtprate.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks
That impetus came from strong arguments by Danny Cohen and Jon Postel at
USC-ISI and David P. Reed from MIT who advocated for a low delay, if
unreliable, datagram mode of operation. From this debate emerged the
Internet Protocol and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
... snip ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-start
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Making mainframe technology hip again
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: Making mainframe technology hip again
Date: 29 June 2013
Blog: Enterprise Systems
re:
http://lnkd.in/fgPaXK
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/opinion/Making-mainframe-technology-hip-again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#12 relative mainframe speeds, was What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#16 relative mainframe speeds, was What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#45 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#4 Oracle To IBM: Your 'Customers Are Being Wildly Overcharged'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#38 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#57 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#70 How internet can evolve
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#73 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#2 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#4 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#14 Tech Time Warp of the Week: The 50-Pound Portable PC, 1977
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#23 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#49 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#85 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#3 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#40 The Mainframe is "Alive and Kicking"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#42 The Mainframe is "Alive and Kicking"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#79 Why does IBM keep saying things like this:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#80 Minicomputer Pricing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#86 By Any Other Name
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Google takes on Internet Standards with TCP Proposals, SPDY standardization
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: Google takes on Internet Standards with TCP Proposals, SPDY standardization
Date: 30 June 2013
Blog: IETF - The Internet Engineering Task Force
re:
http://lnkd.in/FCwpMR
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#98 Google works on Internet standards with TCP proposals, SPDY standardization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#99 Google works on Internet standards with TCP proposals, SPDY standardization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#103 Google works on Internet standards with TCP proposals, SPDY standardization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#105 Google works on Internet standards with TCP proposals, SPDY standardization
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/google-making-the-web-faster-with-protocol-that-reduces-round-trip
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/28/1857202/quic-googles-new-secure-udp-based-protocol
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#46
http://www.fiercecio.com/techwatch/story/google-now-largest-public-dns-provider-world/2012-02-16
https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001368.html
http://www.fastcompany.com/1825005/impatient-america-needs-faster-intertubes
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/google-abandons-noble-experiment-to-make-ssl-less-painful.ars
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226347/Google_gives_Apache_a_SPDY_boost
Google gives Apache a SPDY boost Google's SPDY protocol could speed
delivery of Web pages from Apache servers
http://www.infoworld.com/d/networking/google-gives-apache-spdy-boost-191244
Google Gives Apache a SPDY Boost
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/254063/google_gives_apache_a_spdy_boost.html
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/going-with-the-flow-google/
Google reVAMP network via OpenFlow
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-reVAMPS-network-via-openflow/74405
Google describes its OpenFlow network
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4371179/Google-describes-its-OpenFlow-network
http://www.guypo.com/technical/not-as-spdy-as-you-thought/
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Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
Date: 30 June 2013
Blog: Enterprise Systems
re:
http://lnkd.in/DCMcPh
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
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 ...
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The Subroutine Call
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: The Subroutine Call
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 11:55:21 -0400
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> writes:
The Cray-1 had exteremly fast I/O channels for its day.
we got called in a little to help LANL with HiPPI ... which was
standardization of Cray's 100mbyte/sec channel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIPPI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel
Fibre Channel started in 1988, with ANSI standard approval in 1994, as a
way to simplify the HIPPI system then in use for similar roles. HIPPI
used a massive 50-pair cable with bulky connectors, and had limited
cable lengths. When Fibre Channel started to compete for the mass
storage market its primary competitor was IBM's proprietary Serial
Storage Architecture (SSA) interface. Eventually the market chose Fibre
Channel over SSA, depriving IBM of control over the next generation of
mid- to high-end storage technology. Fibre Channel was primarily
concerned with simplifying the connections and increasing distances, as
opposed to increasing speeds
... snip ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
and reference in this old post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#46 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#48 Google takes on Internet Standards with TCP Proposals, SBDY standardization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#2 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#4 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#14 Tech Time Warp of the Week: The 50-Pound Portable PC, 1977
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#23 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#49 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#85 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#3 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#40 The Mainframe is "Alive and Kicking"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#42 The Mainframe is "Alive and Kicking"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#79 Why does IBM keep saying things like this:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#80 Minicomputer Pricing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#86 By Any Other Name
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#47 Making mainframe technology hip again
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Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
Date: 30 June 2013
Blog: Enterprise Systems
re:
http://lnkd.in/DCMcPh
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#49 Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cool-to-be-clever-edson-hendricks/id483020515?mt=8
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#email840320 ..
http://www.lsoft.com/corporate/history-listserv.asp
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#46 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#48 ..
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
Date: 30 June 2013
Blog: Enterprise Systems
re:
http://lnkd.in/DCMcPh
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#49 Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#51 Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email870302 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#email870306 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#rfc1044
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
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The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
Date: 01 July 2013
Blog: Old Geek
re:
http://lnkd.in/mGd4j5
http://www.businessinsider.com/details-emerge-on-amazons-cia-cloud-2013-6
If Amazon gets into the enterprise cloud business in a big way, as all
signs indicate is will, that's not good news for companies like IBM,
HP, Dell, VMware or Microsoft who are all banking that cloud will be
the next big growth area for them.
... snip ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#57 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#58 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#61 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#63 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#69 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#72 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#73 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#74 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#78 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#80 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#6 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#12 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#21 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#43 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#45 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#50 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#93 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#3 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#4 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#5 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#6 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#8 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#10 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#14 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#15 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#14 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
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How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
Date: 02 July 2013
Blog: IBMers
Private equity companies have been major driver behind off-shoring
jobs. Private equity companies are similar to real-estate speculators,
which take out mortgage to buy a house, hold during inflation, and
then flip it (paying off the original mortgage with the higher priced
sale). Difference is that in the reverse-IPO/IPO flip, the original
loan to do the reverse-IPO transfers to the new owners (private equity
walks away with the proceeds of the IPO, leaving the company with
enormous debt, including the original loan to do the
reverse-IPO). Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore
Banking and Tax Havens, pg216/loc4511-14:
Plenty of good firms have gone bust as a result of this offshore
debt-loading, which the New York Times in 2009 described as "a Wall
Street version of 'Flip This House.'" 48 More than half of the
companies that defaulted on their debt that year were either
previously or currently owned by private equity firms.
... snip ...
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-07/business/39803388_1_computer-giant-ibm-gerstner-jr-life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RJR_Nabisco
KKR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlberg_Kravis_Roberts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_V._Gerstner,_Jr.
after IBM, becomes Chairman of another large private equity company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_Group
which then does private equity buyout of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-20/booz-allen-the-worlds-most-profitable-spy-organization
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Private contractors like Booz Allen now reportedly garner 70 percent
of the annual $80 billion intelligence budget and supply more than
half of the available manpower.
... snip ...
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/concoughlin/100224120/spying-on-the-eu-is-an-exercise-in-futility/
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/06/how-much-are-the-nsa-and-cia-front-running-markets.html
https://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Islands-Havens-Stole-ebook/dp/B004OA6420/
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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/2012f.html#87 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#90 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#92 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#95 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
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/2012h.html#2 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
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#18 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#31 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#46 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#68 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#63 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
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#71 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#23 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/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.?
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
1969 networked word processor "Astrotype"
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: 1969 networked word processor "Astrotype"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:07:30 -0400
Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> writes:
There are docs, not as good as the ones for DEC back in the day but when
you're selling a $100,000 worth of product it's easy to include a few
thousand $ worth of technical writer's time. When it's a $500 PC, not
so much. There are also a lot of resources now that weren't available
in the 1970s.
say @$50 on 200,000 $500 PCs is same as $10,000 on 1,000 $100,000
machines ... one could claim that good documentation is more important
when it is 200,000 customers ... might actually be closer to 2,000,000
machines.
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
unusual IBM system console
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: unusual IBM system console
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 23:02:12 -0400
"Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net> writes:
Unless someone from the inside IBM (like Lynn) says otherwise I would doubt
that there would be any attempt to have a 2321 in a publicity photo for the
/370. By early 1968 (if not sooner) the Installation News Letter was
publishing unofficial tweaks to OS/360 (such as issuing a WTO of "DDCARD
MISSING" on an attempt to open a nonexistent DDNAME) that used the address
space occupied by 2321-related code as a patch area. I'm sure that some of
the IBMers weren't happy about that, but to me it says much about the way
the Noodle Stuffer was viewed both inside and outside IBM.
re:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/datacell.html
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/mss.html
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Doug Englebart
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Doug Englebart
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 08:51:27 -0400
Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> writes:
Damn.
He's known for the mouse, but that's least significant of his visions.
doug was at tymshare when m/d bought them ... and tymshare was running
his augment system on pdp10. i was brought in to audit/review gnosis for
spinoff to keykos. i was also asked if i could find anybody interested
at ibm to hire doug. i sent up some interviews ... but it was real
mismatch.
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Doug Englebart
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Doug Englebart
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 18:27:59 -0400
Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
DIdn't Doug Englebart experiment with trackballs too? EIther
rejecting them or seeing them as an alternative to the mouse? I
finally got one of those last year for 75cents at a garage sale, I
haven't used it that much for the simple reason that it has no scroll
wheel, and in waiting to get a cheap trackball, I've gotten used to
having the scroll wheel. One of these days I may take a cheap scroll
mouse and add the scroll wheel to the trackball.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#57 Doug Engelbart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLS_%28computer_system%29
http://www.dougengelbart.org/firsts/mouse.html
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000g.html#22 No more innovation? Get serious
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000g.html#26 Who Owns the HyperLink?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000g.html#31 stupid user stories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#4 markup vs wysiwyg (was: Re: learning how to use a computer)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#48 XML, AI, Cyc, psych, and literature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#55 creat
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#47 creat
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#12 Flat Query
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#50 stacks: sorting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#51 stacks: sorting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#54 Douglas Engelbart's HyperScope 1.0 Launched
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#22 vmshare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#29 Even worse than UNIX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#53 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#23 Doug Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#57 PC premiered 40 years ago to awed crowd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#62 PC premiered 40 years ago to awed crowd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#3 New machine code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#61 Does IBM host guest speakers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#28 Opinion: The top 10 operating system stinkers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#8 Fathers of Technology: 10 Unsung Heroes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#84 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#9 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#53 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#63 VMSHARE Archives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#11 Typewriter vs. Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#31 Colossal Cave Adventure in PL/I
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#2 Other early NSFNET backbone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#39 Just a quick link to a video by the National Research Council of Canada made in 1971 on computer technology for filmmaking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#40 GNOSIS & KeyKOS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#80 Still not convinced about the superiority of mainframe security vs distributed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#55 Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet, 1974
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#60 Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet, 1974
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Making mainframe technology hip again
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: Making mainframe technology hip again
Date: 07 July 2013
Blog: Enterprise Systems
re:
http://lnkd.in/fgPaXK
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#47 Making mainframe technology hip again
http://lnkd.in/FCwpMR
http://www.fastcompany.com/1825005/how-one-second-could-cost-amazon-16-billion-sales
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#98 Google works on Internet standards with TCP proposals, SPDY standardization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#99 Google works on Internet standards with TCP proposals, SPDY standardization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#103 Google works on Internet standards with TCP proposals, SPDY standardization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#105 Google works on Internet standards with TCP proposals, SPDY standardization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#48 Google takes on Internet Standards with TCP Proposals, SPDY standardization
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Making mainframe technology hip again
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: Making mainframe technology hip again
Date: 07 July 2013
Blog: Enterprise Systems
re:
http://lnkd.in/fgPaXK
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#47 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#59 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#59 Why Intel can't retire X86
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#35 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#69 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#74 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#10 SAS Deserting the MF?
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
later processor cluster email here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#91 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#35 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#37 Where Does the Cloud Cover the Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#51 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#57 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#61 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#70 How internet can evolve
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#73 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#74 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#7 SAS Deserting the MF?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#12 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#21 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#43 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#45 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#40 The Mainframe is "Alive and Kicking"
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Big Data Is Opening Doors, but Maybe Too Many
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: Big Data Is Opening Doors, but Maybe Too Many
Date: 07 July 2013
Blog: Enterprise Systems
re:
http://lnkd.in/UrgHZQ
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-30/multiple-government-agencies-are-keeping-records-your-credit-card-transactions
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/06/how-much-are-the-nsa-and-cia-front-running-markets.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_V._Gerstner,_Jr.
after IBM, becomes Chairman of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_Group
which does private equity buyout of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-20/booz-allen-the-worlds-most-profitable-spy-organization
How Booz Allen Hamilton Swallowed Washington
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-23/visualizing-how-booz-allen-hamilton-swallowed-washington
Spies Like Us
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Private contractors like Booz Allen now reportedly garner 70 percent
of the annual $80 billion intelligence budget and supply more than
half of the available manpower.
... snip ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#16 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#39 NPC Luncheon with Thomas Drake, NSA Whistleblower
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#45 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#86 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#54 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#50 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#67 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#74 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#53 NSA phone records
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#54 NSA phone records
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#57 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#61 NYT: N.S.A. Chief Says Phone Logs Halted Terror Threats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#18 Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life - Washington Post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#20 Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#26 Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#41 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#54 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Making mainframe technology hip again
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: Making mainframe technology hip again
Date: 08 July 2013
Blog: Enterprise Systems
re:
http://lnkd.in/fgPaXK
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#47 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#59 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#60 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium
Itanium 1989-2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium#Development:_1989.E2.80.932000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequent_Computer_Systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#36 why is there an "@" key?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#4 Sv: First video terminal?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#45 CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#58 IBM S/370-168, 195, and 3033
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#27 Beyond 8+3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#67 3745 & NCP Withdrawl?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#77 COMTEN- IBM networking boxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#33 Why only 24 bits on S/360?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#35 Why only 24 bits on S/360?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#37 Why only 24 bits on S/360?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#2 Fix the shuttle or fly it unmanned
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#26 Microkernels are not "all or nothing". Re: Multics Concepts For
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#35 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#2 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#28 MVCIN instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#45 FULIST
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#48 FULIST
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#49 Channel Distances
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#18 The System/360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#20 IBM-MAIN longevity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#37 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#24 Processes' memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#25 Processes' memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#27 z/OS, TCP/IP, and OSA
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Making mainframe technology hip again
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: Making mainframe technology hip again
Date: 08 July 2013
Blog: Enterprise Systems
re:
http://lnkd.in/fgPaXK
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#47 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#59 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#60 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#62 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml
http://lnkd.in/UrgHZQ
also archived here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#61 Big Data Is Opening Doors, but Maybe Too Many
http://lnkd.in/cN9fFJ
also archived here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#41 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#3tier
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#202
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
unusual IBM system console
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: unusual IBM system console
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 08:57:39 -0400
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#56 unusual IBM system console
http://ibmcollectables.com/ibmlogo.html
The story begins in 1956 when designer Paul Rand introduced what IBM
refers to as the IBM continuity logo (1956-1972) This logo is the solid
block letters IBM in City Medium type font. At the time it was
considered a modernization from the IBM in transition (1947-1956) logo
in the Beton Bold type font. This earlier logo is most easily recognized
by the flat bottom M, where the New block letter logo has a pointy M.
... snip ...
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/logo/logo_8.html
and
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/logo/logo_920912.html
http://ibmcollectables.com/gallery/2070-cpu/all_4_360_mastheads
http://ibmcollectables.com/gallery/2070-cpu/IBM_360_19xx_102657020_lg
http://ibmcollectables.com/gallery/album106
https://web.archive.org/web/20050310234126/http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP2040.html
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
The Real Snowden Question
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: The Real Snowden Question
Date: 09 July 2013
Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security
How Edward Snowden Snuck Through
http://nation.time.com/2013/06/26/how-edward-snowden-snuck-through/
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Private contractors like Booz Allen now reportedly garner 70 percent
of the annual $80 billion intelligence budget and supply more than
half of the available manpower.
... snip ...
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2013/06/nsa-networks-might-have-been-missing-anti-leak-technology/65708/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/opinion/the-criminal-nsa.html
http://www.zerohedge.com/node/475876
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/concoughlin/100224120/spying-on-the-eu-is-an-exercise-in-futility/
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/06/how-much-are-the-nsa-and-cia-front-running-markets.html
https://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Islands-Havens-Stole-ebook/dp/B004OA6420/
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#16 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#39 NPC Luncheon with Thomas Drake, NSA Whistleblower
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#45 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#86 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#54 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#50 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#53 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#67 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#24 What Makes a substance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#53 NSA phone records
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#54 NSA phone records
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#57 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#61 NYT: N.S.A. Chief Says Phone Logs Halted Terror Threats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#20 Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#26 Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#41 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#54 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#61 Big Data Is Opening Doors, but Maybe Too Many
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/487833/20130709/edward-snowden-australia-cyber-attack-spy.htm#.Udtm1W12Tqt
American espionage and Europe: Sense, sensibilities and spying
http://www.economist.com/news/international/21580485-edward-snowdens-revelations-about-american-espionage-have-riled-europeans-so-has
Snowden affair clouds U.S. attempts to press China to curb cyber theft
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/08/us-usa-china-cyber-idUSBRE96713220130708
New Snowden leak: Australia's place in US spying web — RT News
http://rt.com/news/australia-nsa-snowden-surveillance-784/
Snowden's future up in the air after retracted tweet
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/09/world/americas/nsa-snowden-venezuela/
Snowden reveals Australian links to NSA spying
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/130708/snowden-reveals-australian-links-nsa-spying
Agents like Snowden prone to irrational decision making, study finds
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130709091409.htm
Edward Snowden reveals Australia's Links To Secret US Spy Program
http://www.theage.com.au/world/snowden-reveals-australias-links-to-us-spy-web-20130708-2plyg.html
Look, can we just forget about Snowden for sec... US-China cyber talks
held
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/09/snowden_overshadows_us_china_cyber_talks/
Snowden has not accepted asylum in Venezuela: WikiLeaks
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2013-07/10/content_16754476.htm
Snowden case not the first embarrassment for Booz Allen or D.C.'s
burgeoning contracting industry
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/snowden-case-not-the-first-embarassment-for-booz-allen--or-washingtons-burgeoning-contracting-industry/2013/07/08/30440b0a-d9b3-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html
Justice Breyer's Roundabout Reflection on Edward Snowden - Emma Green
http://www.theatlantic.com/events/archive/2013/07/justice-breyers-roundabout-reflection-on-edward-snowden/277614/
One More Reason Obama Should Pardon Snowden
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/07/09/one_more_reason_obama_should_pardon_snowden
Edward Snowden: US surveillance 'not something I'm willing to live
under'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/08/edward-snowden-surveillance-excess-interview
Edward Snowden: 'The US government will say I aided our enemies' –
video interview
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jul/08/edward-snowden-video-interview
Undernews: The corporate media's long relationship with the spook
world may help explain why it doesn't like Snowden
http://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-corporate-medias-long-relationship.html
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
Date: 10 July 2013
Blog: Old Geek
re:
http://lnkd.in/mGd4j5
http://www.zdnet.com/amazon-slashes-price-of-dedicated-virtual-servers-by-80-percent-7000017880/
http://gigaom.com/2013/07/10/amazon-takes-an-axe-to-dedicated-instances/
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#57 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#58 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#61 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#63 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#69 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#72 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#73 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#74 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#78 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#80 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#6 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#12 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#21 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#43 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#45 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#50 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#93 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#3 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#4 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#5 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#6 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#8 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#10 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#14 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#15 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#14 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#53 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
regex that never matches?
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: regex that never matches?
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:03:20 -0400
rkuebbin@TSYS.COM (Kirk Talman) writes:
he would have loved APL
from a.f.c. posting today ... dec1969 C&A issue
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/computersAndAutomation/196912.pdf
That issue also has a full page ad for an APL time sharing service.
TEN TIMES MORE POWERFUL THAN FORTRAN!
WHY? THREE WEEKS WORK can be done in one productive day.
HOW? Continuous hands-on-time programming; over 400 turn-arounds possible per day.
WHAT IS IT? It's a newly-discovered computational shorthand, a
fully-general computer languagefor all types of programming. Every
Programmer should learn it. (APL became an IBM PRODUCT in September,
1969; not to be confused with PL/, an older IBM language)
PROBLEM-SOLVING at your desk.
INTERACTIVE; hands-on-time for fast turn-around.
COST: You pay only $12 per hour because others
"time share" the same machine.
MANY HIGH-POWERED PROGRAMS available for
immediate use or easily incorporated into, your
own programming.
ALWAYS AVAILABLE, 24 hours per day, 7 days
a week, including holidays. .
SCHEDULES: Immediate diagnostics and faster
programming; therefore, schedules can be met
and beaten, with APL.
LOCATIONS: For information on terminals and
service, call the location nearest you and ask for
the sales department.
... snip ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Boyd's cycle: the path to guaranteed success + 6 big companies as evidence
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: Boyd's cycle: the path to guaranteed success + 6 big companies as evidence
Date: 10 July 2013
Blog: Facebook - Colonel John Boyd
Boyd's cycle: the path to guaranteed success + 6 big companies as
evidence
http://thebottomofthings.com/boyds-cycle-path-guaranteed-success-10-big-companies-evidence/
NeXT
After Steve Jobs was forced out of Apple he started Next Inc. to
develop computer workstations intended for higher education and
business markets. 7 years later, the company had only shipped around
50K units so they changed gear and focused on their innovative object
oriented operating system. It turned out to be a great decision
because Apple bought the entire company in 1996 for almost $500M and
put Jobs back at the helm of what is now one of the most valuable
companies in the world.
... snip ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent
before Jobs was brought back
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
and spring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_%28operating_system%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_%28kernel%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/CMS
... I had
sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM and was in silicon valley for over
20yrs and periodically interacted with lots of the inhabitants ... and
overlap with Boyd and that culture. One of the things about silicon
valley 70s&80s was much more "to do", sharing and cooperation.
Get-togethers would have people bringing unannounced products and
being able to play with each others toys. much of OODA-loop
now focuses on beating adviseries rather than cooperating.
... before original MAC was announced ... i could have dinner with MAC
developers and argue about its design.
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
The failure of cyber defence - the mindset is against it
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: The failure of cyber defence - the mindset is against it
Date: 10 July 2013
Blog: Financial Cryptography
The failure of cyber defence - the mindset is against it
https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001439.html
and non-SSL
http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001439.html
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#email841115
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#email810506
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email810515
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#41 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#54 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#61 Big Data Is Opening Doors, but Maybe Too Many
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#65 The Real Snowden Question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#87 New test attempt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#86 Own a piece of the crypto wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#32 Getting Out Hard Drive in Real Old Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#27 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#43 Internet Evolution - Part I: Encryption basics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#20 TELSTAR satellite experiment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#60 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#0 We list every company in the world that has a mainframe computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#63 ARPANET's coming out party: when the Internet first took center stage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#85 Key Escrow from a Safe Distance: Looking back at the Clipper Chip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#63 Reject gmail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#70 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#47 T-carrier
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#31 The Vindication of Barb
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Metcalfe's Law: How Ethernet Beat IBM and Changed the World
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Metcalfe's Law: How Ethernet Beat IBM and Changed the World
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 10:41:37 -0400
Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
I suspect it was developed out of earlier loops intended for
factory-floor use. For example the IBM 2790
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2790) (this sounds like early 60s
don't have exact date). I know there were earlier systems, but it
would take more time to search than I have right now.
If anyone has any material that would shed light on the development of
token ring, now's the time.
there is this
http://www.google.com/patents/US4195351
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#31 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#32 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#33 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#34 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#40 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#27 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#84 Metcalfe's Law: How Ethernet Beat IBM and Changed the World
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 11 Jul 2013 07:58:59 -0700
john.archie.mckown@GMAIL.COM (John McKown) writes:
Java initially runs intepreted JVM byte code. As the program runs, the JVM
invokes a "just in time" compiler to transform the byte code into native z
series instructions. As I understand it, the common back end that is being
discussed for COBOL, PL/I, C/C++, et al. is this "just in time"
compiler/optimizer.
I wish z/OS did for Java what the i does. The javac compiler creates a byte
code .class file. However, attached to this byte code file is actual
pSeries native instruction which is what is really run. The i has a lot of
interesting things. What blew me away was that the compilers produce TIMI
instructions (similar in concept to Java byte code). The first time a
program is run, the OS compiles the TIMI into native code and attaches that
code to the "program object" and thereafter runs the "program object" code.
Well, sort of. Because this compiler may be improved. If this happens, or
if the TIMI code is moved to another processor, the OS will recompile and
recreate the "program object". All automatically. Must drive auditors and
change control people up the wall.
I've been in some discussion about whether JAVA was done totally
independent of spring ... or with some spring overloap ... from Spring
documentation:
A Client-Side Stub Interpreter
Peter B. Kessler
Abstract
We have built a research operating system in which all services are
presented through interfaces described by an interface description
language. The system consists of a micro-kernel that supports a small
number of these interfaces, and a large number of interfaces that are
implemented by user-level code. A typical service implements one or
more interfaces, but is a client of many other interfaces that are
implemented elsewhere in the system. We have an interface compiler
that generates client-side and service-side stubs to deliver calls
from clients to services providing location transparency if the client
and server are in different address spaces. The code for client-side
stubs was occupying a large amount of the text space on our clients,
so a stub interpreter was written to replace the client-side stub
methods. The result was that we traded 125k bytes of stub code for 13k
bytes of stub descriptions and 4k bytes of stub interpreter. This
paper describes the stub interpreter, the stub descriptions, and
discusses some alternatives.
... snip ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_%28operating_system%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_%28software_platform%29
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Metcalfe's Law: How Ethernet Beat IBM and Changed the World
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Metcalfe's Law: How Ethernet Beat IBM and Changed the World
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 00:31:38 -0400
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
there is this
http://www.google.com/patents/US4195351
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#70
http://www.google.com/patents/US4293948
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Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 12 Jul 2013 07:20:56 -0700
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#71 Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BUNCH
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
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Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 12 Jul 2013 07:42:43 -0700
sipples@SG.IBM.COM (Timothy Sipples) writes:
Power servers are a good example of a success. IBM is the leader in the
distributed UNIX server market and by quite a margin. Yet rewind the clock
a couple decades and *nobody* would have predicted that. IBM doggedly,
persistently focused on succeeding in that market. And IBM did it the old
fashioned way: with lots of long-term investments to develop and to build
better products than the competition.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#71 Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#73 Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
http://lnkd.in/mGd4j5
http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/the-cloud-killing-traditional-hardware-and-software-216963
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Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 12 Jul 2013 12:20:10 -0700
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#71 Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#73 Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#74 Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/July/12/
July 12, 1949
IBM's Watson believes electronics will replace moving parts
At an IBM sales meeting, Thomas J. Watson Jr. predicts that all moving
parts in machines would be replaced by electronics within 10
years. Watson's visionary ideals of where the fledgling computer
industry might go helped lead his company to dominance in production of
all varieties of computers, from work stations to personal computers.
... snip ...
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The failure of cyber defence - the mindset is against it
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: The failure of cyber defence - the mindset is against it
Date: 12 July 2013
Blog: Financial Cryptography
re:
http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001439.html
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#69 The failure of cyber defence - the mindset is against it
http://nation.time.com/2013/06/26/how-edward-snowden-snuck-through/
http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2013/06/nsa-networks-might-have-been-missing-anti-leak-technology/65708/
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-20/booz-allen-the-worlds-most-profitable-spy-organization
Spies Like Us
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Private contractors like Booz Allen now reportedly garner 70 percent
of the annual $80 billion intelligence budget and supply more than
half of the available manpower.
... snip ...
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-07/business/39803388_1_computer-giant-ibm-gerstner-jr-life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RJR_Nabisco
KKR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlberg_Kravis_Roberts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_V._Gerstner,_Jr.
after IBM, becomes Chairman of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_Group
which then does private equity buyout of ... guess who?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2013/07/weak-penalties-for-misbehaving-contractors.html
Snowden case not the first embarrassment for Booz Allen, or
D.C. contracting industry
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/snowden-case-not-the-first-embarassment-for-booz-allen--or-washingtons-burgeoning-contracting-industry/2013/07/08/30440b0a-d9b3-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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Insane Insider Threat Program in Context of Morally and Mentally Bankrupt US Intelligence System
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: Insane Insider Threat Program in Context of Morally and Mentally Bankrupt US Intelligence System
Date: 12 July 2013
Blog: Facebook
Insane Insider Threat Program in Context of Morally and Mentally
Bankrupt US Intelligence System
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2013/07/chuck-spinney-insane-insider-threat-program-in-context-of-morally-and-mentally-bankrupt-us-intelligence-system/
The operative word in this application of artificial intelligence
theory is "artificial" because a real intelligence appreciation, as
the American strategist John Boyd showed, resides in a decision
maker's Orientation. Boyd's theory of Orientation involves a balanced
interplay of an ever-evolving synthesis growing out of many-sided,
continuing analyses, which cut into a problem from many different
angles.
... snip ...
http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001439.html
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#69 The failure of cyber defence - the mindset is against it
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#76 The failure of cyber defence - the mindset is against it
https://web.archive.org/web/20011109072807/http://www.intel94.com/idf/spr2001/sessiondescription.asp?id=stp%2bs13
https://web.archive.org/web/20011004023230/http://www.hdcc.cs.cmu.edu/may01/index.html
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2013/07/weak-penalties-for-misbehaving-contractors.html
Snowden case not the first embarrassment for Booz Allen, or D.C. contracting industry
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/snowden-case-not-the-first-embarassment-for-booz-allen--or-washingtons-burgeoning-contracting-industry/2013/07/08/30440b0a-d9b3-11e2-a9f2-42ee3912ae0e_story.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/12/forget_snowden_what_have_we_learned_about_the_nsa_in_the_last_month/
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Has the US Lost Its Grand Strategic Mind?
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From: lynn@garlic.com
Subject: Has the US Lost Its Grand Strategic Mind?
Date: 12 July 2013
Blog: Facebook
Has the US Lost Its Grand Strategic Mind?
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2013/07/chuck-spinney-has-the-us-lost-its-grand-strategic-mind/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Wars_Manual
"War is Racket" written about the same time about the same events by
Marine general & 2-time Medal of Honor recipient ... US military
operating on behalf of wallstreet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
above references
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war
which mention some of Boyd's acolytes as well as Spinney's theme
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
Now this is member of congress and contemporary of Mahan ... has some
things to say about Mahan aligned with Roosevelt on US imperialism in
the period ... "Triumphant plutocracy; the story of American public
life from 1870 to 1920"
http://archive.org/details/triumphantpluto00pettrich
as well as Spinney's theme ... 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 ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#16 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#28 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#45 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#86 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#30 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#5 ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#92 ..
https://www.amazon.com/National-Insecurity-American-Militarism-ebook/dp/B00ATLNI04/
and "Prophets of War":
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
Steele's review of above:
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/01/review-prophets-of-war-lockheed-martin-and-the-making-of-the-military-industrial-complex/
references this ... Sprey interviews the author on CSPAN
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/01/journal-whats-wrong-with-american-defense/
personal experiences discussed here "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"
https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-none-ebook/dp/B001AFF266/
as well as "Extreme Prejudice"
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
http://www.realclearworld.com/blog/2013/07/americas-true-stake-in-egypt.html
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/2013/07/in-egypt-military-is-supreme.html
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What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
Newsgroups: comp.arch, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 11:43:07 -0400
Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
I'd like a flat tax with *NO* deductions or exemptions allowed. All
income from whatever source is taxed the same. Have maybe three or
four tax brackets so it's "progresive." Studies have shown you could
reduce the tax rates across the board and still bring in more money,
and it wouldn't cause the economic distortions the current system
does.
i've periodic mention economic conference from 2008 pushing "flat tax"
... independent of the direct merits of "flat tax". the claim was that
lobbying by special interest groups for loopholes is major contributor
to congress being considered the most corrupt institution on earth ...
all goes away with move to "flat tax". At the time, loopholes
accounted for tax code being over 65,000 pages (now over 72,000 pages)
and the cost of dealing with the complexity accounted for 3% of GDP
and non-optimal business decisions based on loopholes account for
another 3% of GDP ... going to flat tax would gain back 6% of GDP
which would more than offset the loss of any beneficial loopholes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
Apple Seen Using Loopholes to Avoid $9 Billion in Taxes
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-20/apple-s-offshore-entities-avoid-taxes-senate-probe-finds.html
Congress creates massive tax loopholes, shocked Apple uses them
http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2013/05/21/congress-creates-massive-tax-loopholes-slams-apple-for-using-them/
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-20/booz-allen-the-worlds-most-profitable-spy-organization
How Booz Allen Hamilton Swallowed Washington
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-23/visualizing-how-booz-allen-hamilton-swallowed-washington
Spies Like Us
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Private contractors like Booz Allen now reportedly garner 70 percent of
the annual $80 billion intelligence budget and supply more than half of
the available manpower.
... snip ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#20 Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#26 Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#41 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#54 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#61 Big Data Is Opening Doors, but Maybe Too Many
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#65 The Real Snowden Question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#76 The failure of cyber defence - the mindset is against it
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#13 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#39 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#88 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#14 Rare Apple I computer sells for $216,000 in London
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#74 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#20 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#20 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#80 A Close Look at the Perry Tax Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#4 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#14 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#70 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#87 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#69 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#80 'Big four' accountants 'use knowledge of Treasury to help rich avoid tax'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#81 Ireland feels the heat from Apple tax row
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#86 How Wall Street Defanged Dodd-Frank
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
Newsgroups: comp.arch, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 14:39:48 -0400
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
non-optimal business decisions based on loopholes account for another 3%
of GDP ... going to flat tax would gain back 6% of GDP which would more
than offset the loss of any beneficial loopholes.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#79 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#20 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#21 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#80 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#82 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#91 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#10 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#19 Another "migration" from the mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#74 Horrid thought about Politics, President Bush, and Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#22 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT Competitiveness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#66 what does xp do when system is copying
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#13 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#26 2007 Year in Review on Mainframes - Interesting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#73 Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#81 Education ranking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#2 Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#40 Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#50 fraying infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#86 Banks failing to manage IT risk - study
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#98 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#5 Republican accomplishments and Hoover
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#8 Taxcuts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#17 Michigan industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#20 What is the real basis for business mess we are facing today?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#55 Hexadecimal Kid - articles from Computerworld wanted
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#39 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#60 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#33 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#79 Idiotic take on Bush tax cuts expiring
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#59 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#69 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#75 origin of 'fields'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#44 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#18 Congressional Bickering
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#36 The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#59 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#68 Bernanke Hearings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#57 The Mortgage Crisis---Some Inside Views
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#67 The debt fallout: How Social Security went "cash negative" earlier than expected
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#42 Speed: Re: Soups
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#136 Gingrich urged yes vote on controversial Medicare bill
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#6 We are on the brink of a historic decision [referring to defence cuts]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#50 They're Trying to Block Military Cuts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#53 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#36 McCain calls for U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#58 Word Length
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#61 Zakaria: by itself, Buffett rule is good
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#68 'Gutting' Our Military
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#81 The Pentagon's New Defense Clandestine Service
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#88 Defense acquisitions are broken and no one cares
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#45 Fareed Zakaria
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#5 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#6 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#27 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#33 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#61 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#81 Should the IBM approach be given a chance to fix the health care system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#45 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/2012k.html#74 Unthinkable, Predictable Disasters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#79 Romney and Ryan's Phony Deficit-Reduction Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#85 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#33 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#0 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#30 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#36 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#41 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#56 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#94 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#70 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#3 What Makes a thread about the European debt crisis Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#4 What Makes a thread about the European debt crisis Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#51 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
Newsgroups: comp.arch, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 15:04:35 -0400
John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> writes:
For businesses, would you tax total revenue, with no deduction
for wages or expenses?
re:
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Plenty of good firms have gone bust as a result of this offshore
debt-loading, which the New York Times in 2009 described as "a Wall
Street version of 'Flip This House.'" 48 More than half of the
companies that defaulted on their debt that year were either
previously or currently owned by private equity firms.
... snip ...
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Subject: Re: What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
Newsgroups: comp.arch, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 15:21:30 -0400
re:
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https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#80 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#81 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
http://news.yahoo.com/insight-apple-controversy-lays-bare-complex-irish-tax-090728679.html
TAXED AT 0.004 PERCENT
Apple's ability to pay tax of just two percent of its $74 billion in
overseas income over the past three years hinged on an unusual loophole
in the Irish tax code that allowed it to channel profits into
Irish-incorporated subsidiaries that had no declared tax residency
anywhere in the world.
... snip ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#27 Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#28 What Makes bank regulation and insurance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#46 Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#95 Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#6 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#11 Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#13 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#69 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
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Subject: Re: Metcalfe's Law: How Ethernet Beat IBM and Changed the World
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 16:07:33 -0400
Ibmekon writes:
When I studied the technology it seemed to me that the major
advantages of Tokenring over Ethernet were nullified by the use of
ASIC chips in fast 100mb Ethernet hubs.
One issue it dealt with was workstation "runaway". Another was in
reducing collisions to drive up bandwidth effecive usage.
re:
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https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#70 Metcalfe's Law: How Ethernet Beat IBM and Changed the World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#72 Metcalfe's Law: How Ethernet Beat IBM and Changed the World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#46 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#25 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/2013d.html#58 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#76 IBM Spent A Million Dollars Renovating And Staffing Its Former CEO's Office
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#81 How Criticizing in Private Undermines Your Team - Harvard Business Review
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#40 The Mainframe is "Alive and Kicking"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#44 Why does IBM keep saying things like this:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#72 Minicomputer Pricing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#77 IBM going ahead with more U.S. job cuts today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#85 Before the PC: IBM invents virtualisation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#4 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#63 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#31 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#32 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#33 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#34 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#40 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#27 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
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Subject: Re: What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
Newsgroups: comp.arch, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 17:08:17 -0400
"jklam" <jkl@nlgrf.com> writes:
But it has massive downsides like transferring quite a bit of the income
tax paid by the top half to the bottom half that currently pays no net
federal income tax at all.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#79 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#80 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#81 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#82 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=203
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget
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Subject: Re: What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
Newsgroups: comp.arch, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 18:49:02 -0400
"jklam" <jkl@nlgrf.com> writes:
Sure, and the obvious way to do that is to pull the plug on the
bulk of the immense military budget, but that would inevitably
produce immense numbers of people with no job anymore and
would arguably have a dramatic effect on the economy too.
re:
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https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#81 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#82 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#68 NBC's website hacked with malware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#54 NBC's website hacked with malware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#56 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#20 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#32 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#43 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#50 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#51 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#53 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#5 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#75 What Makes a substance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#76 What Makes a substance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#74 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#36 CLECs, Barbara, and the Phone Geek
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#78 Has the US Lost Its Grand Strategic Mind?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
Newsgroups: comp.arch, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 18:58:16 -0400
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#79 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#80 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#81 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#82 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#85 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#28 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#86 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#38 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#49 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#59 The Madness of King George Revisited
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#89 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#5 Lessons Learned from the Iraq War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#51 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#53 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#56 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#64 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#68 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#78 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#83 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#53 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#92 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#10 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#41 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#64 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#21 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#78 Has the US Lost Its Grand Strategic Mind?
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What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:20:07 -0400
jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
ROTFLMAO.
DEC got tax breaks, too. So they built a manufacturing plant and hired
a lot of people. That was the goal of the tax breaks. keep the productive
people in Ireland rather than losing their home-grown brains and brawn.
re:
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https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#81 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#82 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#85 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#86 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
Newsgroups: comp.arch, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:26:49 -0400
jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
Not really. Accountants could go back to doing accounting jobs
rather than fiddling tax law jobs. And H&R block would stop
charging $350 to fill out a 1040EZ form.
re:
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https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#80 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#81 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#82 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#85 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
Newsgroups: comp.arch, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:14:18 -0400
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
note that there is a lot of fabrication by special interests that have
huge stake in preserving the current status quo .... manufacturing a
whole series of arguments about jobs, poor people, unfair taxes, etc ...
as obfuscation and misdirection ... the current operation is enormously
profitable to the special interests that don't want anything changed
... and, of course, the graft&corruption for congress selling the tax
loopholes is also extremely profitable.
in congress's case there are periodic references to it being Kabuki
theater ... nothing is really what it seems ... fabricated conflict
between the different parties both encourages the flow of money from
various supporters as well as contributes to nothing changing.
re:
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https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#81 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#82 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#85 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#86 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#87 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#88 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-of-Doubt-ebook/dp/B003RRXXO8/
https://www.amazon.com/Economists-Powerful-Convenient-Distorted-Economics-ebook/dp/B01B4X4KOS//
loc 72-74:
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/2011k.html#4 Geithner, Bernanke have little in arsenal to fight new crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#18 What Uncle Warren doesn't mention
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#39 Kabuki Theater 1603-1629
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#44 Kabuki Theater 1603-1629
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#54 Why stability trumps innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#67 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#68 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#0 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#2 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#5 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#14 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#52 Chinese researchers say early climate changes responsible for human crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#66 Civilization, doomed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#73 A question for the readership
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#86 Congress as Kabuki Theater
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#99 Stop SOPA! A Plea from the Inventors of the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#137 The High Cost of Failing Artificial Hips
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#24 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#33 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#22 You can't do the math without the words
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#16 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#36 McCain calls for U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#61 Why Republicans Aren't Mentioning the Real Cause of Rising Prices at the Gas Pump
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#58 Word Length
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#88 Developing a Disruptive Mindset
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#15 Born Fighting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#17 Let the IRS Do Your Taxes, Really
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/2012g.html#46 Why America Is Slouching Towards Third World Status
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#32 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#33 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#34 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#39 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#64 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#41 Lawmakers reworked financial portfolios after talks with Fed, Treasury officials
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/2012k.html#12 The Secret Consensus Among Economists
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#55 CALCULATORS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#60 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#66 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#32 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#53 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#30 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#35 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#20 The Big Fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#21 AIG may join bailout lawsuit against U.S. government
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#57 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#73 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#9 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#44 Adair Turner: A New Debt-Free Money Advocate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#50 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#16 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#66 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#62 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#87 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#54 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#1 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#2 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#7 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#24 What Makes a substance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#36 Fed proposes annual assessments for large financial companies
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
Newsgroups: comp.arch, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:32:48 -0400
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#79 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#82 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jul/14/us-tax-avoidance-google-amazon
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Subject: Re: What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
Newsgroups: comp.arch, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:05:44 -0400
Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> writes:
Are you actually reading what you're citing?
The 50th percentile, i.e. the median, rose from $45,325 in 1979 to a
mere $49,777 in 2009; that's an increase of just 9.8% over 30 years.
The 20th percentile rose from $19,274 in 1979 to $20,453 in 2009, a mere
6.1% increase.
OTOH, the 95th percentile's income rose 39.5% over the same period, so
of course _they_ think everything is going just fine.
1979-2009 productivity increase 80%, avg. hourly compensation increase
8%, avg. hourly wage 7%.
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/jobs-will-follow-a-strengthening-of-the-middle-class.html
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#15 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#65 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#7 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#15 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#77 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/25/income-growth-americans_n_2949309.html
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What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
Newsgroups: comp.arch, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:42:30 -0400
Is This The Chart Reflecting The True State Of The US Economy?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-16/chart-reflecting-true-state-us-economy
By now even five year-olds understand two simple things: i) the market
is no longer a discounting mechanism thanks to the Fed's 4+ year
experiment in manipulating equities in order to generate a "wealth
effect" and ii) virtually all economic indicators are distorted, as such
critical measures of economic "health" as GDP confuse credit creation by
the Fed with traditional private-sector credit creation (commercial bank
loan growth).
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https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#80 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#81 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#82 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#85 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#86 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#87 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#88 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#89 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#90 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#91 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
Newsgroups: comp.arch, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 20:41:33 -0400
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#91 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-16/guest-post-about-incomes-are-rising-claim
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/david-brooks-wonders-why-men-cant-find-jobs-comedy-ensues-20130716
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#14 Free $10 Million Loans For All! and Other Wall Street Notes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#65 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#2 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#44 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#50 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#86 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/10/income-inequality-america
Fix income inequality with $10 million loans for everyone!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fix-income-inequality-with-10-million-loans-for-everyone/2012/04/13/gIQATUQAFT_story.html
The Unequal State of America: A Reuters series
http://www.reuters.com/subjects/income-inequality
It's the Inequality, Stupid
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph
How clearly do we see the rising inequality in America? How do we feel
about it? Much depends on these answers.
http://fabiusmaximus.com/2012/09/27/liscio-income-inequality-research-polls43607/
Eight Key Charts About the Growing Income Inequality in the United
States
http://johnhively.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/eight-key-charts-about-the-growing-income-inequality-in-the-united-states/
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Subject: Re: What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
Newsgroups: comp.arch, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 10:20:19 -0400
Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> writes:
Why shouldn't unearned income be taxed as income?
Earned income is limited to what can be earned in 2000
hours of labour a year, unearned income is when income
goes exponential. (Losses in unearned income are linear
and earnings are a power function) there is a lot of incentive
to make a living that way.
there was some articles on how hedge funds lobbied congress to get their
income reclassified to unearned ... it is bizarre the difference in
rates between earned/unearned ... but also opportunities for graft &
corruption about the things that can get reclassified as unearned (as
periodically noted the whole issue of graft&corruption around the tax code
is significant factor in congress being considered the most corrupt
institution on earth).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#52 The SOB that helped IT jobs move to India is dead!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#23 auto industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#14 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#17 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#20 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#49 The Pankian Metaphor (redux)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#88 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#11 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#24 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#28 As Expected, Ford Falls From 2nd Place in U.S. Sales
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#39 competitiveness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#84 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#77 Tell me why the taxpayer should be saving GM and Chrysler (and Ford) managers & shareholders at this stage of the game?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#22 Is Pride going to decimate the auto Industry?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#63 Have you told your Congressman how to VOTE on the auto bailout?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#18 What next? from where would the Banks be hit?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#20 Five great technological revolutions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#57 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#20 What is the real basis for business mess we are facing today?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#2 China-US Insights on the Future of the Auto Industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#3 IBM interprets Lean development's Kaizen with new MCIF product
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#31 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#14 360 programs on a z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#47 z9 / z10 instruction speed(s)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#55 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#70 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#8 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#75 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#0 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#22 60 Minutes News Report:Unemployed for over 99 weeks!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#59 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#23 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#90 PDCA vs. OODA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#2 Car models and corporate culture: It's all lies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#35 Having left IBM, seem to be reminded that IBM is not the same IBM I had joined
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#34 Boyd's Reading List Revisited
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#35 The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#73 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#65 Soups
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#81 A Close Look at the Perry Tax Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#86 PDCA vs. OODA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#52 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#22 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
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#31 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#26 Why Can't America Catch UP?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#32 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#40 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#62 Why Is Finance So Big?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#54 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#78 Time to Think ... and to Listen
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#77 Vampire Squid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#88 Defense acquisitions are broken and no one cares
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#70 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#31 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
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/2012j.html#24 Why Asian companies struggle to manage global workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#28 Why Asian companies struggle to manage global workers
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#36 Race Against the Machine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#12 First Battle: Operation Starlite and the Beginning of the Blood Debt in Vietnam
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#61 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#1 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#79 As an IBM'er just like the Marines only a few good men and women make the cut,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#63 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
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