From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: End of vacuum tubes in computers? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:55:52 -0700Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> writes:
the above also mentions an item covered in the talks about britain having access to 100octane aviation fuel ... providing more power.
one of the random items in the talk ... was that britain and germany lost approx. the same number of figher planes during the period ... but britain only lost one pilot for every five planes lost while germany lost nearly every pilot ... aka surviving german pilots were captured ... while some large number of british pilots walked to bus stop and caught the bus back.
also some german fighters only had about 10mins of fuel over britain ... and british tactic was delaying operations ... so germans wouldn't have enough fuel to get back.
posts mentioning "battle of britain" series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#14 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#62 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#52 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#53 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#0 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#35 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#63 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#89 Your earliest dream?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#101 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#109 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM System/32, System/34 implementation technology? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 12:41:22 -0700hancock4 writes:
OS/360 and MVS had filesystem mapped to drive ... so had all the issues with managing large number of drives. single level store obfuscated all that treating all disk space as one large pool (but enormously complicating recovery from single drive failure).
MVS eventually gets SMS/DFSMS that automates a lot of the issues
managing multiple disks
http://2000clicks.com/links/Computers/IBMMainframeHistory/mvshist5.htm
DFSMS/MVS announced in May 1992, integrates and expands the storage and
program management functions previously available in MVS/DFP V3, DFHSM
and DFDSS. A new feature, Removable Media Manager, was also
added. DFSMSrmm allows tapes, both automated and manual libraries, to
have the full automated management support provided by DFSMS.
... snip ...
system/38 single drive failure recovery issues were so bad that it becomes early RAID adopter (as way of masking single drive failures and elminating excessive downtime during recovery).
... past refs S/38 RAID refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#47 "25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#72 Remembering the CDC 6600
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#44 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#33 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#67 Interesting presentation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#84 Hashing for DISTINCT or GROUP BY in SQL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#7 When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#14 IBM Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#14 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#91 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#71 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#15 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#29 Delay between idea and implementation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#33 DRAM is the new Bulk Core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#7 Something to Think About - Optimal PDS Blocking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#68 Salesmen--IBM and Coca Cola
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#76 assembler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#73 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#74 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#115 Mill Computing talk in Estonia on 12/10/2104
... past posts mentioning original RAID patent
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#4 Mainframers: Take back the light (spotlight, that is)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#47 Do any architectures use instruction count instead of timer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#29 cheaper low quality drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#13 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#47 "25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#15 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#33 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#84 Hashing for DISTINCT or GROUP BY in SQL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#14 IBM Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#34 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#29 Delay between idea and implementation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#80 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#33 DRAM is the new Bulk Core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#7 Something to Think About - Optimal PDS Blocking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#68 Salesmen--IBM and Coca Cola
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#76 assembler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#79 non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185 Terabytes on a tape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#73 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#115 Mill Computing talk in Estonia on 12/10/2104
trivia ... while at SJR and got to play disk engineering over in
bldg. 14&15, I had opportunity to work with the person that got the raid
patent
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Knowledge Center Outage May 3rd Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 30 Apr 2015 17:08:57 -0700Jerry.Whitteridge@SAFEWAY.COM (Jerry Whitteridge) writes:
and found an email from may1998 saying it was going away
HONE (hands-on network environemnt), some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
had started out after the 23jun1969 unbundling announcement (starting to
charge for application software, se services, etc), some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
with (virtual machine) CP67 (running on 360/67), to give branch SEs hands-on practice with operating systems. Previously SEs got sort of journeyman training as part of large group onsite in customer datacenter, after unbundling, nobody could figure out how not to charge customers for this SE time onsite at customer.
Science center very early did enhancements to CP67 that provided the simulation of the new 370 (before virtual memory instructions), so they could work with latest operating systems gen'ed for 370.
For CP67/CMS, the science center ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
csc/vm (&/or sjr/vm) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#cscvm
had also ported apl\360 to CMS for cms\apl. HONE then started offering apl-based sales&marketing support tools ... which soon came to dominate all HONE activity and the virtual guest operating system use disappeared ... and HONE clone systems would start sprouting up all over the world
HONE eventually migrated to VM370 from the custom science center
cp67/cms. This is old email from 40yrs ago today (30apr1975)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
where I've moved a bunch of enhancements from CP67 to VM370 and made it (csc/vm) available to internal datacenters ... including HONE ... which would run my enhanced custom operating systems for another decade (including after I moved to SJR and called in sjr/vm, I then started moving off doing mainframe work).
Not long after the above email, US HONE consolidated all its (US)
datacenters in Palo Alto. By the end of the 70s, the US HONE datacenter
was the largest single system image operation in the world ... several
large (POK) multiprocessor mainframes operating in loosely-coupled
operation with load balancing and workload fall-over (in case of failure
... effectively Peer-Coupled Shared Data architecture mentioned in
this recent post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#112 JES2 as primary with JES3 as a secondary
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata
but was not released to customers. Then in the early 80s, the US HONE complex was replicated first in Dallas and then a 3rd in Boulder ... with load balancing and fallover ... countermeasure to disaster scenarios (like earthquake in california) ... also not released to customers.
for other drift, the previous post reference to IMS hot-standby ... had a fall-over operational problem. IMS configuration would be large CEC (one or more shared-memory processor) with fall-over hot-standby. IMS could immediately fall-over but VTAM sessions were enormous problem ... large systems could have 30,000-60,000 terminals ... which could take VTAM one or more hrs to get backup and running. We actually did some work with a 37x5/NCP emulator that spoofed mainframe VTAM that sessions were being managed cross-domain ... but was actually done by outboard non-VTAM processing ... which could manage replicated shadow sessions to the hot-standby machine ... so IMS hot-standby fall-over would be nearly immediately. However, this met enormous amount of resistence from the communication group (for lots of reasons, no communication group hardware and SNA RUs were carried over real network with lots of feature/function that couldn't be done in SNA).
This sort of issue then in internet server environment where operations are connectionless ... in theory doesn't require long-term session maintenance overhead .... server workload is proportional to the workload ... not to the number of "clients" ... much easier to have replicated servers, load balancing and workload fall-over.
The browser HTTP people did "mess" up ... they did use (session) TCP (instead of UDP) to implement a connectionless protocol ... it would go to all the overhead of setting up a session to do a connectionless operation and then immediately tear it down. Besides all the (unecessary) processing overhead (for TCP session setup/shutdown), TCP protocol (chatter) has a minimum of seven packet exchange. This was initially noted as webserver load started to scale-up. Industry standard TCP had what was called "FINWAIT" (to handle session dangling packets after session was closed) list ... and ran the list linearly looking if incoming packet was part of recently closed session ... aka expectation had been FINWAIT list was empty or a few entries. Increasing HTTP webserver workload started to have thousands of entries on the FINWAIT list ... and FINWAIT processing would consume 95% of webserver processor.
We had been brought in as consultants to small client/server startup (after leaving IBM) that wanted to do payment transactions on their server, they had also invented this technology they called "SSL" they wanted to use; the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce". "SSL" HTTPS is even worse than HTTP ... it is HTTP with a bunch of extra startup protocol chatter (over and above the encryption overhead). We had control over several parts of the implementation and deployment ... but not that.
In the 80s, I had worked on high-performance protocol that did
reliable transaction in minimum 3-packet exchange (compared to seven
for TCP). Part of the implementation was piggy-backing a bunch of
option selection packaged with the initial packet (I was still at IBM
and communication group complained that I worked on non-SNA stuff)
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#xtphsp
Later, I proposed a high-performance, low-latency "SSL" that included
all the HTTPS additional stuff also piggy-backed with the initial packet
... enabling HTTPS transaction in minimum 3-packet exchange. However,
the people were enamored with TCP and lots of protocol chatter
back&forth. However, the recent GOOGLE high-performance protocol now has
some similarities (20yrs after the "fast" SSL-proposal, and nearly 30yrs
after the 3-packet high-speed protocol work)
https://developers.google.com/speed/spdy/
and
http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/02/google-spdy-http2
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 30 yr old email Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 14:17:44 -0700re:
HSDT was high-speed data transfer ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
we had been working with NSF & supercomputer centers (including ncar in boulder) on interconnecting the centers. originally we were suppose to get $20m ... but then congress cuts the budget and some other things happen befure NSF finally release an RFP (with most of the stuff that we had been doing in HSDT). However internal politics then prevents use from responding to the RFP. The director of NSF tries to help, including writing letter to company 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) with support from other agencies ... but that just makes internal politics worse (especially from the communication group and SNA forces).
The supercomputer interconnect morphs into the NSFNET backbone with
regional networks connecting to the nodes ... precursor to modern
internet. other old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
The references to SHARE (ibm mainframe user group) presentation on CMS
file system is related to the CMS page mapped filesystem that I had
originally done on cp67 and mentioned in the 40yr old email (40yrs
yesterday 30Apr1975)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
which i moved to vm370/cms and continued to support for internal
distribution as csc/vm and later sjr/vm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
other old email about migrating from cp67 to vm370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
I would comment that when I did the paged-mapped support, I avoided
all the things not to do that I observed in tss/360 as undergraduate in
the 60s ... and were carried over into future system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
the bad rep given single level store would taint anything related to
page-mapped filesystem and likely contributed to not releasing my
paged mapped support ... even though much of the other stuff was
released ... also mentioned in above post with 40yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#8 Why these original FORTRAN quirks
other old email about SHARE pitch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#email850503
single-level-store discussed recently in s/38 thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#105 IBM System/32, System/34 implementation technology?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#1 IBM System/32, System/34 implementation technology?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: "Trust in digital certificate ecosystem eroding" Date: 02 May 2015 Mailinglist: cryptographywe were brought in as consultants to a small client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their server, the startup had also invented this technology called "SSL" they wanted to use; the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce". Early on we started calling them "comfort" certificates ... not because they provided security ... but they provided users with a sense of comfort.
Browsers were being paid by CAs to include their certificate ... so
the CAs could sell certificates (paid for by merchants).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#sslcerts
we were tangentially involved in the cal. state breach notification
legislation having been brought in to help word smith the electronic
signature act.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
lots of the participants were heavily involved in privacy issues and had done detailed, indepth public surveys. The #1 issue was "identify theft", primarily the form of fraudulent financial transactions as a result of breaches ... about which there was little or nothing being done; it was hoped that the publicity from the breach notification would prompt corrective action. The issue is that normally security efforts are taken in self-protection, in breach scenario, the institutions aren't at risk, it is there customers.
In the congressional hearings into the pivotal role that the ratings agencies played in the economic mess ... it was pointed out that their business model was misaligned (and the rating agencies were motivated to do the wrong thing ... and regulation where business model is misaligned is enormously more difficult). The buyers benefit from the ratings ... but the sellers were the ones paying the rating agencies.
Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate
fraudulent mortgages ... but had limited market. In the late 90s we
were asked to look at improving the integrity of supporting documents
as a countermeasure.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#riskm
In the early part of the century, the sellers found that they could
pay the rating agencies for triple-A (when both the sellers and the
rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008
congressional testimony). Triple-A trumps documents and they could now
do no-down, no-documentation lair loans, pay for triple-A and sell to
customers ... including large institutional funds restricted to
dealing in "safe" investments (like large pension funds, claims caused
30% or more loss in pension funds contributing to trillions in pension
shortfall). As a result over $27T was done between 2001 & 2008
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
From the law of unintended consequences ... the lack of documentation leads to the TBTF having to form the large robo-signing mills to fabricate the (missing) documents.
If that wasn't enough, they then started doing securitized mortgages designed to fail, pay for triple-A, sell to their customers and then take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail ... creating enormous demand for dodgy loans.
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 7 years on from crisis, $150 billion in bank fines and penalties Date: 02 May 2015 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security7 years on from crisis, $150 billion in bank fines and penalties
Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages (but had limited market). In the late 90s, we had been asked to look at improving the integrity of supporting documents as a countermeasure.
However, the institutions found that they could pay the rating
agencies for triple-A ratings (when both the sellers and the rating
agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008 congressional
hearings). Triple-A ratings trump documentation and they could start
doing no-documentation, no-down, liar loans; with no documentation,
there is no longer any problem with documentation integrity). The
triple-A ratings opened up the market to funds that are restricted to
only dealing in "safe" investments (like large pension funds,
estimates that they lost avg. 30% of value in this period, and
accounts for claims they are currently trillions of dollars under
funded). Triple-A ratings largely responsible for doing over $27T
during the period:
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
Not satisfied with straight looting with the securitized mortgages, they started doing securitized designed to fail, paying for triple-A ratings, selling to their customers, and then taking out CDS gambling bets that they would fail (enormously increasing the demand for dodgy loans).
And from the law of unintended consequences the lack of documentation results in the TBTF having to set up large robo-signing mills to fabricate the documents needed for foreclosures.
The S&L crisis had 30,000 criminal referrals and 1000 criminal convictions, the recent economic mess was 70 times larger and no criminal referrals or convictions.
rhetoric in congress was that sarbanes-oxley would prevent future ENRONs, guaranteeing that executives & auditors would do jail time for fraudulent financial filings. Possibly because even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing anything, it started doing reports of fraudulent financial filings, even show an increase after SOX (and nobody doing jail time). Periodically there are references that statute of limitations has expired on some of the fraud ... that criminal convictions could still be obtained under SOX.
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Sarbanes-Oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
ENRON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
Financial reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The US Equity Bubble Depends On Corporate Buybacks; Here's The Proof Date: 02 May 2015 Blog: Google+re:
The US Equity Bubble Depends On Corporate Buybacks; Here's The Proof
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-02/us-equity-bubble-depends-corporate-buybacks-heres-proof
recent posts mentioning buybacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#36 IBM CEO Rometty gets bonus despite company's woes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#51 bloomberg article on ASG and Chpater 11
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#54 National Security and Double Government
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#58 Neocons Guided Petraeus on Afghan War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#80 Moody's Has a Cow, Slams GE's Masterful Financial Engineering
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Fast Track/TPP: The Death of National Sovereignty, State Sovereignty, Separation of Powers, and Democracy Date: 02 May 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Fast Track/TPP: The Death of National Sovereignty, State Sovereignty,
Separation of Powers, and Democracy
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/05/fast-tracktpp-death-national-sovereignty-state-sovereignty-separation-powers-democracy.html
recent posts mentioning TPP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#37 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamationmade30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#39 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#41 more tpp
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#43 more tpp
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#51 more tpp
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#88 Microsoft, IBM lobbying seen killing key anti-patent troll proposal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#76 Crowdsourcing Diplomacy
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 30 yr old email Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 09:38:05 -0700names obfuscated to protect the innocent
CP/88 was the program developed for xt/at 370 ... that accepted requests from modified vm370 to handle (disk, keyboard, screen, etc) i/o (on the PC side)
old email mentioning a74 announce
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#email880622
past post mentioning software changes for a74:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#56 ECPS:VM DISPx instructions
past posts in thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#22 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#24 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#27 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#34 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#58 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#68 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#3 30 yr old email
other past posts mentioning a74
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#55 Why not an IBM zSeries workstation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#19 Very CISC Instuctions (Was: why the machine word size ...)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#51 DARPA was: Short Watson Biography
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#4 IBM Mainframe at home
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#27 End of Moore's law and how it can influence job market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#40 IBM system 370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#15 IEFBR14 Problems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#7 Whatever happened to IBM's VM PC software?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#8 Whatever happened to IBM's VM PC software?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#10 Whatever happened to IBM's VM PC software?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#14 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#76 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#41 z/VM usability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#38 "True" story of the birth of the IBM PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#2 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#15 Processes' memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#36 Processes' memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#8 What was the historical price of a P/390?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#21 Mainframe Hall of Fame (MHOF)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#6 Other early NSFNET backbone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#27 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#64 JCL CROSS-REFERENCE Utilities (OT for Paul, Rick, and Shmuel)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#77 zEC12, and previous generations, "why?" type question - GPU computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#8 AMC proposes 1980s computer TV series Halt & Catch Fire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#18 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#30 model numbers; was re: World's worst programming environment?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#31 model numbers; was re: World's worst programming environment?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#8 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#26 Warnings for the U.S. military about innovation and the information age: The Pentagon looks like a minicomputer firm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#33 Warnings for the U.S. military about innovation and the information age: The Pentagon looks like a minicomputer firm
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: PROFS Date: 03 May 2015 Blog: FacebookFor the email client, PROFS picked up the source for a very early version of VMSG ... when the VMSG author offered them an enhanced version, they tried to get him fired (having taken credit for all the code). The whole thing quieted down after it was shown that every PROFS email in the world carried the VMSG author's initials in a non-displayed field. After that, he only distributed VMSG source to two other people. some old email mentioning VMSG
One of the other PROFS tales was after rumor that some top executives might be using email ... lots of middle management preempted annual internal 3270 terminal deliveries diverted to their desks. Those 3270s were notorious for not being used for other than logging on and bringing up the PROFS menu ... sitting there all day image burning into the screen (admin assistant would be handlling actual email). This was back in the days where it required a VP signoff to order 3270 terminal (we did a business case showing 3yr capital cost for 3270 terminal was less than business phone that was put on desks as matter of course).
other trivia, TYMSHARE provided their (CMS-based) online computer
conferencing system for free to SHARE (ibm mainframe user group)
starting in AUG1976 ... archives
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
some old email about providing vmshare files inside IBM (biggest
battle was with lawyers that were concerned customer information would
contaminate IBM employees)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmshare
Note internal SPM (superset of SMSG&IUCV combined) was originally done
for CP67 by the Pisa Scientific Center. This is old email reference to
porting to VM370 and being used internally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
in this old post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#8
the REXX author had done a multi-user spacewar game using SPM ... which worked both with users logged on to the same machine as well as running across the internal network. One of the early spacewar issues was people writing BOT players that could beat human players.
old (long-winded) post including discussion of the rise of SMSG and
IUCV instead of shipping the SPM superset
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#38
I got a 2741 (selectric computer terminal) at home for online access
in Mar1970 ... I had it for 7yrs when it was replaced with a 300baud
ascii terminal ... I still have 2741 "APL" typeball ... picture here:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#oldpicts
I ordered PC1 from employee plan when it was originally made available. However, the delivery time for employee orders was so long that by the time I got it ... the street price had dropped to less than the original employee price (picture also at above URL)
late 70s & early 80s, I was blamed for online computer conferencing on
the internal network (larger than arpanet/internet until sometime
middle 80s). Folklore is that when the executive committee was told
about online computer conferencing (and the internal network), 5of6
wanted to fire me. From IBMJARGON:
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.
...
one of the result of the taskforce(s) to investigate the phenomena was setting up officially sanctioned (moderated) conferences.
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
past posts mentioning multi-user spacewar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#10 5-player Spacewar?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#8 VM: checking some myths.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#26 Help needed on conversion from VM to OS390
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#72 OT: One for the historians - 360/91
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#34 Playing games in mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#20 Whatever happened to IBM's VM PC software?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#12 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#4 Fast action games on System/360+?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#22 Was CMS multi-tasking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#74 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#0 What is the protocal for GMT offset in SMTP (e-mail) header time-stamp?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#33 Was VM ever used as an exokernel?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#45 My first mainframe experience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#56 VAXen on the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#66 Wasn't instant messaging on IBM's VM/CMS in the early 1980s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#24 Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#38 Invention of Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#64 Typeface (font) and city identity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#7 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#68 Should you support or abandon the 3270 as a User Interface?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#77 Spacewar! on S/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#38 1969 networked word processor "Astrotype"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#48 Before the Internet: The golden age of online service
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#93 Costs of core
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 7 years on from crisis, $150 billion in bank fines and penalties Date: 04 May 2015 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityre:
president of AMEX is in competition to be the next CEO and wins; the looser leaves taking his protegee and goes to Baltimore, taking over what has been described as loan sharking business. They make some other acquisitions, eventually taking over Citibank in violation of Glass-Steagall. Greenspan gives them an exemption while they lobby congress for repeal of Glass-Steagall (enabling too big to fail and too big to jail). The protegee then leaves and becomes head of one of the other too big to fail. Since then there have been lots of cases of LIBOR manipulation, commodity manipulation, money laundering for terrorists and drug cartels, etc ... and nobody doing jailtime.
Jan2009 (ten years after being asked to look at improving the integrity of supporting documents in securitized mortgages), I was asked to HTMLize the Pecora Hearings (30s congressional hearings into crash of '29, resulting in criminal convictions and Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal x-refs and URLs between what happened then and what happened this time (references to new congress might have appetite to do something). I work on it for awhile and then get a call saying it wouldn't be needed after all (references to enormous piles of wallstreet money totally burying capital hill and other agencies).
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
glass-steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
LIBOR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: "Trust in digital certificate ecosystem eroding" Date: 04 May 2015 Mailinglist: cryptographyre:
Certification authorities tend to certify the information from authoritative agencies responsible for the information ... in the case of domain name ownership ... it is the domain name agencies. Domain Name Certification Authorities have had a catch-22 ... proposing various public key and digital signature changes to domain name registration for improving the trust and integrity in the information they are certifying (and countermeasure to various domain name registration exploits like domain name take-over). The registration of a public key at the same time as domain name registration ... then requires that all future communication arriving at the domain name authority is digitally signed ... and can be authenticated with the on-file public key (for that domain name).
The issue then for the CAs is they can require that an application for domain name digital certificate can also be required to be digitally signed ... and they can replace an error prone, complicated, and costly identification process with a much simpler, straight-forward and less expensive authentication process ... by retrieving the onfile public key for verification of the digital signature.
The result is not only improving the trust and integrity with the domain name registration ... but also improves the domain name CA process.
The catch-22 is that if the CA business can do real time retrievals of on-file public key for authentication ... then possibly others might also ... reducing the need for domain name digital certificates.
ssl certs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#sslcerts
CA ssl domain catch22
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#catch22
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: HONE Shutdown Date: 04 May 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
thread in ibm-main mailing list concerning IBM "Knowledge Center"
outage ... where somebody mentions "missing" HONE
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/22aodjmTeaM
with my long-winded HONE-related post ... also archived here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#2 Knowledge Center Outage May 3rd
past postings mentioning HONE (&/or APL)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
includes reference to 40yr old (30apr1975) email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
I was recently asked when HONE actually shutdown
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#93 HONE Shutdown
and then thread today in a.f.c. newsgroup also mentioning 30yr old
(1may1985) email
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.folklore.computers/K1MStfdDqN8
most recent also archived here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#3 30 yr old email
...
psuedo devices were created for PVM (passthru virtual machine) so that terminal emulation could be done over internal network and log on to remote machines (terminal emulation at the remote node simulated back to local terminal). Internally there was then various "gateways" to operations like RETAIN to allow terminal logon over the internal network.
The author of VMSG ... in the late 70s did CMS applications with a
HLLAPI-like language (before IBM/PC; PARASITE & STORY) that allowed
writing terminal emulation applications. Old post with PARASITE/STORY
description and examples
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#35
and example of terminal emulation (STORY) to automatically logon to
RETAIN and retrieve PUT Bucket
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#36
posts mentioning internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction Date: 04 May 2015 Blog: FacebookFully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
semi-related ... 9may at paine field
http://historicflight.org/hf/
and
http://historicflight.org/hf/collection/spitfire/
A month ago, all 8 (kindle) books were made available for free for a
day
https://www.amazon.com/Winston-S-Churchill-1939-1941-Biography-ebook/dp/B00VQJHKA2/
I've managed to complete 1st five books, and just finished chapter where Churchill becomes prime minister late on 10may1940 ... paine field toast at 4pm on the 9th will be the 10th in London.
The European Campaign: Its Origins and Conduct
https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/2011/pubs/the-european-campaign-its-origins-and-conduct/
talks about US army air corp focus on strategic bombing being able to make the big difference in the war. It mentions the (myopic) focus on building strategic long range heavy bombers and they effectively assumed that they would face no opposition in german air space ... not bothering to build any long range fighters, basically ignoring the experience from "battle of britain" when the british were able to mount defense. In 1943 strategic bombing of Germany, they basically had to relearn the lesson of the "battle of britain" for themselves before they would start building long range fighters for escort/defense.
also from the law of unintended consequences ... regarding John Foster Dulles being major force in rebuilding Germany economy & military industry ... the 1943 AAC strategic bombing was (also) faced with identifying targets ... AAC eventually acquired a large trove of documents that were in NYC giving location and detailed plans of german industry and military targets
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World
War,
https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Foster-Dulles-Allen-Secret-ebook/dp/B00BY5QX1K/
loc865-68:
In mid-1931 a consortium of American banks, eager to
safeguard their investments in Germany, persuaded the German
government to accept a loan of nearly $500 million to prevent
default. Foster was their agent. His ties to the German government
tightened after Hitler took power at the beginning of 1933 and
appointed Foster's old friend Hjalmar Schacht as minister of
economics.
loc873-79:
Sullivan & Cromwell floated the first American bonds issued
by the giant German steelmaker and arms manufacturer Krupp A.G.,
extended I.G. Farben's global reach, and fought successfully
to block Canada's effort to restrict the export of steel to
German arms makers.
loc905-7:
Foster was stunned by his brother's suggestion that Sullivan
& Cromwell quit Germany. Many of his clients with interests there,
including not just banks but corporations like Standard Oil and
General Electric, wished Sullivan & Cromwell to remain active
regardless of political conditions.
loc938-40:
At least one other senior partner at Sullivan & Cromwell,
Eustace Seligman, was equally disturbed. In October 1939, six weeks
after the Nazi invasion of Poland, he took the extraordinary step of
sending Foster a formal memorandum disavowing what his old friend was
saying about Nazism
... snip ...
on the other hand, in Oct1944, Roosevelt commissioned the Strategic
Bomber Survey (USSBS), in part because long range strategic heavy
bombers accounted for 1/3rd of ww2 spending ... which found that
strategic bombing contributed little to the war effort.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_survey
Veteran Still Battling for WWII Bomber Hot Stuff Recognition
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/05/05/veteran-still-battling-for-wwii-bomber-hot-stuff-recognition.html
from above:
When Jim Lux latches onto a cause it's for keeps. The Lost Creek
resident, Air Force veteran and retired IBM marketing rep has been
working for years to get the World War II heavy bomber Hot Stuff --
not the Memphis Belle, as is commonly assumed -- recognized as the
first such aircraft to successfully complete 25 missions during the
war.
... snip ...
more, unintended consequences, not only strategic bombing contributing
little to total war effort, but didn't work for tactical bombing, "The
European Campaign: Its Origins and Conduct" loc2574-77:
Two problems contributed to this ineffectiveness: First, the aircraft
used by the American 8th Air Force were designed for strategic
campaigns like the CBO and were built to operate effectively at high
altitudes. The famed B-17 had a service ceiling of 35,800 feet, and
the B-24 could operate at 28,000 feet. Despite all claims of that time
and since the war, at that height even the fabled Norden bomb-sight
was incapable in delivering precision bomb loads.
and then using strategic heavy bombers for low-level tatical
battlefield bombing loc2582-85:
The bomber preparation of Omaha Beach was a total failure, and German
defenses on Omaha Beach were intact as American troops came ashore. At
Utah Beach, the bombers were a little more effective because the IXth
Bomber Command was using B-26 medium bombers. Wisely, in preparation
for supporting the invasion, maintenance crews removed Norden
bombsights from the bombers and installed the more effective low-level
altitude sights.54
... snip ...
note that given the failure of strategic bombing ... they appeared to switch to napalm'ing cities ... much larger targets and harder to miss (some of this comes back in Desert Storm where there are refs that precision bombing results in taking out target using only 1% of the bombs needed in WW2)
American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity
https://www.amazon.com/American-Reckoning-Vietnam-National-Identity-ebook/dp/B00LFZ87LS/
loc1115-18:
In the final year of World War II, however, the United
States carried out the most devastating air attacks in history--the
firebombing of a handful of cities in Germany and sixty-seven in
Japan, all of it followed by the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. Robert McNamara, an aide to General Curtis LeMay, helped
plan and analyze the firebombing.
loc1118-20:
In the 2003 documentary The Fog of War, McNamara recalled
the firebombing of Tokyo on March 9, 1945: "In that single night, we
burned to death a hundred thousand Japanese civilians in Tokyo--men,
women, and children." After the war, General LeMay said to McNamara:
"If we'd lost the war we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals."
... snip ...
Note, after WW2, McNamara leaves the military and goes to Ford Motor, later in the 60s, he comes back as SECDEF. There is also web page about Laos was the most bombed place in the world ... showing time-lapsed about bombs dropped over the years.
recent posts references European Campaign &/or Dulles:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#26 channel islands, definitely not the location of LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#62 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#13 Keydriven bit permutations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#52 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#53 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#69 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#70 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#71 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#78 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#84 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#85 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#86 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#0 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#35 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#45 The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#51 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#54 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#60 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#61 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#62 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#64 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#70 God No, the U.S. Air Force Doesn't Need Another Curtis LeMay
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 3033 & 3081 question Date: 05 May 2015 Blog: FacebookDuring the Future System period (which was completely different than 370 and was going to completely replace it), 370 efforts were being shutdown (lack of 370 products during this period was credited with giving clone processor makers market foothold). When FS imploded there was mad rush to get products back into the 370 product pipelines and 303x & 3081 efforts were kicked off in parallel.
3033 started out mapping 168-3 logic to some warmed over FS chips that were 20% faster ... some tuning then got 3033 up to 1.5 times 168-3. For the 303x channel director they took the 158-3 integrated channels, aka it was 158-3 engine with the integrated channel microcode and w/o the 370 microcode. A 3032 was 168-3 with new covers and 303x channel directors for external channels. A 3031 was 158-3 engine with 370 microcode and w/o the integrated channel microcode and 2nd 158-3 engine with the integrated channel microcode and w/o the 370 microcode.
3081 was going to be multiprocessor only using other warmed over FS
technology ... lots more detail here
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
However ACP/TPF didn't have multiprocessor support and there was concern that the whole TPF market would move to clone vendors that were offering newer uniprocessor machines ... and so they eventually came out with 3083 ... which was 3081 with one of the processor removed. One of the issues was that the simplest was to keep 3081proc0 and remove 3081proc1 ... however 3081proc1 was in the middle of the box ... and simply removing it would have made the box dangersously top-heavy. Eventually they do some rewiring moving proc0 to the middle of the box (leaving the top of the box empty).
past FS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
I was involved in a 16-way 370 SMP effort and we con'ed the 3033
processor engineers into working on it in their spare time (a lot more
interesting than mapping 168-3 logic to faster chips). At first the
company thought it was really great until somebody told the head of
POK that it might be decades before the POK favorite son batch
operating system would have (effective) 16-way support. Then some of
us were invited to never visit POK again ... and the 3033 processor
engineers were instructed to stop being distracted. recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#46 Connecting memory to 370/145 with only 36 bits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#30 IBM Z13
Trivia: with the 3033 out-the-door, they start work on 3090 ... overlapped with the 3081 activity.
Note before coming out with 3083 ... they do some horrible unatural
things to VM/SP to improve TPF running in virtual machine on 3081. The
unnatural acts slightly improve TPF throughput in that environment
... but it results in 10-15% throughput degradation for nearly all
other VM/SP customers (running multiprocessor configurations).
recent 3083 post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#107 crash, restart, and all that, was Your earliest dream?
Note memo125 references the Clemson webpages on acs360 ... if you
follow it to the end of acs360 it has Amdahl quitting after IBM
management kills acs360 because it would advance state-of-the-art too
fast and they might loose control of the market ... it also has some
acs360 features that don't show up until over 20yrs later in es9000
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
No, with the 23jun1969 unbundling announcement ... it included having
to start charging for software ... but they managed to make the case
that kernel software should still be free.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
With Future System and the rise of clone processor vendors ... and the
aftermath of FS imploding ... not only was their a mad rush to get
products back into the 370 pipeline ... but also a decision to
transition to start charging for kernel software. The existing
software still remained free ... but newer software was packaged so it
could be charged for separately ... until they made transition to
charging for all kernel software. Next step in the 80s were the
OCO-wars. recent posts mentioning OCO-wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#84 a bit of hope? What was old is new again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#85 a bit of hope? What was old is new again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#19 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
Trivia: during FS I continued to work on 360/370 and even periodically
ridicule FS (which wasn't exactly career enhancing activity; in the
90s at executive interview when I was leaving, I was told that "they
could forgive you for being wrong ... but they were never going to
forgive you for being right"). A bunch of my 370 stuff was then picked
for inclusion in the (free) vm370 release 3 ... but a bunch of other
stuff was selected to be in resource manager and guinea pig for
starting to charge for kernel software (and I got to spend some amount
of time with lawyers and business people about kernel software
charging policies).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
Other trivia, I gave several presentations at BAYBUNCH user group
meetings on implementation of the ECPS microcode assists. After
BAYBUNCH drinking, the guys working on (unannounced) hypervisor would
ask me a lot of implementation questions. Old ECPS reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email800319
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#22
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Blogger Ben's Basically Full Of It Date: 05 May 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Blogger Ben's Basically Full Of It
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/blogger-bens-basically-full-of-it/
Geithner, Bernanke have little in arsenal to fight new crisis
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/geithner-bernanke-have-little-in-arsenal-to-fight-new-crisis/2011/08/12/gIQAFuFvFJ_story.html
and
WSJ Slams Bernanke's Rambling Blog Post: "Stop Blaming Everyone" For
Your Mistakes
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-03/wsj-slams-bernankes-rambling-blog-post-stop-blaming-everyone-your-mistakes
Note: Bernanke at one point says that he had expected that providing trillions in nearly free money to the too big to fail, they would then turn around and lend to mainstreet ... but they didn't and he had no way to force them to. However, supposedly Bernanke was selected because he was a Great Depression scholar where the FEDs did almost the same thing with exactly the same results (so there should have been no expectation that the too big to fail would behave in any other way)
posts mentioning fed chairmens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: SEC Commissioner Furious At Deutsche Bank's "Decade Of Lying, Cheating, And Stealing" Date: 05 May 2015 Blog: Google+re:
SEC Commissioner Furious At Deutsche Bank's "Decade Of Lying,
Cheating, And Stealing"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-05/sec-commissioner-furious-deutsche-banks-decade-lying-cheating-and-stealing
from above:
Even the SEC is shocked that the CFTC is an organization that caters
exclusively to keeping criminal bankers out of prison, rather than
getting them in it
...
Don't worry: former CFTC chief Gary Gensler will soon be US Treasury
Secretary - then it will be his job to make sure no criminal with a
net worth over a few million dollars ever has to face the US
"judicial" system.
posts mentioning too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 30 yr old email Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 06 May 2015 09:25:36 -0700from long ago and far away ....
vmshare was cms-based online computer conferencing that Tymshare
started offering for free to SHARE in Aug1976 ... archives
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
I would get monthly copies of vmshare (and later pcshare) files and make them available on internal machines and over the internal network. One of the biggest roadblocks was lawyers worried that customer information would contaminate IBM employees.
other old email mentioning vmshare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmshare
posts in thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#22 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#24 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#27 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#34 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#58 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#68 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#3 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#8 30 yr old email
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Can we design machines to automate ethics? Date: 06 May 2015 Blog: FacebookCan we design machines to automate ethics?
there is analogous discussion going on in crypto mailing list
regarding what is wrong with the current SSL/TLS Certificate Authority
infrastructure ... that being the business process is misaligned and
are incented to do the wrong thing.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#4 "Trust in digital certificate ecosystem eroding"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#11 "Trust in digital certificate ecosystem eroding"
disclaimer: long ago and far away we were brought in as consultants to
a small cient/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on
their server; they had also invented this technology they called "SSL"
they wanted to use; the result is now called "electronic
commerce". Part of what we were suppose to do involved analysis of the
business processes and security risks and make recommendations as to
implementation and deployment. Almost immediately 1) several of the
recommendations were ignored (that contribute to exploits that
continue to this day) and 2) we started referring to the SSL digital
certificates as "comfort certificates" ... to try and differentiate
that they provided comfort to the public (as opposed to security).
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#sslcerts
Related is the misaligned business interests of the rating agencies
and incentive to do the wrong thing. Securitized mortgages had been
used to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages during the S&L crisis but
they had limited market. In the late 90s we were asked to look at
improving the integrity of supporting documents
as countermeasure. However the start of the century, they found
that they could pay rating agencies for triple-A rating. Triple-A
rating trumps documentation and they found they could do
no-documentation, no-down, liar loans, pay for triple-A rating (when
both the sellers and the rating agencies knew they weren't worth
triple-A) and sell to their customers. The triple-A rating opens the
markets to funds that are restricted to only dealing in safe
investments (like large pension funds and some claims that it
contributes to 30% decline in those funds and trillions shortfall) and
major factor in doing over $27T between 2001 and 2008:
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
In Oct2008 congressional hearings into the pivotal role that the rating agencies played in the mess, there was testimony that the rating agencies business process had become misaligned in the early 70s ... the ratings are supposedly for the benefit of the buyers for level of trust in the instruments ... but the rating agency interested started changing to be aligned with the sellers (not the buyers) .. culminating in the economic disaster last decade. There was also testimony that it becomes enormously more difficult to regulate an industry with misaligned processes (and are incented to do the wrong thing) ... assuming there is even any interest in regulating.
If that wasn't enough, they started doing securitized mortgages designed to fail, buying triple-A ratings, selling to their customers and then taking out CDS gambling bets that they would fail (creating enormous demand for dodgy loans).
And then from the law of unintended consequences ... the no-documentation loans lead to the too big to fail setting up the large robo-signing mills to fabricate the missing documents.
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Where to Flatten the Officer Corps Date: 06 May 2015 Blog: FacebookWhere to Flatten the Officer Corps
In briefings Boyd would touch on the subject when he would talk about the US military needed 11% officers at entry to WW2 (growing to 20%) to maintain rigid top-down command and control. He would contrast that with Germany's 3% officers and professional trust ... highlighting Guderian's verbal orders only during the blitzkrieg.
He would claim that US corporate culture then was being contaminated with former military officers climbing corporate ladder ... (and increasing bureaucracies).
posts (& URLs) referencing Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
About the time I first sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM, we had our own example. IBM had 14 levels of management for approx. 450,000 employees at the time. IBM did a joint subsidiary (with comsat and aetna) that had 2,000 employees that was populated with lots of former IBMers ... and they recreated 14 levels of management (half the subsidiary was directors and above ... parts of organizations nearly vertical)
from earlier (by Chairman)
Management Briefing
Number 1-72: January 18,1972
ZZ04-1312
TO ALL IBM MANAGERS:
Once again, I'm writing you a Management Briefing on the subject of
bureaucracy. Evidently the earlier ones haven't worked. So this time
I'm taking a further step: I'm going directly to the individual
employees in the company. You will be reading this poster and my
comment on it in the forthcoming issue of THINK magazine. But I wanted
each one of you to have an advance copy because rooting out
bureaucracy rests principally with the way each of us runs his own
shop.
We've got to make a dent in this problem. By the time the THINK piece
comes out, I want the correction process already to have begun. And
that job starts with you and with me.
Vin Learson
... snip ...
..... this is ASCII reproduction of poster he created and had put up
all over the company (i'm not sure it reproduces in facebook)
+-----------------------------------------+ | "BUSINESS ECOLOGY" | | | | | | +---------------+ | | | BUREAUCRACY | | | +---------------+ | | | | is your worst enemy | | because it - | | | | POISONS the mind | | STIFLES the spirit | | POLLUTES self-motivation | | and finally | | KILLS the individual. | +-----------------------------------------+... snip ...
"I'M Going To Do All I Can to Fight This Problem . . ." by T. Vincent Learson, Chairman
"How To Stuff A Wild Duck", 1973, IBM poster
https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18618011/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Wall Street Bailouts Are Finally Over, Right? Date: 06 May 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Wall Street Bailouts Are Finally Over, Right?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wall-street-bailouts-finally-over-right-brian-mahany
Oct2008, the sec. of treasury asked for TARP funds to supposedly
purchase (off-book) toxic assets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
however, the end of 2008, just the four largest TBTF were still
carrying $5.2T (off-book)
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
out of the over $27T done between 2001 & 2008
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
The $700B allocated for TARP would have hardly make a dent in the problem, so it is not clear that there was ever any intention of using the TARP funds for that purpose ... they had to rely on the Federal Reserve to bailout the TBTF behind the scenes while the TARP funds were used for other purposes.
Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages ... but had limited market. In the late 90s we were asked to look at improving the integrity of supporting documents as a countermeasure.
In the early part of the century, the sellers found that they could pay the rating agencies for triple-A (when both the sellers and the rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008 congressional testimony). Triple-A trumps documents and they could now do no-down, no-documentation lair loans, pay for triple-A and sell to customers ... including large institutional funds restricted to dealing in "safe" investments (like large pension funds, claims caused 30% or more loss in pension funds contributing to trillions in pension shortfall).
From the law of unintended consequences ... the lack of documentation leads to the TBTF having to form the large robo-signing mills to fabricate the (missing) documents.
If that wasn't enough, they then started doing securitized mortgages designed to fail, pay for triple-A, sell to their customers and then take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail ... creating enormous demand for dodgy loans.
The reports were that the biggest holder of the CDS gambling bets (AIG) was negotiating to payoff at 50-60 cents on the dollar when the sec. of treasury steps in and says that is illegal and that they have to take TARP funds in order to payoff at 100 cents on the dollar. AIG is the biggest recipient of TARP funds and the biggest beneficiary of CDS gambling bet payoffs is the company previously headed by the sec. of treasury.
trivia: the rhetoric on the floor of congress regarding the bank modernization act (GLBA, now better known for repeal of Glass-Steagall, enabling too big to fail) was that the primary purpose of the act was "if you already had a bank charter, you got to keep it; if you don't already have a bank charter, you don't get one" ... the financial industry was worried about players moving in on banking with more efficient technology. role forward to the behind the scenes bailout by the federal reserve, new banking charters had to be given to some institutions, theoretically in violation of GLBA (including the one formally headed by the sec. of treasury and largest beneficiary of the TARP funds for AIG), in order to make them eligible for the Federal Reserve largess.
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail, too big
to manage)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
glass-steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Dot What? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 08:43:14 -0700Dot What? The surprisingly interesting history of the Internet domain system.
past posts mentioning internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
trivia: Postel used to let me do part of STD1 ... ref
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietf.htm
other trivia ... former coworker at science center:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks
more trivia ... author of domain names had worked at the
science center ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
when he was student at MIT ... various past refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#49 InfiniBand Group Sharply, Evenly Divided
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#24 New RFC 3514 addresses malicious network traffic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#25 New RFC 3514 addresses malicious network traffic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#36 Proposal for a new PKI model (At least I hope it's new)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#42 Longest Thread Ever
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#33 Even worse than UNIX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#71 Poll: oldest computer thing you still use
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#48 Half a Century of Crappy Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#45 Folklore references to CP67 at Lincoln Labs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#87 CLIs and GUIs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#13 Web Security hasn't moved since 1995
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#42 Online Bill Payment Website Hijacked - Users were redirected to a page serving malware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#39 The Internet's 100 Oldest Dot-Com Domains
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#75 Delays in DNS security baffling: Mockapetris
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#7 VTAM security issue
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#49 z/OS's basis for TCP/IP
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Commentary--time to build a more secure Internet Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 10:20:04 -0700hancock4 writes:
other scaling problems with ARPANET IMPs was that maintenance was under centralized control and they were all taken down simultaneously for maintenance ... so they could be all kept in sync.
As I've frequently pontificated ... the major internet exploit up
through the end of the 90s were C-language buffer related "mistakes"
(before automatic execution of scripting programs). I've compared that
to the original mainframe TCP/IP product implementation that was done in
vs/pascal ... and had none of the vulnerabilities that are epidemic in
c-language implementations.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#buffer
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Commentary--time to build a more secure Internet Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 16:17:42 -0700re:
long ago and far away we were brought in as consultants to small client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their server, they had also invented this technology they called "SSL" they wanted to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce"
we were looking at trying to translate payment transactions from a circuit based infrastructure where you could get SLA (service level agreement) contracts (with things like financial penalties for not meeting contracted service levels) to internet environment. the original cut had just been to to remap the message formats from circuit based infrastructure to packet based infrastructure that carried with it none of the normal service level processes. we were looking at formulating compensating procedures for internet operation to try and approximate circuit-based service guarantees.
part of this were multiple payment gateways that sat on the internet
with multiple connections into different places into the backbone
... for reliability and availability. We were originally planning on
advertising alternate routes (routed) ... but in the middle of this
period the internet transitioned to hierarchical routing ... in part
because of the large growth. what was left was getting redundant
connections into multiple points in internet backbone ... and using
multiple a-records to map all the different ip-addresses to the same
payment gateway pools. some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#gateway
previously, you could have had multiple different attachments to different places in the internet backbone ... and be able to advertize lots of diverse routings to the same ip-address. with the change to hierarchical routing, the payment gateway had to have lots of different ip-addresses so that the diverse paths could be correctly routed.
I had final authority on the e-commerce server to gateway and could mandate webserver support for multiple A-record support (try 1st ip-address in A-record list and if that didn't work continue trying other ip-addresses in the A-record list). However, I could only recommend on the browser to webserver support, I did detailed description of multiple A-record for the browser people and got back the answer it was too complicated, I then gave them example code from Tahoe/Reno 4.3 library ... they still said it was too complicated. Early major ecommerce server was a sporting goods company that would have TV advertisements during sunday professional football halftime. However, in that timeframe, ISPs had practice of having rolling outages during the day on Sundays when they did router maintenance (i.e. their server ISP connection at halftime could be down, and the browser wouldn't try alternative addresses). It took another year to get multiple A-record support in the browser
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Wall Street Bailouts Are Finally Over, Right? Date: 07 May 2015 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Securityre:
There have been claims that the statute of limitations has expired for some amount of the fraud ... but prosecution could still be done under Sarbanes-Oxley ... but it requires SEC desire to do something.
The rhetoric in congress regarding Sarbanes-Oxley was that it would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee that executives and auditors did jail time. However, possibly because even GAO didn't believe that SEC was doing anything, GAO started doing reports of public company fraudulent financial filings ... even showing increase after SOX was passed and went into effect (and nobody doing jail time).
As an aside, SOX also has provision for SEC to have done something about the rating agencies ... but little appeared to have been done their either.
S&L crisis had 30,000 criminal referrals and 1,000 criminal convictions. The economic mess was 70 times larger than the S&L crisis and there have been *NO* criminal referrals and *NO* criminal convictions.
Repeal of Glass-Steagall enabled too big to fail ... after too big to fail were repeatedly caught laundering money for drug cartels and terrorists ... the press started expanding to also referring to them as too big to prosecute and too big to jail. This has continued with LIBOR manipulation, commodity manipulation, instrumental in tax evasion for wealthy individuals and corporations ... and other fraudulent activity.
In the congressional Madoff hearings, they had the person testify that had tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about Madoff. One of his observations that tips turns up 13 times more fraud than audits and SEC didn't have a tip hotline, but had a 1-800 number for corporations to complain about audits. He was also asked if new regulations were needed. He commented that while new regulations might be needed, much more important was transparency and visibility (if regulatory agencies were captured and not doing anything, then possibly with transparency and visibility other entities might better see what has been going on).
sarbanes-oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
ENRON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
financial reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
glass-steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
LIBOR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
Madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: "Trust in digital certificate ecosystem eroding" Date: 07 May 2015 Mailinglist: cryptographyre:
Note the CA industry was floating a $20B/annum business plan on wallstreet for personal digital certificates ... paid for by the financial industry.
The CA industry had sold the wonders of digital signatures (along with requiring digital certificates) to the financial industry for "safe" financial transactions. Understanding liability, people in the financial industry had slightly modified the process to relying-party-only digital certificates. The result was that the financial industry would register an account owner's public key in their account record. The process then would have the financial industry transmit a copy of the account database to a CA, which would swizzle each account record bit pattern into a digital certificate and only charge $100/account. Some number of institutions spent tens of millions on pilots before it was raised to the board level the CA @account charge. One typical case of financial institution with 14M accounts, the board was told that CAs would only charge $1.4B for this great new facility ... resulting in the pilot (have already spent several tens of millions) being shutdown and the people responsible freed from their jobs.
I would also make the point that the relying-party-only
certificates were redundant and superfluous ... since the
financial institution (relying party) already had the public key on
file in the account record. I also made a point that a typical credit
card transaction payload size was 60-80 bytes. Appending digital
certificates to every transaction would add 6kbyte-12kbytes to every
transaction ... a factor of 100 times size bloat (for something that
was redundant and superfluous).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#bloat
Ignore the redundant & supefluous comments, a financial industry standards body took up a work item for "compressed" digital certificates ... looking for a factor of ten times reduction (so size bloat would only be ten times instead of 100 times). Part of their approach was to eliminate all fields that the relying party would already have. I was able to demonstrate that the relying party would already have all fields, so a digital certificate could be compressed to zero bytes. Then rather than working for the elimination of all digital certificates as redundant and superfluous ... work for the mandated appending of zero byte digital certificates on every transaction.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 30 yr old email Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 19:46:28 -0700
IBM later uses LOCUS as basis for aix/370 and aix/386 (aix/370 morphs
into aix/esa).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOCUS_%28operating_system%29
My RMN* proposal was packing as many 370 and RISC chips into racks
as possible. some past RMN* posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#17 mainframe and microprocessor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#19 zLinux OR Linux on zEnterprise Blade Extension???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#82 zEC12, and previous generations, "why?" type question - GPU computing
old refs about having to juggle cluster (RMN*) meetings and
meetings with director of NSF on supercomputer center interconnects
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#47
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#50
old NSF related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
poast posts mentioning LOCUS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#14 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#8 Free to good home: IBM RT UNIX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#9 IBM S/360 series operating systems history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#62 How did the monitor work under TOPS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#75 Status of Arpanet/Internet in 1976?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#9 The 50th Anniversary of the Legendary IBM 1401
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#61 (slightly OT - Linux) Did IBM bet on the wrong OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#33 Andrew developments in Rochester
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#44 Andrew developments in Rochester
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#85 SV: USS vs USS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#66 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#45 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#36 Should IBM allow the use of Hercules as z system emulator?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#34 Regarding Time Sharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#76 DataPower XML Appliance and RACF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#41 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#92 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#21 The PDP-8/e and thread drifT?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#68 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#12 The SDS 92, its place in history?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#13 The SDS 92, its place in history?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#17 The SDS 92, its place in history?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#102 ? How programs in c language drew graphics directly to screen in old days without X or Framebuffer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#56 The Road Not Taken: Knowing When to Keep Your Mouth Shut
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#114 Mill Computing talk in Estonia on 12/10/2104
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#50 z13 "new"(?) characteristics from RedBook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#66 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#70 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
posts in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#22 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#24 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#27 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#34 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#58 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#68 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#3 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#8 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#17 30 yr old email
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 23:09:42 -0700hancock4 writes:
I've mentioned tymshare providing online commercial dataprocessing
... as well as providing their cms-based online computer conferencing
to SHARE (ibm user group) for free as vmshare starting aug1976
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
had their tymnet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymnet
GTE acquired TeleNet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet
ARPANET had IMPS ... recently mentioned
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#22 Commentary--time to build a more secure Internet
They were all homogeneous private nets ... which then feeds into the ISO OSI specification.
The big switch-over from APRANET to internetworking on 1JAN1983 with
TCP/IP was that it had an "internetworking" layer ... that doesn't show
in these other imfrastructures ... in OSI model ... is a
(non-existent) layer sitting between the top of networking (level 3) and
bottom of transport (level 4).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
other discussion collected here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm
I've mentioned that the internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning into sometime late 85 or possibly early 86. I've mentioned periodically that I partially attribute this to the internal VNET code had a form of gateway in every node ... which didn't come along until internetworking on 1JAN1983.
In the 80s, I'm on the XTP technical advisery board and am involved in taking HSP to ANSI X3S3.3 for standardization. The work item is eventually rejected because ISO has requirement that restricts standards work to OSI conforming standards. XTP/HSP was rejected because
1) it supports internetworking layer, which doesn't exist in OSI 2) it went directly from transport layer to LAN/MAC interface, skipping transport-layer4/netowrk-layer3 interface 3) it went directly LAN/MAC interface which is approx. in the middle of OSI layer3 ... and doesn't existing in OSI
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#xtphsp
In 1992, AMEX spun off its financial dataprocessing outsorcing as FDC (in what was the largest IPO up until that time) ... FDC included soup-to-nuts credit card services for financial institutions (handling about half of all cards in the US), moneygram, and some number of other units. FDC then got into bidding for WU with First Financial ... but WU in the 90s wasn't doing well and FDC drops out. Later FDC merges with First Financial, acquiring WU anyway (but has to spin off moneygram). In the first part of the last decade, illegal workers sending their paychecks home explodes and by the middle of the decade, WU accounts for half FDC's bottom line. The numbers are so significant that at one point, the president of mexico offers to put the FDC executives in jail if they would visit mexico. FDC then lops off its corporate hdqtrs, spins off WU in an IPO, and KKR does a private-equity reverse-IPO, LBO of the remaining part of FDC (in what was the largest LBO up until that time, 15yrs after being the largest IPO).
Disclaimer, I'm doing stint as chief scientist attached to FDC corporate hdqtrs, and am collaterial damage when corporate hdqtrs is eliminated.
posts mentioning private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Bernie Sanders Proposes A Bill To Break Up The 'Too Big To Exist' Banks Date: 08 May 2015 Blog: FacebookBernie Sanders Proposes A Bill To Break Up The 'Too Big To Exist' Banks
Repeal of Glass-Steagall enabled too big to fail ... after too big to fail were repeatedly caught laundering money for drug cartels and terrorists ... the press started expanding to also referring to them as too big to prosecute and too big to jail. This has continued with LIBOR manipulation, commodity manipulation, instrumental in tax evasion for wealthy individuals and corporations ... and other fraudulent activity.
Born was chair of CFTC and proposed regulating gambling CDS, but was opposed by Levitt and Greenspan and she was quickly replaced.
Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages ... but had limited market. In the late 90s we were asked to look at improving the integrity of supporting documents as a countermeasure.
In the early part of the century, the sellers found that they could
pay the rating agencies for triple-A (when both the sellers and the
rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008
congressional testimony). Triple-A trumps documents and they could now
do no-down, no-documentation lair loans, pay for triple-A and sell to
customers ... including large institutional funds restricted to
dealing in "safe" investments (like large pension funds, claims caused
30% or more loss in pension funds contributing to trillions in pension
shortfall). As a result over $27T was done between 2001 & 2008
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
president of AMEX is in competition to be the next CEO and wins; the looser leaves taking his protegee and goes to Baltimore, taking over what has been described as loan sharking business. They make some other acquisitions, eventually taking over Citibank in violation of Glass-Steagall. Greenspan gives them an exemption while they lobby congress for repeal of Glass-Steagall (enabling too big to fail and too big to jail). The protegee then leaves and becomes head of one of the other too big to fail. Since then there have been lots of cases of LIBOR manipulation, commodity manipulation, money laundering for terrorists and drug cartels, etc ... and nobody doing jailtime.
Jan2009 (ten years after being asked to look at improving the integrity of supporting documents in securitized mortgages), I was asked to HTMLize the Pecora Hearings (30s congressional hearings into crash of '29, resulting in criminal convictions and Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal x-refs and URLs between what happened then and what happened this time (references to new congress might have appetite to do something). I work on it for awhile and then get a call saying it wouldn't be needed after all (references to enormous piles of wallstreet money totally burying capital hill and other agencies).
From the law of unintended consequences ... the lack of documentation leads to the TBTF having to form the large robo-signing mills to fabricate the (missing) documents.
If that wasn't enough, they then started doing securitized mortgages designed to fail, pay for triple-A, sell to their customers and then take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail ... creating enormous demand for dodgy loans.
#2 on times list of those responsible for the financial mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
was responsible for GLBA (that included repeal of Glass-Steagall). His wife replaces Born as chair of CFTC ... where she kept CDSs from being regulated until her husband got law passed preventing CDS regulation. She then resigns and joins ENRON board and the financial audit committee.
Oct2008, the sec. of treasury asked for TARP funds to supposedly
purchase (off-book) toxic assets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
however, the end of 2008, just the four largest TBTF were still
carrying $5.2T (off-book)
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
out of the over $27T done between 2001 & 2008
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
The $700B allocated for TARP would have hardly make a dent in the problem, so it is not clear that there was ever any intention of using the TARP funds for that purpose ... they had to rely on the Federal Reserve to bailout the TBTF behind the scenes while the TARP funds were used for other purposes.
The reports were that the biggest holder of the CDS gambling bets (AIG) was negotiating to payoff at 50-60 cents on the dollar when the sec. of treasury steps in and says that is illegal and that they have to take TARP funds in order to payoff at 100 cents on the dollar. AIG is the biggest recipient of TARP funds and the biggest beneficiary of CDS gambling bet payoffs is the company previously headed by the sec. of treasury.
A major factor enabling the economic mess was being able to pay for triple-A ratings (when both sellers and rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A) ... enabling the $27+T between 2001 & 2008. It effectively allowed wallstreet to turn home market into what it did with "Broker Loans" and the stockmarket in the crash of '29. The repeal of Glass-Steagall and enabling too big to fail wasn't the direct cause but it laid the ground work for "moral hazard" and too big to prosecute and too big to jail (giving them effectively license for repeated fraud of all kinds).
The testimony in the Oct2008 congressional hearings into the major role that the rating agencies played in the economic mess was that their business process started to become misaligned in the early 70s ... the ratings are for the benefit of the buyers ... but the change had switching to the sellers paying for the ratings and the rating agency interests were increasingly aligned with the sellers (not the buyers) ... create enormous incentive to do the wrong thing. The testimony was that regulation becomes enormously harder when the players are incented to do the wrong thing.
However, the period last decade when there was significant reduction in regulations and what regulations were left, the regulatory agencies had significant incentive to ignore ... "regulatory capture" ... including revolving doors ... the Financial-Regulatory-Congressional complex similar to the Miltiary-Industry-Congressional complex.
The rhetoric in congress leading up to Sarbanes-Oxley was that it would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee that executives and auditors did jailtime ... but it required that the SEC do something. Possibly because even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing anything they started doing reports of public company fraudulent financial filings, even showing increase after SOX goes into effect (and nobody doing jailtime). SOX also has provision for SEC to do something about the rating agencies ... but little or nothing was done their either.
In the Madoff congressional hearings, they had the person that had tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about Madoff (SEC hands were finally forced when Madoff turned himself in). They asked him if new regulations were needed, he replied that while new regulations might be needed, more important was transparency and visibility (given that existing regulations weren't being enforced).
this has reference (slightly predating HFT which has only made it
worse) to wallstreet has nothing to fear from SEC for illegal activity
http://nypost.com/2007/03/20/cramer-reveals-a-bit-too-much/
trivia: the rhetoric on the floor of congress regarding the bank modernization act (GLBA, courtesy of #2 on times list of those responsible for the economic mess, now better known for repeal of Glass-Steagall, enabling too big to fail) was that the primary purpose of the act was "if you already had a bank charter, you got to keep it; if you don't already have a bank charter, you don't get one" ... the financial industry was worried about new players moving in on banking with more efficient technology. role forward to the behind the scenes bailout by the federal reserve, new banking charters had to be given to some institutions, theoretically in violation of GLBA (including the one formally headed by the sec. of treasury and largest beneficiary of the TARP funds for AIG), in order to make them eligible for the Federal Reserve largess (FED had long fought battles in the courts attempting to prevent public release of what it was doing).
It was FED buying trillions in toxic assets (not TARP funds) as well as providing tens of trillions of ZIRP funds to too big to fail. Note that summer of 2008, some tens of billions in off-book toxic assets went for 22cents on the dollar. The $5.2T that the four largest too big to fail were still holding the end of 2008 would have been sufficient to have them declared bankrupt and forced to be liquidated. FED was slowly buying the toxic assets at 98cents on the dollar ... hiding the fact that the too big to fail were actually failed institutions.
Note that the breakup of Ma Bell didn't involve institutions that repeatedly found to be involved in fraudulent activity (including money laundering for terrorists and drug cartels). The too big to fail were also actually failed institutions .... the massive off-book liabilities would have ordinarily required that they be declared bankrupt and liquidated.
Note that during the S&L crisis there was 30,000 criminal referrals and 1,000 criminal convictions. The economic mess was 70 times larger than the S&L crisis and there has been no criminal referrals or convictions.
sarbanes-oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
ENRON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
financial reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
glass-steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
LIBOR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
Madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Mexico, was: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 08:26:01 -0700re:
fees were enormous ... upwards of 1/3rd the value of the transfer (when all was said and done) ... which also accounts for the enormous increase in WU revenue becoming half of FDC's bottom line.
other entities then get into the business ... perform the service charging significantly less than WU
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 11:02:52 -0700hancock4 writes:
the major one that has managed to hang on has been the bank networks ... claiming various kinds of unique services and security ... because the profits are so enormous there (also).
the card networks/VANs original grew up to connect issuers (aka institutions that issued cards to the public) and acquirers (aka the institutions that interface to merchants) ... as non-profit associations, some 30,000 institutions ("interchange").
combination of outsourcing and bank consolidation grew to the point where 90% of US transactions were processed in six datacenters that were directly interconnected and no longer were dependent on the card association (interchange) value-added networks (FDC was major player here handling about half of all credit cards in the US).
The card association had gone "for profit" and were basing fees on each transaction that travelled over their network. With transition to very few of transactions moving over their network ... they filed legal action ... that the financial institutions still had to pay the per transaction fee ... even when the transaction doesn't travel over their networks ("interchange").
In the late 90s and early part of the century, there was also some demographics switching from credit cards to debit cards. To offset the loss of revenue, the card associations did a number of things: 1) started offering "debit" cards, 2) allowed them to be used in "PIN" mode or in "signature" mode and 3) programmed point-of-sale terminals that the default for POS debit card mode was "signature".
The issue was that "signature" mode fees were around ten times the "PIN" mode fees ... and eventually resulting in the major retailers ... and then the retail store asscoation as class action legal action ... taking the card associations to court for billions of dollars.
This shows up in a different way around the start of century. There were several "safe" debit internet products created and were being pitched to major internet merchants (accounting for something like 70-80% of transactions at the time). Merchants had been indoctrinated for decades that major part of the ("interchange") fees were heavily prorated based on the associated fraud rates. They had expected that the "safe" products would result in an order of magnitude reduction in the ("interchange") fees that they were paying. However then they were told rather than an order of magnitude reduction in "interchange" fees ... they would effectively get a surchange on top of the highest fee they were already paying ... which is when the cognitive dissonance sets in and the whole program collapses.
past posts mentioning cognitive dissonance moment:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#15 Public Computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#75 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#79 PIN entry on digital signatures + extra token
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#4 GPG
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#5 GPG
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#29 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#32 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#51 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#60 Cobol hits 50 and keeps counting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#62 Solving password problems one at a time, Re: The password-reset paradox
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#64 What happened to X9.59?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#51 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#49 Hacker charges also an indictment on PCI, expert says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#62 August 7, 1944: today is the 65th Anniversary of the Birth of the Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#1 IT Story New Standard For EU-Compliant Electronic Signatures
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#17 Chip and PIN is Broken!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#21 Should the USA Implement EMV?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#54 Trust Facade
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#69 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#10 Wal-Mart to support smartcard payments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#26 Root Zone DNSSEC Deployment Technical Status Update
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#39 Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and maybe even an O)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#52 Payment Card Industry Pursues Profits Over Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#42 Looking for a real Fortran-66 compatible PC compiler (CP/M or DOSor Windows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#23 Fight Fraud with Device ID
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#48 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#58 Pipeline and Network Security: Protecting a Series of Tubes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#56 Does outsourcing cause data loss?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#38 ISBNs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#39 ISBNs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#15 Wicked Problems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#71 Password shortcomings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#32 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#32 Use another browser - Kaspersky follows suit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#10 Does the IBM System z Mainframe rely on Security by Obscurity or is it Secure by Design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#54 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#58 Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#8 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#47 Pirate Bay co-founder charged with hacking IBM mainframes, stealing money
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#52 U.S. agents 'got lucky' pursuing accused Russia master hackers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#60 Target Offers Free Credit Monitoring Following Security Breach
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#77 In a Cyber Breach, Who Pays, Banks or Retailers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#40 Missed Alarms and 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers: How Target Blew It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#17 Is it time for a revolution to replace TLS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#37 Special characters for Passwords
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#44 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#53 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#55 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#58 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#54 How do we take political considerations into account in the OODA-Loop?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Bernie Sanders Proposes A Bill To Break Up The 'Too Big To Exist' Banks Date: 08 May 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
Note start of the century there was a periodic industry publication that gave the avg of thousands of stats for the 20 largest regional banks compared to the avg. for the national banks. I did some amount of analysis before being able to show that the regional banks were somewhat more profitable than the national banks. The biggest motivation for the increasing size of banks seem to be top executive compensation proportional to the size of the institutions ... not really how well it was run ... making the subsequent exploding size with too big to fail ... not only too big to prosecute and too big to jail ... but also too big to manage.
more trivia ... about the same time I was asked to look at improving
the integrity of securitized mortgage supporting documents ... as
countermeasure to use of securitizing obfuscating fraud ... I was also
asked into NSCC (before merger with DTC that formed DTCC) to look at
improving the integrity of exchange trading transactions. I worked on
it for awhile and then got another call to come in. They said the work
was being suspended because a side-effect of the integrity work would
have greatly increased transparency and visibility ... which is
antithetical to wallstreet culture ... including something about
possibly 30% of transactions might need to be disavowed also requiring
plausible deniability. Decade later in the Madoff congressional
hearings, the person that had tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get
SEC to do something about Madoff, also raises the issue of
transparency and visibility. DTCC ref:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depository_Trust_%26_Clearing_Corporation
and regarding controversy over naked short selling ... see cramer reference upthread ... and wallstreet fraud has nothing to fear from SEC.
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Auditors as Whistleblowers Date: 08 May 2015 Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and SecurityAuditors as Whistleblowers
The rhetoric in congress as part of Sarbanes-Oxley was that it would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee the executives and auditors did jailtime. However possibly because even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing anything, it started doing reports of public company fraudulent financial filings, even showing increase after SOX went into effect (and nobody doing jail time).
The jokes around SOX was that it was actually a full employment gift for the audit industry ... and the only possible section that might show some results was the Whistleblowing section.
Later in the Madoff congressional hearings, they had the person that had tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about Madoff (SEC's hands were forced when Madoff turned himself in) ... who pointed out that tips turn up 13 times more fraud than audits .... and the SEC didn't have a tip hotline ... but did have a 1-800 line for companies to complain about audits.
sarbanes-oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
ENRON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
financial reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
Madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Remember 3277? Date: 09 May 2015 Blog: FacebookKeyboard hack change latency before key repeat and rate of repeat (not just cursor) .. you could set the repeat rate to faster than screen refresh ... it took some practice because it would continue on the screen for a time after you released the key. Also since it was half-duplex device, if you happened to hit a key when a write happened ... it would lock the keyboard ... and then you had to hit reset to unlock the keyboard. Somebody in YKT started building small fifo box, unplug the keyboard from the terminal, plug in the FIFO box and then plug in the keyboard into the FIFO box ... it would manage keystrokes that happened while the screen was being written. Finally made the 3277 a reasonable interactive terminal.
The replacement was 3274 controller and 3278 terminal ... they moved a lot of the electronics out of the terminal back into the controller (to reduce manufacturing cost), which eliminated the ability to do human factors hacks. We wrote complaint to the 3274/3278 product manager ... the eventual reply was that 3274/3278 wasn't for interactive computing, it was for "data entry" (aka electronic keypunch).
The move of electronics back into the controller ... significantly increased hardware latency from .086secs on the 3277 to .3-.5secs ... this was in the days of the studies show quarter second response improve human productivity. It could be done with 3272/3277 with .16 interactive system response (.25 seen by the human), but it was impossible with 3274/3278. The 3274/3278 protocol chatter on the coax was also significant (because of electronics back in the controller). This shows up later with IBM/PC emulation cards. A IBM/PC with 3277 emulation card had 3-4 times the upload/download throughput of a 3278 emulation card.
Trivia, YKT did a report that they had the best interactive systems in the company with .25 interactive system response (1/3rd second seen by human on 3277). I pointed out that I had several systems with .11 interactive system response (.2 seconds seen by human on 3277) ... on similar hardware running similar workload.
past posts mentioning 3272/3277
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#28 IBM S/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#63 Does the word "mainframe" still have a meaning?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000g.html#23 IBM's mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#30 3270 protocol
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#32 mainframe question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#17 3270 protocol
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#19 3270 protocol
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#74 Itanium2 power limited?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#77 IBM 327x terminals and controllers (was Re: Itanium2 power
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#2 IBM 327x terminals and controllers (was Re: Itanium2 power
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#6 IBM 327x terminals and controllers (was Re: Itanium2 power
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#43 IBM 3174
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#15 Mainframe Tape Drive Usage Metrics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#30 A Dark Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#36 When nerds were nerds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#0 were dumb terminals actually so dumb???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#11 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#12 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#15 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#28 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#9 terminals was: Caller ID "spoofing"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#58 Intel abandons USEnet news
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#42 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#34 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#39 sizeof() was: The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#7 IBM System/3 & 3277-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#10 IBM System/3 & 3277-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#40 Why isn't OMVS command integrated with ISPF?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#42 What do YOU call the # sign?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#9 3277 terminals and emulators
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#55 Graphics on a Text-Only Display
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#19 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#42 Book on Poughkeepsie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#40 My "Green Screen" IBMLink is still working
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#66 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#59 ISPF Counter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#60 ISPF Counter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#50 The 50th Anniversary of the Legendary IBM 1401
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#53 The 50th Anniversary of the Legendary IBM 1401
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#72 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#31 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#36 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#41 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#44 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#0 Entry point for a Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#80 3270 Emulator Software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#33 Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#57 So why doesn't the mainstream IT press seem to get the IBM mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#64 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#53 3270 Terminal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#94 coax (3174) throughput
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#33 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#41 My first mainframe experience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#43 My first mainframe experience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#20 3270 archaeology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#19 Deja Cloud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#21 Deja Cloud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#61 Migration off mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#84 Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#12 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#13 From Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#15 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#19 Writing article on telework/telecommuting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#30 Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#38 Invention of Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#74 HELP WITH PCOM - PASTE OPTION NOT WORKING CORRECTLY
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#3 printer history Languages influenced by PL/1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#15 cp67, vm370, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#37 Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#37 PDP-10 and Vax, was System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#61 Should you support or abandon the 3270 as a User Interface?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#1 3270 response & channel throughput
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#9 3270s & other stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#12 HCF [was Re: AMC proposes 1980s computer TV series "Halt &Catch Fire"]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#55 Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#66 Sequence Numbrs (was 32760?
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/2013k.html#19 spacewar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#89 spacewar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#25 Teletypewriter Model 33
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#65 Voyager 1 just left the solar system using less computing powerthan your iP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#5 Voyager 1 just left the solar system using less computing powerthan your iP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#25 GUI vs 3270 Re: MVS Quick Reference, was: LookAT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#41 System Response
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#89 Real Programmers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#23 Three Reasons the Mainframe is in Trouble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#26 Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#106 TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#74 SD?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#127 How Much Bandwidth do we have?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#38 [CM] IBM releases Z13 Mainframe - looks like Batman
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Tech Time Warp of the Week: The World's First Hard Drive, 1956 Date: 09 May 2015 Blog: FacebookTech Time Warp of the Week: The World's First Hard Drive, 1956
they let me wander around the plant site after transfer to SJR in the 70s. Bldgs 14&15 were doing round the clock, scheduled stand-alone testing on mainframes. They said they had once tried running MVS in attempt to do concurrent testing, but MVS had 15min MTBF in that environment. I offered to rewrite IOS to make it bullet proof and never fail ... after which they could do any amount of on-demand, concurrent testing. From the law of unintended consequences, when they would have a problem, I would get called to come in and diagnose my software problem ... but it usually was some hardware problem with test devices. They then started also calling me to sit in on conference calls with POK channel people. I asked where were their own people. They said that such things use to be handled by the senior engineers, but most of them had left for startups in silicon valley.
I wrote a SJR internal-only report on the rewrite ... all the things need to get to on-demand concurrent testing ... and happened to mention the MVS 15min MTBF. I was later told that the MVS group did their best to get me fired for that reference ... and I had probably made an enemy for life ... possibly one of the items behind being periodically told that I had no career or promotions in the company. From the annals of truth is stranger is fiction ... I took early out in summer 1992 ... bridge to 30yrs, paid to leave and never come back. The first day at home, I get a letter saying that I've been promoted.
posts mentioning getting to play disk engineer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Remember 3277? Date: 09 May 2015 Blog: Facebook3277ga was done by dept. a74 in pok, sort of inexpensive verrsion of the 60s 2250 graphics display (both mod1 & mod4 were about $100k, mod1 was direct mainframe channel attach, mod4 was 2250/1130). The same dept later did the a74 370 workstation ... old email with names obfuscated to protect the innocent.
list of vm370 updates I did for a74:
405 dmkcfi.updta74 405 dmkdsd.updta74 405 dmkium.updta74 1134 dmkmov.updta74 405 dmkser.updta74 2025 dmkpam.updta74 1377 dmkmch.updta74 3564 dmkcpi.updta74 1215 dmkpgv.updta74 162 dmkpgr.updta74...
Lincoln Labs had done a 2250 library for CMS (fortran). I took the library and modified the cp67/cms editor to use the 2250.
Boeing Huntsville had been sold a two-processor 360/67 for tss/360 ... but tss/360 never quite made production quality so customers tended to either run them as 360/65 with os/360 or ran then with cp67/cms (exept Univ. of Michigan that wrote their own virtual memory operating system MTS ... 3270 screen above, and Stanford did Orvyl). Boeing Huntsville was using the machines to drive 2250 graphic design applications with MVT ... however MVT had horrible storage management problem ... enormously aggravated for long running applications (especially storage fragmentation). Boeing Huntsville modified MVT release 13 to use 360/67 virtual memory hardware ... didn't do any paging ... but used the virtual memory hardware to reorganize for contiguous addresses as countermeasure to the significant MVT storage fragmentation problem (exacerbated by the long running 2250 design applications).
Note justification for making all 370s virtual memory was study
showing that typical 1mbyte real storage 370/165 ran with four MVT
regions ... but MVT applications tended to only use 1/4 of region
... because of the storage management problem. Adding virtual memory
to MVT would be able to get 16 regions on 1mbyte real storage 370/165
with little or no paging. reference:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
Very early in 360 days, Lincoln Labs had written LLMPS (lincoln labs mulitprogramming system) ... sort of multitasking, super DEBE ... and was contributed to the SHARE software library. Folklore is that Univ. of Mich. initially scaffolded MTS starting with using LLMPS as base.
As undergraduate in the 60s, the univ. hired me as fulltime employee to be responsible for IBM mainframe operating system and software (I did a lot of work improving OS/360 performance and then rewrote lots of CP67 & CMS for performance).
Boeing then hired me as fulltime employee for the summer (still undergraduate) to help setup Boeing Computer Serivces (consolidate Boeing dataprocessing in independent business unit to better monetize significant investment). This included doing CP67/CMS system in hdqtrs datacenter at Beoing field (which at the time only had a 360/30 for payroll). It was Renton datacenter that had $200m-$300m in IBM gear (I thot may have been the largest mainframe datacenter in the world, that summer they had 360/65s arriving faster than they could be installed, there were constant pieces of 360/65 being staged in the halls around the datacenter). Boeing was also replicating Renton at the new 747 plant at Paine field in Everett ... disaster scenario where Mt. Rainier heats up and the mudslide takes out the renton datacenter; estimate that being w/o renton datacenter for a week would cost Boeing more than the renton datacenter.
Also that summer the two-processor 360/67 from Boeing Huntsville was moved to Seattle. I finally graduate and decide to join IBM instead of returning to Boeing or staying at the univ.
Later at IBM I would sponsor John Boyd's briefings. One of his
references was he had severely criticized the sensors for trail in
vietnam ... and possibly as punishment he was put in command.of.spook
base ... which one of his biographies states was $2.5B windfall for
IBM (in 1970 dollars). Spook base reference gone 404, but lives on at
the wayback machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
posts & URLs referencing Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: End of vacuum tubes in computers? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 09:34:38 -0700re:
yesterday was the last in series of battle of britain ... there was much
larger crowd (than usual) ... in part because they had hurricane and
spitfire on the tarmac ... they then cleared the crowds and they taxied
out to the runway ... and flew around the field several times.
http://historicflight.org/hf/
possibly not the same magnitude of the 40 that were in the DC mall flyover on Friday.
they had about dozen "re-enactors" ... they are a character from the period that have researched in detail and impersonate ... including dress. They also had additional items on display ... including three oxygen face masks with the (heavy) microphone. There was no throat mics during the "battle of britain" period.
They said that all powerpoint presentations should be on the website, but I'm still looking for them.
a month ago, amazon made all 8 in this series available for free for a
day (kindle version) ... I started reading in order ... but managed to
only get through half of this before event yesterday
https://www.amazon.com/Winston-S-Churchill-1939-1941-Biography-ebook/dp/B00VQJHKA2/
The presentations and the book both talk about the deployment of radar along the coast for early warning of german attacks. They also cover intersecting radio beams used by germans for flight guidance and even automatic release of bombs ... the german's broadcast three directional radio beam ... "on course", "off to the left", and "off to the right". It then had three intersecting radio beams that signaled automatic preparing the bombs, opening the bomb doors, and releasing the bombs. Britain countermeasure was stronger radio signal to divert the planes off course.
Several times in the book, it has churchill checking on the progress of radar controlled anti-aircraft guns and searchlights ... as if they were deploying them during the battle of britain period ... but I asked about it and said they never really deployed into later in the war.
The book also talks about britain trying to hurry up the 50 obsolete destroyers (they eventually get), saying that they would not only install their new submarine detection sonar systems on the obsolete destroyers ... but also offered to install them on all US navy vessels. There was also frequent references (in the book) to enigma decrypts
past posts in thread about despite news releases to the contrary, the US
was really pretty bad at anti-submarine warfare.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#1 Lessons Not Learned: The U.S. Navy's Status Quo Culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#43 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#46 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#47 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#78 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#31 channel islands, definitely not the location of LEO
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: End of vacuum tubes in computers? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 10:47:18 -0700Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> writes:
Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour, 1939-1941 (Volume VI)
loc15664-67:
Against the bombers themselves, a series of beam bending
devices, known by the code name 'Headache', were in the process of
development. At the same time, radar sets were being developed both for
anti-aircraft gun directional finding (GL), code name 'George', and for
search-light control (SLC), code name 'Elsie'. Reading a report of
technical setbacks in the development of the search-light control system
known as 'Yagi'
loc16161-62:
All available radio capacity, Ismay explained, was taken up
with the 'urgent needs' of producing the anti-aircraft gun GL sets and
their offshoots, the PE proximity fuse, and the SLC searchlight control
sets.
loc16499-502:
At the same time, twenty-four sets of radar control for
searchlights had been installed in the Tangmere sector, and some of
these were already working. 2517 Although giving promising results,
these searchlight control sets, which were hand-made, were 'faulty, and
were apt to be affected by rain and damp weather'.
loc16510-12
The bending of the beams could protect smaller towns, or
those not readily identified from the air. London, so clearly identified
from the air by the Thames estuary, remained particularly vulnerable,
and during October the Germans bombed London without respite.
....
the presentation yesterday mentioned germany having some amount of trouble getting intelligence for bombing targets.
I've reference before that John Foster Dulles was major factor in rebuilding German's economy and military ... and then from the law of unintended consequences, in 1943 when Strategic Bombing Command was looking for detailed information on targets ... they "found" detailed locations and plans of german industry and military targets in NYC.
However, strategic bombing was pretty ineffective, roosevelt commissioned strategic bombing survey in 1944 because strategic bombing represented 1/3rd of WW2 spending ... which found strategic bombing having little or no effect. It seems not long afterwards Lemay started strategic fire bombing of cities ... possibly to try and demonstrate that strategic bombing was capable of something (and fire bombing of cities would be guaranteed to hit something).
recent posts mentioning strategic bombing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#13 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#52 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#69 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#77 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#79 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#82 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#83 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#0 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#13 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#28 Kill Chain: The Rise of High Tech Assassins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#61 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#62 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#64 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#70 God No, the U.S. Air Force Doesn't Need Another Curtis LeMay
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#76 Your earliest dream?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#89 Your earliest dream?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: End of vacuum tubes in computers? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 12:01:49 -0700Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> writes:
possibly more use later than during battle of britain which was spring, summer and fall of 40.
Presentation yesterday had it proceed in three phases ... with some overlap. Initial phase was bombing cargo/supply ships in the channel ... to try and cut off supplies to britain (somebody then raises the question why supply ships were coming into the channel ... at points along the route they could even be seen by germans from the french coast). The 2nd phase transitioned to bombing air fields ... some claims is if they had continued that they might have won. However, in raid near london, some bombs went astray into civilian area. Churchill got mad and ordered 50 bombers on night raid of berlin. Hitler made some comment to Goering about why Germany wasn't bombing their cities ... and Goering switch to bombing cities (some reference to Goering was one of Britain's major assets).
reference to Britain providing US secret details of radar in fall of
1940 ... with US producing radar for planes
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/NightFighterRadars/index.html
Radar in World War II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_in_World_War_II
this talks about "miniture" sets for airborne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_in_World_War_II#Airborne_Intercept
fitted into
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Beaufighter
which they don't even mention playing a factor in battle of britain (heavy and slow), it is all about hurricans & spitfires ... which are smaller, faster, single engine (references to space was so tight that it was very difficult to retrofit armor around the pilot compartment).
from above:
The first Beaufighter was delivered to RAF Tangmere for trials with the
Fighter Interception Unit on 12 August 1940, and the first operational
machines were received by 29 Squadron and 604 Squadron on 2
September.[11]
The Beaufighter came off the production line at almost exactly the same
time as the first British Airborne Interception (AI) night fighter radar
sets. With the four 20 mm cannon mounted in the lower fuselage, the nose
could accommodate the radar antennas, and the general spaciousness of
the fuselage enabled the AI equipment to be fitted easily. Even loaded
to 20,000 lb (9,100 kg) the aircraft was fast enough to catch German
bombers. By early 1941, it was an effective counter to Luftwaffe night
raids.
... snip ...
spitfire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire
hurricane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hurricane
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Remember 3277? Date: 10 May 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
1980 STL (now silicon valley lab) was bursting at the seams and they
were planning on moving 300 people from the IMS group to offsite bldg
(about 5mi away) with remote 3270 back into the STL datacenter. They
tried "remote 3270" (19.6kbaud lines) and found the human factors
intolerable (see uptread refs to quarter sec. response). I got con'ed
into doing channel extension support so they could have channel attach
3270 controllers at the remote bldg. Part of the support was
downloading channel programs to the channel emulator box at the
offsite bldg. Loopback tests show users can't tell difference between
real channel attach 3270 and channel extender channel attach 3270. The
vendor then wants to ship my support to customers ... but there is a
group in POK that have been playing with some serial stuff that
objects (gets corporate to not agree, supposedly concerned if it was
at customers, they would have harder time justify shipping their
stuff). channel extender posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
trivia: mainframe channel protocol design point was left over from the mid-60s and original 360 ... when electronic memory was expensive and scarce ... so there was lots of protocol chatter leveraging mainframe memory. The channels are also half-duplex ... so channels are "busy" while chatter goes on ... and slower controllers could significant exacerbate total channel busy for operations. 1980s was still in 370 period where large mainframes still limited to 16 channels ... and traditional configurations would spread/intermix 3270 controllers and 3830 disk controllers across all available channels. It turns out the slower processing of the 3270 controller drove channel busy interfering with disk throughput. The channel extender box (connected to the real 370 processor channels) was significantly faster than 3270 controllers ... and reduced the real channel busy operations for the same operations (with all the 3270 controller protocol chatter overhead handled by emulation box at the remote site). The reduced channel busy (for 3270 operations) then improved disk i/o throughput ... and resulted in 10-15% increased overall system throughput.
They finally do get to ship their stuff ten years later (1990) as
ESCON with ES/9000 when it is already obsolete. In 1988, I had been
asked to help LLNL standardize some stuff they have been using which
quickly becomes fibre channel standard (including downloading i/o
programs to the remote to minimize throughput bottlenecks with
significant protocol chatter latency). Then some POK channel engineers
become involved in FCS and define a horrible heavy weight protocol on
top of FCS that significantly cuts native throughput which is
eventually released as (mainframe) FICON. At one point, IBM releases
max/peak I/O throughput benchmark numbers for z196 that uses 104
FICONs to achieve 2M IOPS. About the same time there is a (native)
Fibre Channel announced for e5-2600 blade claiming over a million IOPS
(for single FCS, two such FCS have higher throughput than 104 FICON).
FICON posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
Regarding dealing with POK product test, not directly. before transfer
to SJR on west coast in 70s ... I was involved in project to do 370
16-processor. We involved the 3033 processor engineers to work on it
in their spare time (a lot more interesting than the remapping 168-3
logic to 20% faster chips). At first everybody thot it would be a
fantastic machine ... but then somebody told the head of POK that it
could be decades before the POK favorite son operating system had
effective 16-way support (POK finally ships 16-way machine in 2000),
head of POK then invites some of us to never visit POK again and tells
the 3033 processor engineers to never get distracted again. past SMP
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
In the recent disk thread (in this same group), I mention getting to
play disk engineer in bldgs 14 (disk engineering) and 15 (product
test) after transfer to SJR. Disk product test tends to get 2nd or 3rd
working engineering machine to start doing disk i/o regression tests
... and after I'm at SJR they get early 3033 engineering machine and
early 4341 engineering machine. I mention in disk thread that disk
engineers start asking to sit in on conference calls with POK channel
engineers. They eventually explain that this use to be handled by disk
senior engineers ... but so many have left to do startups in silicon
valley.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#34 Tech Time Warp of the Week: The World's First Hard Drive, 1956
posts mentioning geting to play disk engineer in bldgs 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
For even more topic drift ... old 4341 email from the period:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
I get involved in doing benchmarks for national lab on engineering 4341 in bldg. 15 ... they were looking at getting 70 4341s for a cluster supercomputer compute farm.
You could get a cluster of 4341s that were cheaper than 3033, had more compute power than 3033, had more i/o than 3033, used less floor space and environmental resources than 3033. Folklore is at one point the head of POK had the allocation of a critical 4341 manufacturing component cut in half (as means of reducing the threat). Later, large corporations (including IBM) started ordering hundreds of 4341s at a time for placing out in departmental areas ... sort of the leading edge of coming distributed computing tsunami (efficient cost effective computing could place one in every departmental area as well as aggregating in clusters in datacenters)
Other trivia: a decade later in 1990, I'd been working with LLNL on
standardization of fibre channel standard ... but also working with
them on using large clusters of RS6000s for supercomputer ... as well
as working with RDBMS vendors on use of large clusters of RS6000s for
commercial dataprocessing. The mainframe DB2 group complain if I'm
allowed to proceed, it will be at least 5yrs ahead of them. Old
reference to meeting in ellison's conference room Jan1992
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
then within a period of a few weeks, cluster scale-up is transferred,
announced as supercomputer (for scientific and numeric *ONLY*) and we
were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four
processors. other old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
cluster scale-up posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Remember 3277? Date: 11 May 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
... and being told couldn't work on anything with more than four processors ... was major motivation to take the early out summer 1992
You may have been paid for doing it ... playing disk engineer, channel engineer, cluster scale-up, supporting customers, providing highly enhanced operating systems for internal datacenters, etc ... were just my hobbies (not my job) and contributed to constantly being told that I had no promotions or career in the company. I was also blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal network in the late 70s and early 80s ... folklore is that when IBM's executive committee were informed of online computer conferencing (and the internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me (some conjecture that the reason that they didn't was so many internal datacenters were running my operating systems). As per the post in the disk thread, from the annals of truth is stranger than fiction ... first day at home on early out (paid to leave and never come back), i get a letter at home that I've been promoted.
Many parts of IBM became frozen in time because of the enormous success of 360/370 in the 60s and early 70s.
Late 80s, a senior disk engineer gets a talk scheduled at the annual,
worldwide internal communication group conference, supposedly on 3174
performance ... but opens the talk with statement that the
communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the
disk division. The issue was the communication group had stranglehold
on mainframe datacenters with strategic ownership of everything that
crossed the datacenter walls, they were violently fighting off
distributed computing and client/server ... trying to preserve their
(emulated) dumb terminal install base. The disk division was seeing
data fleeing datacenters to more distributed computing friendly
platforms with drop in disk sales. They came up with several solutions
to correct the problem (which were constantly vetoed by the
communication group).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
A couple yrs later the company goes into the red because of this stranglehold ... the end of 1992 the company is being reorganized in preparation for breakup into the 13 baby blues
a little distracted at moment, went for walk and coming back we saw somebody jump into car and speed off. when we got to the front door was splintered and open and lots of stuff is missing.
In any case, starting in the early 80s ... one of the things I got to
do was project I called HSDT ... that had T1 and higher-speed links
(folklore is possibly the one person on the executive committee that
didn't want to fire me ... was providing the funding). In the middle
80s, was contracting for some stuff on the other side of the
pacific. The friday before I was to go over to look at some of it,
somebody in raleigh sent out announcement for "high-speed" discussion
group with the following definitions: low-speed: 9.6kbit, medium
speed: 19.2kbit, high speed: 56kbit, very high speed: 1.5mbits. Next
monday on conference room wall on the other side of the pacific: low
speed <20mbits, medium speed 100mbits, high-speed 200-300mbits, very
high speed >600mbits.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
About that time, the communication group prepares a presentation for the executive committee that says customers don't want T1 before sometime in the 90s ... that 56kbit is just fine. They base it on the 37x5 fat pipe installs (multiple parallel 56kbit links running as single logical link). They show that customer installs of fat pipes drop to zero by 5 or 6 six parallel 56kbit links. Possibly because 37x5 doesn't support more than 56kbit links they didn't mention that telco tariffs for five 56kbit links is about the same as single T1 link. We did trivial survey and found 200 customers with T1 links ... but they would switch to non-IBM box to support full T1 ... rather than playing with communication group boxes.
Somewhat as part of HSDT ... was asked to work with the NSF
supercomputer centers and director of NSF ... and interconnect for the
centers. Initially was suppose to get $20M, but then congress cuts the
budget, some other things happen, and finally NSF releases and RFP
(based on what we had been working with them on and already had
running). Internal politics prevent us from bidding, the director of
NSF tries to help writing a letter to company 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO),
with support from other
agencies ... but that just makes the internal
politics worse (then NSF comments that what we already had running was
at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP responses) ... some old email ... some
old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
and posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
The communication group has a misinformation program going inside the company claiming that they could do NSF, TCP/IP T1 links ... somebody in the loop collects all the misinformation email going back and forth and forwards it to us. A heavily truncated and redacted version is including at the above URL.
As the regional networks connect into the nodes, it becomes the NSFNET backbone which is the precursor to the modern internet.
Other trivia ... original mainframe TCP/IP was done in vs/pascal
... but had several performance issues getting about 44kbyte/sec using
a 3090 processor. I did the software changes to support RFC1044 and in
some tuning tests at cray research between 4341 and cray machine
... got sustained (4341) channel speeds using only modest amount of
4341 processor (possibly 500 times improvement in bytes moved per
instruction executed)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 09:16:49 -0700Morten Reistad <first@lat.name> writes:
The IBM token-ring forces and SAA people came out with paper comparing 16mbit T/R compared to (10mbit) ethernet. However, based on their numbers, they appeared to use original 3mbit ethernet before "listen before transmit". The new IBM Almaden research bldg was heavily wired with CAT4 assuming T/R use ... but they found that 10mbit ethernet Ethernet had lower latency and higher aggregate throughput for the same wires & configuration.
Also the 32bit microchannel 16mbit T/R cards had much lower card throughput (than most 16bit AT-bus 10mbit ethernet cards) ... design point being dumb terminal emulation. 1988 ACM SIGCOMM paper showed for typical etherenet configuration, 30 stations with low level driver routine constantly transmitting minimum sized packets, aggregate ethernet lan throughput dropped to around 8mbit/sec.
The workstation group had previously done their own card 16bit AT-bus 4mbit token-ring card for the PC/RT. For the RS6000 with 32bit microchannel bus, corporate mandated they use standard PC microchannel cards, including the standard PC 32bit microchannel 16mbit T/R card ... but besides all the other issues, the standard microchannel 16mbit T/R card had lower per-card throughput than the PC/RT 16bit AT-bus 4mbit T/R card.
past posts mentioning dumb terminal emulation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
my wife was co-author of IBM response to a gov. large, secure "campus"
network request ... where she introduced "3-tier architecture" in the
response. We were then out making customer executive presentations on
3-tier architecture, ethernet, tcp/ip, etc ... and taking lots of arrows in the back
and heat from the token-ring, SAA, and SNA forces. misc. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#3tier
Late 80s, a senior disk engineer gets a talk scheduled at the annual, worldwide internal communication group conference, supposedly on 3174 performance ... but opens the talk with statement that the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division. The issue was the communication group had stranglehold on mainframe datacenters with strategic ownership of everything that crossed the datacenter walls, they were violently fighting off distributed computing and client/server ... trying to preserve their (emulated) dumb terminal install base. The disk division was seeing data fleeing datacenters to more distributed computing friendly platforms with drop in disk sales. They came up with several solutions to correct the problem (which were constantly vetoed by the communication group).
past posts mentioning 1988 SIGCOMM paper
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#39 Ethernet efficiency (was Re: Ms employees begging for food)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#13 packetloss bad for sliding window protocol ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#17 were dumb terminals actually so dumb???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#32 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#18 Voyager 1 just left the solar system using less computing powerthan your iP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#30 Voyager 1 just left the solar system using less computing powerthan your iP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#128 How Much Bandwidth do we have?
past posts mentioning PC/RT 4mbit T/R card:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#55 9-track tapes (by the armful)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#9 IBM MIcrochannel??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#40 ibm time machine in new york times?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#13 were dumb terminals actually so dumb???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#59 IBM 3614 and 3624 ATM's
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#12 practical applications for synchronous and asynchronous communication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#20 Ethernet, Aloha and CSMA/CD -
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#21 Ethernet, Aloha and CSMA/CD -
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#38 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#50 Channel Distances
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#35 Token-ring vs Ethernet - 10 years later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#36 Token-ring vs Ethernet - 10 years later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#81 IBM to the PCM market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#21 MAINFRAME Training with IBM Certification and JOB GUARANTEE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#37 What if the computers went back to the '70s too?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#64 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#15 SNA: conflicting opinions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#16 WSJ.com - IBM Puts Executive on Leave
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#15 Small Server Mob Advantage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#66 How long before Microsoft goes the way of DEC (and in part, IBM)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#67 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#23 What is the protocal for GMT offset in SMTP (e-mail) header
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#34 (slightly OT - Linux) Did IBM bet on the wrong OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#63 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#4 When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#57 So why doesn't the mainstream IT press seem to get the IBM mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#34 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#0 I actually miss working at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#64 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#41 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#43 My first mainframe experience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#60 Speed matters: how Ethernet went from 3Mbps to 100Gbps... and beyond
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#35 Soups
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#90 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#50 Hello?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#92 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#61 "25 Years of IBM's OS/2"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#37 Hard drives: A bit of progress
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#70 Under what circumstances would it be a mistake to migrate applications/workload off the mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#40 PC/mainframe browser(s) was Re: 360/20, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#9 3270s & other stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#32 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/2013i.html#4 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#5 Voyager 1 just left the solar system using less computing powerthan your iP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#19 Voyager 1 just left the solar system using less computing powerthan your iP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#79 wtf ? - was Catalog system for Unix et al
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#88 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#37 Could this be the wrongest prediction of all time?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#128 How Much Bandwidth do we have?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#34 30 yr old email
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Remember 3277? Date: 12 May 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
About the same time that the senior disk engineer made his talk
stating that the communication group was going to be responsible for
the demise of the disk division, my wife was co-author of IBM response
to a gov. large, secure "campus" network request ... where she
introduced "3-tier architecture" in the response. We were then out
making customer executive presentations on 3-tier architecture,
ethernet, tcp/ip, etc ... and taking lots of arrows and heat from the
token-ring, SAA, and SNA forces. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#3tier
you haven't seen it or weren't aware of it ... late dec.1992 time
magazine article discusses the breakup of ibm into the 13 baby blues
... behind paywall but lives free at the wayback machine (this is
still free as of this morning, but I've seen other TIME articles
disappear from wayback, like TIME periodically goes through getting
specific ones removed).
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
then the board brought in former president of AMEX to resurrect the company and reverse the breakup.
other triva: we had both left on bridge summer of 1992. We get a call late 92 or early 93 from somebody in the bowels of Armonk to ask us if we could work on one of the breakup issues. Different divisions have supplier contracts ... but other divisions have MOUs that allow them to utilize another division's contracts. With the breakup into 13 different companies, all those MOUs have to be turned into real contracts. We were asqked to go through all the MOU databases and index all the supplier contracts, which division has the contract and what other divisions are making use of the supplier contracts. Before we get started on the work, the new CEO is brought in and the breakup is reversed.
past posts mentioning the MOU work for the breakup
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#8 Microsoft culture must change, chairman says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#55 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#70 Last Gasp For Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#54 IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#68 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#90 Is IBM Suddenly Vulnerable To A Takeover?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#143 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#81 Ginni gets bonus, plus raise, and extra incentives
other past posts mentioning breakup into 13 "baby blues"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#60 Today in TIME Tech History: Piston-less Power (1959), IBM's Decline (1992), TiVo (1998) and More
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#61 What is holding back cloud adoption?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#63 Today in TIME Tech History: Piston-less Power (1959), IBM's Decline (1992), TiVo (1998) and More
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/2013c.html#53 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#11 relative mainframe speeds, was What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
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#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#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#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/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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#17 Should we, as an industry, STOP using the word Mainframe and find (and start using) something more up-to-date
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#28 Flag bloat
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#29 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#31 China mulls probe into IBM, Oracle, EMC after NSA hack claims - report
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#61 John Boyd's Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#49 The Original IBM Basic Beliefs for those that have never seen them
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#6 Voyager 1 just left the solar system using less computing powerthan your iP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#35 Why is the mainframe so expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#46 50,000 x86 operating system on single mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#66 NSA Revelations Kill IBM Hardware Sales In China
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#85 How do you feel about IBM passing off it's retirees to ObamaCare?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#17 z/OS is antique WAS: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#78 wtf ? - was Catalog system for Unix et al
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#16 IBM Shrinks - Analysts Hate It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#64 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#65 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#73 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#47 McCain: Send Petraeus back to Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#48 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#97 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#15 Quixotically on-topic post, still on topic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#81 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#83 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#93 Maximizing shareholder value: The Goal that changed corporate America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#101 Defense Department Needs to Act Like IBM to Save Itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#24 IBM sells Intel server business, company is doomed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#55 Maximizing shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#69 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#93 Curious observation: lack of a simple optimization in a C program
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#16 [OT ] Mainframe memories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#81 Eisenhower's military-industrial warning rings truer than ever
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#74 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#75 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#4 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#111 The Decline and Fall of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#37 Sale receipt--obligatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#58 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#93 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#50 IBM's Ginni Rometty Just Confessed To A Huge Failure -- It Might Be The Best Thing For The Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#61 Decimation of the valuation of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#131 Memo To WSJ: The CRomnibus Abomination Was Not "A Rare Bipartisan Success"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#140 IBM Continues To Crumble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#162 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#170 IBM Continues To Crumble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#0 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#51 bloomberg article on ASG and Chpater 11
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#15 Retirement Heist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#32 PEU Report: Obama's Intelligence Oversight Board a Corporate Lot
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#40 Remember 3277?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 11:02:13 -0700hancock4 writes:
I have pontificated a lot about
1) internal network was larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime late '85 or early '86
2) there was enormous 3270 install base, a big uptake of IBM/PCs by corporations that could get an IBM/PC (for already justified 3270), for about the same price, that provided the 3270 function as well some local computing ... all in single desktop footprint (and could use preexisting 3270 business justification).
big change over for apranet/internet was cutover on 1Jan1983 from IMP/HOST (about 100 IMPs & 255 hosts, compared to internal network rapdidly approachin 1000 hosts). One contribution was that the internal network technology had a flavor of gateway in every node (that allowed lots of autonomous, local control, w/o having to go thru corporate hdqtrs, effectively what was happening with IMPs).
The next transition was PCs (as PCs got more powerful) & Workstations started appearing as internet TCP/IP nodes. On the internal network (inside the corporation), the communication group was fighting off distributed computing and client/server (trying to preserve their emulated dumb terminal paradigm) ... forcing PCs (and workstation) to operate as (emulated) dumb terminals.
This also leads to the story I've periodically retold about the senior disk engineer getting a talk scheduled at the internal, world-wide, annual communication group conference, supposedly on 3174 performance ... but opend the talk with comment that the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division. The issue was that the communication group had corporate strategic responsibility for everything that crossed the datacenter walls ... and had stranglehold on mainframe datacenters. The disk division was seeing that stranglehold resulting in data fleeing datacenters for more distributed computing friendly platforms (the disk division had come up with a number of solutions to correct the problems, but they were veto'ed by the communication group). That stranglehold also played major role in corporation going into red a few years later.
some past dumb terminal posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
In the early 80s, I got a project I called HSDT doing T1 and faster
speed links ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
somewhat as a result I was being involved with NSF supercomputer centers
and the director of NSF in connecting those centers. Originally we were
suppose to get $20M, but then congress cuts the budget, some other
things happens and eventually there is a RFP is released (in large part
based on what we were already doing). Internal politics prevented us
from bidding on the RFP; the director of NSF tried to help by writing the company the letter (backed by some number of other agencies), but
that just made the internal politics worse (as did comments that what we
already had running was at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP responses). As
regional networks connects, it evolves into the NSFNET backbone,
precursor to the modern internet. some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
The proprietary & value added networks weren't open ... analogous to the early apranet/internet ... it was when open internetworking provided workaround to such limitations ... that connectivity started to explode.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 11:33:47 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
the communication group had also started an internal misinformation
campaign ... trying to claim that nsfnet backbone could run over
sna/vtam. Somebody in the loop, forwarded to me ... a heavily snipped
and redacted version previously posted:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 11:53:16 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
offline, some m'soft people made the comment that they had found that up until relatively recently, public & business were upgrading to the latest release that contained needed new feature function ... and the m'soft business model became dependent on the revenue from everybody constantly upgrading. However, there was now a tipping point ... 95% of the people now had 95% of the feature/functions that they needed/wanted/used ... potentially representing major drop in revenue. At that point, the business had to somewhat shift to analogy with the 60s car market where marketing tried to convince people to upgrade to the latest shiny new model ... just because it was the latest and shiny.
The other issue was I was still fighting battle with some of the browsers supporting multiple A-record (list of ip-addresses to try ... instead of just the only/first ... which might have some sort of outage/connectivity at the moment). M'soft had hired some long time tcp/ip people and I could verify with them that IE shipped with multipe A-record support.
misc. past posts referencing that MDC at mascone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#45 Computer programming was all about:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#22 Why did TCP become popular ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#34 Next generation processor architecture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#51 Specifying all biz rules in relational data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#50 DOS C prompt in "Vista"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#18 Oddly good news week: Google announces a Caps library for Javascript
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#26 realtors (and GM, too!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#43 The 50th Anniversary of the Legendary IBM 1401
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#36 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#9 The IETF is probably the single element in the global equation of technology competition than has resulted in the INTERNET
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#40 The Great Cyberheist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#49 Abhor, Retch, Ignite?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#50 IBM and the Computer Revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#58 IBM and the Computer Revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#15 Identifying Latest zOS Fixes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#57 Are Tablets a Passing Fad?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#18 John R. Opel, RIP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#59 The lost art of real programming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#81 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#93 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#68 Steve B sees what investors think
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#10 It's all K&R's fault
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#11 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#23 weird trivia
misc. posts posts mentioning multiple-A records:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#34 Mainframes & Unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#158 Uptime (was Re: Q: S/390 on PowerPC?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#164 Uptime (was Re: Q: S/390 on PowerPC?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002.html#23 Buffer overflow
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002.html#32 Buffer overflow
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#30 Round robin IS NOT load balancing (?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#8 Network separation using host w/multiple network interfaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#12 Network separation using host w/multiple network interfaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#24 Network separation using host w/multiple network interfaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#25 Network separation using host w/multiple network interfaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#55 What is the "name" of a system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005g.html#21 Protocol stack - disadvantages (revision)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#5 Wildcard SSL Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#24 is a computer like an airport?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#39 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#15 30 hop limit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#67 SSL vs. SSL over tcp/ip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#41 Windows: Monitor or CUSP?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#34 what does xp do when system is copying
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#67 what does xp do when system is copying
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#53 Why Is Less Than 99.9% Uptime Acceptable?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#60 Lack of bit field instructions in x86 instruction set because of patents ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#43 Status of Arpanet/Internet in 1976?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#76 towards https everywhere and strict transport security (was: Has there been a change in US banking regulations recently?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#24 A question about HTTPS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#9 The IETF is probably the single element in the global equation of technology competition than has resulted in the INTERNET
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#64 Maintenance at two in the afternoon? On a Friday?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#14 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#68 PC/mainframe browser(s) was Re: 360/20, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#61 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#29 SNA vs TCP/IP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#23 Commentary--time to build a more secure Internet
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Remember 3277? Date: 13 May 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
Iit works for me with chrome and firefox on linux ... both with & w/o javascript enabled.
try long way around ... try
https://web.archive.org
and enter the time URL
"http://www.time.com/.../mag.../article/0,9171,977353,00.html"
you should get calendar dates from 2008 thru 2013. The dates in 2013 seem to give you the 1st paragraph and then ask you to logon ... the earliest date in 2008 (up thru 2010) seems to be fine for the first page ... and then 2-4 go to summary ... but you get the jist of it from the first page.
facebook rewrites the url ... to try and figure it out, you are just
about forced to click ... but when you get there, time has redirected
it ... if you use the redirected URL ... you get the summary and
asking to log on. so lets see about
http://www.archive.org/
and then enter this (lets test to see if facebook leaves it alone or
rewrites it:
"www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html"
copy/paste the above into wayback machine ... it should give you capture dates going back to 2008 (click on the first capture date, wayback machine requires javascript to be enabled for select by capture date to work)
Note in the mid-80s, top executives were predicting IBM revenue would double (from something like $60M to $120M, mostly based on mainframe revenue). As part of that they had major internal construction activity to double mainframe product manufacturing capacity. You also saw a lot of "fast track" MBAs being rotated thru various executive positions ... apparently trying to increase the executive ranks to go along with increase in business (although various of the victim business units suffered from these "fast track" apprentice executives). However, the communication group stranglehold on datacenters was already starting to be felt ... and the reverse in the direction was starting to show (although pointing it out wasn't exactly career enhancing activity).
I use to sponsor John Boyd's briefings at IBM ... and still
participate in various Boyd related or themed meetings. A frequent
refrain is the military is always preparing for the last war. One of
the examples is that Boyd is credited with the battle plan for Desert
Storm ... the Army was preparing for a huge tank slug fest until last
tank standing (they spent the 70s&80s preparing for massive tank slug
fest with the soviets on the plains of Europe) ... when Boyd was
brought in, in part to not do a slug fest and war of attrition. posts
mentioning Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
I've frequently commented that there was an enormous 3270 install base and then 3270 emulation was major factor in fueling the early IBM/PC sales. However, the communication group then had enormous (emulated dumb terminal) install base that it was trying to protect ... and wasn't able to adapt and move on.
During the FS period in the early 70s (was going to complete replace
370 and totally different), 370 efforts were being killed off (dearth
of 370 products is credited with giving clone makers market
foothold). When FS imploded there was mad rush to get products back
into the pipeline ... 303x & 3081 kicked off in parallel (3031 was 158
with new covers, 3032 was 168 with new covers, 3033 was 168 design
mapped to 20% faster chips). When 3033 out the door, the 3033
engineers immediately start on 3090 (overlapped with 3081). posts
mentioning FS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
The foreign auto import quotas were supposedly to minimize competition and give US makers enormous profits to completely remake themselves ... however they didn't, just pocketed the money and continued business as usual. In the early 80s there was call for 100% unearned profit tax on the industry.
In 1990, the industry had the C4 taskforce ... to look (finally?) at completely remake themselves. Because they planned on making heavy use of technology, several technology vendors were asked to send members to participate. In the meetings they could accurately describe competition and what the US industry needed to do to respond. One of the issues was that they took 7-8yrs to come out with new model ... and tended to run two efforts in parallel offset 3-4 years ... so they came out with something new every couple years (with cosmetic changes in between). The foreign competition had cut that process time in half and were in the process of cutting it in half again (heading for less than year for being able to do complete change if needed for market/technology). Offline at the meetings, I commented to the POK mainframe brethren that how could they expect to contribute since they had many of the same problems.
Note that recent auto bailouts show that they still weren't able to
change. posts mentioning C4 taskforce
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#auto.c4.taskforce
The management people at GM that showed up ... understood all the issues (and results were presented to the top executives) ... it was something like the communication group and protecting their large emulated dumb terminal install base ... there were lots of parties that had vested interest in the existing status quo ... and were looking to preserve it for as long as possible.
With regard to desert storm ... there are couple writeups on tank battles involving a couple hundred allied tanks with no casualties ... referring to how much superior the allies tank combat was. However, in the GAO report on the effectiveness of the desert storm air campaign (before the ground war started), there were several footnotes that the Iraqis were walking away from their tanks because they were sitting ducks (mostly A10s & 30mm DU shells, also most cost effective, million 30mm DU shells @$13.) ... in the subsequent heroic tank battles they fail to mention whether the Iraqi tanks had anybody home.
Another example is sometime in the 80s or at least 90s, major manufactures (not just auto industry) started redoing their books and moving profit from the manufacturing to financial services ... nearly all the auto profit came from the loan on the car, the building of a car was made to look close to break even. The issue was building a car had some amount of labor costs while financial was almost labor free, almost all computerized. Sometime in the early part of the century, the CFO at one of the US automakers was about to retire ... and arranged to sell the financial arm (where most of the profit was booked) ... because he would get a big bonus for the (one time revenue) sale.
The most recent gimmick goes one better. US equipment makers used to
sell & ship directly to US distributors. The change has US equipment
makers still shipping directly to US distributors ... but the sale
goes thru a (subsidiary) reseller at mail drop in Luxembourg which
then sells to the US distributor. The sale to the subsidiary in
Luxembourg is close to cost with the markup happening between the
Luxembourg reseller and the US distributor (and they've cut special
deal with Luxembourg for near zero tax rate). This has a lot more on
the Luxembourg deals:
http://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks
These deals started out as negotiating gimmick with labor but has expanded to include taxes.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 14:03:22 -0700--text follows this line-- hancock4 writes:
just before communication group was fabricating misinformation for internal corporate consumption that it could do t1, tcp/ip, nsfnet backbone, etc ... it was did an analysis for the executive committee that customers wouldn't need/want T1 until sometime into the 90s.
In HSDT (supporting T1 and faster links)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
we were having some equpment built on the other side of the pacific.
Friday before I was to take a trip over to look at it ... somebody in
the communication group distributed an announcement for new online
"high-speed" discussion group with the following definitions:
low-speed: 9.6kbit
medium speed: 19.2kbit,
high speed: 56kbit,
very high speed: 1.5mbits.
Next monday on conference room wall on the other side of the pacific:
low speed: <20mbits,
medium speed: 100mbits,
high-speed: 200-300mbits,
very high speed: >600mbits.
The problem with communication group was their main product 37x5 boxes
didn't have T1 support, it only went up to 56kbit links. Their analysis
involved customer use of 37x5 "fat pipes" ... supporting multiple,
parallel 56kbit links as single logical link. By 5 or 6 links, customer
use had dropped to zero. What they didn't know or bother to say was that
telco tariff for T1 was around the same as five 56kbit links. We did
trivial customer survey finding 200 customers with T1 links, which they
were using with non-IBM boxes (aka, customers needing more than
equivalent of 4-5 56kbit/sec capacity, would jump direclty to full T1
but couldn't be supported with IBM box; which is why they didn't "see"
more than 5-link "fat pipes").
As stop-gap, The communication group eventually comes out with 3737 for supporting T1 links ... had bunch of 68k processors and loads of memory. It simulated local channel-to-channel connection to the local host, immediatly doing ACK (as if the RU had already arrived at the remote end). The issue was that the intense host SNA/VTAM protocol chatter had lots of latency ... and had very low effective throughput over terrestrial T1 connections. The 3737 would spoof the local SNA/VTAM host and then use much more efficient protocol to talk to 3737 at the more end (which would again spoof a CTCA connection to remote VTAM/SNA host). However, all the spoofing took significant processing and even with multiple 68Ks had effective peak aggregate throughput of 2mbits/sec. A full-duplex T1 has aggregate 3mbits/sec capacity, and an EU full-duplex T1 has aggregate 4mbits/sec capacity.
old email discussing 3737:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#email880130
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#email880606
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#email881005
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 08:28:03 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
legal actions; 23jun69 unbundling announcement ... charging for
(application) software, SE services, etc ... but they managed to make
the case that they could still make kernel software available for free
... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
This resulted in problem for SE training which use to be sort of
apprentice as part of large group onsite at customer's datacenter ...
they couldn't figure out how to *NOT* charge for those SEs in-training.
This gave rise to the (virtual machine) CP67-based HONE datacenters
... giving SEs in branch offices online "Hands On Network Environment"
for practicing with "guest" operating systems (in virtual machines).
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
The science center had also ported apl\360 to cp67/cms as cms\apl. HONE
group started doing APL-based sales&marketing support tools made
available on HONE ... which came to dominate all activity (and the guest
operating system practice dwindled away). Some science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
Then Future System effort in the early 70s was going to completely
replace 360/370 (and totally different) ... and internal politics were
killing off 370 effort. The sparcity of 370 products during this period
is credited with giving clone processors a market foothold. Then when FS
imploded ... there was mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 stuff
back into product pipelines. some FS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
After FS along with the rise of clone processors, the decision was changed to start charging for kernel software. Starting with transition where new software was packaged separately for pricing as addons to free kernel software.
During the FS period I continued to work on 360/370 stuff (and even
periodically ridiculed the FS activity which wasn't exactly a career
enhancing activity) ... some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
the FS implosion mad rush contributed to decision to release some of my
stuff as part of the next 370 release. Other parts of it was selected
for packaging as separately priced kernel add-on ... initial guinea pig
for pricing ... and I got to spend some amount of time with the lawyers
and business people on kernel pricing policy. It was released as
"resource manager" ... some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
Eventually by the early 80s, they completed the transition and was charging for all kernel software ... then was the transition to "Object Code Only" ... no longer making the source available ... and what customers referred to the OCO-wars ... trying to convince IBM to continue to make source available. This was especially traumatic for (virtual machine) VM370/CMS customers since there was a long tradition of not only shipping source, but also providing all maintenance/changes in source form (dating back to cp67/cms days).
past posts mentioning OCO-wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#57 IPCS Standard Print Service
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#34 Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#15 Data Areas Manuals to be dropped
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#15 Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#6 Open z/Architecture or Not
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#8 Open z/Architecture or Not
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#42 VM/370 Release 6 Waterloo tape (CIA MODS)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#72 Linux versioning file system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#0 Timeline: The evolution of online communities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#48 Timeline: 40 Years Of Unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#7 The 50th Anniversary of the Legendary IBM 1401
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#49 "Portable" data centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#17 Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#19 Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#20 Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#22 Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#30 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#65 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#67 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#1 Honoree pedigrees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#15 Age
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#30 Philosophy: curiousity question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#87 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#56 The real cost of outsourcing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#75 pdp8 to PC- have we lost our way?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#7 Do you remember back to June 23, 1969 when IBM unbundled
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#17 Got to remembering... the really old geeks (like me) cut their teeth on Unit Record
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#33 Data Areas?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#58 An approach to Dump formatting of Control Blocks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#20 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#30 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#31 How smart do you need to be to be really good with Assembler?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#79 Slackware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#62 Any cool anecdotes IBM 40yrs of VM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#63 Is it possible to hack mainframe system??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#26 New HD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#66 model numbers; was re: World's worst programming environment?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#55 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made 30 years ago today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#45 the nonsuckage of source, was MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#19 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#5 "F[R]eebie" software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#35 BBC News - Microsoft fixes '19-year-old' bug with emergency patch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#84 a bit of hope? What was old is new again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#85 a bit of hope? What was old is new again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#19 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#14 3033 & 3081 question
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 08:36:40 -0700hancock4 writes:
Late Dec1992 about "IBM left behind" ... and had been reorganized
into the "13 baby blues" in preparation for breakup ... gone
behind paywall but lives free (for the moment) at the wayback
machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
then the board brings in former president of AMEX that resurrects
the company and reverses the breakup ... some past refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
past posts in thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#27 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#29 Mexico, was: Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#30 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#41 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#43 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#44 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#45 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#47 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#48 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 12:05:53 -0700"Jack Myers" <jmyers@n6wuz.net> writes:
early web, mid-90s there was crisis with HTTP-over-TCP. TCP implementations assumed long-lived sessions, HTTP was supposedly atomic/datagram ... but implemented on top of TCP anyway. That drove the number of the TCP FINWAIT list (TCP close) to several thousands. The original linear search looking for arriving dangling packets for recently closed sessions started to hit 90+ percent of server processor ... was activity started to grow. There was nearly six month period before FINWAIT was reworked and deployed. In the interim operations were looking at adding large number of servers and adding code to internet boundary routers to do load balancing acorss backend servers.
The original google load balancing scale-up started off with rotating A-list ... to try and randomize backend switch backend IP-addresses (problem was that ISPs cached DNS responses ... so rotating A-list had minimal impact).
Then some guys I had been working with got tasked by google to implement new code in the google CISCO boundary routers ... the pool of boundary routers would exchange backend server loading information ... and attempt load-balance routing incoming sessions ... across (rapidly growing number of) back-end servers.
It is enormously more sophisticated now, multiple mega-datacenters spread around the world, a mega-datacenter with hundreds of thousands of systems and millions of processors (for backend servers).
past posts mentioning TCP FINWAIT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#1 Early tcp development?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#164 Uptime (was Re: Q: S/390 on PowerPC?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#52 Does the word "mainframe" still have a meaning?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002.html#3 The demise of compaq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002.html#14 index searching
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#39 CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#45 M$ SMP and old time IBM's LCMP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#12 Possible to have 5,000 sockets open concurrently?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#33 A Speculative question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#50 Question about Unix "heritage"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#46 Shipwrecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#70 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005g.html#42 TCP channel half closed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#13 RFC 2616 change proposal to increase speed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006d.html#21 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#36 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#33 X.509 and ssh
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#2 Hey! Keep Your Hands Out Of My Abstraction Layer!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#37 Curiosity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#11 What part of z/OS is the OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#38 Problem with TCP connection close
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#28 Yet another squirrel question - Results (very very long post)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#36 Making tea
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#7 IBM in Talks to Buy Sun
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#76 Tiny-traffic DoS attack spotlights Apache flaw
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#44 Follow up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#62 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#51 Has there been a change in US banking regulations recently?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#9 The IETF is probably the single element in the global equation of technology competition than has resulted in the INTERNET
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#11 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#6 Founders of SSL Call Game Over?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#20 Writing article on telework/telecommuting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#89 False Start's sad demise: Google abandons noble attempt to make SSL less painful
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#15 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#83 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#8 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
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, SPDY standardization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#13 Is it time for a revolution to replace TLS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#26 There Is Still Hope
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#76 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#2 Knowledge Center Outage May 3rd
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 16:31:40 -0700hancock4 writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 09:03:37 -0700Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> writes:
today opens the summer paine field demonstration flying season. also
includes (Paul Allen's) flying heritage on opposite of the runway:
http://www.flyingheritage.com/
in Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour, 1939-1941 (Volume VI), reference to moved production of Rolls Royce engines to US; loc7441-44:
from above:
The second decision on May 21 which concerned United States supplies was
on the question of whether to give publicity to the current production
of Rolls Royce aeroplane engines in the United States. 'What do Air
Ministry say?' Churchill minuted three days later, and after discussing
the question with Beaverbrook, agreed that secrecy should be maintained.
... snip ...
past posts in thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#27 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#29 Mexico, was: Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#30 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#41 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#43 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#44 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#45 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#47 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#48 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#49 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#50 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#51 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 09:21:13 -0700last night PBS ran S8E1 of "Foyle's War" ... titled high castle.
One of the points made in "battle of britain" series was that the British and German fighters were relatively matched ... with both having some PROs and CONs. One of the British PROs was they had high octaine aircraft fuel (resulting in higher horse power) and the Germans didn't. The theme of the episode was americans helping germany before and during the war (somewhat the John Foster Dulles case).
In this episode, it is after the war and Nuremburg trials were going on and the head of large American international oil company was killing off people that had evidence they helped Germany during the war. The "high castle" case was one of their plants in Britain was manufacturing the additive to boost octaine for aircraft fuel. They had filled shipload of "high castle" liqueur barrels for shipment to the US. However the ship stops at Tenerife where the barrels were offloaded and loaded on German ship.
recent past posts mentiong John Foster Dulles and Germany:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#19 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#35 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#36 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#26 channel islands, definitely not the location of LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#62 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#13 Keydriven bit permutations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#52 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#69 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#71 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#86 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#0 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#35 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#45 The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#51 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#54 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#70 God No, the U.S. Air Force Doesn't Need Another Curtis LeMay
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#37 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
past posts in thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#27 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#29 Mexico, was: Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#30 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#41 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#43 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#44 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#45 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#47 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#48 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#49 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#50 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#51 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#52 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The Jeb Bush Adviser Who Should Scare You Date: 16 May 2015 Blog: FacebookThe Jeb Bush Adviser Who Should Scare You
lets go back a little further
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
there are (at least) 2 versions of the story: 1) they needed to replace CIA director Colby (who disagreed with "Team B") with somebody that would go along with the "Team B" analysis or 2) Rumsfeld was attempting to sidetrack a competitor in the Republican party (or both #1 and #2).
Note that the $50B claimed cost for Iraq war (could be $5T before all
is said and done, 100 times larger) based on fabricated WMDs ... they
did eventually find decommissioned WMDs from the 80s that originated
in the US ... but the information was classified at the time
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0
last decade, cousin of white house chief of staff Card ... was dealing
with the Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence that WMDs had been
decommissioned, about to make it public, gets locked up in military
hospital .... "EXTREME PREJUDICE-- The Terrifying Story of the Patriot
Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq"
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
Card's cousin documents how she provided detailed, written evidence to her (white house chief of staff) cousin, Powell and several others before getting locked up in military hospital.
Team B was also involved in supplying Saddam with weapons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
including WMDs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
replacement CIA director then is VP ... at one point claims no
knowledge of such activities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
and
http://critcrim.org/critpapers/potter.htm
more recent:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/12/jeb-bush-forest-gump-financial-improprieties.html
then there is also "Keating Five"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five
one of the targets of "Keating Five"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
Sat. photo recon analyst warns that Iraq is marshaling forces for
Kuwait invasion; administration says that Saddam told them he would do
no such thing ... and proceeds to discredit the analyst. Later,
analyst then warns that Iraq is marshaling forces for Saudi invasion
... now the administration is forced to choose between Iraq and Saudi.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2/
Later after 9/11, administration prevented families of 9/11 victims
from suing Saudi Arabia as responsible for 9/11. More recently that
has changed and the 9/11 victim families were allowed to sue Saudi
Arabia as responsible (some claims that fracking had changed oil
politics and made US less dependent on Saudi Arabia). "9/11 Families
'Ecstatic' They Can Finally Sue Saudi Arabia"
http://news.yahoo.com/9-11-families-39-ecstatic-39-finally-sue-222121660--abc-news-topstories.html
There still is battle over the classified 28 pages in the 9/11 report (numerous references it provides details/evidence of Saudi Arabia responsibility).
past posts mentioning "Team B"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
past posts mentioning miltiary-indusrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
past posts mentioning families of 9/11 victims being allowed to
sue Saudi's for 9/11 responsibility
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#51 U.S. Sidelined as Iraq Becomes Bloodier
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#83 NSA surveillance played little role in foiling terror plots, experts say
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#11 NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#13 Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#42 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#99 Reducing Army Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#103 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#4 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#11 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#14 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#38 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#89 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#51 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#64 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#72 George W. Bush: Still the worst; A new study ranks Bush near the very bottom in history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#27 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#73 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#78 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 15:16:16 -0700greymausg <maus@mail.com> writes:
much of the problem of sna/vtam and 37x5 boxes and supporting higher speed was the design point was for fairly noisy and high error rate copper and stop&restart on error ... which also contributed to only allowing a few number of outstanding, unacknowledged RUs ... which resulted that it had very difficult time being able to effectively use higher bandwidth links (because latency and propagation starts to dominate, and larger amount of outstanding data is needed for latency compensation).
recent mention of sna/vtam in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#44 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#47 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
other recent mention:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#95 56kbit modems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#43 Connecting memory to 370/145 with only 36 bits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#2 Knowledge Center Outage May 3rd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#21 Dot What?
in HSDT was doing FEC and selective resend (of just uncorrectable
packet) ... assumes more sophisticated handling on both ends ...
instead of something designed for dumb terminals in high error rate
environment. posts mentioning HSDT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
there was both reed-solomon encoding and viterbi for FEC. we had an IBM engineer who had been reed's graduate student at caltech and had done much of the work on reed-solomon. We were also working with cyclotomics (one of the founders was UCB professor), cyclotomics had done much of the reed-solomon work for CDROM standard. Cyclotomics had come up with design that did 15/16s reed-solomon FEC encoding that could get six orders of magnitude improvement (on 10**-9 bit error rate would look like 10**-15 BER, what was spec'ed for IBM mainframe channels) ... and then for selective resend (on uncorrectable error ), send the half-rate Viterbi (for the original packet, rather than the original packet) ... then even if both the original packet *AND* the resend transmission were in error, it was still highly likely it could be recovered from the two. Then if the line quality degraded further ... switch to transmitting the half-rate viterbi with the original packet (cuts the effective rate in half, but eliminates the latency; none of this available/possible in their early 70s 37x5 design).
trivia: 17Apr, garlic.com changed their webserver, I still working out how to update my personal pages, so recent archived refs have yet to show up.
past posts mentioning Cyclotomics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#1 4M pages are a bad idea (was Re: AMD 64bit Hammer CPU and VM)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#53 Free Desktop Cyber emulation on PC before Christmas
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#27 shirts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#37 Why doesn't Infiniband supports RDMA multicast
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#43 360 longevity, was RISCs too close to hardware?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#27 Data communications over telegraph circuits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#29 Just another example of mainframe costs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#4 Even worse than UNIX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#82 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#19 IBM-MAIN longevity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#23 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#61 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#66 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#46 Follow up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#0 Anyone going to Supercomputers '09 in Portland?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#58 DASD, Tape and other peripherals attached to a Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#33 SNA vs TCP/IP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#75 non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185 Terabytes on a tape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#68 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#9 Fwd: [sqlite] presentation about ordering and atomicity of filesystems
other posts mentioning reed-solomon &/or viterbi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/93.html#28 Log Structured filesystems -- think twice
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#115 What is the use of OSI Reference Model?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#210 AES cyphers leak information like sieves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#38 Does the word "mainframe" still have a meaning?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#80 Disks size growing while disk count shrinking = bad performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#71 Encryption + Error Correction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#53 Mainframers: Take back the light (spotlight, that is)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#3 Calculations involing very large decimals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#73 1950s AT&T/IBM lack of collaboration?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#11 Mainframes (etc.)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#25 The 8008
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#52 Go-Back-N protocol?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#50 non ECC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#44 waiting for acknowledgments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#45 waiting for acknowledgments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#62 Damn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#79 big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#26 Tapes versus vinyl
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#23 Program Work Method Question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#58 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#60 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#69 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#65 Hamming Code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#102 Interesting? How _compilers_ are compromising application security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#31 SNA vs TCP/IP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#34 SNA vs TCP/IP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#98 After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#9 Fwd: [sqlite] presentation about ordering and atomicity of filesystems
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 15:35:47 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
long detailed discussion of the problem ... from the vmshare archives:
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse.cgi?fn=CRC-FAIL&ft=PROB
from above:
Append on 08/21/86 at 10:05 by CUN/Nick Gimbrone <NJG@CORNELLA.BITNET>:
Our hardware people here at Cornell have been talking with the folks at
General Instruments (who make the 9.6kb RF broad band modems that we are
using most heavily) about our problems. It would appear from
examination of their circuit diagrams that it is indeed the case that
the scrambling circuits used are exactly a CRC16 polynomial. I am told
that this allows even a single bit error to show up as the 4+ bit errors
reported earlier. The GI folks are performing further investigations of
their own before responding to our situation.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: email security re: hotmail.com Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 08:54:59 -0700Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> writes:
usenet bandwidth camed to be dominated with gif porn and there was filtering of binary/non-text files.
past posts mentioning pagesat driver and boardwatch article:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#38 Vanishing Posts...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#39 I'll Be! Al Gore DID Invent the Internet After All ! NOT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#66 UUCP email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005l.html#16 Newsgroups (Was Another OS/390 to z/OS 1.4 migration
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005l.html#20 Newsgroups (Was Another OS/390 to z/OS 1.4 migration
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#11 An Out-of-the-Main Activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#77 Memory Mapped Vs I/O Mapped Vs others
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#17 What if phone company had developed Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#16 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#19 IBM-MAIN longevity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#19 Another one bites the dust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#21 Disksize history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#84 Anyone going to Supercomputers '09 in Portland?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#74 bulletin board
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#75 Posts missing from ibm-main on google groups
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#70 What is the protocal for GMT offset in SMTP (e-mail) header
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#82 [OT] What is the protocal for GMT offset in SMTP (e-mail) header time-stamp?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#92 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#26 Anyone here run UUCP?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#67 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#38 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 10:48:41 -0700JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
The Plan That Broke the World: The "Schlieffen Plan" and World War I
(What Were They Thinking? Book 2) (William O'Neil) loc823-29:
Loading drill with French 75. It was France that revolutionized
artillery with the introduction at the end of the 1890s of the Canon
de 75 model 1897, a light field gun with a 75 mm (3 in) bore. It was
the first cannon with a mechanism (broadly similar in principle to the
hydro-pneumatic shock absorber and spring combination of a car) for
absorbing the momentum of recoil and returning the barrel smoothly to
its original position while the gun carriage stayed still. Combined
with a semiautomatic breech mechanism that opened and kicked out the
spent shell casing as the gun recoiled, this made it possible to fire
15 well-aimed rounds per minute, each weighing 16 pounds. A practiced
crew could fire at a rate of 20 rounds per minute for brief periods.
but: The Four Generations of Modern War (William S. Lind) loc117-21:
The new battlefield is dominated by indirect artillery fire. 80
percent of the casualties in WWI on the Western Front are to artillery
fire. Almost all of that is indirect. Previously you'd really only
seen indirect artillery fire in sieges. All the new guns, the French
75, the German 77, are all designed for direct fire. But they quickly
figure out that if you put the gun behind a hill and send a guy out
front with a telephone who can observe and correct the fire, you're
much less likely to lose the gun.
loc151-54:
The French heritage is not simply tactical. When the French Second
Generation seems to work, and again, it seems to work right up to May
of 1940, it comes as an enormous relief to officers everywhere because
it preserves the First Generation culture of order. Like the First
Generation, a Second Generation military is inward-focused, rules,
processes, orders, procedures, it's war by process.
loc248-50:
What changes in 1940 is the Panzer divisions now can move forward
operationally faster than the French can shift their reserves
laterally by rail. The operational mobility differential favors the
attacker rather than the defender. Because for six weeks, in May 1940,
the Second and Third Generations meet head on.
and Certain to Win (Chet Richards) loc238-43:
What about the two sides' weapons? We sometimes assume that the German
tanks were so superior that they swept the French from the field. Many
people are surprised to learn that one for one, the French tanks were
state of the art for the time.10 Germany, on the other hand, had
suffered under a ban on tanks imposed by the allies from 1918 until
Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Catching up proved slow, and she did
not produce her first fully modern tank until 1939. German armies
still had only 349 of this design by May 1940.11 In addition, France
had a great advantage in artillery, which had been the main killer on
the battlefield in the last war.
loc243-48:
That the Germans would attack surprised no one. Both Britain and
France had declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, two days
after the German attack on Poland, and so had eight months to get
ready. Likewise, it cannot be said that the German tactics were a
surprise. They were a refinement of tactics the Germans had used in
their last major offensive in the earlier war and had been studied by
both French and British strategists between the wars. As for terrain,
the French could read a map and knew about conditions in the Ardennes
Forest and the network of narrow roads that traversed it.
loc253-57:
To summarize the Allies' position, they knew an attack was coming, and
they knew where it was coming--in the 200-mile gap between the Maginot
Line and the English Channel. In this area, they had about the same
number of troops as their enemy, and this in an era when one was
supposed to need a three-to-one advantage in order to mount a
successful attack. Most amazing of all, the French had even foreseen
the possibility that the Germans would attack where they actually did,
and they had prepared an answer for it
... snip ...
Semi-related "Member of Fighter Mafia Passes"
http://www.pogo.org/straus/issues/military-people-and-ideas/2015/member-of-fighter-mafia-passes.html
I got to meet some number of these people having met John Boyd and
sponsored his briefings at IBM ... some past posts (& web URLs):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
I've mentioned before that circa 1990, the commandant of the Marine Corps had leveraged Boyd for make-over of the corp.
somewhat related posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#10 Jedi Knights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#16 Command Culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#38 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#55 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#66 Salesmen--IBM and Coca Cola
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#76 In the palm of your hand?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#86 Can America Win Wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#98 How to groom a leader?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#91 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#34 upcoming TV show, "Halt & Catch Fire"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#52 EBFAS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#61 Are you tired of the negative comments about IBM in this community?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#49 LEO
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 09:49:35 -0700scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
legal actions forced 23jun169 unbundling announcement ... starting to
charge for (application) software, se services, etc (although company
managed to make case that kernel software could still be free)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
there was user contributed (free) softwrae for the SHARE library ... but there was also the (free user contributed) "WATERLOO" tape. At one point somebody did analysis of WATERLOO tape and found nearly 300k lines of code of kernel modifications/enhancements ... and also found a very large similarity/overlap with similar library of corporate internal datacenter kernel changes (which weren't being picked up and shipped in the standard product). Large body of source changes to standard product contributed to the OCO-wars (no longer support source maintenance and shipping source).
1987 item on OCO in the vmshare archive:
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse.cgi?fn=OCOOCMPR&ft=NOTE
trying to categorize product software by:
Program Products and the their Code Status Type Legend: ? Unknown S Source Maintained OCO Object Code Only OCM Object Code Maintained SOM Partially Source, partially OCO, and partially OCM SO Partially Source and partially OCO SM Partially Source and partially OCM... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Why Today's Automobile Industry Looks A Lot Like IBM in 1985 Date: 18 May 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Why Today's Automobile Industry Looks A Lot Like IBM in 1985
http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/17/why-todays-automobile-industry-looks-a-lot-like-ibm-in-1985/
The foreign auto import quotas were supposedly to minimize competition and give US makers enormous profits to completely remake themselves ... however they didn't, just pocketed the money and continued business as usual. In the early 80s there was call for 100% unearned profit tax on the industry.
In 1990, the industry had the C4 taskforce ... to look (finally?) at
completely remake themselves. Because they planned on making heavy use
of technology, several technology vendors were asked to send members
to participate. In the meetings they could accurately describe
competition and what the US industry needed to do to respond. One of
the issues was that they took 7-8yrs to come out with new model
... and tended to run two efforts in parallel offset 3-4 years ... so
they came out with something new every couple years (with cosmetic
changes in between). The foreign competition had cut that process time
in half and were in the process of cutting it in half again (heading
for less than year for being able to do complete change if needed for
market/technology). Offline at the meetings, I commented to the IBM
POK mainframe brethren that how could they expect to contribute since
they had many of the same problems. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#auto.c4.taskforce
From the recent bailouts, too many stakeholders in the status quo still have prevented change.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 17:54:02 -0700Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#dialup-banking
at the same time, the online dial-up commercial cash management operations claimed they would *NEVER* move to the internet because of long list of vulnerabilities (some of which continue to this day).
trivia ... around the turn of the century, security issues were heating up and financial industry was working on number of hardware (chip) tokens that would improve authentication. These were chip cards ... similar to the payment cards that recently been having chips added to them. the issue was that they had to deploy consumer card readers to work with the chips.
One of major institutions apparently got a firesale on obsolete serial port cardreaders and were distributing them free to their consumers. The the consumer support woes began (including wiping machines and having to do fresh operating system install). The troubles were so bad that it killed the program and created rapidly spreading rumor in the industry that chipcards weren't practical in the consumer market (effectively killing off all the other strong authentication hardware token programs).
My wife ran a joint review with the m'soft security people, m'soft PC/SC people, and a couple of the financial operations ... which determined that the problems were because of the serial-port readers (all the institutional knowledge about serial-port problems from the dail-up banking programs had apparently evaportated over period of 4-5 yrs). Also the serial-port problems were also a major motivation behind USB (and advent of USB was what had made the serial-port readers obsolete). We tried to mount an educational program about the true reasons behind failure, consumer support problems, and the free give away of (serial-port) readers ... but it wasn't able to overcome the industry impression that chipcards weren't practical in the consumer market (i.e. use with consumer devices, as opposed to use of chipcards with point-of-sale termainl).
following the implosion of secure consumer chipcards ... there were a number of non-chip safe internet products developed (as alternative) ... which were pitched to major online merchants (accounting for something like 70% of transactions). merchants had been indoctrinated for decades that electronic payment interchange fees are heavily prorated based on associated fraud rate (... with internet transactions falling into the highest category). They had assumed that these new "safe" products would cut the interchange fees by something like 90%. Then the cognitive dissonance sets in, rather than cutting the interchange fees ... they would told they would have to pay effectively the highest fee they were already paying plus a surcharge. At that point the various efforts collapse (analogous to how consuemr chipcard efforts collapse).
other trivia with regard to the current chips starting to appear in
the US for point-of-sale ... there was a large pilot deployment in the
us (also) around the turn of the century. However, it was in the "yes
card" period ... presentation at ATM Integrity Task Force meeting by
gov. LEO prompted somebody in the audience to exclaim that they
managed to spend billions of dollars to prove that chips are less
secure than magstripe. Reference to presentation on the
vulnerabilities in this trip report to Cartes2002 (at very end)
... gone 404 but lives on at wayback machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20030417083810/http://www.smartcard.co.uk/resources/articles/cartes2002.html
All evidence of the large pilot then appears to evaporate w/o a trace and speculation that it would be a long time before it was tried again in the US (let other jurisdictions be the trial&error guinea pigs).
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
disclaimer: in parallel with the original card associations work on
chip card for point-of-sale, I worked on protocol, standard, and chip
design that 1) had none of their shortcomings, 2) had significantly
higher security, and 3) cost significantly less. The problem was that
it would have commoditized the payment industry ... which would have
significantly impacted their revenue stream. related refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
post-script: the online commercial cash-management services eventually did move from dial-up to internet ... and have encountered the exploits, vulnerabilities and security problems originally listed. There have been recommendations that commercial banking now have a dedicated PC system that is only used for online banking and *NEVER* used for any other purpose ... to semi-emulate the environemnt of the original dial-up banking operations.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Medicare Part B premiums increasing up to 30% Date: 19 May 2015 Blog: LinkedInMedicare Part B premiums increasing up to 30%
so what happens when part b premiums are more than your social security benefits? In theory if Part B is going up 30% ... then your SS COLA should be 30%.
congress let fiscal responsibility act expire in 2002 (spending couldn't exceed revenue) ... 2010 CBO report had revenue reduced by $6T and spending increased by $6T (compared to baseline fiscal responsibility act budget) for a $12T budget gap. In the middle of the last decade, comptroller general was including in speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle school arithmetic (for how badly they savaged the budget).
fiscal responsibility act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
comptroller general
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
The first major bill after fiscal responsibility act expired was medicare part-d which has been described as enormous gift to the drug industry and the comptroller general described as long term $40T unfunded mandate that comes to swamp all other budget items. CBS 60 mins did segment on the process, highlighting the 18 republican members of congress and staffers responsible. At the last minute they add a one liner to it that precluded competitive bidding. CBS shows drugs under medicare part-d that are three times the price of identical drugs from the VA (that allows competitive bidding). Also after the bill passes, CBS finds all 18 resign and are on drug industry payroll
medicare part-d
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#medicare.part-d
The looting of the SS Trust fund started in the 80s (attributed to the administration budget director at the time). Baby boomer/bubble is four times as large as the previous generation and twice as large as following generation. As long as baby boomers were working and paying into the SS trust fund, there was more money going in than going out ... aka building principal for when the baby boomers retired. However with the SS trust fund looting there is a $2.7T deficit ... and with the baby boomers retiring it will fall on the following generation (only half as large) to replenish what was looted.
There is joke about a bottom desk drawer somewhere in west virginia that contains the Federal IOUs for the $2.7T that are considered relatively worthless. There is lot of public spin attempting to obfuscation and misdirect away from those Federal IOUs and who is responsible.
recent posts mentioning SS trust fund
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#4 Mandated Spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#7 Mandated Spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#40 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#41 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#108 Occupy Democrats
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 10:03:07 -0700hancock4 writes:
The auto industry, GE and others redid the books so that the profit was shifted to financial services part of the business.
Airline industry shifted their profit to computerized tickets ... i.e. actual airline operations was break-even or a loss ... but enormous profit in selling the tickets ... so the parent company could show significant profit even when the airline operations was showing loss. first time i noticed it was in the 90s where airline operations were blaming losses on fuel price increases ... but the parent company was still showing significant profit (profit from selling tickets more than offset the losses booked in the operation business).
As I've recently pointed out this has expanded to included taxes. US
manufacturer use to sell and ship directly to local US distributers.
They shift to selling to offshore (subsidiary) reseller (in tax haven
where they've cooked deal for next to zero taxes) ... which then "sells"
to the local distributers (it still ships directly to the
diswtributers). The books are done so that the manufacturing unit sells
to the offshore reseller at near cost ... and all the profit (selling to
distributers) is booked in the tax haven. recent reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#8 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#52 Report: Tax Evasion, Avoidance Costs United States $100 Billion A Year
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#5 Swiss Leaks lifts the veil on a secretive banking system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#46 Remember 3277?
other past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
Manipulating/looting employee pension funds also comes up in private equity
looting companies ... past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
AMEX was in competition with KKR for private equity take-over
of RJR and KKR wins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
KKR runs into trouble with RJR and hires the president of AMEX away to
turn it around. Then IBM has gone into the red and is being reorganized into
the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breakup. The board then hires
the former president of AMEX to resurrent the company and reverse
the breakup. This has references to techniques used at both RJR
and IBM
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
in this book
http://www.retirementheist.com/
past posts mentioning former AMEX president
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
posts mentioning justifying offloading employee pensions on to
government (including companies redoing their books so that employee
intensive operations are showing loss and the profits are showing up in
other parts of the operation)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#61 Health Care
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#91 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#65 As Expected, Ford Falls From 2nd Place in U.S. Sales
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#38 What do YOU call the # sign?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#13 Michigan industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#20 Michigan industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#24 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#46 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#77 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#94 Bankruptcy a reprieve for some companies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#41 It's a Banker's World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#4 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#67 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#8 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#10 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#24 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#58 Wall Street is Taking Over America's Pension Plans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#90 Is IBM Suddenly Vulnerable To A Takeover?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#7 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#59 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 10:20:52 -0700hancock4 writes:
posts mentioning Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
This reference attributes purpose of FS trying to counter the clone
controller makers ... making the interface between controllers and
processor so complex that it would near impossible for clone
controllers.
https://www.ecole.org/en/session/49-the-rise-and-fall-of-ibm
from above (countermeasure to clone controllers)
IBM tried to react by launching a major project called the 'Future
System' (FS) in the early 1970's. The idea was to get so far ahead that
the competition would never be able to keep up, and to have such a high
level of integration that it would be impossible for competitors to
follow a compatible niche strategy. However, the project failed because
the objectives were too ambitious for the available technology. Many of
the ideas that were developed were nevertheless adapted for later
generations. Once IBM had acknowledged this failure, it launched its
'box strategy', which called for competitiveness with all the different
types of compatible sub-systems. But this proved to be difficult because
of IBM's cost structure and its R&D spending, and the strategy only
resulted in a partial narrowing of the price gap between IBM and its
rivals
... snip ...
However, during the FS period, internal politics were killing of 370 efforts ... and the lack of 370 products is credited with giving clone processors/systems market foothold (not just clone controllers).
Somebody once made the comment that if any other computer company had wasted the money that went into the Future System disaster, they would no longer be in business.
disclaimer: as undergraduate in the 60s I worked on clone controller at
the univ ... there was some writeup blaming four of us for (some part
of) the clone controller business. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 12:21:56 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
a large pilot in the US is larger than a full-blown rollout in most other countries. The exploit for the "YES CARD" seemed so obvious that there was concern that there could be a whole sequence of vulnerabilities and the cost of multiple failing rollouts would be an enormous cost (let other countries be the guinea pig at much lower cost).
I had warned the people doing the rollout about the vulnerability ... but they were apparently so myopically focused on lost/stolen vulnerabilities they apparently weren't able to digest the description. Possibly only after it was actually in deployment and LEOs explaining the sequence and the enormous fraud hole in action ... that they pulled out.
An underlying problem was that the design addressed issue with expensive
& availability of telco in Europe ... it effectively assumed that the
chip would have no compromises and therefor they exported business rules
and decisions into the chip. This allowed the chip to direct
point-of-sale terminals to do offline transactions ... and not go online
(basically able to batch single call for all transactions once a day or
less). Once the crooks found how easy it was to actually counterfeit the
chips ... then they could program their own business rules. The last
ditch countermeasure to counterfeit magstripe is to deactivate the
account so that transactions can no longer go through. In the
counterfeit "YES CARD", the chip would always tell the point-of-sale
terminal to do an offline transaction and the chip would always say the
transaction was within the account credit limit and always approve the
transaction (and the point-of-sale terminal wouldn't find out that the
account had been turned off until much later). past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
the other part of it was they still hadn't worked out the economics of eliminating most kinds of fraud ... as in the reference to the "safe" internet payment products. There was analysis the middle of last decade that EU financial institutions made less than 10% of their bottom line off payment fees ... while in the US it was 40-60% of their bottom line. Elimination of the straight fraud surchange could be a 90% hit to their payment fees ... they had to come up with some sort of transition to different payment fee structure to maintain their bottom line. In the mean time, they had to maintain the profit from the fraud rates (1/3 to 1/2 of their bottom line).
Also one of the things they did in the UK (and proposed in the US) was to change the regulations (in the US, REG-E) to shift the burden of proof from the institution and/or merchant to the user (instead of the institution having to prove that the user was at fault, the user had to prove that they weren't at fault). I was contacted by legal representative of somebody that was claiming that they hadn't used their chip card for an ATM cash withdrawl. The burden of proof was on the user to produce a video recording showing it wasn't them ... the financial institution had commented they weren't able to find their video recording (and besides it was now the user's responsibility).
past posts referring to "burden of proof":
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm6.htm#nonreput Sender and receiver non-repudiation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm6.htm#terror7 [FYI] Did Encryption Empower These Terrorists?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay10.htm#72 Invisible Ink, E-signatures slow to broadly catch on
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm17.htm#59 dual-use digital signature vulnerability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm18.htm#0 dual-use digital signature vulnerability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm18.htm#55 MD5 collision in X509 certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm19.htm#33 Digital signatures have a big problem with meaning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm20.htm#0 the limits of crypto and authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm21.htm#35 [Clips] Banks Seek Better Online-Security Tools
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#14 Shifting the Burden - legal tactics from the contracts world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#33 Chip-and-Pin terminals were replaced by "repairworkers"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#60 crypto component services - is there a market?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#63 Public key encrypt-then-sign or sign-then-encrypt?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#38 The Trouble with Threat Modelling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#57 RealNames hacked. Firewall issues.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000g.html#34 does CA need the proof of acceptance of key binding ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#59 PKI/Digital signature doesn't work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#62 PKI/Digital signature doesn't work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#69 Digital signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004i.html#17 New Method for Authenticated Public Key Exchange without Digital Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#41 xml-security vs. native security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#6 Creating certs for others (without their private keys)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#11 Question about authentication protocols
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#26 How good is TEA, REALLY?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#42 Catch22. If you cannot legally be forced to sign a document etc - Tax Declaration etc etc etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006d.html#32 When *not* to sign an e-mail message?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#8 Beginner's Pubkey Crypto Question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#28 sizeof() was: The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#23 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#67 open source voting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#62 Solving password problems one at a time, Re: The password-reset paradox
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#52 Credit cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#71 Sophisticated cybercrooks cracking bank security efforts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#72 Why don't people use certificate-based access authentication?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#1 Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#3 Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#21 Credit card data security: Who's responsible?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#24 Cambridge researchers show Chip and PIN system vulnerable to fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#47 Industry groups leap to Chip and PIN's defence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#63 Wal-Mart to support smartcard payments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#7 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#82 Five Theses on Security Protocols
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#77 towards https everywhere and strict transport security (was: Has there been a change in US banking regulations recently?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#60 A Two Way Non-repudiation Contract Exchange Scheme
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#71 Password shortcomings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#62 Gordon Gekko Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#35 The Conceptual ATM program
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#10 The Knowledge Economy Two Classes of Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#8 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#38 regulation,bridges,streams
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#52 U.S. agents 'got lucky' pursuing accused Russia master hackers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#90 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#17 Steve B sees what investors think
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#20 Steve B sees what investors think
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#58 US a laggard in adopting more secure credit cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#60 Target Offers Free Credit Monitoring Following Security Breach
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#69 Why is the US a decade behind Europe on 'chip and pin' cards?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#67 Sale receipt--obligatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#43 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#39 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 12:26:01 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
recently posted in linkedin thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#62 Medicare Part B premiums increasing up to 30%
Medicare Part B premiums increasing up to 30%
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/medicare-part-b-premiums-increasing-up-to-30-2015-05-11
so what happens when part b premiums are more than your social security benefits? In theory if Part B is going up 30% ... then your SS COLA should be 30%.
congress let fiscal responsibility act expire in 2002 (spending couldn't exceed revenue) ... 2010 CBO report had revenue reduced by $6T and spending increased by $6T (compared to baseline fiscal responsibility act budget) for a $12T budget gap. In the middle of the last decade, comptroller general was including in speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle school arithmetic (for how badly they savaged the budget).
fiscal responsibility act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
comptroller general
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
The first major bill after fiscal responsibility act expired was medicare part-d which has been described as enormous gift to the drug industry and the comptroller general described as long term $40T unfunded mandate that comes to swamp all other budget items. CBS 60 mins did segment on the process, highlighting the 18 republican members of congress and staffers responsible. At the last minute they add a one liner to it that precluded competitive bidding. CBS shows drugs under medicare part-d that are three times the price of identical drugs from the VA (that allows competitive bidding). Also after the bill passes, CBS finds all 18 resign and are on drug industry payroll
medicare part-d
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#medicare.part-d
The looting of the SS Trust fund started in the 80s (attributed to the administration budget director at the time). Baby boomer/bubble is four times as large as the previous generation and twice as large as following generation. As long as baby boomers were working and paying into the SS trust fund, there was more money going in than going out ... aka building principal for when the baby boomers retired. However with the SS trust fund looting there is a $2.7T deficit ... and with the baby boomers retiring it will fall on the following generation (only half as large) to replenish what was looted.
recent posts mentioning SS trust fund
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#4 Mandated Spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#7 Mandated Spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#40 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#41 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#108 Occupy Democrats
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: PCI DSS compliance for z/OS Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 19 May 2015 13:05:04 -0700charlesm@MCN.ORG (Charles Mills) writes:
long ago and far away we got called as consultants to small client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their server, they had also invented this technology called "SSL" they wanted to use; the result is now sometimes called "electronic commerce".
Then somewhat having done "electronic commerce", in the mid-90s we were asked to participate in the (financial industry) x9a10 standards working group which had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the financial infrastructure for all retail payments (not just internet, ALL, point-of-sale, attended, unattended, credit, debit, ACH, i.e. ALL).
part of this is we did end-to-end threat analysis and attetmpted to use
a number of metaphors to characterize the existing paradigm:
dual-use ... since information from previous transactions can
be used for fraudulent transactions, that information has to be kept
totally confidential and never divulged. at the same time the same
information is required in dozens of business processes at millions of
locations around the world. we've periodically commented that even if
the planet was buried under miles of information hiding encryption, it
still wouldn't stop leakage
...
security proportional to risk ... the value of the transaction
information to the merchants is the profit on the transactions, which
can be a couple dollars (and a couple cents for the transaction
processor) ... the value of the information to the crooks is the
account balance and/or credit limit ... as a result the crooks can
afford to outspend the defenders by a factor of 100 times.
...
some refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#security.proportional.to.risk
the x9a10 financial standard working group came up with a transaction
standard that eliminated the "dual-use" characteristic of the account
number ... which met that it no longer needed to be kept hidden (and the
earlier work we did on "electronic commerce" was the major use of "SSL"
for hiding the account number ... which in the new transaction standard
was no longer necessary). some refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
Later we were tangentially involved in the cal. state data breach notification law. A lot of the participants were heavily involved in privacy issues and had done detailed, in-depth public surveys. The #1 issue was identity theft, primarily of the form of fraudulent financial transactions as the result of breaches and there was little or nothing being done about the breaches. An issue is typically an entity/institution takes security measures in self protection, In the case of the breaches, the institution wasn't at risk ... it was their customers. It was hoped that the publicity from the breach notifications would prompt breach countermeasures.
Note in the years since the cal. state breach notification act there
have been numerous federal (state preemption) acts introduced
... about evenly divided between those similar to the cal. act and
those that would effectively eliminate any requirement for
notification (frequently ingeniously disguised as criteria on when
notification was required). The PCI DSS specification came out after
the appearance of the cal. state data breach notification and
referenced by federal legislation attempting to eliminate notification
requirements ... "because the industry was addressing the
problem". Early jokes about the PCI DSS certification was that it was
relatively straight-forward ... but everybody with PCI DSS
certification that had a breach would have their certification
revoked.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 17:16:20 -0700Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
in effect there is similar issue with the looting of the SS Trust fund ... the budget director basically ruled that things were "balanced" if there was at least as much money coming as going out. The large principal in the SS Trust fund could be looted and not violate the rule that at least as much money was coming in as going out (for any one year) ... kicking the problem down the road ... what happens when the baby boomers are in retirement (already $2.7T deficit).
There are also recent articles documenting
1) Fed. agencies have leased public land for drilling, mining, logging and haven't bothered (for years) to collect statutory required payments (and possibly never recover past monies).
2) some recent bills introduced for firesale of many of these public lands
it is possible that the firesale might be for much less than is owned in back lease payments ... heading off any future effort to recover those payments.
some of the recent articles:
New attacks: Congress tries to sell off public lands
http://wilderness.org/blog/new-attacks-congress-tries-sell-public-lands
Why Congress Can Sell Off Our National Forests, But Not National Parks
http://indefinitelywild.gizmodo.com/national-park-vs-national-forest-your-public-land-expl-1697581346
Our Land, Up for Grabs
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/opinion/our-land-up-for-grabs.html
CONGRESS PASSES MEASURE TO ALLOW SELLING OFF NATIONAL FORESTS AND
OTHER PUBLIC LANDS
http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/congress-passes-measure-allow-selling-national-forests-and-other-public-lands
Who's behind the Movement to Sell off Public Lands?
http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/whos-behind-the-movement-to-sell-off-public-lands-150408?news=856178
Federal public land transfers get a Congressional boost
https://www.hcn.org/articles/western-states-trying-to-take-back-federal-lands-get-a-boost-from-the-u-s-senate
and
Unfair Share: How Oil and Gas Drillers Avoid Paying Royalties
http://www.propublica.org/article/unfair-share-how-oil-and-gas-drillers-avoid-paying-royalties
that is in addition to the bookkeeping gimmicks that has revenue moved
to tax havens. some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
past posts mentioning baby boomers/bubble four times larger than
previous generation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#3 America's Prophet of Fiscal Doom
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#5 Republican accomplishments and Hoover
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#13 Michigan industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#20 Michigan industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#58 Everyone is getting same deal out of life: babyboomers can't retire but they get SS benefits intact
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#37 Young Developers Get Old Mainframers' Jobs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#72 I would like to understand the professional job market in US. Is it shrinking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#37 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#38 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#19 STEM crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#24 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#56 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#46 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#45 not even sort of about The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#2 taking down the machine - z9 series
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#72 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#75 origin of 'fields'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#44 Ratio of workers to retirees
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/2012o.html#73 These Two Charts Show How The Priorities Of US Companies Have Gotten Screwed Up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#67 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#4 Mandated Spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#108 Occupy Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#62 Medicare Part B premiums increasing up to 30%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#66 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 09:12:40 -0700Morten Reistad <(first@last.name> writes:
there is the numerous references to Greenspan "put" ... anytime
wallstreet got into trouble, greenspan lowered the interest rate.
past posts mentioning FED chairmman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
For the economic mess, wallstreet did over $27T in securitized
instruments (auto loans, mortgages, credit card debit, etc; aka they
didn't have to borrow for making auto loans, they had wallstreet package
in securitized instruments, pay for triple-A, sell to institutions
restricted to only dealing in "safe" investments) ... also describes
holding "off-book" so doesn't show up
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
At the end of 2008, just the four largest TBTF were still holding
$5.2T of toxic assets "off-book"
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
supposedly the $700B for TARP was for toxic asset purchase ... but with just the four largest TBTF with $5.2T, it wouldn't have made a dent in the problem.
If that wasn't enuf, they started doing securitized instruments designed to fail, pay for triple-A, sell to institutions restiricted to dealing in safe investments (like pension plans), and then take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail (credit enormous demand for dodgy morgtages and loans).
The largest institution holding these CDS gambling bets was AIG. AIG was negotiating to pay off the bets at 50-60 cents on the dollar and the sec. of treasury steps in and says AIG has to take TARP funds to pay off the CDS gambling debts at 100 cents on the dollar. AIG becomes the largest recipient of TARP funds, and the largest recipient of AIG payoffs is the company formally headed by the sec. of treasury. It is not clear that TARP funds were ever, really intended to buy toxic assets.
The actual bail-out of wallstreet is being done by the FED behind the scenes (the FED had a long drawn out battle in the courts trying to prevent publicly divulging what was really going on). They bought trillions of the off-book "toxic assets" at 98cents on the dollar (instead of the street market price of 22cents on the dollar). They also started providing near zero interest ZIRP funds to financial institutions.
One of the biggest users of ZIRP funds were the private-equity industry
for buyouts. Note the industry had gotten such a bad reputation during
the S&L crisis that the changed the industry name to private equity
and "junk bonds" became "high-yield" bonds. previous references also has
reference to "barbarians at the gate", as well as the looting of
pensions funds (not just palming off toxic CDOs on them) some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
article comparing private equity to "house flipping" ... except they can
borrow 100% to buy the company and then can flip the company for less
than they paid and walk away with boat loads of money ... because the
loan is put on the books of the "flipped" company. Over half of
corporate defaults are companies involved in private equity deals. Note
that the defaults doesn't affect the credit rating of the private equity
borrower, because it is moved to the books of the bought/flipped company
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
Up there with private equity use of ZIRP funds are corporations for
stock buybacks ... which stockman describes as mini-form of
private equity buyouts.
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Deformation-Corruption-Capitalism-ebook/dp/B00B3M3UK6/
stock buybacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
past posts mentioning ZIRP funds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#4 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#10 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#89 Forbes perspective on IBM's troubles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#94 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#95 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#2 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#3 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#4 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#6 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#11 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#23 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#29 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#43 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#58 Wall Street is Taking Over America's Pension Plans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#75 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#99 US Debt In Public Hands Doubles Under Barack Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#17 Cromnibus cartoon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#28 Bernie Sanders Proposes A Bill To Break Up The 'Too Big To Exist' Banks
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 10:28:14 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
oh, and sec. of treasury also requires AIG to sign a document that they can't sue the companies making those CDS gambling bets (having designed toxic CDOs to fail ... and then took out CDS gambling bets that they would fail).
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
trivia: the rhetoric on the floor of congress for GLBA (now better known for repeal of glass-steagall, enabling too big to fail) was that the primary purpose was if you already had banking charter, you got to keep it, if you don't already having a banking charter, you couldn't get one (i.e. primary purpose started out protecting the banking industry from new competition). The largest recipient of AIG CDS gambling payoff (and company previously headed by the sec. of treasury) didn't have a banking charter (as well as some number of the other too big to fail) ... and therefor weren't eligible for the FED ZIRP funds. As part of the bailouts, the FED also gave out new bank charters, theoretically in violation of GLBA (in order for them to also feed at the FED ZIRP trough).
"glass steagall"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
recent ZIRP refs:
The Debt, ZIRP, And Valuation
http://seekingalpha.com/article/3151496-the-debt-zirp-and-valuation
Gold and the New U.S. and UK Recession - ZIRP to Continue
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article50472.html
U.S.A. Caught In Enormous Policy Vise - ZIRP & QE Destructive Influence
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article50500.html
The Fed is Stealing Your Retirement
http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/04/the-fed-retirement/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 30 yr old email Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 11:24:22 -0700re:
whole lot more 30 yr old A74
... note in following discussion there is reference to MUN&MAD
instructions. At the same time POK did 370/XA ... tailored for MVS
... Endicott did "E" ... tailored for VS1 & DOS/VS which included
MUN&MAD and also show up in Endicott's pc/370 implementation. A74 was
much closer to POK high-end 370 that only supported 4k keys. However,
it still needed the other pc/370 changes which communicated with cp/88
on the PC side to do I/O.
Date 05/20/85 12:19:14
From: wheeler
re: a74 support;
I've created updates for PC/370 1.1 + SPAM level cp system for A74
with the following assumptions:
cr0 is supported for a value of
009000000 (i.e. 4k page, 1meg segments)
cr1 points to a segment table
segment table is 64byte aligned
page table is double word aligned
no mun or mad instructions
ptlb instruction to clear any look aside
key instructions use real addresses
two new tables are added to dmkpgv for the page and segment tables.
page table is set-up as 256*N (where N is number of virtual megabytes)
contiguous page table entries. DMKPGVPT points to the start of the
page table, DMKPGVST points to the start of the segment table (before
rounding to 64byte boundary).
&1 &2 DMKCPI UPDTA74 A1 F 80 44 1 5/20/85 12:16 &1 &2 DMKMCH UPDTA74 A1 F 80 17 1 5/20/85 12:09 &1 &2 DMKPGT UPDTA74 A1 F 80 55 2 5/20/85 12:01 &1 &2 DMKPAM UPDTA74 A1 F 80 25 1 5/20/85 11:59 &1 &2 DMKSER UPDTA74 A1 F 80 5 1 5/20/85 11:46 &1 &2 DMKMOV UPDTA74 A1 F 80 14 1 5/20/85 11:44 &1 &2 DMKIUM UPDTA74 A1 F 80 5 1 5/20/85 11:31 &1 &2 DMKDSD UPDTA74 A1 F 80 5 1 5/20/85 11:29 &1 &2 DMKCFI UPDTA74 A1 F 80 5 1 5/20/85 11:28
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 08:31:06 -0700Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> writes:
they've claimed that the powerpoint presentions will be going up on the site ... but I've yet to see/find them.
posts mentioning the "battle of britain" series:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#14 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#62 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#52 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#53 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#0 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#35 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#63 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#89 Your earliest dream?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#101 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#109 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#0 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#36 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#38 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#52 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#53 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The Jeb Bush Adviser Who Should Scare You Date: 21 May 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
Forget What We Know Now: We Knew Then the Iraq War Was a Joke
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/forget-what-we-know-now-we-knew-then-the-iraq-war-was-a-joke-20150518
Jeb Bush Says His Brother Was Misled Into War by Faulty
Intelligence. That's Not What Happened.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/jeb-bush-marco-rubio-iraq-war-intelligence
David Brooks' sickening Iraq apologia: How the New York Times
hack just rewrote history
http://www.salon.com/2015/05/19/david_brooks_sickening_iraq_apologia_how_the_new_york_times_hack_just_rewrote_history/
A Dishonest History of the Last War
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/05/the_iraq_war_wasn_t_an_honest_mistake_republicans_are_still_defending_the.html
George W. Bush's CIA Briefer: Bush and Cheney Falsely Presented WMD
Intelligence to Public
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/michael-morell-bush-cheney-iraq-war
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Public Confused Why World's Biggest Banks Admitting Criminal Fraud, Leads To Public Yawns Date: 21 May 2015 Blog: FacebookPublic Confused Why World's Biggest Banks Admitting Criminal Fraud, Leads To Public Yawns
too big to fail, too big to prosecute, too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
"libor"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
There were some articles over the last week that this time they might actually convict and jail ... but it apparently it was just hot air. There are jokes that they now just view the fines as cost of doing (fraudulent) business. The settlements are also suppose to include promises to stop ... or they will suffer real consequences ... but they've been violating such promises for years ... and nothing serious happening
Note that rhetoric in congress leading up to Sarbanes-Oxley was that it would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee executives and auditors did jail time, however it required SEC to do something. Possibly because GAO didn't believe SEC was doing anything, it started do reports of public company fraudulent financial filings, even showing increase after SOX went into effect (and nobody doing jailtime). SOX supposedly provided very straightforward rules for conviction and sending to jail ... not requiring understanding of complex financial machinations. Also, in the Madoff congressional hearings they had the person that had tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about Madoff (SEC's hands were forced when Madoff turned himself in)
Sarbanes-Oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
Enron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
financial reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
Maodff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
Even Bove Wondering Why Individual Criminal Charges Not Filed In FX Manipulation
http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/05/fx-manipulation-libor/
Historic Survey of Financial Services Professionals Reveals Widespread
Disregard for Ethics, Alarming Use of Secrecy Policies to Silence
Employees
http://www.labaton.com/en/about/press/Historic-Survey-of-Financial-Services-Professionals-Reveals-Widespread-Disregard-for-Ethics-Alarming-Use-of-Secrecy-Policies-to-Silence-Employees.cfm
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption Date: 21 May 2015 Blog: FacebookGreedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
Part of justifying Iraq war they predicted it would cost $50B ... now
estimates is that with long term (veteran treatment & benefits) costs
it may be $5T, 100 times larger. MICC & beltway bandits make out (well
like bandits) on hardware, outsourcing & private militia ... treating
veterans has potential of serious long term impact on how much they
can loot. They will have to seriously reduce veteran benefits to keep
their funds flowing. MICC posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
2010, CBO did report that previous decade, DOD budget was increased a little over $2T compared to baseline, a little over $1T for the two wars and another $1+T that couldn't be accounted for. In the 90s, congress passed an act requiring all federal agencies pass financial audits ... which DOD has never been able to do. There is now speculation that possibly in 2017, DOD might pass an audit (20yrs later).
The looting of the SS Trust fund started in the 80s (attributed to the administration budget director at the time). Baby boomer/bubble is four times as large as the previous generation and twice as large as following generation. As long as baby boomers were working and paying into the SS trust fund, there was more money going in than going out ... aka building principal for when the baby boomers retired. However with the SS trust fund looting there is a $2.7T deficit ... and with the baby boomers retiring it will fall on the following generation (only half as large) to replenish what was looted.
There is joke about a bottom desk drawer somewhere in west virginia that contains the Federal IOUs for the $2.7T that are considered relatively worthless. There is lot of public spin attempting to obfuscation and misdirect away from those Federal IOUs and who is responsible.
is one thing to do a few billions here & there ... it is totally different to loot $2.7T in the SS Trust Fund.
note in 2002, congress let the fiscal responsibility act expire (required that spending couldn't exceed tax revenue). in 2010, CBO did report, overall tax revenue was reduced by $6T and spending increased by $6T for a $12T budget gap (compared to the fiscal responsible, baseline budget). In the middle of last decade, the US comptroller general started including in speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle school arithmetic (for how badly congress was savaging the budget).
fiscal responsibility act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
comptroller general
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
In addition to the "legal" tax loopholes created (and $6T less tax revenue), in 2009 IRS said that it was going after 52,000 wealthy americans that had evaded $400B in unpaid taxes ... tax evasion by hiding money overseas. In 2011 there was announcement by the new congressional house that they were cutting funds to the IRS unit responsible for recovering that money. Since then there has been announcement that a couple swiss banks have been fined a couple billion for their part in the tax evasion ... but nothing about the $400B recovery.
tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
I first saw the press using the terms too big to prosecute and too big to jail for the too big to fail when they were repeatedly caught money laundering for terrorists and drug cartels ... they would get their hand slapped and asked to promise to stop doing it. The articles also started saying that the enormous funds from the TBTF were major factor in acquiring military equipment and upswing in violence in Mexico and the US.
too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
Public Confused Why World's Biggest Banks Admitting Criminal Fraud,
Leads To Public Yawns
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-21/public-confused-why-worlds-biggest-banks-admitting-criminal-fraud-leads-public-yawns
Historic Survey of Financial Services Professionals Reveals Widespread
Disregard for Ethics, Alarming Use of Secrecy Policies to Silence
Employees
http://www.labaton.com/en/about/press/Historic-Survey-of-Financial-Services-Professionals-Reveals-Widespread-Disregard-for-Ethics-Alarming-Use-of-Secrecy-Policies-to-Silence-Employees.cfm
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption Date: 21 May 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
SEC Commissioner Kara Stein Issues Blistering Dissent on Waivers for
Bank Recidivists
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/05/sec-commissioner-kara-stein-issues-blistering-dissent-on-waivers-for-bank-recidivists.html
SEC Commissioner Furious That SEC Has Made A Mockery Of "Recidivist
Criminal Behavior" By Banks
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-22/sec-commissioner-furious-sec-has-made-mockery-recidivist-criminal-behavior-banks
Note the latest head of the SEC had to be given a special exemption because worked for one of the swiss banks fined for their role in the massive tax evasion by the 52,000 wealthy americans.
Big part of the VA is never getting funding for the enormous increase in workload. One of the things that has been promoted is large increase in medication (akin to what for-profit old folks homes doing). Talking to mental health care workers, they said VA was attempting to get the funding to hire every available mental health care worker in the country (and even if they had got the funding, they would have needed more) ... so drugs are substitute. My son-in-law 1st tour was 2004-2005 in Fallujah and then 2007-2008 in Baqubah (described as much worse than Fallujah but didn't get the press coverage since administration was claiming things much better) and they are still prescribing him max. dosages.
At least in the dataprocessing modernization (not just VA, but just about every federal agency) ... the beltway bandits are practicing Success of Failure (they make much larger profit from series of failures). The theme then in congress is solution to failures is even more outsourcing to for-profit beltway bandits ... claim is 70% of intelligence budget and over half the people is now outsourced to the Success of Failure crowd. Part of the congressional motivation is gov. agencies can't lobby congress ... I've seen cases where it is expected that 10% of appropriations to for-profit outsourcing goes to lobbying ... split evenly between the lobbyists and congress.
Matt Taibbi on Democracy Now: Banks Admit to Crimes, Pay $5 Billion,
And Still No One Goes to Jail
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/05/matt-taibbi-on-democracy-now-banks-admit-to-crimes-pay-5-billion-and-still-no-one-goes-to-jail.html
Note that there are references that the statute of limitation has managed to expire for much of the fraud ... so it is now easy to now say that they will aggressively review something.
However, Sarbanes-Oxley still applies and it is much simpler to show violation and get conviction. Note that the original rhetoric in congress with respect to SOX was that it would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee that executives and auditors did jail time ... but it required SEC to do something. Possibly because even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing anything, they started doing reports of public company fraudulent financial filings ... even showing increases after SOX went into effect (and nobody doing jailtime).
In the Madoff congressional hearings they had the person that had tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about Madoff (SEC's hands were forced when Madoff turned himself in)
Sarbanes-Oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
Enron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
financial reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
Madff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
trivia: securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages. in the late 90s we had been asked to look at improving the integrity of supporting documents in securitized mortgages as countermeasure. Then in the early part of the century, they found that they could pay the rating agencies for triple-A rating (when both the sellers and rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008 congressional testimony). Triple-A ratings trump supporting documents and they could start doing no-down, no-documentation, liar loans, pay for triple-A rating and sell to institutions restricted to only dealing in "safe" investments (like large pension funds). It was major factor in being able to do over $27T during the bubble.
triple-A rated toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
If that wasn't enough, they then started doing securitzed mortgages designed to fail, pay for triple-A rating, sell-off, and then take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail ... creating enormous demand for dodgy mortgages.
From the law of unintended consequences ... the no-documentation loans ... more recently forces the TBTF to setup the large "robo-signing" mills to fabricate the necessary documents. They are fined something like $50B for the robo-signing mills ... but again it is trivial compared to the more than $27T done during the bubble.
More trivia: Sarbanes-Oxley also had section requiring SEC to do something about the rating agencies.
fall 2008 ref to over $27T done between 2001 & 2008
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
Oct2008, the sec. of treasury asked for TARP funds to supposedly purchase (off-book) toxic assets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
However, the $700B allocated for TARP would hardly make a dent in the problem
Then reports are that the biggest holder of the CDS gambling bets (on toxic CDOs designed to fail) AIG, was negotiating to payoff at 50-60 cents on the dollar when the sec. of treasury steps in and says that they have to take TARP funds in order to payoff at 100 cents on the dollar. AIG is the biggest recipient of TARP funds and the biggest beneficiary of CDS gambling bet payoffs is the company previously headed by the sec. of treasury (sec. of treasury also requires AIG to sign document preventing AIG from suing those making the CDS gambling bets). It is not clear that the TARP funds were ever intended to buy toxic funds.
Note that end of 2008, just the four largest TBTF were holding $5.2T (that's trillion) in toxic assets "off-book" ... which is one reason the $700B in TARP funds wouldn't have made a dent in the problem. Earlier in the year market price for those toxic assets were 22cents on the dollar ... if they were forced to be brought back on the books, the TBTF would have been declared insolvent and forced to be liquidated.
As a result the TARP funds were used for other things and the FED has been doing the bailouts behind the scenes (they had long drawn out battle in the courts trying to prevent public disclosure of what they've been doing). The FED has also been buying toxic assets fro 98cents on the dollar (not 22) and providing trillions in ZIRP funds for near zero interest rates
The TBTF take the ZIRP bunds and buy trillions in federal debt accumulated since the tax revenue was drastically cut last decade at the same time they exploded spending (treasury interest payments is approaching half trillion ... if the FED would buy treasuries directly at zero interest, then federal debt wouldn't cost anything, but then also the TBTF wouldn't get the spread on the ZIRP funds and what treasury is paying).
Note the sales of triple-A rated toxic securities to pension funds is claimed to be responsible for 30% drop in their value and accounts for reported trillions in shortfall ... and then the continued ZIRP funds keep interest rates so low that they are unable to recover any of the losses (TBTF don't have to pay interest to attract deposits since they get all the ZIRP funds they could possibly want) assets.
recent posts mentioning ZIRP funds:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#17 Cromnibus cartoon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#28 Bernie Sanders Proposes A Bill To Break Up The 'Too Big To Exist' Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#69 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#70 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 15:27:18 -0700hancock4 writes:
there is recent discussion over in the military groups about the VA.
Part of the justification for Iraq would be it would only cost $50B,
estimates are that when all is said and done, long term costs will hit
$5T (100 times larger). MICC gets boat loads of money for hardware,
outsourcing and private mercenaries ... the veteran benefits & VA costs
will start to substantially cut into that.
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Compromise between MICC and the drug industry would be to stoke them to the gills on drugs ... somewhat similar to what the drug industry is pushing for the "for-profit" retirement & nursing homes ... minimal staff and savings split between the for-profit operations and the drug companies.
it is being acclerated by private equity operations buy up
retirment, nursing, and medical operations ... some past posts
private equity moving into health care
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#17 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#48 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#58 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#100 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#105 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#106 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#107 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#108 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#18 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#42 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#30 HP splits, again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#64 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
recent reference to drug industry getting fantastic deal from congress
(medicare part-d) that the US comptroller general said becomes a long
term $40T obligation that comes to swamp all other budget items
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#63 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
it was first major act after congress allowed fiscal responsibility act to expire in 2002.
medicare part-d
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#medicare.part-d
fiscal responsibility act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
comptroller general
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption Date: 22 May 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
When You Do the Crime, But Don't Do the Time; Crime Pays, When You're
a Bank
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/22/crime-pays-when-youre-a-bank/
trivia: other ways that crime pays for financial institutions. Around the turn of the century there were a number of "safe" payment products presented to internet merchants (accounting for something like 70% of transactions) that saw high acceptance. For decades, merchants have been indoctrinated that the interchange fee they pay for credit/debit transactions is heavily prorated based on the associated fraud rate ... with internet falling into "MOTO" category paying the highest rate. The internet merchants were anticipating that "safe" payment products would see 90% reduction in the fees they were paying. The issue is that 40-60% of US financial institution bottom line was coming from these fees and a 90% reduction would represent a significant hit to their bottom line. In any case, the internet merchants were told a whole new scheme was created, instead of a 90% reduction in the fees for "safe" payments, there would be effectively a surcharge on top of the highest fees (based on fraud) they were already paying. That is when the cognitive dissonance set in ... and the whole effort for "safe" payment products fell apart.
past posts mentioning fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#fraud
this is just before HFT kicked in which has made it much worse
... wallstreet has nothing to fear from SEC for criminal activity
http://nypost.com/2007/03/20/cramer-reveals-a-bit-too-much/
Jan2009, I was asked to HTML'ize the Pecora hearings (30s congressional hearings into '29 crash, results in criminal convictions and jailtime as well as Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal x-refs and URLs between what happened this time and what happend then (speculation that the new congress might have appetite to do something). I work on it for awhile and then get a call that it wouldn't be needed after all (references to enormous piles of wallstreet money burying DC).
glass-steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption Date: 23 May 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
7 years on from crisis, $150 billion in bank fines and penalties
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102637201
past posts mentioning fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#fraud
influence peddling, revolving doors, and outsourcing have been around for millennium ... however recently there has been enormous upswing. grumpy old men and the enormous upswing in influence peddling are somewhat separate issues and diversion
President of AMEX was in competition to be next CEO, the looser leaves
and takes their protegee and goes to Baltimore taking over what is
described as loan sharking business. They make some other acquisitions
eventually acquiring CITI in violation of Glass-Steagall. Greenspan
gives them an exemption while they lobby congress for repeal of
Glass-Steagall ... resulting in the repeal being added to GLBA
(enabling too big to fail, too big to prosecute, and too big to
jail). Person responsible for GLBA is #2 on times list of those
responsible
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
too big to fail, too big to prosecute, too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
glass-steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Chair of CFTC proposes regulation of CDS (gambling bets), Greespan and a couple others get the CFTC chair replaced with #2's (above) wife. She keeps CFTC from regulating CDS while her husband gets provision added to CFTC modernization act blocking CDS regulation. His wife then resigns as chair of CFTC and joins ENRON board and their financial audit committee (ENRON makes use of CDS in their financial manipulation before it is being used by the sellers of triple-A rated toxic CDOs designed to fail).
ENRON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
The protegee (from AMEX) then leaves CITI and becomes CEO of one of the other major too big to fail (together they account for major portion of the financial mess and other financial crimes).
Earlier AMEX is in competition with KKR for private-equity LBO of RJR
and KKR wins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
Then KKR runs into trouble with RJR and hires away the president of
AMEX to turn it around. Then IBM has gone into the red and is being
reorganized into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breakup. The
board then hires away former president of AMEX to resurrect IBM and
reverse the breakup. Account of some of the efforts used at both IBM
and RJR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
The former president of AMEX then leaves IBM and becomes head of
another large private equity company ... which subsequently does
private-equity LBO of major government contractor. Account of
private-equity take-overs akin to "house flipping" ... except they put
the loan to buy the victim company on the company's books, they can
even flip the company for less than they paid and still walk away with
boat loads of money (since the loan goes with the company). The
enormous debt loads has companies doing everything possible to try and
service the debt and has resulted in over half the corporate defaults
(except it doesn't show up on the private equity company credit
ratings, but on their victim companies).
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
posts referencing private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
former president of AMEX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
The major government contractor then is employer of individual
currently in russia after leaking lots of classified documents. Last
decade saw enormous upswing in gov. outsourcing to for-profit
companies (large number subject to private equity take-overs) ... 70%
of intelligence budget and at least half the people
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
The former head of CIA, resigned in disgrace and slap on the wrist for divulging classified documents, goes to KKR.
The original rhetoric in congress about GLBA was it was a gift to wallstreet in response to recent $250M congressional contributions (about evenly divided between the two parties) and primary purpose was "if you already had a bank charter you got to keep it, if you didn't have a bank charter you couldn't get one" (banking industry was trying to prevent new competition from companies with new technologies; however it is now better known for the addition of the repeal of Glass-Steagall). Even at that, it originally passes the senate pretty much along party lines and then a heroic effort is made to convince the president to veto the bill. The response is several additions that result in it finally passing with veto proof 90-8 and the president signs it.
In addition to Greenspan helping with GLBA, another major player is the then sec. of treasury (also a former head of the company that later is the major recipient of AIG's CDS gambling bet payoffs) who after it is finished, resigns and becomes what was described at the time as co-CEO of CITI.
posts referenced fed chairmans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
posts mentioning former sec. treasury that resigns and joins CITI:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#36 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#41 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#53 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#65 is it possible that ALL banks will be nationalized?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#10 Who will Survive AIG or Derivative Counterparty Risk?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#16 The Formula That Killed Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#18 HSBC is expected to announce a profit, which is good, what did they do differently?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#28 I need insight on the Stock Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#42 Bernard Madoff Is Jailed After Pleading Guilty -- are there more "Madoff's" out there?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#61 Quiz: Evaluate your level of Spreadsheet risk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#62 Is Wall Street World's Largest Ponzi Scheme where Madoff is Just a Poster Child?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#63 Do bonuses foster unethical conduct?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#73 Should Glass-Steagall be reinstated?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#0 What is swap in the financial market?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#13 Should we fear and hate derivatives?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#23 Should FDIC or the Federal Reserve Bank have the authority to shut down and take over non-bank financial institutions like AIG?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#35 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#29 What is the real basis for business mess we are facing today?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#51 On whom or what would you place the blame for the sub-prime crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#7 Just posted third article about toxic assets in a series on the current financial crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#33 Treating the Web As an Archive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#17 REGULATOR ROLE IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT FINANCIAL SCANDALS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#60 In the USA "financial regulator seeks power to curb excess speculation."
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#84 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#77 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#61 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#54 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#28 Our Pecora Moment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#67 The Python and the Mongoose: it helps if you know the rules of engagement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#38 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#36 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#29 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#52 Are Americans serious about dealing with money laundering and the drug cartels?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#41 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#54 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#74 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#41 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#62 Civilization, doomed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#31 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#5 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#57 speculation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#59 Why Hasn't The Government Prosecuted Anyone For The 2008 Financial recession?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#77 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#94 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#38 Four Signs Your Awesome Investment May Actually Be A Ponzi Scheme
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#58 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#59 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#63 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#28 Neil Barofsky: Geithner Doctrine Lives on in Libor Scandal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#73 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
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/2013k.html#28 Flag bloat
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#29 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#30 Why DOJ Deemed Bank Execs Too Big To Jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#35 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#57 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#13 Jack Lew Shows His True Colors By Forcing Deregulation of Derivatives on the CFTC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#64 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#67 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#13 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#98 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#0 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#8 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#24 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#80 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#2 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#9 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#21 Thomas Piketty Is Right About the Past and Wrong About the Future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#113 Follow the Money: How Finance Keeps the Whip Hand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#15 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#19 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#29 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#45 Sale receipt--obligatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#95 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#21 Senate Democrats vs. the Middle Class; Senators elected in 2008 made Obama's agenda possible, and its results have harmed most Americans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#73 The Watchdog that Didn't Bark ... Again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#121 Presenting The $303 Trillion In Derivatives That US Taxpayers Are Now On The Hook For
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#126 Wall Street's Revenge
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#131 Memo To WSJ: The CRomnibus Abomination Was Not "A Rare Bipartisan Success"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#150 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#17 Cromnibus cartoon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#98 Convicted Fraudster Jonathan Hay, Harvard's Man Who Wrecked Russia, Resurfaces in Ukraine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#2 do you blame Harvard for Putin
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#8 Shoot Bank Of America Now---The Case For Super Glass-Steagall Is Overwhelming
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption Date: 24 May 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
one of the possibly unintended consequence of GLBA & repeal of Glass-Steagall ... enabling too big to fail, are narco-submarines, narco-tunnels, and advance military equipment in the hands of drug cartels and terrorists. OCC, DOJ, and SEC have made heavy use of deferred prosecution (sort of a kind of probation) since the turn of the century ... basically too big to fail involved in all sorts of criminal behavior ... they promise to stop breaking the law for some period and the charges will be dropped. However they wouldn't change the behavior ... but prior deferred prosecution agreements would be ignored (as if they didn't exist)
I think it was articles about OCC, DOJ, SEC, etc using deferred prosecution for hundreds of billions of dollars repeatedly money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists ... started using too big to prosecute and too big to jail. There were also articles attributing big upswing in violence and military-like operations to the hundreds of billions in money laundering. Search on deferred prosecution for examples
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2012/12/banks-are-where-money-drug-war
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/11/if-hsbc-were-a-person-it-d-be-in-jail.html
http://www.thenation.com/blog/181763/blotch-eric-holders-record-wall-street-accountability
from above:
Holder himself suggested in Senate testimony last year that some firms
really are too big to jail
... snip ...
glass-steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: email security re: hotmail.com Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 13:48:30 -0700Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
Air Force Supercomputer Center at Kirtland AFB ........ 1.1 Cornell Theory Center, Cornell National Supercomputer Facility .............................. 1.2 John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center ........ 1.3 National Center for Atmospheric Research .............. 1.4 National Center for Supercomputing Applications ....... 1.5 National Energy Research Supercomputer Center ......... 1.6 Northeast Parallel Architectures Center ............... 1.7 Ohio Supercomputer Center ............................. 1.8 Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center ...................... 1.9 San Diego Supercomputer Center ........................ 1.10 US Army Ballistic Research Laboratory ................. 1.11 University of California at Berkeley .................. 1.12 SuperComputing Services, The University of Calgary .... 1.13 Center for Experimental Research in Parallel Algorithms, Software and Systems (CERPASS) ...................... 1.14 University of Texas System Center for High Performance Computing ........................................... 1.15 North Carolina Supercomputing Center .................. 1.16 Arizona State University Supercomputing Center ........ 1.17 UCLA Office of Academic Computing ..................... 1.18Sept 13, 1991 NNSC Section 1.0, Page 1
Originally started out we were working with Director of NSF and NSF
supercomputers to interconnect the centers and were suppose to get
$20M. Then congress cuts the budget and some number of other things
happen before they finally release an RFP (in large part based on the
work we had been doing). Internal politics prevent us from bidding on
the RFP. The NSF director tries to help writing a letter to the company with support from other agencies ... but that just makes the internal
polics worse. Regional networks connecting morphs into NSFNET precursor
to the modern internet. some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Western Union envisioned internet functionality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 14:14:10 -0700hancock4 writes:
from above:
Life expectancy increases with age as the individual survives the higher
mortality rates associated with childhood. For instance, the table above
listed the life expectancy at birth in Medieval Britain at 30. Having
survived until the age of 21, a male member of the English aristocracy
in this period could expect to live:[23]
1200-1300: to age 64
1300-1400: to age 45 (due to the impact of the bubonic plague)
1400-1500: to age 69
1500-1550: to age 71
... snip ...
I've referenced before baby boomer/bubble was 4times larger than the previous generation and twice as large as the following ... so as long as baby boomers were working and paying into the SS Trust Fund ... much more was flowing in than being paid out (presumably to build up total amount for when the baby boomers retired). The looting of $2.7T out of the SS trust fund ... leaves it to the "smaller" following generation to cover the missing funds.
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#61 The Incredible Shrinking Legacy Workforces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#7 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT Competitiveness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#7 what does xp do when system is copying
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#16 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/2007v.html#72 whats the world going to do when all the baby boomers retire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#3 on-demand computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#16 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#69 Toyota Beats GM in Global Production
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#99 The Workplace War for Age and Talent
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#1 The Workplace War for Age and Talent
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#50 CA ESD files Options
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#3 America's Prophet of Fiscal Doom
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#11 The Return of Ada
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#26 The Return of Ada
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#57 our Barb: WWII
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#56 The Price Of Oil --- going beyong US$130 a barrel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#98 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#80 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#5 Republican accomplishments and Hoover
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#37 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#3 Medical care
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#13 Michigan industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#20 Michigan industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#29 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#8 The end of the baby boomers, US bonds maturing, and then what?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#58 Everyone is getting same deal out of life: babyboomers can't retire but they get SS benefits intact
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#61 August 7, 1944: today is the 65th Anniversary of the Birth of the Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#64 August 7, 1944: today is the 65th Anniversary of the Birth of the Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#72 August 7, 1944: today is the 65th Anniversary of the Birth of the Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#37 Young Developers Get Old Mainframers' Jobs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#72 I would like to understand the professional job market in US. Is it shrinking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#37 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#38 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#19 STEM crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#24 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#56 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#59 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#18 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#46 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#45 not even sort of about The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#72 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#74 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#75 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#2 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#6 taking down the machine - z9 series
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#72 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#75 origin of 'fields'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#44 Ratio of workers to retirees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#71 origin of 'fields'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#69 No command, and control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#76 The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#24 US Housing Crisis Is Now Worse Than Great Depression
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#88 Justifying application of Boyd to a project manager
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#79 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#46 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#7 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#25 Two Articles of Interest on Culture and Things to Look For
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#75 What's the bigger risk, retiring too soon, or too late?
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/2013i.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#67 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#4 Mandated Spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#7 Mandated Spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#40 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#41 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#108 Occupy Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#62 Medicare Part B premiums increasing up to 30%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#66 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#68 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#75 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: email security re: hotmail.com Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 14:29:16 -0700Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
other trivia from long ago ... before Postel passed, he would even let me do part of STD1.
past internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
However, RFCs over the years have increasingly been commercialized and the copyrights strengthened. I use to do a lot of abstracting under the older copyright rules ... which required including the internet/ISOC copyright notice. Newer copyright rules have the original authors/company retaining all rights and (in theory) to do anything requires getting permission from the original authors. Ten years ago I got threatened with legal action by author that was trying to retroactively apply the newer copyright rules to earlier RFCs (I had to hire a copyright laywer to discuss copyright law with the president of ISOC ... who the author had claimed was his good friend).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: ACP/TPF Date: 25 May 2015 Blog: FacebookACP/TPF had loosely-coupled support ... but didn't have tightly coupled multiprocessor SMP support. 3081 originally came out as SMP (two-processor) only ... and there became big worry that ACP/TPF customers would all move to clone processor makers that were coming out with newer, faster, single processor machines. As sort of temporary effort, there was some horribly unnatural things done to VM370 to improve ACP/TPF running in virtual machine ... but it had 10-15% degradation in throughput for nearly all other (multiprocessor) VM370 customers. SMP posts
Finally they managed to release 3083 to address the ACP/TPF market ... a 3081 with one of the processors removed. One of the problems was that proc0 was at the top of the box and proc1 was in the middle, the simplest would have been to remove proc1 ... but that would have made the box dangerously top-heavy. They also had to do some other rework in order to move proc0 to the middle of the box.
Note that in the failure of FS, 303x and 308x efforts were kicked off
in parallel. 3033 started out Q&D effort to remap 168-3 logic to 20%
faster chips. 3081 was also (somewhat longer) Q&D effort to remap some
warmed over FS technology. somebody's long-winded discussion about FS
and how badly 308x compared to competition
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
With 3033 out the door, those processor engineers start on 3090. As
also periodically pointed out ... during the FS period, internal
politics were killing off 370 efforts ... and the lack of newer 370
products during this period is credited with giving clone processor
makers market foothold. FS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
Other trivia: my wife did short stint as chief architect for Amadeus (EU effort built off Eastern Airlines System/One). However, she backed the EU x.25 plans instead of SNA ... and the SNA forces got her removed. It didn't do a lot of good since Amadeus went with x.25 anyway.
Other trivia: after we left IBM, we were brought into the largest airline res. system to look at the ten impossible things that they couldn't do ... initially with "ROUTES". They spent a couple days going through detailed description and gave me copy of the full OAG tape (all scheduled airline flt segments in the world). I went away and two months later came back with a ROUTES implementation that did all ten impossible things ... it didn't run on mainframe but on RS/6000. Big issue was the mainframe ROUTES was design from the 60s that involved various technology trade-off issues from the period. Starting from scratch in the 90s, it was possible to make totally different trade-offs. Part of the 60s trade-offs was that they had about 800 people doing semi-manual tailoring supporting ROUTES ... which accounted for some number of the ten impossible things. Redo from scratch automated all those manual activities. Redo from scratch also made it run 100 times faster, which then provided enough resources to do some number of the other ten impossible things and it finally netted out ten times faster. All ROUTES transactions in the world for all airlines could be handled on ten RS/6000 590s (15yrs later there was that much processing in a cellphone).
Then the hand wringing started ... finally after 6months they got around to telling me that they hadn't actually wanted me to do the ten impossible things, they just wanted to be able to tell the parent company board for the next five years that I was working on it (one of the board members had previously been at IBM STL).
past posts mentioning AMADEUS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#49 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#67 unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#47 What makes a mainframe a mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#6 Mainframe not a good architecture for interactive workloads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#7 Mainframe not a good architecture for interactive workloads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#23 Demo: Things in Hierarchies (w/o RM/SQL)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#29 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#22 System/360; Hardwired vs. Microcoded
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#8 EBCDIC to 6-bit and back
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#4 How Many 360/195s and 370/195s were shipped?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#9 Was FORTRAN buggy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#19 Pennsylvania Railroad ticket fax service
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#52 US Air computers delay psgrs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#72 The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#59 ACP/TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#45 64 gig memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#53 Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#19 American Airlines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#34 American Airlines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#41 Automation is still not accepted to streamline the business processes... why organizations are not accepting newer technologies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#33 IBM touts encryption innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#55 IBM halves mainframe Linux engine prices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#59 "Portable" data centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#23 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#29 someone smarter than Dave Cutler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#16 Sabre Talk Information?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#17 Looking for a real Fortran-66 compatible PC compiler (CP/M or DOS or Windows, doesn't matter)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#41 Looking for a real Fortran-66 compatible PC compiler (CP/M or DOSor Windows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#14 Sabre; The First Online Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#43 Sabre; The First Online Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#77 program coding pads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#8 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#9 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#52 How will mainframers retiring be different from Y2K?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#41 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#13 Should you support or abandon the 3270 as a User Interface?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#69 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#54 Has the last fighter pilot been born?
past posts mentioning redoing ROUTES
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#136a checks (was S/390 on PowerPC?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#20 Competitors to SABRE?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#69 Block oriented I/O over IP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#2 Computers in Science Fiction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#83 Summary: Robots of Doom
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#17 Rationale for Supercomputers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#6 Mainframe not a good architecture for interactive workloads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#23 Demo: Things in Hierarchies (w/o RM/SQL)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#85 The TransRelational Model: Performance Concerns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#24 is a computer like an airport?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#8 EBCDIC to 6-bit and back
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#18 RAMAC 305(?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#22 3 value logic. Why is SQL so special?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#22 Bidirectional Binary Self-Joins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#41 US Airways badmouths legacy system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#41 Fast and Safe C Strings: User friendly C macros to Declare and use C Strings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#28 Even worse than UNIX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#45 64 gig memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#61 Up, Up, ... and Gone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#19 American Airlines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#32 CLIs and GUIs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#39 Automation is still not accepted to streamline the business processes... why organizations are not accepting newer technologies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#41 Automation is still not accepted to streamline the business processes... why organizations are not accepting newer technologies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#54 another item related to ASCII vs. EBCDIC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#42 Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#10 The 50th Anniversary of the Legendary IBM 1401
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#13 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#73 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#74 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#19 Processes' memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#53 Article says mainframe most cost-efficient platform
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#42 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#43 Sabre; The First Online Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#8 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#52 How will mainframers retiring be different from Y2K?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#16 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#59 history of Programming language and CPU in relation to each
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#87 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#0 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made 30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#54 RR songs, was Re: e50th/60th anniversary of SABRE--real-time airline reservations computer system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#69 RR songs, was Re: e50th/60th anniversary of SABRE--real-time airline reservations computer system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#57 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#59 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
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