From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: How Corporate America Invented Christian America; Inside one reverend's big business-backed 1940s crusade to make the country conservative again. Date: 26 Sep 2015 Blog: FacebookHow Corporate America Invented Christian America; Inside one reverend's big business-backed 1940s crusade to make the country conservative again.
Corporate America had gotten such a bad reputation with WW1 war
profiteering, crash of '29, depression and supporting Nazi/Hitler
... that they decided to launch a major propaganda campaign to remake
their image:
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 ...
Note earlier the same year, June1940, Germany had a victory
celebration at the Waldorf-Astoria with major corporations. Lots of
them were there to hear how to do business with the Nazi's, 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 ...
John Foster Dulles played major role in rebuilding Germany's economy and military during 20s&30s. 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 & industrial targets in Germany, it got them from wallstreet.
military-industrial complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: FALSE: Reverse PIN Panic Code Date: 26 Sep 2015 Blog: FacebookFALSE: Reverse PIN Panic Code
disclaimer: I use to have wing in los gatos lab ... offices and labs
... where early ATM machines were done (before my time there)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3624
also administered magstripe standard (also before my time there)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_stripe_card
more about PINs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identification_number
including this flaw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identification_number#Implementation_flaws
more disclaimer: I've been somewhat in battle with EMV (chip showing
up on payment cards) since EMV was originally defined. About the same
time EMV was originally done in the mid-90s, I did chip design that
had *NONE* of the vulnerabilities and exploits of EMV (was
significantly more secure and cost significantly less). There was
large EMV pilot done in the US at the turn of the century that was
later described as billions of dollars were spent to prove chips are
less secure than magstripe. I tried to warn about the shortcomings
... but they went ahead anyway ... afterwards all evidence appeared to
disappear w/o a trace ... and speculation that it would be a long time
before it was tried in the US again (it is now 15years later)
... letting all the bugs to be worked out in other countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV
posts mentioning Yes Card
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
Did get a pilot done by NACHA and the debit networks (about the same
time) .... but in the aftermath of the EMV failure there was wholesale
pullback from all chips in the US. NACHA/debit network results (July
23, 2001) ... gone 404 but lives on at the wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20070706004855/http://internetcouncil.nacha.org/News/news.html
Old post about booth & press release at the 1999 BAI (whorld-wide retail banking) show
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#217
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#224
some more references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 27 Sep 2015 10:14:45 -0700vbcoen@GMAIL.COM (Vince Coen) writes:
Lots of migration failures are trying to make any change at all.
A simple scenario is the financial industry spent billions of dollars in the 90s to move from "aging" (mainframe) overnight batch settlement to straight-through processing using large numbers of parallel "killer micros". A major source of failure was wide-spread use of industry parallelization libraries ... that had 100 times the overhead of cobol batch. I pointed it out at the time, but was completely ignored ... the toy demos looked so neat. It wasn't until they tried to deploy that they ran into the scale-up problems (the 100 times parallelization overhead total swamped the anticipated throughput increases using large number of "killer micros" for straight-through processing).
In the meantime there has been enormous amount of work by the industry (including IBM) on RDBMS parallizing efficiencies. A RDBMS-based straight-through processing implementation done more recently easily demonstration all of the original objectives from the 90s ... but the financial industry claimed that it would be at least be another decade before they were ready to try again (lots of executives still bore the scars from the 90s failures and had become risk adverse).
In 2009, non-mainframe IBM was touting some of these RDBMS
parallelization scale-up efficiencies. I somewhat ridiculed them
... "From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time" ... since
I had been working on it 20yrs earlier (and got shutdown, being told I
was not allowed to work on anything with more than four processors).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#43 From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#46 From The Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
Also, in 1980 I got sucked into to do channel extender for STL that
was moving 300 people from the IMS group to off-site bldg. The channel
extender work did lots of optimization to eliminate the enormous
channel protocol chatter latency over the extended link ... resulting
in no appearant difference between local and remote operation. The
vendor then tried to get IBM approval for release of my support
... but there was group in POK working on some serial stuff (and were
afraid if it was in the market, it would make releasing their stuff
more difficult) and managed to get approval blocked. Their stuff is
final released a decade later, when it is already obsolete (as ESCON
with ES/9000). 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
have, which quickly morphs into fibre-channel standard (including lots
of stuff that I had done from 1980). Later some of the POK engineers
define a heavy weight protocol for fibre-channel that drastically
reduces the native throughput which is eventually released as FICON.
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
The latest published numbers I have from IBM is peak I/O benchmark for z196 that used 104 FICON (running over 104 fibre-channel) to get 2M IOPS. At the same time there was a fibre-channel announced for e5-2600 blade that claimed over million IOPS (two such fibre-channel has greater native throughput than 104 FICON running over 104 fibre-channel).
In addition, there hasn't been any real CKD manufactured for decades, CKD is simulated on industry standard fixed-block disks. It is possible to have high-performance server blades running native fibre-channel with native fixed-block disks that eliminates the enormous FICON and CKD simulation inefficiencies.
Related z196 I/O throughput number is all 14 SAPs running at 100% busy peaks at 2.2M SSCH/sec ... however, they recommend that SAPs are limited to 75% or 1.5M SSCH/sec.
I have yet to see equivalent numbers published for EC12 or z13. EC12 press has been that z196 @ 50BIPS processing to EC12 @ 75BIPS processing (50% more processing) only claims 30% more I/O throughput. z13 quote has been 30% more processing than EC12 (with 40% more processors than EC12).
Note that while fibre-channel wasn't originally designed for mainframe ... but for non-mainframe server configurations (that tend to run a few thousand), SATA is design point for the $500-$800 PCs. The are a lot of throughput differences between the consumer $500-$800 PCs and the non-mainframe server blades that are done for more heavy duty processing.
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#19 Linux Foundation Launches Open Mainframe Project
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#42 20 Things Incoming College Freshmen Will Never Understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#93 HP being sued, not by IBM.....yet!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#96 TCP joke
past posts mentioning overnight batch & straight-though processing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#40 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#31 Quote from comp.object
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#15 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#36 Future of System/360 architecture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#19 Distributed Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#21 Distributed Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#37 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#44 Distributed Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#61 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#19 Education ranking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#27 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#64 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#69 Controlling COBOL DDs named SYSOUT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#72 whats the world going to do when all the baby boomers retire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#81 Tap and faucet and spellcheckers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#74 Too much change opens up financial fault lines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#30 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#31 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#73 Price of CPU seconds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#87 Berkeley researcher describes parallel path
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#89 Berkeley researcher describes parallel path
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#55 performance of hardware dynamic scheduling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#50 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#56 Long running Batch programs keep IMS databases offline
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#26 What is the biggest IT myth of all time?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#30 Automation is still not accepted to streamline the business processes... why organizations are not accepting newer technolgies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#7 If you had a massively parallel computing architecture, what unsolved problem would you set out to solve?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#87 Cleaning Up Spaghetti Code vs. Getting Rid of It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#43 Business process re-engineering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#14 Legacy clearing threat to OTC derivatives warns State Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#55 Cobol hits 50 and keeps counting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#1 z/Journal Does it Again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#2 z/Journal Does it Again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#21 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#23 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX? (Are settlements a good argument for overnight batch COBOL ?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#26 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#30 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#38 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#43 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX? (Are settlements a good argument for overnight batch COBOL ?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#60 In the USA "financial regulator seeks power to curb excess speculation."
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#57 IBM halves mainframe Linux engine prices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#81 A Faster Way to the Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#13 UK issues Turning apology (and about time, too)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#81 big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#57 MasPar compiler and simulator
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#67 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#35 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#47 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#77 Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#16 How long for IBM System/360 architecture and its descendants?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#19 STEM crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#77 Madoff Whistleblower Book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#56 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#37 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#47 COBOL - no longer being taught - is a problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#78 Software that breaks computer hardware( was:IBM 029 service manual )
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#41 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#3 Assembler programs was Re: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#14 Age
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#13 Is the ATM still the banking industry's single greatest innovation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#37 A Bright Future for Big Iron?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#71 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#48 WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#19 zLinux OR Linux on zEnterprise Blade Extension???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#42 Looking for a real Fortran-66 compatible PC compiler (CP/M or DOSor Windows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#35 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#15 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#19 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#91 Mainframe Fresher
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#93 Itanium at ISSCC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#32 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#5 Home prices may drop another 25%, Shiller predicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#8 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#25 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#52 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#15 Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#70 New IBM Redbooks residency experience in Poughkeepsie, NY
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#71 Don't Dump the Volcker Rule Just Because It's Not Perfect
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#1 Banks Awash in Cash, Which Isn't Good News
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#10 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#23 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#9 John R. Opel, RIP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#79 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#8 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#12 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#49 No internet in 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#13 Study links ultrafast machine trading with risk of crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#25 Goldman Sachs P.R. Chief's Accidental Exit Interview
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#49 US payments system failing to meet the needs of the digital economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#0 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#24 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#69 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#77 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#19 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#31 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#47 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#18 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#24 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#42 Professor Coffee Hits a Nerve at SEC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#42 COBOL will outlive us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#57 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#6 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#50 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#30 'Big four' accountants 'use knowledge of Treasury to help rich avoid tax'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#42 The Mainframe is "Alive and Kicking"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#49 Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#35 Why is the mainframe so expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#80 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#29 Royal Pardon for credit unions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#81 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#83 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#22 US Federal Reserve pushes ahead with Faster Payments planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#90 Why do bank IT systems keep failing ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#10 Can the mainframe remain relevant in the cloud and mobile era?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#69 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#78 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#14 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#38 Meet Cobol's hard core fans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#76 This Was the Very First Website In the US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#71 Decimation of the valuation of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#119 Holy Grail for parallel programming language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#170 IBM Continues To Crumble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#78 Is there an Inventory of the Inalled Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#65 A New Performance Model ?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: PROFS & GML Date: 27 Sep 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
crypto trivia, later became involved in link encryptor board that would do multiple megabytes/sec and built for less than $100. At first the corporate crypto product people said that it significantly weakened DES. It took me 3months to figure out how to explain to them that rather than weakening DES, it significantly increased DES strength. It turned out to be a hollow victory ... got told I could make as many as I wanted, but there was only one possible user... they would all have to be sent to address in Maryland. It was when I first realized that there are three kinds of crypto: 1) the kind they don't care about, 2) the kind you can't do, and 3) the kind you can only do for them.
Part of HSDT was 4.5m satellite dishes at Los Gatos, Yorktown and
Austin ... and then did tail-circuits over the Collins Digital Radio
microwave that ran between Bldg.12 and bldg. 29 in Los Gatos. Old
email to me (copying several other people).
Date: 19 June 1985, 14:55:51 PDT
To: wheeler
Re: 1.544 mbps transmission from SJ b/40 to b/29 via microwave
We have facilities in place to carry 1.544 all of the way from b/40 to
b/29. However, format is DS-1, not some kind of clock and data
interface such as V.35 or 449.
One conversion possibility would be to use the little Coastcomm
multiplexes (<$12 K/pr) with a single v.35 or 449 (either one) at
1.536 mbps. The remaining 8 kbps is standard 193rd bit D3 framing
which in this case would allow encryption of the link. If you'd like,
I'll send you a copy of the data sheet on the interface card.
... snip ... top of post, old email index
other crypto trivia ... in 1984 did software DES benchmarking on 3081
... got about 150kbytes/sec ... needed both 3081 processors dedicated
to get 300kbytes/sec sustained or about the equivalent of full-duplex
T1 ... whcih was why needed dedicated link encryptors .... old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#email841115
other crypto related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#crypto
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Decimal point character and billions Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 10:13:54 -0700JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
1990 census reported that half the 18yr olds were funtionally illiterate (and things have continued to decline since then).
budget director in the 80s, reported that they increased SS payments so they could use it for military spending w/o having to say they increased income taxes (however, at some point in the future, income taxes will have to be increased to replenish the SS trust fund; unless they come up with gimmick to cut SS payments).
Volcker talking to civil engineering professor about money has been
diverted from infrastructure spending for so long ... there aren't jobs,
lack of jobs, students stop taking classes, w/o students, univ. start
shutting down programs and dropping professors ... Confidence Men: Wall
Street, Washington, and the Education of a President pg290
https://www.amazon.com/Confidence-Men-Washington-Education-ebook/dp/B0089LOKKS/
Well, I said, 'The trouble with the United States recently is we spent
several decades not producing many civil engineers and producing a huge
number of financial engineers. And the result is s**tty bridges and a
s**tty financial system!'
... snip ...
recent post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#48 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
there were stories about stimulus shovel-ready projects having to hire chinese civil engineering companies (there weren't a lot since many states were also siphoning off the funds for other purposes ... but state employee pension funds have also been looted in several ways) Estimates are that there is a couple trillion deficit in diverted infrastructure maintenance spending over the last few decades, that needs to be made up (total state employee pension fund shortfall is approaching similar amount).
Trivial case was that part of charges PUC allowed major california
utility company was for brush clearing ... keeping it away from power
lines ... preventing fires. A brush fire that burned some property
started investigation that found the CEO was diverting infrastructure
funds to his "bonus". Cal. energy market was also heavily involved in
the ENRON fraud. posts mentioning ENRON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
Another way of looting gov. spending is outsourcing to for-profit
operations .... including one of the presidential candidate platform
items is eliminating for-profit prisons ... which has gotten especially
egregious. a couple recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#85 prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#27 OT: efforts to repeal strict public safety laws
the biggest TBTF fines (tens of billions) from the economic mess is for fraudulent foreclosures ... the money was to be turned over to entities that would use it for aiding the foreclosure victims ... for-profit companies were set up by former bank regulators for the purpose ... who seemed to have siphoned off quite a bit of the funds.
TBTF posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
some recent foreclosure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#17 Cromnibus cartoon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#48 The 17 Equations That Changed The Course Of History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#0 S&L Crisis and Economic Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#5 Swiss Leaks lifts the veil on a secretive banking system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#8 Shoot Bank Of America Now---The Case For Super Glass-Steagall Is Overwhelming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#20 $2 Billion City Of Tampa Pension Story Major Media Missed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#22 Two New Papers Say Big Finance Sectors Hurt Growth and Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#24 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#49 Global Fragility and the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#53 Servicers in DOJ s Crosshairs Following JPM Robo-Signing Settlement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#88 How Wall Street captured Washington's effort to rein in banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#5 7 years on from crisis, $150 billion in bank fines and penalties
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#72 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#95 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#4 Jeb: George W. Bush is a top foreign policy adviser
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#37 LIBOR: History's Largest Financial Crime that the WSJ and NYT Would Like You to Forget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#67 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#25 After 6 Years Of QE, And A $4.5 Trillion Balance Sheet, St. Louis Fed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#56 The long, slow death of the rule of law in America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#65 Michael Hudson's New Book: Wall Street Parasites Have Devoured Their Hosts -- Your Retirement Plan and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#70 AIG freezes defined-benefit pension plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#73 Economists' Tribal Thinking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#81 Now the DOJ Admits They Got it Wrong
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Decimal point character and billions Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 08:45:10 -0700"Sam Thatch" <st342@gmail.com> writes:
functionally illiterate was dealing with modern life that was getting increasingly complex, tax forms, contracts, financial agreements, mortgages, etc.
there were articles at the time about various institutions trying to rewrite language to 3rd/4th grade level for adults/workers, foreign auto makers (putting in plants in the US) were requiring junior college degree in order to get workers that had high school education.,
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#45 How will current AI/robot stories play when AIs are real?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#28 Offshore IT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#45 Offshore IT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#55 Offshore IT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#33 [IBM-MAIN] NY Times editorial on white collar jobs going
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#42 The SOB that helped IT jobs move to India is dead!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#18 The SOB that helped IT jobs move to India is dead!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#18 Low Bar for High School Students Threatens Tech Sector
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#48 Mozilla v Firefox
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005g.html#43 Academic priorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#20 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#63 DEC's Hudson fab
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#7 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT Competitiveness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#24 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#79 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#31 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#51 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#80 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#85 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#10 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#30 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#34 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#42 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#68 Poll: oldest computer thing you still use
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#21 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT Competitiveness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#22 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT Competitiveness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#31 EZPass: Yes, Big Brother IS Watching You!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#29 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#39 competitiveness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#5 Republican accomplishments and Hoover
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#55 Can outsourcing be stopped?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#20 Five great technological revolutions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#43 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#38 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#80 Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America's Lunch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#48 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#36 The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#18 Great Brian Arthur article on the Second Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#125 UC-Berkeley and other 'public Ivies' in fiscal peril
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#75 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#18 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#36 Race Against the Machine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#32 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 1954 RAMAC Prototype Date: 29 Sep 2015 Blog: FacebookLate 80s, senior disk engineer got talk scheduled at the annual, world-wide, internal communication group conference supposedly on 3174 performance ... but opened the talk with the statement that the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division. The issue was the communication group had corporate strategic ownership of everything that crossed the datacenter walls and were fiercely fighting off distributed computing and client/server, trying to preserve their dumb (emulated) terminal paradigm and install base. The disk division was seeing the results of data fleeing the datacenter to more distributed computing platforms with drop in disk sales. The disk division had come with a number of solutions, but they were constantly being vetoed by the communication group. Note a few short years later the company goes into the red and was being re-org'ed into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the company .. and the disk division is no more
Bldg 14&15 machine rooms, were running round the clock, pre-scheduled, stand-alone mainframe development device testing. At one point they had tried to use MVS for testing multiple concurrent devices ... but MVS had 15min MTBF in that environment. I offered to rewrite operating system input/output supervisor to make it absolutely bullet proof and never fail ... so they could do any number of concurrent, on-demand testing ... greatly improving productivity (I was officially research in bldg. 28 ... but they let me wander around silicon valley).
Then because they we all running under my software, I would periodically be called in for any problem to diagnose (most of which turned out not be mine). They then started insisting that I start sitting in on conference calls with POK channel engineers. I asked where was all their own people. They said that the interface issues with POK channel people use to be handled by their senior disk engineers ... but so many had left for startups in silicon valley.
some past posts getting to play disk engineer in bldgs 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
trivia: later I wrote an internal (only) report on the effort and
happen to mention the MVS 15min MTBF .... I was told that brought the
wrath of the MVS group down on my head, 1st trying to get me fired,
and then doing whatever they could to make my time at IBM unpleasant
(apparently part of it was what they were reporting up their executive
chain didn't always correspond with reality). As an aside, this is
later old email just before 3380s shipped to customers ... FE had 57
simulated 3380 error regression test and in all cases, MVS was failing
requiring re-IPL ... and in 2/3rds of the cases, there was no
indication of what caused the failure:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#email801015
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Rarely enforced SEC rules may give green light to earnings manipulation Date: 29 Aug 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Rarely enforced SEC rules may give green light to earnings
manipulation
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/past-enforcement-suggests-proposed-clawback-rules-lack-teeth-2015-09-28
Sarbanes-Oxley claims that it would guarantee executives (and
auditors) did jail time for fraudulent financial filings. GAO started
doing reports of fraudulent financial filings (even showing increase
after SOX goes into effect) and nobody doing jailtime. This included
inflated fraudulent financial filings (as part of increasing executive
bonuses) and later restatements.
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-06-678
In 2002, GAO reported that the number of restatement announcements due
to financial reporting fraud and/or accounting errors grew
significantly between January 1997 and June 2002, negatively impacting
the restating companies' market capitalization by billions of
dollars. GAO was asked to update key aspects of its 2002 report
(GAO-03-138).
...
As was the case in the 2002 report, a significant portion of SEC's
enforcement activities involved accounting- and auditing-related
issues. Enforcement cases involving financial fraud- and
issuer-reporting issues ranged from about 23 percent of total actions
taken to almost 30 percent in 2005.
... snip ...
financial reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
sarbanes-oxley posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Self-service PC Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 30 Sep 2015 11:10:46 -0700charlesm@MCN.ORG (Charles Mills) writes:
slight topic drift ... 20yrs ago, consumer dailup online banking operations were making presentations at financial conferences on motivation for moving to the internet; primarily development&support costs for proprietary modem drivers (at the time >60 drivers were typical) and dialup infrastructure, enormous support costs associated with serial-port modems, etc ... all gets offloaded to ISP. Note at the same time, the commercial dialup online banking operations were saying that they would *NEVER* move to the internet because of a long list of exploits and vulnerabilities (many that presist to this day) ... as an aside, the commercial dialup online banking operations have subsequently moved to the internet anyway.
self-service PCs in the past were typically associated with "kiosk", library, etc, public PCs that anybody can walk up to (like store machines looking for stock &/or price check) ... as opposed to the webifying callcenter operations.
I had some number of meetings with the NIST rbac people in the 90s
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/rbac/
at the time, it was much more oriented towards simplifying security office handing out fine-grain access ... and codifying multi-party operations as countermeasure to insider threats (no single person had sufficient authority to complete any high-value operation).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Decimal point character and billions Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 08:56:05 -0700Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
past posts mentioning literate/illiterate:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#45 How will current AI/robot stories play when AIs are real?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#28 Offshore IT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#45 Offshore IT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#55 Offshore IT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#33 [IBM-MAIN] NY Times editorial on white collar jobs going
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#42 The SOB that helped IT jobs move to India is dead!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#18 The SOB that helped IT jobs move to India is dead!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#18 Low Bar for High School Students Threatens Tech Sector
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#48 Mozilla v Firefox
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005g.html#43 Academic priorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#20 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#63 DEC's Hudson fab
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#7 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT Competitiveness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#24 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#79 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#31 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#51 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#80 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#82 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#85 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#10 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#30 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#34 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#42 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#5 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#68 Poll: oldest computer thing you still use
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#21 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT Competitiveness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#22 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT Competitiveness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#31 EZPass: Yes, Big Brother IS Watching You!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#29 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#39 competitiveness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#5 Republican accomplishments and Hoover
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#55 Can outsourcing be stopped?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#20 Five great technological revolutions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#43 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#38 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#80 Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America's Lunch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#48 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#36 The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#18 Great Brian Arthur article on the Second Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#125 UC-Berkeley and other 'public Ivies' in fiscal peril
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#75 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#18 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#36 Race Against the Machine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#32 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#5 Decimal point character and billions
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the legacy of Seymour Cray Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.misc Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 17:47:07 -0700RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> writes:
other trivia ... former co-worker was also member of san jose astronomy club and told stories of lucas bringing early starwar drafts for the members to review.
more trivia ... my brother was regional apple marketing rep (largest conus physical area region) and i would sometimes get invited to business dinners and even argue macintosh design with mac engineers (before it was announced).
and ... George Michael ... periodically referred to as grandfather
of supercomputing
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2012/10/102702236-05-01-acc.pdf
for other drift ... past refs to thornton ... cray & thornton did cdc6600
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#11 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#27 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#6 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#80 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#75 non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185 Terabytes on a tape
and past refs. to Chen ... did x-mp & y-mp
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#68 CM-5 Thinking Machines, Supercomputers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#70 CM-5 Thinking Machines, Supercomputers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#42 Looking for Software/Documentation for an Opus 32032 Card
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#57 Another light on the map going out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#19 Worst case scenario?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#9 Is no one reading the article?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#12 Steve Chen Making China's Supercomputer Grid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#38 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/2008e.html#4 Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#5 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#7 IBM in Talks to Buy Sun
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#29 Justice Department probing allegations of abuse by IBM in mainframe computer market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#55 MasPar compiler and simulator
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#58 MasPar compiler and simulator
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#5 While watching Biography about Bill Gates on CNBC last Night
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#42 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#59 Problem with XP scheduler?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#71 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#42 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#68 Entry point for a Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#70 Entry point for a Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#47 Nonlinear systems and nonlocal supercomputing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#48 Nonlinear systems and nonlocal supercomputing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#61 IBM to announce new MF's this year
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#24 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#7 IBM Watson's Ancestors: A Look at Supercomputers of the Past
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#79 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#13 AMC proposes 1980s computer TV series Halt & Catch Fire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#65 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#73 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#6 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/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!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#72 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#18 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#74 100 boxes of computer books on the wall
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the legacy of Seymour Cray Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.misc Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 08:47:09 -0700"Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net> writes:
folklore is that it use to be motel ... but because listening devices
were constantly being found that they took it over ... turning into
museum.
http://cryptologicfoundation.org/visit/museum/museum_history.html
they also have IBM Harvest display
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7950_Harvest
the 1st time I visited, they had MLS (multi-level security) display (next to STK tape library) ... i tried to con them into letting me have copy of the MLS video ... I had some thot of doing voice over parody of MLS.
Google has been doing something wierd recently (coming back with nothing found) ... i tried search on the nsa museum folklore and it came back with nothing found. I tried the same search on other search engines ... and they came back with loads of NSA related references ... including the above that i cited.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Did 1st EMV transaction Date: 03 Oct 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Did my 1st EMV transaction today ... and it is at least as slow as the
original spec. 20-some years ago ... which was one of the reasons I
got asked to do chip/protocol much more secure and higher integrity
than EMV that was low power and superfast that could meet contactless
transit turnstyle requirements. Reference to demo/booth at 1999
worldwide retail banking show
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#217
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#224
chipcard & protocol refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
There was large scale US Pilot of EMV at the turn of the century
... but it was in the Yes Card period .... which then went ahead and
did anyway despite warnings. In the aftermath all evidence of the
pilot appeared to disappear w/o a trace and there was speculation that
it would be a long time before it was tried again in the US (letting
bugs be worked out in other jurisdictions). At the bottom of this trip
report (gone 404 but lives on at the wayback machine) there is
discussion of Yes Card at cartes2002:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030417083810/http://www.smartcard.co.uk/resources/articles/cartes2002.html
There was also presentation about the exploits by federal LEO at ATM Integrity Taskforce meeting prompting somebody in the audience to exclaim that "they" managed to spend billions of collars to prove chipcards are less secure than magstripe
past posts mentioning Yes Card:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the legacy of Seymour Cray Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 13:51:54 -0700hancock4 writes:
ACS END
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
As the quote above indicates, the ACS-1 design was very much an
out-of-the-ordinary design for IBM in the latter part of the 1960s. In
his book, Data Processing Technology and Economics, Montgomery Phister,
Jr., reports that as of 1968:
Of the 26,000 IBM computer systems in use, 16,000 were S/360 models
(that is, over 60%). [Fig. 1.311.2]
Of the general-purpose systems having the largest fraction of total
installed value, the IBM S/360 Model 30 was ranked first with 12%
(rising to 17% in 1969). The S/360 Model 40 was ranked second with 11%
(rising to almost 15% in 1970). [Figs. 2.10.4 and 2.10.5]
Of the number of operations per second in use, the IBM S/360 Model 65
ranked first with 23%. The Univac 1108 ranked second with slightly over
14%, and the CDC 6600 ranked third with 10%. [Figs. 2.10.6 and 2.10.7]
... snip ...
I mentioned while still undergraduate, summer of '69 i was brought into Boeing to help with setting up Boeing Computer Services (BCS) ... consolidate all data processing in independent business unit to better monetize the investment (a little like cloud computing today).
At the time, I thot the renton datacenter was possibly largest in the world ... all that summer, 360/65s were arriving in renton faster than they could be installed. Claim was Renton datacenter had something like $300M (in '69 dollars) of IBM equipment.
Later I would sponsor John Boyd briefings at IBM. His biography has him
in command.of.spook base about the time I was at Boeing ... supposedly
was a $2.5B "windfall" for IBM (nearly ten times Renton datacenter).
Old spook base ref (gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine).
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
Boyd posts & refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
Data processing technology and economics
https://books.google.com/books/about/Data_processing_technology_and_economics.html?id=MwMpAQAAMAAJ
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Paying CEOs fat bonuses for stock performance doesn't work Date: 03 Oct 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Paying CEOs fat bonuses for stock performance doesn't work -- Cornell
study
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/surprise--paying-ceos-for-stock-performance-doesn-t-help-companies--cornell-183854141.html
Paying CEOs fat bonuses for stock performance doesn't work
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/surprise--paying-ceos-for-stock-performance-doesn-t-help-companies--cornell-183854141.html
ICS_Brief_on_TSR_092915.pdf
who doesn't it work for?
past posts mentioning 400:1 ceo compensation ratio
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#73 Should The CEO Have the Lowest Pay In Senior Management?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#24 To: Graymouse -- Ireland and the EU, What in the H... is all this about?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#76 lack of information accuracy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#71 Cormpany sponsored insurance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#25 Taxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#33 Taxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#53 Are family businesses unfair competition?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#93 What do you think are the top characteristics of a good/effective leader in an organization? Do you feel these characteristics are learned or innate to an individual?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#2 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#58 Traditional Approach Won't Take Businesses Far Places
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#14 realtors (and GM, too!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#17 realtors (and GM, too!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#61 The vanishing CEO bonus
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#5 Greed - If greed was the cause of the global meltdown then why does the biz community appoint those who so easily succumb to its temptations?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#41 Executive pay: time for a trim?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#44 Executive pay: time for a trim?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#50 Greed Is
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#25 The recently revealed excesses of John Thain, the former CEO of Merrill Lynch, while the firm was receiving $25 Billion in TARP funds makes me sick
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#41 The subject is authoritarian tendencies in corporate management, and how they are related to political culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#3 Congress Set to Approve Pay Cap of $500,000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#73 Most 'leaders' do not 'lead' and the majority of 'managers' do not 'manage'. Why is this?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#2 CEO pay sinks - Wall Street Journal/Hay Group survey results just released
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#44 What TARP means for the future of executive pay
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#37 Young Developers Get Old Mainframers' Jobs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#48 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#8 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#39 Agile Workforce
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#33 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#62 Dodd-Frank Act Makes CEO-Worker Pay Gap Subject to Disclosure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#67 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#22 60 Minutes News Report:Unemployed for over 99 weeks!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#59 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#71 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#10 OODA in highly stochastic environments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#80 Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America's Lunch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#53 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#13 The Seven Habits of Pointy-Haired Bosses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#69 Who was the Greatest IBM President and CEO of the last century?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#28 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#147 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#25 You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#26 What's your favorite quote on "accountability"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#12 Sun Tzu, Boyd, strategy and extensions of same
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#19 "Buffett Tax" and truth in numbers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#26 Strategy subsumes culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#31 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#43 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#44 What's the most interesting thing you do in your non-work life?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#90 IBM Doing Some Restructuring?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#16 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#91 The Fractal Organization: Creating sustainable organizations with the Viable System Model
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#77 Vampire Squid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#73 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#81 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#84 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#3 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#31 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#32 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#41 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#36 Race Against the Machine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#40 Core characteristics of resilience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#87 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#65 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#64 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#33 IBM Spent A Million Dollars Renovating And Staffing Its Former CEO's Office
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#10 The Knowledge Economy Two Classes of Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#28 Flag bloat
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#50 IBM Furloughs U.S. Hardware Employees to Reduce Costs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#51 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#91 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#14 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#15 Why IBM Is Tumbling: BRIC Sales Plunge, Total Revenue Lowest Since 2009
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#29 upcoming TV show, "Halt & Catch Fire"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#81 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#33 Power grid groans, blackouts roll through L.A. area as heat wave nears peak
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#61 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#61 Decimation of the valuation of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#80 Here's how a retired submarine captain would save IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#23 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
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: Corrupt From Top to Bottom Date: 03 Oct 2015 Blog: Google+re:
3Oct1993
Corrupt From Top to Bottom
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/03/books/corrupt-from-top-to-bottom.html?pagewanted=1
... and 22yrs later
McCain Blasts Navy Carrier Procurement Program as a 'Debacle' (gone 404)
https://web.archive.org/web/20151019052215/http://www.seapowermagazine.org/stories/20151001-mccain.htmln
recent posts mentioning "corrupt from top to bottom"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#76 Pentagon remains stubbornly unable to account for its billions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#17 There's No Such Thing as Corporate DNA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#78 New hard drive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#84 New hard drive
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Modern computer brochures; military security; then and now ? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 12:00:28 -0700Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
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) (gone 404)
https://web.archive.org/web/20171125150539/https://www.thenation.com/article/how-private-contractors-have-created-shadow-nsa/
along with spreading Success Of Failure culture ... immediate success
is far less revenue compared to re-occurring revenue for repeated
failures (sometimes serves up blank page on 1st click and may have
to reload/reclick)
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
Success Of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
Head of IBM in the 90s, had been involved in the privaty-equity
industry, and after leaving IBM goes to head up one of the largest
private equity companies ... which then does LBO (private equity)
take-over of company that employs 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 victim companies are frequently under heavy pressure to turn revenue every way possible ... the private-equity, for-profit companies doing outsourced security clearances ... were just filling out the paperwork ... not bothering to do the (expensive) background checks.
former head of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
private-equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
MIC also has for a long time, convention of egregiously low-balling contracts ... and then when true costs become known ... they claim it would drastically affect national security to start over.
Corrupt From Top to Bottom
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/03/books/corrupt-from-top-to-bottom.html?pagewanted=1
... review of Burton's book
https://www.amazon.com/Pentagon-Wars-Reformers-Challenge-Guard/dp/B00HXY969W/
HBO movie was based on burton's book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars
current weapon program examples are that DOD acquisition is still
corrupt from top to bottom.
Burton one of Boyd acolytes ... Boyd posts & refs (I use to sponsor
Boyr's briefings at IBM)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
posts mentioning military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
This goes into locking in congressional votes for DOD weapons program
(in this case F22) ... which includes parceling out bits & pieces to
every congressional district ... significantly impacting manufacturing
quality
http://nypost.com/2009/07/17/cant-fly-wont-die/
but then they allowed the F22 "to die" when they managed to replace it with the much more expensive F35 weapons program (using the same methodology).
and from the navy (gone 404)
https://web.archive.org/web/20151019052215/http://www.seapowermagazine.org/stories/20151001-mccain.htmln
Reference to private-equity operations (also) having major Iraq
contractor ... as well as the OPM contractor
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/24/opm-contractor-veritas/
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the legacy of Seymour Cray Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 18:43:06 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
when we were doing HA/CMP ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
IBM bid triple-redundant rs/6000 running custom software. application implementors were told that they didn't have to worry about outages &/or failures and recovery ... because system software would mask all (FAA hardware) failures.
turns out that review of FAA failure modes found some number at the application/business (flight control) level ... wasn't simple matter of low-level hardware outages ... but more complex FAA operational .... which required rework of the application level design and implementation ... which never completed.
before leaving ibm in 1992, we would periodically visit the technical assistant to Federal System Division president ... he was doing double duty as TA 1st shift, and spent 2nd shift programming ADA for the FAA effort.
from 1993
Flying In Place: The Faa's Air Control Fiasco
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/1993-04-25/flying-in-place-the-faas-air-control-fiasco
That FAA effort was just one of growing list of failed gov. dataprocessing modernization efforts.
misc posts mentioning FAA & (failed) gov. dataprocessing modernization
efforts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#16 Why are Mainframe Computers really still in use at all?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#14 Cost of patching "unsustainable"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#52 US Air computers delay psgrs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#43 Flying Was: Fission products
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#45 IBM--disposition of clock business
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#29 Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#31 Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#89 FAA air traffic facility consolidation effort already late
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#42 Simulated PDP-11 Blinkenlight front panel for SimH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#74 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#76 A Little More on the Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#56 Early !BM multiprocessors (renamed from Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#59 A-10
increasingly part of growing Success Of Failure culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the legacy of Seymour Cray Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 22:32:28 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
last item in the (1993) Fiasco timeline:
1993
IBM says the system will not be complete until well after 2000.
... snip ...
IBM goes into the red in 1992 and was being reorganized into
the 13 Baby Blues in preparation for breaking up the company.
While the board brought in a new CEO to resurrect the company
and reverse the breakup ... posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
there were still major changes. The Federal Systems Division (which
was responsible for the FAA modernization contract) was sold off to
Loral
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/14/business/ibm-to-sell-its-military-unit-to-loral.html
Mr. Schwartz also said he regarded Federal Systems' air-traffic
control software as a "hidden asset." Federal Systems is currently
leading an overhaul of the F.A.A. system, a project plagued by cost
overruns. Indeed, as the I.B.M.-Loral deal was being announced
yesterday, the F.A.A.'s chief, David Hinson, ordered a review of the
overhaul project.
The new air-traffic control system, whose cost was estimated at $2.5
billion when it was planned in 1983, is now expected to cost more than
$5 billion. But Mr. Schwartz predicted that the Federal Systems
technology would not only satisfy the F.A.A. but also find markets
abroad.
... snip ...
Status of FAA's Modernization Program RCED-94-167FS: Published: Apr 15,
1994.
http://www.gao.gov/products/RCED-94-167FS
Status of FAA's Modernization Program RCED-95-175FS: Published: May 26,
1995.
http://www.gao.gov/products/RCED-95-175FS
Status of FAA's Modernization Program RCED-99-25: Published: Dec 3, 1998
http://www.gao.gov/products/RCED-99-25
2012
ATC Program Costs, Schedules Unreliable, GAO Says
http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2012-02-23/atc-program-costs-schedules-unreliable-gao-says
Fifteen of the 30 ATC programs have experienced delays ranging from two
months at the low end to more than 14 years for Waas. Completion targets
for Eram, considered a NextGen "backbone" system, now specify August
2014, nearly four years late.
FAA "NextGen" modernization
http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/transformational-faa-modernization-programs-slipping-schedule/2012-04-25
2013
What's keeping FAA's NextGen air traffic control on the runway?
http://gcn.com/articles/2013/07/22/faa-next-generation-air-transportation-system.aspx
Ten years into the program, new technology for the Federal Aviation
Administration's Next Generation Air Transportation System is gradually
coming online. But non-technical issues are delaying many of the
promised benefits and creating skepticism in the airline industry.
2014
Air Traffic Control System: Selected Stakeholders' Perspectives on
Operations, Modernization, and Structure GAO-14-770: Published: Sep 12,
2014.
http://gao.gov/products/GAO-14-770
Next Generation Air Transportation System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Generation_Air_Transportation_System
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Bernanke: Some Wall Street executives should've gone to jail over financial crisis Date: 05 Oct 2015 Blog: FacebookBernanke: Some Wall Street executives should've gone to jail over financial crisis
This may be pure obfuscation and misdirection ... since he was major part of it at the time. There have been recent claims that statute of limitation has now expired for many of the crimes ... so it is "safe" to make all sort of claims. In the middle of too big to fail (too big to prosecute and too big to jail). he was behind most of the bailout (and fought long legal battle to prevent disclosing what was really going on). There was only $700B appropriated for TARP supposedly to buy TBTF toxic assets ... but just the four largest TBTF were still holding $5.2T "off-book" at the end of 2008. It was the FED that was providing tens of trillions in ZIRP funds (estimate that TBTF are clearing $300B/annum) and buying trillions in the off-book toxic assets 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
Shortly after the FED was forced to public disclose what it was doing,
Bernanke had press conference where he said that he had expected that
the TBTF would use the ZIRP funds to help mainstreet, but when they
didn't he had no way to force them (but that didn't stop the flow of
ZIRP funds). Note also, presumably Bernanke was chosen in part because
he was a depression era scholar ... where the FED had tried something
similar with the same results (so Bernanke should have had no
expectations that they would do anything differently).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#bernanke
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the legacy of Seymour Cray Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:32:25 -0700hancock4 writes:
processor revenue seems to have dropped off since then ... but software and services continue to be quite big part of revenue.
past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#47 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#25 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#44 Under what circumstances would it be a mistake to migrate applications/workload off the mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#58 What is holding back cloud adoption?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#9 Is Microsoft becoming folklore?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#10 From build to buy: American Airlines changes modernization course midflight
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#5 mainframe "selling" points
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#15 A Private life?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#60 Why Intel can't retire X86
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#4 Oracle To IBM: Your 'Customers Are Being Wildly Overcharged'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#35 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#37 Where Does the Cloud Cover the Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#57 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#64 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#70 How internet can evolve
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#7 SAS Deserting the MF?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#43 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#40 The Mainframe is "Alive and Kicking"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#79 Why does IBM keep saying things like this:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#14 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#59 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#86 IBM unveils new "mainframe for the rest of us"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#53 spacewar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#31 model numbers; was re: World's worst programming environment?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#71 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#97 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#33 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#78 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#84 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#86 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#170 IBM Continues To Crumble
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the legacy of Seymour Cray Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 12:51:52 -0700hancock4 writes:
Adding HASP cut 3step FORTGCLG to a little over half minute. I then did a "SYSGEN" where I took apart the STAGE2 output from STAGE1 system ... and very carfully reorganized everything so that execution order would carefully place files & PDS members optimizing 2314 arm seek motion & PDS member multi-track search ... cutting time to 12.9 seconds (for null RETURN/END fortrans compile link-edit & go ... effectively all 3-step scheduler processing overhead) ... nearly three times speedup.
old post with part of presentation/data from fall '68 SHARE meeting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#18 CP/67 & OS MFT14
above also includes timing for running the os/360 job stream under (virtual machine) cp/67 after I had rewrote large sections and cut CP67 overhead from 856-322=534seconds to 435-322=113seconds (some parts of CP67, I did nearly 100 times speedup).
It wasn't until we installed WATFOR at the univ. that student job times got better than 709 elapsed time. WATFOR was single step fortran compile&execute that would batch whole sequence of student jobs in one OS/360 execution (more analogous to 709 IBSYS tape-to-tape monitor). Typically, would wait until accumulated a card tray of student jobs and then place OS/360 WATFOR control cards on the front and run it as single OS/360 job step. Typical student job had nearly null execution time so nearly all was compile time ... I have some vague memory that WATFOR compiled at 20,000 statements/cpu-min on 360/65.
Standard os/360 one-step scheduler was 11-12 seconds elapsed time. My carefull sysgem file & PDS member placement reduced that to approx. 4.3seconds elapsed time. A typical WATFOR run was 30-50 student jobs and 2000-3000 cards or 6-9 seconds ... combined with 4.3seconds one-step scheduler overhead then was 10.3-13.3 seconds elapsed for 30-50 jobs ... i.e. .2-.5secs per ... finally beating 709 IBSYS tape-to-tape.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: rationality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 13:21:06 -0700simon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner) writes:
some of this was investigations in the aftermath of economic mess last decade that wallstreet attracts high percentage of sociopaths that view everybody else as prey/victims ... and frequently also tend to lack sense of consequences for their actions (behavior to achieve immediate advantage ... reguardless of what may follow later).
for a long time economics assumed that people would make rational
choices ... but that has been increasingly debunked
https://hbr.org/2009/07/the-end-of-rational-economics
related have been claims that cheating on tests and falsified items in
resumes was relatively rare for the baby boomer generation ... but as
nearly inverted for millennials .... it is rare to find a millennial
resume that hasn't had "enhancements".
http://national.deseretnews.com/article/3879/Are-millennials-programed-to-cheat.html
past posts mentioning sociopaths:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#77 Madoff Whistleblower Book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#59 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#24 AMERICA IS BROKEN, WHAT NOW?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#30 Have you ever wondered why some people seem to get rich easily
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#80 How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#4 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#30 Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#16 Interview of Mr. John Reed regarding banking fixing the game
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#99 New theory of moral behavior may explain recent ethical lapses in banking industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#1 Spontaneous conduction: The music man with no written plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#91 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#16 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#84 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#53 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#14 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#53 Retirement Savings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#76 Crowdsourcing Diplomacy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#1 IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#1 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#39 Sale receipt--obligatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#37 Income Inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#15 Banking Culture Encourages Dishonesty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#15 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: It A "Liquidity Mirage": New York Fed Finally Grasps How Broken The Market Is Due To HFTs Date: 09 Oct 2015 Blog: Google+re:
It A "Liquidity Mirage": New York Fed Finally Grasps How Broken The
Market Is Due To HFTs
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-09/it-liquidity-mirage-new-york-fed-finally-grasps-how-broken-market-due-hfts
at the congressional Madoff hearings they 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). TV business programs tried to get him for interview ... but all they got was his lawyer. The lawyer made reference that the person didn't want to appear in public ... that one of the scenarios why SEC never bothered to anything about Madoff for over a decade was that Madoff was involved with violent criminal elements that also controlled SEC ... and he was afraid that they might want retribution for his attempts to shutdown the operation. A year later on a book tour, the person was available for public interviews and asked about his not appearing in public a year earlier. He referenced that he had changed his mind, that Madoff had possibly swindled some violent criminal elements and turned himself in looking for government protection (but there was no explanation regarding SEC's inaction).
This is a article referencing a Cramer interview during that period
where Madoff was active, implying criminal violations were wide-spread
but nobody on wallstreet had anything to fear from SEC.
http://nypost.com/2007/03/20/cramer-reveals-a-bit-too-much/
The head of SEC last decade is #4 on times list of those responsible
for the economic mess:
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877323,00.html
posts memntioning Madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
recent HFT refs:
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#66 Michael Hudson's New Book: Wall Street Parasites Have Devoured Their Hosts -- Your Retirement Plan and the U.S. Economy
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the legacy of Seymour Cray Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 18:08:27 -0700Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> writes:
However, original 360 design point was very limited real storage ... so trade-off was to do lots of stuff with index on disks and multi-track search (trading off real storage for index versus i/o channel for sequential index search) ... aka CKD dasd.
However, by mid-70s this trade-off started to flip ... significant increase in real storage and i/o capacity was becoming major bottleneck. VTOC was disk volume directory of files. Multi-track search would serially scan VTOC for file entry to be opened/used ... VTOC entry contained file location on disk (and other misc. information). VTOC scan could involve serveral disk revolutions ... tieing up disk, controller and channel (not being able to use for any other purpose).
The other major use was for "PDS" libraries ... nearly all executables and several other uses. A standard PDS library could involve a 2-3 cylinder directory. A multi-track search would sequentially scan all tracks until desired PDS member entry was found.
I've periodically mention getting called into datacenter for large national retailer that was experiencing significant performance degradation with their store online transaction system under heavy load. They had several 370/168-3 and large shared CKD 3330 DASD pool dedicated to running store online transactions under MVS . All the national experts had been called in before resorting to calling me. I was brought into class room where all the tables were covered with foot high stacks of performance reports. After about 30 mins I started to notice correlation that the aggregate I/O activity across all the 168-3 processors for a specific volume was peaking at 7 I/Os per second at peak load ... which was a little unusual since 3330 was nominal considered to have throughput of 30-40 I/Os per second.
It turned out that 3330 contained the PDS online transaction library for all 168 systems and all stores. It had 3cyl PDS library directory ... and each transaction required reading the library directory to find the transaction and then load it. On the avg. PDS search is 1.5 cylinders ... or for 3330 that is one multi-track search of 19cylenders taking 19 revolutions at 3600RPM taking .317seconds elapsed time ... followed by multi-track search of 9.5 cylinders taking 9.5 revolutions or .158 seconds ... each transaction requires avg. of .475 seconds just to find the location of the transaction executable to be loaded (during which time the device, controller and channel is busy and can't be used for anything else). The actual load takes around .03 seconds ... but with the PDS lookup time, the whole complex was limited to a maximum of two transactions per second ... across all systems and for all stores in the country.
The resolution was to split the online executable library into three different parts (so avg. PDS lookup is around 9.5 tracks instead of 28.5 tracks) .... and then replicate the library so there is unique copy for each 168-3 system. That up the transaction (load) rate to 10-15 transaction per system and 40-60 per second for the whole complex.
The IBM disk division did fixed-block (FBA) disks starting in the late
70s (3310 & 3370) ... but I was told by the MVS people that even
if I provided them with fully tested & integrated MVS FBA support,
I would still need an incremental $26M profit (for documentation and
education) ... basically $200M-$300M new disk sales ... they then
qualified it by saying customers were buying disks as fast as they
could be made ... and if there was FBA support, customers would just
switch from buying CKD disks to same amount of FBA disks. However,
part of FBA support includes moving off the enormously expensive
mid-60s multi-track search design. As an aside, no real CKD devices
have been made for decades, being simulated on industry standard
fixed-block disks. Some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
Aother problem is that channel program use "real addresses" but with os/360 move to MVS ... the application library building channel programs is now running in virtual address space and all the resulting channel programs are built with virtual addresses. Standard OS/360 & MVS convention passes the address of the channel program in EXCP/SVC0 supervisor call. With OS/360 move to virtual address, the EXCP process now has to build a copy of the passed channel program substituting real addresses for the virtual addresses. This turns out to be the same exact process that (virtual machine) CP67 had to do for running guest operating systems in virtual address space. It turns out the person doing the OS/360 initial prototype move to virtual memory, borrowed the CP67 "CCWTRANS" routine and crafted into the side of EXCP processing.
past posts mentioning (CP67) CCWTRANS:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#68 Mainframe operating systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#34 What level of computer is needed for a computer to Love?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#18 Linux IA-64 interrupts [was Re: Itanium benchmarks ...]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#37 IBM OS Timeline?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#38 IBM OS Timeline?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#36 History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002c.html#39 VAX, M68K complex instructions (was Re: Did Intel Bite Off More Than It Can Chew?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#61 GE 625/635 Reference + Smart Hardware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#70 hone acronym (cross post)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#65 The problem with installable operating systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#67 The problem with installable operating systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#62 PLX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#0 Disk drives as commodities. Was Re: Yamhill
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#13 Page Table - per OS/Process
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#27 Microkernels are not "all or nothing". Re: Multics Concepts For
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004.html#18 virtual-machine theory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#59 real multi-tasking, multi-programming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#0 IBM 360 memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#50 Chained I/O's
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#16 computer industry scenairo before the invention of the PC?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#26 PCIe as a chip-to-chip interconnect
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#54 CKD Disks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#57 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#23 360 DIAGNOSE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#49 The mid-seventies SHARE survey
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#50 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#45 Moving assembler programs above the line
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#47 Moving assembler programs above the line
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#18 address space
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#41 Instruction Set Enhancement Idea
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#25 MVCIN instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#7 2nd level install - duplicate volsers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#31 Is VIO mandatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#38 Is VIO mandatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#25 Multiple address spaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#5 3380-3390 Conversion - DISAPPOINTMENT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006i.html#33 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#5 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#27 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#27 oops
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#39 REAL memory column in SDSF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#19 Cycles per ASM instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#27 IBM S/360 series operating systems history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#46 FBA rant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#0 FBA rant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#6 IBM S/360 series operating systems history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#33 Historical curiosity question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#34 Historical curiosity question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#26 user level TCP implementation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#35 IBM obsoleting mainframe hardware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#41 Virtual Storage implementation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#69 GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#70 GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#72 A question for the Wheelers - Diagnose instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#2 Real storage usage - a quick question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#41 Age of IBM VM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#83 IBM mainframe history, was Floating-point myths
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#45 authoritative IEFBR14 reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#68 EXCP access methos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#69 EXCP access methos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#7 Future architectures
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#50 Old XDS Sigma stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#31 TOPS-10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#56 Computer History Museum
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#59 Why do IBMers think disks are 'Direct Access'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#73 Operating Systems for Virtual Machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#52 Hercules; more information requested
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#61 Evolution of Floating Point
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#52 360 programs on a z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#42 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#60 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#18 What was the historical price of a P/390?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#21 QUIKCELL Doc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#45 PROP instead of POPS, PoO, et al
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#9 EXTERNAL: Re: Problem with an edit command in tso
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#37 CKD DASD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#79 Speed of Old Hard Disks - adcons
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#90 Two terrific writers .. are going to write a book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#72 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#44 junking CKD; was "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#45 segments and sharing, was 68000 assembly language programming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#15 Any candidates for best acronyms?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#92 Question regarding PSW correction after translation exceptions on old IBM hardware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#115 Start Interpretive Execution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#17 5 Byte Device Addresses?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#55 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#73 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#2 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#19 How to get a tape's DSCB
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#21 8-bit bytes and byte-addressed machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#42 history of Programming language and CPU in relation to each
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#30 Regarding Time Sharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#4 Query for IBM Systems Magazine website article on z/OS community
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#48 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#51 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#62 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#85 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#47 Storage paradigm [was: RE: Data volumes]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#73 Storage paradigm [was: RE: Data volumes]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#47 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#18 A Brief History of Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#84 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamationmade30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#12 "hexadecimal"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#54 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#59 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#40 OS/360
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Hillary Clinton's Glass-Steagall Date: 10 Oct 2015 Blog: FacebookHillary Clinton's Glass-Steagall
The folklore at the time was the president was going to veto
GLBA. President of AMEX was in competition to be the next CEO of AMEX
and wins. The looser leaves and takes their protegee to Baltimore,
acquiring what was described as loan sharking business. They make some
number of other acquisitions, eventually acquiring Citi in violation
of Glass-Steagall. Greenspan gives them an exemption while they lobby
congress for repeal of Glass-Steagall. They enlist several in DC,
including the secretary of treasury (and former head of G-S). GLBA
initially passes along party lines (54-44) ... but with prospect of
Clinton veto ... they go back and add provisions needed to get
veto-proof vote (90-8)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93Bliley_Act
After the sec. of treasury (and former head of G-S) has done his part,
he resigns and joins Citi as what was described at the time as co-CEO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rubin
Other trivia, initially on the floor of congress, the primary purpose of GLBA was described as keeping new competition out of banking, "if you already have a bank charter you get to keep it, if you don't already have a bank charter you can't get one", especially mentioning entities that would use technology to significantly increase efficiency) before they start adding other provisions, including repeal of Glass-Steagall.
#2 on times list of those responsible for economic mess, GLBA and
(with his wife) preventing derivatives from being regulated
(originally described as gift to ENRON, his wife spends short stint as
CFTC chair, but soon as it passes, she resigns and joins ENRON board
and on the audit committee)
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
Disclaimer: Jan2009, 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 cross-links and URLs between what happened this time and what happened then (reference that maybe the new congress would have appetite to do something). I work on it for a time and then get a call saying that it wouldn't needed after all (reference to enormous piles of wallstreet money totally burying Washington DC).
glass-steagall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
enron posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
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
In the wake of ENRON, congress passes Sarbanes-Oxley claiming that it
would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee that executives and auditors
responsible for fraudulent financial filings, do jail time. however it
requires SEC to do something. Possibly because even GAO doesn't
believe SEC is doing anything, it starts doing reports of fraudulent
financial filings, even showing uptic after Sarbanes-Oxley goes into
effect (and nobody doing jailtime). Less well known, SOX also has
provision for SEC to do something about rating agencies (played the
pivotal role in the economic mess). #4 on times list of those
responsible for economic mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
If being able to pay for triple-A, eliminating any concern about loan quality wasn't bad enough .. They start designing toxic CDOs to fail, pay for triple-A, sell to their victim customers, and then take out derivative CDS gambling bets that they would fail (creating enormous demand for bad loans ... change from just not caring about loan quality). The sec. of treasury last decade (also former head of G-S) then pushes for TARP funds supposedly to bail out TBTF by buying toxic assets. However only $700B is appropriated and just the four largest TBTF where holding $5.2T "off-book" the end of 2008.
The largest holder of the CDS gambling bets was AIG and was negotiating to pay of at 50cents on the dollar, when the sec. of treasury steps in, forces AIG to sign 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 is AIG and the largest recipient of face-value payoffs is the TBTF formally headed by sec. of treasury.
Note also in the testimony at the Oct2008 congressional hearings into the role that the rating agencies played, they also said that the rating agency business model became misaligned and incented to do the wrong thing when they switched from buyers paying for the rating (as accurate as possible in the interest of the buyer) to the seller paying for the rating (rating becomes whatever the seller is willing to pay for) ... that regulation becomes enormously more difficult when the business is motivated to do the wrong thing.
sarbanes-oxley posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
too big to fail (too big to prosecute and too big to jail) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDOs posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Things started with SEC failing to do anything about the rating agencies ... and sellers no longer needed to care about loan quality because they could pay for triple-A and sell of every loan as fast as they could make them. Then things got enormously worse because CFTC wasn't allowed to regulate gambling derivatives/CDS ... They would design securitized mortgages to fail (requiring enormous numbers of bad mortgages), pay for triple-A, sell to their victim customers, and then take out derivative/CDS gambling bets that they would fail. Then sec. of treasury steps in blocks taken legal action against those running the CDS gambling scam
However repeal of Glass-Steagall was important for 1) banks play in the high risk games and then 2) the pure high risk investment banks also getting the (real) bailouts, 3) enables too big to fail, too big to prosecute, too big to jail. The FEDs fought hard, long legal battle to prevent public disclosure of what they were doing behind the scenes ... tens of trillions in ZIRP funds and buying trillions in offbook toxic assets at 98cents on the dollar. TBTF to have FED bailout required banking charters ... repeal of Glass-Steagall allowed existing regulated banks to play in the high risk activities ... but still get bailout when the high risk stuff goes belly up ... four largest TBTF playing high risk (holding $5.2T toxic assets end of 2008) were Citi, JPMorgan/Chase, Wells Fargo and BofA. However as part of bailout, FED hands out banking charters to the pure high risk investment banks (like G-S) making them also eligible for FED feeding trough (in theory this should have violated the original purpose of GLBA .. which later added repeal of Glass-Steagall).
Same person primarily responsible for GLBA and repeal of Glass-Steagall ... Then is responsible (along with his wife) with blocking CFTC from regulating the gambling derivatives/CDS ... which is where AIG comes in
Glass-Steagall prevented "safe", regulated, federally backed depository institutions from engaging in risky activity. Repeal of Glass-Steagall allowed them to get into enormously risky gambling activities ... where they get to keep the winnings ... but the tax payers are on the hook for the losses.
The four largest TBTF engaged in the risky gambling activity were Citi, JPGMorgan/Chase, Wells Fargo, and BofA. FED Chairman (1st greenspan and then bernanke) allowed them to carry their risky gambling (would have been fraudulent under glass-steagall) "off the books". End of 2008 just those four were still carrying $5.2T in toxic assets "off-book" ... of the total $27+T done 2001-2008. The summer and fall of 2008, several tens of billions in these toxic assets had gone for 22cents on the dollar. If the TBTF had been forced to bring their risky gambling off-book toxic assets back onto the books, they would have been declared insolvent and forced to be liquidated.
Repeal of Glass-Steagall allowing the big regulated financial institutions to play .... enormously increased the amount of activity ... possibly by order of magnitude (major portion of the over $27T done 2001-2008). They would have been the first to crash if it wasn't for them being allowed to carry the activity "off the books" (just the four largest still with $5.2T end of 2008) ... and FED backing them up. The other guys were doing tens of billions not trillions.
I think Lehman was playing with something like $50B that it was moving off books .... compared to over $1.2T-$1.5T for each of the four largest TBTF ... aka each of the four largest TBTF were still in it to 25-30 times that of Lehman at the end of 2008
Minor note ... two different uses of "G-S" ... one for glass-steagall ... and another for "Goldman Sachs" ... former head of Goldman Sachs was secretary of treasury and major player getting Glass Steagall repealed ... initially on behalf of CITI. Another former head of Goldman Sachs was secretary of treasury and major force behind TARP ... and forcing AIG to take TARP funds to pay off gambling CDS at face value. Gave rise to the joke that dept. of treasury had become Goldman Sachs branch office in washington dc.
Lehman Fraudulently Cooked Its Books, Accounting Giant Ernst &
Young Helped, Geithner and Bernanke Winked and Slapped Them on the
Back
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/lehman-fraudulently-cooked-its-books-accounting-giant-ernst-young-helped-geithner-and-bernanke-winked-and-slapped-them-on-the-back.html
Against this backdrop, Lehman turned to Repo 105 transactions to
temporarily remove $50 billion of assets from its balance sheet at
first and second quarter ends in 2008 so that it could report
significantly lower net leverage numbers than reality.
... snip ...
Four largest TBTF "banks" still carrying $5.2T "off-book" end of 2008
... over 100 times that of Lehman ... allowed to play by different
rules
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
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
Later a son, presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than S&L crisis. In the S&L crisis there were 30,000 criminal referrals and 1,000 criminal convictions ... there have been *ZERO* criminal referrals/convictions for the economic mess (proportionally, there should have been 70,000 criminal convictions). If the economic mess had been limited to 1/100th as big, it would have only been slightly over half the problem of the S&L crisis.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Putin's Great Crime: He Defends His Allies and Attacks His Enemies Date: 10 Oct 2015 Blog: FacebookPutin's Great Crime: He Defends His Allies and Attacks His Enemies
When the secretary of treasury helps CEO of CITI to get the ball rolling to repeal Glass-Steagall and then resigns to join CITI, he is replaced by one of his protegees ... who also shows up here ... is Harvard responsible for the rise of Putin?:
John Helmer: Convicted Fraudster Jonathan Hay, Harvard's Man Who
Wrecked Russia, Resurfaces in Ukraine
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/convicted-fraudster-jonathan-hay-harvards-man-who-wrecked-russia-resurfaces-in-ukraine.html
How Harvard lost Russia; The best and brightest of America's premier
university came to Moscow in the 1990s to teach Russians how to be
capitalists. This is the inside story of how their efforts led to
scandal and disgrace.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160325154522/http://www.institutionalinvestor.com:80/Article/1020662/How-Harvard-lost-Russia.html
Russian Military Politics and Russia's 2010 Defense Doctrine
https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1050
....
John Foster Dulles played major role in rebuilding Germany's economy and military during 20s&30s. 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
From the law of unintended consequences ... when the 1943 US Strategic
Bombing program needed location of military & industrial targets
in Germany, it got them from wallstreet.
reference to June 1940 victory celebration held at Waldorf Astoria in
NYC, Intrepid 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.
Later the same year in Dec 1940, US corporations have a conference at
Waldorf Astoria in NYC, where they decide to launch a major propaganda
campaign because corporations had gotten such a bad reputation from
WW1 profiteering, crash of '29, the depression and supporting the
Nazis and Hitler.
You Think the NSA Is Bad? Meet Former CIA Director Allen Dulles. In a
new book, David Talbot makes the case that the CIA head under
Eisenhower and Kennedy may have been a psychopath.
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/10/book-review-devils-chessboard-david-talbot
too big to fail, too big to prosecute, too big to jail posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the legacy of Seymour Cray Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:18:29 -0700hancock4 writes:
NCSS starts off with 4GL RAMIS ... but then develops proprietary Nomad in reaction to competition from other online vm/cms service bureaus (like Tymshare)
various claims/examples that 4GL can do in one statement that might take 100 statements in COBOL.
RAMIS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramis_software
Nomad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomad_software
early development
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomad_software#Early_development
also mentions original sql/relational implementation done at
SJR on (virtual machine) vm370 ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
FOCUS ... follow-on to RAMIS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOCUS
other reference to FOCUS & Tymshare
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/information-builders-inc-history/
past posts mentioning 4gl, ramis, nomad, focus
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#64 Hercules and System/390 - do we need it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#69 Hercules and System/390 - do we need it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#56 10 choices that were critical to the Net's success
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#15 CA-RAMIS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#17 CA-RAMIS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#28 OT What movies have taught us about Computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#15 two pi, four phase, 370 clone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#58 atomic memory-operation question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#10 What is timesharing, anyway?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#48 Who said DAT?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#33 MAD Programming Language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#12 Dreaming About Redesigning SQL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#15 Dreaming About Redesigning SQL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#3 Hyperthreading vs. SMP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004.html#1 Saturation Design Point
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#15 Pre-relational, post-relational, 1968 CODASYL "Survey of Data Base Systems"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#52 Losing colonies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#44 Shipwrecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#33 IBM 3705 and UC.5
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#35 PDP-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#37 PDP-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#8 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#12 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#37 Quote from comp.object
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#17 Newbie question on table design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#38 It's No Secret: VMware to Develop Secure Systems for NSA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#87 CompUSA to Close after Jan. 1st 2008
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#66 Computer History Museum
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#40 Gone but not forgotten: 10 operating systems the world left behind
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#54 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#55 Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer (warning: Conley rant)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#58 Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer (warning: Conley rant)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#21 What non-IBM software products have been most significant to the mainframe's success
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#26 Global Sourcing with Cloud Computing and Virtualization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#63 VMSHARE Archives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#55 Maybe off topic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#69 "Best" versus "worst" programming language you've used?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#1 Deja Cloud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#60 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#51 From Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#84 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#30 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#56 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#57 Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#63 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#16 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#62 Google F1 was: Re: MongoDB
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#77 Bloat
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#34 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#32 Speed of computers--wave equation for the copper atom? (curiosity)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#101 Flat (VSAM or other) files still in use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#40 How Larry Ellison Became The Fifth Richest Man In The World By Using IBM's Idea
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#74 Ancient computers in use today
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: rationality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 11:41:33 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
Key member of Swedish Academy of Sciences calls for immediate suspension
of the "Nobel Prize for Economics"
https://rwer.wordpress.com/2015/10/11/key-member-of-swedish-academy-of-sciences-calls-for-immediate-suspension-of-the-nobel-prize-for-economics/
The Prize in contravention of the spirit of Nobel's will
Can contribute to increased corruption. Multiple independent research
shows that those who study economics are more prone to corruption.
... snip ...
Lazy econ critiques
http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/lazy-econ-critiques.html
Economists' Tribal Thinking
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/economists-tribal-thinking/403075/
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
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/
too big to fail (too big to prosecute and too big to
jail) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDOs posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
"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
John Foster Dulles played major role in rebuilding Germany's economy and
military during 20s&30s. 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
and How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
From the law of unintended consequences ... when the 1943 US Strategic Bombing program needed location of military & industrial targets in Germany, it got them from wallstreet.
June1940, Germany had a victory celebration at the Waldorf-Astoria in
NYC with major corporations. Lots of them were there to hear how to do
business with the Nazi's, 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.
Dec1940, 5,000 industrialists from across the nation have annual meeting
at Waldorf-Astoria in NYC. They had gotton such a bad reputation with
WW1 war profiteering, crash of '29, the depression, supporting Hitler
and Nazis, etc ... they decide to launch major propaganda campaign.
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
more recent:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/12/jeb-bush-forest-gump-financial-improprieties.html
then last decade, another son presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than the S&L crisis.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Ernst & Young Confronts Madoff's Specter in Trial Over Audits Date: 15 Oct 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Ernst & Young Confronts Madoff's Specter in Trial Over Audits
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-14/ernst-young-confronts-madoff-s-specter-in-trial-over-audits
Congressional Madoff hearings had the person that tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about Madoff (SEC hands were forced when Madoff turned himself in). At the time of the hearing, TV news constantly tried to get him for interviews ... but he sent a lawyer instead (something about being worried about possible retribution from people behind influencing SEC to not do anything)
Madoff posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
Note also, rhetoric in congress for Sarbanes-Oxley was that it would guarantee that executives (and auditors) did jail time ... but it required that SEC do something. Possibly because even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing anything, it started doing reports of fraudulent financial filings, even showing increases in numbers of fraudulent filings after Sarbanes-Oxley goes into effect (and nobody doing jail time).
Sarbanes-Oxley posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
fraudulent financial filing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
A year after the Madoff congressional hearings, the person that had tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something ... was on book tour and interviewed. He said he had changed his mind (rather than Madoff working with criminal elements that controlled SEC), he decided that Madoff may have defrauded some criminal elements ... and turned himself in seeking gov. protection (but then couldn't account for why SEC wasn't doing anything).
I've seen references to some people felt so badly about what happened
to Andersen in the wake of Enron ... that provisions in SOX was to
give an enormous gift to the audit industry ... significantly
increasing the audit requirements that businesses would have to pay
for .... but there was never any intention to enforce any legal
action. Besides GAO reports of fraudulent financial filings continuing
& increasing after SOX goes into effect ... there is stuff like:
http://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks/big-4-audit-firms-play-big-role-offshore-murk
Enron posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
tax evasion posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
more trivia ... in late 90s, about the same time I was asked to look
at improving the integrity of securitized mortgage supporting
documents ... as countermeasure to use of securitizing obfuscating
fraud ... securitized mortgage (toxic CDOs) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
I was also asked into NSCC (before merger with DTC that formed DTCC)
to look at improving the integrity of exchange trading transactions. I
worked on it for awhile and then got another call to come in. They
said the work was being suspended because a side-effect of the
integrity work would have greatly increased transparency and
visibility ... which is antithetical to wallstreet culture
... including something about possibly 30% of transactions might need
to be disavowed also requiring plausible deniability. Decade later in
the Madoff congressional hearings, the person that had tried
unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about Madoff,
also raises the issue of transparency and visibility. DTCC ref:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depository_Trust_%26_Clearing_Corporation
and regarding controversy over naked short selling
... and this reference ... wallstreet has nothing to fear from the SEC
http://nypost.com/2007/03/20/cramer-reveals-a-bit-too-much/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Whistleblower Employed By Federal Whistleblower Protection Program Fired For Blowing The Whistle Date: 15 Oct 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Whistleblower Employed By Federal Whistleblower Protection Program
Fired For Blowing The Whistle
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-15/whistleblower-employed-federal-whistleblower-protection-program-fired-blowing-whistl
Federal Whistleblower Investigator Fired After Blowing the Whistle on
His Own Agency
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Federal-Whistleblower-Investigator-Fired-After-Blowing-the-Whistle-on-His-Own-Agency-332240782.html
whistleblower posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Talk of Criminally Prosecuting Corporations Up, Actual Prosecutions Down Date: 15 Oct 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Talk of Criminally Prosecuting Corporations Up, Actual Prosecutions Down
https://theintercept.com/2015/10/13/talk-of-criminally-prosecuting-corporations-up-actual-prosecutions-down
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Prosecution of White Collar Crime Hits 20-Year Low
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/prosecution-white-collar-crime-hits-20-year-low
DOJ Must Prove Commitment to Ending 'Too Big to Jail'
http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/doj-must-prove-commitment-to-ending-too-big-to-jail-1076671-1.html
New DOJ Corporate Crime Policy Will Impact Contracting
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2015/09/new-doj-corporate-crime-policy.html
If the Justice Dept Wants to Punish Corporate Crooks, Here's How
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2015/09/if-the-justice-dept-wants-to-punish-corporate-crooks-heres-how.html
New Justice Department Rules Aim to Prosecute Executives in Corporate Crime
http://time.com/4028775/justice-department-corporate-crime/
posts mentioning deferred prosecution:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#10 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#80 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#23 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#44 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#47 Do we REALLY NEED all this regulatory oversight?
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#57 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#61 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: (External):Re: IBM Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 17 Oct 2015 14:49:13 -0700cfmpublic@NS.SYMPATICO.CA (Clark Morris) writes:
There is the folklore from the early 80s about certain gov. agency asking IBM if it could guarantee that all the source IBM provided for the POK favorite son operating system exactly corresponded to all the code they were actually running. Supposedly a large taskforce spent significant amount of money investigating the issue and concluded that it wasn't practical (almost impossible to identify exactly all the corresponding source that went with all the running porducts that a customer had installed).
It use to be all source was available ... it was only in the 80s that started having the OCO-wars ... with IBM moving to no longer making source available.
Long ago and far away, litigation results in the 23Jun1969 Unbundling
announce ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
charging for (application) software, SE services, maintenance, etc ... however the company made the case that operating system software should still be free.
Then "Future System" was started in the early 70s as countermeasure to
clone controllers (totally different from 370, with tightly integrated
controllers having exceedingly complex protocol). Internal politics
started killing off 370 products. Then the lack of 370 products during
this period is credited with giving clone processor makers a market
foothold. I continued to work on 360 & 370 stuff during this period,
even periodically ridiculing the FS efforts (not exactly career
enhancing activity). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
Then when "Future System" imploded, there was a mad rush to get
products back into the 370 pipeline. This contributed to selecting
several of the things that I had been doing for release to customers.
Part of the stuff was dynamic adaptive resource management (dating
back to when I was undergraduate in the 60s) was selected to be a
separate kernel component and the guinea pig for starting to charge
for operating system/kernel software (in large part because of the
rise of clone processors ... which was because of the lack of 370
products during the FS period) ... on the path to charging for all
software ... and then stopping making source code available. some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
...
AMEX is in competition with KKR to do private equity LBO take-over of
RJR. KKR wins, but runs into trouble 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 reorganized into the 13 "baby
blues" in preparation for breaking up the company. The board then
hires the former president of AMEX to resurrect IBM and reverse the
breakup.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
Some of the some techniques used at RJR are then used at IBM:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
The former president of AMEX then leaves IBM and becomes head of
another major private equity company ... which then does a private
equity LBO of the company that employs Snowden. Last decade there is
enormous uptic of outsourcing to for-profit companies ... especially
those under the thumb of private-equity owners with enormous political
clout. Majority of the intelligence budget and over half the people
are now with for-profit companies.
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 ...
comparison of private-equity LBOs to house flipping, except the loan
for the purchase goes on the victim company's books ... and stays
with it even after flipping. They can even sell a victim company for
less than they paid and still walk away with boat loads of
money. Victim companies are under intense pressure to make money to
service the debt and they account for over half corporate defaults
(the companies being paid for security clearances were found to be
doing the paperwork ... but not actually doing the security checking).
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
another ... "OPM Contractor's Parent Firm Has a Troubled History"
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/24/opm-contractor-veritas/
and ... "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/
there was enormous uptic in outsourcing to for-profit companies last
decade, above includes references to some of the events around the
spreading Success Of Failure culture by the for-profit beltway
bandits (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) some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
There has been a lot written about the failure of gov. whistleblower
provisions ... rather than protecting the whistleblowers ... it sets
them up for prosecution. The Success Of Failure scenario has
long time senior people reporting problems to the responsible group in
congress ... and then getting charged under the same statute that was
used to charge Snowden. The whistleblower provisions are for employees
only (not for the exploding number of contractors like Snowden) ...
and it didn't protect them either. Other trivia, in the wake of
the Success Of Failure scandal, congress put the agency on
probation and not allowed to manage its own projects (however, that
may have just been a ploy to further outsource to for-profit
companies). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
More trivia, IC-ARDA (since renamed IARPA) released an unclassified BAA around the first of the century ... that basically said that none of the tools they had did what was needed ... which turns out to correspond to a lot of what was exposed in the later Success Of Failure scandal.
Member: Mainframe Hall of Fame
http://www.Enterprisesystemsmedia.com/mainframe-hall-of-fame
Original Member of Knights of VM
http://mvmua.org/knights.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were lost before they began, not on the battlefields Date: 18 Oct 2015 Blog: FacebookThe wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were lost before they began, not on the battlefields, where the United States won every tactical engagement, but at the strategic level of war.
depends on what is considered "tactical".
loc1577-79:
The Iraqi army's cohesion in the face of a determined offensive by a
small force of irregulars can be measured in hours. When a few hundred
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militiamen attacked Mosul, for
example, the 30,000-man Iraqi army garrison there fled, shedding their
uniforms and equipment as they ran.6
loc1693-95:
The ARVN that the United States created collapsed in 6 weeks, and the
Iraqi Army that the United States created collapsed in 6 hours because
they had neither a national sense of country nor a government--in
Saigon or Baghdad--that its soldiers believed was worth dying for.
loc2127-29:
After 13 years and a trillion dollars spent,22 security is so bad in
the capital city that the flag-furling ceremony for Operation ENDURING
FREEDOM had to be held in secret at an undisclosed location in Kabul
out of concern that the ceremony would be attacked by the Taliban.23
loc2319-21:
In 1993, McNamara addressed the Council on Foreign Relations in New
York. As Bruce Nussbaum notes, McNamara told the audience: he had made
a mistake. The protesters had been right all along. The war was
unwinnable from the start. The domino theory was ridiculous.
Nationalism had been confused with communism. There had never been a
serious threat to U.S. security.75
loc2372-75:
The most outspoken critics of America's military, like Lieutenant
General Herbert McMaster,85 retired Colonel Andrew Bacevich,86 and
former Marine Lieutenant Colonel Frank Hoffman, have criticized the
military establishment, or the officer corps, for not standing up to
civilian leaders, for being too willing to try to get the job done, or
for being, in Hoffman's harsh words, "yes men."
... snip ...
As aside, McNamara was LeMay's staff planning and analyzing the WW2
fire bombing of German and Japanese cities. In the 2003 documentary
The Fog of War, McNamara recalled the firebombing of Tokyo on March 9,
1945:
In that single night, we burned to death a hundred thousand
Japanese civilians in Tokyo--men, women, and children. After the war,
General LeMay said to McNamara: If we'd lost the war we'd all have
been prosecuted as war criminals.
my son-in-law 1st tour was Fallujah 2004-2005 then 2nd tour was
Baqubah 2007-2008, described as worse than Fallujah, in part because
the enemy made use of what they had learned in Fallujah
(administration was claiming that things had got a lot better so
Baqubah didn't get the coverage that Fallujah got)
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Baqubah-Killing-Our-Way-ebook/dp/B007VBBS9I/
loc5243-54:
I was overwhelmed at the amount of destruction that surrounded me. The
sterile yard was about 150 meters wide by about 100 meters deep, and
it was packed full of destroyed vehicles (words can't describe what I
saw)
... and
I saw other Bradleys and M1 Abrams main battle tanks, the pride of the
1st Cavalry Division--vehicles that, if back at Fort Hood, would be
parked meticulously on line, tarps tied tight, gun barrels lined up,
track line spotless, not so much as a drop of oil on the white
cement. What I saw that day was row after row of mangled tan steel as
if in a junkyard that belonged to Satan himself.
... snip ...
Saddam learned from Iraq1 not to be easy targets for US air power
... just melt away. Then 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 Abrams
https://www.amazon.com/Fiasco-American-Military-Adventure-ebook/dp/B004IATD6U/
last decade, cousin of white house chief of staff Card ... was dealing
with the Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence that WMDs had been
decommissioned, provides information to cousin Card, Powell and some
number of others, then gets locked up in military hospital
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 ... that information is classified for decade
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0
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 for buying modern arms from US military-industrial complex).
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
military-industrial complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The Sad Symbolism of Captured U.S. Military Hardware Date: 19 Oct 2015 Blog: FacebookThe Sad Symbolism of Captured U.S. Military Hardware
Why Is the American Military So Bad at Teaching Others How to Fight?
The task goes far beyond what U.S. soldiers are trained to teach.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2015/10/the_american_military_is_bad_at_teaching_others_how_to_fight.html
The Strategic Lessons Unlearned from Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan:
Why the ANSF Will Not Hold, and the Implications for the U.S. Army in
Afghanistan
https://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1269
loc1577-79:
The Iraqi army's cohesion in the face of a determined
offensive by a small force of irregulars can be measured in
hours. When a few hundred Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
militiamen attacked Mosul, for example, the 30,000-man Iraqi army
garrison there fled, shedding their uniforms and equipment as they
ran.6
loc1693-95:
The ARVN that the United States created collapsed in 6
weeks, and the Iraqi Army that the United States created collapsed in
6 hours because they had neither a national sense of country nor a
government--in Saigon or Baghdad--that its soldiers believed was worth
dying for.
... snip ...
military-industrial complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: high level language idea Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 13:35:16 -0700hancock4 writes:
other reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran
watfor/watfiv reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WATFIV
IBM 360 Fortran G ... was the regular compiler, IBM 360 Fortran H was
much larger and high performance/optimizing compiler. 360 Fortran G & H
(& HX) documents
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ibm/360/fortran/
The person that did the 370/145 APL microcode assist at the Palo Alto
Science Center also did internal FortranQ ... which then released as
enhancement to Fortran HX. This has section that discusses some
differences between FORT-H (extended) and FORT-H (aka fortran q,
enhanced) .... also example application count for Fort-G, Fort-H
(extended), and Fort-H (enhnaced)
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~keith/512/2011/Lectures/L02FortranH-1up.pdf
some past posts mention fortran q
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#1 WATFOR's Silver Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#6 a history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#22 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#28 floating point, was history of RPG, Fortran
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#71 Fifty Years of nitpicking definitions, was BASIC,theProgrammingLanguageT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#85 Costs of core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#52 The Stack Depth
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: high level language idea Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:31:49 -0700hancock4 writes:
H-level cost more after IBM started charging software,
23jun1969 unbundling announce ... past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
H&HX did optimization ... see reference comparing extended & enhanced optimization differences ... that reference also has some discussion about improvement in optimization becoming as good as human assembler coding ...
PG 13&24 has comparison of G1, H-extended, H-enhanced efficiency (not exactly the original 360 G&H ... but gets somewhat the idea) gives aggregate operation for plasma physics code (integer, floag, control & others), pg24: G1: 84.125M operations, H-extended 18.575M operations, H-enhanced 12.058M operations.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Marine distress system Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 19:17:38 -0700I was sitting at coffee shop yesterday morning, the next table had four men and one was explaining the marine distress system. A ship signals distress and all ships in the world receive it ... and receivers have limited time interval to respond (cancel or acknowledge), before their system retransmits the signal. He claimed that a sinking ship distress transmission near australia a month ago, is still being retransmitted. He said that it is an ancient MS/DOS based system and almost impossible to change. He said that some ships turn off their receiver because there is also required paper work that has to be filled out for each signal that is received.
this doesn't go into that level of detail ...
Global Maritime Distress and Safety System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Maritime_Distress_Safety_System
digital selective calling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Selective_Calling
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: high level language idea Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 11:20:52 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
however, the company manage to make the case that kernel (operating
system) software should still be free. Somewhat because of the
clone processor makers get market foothold during the FS period
(because of lack of 370 products) ... some past FS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
there is a decision to transition to start charging for (new) kernel
software ... there is period during the late 70s and early 80s, where
parts of kernel were free and other parts were charged for ... you can
see this in the hercules simulator project that has the latest "free"
software. Eventually transition is made to charging for all software
... about the same time as the OCO-wars (object code only ... no longer
shipping source). computerworld article from google books
https://books.google.com/books?id=hSBrPSYgjI4C&pg=PT58&lpg=PT58&dq=oco-wars+ibm&source=bl&ots=yBMaklHV-x&sig=P8_h7-FSQOnbM0-TQO0OzK_UwaM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBWoVChMIuqDXn5nZyAIVxDqICh1zSAWR#v=onepage&q=oco-wars%20ibm&f=false
part of JES2 folklore is that they did all their source maintenance
using vm370/cms (originally cp67/cms) multi-level update infrastructure
... and then had to go thru conversion to the MVS-based system for
release. misc. past posts mentioning HASP, JES2, NJE, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
misc. past posts mentioning OCO-wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#57 IPCS Standard Print Service
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#34 Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#14 SEQUENCE NUMBERS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#15 Data Areas Manuals to be dropped
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#15 Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#6 Open z/Architecture or Not
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#8 Open z/Architecture or Not
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#42 VM/370 Release 6 Waterloo tape (CIA MODS)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#45 dynamic allocation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#72 Linux versioning file system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#0 Timeline: The evolution of online communities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#20 If you don't have access to a mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#48 Timeline: 40 Years Of Unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#7 The 50th Anniversary of the Legendary IBM 1401
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#49 "Portable" data centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#17 Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#19 Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#20 Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#22 Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#30 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#65 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#67 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#1 Honoree pedigrees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#15 Age
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#30 Philosophy: curiousity question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#87 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#56 The real cost of outsourcing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#75 pdp8 to PC- have we lost our way?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#7 Do you remember back to June 23, 1969 when IBM unbundled
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#17 Got to remembering... the really old geeks (like me) cut their teeth on Unit Record
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#33 Data Areas?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#58 An approach to Dump formatting of Control Blocks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#20 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#30 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#31 How smart do you need to be to be really good with Assembler?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#79 Slackware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#62 Any cool anecdotes IBM 40yrs of VM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#63 Is it possible to hack mainframe system??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#26 New HD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#66 model numbers; was re: World's worst programming environment?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#55 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made 30 years ago today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#45 the nonsuckage of source, was MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#19 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#5 "F[R]eebie" software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#35 BBC News - Microsoft fixes '19-year-old' bug with emergency patch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#84 a bit of hope? What was old is new again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#85 a bit of hope? What was old is new again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#19 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#14 3033 & 3081 question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#48 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#59 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#32 (External):Re: IBM
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: high level language idea Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 08:30:09 -0700hancock4 writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: high level language idea Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:11:49 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
another side-effect ... over time, PTFs could significantly degrade the performance of my system.
When I did sysgen, I tore apart sysgen2 output of sysgen1 and re-organized lots of the sequence to carefully place files and PDS library members on disk to optimize arm seek motion (& PDS multi-track search member lookup) ... which got nearly 3 times throughput improvement on fortgclg student jobs.
PTFs would typically "replace" one or more PDS library members. "Replace" is something of misnomer ... it would insert new member at the end of the library and null out the member being replaced ... destroying careful physical ordering on disk. After six months of PTFs, my carefully generated system could loose half or more of the performance optimization (enough PTFs might also use up max. space that had been pre-allocated for PDS library file).
old post with part of 60s SHARE presentation I made on system
optimization that I did as undergraduate. Most of it is about
significant rewrites of (virtual machine) cp67 system code to
cut simulation pathlengths ... benchmarking os/360 fortgclg
in virtual machine. Part of the post also discusses the
optimizations that I did for os/360.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#18 CP/67 & OS MFT14
recent posts mentioning fortran
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#21 the legacy of Seymour Cray
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#35 high level language idea
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: high level language idea Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 08:04:38 -0700Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
started with re-arrainging cards in a card tray ... stage2 was over thousand cards ... mostly based on my understanding of os/360 internals. then got a load trace ... for PDS library member names ... and reorganizing cards got more sophisticated.
a decade later ... at SJR ... did modification of VM370 to collect arm movement data ... both VM370 operations and activity of virtual machines. It was initially used in cache simulator ... looking at types of caching and caching strategies. One of the things it showed that most efficient use of fixed amount of electronic cache was global cache rather than partitioned into controller or device level caches.
The work also found that emerging cache technology started to take care of highest use common system data ... and physical location clustering started to focus on collections of application data that tended to be used together in bursty sequences ... as in daily, weekly, monthly intervals. Also highlighted differentiating between high re-use data patterns and purely sequential use data patterns where caching provided little benefit (and caching sequential use data could degrade throughput by replacing repeated high-use data).
There was work on doing efficient real-time reduction of the data ... so it might be used by systems for allocation strategies as well as supporting dynamic moving data for better throughput.
about the same time there was a different internally developed program MDREORG that relied on standard VM370 PER collected information. It was used by (internal) installations moving from 3330&3350 to 3380 configurations. It would define load balancing across 3380 drives and ordering within 3380 drives to optimize throughput. One of the things it showed, if you completely filled a fewer number of 3380 drives from 3350 drive configuration, there would be worse performance. The throughput break-even was filling 3380 drive 80% full of data from 3350 configuration (which was still cheaper than 3350 configuration). For better performance needed to have 3380 at less than 80% full of data from 3350 configuration (and leaving the rest of the space empty or using for very infrequently used data).
semi-related ... posts mentioning getting to play disk engineer
in bldgs. 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
and posts mentioning multi-track search/CKD versus fixed-block/FBA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
some past refs about using monitoring/trace information for improving
throughput
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#35 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#3 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#65 Crippleware: hardware examples
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#18 How to analyze a volume's access by dataset
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#70 Speed of Old Hard Disks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#71 Speed of Old Hard Disks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#47 nested LRU schemes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#11 relative mainframe speeds, was What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
semi-related, ... late 70s & early 80s, I was making comments that relative system throughput of disks was significantly declining ... by the early 80s, the relative system throughput of disks were an order of magnitude less than the mid/late 60s (when I was doing the careful os/360 sysgens) ... aka processors got 40-50 times faster, disks got 3-5 times faster.
at one point, disk division executives took exception to the statements
and assigned the division performance organization to refute them. After
several weeks, the came back and effectively said that I had slightly
understated the problem. They then respin it into SHARE presentation
on how to configure disks for improving throughput. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#18 AS/400 and MVS - clarification please
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#46 AS/400 and MVS - clarification please
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?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#5 Poster of computer hardware events?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#9 Poster of computer hardware events?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#88 CPU time differences for the same job
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#71 308x Processors - was "Mainframe articles"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#7 My Vintage Dream PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#34 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#52 Hercules; more information requested
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#67 ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#1 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#70 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#31 Wax ON Wax OFF -- Tuning VSAM considerations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#32 OS idling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#33 History of Hard-coded Offsets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#18 Mainframe Slang terms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#30 IBM Historic computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#35 CKD DASD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#61 Speed of Old Hard Disks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#1 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#59 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#5 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#32 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#73 Tape vs DASD - Speed/time/CPU utilization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#39 A bit of IBM System 360 nostalgia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#62 ISO documentation of IBM 3375, 3380 and 3390 track format
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#72 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made 30 years agotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#49 Mac at 30: A love/hate relationship from the support front
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#90 What's the difference between doing performance in a mainframe environment versus doing in others
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#87 Death of spinning disk?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#0 Miniskirts and mainframes
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Relational Databases Lack Relationships Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:47:56 -0700Eric <eric@deptj.eu> writes:
they were somewhat competing with IMS for efficient financial transactions (as early adopter) and table optimization allowed single record to be fetched using account number index, that contained all the fields for performing financial transactions.
The IMS group still criticized the implementation as requiring twice the disk space (for the table index) as IMS with its direct record pointers ... and 4-5 the disk I/Os (doing index lookup). The counter was that IMS required significant manual maintenance to go through and update all the exposed record pointers anytime there was even trivial, minor change in layout. To some extent the trade-offs inverted in the 80s when cost of disk space enormously dropped and size of memories significantly increased ... allowing significant amount of index caching (reducing physical disk i/os). One of the original customer joint studies/pilots was with large financial institution.
The next generation "official" DBMS was called EAGLE. With the corporation preoccupied with EAGLE, we were able to do technology transfer to Endicott and get it released as SQL/DS. Later when EAGLE implodes, they ask how long could it would take to make it availble ... which is eventually released as DB2.
At the same time, I got sucked into doing another implementation that directly instantiated all relationships (done fpr internal chip design tools group) ... every field effectively became separate indexed record and every relationship became separate indexed record. It could require 7-10 times the disk space as the original sql/implementation and significant more disk i/os (access index for a field, then read the field, then access the indexes for all its possible relationships, read the relationships, and then access all the indexes for each field for each relationship and then read all those fields.)
For really large amounts of complex data ... there was cross-over where table joins became more expensive/overhead than directly instantiating all fields and relationships (with forest of indexes)
past posts mentioning original sql/relationship
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Are we just running in place? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 12:21:30 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
OS/2 was lighter weight ... but by that time the machines were larger and more powerful than peachtree (used in series/1).
In 60s as undergraduate, I had done dynamic adaptive resource management for (virtual machine) cp67 ... which was picked up and shipped in standard product. In the (simplification) morph from cp67 to vm370 ... almost all of my changes were dropped (as well as other stuff).
After graduation, I had gone to IBM cambridge science center and
continued to work on cp67 and then ported bunch of stuff to vm370
(all through the Future System period, even periodically ridiculing
FS activity). some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
FS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
charlie had invented compare&swap (name chosen because "CAS" are his initials) instruction when he was doing fine-grain multiprocessing cp67 locking. the attempt to include compare&swap instruction in 370 was initially rebuffed (the POK favorite son operating system people said that test&set instruction was more than satisfactory). The 370 architecture owners said that to justify compare&swap for 370, we would have to come up with uses other than kernel multiprocessor support. Thus was born the high-performance application multithreaded (multiprogramming) uses (whether running on multiprocessor or not), examples continue to appear in appendix of principles of operation (so useful, compare&swap or similar semantics started to appear in other platforms for high-performance DBMS multithreading).
some compare&swap and/or SMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
with the failure of FS, there was mad rush to get stuff back into the
370 product pipeline ... which contributed to including a lot of stuff I
had been working on in customer releases. Some of it went into the next
"free" vm370 release ("3"). A bunch of stuff was decided to be the
guinea pig for starting to charge for kernel software ... a lot of
resource management
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
and bunch of paging infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#clock
as the "Resource Manager". However, it included a bunch of stuff done for structuring kernel for multiprocessor support (w/o actual turning on multiprocessor support).
Then for vm370 release 4, it was decided to ship multiprocessor support. At the time, the guidelines for kernel software charging was that "old" software was still free, and software directly in hardware support had to be free (charged-for kernel software was "add-on"). The problem was that nearly 90% of the lines-of-code in the charged-for resource manager was required for multiprocessor support. For vm370 release 4 multiprocessor support, a little slight of hand magically moved nearly 90% of the resource manager into the "free" software base ... while not changing the price of the charged-for resource manager.
Sometime later ... the OS/2 development people contact vm370 group about
how to do resource management. They forward the request to me ... old
email:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#email871124
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#email871204
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#email871204b
reference to boca decided to not use the much superior cp/86 ... but
decided instead to start to use their own OS/2 project
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#46 pc/370
cp/86 originally started out as the software running on the PC processor to handle service requests from modified VM370 running on the (68k implemented) 370 processor.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: rationality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2015 13:59:43 -0800"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
from above:
Against this backdrop, Lehman turned to Repo 105 transactions to
temporarily remove $50 billion of assets from its balance sheet at
first and second quarter ends in 2008 so that it could report
significantly lower net leverage numbers than reality.
... snip ...
Four largest TBTF "banks" still carrying $5.2T "off-book" end of 2008
... over 100 times that of Lehman ... allowed to play by different
rules
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
posts mentioning too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to
jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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
Later a son, presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than S&L crisis. In the S&L crisis there were 30,000 criminal referrals and 1,000 criminal convictions ... there have been *ZERO* criminal referrals/convictions for the economic mess (proportionally, there should have been 70,000 criminal convictions). If the economic mess had been limited to 1/100th as big, it would have only been slightly over half the problem of the S&L crisis.
other ...
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
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
posts mentioning (triple-A rated) toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
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/
Disclaimer: Jan2009 I was asked to HTML'ize the Pecora hearings (30s
senate hearings into crash of '29) with lots of internal hrefs and URLs
between what happened then and what happened this time (comments that
the new congress might have appetite to do 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 DC). Loans and
mortgages were being laundered through wallstreet as triple-A rated,
securitized instruments largely using real estate market for the
speculation bubble scam. The crash of '29 used the stock market for the
speculation bubble scam (from Pecora testimony):
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 Hearings &/or Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
While the TARP funds was facade that they were to be used to buy off-book toxic assets ... with only $700B, they could have barely made a dent in the problem
The FEDs fought long, hard, legal battle to prevent public disclosure of what they were doing behind the scenes ... tens of trillions in ZIRP funds (claims that TBTF have been making $300B/annum off ZIRP funds) and buying trillions in offbook toxic assets at 98cents on the dollar. After loosing the legal battle, Bernanke has press conference where he said that he had expected the TBTF to use the ZIRP funds to aid mainstreet, but when they didn't he had no way to force them (but that didn't stop the 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 should have been *NO* expectation that they would behave differently this time.
posts mentioning Bernanke (and/or other Fed. chairman)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#bernanke
By comparison, TBTF have been fined a total of $300B in "deferred prosecution" since the economic mess (not limited to the economic mess illegal activity, but also manipulating LIBOR, Forex, and other commodities, money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists, ROBO-signing mills for fabricating documents for illegal foreclosures, etc). The joke is that the $300B in fines is so small compared to the illegal profits that it is just viewed as cost of TBTF doing illegal business (especially with no threat of jail time).
posts mentioning LIBOR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
recent posts mentioning "deferred prosecution":
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#80 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#23 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#44 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#47 Do we REALLY NEED all this regulatory oversight?
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#57 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#61 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#31 Talk of Criminally Prosecuting Corporations Up, Actual Prosecutions Down
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: rationality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 10:43:26 -0800Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> writes:
rhetoric on the floor of congress (initially) was that the purpose of
GLBA was to prevent new banking competition (especially competitors with
new technology that would make banking significantly more efficient and
competitive) ... if you already have banking charter, you get to keep
it, if you don't already have a banking charter you can't get one. They
then start adding other favors ... repeal of Glass-Steagall and
"opt-out" personal information sharing. Folklore is that president
initially was going to veto GLBA ... which passes pretty much along
party lines (54-44), then they go back and bring the other party on
board and it passes with veto proof 90-8 and the president signs it. It
was supposedly explained to him that wallstreet had lobbied the majority
party in congress to the tune of $125M, but had also lobbied his party
in congress to the tune of $115M (and congress "owed" it to wallstreet).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93Bliley_Act
President of AMEX is in competition to be next CEO and wins. The looser
takes their protege and leaves, going to Baltimore and takes over what
is described as a loan sharking business, They then make several other
acquisitions, eventually acquiring CITIBANK in violation of
Glass-Steagall, Greenspan gives them an exemption while they lobby
congress for repeal of Glass-Steagall (enabling too big to fail). They
enlist several others ... including Gramm, #2 on times list responsible
for the economic mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
and secretary of treasury (and former chairman of Goldman Sachs). Once GLBA is on its way to final vote, the secretary of treasury resigns and joins Citigroup as what was described at the time as co-CEO. The protege leaves and becomes chairman of JPMorgan/Chase
glass-steagall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
Greenspan & other Fed Chairman posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#greenspan
#3 on times list responsibile for economic mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877331,00.html
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Gramm and his wife also responsible for CFTC modernization act preventing regulation of over the counter derivatives ... originally described as gift to ENRON
The head of CFTC proposes regulating derivatives and is quickly replaced
with Gramm's wife while he gets provision added that prevents the
regulation. She then resigns and joins ENRON board and on the financial
audit committee. ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
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
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 (over the counter derivative) 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 (also a former chairman of Goldman Sachs) 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.
In the wake of ENRON, congress passes Sarbanes-Oxley claiming that it
would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee that executives and auditors
responsible for fraudulent financial filings, do jail time. however it
requires SEC to do something. Possibly because even GAO doesn't believe
SEC is doing anything, it starts doing reports of fraudulent financial
filings, even showing uptic after Sarbanes-Oxley goes into effect (and
nobody doing jailtime). Less well known, SOX also has provision for SEC
to do something about rating agencies (played the pivotal role in the
economic mess). #4 on times list of those responsible for economic mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
Sarbanes-Oxley posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
fraudulent financial filing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
and of course, in the congressional Madoff hearings, they had the
person that tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do
something about Madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
other trivia, AMEX was in competition with KKR for private equity LBO of
RJR. KKR won, but when they ran into trouble, they hired president of
AMEX away to turn it around
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
Then the IBM board hires former president of AMEX to resurrect the
company and reverse the breakup, using some of the same techniques used
at RJR:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
The former president of AMEX leaves IBM and becomes head of another large private equity company ... which among other things does take-over of company that will employee Snowden.
Gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
private-equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
In the early 90s (about the time IBM is going into the red), AMEX does spin-off of much of its dataprocessing (mostly mainframes) in what was the largest IPO up until that time, as First Data. 15yrs later KKR does a private-equity take-over of First Data in what was described as the largest LBO up until that time (or 2nd largest, depending on how you date the take-over). Recently KKR does (re-)IPO of First Data.
Private-equity take-overs have been described similar to house flipping,
except the loan to buy the company goes on the company's books and goes
with the company when it is sold (it is even possible to sell a company
for less than they paid and still walk away with boat loads of money).
Also, the companies are under intense pressure to service the debt load
and over half of "corporate defaults have been companies either owned at
one time or still owned by private equity firms"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
in the LBO, First Data went from $2B debt load to more than $22B debt
load.
http://digitaltransactions.net/news/story/Strategies_-First-Data-After-the-LBO
First Data Prices Its IPO At $16 Per Share, Raising $2.56 Billion
http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/14/first-data-prices-its-ipo-at-16-per-share-raising-2-56-billion/
The company has slowly expanding revenues, and steep debt. At current tip, the company has an unadjusted total load of $21.16 billion. First Data will be using the $2.56 billion proceeds from the initial public offering to pay down some of its long-term debt.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: rationality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 10:46:26 -0800jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: rationality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 11:10:06 -0800Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
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 (and other FED chairman) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#bernanke
TBTF (too big to prosecute, too big to jail) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Lehman Fraudulently Cooked Its Books, Accounting Giant Ernst & Young
Helped, Geithner and Bernanke Winked and Slapped Them on the Back
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/lehman-fraudulently-cooked-its-books-accounting-giant-ernst-young-helped-geithner-and-bernanke-winked-and-slapped-them-on-the-back.html
Against this backdrop, Lehman turned to Repo 105 transactions to
temporarily remove $50 billion of assets from its balance sheet at first
and second quarter ends in 2008 so that it could report significantly
lower net leverage numbers than reality.
....
Four largest TBTF "banks" still carrying $5.2T "off-book" end of 2008
... over 100 times that of Lehman ... allowed to play by different rules
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
Repeal of Glass-Steagall allowed regulated depository institutions to combine with other institutions where they winked at extremely risky & questionable behavior. That significantly increased the size of institutions as well as put the depository institutions at risk of behavior of these other operations.
glass-steagall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
The result was not only the rise of too big to fail ... but eventually expanded into too big to prosecute and too big to jail. They effectively felt they could engage of all sorts of illegal activity with impunity ... with only penalty is relatively small fines and "deferred prosecution" ... so far a total of $300B in fines which is relatively minor compared to the size of their illegal profits.
Trivia: The original purpose of GLBA (now better known for repeal of Glass-Steagall) was to prevent other institutions from getting banking charters. As part of the FED ZIRP fund bailout, they were giving banking charters to some of the large risky investment institutions (which should have been violation of GLBA) that didn't already have one ... making them eligigble for ZIRP funds.
recent posts mentioning "deferred prosecution":
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#80 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#23 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#44 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#47 Do we REALLY NEED all this regulatory oversight?
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#57 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#61 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#31 Talk of Criminally Prosecuting Corporations Up, Actual Prosecutions Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#44 rationality
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#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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#49 seveneves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#50 seveneves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#56 The long, slow death of the rule of law in America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#57 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#65 Michael Hudson's New Book: Wall Street Parasites Have Devoured Their Hosts -- Your Retirement Plan and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#70 AIG freezes defined-benefit pension plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#81 Now the DOJ Admits They Got it Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#86 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#19 Bernanke: Some Wall Street executives should've gone to jail over financial crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#25 Hillary Clinton's Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#44 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#46 rationality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Protecting Social Security from the Thieves in the Night Date: 02 Nov 2015 Blog: FacebookProtecting Social Security from the Thieves in the Night
2010 CBO report that after congress allows PAYGO to expire in 2002
(spending can't exceed revenue, had all federal debt payed off by
2010)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAYGO
then tax revenue was cut by $6T and spending increased by $6T for $12T budget gap (compared to PAYGO financial responsible baseline budget). By the middle of last decade, comptroller general was including in speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle school arithmetic for how badly they were savaging the budget.
financial responsibility act:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
Joke is that congress is the most corrupt institution on earth, selling trillions in tax loopholes for billions. Debt now has exploded to over $18T ... with nearly half trillion in debt payments ... most of that is TBTF using ZIRP funds (from federal reserve) getting around $300B/annum; $2.8T from the SS Trust Fund, over a trillion each to China and Japan ... and a few others. Eliminating many of the tax loopholes from after PAYGO expires gets trillion/annum to balance the budget (but then congress is out the billions in graft and corruption). However they need additional trillion/year in tax revenue, half trillion for the debt payments and paying off the debt at half trillion/annum (would take 36years).
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Baby boomer (bubble) generation is four times as large as the previous generation and twice as large as the following generation. As long as baby boomers are working, there was more money going into the SS Trust Fund than being paid out in benefits (building reserve for baby boomers' retirement). However, congress has been "borrowing" the money in SS Trust Fund to pay for other things. As baby boomers retire ... the amount paid into the SS Trust Fund will significantly drop and benefits significantly increase. This will require that congress raise taxes on the following generation to pay back the amount that has been looted from the trust fund ... in order to pay back the missing money (currently $2.8T) from the trust fund. The betting is that congress will radically reduce or eliminate SS benefits instead ... so that the missing money won't have to be replaced (via increased taxes on the following generation, increasingly being spun as old people taking from the young ... when it is actually having the young replace the congressional financial manipulation).
Congress has also been looting infrastructure maintenance & upkeep to pay for other things .... claims another $2T in deferred infrastructure spending ... which will also require increasing taxes on the following generation to cover that deficit.
There is $1T/annum short fall via tax loopholes after PAYGO expires. There is also nearly $1T/annum to clear the deficit mostly created after PAYGO expires. There is nearly another $1T/annum to cover things like SS Trust Fund, deferred infrastructure spending, and other things. That is nearly $3T/annum in taxes just to fix the congressional financial manipulation that has been going on. The 2014 federal budget was $3T, so that requires $6T in taxes, half to cover balanced federal spending and half to cover past congressional financial manipulation.
Trivia: The congressional party in power during the 90s played major
role in PAYGO and balanced budget. Last decade it was a completely
different party, however with the same name that allowed PAYGO to
expire, responsible for the enormous graft & corruption in tax
loopholes and huge deficit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAYGO
The party with that name was also responsible for Medicare Part-D (billed as enormous gift to drug industry)... the first major legislation after PAYGO is allowed to expire. CBS 60mins does expose of the 18 members of the party (staffers and member of congress responsible for getting it passed). After it passes, all 18 have resigned and on drug industry payroll.
medicare part-d posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#medicare.part-d
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). He was also claiming that part-d comes to be a long-term $40T item, totally swamping all other budget items.
comptroller general post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
Since turn of century, local Washington DC news will periodically refer to congress as Kabuki Theater (term will sometimes even leak into national news) ... that what is seen publicly has little to do with what is really going on (apparent conflict between the parties is distraction for the public) ... speculation is whether there is actually more than or or two honest members in congress.
kabuki theater posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: rationality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 12:21:59 -0800"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
Why The Consumer Price Index Is Controversial
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/consumerpriceindex.asp
Lies, Damned Lies, & Inflation Statistics
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-19/lies-damned-lies-inflation-statistics
• Ground Beef - 10.1%
• Roast Beef - 11.8%
• Steak - 11.1%
• Eggs - 21.8%
• Chicken - 3.7%
• Coffee - 3.4%
• Sugar - 4.2%
• Candy - 4.6%
• Snacks - 3.5%
• Salt & Seasonings - 5.3%
• Food Away From Home - 3.0%
... and ...
There is so much wrong with the BLS data, I don't know where to
start. The rental market has been on fire since 2012. Builders are
erecting apartments at a breakneck pace. Independent, non-captured,
neutral real estate organizations show rents surging to all time highs,
growing by 5.1% on an annual basis. Real rents in the real world have
grown by 14% since 2012. The BLS says they've grown by 9%. Who do you
believe?
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: rationality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 12:46:07 -0800Bloomberg just broadcast interview with (nobel winner) Stiglitz saying ZIRP funds haven't helped the economy ... that the real problem is that workers wages/income isn't going up ... so people don't have the money to spend ... and w/o public spending money the economy is were it is
this goes along with this past article about inequality significantly
rising since 1980 ... productivity increasing ... but worker
compensation remained flat (effectively the difference going into pocket
of .1%)
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic.html
from this article
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/jobs-will-follow-a-strengthening-of-the-middle-class.html
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
part of it is periodic observation that ratio of top executive compensation has exploded to 400:1, after having been 20:1 and 10:1 in most of the rest of the world
poster child
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/25/ceo-pay-america-up-average-employees-salary-down
had been protege of person competing for next CEO of amex ... when that person looses to the president of amex, they go to baltimore taking over what is described as loan sharking business. they then make some number of other acquisititions, eventually acquiring citibank in violoation of glass-steagall. Greenspan gives them an exemption while they lobby congress for repeal.
glass-steagall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
president of amex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
past posts mentioning Stiglitz
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#7 Are Ctibank's services and products so vital to global economy than no other banks can substitute it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#9 HSBC is expected to announce a profit, which is good, what did they do differently?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#16 The Formula That Killed Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#30 I need insight on the Stock Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#64 Should AIG executives be allowed to keep the bonuses they were contractually obligated to be paid?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#73 Should Glass-Steagall be reinstated?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#77 Who first mentioned Credit Crunch?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#31 What is the real basis for business mess we are facing today?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#35 US banking Changes- TARP Proposl
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#38 On whom or what would you place the blame for the sub-prime crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#8 The True Cost of 9/11 -- Includes 18 Veteran Suicides a Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#17 Washington's Cult of Continuous Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#34 Scotland, was Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#62 The true cost of 9/11: Trillions and trillions wasted on wars, a fiscal catastrophe, and a weaker America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#66 Predator GE: We Bring Bad Things to Life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#75 Fed Report: Mortgage Mess NOT an Inside Job
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#77 Vampire Squid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#84 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#88 Defense acquisitions are broken and no one cares
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#91 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#7 Adult Supervision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#14 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#80 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#1 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#3 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#10 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#19 SnOODAn: Boyd, Snowden, and Resilience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#21 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#36 Race Against the Machine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#38 Four Signs Your Awesome Investment May Actually Be A Ponzi Scheme
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#39 History--punched card transmission over telegraph lines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#40 Core characteristics of resilience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#87 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#7 More Evidence Wall Street is Overpaid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#10 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#13 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#53 CALCULATORS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#71 Is orientation always because what has been observed? What are your 'direct' experiences?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#64 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#13 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#3 Three Expensive Milliseconds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#37 Income Inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#39 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#17 Cromnibus cartoon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#14 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: rationality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 13:25:13 -0800Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
The disappearing middle class is threatening major retailers
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-disappearing-middle-class-is-threatening-major-retailers-2015-10
The Mystery of the Vanishing Pay Raise
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/sunday-review/the-mystery-of-the-vanishing-pay-raise.html?_r=0
posts mentioning inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
and ...
Wall Street Financial Engineering At Work---How Valeant Got Vaporized
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/wall-street-financial-engineering-a-work-how-valeant-got-vaporized/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: rationality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 18:07:35 -0800re:
and some more ...
5 Charts That Show How the Middle Class Is Disappearing
http://billmoyers.com/2015/01/26/middle-class/
Middle-Class Betrayal? Why Working Hard Is No Longer Enough in America
http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/in-plain-sight/middle-class-betrayal-why-working-hard-no-longer-enough-america-n291741
Disappearing middle class jobs
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2015/03/08/247-wall-st-disappearing-middle-class-jobs/24512843/
10 Disappearing Middle Class Jobs - 24/7 Wall St.
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2015/03/06/10-disappearing-middle-class-jobs/
Middle-class neighborhoods: They're disappearing.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/03/24/middle_class_neighborhoods_they_re_disappearing.html
Who Are the Middle Class, and Are They Disappearing?
http://www.cheatsheet.com/politics/who-makes-up-the-middle-class-and-are-they-here-to-stay.html/?a=viewall
Disappearing Middle Class
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/disappearing-middle-class/
America's disappearing middle class
http://economy.money.cnn.com/2014/01/28/middle-class/
Middle Class in America: Is it Disappearing?
http://fortune.com/2015/10/15/middle-class-income/
Here's where middle-class jobs are vanishing the fastest
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/08/27/heres-where-middle-class-jobs-are-vanishing-the-fastest/
The Disappearing Middle Class :: The Market Oracle :: Financial
Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article52253.html
How screwed is America's middle class, anyway?
http://fortune.com/2015/10/15/middle-class-income/
The Middle Class Is Still Disappearing Despite The Recovery
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/11/18/2961231/middle-class-disappearing-recovery/
Bill Maher's excellent commentary on America's disappearing middle
class
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/05/1289834/-Bill-Maher-s-excellent-commentary-on-America-s-disappearing-middle-class
Income Inequality Is Ravaging America's Middle Class
http://economyincrisis.org/content/income-inequality-is-ravaging-americas-middle-class
U.S. Middle Class `Absolutely Disappearing': Parker
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/6d9fcb42-3ed3-4816-b329-b8891ead5736
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: rationality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 09:09:44 -0800"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDOs posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
posts mentioning LIBOR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
money laundering posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
tax evasion posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
a couple past posts mentioning payday lenders:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#19 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#37 Sale receipt--obligatory?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: rationality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:49:30 -0800Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
Some in congress will propose all sorts of alternatives ... so that the missing money won't have to be replaced (via increased taxes on the following generation, increasingly being spun as old people taking from the young ... when it is actually having the young replace the congressional financial manipulation). There is actually two parts, increased new taxes: 1) replace the funds looted from the Trust Fund to cover the baby boomer benefits 2) pay for spending that had previously been covered by looting the Trust Fund.
This has (mythical) Trust Fund good until 2034 ... but that is based on
the $2.8T actually exists somewhere ... as opposed to have to be raised
by increasing taxes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Trust_Fund
Looking at it from different point of view, throwing paygo under the bus
in 2002 allowed $6T reduction in tax revenue and $6T increase in
spending (CBO report 2003-2009; total Federal debt has now exploded to
$18T with interest pushing half trillion) ... and the economic mess with
over $27T in securitized loans (because of lack of regulation) can be
viewed as somewhat independent activity (happening concurrently)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAYGO
fiscal responsibility act posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
Need to cut spending by around $1T/annum and eliminate the tax loopholes sold to wealthy and corporations increasing taxes by $1T/annum ... returning to PAYGO fiscal responsible balance budget (before congress dropped PAYGO and went crazy selling tax loopholes and increasing spending in 2002). However, it also needs increasing taxes by approx. another $.5T/annum to cover the debt interest payments and increasing taxes by approx $.5T/annum for paying off the exploded debt (@$.5T/annum take 36yrs to clear). Total increase in taxes then is $2T/year (combination of eliminating the tax loopholes sold to wealthy and corporations, paying off tax debt created after dropping PAYGO, and interest payments on the tax debt).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: rationality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 07:46:25 -0800Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
the majority party in congress in the 90s was major factor behind PAYGO ... then a completely different party using the same name in 2002 threw PAYGO under the bus and savaged the budget.
fiscal responsibility act posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: rationality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:53:37 -0800Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> writes:
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
some toxic CDO posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
earlier, #2 on times list of those responsible for economic mess, GLBA, repeal
glass-steagall, etc.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
head of CFTC proposes regulating CDS gambling bets, is quickly replaced
with "#2's" wife while "#2" gets law passed preventing regulating CDS
gambling bets (originally called gift to ENRON), wife then resigns and
joins ENRON's board and member of financial audit committee, some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
glass-steagall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
repeal enables too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to
jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
If triple-A rated toxic CDOs weren't bad enough, they then start creating 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, which also happened to be one of the major commodity speculators referenced by griftopia).
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Gene Amhdahl Dies at 92 Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 12 Nov 2015 18:55:43 -0800starsoul@MINDSPRING.COM (Lizette Koehler) writes:
ACS was shutdown after ibm management decided it would advance state of the art too fast and they could loose control of the market. Talks about ACS features that finally show up in ES/9000 more than two decades later. Also references multithreading patents. I had gotten sucked into a project that was looking at multithreading 370/195 ... which never shipped.
Early 70s, there was FS project that was completely different than
360&370 and was going to completely replace 360/370 ... and internal
politics was shutting down 370 efforts. Lack of 370 products during this
period is credited with giving clone processors market foothold.
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
some past FS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 20:06:26 -0800Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
There was also 801/risc ROMP chip that was going to be used for
follow-on to displaywriter ... and the project was canceled. They then
looked around and decided to retarget it to the unix workstation market
... which required some changes to the chip. They then hire the company
that had done the AT&T unix port for PC/IX ... to do one for ROMP ...
which is announced as AIX as PC/RT. RIOS chipset was then done for
follow-on to PC/RT as RS/6000. Part of 801/risc was no provision for
cache consistency ... typical related for multiprocessor operation.
RS/6000 was large power hungry five chip set. some poast 801, risc,
iliad, romp, rios, power/pc, etc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
A joint effort with Motorola & Apple was created to do single chip
801/risc, that also supported cache consistency ... sort of using
motorola 88k cache consistency technology. The executive we reported
directly on our HA/CMP product, then went over to head up this new
organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM_alliance
Rochester was involved with 64-bit version ... to finally move to
801/risc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_600#PowerPC_630
... a decade after the earlier effort failed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i
with
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RS64#Cobra_and_Muskie
above mentions IBM SP ... we were doing cluster scale-up as part
of ha/cmp ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
some old email ... both commercial and numerica/scientifc scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
discussion in Ellison conference room Jan1992 on HA/CMP (commercial)
scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
over the next couple weeks, scale-up was transferred, announced as supercomputer and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors.
press
17Feb1992 article cluster scale-up announced for " scientific and
technical ONLY " (part of the issue was mainframe DB2 people
complained if I was allowed to go ahead with the RDBMS stuff, it would
be at least five years ahead of what they were doing).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
11May1992 article that national lab interest caught IBM by "surprise"
(even though I had been working with them off & on ... going back to
late 70s where they were looking at large computer cluster farm of
4341s)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 22:44:32 -0800Mike Hore <mike_horeREM@OVE.invalid.aapt.net.au> writes:
some more future system here
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
much of single-level store came from tss/360 (with some academic literature from the period).
tss/360 had performance issue that things page faulted single 4k block at a time and application was disable/non-runnable during the page fault.
at the univ. we got to work with tss/360 and cp/67 both on univ. 360/67 on weekends. spring of 1968 ... the IBM SE working with tss/360 and I (working with cp/67) did interactive fortran edit, compile and execute benchmark ... tss/360 running four simulated users had worse throughput and interactive response than cp67/cms did with 35 users.
I continued to work on 360 (& then 370) stuff all during the FS period,
even periodically ridiculing their activities. One of the things I did
was paged mapped filesystem for CMS ... which I've characterized as
having learned all the things not to do from tss/360. I got something
like three times the throughput on moderate file i/o intensive
benchmarks than the standard CMS filesystem. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
Throughput issue with TSS/360-like synchronous page fault wasn't a problem in the S/38 (low-end) market. Also S/38 has been characterized as simplifying things compared to FS ... one of the things it did was scatter block allocate across all connected disk drives. As a result the complete filesystem had to be backed up as single entity ... and any single disk failure ... required the whole system to be restored as integral operation.
One of the people that I got to work with when playing disk engineer in
bldg 14&15, got the original disk raid patent in the 70s. some past
posts playing disk engineer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
because single disk failure was so traumatic for s/38, it became one of
the first products that shipped raid support.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
was back in bay area last weekend and went by the old plant site, bldg14 was one of the only bldgs from that era still standing ... rest is strip mall and apartments.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: rationality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:32:43 -0800"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
but relatively ineffective against IEDs ... coveted were MRAP vehicles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRAP
the Iraq war is poster child for gov. run amok ,,, from recent discussion in military group
8 Of The Worst Military Leaders In History
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/8-of-the-worst-militaryleaders-in-history.html
The other factor is you get no-bid contracts outsourced to certain for-profit companies (made in response to Rumsfield quote: "You go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want")
chief of staff replaces CIA director that would go along with Team B
analysis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
chief of staff (74-75) then becomes SECDEF 75-77, and then SECDEF again
2001-2006
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld
when chief of staff becomes SECDEF, is replaced by assistant, assistant
then is SECDEF 89-93 and VP 2001-2009
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney
another "Team B"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz
team b posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
Iraq justification supposedly based on WMDs
last decade, cousin of white house chief of staff Card ... was dealing
with the Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence that WMDs had been
decommissioned, provides informatoin to cousin Card, Powell and 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 find the decommissioned WMDs tracing back to US in the 80s
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
... but it gets classified for a decade.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?_r=0
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/
there was recent article about paid tens of billions including how the company got paid for each convoy that went out ... and they were sending out empty convoys and convoys sent out with little or no escort through hostile country. search: cheney halliburton criminal
vp in the 80s (and former cia director that approved "team b" analysis)
claims he knew nothing 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
Later a son, presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than S&L crisis. relatively minor contribution
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
mentions process to preserve F22 program no matter how bad, even making
things worse
http://nypost.com/2009/07/17/cant-fly-wont-die/
then F22 was replaced with larger & more profitable F35 program ... continuing same process.
posts mentioning military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Compiler Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 13 Nov 2015 11:03:22 -08000000000433f07816-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.UA.EDU (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
One of the issues is C language has some ill defined & ambiguous features that inhibits better optimization (that is possible in some better defined languages).
minor reference (not only optimization issues but also bugs)
http://www.ghs.com/products/misrac.html
This flexibility comes at a cost however. Ambiguities in the C language,
along with certain syntaxes, consistently trip up even the best
programmers and result in bugs. For software developers, this means a
large amount of unexpected time spent finding bugs. For managers, this
often means the single largest risk to their project.
... snip ...
The original mainframe TCP/IP product was done in pascal/vs ... and didn't have many of the programming bugs that have been epidemic in C language implementations.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 17:20:22 -0800Mike Hore <mike_horeREM@OVE.invalid.aapt.net.au> writes:
as mentioned in past discussions about low&midrange 370 (4300s) and DEC in the same market ... PCs and workstations started to take-over the market by mid-80s (which also applies to the GSD market, also one of the reasons why previously mentioned displaywriter follow-on was canceled).
past discussions were that 4300s sold about the same as DEC into that
market ... in single or small number unit orders. The big 4300
difference was large corporate orders of hundreds at a time. Start
late 70s there was big explosion in 4300 sales ... some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
There was anticipation that the 4361/4381 (follow-on to 4331/4341) would continue to see the explosion in sales, but by that time the market was moving to large PCs and workstations ... also hitting s/32, s/34, s/36 (as/400 initially was combined follow-on to both s/36 & s/38)
Old reference to decade of DEC sale numbers, sliced&diced by
year, model, US/non-US:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0 Computers in Science Fiction
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] Coding with dad on the Dragon 32 Newsgroups: comp.misc, alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 10:15:50 -0800Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> writes:
there was focus on picking up technologies from unix work-alikes ... stuff from UCB (BSD), MIT (x-windows), CMU (MACH, Andrew), UCLA (LOCUS), etc.
IBM Palo Alto Science Center had been working with UCB to do port to
mainframe 370 ... when they got redirected to do the port to the PC/RT
(which came out as AOS, alternative to AIX).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
They had also been working with UCLA on LOCUS ... and they eventually
did ports to both 370 & 386 ... which was released as AIX/370
& AIX/386.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOCUS_%28operating_system%29
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_Computing_Corporation
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] Coding with dad on the Dragon 32 Newsgroups: comp.misc, alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 10:53:59 -0800re:
more OSF (and other) topic drift & trivia: I remember one OSF meeting where the official DEC rep I knew from the 70s and had been at the science center and vm370 development group.
the science center ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
had done (virtual machine) cp67. As the cp67/cms group grew, it split off from the science center (on 4th flr, multics was on 5th flr) and took over the IBM Boston Programming center (on the 3rd flr). As the group expanded ... especially with work on cp67 morph to vm370 ... they moved out to the vacant former SBC bldg in Burlington Mall.
During the FS period
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
lots of groups were directed to refocus on FS stuff and suspend 370 activity. When FS imploded, there was mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 product pipelines. As part of that, the head of POK eventually convinced corporate to kill the vm370 product, shutdown the Burlington Mall group and move everybody to POK to work on MVS/XA (or otherwise MVS/XA wouldn't ship on time some 6-7 years later).
They weren't going to tell the VM370 people until the last minute to minimize the number that could escape the move to POK, however the information managed to leak and some number managed to escape (there was joke that head of POK was one of the largest contributors to DEC VMS, some others showed up at Prime). There was also a witch hunt for the source of the leak ... fortunately for me, nobody gave up the source.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Economic Mess Date: 14 Nov, 2015 Blog: FacebookSecuritized 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
toxic CDO posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Lehman Fraudulently Cooked Its Books, Accounting Giant Ernst & Young
Helped, Geithner and Bernanke Winked and Slapped Them on the Back
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/lehman-fraudulently-cooked-its-books-accounting-giant-ernst-young-helped-geithner-and-bernanke-winked-and-slapped-them-on-the-back.html
Against this backdrop, Lehman turned to Repo 105 transactions to
temporarily remove $50 billion of assets from its balance sheet at
first and second quarter ends in 2008 so that it could report
significantly lower net leverage numbers than reality.
... snip ...
However, four largest TBTF "banks" were still carrying $5.2T
"off-book" end of 2008 ... over 100 times that of Lehman ... allowed
to play by different rules
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
If triple-A rated toxic CDOs weren't bad enough, they had started creating 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, which also happened to be one of the major commodity speculators referenced by griftopia).
earlier, #2 on times list of those responsible for economic mess,
GLBA, repeal glass-steagall (enabling too big to fail, too big to
prosecute, too big to jail), etc.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
and along with his wife, blocking CFTC regulating CDS gambling bets ... originally described as gift to ENRON. When head of CFTC proposed regulating CDS gambling bets, was replaced by wife of #2, while he got law passed preventing regulating CDS gambling bets, she then resigned and joined ENRON board and on the financial audit committee.
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
glass-steagall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
repeal enables too big to fail (too big to
prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Rhetoric in congress regarding Sarbanes-Oxley was that it would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee that executives and auditors did jail time for fraudulent financial filings. However it required SEC to do something. Possibly because even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing anything, it started doing reports of fraudulent financial filings, even showing increase after SOX goes into effect (and nobody doing jail time). It turns out that SOX also had provision for SEC to do something about the rating agencies (which played pivotal role in the economic mess) ... but little seemed to have been done there either.
past posts mentioning Sarbanes-Oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
past posts mentioning financial reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
Other trivia, in Congressional Madoff hearing, they had testimony from
person that tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do
something about Madoff (SEC hands were forced when Madoff turned
himself in). recent item ... Ernst & Young Loses Trial for Not Vetting
Madoff-Tied Audits
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-13/ernst-young-loses-jury-trial-over-madoff-linked-audits
past posts mentioning madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
Congress asked the person if new regulations were required. He said that while new regulations might be required, much more important was transparency and visibility (since SEC wasn't enforcing the existing regulations). The current scenario when they do something is fine & "deferred prosecution" ... so far the TBTF have total $300B of fines since the economic mess. However, that $300B isn't just for the fraudulent CDOs and CDSs, but also manipulating LIBOR & FOREX markets, manipulating gold, oil and other commodities, money laundering for terrorists and drug cartels, fraudulent foreclosures, etc. Given the trillions involved, the $300B is just being viewed as cost of criminal business by the TBTF.
posts mentioning LIBOR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
posts mentioning money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
recent posts mentioning "deferred prosecution":
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#80 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#23 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#44 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#47 Do we REALLY NEED all this regulatory oversight?
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#57 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#61 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#31 Talk of Criminally Prosecuting Corporations Up, Actual Prosecutions Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#44 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#47 rationality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 09:07:52 -0800Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
my brother was regional marketing rep for Apple in the mid-80s (largest physical area in CONUS) ... one of the things he figured was dialing in remotely to the hdqtrs S/38 that had inventories, factory schedules and deliveries ... being able to monitor product schedules.
undergraduate in the 60s, I was hired to support IBM mainframe software.
The univ. library had gotten ONR grant to do online catalog. Part of the
money went to getting 2321 datacell. The effort was also selected to be
betatest for the original CICS product. I was then tasked to support and
debug CICS (CICS had been developed at customer location and the library
chose some BDAM options/features different from the original customer
... which resulted in some bugs in how CICS do file OPEN). some past
CICS &/or BDAM posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#cics
... different "PROFS" ... I was blamed for online computer
communication/conferencing (precursor to social media) on the internal
network ... larger than arpanet/internet from just about beginning until
sometime mid-80s ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
folklore is that when corporate executive committee was told about
online computer communication/conferncing, 5of6 wanted to fire me.
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
There was internal group working on menu-based system for non-computer literate users (especially managers and executives) which was released as PROFS. They had picked up a lot of internal applications that were imbedded in PROFS ... including a very early version of VMSG email client. Then when the VMSG author offered them a much enhanced version, the PROFS group tried to get him fired (they had claimed credit for all parts of PROFS). Things quieted down after he showed that all PROFS messages in the world contained his initials in non-displayed field. Afterwards, the VMSG author only distributed the source to me and one other person.
The technology in the internal network was also used in the corporate
sponsored university BITNET ... also for a time larger than
arpanet/internet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
The big increase in the number of these machines significantly
contributed to the explosion in 4300s ... some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
book/ipad about former co-worker at the science center responsible for
the internal network (& bitnet) technology
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
trivia ... at the time of the 1Jan1983 arpanet/internet cutover
to TCP/IP, it had approx. 100 IMP nodes and 255 connected hosts
... at the same time the internal network was rapidly approaching
1000 nodes .... old post with list of corporate locations that
added one or more nodes during 1983.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8
we were also starting to work with the NSF director about
interconnecting the NSF supercomputer centers ... which morphs into the
NSFNET backbone (precursor to modern internet) ... some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 13:35:12 -0800hancock4 writes:
in the early 80s, we had battle at SJR with corporate auditors. Corporate wanted the 3270 logon screen to say "For Business Purposes Only", search all computer files and eliminate all "demo" programs (aka games). We got SJR to change the 3270 logon screen to say "For Management Approved Uses Only", worked hard to get the corporate business conduct guide (given to all employees) to equate personal online files similar to privacy provisions given to personal locked desk, and to support leaving "demo" programs available.
Corporate auditors were onsite ... doing things like after hours sweep
of bldg and offices looking for unsecured confidential information left
out. We had placed 6670 printers (computer connected IBM Copier3s) out
in all the deparment area with support for colored paper in the
alternate paper feed drawer ... that was used to print file separator
page. Since the page was nominally blank, the printing of the separator
page was modified to select a random entry from some files (ibmjargon,
and file with collected quotations). One of the print files left
out on departmental 6670 printer had the following:
[Business Maxims:] Signs, real and imagined, which belong on the walls
of the nation's offices:
1) Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing; It Wastes Your Time and It Annoys the Pig.
2) Sometimes the Crowd IS Right.
3) Auditors Are the People Who Go in After the War Is Lost and Bayonet the Wounded.
4) To Err Is Human -- To Forgive Is Not Company Policy.
and the corporate auditors complained to management that we were
ridiculing them.
as an aside ... entry in ibmjargon referring to part of the
online computer communication:
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 ...
some past posts mentioning demo programs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#71 Password Rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#12 What if the computers went back to the '70s too?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#68 360 programs on a z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#43 Boyd's Briefings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#49 GML
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#89 Make the mainframe work environment fun and intuitive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#62 Mixing Auth and Non-Auth Modules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#95 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#6 Some fun with IBM acronyms and jargon (was Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#57 Displaywriter, Unix manuals added to Bitsavers
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: R.I.P. Gene Amdahl, pioneer in mainframe computing Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 09:33:37 -0800jmreno <none@nowhere.com> writes:
and had nearly 50 draft patents and would have some 1800+ claims (all assigned, we got a couple thousand for each patent) ... and the patent firm predicted well over 100 before we were done. Then some executive looked at how much all the patents would cost (not just our awards, but filling, both in US and international) ... and directed that all the claims to be repackaged in nine patents. Later the patent office came back and said that it was getting tired of the humongous patents where the filing fee didn't even cover the cost of reading the claims ... and directed that the claims had to be reorganized into at least 30 patents (and corporate hdqtrs ruled that inventor awards were only for original patents ... not for the reorganized "derivative" patents).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: rationality Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:00:43 -0800jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
when i was 8, my uncle first taught me to drive '38 1.5 ton chevy truck (starter motor was peddle on the floor, no synchromesh, every gear was double-clutch) and other vehicles ... mostly on dirt roads ... but I got to drive on paved highways every once and awhile. on dirt roads with deep ruts, you tried to drive just next to the ruts (also tended to be smoother ride).
past posts mentioning shermans:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#85 V-Man's Patton Quote (LONG) (Pronafity)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#30 Review of Steve McConnell's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#3 mainframe question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#10 mainframe question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#11 mainframe question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#16 mainframe question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#27 Controversial paper - Good response article on ZDNet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#24 The SOB that helped IT jobs move to India is dead!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#53 Chained I/O's
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#19 FW: Looking for Disk Calc program/Exec (long)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#11 The 8008
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#14 The 8008
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#14 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#28 was change headers: The Fate of VM - was: Re: Baby MVS???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#12 Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#21 WWII supplies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#11 To: Graymouse -- Ireland and the EU, What in the H... is all this about?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#21 To: Graymouse -- Ireland and the EU, What in the H... is all this about?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#17 realtors (and GM, too!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#28 360 programs on a z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#29 360 programs on a z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#43 Boyd's Briefings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
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/2014c.html#17 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#62 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#63 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#71 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Department of Defense Head Ashton Carter Enlists Silicon Valley to Transform the Military Date: 19 Nov, 2015 Blog: FacebookDepartment of Defense Head Ashton Carter Enlists Silicon Valley to Transform the Military
... not to mention the military-industrial complex, Occupy the
Economy: Challenging Capitalism loc990-93:
President Eisenhower's comment about the military-industry complex is
fairly well known. Less known is the comment of Seymour Melman, who
was a Columbia University professor, who talked about the "permanent
war economy." Correct me if I'm wrong, but the weapons industry, which
is highly influential in the U.S., is extremely capital-intensive but
it actually doesn't provide many jobs. It's not labor-intensive.
... snip ...
Spinney's perpetual war:
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
military-industrial complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
SecDef pulls back on personnel reforms, leaves out big changes for now
http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/benefits/2015/11/18/secdef-pulls-back-personnel-reforms-leaves-out-big-changes/76004136/
Then there is the "Harvard responsible for the rise of Putin"
John Helmer: Convicted Fraudster Jonathan Hay, Harvard's Man Who
Wrecked Russia, Resurfaces in Ukraine
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/convicted-fraudster-jonathan-hay-harvards-man-who-wrecked-russia-resurfaces-in-ukraine.html
How Harvard lost Russia; The best and brightest of America's premier
university came to Moscow in the 1990s to teach Russians how to be
capitalists. This is the inside story of how their efforts led to
scandal and disgrace.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160325154522/http://www.institutionalinvestor.com:80/Article/1020662/How-Harvard-lost-Russia.html
Russian Military Politics and Russia's 2010 Defense Doctrine
https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1050
similar to articles about US efforts last decade responsible for the
rise of ISIS. and then there is Success Of Failure (also uploaded to
files 22Oct)
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
Success Of Failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
but also:
Spies like Us
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
How Booz Allen Hamilton Swallowed Washington
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-23/visualizing-how-booz-allen-hamilton-swallowed-washington
and ..
Blowback---The Washington War Party's Folly Comes Home To Roost
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/blowback-the-washington-war-partys-folly-comes-home-to-roost/
Memo To Jim Acosta And Other Clueless War Channel
Correspondents---Washington Can't Take Out "Those Bastards" Because
That's Not Its Goal
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/memo-to-jim-acosta-and-other-clueless-war-channel-correspondents-washington-cant-take-out-those-bastards-because-thats-not-its-goal/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Miniskirts and mainframes Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:01:14 -0800Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> writes:
some past 4300 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
low-end & mid-range mainframes ... but large corporations were also putting large numbers of 4300s out in departmental areas. However, datacenter clusters of 4341 were less expensive than 3033, had higher aggregate throughput, smaller floor & environmental footprint. In 1979, I got sucked into doing benchmark for lab, looking at getting 70 4341s for compute farm ... sort of the leading edge of coming supercomputers.
158 3031 4341
Rain 45.64 secs 37.03 secs 36.21 secs
Rain4 43.90 secs 36.61 secs 36.13 secs
also times approx;
145 168-3 91
145 secs. 9.1 secs 6.77 secs
rain/rain4 was from Lawrence Radiation lab ... and ran on cdc6600 in
35.77 secs.
In the mid-80s I was working with director of NSF on interconnecting the
NSF supercomputer center (which morphs into the NSFNET backbone with
connection of regional networks, precursor to modern internet) as well
as large clusters of arbitrary mix of 370 & 801/risc chips. Old email
about having to choose between presenting to the NSF director and
getting somebody else to do it in order to attend a cluster meeing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email850314
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#email850315
other NSFNET related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
Later, working with rs/6000 for ha/cmp ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
including working on cluster scale-up with both national labs as well as
RDBMS vendors for commercial ... referernce to commercial cluster
scale-up meeting in Ellison's conference room, Jan1992
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
within a couple weeks of the Ellison meeting, cluster scale-up was
transferred, announced as supercomputer (for technical and scientific
*ONLY*), and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than
four processors. some cluster scale-up email from the period
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
couple press from that spring, 17Feb1992, scientific and
technical *ONLY*
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
11May1992, IBM caught by *SURPRISE* (???) at national
lab interest in clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:34:07 -0800Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
past posts mentioning mass turnpike (& annual reoccurring
revenue)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#28 trains was: Al Gore and the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#35 pop density was: trains was: Al Gore and the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#36 pop density was: trains was: Al Gore and the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#68 Killer Hard Drives - Shrapnel?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#67 The problem with installable operating systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#69 The problem with installable operating systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#11 Idiot drivers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#49 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#36 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#39 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#6 Greatest Software Ever Written?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#74 GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#38 what does xp do when system is copying
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#73 Cormpany sponsored insurance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#22 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#24 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#26 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#55 The 10 Highest-Paid CEOs Who Laid Off The Most Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#12 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#7 U.S. Files Breakup Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#72 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
past posts mentioning "big dig"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#25 TGV in the USA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#73 Cormpany sponsored insurance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#41 fraying infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#56 IBM drops Power7 drain in 'Blue Waters'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#0 Urban transportation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#55 TV Big Bang 10/12/09
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#11 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#14 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#15 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#18 other days around me
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#68 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#48 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamationmade30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#4 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#105 only sometimes From looms to computers to looms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#42 Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#27 Federal Subsidies
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Miniskirts and mainframes Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 11:03:29 -0800Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
IBM SHARE user group made a point that VAX was simpler to manage than VM370/CMS. If IBM had simplified VM370 further the claim rather than 4300s and VAXes selling about the same number of machines (except for large corporate 4300 orders of hundreds at a time), 4300s would have made significant further inroads into VAX sales.
There was an attempt to make VM370 part of all 138/148s (4300 precursor)
shipped from the factory ... but this was in the aftermath of FS
... some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
... when POK was convincing corporate to kill VM370 and transfer all the people to POK for MVS/XA (or otherwise MVS/XA wouldn't ship on time). POK managed to get VM370 development group in Burlington Mall closed and people transferred to POK ... but many escaped and stayed in Boston area (joke that head of POK was one of the largest contributors to VMS).
Endicott did finally manage to save the VM370 product mission ... but
had to reconstitute a development group from scratch. In Aug1976,
Tymshare had started making its vm370/cms online computer conferencing
facility available for free to the SHARE user group ... as VMSHARE ...
archives
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
there are vmshare comments in the late 70s & early 80s about vm370/cms code quality as Endicott is rebuilding a development group.
The internal network was larger than arpanet/internet from just about
the beginning until sometime in the mid-80s ... some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
technology was done by former co-worker
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
at the science center, some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
At the time of the great arpanet/internet cutover to internetworking protocol on 1Jan1983, it had approx. 100 IMPs and 255 connected hosts ... while the internal network was rapidly approaching 1000 nodes. A big part of this was explosion in vm/4341s going in all over the world ... including at branch offices.
nearly identical internal network technology was also being used for
BITNET ... the corporate sponsored univ. network ... which for a time
was also larger than arpanet/internet. Large univ. were installing
multiple vm/4341s around campus and departments ... usually requiring
some fraction of student employee ... typically required more than VMS
... but still much less than full time employee. BITNET ref
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
BITNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
BITNET was referred to EARN in europe, old email by person responsible
for setting up EARN:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#email840320
above was sent to me somewhat as result of being blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal network in the late 70s & early 80s.
The POK favorite son operating systems (MVS) wanted to play in the
explosion in 4300 sales, but had difficulty. The real problem was
typical MVS system required 10-20 fulltime support people (including
dedicated operators) ... which didn't scale for enterprise looking at
installing 1000 machines out in deparmental areas. However, they focused
on the only entry & mid-range disks were all FBA (3310&3370). For
whatever reason MVS failed to support FBA, only CKD (down to this day,
even though real CKD disks haven't been made for decades). The only CKD
were the high-end 3380s ... datacenter environmentals didn't play well
out in departmental areas. This eventually resulted in creating 3375 CKD
disk product (CKD architecture simulated on 3370 FBA disks) ... but had
little impact in MVS being able to penetrate the mid-range, departmental
market. Some CKD & FBA posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
other trivia ... first/original webserver in the US was 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
The first global Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
http://www.lextrait.com/Vincent/mad.html
listserv
http://www.lsoft.com/products/listserv-history.asp
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card statements! Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 21 Nov 2015 12:38:38 -0800martin_packer@UK.IBM.COM (Martin Packer) writes:
Gov. LEOs did a description of Yes Card cases at an ATM Integrity TaskForce meeting ... prompting somebody in the audience to exclaim that they managed to spend billions of dollars to prove that chipcards are less secure than magstripe.
In the wake of that, all evidence of the pilot evaporated w/o a trace and speculation was that it would be a long time while things were tried in the US again (waiting for more glitches to be worked out in other jurisdictions).
The problem was 1) it was as easy to make counterfeit chipcards as magstripe and 2) they had moved business rules out into the chip. A chipcard terminal would ask the chip 1) was the correct PIN entered, 2) should the transaction be done offline, 3) is the transaction within the credit limit. A counterfeit Yes Card would answer "YES" to all three, so didn't need to know the correct PIN and didn't need to do online check with backend (and all transaction are approved). Traditional countermeasure for counterfeit magstripe card is to deactivate the account at the backend ... but that doesn't work with Yes Card
I had warned the people doing the pilot about the problems, but they went ahead and did it anyway (they were myopically focused on lost/stolen cards and ignored the counterfeit Yes Card scenarios).
Reference to Yes Card presentation at the bottom of this CARTES2002
trip report (gone 404, but lives on at the wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20030417083810/http://www.smartcard.co.uk/resources/articles/cartes2002.html
posts mentioning Yes Card
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
disclaimer: in the mid/late 90s, I was asked to do a protocol&chip that had no such vulnerabilities and was significantly more secure ... then the transit industry also requested that it could also run contactless within the power&time constraints of transit turnstyle (w/o any reduction in security&integrity) ... have you seen how long these transactions take? ... even when they are getting full contact power.
some more references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card statements! Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 21 Nov 2015 16:13:37 -0800re:
slight mainframe related trivia.
chip&protocol had a booth at the '99 world-wide retail banking
conference ... along with press release ... in this old post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/ansiepay.htm#x959bai X9.59/AADS announcement at BAI
leading up to the conference ... we spent a lot of time with one of the other companies including regular meetings with their CEO ... who in prior life had been president of DSD (pok mainframe).
a lot of the work had started in the x9a10 financial standard working group which had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the financial infrastructure for ALL retail payments ... and as a result it was required to not only work for point-of-sale ... but ALL payments (including internet). The downside was that eliminating much of the fraud&risk it commoditized payments and reduced barriers to entry. '99 was also the year that GLBA passed (now better known for repeal of Glass-Steagall), rhetoric on the floor of congress was the (original) primary purpose of GLBA was to prevent new entries into banking (especially prevent competition from entities with much more efficient technologies).
x9.59 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#x959
glass-steagall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 18:33:25 -0800Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#41 Transportation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#7 OT Global warming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#5 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#6 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#12 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#19 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#24 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#26 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#32 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#35 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#46 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#49 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#51 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#52 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#56 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#57 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#59 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#60 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#61 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#62 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#0 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#5 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#6 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#11 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#23 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#97 Loads Weighing Heavily on Roads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#21 Horrid thought about Politics, President Bush, and Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#55 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#48 fraying infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#68 Historian predicts the end of 'science superpowers'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#25 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#36 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#61 Idiotic cars driving themselves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#39 Central vs. expanded storage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#52 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#80 A Close Look at the Perry Tax Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#83 A Close Look at the Perry Tax Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#28 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#29 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#168 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#47 Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Clear up this C9 business (I hope). Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.os.cpm Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 09:15:17 -0800Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The Global Financial Crisis: Analysis and Policy Implications Date: 29 Nov 2015 Blog: FacebookThe Global Financial Crisis: Analysis and Policy Implications
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
toxic CDO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
One of the first market freezes was muni-bond market when investors began to realize that triple-A ratings were for sale and it might not be possible to trust any ratings (Warren Buffett then stepped in and started offering insurance to unfreeze the market).
Supposedly $700B TARP funds were appropriated for purchase of toxic
assets, however end of 2008 just the four largest too big to fail
were still carrying $5.2T off-book
Bank's Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion Purge
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akv_p6LBNIdw&refer=home
... and TARP funds were actually used for other purposes and Federal Reserve stepped in ... buying trillions at 98cents on the dollar and providing tens of trillions in ZIRP funds. The FED fought long hard legal battle to stop disclosing what it was doing and lost. Shortly afterwards the FED Chair had press conference where he said that he expected 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 that didn't stop the ZIRP funds). However, supposedly one of the reasons he was chosen as FED Chair was because he was student of the Depression, where the same thing was tried with the same results ... so there should have been no expectation of something different this time.
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Jan2009 (decade after being asked to try and help prevent the economic mess), I was asked to HTML'ize the Pecora Hearings (30s senate hearings into the '29 crash, resulted in criminal convictions & jail terms and Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal XREFs and URLs between what happened then and what happened this time (references that the new congress might have appetite to do something). I work on it for awhile and then get a call saying it won't be needed after all (references to enormous piles of wallstreet money totally burying Washington).
Pecora and/or Glass-Steagall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
Note in the late 90s, a Federal LEO described how some number of investment bankers walked away clean from the S&L crisis and were then currently running Internet IPO mills, variation on pump&dump ... but new IPOs needed to fail so that the field would be clear for the next round of IPOs. Comment was that they were then predicted to get into mortgages next.
Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
https://www.amazon.com/Phishing-Phools-Economics-Manipulation-Deception-ebook/dp/B00WAM14RE/
pg23/loc594-96:
The reputations of the great US credit ratings agencies had been built
up over the course of almost a century in rating bonds. The public
used these ratings as an indicator of the likelihood of default. In
the late 1990s and early 2000s, the ratings agencies took on
themselves a new task: not just of rating bonds, but also of rating
more complex securities, the new (complex) financial derivatives.
... snip ...
aka ... they could trade on their bond rating reputaton for selling triple-A ratings on toxic CDOs. Note that being able to buy triple-A ratings enabled loan originators not having to care about loan quality or borrower's qualification, they could immediately sell off every loan they could make. However, that wasn't enough, they then started doing (triple-A rated) toxic CDOs designed to fail, sell to their customers and then take out CDS gambling gets that they would fail (creating enormous demand for bad loans).
AIG was largest holder of these CDS gambling bets and was negotiating to pay off at 50-60cents on the dollar when the sec. of treasury steps in and forces them to sign a document that they can't sue those making the bets and to 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 firm formally headed by the sec. of treasury.
Phishing for Phools, pg39/899-900:
The CDSs played several roles in the financial crisis. AIG's holdings,
as large as they were, were still only 1 percent of the approximately
$57 trillion in the entire market.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: New Smoking Gun: U.S. and UK KNEW Saddam Did NOT Possess WMDs Date: 30 Nov 2015 Blog: FacebookNew Smoking Gun: U.S. and UK KNEW Saddam Did NOT Possess WMDs
last decade, cousin of white house chief of staff Card ... was dealing
with the Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence that WMDs had been
decommissioned, 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
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
recent WMD posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#0 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#17 Cromnibus cartoon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#67 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#72 George W. Bush: Still the worst; A new study ranks Bush near the very bottom in history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#0 S&L Crisis and Economic Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#16 Keydriven bit permutations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#27 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#37 C.I.A. Is Said to Have Bought and Destroyed Iraqi Chemical Weapons
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#78 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#5 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#21 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#108 Occupy Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#54 The Jeb Bush Adviser Who Should Scare You
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#73 The Jeb Bush Adviser Who Should Scare You
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#9 Why do we keep losing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#29 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 ^A^K boy scouts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#34 43rd President
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#67 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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#42 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#76 Pentagon remains stubbornly unable to account for its billions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#12 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#13 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#16 Federal Deficits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#33 The wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were lost before they began, not on the battlefields
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#60 rationality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Corruption Is as Bad in the US as in Developing Countries Date: 30 Nov 2015 Blog: FacebookCorruption Is as Bad in the US as in Developing Countries
Enormous upswing in outsourcing to for-profit companies last decade ... quotes about 10% ... split between lobbyists and congress (illegal for gov. agencies to lobby) ... periodic comments that congress is most corrupt institution on earth ... single contract can be more money than some country's annual budget.
Local DC press/news will periodically refer to washington politics as
Kabuki Theater ... what you see publicly has little or nothing to do
with what is really going on (including facade of conflict between
parties increases the funds). posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
example 70% of budget and over half of people, including Snowden's
employer
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
... and Success Of Failure
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
Success Of Failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: IBM Automatic (COBOL) Binary Optimizer Now Availabile Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 30 Nov 2015 18:18:47 -0800charlesm@MCN.ORG (Charles Mills) writes:
mainframe implementations are more & more reusing industry standard implementations, fixed-block disks, fibre-channel standard, CMOS, etc. Half the per-processor performance improvement from z10->z196 playing catchup, is claimed to be introduction of some of these industry standard memory access compensation technologies .... with further additions in z12 (its not clear about z13 ... some numbers about total system throughput compared to z12, is less than the increase in number of processors ... possibly implying that per processor throughput didn't increase or even declined).
ckd/fba disks posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
ficon/fibre channel standard posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
recent hyperthreading posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#27 Webcasts - New Technology for System z
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#43 z13 "new"(?) characteristics from RedBook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#61 ou sont les VAXen d'antan, was Variable-Length Instructions that aren't
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#69 A New Performance Model ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#23 A Modest Proposal (for avoiding OOO)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#27 the legacy of Seymour Cray
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: IBM Automatic (COBOL) Binary Optimizer Now Availabile Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 1 Dec 2015 11:59:58 -0800re:
hyperthreading trivia ...
early 70s, I got sucked into helping with hyperthreading effort for 370/195 (that never shipped).
370/195 could run at 10MIPS, but most codes ran at 5MIPs. 195 had our-of-order execution, but didn't have branch prediction or speculative execution ... so conditiional branches stalled the pipeline (had to do careful programming to get 10MIPS, but abundance of conditional branches in most codes would keet machine to 5MIPS). Two i-streams running at 5MIPS would be able to keep machine running aggregate 10MIPS.
Idea was to have dual i-stream and registers ... but same single
pipeline and execution units ... with instructions flagged as to
i-stream. this discussion of end of ACS-360 includes references to
hardware muiltithreading patents (and red/blue bit tagging).
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
other acs-360 reference/trivia ... Amdahl says that executives were afraid that it would advance state-of-the-art too fast and company would loose control of the market ... so acs-360 was shutdown. There is also description of acs-360 features that show up over 20yrs later in ES-9000.
recent posts mentioning end of ACS360:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#27 Webcasts - New Technology for System z
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#61 ou sont les VAXen d'antan, was Variable-Length Instructions that aren't
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#26 OT: Digital? Cloud? Modern And Cost-Effective? Surprise! It's The Mainframe - Forbes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#69 A New Performance Model ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#91 Critique of System/360, 1967
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#14 3033 & 3081 question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#20 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#68 A Modest Proposal (for avoiding OOO)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#3 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#23 A Modest Proposal (for avoiding OOO)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#13 the legacy of Seymour Cray
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#57 Gene Amhdahl Dies at 92
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 19:14:03 -0800Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> writes:
it has 139,195 total from 1978-1987 ... but that includes 64,900 MVII
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: disARMed Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 08:42:25 -0800David Wade <dave.g4ugm@gmail.com> writes:
z12 processor was 32nm technology ... I had calculated that based on 1qtr2014 sale numbers and straight remap 32nm to 14nm and 300mm to 450mm wafers ... processor chips for several years of z mainframe sales could be handled by a single wafer (little over decade ago I had chip done and minimum wafer run was six wafers, assume that it is still something similar).
recent posts
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#31 IBM Z13
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#36 IBM Z13
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#83 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#19 Linux Foundation Launches Open Mainframe Project
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: First Single-Chip Out-of-Order Microprocessor? Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 09:19:50 -0800Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
... and then went to president of MIPS (for mips10000).
I have desk ornament with six chips of the original RIOS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/riospw.jpg
801/risc had long tradition of no cache coherency ... part of somerset single chip 801, I somewhat characterize as borrowing cache coherency from 88k and adding to 801.
past posts mentioning 801/risc, iliad, romp, rios, rs/6000, power/pc,
etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Old HASP Date: 05 Dec 2015 Blog: FacebookUndergraduate in the 60s, univ. hired me fulltime to be responsible for IBM mainframe systems ... this included going to SHARE. On route to east coast SHARE, I took a side-trip from LaGuardia to Ithaca on what I remember was DC3 (to see Bill Worley to talk about a lot of the mods. that I had made to HASP ). We were held in the plane on the tarmac for an hour but still flew through the middle of thunderstorm ... and I got severely air sick. I stumbled off at Elmira, got a rental car and found a motel to stay in ... and then drove to Ithaca the next day. ... worley/cornell/hasp ref
HASP, JES, NJI/NJE, etc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
In former life my wife was in the gburg JES group, one of the LASP "catchers" for jes3, and one of the JESUS (jes unified system) spec coauthors ... this was mid 70s ... until Cannavino con'ed her into going to POK to be in charge of loosely-coupled architecture.
In POK, she did Peer-Coupled Shared Data architecture .... but didn't remain long
there; in part because there was little uptake of the architecture
(except for IMS hot standby) until SYSPLEX & parallel SYSPLEX ... and
because of constant battles with communication group attempting to
force her into using SNA/VTAM for loosely-coupled operation. There
would periodically be a (temporary) truce where the communication
group said she could do anything within datacenter walls, but they
owned everything that crossed the datacenter walls (but almost
immediately they would resume trying to force her into using
SNA/VTAM).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata
Washington System Center in Gburg ... WTSC in POK, AFE System Center in Shady Grove (near gburg). AFE hdqtrs was in Terrytown. EMEA hdqtrs had been in westchester.
SE training used to be sort of apprentice program as part of large
group at customer installation. With the 23Jun1969 unbundling
announcement (starting to charge for software, SE services, etc), they
couldn't figure out how not to charge for apprentice SEs training
onsite at customer location.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
Response was HONE (hands-on network environment), a number of CP67
virtual machine datacenters with branch office access running guest
operating systems. CP67/CMS, internal network, invent GML (precursor
to SGML, HTML), etc had been done at the Science Center. The Science
Center also ported to APL\360 to CMS for CMS\APL. HONE also started
offering CMS\APL based sales&marketing support applications on HONE
... which came to dominate all HONE activity (and guest operating
system use dwindled away).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
One of my hobbies was providing enhanced production operating systems for internal datacenters ... including HONE ... and I would get called in for things like installing HONE-clones at new locations around the world. One of the first was EMEA hdqtrs move from NY to Paris ... and a HONE installation for EMEA hdqtrs went into La Defense.
In the mid-70s, the US HONE datacenters were consolidated in Palo Alto
(trivia, when FACEBOOK moved to silicon valley it was new bldg, next
door to the old HONE datacenter). In the late 70s, HONE VM370 (HONE
had moved from CP67 to VM370) was enhanced for loosely-coupled cluster
support (largest single-system in the world, load-balancing and
fall-over recovery, this support didn't ship to customers until
30years later). In the early 80s, US HONE was replicated in Dallas and
then a 3rd in Boulder for geographic survivability in case of whole
datacenter failure.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#available
One of the people that my wife worked with on catcher for LASP (to
JES3) recently passed. I had gotten question from customer (who was
updating some wiki entries) about early os/vs2 and virtual memory
... and redistributed it to some IBMers from the period. This is
(archived) post with some of his recollections
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73 Multiple Virtual Memory
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Maneuver breaks out Date: 05 Dec 2015 Blog: Slightly East of NewManeuver breaks out
I've done theme that mobile & lean converge with agility.
In addition to sponsoring Boyd's briefings at IBM, some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
I was also blamed for online computer conferencing (precursor to
social media) on the internal network (larger than arpanet/internet
from just about the beginning until sometime in mid-80s) in the late
70s and early 80s ... where we had a lot of agility related
discussions. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
In the early 80s there was Washington Post article calling for 100% unearned profit tax on the US auto industry ... import quotas were supposedly to provide US auto industry with significant profits (reduced competition allowing significant price increases) that would be used to remake the industry; however they just pocketed the profits and continued business as usual.
In 1990, the US auto industry had the C4 taskforce to look at
completely remaking themselves and because the were planning on
heavily leveraging technology, major technology vendors were invited
to send representatives. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#auto.c4.taskforce
In the meatings they had detailed descriptions about what the foreign makers were doing and what US makers needed to change. One of the detailed descriptions was the auto industry had been taking 7-8yrs to go from start to rolling off the line (and were typically running two efforts in parallel offset by a couple years ... so something new was coming out every 3-4 years instead of 7-8 years). Foreign imports had cut the process in half (3-4yrs) and were in the process of cutting it in half again (18-24months). Foreign imports could respond to changing buying habits or changing technology much more quickly than US makers. Offline I would chide my IBM "mainframe" brethren (that were attending) how could they expect to help (since they had similar schedule, 7-8yr product cycle, with two efforts running in parallel offset by a couple years)? Silicon Valley chip products were on path towards 18-24month.
As an aside, in the early-to-mid 80s, I had a project I called HSDT
(high-speed data transport) and was working with director of NSF on
connecting the NSF supercomputer centers. Some of the stuff was being
built on the other side of the pacific and would have to visit
periodically (one of the vendors was Matsushita and they couldn't
resist showing off some of the stuff they were doing for Toyota). As
an aside, as regional networks tie into the NSF supercomputer centers,
it morphs into the NSFNET backbone ... precursor to modern Internet.
some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: What's Worked in Computer Science Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2015 17:47:56 -0800Bengt Larsson <bengtl12.net@telia.NOSPAMcom> writes:
801/risc would have simple hardware implementation; compiler would generate correct code, loader would only load valid compiled programs ... so it wasn't necessary to have hardware privileged/non-privileged support; virtual memory could be handled with just 16 segment registers because inline code could change segment values (in much the same way adddress registers value can be changed, w/o needing kernel calls for validating authorization), no cache coherency (loader that may operate on instructions would have instructions to force d-cache lines to memory and invalidate i-cache lines)
I've periodically claimed that 801/risc was at least partially motivated
to go to the opposite extreme of the (failed) FS effort with its complex
hardware implementation. FS reference
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
past 801, risc, iliad, romp, rios, power/pc, etc post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: First Single-Chip Out-of-Order Microprocessor? Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 08:29:22 -0800Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
ES/9000 in 1990 ... reference to end of ACS-360 ... Amdahl shutting it
down because executives were afraid it would advance state-of-the-art
too fast and company would loose control of the market
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
also lists hyperthreading patents and ACS-360 features that show up in ES/9000 more than 20yrs later ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: History--did relay logic (e.g. crossbar switch) need air conditioning? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:02:48 -0800scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
shortly after new grocery store went in (where fairchild bldg use to be). I was in the store and noticed that the ATM machine was open'ed and being worked on. I went over and started talking to the person ... this was after nations had taken over bank of america and changed its name to bank of america. He said that nations was letting lots of the bank of america people go. He said that he was assigned to go through all the bank of america ATM machines (in the local area) and replace the advanced, state-of-the-art, intrusion detection with some hack that nations used (so all nationsbank ATM machines would be the same) ... and when he was done, he would be let go to.
It was more than academic interest ... I was on financial industry
standard committees working on security features ... topic drift
... one of the standards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
and some of the technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
tandem had bought one of ATM machine technology providers (Atalla, in
part because tandem machines were extensively used in the
ATM/cashmachine networks and tandem had been bought by compaq) ... old
post referencing workshop that compaq/tandem/atalla had sponsored for
us:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#riskm
report on AADS pilot done by NACHA and one of the ATM networks (gone
404, but lives on at wayback machine, aka 23July2001))
https://web.archive.org/web/20070706004855/http://internetcouncil.nacha.org/News/news.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Happy Dec-10 Day!!! Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:35:22 -0800mausg writes:
John Helmer: Convicted Fraudster Jonathan Hay, Harvard's Man Who Wrecked
Russia, Resurfaces in Ukraine
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/convicted-fraudster-jonathan-hay-harvards-man-who-wrecked-russia-resurfaces-in-ukraine.html
How Harvard lost Russia; The best and brightest of America's premier
university came to Moscow in the 1990s to teach Russians how to be
capitalists. This is the inside story of how their efforts led to
scandal and disgrace.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160325154522/http://www.institutionalinvestor.com:80/Article/1020662/How-Harvard-lost-Russia.html
Russian Military Politics and Russia's 2010 Defense Doctrine
https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1050
similar to articles about US efforts last decade responsible for the
rise of ISIS. and then there is Success Of Failure (sometimes serves
blank page on 1st click and have to click again)
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
but also:
Spies like Us
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
How Booz Allen Hamilton Swallowed Washington
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-23/visualizing-how-booz-allen-hamilton-swallowed-washington
For The Record, Yes, George W. Bush Did Help Create ISIS
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/14/jeb-bush-isis_n_7284558.html
Blowback---The Washington War Party's Folly Comes Home To Roost
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/blowback-the-washington-war-partys-folly-comes-home-to-roost/
Memo To Jim Acosta And Other Clueless War Channel
Correspondents---Washington Can't Take Out "Those Bastards" Because
That's Not Its Goal
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/memo-to-jim-acosta-and-other-clueless-war-channel-correspondents-washington-cant-take-out-those-bastards-because-thats-not-its-goal/
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: OT: Electrician cuts wrong wire and downs 25,000 square foot data centre Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 13 Dec 2015 12:04:39 -0800pete@PETELANCASHIRE.COM (Pete Lancashire) writes:
IBM CKD dasd had power loss failure mode ... where there wasn't enough power to maintain memory contents ... but there was enough power left for the controller to complete a write operation ... problem was that the channel had stopped transferring data ... so the controller continued writing all zeros. The result was that after recovery, a subsequent read would show no errors ... for the record that had write operation ("correctly") complete with all zeros (this was especially troublesome when things like VTOC record was being written)
FBA introduced that a physical record would not be written unless all data was available to correctly complete a write. This philosophy continued for RAID (write "failure" either completes correctly or at least results in error indication for subsequent read).
During the 80s, there was lots of work trying to figure out how to retrofit such a fix to CKD dasd ... or at least provide a way for system to recognize an incorrect trailing zeros write.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: OT: Electrician cuts wrong wire and downs 25,000 square foot data centre Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 13 Dec 2015 17:48:41 -0800tony.j.newman writes:
Original CMS filesystem from the mid-60s almost had a fix for this ... updated filesysem control information was written to new locations ... and then the MFD was rewritten pointing to the new version of control information rather than old version. It worked for all writes except for the MFD. The new CMS "EDF" filesystem in the 2nd half of the 70s went to a pair of MFDs. There was the current MFD and a write would always be to the alternate MFD ... if completely corectly, the alternate becomes the (new) current and the (old) current becomes the alternate.
A version number goes at the end of (EDF) MFD, on startup/recovery, both MFD is read and the most recent one is used ... a power failure, trailing zeros write would always result in that record appearing as older than the other MFD.
In early 80s, I did a CP kernel filesystem ... including spool file
system that addressed the problem for CP also. My motivation was that I
had HSDT project and I needed VM370 spool file system that ran much
faster for RSCS driving multiple T1 (& faster) links (standard spool
file system typically got 5-32kbytes/sec ... I needed 3mbytes or better
throughput. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
I did the implementation in vs/pascal running in virtual address space but still managed to significant improvement over the standard implementation done as part of vm370 kernel in assembler.
At one point, I thought I finally had a path to getting it picked up through the corporate network backbone which nodes were moving to multiple 56kbit links. However, this was about the time the communication group was putting intense pressure on the corporate nework to move to SNA ... technical people started being excluded from the backbone meetings ... so they could focus on the pressure being applied to move to SNA.
However, by that time I also was doing the throughput enhancements to
mainframe TCP/IP product (also implemented in vs/pascal). At the time,
the standard product got about 44kbytes/sec using nearly full 3090
processor. In some tuning tests of the "fixes" at Cray Research between
Cray and 4341 ... got channel speed throughput 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
old email reference to communication group forcing internal
network to move to SNA:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email870302
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#email870306
posts mentioning internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
other trivia ... I had also done a paged-mapped CMS filesystem
originallyh for CP67 ... and then later moved to VM370. In the early 80s
(on 3380 drives), side-by-side comparison of moderate i/o intensive
workload ... it would get three times the througput of standard CMS
filesystem. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
old post with some (mmap) benchmark measurements from the 1st half of
the 80s ... included in '86 SEAS presentation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#25 DCSS as SWAP disk for z/Linux
and repeated in hillgang meeting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#88 Hillgang -- VM Performance
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Systems thinking--still in short supply Date: 13 Dec 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Systems thinking--still in short supply
http://slightlyeastofnew.com/2015/12/13/systems-thinking-still-in-short-supply/
In the wake of the 7Mar83 Time/Spinney article ... usually behind
paywall ... but (mostly) lives free at the 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
one of my co-workers got Spinney's number and called him up. Chuck
told him he really needed to talk to Boyd. I then got con'ed into
sponsoring Boyd's briefings at IBM (and got to spend a lot of time
alone with John). past Boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
In the briefings, John would say that military officers got WW2 training in rigid, top-down command&control structure ... which required bloated officer corp (he would also contrast it with the WW2 German military). He observed that many of these former US military officers were then starting to contaminate US corporate culture, with their management style (rigid, top-down command & control and bloated middle management). However about the same time, articles were appearing claiming MBAs were starting to destroy US corporate culture with their myopic attention to quarterly numbers.
trivia: I was blamed for online computer conferencing (precursor to modern social media) on the internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime mid-80s) in the late 70s and early 80s. There was a lot of discussion then about the myopic focus on short-term quarterly results.
Note in the wake of ENRON, the rhetoric in Congress was that
Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee that
executives (and auditors) did jailtime. However there was joke that it
was just a large present to the audit industry (for what happened to
the industry and major audit houses in the wake of
ENRON). Sarbanes-Oxley required that SEC do something, and possibly
because even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing anything, it started
doing reports of public company fraudulent financial filings (which
also used to drive larger executive bonuses), even showing that the
fraudulent filings increased after Sarbanes-Oxley goes into effect
(and nobody doing jail time).
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-06-1079sp
posts mentioning enron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
posts mentioning Sarbanes-Oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
Several articles having pointed out that even when the fraudulent filings have been restated, there is never any recovery of the inflated bonuses.
trivia: I was asked to participate in a 2004 financial meeting (in
Liechtenstein) of European CEOs and corporate presidents that focused
on effects of Sarbanes-Oxley spilling over into Europe (Liechtenstein
appeared to be hosting these meetings as part of getting off the
Treasury's money laundering black list). posts mentioning money
laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
More recently, there has been a lot written about executives of large
US corporations, focused on heavy borrowing for large stock buybacks,
that juice the quarterly earnings per outstanding share, driving
larger bonuses (exacerbating the short term myopic attention on
quarterly numbers).
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Deformation-Corruption-Capitalism-America/dp/1586489127/
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.
... snip ...
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
The other effect about the cheap money is the rise of private-equity
borrowing for LBOs ... this has comparison to house flipping (except
they can sell for less than they paid and still walk away with boat
loads of money)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
posts mentioning private-equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
There is enormous pressure put on the victim companies to service the extreme debt load (cutting corners and generating revenue every way possible), side-effect is that over half of corporate defaults involve private-equity victim companies. An especially attractive target has been companies doing business with the US government (intensive lobbying last decade has accelerated the rise of government out-sourcing). Articles reference that private-equity victims include those responsible for doing government security clearances (which were just filling out the paper work and not actually doing the background checks).
Spies like Us
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
How Booz Allen Hamilton Swallowed Washington
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-23/visualizing-how-booz-allen-hamilton-swallowed-washington
somewhat related to associated rise of the Success Of Failure
culture (sometimes serves up blank page on initial click and has to be
repeated)
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
posts mentioning Success Of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
"Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World" Ferguson & Morris on failure of
IBM's 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 ...
other FS references
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
https://www.ecole.org/en/session/49-the-rise-and-fall-of-ibm
posts mentioning Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
AMEX was in competition with KKR for private equity LBO of RJR. KKR
won, but when they ran into trouble, they hire away the president of
AMEX to turn it around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
IBM went into the red and was being reorganized into the 13 "Baby
Blues" in preparation of breaking up the company
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
Then the IBM board hires the former AMEX president to resurrect the
company and reverse the breakup, using some of the same techniques
used at RJR:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
The former AMEX president then leaves IBM to head up a major private-equity company that does a LBO of the company that was Snowden's employer (70% of the intelligence budget and over half the people is at for-profit companies)
posts mentioning Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: book "1984"--modern privacy Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 07:40:34 -0800hancock4 writes:
he glosses over a number of details like opt-in/opt-out ... I've posted before about being somewhat involved in cal. data breach notification and cal. opt-in legislation ... having been brought in to help word smith cal. electronic signature legislation ... while they were also working on the other two pieces. The data-breach notification legislation passed although since then there has been a number of federal bills (none yet passed), about evenly divided between those similar to cal's and those that would effectively eliminate notification requirement.
Before the opt-in bill passes, a (federal preemption) opt-out addenda was added to GLBA (now better known for repeal of Glass-Steagall). Opt-in requires explicit authorization before an organization can share your personal information, out-out can share your personal information unless it has record of your objecting (opting-out).
I've posted before about being at a 2004 annual national privacy conference in Wash DC and in a panel session with all the FTC commissioners, somebody in the room gets up and asks them if they are going to do anything about GLBA "opt-out" ... he says he is with a call center technology company used by all the major financial operations ... and all of their 1-800 "opt-out" services provide no provisions for keeping a record of a "opt-out" call (and with no "opt-out" record, they are free to share your personal information).
posts mentioning electronic signature legislation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
posts mentiong data breach notification
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
posts mentioning Pecora Hearings &/or Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
recent posts mentioning opt-in/opt-out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#17 Cromnibus cartoon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#54 How do we take political considerations into account in the OODA-Loop?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#55 HealthCare.gov in Cahoots with Dozens of Tracking Websites
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#45 rationality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Systems thinking--still in short supply Date: 14 Dec 2015 Blog: Google+re:
website is by oldtime Boyd acolyte
http://slightlyeastofnew.com/
recently did an updated version of briefings that Boyd would give at
IBM
http://slightlyeastofnew.com/2015/12/08/presentation-slides-from-lkce15/
which has prompted some number of discussions
http://slightlyeastofnew.com/2015/12/03/all-about-agility-in-400-sec/
http://slightlyeastofnew.com/2015/12/02/maneuver-breaks-out/
other trivia ... about co-worker from the science center:
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
Ed was responsible for the internal network which was larger than the ARPANET/INTERNET from just about the beginning until sometime in the mid-80s I attribute much of this because Ed included a form of gateway and distributed control in every node from the beginning. The ARPANET/INTERENET didn't get this until the great 1JAN1983 cutover to internetworking protocol. This replaced the tightly controlled, centrally administrated IMPs. At the 1JAN1983 cutover there was approx. 100 IMP network nodes (with approx. 255 connected hosts) at the same time the internal network was rapidly approaching 1000 nodes. Part of the IMP folklore from the early 80s was that the 100 tightly controlled IMPs would periodically totally saturate all the network links with administrative protocol chatter anytime there was any significant event (part of the requirement to cutover to internetworking protocol was that the existing IMP technology couldn't scale).
slightly related trivia, we were working with director of NSF on
interconnecting the NSF supercomputer centers and were suppose to get
$20M ... related to my HSDT project ... some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#hsdt
Then congress cut the budget and some number of other things happen,
and finally they release RFP (largely based on stuff HSDT already had
running). 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) ... but that just makes the internal politics worse. As regional neworks connect into these centers, it morphs into the NSFNET
backbone, precursor to the modern internet. some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
related article
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
Boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Re: Administrators and moderators of alt.folklore.computers Google Groups, please erase all the messages that I not should have posted here in alt.folklore.computers Google Groups! Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:00:01 -0800 (PST)in the "old" days ... there use to be a rash of questions every Sept. from freshmen just exposed to Usenet &/or internet for the first time ... looking to get homework done for free. Then initially with rise of AOL ... the homework questions started coming from younger and year around
From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: OT: Electrician cuts wrong wire and downs 25,000 square foot data centre Date: 15 Dec 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
and
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/P228glGAxEw
After transferring to SJR, I got con'ed into playing disk engineer across the street. The disk engineering lab was running prescheduled stand alone mainframe testing 7x24 around the clock for testing. They had tried running MVS for concurrent testing ... but found MVS had 15min MTBF in that environment. I offered to rewrite IOS to make it bullet proof and never fail, enabling any amount of concurrent on-demand testing ... greatly increasing productivity. I produced a research report about the enhancements and happened to mention the 15min MTBF MVS. Later I got a call from somebody in the POK MVS group, I thought at first that they might want to know about all the enhancements, but they just wanted to know who my manager was. Later I find out that they were more interested in getting me separated from the corporation. When they couldn't, I was told that they would do their best to make career unpleasant (including no corporate awards).
Old email reference a little time later ... for 3380, FE had 57
regression test of 57 typical errors to be expected, MVS was still
failing in all cases requiring re-IPL, and in 2/3rds of the cases
there was no indication of what caused the failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801015
past posts mentioning getting to play disk engineer in bldgs 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
When we were doing IBM's HA/CMP project ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
we spent a lot of time looking at various failure scenarios. One of the buzz words was "telco provisioning". There was a datacenter in manhattan that was carefully chosen to be in building that had multiple power feeds from different substations on different sides of the building, multiple telco feeds from different exchanges on different sides of the building, and multiple water main feeds on different sides of the building. It was taken out when a transformer in the building exploded, contaminating the building with PCB and the building had to be evacuated.
As part of HA/CMP, we also worked on geographically separated
operations and when I was out marketing HA/CMP, I coined the terms
disaster survivability and geographic survivability (to
differentiate from disaster/recovery). I then got asked to write a
section for the corporate continuous availability strategy
document. It got removed when both rochester (as/400) and POK
(mainframe) complained that they couldn't meet the requirements.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#available
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Systems thinking--still in short supply Date: 15 Dec 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
other trivia ... about co-worker from the science center:
One of the baby bells did a PU4&PU5 emulation on Series/1 running on
top of distributed control and real networking underneath with
enormous more function than standard SNA. It was well known that the
communication group was famous for corporate dirty tricks ... so
approached the largest customer of 32x5 boxes to completely fund the
internal costs (they showed that they would totally recover all costs
within 9months moving over to such a type-1 product from real
32x5). What the communication group did next can only be described as
truth is stranger than fiction. Part of presentation that I gave at
fall1986 SNA architecture review board meeting in Raleigh.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#67
part of presentation that one of the baby bell people gave at '86 IBM
Common user group meeting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#70
Actually one of the SRI instructors had me in for a day to give talk
about HSDT and other stuff.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
Other trivia ... very early in the days of SNA architecture, my wife and another person (who later went on to be an SRI instructor) authored AWP39 peer-to-peer networking architecture (they had to use the "peer-to-peer" qualifier to indicate real networking ... since the communication group had co-opted the plain "network" term for SNA which is a communication protocol and doesn't have a network layer).
Much later the author of AWP164 (which is released as APPN) and I are reporting to the same executive ... I periodically needle him to stop playing with the communication group and work on real networking. When APPN is getting ready for announce, the communication group non-concurs and there is a couple month escalation period ... eventually resulting in the APPN announcement letter being carefully written to avoid implying that there is any relationship between APPN and SNA
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: OT: Electrician cuts wrong wire and downs 25,000 square foot data centre Date: 15 Dec 2015 Blog: Facebookre:
when I was undergraduate, I was brought into boeing as fulltime employee (to help with creating BCS, computing moved into independent business unit to better monetize the investment) ... and at the time Renton datacenter had upwards of $300M in IBM equipment (in 60s dollars, that summer there was constant flow of 360/65s staged in the Renton hallways awaiting installation), which I thot might be the largest in the world. They were looking at duplicating it in Everett because there was disaster scenario where Mt. Rainier heats up and there is massive mud slide that takes out the Renton datacenter (some claim that being w/o the Renton datacenter for a week would cost the company more than the cost of the Renton datacenter). That summer 747-3 was flying the skies of seattle getting FAA certification.
Later I'm sponsoring John Boyd's briefings at IBM ... and turns out
that he commanded "spook base" about the same time I was at Boeing
... which is claimed to have been a $2.5B "windfall" for IBM (again in
'60s dollars, supposedly had the largest air conditioned building in
that part of the world)). posts mentioning Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
posts mentioning availability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#available
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: This new 'skyscraper' chip could make computers run 1,000 times faster Date: 15 Dec 2015 Blog: FacebookThis new 'skyscraper' chip could make computers run 1,000 times faster
Note that many of the chips supporting older instruction sets ... now have hardware layer translating instructions into RISC micro-ops for scheduling and execution. It adds slight latency for any specific instruction but greatly increases the execution throughput of the chip (so there is now little throughput different between such chips and "real" RISC chips). The big throughput issue are things like super-scalar, out-of-order execution, speculative execution, branch prediction, hyperthreading, etc ... that help mask cache miss and memory access latency. Existing memory access latency ... when measured in count of processor cycles ... is comparable to 1960s disk access time when measured in count of 1960s processor cycles
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Accounting industry and SEC hobble America's audit watchdog Date: 17 Dec 2015 Blog: Google+re:
Accounting industry and SEC hobble America's audit watchdog
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-accounting-PCAOB/
Rhetoric in congress was that Sarbanes-Oxley was going to prevent
future ENRONs and guarantee that executives (and auditors) did
jailtime, but it required SEC to do something. However, at the time
there were jokes that it was actually just a huge gift to the audit
industry. Possibly because even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing
anything, it started doing reports of public company fraudulent
financial filings, even showing that they increased after
Sarbanes-Oxley goes into effect (and nobody doing jailtime).
posts mentioning Sarbanes-Oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
GAO Financial Restatement Database (GAO-06-1079sp)
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-06-1079sp
from above:
The database consists of two files: (1) a file that lists 1,390
restatement announcements that we identified as having been made
because of financial reporting fraud and/or accounting errors between
July 1, 2002, and September 30, 2005, and (2) a file that lists 396
restatement announcements that we identified as having been made
because of financial reporting fraud and/or accounting errors between
October 1, 2005, and June 30, 2006.
... snip ...
various reports was that part of the motivation for the fraudulent financial reporting was increasing bonuses of executives ... however, even after financial restatements, inflated bonuses weren't clawed back.
financial reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
The "joke" about gift to the audit industry ... was that
Sarbanes-Oxley required corporations to significantly increase
spending on audits ... but apparently no intention of seeing
executives and auditors in jail ... aka a congressional Kabuki Theater
moment (what you see publicly has little to do with what really goes
on)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Median Age of US Managers Date: 18 Dec 2015 Blog: FacebookMedian Age of US Managers
Mid-80s corporate was projecting that sales would shortly double (from something like $60B to $120B) .... mostly based on mainframe business ... there was massive internal building program to double mainframe manufacturing capacity and huge influx of "fast track" MBAs being rapidly rotated thru mid-level positions (to the detriment of many business units) ... presumably trying to double executive ranks. This was at the time that mainframe business was starting to go in the opposite directions ... and in a few years the company goes into the red.
In high school, i worked some number of construction jobs and summer after freshman year in collage, I was foreman on job with three 9-person crews. Shortly after joining IBM in 70, I was asked to be a manager ... I asked to read the manager's manual over the weekend and came back on Monday saying I didn't think my background of doing attitude adjustment in the parking lot after work would be looked on favorably by IBM.
Late 80s, senior disk engineer got a talk scheduled at the world-wide, annual communication group conference supposedly on 3174 performance and opened his talk with the statement that the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division. The issue was that the communication group had stranglehold on datacenters (trying to protect its dumb terminal paradigm install base) with its corporate strategic ownership with everything that crossed datacenter walls. The disk division was seeing data fleeing datacenters to more distributed computing friendly platforms with drop in disk sales. The disk division had come up with number of solutions to correct the problem, but they were constantly being vetoed by the communication group.
other trivia ... about co-worker from the science center:
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
Ed was responsible for the internal network which was larger than the
ARPANET/INTERNET from just about the beginning until sometime in the
mid-80s. I attribute much of this because Ed included a form of
gateway and distributed control in every node from the beginning. The
ARPANET/INTERENET didn't get this until the great 1JAN1983 cutover to
internetworking protocol. This replaced the tightly controlled,
centrally administrated IMPs. At the 1JAN1983 cutover there was
approx. 100 IMP network nodes (with approx. 255 connected hosts) at
the same time the internal network was rapidly approaching 1000
nodes. Part of the IMP folklore from the early 80s was that the 100
tightly controlled IMPs would periodically totally saturate all the
network links with administrative protocol chatter anytime there was
any significant event (part of the requirement to cutover to
internetworking protocol was that the existing IMP technology couldn't
scale). posts mentioning internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
slightly related trivia, we were working with director of NSF on
interconnecting the NSF supercomputer centers and were suppose to get
$20M ... related to my HSDT project ... some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#hsdt
Then congress cut the budget and some number of other things happen,
and finally they release RFP (largely based on stuff HSDT already had
running). 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) ... but that just makes the internal politics worse. As regional neworks connect into these centers, it morphs into the NSFNET
backbone, precursor to the modern internet. some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
related article
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
The original mainframe TCP/IP product was implemented in VS/Pascal
... but had some throughput issues, getting 44kbytes/sec throughput
ussing full 3090 processor. I did the enhancements to support RFC1044
and in some tuning tests at Cray Research between Cray and 4341, got
sustained 4341 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
The communication group had tried all sorts of corporate dirty tricks to block the activities. The internal network was not-SNA ... but in the late 80s ... about the same time I was doing RFC1044 support, the communication group was applying intense corporate political pressure to convert the internal network to SNA.
The corporate sponsored university BITNET used the same technology as
the internal network ... and then converted to TCP/IP. It would have
been much more cost effective and efficient if the internal network
converted to TCP/IP also ... instead of SNA. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
posts mentioning science center:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: DOS descendant still lives was Re: slight reprieve on the z. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 21 Dec 2015 00:05:07 -0800jcewing@ACM.ORG (Joel C. Ewing) writes:
during future system effort 370 efforts were being killed off (lack of
370 products there era is credited with clone processors market
foothold). after future system failed ... past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
there was mad rush to get stuff back into 370 product pipeline.
POK kick off 3033 (168 logic mapped to faster chips) and
3081/XA in parallel ... reference
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
XA had a lot of extensions tailored for MVS.
Endicott did something similar for e-architecture (4331 & 4341) tailored for vs1&dos. In large part a single virtual address space supported as part of the hardware architecture. Rather than having segment & page tables ... there were two new instructions that told the machine what virtual address was at what real address ... and invalidated the virtual address.
However there was an enormous explosion in vm/4300 sales (before
announce, 4341s were referred to a "E4") ... which required multiple
virtual address space ... which met that large number of 4300s ran in
370 mode rather than e-mode. Note that POK had convinced corporate to
kill off the vm370 product and move all the development people to POK as
part of MVS/XA development (including excuse that MVS/XA would ship on
time, if they couldn't get the additional resources). Endicott manage to
save the vm370 product mission, but had to reconstitute a development
group from scratch. some old 4300 related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
Note that VS1 and VM/370 "ECPS" was different than e-machine
architecture. It originated with the 138/148 (virgil/tully) ... where
selected high use kernel/system instructions paths were implemented in
microcode. The low & mid-range machine were vertical microcode
machines with an avg of 10 native instructions per 370 instruction
(somewhat analogous to mainframe emulators that run on Intel
platforms). Kernel instruction paths tended to get 10:1 performance
improvement when moved to microcode. I did the initial study and
effort for the VM/370 ECPS ... old post with results for selecting
pathlengths to be moved to microcode (I was told that I needed to
select the 6kbytes of highest executed kernel instructions, which
turned out to account of 80% of vm/370 kernel execution)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
trivia ... the methodology for selecting the VS1 paths wasn't nearly so rigorous.
other trivia ... major motivation for Future System product was as
countermeasure to clone controllers ... but the (failed) Future System
effort contributed significantly to the rise of the clone processors.
The threat of clone processors resulted in decision to transition to
charging for system/kernel software. I continued to work on 370 stuff
all during the FS period ... even periodically ridiculing FS stuff
... which wasn't exactly career enhancing. Also one of my hobbies was
developing&supporting advanced enhanced operating systems for internal
datacenters ... some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
In any case, the mad rush to get stuff back into 370 product pipeline contributed to decision to pick up various of my stuff and ship it in products for customers. One part of that stuff (dynamic adaptive resource manager) was selected to be guinea pig for starting to charge for system/kernel software ... and I had to spend some amount of time with lawyers & business types going over policies for system/kernel software charging.
even more trivia: when 3033 looked at doing something similar to ECPS ... it didn't work out as well. 3033 was horizontal microcode machine that had been optimized so it was executing nearly one 370 instruction per machine cycle. Directly dropping system/kernel 370 pathlengths into microcode could even result in running slower than the original 370.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: DOS descendant still lives was Re: slight reprieve on the z. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 21 Dec 2015 10:52:04 -0800tony@VSE2PDF.COM (Tony Thigpen) writes:
As an undergraduate I do lots of work on cp67 (including to run in 256kbyte machine). The morph of cp67 to vm370, did a lot of simplification of cp67 at the same time bloating the kernel size so performance was seriously impacting running in 256kbytes. Boeblingen does 115&125 ... and at one point I get dragged into optimizing vm370 to run on 256kbyte 125 customer machines.
boeblingen does 135 and 138. Then Boeblingen does 4331. Endicott had con'ed me into doing lots of work on 148, vm/370 ecps. At the same time I was helping Endicott with 148 vm370 ECPS, the 125 group also asked me to do the design and specification for a 5-way 125 SMP machine (which never shipped, it turns out the Endicott 148 people felt threaten that 5-way 125 multiprocessor would impact their market ... which put me in odd position since I was doing both).
Later was dragged into doing a lot of work with regard to 4341.
Across the street, the disk engineering group in bldg. 14 and the disk
product test group in bldg. 15 dragged me into playing disk engineer ...
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
the product test group in bldg 15 would typically get the 3rd or 4th
engineering model for doing disk i/o testing. they got the 3rd
enginneering model of 3033 and very early E4 (4341) engineering machine
for testing. Because I was doing so much stuff for them, I would get
lots of time on bldg. 15 systems for other stuff I might want to do. The
performance test marketing group in Endicott con'ed me into doing
customer benchmarking on the bldg. 15 enginneering E4/4341 ... since I
had bettter access to the machine ... than they had to early engineering
machines in Endicott. some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
email includes references that when the E4/4341 originally arrived in bldg. 15 ... it had the proceessor cycle slowed down (allowed machine to work as they refined the engineering) so that the benchmarks were not as good as they could be. Later as they refined the machine, they were able to crank down the processor cycle.
One of the benchmarks was for national lab that was looking at getting 70 4341s for a compute farm (sort of the precursor to modern cluster, GRID and supercomputing). It showed 4341 was faster than 158&3031 and 4341 cluster was faster, cheaper, much less floor space and environmentals than 3033. The cluster 4341 threat to 3033 was so big that at one point, the head of POK got corporate to cut the allocation of critical 4341 manufacturing component in half.
other trivia: circa 1980, there was plan to move the large variety of internal microprocessors to 801/RISC, including low&mid-range (vertical microcode) 370s, what was to be as/400, lots of controllers, etc. For various reasons that effort floundered and they continued with various CISC microprocessors. I helped somebody in endicott with white paper showing that VLSI was moving to the point, that large part of 370 could be implemented in silicon ... as opposed to having to be emulated ... which would be much faster & price/performance than pure emulation in 801/RISC (other side effect was that some number of 801/RISC engineers leave and go to work on RISC projects at other vendors).
Boeblingen does 4361 (4331 follow-on) and Endicott does 4381 (4341 follow-on) in CISC. IBM was expecting that 4361/4381 would continue the enormous 4331/4341 sales explosion, but by that time the mid-range market was starting to move to workstations and large PCs.
Previous posts mentions in the wake of the FS failure, there was mad
rush to get stuff back into 370 product pipeline, this included 3033
(168 logic remap to faster chips) and 3081/xa kicked off at the same
time
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
Turns out during the 3033 engineering period, I was also involved in a
16-way 370 SMP effort and we con'ed some of the 3033 processor engineers
to work on it in their spare time. At first everybody thot it was really
great effort, and then somebody tells the head of POK that it could be
decades before MVS had effective 16-way support ... and he then invites
some of us to never visit POK again ... and tells the 3033 processor
engineers to stop being distracted by other activities. some SMP
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
With the 3033 out the door, the 3033 processor engineers start work on
trout1.5 (aka 3090, in parallel with ongoing 3081/xa) circa 1980. Part
of the 3090 effort was to use 4331 as service processor running a highly
modified version of vm370 release 6 ... and I periodically get dragged
into that effort. The 3090 service processor eventually gets upgraded to
pair of 4361s running highly modified version of vm370 release 6 ... a
couple (later) old email references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#email861031
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#email861223
Early days of REXX (well before ships to customers), I wanted to demonstrate it wasn't just another pretty scripting language ... and chose to rewrite IPCS all in REXX as demonstration. At the time, IPCS was a enormous amount of assembler code. I set to rewrite IPCS all in REXX, with ten times the function and ten times the performance, working half time over three months. I finished early and so started doing library of automated analysis that would look for typical failure mode signatures.
I had expected that when REXX shipped to customers, my rewritten IPCS
would also ship to customers (it was by then in use by nearly all
internal datacenters and customer support PSRs). I did get permission to
make presentations on my rewrite of IPCS at customer user group meetings
(and within couple weeks, similar implementations started to appear at
customer shops). In any case, the above 3092 (aka 4361) email references
was about picking up my IPCS rewrite and shipping as part of standard
3092. Some past posts mentioning IPCS rewrite
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dumprx
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: DOS descendant still lives was Re: slight reprieve on the z. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 21 Dec 2015 12:01:07 -0800other trivia
in the wake of FS and mad rush ... 303x was kicked off ... as mentioned 3033 was 168 logic remapped to 20% faster chips ... that happened to have ten times more circuits per chip. Using original 168 logic, 3033 would have been only 20% faster than 168 (aka 3.6mips). However, some specific logic rework to use the larger circuits per chip got it up to 50% faster than 168 (4.5mips).
158 manufacturing had been enormously automated ... somewhat like what they quote for incremental cost of an automobile rolling off the line. The 158 integrated channel microcode was used for the 303x channel director (158 engine w/o 370 microcode and with the integrated channel microcode). 3031 was two 158 engines, one with just the 370 microcode and a 2nd (channel director) with just the integrated channel microcode. A 3032 is 168-3 reworked to use 303x channel director for external channels.
some benchmark numbers for national lab ... looking at getting 70 4341s for compute farm (precursor to modern GRID, cloud, and supercomputers)
158 3031 4341
Rain 45.64 secs 37.03 secs 36.21 secs
Rain4 43.90 secs 36.61 secs 36.13 secs
also times approx;
145 168-3 91
145 secs. 9.1 secs 6.77 secs
also had run in 35.77 on CDC6600. 158 370 was slower than 3031 because
the (single) 158 engine was being shared between the 370 microcode and
the integrated channel microcode (which ran even when channels were
idle).
Part of the original morph from cp67 (and 360/67) to VM370 (multiple 370
models) was vm370 had table of supported 370 models ... with various
model characteristics. As part of my moving from cp67 to vm370 ... old
email reference:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
... I replaced the static table of supported 370 models with dynamic
code to determaine the characteristics ... it made it much simpler to
deploy a csc/vm production system to different machines (like
engineering models) not included in the shipped static table of
supported machines. some posts discussion work at the scientific center
(why it was called csc/vm). some past scientific center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
csc/vm (&/or sjr/vm) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#cscvm
Later I transfer to San Jose research ... on the san jose plant site
(accross the street from bldgs. 14&15) and csc/vm morphs into sjr/vm.
Old 4341 email about engineering model processor cycle time includes
reference to checking the DSPSL value ... which is one of my dynamically
determined values ... old reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790220
from my dynamic adaptive resource manager ... which was guinea
pig for starting to charge for system/kernel software (customers
referred to as "fair share" since the default resource management
policy was "fair share") ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
then somebody leaks the benchmark numbers to the press ... and
they initially try to blame me ... reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790226
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 25 Years: How the Web began Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 15:08:07 -080025 Years: How the Web began
First webserver in US was on (CERN sister lab) SLAC VM370 system
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit
and
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit/early-web-chronology-and-documents-1991-1994
trivia: GML was invented at science center in 1969, a decade later it
morphs into ISO standard SGML, and after another decade it morphs into
HTML at CERN. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
and science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
We were working with NSF director to interconnect the NSF supercomputer
labs and were suppose to get $20M. Then congress cuts the budget, some
number of other things happen, and finally NSF releases an RFP (based
largely on what we already have running). Internal politics prevent us
from bidding. The NSF director tries to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO), but that just makes the internal politics
worse. As regional networks connect into the sites, it morphs into the
NSFNET backbone (precursor to the modern internet). some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
During part of this, the communication group was spreading internal
misinformation about how they might be able to play. Somebody collects
a lot of their email and forwards it to us ... small part, heavily
snipped and redacted to protect the guilty:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: 25 Years: How the Web began Date: 21 Dec 2015 Blog: Facebook25 Years: How the Web began
First webserver in US was on (CERN sister lab) SLAC VM370 system
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit
and
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit/early-web-chronology-and-documents-1991-1994
trivia: GML was invented at science center in 1969, a decade later it
morphs into ISO standard SGML, and after another decade it morphs into
HTML at CERN. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
and science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
We were working with NSF director to interconnect the NSF supercomputer
labs and were suppose to get $20M. Then congress cuts the budget, some
number of other things happen, and finally NSF releases an RFP (based
largely on what we already have running). Internal politics prevent us
from bidding. The NSF director tries to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO), but that just makes the internal politics
worse. As regional networks connect into the sites, it morphs into the
NSFNET backbone (precursor to the modern internet). some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
and
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
During part of this, the communication group was spreading internal
misinformation about how they might be able to play. Somebody collects
a lot of their email and forwards it to us ... small part, heavily
snipped and redacted to protect the guilty:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
other trivia ... about co-worker from the science center:
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
Ed was responsible for the internal network which was larger than the ARPANET/INTERNET from just about the beginning until sometime in the mid-80s. I attribute much of this because Ed included a form of gateway and distributed control in every node from the beginning. The ARPANET/INTERENET didn't get this until the great 1JAN1983 cutover to internetworking protocol. This replaced the tightly controlled, centrally administrated IMPs. At the 1JAN1983 cutover there was approx. 100 IMP network nodes (with approx. 255 connected hosts) at the same time the internal network was rapidly approaching 1000 nodes. Part of the IMP folklore from the early 80s was that the 100 tightly controlled IMPs would periodically totally saturate all the network links with administrative protocol chatter anytime there was any significant event (part of the requirement to cutover to internetworking protocol was that the existing IMP technology couldn't scale).
slightly related trivia, we were working with director of NSF on
interconnecting the NSF supercomputer centers and were suppose to get
$20M ... related to my HSDT project ... some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#hsdt
The original mainframe TCP/IP product was implemented in VS/Pascal
... but had some throughput issues, getting 44kbytes/sec throughput
ussing full 3090 processor. I did the enhancements to support RFC1044
and in some tuning tests at Cray Research between Cray and 4341, got
sustained 4341 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
The communication group had tried all sorts of corporate dirty tricks
to block the activities. The internal network was not-SNA ... but in
the late 80s ... about the same time I was doing RFC1044 support, the
communication group was applying intense corporate political pressure
to convert the internal network to SNA. Then CJN meetings were
restricted to managers only in this period (afraid that technical
people might confuse the move to SNA with facts). Some old email:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email870302
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#email870306
The corporate sponsored university BITNET used the same technology as
the internal network ... and then converted to TCP/IP. It would have
been much more cost effective and efficient if the internal network
converted to TCP/IP also ... instead of SNA. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
PC/RT had done their own 4mbit T/R card. For the RS/6000
(w/microchannel), they were told that they had to use PS2 microchannel
cards. The design point for the PS2 16mbit T/R cards was dumb terminal
emulation with 300+ sharing same network (very low throughput per
card). As a result a PC/RT server with 4mbit T/R card had higher
throughput than RS/6000 with 16mbit T/R card. posts mentioning 801/risc,
romp, rios, pc/rt, rs/6000, power, power/pc, etc.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
The new almaden bldg. was heavily wired with CAT4 assuming it would be used for 16mbit T/R ... however they found that 10mbit ethernet had higher per card throughput, and the network had higher aggregate network throughput and lower latency.
There was IBM report released in this time-frame showing ethernet throughput ... which I can only assume that they used original 3mbit prototype ethernet before listen before transmit. An ACM SIGCOMM paper about the same time showed typical 10mbit ethernet configuration getting 8mbit/sec effective throughput when all low driver software were put in loop continuously transmitting minimum sized packets.
In 1988, I was asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they had, which quickly becomes fibre-channel standard. Later some POK channel engineers become involved and they define a heavy-weight protocol for fibre-channel that drastically cuts the native throughput ... eventually released as FICON.
IBM has published a z196 peak I/O throughput that uses 104 FICON to get
2M IOPS. About the same time a fibre-channel is announced for E5-2600
blade claiming over 1M IOPS (i.e. two such fibre-channel have higher
throughput than 104 FICON ... running over 104 fibre-channel). I have
yet to see more recent reports done for z12 and z13. some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 25 Years: How the Web began Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 10:12:47 -0800hancock4 writes:
i ran waffle BBS on ms/dos machine with complete pagesat usenet feed.
picture of sat dish in backyard.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/pagesat.jpg
a decade earlier ... in HSDT project
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
... which included TDMA satellite system ... had 4.5M dishes in the backyards of Yorktown Research on the east coast and Los Gatos Lab on the west coast ... and 7M dish at the Austin plant site.
other trivia ... "GML" was chosen because "G", "M", and "L" are last
name first letter of former co-workers at the science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
some pagesat/boardwatch past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#38 Vanishing Posts...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#39 I'll Be! Al Gore DID Invent the Internet After All ! NOT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#66 UUCP email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005l.html#16 Newsgroups (Was Another OS/390 to z/OS 1.4 migration
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#11 An Out-of-the-Main Activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#17 What if phone company had developed Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#16 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#19 IBM-MAIN longevity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#19 Another one bites the dust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#84 Anyone going to Supercomputers '09 in Portland?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#74 bulletin board
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#75 Posts missing from ibm-main on google groups
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#92 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#26 Anyone here run UUCP?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#67 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#38 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#57 email security re: hotmail.com
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 24 Dec 2015 10:47:27 -0800charlesm@MCN.ORG (Charles Mills) writes:
cache miss/memory access latency ... when measured in count of processor cycles is comparable to 60s disk access when measured in count of 60s processor cycles.
There is lot of analogy between page thrashing when overcommitting real
memory and cache misses. This is old account of motivation behind moving
370 to all virtual memory. The issue was that as processors got faster,
they spent more and more time waiting for disk. To keep the processors
busy, required increasing levels of multiprogramming to overlap
execution with waiting on disk. At the time, MVT storage allocation was
so bad that a region sizes needed to be four times larger than actually
used. As a result, a typical 1mbyte 370/165 would only have four
regions. Going to 16mbyte virtual memoy, it would be possible to run 16 regions
in a typical 1mbyte 370/165 with little or no paging ... significantly
increasing aggregate throughput.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73 Multiple Virtual Memory
risc has been doing cache miss compensation for decades, out-of-order execution, branch prediction, speculative execution, hyperthreading ... can be viewed as hardware analogy to 60s multitasking ... given the processor something else to do while waiting for cache miss. Decade or more ago, some of the other non-risc chips started moving to hardware layer that translated instructions into risc micro-ops for scheduling and execution ... largely mitigating performance difference between those CISC architectures and RISC.
IBM documentation claimed that half the per processor improvement from
z10->z196 was the introduction of many of the features that have been
common in risc implementation for decades ... with further refinement in
ec12 and z13.
z10, 64processors, aggregate 30BIPS or 496MIPS/proc
z196, 80processors, aggregate 50BIPS or 625MIPS/proc
EC12, 101 processor, aggregate 75BIPS or 743MIPS/proc
however, z13 claims 30% more throughput than EC12 with 40% more
processors ... which would make it 700MIPS/processor
by comparison z10 era E5-2600v1 blade was about 500 BIPS, 16 processors or 31BIPS/proce. E5-2600v4 blade is pushing 2000BIPS, 36 processors or 50BIPS/proc.
as an aside, 370/195 pipeline was doing out-of-order execution ... but didn't do branch prediction or speculative execution ... and conditional branch would drain the pipeline. careful coding could keep the execution units busy getting 10MIPS ... but normal codes typically ran around 5MIPS (because of conditional branches). I got sucked into helping with hyperthreading 370/195 (which never shipped), it would simulate two processors with two instructions streams, sets of registers, etc ... assuming two instruction streams, each running at 5MIPS would then keep all execution units running at 10MIPS.
from account of shutdown of ACS-360
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
Sidebar: Multithreading
In summer 1968, Ed Sussenguth investigated making the ACS-360 into a
multithreaded design by adding a second instruction counter and a second
set of registers to the simulator. Instructions were tagged with an
additional "red/blue" bit to designate the instruction stream and
register set; and, as was expected, the utilization of the functional
units increased since more independent instructions were available.
IBM patents and disclosures on multithreading include:
US Patent 3,728,692, J.W. Fennel, Jr., Instruction selection in a
two-program counter instruction unit, filed August 1971, and issued
April 1973.
US Patent 3,771,138, J.O. Celtruda, et al., Apparatus and method for
serializing instructions from two independent instruction streams, filed
August 1971, and issued November 1973. Note: John Earle is one of the
inventors listed on the '138. "Multiple instruction stream
uniprocessor," IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, January 1976,
2pp. [for S/370]
... snip ...
Note the next sidebar is ES/9000 ... containing many features from ACS-360 more than 20yrs later (Amdahl's account is that executives ended ACS-360 because it would advance state-of-the-art too fast and they would loose control of the market).
other trivia ... starting in the middle to late 70s, I started
pontificting that relative system performance of disks were declining
and by the early 80s, disk relative system performance had declined by a
factor of 10 times (order of magnitude) over a period of 15 years (disks
and gotten 3-5 times faster, but processors had gotten 50 times
faster). Disk division executives took exception to my statements and
assigned the division performance group to refute what I was
saying. After several weeks they came back and effectively said that I
had understated the problem. Their analysis was then respun into SHARE
presentation (B874) on optimizing disk configurations for system throughput
... old reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#3
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#68
piece of my 15 year comparison ... 360/67 cp67 to 3081 vm/370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/93.html#31
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 24 Dec 2015 13:42:05 -0800mike.a.schwab@GMAIL.COM (Mike Schwab) writes:
aka, speculative execution ... instructions executed on path ... that
is not actually taken ... are not committed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_execution
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_execution#Eager_execution
Eager execution is a form of speculative execution where both sides of the conditional branch are executed; however, the results are committed only if the predicate is true. With unlimited resources, eager execution (also known as oracle execution) would in theory provide the same performance as perfect branch prediction. With limited resources eager execution should be employed carefully since the number of resources needed grows exponentially with each level of branches executed eagerly.[7]
... snip ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eager_evaluation
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 14:11:46 -0800JO.Skip.Robinson@ATT.NET (Skip Robinson) writes:
pioneered a lot of early performance technology, activity monitoring (multiple regssion analysis and workload profiling) sampling for hot-spot analysis, analytical modeling, algorithm simulation, etc ... some of it eventually evolving into capacity planning.
one of the science center's APL-based analytical modeling was packaged
on the HONE system (vm370/cms based online internal world-wide sales
and marketing support)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
as "Peformance Predictor". Customer support people could gather system details and provide activity profile information to the Peformance Predictor and then asked questions about what will happen if additional hardware was added or workload changed.
In the wake of corporate troubles of the early 90s, the company unloaded a lot of resources (for instance, internal VLSI design tools were given to outside company that specialized in selling such tools).
There was somebody that had acquired the rights to a descendant of the Performance Predictor and had ran it through an APL->C langugage convertor ... and used it for successful performance consulting career. Around the turn of the century, I ran into him at a large datacenter that had 40+ max. configured ibm mainframe systems. The number of systems were sized to be able to do financial transaction settlement in the overnight batch window ... all running a 450k statement COBOL application.
The COBOL application had evolved over a couple decades and was under the care of a large performance group that was constantly doing hot-spot sampling and optimizing hotspots. The performance predictor descendant was being used for identifying more global issues ... which resulted in about 7% improvement (on an already enormously optimized application).
I voluntered to do multiple regression analysis on higher level activity data. This found a certain activity was accounting for 20+ percent processor use. Looking at it closer, they realized that it was invoking a certain very expensive process three times ... when it only needed to be invoked once ... correcting that resulted in 14% improvement
past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#50 Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#20 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#21 Distributed Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#24 Job ad for z/OS systems programmer trainee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#73 Price of CPU seconds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#81 Intel: an expensive many-core future is ahead of us
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#5 Why do IBMers think disks are 'Direct Access'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#76 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#55 Cobol hits 50 and keeps counting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#20 IBM forecasts 'new world order' for financial services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#35 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#32 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#25 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#45 Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#83 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#69 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#78 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#65 A New Performance Model ?
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 24 Dec 2015 18:01:28 -0800rpinion@NETSCAPE.COM (Richard Pinion) writes:
in late 70s we would have friday nights after work ... and discuss a
number of things ... along the lines of what came up in tandem memos
... aka I was blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal
network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning
until sometime mid-80s) in the late 70s and early 80. folklore is that
when the corporate executive committee were told about online computer
conferencing (and the internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me. from
IBMJARGON:
[Tandem Memos] n. Something constructive but hard to control; a fresh of
breath air (sic). "That's another Tandem Memos." A phrase to worry
middle management. It refers to the computer-based conference (widely
distributed in 1981) in which many technical personnel expressed
dissatisfaction with the tools available to them at that time, and also
constructively criticized the way products were [are] developed. The
memos are required reading for anyone with a serious interest in quality
products. If you have not seen the memos, try reading the November 1981
Datamation summary.
... snip ...
one of the issues was that the majority of the people inside the company didn't actually use computers ... and we thot things would be be improved if the people in the company actually had personal experience using computers, especially managers and executives. So we eventually came up with the idea of online telephone books ... of (nearly) everybody in the corporation ... especially if lookup elapsed time was less than look up of paper telephone book.
avg binary search of 256k is 18 ... aka 2*18. Also important was there were nearly 64 entries in physical block ... so binary search to the correct physical block is 12 reads (i.e. 64 is 2**6, 18-6=12).
However, it is fairly easy to calculate the name letter frequency ... so instead of doing binary search, do radix search (based on letter frequency) and can get within the correct physical block within 1-3 physical reads (instead of 12). We also got fancy doing first two letter frequency and partially adjusting 2nd probe, based on how accurate the first probe was. In any case, binary search for totally unknown distribution characteristics.
So one friday night, we established the criteria, to design, implement, test and deploy the lookup program had to take less than a person week of effort ... and less than another person week to design, implement, test and deploy the process for collecting, formating and distributing the online telephone books.
trivia ... long ago and far away ... a couple people I had worked with at Oracle (when I was at IBM and working on cluster scale-up for HA/CMP), had left and were at small client/server responsible for something called commerce server. After cluster scale-up was transferred, announced as IBM supercomputer, and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors ... we decide to leave. We are then brought in as consultants at this small client/server startup because they want to do payment transactions on the server, the startup had also invented this technology called SSL they want to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
TCP/IP protocol has session termination process that includes something called FINWAIT list. At the time, session termination was relative infrequent process and common TCP/IP implementations used a sequential search of the FINWAIT list (assuming that there would be few or none entries on the list). HTTP (& HTTPS) implementation chose to use TCP ... even tho it is a datagram protocol rather than a session protocol. There was period in the early/mid 90s as web use was scaling up where webservers saturated spending 90-95% of cpu time doing FINWAIT list searches .... before the various implementations were upgraded to do significantly more efficient management of FINWAIT (session termination) process.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Between CISC and RISC Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 16:18:29 -0800Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
and as an aside:
z10, 64processors, aggregate 30BIPS or 496MIPS/proc
z196, 80processors, aggregate 50BIPS or 625MIPS/proc
EC12, 101 processor, aggregate 75BIPS or 743MIPS/proc
however, recent z13 claims 30% more throughput than EC12 with 40% more
processors ... which would make it 700MIPS/processor
z10 era E5-2600v1 blade can be over 500 BIPS, 16 processors or 30BIPS/proc. more recent E5-2600v4 blade is pushing 2000BIPS, 36 processors or 50BIPS/proc.
recent posts mentioning z196/ec12/z13 and/or e5-2600:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#33 Why on Earth Is IBM Still Making Mainframes?
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#40 [CM] IBM releases Z13 Mainframe - looks like Batman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#43 z13 "new"(?) characteristics from RedBook
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/2015b.html#56 New Principles of Operation (and Vector Facility for z/Architecture)
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#31 IBM Z13
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#36 IBM Z13
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#69 A New Performance Model ?
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#83 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#93 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#19 Linux Foundation Launches Open Mainframe Project
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#42 20 Things Incoming College Freshmen Will Never Understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#83 Term "Open Systems" (as Sometimes Currently Used) is Dead -- Who's with Me?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#93 HP being sued, not by IBM.....yet!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#96 TCP joke
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#2 More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#81 IBM Automatic (COBOL) Binary Optimizer Now Availabile
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#108 25 Years: How the Web began
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#110 Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: The Source, was: 25 Years: How the Web began Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 12:53:01 -0800danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> writes:
later have left and show up at small client/server startup responsible for soemthing called commerce server. A few weeks after that meeting, cluster scale-up is transferred, announced as IBM supercomputer and we are told we can't work on anything with more than four processors .. and we decide to leave. Later we are brought in as consultants at the small client/server startup because they want to do payment transactions (on the "commerce server"), the startup had also invented this technology called "SSL" they want to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
They had moved into facility on middlefield road at the "T" with Ellis street. We are also brought in to talk about "electronic commerce" with "connect, inc" which is part way down Ellis st (towards 101). They had online service that was based on massive amount of code on top of oracle ... where they added http&https support in relative short period of time.
There is something in the back of my mind that they used a lot of Prime
computers ... but I can't find a reference at the moment. from long
ago and far away ...
Connect, Inc. is the first company to develop and market flexible and
scalable integrated online server software solutions. With nine years of
online experience, the company is at the forefront of providing high-end
software and services for Fortune-class enterprises wishing to conduct
complex business transactions securely on the Internet or other data
networks. CONNECT is a private company, founded in 1987 and
headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. For more information, telephone
1-800-262-2638 or access the CONNECT World Wide Web site at
http://www.connectinc.com. -0-
... snip ...
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 27 Dec 2015 13:21:21 -0800shmuel+ibm-main@PATRIOT.NET (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
IBM executives were looking at 370/165 ... where typical customer had 1mbyte ... in part because 165 real memory was very expensive ... and typical regions were such that they only got four in 1mbytes (after system real storage requirement)
later, newer memory for 370/168 was less expensive ... and started to see four mbytes as much more common ... aka four mbytes as 370/165 would have met that typical MVT customer could have gotten 16 regions ... w/o having to resort to virtual memory ... but the decision had already been made.
basical initial transtion os/mvt to os/vs2 svs was MVT laid out in single 16mbyte virtual address space ... and little bit of code to build the segement/page tables and handle page faults. The biggest code hit was adding channel program translation in EXCP ... code initially copied from CP67 CCWTRANS channel program translation.
prior reference/discssion to justification for 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73 Multiple Virtual Memory
later transition to os/vs2 MVS with multiple virtual address spaces ... had other problems. The os/360 MVT heritage was heavily based on pointer passing API paradigm ... and with move to MVS. The first pointer passing ... was put an 8mbyte image of the MVT kernel into every application virtual address space ... leaving only 8mbytes (out of 16) for application use. Then because of subsystems were now in their own (different) virtual address space ... needed a way for passing parameters & data back and forth between applications and subsystems using pointer passing API. The result was "common segment" ... a one mbyte area that also appeared in every virtual address space .... which could be used to pass arguments/data back&forth between applications and subsystems (leaving only 7mbytes for applications). The next issue was demand for common segment was somewhat proportional to number of concurrent applications and subsystems ... so the common segment area became common system area (CSA) as requirements exceeded 1mbytes. Into the 3033 area, larger operations were pushing CSA to 4&5 mbytes and threatening to push it to 8mbytes ... leaving no space at all for application (of course with MVS kernel at 8mbytes and CSA at 8mbytes, there wouldn't be any left for applications ... which drops the demand for CSA to zero).
Part of the solution to address the OS/360 MVT pointer passing API problem was included in the original XA architecture (later referred to 811 ... because documents dated Nov1978) were access registers ... and ability to address/access multiple address spaces. To try and alleviate the CSA explosion in 3033 time-frame ... a subset of access registers was retrofitted to 3033 as dual-address space mode ... but it provide only limited help since it still required updating all the subsystems to support dual-address space mode (instead of CSA).
trivia: the person responsible for retrofitting dual-access to 3033 ... later leaves IBM for another vendor and later shows up as one of the people behind HP Snake and later Itanium.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 25 Years: How the Web began Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 08:24:17 -0800hancock4 writes:
at the time, standard reservation terminal interface had changed little from the 60s, numerous extremely terse character sequences with manual effort to tie the sequence all together. It ran about 100 times faster and could handle all airlines for all flts for everybody in the world ... which none of the existing implementations could handle ... with a lot of additional features (to handle the whole worlds load would run on ten rs/6000 990s ... a decade later, would fit on cellphone).
Part of the issue, was that the design of existing implementation hadn't changed since the 60s ... with various kinds of trade-offs made at that time. Starting from scratch, with 30yrs advances, could make totally different set of trade-offs. One of the differences, was existing implementations had trouble where more than two connecting flts were required. New implementation could handle any number of connecting flts necessary to get between any two points on the planet.
Also demo'ed a newer user interface ... that collapsed three separate arcane interactions into single transaction that would return significantly more information ... which could be sorted by various criteria. Could even display map of the flt(s), overlayed with current weather conditions.
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#17 Old Computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#100 Why won't the AS/400 die? Or, It's 1999 why do I have to learn how to use
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#103 IBM 9020 computers used by FAA (was Re: EPO stories (was: HELP IT'S HOT!!!!!))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#136a checks (was S/390 on PowerPC?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#20 Competitors to SABRE?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#26 Disk caching and file systems. Disk history...people forget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#69 Block oriented I/O over IP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#45 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#49 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#17 I hate Compaq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#0 TSS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#3 News IBM loses supercomputer crown
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#2 Computers in Science Fiction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#3 Why are Mainframe Computers really still in use at all?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#12 Why did OSI fail compared with TCP-IP?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#43 IBM doing anything for 50th Anniv?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#83 HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#83 Summary: Robots of Doom
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#67 Tweaking old computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#48 InfiniBand Group Sharply, Evenly Divided
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#30 difference between itanium and alpha
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#67 unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#3 Ping: Anne & Lynn Wheeler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#47 What makes a mainframe a mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#6 Mainframe not a good architecture for interactive workloads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#44 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#58 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#14 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#6 Xah Lee's Unixism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#23 Demo: Things in Hierarchies (w/o RM/SQL)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#29 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#26 IBM 3614 and 3624 ATM's
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#85 The TransRelational Model: Performance Concerns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#22 The Soul of Barb's New Machine (was Re: creat)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#41 something like a CTC on a PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#67 intel's Vanderpool and virtualization in general
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#47 Using the Cache to Change the Width of Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#22 System/360; Hardwired vs. Microcoded
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#44 What was new&important in computer architecture 10 years ago ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#44 Intel engineer discusses their dual-core design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#7 HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006d.html#5 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#6 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#9 Arpa address
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#4 How Many 360/195s and 370/195s were shipped?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#18 RAMAC 305(?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#18 50th Anniversary of invention of disk drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#52 US Air computers delay psgrs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#22 Bidirectional Binary Self-Joins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#41 US Airways badmouths legacy system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#41 Fast and Safe C Strings: User friendly C macros to Declare and use C Strings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#28 Even worse than UNIX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#72 The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#8 nouns and adjectives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#45 64 gig memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#53 Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#19 American Airlines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#32 CLIs and GUIs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#41 Automation is still not accepted to streamline the business processes... why organizations are not accepting newer technologies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#33 IBM touts encryption innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#55 IBM halves mainframe Linux engine prices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#66 ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#73 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#74 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#80 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#19 Processes' memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#52 Article says mainframe most cost-efficient platform
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#42 IBM 3883 Manuals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#16 Sabre Talk Information?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#81 Hashing for DISTINCT or GROUP BY in SQL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#17 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#42 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#14 Sabre; The First Online Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#43 Sabre; The First Online Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#8 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#77 program coding pads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#35 Last Word on Dennis Ritchie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#92 Innovation and iconoclasm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#8 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#70 Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#7 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#23 How to Stuff a Wild Duck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#50 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#16 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#59 history of Programming language and CPU in relation to each
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#13 Should you support or abandon the 3270 as a User Interface?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#1 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#7 From build to buy: American Airlines changes modernization course midflight
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#52 Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#65 Linear search vs. Binary search
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#87 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#0 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made 30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#20 Write Inhibit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#10 Can the mainframe remain relevant in the cloud and mobile era?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#54 Has the last fighter pilot been born?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#101 Costs of core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#53 transactions, was There Is Still Hope
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#84 History--error checking in Baudot (5 bit) transmissions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#34 50th/60th anniversary of SABRE--real-time airline reservations computer system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#41 50th/60th anniversary of SABRE--real-time airline reservations computer system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#54 RR songs, was Re: e50th/60th anniversary of SABRE--real-time airline reservations computer system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#57 RR songs, was Re: e50th/60th anniversary of SABRE--real-time airline reservations computer system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#58 RR songs, was Re: e50th/60th anniversary of SABRE--real-time airline reservations computer system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#29 Power grid groans, blackouts roll through L.A. area as heat wave nears peak
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#29 IBM 1401 emulation on 360 processors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#69 RR songs, was Re: e50th/60th anniversary of SABRE--real-time airline reservations computer system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#75 How Russia's S-400 makes the F-35 obsolete
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#107 crash, restart, and all that, was Your earliest dream?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#84 ACP/TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#5 Can you have a robust IT system that needs experts to run it?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 25 Years: How the Web began Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 13:35:12 -0800hancock4 writes:
in the late 90s, we periodically stopped by to talk to person responsible for the largest financial transaction system ... which happened to still run on mainframes. He would claim that its 100% availability for several years were due to
1) (triple-replicated) IMS hot-standy ... at geographically separated locations 2) automated operator (eliminated human mistakes)
this corresponds to Jim Gray's study from the early 80s ... about
service outages had shifted away from hardware failures (as hardware
became much more reliable). ref
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/grayft84.pdf
also
https://jimgray.azurewebsites.net/papers/TandemTR86.2_FaultToleranceInTandemComputerSystems.pdf
past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#71 High Availabilty on S/390
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#107 Computer History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#128 Examples of non-relational databases
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#136a checks (was S/390 on PowerPC?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#22 Computer of the century
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#12 Amdahl Exits Mainframe Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#43 Life as a programmer--1960, 1965?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001c.html#13 LINUS for S/390
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#70 Pentium 4 Prefetch engine?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#71 Pentium 4 Prefetch engine?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001e.html#44 Where are IBM z390 SPECint2000 results?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001e.html#47 Where are IBM z390 SPECint2000 results?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#8 VM: checking some myths.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#13 HP-UX will not be ported to Alpha (no surprise)exit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#14 HP-UX will not be ported to Alpha (no surprise)exit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#18 HP-UX will not be ported to Alpha (no surprise)exit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#47 five-nines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#47 Sysplex Info
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#85 The demise of compaq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002.html#24 Buffer overflow
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#68 Blade architectures
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#73 Where did text file line ending characters begin?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#62 Itanium2 performance data from SGI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#27 why does wait state exist?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#14 Home mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#54 Newbie: Two quesions about mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#37 Calculating expected reliability for designed system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#3 Disk capacity and backup solutions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#56 The figures of merit that make mainframes worth the price
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#60 The figures of merit that make mainframes worth the price
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#27 instant messaging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#22 foundations of relational theory? - some references for the
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#45 hung/zombie users ... long boring, wandering story
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004.html#40 AMD/Linux vs Intel/Microsoft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#48 Automating secure transactions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#46 Shipwrecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#75 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#53 8086 memory space
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#59 8086 memory space
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#7 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#9 intel's Vanderpool and virtualization in general (was Re: Cell press release, redacted.)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#60 Ancient history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#52 Cluster computing drawbacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#30 auto reIPL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#37 Mainframe Applications and Records Keeping?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006i.html#2 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#30 Why so little parallelism?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#16 intersection between autolog command and cmsback (more history)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#16 Attractive Alternatives to Mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#56 Is computer history taught now?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#76 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#44 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#10 The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#40 windows time service
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#11 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#88 Annoying Processor Pricing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#7 Annoying Processor Pricing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#17 Does anyone have any IT data center disaster stories?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#64 Crippleware: hardware examples
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#76 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#5 Privacy, Identity theft, account fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#75 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#4 Why do IBMers think disks are 'Direct Access'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#1 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#15 Confessions of a Cobol programmer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#0 big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#28 Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#20 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#25 Was VM ever used as an exokernel?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#4 Did a mainframe glitch trigger DBS Bank outage?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#55 Mainframe Hacking -- Fact or Fiction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#69 No command, and control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#0 Mainframe technology in 2011 and beyond; who is going to run these Mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#93 Itanium at ISSCC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#4 Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#6 New job for mainframes: Cloud platform
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#3 Banks Face Ongoing Cyber Threats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#16 How about the old mainframe error messages that actually give you a clue about what's broken
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#27 RBS Mainframe Meltdown: A year on, the fallout is still coming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#23 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
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/2014h.html#19 weird trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#54 Why you need batch cloud computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#113 How Much Bandwidth do we have?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#59 Why major financial institutions are growing their use of mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#99 PROFS & GML
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 09:50:57 -0800Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
Massive overwhelming resources and willingness to fight a war of attrition (whether or not it is called a strategy) can offset otherwise significant strategic and tactical shortcomings. One of Roosevelt stories was reference to Churchill wanting to postpone D-Day another year or two while Germany&Russia further exhausted each other on the eastern front (3/4 of german military resources were used against Russia) ... but Roosevelt didn't believe the American public would stand for the war continuing into 1947. Current version is how the military-industrial complex manages American public opinion for a war that continues forever.
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
From Guderian's Panzer Leader, loc2902-3:
Hitler then said: 'If I had known that the figures for Russian tank
strength which you gave in your book were in fact the true ones, I
would not--I believe--ever have started this war.'
loc2903-6:
He was referring to my book Achtung! Panzer!, published in 1937, in
which I had estimated Russian tank strength at that time as 10,000;
both the Chief of the Army General Staff, Beck, and the censor had
disagreed with this statement. It had cost me a lot of trouble to get
that figure printed; but I had been able to show that intelligence
reports at the time spoke of 17,000 Russian tanks and that my estimate
was therefore, if anything, a very conservative one.
loc2262-64:
At this time our yearly tank production scarcely amounted to more than
1,000 of all types. In view of our enemies' production figures this
was very small. As far back as 1933 I had visited a single Russian
tank factory which was producing 22 tanks per day of the
Christie-Russki type.
... snip ...
Even John Forster Dulles significant role in rebuilding German economy
and their military industry wasn't able to overcome; John Foster Dulles;
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.
loc905-7:
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 ...
In 1943, when US Strategic Bombing program was looking for location and detailed description of German military targets, they got them from wallstreet (1/3 of US WW2 spending went to strategic bombing).
recent references to US Strategic Bombing Program
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#13 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#52 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#69 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#77 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#79 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#82 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#83 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#0 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#28 Kill Chain: The Rise of High Tech Assassins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#61 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#62 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#63 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#64 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#70 God No, the U.S. Air Force Doesn't Need Another Curtis LeMay
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#76 Your earliest dream?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#89 Your earliest dream?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#37 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#52 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#54 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#77 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#81 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#55 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#63 [Poll] Computing favorities
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 12:23:33 -0800hancock4 writes:
this continues after the war, last week was news item that CIA
had disclassified its overthrow of the elected government in Iran
(which was starting to oppose British looting the country) and
reinstated the Shah (which backed British looting the country, in
return for backing his staying in power))
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 ?
... also US having said that they would invade in 42, then 43, but
delayed until summer 44 ... the Marshall book has Eisenhower wanting to
take Marseille the same time as Normandy invasion ("Anvil") ... but
those resources were diverted further east. As a result Allied
operations almost came to dead stop until they eventually got around to
taking Marseille (port large enough to handle the volume of supplies
required by the Allied effort). recent references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#79 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#84 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#54 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#62 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
strategic bombing program (1/3rd of US WW2 resources) was not as effective as claims before, then or since. Also strategic bombing command insisted that no long range fighters were needed ... everything went into building large strategic bombers. British comment is that the US failed to learn anything from the German bombing of england where German figther escort was critical. The US strategic bomber command learned the hard way that long range figthers were needed.
One of other issues was heavy strategic bombers had responsible for Omaha
while medium bombers had responsibility for Utah beach bombing.
"The European Campaign: Its Origins and Conduct" loc2582-85:
The bomber preparation of Omaha Beach was a total failure, and German
defenses on Omaha Beach were intact as American troops came ashore. At
Utah Beach, the bombers were a little more effective because the IXth
Bomber Command was using B-26 medium bombers. Wisely, in preparation for
supporting the invasion, maintenance crews removed Norden bombsights
from the bombers and installed the more effective low-level altitude
sights.54
... snip ...
Previous post that US mounted 3,000 sorties on D-day versus 150 for the Germans ... that is just raw numbers ... not taking into account how many of the US 3,000 sorties were effective.
recent posts mention Norden bomb-sight:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#53 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#79 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#82 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#62 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:18:23 -0800Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
lots of jokes about quality of italian troops in ww2 ... most of the stories i've seen about battles in italy/sicily were with german troops in well entrenched positions.
would have better off using resources to take Marseillie early as the major supply depot ... and then isolating the entrenched german troops in italy ... rather than frontal assaults ... more like island skipping scenario for pacific ... ignore isolated islands where the enemy has no naval or aerial offensive capabilty.
Roosevelt/Marshall have a line about giving priority to European theater ... that Germany could continue w/o Japan, but Japan couldn't continue w/o Germany (similar italy couldn't continue w/o Germany).
"General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman",
pg440/loc9282-85:
But because of the landing craft shortage and the Anzio landings, the
date of ANVIL had slipped steadily. Anzio stalemated and LSTs ticketed
for OVERLORD still resupplying the beachhead, Eisenhower suggested in
late January that ANVIL be canceled.
pg440/loc9285-87:
Marshall was irritated. The Combined Chiefs had agreed just weeks
before that a seven-division assault in Normandy and a two-division
landing in the south of France were possible on May 31 with the
available reserves of landing craft. Yet once more, it seemed, no
agreement was binding.
pg441/loc9310-12:
The Anzio breakout and the fall of Rome on June 4 settled
nothing. While the Americans saw the capture of Rome as the end of the
Italian campaign, Churchill and Brooke instead argued the German
retreat opened unforeseen opportunities for new attacks toward
Florence and the north.
... snip ...
and "The Wars for Asia, 1911-1949", loc4559-63:
When war began, Russian not British or U.S. armies bore the brunt of
Germany's land forces. In the initial German invasion, Russia faced
142 Axis divisions, 20 percent more than the 119 divisions that
overran France.233 During the Normandy landings, when the United
States and Britain finally conducted a cross-channel invasion of the
European continent, they faced only 58 Axis divisions compared to the
228 divisions then deployed against Russia on the Eastern Front.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 09:23:01 -0800"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
This is followed by news article on the web that Obama campaigned on extracting us from these continuous wars ... and has yet to do it
The original relative stable regions prior to 9/11, the interventions last decade have significantly increased anarchy including spreading to additional regions. 2010 estimates that the bill for two invasions will hit $5T when long term veterens benefits are taken into account (part of original selling the invasions were claims it would cost only $50B ... two orders of magnitude less) ... of course the cost of taking care of veterens are now starting to impact the flow of funds into military-industrial complex (part of the news about charging VA executives for maniputling VA performance statistics is obfuscation and misdirection from the fact that congress enormously underfunded the VA, which is at the root of the service problems) ... and increased lobbying pressure on congress to not sacrifice MICC funds for taking care of veterens.
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
then there is, "is Harvard responsible for the rise of Putin" aka turns out rather than promoting Russian capitalism, they were there promoting our captilism looting of victim countries
John Helmer: Convicted Fraudster Jonathan Hay, Harvard's Man Who
Wrecked Russia, Resurfaces in Ukraine
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/convicted-fraudster-jonathan-hay-harvards-man-who-wrecked-russia-resurfaces-in-ukraine.html
How Harvard lost Russia; The best and brightest of America's premier
university came to Moscow in the 1990s to teach Russians how to be
capitalists. This is the inside story of how their efforts led to
scandal and disgrace.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160325154522/http://www.institutionalinvestor.com:80/Article/1020662/How-Harvard-lost-Russia.html
Russian Military Politics and Russia's 2010 Defense Doctrine
https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1050
long tradition of our capitalism looting victim countries ...
channeling "War is a Racket"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
and "Economic Hit Man"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#1 do you blame Harvard for Puten
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#4 Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#5 Swiss Leaks lifts the veil on a secretive banking system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#8 Shoot Bank Of America Now---The Case For Super Glass-Steagall Is Overwhelming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#13 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#3 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#11 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#14 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#55 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: IBM retirement fund Date: 30 Dec 2015 Blog: Facebookpresident 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.
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
gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
Later the former president of AMEX leaves IBM and becomes head of
another large private-equity company which does LBO (among others) of
company that will employ 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 ...
especially when they get paid for doing background checks but just fillout paperwork and skip the checks.
account of how private-equity turned LBO into similar to house
flipping, except the loan stays with the company when it sells; they
can even sell for much less than they paid and still walk away with
boatloads of money (major factor in spike in corporate defaults).
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
companies in the private-equity mill are under enormous pressure to generate money every way possible (including the security clearance companies just doing paperwork and skipping actually doing any checking). 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.
private-equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
The looser for AMEX CEO (and protegee) makes some numberr of other acquisitions, eventually acquiring CITIBANK in violation of Glass-Steagall; Greenspan gives them an exemption while they lobby DC for the repeal of Glass-Steagall (enabling too-big-to-fail ... which also results in too-big-to-prosecute and too-big-to-jail ... effective immunity for wide range of illegal activities). The protegee then leaves and becomes CEO of one of the other (big4) too-big-to-fail.
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Welch pushes GE Capital into one of the major institutions responsible
for the financial mess ... and the growth in GE's bottom line.. "Age
of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to
the Present", pg200/loc3925-30:
The CNNMoney writers got it slightly wrong. GE was not exactly like
the American economy. It was even more dependent on financial
services. In the early 2000s, GE was again riding a financial wave,
the subprime mortgage lending boom; it had even bought a subprime
mortgage broker. GE borrowed still more against equity to exploit the
remarkable opportunities, its triple-A rating giving it a major
competitive advantage. By 2008, the central weakness of the Welch
business strategy, its dependence on financial overspeculation, became
ominously clear. GE's profits plunged during the credit crisis and its
stock price fell by 60 percent. GE Capital, the main source of its
success for twenty-five years, now reported enormous losses.
pg324/loc6382-85:
General Electric's persistent earnings increases were a leading
example of how earnings were manipulated to produce consistent
gains. Fortune analyzed how Jack Welch used both pension fund reserves
and reserves at GE Capital to supplement quarterly earnings in order
to make them rise consistently. As noted, they rose every quarter for
almost thirteen years. GE stock roughly tripled between 1990 and 1995
and then quintupled between 1995 and early 2000.
... snip ...
Lots of financial engineering ... like what goes on with current stock buyback craze
there is the old line about asking crooks why they rob banks ... "that
is where the money is" ... why wallstreet rob pension funds ... "that
is where the money is" ... large part of why they were paying the
rating agencies for triple-A on toxic assets ... so they could sell
to pension funds ... and largely responsible for doing $27TRILLION,
2001-2008. Original bloomberg article
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
has finally(?) gone 404 ... "Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With
`Fools' Born to Buy Debt." ... but is referenced here:
http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/audit_roundup_8.php
http://www.prisonplanet.com/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt.html
http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/93325-evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt/
and ... Looting the Pension Funds
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/looting-the-pension-funds-20130926
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 try and help avoid the coming economic mess by looking 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)
(triple-A rated) toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:55:09 -0800mausg writes:
Russia had 500+ divisions facing 228 AXIS divisions. Rest of allies were only facing 58 AXIS divisions. US WW2 history is full of difficulty that Allies had just facing that reduced number. Now, what was it that Roosevelt going to do??
ww2 eastern front
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_%28World_War_II%29
The Eastern Front was decisive in determining the outcome of World War
II, eventually serving as the main reason for Germany's
defeat.[8][9][10]
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 09:15:02 -0800Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
US officials seeing what Russia suffered at the hands of Germany, had no doubt about Stalin's resolve. Rest is just somebody's fantasy.
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