From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Miniskirts and mainframes Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:00:51 -0700Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> writes:
i wrote a report that based on processor power ... the move from
cp67/cms to 3081 vm370/cms ... should have been able to support 4000
... but was typically only supporting typically 300-400 ... I made the
claim that the relative system throughput of ibm dasd had declined by a
factor of ten times during the period (systems got 50 times faster, but
disks only got 3-5 times faster). old reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/93.html#31 Big I/O or Kicking the Mainframe out the Door
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#43 Bloat, elegance, simplicity and other irrelevant concepts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#55 How Do the Old Mainframes Compare to Today's Micros?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#10 Virtual Memory (A return to the past?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#46 The god old days(???)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#4 IBM S/360
disk division executives took exception and assign the division
performance group to refute the claim. after several weeks they came
back and effectively said that I had slightly understated the case. this
was then respun as share presentation for recommended disk configuration
(to improve throughput) ... B874, DASD Performance Review, past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#3 using 3390 mod-9s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#68 DASD Response Time (on antique 3390?)
during the FS period in the 70s, they were shutting down 370 efforts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
but I continued to work on cp67 & then vm370 ... even periodically
ridiculing the FS activities (which wasn't exactly a career enhancing
activity). old email referencing migrating from cp67 to vm370 for
csc/vm system (one of my hobbies was providing highly enhanced
operating systems to internal datacenters)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
after the FS failure there was mad rush to get stuff back into the 370
product pipeline ... which contributed to decision to release some
amount of my stuff in products .... with major exception the
paged mapped filesystem that I did for CMS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
a possible excuse was that part of the FS (failure) was single-level-store ... somewhat akin to earlier tss/360 ... and they possibly confused the FS & tss/360 single-level-store implementation and what I had done for cms paged mapped filesystem. The TSS & FS implementations had some horrendous throughput problems that I repeatedly claimed that I avoided. I was even able to show that identical CMS moderate i/o typical workloads ran three times faster (with less processing) with my CMS paged mapped filesystem (compared to standard cms filesystem) ... as well as significantly many other operational characteristics. This became increasingly significant as the mismatch between processor throughput and disk i/o throughput increased.
other trivia: POK high-end (MVS) tried to kill off vm370 product and have all the people move to POK to support MVS/XA development. Endicott mannaged to save the vm370 product mission, but had to reconstitute a development group from scratch (various refs to quality in the late 70s and early 80s). Part of MVS/XA was a heavy weight 370xa virtual machine facility for MVS/XA development ... but hardly a generalized vm370/cms operation. Later after MVS/XA was released ... customers were having difficulty migrating from MVS ... and decision was made to release the internal tool (VM/MA & VM/SF). Testing against vm370, VM/MA/SF had 60% or less throughput. An internal datacenter enhanced vm370 for full 370xa support ... and it was being considered as release. However internal politics had the VM/MA/SF group going after enormous resources to bring VM/MA/SF up somewhere near to vm370 (and managed to kill off the vm370 370xa support) ... which is eventually released as vm/xa.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Miniskirts and mainframes Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 15:23:32 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
... note I still haven't been able to update personal garlic.com web pages since they moved to new webserver 17Apr2015.
we were doing IBM's HA/CMP ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
and when out marketing in the very early 90s, I coined the terms geographic survivability and disaster survivability (to differentiate from disaster recovery) ...
I then was asked to write a section for the corporate continuous
availability strategy document ... but it got pulled because both
Rochester (as/400) and POK (mainframe) complained that they couldn't
meet the objectives. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#available
After Jim Gray left research (palming off some number of things on me)
for Tandem ... he did a study of what was causing outages. He found
that hardware had improved to the point where outages were then mostly
being caused by software, human mistakes, and environmental
factors (floods, power outages, tornadoes, etc). overview/summary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/grayft84.pdf
also
https://jimgray.azurewebsites.net/papers/TandemTR86.2_FaultToleranceInTandemComputerSystems.pdf
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Miniskirts and mainframes Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:12:06 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
http://www.jcmit.com/cpu-performance.htm
1965 IBM 360/40 417,000 0.04091 1966 IBM 360/75 - 0.84 1980 IBM 4331 Grp2 150,000 0.35484 1980 IBM 4341 Grp2 385,000 1.0360/40, $417,000 & .04091 "MIPS"; 4331-2, $150,00 & .35484 "MIPS"; almost ten times faster for less than 1/2 the cost.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#33 Microminiaturized Modules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#70 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#80 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#82 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#83 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#84 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#85 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#93 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#0 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#1 Miniskirts and mainframes
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:15:14 -0700Joe Makowiec <makowiec@invalid.invalid> writes:
one of Boyd's acolytes has something analogous "Perpetual War":
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
1990, commandant of the Marine Corps leverages Boyd for makeover of
the corp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_M._Gray,_Jr.
and continues to sponsor Boyd conferences
http://radio-weblogs.com/0107127/stories/2002/12/23/genghisJohnChuckSpinneysBioOfJohnBoyd.html
Boyd's display ("shrine") is the only non-marine in the quantico library
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1640474247359&set=a.1064746094515.10882.1101890183&_fb_noscript=1
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
past boyd related posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: 3380 was actually FBA? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 12 Aug 2015 12:10:11 -0700jcallen@NARSIL.ORG (Jerry Callen) writes:
hardware speed and error correction was going to fixed-sized blocks. You
can see this in 3380 track capacity calculations where record sizes have
to be rounded up, sort of compromise hack given that MVS wasn't going to
support real FBA. The 3380 was smaller fixed-sized blocks ... but not
"true" IBM FBA like 3310 & 3370. 3375 was the first CKD emulated on top
of an IBM FBA (3370) device. 512-byte blocks have prevailed for a couple
decades (IBM 3310 & 3370 and follow-ons ... but also all the other
industry standard disks). There is currently inudstry move to 4096-byte
fixed blocks for improved error correction and track capacity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format
http://www.seagate.com/tech-insights/advanced-format-4k-sector-hard-drives-master-ti/
eckd originally for speed-matching buffer ... was also trying to retrofit a little of the FBA benefits to CKD architecture (again because MVS wouldn't upgrade to real FBA).
part of the issue for 3375 was there wasn't a mid-size CKD disk (just the high-end 3380). Large customers were buying hundreds (& thousands) of vm/4300s for distributed non-datacenter market (sort of leading edge of the coming distributed computing tsunami; for instance recent claim that NATO got 6000 vm/4341s) ... and MVS couldn't play in that new market with no mid-range CKD disk.
Doing the 3375 CKD at least gave MVS a path ... however MVS support was really oriented around having 10-20 people in large datacenter. The idea of supporting a thousand distributed systems out in departmental areas wasn't very practical.
I also got dragged into doing benchmarks for national lab that was looking at
70 4341s for compute farm (sort of leading edge of the future
supercomputing paradigm). 4341 was faster than 158&3031 ... and
clusters of 4341s were faster than 3033, lower aggregate cost, lower
aggregate physical and environmental footprint, also higher aggregate
memory and i/o throughput. old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Some Trivia: Happy Birthday IBM PC - You're 34 Today! Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 12 Aug 2015 12:16:41 -0700sfowjs@SBCGLOBAL.NET (William Smith) writes:
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: 3380 was actually FBA? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 13 Aug 2015 12:24:50 -0700lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
IBM journal articles are behind IEEE membership wall ... have found
this detailed description at Google Books (3380 error correcting)
https://books.google.com/books?id=cG4Zgb8OqwEC&pg=PA495&lpg=PA495&dq=ibm+3380+error+correcting&source=bl&ots=lMaYN_d94F&sig=o-R202AspjC1Ox09YNcZDb9Ljgc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBGoVChMIxpHRg-KmxwIVVluICh1twgJy#v=onepage&q=ibm%203380%20error%20correcting&f=false
"which has each subblock consists of 96 data bytes and six first-level check bytes are appended in the form of two interleaved codewords"
after discussing details of 3380, it moves into RAID & Reed-Solomon codes ... trivia, I worked with somebody in bldg14 that was awarded the original RAID patent.
posts 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: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 07:57:58 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World
War, 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 ...
From the law of unintended consequences ... when the 1943 US Strategic Bombing program needed location of military targets in Germany, it got them from wallstreet.
I'm currently reading "Man Called Intrepid: The Incredible WWII Narrative Of The Hero Whose Spy Network And Secret Diplomacy Changed The Course Of History" and it periodically seems to try and portray US business as naive and duped by Hitler ... as opposed to war profiteering (otherwise somewhat computer related, lots to do with Bletchley Park and efforts to break Enigma).
I've posted before about "Battle of Britain" series from last spring, where they periodically referred to the US laws that were portrayed as "isolationism" ... were really done by members of congress that saw the enormous war profiteering by US business in WW1 ... and were trying to counteract it from happening again.
This goes along with recent reference to Smedley, "War Is A Racket",
and "perpetual war":
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 08:16:56 -0700re:
there are quite spirited discussions at facebook "war is boring" about all the claims being made for the (trillion dollar plus) F35 program.
recent reference that gets into the long running profiteering of the
mulitary-industrial complex (especially charging enormous amounts
for advanced technology that never lives up to the claims)
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418430/sixty-years-american-air-power-dominance-are-threatened-bad-strategy-mike-fredenburg
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
goes along with the spreading Success Of Failure culture with beltway
bandits and the military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: 3380 was actually FBA? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 14 Aug 2015 09:07:32 -0700re:
(friday) trivia ... starting in the early 80s, I also had a project I
called HSDT (high-speed data transport)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
unrelated to getting to play disk engineer in bldgs. 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
that got involved in some reed-solomon forward-error correcting. We had
an IBM engineer that had been Reed's graduate student at Caltech and had
done some of the original work on reed-solomon. We also got involved
with Cyclotomic ... one of the founders was Berlekamp at UCB.
https://math.berkeley.edu/~berlek/cyclo.html
that was doing lots of work and reed-solomon products. Cyclotnics had
also done the work on reed-solomon encoding for the cdrom standard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM#CD-ROM_format
HSDT was also working with NSF and the NSF supercomputers on
interconnect. Originally we were suppose to get $20M, but then congress
cuts the budget, some other things happened, and finally NSF releases an
RFP. Internal politics prevents us from bidding; the director of NSF
tries to help writing the company a letter 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 (as does
comments that what we already had running was at least 5yrs ahead of all
RFP responses). Then as regional networks tie into the supercomputer
sites, it evolves into the NSFNET backbone, precursor to the modern
internet. some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
Cyclotomic was eventually bought by Kodak. Past posts mentioning cyclotomic
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#55 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 09:53:06 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
"Intrepid" (canadian business man, flew for britain in WW1) has references touring germany (in his business persona) for intelligence gathering (working with Churchill). However he portrays Duke of Windsor and some number of others in the clutches of the Germans. He goes into some details about lots of their activities were kept from Chamberland because they figured he would divulge it to the Germans.
"Battle of Britain" series from last spring went into some detail about
how Lindbergh was commissioned by top US military to accept tours of
Germany (for intelligence gathering, reporting back to
arnold/lemay). past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#26 channel islands, definitely not the location of LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#0 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
there is enormous difference in how press treated Lindbergh intelligence gathering missions ... and how they treated John Foster Dulles efforts to rebuild the German economy and military.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:00:58 -0700hancock4 writes:
the other observation about Afghanistan is that US setup and backed an
enormously corrupt central government ... in the tradition of economic
hitman (enabling US to loot and pillage the country)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
and
https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-Man-ebook/dp/B001AFF266
which is continuation of Smedley's "War is a Racket"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
and "Perpetual War":
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
past reference to when Iran had a democratic elected government that
tried to inhibit the British looting the country ... in 1953, Kermit
Roosevelt (& CIA) staged a coup putting the shah in power.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#93 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#35 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#41 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#70 Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
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#78 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#67 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Roosevelt,_Jr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
and to help keep the shah in power, US trained (including Norman Schwarzkopf
senior)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK
"War is a Racket" and "Economic Hit Man" portray US actions against democratically elected governments as common practice (when they attempt to interfer with businesses looting the country). US policy much prefers corrupt dictators that can be bribed.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:45:06 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
slightly along that theme, are the attempts by the 9/11 victim families to sue Saudi Arabian gov. as responsible. Last decade, the courts ruled that it wasn't possible to sue a gov. as responsible. Then nearly two years the courts reversed that ruling (speculation change was because US was becoming less dependent on Saudi oil).
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
Murdoch's NY Post Backs Michael Moore's Bush-Saudi 9/11 Claims
http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/12/16/murdochs-ny-post-backs-michael-moores-bush-saudi-911-claims/
Inside the Saudi 9/11 coverup
http://nypost.com/2013/12/15/inside-the-saudi-911-coverup/
Bush family ties to terror suspects re-opened by 9/11 '28 pages'
http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/bush-family-ties-to-terror-suspects-re-opened-by-9-11-28-pages/article/426577
Families Of 9/11 Victims On Verge Of Proving Government Cover-Up In Court
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-11/families-911-victims-verge-proving-government-cover-court
Lawsuit could reveal secret Saudi connection to 9/11
http://nypost.com/2015/08/09/lawsuit-could-reveal-secret-saudi-connection-to-911/
eariler Saddam/Iraq
when CIA director didn't agree with "Team B" analysis (justifying
significant increases in DOD funding) ... they replaced him with
somebody that would:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
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
team b posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
VP (formerareplacement CIA director then is VP ... 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. 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/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 14:13:15 -0700re:
also possible fabrication of WMDs were an excuse to invade Iraq as part of misdirection away from Saudia Arabia
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, provides information to her cousin, Powell and some
number of others, then 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/
they eventually find the decommissioned WMDs ... tracing back to US in
the 80s ... but the information got classified
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0
Intrepid also points finger at Ambassador Kennedy ... they start bugging the US embassy because classified information was leaking to the Germans. They eventually identified a clerk as responsible but couldn't prove ties to Kennedy. However Kennedy is claiming credit for Chamberland capitulating to Hitler on many issues ... also making speeches in Britain and the US that Britain could never win a war with Germany and if he was president, he would be on the best of terms with Hitler.
loc2645-52:
The Kennedys dined with the Roosevelts that evening. Two days later,
Joseph P. Kennedy spoke on nationwide radio. A startled public learned
he now believed "Franklin D. Roosevelt should be re-elected President."
He told a press conference: "I never made anti-British statements or
said, on or off the record, that I do not expect Britain to win the
war."
British historian Nicholas Bethell wrote: "How Roosevelt contrived the
transformation is a mystery." And so it remained until the BSC Papers
disclosed that the President had been supplied with enough evidence of
Kennedy's disloyalty that the Ambassador, when shown it, saw discretion
to be the better part of valor. "If Kennedy had been recalled sooner,"
said Stephenson later, "he would have campaigned against FDR with a fair
chance of winning. We delayed him in London as best we could until he
could do the least harm back in the States."
... snip ...
the war profiteering faction was also doing its best to descredit congress neutrality law (not just wallstreet bankers and John Foster Dulles, it is possible that Intrepid lack of reference to Dulles was considered good politics) ...
loc1925-29:
One prominent figure at the German victory celebration was Torkild
Rieber, of Texaco, whose tankers eluded the British blockade. The
company had already been warned, at Roosevelt's instigation, about
violations of the Neutrality Law. But Rieber had set up an elaborate
scheme for shipping oil and petroleum products through neutral ports in
South America. With the Germans now preparing to turn the English
Channel into what Churchill thought would become "a river of blood,"
other industrialists were eager to learn from Texaco how to do more
business with Hitler.
... snip ...
"perpetual war":
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 14:12:17 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
from yesterday ...
US Military Uses IMF & World Bank To Launder 85% Of Its Black Budget
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-14/us-military-uses-imf-world-bank-launder-85-its-black-budget
John Perkins wrote about this paradigm in his book, Confessions of an
Economic Hitman. During the 1970s, Perkins worked for the international
engineering consulting firm, Chas T. Main, as an "economic hitman." He
says the operations of the World Bank are nothing less than "pure
economic colonization on behalf of powerful corporations and banks that
use the United States government as their tool."
In his book, Perkins discusses Joseph Stiglitz, the Chief Economist for
the World Bank from 1997-2000, at length. Stiglitz described the
four-step plan for bamboozling developing countries into becoming debtor
nations:
... snip ...
earlier in the day, i had ran across a web page saying that after all the news about coast guard intercepting billions of dollars in smuggled cocaine ... and CIA was asking for it back.
What's Up with the Black Budget?
https://solari.com/blog/whats-up-with-the-black-budget/
Q3 01webb.qxd
http://www.dunwalke.com/gideon/q301.pdf
Financial Coup d'Etat
https://solari.com/blog/financial-coup-d%E2%80%99etat/
Q3 01webb.qxd
http://www.dunwalke.com/gideon/q301.pdf
US Military Uses IMF and World Bank to Launder 85% of Its Black Budget
http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-military-uses-imf-and-world-bank-to-launder-85-of-its-black-budget/5469097
Valentin Katasonov - War and the Dollar
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/01/21/war-and-the-dollar.html
Imperialism and the Ruble Crisis. "Economic Warfare"- Centre for
Research on Globalization
http://www.globalresearch.ca/imperialism-and-the-ruble-crisis-economic-warfare/5421023
Global Financial Flaws and those Crazy "Gold Bugs" "Conspiracy
Theorists"
http://www.globalresearch.ca/global-financial-flaws-and-those-crazy-gold-bugs-conspiracy-theorists/5452942
War and the Financial Crisis: Global Research's Top 100 Stories Global
Research - Centre for Research on Globalization
http://www.globalresearch.ca/war-and-the-financial-crisis-global-research-s-top-100-stories/10448
The Engineered Decline in Oil Prices: Economic Warfare is the West's
Main Weapon
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-engineered-decline-in-oil-prices-economic-warfare-is-the-wests-main-weapon/5418545
money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Formal definition of Speed Matching Buffer Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 15 Aug 2015 15:55:27 -0700shmuel+ibm-main@PATRIOT.NET (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
need to have calypso (SMB) installed to attach to channel slower than device ... however it is possible to do channel programs w/o using ECKD CCWs
GA26-1661-9 3880 Storage Control Description ... from bitsavers
4-23 Define Extent (also 4-26 Locate Record)
Note: This command is valid only when the speed matching buffer for the
3375 or 3380 feature is installed.
... snip ...
4-111 describes how speed matching buffer uses the define extent & locate record to calculate when to connect to channel ahead of time on write operation.
5-17 I/O Operation for Speed Matching Buffer
The speed matching buffer for the 3375 feature and the speed matching
buffer for the 3380 feature (Models AA4, A04, and B04 only) will
correctly execute standard command chains when connected to channels
slower than the 3375 or the 3380. However, a performance reduction on
write operations (described below) will occur.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Federal Deficits Date: 15 Aug 2015 Blog: FacebookIn 2002 congress let the fiscal responsibility act expire (spending couldn't exceed tax revenue). 2010 CBO report was tax revenue had been cut 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 Comptroller General was including in speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle school arithmetic (for how badly they were savaging the budget)
comptroller general
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
fiscal responsibility act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
The above reference is just to annual budget ... not the accumulated effects .... rather than the fiscal responsible act having eliminated all federal debt by 2010, the federal debt exploded until interest on the debt is approaching half trillion. Federal reserve is providing 10s of trillions in ZIRP funds to TBTF who are turning around and buying treasuries (federal debt) and raking in that interest. In theory, federal reserve could buy treasuries directly and the debt wouldn't cost anything ... but then wall street would be out that extra nearly half trillion per year
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
when CIA director didn't agree with "Team B" analysis (justifying
significant increases in DOD appropriations) ... they replaced him
with somebody that would:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
they are then there for providing WMDs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
in the iran/iraq war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
former CIA director and then VP claims he didn't know anything about
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
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
team b
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
those advisers/analysts are there for Iraq1. 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
... administration proceeds to discredit the analyst. 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/
and still there with Bush2 for Iraq2 to fabricate WMD justification
(Bush2 also presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than S&L
crisis). cousin of the white house chief of staff Card ... was dealing
with the Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence that WMDs had been
decommissioned, notifies her cousin, Powell and others; then gets
locked up in military hospital
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
from the law of unintended consequences, for Iraq2, they were told to
bypass ammo dumps looking for WMDs ... when they get around to going
back, more than a million metric tons have evaporated. They then start
seeing large artillery shell IEDs, even taking out Abram M1s
https://www.amazon.com/Fiasco-American-Military-Adventure-ebook/dp/B004IATD6U/
they eventually find the decommissioned WMDs tracing back to US in the
80s ... takes nearly a decade before the information is declassified
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0
note that the 1st major legislation after PAYGO was allowed to expire
in 2002
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAYGO
was Medicare Part-D
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#medicare.part-d
Comptroller General would (also) claim it would become a $40T unfunded mandate totally swamping all other items. CBS 60mins did expose on part-d as enormous congressional gift to the drug industry. They showed identical drugs under VA and part-d and the part-d drugs were 3 times the price of VA. CBS identified 18 members of the majority party and their staff that drove the bill through congress ... and just before the final vote they insert a one line sentence that prohibits competitive bidding and blocks CBO distributing report of the effect of that one liner. After it passes, CBS finds that all 18 have resigned and are on drug industry payroll
PAYGO was both parties in the 90s (benefiting from both congress & administration being aligned on the subject) ... however that shifted at the start of the century and the administration&party in power managed to reverse everything (being aligned on the subject). The enormous tax loopholes created at the start of the century have continued for various reasons.
Part of the change is that wallstreet really likes the deficit
... being able to use ZIRP funds to make nearly half trillion per year
off it ... and comments that increasingly both parties are now owned
by wallstreet and other special interests. Local Wash DC news will now
periodically refer to congress as "Kabuki Theater" ... what you see
publicly has nothing to do with what is really going on ... and may be
purposeful distraction (from what is really going on) ... included
apparent contention between the two parties.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
I know this guy who was head of large bank examination at FDIC, he
caught WaMu early and reported up thru the head of FDIC ... he got
demoted and then fired. He wrote this account (he had sent early PDF
of the draft)
https://www.amazon.com/American-Betrayal-John-Doe-ebook/dp/B00BKZ02UM/
He "came out" and started using his own name last year and would post un-redacted email that he had sent documenting WaMu
Last product we did before leaving IBM was HA/CMP ... reference to
Jan1992 meeting in Ellison's conference room on scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
we were also working with national labs ... some old email from the
period
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
within a couple weeks of the Ellison meeting, the scale-up work is transferred, announced as IBM supercomputer (for technical and scientific *ONLY*), we are told we can't work on anything with more than four processors ... and we decide to leave.
A little later two of the other people in the Ellison meeting have left and are at a small client/server startup responsible for something called the "commerce server". We are brought in as consultants because they want to do payment transactions on their server; the startup had also invented this technology they called "SSL" they want to use; the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce". I have absolute authority for operations between commerce servers and payment gateway (interfaces to the payment networks), but could only make recommendations on the server/browser interface. Almost immediately they violate several of the recommendations which continue to account for many of the exploits that continue to this day.
Somewhat for having done "electronic commerce" we are ask to participate in X9A10 financial standard working group which had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the financial industry for *ALL* retail payments.
One of the participants in X9A10 is from NSCC, and in the late 90s we
are asked in to NSCC (before merger with DTC forming DTCC) to look at
improving the integrity of trading transactions. I work on it for
awhile and then get a call saying the work is being suspended because
a side effect of the improved integrity would have greatly increased
transaction visibility and transparency (which is antithetical to
wallstreet culture).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depository_Trust_%26_Clearing_Corporation
A decade later the congressional Madoff hearings had the person that
tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about
Madoff (SEC's hands were forced when Madoff turned himself in). They
asked him if new regulations were required. He replied that while new
regulations may be required, much more important was visibility and
transparency.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
Somewhere along the way, reference that wallstreet had nothing to fear
from SEC regarding illegal activity
http://nypost.com/2007/03/20/cramer-reveals-a-bit-too-much/
Rumsfeld white house chief of staff 74-75 (and supposedly organized
replacement of CIA director), then when he becomes SECDEF, 75-77, he
is replaced by one of his staffers, Dick Cheney. He is again SECDEF
2001-2006
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld
When Rumsfeld was white house chief of staff 74-75, Cheney was on his
staff. Cheney then becomes white house chief of staff when Rumsfeld
becomes SECDEF. Cheney is then SECDEF from 89-93 and VP 2001-2009
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney
another "Team B"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz
He is a leading neoconservative.[4] As Deputy Secretary of Defense, he was "a major architect of President Bush's Iraq policy and ... its most hawkish advocate."[5] In fact, "the Bush Doctrine was largely [his] handiwork."
OPM Contractor's Parent Firm Has a Troubled History
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/24/opm-contractor-veritas/
Founded in 1992 by the late investment banker Robert McKeon, Veritas
Capital grew quickly by buying up government contractors and forming
close ties with former senior government officials. Of the many
defense-related investments made by the company, the most famous has
been the 2005 purchase of DynCorp International, a scandal-plagued
company that played a pivotal role in the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
... snip ...
How Private Contractors Have Created a Shadow NSA; A new cybersecurity
elite moves between government and private practice, taking state
secrets with them (also references oil rig company that was
transformed into one of the largest defense contractors after former
SECDEF and future VP becomes CEO, including no-bid contracts in Iraq)
http://www.thenation.com/article/how-private-contractors-have-created-shadow-nsa/
above includes references to some of the events around the spreading
Success Of Failure culture (make more money off series of failures)
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
(note sometimes clicking govexec serves up a blank page and you have
to repeat the click)
Success Of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
"perpetual war"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: There's No Such Thing as Corporate DNA Date: 17 Aug 2015 Blog: LinkedIn - IBM Wild DucksThere's No Such Thing as Corporate DNA
from "Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World" Ferguson & Morris on failure
of Future System:
... and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr
of free and vigorous debate was replaced with sycophancy and make no
waves under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that thereafter, IBM lived in
the shadow of defeat
... and:
But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management, F/S
took years to kill, although its wrongheadedness was obvious from the
very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism
became politically dangerous," recalls a former top executive.
... snip ...
Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
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). AMEX is in
competition with KKR for private-equity take-over of RJR and KKR
wins. KKR then runs into trouble with RJR and hires away the AMEX
president to turn around RJR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
IBM has gone into the red and is in the process of being broken up
into the 13 "baby blues". The board then hires away the former
president of AMEX to reverse the breakup and resurrect IBM. Uses some
of same techniques at IBM that had been used at RJR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
Later the former president of AMEX leaves IBM and becomes head of
another large private-equity company
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1037893592918171788
which does LBO of company that hires Snowden:
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
"The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America"
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Deformation-Corruption-Capitalism-ebook/dp/B00B3M3UK6/
pg464/loc9995-10000:
IBM was not the born-again growth machine trumpeted by the mob of Wall
Street momo traders. It was actually a stock buyback contraption on
steroids. During the five years ending in fiscal 2011, the company
spent a staggering $67 billion repurchasing its own shares, a figure
that was equal to 100 percent of its net income.
pg465/10014-17:
Total shareholder distributions, including dividends, amounted to $82
billion, or 122 percent, of net income over this five-year
period. Likewise, during the last five years IBM spent less on capital
investment than its depreciation and amortization charges, and also
shrank its constant dollar spending for research and development by
nearly 2 percent annually.
IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge; Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
https://web.archive.org/web/20140623003038/http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/ibm-asian-revenues-crash-adjusted-earnings-beat-tax-rate-fudge-debt-rises-20-fund-st
Big Blue: Stock Buyback Machine On Steroids
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-17/big-blue-stock-buyback-machine-steroids
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
SEC Admits It's Not Monitoring Stock Buybacks to Prevent Market Manipulation
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/13/sec-admits-monitoring-stock-buybacks-prevent-market-manipulation/
stock buy backs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
I use to sponsor John Boyd's briefings at IBM. Part of the briefing was that going into WW2, US adopted a rigid, top-down, heavy weight command & control system to leverage the few experience resources and handle the massive influx of people into the military (needing 11% officers growing to 20% compare to Germany with 3% officers). Then by the 80s, US corporate culture was being contaminated with influx of former WW2 military officers climbing the corporate ladder. This has also been used to justify the explosion in ratio of top executive to worker compensation to 400:1 (or more, after being 20:1 for a long time and 10:1 in most of the rest of the world) ... aka only those at the top know what they are doing and they have to provide detailed direction to everybody else.
There is currently lively debate going on about trying to change that
culture in the Military. Note Boyd passed in 1997, article written for
USNI ... but copy lives here
http://radio-weblogs.com/0107127/stories/2002/12/23/genghisJohnChuckSpinneysBioOfJohnBoyd.html
but in 1990 the commandant of the Marine Corps had leveraged Boyd to do a make-over of the corp ... there is ongoing discussion about corp having reverted to pretty much standard military model.
A little IBM content ... Boyd was vocal about this not working ... so
possibly as punishment he is made command of "spook base" (he would
say it had the largest air conditioned bldg in that part of the world)
... ref gone 404, but lives on at the wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
Boyd biography claims it was a $2.5B (in 1970 dollars) windfall for IBM.
Boyd would say they spent 18months preparing for this artcile in time
... behind paywall, but most of it at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20070320170523/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953733,00.html
also
https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953733,00.html
Another of Boyd's acolytes, graduate of the first Air Force Academy
class on fast track to be general claims career side-tracked when Boyd
challenged him to do the right thing (eventually forced to retire)
... HBO made book into movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars
a 1993 review of the book, "Corrupt From Top to Bottom"
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/03/books/corrupt-from-top-to-bottom.html?pagewanted=1
Boyd posts & web URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Miniskirts and mainframes Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 12:47:23 -0700JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
we were doing cluster scale-up as part of HA/CMP ... past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
then end of Oct91, the senior executive backing IBM Kingston effort retires and there is audit of all his projects. After that they start scouring the company looking for high performance technology.
Jan1992 meeting in ellison's conference room about (commerical)
cluster HA/CMP scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
mainframe DB2 complaining if we were allowed to go ahead, it would be
years ahead of them. Then cluster scale-up is transferred, announced as
supercomputer (for technical & scientific *ONLY*) and we were told
that we can't work on anything with more than four processors (which
motivates us to leave). Somewhat no brainer operations ... it takes
care of the DB2 complaints and also gets them their supercomputer
... old email about working on technical and scientific with national
labs and others (up until the transfer)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
17Feb1992 press, scientific and technical *ONLY*
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
05May1992 press, total surprise about national lab interest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
I would claim that (national lab) scientific & technical activity
traces back to at least getting roped into doing national lab benchmark
looking at getting 70 4341s for compute farm and RDBMS/commercial
dates back to BofA getting 60 4341s for branch office distributed
System/R (original relational/sql implementation). old 4341 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
original relational/sql
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
Note that IBM's RDBMS were mainframe only and so RS/6000 had to work with other RDBMS for their platform. It turns out that a couple of those vendors had same source base for both VMS cluster as well as open systems. Part of simplifying the HA/CMP cluster scale-up was providing interface that supported VMS cluster semantics. These RDBMS vendors also had some very strong feeling about some of the VMS cluster implementation that could be done much better (which I was able to take advantage of besides my experience doing mainframe tightly-coupled and loosely-coupled implementations).
Later in the 90s, Chen is CTO at Sequent and we do some consulting work for him (before IBM buys Sequent and shuts it down).
That supercomputer model evolves into GRID computing ... which
combined with the internet also becomes large cloud megadatacenters
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Linux Foundation Launches Open Mainframe Project Date: 18 Aug 2015 Blog: FacebookLinux Foundation Launches Open Mainframe Project
as processors became faster, cache miss access to memory became increasing throughput bottleneck. RISC & X86 have used out-of-order execution, branch prediction and speculative execution for decades to compensate. Claim is that introduction of such technologies in z196, accounts for at least half the per processor throughput increase from Z10->Z196 ... with further features accounting for part of EC12 per processor throughput increase.
In 1988, I was asked to help LLNL standize some serial technology they
have which quickly becames fiber channel standard (including some
stuff I had done at STL in 1980). Later some POK channel engineers
become involved and define a heavy duty protocol that significantly
cuts the native throughput, eventually released as FICON. Peak I/O
benchmark published for z196 used 104 FICON to get 2M IOPS. At about
the same time, a native fibre-channel is announced for E5-2600
claiming over millions IOPS (two such fibre-channel having higher
throughput than 104 FICON running over 104 fibre-channel).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
z10, 64processors, 30BIPS (496MIPS/proc), z196, 80 processors, 50BIPS (625MIPS/proc), EC12, 101 processors, 75BIPS (743MIPS/proc). z13 claims 30% more throughput than EC12 with 40% more processors (700MIPS/proc?)
z10 era, E5-2600v1 blade was about 500BIPS (16 processors, 31BIPS/proc), E5-2600v4 blade is pushing 2000BIPS (36 processors, 50BIPS/proc). A high density rack of E5-2600v4 blades possibly has more processing power than all mainframes in the world today.
as aside, the vendor I worked with in 1980 (for some stuff for the santa teresa lab, now silicon valley lab) wants to release it to IBM customers, but there is a group in POK working on some serial stuff and get it vetoed because they are worried that it would make it harder to release their stuff. They finally get their stuff released a decade later as ESCON (with ES/9000 in 1990) when it is already obsolete.
another datapoint from z196 (i've found it difficult to find corresponding numbers since then), all 14 SAPs run at 100% busy doing 2.2M SSCH/sec ... recommended is keeping SAPs to 75% or 1.5M SSCH/sec (rough correspondence between SSCH and IOPS)
Note some of the perception problem is that there can be enormous difference between the $300 consumer i86 machines and rack full of e5-2600 blades. Furthermore, a typical cloud megadatcenter will be operated by 80-120 people and have hundreds of thousands of such systems. One of the reasons for the rise of LINUX is those operations needed full, freely available source in order to adapt system to such an enormously massive operation with millions of processors
Also mainframes increasingly simulating legacy operation on top of industry standard components ... FICON on fibre-channel standard and CKD DASD (which haven't been built for decades) on industry standard fixed-block disks (the emulation costing additional overheard and thuput degradation)
A cloud megadatacenter has leading edge automated production operation with millions of processors and with systems & software costs under $1/BIPS (compared to several hundred thousand for mainframe may grow to millions depending on software). Some of the side-effects is that power&cooling have become growing % of total costs (as system & software costs have plummeted) and they can significantly over provision for "on-demand" computing (as long as power&cooling drops to zero while systems are idle). Customers have been known to spin-up an on-demand supercomputer configuration (that would rank in top 100) using just a credit card and no human interaction.
Mainframes with 5-6 order greater costs need much higher value applications to justify that cost.
Mainframe processor business had been 4-5% of IBM revenue for a decade or so ... but total mainframe revenue (including software & services) was 25% of IBM revenue (and 40% of profit). Its frequently difficult to extract more exact numbers. I found 1qtr2014 processor revenue which was the equivalent of 14 max. configured EC12, 56 on an annulaized basis. A single wafer fab. run would provide enough processor chips for several years of sales. Possibly one of the justification for IBM to unload its wafer fabs ... which are typically expected to do tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of wafers per month. In addition to above comments about mapping to other industry standard technology ... mainframe chips need to map to industry standard chip technology (since a dozen or so wafers every couple years isn't enough to justify a wafer fab).
e5-2600 blade is talking about millions of mips ... a high densitry rack of such e5-2600 blades is upwards of hundreds of millions of mips (possibly more than the aggregate of all mainframes in the world today).
A typical cloud megadatacenter run by 80-120 people needs enormous automation to handle millions of processors (million MIPS).
Cloud megadatacenter is doing it for less than $1/BIPS ... EC12 is a couple hundred thousand per BIPS (if you add in a bunch of MVS legacy software it can go over million per BIPS). With the enormous drop in cloud megadatacenter processor costs and the power/cooling representing increasing percentage of total lifetime costs ... cloud operators have been threatening the I86 server chip makers with switch to ARM chips ... which have had more efficient power/BIPS (ARM originally developed for mobile battery devices). ARM chips have had lower BIPS/chip, but once cloud megadatacenter are dealing with millions, they can go to more slower chips ... if it reduces their total lifetime cost of operation.
There are several large cloud operations that are doing dozen or more
billion dollar megadatacenters around the world. They view the
operations as a cost (rather than a profit item). For more than a
decade, they've been claiming they assemble their own systems at 1/3
the price of brand name systems ... and large server chip makers have
been saying they ship more chips directly to cloud operations than to
brand name server makers (possibly motivation for IBM to sell-off
their server business). The large cloud operators spend tens of
millions on optimization their dataprocessing costs ... including
publicly disclosing lots of their optimization tricks (rather than
treating them as competitive advantage) ... examples
http://www.opencompute.org/about/
https://gigaom.com/2012/04/06/making-the-web-more-efficient-a-thousand-servers-at-a-time/
http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/19/googles-disk-failure-experience/
trivia: one of my hobbies at IBM was providing highly enhanced
operating systems for internal datacenters and IBM HONE (world-wide
online sales&marketing support systems) was long-time customer. In the
mid-70s, the US HONE datacenters were consolidated in Silicon Valley,
where the largest single-system-image, loosely-coupled complex of
multiple tightly-coupled processors was created. In the early 80s, US
HONE was replicated first in Dallas and then another in Boulder, with
load-balancing and disaster survivability across the distributed
complexes (none of these features were made available to
customers). When FACEBOOK first moved into silicon valley, it was into
a "new" building built right next door to the "old" HONE datacenter
(now with a different occupant).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
Later when we were doing IBM HA/CMP (RS/6000) product for IBM ... out
marketing I was using the terms disaster survivability and
geographic survivability. I was also asked to write a section of the
corporate continuous availability strategy document ... but the
section got pulled when both Rochester (AS/400) and POK (IBM
mainframe) complained that they couldn't meet the specification.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#available
We were also doing cluster scale-up as part of HA/CMP ... reference to
old Jan1992 meeting in Ellison's conference room
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
Mainframe DB2 was complaining that if I was allowed to go ahead it
would be years ahead of them. Within a couple weeks of the Ellison
meeting, scale-up was transferred, announced as the IBM supercomputer
for technical and scientific *ONLY* and we were told we couldn't work
on anything with more than four processors. Old email from the period
... not only working on DBMS cluster scale-up but also technical and
scientific with national labs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
oh and the bldg. basement referred to here
http://www.opencompute.org/about/
is next to the old US HONE complex bldg.
recent posts mentioning e5-2600
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#35 [CM] IBM releases Z13 Mainframe - looks like Batman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#36 [CM] IBM releases Z13 Mainframe - looks like Batman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#39 [CM] IBM releases Z13 Mainframe - looks like Batman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#46 Why on Earth Is IBM Still Making Mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#78 Is there an Inventory of the Inalled Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#82 Is there an Inventory of the Installed Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#29 IBM Z13
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#30 IBM Z13
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#93 HONE Shutdown
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#39 Remember 3277?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#14 Clone Controllers and Channel Extenders
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#0 What are some of your thoughts on future of mainframe in terms of Big Data?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#5 Can you have a robust IT system that needs experts to run it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#35 Moving to the Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#93 Miniskirts and mainframes
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: After 6 Years Of QE, And A $4.5 Trillion Balance Sheet, St. Louis Fed Date: 19 Aug 2015 Blog: Google+re:
After 6 Years Of QE, And A $4.5 Trillion Balance Sheet, St. Louis Fed
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-19/after-6-years-qe-and-45-trillion-balance-sheet-st-louis-fed-admits-qe-was-mistake
inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
Bernanke fought hard battle in the courts to prevent disclosure what he was doing behind the scenes with the tens of trillions in ZIRP funds. After the FED was finally forced to make public what they were doing, Bernanke told the press that he thought that the TBTF would use the ZIRP funds to lend to mainstreet, but when they didn't, he had no way to force them (but he also didn't stop the ZIRP funds)
Note supposedly one of the reasons Bernanke was chosen as new chair of the FED was because he was a depression era scholar. However, the FED had tried something similar in the 30s and wallstreet had reacted similarly ... so there was no reason that Bernanke should have expected them to do anything different this time.
bernanke
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#bernanke
2010 CBO report after PAYGO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAYGO
expires (spending can't exceed revenue), then tax revenue was cut by $6T and spending increased by $6T for $12T budget gap (compared to PAYGO financial responsible baseline budget). Interest is now pushing half trillion. In theory FED could use ZIRP to buy treasuries and fed debt wouldn't cost anything, but TBTF would be out nearly half trillion.
fiscal responsibility act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
End of 2008, just the four largest TBTF were carrying $5.2T in toxic
assets "off-book" (that had been going for 22cents on the dollar)
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
FED starts buying at 98cents on the dollar
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: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.misc Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:44:01 -0700Louis Krupp <lkrupp@nospam.pssw.com.invalid> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:51:55 -0700mausg writes:
loc1774-77:
The computers were called, in conversation, "bombes," from French
intelligence terminology, a sad echo of the days--now abruptly ended--when
Paris was a center of cryptological research. The first British-built
models were assembled near Bletchley, but it soon became apparent that
production must take place away from enemy bombers, in the United
States, where improvements could be made with the help of American
mathematicians.
... snip ...
other Intrepid recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#7 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#10 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#13 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 12:56:56 -0700"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
i was complaining about RSA in the first part of the 80s (30+yrs ago)
... and some MIB showed up to talk to me about it ... never did say
where he was from. some old crypto email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#crypto
I reported to YKT (on east coast, but was allowed to live in San Jose) at the time and one of the inventors of elliptic-curve was in the YKT math department (as well as person responsible for DES).
this discussion from early 80s is about doing a PGP-like facility (a
decade before PGP).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#email810506
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email810515
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Miniskirts and mainframes Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 17:34:51 -0700lawrence writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: After 6 Years Of QE, And A $4.5 Trillion Balance Sheet, St. Louis Fed Date: 20 Aug 2015 Blog: Google+re:
"There Is No Other End Than A Bad One... It's A Mathematical Certainty"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-19/there-no-other-end-bad-one-its-mathematical-certainty
fed chairman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate
fraudulent mortgages (posterchild were office bldgs in Dallas/Ft.Worth
area that turned out to be empty lots. In the late 90s, I was asked to
look at improving the integrity of supporting documents as
countermeasures. Then loan originators were securitizing
loans&mortgages and paying for triple-A ratings (when both the sellers
and the rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008
congressional testimony). Triple-A rating trumps supporting
documentation and they can start doing no-documentation liar
loans. Being able to pay for triple-A eliminated any reason for loan
originators to care about borrowers' qualifications or loan quality,
they could sell off (all loans as fast as they could be made) to
customers restricted to dealing in "safe" investments (like large
pension funds, claim is it accounts for 30% loss in funds and
trillions shortfall for pensions), largely enabling being able to do
over $27T 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
triple-A rated toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
To bail-out TBTF, the Federal Reserve buys the off-book assets at 98cents on the dollar (they had been going for 22cents on the dollar summer of 2008) and provides tens of trillions in ZIRP funds (used to buy federal debt)
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
From the law of unintended consequences, the lack of documents force the TBTF to set up the large robo-signing mills to fabricate documents for foreclosures (for which they've been fined tens of billions).
If that wasn't enough, they also start packaging securitized loans/mortgages designed to fail, pay for triple-A, sell to their victim customers, and then take out CDS gambling bets they would fail (creating enormous demand for dodgy loans & mortgages). Largest holder of CDS gambling bets was AIG and was negotiating to pay off at 50-60cents on the dollar, when the secretary of treasury steps in and forces them to sign a document that they can't sue those making the gambling bets and to take TARP funds to payoff at 100cents on the dollar. The largest recipient of TARP funds was AIG and the largest recipient of face-value payoffs was TBTF formerly headed by sec-of-treasury.
VP (former replacement CIA director) ... 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
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
Later a son, presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than S&L crisis.
a little more recent
Lehman's Gift To Jeb Bush For Funneling Pension Money: A $1.3 Million
Consulting "Job"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-19/lehmans-gift-jeb-bush-funneling-pension-money-13-million-consulting-job
more FED
Greenspan Imagines Better, Alternate Universe in Which Greenspan Was
Not Fed Chair
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/18/greenspan-imagines-better-alternate-universe-greenspan-fed-chair/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:20:10 -0700Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> writes:
we were doing a lot of work with NCAR in boulder ... in part because
they were going to be one of the NSF "supercomputer" nodes that we were
suppose to interconnect (we were suppose to get $20M, but that was
before congress cut the budget and several other things happened).
some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
We also spent a number of years dealing with NCAR about their
supercomputer filesystem ... originally MVS system that staged data
between tape&disk ... it used hyperchannel for supercomputer systems to
communicate with the MVS system for data ... then the MVS system
staged the data to disk and loaded channel program into hyperchannel
device adapter (channel emulator) and returned the handle of
the channel program to the requesting supercomputer (sort of
original SAN/NAS). Branch office would periodically call me
since I was supposedly the (ibm) company expert on hyperchannel.
some past posts using hyperchannel device adapter in 1980 for
channel extender (support moving 300 people from the IMS
DBMS group to off-site bldg)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
Later NCAR was attempting to spin off the file system as "Mesa Archival" product ... but ported from MVS to RS/6000 and the IBM disk division was providing funds for the effort and we were asked to provide them assistance in moving to RS/6000 and initially IPI-disk with HiPPI switch and later fibre-channel switch. One of the issues in HIPPI (and FCS) switch standards was getting "3rd party transfer" support ... to provide the equivalent function of hyperchannel device adapter (as well as switch path authorization ... which could dynamically turn on and off specific permission for transfers between two specific end-points).
In any case, somewhere in that period, NCAR lost its Cray used for US weather modeling/prediction ... and it was year (or two?) before it got replacement.
posts mentioning hyperchannel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
other posts mentioning working with NSF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
past posts mentioning "mesa archival"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#21 Disk caching and file systems. Disk history...people forget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#22 Disk caching and file systems. Disk history...people forget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#66 commodity storage servers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#46 What goes into a 3090?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#61 GE 625/635 Reference + Smart Hardware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#29 360/370 disk drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#31 360/370 disk drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#6 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs. IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#75 DASD Architecture of the future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#29 FW: Is FICON good enough, or is it the only choice we get?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#12 Device and channel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#15 Device and channel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#16 Device and channel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#19 Device and channel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#29 CRAM, DataCell, and 3850
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#47 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#51 Barbless
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#58 Disksize history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#42 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#69 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#71 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#85 3270 Emulator Software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#58 Other early NSFNET backbone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#34 Last Word on Dennis Ritchie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#27 NASA unplugs their last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#47 IBM, Lawrence Livermore aim to meld supercomputing, industries
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#46 Slackware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#9 3270s & other stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#15 Quixotically on-topic post, still on topic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#68 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#47 GRS Control Unit ( Was IBM mainframe operations in the 80s)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: OT: efforts to repeal strict public safety laws Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 11:24:10 -0700hancock4 writes:
the other side was that the new crime laws resulted in enormous
upsurge in non-violent, frequently victimless crimes to populate the
for-profit prisons (low-cost low-overhead prisoners) ... turning the
US into the largest per-capita prison population in the world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
... and for-profit prisons have become the largest lobby that you never
heard of.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/28/how-for-profit-prisons-have-become-the-biggest-lobby-no-one-is-talking-about/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prison
https://www.aclu.org/banking-bondage-private-prisons-and-mass-incarceration
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/06/private-prisons-profit
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#43 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#61 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#82 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#9 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#10 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#27 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#85 prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Miniskirts and mainframes Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 18:06:26 -0700Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
VP (& former replacement CIA director) ... 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: A Savings and Loan Bailout, and Bush's Son Jeb
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
and
http://critcrim.org/critpapers/potter.htm
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
last decade, a son presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than the S&L crisis, also last decade
Lehman's Gift To Jeb Bush For Funneling Pension Money: A $1.3 Million
Consulting "Job"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-19/lehmans-gift-jeb-bush-funneling-pension-money-13-million-consulting-job
Election 2016: Jeb Bush And John Kasich's Work At Lehman Spotlights
Different Revolving Door Between Business and Government
http://www.ibtimes.com/election-2016-jeb-bush-john-kasichs-work-lehman-spotlights-different-revolving-door-2061128
old "team b" history about replacement CIA director selected because
would go along with the "team b" analysis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
"team b" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
another one of the original "team b" members
The Jeb Bush Adviser Who Should Scare You
http://billmoyers.com/2015/05/14/jeb-bush-adviser-scare/
The Jeb Bush Adviser Who Should Scare You
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/jeb-bush-adviser-paul-wolfowitz
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: OT: efforts to repeal strict public safety laws Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 09:21:07 -0700Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 14:10:10 -0700hancock4 writes:
June1940, Germany had a victory celebration at the Waldorf-Astoria with
major industrialists. Lots of them were there to hear how to do business
with the Nazis, Intrepid, loc1901-4:
One prominent figure at the German victory celebration was Torkild
Rieber, of Texaco, whose tankers eluded the British blockade. The
company had already been warned, at Roosevelt's instigation, about
violations of the Neutrality Law. But Rieber had set up an elaborate
scheme for shipping oil and petroleum products through neutral ports in
South America. With the Germans now preparing to turn the English
Channel into what Churchill thought would become "river of blood," other
industrialists were eager to learn from Texaco how to do more business
with Hitler.
... snip ...
then at big national conference held later that year, there is proposal for big propaganda campaign to equate capitalism and christianity
How Corporate America Invented Christian America; How one reverend's big
business-backed crusade altered the political landscape.
http://www.alternet.org/belief/how-corporate-america-invented-christian-america
In December 1940, as America was emerging from the Great Depression,
more than 5,000 industrialists from across the nation made their yearly
pilgrimage to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, convening for
the annual meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers.
... snip ...
big difference in '68 election was having committed treason regarding
vietnam, past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#38 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#93 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#98 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#5 Lessons Learned from the Iraq War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#21 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#22 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#23 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#61 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#75 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#87 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
recent hitler/nazi refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#26 channel islands, definitely not the location of LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#28 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#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#77 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#2 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#33 Crossing the Rhine - 70 Years Ago Today - In Pictures!
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#89 Your earliest dream?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#38 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#58 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#63 12 Reasons America Doesn't Win Its Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#29 Eric Holder Returns as Hero to Law Firm That Lobbies for Big Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#36 Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#81 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#7 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#10 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#13 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 16:48:07 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 09:06:27 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
besides accounts of Nixon covert dealings with the NV to boycott the peace talks and prolong the war during the election (treason)
discussion
How Corporate America Invented Christian America; Inside one reverend's
big business-backed 1940s crusade to make the country conservative
again.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/corporate-america-invented-religious-right-conservative-roosevelt-princeton-117030.html
of the book
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
https://www.amazon.com/One-Nation-Under-God-Corporate-ebook/dp/B00PWX7R56/
from one of the amazon book reviews
His chapters lay the necessary groundwork nicely for the two most
revealing chapters, "Our So-Called Religious Leaders", which largely
deal with efforts to pass a constitutional amendment requiring school
prayer, and "Which Side Are You On?", an intense look at how shamelessly
Richard Nixon and his administration publicy made God "their own".
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 10:30:32 -0700"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
I was just noting the sentance that states those are two separate chapters in the book, one about school prayer and one mostly about nixon ... just reference to statements of fact rather than opinion. The sample that I just downloaded has contents but not those chapters.
PartII/chapter3 is "Government Under God" ... presumably is the effort that added "under god" to the pledge of allegiance.
PartIII/chapter7 is "Our So-Called Religious Leaders" is the school
prayer admendment. This has the admendment repeatedly proposed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Prayer_Amendment
PartIII/chapter8 is "Which Side Are You On" is reference to Nixon leveraging the effort for his own purposes. I would guess that the reviewer reference that chapter8 was about Nixon, was a statement of fact ... not a statement of opinion (presumably the chapter actually states that it is about Nixon).
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/one-nation
The narrative concludes with President Nixon using religion for
divisive, partisan ends. While presidents attended the numerous houses
of worship in Washington, D.C. for private worship, Nixon took the
drastic step of orchestrating worship services in the White House. With
hand-picked attendees and officiants selected from pro-Nixon
congregations, the entire operation appeared both unseemly and
grotesque. Apart from the obvious church and state separation issues,
the Nixon White House wrapped it up in a veil of sanctimonious
doublespeak. Nixon alleged these were private worship services, but in
actuality they had the calculated grandeur of courtiers groveling before
an absolute monarch.
... snip ...
Book Review: "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented
Christian America"
http://www.nationalmemo.com/book-review-one-nation-under-god-how-corporate-america-invented-christian-america/
Not incidentally, Kruse notes in one of countless fascinating details,
J. Walter Thompson at one time employed the future Richard Nixon chief
of staff H.R. Haldeman, who went on to be a central figure not only in
the Watergate cover-up, but in orchestrating Nixon's efforts to
"romance" religious leaders.
... snip ...
"One Nation Under God," by Kevin M. Kruse
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/books/review/one-nation-under-god-by-kevin-m-kruse.html?_r=0
The main event in Nixon's pro-war religious revival took place on
Independence Day in 1970. Billy Graham led a joint rally and prayer
service at the Lincoln Memorial to "Honor America." Graham assured the
crowd of 15,000 -- and a national television audience -- that the
Republic's founding was "rooted in a book called the Bible"; Kate Smith
belted out "God Bless America." But several hundred chanting, mocking,
underclad demonstrators managed to distract and anger the crowd, and the
occasion did nothing to firm up support for the debacle in Indochina.
... snip ...
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unfundamentalistchristians/2015/04/one-nation-under-god-how-corporate-america-invented-christian-america/
Billy Graham also plays a pivotal role in the book -- his shadow looms
large over the modern conflation of religion and politics. Describing
his influence in the Nixon White House, Kruse says "His words and deeds
helped make piety and patriotism seem the sole property of the religious
right."
... snip ...
this also has quite long discussion of Nixon from the book
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/25/pagan_statism_the_frightening_corporatechristian_alliance_that_invented_in_god_we_trust_and_one_nation_under_god/
including
Nixon, however, uses the same language in a very different way. He
doesn't use it to unite people. He uses it as a way to push
divisive political issues. He uses it to advance domestic issues of the
silent majority. He uses it as political cover when he widens the
Vietnam War to Cambodia and student protests break out. In using this
language that's meant to bring people together, he only
alienates them and drives them further apart.
... snip ...
following has much more long running discussion of Nixon in the book:
http://www.thenation.com/article/how-long-have-we-really-been-one-nation-under-god/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 10:46:03 -0700re:
and a few of the accounts of Nixon's Treason
George Will Confirms Nixon's Vietnam Treason
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/12/george-will-confirms-nixons-vietnam-treason
Nixon betrayal far worse than GOP Iran letter: Column
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/03/10/senators-letter-doesnt-rise-to-nixons-level/24695093/
Yes, Nixon Scuttled the Vietnam Peace Talks - John Aloysius Farrell
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/yes-nixon-scuttled-the-vietnam-peace-talks-107623.html
The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21768668
Richard Nixon's long shadow
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-f-will-nixons-long-shadow/2014/08/06/fad8c00c-1ccb-11e4-ae54-0cfe1f974f8a_story.html
Fleshing Out Nixon's Vietnam 'Treason'
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/09/08/fleshing-out-nixons-vietnam-treason/
Nixon's Treason Now Acknowledged
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/08/nixons-treason-now-acknowledged.html
Did Nixon Commit Treason in 1968? What The New LBJ Tapes Reveal.
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/60446
Richard Nixon at 100: not just criminal, but treasonous too
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/10/richard-nixon-100-criminal-traitor
How Richard Nixon Sabotaged 1968 Vietnam Peace Talks to Get Elected
President
http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/13994-how-richard-nixon-sabotaged-1968-vietnam-peace-talks-to-get-elected-president
Newly Released Secret Tapes Reveal LBJ Knew but Never Spoke Out About
Nixon's 'Treason'
http://www.thewire.com/national/2013/03/newly-released-secret-tapes-reveal-lbj-knew-never-spoke-out-about-nixons-treason/63188/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.misc Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 11:31:20 -0700Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> writes:
The size of the IBM/PC business market and the business profit market attracted lots of software developers.
IBM/PC clone makers were attracted to the market because IBM had significant profit margin in the business market ... the clone makers could build for less than IBM and sell at significantly lower price and still make a hefty profit.
The size of the market justified upfront chip design cost for higher integration ... which reduced (per unit) manufacturing cost, the system cost started to drop dramatically in snowball effect as long as upfront (hardware&software) design/development costs across a large enough base.
There came tipping point where increasing capability (upfront
development of increasing capable VSLI enabling more powerful software
... variation on Moore's law) was big enabler for distributed and
client/server computing ... which the IBM communication group was trying
to fight off, preserving its dumb terminal paradigm (and dumb terminal
emulation install base). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
At 1996 Moscone MSDC (with all the banners saying "Internet" but the constant message in sessions saying "preserve your investment"), a couple people from Redmond mentioned that they weren't sure where their revenue growth was going to come from. There was analysis that large corporations always would buy the next newest version of software because it provided needed new feature/function ... but around 1996, latest versions were providing 95% of the feature/function used/needed by 95% of users. They had to come up with new marketing approach to convince customers to continue to automatically buy the latest versions/releases (even tho they weren't really providing anything additional that they actually wanted/needed).
The "preserve your investment" was basically adapting networking paradigm that evolved for safe, small, private, local networks and enabling it for wide-open anarchy of the internet w/o any changes in security paradigm or additional countermeasures. This evolves into a security process that requires constant updates/patches for every new attack (as opposed to a generalized security paradigm resistant to attacks). It is now possible to encourage moving to the latest version/releases by dropping the constant updating for earlier version/releases.
some related posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#assurance
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.misc Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 12:08:55 -0700re:
note keeping up with Moore's law required fairly significant install base; new fabrication plants every couple years is now running $5B per plant ... and new chip design can run hundred million; so need to sell 10M-50M or more chips.
Motorola wasn't keeping up which helps motivate move off 68K to power/pc. Then IBM was focused on power/pc server market and not keeping up with consumer market (including chips for battery/laptop) and Apple moves to intel.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 17:25:20 -0700JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
the book/articles said that those things were separate ... it was later that nixon coopted the propaganda effort for his political campaigns and presidency. the common thread wasn't nixon ... it was the industrialists/capatilists funding propaganda campaign to equate capitilism with Christianity (attempting to improve their image, it wasn't nixon as common thread). It wasn't until the last chapter that it has nixon efforts come into play.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 07:26:20 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on
Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Erik-M-Conway-ebook/dp/B003RRXXO8/
"merchants of Doubt" sort of starts with group of PR specialists and
scientist distorting the cancer facts for big tabacco. It then follows
a number of other corporate causes where the same people are involved
... including combined efforts with "team b" on behalf of
military-industrial complex ... "team b" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
The Influence Machine: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate
Capture of American Life
https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Machine-Commerce-Corporate-American-ebook/dp/B00NDTUDHA/
This gives abbreviated history of Chamber of Commerce ... local and the national organization somewhat disorganized on a number of issues. Then in the late 90s, a new president comes into the national organization and starts campaign targeting corporations for large contributions ... especially massive leverage of non-profit political action groups. The activity becomes so egregious on behalf of large corporations, that some number of local chapters cut ties with the national organization. It plays role in getting the ruling that corporations are people.
recent posts mentioning "Merchants of Doubt" and/or "Influence Machine"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#24 Forget the McDonnells. We're ignoring bigger, more pernicious corruption right under our noses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#34 43rd President
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#63 12 Reasons America Doesn't Win Its Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#1 Jeb: George W. Bush is a top foreign policy adviser
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#76 Pentagon remains stubbornly unable to account for its billions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#90 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#91 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#92 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.misc Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 08:22:10 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
references moscone spring 1996 & running over internet/tcpip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Developers_Conference
I have text for this URL report on the event, archived in old email
... but I'm trying to find a copy already on the net ... this has gone
404, and wayback machine doesn't have it
http://www.hotwired.com/userland/whichwaygil_529.html
some snipits
Steve Jobs was a disappointment. He starts really well, I'm sitting
on the edge of my chair, hoping for some of his great confidence to
shine. I miss the young Steve Jobs, even though he used to irritate me
endlessly. Instead we have Steve sucking up, a Jobs every mother
could love. He shows us something that he says is revolutionary, but
it's just CGI scripts connecting the web to a database. Maybe the
people in the audience were impressed, but I don't think so. Everyone
who browses the web understands that some pages are static and some
aren't.
...
AOL and Microsoft.
Sitting in a tree.
"A far-reaching strategic partnership."
...
past posts mentioning moscone (some references to january1996, but it
was march1996)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#49 Virus propagation risks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#45 Computer programming was all about:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#22 Why did TCP become popular ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#62 The Incredible Shrinking Legacy Workforces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#34 Next generation processor architecture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#32 Frontiernet insists on being my firewall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#51 Specifying all biz rules in relational data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#50 DOS C prompt in "Vista"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#18 Oddly good news week: Google announces a Caps library for Javascript
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#87 CompUSA to Close after Jan. 1st 2008
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#26 realtors (and GM, too!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#43 The 50th Anniversary of the Legendary IBM 1401
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#63 who pioneered the WEB
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#66 What is the protocal for GMT offset in SMTP (e-mail) header
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#37 (slightly OT - Linux) Did IBM bet on the wrong OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#36 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#9 The IETF is probably the single element in the global equation of technology competition than has resulted in the INTERNET
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#40 The Great Cyberheist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#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/2011p.html#141 With cloud computing back to old problems as DDos attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#81 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#93 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#2 What are the implication of the ongoing cyber attacks on critical infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#18 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#32 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#37 Simulated PDP-11 Blinkenlight front panel for SimH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#93 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#97 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#14 The growing openness of an organization's infrastructure has greatly impacted security landscape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#45 New HD
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#87 On a lighter note, even the Holograms are demonstrating
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#35 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#90 These hackers warned the Internet would become a security disaster. Nobody listened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#35 [Poll] Computing favorities
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 08:25:37 -0700JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:02:22 -0700Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
the new/current garlic.com webserver is a different disk area ... and not the same machine that the old garlic.com webserver was located. They have SFTP with password for uploading. For the new webserver, they initially copied over the disk areas from the old webserver as of 16April2015
The passwords don't work for the machine with the new webserver. I asked several times the first month about what was process and password for the new webserver. They offered suggestions, none of which worked. I'm now down to only asking about once a month.
before the same password for connection, email, etc ... also worked for the webserver. that email/connection/logon password no longer works with the new webserver machine. Nobody has been able to explain to me why it doesn't work. I've tried lots of variations and combinations as work around. However, the process continues to work with the old garlic.com webserver disk area ... but of course none of those changes/updates/new show up when accessed via https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 20 Things Incoming College Freshmen Will Never Understand Date: 24 Aug 2015 Blog: Facebook20 Things Incoming College Freshmen Will Never Understand
In the early 80s we were working with NSF and the NSF supercomputer
centers and were suppose to get $20M to interconnect the centers. Then
congress cuts the budget and some other things happen. Finally they
release an RFP but internal politics prevent us from bidding. The
director of NSF tries to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) with support from other agencies, but that just makes the internal
politics worse (as does comments that what we already had running was
at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP responses). As regional networks
connects into the nodes, it evolves into the NSFNET backbone,
precursor to the modern internet. some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
The NSF RFP calls for T1 links (in part because we were already
running T1 and faster links). The winning bid is only able to put in
440kbit/sec links ... but then uses a telco multiplexor to run
multiple 440kbit links over T1 trunk (to sort of look like they were
meeting terms of the RFP). some old posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
Then communication group was spreading lots of misinformation
internally, including the NSFNET backbone could be run over
VTAM/SNA. Somebody collected lots of their email and forwarded it to
us ... copy snipped and heavily redacted to protect the guilty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
The original mainframe TCP/IP product was heavily crippled only
getting about 44kbytes/sec aggregate taking full 3090 processor. I did
the modifications to support RFC1044 and in some tuning tests at Cray
Research between Cray and 4341 got sustained channel throughput using
only modest amount of 4341 processor (possibly 500 times improvement
in bytes moved per instruction executed). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
Much later, the communication group hires an outside consultant to implement TCP/IP support running through VTAM/SNA. He originally demo'ed it and the communication group replied that everybody *knows* that a correct implementation of TCP/IP runs much slower than LU6.2 and they will only will be paying for a correct implementation.
semi-related
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
incoming class discovers internet and usenet ... including really egregious things like trying to get people on usenet to do their homework. their behavior usually becomes more principled by the end of the fall semester.
The original mainframe TCP/IP product was implemented in VS/Pascal and ran on VM370 directly mapping TCP/IP packets into LAN/MAC packets and doing I/O to channel attach bridge controller. This was ported to MVS and offered on MVS by simulating of needed VM370 features. It was only much later than the communication group subcontracted implementation of support for TCP/IP in SNA/VTAM.
When I did the RFC1044 enhancements I did I/O to directly send TCP/IP packets to channel attached router box.
In 1980, I did a T1 channel-extender for STL that was moving 300
people from the IMS group to offsite bldg. The group had tried remote
3270 support and found human factors totally unacceptable. They
noticed no difference with the channel-attached 3270 controllers at
the remote site. Some tricks done with channel programs actually made
it more efficient than attached to real channels (response at local
3270 at remote site was same, but channel busy was significantly
reduced and overall system throughput increased by 10-15% because of
the reduced channel busy doing 3270 i/o). When Boulder IMS FE group
was moved across the highway to different building, a similar
implementation was done using infrared T1 modems on the roofs of the
two bldgs They were worried about weather conditions affecting the
infrared modems ... but in a white-out snow storm when nobody could
get into work, the bit-error-rate hardware monitors was only showing a
very small increase in bit-errors. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
In 1988, I was asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they
had, which quickly becomes fibre-channel standard. Much of the channel
extender stuff from 1980 was included. Later some channel engineers
define a heavy-weight protocol that drastically reduces the native
throughput, eventually released as FICON. Most recent comparison I can
find is z196 peak i/o benchmark using 104 FICONs to get 2M IOPS. At
about the same time a single (native) fibre-channel was announced for
E5-2600 blades claiming over million IOPS (two such fibre-channel
having higher throughput than 104 FICON running over 104
fibre-channel). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
Part of sna/vtam issue was significant overhead and latency per RU/packet. ... by the time got to T1 only a small percentage of elapsed time was involved in transmission. Eventually they come out with 3737 box for T1 support that has boatload of memory and bunch 68k processors simulating local VTAM over CTCA. IT does immediate ACK simulating have arrived at remote end .. and then more efficient 3737-3737 protocol ... and then simulates local VTAM over CTCA at the remote end. Even with all the 68k processors spoofing SNA/VTAM, peak, aggregate thruput was 2mbits/sec on moderate length terrestrial T1. US T1 is 1.5mbits full-duplex or 3mbits aggregate (EU T1 is 2mbits full-duplex, 4mbits aggregate)
The company that I worked with in 1980 for channel-extender was also company that produced rfc1044 box capable of couple hundred megabits/sec tcp/ip router (mainframe interfaces as well as large number of other LAN adapter interfaces, not only T1 but as well the first with T3 interface). In mid-90s they invent VPN ... at the IETF meeting where they present it for standardization ... all the other router vendors go into standard stalling mode ... since none of their products have processors fast enough to do the VPN crypto. One of the other vendors eventually comes out with a VPN product ... which is actually their standard router with point-to-point hardware T1 link encryptors from cylink (i.e. not encrypting tcp/ip sessions tunneled through the internet).
infrared modem trivia: they could loose signal on hot sunny days. it turns out the heating of the sun on the building sides would cause expansion enough to tilt the poles so that the modems were tilted out of alignment. They learned to not mount the modems on static poles on side of the building where the sun heated expansion tilt was the most extreme.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.misc Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:25:24 -0700RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:
Ted Nelson & Xanadu ... was bought by Autodesk maker of AutoCad
Doug Engelbart & NLS/Augment ... at SRI and then picked up by TYMSHARE. "Mother of all demos" in 1968 demonstrated mouse, bitmapped screens, hypertext ... from NLS/Augment effort.
TYMSHARE had done GNOSIS ... and when M/D bought TYMSHARE, I was brought in for audit/review of GNOSIS as part of spin-off as KeyKOS. I also got asked if I could find offer for Doug in IBM and setup some interviews.
Many of the people mentioned in this thread were regulars at the annual silicon valley (invitation only) hackers conference ... including some of the east coasters like ritchie.
I was to get original version of adventure from tymshare ... who had got copy from Stanford SAIL and moved it to their DEC10 and then ported it to vm370/cms. I then made it available inside IBM.
past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#21 [Poll] Computing favorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#22 [Poll] Computing favorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#23 [Poll] Computing favorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#26 [Poll] Computing favorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#31 [Poll] Computing favorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#35 [Poll] Computing favorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#36 [Poll] Computing favorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#39 [Poll] Computing favorities
(note still have problem with garlic.com webserver).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:36:37 -0700Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
my mother's house just off the left edge of the picture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Coulee_Dam_Panorama_Smaller.jpg
sells electricity
https://www.bpa.gov/Pages/home.aspx
The Bonneville Power Administration was created by the U.S. government
in 1937 to market wholesale power from federal hydroelectric dams on the
Columbia and Snake rivers. In 1938, information officer Stephen B. Kahn
established BPA's motion picture division to educate the public
about the benefits of clean, affordable and reliable electric power from
the Northwest's unique power and transmission system.
....
I was computer geek at WSU ... while undergraduate they hired me fulltime to be responsible for production mainframe systems.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:01:57 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: seveneves Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 07:10:56 -0700Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> writes:
recent HFT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#58 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#26 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#36 IBM CEO Rometty gets bonus despite company's woes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#17 Robots have been running the US stock market, and the government is finally taking control
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#78 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#47 Do we REALLY NEED all this regulatory oversight?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#53 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
part of current environment is that regulators are fining (but TBTF aren't going to jail, part of the motivation for the too big to prosecute and too big to jail references) ... the fines being viewed as just cost of doing illegal business (running to the trillions while fines tend to be in the low billions or hundreds of millions).
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
not just the stock market, but anything they can bet on, LIBOR,
commodities market (oil, gas, grain, metals, etc) and foreign exchange,
etc. some recent posts mentioning FOREX/foreign exchange
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#36 Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#37 LIBOR: History's Largest Financial Crime that the WSJ and NYT Would Like You to Forget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#53 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#59 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
past LIBOR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: seveneves Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 07:54:55 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
from today:
What If The "Crash" Is As Rigged As Everything Else?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-26/what-if-crash-rigged-everything-else
There is an almost touching faith that markets are rigged when they loft
higher, but unrigged when they crash. Who's to say this crash isn't
rigged? A few things about this "crash" (11% decline from all time highs
now qualifies as a "crash") don't pass the sniff test.
...
Why would "somebody" engineer a mini-crash and send volatility to "the
world is ending" levels? There are a couple of possibilities.
...
Take your pick--here's three good reasons to engineer a "crash" that
benefits the few at the expense of the many.
... snip ...
for another take on how peverted the regulators have become
Banks Get Credit for Helping the Poor -- By Financing Their Evictions?
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/24/banks-get-credit-helping-poor-financing-evictions/
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: Re: seveneves Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 08:10:11 -0700re:
another
Monday's stock market debacle stinks of a robot-driven flash crash
http://www.businessinsider.com/financial-adviser-insights-august-25-2015-2015-8
Are HFT and computers to blame for the market's quick drop? The Dow's
1,100-point drop off the opening bell Monday cost investors untold
amounts of money and suggests the market is still broken
http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20150825/BLOG09/150829955/are-hft-and-computers-to-blame-for-the-markets-quick-drop
there have been a number of articles about the egregious manipulation using HFT has been driving ordinary investors out of the market ... which would just leave the HFT operators slugging it out with each other.
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: Re: seveneves Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:57:36 -0700Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> writes:
US market lots of financial manipulation, pump&dump on grandiose scale, etc
Behind the Market Crash: the Smoke and Mirrors of Corporate Buybacks
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/26/behind-the-market-crash-the-smoke-and-mirrors-of-corporate-buybacks/
Not China. China's simply back to the level that it was earlier in the
year. One of the problems with the Chinese market that is quite
different from the American and European market is that a lot of the big
Chinese banks have lent to small lenders, sort of small wholesale
lenders, that in turn have lent to retail people.
... snip ...
buyback posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
business news right now is talking oil price whipsaw. Vampire Squid had
chapter on oil (commodity) manipulation when oil spiked well over $100
summer of 2008 and then crashed. CFTC (commodities market) had rule that
players required substantial commodity position to play ... then there
were 19 secret letters allowing specific speculators to play. Later,
a senator released oil commodity transaction information showing
speculators were responsible for the spike (pump&dump profit on the way
up) and then crash (and profit on the way down). vampire squid posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#griftopia
Supposedly $700B appropriated in TARP funds was to bailout TBTF by
buying off-book toxic assets ... however just the four largest TBTF were
still carrying $5.2T "off-book" at the end of 2008.
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
so there was no possible way that TARP funds could have saved the TBTF.
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
However, the TBTF had been packaging securitized loans&mortgages designed to fail (creating enormous demand for dodgy loans and mortgages), paying for triple-A ratings (when both the sellers and rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, but enable selling to operations restricted to dealing in "safe" investments; like large pension funds), selling off to their victims/customers, and taking out CDS gambling bets that they would fail.
The largest holder of these gambling bets was AIG that was negotiating to pay off the gambling bets at 50-60cents on the dollar, when the sec. of treasury steps in, forces them to sign a document that they can't sue those making the gambling bets and take TARP funds to pay off at 100cents on the dollar (the largest recipient of TARP funds was AIG, and the largest recipient of face-value payoffs was the TBTF formally headed by the sec. of treasury).
The real bailout was by the Federal Reserve which fought long legal battle to prevent revealing what they were doing ... when they finally lost, it turns out that they were making tens of trillions of ZIRP funds available to TBTF and buying trillions in off-book toxic assets at 98cents on the dollar (that had been going for 22cents on the dollar).
Bernanke holds press conference and says that he had expected that the
TBTF would turn around and use the ZIRP funds to lend to mainstreet, but
when they didn't he had now way to force them (but that didn't stop the
flow of ZIRP funds). Note one of Bernanke qualifications supposedly was
that he was a depression era scholar ... however the Federal Reserve
had done something similar after the '29 crash, and wallstreet had
behaved the save.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#bernanke
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#76 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#41 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#43 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#44 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#82 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#83 Inaugural Podcast: Dave Farber, Grandfather of the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#84 Inaugural Podcast: Dave Farber, Grandfather of the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#93 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#96 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#16 Interactive Data Corp taps banks for sale or IPO -sources
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#27 Federal Subsidies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#36 Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#53 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#16 Federal Deficits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#20 After 6 Years Of QE, And A $4.5 Trillion Balance Sheet, St. Louis Fed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#25 After 6 Years Of QE, And A $4.5 Trillion Balance Sheet, St. Louis Fed
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: seveneves Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:25:55 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
also:
This is what most of the commentators don't get. All this market run-up
we've seen in the last year or two has been by the Federal Reserve
making credit available to banks at about one-tenth of 1 percent. The
banks have lent to big institutional traders and speculators thinking,
well gee, if we can borrow at 1 percent and buy stocks that yield maybe
5 or 6 percent, then we can make the arbitrage. So they've made a 5
percent arbitrage by buying, but they've also now lost 10 percent, maybe
20 percent on the capital.
... snip ..
part of the crash of '29 was enormous stock market speculation using
borrowed money with little or no down ... Jan2009 I was asked to
HTML'ize the Pecora Hearings (30s senate hearings into '29 crash,
resulted in Glass-Steagall and criminal convictions) with lots of
internal xrefs and URLs between what happened then and what happened
this time (reference that maybe new congress would have an appetite to
do something). I work on it for awhile, but then get a call saying it
won't be needed after all (reference to enormous piles of wallstreet
money totally burying washington) .... from pg. 7281 of hearings:
BROKERS' LOANS AND INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSION
For the purpose of making it perfectly clear that the present
industrial depression was due to the inflation of credit on brokers'
loans, as obtained from the Bureau of Research of the Federal Reserve
Board, the figures show that the inflation of credit for speculative
purposes on stock exchanges were responsible directly for a rise in
the average of quotations of the stocks from sixty in 1922 to 225 in
1929 to 35 in 1932 and that the change in the value of such Stocks
listed on the New York Stock Exchange went through the same identical
changes in almost identical percentages.
... snip ...
posts mentioning Pecora &/or Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
big part of the economic mess last decade was something similar, but with the real estate market (instead stock market), no-down, no-documentation liar loans&mortgages, securitized and paid for triple-A rating.
TBTF were also using ZIRP funds to buy treasuries making nearly
half-trillion/year off federal debt. CBO had 2010 report that previous
decade, tax revenue had been cut by $6T and spending increased by
increased by $6T for $12T budget gap ... compared to PAYGO fiscal
responsible baseline budget. Congress had allowed PAYGO to expire in
2002 (required gov. spending couldn't exceed revenue). Excuses (for
letting PAYGO expire) include enormous bribes for tax loopholes for
special interests (including wallstreet, but also wallstreet likes
making money from federal debt)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAYGO
fiscal responsbility posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
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: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 10:33:20 -0700Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> writes:
After IBM went into the red (and we had left), there was a lot of shedding resources. One of those activities was moving to industry VLSI tools ... which included transferring some number of internal tools to a company selling vlsi design tools. I got contracted to port one such 50+k statement VLSI design tool to SUN workstations as part of transfer of the product. Their pascal appeared to have never got passed student educational use ... and never used for anything approaching a 50k statement product ... further aggrevated that SUN had outsourced pascal to company 12 time zones away ... i could go by sun offices ... but every problem still required at least overnight turn around (it wasn't just removing use of all vs/pascal enhancements).
many people considered the los gatos lab the most scenic in the company ... but part of the downturn of the company ... it was sold off for a housing development (and plowed under). this goes along with several bldgs. on san jose disk division plant site getting plowed under and land sold off for housing development. The management at the time was getting credit for bringing in cash anyway possible (regardless of whether things were sold off as book loss).
IBM also sold off Purchase NY location (was originally built for nestle's new hdqtrs) to Mastercard. We were doing some financail industry work and had meeting at Mastercard's new hdqtrs very shortly after they moved in. They said that they paid more to have all the interior door handles replaced than they paid IBM for the bldg.
As an aside, during much of the 80s, the communication group was
fighting off tcp/ip, client/server, distributed computing, etc
... trying to preserve its dumb (emulated) terminal paradigm and install
base.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
They were finally backed into corner having to go along with
releasing the (vs/pascal)mainframe TCP/IP product ... but in many ways
it was initially crippled ... getting around 44kbyte/sec aggregate
throughput using full 3090 processor. I then did the enhancements for
RFC1044 support .. and in some tuning tests at Cray research between
a 4341 and a cray, got sustained channel throughput using only modest
amount of 4341 processor (possibly 500 times improvement in bytes
move per instruction executed) ... rfc1044 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
past posts mentioning metaware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#20 Is Al Gore The Father of the Internet?^
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#66 Mainframe Spreadsheets - 1980's History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#19 Beyond 8+3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#52 Question about Unix "heritage"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#71 What terminology reflects the "first" computer language ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#42 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#30 First single chip 32-bit microprocessor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#35 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#38 CAS and LL/SC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#39 CAS and LL/SC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#61 will there every be another commerically signficant new ISA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#14 something like a CTC on a PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#0 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#1 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#33 Power5 and Cell, new issue of IBM Journal of R&D
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#8 Free to good home: IBM RT UNIX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#14 Newbie question on table design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#77 CLIs and GUIs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#11 Lack of bit field instructions in x86 instruction set because of ?patents ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#36 Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#11 Microprocessors with Definable MIcrocode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#29 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#28 someone smarter than Dave Cutler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#54 PL/I vs. Pascal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#69 Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#32 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#20 Mainframes Warming Up to the Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#89 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#21 The simplest High Level Language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#59 Teletypewriter Model 33
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#36 Quote on Slashdot.org
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:36:13 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
not much left around regarding metaware
ARC Cores to buy tools provider MetaWare
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1140240
brief reference to metaware TWS manual
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#71
There was a effort up at the Palo Alto Science Center to port BSD unix
to mainframe. I had been talking to one of the two LSG people
responsible for mainframe pascal about doing a C-language front-end. I
was off on extended business trip to Europe and when I got back, he had
left IBM and joined Metaware. I then suggested to the PASC group that
they should contract with Metaware for mainframe C-compiler. Then the
PASC group were instructed to retarget their BSD port from mainframe to
PC/RT workstation (eventually released as AOS) ... and they kept
metaware for their c-compiler ... retargeted for the PC/RT.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
PC/RT had originally started out as a displaywriter follow-on using ROMP 801/risc chip with cp.r ... implemented in pl.8. When the displaywriter follow-on got killed, they decided to retarget to unix workstation market. They got the company that had done the AT&T unix port for PC/IX to do one for ROMP. However, they had all these pl.8 programmers so they came up with the idea of doing a virtual machine abstract layer (implemented in pl.8) with the UNIX port being done to this abstract machine layer ... claiming it would be much faster and take less resources than having the outside group implement directly to the bare metal (finally released as AIX).
PASC managed to do AOS in significantly less resources (& time) than it took for (PC/RT) AIX.
PASC besides working with UCB on BSD ... it was also working with UCLA on Locus. They eventually release Locus for both mainframe and 386 ... which were named AIX/370 and AIX/386 (but having nothing to do with AIX for the PC/RT).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: seveneves Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:05:02 -0700re:
more HFT control the market ...
Mini flash crash? Trading anomalies on manic Monday hit small investors.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/mini-flash-crash-trading-anomalies-on-manic-monday-hit-small-investors/2015/08/26/6bdc57b0-4c22-11e5-bfb9-9736d04fc8e4_story.html?tid=sm_tw
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Mainframes open to internet attacks? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 27 Aug 2015 22:46:28 -0700mike.a.schwab@GMAIL.COM (Mike Schwab) writes:
One of the early "tests" was when science center ported apl\360 to cms for cms\apl ... it allowed typical apl\360 16kbyte workspaces to be increased to virtual memory size ... and also added API that allowed access of system services (like file read/write). Opening APL to real-world applications attracted a lot of internal locations to start using the cambridge system remotesly. A group of business planners in Armonk loaded the most valuable corporate asset (customer details) on cambridge system to do business modeling applications in cms\apl.
we had some interesting issues since non-employees (cambridge area univ
students, instructors, professors) also had online access to the
cambridge system. some posts mentioning science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
csc/vm (&/or sjr/vm) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#cscvm
some multics installations:
https://www.multicians.org/site-afdsc.html
https://www.multicians.org/mgd.html#DOCKMASTER
other old reference to DOCKMASTER org. (gone 404 but lives on at wayback
machine):
https://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml
and old reference to afds coming by to talk about 20 vm/4341 systems
... but then that was increased to 220 (posted in multics discussion
group)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#email790404
Recently a european that worked in NATO claimed that they got 6000 vm/4341 systems.
Note that Multics was implemented in PLI.
Up through the 90s, the major tcp/ip bugs/exploits were because of buffer length related bugs epidemic in c-language implementations (and still continues to be a frequent source of exploits). The original ibm mainframe tcp/ip product was implemented in vs/pascal and had *none* of these epidemic bugs found in c-language implementations.
As an aside, for various reasons this implementation had some significant performance issues, getting 44kbytes/sec aggregate using 3090 processor. I did the rfc1044 enhancements and some tuning tests at cray research got sustained channel speed throughput between cray and 4341, using only modest amount of 4341 (possibly 500 times improvement in bytes moved per instruction executed). The (non-rfc1044) version was also made available on MVS by simulating the required VM functions. Much later the communication group contracted for TCP/IP support through VTAM. After the initial demonstration, the communication group told the contractor that everybody *knows* that a *correct* version of TCP/IP runs slower than LU6.2 and they will only be paying for a *correct* version.
I also had other rivalry with the 5th flr. One of my hobbies was
providing enhanced operating systems to internal locations ... some old
email regarding CSC/VM (later it was SJR/VM, after I transferred to san
jose research):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
It wasn't fair to compare the total number of Multics systems that had ever existed with the total number of vm370 customer systems or even the total number of internal vm370 systems. However, for a time, I had a few more internal csc/vm systems than the total number of Multics systems.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 09:49:45 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
There were was enormous amount of war profiteering going on in the US before and after entry into the war1... Wilson was facing British, French and major elements at home looking to loot the rest of the world.
Setting the Desert on Fire: T. E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in
Arabia, 1916-1918 (James Barr) pg129/loc2479-87:
The previous month the United States had joined the war against
Germany. But when the American president, Woodrow Wilson, announced his
government's decision, he launched a much more general attack on the
conduct of European foreign policy that had led to war. He attacked the
"little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow
men as pawns and tools" and declared, "We have no selfish ends to
serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion." The United States, Wilson
concluded, would "fight for the things which we have always carried
nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to
authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and
liberties of small nations."7 Rhetoric of this kind made Sykes feel
decidedly uncomfortable. Unsurprisingly, when Wilson's foreign-policy
adviser, Edward House, found out about the Sykes-Picot treaty, he was
blunt. "It is all bad, and I told Balfour so," he wrote.8 Sykes sensed a
hostile turn in the mood toward British and French imperialist war aims
and began to change his tune.
...
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World
War, loc334-37:
President Woodrow Wilson, who had been Foster's favorite professor at
Princeton, differed with his secretary of state, William Jennings Bryan,
on how to respond to Germany's attack on the Lusitania, and their
dispute led Bryan to resign. In his place Wilson appointed Bryan's
deputy, Robert Lansing, the mustachioed Anglophile who was also Foster
and Allie's beloved "Uncle Bert."
... loc513-15:
There is no hint that Foster or Allie ever regretted the failure of
delegates in Paris to address the aspirations of colonized nations. They
did, however, come to rue some of the other decisions embodied in the
final treaty, which was signed at Versailles on June 28, 1919.
... log567-69:
The Dulles brothers returned from Paris with newly burnished
reputations. Foster in particular had made a powerful debut on the world
stage. By impressing influential Europeans and becoming a confidant of
President Wilson,
...
Then Foster becomes a major player in rebuilding Germany's economy and military. In the 30s, members of congress who were opposed to the enormous war profiteering they saw in WW1, got the Neutraility laws passed. The commercial factions in US focused on enormous war profiting, were framing it as isolationism. From the law of unintended consequences, for the 1943 US Strategic Bombing campaign, they need the location of German military&industrial targets, they get the locations from wallstreet.
In 1944, Roosevelt, commissions the strategic bombing survey (because strategic bombing campaign representsed 1/3rd of WW2 spending) that finds it had contributed little or nothing to the war effort. Afterwards you find Lemay(&McNamara) fire bombing German cities (from 5-6 miles up it was nearly impossible to hit military targets, but almost impossible to miss fire bombing large cities) and then fire bombing Japanese cities (besides problem hitting small targets, they didn't have the equivalent of wallstreet German military target locations). After WW2, McNamara leaves for Ford, but comes back as SECDEF for vietnam where Laos becomes the most bombed country in history.
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
war is a racket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
In War Is A Racket, Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from
World War I, where industrialists whose operations were subsidised by
public funding were able to generate substantial profits essentially
from mass human suffering.
...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The long, slow death of the rule of law in America Date: 29 Aug 2015 Blog: FacebookThis is spot on, marred only by the lack of the attention to the "above the law" status of too big to fail banksters, billionaires and crony capitalists
The long, slow death of the rule of law in America
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/government-679481-clinton-politics.html
ditto ... In this period the VP (and former head of CIA) said that he
didn't know anything about
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: A Savings and Loan Bailout, and Bush's Son Jeb
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
more recent:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/12/jeb-bush-forest-gump-financial-improprieties.html
and: Lehman's Gift To Jeb Bush For Funneling Pension Money: A $1.3
Million Consulting "Job"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-19/lehmans-gift-jeb-bush-funneling-pension-money-13-million-consulting-job
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
last decade, one of his sons presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than the S&L crisis. An indication that wallstreet perfected its stranglehold on washington and the regulatory agencies was that in the S&L crisis there were 30,000 criminal referrals and 1,000 criminal convictions. In the economic mess (70 times larger), there has been *NO* criminal referrals (or convictions)
this 2008 article has appeared and then disappeared behind paywall and
then reappeared.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/coming-soon-securitization-with-a-new-improved-and-perhaps-safer-face/
Linneman figures that 1,000 CEOs are accountable for about 80% of the
current lending mess. If the government were to spend $10 billion to
restore liquidity to the market in nine months with only 1,000 people
losing their jobs, it would be the best investment it could make to
the economy. "I'm only half-kidding," he quips.
... snip ...
Economic mess did over $27T in (triple-A rated, toxic) securitized
loans/mortgages 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
Current estimate that the too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail) have been fined a total of $300B since the economic mess (not just for loan, mortgage and securities fraud, but also money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists, manipulating LIBOR, FOREX, and commodities markets, tax evasion, fabricated foreclosure documents done in robo-signing mills, etc), but are clearing $300B/yr off ZIRP funds (separate from the enormous profits they are making from their illegal activity). Given the tens of trillions involved, the joke is that the $300B in total fines is just being viewed as cost of doing (illegal) business.
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
triple-A rated toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
As an aside, some of the biggest fines (of the $300B) were suppose to
go to compensate victims of fraudulent foreclosures. A company was
used to manage the fines & compensation ... staffed by several people
involved in the financial mess. Not surprising quite a bit of the
funds never reach the intended victims.
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2013/04/the-foreclosure-settlement-scandal-its-all-about-paying-former-regulators-billions/
more here:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11102
as aside the head of FDIC large bank examination caught WaMu early and reported it up through head of FDIC, he was then demoted and then let go.
whistleblower posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
private-equity companies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
reference to Petraeus, former CIA director resigned in disgrace
for leaking classified documents
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#37 C.I.A. Is Said to Have Bought and Destroyed Iraqi Chemical Weapons
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/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#16 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/2015c.html#75 Hillary Remains Clueless About Regulation on the 28th Anniversary of the Keating Five Meeting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#80 Moody's Has a Cow, Slams GE's Masterful Financial Engineering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#97 Booz Allen Wolves Offer Advice on Protecting NSA Henhouse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#6 The US Equity Bubble Depends On Corporate Buybacks; Here's The Proof
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#42 Remember 3277?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#37 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#81 prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#13 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#29 Eric Holder Returns as Hero to Law Firm That Lobbies for Big Banks
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 15:56:20 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
as this references, the "robber barons" were considered those directly employing and victimizing their workers
All the Presidents' Bankers, pg126/loc2999-3003:
Teddy Roosevelt had taken on the nonfinancial trusts in his day, but he
had supported the "money trusts" during the Panic of 1907. Woodrow
Wilson had bashed the money trusts in public (never by name), but
established a Federal Reserve from which they could be assured support
during emergencies. Hoover had tried unsuccessfully to work with the
money trusts and secure the financial system at the same time. FDR had
figured out how to effect real structural change with support from both
parties: key commercial bankers and citizens.
... snip ...
letting wallstreet and the financial engineering that created the
environment ... getting pretty much free pass ... or at least until
after crash of '29. Senate Pecora hearings finally brought some
of them to justice. Posts mentioning Glass-Steagall and/or Pecora
hearings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
Some of them get caught in the S&L crisis ... but evidence that
wallstreet has perfected its stranglehold on washington and the
regulatory agencies is that their were 30,000 criminal referrals and
1,000 criminal convictions related to the S&L crisis, so far there
have been none, nada, zero for the economic mess (70 times larger than
S&L crisis) ... too big to fail, then giving rise to too big to
prosecute and too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
The Federal Reserve shows up in the economic mess, behind the TARP
scene, doing the real bail-out of the too big to fail. Just the four
largest TBTF still had $5.2T in toxic assets carried "off-book" at the
end of 2008,
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
with only $700B appropriated for TARP there could have never been any real expectations of doing anything. FED fought a legal battle to prevent disclosure of the tens of trillions in ZIRP funds and buying trillions in off-book assets at 98cents on the dollar.
The TBTF were creating triple-A rated securitized loans&mortgages designed to fail, paying for triple-A ratings, selling to their victims/customers, and then taking out CDS gambling bets that they would fail (creating enormous demands for dodgy loans/mortgages). AIG was the largest holder of the CDS gambling bets and was negotiating to pay off at 50-60 cents on the dollar. The sec of treasury (who had pushed through the whole TARP deal), steps in forces AIG to sign document that they can't sue those making the CDS gambling bets and take TARP funds to pay off at 100cents on the dollar. The largest recipient of TARP funds is AIG and the largest recipient of face-value payoffs is TBTF formally headed by sec. of treasury. There was farce of providing TBTF with TARP funds (in part used for enormous executive bonuses) which could be paid back with profits off the ZIRP funds.
recent posts mentioning Federal Reserve and/or FED chairman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:03:22 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
Circa 1980, there was a number of papers published about 1/4 sec. (or less) response improving human productivity. With the introduction of the channel attached 3274/3278 (controller/terminal), there was attention about its poor human factors ... which had gone unnoticed by TSO users (since their system response was typically already at least a second, and usually much worse).
The older channel attached 3272/3277 had consistent hardware "response" of .086 seconds. Systems reports that published 1/4sec. system response would actually show .25+.086=.336secs seen by the end user. For 3274/3278, a lot of terminal electronics was moved back into the (shared) controller ... which resulted in contention for controller resources as well as lots of latency with lots of protocol chatter between the terminal display and electronics back in the controller. Best channel attaches 3274/3278 hardware response was .283 seconds but more typically .530 seconds. As a result, TSO users use to "great" 1sec system response with channel attached 3272/3277 would hardly notice the change to 1.5sec. with 3274/3278 (especially when system response was nominal much worse than 1sec).
I had done bunch of system operations so had .11 90th percentile trivial system response (avg. was much less) over wide range of loads on a number systems. As a result, end user response with channel attached 3272/3277 was .11+.086=.196secs ... under quarter sec.
more details in this past post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#19 3270 protocol
and of course ... all 327x controllers that weren't directly channel
attached would have additional latency and overhead. terminal emulation
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
the switch to moving electronics back into 3274 and the significant protocol chatter shows up latter in emulated terminal throughput. IBM/PC with emulated 3277 card would have three times the upload/download throughput ... than IBM/PC with emulated 3278 card.
We had event in the late 70s at IBM San Jose Research that highlighted the horrible TSO response wasn't totally to be blamed on TSO, but significant amount was the underlying system that it ran on. MVS/TSO was running on 370/168 and VM370/CMS was running on 370/158 ... the configuration had two separate 3830 disk controllers with dedicated strings of 3330 disk drives. The two 3830 disk controllers were "two-channel" switch connected to both processors, but operational guidelines specified one 3830 as MVS-deducated and associated string of 3330s used for only MVS disk packs; the other 3830 and 3330 disk strings were dedicated to VM370.
One day, an operator violated the guidelines and mounted a MVS 3330 pack on VM370 disk drive. Within five minutes, the datacenter was getting irate user complaints about VM370 response had suddenly significantly degraded.
It turns out that standard MVS operation does lots of multi-track disk i/o operations which locks up the disk controller (and channel) for .25 to .3 seconds ... any other I/O requests became blocked until the multi-track search completed (the MVS multi-track searches on the VM370 "bcontrollerb" was blocking VM370 I/O). MVS TSO users are accustomed to the enormous response degradation that has on normal operations ... while it came as an unpleasant surprise to the VM370 users. We asked operations to move the MVS pack to MVS 3330 drive and they send they would wait until 2nd shift (this was in the morning).
It turns out all the os/360 genre systems suffer from this severe multi-track performance degradation characteristic ... so we bring up a VS1 system in vm370 virtual machine and put its 3330 on the MVS 3330 string ... and start up some of its multi-track operation. Now MVS pathlength has gotten so bad, that a VS1 running in a VM370 virtual machine on a loaded 370/158 was able to bring the MVS system on a dedicated real 370/168 to its knees ... and alleviate the response problem for the vm370/cms users. Operations then agree to immediately move the MVS pack ... if we take down the VS1 system.
An MVS system didn't have to be heavily loaded before the multi-track
search effects started horribly degrading TSO response. Past posts
about CKD dasd, including references to effects of multi-track search
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:07:37 -0700re:
oh, and past posts mentioning the studies showing relationship between
response and human productivity:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#53 3270 Terminal
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/2012b.html#2 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#19 Writing article on telework/telecommuting
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/2012p.html#1 3270 response & channel throughput
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#55 Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#44 System Response
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#127 How Much Bandwidth do we have?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:26:23 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
different issues affecting the way it may be calculated.
we complained to the 3274/3278 group about it being a worse product than 3272/3277 for interactive computing. Their eventual response was that 3274/3278 wasn't intended for interactive computing ... it was for "data entry" ... aka electronic keypunch.
some organizations were heavily oriented towards computer activity, large staffs that had heavy computer use that was needed to produce whatever needed to be done. If it was simple calculation ... additional million dollars to get quarter second response, executives might not see correlation (especially if they made little use of computers themselves). However, say the total investment in hardware, software and people is $100million ... if .25second response improves overall productivity by 10% ... that could justify $10m additional hardware.
I had blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal network in
the late 70s and early 80s ... the most famous was "tandem memos" that
was kicked off from a trip report I distributed after visiting
Jim Gray at Tandem ... 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.
... snip ...
In the wake of Tandem Memos the corporation kicked off several
investigations into the phenomenon, including some of the
issues raised. Also brought into consideration was "Mip Envy"
that Jim Gray had written as he was leaving IBM San Jose
Research for Tandem:
MIP envy - n. The term, coined by Jim Gray in 1980, that began the
Tandem Memos (q.v.). MIP envy is the coveting of other's facilities -
not just the CPU power available to them, but also the languages,
editors, debuggers, mail systems and networks. MIP envy is a term every
programmer will understand, being another expression of the proverb The
grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
... snip ...
version here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#email800920
slightly later version a Jim's site that Microsoft keeps:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gray/
here
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gray/papers/CritiqueOfIBM%27sCSResearch.pdf
as part of the investigations there were visits to other corporate and
academic research computer installations to see how IBM compared. There
is some saying about children of shoemaker have the worst shoes, ... in
any case afterwards there was significant increase in internal
dataprocessing budget ... that was somewhat easier to deal with than
issues about corporate organization and how the company was being run.
ref:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#61 MVS History (all parts)
One of the Boyd-related people has spent the last 20yrs working ong
getting reform in the US military personnel system, written books,
papers, given training classes at military installations all over the
country, etc. Recently somebody in the pentagon charged with looking at
the subject, presented report to SECDEF that is heavily laced throughout
with his recommendations (now see if it actually has some affect).
In recent online discussion, I've had opportunity to post
learson's management briefing from 1972 on bureaucray
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#92 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#11 How do we fight bureaucracy and bureaucrats in IBM?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#19 Where to Flatten the Officer Corps
and watson's "wild ducks"
How to Stuff a Wild Duck (IBM poster; Jan 1973)
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/GO/wildDuck.html
other "wild duck" posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#38 'Innovation' and other crimes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#25 sizeof() was: The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#18 IT full of 'ducks'? Declare open season
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#30 IBM Centennial Film: Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#33 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#79 Innovation and iconoclasm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#1 What is IBM culture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#45 What is IBM culture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#93 John R. Opel, RIP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#105 5 ways to keep your rockstar employees happy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#121 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#59 Original Thinking Is Hard, Where Good Ideas Come From
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#72 Original Thinking Is Hard, Where Good Ideas Come From
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#3 Time to Think ... and to Listen
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#7 Leadership Trends and Realities: What Does Leadership Look Like Today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#17 Hierarchy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#26 Top Ten Reasons Why Large Companies Fail To Keep Their Best Talent
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#19 SnOODAn: Boyd, Snowden, and Resilience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#23 How to Stuff a Wild Duck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#24 How to Stuff a Wild Duck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#26 How to Stuff a Wild Duck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#28 How to Stuff a Wild Duck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#31 History--punched card transmission over telegraph lines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#42 The IBM "Open Door" policy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#65 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#12 How do we fight bureaucracy and bureaucrats in IBM?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#72 In Command, but Out Of Control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#3 Inside the Box People don't actually like creativity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#4 Inside the Box People don't actually like creativity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#68 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#52 IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#93 Maximizing shareholder value: The Goal that changed corporate America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#97 Where does the term Wild Duck come from?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#98 How to groom a leader?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#105 Happy 50th Birthday to the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#52 First 2014 Golden Goose Award to physicist Larry Smarr
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#53 Not Wild Ducks but Wild Geese - The history behind the story
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#54 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#8 Microsoft culture must change, chairman says
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/2014h.html#33 Can Ginni really lead the company to the next great product line?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#59 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#65 Are you tired of the negative comments about IBM in this community?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#68 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#79 EBFAS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#80 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#7 You can make your workplace 'happy'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#48 Is coding the new literacy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#56 This Chart From IBM Explains Why Cloud Computing Is Such A Game-Changer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#80 Here's how a retired submarine captain would save IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#17 There's No Such Thing as Corporate DNA
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 12:21:56 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
It all became something of farce when there were no longer any real CKD and real multi-track search ... all being simulated on fixed-block devices (there hasn't been real CKD manufactured for decades).
traces back to late 70s when MVS wouldn't provide FBA support. Then E-CKD (sort of minor FBA subset) was introduced for calypso speed-matching buffer (allowing 3mbyte/sec 3380 disks to be retrofitted to older machines with 1.5mbyte/sec channels). I would claim that the pain to get E-CKD and speed matching working was on par if MVS had done FBA support originally (and speed matching would be fallout of FBA support) ... and it would have also eliminated the subsequent enormous costs and overhead associated with continuing to emulate CKD ... even when CKD hasn't existed for decades.
some of this was recently discussed in ibm-main
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#86 Formal definition of Speed Matching Buffer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#89 Formal definition of Speed Matching Buffer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#4 3380 was actually FBA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#6 3380 was actually FBA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#9 3380 was actually FBA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#15 Formal definition of Speed Matching Buffer
however, since I'm still ahving troubles with garlic.com webserver,
threads are also here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/K2Elt-40-VE
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/3QSdKeko604
other past CKD, FBA, multi-track posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:22:11 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
ditto
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:04:22 -0700Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> writes:
Boeing early years 1916-1930, Pacific Aero products, then Boeing, then
United Aircraft and Transport
http://www.wingsoverkansas.com/history/a741/
wood to metal, 1st all-metal was Boeing B-9, 1932-1933
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/intro-wood.htm
Boeing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing
The Air Mail Act of 1934 prohibited airlines and manufacturers from
being under the same corporate umbrella, so the company split into
three smaller companies -- Boeing Airplane Company, United Airlines,
and United Aircraft Corporation, the precursor to United Technologies
... snip ...
also from the above, I've previously mentioned this (I was at Boeing
in the late 60s)
Will the last person
leaving SEATTLE -
Turn out the lights.
somebody from IBM mainframe group sent out similar message in the 90s,
would the last person to leave POK, turn out the lights.
Grand Coulee Dam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Coulee_Dam
With the onset of World War II, power generation was given priority
over irrigation.
... snip ...
Grand Coulee Dam: Leaving a Legacy
https://depts.washington.edu/depress/grand_coulee.shtml
"Without Grand Coulee and Bonneville dams it would have been almost
impossible to win this war."[23] Specifically, the Grand Coulee Dam
provided the electricity needed to produce aluminum, which was crucial
for the airplane construction taking place at Boeing in Seattle. With
no capacity to produce aluminum in 1940, the Pacific Northwest was
producing 36% of the nation's aluminum output by 1946. It is estimated
that one third of the aluminum used in aircraft during World War II
came from the power generated by the Grand Coulee Dam.
... snip ...
2/3rds of WW2 spending went to airplanes ... half of that to the strategic bombing program.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Intel: Criminals getting better at data exfiltration Date: 01 Sept, 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Intel: Criminals getting better at data exfiltration
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2978812/security/intel-criminals-getting-better-at-data-exfiltration.html
We were tangentially involved in the cal. state data breach
legislation ... having been brought in to help wordsmith the
cal. state electronic signature act.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
Many 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.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#fraud
Since then several other states have passed similar bills. Also there have been several federal bills (state preemption, none passed yet), about half equivalent to the cal. state bill, and about half worded in such a way that they would eliminate most requirements for notification.
Long ago and far away we were brought in as consultants to a 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; it is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
Somewhat as a result of having done "electronic commerce", in the mid-90s we were invited into the x9a10 financial transaction standard working group that had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the financial infrastructure for *ALL* retail payments (not just internet).
We did end-to-end threat & vulnerability assessments of several
transactions environments before coming up with a new standard. The
new standard didn't do anything about breaches, but slightly tweaked
the current paradigm so that crooks couldn't use information from
breaches for performing fraudulent transactions.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#privacy
We have used a couple metaphors to characterize the existing paradigm
Security proportional to risk: The value of transaction information to
merchants is the profit on the transactions (frequently a couple
dollars). The value of the transaction information to the crooks is
the account credit limit or balance. As a result, crooks can afford
100 times more attacking the system than the merchants can afford
defending
Dual-use information: The transaction information is used in dozens of
business processes at millions of locations around the world
(requiring the information to be readily available). At the same time
the transaction information can be sufficient for crooks performing
fraudulent transactions (requiring it to never be available). As a
result we've observed that even if the planet was buried under miles
of information hiding encryption, it still wouldn't prevent
information leakage.
some refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#security.proportional.to.risk
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Michael Hudson's New Book: Wall Street Parasites Have Devoured Their Hosts -- Your Retirement Plan and the U.S. Economy Date: 01 Sept 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Michael Hudson's New Book: Wall Street Parasites Have Devoured Their
Hosts -- Your Retirement Plan and the U.S. Economy
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2015/08/michael-hudsons-new-book-wall-street-parasites-have-devoured-their-hosts-your-retirement-plan-and-the-u-s-economy/
How Wall Street Parasites Have Devoured Their Hosts, Your Retirement
Plan and the U.S. Economy
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/09/01/how-wall-street-parasites-have-devoured-their-hosts-your-retirement-plan-and-the-u-s-economy/
Disclaimer: Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages (posterchild were office bldgs in Dallas/Ft.Worth area that turned out to be empty lots). In the late 90s, I was asked to look at improving the integrity of supporting documents as countermeasures.
Then loan originators were then securitizing loans&mortgages and
paying for triple-A ratings (when both the sellers and the rating
agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008 congressional
testimony). Triple-A rating trumps supporting documentation and they
can start doing no-documentation liar loans. Being able to pay for
triple-A eliminated any reason for loan originators to care about
borrowers' qualifications or loan quality, they could sell off (all
loans as fast as they could be made) to customers restricted to
dealing in "safe" investments (like large pension funds, claim is it
accounts for 30% loss in funds and trillions shortfall for pensions),
largely enabling being able to do over $27T 2001-2008 ... including
using some of the ENRON creative bookkeeping
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
(triple-A rated) toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
enron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
If that wasn't enough, they also start packaging securitized loans/mortgages designed to fail, pay for triple-A, sell to their victim customers, and then take out CDS gambling bets they would fail (creating enormous demand for dodgy loans & mortgages). Largest holder of CDS gambling bets was AIG and was negotiating to pay off at 50-60cents on the dollar, when the secretary of treasury steps in and forces them to sign a document that they can't sue those making the gambling bets and to take TARP funds to payoff at 100cents on the dollar. The largest recipient of TARP funds was AIG and the largest recipient of face-value payoffs was TBTF formerly headed by sec-of-treasury.
Supposedly TARP was originally appropriated for buying TBTF toxic
assets, but with only $700B it was possibly never really intended to
be used for that purposes; just four largest TBTF still had
$5.2T "off-book" toxic assets end of 2008
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
Federal Reserve was fighting long legal battle to prevent disclosure of what it was doing for TBTF, tens of tillions in ZIRP funds and buying trillions in toxic assets at 98cents on the dollar (had been going for 22cents on the dollar, summer of 2008)
After FEDRES was forced to disclose what was it doing, the Fed chairman had press conference and said that he had expected the TBTF to use ZIRP funds to lend to mainstreet and when they didn't, he had no way to force them (but that didn't stop the tens of trillions in ZIRP funds). Note the Fed chairman was supposedly selected in part because he was depression scholar. However, the Fed had tried something similar after the crash of 29 and wall street had behaved the same way ... so there would be *NO* expectation that they would behave differently this time.
fed chairman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
An indication that wallstreet has perfected their stranglehold on washington and the regulatory agencies is that the S&L crisis had 30,000 criminal referrals and 1,000 criminal convictions (with jailtime). The economic mess last decade was 70 times larger than the S&L crisis and there have *NO* criminal referrals or criminal convictions with people doing jailtime.
From the law of unintended consequences, the lack of documents force
the TBTF to set up the large robo-signing mills to fabricate documents
for foreclosures (for which they've been fined tens of billions).
Proof of Ongoing Foreclosure Fraud and Mortgage Document Fabrication,
in Five Emails
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/proof-of-ongoing-foreclosure-fraud-and-mortgage-document-fabrication-in-five-emails.html
Since the economic mess, the TBTF have been fined a total of $300B (compared to the $300B/annum they make off ZIRP funds), however it isn't just for the fraudulent lending, misrepresentation of securitized loans, robo-signing mills, etc ... it is also for illegal manipulation in hundreds of trillions of LIBOR, FOREX, and commodity markets, hundreds of billions in illegal money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists, and misc. other illegal activity. The joke is that the $300B in fines compared to the large trillions is being viewed as just cost of doing illegal business.
past LIBOR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
Disclaimer #2: Jan2009 (ten yrs after being asked to work on improving
integrity of supporting documents as countermeasure to securitized
loans used to obfuscate fraudulent loans/mortgages), I'm asked to
HTML'ize the Pecora Hearings (30s senate hearings into crash of '29,
resulted in criminal convictions and glass-steagall), with lots of
internal HREFs and lots of URLs between what happened this time and
what happened then (reference that the new congress might be
interested in actually doing something). I work on it for awhile and
then get a call that it won't be needed after all (reference to
enormous piles of wallstreet money totally burying washington and the
regulatory agencies).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
About the same time were asked to look at improving the integrity of supporting documents in securitized mortgages, we had been invited into NSCC (before merger with DTC for DTCC) to look at improving integrity of trade transactions. We do some work on it and then get told it was suspended because a side-effect was greatly improved transparency and visibility ... antithesis to wallstreet culture.
Note at the congressional Madoff hearings, they had the person that
had tried successfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about
Madoff. They asked him if new regulations were needed. He said that
while more regulations might be needed, much more important would be
transparency and visibility
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: Michael Hudson's New Book: Wall Street Parasites Have Devoured Their Hosts -- Your Retirement Plan and the U.S. Economy Date: 02 Sept 2015 Blog: Google+re:
front running their customer orders by a couple milliseconds is apparently rampant ... but it is just one of the features of wallstreet
also guys pay extra to get high-speed microwave "advantage" ... and
then complain when somebody puts up a faster laser The HFT "Treasure
Map" - Presenting The Rigged Stock Market's Full "Latency Abritrage"
In One Chart
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-16/hft-treasure-map-presenting-rigged-stock-markets-full-latency-abritrage-one-chart
other recent
HFT Cutting Through The HFT Lies: What Really Happened During The
Flash Crash Of August 24, 2015
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-25/cutting-through-hft-lies-what-really-happened-during-flash-crash-august-24-2015
"Project Omega" - Why HFTs Never Lose Money: The Criminal Fraud
Explained
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-13/project-omega-why-hfts-never-lose-money-criminal-fraud-explained
Head Trader Of World's 4th Largest Hedge Fund Caught In HFT
Frontrunning Scandal
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-31/head-trader-worlds-4th-largest-hedge-fund-caught-hft-frontrunning-scandal
Gold Manipulators Busted After Zero Hedge Report On Flagrant Gold
Spoofing
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-01/gold-manipulator-busted-after-zero-hedge-report-hft-gold-spoofing
HFT + Inept Regulators + Fed Distortion = More Flash Crashes
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-03/hft-inept-regulators-fed-distortion-more-flash-crashes
fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#fraud
recent posts mentioning HFT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#58 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#26 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#36 IBM CEO Rometty gets bonus despite company's woes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#17 Robots have been running the US stock market, and the government is finally taking control
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#78 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#47 Do we REALLY NEED all this regulatory oversight?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#53 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#46 seveneves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#47 seveneves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#48 seveneves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#53 seveneves
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Economics Has a Math Problem Date: 02 Sept 2015 Blog: FacebookEconomics Has a Math Problem
When things were crashing, there were articles about it was all because of faulty (risk management) math ... turns out misdirection and obfuscation; risk managers were reporting that business executives were forcing them to approve deals ... and a call to make risk dept. immune from business executive pressure.
How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/how-wall-streets-quants-lied-to-their-computers/
Subprime = Triple-A ratings? or 'How to Lie with Statistics' (gone 404 but lives on at the wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20071111031315/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/07/25/subprime-triple-a-ratings-or-how-to-lie-with-statistics/
The next were reports of consultant hired by wallstreet that was recommending that they tie up all the prominent economists, hire them, put them on retainers, give large grants to univ. depts., etc. ... in order to bias their public views
How Economists Contributed to the Financial Crisis
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johntharvey/2012/02/06/economics-crisis/
"Inside Job" references how leading economists were captured similar
to the capture of the regulatory agencies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Job_(2010_film)
"Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts,
Ample Rewards" goes into the capture of economists in more detail
https://www.amazon.com/Economists-Powerful-Convenient-Distorted-Economics-ebook/dp/B01B4X4KOS/
loc72-74:
"Only through having been caught so blatantly with their noses in the
troughs (e.g. the 2011 Academy Award -- winning documentary Inside
Job) has the American Economic Association finally been forced to
adopt an ethical code, and that code is weak and incomplete compared
with other disciplines."
loc957-62:
The AEA was pushed into action by a damning research report into the
systematic concealment of conflicts of interest by top financial
economists and by a letter from three hundred economists who urged the
association to come up with a code of ethics. Epstein and
Carrick-Hagenbarth (2010) have shown that many highly influential
financial economists in the US hold roles in the private financial
sector, from serving on boards to owning the respective
companies. Many of these have written on financial regulation in the
media or in scholarly papers. Very rarely have they disclosed their
affiliations to the financial industry in their writing or in their
testimony in front of Congress, thus concealing a potential conflict
of interest.
... snip ...
past posts mentioning "inside job" and/or "how wall street lied"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#49 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#52 Technology and the current crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#53 Your thoughts on the following comprehensive bailout plan please
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#56 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#65 Whether, in our financial crisis, the prize for being the biggest liar is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#69 Another quiet week in finance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#72 Why was Sarbanes-Oxley not good enough to sent alarms to the regulators about the situation arising today?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#78 Isn't it the Federal Reserve role to oversee the banking system??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#80 Why did Sox not prevent this financal crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#82 Fraud in financial institution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#15 Financial Crisis - the result of uncontrolled Innovation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#18 Once the dust settles, do you think Milton Friedman's economic theories will be laid to rest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#19 What's your view of current global financial / economical situation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#26 SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act), is this really followed and worthful considering current Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#28 Does anyone get the idea that those responsible for containing this finanical crisis are doing too much?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#34 The human plague
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#75 In light of the recent financial crisis, did Sarbanes-Oxley fail to work?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#82 Greenspan testimony and securization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#83 Chip-and-pin card reader supply-chain subversion 'has netted millions from British shoppers'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#8 Global Melt Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#70 Is there any technology that we are severely lacking in the Financial industry?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#49 Have not the following principles been practically disproven, once and for all, by the current global financial meltdown?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#50 Obama, ACORN, subprimes (Re: Spiders)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#58 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#64 Is This a Different Kind of Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#8 Top financial firms of US are eyeing on bailout. It implies to me that their "Risk Management Department's" assessment was way below expectations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#9 Blind-sided, again. Why?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#23 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#29 Let IT run the company!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#35 Is American capitalism and greed to blame for our financial troubles in the US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#55 Is this the story behind the crunchy credit stuff?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#62 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#14 What are the challenges in risk analytics post financial crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#63 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#80 Are reckless risks a natural fallout of "excessive" executive compensation ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#36 A great article was posted in another BI group: "To H*** with Business Intelligence: 40 Percent of Execs Trust Gut"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#53 Credit & Risk Management ... go Simple ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#54 In your opinion, which facts caused the global crise situation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#65 What can agencies such as the SEC do to insure us that something like Madoff's Ponzi scheme will never happen again?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#4 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#28 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#16 The Formula That Killed Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#18 HSBC is expected to announce a profit, which is good, what did they do differently?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#30 I need insight on the Stock Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#36 Bernanke Says Regulators Must Protect Against Systemic Risks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#40 Bernanke Says Regulators Must Protect Against Systemic Risks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#59 Quiz: Evaluate your level of Spreadsheet risk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#8 The background reasons of Credit Crunch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#1 Future of Financial Mathematics?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#31 OODA-loop obfuscation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#29 Analysing risk, especially credit risk in Banks, which was a major reason for the current crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#38 what is mortgage-backed securities?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#49 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#21 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#87 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#40 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#66 No command, and control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#53 What do you think about fraud prevention in the governments?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#75 America's Defense Meltdown
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#42 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#21 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#28 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#39 BofA Breach: 'A Big, Scary Story'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#51 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#52 How Many Divisions Does Standard and Poors Have?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#4 Geithner, Bernanke have little in arsenal to fight new crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#5 AIG's Bank Of America Suit Puts Trashy Paper On Display
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#56 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#10 Cracking the code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#69 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#67 How Economists Contributed to the Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#95 Bank of America Fined $1 Billion for Mortgage Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#32 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#63 One maths formula and the financial crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#75 Fed Report: Mortgage Mess NOT an Inside Job
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#4 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#48 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#47 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#62 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#20 The Big Fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#57 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#73 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#18 Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story Of The Scientific Betting System That Beat The Casinos And Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#44 Adair Turner: A New Debt-Free Money Advocate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#89 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#29 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#1 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#48 Ex-Wall Street chieftains living large in post-meltdown world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#52 Lehman Brothers collapse: was capitalism to blame?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#76 The Scholars Who Shill for Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#81 Academics Who Defend Wall St. Reap Reward
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#3 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#68 Economists and our responsibilities to society
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#2 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#24 Forget the McDonnells. We're ignoring bigger, more pernicious corruption right under our noses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#6 SEC's Andrew Bowden Regulatory Capture Scandal Hits the Major Leagues with Los Angeles Times Column
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Yes, Computers Have Improved. No, Communism Hasn't Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 11:36:18 -0700Yes, Computers Have Improved. No, Communism Hasn't
What If Stalin Had Computers?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122568/what-if-stalin-had-computers
Is Capitalism Doomed?
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2015/09/is-capitalism-doomed.html
There have been a number of articles recently trying to differentiate
between democracy and capitalism. I'm currently reading "Political
Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the
Globalization of Democracy"
https://www.amazon.com/Political-Order-Decay-Industrial-Globalization-ebook/dp/B00IQOFS7M/
it also shows up in Stockman's "The Great Deformation: The Corruption
of Capitalism in America" ... which has some amount about IBM & stock
buybacks
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Deformation-Corruption-Capitalism-ebook/dp/B00B3M3UK6/
stock buyback posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
another:
How Corporate America Invented Christian America; How one reverend's
big business-backed crusade altered the political landscape.
http://www.alternet.org/belief/how-corporate-america-invented-christian-america
recent posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#30 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#32 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#33 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
related to inequality discussion ... and inclusive versus exclusive societies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 15:41:10 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
Used against CP67 & VM370 kernel listings ... there was some heavily optimized code that leveraged 360/370 branch conditions ... in theory have 4-way logical branch ... sequence of three branches ... and 4th condition "fall-through" .... which sometimes could turne into if/then/else psuedo-code nested 15 levels deep. The original optimized code was much more understandable than the resulting highly nested stuff.
Part of the original motivation looking for common "bug" which was little used code path sequences that failed to initialize registers for later use; used-before-set scenario (wouldn't catch case of anomalous code-path that used register for scratch, but was later needed to be initialized with some address).
some past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#36 Assembly language formatting on IBM systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#52 Review of Steve McConnell's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#24 mainframe question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#35 Shipwrecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#32 transputers again was: The demise of Commodore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#1 Greatest Software Ever Written?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#15 more than 16mbyte support for 370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#31 To RISC or not to RISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#64 IBM System/360 DOS still going strong as Z/VSE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#48 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#57 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#65 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#49 Any benefit to programming a RISC processor by hand?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#30 Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#43 Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: AIG freezes defined-benefit pension plan Date: 03 Sept 2015 Blog: Facebook - IBM RetireesAIG freezes defined-benefit pension plan
Retirement Heist
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
For one thing, they were an enormous carrot to get people out the
door. Companies knew that employees found lump sums
irresistible. "Choosey Employees Choose Lump Sums!" was the title of
one of Watson Wyatt's surveys.
....
Watson Wyatt (used by former president of AMEX at both RJR and IBM)
precursor to Towers-Watson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towers_Watson
Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
private-equity companies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
Treasury Department Claims Paulson Never Officially Discussed AIG
Bailout
http://shadowproof.com/2015/09/02/treasury-department-claims-paulson-never-officially-discussed-aig-bailout/
Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate
fraudulent mortgages (posterchild were office bldgs in Dallas/Ft.Worth
area that turned out to be empty lots). In the late 90s, I was asked
to look at improving the integrity of supporting documents as
countermeasures. Then loan originators were then securitizing
loans&mortgages and paying for triple-A ratings (when both the sellers
and the rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008
congressional testimony). Triple-A rating trumps supporting
documentation and they can start doing no-documentation liar
loans. Being able to pay for triple-A eliminated any reason for loan
originators to care about borrowers' qualifications or loan quality,
they could sell off (all loans as fast as they could be made) to
customers restricted to dealing in "safe" investments (like large
pension funds, claim is it accounts for 30% loss in funds and
trillions shortfall for pensions), largely enabling being able to do
over $27T 2001-2008 ... including using some of the ENRON creative
bookkeeping
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
triple-A rated toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
If that wasn't enough, they also start packaging securitized loans/mortgages designed to fail, pay for triple-A, sell to their victim customers, and then take out CDS gambling bets they would fail (creating enormous demand for dodgy loans & mortgages). Largest holder of CDS gambling bets was AIG and was negotiating to pay off at 50-60cents on the dollar, when the secretary of treasury steps in and forces them to sign a document that they can't sue those making the gambling bets and to take TARP funds to payoff at 100cents on the dollar. The largest recipient of TARP funds was AIG and the largest recipient of face-value payoffs was TBTF formerly headed by sec-of-treasury.
Supposedly TARP was originally appropriated for buying TBTF toxic
assets, but with only $700B it was possibly never really intended to
be used for that purposes; just four largest TBTF still had $5.2T
"off-book" toxic assets end of 2008
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 (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Federal Reserve was fighting long legal battle to prevent disclosure of what it was doing for TBTF, tens of tillions in ZIRP funds and buying trillions in toxic assets at 98cents on the dollar (had been going for 22cents on the dollar, summer of 2008)
After FEDRES was forced to disclose what was it doing, the Fed
chairman had press conference and said that he had expected the TBTF
to use ZIRP funds to lend to mainstreet and when they didn't, he had
no way to force them (but that didn't stop the tens of trillions in
ZIRP funds). Note the Fed chairman was supposedly selected in part
because he was depression scholar. However, the Fed had tried
something similar after the crash of 29 and wall street had behaved
the same way ... so there would be *NO* expectation that they would
behave differently this time. Fed chairman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
An indication that wallstreet has perfected their stranglehold on washington and the regulatory agencies is that the S&L crisis had 30,000 criminal referrals and 1,000 criminal convictions (with jailtime). The economic mess last decade was 70 times larger than the S&L crisis and there have *NO* criminal referrals or criminal convictions with people doing jailtime.
From the law of unintended consequences, the lack of documents force the TBTF to set up the large robo-signing mills to fabricate documents for foreclosures (for which they've been fined tens of billions).
Proof of Ongoing Foreclosure Fraud and Mortgage Document Fabrication,
in Five Emails
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/proof-of-ongoing-foreclosure-fraud-and-mortgage-document-fabrication-in-five-emails.html
Mortgage lawsuits against BofA, Citigroup and Wells Fargo resurrected
http://www.housingwire.com/articles/34966
Since the economic mess, the TBTF have been fined a total of $300B
(compared to the $300B/annum they make off ZIRP funds), however it
isn't just for the fraudulent lending, misrepresentation of
securitized loans, robo-signing mills, etc ... it is also for illegal
manipulation in hundreds of trillions of LIBOR, FOREX, and commodity
markets, hundreds of billions in illegal money laundering for drug
cartels and terrorists, and misc. other illegal activity. The joke is
that the $300B in fines compared to the large trillions is being
viewed as just cost of doing illegal business.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
Disclaimer #2: Jan2009 (ten yrs after being asked to work on improving
integrity of supporting documents as countermeasure to securitized
loans used to obfuscate fraudulent loans/mortgages), I'm asked to
HTML'ize the Pecora Hearings (30s senate hearings into crash of '29,
resulted in criminal convictions and glass-steagall), with lots of
internal HREFs and lots of URLs between what happened this time and
what happened then (reference that the new congress might be
interested in actually doing something). I work on it for awhile and
then get a call that it won't be needed after all (reference to
enormous piles of wallstreet money totally burying washington and the
regulatory agencies). posts mentioning Pecora &/or Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
About the same time were asked to look at improving the integrity of supporting documents in securitized mortgages, we had been invited into NSCC (before merger with DTC for DTCC) to look at improving integrity of trade transactions. We do some work on it and then get told it was suspended because a side-effect was greatly improved transparency and visibility ... antithesis to wallstreet culture.
Note at the congressional Madoff hearings, they had the person that
had tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about
Madoff (SEC hands were forced when Madoff turned himself in). They
asked him if new regulations were needed. He said that while more
regulations might be needed, much more important would be transparency
and visibility.
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: Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President and CEO, IBM Date: 03 Sept 2015 Blog: Facebook - IBM RetireesGinni Rometty, Chairman, President and CEO, IBM
Late 80s, a senior disk engineer got a talk scheduled at the annual,
world-wide, internal communication group conference, supposedly on
3174 performance, however he opened the talk that the communication
group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk
division. The issue was that the communication group had strategic
ownership of everything that crossed the datacenter walls and was
fiercely fighting off distributed computing and client/server trying
to preserve its dumb (emulated) terminal paradigm and install
base. The disk division was seeing the effect of communication group
stranglehold on datacenters with data fleeing the datacenter to more
distributed computing friendly platforms with drop in disk sales. It
had come up with a number of solutions to correct the problem, but
they were constantly being vetoed by the communication group. some
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
There was senior disk division executive attempting to bypass the corporate limitations by investing in startups that supported mainframe distributed computing and he would periodically ask us to help/visit those startups.
A few years later the corporation goes into the red and was being
reorganized into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breakup. The
board then brings in the former president of AMEX to resurrect the
company and reverse the breakup. AMEX had been in competition with KKR
for private-equity, reverse IPO, LBO 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 AMEX president away to turn
it around. Then IBM hires away the former president of AMEX where he
uses some of the same techniques used at RJR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
He then leaves IBM and becomes head of one of the other largest private-equity companies. Note that the industry had gotten such a bad reputation during the S&L crisis that they change their name to private equity (and "junk bonds" becomes "high-yield bonds").
Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
private-equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2015 09:40:25 -0700scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
we had participated in early SCI standards ... which were then used by
Data General, Sequent, SGI, Convex, etc. We did some consulting for Chen
when he was CTO at Sequent (before Sequent was bought by IBM and
dissolved).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequent_Computer_Systems
SGI used MIPs chips.
Convex did two processor HP snake-chip boards (exemplar) ... and was
later marketed by HP (after HP bought Convex).
http://www.openpa.net/systems/convex_spp1000_spp1200_spp1600_cd-xa.html
misc past posts mentioning SMP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
past refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#20 Is Al Gore The Father of the Internet?^
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#12 OT - Internet Explorer V6.0
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#56 Another light on the map going out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#57 Another light on the map going out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#68 bits, bytes, half-duplex, dual-simplex, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#30 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#45 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005v.html#0 DMV systems?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#38 Wanted: info on old Unisys boxen
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#41 Wanted: info on old Unisys boxen
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#1 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#33 Making tea
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#5 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#80 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#38 U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#25 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#65 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#50 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#71 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Economists' Tribal Thinking Date: 06 Sept 2015 Blog: Facebook - History & Social ScienceEconomists' Tribal Thinking
Economics Has a Math Problem
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-01/economics-has-a-math-problem
When things were crashing, there were articles about it was all because of faulty (risk management) math ... turns out misdirection and obfuscation; risk managers were reporting that business executives were forcing them to approve deals ... and a call to make risk dept. immune from business executive pressure.
How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/how-wall-streets-quants-lied-to-their-computers/
Subprime = Triple-A ratings? or 'How to Lie with Statistics' (gone 404 but lives on at the wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20071111031315/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/07/25/subprime-triple-a-ratings-or-how-to-lie-with-statistics/
2007 reference to 2005 article explaining how their lies weren't even good math
How Conventional CDO Analytics Missed the Mark
http://www.bobsguide.com/guide/news/2007/Dec/20/Kamakura_Releases_Study:_How_Conventional_CDO_Analytics_Missed_the_Mark.html
toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
The next were reports of consultant hired by wallstreet that was recommending that they tie up all the prominent economists, hire them, put them on retainers, give large grants to univ. depts., etc. ... in order to bias their public views
How Economists Contributed to the Financial Crisis
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johntharvey/2012/02/06/economics-crisis/
"Inside Job" references how leading economists were captured similar
to the capture of the regulatory agencies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Job_(2010_film)
"Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts,
Ample Rewards" goes into the capture of economists in more detail
https://www.amazon.com/Economists-Powerful-Convenient-Distorted-Economics-ebook/dp/B01B4X4KOS/
loc72-74: "Only through having been caught so blatantly with their noses in the troughs (e.g. the 2011 Academy Award -- winning documentary Inside Job) has the American Economic Association finally been forced to adopt an ethical code, and that code is weak and incomplete compared with other disciplines."
loc957-62: The AEA was pushed into action by a damning research report into the systematic concealment of conflicts of interest by top financial economists and by a letter from three hundred economists who urged the association to come up with a code of ethics. Epstein and Carrick-Hagenbarth (2010) have shown that many highly influential financial economists in the US hold roles in the private financial sector, from serving on boards to owning the respective companies. Many of these have written on financial regulation in the media or in scholarly papers. Very rarely have they disclosed their affiliations to the financial industry in their writing or in their testimony in front of Congress, thus concealing a potential conflict of interest.
Securitized mortgages (CDOs) had been used during the S&L crisis to
obfuscate fraudulent mortgages (posterchild were office bldgs in
Dallas/Ft.Worth area that turned out to be empty lots. In the late
90s, I was asked to look at improving the integrity of supporting
documents as countermeasures. Then loan originators were securitizing
loans&mortgages (CDOs) and paying for triple-A ratings (when both the
sellers and the rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from
Oct2008 congressional testimony). Triple-A rating trumps supporting
documentation and they can start doing no-documentation liar
loans. Being able to pay for triple-A eliminated any reason for loan
originators to care about borrowers' qualifications or loan quality,
they could sell off (all loans as fast as they could be made) to
customers restricted to dealing in "safe" investments (like large
pension funds, claim is it accounts for 30% loss in funds and
trillions shortfall for pensions), largely enabling being able to do
over $27T 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
It wasn't good math, but in addition, it was based on the underlying fabricated triple-A ratings
From the law of unintended consequences, the no-documentation securitized mortgages (enabled by triple-A ratings) led to the too big to fail having to set up the large robo-signing mills to fabricate the missing documents (and resulting billions in fines for doing foreclosures with fabricated documents).
Proof of Ongoing Foreclosure Fraud and Mortgage Document Fabrication,
in Five Emails
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/proof-of-ongoing-foreclosure-fraud-and-mortgage-document-fabrication-in-five-emails.html
If that wasn't enough, paying for triple-A ratings enabled them to create securitized mortgages designed to fail, pay for the triple-A rating and sell off to their customer/victims and then take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail (creating enormous demand for dodgy mortgages). Later the largest holder of the CDS gambling bets was AIG ... who was negotiating to payoff at 50-60 cents on the dollar when the sec. of treasury steps in, forces them to sign a document that they can't sue those making the CDS gambling bets and to take TARP funds to payoff at face value (AIG is the largest recipient of TARP funds and the firm formally headed by the sec. of treasury is the largest recipient of face-value payoffs).
Treasury Department Claims Paulson Never Officially Discussed AIG
Bailout
http://shadowproof.com/2015/09/02/treasury-department-claims-paulson-never-officially-discussed-aig-bailout/
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
past posts mentioning "how to lie with statistics":
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#96 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#99 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#3 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#15 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#49 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#52 Technology and the current crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#56 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#69 Another quiet week in finance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#72 Why was Sarbanes-Oxley not good enough to sent alarms to the regulators about the situation arising today?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#78 Isn't it the Federal Reserve role to oversee the banking system??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#82 Fraud in financial institution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#15 Financial Crisis - the result of uncontrolled Innovation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#18 Once the dust settles, do you think Milton Friedman's economic theories will be laid to rest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#19 What's your view of current global financial / economical situation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#26 SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act), is this really followed and worthful considering current Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#28 Does anyone get the idea that those responsible for containing this finanical crisis are doing too much?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#34 The human plague
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#75 In light of the recent financial crisis, did Sarbanes-Oxley fail to work?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#82 Greenspan testimony and securization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#8 Global Melt Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#70 Is there any technology that we are severely lacking in the Financial industry?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#49 Have not the following principles been practically disproven, once and for all, by the current global financial meltdown?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#50 Obama, ACORN, subprimes (Re: Spiders)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#64 Is This a Different Kind of Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#23 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#35 Is American capitalism and greed to blame for our financial troubles in the US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#55 Is this the story behind the crunchy credit stuff?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#14 What are the challenges in risk analytics post financial crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#63 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#80 Are reckless risks a natural fallout of "excessive" executive compensation ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#36 A great article was posted in another BI group: "To H*** with Business Intelligence: 40 Percent of Execs Trust Gut"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#53 Credit & Risk Management ... go Simple ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#54 In your opinion, which facts caused the global crise situation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#65 What can agencies such as the SEC do to insure us that something like Madoff's Ponzi scheme will never happen again?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/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/2009e.html#8 The background reasons of Credit Crunch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#1 Future of Financial Mathematics?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#31 OODA-loop obfuscation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#29 Analysing risk, especially credit risk in Banks, which was a major reason for the current crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#38 what is mortgage-backed securities?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#49 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#21 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#40 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#53 What do you think about fraud prevention in the governments?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#75 America's Defense Meltdown
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#42 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#56 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#10 Cracking the code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#69 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#67 How Economists Contributed to the Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#95 Bank of America Fined $1 Billion for Mortgage Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#32 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#63 One maths formula and the financial crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#48 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#39 The Alchemy of Securitization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#26 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#67 Economics Has a Math Problem
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 07:48:23 -0700scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
Steve Chen ... responsible for X-MP & Y-MP at Cray
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Chen_%28computer_engineer%29
Chen holds a M.S. from Villanova University and a PhD from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[2] He is best known as the
principal designer of the Cray X-MP and Cray Y-MP multiprocessor
supercomputers. Chen left Cray Research in 1987. With IBM's financial
support, Chen founded Supercomputer Systems Incorporated in January
1988. SSI was devoted to development of the SS-1 supercomputer, which
was nearly completed before the money ran out. The Eau Claire,
Wisconsin-based company went bankrupt in 1993, leaving more than 300
employees jobless. An attempt to salvage the work was made by forming a
new company, SuperComputer International (SCI), later that year. SCI was
renamed Chen Systems in 1995. It was acquired by Sequent Computer
Systems the following year.
... snip ...
One of the senior IBM VPs sponsored supercomputer group in kingston that frequently gave us lots of fits ... they were the ones that were providing Chen funding.
We were doing cluster scale-up for our HA/CMP ... working with various
RDBMS vendors for commercial (did distributed cluster & lock manager
that supported vax/cluster semantics ... they had common source base for
open systems and vax/cluster ... so it made the port easier) ... old
reference to meeting in Ellison's conference room Jan 1992
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
we was also working with national labs and other high-end locations
on cluster scale-up for scientific and filesystems ... some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
HA/CMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
the end of OCT1991, the senior VP sponsoring IBM Kingston retired ... and
they did audits of several of his projects. They then start scouring the
company for technology that could be used for supercomputer. Over the
period of couple weeks following the Ellison meeting, they discover our
cluster scale-up, transfer it to IBM Kingston, tell us we can't work on
anything with more than four processors, and announce it as IBM's
supercomputer. old press a month after ellison meeting (17Feb1992), IBM
supercomputer announced for scientific and technical *ONLY*
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
more press, 11May1992, IBM taken by surpise by the national labs
interest in cluster scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
It is major motivation in deciding to leave IBM. Later two of the other people in the Jan1992 Ellison meeting had also left (oracle) and were at a small client/server startup responsible for something called the commerce server. We are brought in as consultants because they want to do payment transactions on the server, the small client/server startup had also invented something called "SSL" they want to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
There was some sort of Pyramid location a block down the street from
the small client/server startup in Mountain View. They were interested
in doing some sort of "electronic commerce" thing (I forget all the
details now) and we had several meetings with them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_Technology
Page 184, Computerworld, 12 Sep 1983, Pyramid Technology Corporation, a
new Mountain View, California company focused on ... has recently
announced its first product: the Pyramid 90x computer.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The Phillipines in 2012 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 15:27:50 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
they shared 9 position memory bus for up to nine microprocessors ... in the 115 all the microprocessors were the same ... but with different microcode loads ... one with 370 microcode and others with specific i/o controller microcode loads (up to eight).
the 125 was same as 115 except the processor with the 370 microcode load was about 50% faster (than the others).
I got con'ed into doing a special 125 multiprocessor design (that never
shipped) ... where up to five of the microprocessors were doing 370
microcode. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#bounce
other SMP, multiprocessor and/or compare&swap posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
first time I visited the Boeblingen lab in the early 70s, the put me up in small german business hotel where nobody spoke english. By the 80s, there were some number of other American companies in the area and a number of American chain hotels.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: First new cache-coherence mechanism in 30 years Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 08:32:15 -0700First new cache-coherence mechanism in 30 years
actually something like this was done nearly 30yrs ago with cluster DBMS operation ... specifically with recovery and merger of cluster/distributed DBMS journals.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Term "Open Systems" (as Sometimes Currently Used) is Dead -- Who's with Me? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 11 Sep 2015 09:38:51 -0700imugzach@GMAIL.COM (Itschak Mugzach) writes:
His view would be that it would make it easy for customers to move
applications from non-IBM platforms to MVS. My claim was industry
motivation for "open" was that it would make it trivial for customers to
move applications to whatever platform they wanted to ... eliminating
proprietary lockins that had previously been the norm. Frequently move
to the latest most cost effective platform, aka hardware platform
agnostic, promoting competition and accelerating improvements. It is
also seen in things like industry standard benchmarks like TPC
(price/transaction, watts/transaction, etc)
http://www.tpc.org/
trivia ... former co-worker at ibm san jose research
https://www.tpc.org/information/who/gray5.asp
For IBM, it was sort of in the genre of SAA ... billed as application could be run anywhere ... but really met that application could be moved to the mainframe ... while human interface could be on some other platform. SAA was part of communication group desperately fighting off client/server and distributed computing trying to preserve their dumb (emulated) terminal paradigm and install base.
The communication group had stranglehold on datacenters with corporate
strategic ownership of everything that crossed the datacenter walls and
the disk division was starting to see the effects with drop in disk
sales (data fleeing the datacenter to more distributed computing
friendly platforms). The disk division had come up with number of
solutions to correct the problem ... but the ones that involved actually
crossing the datacenter walls were constantly vetoed by communication
group. some past posts (including references to claim that communication
group was going to be responsible for demise of disk division)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
My wife had written 3-tier architecture into response to large gov.
super-secure, campus environment RFI ... and then we were using 3-tier
in customer executive presentations and taking all sorts of arrows in the back
from the SAA forces. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#3tier
The "open" for MVS didn't actually involve anything that crossed the datacenter walls so the communication group couldn't veto it. He was also investing in companies that produced mainframe products that crossed datacenter walls (communication group could veto his developing and selling IBM distributed products that physically crossed datacenter walls, but couldn't veto him from investing in non-IBM companies).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: New hard drive Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 15:07:21 -0700Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
somebody's reference on Facebook
Never Forget - On 09/10/01, Sec Rumsfeld announced $2.3T
was missing from the pentagon operating budget. Hours
later, the Pentagon Accounting Offices were Destroyed.
https://www.facebook.com/End.AIPAC/photos/a.542024679212055.1073741825.379531218794736/903420069739179/
The War On Waste
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-war-on-waste/
some comments, backups?
where were the data backups or had it be outsourced to private-equity
subsidiary? aka enormous uptic last decade in outsourcing to for-profit
companies and private-equity has so perfected looting for-profit
gov. contractors ... they had the companies doing security clearances
just filling out paperwork and not bothering to actually do any checks
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Security clearances used to be a government function too, but are now a
profit center for various private-equity subsidiaries.
... snip ...
including company that did Snowden's security clearance.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article24750283.html
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/06/21/Heres-How-Edward-Snowden-Got-Top-Secret-Clearance
more recent instance
OPM Contractor's Parent Firm Has a Troubled History
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/24/opm-contractor-veritas/
Founded in 1992 by the late investment banker Robert McKeon, Veritas
Capital grew quickly by buying up government contractors and forming
close ties with former senior government officials. Of the many
defense-related investments made by the company, the most famous has
been the 2005 purchase of DynCorp International, a scandal-plagued
company that played a pivotal role in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
... snip ...
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
The Pentagon Lost $8.5 TRILLION of Taxpayers' Money
http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/06/the-pentagon-lost-8-5-trillion-of-taxpayer-money/
DOD isn't the only way that the military industrial complex has of
sucking money .... congress also does "directed appropriation" foreign
aid .... where a foreign country can only use the foreign aid for the
purchase of specific american made military hardware (and of course
since 9/11 ... it also has DHS) ... corporate representatives approach
former eastern bloc countries and tell them if they vote for invasion of
Iraq in the UN, they will get approval to join NATO and directed
appropriation USAID (that can only be used to buy "modern" american made
military equipment)
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
also
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/03/books/corrupt-from-top-to-bottom.html?pagewanted=1
HBO made a movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars
son-in-law 1st tour in Iraq was foot-patrol Fallujah 2004-2005, 2nd tour
was "mounted", bradley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_Bradley#M2A3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Fighting_Vehicle#M3_Bradley
2007-2008 (described as worse than Fallujah, but because administration
said things were better didn't get much attention).
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Baqubah-Killing-Our-ebook/dp/B007VBBS9I/
they had boneyard size of three football fields full of destroyed
Bradleys and Abrams M1 tanks, they were loosing so many Bradleys that
they started getting mothballed Bradleys from Desert Storm (with
incompatible/obsolete communication)
... and some related
Pentagon remains stubbornly unable to account for its hundreds of
billions (multiple trillions over the years); A celebration by the
Marine Corps of its accounting prowess turns out to have been premature,
with a discrepancy in a key audit of $800 million
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/08/03/17735/pentagon-remains-stubbornly-unable-account-its-billions
The Pentagon Is Still Terrible at Accounting for Your Tax Dollars; A
celebration by the Marine Corps of its accounting prowess turns out to
have been premature, with a discrepancy in a key audit of $800 million.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/03/the-pentagon-is-still-terrible-at-accounting-for-taxpayer-dollars-marine-corps-800-million-gao/
Marine Corps Can't Account for $800 Million
http://www.dodbuzz.com/2015/08/04/marine-corps-cant-account-for-800-million/
It mentions that lower level objections were run over and higher ups
signed off as accurate despite objections. In theory if this was subject
to Sarbanes-Oxley and sign-off on financial audits despite objections
... it would call for the people doing the sign-offs doing jail time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes-Oxley_Act
2010 CBO report was that previous decade, DOD budget was increased by over $2T compared to baseline, $1+T for the two wars ... and $1+T that they couldn't find anything to show for.
How Private Contractors Have Created a Shadow NSA; A new cybersecurity
elite moves between government and private practice, taking state
secrets with them (also references oil rig company that was transformed
into one of the largest defense contractors after former SECDEF and
future VP becomes CEO, including no-bid contracts in Iraq)
http://www.thenation.com/article/how-private-contractors-have-created-shadow-nsa/
above includes references to some of the events around the spreading
(private-equity & for-profit) Success Of Failure culture (make more
money off series of failures)
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
(note sometimes clicking govexec serves up a blank page and you have to repeat the click)
past posts mentioning military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Term "Open Systems" (as Sometimes Currently Used) is Dead -- Who's with Me? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 11 Sep 2015 17:40:16 -0700jax@WELL.COM (Jack J. Woehr) writes:
original mainframe TCP/IP product was done in vs/pascal for VM370 and communication group was sort of pushed into corner to eventually let it be released ... however with some performance issues (max 44kbyte/sec using nearly full 3090 processor). It was ported to MVS by providing simulation for the required VM370 functions.
Open systems have had epidemics of exploits and vulnerabilities
attributed to C-language buffer length and addressing semantics (the
mainframe vs/pascal implementation was not known to have similar
problems) ... some past posts on the subject
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#buffer
I did the modifications to the vm370 version to support RFC1044 ... and
in some tuning tests at Cray research got sustained channel throughput
between 4341 and Cray using only modest amount of 4341 processor time.
(possibly 500 times improvement in bytes moved per instruction
executed). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
much later the communication group hired a subcontractor to do TCP/IP implementation in vtam and after the initial demonstration they told him that everybody *knows* that a *valid* tcp/ip implementation is slower than LU6.2, and they would only be paying for a *valid* implementation.
we were also working with NSF and its supercomputer centers on
interconnecting the labs ... originally we were suppose to get
$20M. Then congress cut the budget and some other things happened and
finally NSF releases RFP (several pieces based on what we already had
running) ... but internal politics prevents us from bidding. The
director of NSF tries to help and writes the corporation a letter
(copying the CEO) with support from other agencies ... but that just
made the internal politics worse (as did comments that what we already
had running was at least five years ahead of all bid submissions). some
old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
as regional networks connect into the nodes, it evolves into
the NSFNET backbone ... precursor to modern internet. some
discussion
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Term "Open Systems" (as Sometimes Currently Used) is Dead -- Who's with Me? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 11 Sep 2015 19:15:17 -0700jax@WELL.COM (Jack J. Woehr) writes:
garlic.com changed/moved their webserver on 16apr2015 and I am still trying to work out how to update files at the new webserver (i've exchange lots of email, still haven't worked it out).
in mean time, this thread archived in google groups
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/dvpRJRmFIJA
reference here from last decade
https://web.archive.org/web/20190524015712/http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/stoprun/Stop-Run/Making-History/
I was blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until mid-80s) in the late 70s & early 80s; folklore is that when the corporate executive committee was told about online computer conferencing (and the internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me.
one reference (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.
... snip ...
somewhat as a result, a researcher was paid to sit in the back of my
office for 9months to study how I communicated; took notes on
face-to-face and telephone, went with me to meetings, got logs of my
instant messages and copies of all incoming & outgoing email. material
was used for research report, some number of papers & books and a
Stanford PHD (joint between language and computer AI). some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
(children's "bullying") book about former co-worker at the science
center responsible for the internal network
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cool-to-be-clever-edson-hendricks/id483020515?mt=8
It's Cool to Be Clever: The Story of Edson C. Hendricks, the Genius Who Invented the Design for the Internet
https://www.amazon.com/Its-Cool-Be-Clever-Hendricks/dp/1897435630/
and wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks
the internal network technology was also used for the corporate
sponsored university network ... also larger than internet for
a time (and where ibm-main originated) ... wiki reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
some past science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Now the DOJ Admits They Got it Wrong Date: 11 Sept 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Now the DOJ Admits They Got it Wrong
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2015/09/now-the-doj-admits-they-got-it-wrong.html
By issuing its new memorandum the Justice Department is tacitly
admitting that its experiment in refusing to prosecute the senior
bankers that led the fraud epidemics that caused our economic crisis
failed. The result was the death of accountability, of justice, and of
deterrence. The result was a wave of recidivism in which elite bankers
continued to defraud the public after promising to cease their crimes.
... snip ...
also called "moral hazard"
OJ's Rules for Wall Street Are Nothing New
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2015/09/dojs-rules-for-wall-street-are-nothing-new.html
Former Financial Regulator: DOJ's Rules For Wall Street Are Nothing New
http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/news/former-financial-regulator-dojs-rules-for-wall-street-are-nothing-new/vi-AAebYsf
More on the DOJ's Prosecution Policy
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2015/09/more-on-the-dojs-prosecution-policy.html
as an aside, there were 30,000 criminal referrals and 1,000 criminal convictions from the S&L crisis ... the recent economic mess was 70 times larger than the S&L crisis ... implying that there should have been 210,000 criminal referrals and 70,000 criminal convictions ... however, there have been zero/none criminal referrals or convictions
Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages (poster child was office bldgs. in the Dallas/Ft.Worth area that turned out to be empty lots). In the late 90s, I was asked to look at improving the integrity of securitized mortgages supporting documents as a countermeasure. Then they found that they could pay for triple-A ratings from the rating agencies (when both the sellers and the rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008 congressional testimony).
Triple-A ratings trump documentation and they found they could start
doing no-documentation liar loans (with no supporting documents, there
was no longer an issue of supporting document integrity), pay for
triple-A rating and sell off (including to large pension funds that
are restricted to dealing in "safe" investments, claims it was major
contribution to 30% drop in fund value and trillions in pension
shortfall) ... largely responsible for being able to do over $27T
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 no-documentation securitized mortgages (enabled by triple-A ratings) led to the too big to fail having to set up the large robo-signing mills to fabricate the missing documents (and resulting billions in fines for doing foreclosures with fabricated documents).
If that wasn't enough, paying for triple-A ratings enabled them to
create securitized mortgages designed to fail, pay for the triple-A
rating and sell off to their customer/victims and then take out CDS
gambling bets that they would fail (creating enormous demand for dodgy
mortgages). Later the largest holder of the CDS gambling bets was AIG
... who was negotiating to payoff at 50-60 cents on the dollar when
the sec. of treasury steps in, forces them to sign a document that
they can't sue those making the CDS gambling bets and to take TARP
funds to payoff at face value (AIG is the largest recipient of TARP
funds and the firm formally headed by the sec. of treasury is the
largest recipient of face-value payoffs).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Since the economic mess, the TBTF have been fined a total of $300B (compared to the $300B/annum they make off ZIRP funds), however it isn't just for the fraudulent lending, misrepresentation of securitized loans, robo-signing mills, etc ... it is also for illegal manipulation in hundreds of trillions of LIBOR, FOREX, and commodity markets, hundreds of billions in illegal money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists, and misc. other illegal activity. The joke is that the $300B in fines compared to the large trillions is being viewed as just cost of doing illegal business.
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Jan2009 (ten yrs after being asked to work on improving integrity of
supporting documents as countermeasure to securitized loans used to
obfuscate fraudulent loans/mortgages), I'm asked to HTML'ize the
Pecora Hearings (30s senate hearings into crash of '29, resulted in
criminal convictions and glass-steagall), with lots of internal HREFs
and lots of URLs between what happened this time and what happened
then (reference that the new congress might be interested in actually
doing something). I work on it for awhile and then get a call that it
won't be needed after all (reference to enormous piles of wallstreet
money totally burying washington and the regulatory agencies).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
After FEDRES was forced to disclose tens of trillions in ZIRP funds for TBTF, the Fed chairman had press conference and said that he had expected the TBTF to use ZIRP funds to lend to mainstreet and when they didn't, he had no way to force them (but that didn't stop the tens of trillions in ZIRP funds). Note the Fed chairman was supposedly selected in part because he was depression scholar. However, the Fed had tried something similar after the crash of 29 and wall street had behaved the same way ... so there would be *NO* expectation that they would behave differently this time.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: New cache coherence scales logarithmically Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 09:14:49 -0700nmm@needham.csi.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) writes:
one of the issues was DBMS recovery after failure and merging distributed journals in logically consistant order.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Term "Open Systems" (as Sometimes Currently Used) is Dead -- Who's with Me? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 12 Sep 2015 12:40:06 -0700tony@HARMINC.NET (Tony Harminc) writes:
google archive
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/dvpRJRmFIJA
advent of single chip processors met that companies could develop hardware systems at very low cost .... but there was still enormous cost associated with developing proprietary operating systems. the thing that unleashed was these companies being able to adapt unix for their hardware at small fraction of developing proprietary operating system from scratch. Saw big explosion in companies doing minis, workstations, mini-supers, supers, etc all using commodity processor chips and portable unix.
IBM's office products group was going to use 801/RISC ROMP chip to do a
displaywriter follow-on ... when that got canceled they decided to
retarget to the Unix workstation market and got the company that had
done the AT&T unix port for IBM/PC PC/IX to do one for ROMP ... released
as PC/RT and AIX2. Some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
Along the way saw universities doing unix work-alikes ... UCB doing BSD, UCLA doing Locus, CMU doing MACH, etc.
IBM Palo Alto Science Center was working on doing UCB BSD for 370 when they got retargeted to PC/RT ... which came out as AOS. They had also been working with UCLA Locus ... which was eventually released as AIX/370 & AIX/386 (Locus AIX having little directly to do with AT&T UNIX for PC/RT). Jobs had left Apple and was doing NeXT and using MACH as base system, when Jobs comes back to Apple, he brings MACH with him to be the basis for applie operating system.
AT&T & SUN then try and make UNIX more "proprietary" ... kicking
off the UNIX wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Software_Foundation
The organization was first proposed by Armando Stettner of Digital
Equipment Corporation at a by-invitation-only meeting hosted by DEC for
several UNIX system vendors in January 1988 (called the "Hamilton
Group", since the meeting was held at DEC's offices on Palo Alto's
Hamilton Avenue).[3] It was intended as an organization for joint
development, mostly in response to a perceived threat of "merged UNIX
system" efforts by AT&T Corporation and Sun Microsystems.
...
The foundation's original sponsoring members were Apollo Computer,
Groupe Bull, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, IBM,
Nixdorf Computer, and Siemens AG, sometimes called the "Gang of Seven"
... snip ...
which also gave big boost to POSIX
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX
The disk division executive sponsored POSIX/Open implementation for MVS ... as part of work around communication group opposition to client/server and distributed computing ... but it was also motivated by being able to bid MVS for gov. contracts requiring POSIX compliance.
i86 processors have became dominate commodity processor chip ... drastically reducing some of the hardware portability issues ... and windows took over as dominant operating system.
rise of Linux was partially because the new computing paradigm for GRID and CLOUD computing that can have millions of processors ... and being able to evolve that new computing paradigm needed full, unrestricted source.
Big cluster supercomputers evolved into GRID ... and the big cloud megadatacenters were not too far behind (started leveraging some of the same components) ... mostly dependent on freely available Linux source (although as the paradigm matured, some cases of other systems jumping on the bandwagon).
The big cloud megadatacenters have enormously expanded on-demand computing ... there are even instances of dynamically spinning up on-demand supercomputer using credit card. Four years ago there was case of ondemand 240TIPS supercomputer created for research. Year later, there was case of dynamically created ondemand supercomputer that was three times larger, for 3hrs of cancer research (would have ranked in the top 50 supercomputers in the world).
By comparison, max configured EC12 is 101 processors rated at 75BIPS (743MIPS/proc), z13 claims 30% more throughput than EC12 with 40% more processors (700MIPS/proc?). 240TIPS would be equivalent of over 3000 max configured EC12 systems ... and more recent, more like 10,000 max configured EC12 systems ... dynamically, ondemand processing created on-the-fly with just credit card (using automated processes).
It is becoming increasingly hard to extract mainframe numbers. There was statement about approx. mainframe processor sales for Fall2014 as compared to some previous years ... which worked out to equivalent 14 max. configured EC12 systems or 56 max. configured EC12 systems on annualized basis. Previously since the turn of the century, numbers seemed to have been in the range of 200-300 max. configured equivalent systems per year (under 5000 total so for this century).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: New hard drive Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 12:56:24 -0700sidd@situ.com (sidd) writes:
there was enormous uptic in the magnitude of the problem last decade. For instance 2010 CBO report had DOD budget increased by a little over $2T last decade (over baseline budget), a little over $1+T for the two wars and another $1+T that they couldn't find anything to show for (that is in addition to the graft & corruption in the baseline budget).
one of Boyd acolytes was graduate of the first air force academy class
and on fast track to general ... when Boyd challenged him to do the
right thing ... destroying his career. He wrote a book about it
https://www.amazon.com/Pentagon-Wars-Reformers-Challenge-Guard/dp/B00HXY969W/
... which HBO made into movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars
this review: "Corrupt From Top to Bottom"
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/03/books/corrupt-from-top-to-bottom.html?pagewanted=1
is same year Congress passes law requiring all federal agencies have to
pass annual financial audits. So far DOD has never been able to pass a
financial audit ... there is some speculation (fantasy?) that DOD might
be able to pass a financail audit in 2017 (more than 20yrs later)
As referenced, executives signed a financial audit for the marine corp as being valid (despite lower levels claiming it wasn't) ... supposedly if subject to Sarbanes-Oxley, those signing would be doing jail time. Rhetoric in congress for Sarbanes-Oxley was that it would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee that executives and auditors did jailtime.
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
sarbanes-oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: New cache coherence scales logarithmically Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 15:08:01 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
initial attempts to get compare&swap included in 370 were rebuffed
because the POK favorite son operating system people claimed that
test&set was suffucient for multiprocessing locking & serialization
(have come from global kernel spin-lock). 370 architecture owners said
in order to get compare&swap included in 370, there needed to be
non-multiprocessor related uses, thus were born the examples for
multi-threaded (multi-programming) application use (whether or not
running on single processor or multi-processor). The examples still are
included in current mainframe principles of operation ... relatively
recent web/html version ... later ones are all PDF:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dz9zr003/A.6?DT=20040504121320
The issue with test&set for lock semantics is that it obtains a lock used to bracket some code sequence followed by an unlock/clear. The application thread can be interrupted while the lock is held ... potentially resulting in deadlock (since the thread with the lock may be pre-empted/interrupted and not get control back for one reason or another).
past posts mentioning SMP and/or compare&swap
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
trivia: later we work on scale-up multiprocessor cache coherency, where only compare&swap instruction guaranteed correct operation (370 was store-through cache ... but dropped cross-cache invalidation except fpr compare&swap).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 23:01:57 -0700"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
in the middle last decade, comptroller general was including in speeches
that nobody in congress knew how to do middle school arithmetic for how
badly they were savaging the budget.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
fiscal responsible
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
no. 2 on times list responsible for the economic mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
responsible for GLBA including provision repealing Glass-Stegall
enabling too big to fail (too big to prosecute and too big to
jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
then along with his wife, prevented derivatives from being regulated ...
originally characterized as gift to enron. afterwards, his wife resigns
as chair of CFTC and joins ENRON board and its financial audit
committee.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
Treasury Department Claims Paulson Never Officially Discussed AIG
Bailout
http://shadowproof.com/2015/09/02/treasury-department-claims-paulson-never-officially-discussed-aig-bailout/
Sec. of Treasury pushed through TARP supposedly to buy TBTF off-book
toxic assets ... but with only $700B appropriated, it possibly never was
really intended for that purpose. Just the four largest TBTF still had
$5.2T in off-book toxic assets the end of 2008
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
However, the TBTF were creating securitized loans&mortgages designed to fail, paying for triple-A ratings, selling to their victims/customers, and then taking out CDS gambling bets (derivatives) that they would fail (creating enormous demands for dodgy loans/mortgages). AIG was the largest holder of the CDS gambling bets and was negotiating to pay off at 50-60 cents on the dollar, then the sec of treasury steps in forces AIG to sign document that they can't sue those making the CDS gambling bets and take TARP funds to pay off at 100cents on the dollar. The largest recipient of TARP funds is AIG and the largest recipient of derivative face-value payoffs is TBTF formally headed by sec. of treasury.
2012 physical size of derivatives by 9 banks' $200T derivatives in $100
bills (topped by JP Morgan at $70T)
http://www.businessinsider.com/9-banks-combine-for-over-200-trillion-derivatives-exposure-2012-4
The "real" bailout of the TBTF was by Federal Reserve with ZIRP funds (as well as buying trillions in off-book toxic assets) ... claim is that TBTF have been making $300B/annum off ZIRP funds
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Calls for SEC Chair's Replacement Grow Louder in DC Date: 17 Sept 2015 Blog: FacebookCalls for SEC Chair's Replacement Grow Louder in DC
A major issue is that congress, SEC, and other regulatory agencies have been bought and paid for by wall street ... Part of the TOO BIG TO FAIL, TOO BIG TO PROSECUTE, and "TOO BIG TOO JAIL". Most of the arguments were previously brought up when she was originally nominated ... but it had to be somebody that the wall street owned congress would confirm.
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Disclaimer: Jan2009, I was asked to HTML'ize the Pecora hearings (30s Senate hearings into crash of '29, resulted in Glass-Steagall and criminal convictions), with lots of internal x-links and URLs between what happened then and what happened this time (reference that the new congress might have appetite to do something) ... I worked on it for awhile and then get a call that it won't be needed after all (reference to enormous piles of wall street money totally burying Washington)
posts mentioning Pecora &/or Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
posts mentioning mary jo white:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#60 Choice of Mary Jo White to Head SEC Puts Fox In Charge of Hen House
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#68 Choice of Mary Jo White to Head SEC Puts Fox In Charge of Hen House
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#18 Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story Of The Scientific Betting System That Beat The Casinos And Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#25 Senator Sherrod Brown Drops a Bombshell in Mary Jo White's Hearing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#28 Senator Sherrod Brown Drops a Bombshell in Mary Jo White's Hearing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#42 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#49 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#17 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#107 The SEC's Mary Jo White Punts on High Frequency Trading and Abandons Securities Act of 1934
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#109 SEC Caught Dark Pool and High Speed Traders Doing Bad Stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#41 New York's Benjamin Lawksy and the SEC's Kara Stein and Luis Aguilar Push for Tougher Sanctions Against Bank Executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#81 Stanford Law School Covers Up SEC's Andrew Bowden's Embarrassing Remarks by Deep-Sixing Conference Video
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#6 SEC's Andrew Bowden Regulatory Capture Scandal Hits the Major Leagues with Los Angeles Times Column
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#58 Time to Fire Mary Jo White: SEC Covers Up for Bank Capital Accounting Scam Promoted by Her Former Firm, Debevoise
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The most expensive PCs in computing history Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 07:43:59 -0700The most expensive PCs in computing history
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Obama-Bush Years Saw Employers Reduce Health Insurance Coverage Date: 17 Sept 2015 Blog: Facebook - IBM RetireesObama-Bush Years Saw Employers Reduce Health Insurance Coverage
I think blame private equity ... The industry had gotten such a bad
reputation during S&L crisis they changed their name to private equity
... seen here with looting of RJR and then continues with IBM
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
continues in the new century
private-equity companies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Embraces Virtual Memory -- Finally Date: 17 Sept 2015 Blog: FacebookSome of the CTSS people went to the 5th flr and did (MIT, virtual memory) Multics and other of the people went to the IBM science center on the 4th flr and did (virtual machine, virtual memory) cp40 (on 360/40 modified with virtual memory support) ... which morphs in cp67 (when 360/67 virtual memory becomes available).
This is past post with account of decision to have virtual memory on
all 370, big motivation was that MVT storage management was so bad
that it needed to allocate regions that were four times larger than
typically needed. With virtual memory, it was possible to get MVT
16regions on typical 370/165 with little or no paging.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
370 virtual memory architecture had a lot more stuff ... they were having lots of problems retrofitting virtual memory hardware to 370/165 causing announce of virtual memory to slip. finally they drop some of the virtual memory features to reduce the difficulty for 370/165 ... including shared segment protection. For software already implemented using the full 370 virtual memory features, they had to be reworked to the reduced subset (this especially caused a lot of problem for vm370/cms shared segment protection).
2314 .... 2314 bank had 9 drives but only 8 addressable ... it was possible to mount 2314 pack on the "spare" drive, spin it up, pull the address plug from existing drive and pop it in the drive with recently mounted pack.
I did extensive modifications to cp67 as undergraduate in the 60s,
including dynamic adaptive resource management and "clock-like" page
replacement algorithm that supported "global" page replacement. This
was in a period when "local" page replacement was all the rage in
academic literature. Later, I worked with Jim Gray at IBM San Jose
Research (including on the original relational DBMS implementation).
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
He then left IBM (including palming off some amount of stuff on me) for Tandem. When he was at Tandem, he asked if I could help one of his co-workers with their Stanford Phd which was on "clock global page replacement" .... and there was stiff opposition from the "local page replacement" forces trying to prevent awarding his Phd. I had bunch of data comparing "global" and "local" implementation on cp67 ... showing "global" was significantly better.
There was slight problem tho ... even tho the work had been done in
the 60s before I joined IBM, IBM management blocked me from sending
the information for almost a year. Now I had been blamed for online
computer conferencing on the internal network (larger than
arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime in the
mid-80s; folklore is that when they informed the corporate executive
committee of online computer conferencing, 5of6 wanted to fire me) in
the late 70s and early 80s ... and I hoped that IBM management figured
they were punishing me (for online computer conferencing)... as
opposed to they were taking (the wrong) side in an academic dispute.
old reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email821019
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#46
posts mentioning paging algorithms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#clock
That was os/360, MVS design problem .... it has 16mbytes address space for every application ... but since os/360 had ingrained pointer passing API, called system and subsystem routines had to be in the same address space. They started by mapping image of the MVS kernel into every address space ... leaving just 8mbytes. Then because subsystems where in different address spaces ... they created the 1mbyte common segment in every address space for applications to store parameters for pointer passing API to subsystems calls (leaving only 7mbytes). However size of common segment area needs to be somewhat proportional to number of subsystems and running applications ... it quickly morphs into common system area and grows to 5-6mbytes .. leaving only 2-3mbytes for application use (out of 16mbytes). Into 3033 timeframe some customers needed CSA to exceed 8mbytes ... leaving nothing for application use.
IBM Burlington chip had multiple 3033s running specially constructed MVS dedicated to running 7mbyte Fortran chip design application. Problem was that they could no longer make enhancements. They were looking at being forced to migrate to VM370/CMS where they could get nearly full 16mbytes (minus 128Kbytes)
posts mentioning common segment/system area
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#33 My Vintage Dream PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#80 Word Length
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#75 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#21 8-bit bytes and byte-addressed machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#30 Regarding Time Sharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#22 Is Microsoft becoming folklore?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#51 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#15 What Makes code storage management so cool?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#71 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made 30 years agotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#62 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#83 Costs of core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#86 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#36 1950: Northrop's Digital Differential Analyzer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#39 1950: Northrop's Digital Differential Analyzer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#82 Do we really need 64-bit DP or is 48-bit enough?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#40 OS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#46 Connecting memory to 370/145 with only 36 bits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#60 ou sont les VAXen d'antan, was Variable-Length Instructions that aren't
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM 4341, introduced in 1979, was 26 times faster than the 360/30 Date: 17 Sept 2015 Blog: FacebookThe original design was 4331 for 3090 service processor ... but was upgraded to a pair of 4361. Even 3090 MVS installations required a pair of 3370s for the 4361 service processors ... even though MVS didn't have FBA support (and still doesn't even though real CKD disks haven't been manufactured for decades, requires CKD simulation on industry standard fixed block disks).
When I was at San Jose Research, they let me wander around ... and
eventually got sucked into playing disk engineer in bldg. 14&15. posts
mentioning getting to play disk engineer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
Bldg15 product test lab would frequently get early engineering models for disk testing (processor engineers getting first and second, and then san jose getting 3rd or 4th) ... so had one of the first 3033s and 4341s. Because I provided bldg 14&15 with lots of stuff ... it turns out that I had better access to the 4341 (in bldg. 15) than a lot of endicott people (had access to 4341) ... so I would sometimes be asked to do things like run 4341 benchmarks for endicott. Turns out that 4341 had better performance than 158&3031 ... and cluster of 4341s had better performance than 3033 at much smaller price, as well as smaller footprint and much less environmental requirements. At one point (to reduce competition), head of POK convinced corporate to cut allocation of critical 4341 component in half.
At one point, I got sucked into 4341 benchmark for national lab that was
looking at getting 70 machines for compute farm (sort of precursor to
modern supercomputers). Some old 4341 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
3090 service processor was running highly modified version of CP SEPP
REL 6 PLC29 ... some old email from the service processor group asking
if I could help them with a debug tool
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#email861031
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#email861223
I had wanted to demonstrate the power of REX (before renamed REXX and
release to customers). I decided demonstration redo IPCS (written in
large amount of assembler) ... the objective was completely replace
IPCS with ten times more function and ten times faster working 1/2
time over three month period. I finished early and started doing
specialized library looking for specific kernel failure
fingerprints. I had expected this to be released to customers ... when
it wasn't I finally got permission to give presentations on how to do
the implementation at user group meetings (included SHARE and
BAYBUNCH). Then other similar implementations started showing up in
customer shops within a few weeks. As an aside, for quite sometime it
was used internally at nearly all internal datacenters as well as
customer support PSRs. past posts mentioning DUMPRX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dumprx
I knew the engineer that started the 3090 service processor effort with vm370/cms. The issue starts out that Field Engineering had bootstrap diagnostic process that starts with scoping components. Starting with 3081, components were in TCMs that were no longer scope'able .... so they start with service processor (that FE can scope, diagnose, replace) which then has lots of probes into TCMs that can be used to diagnose. 3081 had uc.5 for service processor with all roll-you-own software written from scratch (and 3310 FBA disk). Original design for 3090 was using vm370/cms (4331+3370) as base that would drastically simplify implementation of lots of FE diagnostics. This was later upgraded to pair of redundant 4361s.
Boeblingen got their hand slapped for 115&125. The design had 9 position memory bus for microprocessors. 115 would have a microprocessor running 370 microcode emulation and some number (up to 8) additional (same) microprocessor running control unit microcode. The 125 identical to the 115 except the microprocessor running 370 microcode emulation was 50% faster.
As an undergraduate in the 60s, one of the things I had done was reduce cp67 kernel size to run efficiently in 256kbytes of memory. Transition from cp67 to vm370 significantly bloated the kernel size and would no longer really fit in 256kbytes. Some customer got a 370/125 256kbyte machine for vm370 ... and I got called in to do some similar kernel size magic.
Later they con'ed me into doing design (with as much custom microcode
as I wanted) for 370/125 that would have up to five microprocessors
running 370 microcode as tightly-coupled multiprocessor (which never
shipped). This was same time that Endicott con'ed me into VM370 ECPS
microcode assists for 138/148. The Endicott ECPS people viewed the 125
5-way SMP as competition ... and since I was doing both, I was
somewhat caught in the middle (eventually Endicott prevailed and the
5-way SMP 370/125 wasn't announced or released).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#bounce
past posts mentioning SMP and/or compare&swap
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
ECPS was 370/138 & 370/148 microcode assist and then available on
4300s. During the FS period (going to completely replace 370 and
completely different), internal politics was killing off 370 efforts
(I continued to work on 370 stuff and even periodically ridicule FS,
which wasn't exactly career enhancing activity), the lack of 370
products during the period is credited with giving clone processors
market foothold. When FS imploded, there was mad rush to get stuiff
back into 370 product pipeline. Endicott did 138/148 with ECPS
microcode assist (in part to differentiate it from the
clones). low&mid range 370s were vertical microcode, avg. of 10 native
instructions for every 370 instruction. ECPS migrated parts of kernel
into native instructions getting 10:1 speedup ... they had 6kbytes of
microcode space available ... old post with study that I did which
selected 6kbytes of 370 kernel for migration to native code:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21
After FS imploded, POK also kicked off 303x and 370/xa (3081) in
parallel. 303x had channel director which was 158-3 integrated channel
microcode in separate box. 3031 was 158-3 engine with just 370
microcode and 2nd 158-3 engine with just integrated channel
director. 3032 was 168-3 reworked to use channel director as external
channels. 3033 started out being 168-3 logic remapped to some warmed
over FS chips that were 20% faster. Some logic rework got it up to 50%
faster. 3081 was some other reworked technology ... more detailed
description
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
some past FS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
3081 was suppose to be multiprocessor only machines ... however TPF (airline control program) at the time didn't have multiprocessor support. Eventually they had to come out with 3083 for TPF (they were worried that whole TPF market would move to clone processors that had come out with faster single processor boxes) ... which was 3081 with one of the processors removed.
Besides doing technical stuff for 138/148 ECPS, they also suckered me into running around the world off&on, explaining it to world trade product forecasters. Part what Endicott tried was to make 138/148 machines shipped from plant with vm370 already installed and setup sort of like later LPAR. POK had been trying to kill off VM370 and convinced corporate to not agree to make all 138&148 into native VM370 machines.
Earlier when FS imploded, POK had convinced corporate to kill off
vm370 product, shutdown the vm370 development group and move all the
people to POK to support MVS/XA development (claiming that otherwise
MVS/XA wouldn't ship on time). Endicott managed to save the vm370
product mission, but had to reconstitute a development group from
scratch. It is possible to see some VMSHARE comments from the period
about code quality (i.e. TYMSHARE made their CMS-based online computer
conferencing "free" to user group SHARE as VMSHARE starting in
Aug1976) ... archive
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
POK had done a XA virtual machine facility that was supposed to be for internal MVS/XA development only. Later when customers weren't converting from MVS to MVS/XA, they managed to repackage it as VM/MA and VM/SA for MVS/XA migration aid (well before 3090 LPAR). An internal datacenter had also modified VM370 to provide full XA support ... and then POK/Kingston were in political battle with Endicott for which one should become VM/XA. The VM370-based XA support had significant better performance & function than the POK/Kingston migration aid ... but POK/Kingston politics managed to prevail ... including staffing large group to try and bring the migration aid up to the VM370-base function&performance.
Original mainframe TCP/IP was implemented in pascal/vs ... but had
some pathlength issues .... getting only about 44kbytes/sec aggregate
sustained using nearly 3090 processor. I did the enhancements to
support RFC1044 and in some tuning tests at Cray Research between 4341
and Cray, got sustained channel speed using only modest amount of 4341
processor (possibly 500 times improvement in bytes moved per
instruction executed). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
The (non-enhanced) version was later ported to MVS by providing simulation for the required VM370 functions. Much later, the communication group subcontracted TCP/IP implementation in VTAM. After the initial implementation, the communication group told the contractor that everybody *knows* that a correct implementation of TCP/IP runs much slower than LU6.2 ... and the communication group would only be paying for a *correct* implementation
Note after 23Jun1969 IBM unbundling announcement ... one of the issues
was SE training ... before new SEs were sort of apprentice as part of
large group of IBMers onsite at customer site. After unbundling, they
couldn't figure out how not to charge for these apprentice SEs. They
came up with HONE ... CP67 virtual machine "Hands-On Network
Environment" datacenters with remote access to branch offices. Science
Center had also ported APL\360 to CMS for CMS\APL and HONE started
offering CMS\APL based online sales & marketing support
applications. These CMS\APL applications came to dominate all HONE use
... with the online guest operating system "hands-on" dwindled
away. HONE migrated to VM370 and in the mid-70s all the US HONE
datacenters were consolidated in silicon valley (when Facebook moved
into Silicon valley it was new bldg. built next door to the old HONE
datacenter) ... along the way, 370 features became so complex that
orders couldn't be generated w/o first being run through HONE
configurators. some unbundling announce posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
some HONE posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
One of my hobbies during this period was enhanced operating systems for internal production datacenters and HONE was long time customer. In the late 70s, the US HONE complex was enhanced to the largest single system image of loosely-coupled large 370 muiltiprocessors ... with load balancing and fall-over recovery. Then in the early 80s, this was replicated first in Dallas and then another in Boulder with load balancing and fall-over recovery across the three datacenters. This was never released to customers ... although some cluster support was made available in the standard product 30yrs later.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Leaked Seattle Audit Concludes Many Mortgage Documents Are Void Date: 18 Sept 2015 Blog: Google+re
Leaked Seattle Audit Concludes Many Mortgage Documents Are Void
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/18/leaked-seattle-audit-concludes-many-mortgage-documents-void
The problems stem from the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems
(MERS), an entity banks created so they could transfer mortgages
privately, saving them billions of dollars in transfer fees to public
recording offices. In Washington state, MERS' practices were found
illegal by the State Supreme Court in 2012. But MERS continued those
practices with only cosmetic changes, the audit found.
... snip ...
Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages (poster child was office bldgs. in the Dallas/Ft.Worth area that turned out to be empty lots). In the late 90s, I was asked to look at improving the integrity of securitized mortgages supporting documents as a countermeasure. Then they found that they could pay for triple-A ratings from the rating agencies (when both the sellers and the rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008 congressional testimony).
Triple-A ratings trump documentation and they found they could start
doing no-documentation liar loans (with no supporting documents, there
was no longer an issue of supporting document integrity), pay for
triple-A rating and sell off (including to large pension funds that
are restricted to dealing in "safe" investments, claims it was major
contribution to 30% drop in fund value and trillions in pension
shortfall) ... largely responsible for being able to do over $27T
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
past posts mentioning (triple-A rated) toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
We had also been brought in to help wordsmith the Cal. electronic
signature law. Some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
Later we were invited to standards meeting hosted at Mortgage Bankers Association bldg in DC ... I didn't realize it at the time, but it was probably somehow associated with MERS. As an aside the Mortgage Bankers Association bldg across a park from the World Bank & IMF, later CBS did news about head of Mortgage Bankers Association doing lots of press telling homeowners not to walk away from underwater mortgages juxtapositioned with Mortgage Bankers Association had walked away from the mortgage on their DC hdqtrs bldg.
past posts mentioning MERS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#24 What Is MERS and What Role Does It Have in the Foreclosure Mess?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#38 The Death of MERS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#46 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#49 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#8 Adult Supervision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#55 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#12 Why Auditors Fail To Detect Frauds?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#39 The Alchemy of Securitization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#32 REFRPROT History Question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#68 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#70 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#70 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#46 Wells Fargo made up on-demand foreclosure papers plan: court filing charges
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#111 Maine Supreme Court Hands Major Defeat to MERS Mortgage Registry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#14 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#0 only sometimes From looms to computers to looms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#3 only sometimes From looms to computers to looms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#40 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#95 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: HP being sued, not by IBM.....yet! Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 22 Sep 2015 10:57:15 -0700john.archie.mckown@GMAIL.COM (John McKown) writes:
the claims that half the per processor improvement was introduction of features like out-of-order execution, branch prediction, etc. that have been in other chips for decades.
e5-2600v1 blade (about concurrent with z196) 400-500+ BIPS (depending on model); around which IBM had base list price of $1815 or about $3.50/BIPS. However, the large cloud megadatacenters claim that they had been doing their own system assemblies for decades (carefully choosing components for total lifetime costs) or around $1/BIPS. The commoditizing of these systems by the large cloud megadatacenters possibly accounts for IBM unloading that product line (the chip manufactures were saying that they were shipping more processor chips to the large cloud megadatacenters than they were shipping to the brand name system vendors).
By comparison z196 works out to $560,000/BIPS (w/o software) and EC12 works out to $440,000/BIPS (aka large cloud megadatacenters at $1/BIPS).
A e5-2600v3 blade is rated at 2.5 times a e5-2600v1 blade and a current e5-2600v4 blade is rated at 3.5 times a e5-2600v1 blade ... or over 1.5TIPS. A high density rack of e5-2600v4 blades may have more processing power than the aggregate of all mainframes in the world today.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: HP being sued, not by IBM.....yet! Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 22 Sep 2015 13:48:51 -070000000047540adefe-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.UA.EDU (Bill Johnson) writes:
originally founded by former IBM salesman who then created a mainframe
services empire. Along the way, EDS was bought by GM to try and improve
their IT position and then later spun off (before being acquired by HP)
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/headlines/20121209-eds-sees-success-after-purchase-by-gm--but-at-a-cost.ece
trivia: in 1990, GM had the C4 taskforce to look at completely remaking themself ... since they were planning on heavily leveraging IT technology, they invited representatives from technology companies to participate. They could clearly articulate what the foreign competition was doing right and the changes GM would have to make, but as the bailout this century shows they weren't able to make the necessary changes (one of the shortcomings of their operation they described was also true of the mainframe operation at the time ... so I would chide the mainframe representatives how could they expect to contribute).
more trivia: congress had passed foreign import quotas to significantly reduce competition and greatly increase domestic profits supposedly that they would use the money to completely remake themselves. However in the early 80s there was a call for 100% unearned profit tax on the US industry since they were just pocketing the profit and continued business as usual (through the 1990 C4 taskforce up through the recent bailouts and possibly beyond, "remake" their business is 35 or so years old, and it hasn't been the case that they didn't know what they needed to do).
In the mid-80s we had opportunity to talk to GM/EDS periodically. Then we were doing a presentation in Raleigh on "real" networking and happen to mention that the GM/EDS people mentioned that they were moving the company off SNA to x.25. The communication group executives immediately left the room ... and then came back and said they didn't care, GM/EDS had already spent their IBM communication budget for the year ... so it would be somebody else's problem in the future
other trivia: when Perot left GM/EDS and founded Perot Systems, he brought in the former head of POK mainframe to be CEO.
past posts mentioning C4-taskforce
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#auto.c4.taskforce
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 16:32:28 -0700re:
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to
the Globalization of Democracy; chapter 21, state-building institutions,
pg297/loc5713-14:
Reo Matsuzaki has suggested that to the extent state building has been
successful, it has depended on the autonomy of agents on the ground who
could make use of local knowledge to achieve developmental objectives.
pg297/loc5714-16:
He points to the relative success of Japanese administration in building
institutions in Taiwan in the years that it was ruled as a colonial
dependency (from the Sino-Japanese War of 1895 to Japan's defeat in
1945).
pg298/loc5723-27:
This contrasts with American overlordship of the Philippines, where
local administrators (like future president William Howard Taft, civil
governor there from 1901 to 1903) were constantly being overruled by
politicians in Washington. Congressional leaders controlling the purse
strings were eager to impose American models of government on a society
they only dimly understood. Thus the American administration missed a
big opportunity to redistribute Catholic church lands to poor peasants
due to a Catholic lobby back home.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: TCP joke Date: 23 Sept 2015 Blog: FacebookTCP joke
"Hi, I'd like to hear a TCP joke." "Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?" "Yes, I'd like to hear a TCP joke." "OK, I'll tell you a TCP joke." "Ok, I will hear a TCP joke." "Are you read to hear a TCP joke?" "Yes, I am ready to hear a TCP joke." "Ok, I am about to send the TCP joke, It will last 10 seconds, it has two characters, it does not have a setting, it ends with a punchline." "Ok, I am ready to get your TCP joke that will last 10 seconds, has two characters, does not have an explicit setting, and ends with a punchline." "I'm sorry, your connection has timed out. .. Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?"... snip ...
some past internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
TCP has a minimum exchange of 7 packets (including FINWAIT
handshake). In the late 80s I was on the XTP technical advisery board
(the IBM communication group really hated it and tried to stop me),
where we did a reliable protocol in minimum of 3 packet exchange
... as well as supporting rate-based pacing (which has significant
higher throughput than slow-start) and reliable multicast. Problem was
that it was almost impossible to get it adapted after TCP was already
wide-spread. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#xtphsp
After leaving IBM, some of the former Oracle people we had worked with, were then at a small client/server startup responsible for something called "commerce server" and we were brought in (as consultants) because they wanted to do payment transactions on their server. The small startup had also invented this technology they called "SSL" they wanted to use, it is now frequently called "electronic commerce"
HTTP choice of TCP for transaction protocol was initially a mess because as load increase, it resulted in tens of thousands of entries on the FINWAIT list ... and all the existing implementations did a linear search of the FINWAIT list for every arriving packet (webserver CPU went to 100% with 95+% of it running FINWAIT list).
I had actually tried to get a lightweight HTTPS that piggy-backed everything on XTP in minimum of 3packet exchange (instead of standard HTTPS which was a bunch for crypto protocol chatter on top of standard HTTP).
trivia: IBM disk division had a server project in the early 80s called Data Hub and subcontracted some amount of the software implementation to a company in provo, utah (one of the people I worked with was commuting almost weekly from san jose to provo). At some point, IBM discontinues the project and allows the provo, utah people to retain all rights to the software. Not long afterwards, a new Provo Utah company was formed (starting with the letter "N").
other trivia: while still at IBM we were working with director of NSF and the NSF supercomputer centers on interconnect. Originally we were suppose to get $20M for the implementation, but then congress cuts the budget, then some other things happen and finally NSF releases an RFP (in part based on what we already had running). Internal politics prevents us from bidding; the director of NSF tries to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) ... with support from other agencies), but that just makes the internal politics worse (as does statements that what we already had running was at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP responses).
As regional networks connect into the centers it grows into the NSFNET
backbone, precursor to the modern internet. Some discussion:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
and even more trivia: the original mainframe TCP/IP product was done
in VS/Pascal and had some performance issues .... getting 44kbytes/sec
using nearly full 3090 processor. I did the changes to support RFC1044
and in some throughput testing at Cray Research got sustained channel
speed throughput between Cray and 4341 using only modest amount of the
4341 processor (possibly 500 times improvement in bytes moved per
instruction executed). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
The base implementation was eventually ported to MVS by simulating some of the VM370 required functions. Much later, the communication group subcontracted for TCP/IP support in VTAM. After the contractor demonstrated the implementation, the communication group told him that everybody knows that a "correct" TCP/IP implementation runs much slower than LU6.2 (not much faster), and they would only be paying for a "correct" implementation.
BBN did IMPs for arpanet host-to-host protocol ... at the time of the switch-over to internetworking protocl on 1Jan1983, there was approx. 100 network IMPs and 255 connected hosts. IMPs were kept in sync (whole network shutdown for maintenance) ... also the admin protocol chatter for choosing packet routing path would periodically saturate the whole network.
Note that the internal network (not SNA) was larger than the
arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime mid-80s
... at the time the 1Jan1983 switch-over to internetworking protocol,
the internal network was rapidly approaching 1000 nodes (compared to
the 100 IMPs and 255 host for the ARPANET).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
The internal network technology was also used for the corporate
sponsored university BITNET (which also larger than ARPANET/Internet
for a time). some post posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
We had T1 and faster links running when we were originally working
with NSF for interconnecting the supercomputer centers .... a major
reason that the subsequent NSF RFP called for T1 links. The "winning"
RFP response actually put in 440kbit links and then to sort of look
like it was meeting the terms of the RFP, they put in T1 trunks with
telco multiplexors that ran multiple 440kbit links over the T1 trunks
(we would periodically ridicule them that might even be able to claim
T5, since some of their T1 trunks could have also been multiplexed
over T5 trunks). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
For the T3 upgrade RFP response, I was asked to be the red team (they apparently figured that they would shutup my ridicule of what they doing) and a couple dozen people from half dozen labs around the world were the blue team. At the final executive presentation, I presented first and then the blue team, five minutes into the blue team presentation, the executive pounded on the table and exclaimed he would lay down in front of a garbage truck before he allowed any but the blue team proposal to go forward. At that point, I get up and walk out the room (a couple other people follow)
Before joining IBM, BBN offered my (future) wife a job but she didn't
want to move. Then very early in the history of SNA, she was co-author
of AWP39, peer-to-peer networking ... which the SNA group somewhat
viewed as competitive to their dumb terminal control architecture
(since they had co-opted "networking" in their name, something that
doesn't even contain a network layer, she had to differentiate AWP39
with peer-to-peer). She then worked in the gburg JES group before
being con'ed into going to POK to be in charge of company
loosely-coupled architecture (mainframe for cluster). While there she
did Peer-Coupled Shared Data architecture .. which saw little uptake
except for IMS hot-standby until sysplex & parallel sysplex. That and
the frequent battles with the SNA group trying to force her into using
SNA for loosely-couple ... resulted in her not remaining long in the
position. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata
totally other trivia ... this is reference to Jan1992 meeting in
Ellison's conference room on HA/CMP cluster scalup
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
the two people later responsible for "commerce server" (and brought us in as consultants for "electronic commerce") are also at the meeting
Within a month of the meeting, scale-up portion is transferred,
announced as IBM supercomputer (for "scientific and technical *only*")
and we are told we can't work on anything with more than four
processors ... motivating us to depart the company. Some of the same
executives responsible for blocking us from NSF network are also
involved in this event. some old email about cluster scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
Earlier, the communication group fighting off TCP/IP ... at the same
time they were also spreading mis-information internally that the NSF
network could be run over SNA/VTAM (even tho SNA/VTAM didn't have
network layer and didn't even support more than 56kbits/sec). Somebody
collected some of their mis-information email and forwarded it to us
... heavily snipped and redacted to protect the guilty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
Late 80s, a senior disk engineer got a talk scheduled at the annual,
world-wide, internal communication group conference, supposedly on
3174 performance, however he opened the talk that the communication
group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk
division. The issue was that the communication group had strategic
ownership of everything that crossed the datacenter walls and was
fiercely fighting off distributed computing and client/server trying
to preserve its dumb (emulated) terminal paradigm and install
base. The disk division was seeing the effect of communication group
stranglehold on datacenters with data fleeing the datacenter to more
distributed computing friendly platforms with drop in disk sales. The
disk division had come up with a number of solutions to correct the
problem, but they were constantly being vetoed by the communication
group. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
When CP67 was installed at univ. in the 60s, I got to do a lot of
software enhancements, including adding tty/ascii terminal
support. The existing terminal support did automatic identification
between 1052 and 2741 (using terminal bcontrollerb SAD command), I
extended that automatic identification to TTY. Worked for direct
connected lines, but I wanted to extend to dial-up with single dial-in
number for single pool/hunt-group. Didn't quite work since they had
taken short-cut with SAD command, while it changed the type of line
scanner for each port, it turns out that they had hard-wired each port
line speed. This somewhat prompted the univ. to start a clone
controller project, take an Interdata/3, programmed to emulate
terminal controller (reverse engineer channel interface to build
channel interface board for Interdata/3) ... but supported both
dynamic terminal type and dynamic line speed. This was later enhanced
to an Interdata/4 for the channel interface with multiple Interdata/3s
for port interfaces. Interdata would sell this box commercially and
four of us get written up responsible for (some part of) the clone
controller market. Later PE buys Interdata and the box continues to be
sold under the PE logo. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
In 1980, I did a channel-extender for STL that was moving 300 people
from the IMS group to offsite bldg. The group had tried remote 3270
support and found human factors totally unacceptable. They noticed no
difference with the channel-attached 3270 controllers at the remote
site. Some tricks done with channel programs actually made it more
efficient than attached to real channels (response at local 3270 at
remote site was same, but channel busy was significantly reduced and
overall system throughput increased by 10-15% because of the reduced
channel busy doing 3270 i/o). Standard parallel, half-duplex channel
operation has significant protocol chatter, resulting in significant
latency inefficiencies as distances (and/or bandwidth) increase. When
Boulder IMS FE group was moved across the highway to different
building, a similar implementation was done using infrared T1 modems
on the roofs of the two bldgs They were worried about weather
conditions affecting the infrared modems ... but in a white-out snow
storm when nobody could get into work, the bit-error-rate hardware
monitors was only showing a very small increase in bit-errors. There
was a problem with the infrared modems mount on poles on the top of
the building, as sun heated buildings during the day, the buildings
would slightly lean in different directions resulting in modems
becoming misaligned. They eventually positioned poles on the bldg
roofs to make them less sensitive to uneven sun heating. some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
The vendor tries to get IBM to allow them to release my support, but a group of engineers in POK block the approval, worried that it might make it more difficult to justify releasing some serial stuff they are working on. A decade later, they finally get their stuff released with ES/9000 as ESCON, when it is already obsolete.
In 1988, I was asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they
had, which quickly becomes fibre-channel standard. Much of the channel
extender stuff from 1980 was included. Later some channel engineers
define a heavy-weight protocol for fibre-channel, that drastically
reduces the native throughput, eventually released as FICON. Most
recent comparison I can find is z196 peak i/o benchmark using 104
FICONs to get 2M IOPS. At about the same time a single (native)
fibre-channel was announced for E5-2600 blades claiming over million
IOPS (two such fibre-channel having higher throughput than 104 FICON
running over 104 fibre-channel). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: power supplies Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:20:27 -0700scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
for lick observatory ... other posts mentioning lick observatory ... I had gotten sucked into doing some work on what was called berkeley ten meter (now called keck in hawaii) and some prototype work was being done at lick ... they were working on converting from film to CCD and then being able to do remote observing from the mainland (figuring out how much bandwidth between hawaii and mainland to do real time images)
they then did a 2nd keck 10m in hawaii ... and just recently it has been
in the news again about controversy over doing 30m
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#7 CCD technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#8 CCD technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#9 CCD technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005l.html#9 Jack Kilby dead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#28 MVCIN instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#12 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#20 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#50 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#80 A Super-Efficient Light Bulb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#82 ATMs by the Numbers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#85 ATMs by the Numbers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#55 TV Big Bang 10/12/09
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#60 TV Big Bang 10/12/09
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#24 Program Work Method Question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#58 Other early NSFNET backbone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#9 Hawaii board OKs plan for giant telescope
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#10 Slackware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#86 OT: Physics question and Star Trek
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#55 360/20, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#8 We're About to Lose Net Neutrality -- And the Internet as We Know It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#76 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#50 Revamped PDP-11 in Honolulu or maybe Santa Fe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#56 Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#75 Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#19 Spaceshot: 3,200-megapixel camera for powerful cosmos telescope moves forward
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#20 Spaceshot: 3,200-megapixel camera for powerful cosmos telescope moves forward
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: PROFS & GML Date: 25 Sept 2015 Blog: FacebookThe PROFS group collected some number of internal applications (like email client and phone books) and wrapped menu interface around them. Middle-managers would then log on, and have the PROFS menu burning into the screen (their email being processed by an assistant). For the email client, the PROFS group had picked up a very early version of VMSG, and when the VMSG author offered them a much enhanced version, they tried to get him fired (PROFS group had taken credit and gotten awards for all parts of PROFS). Things quieted down after he showed that all PROFS email has his initials in non-displayed field. After that the VMSG author only distributed source to me and one other person.
disclaimer: I was blamed for online computer conferencing on the
internal network (larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the
beginning until sometime middle 80s) in late 70s and early
80s. Folklore is that when the corporate executive committee was
informed of 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.
The "issue" was different STL departments were all demanding that STL
datacenter give them preferential resourcing scheduling. I told the
head of STL datacenter I would implement "GROUP" fairshare ... and he
told me to never mention that again. His excuse to all the STL
departments was that vm370 didn't have the facility to give different
departments preferential resource scheduling. If he actually had the
capability ... then the demands would increase by an order of
magnitude (he could keep it to a dull roar by saying it wasn't
possible).
There were regular friday after work get togethers ... and Jim would
regularly show up ... and then when he left for Tandem ... he palmed
off a bunch of stuff on me ... I was on business trip the week he
left, when I got back, he had left a copy of "MIP Envy". Several weeks
later I visited him at Tandem ... and "Tandem Memos" sort of started
out with a trip report of that visit which I distributed over the
network. My copy of "MIP Envy" is four days earlier than the version
that is up at Gray's website that Microsoft continues to
maintain. From IBMJargon
MIP envy - n. The term, coined by Jim Gray in 1980, that began the
Tandem Memos (q.v.). MIP envy is the coveting of other's facilities -
not just the CPU power available to them, but also the languages,
editors, debuggers, mail systems and networks. MIP envy is a term
every programmer will understand, being another expression of the
proverb The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Trivia: At the System/R reunion:
http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
Jim Gray raised the issue that 370 compare&swap instruction ... used extensively by DBMS locking/serialization routines ... (and semantics implemented on other hardware platforms for DBMS use) was invented by head of Future System architecture in POK.
However, compare&swap was invented by Charlie at IBM Cambridge
Science Center when he was doing fine-grain multiprocessor locking on
CP67 (precursor to VM370 ... we came up with compare&swap because
CAS is Charlie's initials). Trying to get POK 370 architects to add it
to 370 was initially rebuffed because the POK favorite son operating
system people said that test&set was sufficient. The 370 architecture
owners then challenged us to come up with compare&swap uses that
weren't multiprocessor specific ... thus were born the examples
(including DBMS serialization) that continue to appear in principles
of operation.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
I had a project I called HSDT that supported T1 & faster speed links
(to differentiate what communication group was doing with 56kbit &
slower speed links). Corporate required all internal network links be
encrypted ... it wasn't to bad getting link encryptors for 56kbit (&
slower) links ... but I had all sorts of problems getting link
encryptors for T1 & faster links. As an aside, in the mid-80s, the
major link encryptor vendor claimed the IBM internal network had over
half of all link encryptors in the world.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
However, while traffic was encrypted while it traveled over the links
on the internal network ... it was in the clear at the nodes (allowing
anybody with admin privileges to see it). Recently I posted URL item
about FACEBOOK supporting open-pgp like encryption communication. I
included references to old email I had posted that discussed a
PGP-like implementation (a decade before PGP).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#email810506
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email810515
FACEBOOK crypto support URL ref:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/24/facebook_crypto_upped/
Lots of branch office people first became exposed to VM370/CMS with
HONE.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
Note after 23Jun1969 IBM unbundling announcement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
... one of the issues was SE training ... before, new SEs were sort of apprentice as part of large group of IBMers onsite at customer site. After unbundling, they couldn't figure out how not to charge for these apprentice SEs. They came up with HONE ... CP67 virtual machine "Hands-On Network Environment" datacenters with remote access to branch offices. Science Center had also ported APL\360 to CMS for CMS\APL and HONE started offering CMS\APL based online sales & marketing support applications. These CMS\APL applications came to dominate all HONE use ... with the online guest operating system "hands-on" dwindled away. HONE migrated to VM370 and in the mid-70s all the US HONE datacenters were consolidated in silicon valley (when Facebook moved into Silicon valley it was new bldg. built next door to the old HONE datacenter) ... along the way, 370 features became so complex that orders couldn't be generated w/o first being run through HONE configurators
One of my hobbies during this period was enhanced operating systems for internal production datacenters and HONE was long time customer. In the late 70s, the US HONE complex was enhanced to the largest single system image of loosely-coupled large 370 muiltiprocessors ... with load balancing and fall-over recovery. Then in the early 80s, this was replicated first in Dallas and then another in Boulder with load balancing and fall-over recovery across the three datacenters. This was never released to customers ... although some cluster support was made available in the standard product 30yrs later.
Starting in the very late 70s, saw large corporations with orders for hundreds of 4341 for distribution out into departmental areas ... sort of leading edge of the coming distributed computing tsunami. Huge numbers of vm/4341 went out into IBM departmental areas ... the branch office typical saw them as "VMIC"
middle & upper ... and even some lower management didn't use computers. We use to sit around on friday nights trying to think up ways to attract management to using computers. Then there was short period when there was rapidly spreading rumor that top executives were doing email. This was at a time when terminals were part of fall budget and required a VP-level sign-off for terminals (even tho we had done business case showing 2yr write-off for 3270 terminal, was less than monthly business phone). In any case, there was a rash of situations were management pre-empted existing 3270 orders so they could have one on their desk. They didn't actually use it just let the VM/370 logo &/or profs menu burned into the 3270 screen (while assistants actually were employed that do online&email for them). It was pure status symbol ... and interrupted productive work for people that 3270 terminals had been justified.
GML was (also) invented at the science center (in 1969), GML chosen
because G, M, & L are the first letters of the inventors last name.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231001185033/http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/roots.htm
(CMS) Script (document formatting) was original done in the mid-60s ... somewhat as port of runoff from CTSS. Later GML tag processing was also added to Script. Some of the CTSS people had gone to the 5th flr and did multics, other of the CTSS went to the science center on the 4th flr and did virtual machine CP40/CMS (on hardware modified 360/40 with virtual memory), which morphs into CP67/CMS (when standard 360/67 with virtual memory becomes available) ... precursor to VM370/CMS. The internal network technology was also done at the science center (also used for the corporate sponsored univ. network BITNET).
A decade later, GML morphs into ISO standard SGML, and after another decade it morphs into HTML at CERN.
http://infomesh.net/html/history/early/
as an aside, the 1st webserver outside Europe was on the SLAC VM370/CMS system:
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit
&
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit/early-web-chronology-and-documents-1991-1994
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: PROFS & GML Date: 26 Sept 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
Internal network (from the cambridge science center) was larger than
the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime
mid-80s .... it was also used for the corporate sponsored univ. BITNET
(which for a time was also larger than arpanet/internet). past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
The great arpanet/internet switch over to TCP/IP was 1Jan1983 ... at
the time when it had 100 IMP network nodes and 255 attached hosts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
.... this was at a time when the internal network was rapidly
approaching 1000 nodes. Some of the 1983 weekly internal network node
distribution ... as well as a list of all corporate locations that had
one or more new network nodes during 1983:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8
bullying part of forcing conformity ... a children's book and ipad
app: cool to be clever (about former co-worker at the IBM science
center):
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cool-to-be-clever-edson-hendricks/id483020515?mt=8
It's Cool to Be Clever: The Story of Edson C. Hendricks, the Genius
Who Invented the Design for the Internet
https://www.amazon.com/Its-Cool-Be-Clever-Hendricks/dp/1897435630/
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks
The internet & the internal network wasn't sna/vtam ... but in the
late 80s the communication group started internal mis-information
program claiming the nsfnet backbone could be run over sna/vtam and
the internal network had to be converted to sna/vtam (or it would stop
running). Somebody collected the internet internal mis-information
email and forwarded to us ... heavily snipped and redacted to protect
the guilty:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
About the same time, they restricted the CJN meetings to managers only
(to eliminate technical people that might disagree with the SNA/VTAM
misinformation claims) ... some old references:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email870302
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#email870306
the above includes reference that executives were being told that PROFS was a VTAM/SNA application (not a CMS application)
other internal network trivia: the science center internal network technology had clean layered implementation that included a form of gateway ... contributed significantly to the internal network being larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime mid-80s. Arpanet/internet was much more like sna/vtam prior to the great cutover to internetworking and tcp/ip on 1Jan1983.
The dominante MVS based networking was from JES2 ... which grew out of
some university implementation on HASP ... for a time, the JES2 source
still included "TUCC" out in cols 68-71 ... which intermixed network
fields with job control fields. That frequently resulted in attempt to
communicate between JES2 systems at different release levels, crashing
and bringing down MVS. As a result, MVS/JES2 systems tended to be
regulated to boundary nodes fronted by VM370/VNET nodes that had
special JES2 drivers that had code to reformat JES2 headers specific
to MVS/JES2 system on the other end of a link (a large library of
VM370/VNET JES2 drivers grew up to handle different format conversions
for different JES2 releases as countermeasure to JES2 failures
bringing down MVS). There is the infamous case of a San Jose MVS/JES2
upgrading to changed format that was crashing Hursley MVS systems. The
problem was blamed on the local Hursley VM370/VNET people for not
having an updated VM370/VNET JES2 driver installed that would have
prevented the MVS crashes.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
Along the way they also stopped shipping the native VM370/VNET drivers and started only shipping the VM370/VNET JES2 drivers (customers, BITNET, etc). However, the internal network continued to run with the native VM370/VNET drivers because they had significantly higher throughput (at least until the cutover of the internal network to SNA/VTAM).
About the time of the misinformation campaign forcing the internal network to SNA/VTAM, BITNET converted instead to TCP/IP ... which was much less expensive, much higher throughput, and much more function.
IBM Pisa Science Center had done SPM (special message) originally for CP67 ... and POK did the port of SPM to VM370. SPM allowed applications to intercept all sort of text that would nominally be written to the terminal/screen. This was used for things like automated operator applications and by VNET for man/machine communication (including forwarding instant messages over the network). When VNET originally shipped to customers, it included full SPM support (even tho SPM never shipped in the base VM370 product).
Around 1980, the author of REXX did a multi-user 3270 space/war game .... relying on SPM for communication with the user/client application (and since SPM was supported by VNET, it was possible to have client/user players on other machines in the network. Almost immediately there were robo-client players implemented that came to dominate the game. The game implementation was then changed where energy use increased non-linearly as the interval between moves decreased below some threshold (trying to place human & robo players on level playing field).
past posts mentioning SPM:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#32 z900 and Virtual Machine Theory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#51 other cp/cms history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#47 To RISC or not to RISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#8 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#16 intersection between autolog command and cmsback (more history)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#11 vm/sp1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#14 Just another example of mainframe costs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#14 more shared segment archeology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#25 IBM 360 Model 20 Questions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#22 Was CMS multi-tasking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#41 Was CMS multi-tasking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#73 Addressing Scheme with 64 vs 63 bits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#48 New machine code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#67 Status of Arpanet/Internet in 1976?
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/2010m.html#28 CSC History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#89 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#49 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/2012l.html#36 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#77 Spacewar! on S/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#27 RBS Mainframe Meltdown: A year on, the fallout is still coming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#38 1969 networked word processor "Astrotype"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#42 1969 networked word processor "Astrotype"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#1 Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#48 1950: Northrop's Digital Differential Analyzer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#9 PROFS
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Setting the writers right Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 26 Sep 2015 16:06:24 -0700charlesm@MCN.ORG (Charles Mills) writes:
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
when CEO leaves IBM, he goes on to head up major private equity firm
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1037893592918171788
that does LBO of company that employes Snowden.
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Private contractors like Booz Allen now reportedly garner 70 percent of
the annual $80 billion intelligence budget and supply more than half of
the available manpower. They're not going away any time soon unless the
CIA and NSA want to start over and with some off-the-shelf laptops,
networked by the Geek Squad from Best Buy. Security clearances used to
be a government function too, but are now a profit center for various
private-equity subsidiaries.
... snip ...
Private equity tends to do everything possible to loot the companies they acquire (the industry had gotten such a bad name during the S&L crisis, that they change their name to private-equity). In the case of the "subsidiaries" doing outsourced security clearance checks, they were filling out the paperwork, but not actually doing the checks they were being paid for.
AMEX had been in competition with KKR for the LBO of RJR and KKR
wins. KKR runs into problems with RJR and hires away the president of
AMEX to turn it around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
IBM has gone into the red and was being reorged into the 13 "baby
blues" in preparation of breakup; the board then hires away the former
president of AMEX to resurrect the company and reverse the breakup
... using some of the same measures used at RJR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
there has been long standing revolving door between gov and beltway
bandits and/or wallstreet ... example is recent CIA director resigned in
disgrace including slap on the wrist for leaking classified documents
... joins KKR.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/k-k-r-hires-petraeus/
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