and
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10209383026868263&set=p.10209383026868263&type=3&theater
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Is it a lost cause? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.sys.raspberry-pi Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2016 10:00:10 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
I don't remember seeing 1052 with 1054/1055 paper tape reader/punch
(but common with tty)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1050
some people at science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
came out Jan1968 to univ. installing CP67, it had 1052 & 2741 terminal support ... including dynamic terminal identification ... it played games switching the SAD CCW to switch port-scanner type on line and some trivial transmission to determine terminal type. I added the TTY/ASCII to support the univ ascii tty devices ... extending the dynamic terminal type games with SAD CCW for ascii tty.
I then wanted to setup single dialin phone number for all terminals (single "hunt group") ... but it didn't quite worked because they had taken short-cut ... while SAD CCW would change port-scanner type, the line speed was hard wired for each port. It worked for 1052 & 2741 because they operated at same line speed ... while TTY terminals were different line speed (requiring different dial in numbers for 1052/2741 and TTY). The dynamic terminal type still worked ... as long as the terminal was connected to port with correct line speed.
this was part of motivation for the univ to start clone controller project, take an Interdata/3 programmed to emulate mainframe terminal controller ... and do dynamic terminal line speed, reverse engineer channel interface and build channel interface board for Interdata/3. Later this was enhanced with an Interdata/4 to handle the mainframe channel interface and cluster of Interdate/3s handling the port scanner functions. Four of us get written up as responsible for (some part of) mainframe clone controller business with Interdata is marketing the box. When Perkin/Elmer buys Interdata, it is continued to be sold under P/E logo.
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
note that IBM help originate ASCII
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/ASCII.HTM
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/FATHEROF.HTM
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/HISTORY.HTM
and tale of "the biggest computer goof ever", mainframe became EBCDIC
(instead of ASCII)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
and for other drift, recent thread in ibm-main group referencing
connection between cp/67 and ms/dos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#103 Multithreaded output to stderr and stdout
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Rust project still needs a lot of polish Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2016 13:58:03 -0700Mozilla emits nightly builds of heir-to-Firefox browser engine Servo; Rust project still needs a lot of polish
lots of past posts on the subject
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#overflow
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: S/360 stacks, was self-modifying code, Is it a lost cause? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.sys.raspberry-pi Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 07:54:51 -0700David Wade <dave.g4ugm@gmail.com> writes:
As undergraduate in the 60s, I made two changes, 1) svc call routine
when it ran out of pre-allocated saveareas would extend the number of
saveareas by calling the page allocation routine with special parameter
... that would look for first non-changed page for replacement (didn't
require delay waiting for write-out replacing changed page) and 2) there
were a whole bunch of routines that were simple call/return ... and I
changed them to straight BALR/BR call/return and to use a dedicated save
area in page0 (works in multiprocessor since each processor has its own
dedicated page0). I also cut the instruction time in the SVC call/return
by 2/3rds. I also made a whole lot of other pathlength optimizations
... in same cases improvement by factor of 100. Overall as undergraduate
in the 60s, I reduced CP67 kernel CPU time by 3/4s. A lot of this was
picked up and shipped in standard CP67 product. Part of presentation
that I made at 60s SHARE user group meeting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#18 CP/67 & OS MFT14
as undergraduate I was hired by the univ. to be responsible for production operating systems. the above presentation includes references to changes I made of os/360. On 709 IBSYS tape-to-tape (with 1401 front-end doing tape<->unitrecord student fortran jobs ran under 1second elapsed time). Initial move to os/360 360/65 (360/67 running as 360/65), student fortran jobs ran over minute ... because of enormous disk i/o intensive operation. Adding HASP (spooling system), cut elapsed time/job to a little over half a minute. I started hand-crafted OS/360 system build/sysgen to carefully place/order system data on disk which got it down to a little under 13seconds.
For CP67 I also redid a lot of the I/O, added ordered seek queuing and
for page activity, chained multiple page transfers into single I/O
channel program. I also implemented dynamic adaptive resource
manager (frequently called "fair share" for default resource policy)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
I also did global LRU, clock-like page replacement algorithm ...
this was at a time when the academic papers were all about
local LRU. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#clock
I've mentioned that when Jim Gray left research
for Tandem, he palmed off bunch of stuff on me:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#104 Is it a lost cause?
At Dec81, ACM SIGOPS, Jim asked me if I could help one of his co-workers
at Tandem get his Stanford PHD ... which was on global LRU page
replacement. The "local LRU" forces (from the late 60s) were strongly
lobbying Stanford to not award any PHD that had to do with global LRU.
Jim knew I had a lot of performance data comparing local LRU CP67 and
global LRU CP67 implementations (showing global LRU much
better) ... much of the other claims on the subject were just opinion
and hand waving. Past post on the subject
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#46
with this reply that I wrote
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email821019
aka it took me almost a year to get IBM management to send a
replay. Conjecture is that IBM management thought it was a form of
punishment because they blamed for online computer conferencing on the
internal network (larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the
beginning until sometime mid-80s). Folkore is that when the corporate
management committee were told about online computer conferencing (and
the internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me. Some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: S/360 stacks, was self-modifying code, Is it a lost cause? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.sys.raspberry-pi Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:38:23 -0700John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> writes:
Problem was that a lot of subsystems (outside the kernel) also got their own 16mbyte virtual address spaces ... and also required pointer passing API. This required creating a "COMMON SEGMENT", 1mbyte area mapped into every 16mbyte application virtual address space ... where global space was allocated for parameter & return passing between applications and subsystems (running in their own address space). However, the amount of common space was somewhat proportional to system size, number of concurrent applications and concurrent subsystems. In late 370 days ... before 31bit and 370-xa, on large systems, the common areas were threatening to grow to 8mbytes ... leaving nothing for applications (8mbyte kernel image plust 8mbyte common area out of 16mbyte virtual address space left nothing for applications).
For 370/xa both "access registers" and program call/return were defined for subsystems. Early simple implementation, application made a kernel call to transfer to subsystem. Kernel would load application address space pointer into secondary address space (access) register, load the subsystem virtual address space into primary virtual/home address space register and invoke the subsystem (passing the calling routines registers). Subsystems could use special instructions to retrieve/store data in the calling application virtual address space. Program call/return would reference a hardware defined table that had pointer for every valid subsystem and its virtual address space pointer. An application could call a subsystem, where the program call did the address space pointer changes all in hardware (w/o requiring a kernel call). Similarly a subsystem could make a program return ... which reverse the virtual address space pointer changes .... back to the calling application virtual address space.
Applications could now efficiently call a routine that exists in different address space ... which had authorization to fetch/store the calling application virtual address space (w/o requiring pathlength through the kernel).
There has since been some use of access registers for use to define "dataspaces" ... effectively a virtual address space that was all data ... with application using "access registers" to access the data in different virtual address space. However, the original purpose of access registers was for a subsystem in its own address space to access passed parameters in the calling application address space (and store return values).
recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#78 Mainframe Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#35 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#57 Introducing the New z13s: Tim's Hardware Highlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#104 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Play the Pentagon-Funded Video Game That Predates 'Pong' Date: 5 July 2016 Blog: FacebookPlay the Pentagon-Funded Video Game That Predates 'Pong'
One of the MIT people went to IBM science center on the 4th flr of 545
tech square
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
and ported space war to IBM 1130(/2250m4) in the mid-60s. My kids
would camp on the 2250 keyboard when I brought them in on weekends
Boyd would talk about vocally claiming electronic monitoring trail
wouldn't work ... so possibly as punishment they put him in command of
spook base ... this reference gone 404, but lives on at the way back
machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
Acoubuoy, Spikebuoy, Muscle Shoals and Igloo White
Before Pac Man, Pong, or Space Invaders, there was Igloo White - the
original computer video game - where the loser paid in real blood, so
that the winner did not have to.
... snip ...
also mentions IBM 2250s
Boyd biographies claim spook base was $2.5B windfall for IBM (in 1970
dollars) ... some posts & web URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: After 10 years and billions in fines, the UK has convicted precisely five people for rigging interest rates Date: 5 July 2016 Blog: FacebookAfter 10 years and billions in fines, the UK has convicted precisely five people for rigging interest rates
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
LIBOR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Is it a lost cause? Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi, alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 07:37:15 -0700scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
the objective was to be much more secure than the card association
payment chip ... which had a whole lot of vulnerabilities, less than
1/10th the cost, and significantly faster (still running something like
10secs). early part of the century the card association was
characterized as having spent billions of dollars to prove that chips
were less secure than magstripe ... old trip report to cartes2002 (gone
404 but still lives on at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20030417083810/http://www.smartcard.co.uk/resources/articles/cartes2002.html
near the bottom of the trip report ... possible to create a YES CARD
chip as easily as magstripe (and less secure). past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
In the 90s, I was approached by the transit industry and asked if I
could also make the chip do a transaction in the transit turnstyle
timing limits (1/10th of a second) ... without increasing the cost, not
reducing integrity and still be used for payment transactions (so person
could use the same card for transit and payment, including both
point-of-sale and e-commerce/internet). Prototype was demoed at 1999
annual world-wide, BAI retail banking show in Miami
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/ansiepay.htm#x959bai
the issue for the transit industry is that they are subsidized with public money and under lots of pressure to get out of (heavily subsizied) payment transaction business ... and move to industry standard payments (but would require that the banking industry enormously increase their performance and enormously reduce their cost per transaction).
the problem for the banking industry was the enormous increase in integrity eliminated a lot of fraud and justification for something like 90% of interchange fee on electronic payment transactions (with US banks at the time making avg of 40-60% of their bottom line from payment/interchange fees, a 90% cut in the fees would be a big hit to bottom line).
Note, 1999 was also GLBA ... which is now better known for having added
repeal of Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
enabling too big to fail (too big to prosecute and too big to
jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
however, the original rhetoric on the floor of congress was that the purpose of GLBA was if you already had a banking charter you got to keep it, but if you didn't already have one, you couldn't get one ... i.e. protect the banking industry oligarchy and keep new competition with new (more efficient) technology out of banking.
patent portfolio, all assigned, including covering being able to
transition from institution centric cards to person-centric chipcard
(aka person being able to use single chipcard for all authentication
requirements). Originally the claims were going to be packaged as over
100 patents, then some executive directed that they be packaged as 9
patents (reduce the filing cost), then the patent office comes back and
says to repackage as at least two dozen (humongous patents filing fee
wasn't even covering cost of reading all the claims)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadssummary.htm
other topic drift ... 1999 I was asked to help prevent the comming
economic mess ... this is long winded post about conference for me
sponsored by Atalla (ATM cash machine technology, had been bought by
tandem, which had been bought by compaq)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#riskm
securitizing mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages (poster child was office buildings in dallas/ft.worth that turned out to be empty lots) and I was asked to improve the integrity of mortgage supporting documents as countermeasure. they then find that they can pay the rating agencies for triple-A rating (when both the sellers and rating agencies know they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008 congressional hearing testimony).
With triple-A rating, the can sell securitized mortgages as fast as they
can be made (w/o having to worry about borrower's qualification or loan
quality) ... including to large funds restricted to only dealing in
"safe investment" (like large public & private pension funds, resulting
in large hit to those funds), largely responsible being able to do over
$27T 2001-2008. It also met that they could start doing no-down,
no-documentation, liar loans (and with no-documentation, there was no
longer issue of supporting document integrity)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 07:50:01 -0700Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> writes:
"tax evasion", "tax havens"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
also this recent news item:
After 10 years and billions in fines, the UK has convicted precisely
five people for rigging interest rates
http://qz.com/723127/after-10-years-and-billions-in-fines-the-uk-has-convicted-precisely-five-people-for-rigging-interest-rates/
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
LIBOR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
past posts mentioning "city of london"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#3 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#26 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#0 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#39 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#2 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#8 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#35 Deny the British empire's crimes? No, we ignore them
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#56 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#60 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#94 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#92 Thanks Obama
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Intel spyware chip? Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 08:36:50 -0700Aleksandar Kuktin <akuktin@gmail.com> writes:
anybody can have the public key ... an attacker can't generate a valid digital signature (for that private/public key) pair) because they don't have the original private key. any modifications means that the currently calculated SHA256 ... wouldn't be the same as any decrypted digital signature.
the descripting seems to imply that secret boot ROM insn't keeping the factory public key in tamper-resistent storage ... but the SHA256 of the public key (possibly to save bits needed in tamper-resistent storage?). They validate that the public key hasn't been modified by checking the current SHA256 against what is saved in tamper-resistent storage ... before using the public key for decrypting the digital signaature.
recent post in alt.folklore.computer about doing public key chip ... and
blathering about taking $500 milspec part and cost reducing by 2-3
orders of magnitude while improving the integrity.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#6
the technical director to the deputy director of information assurance
directorate is running an assurance session in the trusted computing
track at the intel developer's forum and possibly because of my
blathering, I'm invited to be on the panel ... old reference gone 404,
but lives on at the wayback machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20011109072807/http://www.intel94.com/idf/spr2001/sessiondescription.asp?id=stp%2bs13
I comment to the technical director that it is as secure as anything the agency is doing, but at enormously reduced cost. The head of trusted processor module (TPM) is also in the front row ... and I quip that it is nice that the chip he is doing has started to look more&more like my chip over the previous year. He quips back that I don't have 200 people helping me design the chip.
later work on the chip was reducing from a couple hunmdred thousand circuits to 40,000 circuits (easily embedded in existing chips) ... while maintaining integrity and performance.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Is it a lost cause? Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi, alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 08:51:13 -0700re:
for other trivia ... just posted some more about the chip
in thread over in comp.arch ... about giving a talk at
session in the trusted computing track at the intel
developer's forum
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#8 Intel spyware chip?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM OS/2 developers Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 09:51:27 -0700"Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> writes:
scheduling and resource management posts (customers frequently
called it fairshare scheduling, since the default policy was
fairshare)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 10:20:00 -0700mausg writes:
2010 CBO report was that after fiscal responsibility act was allowed
to expire in 2002, tax revenue was cut by $6T and spending increased
by $6T (2003-2009) for $12T budget gap (first time taxes were reduced
to not pay for war)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
middle of last decade, US comptroller general was including in speeches
that nobody in congress was capable of middle school arithmetic for how
badly they were savaging the budget.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
included enormous increase in DOD spending ... however only half of the
DOD spending increase was attributed to the two wars (including the $60B
in shrink wrapped 100s) ... but the other half of the DOD spending
increase, CBO couldn't find anything to show for ... just evaporates
into the military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
the increase in spending for two wars also includes enormous amounts
that went to for-profit companies ... including tens of billions to
Halliburton in no-bid contracts (after SECDEF Cheney becomes CEO of Texas
oil-services and logistics firm and transforms it into one of the
largest military contractors). past posts mentioning Halliburton
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#1 LEO
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/2015f.html#22 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#25 Gerstner after IBM becomes Carlyle chairman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#60 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#47 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#105 How Private Contractors Have Created a Shadow NSA
however, my son-in-law 1st tour was Fallujah 2004-2005 and 2nd
tour was Baqubah 2007-2008 ... described as worse than Fallujah
(but didn't get the coverage because administration said things
were better) ... past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#21 The Age of Unsatisfying Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#2 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#8 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#64 Early use of the word "computer"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#54 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#49 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#86 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#30 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#38 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#5 Lessons Learned from the Iraq War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#79 As an IBM'er just like the Marines only a few good men and women make the cut,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#52 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#60 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#10 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#48 John Boyd's Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#10 Why the Death of the Tank Is Greatly Exaggerated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#13 Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#42 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#47 McCain: Send Petraeus back to Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#61 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#79 Army Modernization Is Melting Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#38 Can America Win Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#36 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#68 Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#69 Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#36 The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#48 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#16 Keydriven bit permutations
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/2015d.html#76 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#43 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#78 New hard drive
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/2016.html#50 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#88 The Pentagon's Pricey Culture of Mediocrity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#50 A National Infrastructure Program Is a Smart Idea We Won't Do Because We Are Dysfunctional
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 10:24:41 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
from the article
Three former Barclays traders were found guilty by a jury in a British
court of conspiring to manipulate Libor, a London-based international
financial benchmark linked to some $300 trillion worth of mortgages,
loans, and derivatives.
... snip ...
the joke about eventually small change can add up to real ($300T) money
LIBOR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Looking for info on IBM ATMs - 2984, 3614, and 3624 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 21:52:56 -0700NickB <nickpb@hotmail.com> writes:
I had offices and labs for a time in Los Gatos lab (since been plowed under and sold off for a housing development) ... but it was after the 3614 time ... I did hear stories from some of the people that had been there.
One of the projects that I had out at los gatos lab was some of
high speed data transport ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
IBM had put in collins digital radio (T3 microwave) between bldg 12 on the main plant site ... to repeater over the hill down to STL (since renamed silicon valley lab) and repeater above Los Gatos lab (and the hill above los gatos dump).
HSDT put in 4.5M tdma satellite dish in the Los Gatos back parking lot another in back lot behind IBM Yorktown research ... and a 7M dish in Austin.
Los gatos had also done LSM (specialized chip design logic simulator
that ran something like 50,000 times faster than 168-3 ... doing logic
simulation) ... and Austin was shipping RIOS (RS/6000) chip logic design
to Los Gatos for validation. some RISC/ROMP/RIOS/etc past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
after I left IBM ... was involved in designing electronic payment
transaction protocols and chipcards ... recent mention
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#6 Is it a lost cause?
reference to nacha/star did pilot of part of one of the protocols;
23july2001 (gone 404 but lives on at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20070706004855/http://internetcouncil.nacha.org/News/news.html
other posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#x959
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Leaked IBM email says cutting 'redundant' jobs is a 'permanent and ongoing' part of its business model Date: 7 July 2016 Blog: FacebookLeaked IBM email says cutting 'redundant' jobs is a 'permanent and ongoing' part of its business model
HONE was formed in the wake of 23Jun1969 unbundling announcement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
.... originally with CP67 to provide online virtual machine service to
branch office for SEs to practice with operating systems. However,
science center also ported apl\360 to CP67 for CMS\APL and HONE
started also providing (mostly APL-based) sales&marketing tools
... which soon came to dominate all HONE activity (worldwide) and
virtual machine guest operating system use evaporated.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
One of my hobbies was providing enhanced CP67 ... and then enhanced VM370 production systems to internal datacenters ... including HONE. In the late 70s, started to see cycle of branch managers being promoted into DPD hdqtrs in HONE chain of command ... who were horrified to find that HONE was VM370 based (and not MVS based) ... who then figured that they would make their corporate career from being known as having moved HONE from VM370-base to MVS. These efforts would fail, the executive would move on and replaced with new face ... who would repeat the process. Eventually by the mid-80s they decided that it was my fault that they weren't able to migrate HONE off VM370 to MVS (because of my advanced VM370 systems). They then started telling HONE that they had to stop using my systems ... because what would happen if I was hit by a bus. The MVS group was also responsible for various ploys to get rid of me.
Current strategy is also good at eliminating people that threaten corporate status quo (Watson's "wild ducks") ... aka corporate "sycophancy" and make no waves
Employment is threatened when people not fit the corporate
"sycophancy" and make no waves ... change from Watson's "wild ducks"
... claim that corporate culture change started with the failure of FS
... because top executives had invested ... discussed in this article
by former executive at IBM Europe
https://www.ecole.org/en/session/49-the-rise-and-fall-of-ibm
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
it was example of bucking the system ... which Watson valued .... but over the years the culture changed and bucking the system became more & more a threat to corporate status quo ... the example wasn't so much an expert on things VM ... but personal knowledge of case of worldwide use of VM used for sales&marketing support (which I happened to supply) ... which wasn't viewed as strategic by many in corporate hdqtrs (even perception that corporate careers would be made by eliminating VM ... and Watson's culture of "wild ducks" and bucking the system was disappearing).
I admit to be biased on the subject of retribution for bucking the
system. In the late 70s and early 80s, I was blamed for online
computer conferencing (precursor to social media) on the internal
network. Folklore is that when the executive committee was told about
online computer conferencing (and the internal network), 5of6 wanted
to fire me. One conjecture why they didn't was so many of the internal
datacenters (including worldwide HONE marketing&sales) ran my
production systems.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
I also used to sponsor Boyd's briefings at IBM ... who was also
subject to such things. By the time he passes in 1997, the air force
had pretty much disowned him. However, once he was gone, they were
possibly less threatened so in 1999 they finally dedicate Boyd Hall at
Air Force Weapon School (when Boyd was instructor there, he was
considered the best in the world):
"There are two career paths in front of you, and you have to choose
which path you will follow. One path leads to promotions, titles, and
positions of distinction.... The other path leads to doing things that
are truly significant for the Air Force, but the rewards will quite
often be a kick in the stomach because you may have to cross swords
with the party line on occasion. You can't go down both paths, you
have to choose. Do you want to be a man of distinction or do you want
to do things that really influence the shape of the Air Force? To Be
or To Do, that is the question." Colonel John R. Boyd, USAF 1927-1997
From the dedication of Boyd Hall, United States Air Force Weapons
School, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. 17 September 1999
... snip ...
When Boyd was instructor at Nellis he was known as 40sec Boyd, he had
challenge to all fighter pilots in the world, he would give them
advantage on his tail and reverse it it in 40secs; he never lost
... managing to do it in 20secs; he allowed an extra 20secs just in
case.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
past posts mentioning "wild ducks"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#25 sizeof() was: The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#18 IT full of 'ducks'? Declare open season
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#30 IBM Centennial Film: Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#33 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#79 Innovation and iconoclasm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#1 What is IBM culture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#45 What is IBM culture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#93 John R. Opel, RIP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#105 5 ways to keep your rockstar employees happy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#121 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#59 Original Thinking Is Hard, Where Good Ideas Come From
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#3 Time to Think ... and to Listen
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#26 Top Ten Reasons Why Large Companies Fail To Keep Their Best Talent
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#19 SnOODAn: Boyd, Snowden, and Resilience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#23 How to Stuff a Wild Duck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#31 History--punched card transmission over telegraph lines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#65 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#12 How do we fight bureaucracy and bureaucrats in IBM?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#72 In Command, but Out Of Control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#3 Inside the Box People don't actually like creativity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#4 Inside the Box People don't actually like creativity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#68 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#52 IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#93 Maximizing shareholder value: The Goal that changed corporate America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#97 Where does the term Wild Duck come from?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#98 How to groom a leader?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#105 Happy 50th Birthday to the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#52 First 2014 Golden Goose Award to physicist Larry Smarr
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#53 Not Wild Ducks but Wild Geese - The history behind the story
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#54 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#8 Microsoft culture must change, chairman says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#91 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#33 Can Ginni really lead the company to the next great product line?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#59 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#65 Are you tired of the negative comments about IBM in this community?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#68 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#79 EBFAS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#80 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#7 You can make your workplace 'happy'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#48 Is coding the new literacy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#56 This Chart From IBM Explains Why Cloud Computing Is Such A Game-Changer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#80 Here's how a retired submarine captain would save IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#17 There's No Such Thing as Corporate DNA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#60 [Poll] Computing favorities
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Leaked IBM email says cutting 'redundant' jobs is a 'permanent and ongoing' part of its business model Date: 7 July 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
Middle 80s, top executives were predicting that income doubles mostly based on mainframe revenue ... and there was massive internal building program to double mainframe manufacturing capacity. There were a whole lot of new (fast track) MBAs being rotated around various positions every 6months or so ... apparently grooming them for the new much larger IBM ... although some of the victim organizations were suffering in the process. Note that mainframe business was already starting to move in the other direction ... although to point that out wasn't exactly appreciated at the highest levels. my wife would periodically really annoy IBM executives reminding them that i had never been wrong ... later in my executive exit interview I was told that they could have forgiven me for being wrong, but they were never going to forgive me for being right.
Late 80s, a senior disk engineer got at talk scheduled at internal
annual world-wide communication group conference supposedly on 3174
performance ... but open the talk with the statement that the
communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the
disk division. The issue was that the communication group had
strategic responsibility for everything that crossed the datacenter
walls and were fiercely fighting off client/server and distributed
computing, trying to preserve their (emulated) dumb terminal paradigm
and install base. The disk division was seeing data fleeing the data
center to more distributed computing friendly platforms with drop in
disk sales. The disk division had come up with several solutions to
address the problem but they were constantly being vetoed by the
communication group. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
AMEX had been in competition with KKR for LBO take-over of RJR and KKR
wins. KKR is then is in trouble with RJR and hires away the president
of AMEX to turn it around
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
IBM has gone into the red and was being reorged into the 13 "baby
blues" in preparation for breaking up the company ... when the board
brings in the former president of AMEX to reverse the breakup and
resurrect the company ... using some of the same techniques he used at
RJR. i.e.
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
folklore/trivia ... after leaving but before the breakup was reversed, we were contacted by somebody in the bowels of Armonk about helping with the mechanics of the breakup. Lots of operations had MOUs with other divisions about using supplier contracts ... all the supplier contracts had to be cataloged and all the dependent MOUs had to be identified and turned into contracts (since these MOUs would then be across different corporations).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: Who Said What When Date: 7 July 2016 Blog: FacebookIraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: Who Said What When
80s, US was supporting Saddam in Iran/Iraq war, including supplying
WMDs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
early 90s, sat. recon analyst notified administration that Saddam was
preparing to invade Kuwait. The administration said Saddam would do no
such thing and proceeded to discredit the analyst. Then the analyst
notifies that Saddam was preparing to invade Saudi Arabia, he
administration now has to choose between Iraq and Saudi Arabia
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2/
early last decade, cousin of White House chief of staff Card, was
dealing with Iraq in the UN and given proof that the WMDs (tracing
back to the US in the 80s) were decommissioned. The information was
provided to Card, Powell and others, however before it went public,
cousin was committed to Texas Military Hospital
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
NY times series from fall 2014 about finding the decommissioned WMDs
(tracing back to the US) and the information was kept classified for a
decade (note Card's cousin book about the decommissioned WMDs was
published in 2010, four years before the information was
declassified).
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
WMDs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Looking for info on IBM ATMs - 2984, 3614, and 3624 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 19:03:35 -0700Cory Heisterkamp <coryheisterkamp@gmail.com> writes:
ASDD lab morphs into the Los Gatos lab after ASDD is eliminated.
Folklore is that after Future System implodes .... and there is mad rush
to get 370 products back into the pipeline (370 efforts were being
shutdown or suspended during FS period)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
lots of advanced systems orgs were thrown into the development
breach. I've mentioned before that I believe the last advanced
system conference in 1976 which included presentations on 801/risc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
and we did presentation on 16-way SMP 370.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
until I held one at San Jose Resarch the spring of 1982 ... old past
with some of the agenda of that conference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#4a
one of the ATM folklore is that basement of Los Gatos Lab. had a vault that use to contain a ATM cash machine load of bills for dozens of different currancies ... for testing bill feed mechanism.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook Date: 7 July 2016 Blog: FacebookFBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook
FBI director seem to split hairs when he said that nobody has been
convicted under the 1917 statute. The people involved in this
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
reported to the congressional oversight committee as required and then
were charged under the 1917 statute and it took 5yrs before a judge
threw out the charges ... and they plea bargained down to misdemeanor,
in the mean time their lives were ruined. Claim is that Snowden (also
charged under the 1917 statute) tried reporting but after what he saw
in the previous case, went public and fled (so hasn't been convicted
either ).
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/07/glenn-greenwald/greenwald-nsa-leaker-snowden-has-no-whistleblower-/
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/spc/multimedia/espionage/
Note that Snowden was Dell employee under contract to CIA, then BAH
employee under contract to NSA, last decade saw enormous uptic in
gov. outsourcing to (frequently private equity) for-profit companies,
including 70% of intelligence budget and over half the people
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
We were involved in some of the Success of Failure early in the century, but didn't realize it. We had effectively consulted for free on dataprocessing for the 2000 census ... and when they had an audit, I was asked to standup in front of the room all day and answer questions (likely the person doing audit was from the agency). Then early in the century we got a call to answer an unclassified BAA that closed that day which basically said none of the tools they had, did the job. We got a response in and then had a couple meetings showing we could do what was required and then nothing. We have since speculated that they only let the person release the BAA anticipating no responses (and he would stop complaining). Disclaimer: I have no clearances.
Success of Failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
whistleblower posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
not the 1st time for email problems
President Bill Clinton Lost One Million Emails: The First Clinton
Email Scandal
http://www.mrctv.org/blog/president-bill-clinton-lost-one-million-emails-first-clinton-email-scandal
but also the following administration
Bush White House email controversy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controversy
note that much of the Iran-Contra affair hinged around emails ... when
it was an IBM mainframe system ... where it was much harder for emails
to disappear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Is it a lost cause? Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi, alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2016 09:02:53 -0700"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
Most of the 90s, the majority of internet related exploits was because of various c language related programming bugs ... but by the start of the century ... the automagic execution exploits had increased to match the c language programming bugs
past posts about c language bugs/exploits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#buffer
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The Boeing Century Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2016 09:08:44 -0700boeing 100th anniv article "The Boeing Century"
including long article "Scrappy start forged a company built to last", has analysis of the Boeing merger with M/D ("A different Boeing") and the disastrous effects that it had on the company ... and even though many of those people are gone, it still leaves the future of the company in doubt. One was the M/D (military-industrial complex) culture of outsourcing to lots of entities in different jurisdiction as part of catering to political interests ... as opposed to focusing on producing quality products ... which shows up in the effects that it had on 787.
I've heard references to political catering dating back to C5A responsible for many of the C5A problems. I had been brought into Boeing the summer of 1969 to help with consolidating dataprocessing into BCS independent business unit (to better monetize the significant investment, including providing dataprocessing services to non-Boeing entities, sort of early "cloud computing"). I rented basement apartment from one of the 747 engineers and heard some amount of lore about the 747 ... including placing cockpit above the nose ... allowing nose to open up (for freight and C5A competition).
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook Date: 9 July 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
not the 1st time for email problems
President Bill Clinton Lost One Million Emails: The First Clinton
Email Scandal
http://www.mrctv.org/blog/president-bill-clinton-lost-one-million-emails-first-clinton-email-scandal
but also the following administration
Bush White House email controversy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controversy
note that much of the Iran-Contra affair hinged around emails ... when
it was an IBM mainframe system ... where it was much harder for emails
to disappear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
NSA Whistleblower: Clinton Emails Damaged U.S. National Security Much
More than Manning, Assange Or Any Other Whistleblower
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-07/nsa-whistleblower-clinton-emails-damaged-us-national-security-much-more-manning-assa
whistleblower posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
Local DC news will periodically refer to DC politics as Kabuki Theater .... what you see publicly has little to do with what really goes on ... just show for the public (including apparent conflict between the parties). Note that a major item in the democratic 2008 campaign was to reverse the enormous uptic in gov outsourcing to for-profit (frequently private-equity) companies (and rapidly spreading success of failure culture, see upthread reference) that happened in the previous administration... little evidence of reversing outsourcing.
.. some of the Kabuki Theater articles reference that the apparent conflict between parties is in large part to distract public from what is really going on.
Kabuki Theater posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Iran Can Now Detect U.S. Stealth Jets at Long Range Date: 9 July 2016 Blog: FacebookIran Can Now Detect U.S. Stealth Jets at Long Range; New over-the-horizon radar negates stealth advantage
this is long winded (older) discussion of some of the radar issues as
well as locating vis-a-vis targeting at different wavelengths (in
addition to some dicussion of stealth design issues affecting radar
signature).
http://ausairpower.net/APA-2009-01.html
what it doesn't talk about is the latest generation of computer chips (put on DOD export control list spring 2015) significantly improve realtime signal analysis ... including radar (claim that it can reduce the number of transmit/receiver pairs in F22/F35 AESA radar by nearly two orders of magnitude w/o loss of capability) ... which can be used in multi-band radar system, first locating low-observable aircraft and then handing off for targeting. Last fall, China demonstrated at supercomputer conference that it was building its own latest generation chips ... and recently it demonstrated largest supercomputer in the world using those chips (i.e. besides radar and other signal processing applications, latest generation of computer chips are used in the tens & hundreds of thousands for supercomputers).
recent refs to "export control" of advanced computer chips
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#20 DEC and The Americans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#55 How to Kill the F-35 Stealth Fighter; It all comes down to radar ... and a big enough missile
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#89 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#89 China builds world's most powerful computer
another recent post mentioning ausairpower article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#75 American Gripen: The Solution To The F-35 Nightmare
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 47 Years of CICS Date: 9 July 2016 Blog: FacebookAs undergraduate in the 60s, Univ. hired me fulltime responsible for support of the production IBM dataprocessing. Univ. library got an ONR grant to do online catalog and used some of the money to get a 2321 datacell. Effort was also selected to be betatest for orignal CICS product (some CICS before that ... but this was for the product 47yrs ago). I had to shoot a number of bugs ... in part the original implementation at a customer had hard coded some BDAM options (not documented) and the Library was using a different set of BDAM options.
lots of CICS history at this website ... gone 404, but lives on at
wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20071124013919/http://www.yelavich.com/history/toc.htm
and
https://web.archive.org/web/20050409124902/www.yelavich.com/cicshist.htm
past posts mentioning CICS &/or BDAM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#cics
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Is it a lost cause? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 13:19:41 -0700Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
SLAC also did bit-slice 370 clones (at least enuf to execute fortran problem state; also used by CERN) for placing along the line for initial sensor data reduction ... initially "168e" (supposedly thruput of 168) and then "3081e" (throughput of 3081).
SLAC (vm370 system) was also first webserver (outside europe).
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit/early-web-chronology-and-documents-1991-1994
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit
recent posts mentioning SLAC's early webserver
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#6 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#14 client/server & HTML
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#33 The Network Nation, Revised Edition
past posts mentioning HLASM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#19 REXX still going strong after 25 years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#20 REXX still going strong after 25 years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#21 REXX still going strong after 25 years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#13 What part of z/OS is the OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#53 Is the teaching of non-reentrant HLASM coding practices ever defensible?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#55 Is the teaching of non-reentrant HLASM coding practices ever defensible?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#61 Is the teaching of non-reentrant HLASM coding practices ever defensible?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#64 Is the teaching of non-reentrant HLASM coding practices ever defensible?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#1 Is the teaching of non-reentrant HLASM coding practices ever
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#2 Is the teaching of non-reentrant HLASM coding practices ever defensible?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#16 Is the teaching of non-reentrant HLASM coding practices ever defensible?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#62 CSA 'above the bar'
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/2011p.html#89 Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?
past posts mentioning 168e &/or 3081e
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#43 IBM 5100 [Was: First DESKTOP Unix Box?]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#8 The IBM 5100 and John Titor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#72 zEC12, and previous generations, "why?" type question - GPU computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#27 World's worst programming environment?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#85 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#69 Remembrance of things past
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#79 Ancient computers in use today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#87 a bit of hope? What was old is new again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#28 The joy of simplicity?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#52 The Stack Depth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#78 Microcode
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Is it a lost cause? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 13:30:12 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
Used for analysis of cp67 and vm370 assembler source listings, one of the issues is that assembler condition had two-bit condition setting ... and some highly optimized kernel code could effectively make use of 3-way & 4-way condition branch/goto. In some case it could be easily understood on 60line listing (paper) page ... but converted to structured psuedo-code could be nested depth >15 that was almost impossible to understand.
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#12 360 "OS" & "TSS" assemblers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#26 S-P-F (was Mainframe operating systems)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#36 Assembly language formatting on IBM systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#38 GOTOs cross-posting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#34 Macros and base register question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#21 REXX still going strong after 25 years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#36 Vintage computers are better than modern crap !
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#35 Shipwrecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#16 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#52 Where should the type information be?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#32 transputers again was: The demise of Commodore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#1 Greatest Software Ever Written?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#27 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#21 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#1 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#9 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#57 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#65 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#49 Any benefit to programming a RISC processor by hand?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#30 Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#43 Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#32 Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#65 You know you've been Lisp hacking to long when
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#37 Language first, hardware second
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#49 "How do you feel about 'gotos'"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#14 Dennis Ritchie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#60 New HD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#69 [Poll] Computing favorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#24 You thought IEFBR14 was bad? Try GNU's /bin/true code
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The General Who Lost 2 Wars, Leaked Classified Information to His Lover--and Retired With a $220,000 Pension Date: 11 July 2016 Blog: FacebookThe General Who Lost 2 Wars, Leaked Classified Information to His Lover--and Retired With a $220,000 Pension Why hasn't David Petraeus faced the same career-ending consequences as other leakers?
Lots of military is part of military-industrial complex and Perpetual
War culture (keeps up flow of money, part of Eisenhower's goodbye
speech). Other beltway bandits have their version, keeping up the flow
of money with the Success of Failure culture (never any real
success)
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
By the turn of century large private-equity companies were buying up
beltway bandits and then lobbyiing on their behalf ... which saw a
enormous increase in gov. outsourcing to their subsidiaries last
decade ... with lots of the money flowing back to their parents. The
OPM failure was one such operation, another buys a major beltway
bandit that employs Snowden ... some of the Success of Failure
culture story here
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
other private equity detail (70% of intelligence budget and over half
the people)
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
reference to the private-equity owner of OPM beltway bandit
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/24/opm-contractor-veritas/
Note that when Petraeus resigns, he joins one of these major private-equity operations.
Success of Failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
Private Equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: US Refused To Prosecute HSBC Over Fears Of "Global Financial Disaster" Date: 12 July 2016 Blog: FacebookNote: Jan2009, I was asked to HTML'ize the Pecora Hearings (30s senate hearings into '29crash, resulted in criminal convictions and Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal HREFs and URLs between what happened then and what happened this time (remarks 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 (reference to enormous piles/mountains of wallstreet money totally burying capital hill).
Pecora Hearings and/or Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
US Refused To Prosecute HSBC Over Fears Of "Global Financial Disaster"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-12/us-refused-prosecute-hsbc-over-fears-global-financial-disaster
Congress: Too Big to Jail: Inside the Obama Justice Department's
Decision Not to Hold Wall Street Accountable
http://wolfstreet.com/2016/07/11/congress-too-big-to-jail-justice-department-decision-not-to-hold-wall-street-accountable/
Congress Exposes That DoJ Overruled Recommendation to Indict Money
Launderer HSBC Over Too Big to Fail Worries
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/07/congress-exposes-that-doj-overruled-recommendation-to-charge-money-launderer-hsbc-over-too-big-to-fail-worries.html
money laundering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Is it a lost cause? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 08:43:10 -0700jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Eric Holder's Longtime Excuse for Not Prosecuting Banks Just Crashed and Burned Date: 13 July 2016 Blog: FacebookEric Holder's Longtime Excuse for Not Prosecuting Banks Just Crashed and Burned
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Securitized mortgages had been used during S&L crisis to obfuscate
fraudulent mortgages ... but didn't find much of a market. 1999, I was
asked to help try and prevent the coming economic mess by improving
the integrity of mortgage supporting documents as
countermeasure. However, they found they could pay the rating agencies
for triple-A (when both sellers and rating agencies knew they weren't
worth triple-A, from Oct2008 hearings, during the hearings a TV news
commentator predicted there wouldn't be any federal prosecution),
largely enabling being able to do over $27T (TRILLION) 2001-2008,
including selling to funds restricted to only dealing in "safe"
investments like large public & private pension funds. Triple-A trumps
supporting documents and they start doing no-documentation, liar loans
(and with no documentation, there is no longer issue with
documentation integrity). toxic CDOs (securitized loans):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Rhetoric on floor of congress was that Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent
future ENRONs and guarantee that executives and auditors did jailtime,
but it required SEC to do something. Middle of last decade, possibly
because GAO doesn't believe SEC is doing anything, GAO starts doing
reports of public company fraudulent financial filings, even showing
uptic after SOX goes into effect, and nobody doing jailtime. Less well
known, is that SOX required that SEC also do something about the
rating agencies.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
Jan2009, I'm asked to HTML'ize the Pecora Hearings (30s senate
hearings into the '29 crash, resulted in criminal convictions and
Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal xrefs and URLs between what
happened then and what happened this time (comments that the new
congress might have an appetite to do something). I work on it for
awhile and then get a call saying it won't be needed after all
(reference to enormous piles/mountains of wallstreet money totally
burying capital hill).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
The congressional Madoff hearings had the person that tried
unsuccessfully for a decade to try and get SEC to do something about
Madoff (SEC's hands were forced when Madoff turned himself in,
speculation Madoff was looking for federal protection after defrauding
some bad people). They ask him if new regulations are needed. He says
while new regulations may be needed, much more important (since
existing regulations weren't being enforced) was transparency and
visibility (something antithetical to wallstreet culture).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The World Crisis, Vol. 1 Date: 13 July 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
and more, loc2151-56:
This led to enormous expense and to tremendous opposition on the Naval
Estimates. Yet it was absolutely impossible to turn back. We could
only fight our way forward, and finally we found our way to the
Anglo-Persian Oil agreement and contract, which for an initial
investment of two millions of public money (subsequently increased to
five millions) has not only secured to the Navy a very substantial
proportion of its oil supply, but has led to the acquisition by the
Government of a controlling share in oil properties and interests
which are at present valued at scores of millions sterling, and also
to very considerable economies, which are still continuing, in the
purchase price of Admiralty oil.
... snip ...
and then "The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command"
https://www.amazon.com/Rules-Game-Jutland-British-Command-ebook/dp/B00B6TZGLM
pg8/loc296-301:
But here was another gamble, for whereas South Wales was made of coal,
Britain had no indigenous sources of oil, and an oil-fired Fleet might
be cut off from overseas fuel supplies in time of war. That risk, with
all its political and military implications, was lightly shouldered,
and Churchill extracted GBP2.2m. from Parliament to buy a controlling
interest in the Anglo-Persian Oil Company: a transaction second only
to Disraeli's purchase of the Suez Canal shares in strategic
ramifications for Britain and the Middle East.
... snip ...
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: How the internet was invented Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 08:42:31 -0700How the internet was invented
Note that networks in the 60s/70s tended to be homogeneous and frequently proprietary ... which was inhibition to growth. The ARPANET had homogeneous IMPs which tended to be hard to obtain and IMPs were all periodically taken down at one time for service. The internal network was larger than the ARPANET/Internet from just about the beginning until sometime in the mid-80s. It had well structured layers with form of gateway in most nodes ... so it was fairly easy to interconnect other protocols. At the time of the great cutover to internetworking protocol on 1Jan1983, there were approx. 100 IMP nodes and around 255 connected hosts. By comparison, the internal network was rapidly approaching 1000 nodes all over the world.
The internal network had a different kind of growth inhibitor, all the
connections required link encryptors ... which frequently required all
sorts of battles with governments around the world, especially when
links cross national boundaries. In the mid-80s, a vendor claimed that
the internal network had well over half of all link encryptors in the
world. some past internal network email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vnet
Note that the same technology was also used for the corporate sponsored university BITNET (and EARN in Europe) which for time in the first half of the 80s was also larger than the Internet.
The person responsible for the internal network was former co-worker at
the cambridge science center (4th flr, 545 technology sq)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks
Note starting in the early 80s, we were working with the director of NSF
to interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers and were suppose to get
$20M. Then Congress cuts the budget, some number of other things happen,
and finally NSF releases an RFP (in part based on what we already had
running). Internal politics prevent us from bidding, the director of NSF
tries to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) with support from other gov. agencies but that just makes the internal politics worse (as did
comments that what we already had running was at least 5yrs ahead of all
RFP responses). As the regional networks connect into the centers, it
becomes the NSFNET backbone, precursor to the modern internet. some past
NSFNET related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
Internal politics were also at play spreading misinformation forcing the internal network to be converted to SNA/VTAM.
Internally I was doing HSDT project with T1 and higher speed links. I
really hated what I had to pay for T1 link encryptors and faster
encryptors were really hard to come by. I then got involved in doing
link encryptors ... objective was $100 or less to build and handle
multiple megabyte (not bit) speeds. The corporate crypto group claimed
that implementation compromised crypto strength ... it took me three
months to figure out how to explain that rather than significantly
weaker crypto than the crypto standard, it was actually much stronger;
but it turned out to be a hollow victory, I was told that there is only
one customer in the world for such crypto, I could build as many boxes
as I wanted, but they all had to go to address on the east coast. It was
when I realized there was three kinds of crypto in the world: 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. some past crypto email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#crypto
past hsdt email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#hsdt
nsfnet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
bitnet (& earn) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How the internet was invented Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 09:18:20 -0700re:
other trivia: GML had been invented at the cambridge science center
(other co-workers) in 1969, a decade later it morphs into ISO standard
SGML and another decade it morphs into HTML at CERN. The first webserver
outside Europe was on the SLAC VM370 (virtual machine operating system
also created at the cambridge science center)
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit/early-web-chronology-and-documents-1991-1994
trivia ... "GML" was chosen because "G", "M", and "L" are the first letter of the inventor's last names
some past GML posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
cambridge science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How the internet was invented Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 11:07:08 -0700re:
possibly because the pervasive assumptions about homogeneous technical and administrative operation of other networks and general lack of interoperability, the internal network supporting interoperability grew significantly faster than these other networks.
these homogeneous assumptions and lack of interoperability was also very pervasive in other parts of the corporation, especially the corporate mainframe favorite son batch systems. An early 80s study opened with a typical case study with corporation with lots of shop floor controllers with leased lines back to datacenter. One of the shops wanted to install dialed line (instead of leased), which required upgrading controllers to new release, which required upgrading NCP to a new release, which required upgrading VTAM to new release, which required upgrading MVS to a new release (this all required to be done synchronously and any glitch in any part of the process required unwinding the whole thing). The standard batch system host-to-host networking also required all host networking in the infrastructure to be operating at the same release level, minor changes in host networking release could precipitate failure of networking at other release levels resulting in bringing down the host operating system. In the internal network such network nodes were restricted to edge nodes. A large internal network software library grew up that was responsible for making sure traffic was always converted to exact format expected by the receiving batch system host (as countermeasure to system failures). Even a few standard batch system network would tend to have all traffic flowing through an internal network node (with reformating support) ... which would otherwise require that all batch system maintenance was synchronized across all machines.
some past internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
some past HASP, JES, NJI/NJE posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How the internet was invented Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 11:19:52 -0700Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> writes:
depends on how you define morph ... initial implementation was straight browser code that had code format formating specific tags.
The original software, SCRIPT, was reiplementation of CTSS RUNOFF on CP67/CMS in mid-60s. After GML was invented, GML tag processing was added to CMS SCRIPT.
Univ. of Waterloo had produced a CMS SGML processor that was in use by
lots of vm370 installations including CERN. CERN built a browser that
formated using tag semantics similar to SGML.
http://infomesh.net/html/history/early/
from above:
1992
With 1992 came (some) stability. See the HTML page.
One of the related files contains a very important idiom:-
It is required that HTML be a common language between all
platforms. This implies no device-specific markup, or anything which
requires control over fonts or colors, for example. This is in keeping
with the SGML ideal.
However, HTML suffered greatly from the lack of standardization, and
the dodgy parsing techniques allowed by Mosaic (in 1993). If HTML had
been precisely defined as having to have an SGML DTD, it may not have
become as popular as fast, but it would have been a lot
architecturally stronger.
Standardization?
The first official standard for HTML (HTML 2.0) came out in November
1995: way too late!
HTML has been in use by the World Wide Web (WWW) global information
initiative since 1990. This specification roughly corresponds to the
capabilities of HTML in common use prior to June 1994. HTML is an
application of ISO Standard 8879:1986 Information Processing Text and
Office Systems; Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
... snip ...
As previously mentioned, SLAC on their vm370 was first web
server/browser outside europe.
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit/early-web-chronology-and-documents-1991-1994
It was some time before all the DTD definition stuff was defined for HTML.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How the internet was invented Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:13:55 -0700hancock4 writes:
Early popular browser was MOSAIC out of National Center for Supercomputer Application at Unif. of Illinois. Note that in the period when we were talking to the director of NSF about connecting the NSF supercomputer centers, we also had discussions with NCSA.
Later MOSAIC corporation was founded in Silicon Valley to produce commercial browsers and servers. When NCSA complained about the use of "MOSAIC", they changed their name to NETSCAPE (the name was donated by CISCO which had previously trademarked it). It was in this period that we were brought in as consultants. Two of the people we had previously worked with at Oracle on cluster/supercomputer scale-up of RDBMS systems, were then at NETSCAPE responsible for something called "commerce server" and we were brought in because they wanted to do payment transactions on the server (the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce").
some old email about cluster/supercomputer scale-up (for both
commercial/RDBMS as well as technical/scientific)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
past post about meeting in Ellison's conference room about RDBMS
cluster scale-up ... including two people that are later at NETSCAPE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
posts about cluster work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
I had complete authority over everything on the payment gateway/server
operation, but could only make recommendations on the server/browser
operation ... and almost immediately some number of recommendations were
violated ... that continue to account for exploits to this day. posts
about payment gateway
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#gateway
Somewhat for having done "electronic commerce", in the mid-90s, we
were asked to participate in the X9A10 financial standard working
group that had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity
of the financial infrastructure for *ALL* retail payments. We did
end-to-end detailed study of vulnerabilities and exploits for multiple
different kinds of retailed payments and came up with a transaction
standard that provided end-to-end strong authentication. The original
commerce server implementation used SSL to hide transaction
information while in transit over the internet. The new transaction
standard used end-to-end strong authentication and no longer needed to
hide information. It also didn't do anything about data
breaches, since crooks couldn't (also) use information
from data breach for fraudulent financial transactions. posts
about transaction standard work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#x959
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
In the mid-90s, consumer dialup banking operations were giving
presentations that they were moving to internet ... the primary reason
was the cost of supporting proprietary infrastructures (at the top of
the list was supporting large number of different serial-port modem
drivers; which would all be offloaded to ISPs). In the same time-frame
the commercial dial-up banking operations were saying they would never
move to the internet because of the large number of vulnerabilities
(even with "SSL"). During this period there were increasing exploits
involving the compromise of the consumer personal computer "end-points".
posts about dailup banking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#dialup-banking
Also about the same time was the MDC at SanFran Moscone where all the banners said "Internet" ... but the refrain in all the sessions was "preserve you investment". Basically a paradigm of Visual Basic code embedded in application files which would be automatigically executed ... that grew up in an environment of small, closed, safe, business networks. This networking support was expanded to the wild anarchy of the internet w/o any additional countermeasures.
Towards the end of the century, personal computer compromises and
increased to the point that the EU FINREAD standard was defined for
doing banking and financial transactions ... basically a hardened
end-point (immune from the multitude of personal computer compromises
and interfaced to hardware token) which would perform end-to-end
transaction (complementing the transaction standard defined in X9A10
working group). posts mentioning EU FINREAD standard (as countermeasure
to personal computer take-over/compromises)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#finread
A major hiccup then occurred, around the turn of the century, a major financial institution distributed free, serial-port interface for hardware tokens. Apparently the institutional knowledge about serial-port support had evaporated in the few years since serial-port dial-up banking and the resulting enormous consumer support problems created a pervasive opinion throughout the financial industry that hardware tokens weren't viable in the consumer market and financial industry pullback from hardware tokens and anything resembling the EU FINREAD standard (when it wasn't the hardware tokens' fault, but the serial-port device ... note that serial-port problems were also major motivation for development of USB)
Note that in the years since the mid-90s, many of the commercial dial-up online banking have (also) moved to the internet with some number of major exploits (commercial accounts aren't protected like consumer accounts are). Periodically, the Federal Reserve and other regulatory agencies have recommended that commercial operations have a PC that is dedicated to online internet transactions and *NEVER* used for any other purpose ... as countermeasure to the numerous kinds of PC compromises and take-over (partially approximating operation from the dial-up days).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How the internet was invented Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 18:35:07 -0700re:
After monthly meetings at SLAC, we would adjourn to the "O" (Oasis on El Camino) or sometimes the Dutch Goose
from original article
During the course of its long existence, Rossotti's has been a frontier saloon, a gold rush gambling den, and a Hells Angels hangout. These days it is called the Alpine Inn Beer Garden, and the clientele remains as motley as ever.
... snip ...
http://www.alpineinnbeergarden.com/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How the internet was invented Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 20:21:17 -0700"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
158/370 was less than MIP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_instructions_per_second
168/370 was 2.5mips/sec ... later 168 cache size doubled (168-3) increasing to 3mips/sec.
earlier 65/360 was about half mip and 75/360 was 1mips/sec ... (although there was no cache so all storage accesses went over main memory bus and heavy i/o contention on memory bus could degrade MIP rate).
the 360/195 was pipeline and supported out-of-order execution
... optimized code ran around 10MIPS, but machine lacked branch
prediction and speculative execution so conditional branches drained the
pipeline ... and lots of standard codes ran at 5MIPs (because of
conditional branches).
https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP2195.html
early '79, I was con'ed into doing 4341 benchmarks for national lab, machine
hadn't shipped yet, but I had access to an engineering machine in
disk product test lab. past posts geeting to play disk engineer
in bldgs 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
national lab was looking at getting 70 4341s for compute farm ... sort of the leading edge to the coming cluster computing supercomputers (engineer 4341 was 30% faster than 158-3/370, shipped production machine was somewhat faster, engineering 4341 test machines had slowed down machine cycle (as they worked out some timing issues).
some past 4341 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
posts in thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#31 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#32 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#33 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#34 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#35 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#36 How the internet was invented
this has reference to red/blue flag for hyperthread pipeline machine
("Sidebar: Multithreading")
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
some past posts mentioned getting asked to help the 195 group do
such multithreaded machine (which never shipped)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#33 PDP10 and RISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#3 Hyperthreading vs. SMP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004.html#21 40th anniversary of IBM System/360 on 7 Apr 2004
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004.html#27 dual processors: not just for breakfast anymore?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#4 System/360; Hardwired vs. Microcoded
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#34 Power5 and Cell, new issue of IBM Journal of R&D
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#6 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#29 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006d.html#0 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#21 Very slow booting and running and brain-dead OS's?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#92 CPU time differences for the same job
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#54 mainframe performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#5 registers vs cache
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#49 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#59 "Portable" data centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#6 "Portable" data centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#6 45 years of Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#60 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#64 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#73 Execution Velocity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#79 NASA unplugs their last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#96 Indirect Bit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#29 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#56 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#32 390 vector instruction set reuse, was 8-bit bytes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#67 relative speeds, was What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#93 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#8 OT? IBM licenses POWER architecture to other vendors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#53 Mainframe On Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#51 50,000 x86 operating system on single mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#73 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#62 Imprecise Interrupts and the 360/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#64 Optimization, CPU time, and related issues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#5 DEC Technical Journal on Bitsavers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#14 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#97 The SDS 92, its place in history?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#99 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#81 Could this be the wrongest prediction of all time?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#105 IBM 360/85 vs. 370/165
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#164 Slushware
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#82 IBM Automatic (COBOL) Binary Optimizer Now Availabile
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: How the internet was invented Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 19:46:58 -0700"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
reference MIPS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_instructions_per_second
most recent entry:
Raspberry Pi 2 4,744 MIPS at 1.0 GHz 4.744 1.186 2014
some misc other stuff (some other supercomputers had much higher MIP
rates earlier)
MOS Technology 6502 2.522 MIPS at 5.865 MHz 0.43 0.43 1981
Intel Pentium III 2,054 MIPS at 600 MHz 3.4 3.4 1999
Silicon Recognition 78 8,600 MIPS at 33 MHz 260.6 260.6 2000
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ 14,564 MIPS at 2.0 GHz 7.3 3.6 2005
AMD Athlon FX-60 18,938 MIPS at 2.6 GHz 7.3 3.6 2006
Intel Core i7 920 82,300 MIPS at 2.93 GHz 28.086 7.022 2008
ARM Cortex A7 2,850 MIPS at 1.5 GHz 1.9 1.9 2011
Intel Core i7 176,170 MIPS at 3.3 GHz 53.38 8.89 2011
...
in the 70s, I started pointing out that processors were getting faster,
much faster than disks were getting faster. In early 80s, I claimed that
between 360s and 3081, that disk relative system throughput had declined
by order of magnitude. some disk division executive took exception and
directed the division performance group to refute the claim. they worked
on it for a few weeks and came back and effectively said that I had
slightly understated the issues. they then respun it for SHARE
presentation as how to configure/organize disks for improved system
throughput. old post with part of original presentation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/93.html#31 Big I/O or Kicking the Mainframe out the Door
Current latency of processor access to main storage in count of processor cycles, is similar to 60s processor access latency to disk ... as a result processor hardware design is going through some of the same techniques used for overlapping execution while waiting for accesses (caches, out-of-order execution, hyperthreading, branch prediction, speculative execution, etc).
other posts in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#31 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#32 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#33 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#34 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#35 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#36 How the internet was invented
recent posts mentioning increasing mismatch between processor
performance and memory latency.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#35 mainframe CKD disks & PDS files (looong... warning)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#79 NASA unplugs their last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#4 Memory versus processor speed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#29 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#59 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#73 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#24 Assembler vs. COBOL--processing time, space needed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#10 From build to buy: American Airlines changes modernization course midflight
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#67 relative speeds, was What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#65 Linear search vs. Binary search
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#93 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#31 DRAM is the new Bulk Core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#8 OT? IBM licenses POWER architecture to other vendors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#17 OSI: The Internet That Wasn't
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#53 Mainframe On Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#35 Why is the mainframe so expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#51 50,000 x86 operating system on single mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#103 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#97 IBM ACS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#12 The IBM Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#14 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#2 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#51 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#5 The SDS 92, its place in history?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#74 Bell Picturephone--early business application experiments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#81 Could this be the wrongest prediction of all time?
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/2014m.html#106 [CM] How ENIAC was rescued from the scrap heap
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#39 Virtual Memory Management
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#81 IBM Automatic (COBOL) Binary Optimizer Now Availabile
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#101 This new 'skyscraper' chip could make computers run 1,000 times faster
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#110 Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#27 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#68 Raspberry Pi 3?
old reference in SHARE B874 presentation
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#110 Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#12 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#21 What was a 3314?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#68 Raspberry Pi 3?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: JOINT INQUIRY INTO INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES BEFORE AND AFTER THE TERRORIST ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 Date: 18 July 2016 Blog: FacebookJOINT INQUIRY INTO INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES BEFORE AND AFTER THE TERRORIST ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
"team B" fabricated Russian capability (to justify enormous military
budget increase) but the CIA director won't agree to the
analysis. White House Chief of Staff Rumsfeld asks the CIA director to
resign and replaces him with somebody that would agree to the
analysis, Bush1. Rumsfeld then becomes SECDEF and is replaced as chief
of staff by his assistant Cheney.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
80s, US is supporting Iraq in the Iran/Iraq war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
including supplying WMDs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
former CIA director and vp bush1 says he doesn'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
early 90s, sat. recon analyst notified administration that Saddam was
preparing to invade Kuwait. The administration said Saddam would do no
such thing and proceeded to discredit the analyst. Then the analyst
notifies that Saddam was preparing to invade Saudi Arabia, the
administration now has to choose between Iraq and Saudi Arabia (Bush1
is president and Cheney is SECDEF)
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2/
Last decade, the cousin of White House chief of staff (Card) is
dealing with Iraq in the UN and given proof that the WMDs have been
decommissioned ... which is forwarded to Card, Powell and others
... before it can be made public, the cousin is locked up in military
hospital. (Bush2 is president, Cheney is VP, and Rumsfeld is SECDEF
again). The cousin eventually gets out and publishes a book in 2010.
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
NY times series from fall 2014 about finding the decommissioned WMDs
(tracing back to the US) and the information was kept classified for a
decade (corroborates details in Card cousin's book published 2010)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html
also last decade is the economic mess, 70 times larger than S&L crisis
"team b" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
"perpetual war" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
"WMDs" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
past posts mentioning classified "28 pages" and/or 9/11 families
sue Saudi Arabia for responsibility
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#51 U.S. Sidelined as Iraq Becomes Bloodier
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#83 NSA surveillance played little role in foiling terror plots, experts say
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#11 NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#13 Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#42 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#99 Reducing Army Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#103 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#14 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#38 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#89 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#51 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#64 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#72 George W. Bush: Still the worst; A new study ranks Bush near the very bottom in history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#27 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#73 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#78 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#54 The Jeb Bush Adviser Who Should Scare You
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#12 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#50 Iraqi WMDs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#87 Top secret "28 pages" may hold clues about Saudi support for 9/11 hijackers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#93 Qbasic
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Yes, Intel Needs to Reinvent Itself Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 11:57:16 -0700timcaffrey writes:
claims were they avoided some markets because the revenue/wafer was below target objectives (not enough chips/wafer and/or revenue/chip)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How the internet was invented Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:30:55 -0700hancock4 writes:
the rapid growth of that business market attracted 3rd party developers ... which further fueled the market growth (snowball effect). The size of the market and the significant profit margin attackted the clone markets ... further accelerating market growth.
however, going into late 80s, PC capability had expanded past simple
dumb terminal emulation and was well into client/server and distributed
computing. The communication group was doing everything they could to
fight off the change, trying to preserve their dumb terminal paradigm
and install base. in the late 80s, a senior disk engineer got a 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 communication group had
stranglehold on datacenters with corporate strategic responsibility for
everything that crossed datacenter walls ... and the disk division was
seeing data fleeing the datacenter to more distributed computing
platforms with drop in disk sales. The disk division had come up with a
number of solutions to correct the situation, but they were constantly
vetoed by the disk division. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
a few short years later the company goes into the red and was being
re-organized into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking
up the company ... then the board brings in the former president
of AMEX to reverse the breakup and resurrect the company ... some
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
there had been big explosion in the mid-range market in the late 70s
through the mid-80s ... DEC VAX and IBM 4300 sold similar numbers in the
small unit sales, the big difference was large corporate orders of
hundreds of 4300s at a time. However, by the later half of the 80s,
workstations and "large" PC servers were starting to take-over the
mid-range market ... as can be seen in this old post of a decade
of VAX sales ... sliced&diced by year, model, US/non-US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0
Endicott had expected that the 4331/4341 follow-ons (4361 & 4381) would continue the explosive sales growth ... but by that time, the mid-range market was starting to collapse (moving to workstation and PC servers).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How the internet was invented Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:49:30 -0700hancock4 writes:
In 1980, STL (since renamed silicon valley lab) was bursting at the
seams and they were going to move 300 people from the IMS group to
offsite facility with service back into the STL datacenter. The IMS
people had tried "remote 3270" but found the human factors totally
intolerable (especially compared to what they were use to with vm370/cms
local channel attached controllers). I got roaped into do support for
channel-extender so they could place local 3270 controllers out in the
offsite bldg. Part of the support was running the channel extender
full-duplex and downloaded channel programs to remote channel emulator
for execution (enormously cutting latency and improving throughput).
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
the hardware vendor then tried to get my support released, but it was vetoed by a group in POK playing around with some serial stuff ... they were afraid if my support was released, it would make it harder to get their stuff out.
in 1988, I was asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they were playing with, which quickly becomes the fibre channel standard ... including some stuff that I had been doing back in 1980.
Finally in 1990, the POK serial stuff is released as ESCON with ES/9000 when it is already obsolete.
Then some of the POK people become involved with fibre channel standard
and define a heavy-weight protocol that drastically reduces the native
fibre channel standard throughput which is eventually released as FICON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
The most recently published mainframe peak I/O benchmark that i've seen was done on z196 that got 2M IOPS using 104 FICON (running over 104 fibre-channel). At about the same time there was a (single) fibre channel announced for E5-2600 blade claiming over million IOPS (two such fibre channel have higher throughput than 104 FICON running over 104 fibre channel).
recent posts mentioning z196 peak i/o benchmark:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#74 Fibre Channel is still alive and kicking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#104 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#24 CeBIT and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#28 CeBIT and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#61 Can commodity hardware actually emulate the power of a mainframe?
posts in thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#31 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#32 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#33 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#34 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#35 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#36 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#37 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#38 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#41 How the internet was invented
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How the internet was invented Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 13:06:03 -0700hancock4 writes:
HTTP for what ever reasons decided to implement as TCP session, if those it was atomic transaction ... as a result, the number of sessions being opened and closed for a webserver exploded. As web activity ramped up typical webservers started spending 90% of their time doing linear searching of the FINWAIT list.
NETSCAPE started installing servers like mad to handle the load ... until they finally put in a Sequent server. Sequent had been in the commerical market and had configurations with 20,000 TELNET sessions ... and Sequent had previously encountered and fixed the FINWAIT problem. It was another six months or so before the other vendors redid their FINWAIT processing to look more like Sequent's.
In the 80s, I had been on the XTP technical advisery board which was
doing a high-speed transaction protocol ... that had guaranteed delivery
(like TCP) but would do it in a minimum of 3 packet exchanges ... and
some number of other high performance characteristics ... some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#xtphsp
I tried to get the HTTPS protocl interested in doing an XTP implementation that piggy backed all the crypto stuff within the 3 packet exchange (HTTPS runs over a TCP session where there is also latency of a bunch of crypto handshake protocol chatter).
posts in this thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#32 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#33 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#34 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#35 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#36 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#37 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#38 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#41 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#42 How the internet was invented
past posts mentioning FINWAIT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#1 Early tcp development?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#164 Uptime (was Re: Q: S/390 on PowerPC?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002.html#3 The demise of compaq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002.html#14 index searching
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#46 Shipwrecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005g.html#42 TCP channel half closed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#33 X.509 and ssh
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#2 Hey! Keep Your Hands Out Of My Abstraction Layer!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#37 Curiosity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#11 What part of z/OS is the OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#38 Problem with TCP connection close
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#28 Yet another squirrel question - Results (very very long post)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#36 Making tea
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#7 IBM in Talks to Buy Sun
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#76 Tiny-traffic DoS attack spotlights Apache flaw
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#44 Follow up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#62 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#51 Has there been a change in US banking regulations recently?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#9 The IETF is probably the single element in the global equation of technology competition than has resulted in the INTERNET
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#11 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#6 Founders of SSL Call Game Over?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#20 Writing article on telework/telecommuting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#89 False Start's sad demise: Google abandons noble attempt to make SSL less painful
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#15 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#8 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#46 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#48 Google takes on Internet Standards with TCP Proposals, SPDY standardization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#13 Is it time for a revolution to replace TLS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#26 There Is Still Hope
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#76 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#2 Knowledge Center Outage May 3rd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#50 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#25 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#71 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#96 TCP joke
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#113 Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How the internet was invented Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:06:25 -0700hancock4 writes:
posts in the thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#31 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#32 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#33 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#34 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#35 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#36 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#37 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#38 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#41 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#42 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#43 How the internet was invented
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How the internet was invented Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 09:55:02 -0700"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
there was big uptic lore about IBM mainframe channel throughput with the 3090 pointing to the enormous number of channels.
The issue starts out with the latency of the enormous half-duplex channel protocol chatter. For the transition from 3830 disk controller to 3880 disk controller then went from a very fast horizontal microprocessor to the much slower vertical JIB-prime microprocessor. To get from 800kbyte/sec to 3mbyte/sec transfer and max channel length from 200ft to 400ft, they went to dedicated hardware to handle data movement and relaxed requirement for handshake on every byte to up to every 8bytes ("data streaming"). However, protocol chatter still had to be handled by the microprocessor ... and during the latency of the half-duplex protocol chatter back&forth there was no data transfer.
The 3090 had originally designed the number of channels required to achieve system throughput was based on the assumption that 3880 would have the sustained performance of 3830 but with 3mbyte transfer transfer. However, the 3880 sustained performance fell well short of that because of enormous channel busy time lost to the long delays the 3880 had handling half-duplex protocol chatter. As a result 3090 had to double the number of channels in order to compensate for the significant 3880 channel busy overhead, which required adding an additional TCM .... there was internal joke that 3090 was going to charge of the additional manufacturing cost of the additional TCM to the 3880 group. Marketing then respun the requirement to double the number of channels (to compensate for 3880 half-duplex channel overhead) as how great the increased throughput was.
the 2305-2 had 11mbyte capacity, 1.5mbyte/sec transfer and 5ms avg access (10ms rotational) ... its own control unit and had trouble with much more than 80ft cable length. the 2305-1 had 5.4mbyte capacity 3mbyte/sec, and 2.5ms avg access, and special two-byte wide channel (and shorter cable length restrictions). The 2305-1 had same number of R/W heads as 2305-2, but two heads/track offset 180degrees, avg. rotation was only quarter of revolution because pairs of byte were written on opposite side of track and only had to come under either head before both heads could start r/w in parallel.
The mainframe protocol chatter overhead shows up later with the
(mainframe channel) "FICON" protocol layered over fibre-channel standard
... peak i/o benchmark used 104 FICON (running over 104 fibre-channel)
getting 2M IOPS ... when native single fibre-channel claiming over
million IOPS.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
part of the native fibre-channel sustained native throughput ... was that it runs full-duplex protocol ... streaming both data & control down on the outbound cable and incoming data & control in the inbound cable.
In the late 80s, there was work in both the fibre-channel group (out of
LLNL) and the scalable coherent group (out of SLAC) on sustained
throughput compensating for protocol latencies using continuous
streaming (I participated in both efforts). SCI got standards for I/O
transfer and memory bus (used by sequent, data general, SGI, convex and
others ... used for scalable shared memory multiprocessor).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Coherent_Interface
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: China takes the lead in supercomputing while America sleeps Date: 19 July 2016 Blog: FacebookChina takes the lead in supercomputing while America sleeps
super trivia: starting early 80s, we were working with director of NSF
and were suppose to get $20M to interconnect the NSF supercomputer
centers, then congress cuts the budget, some number of other things
happen and finally they release an RFP (in part based on what we
already had running). Internal politics prevent us from bidding and
the director of NSF tries to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) with support from other agencies (but that just makes the internal politics
worse, as does comments that what we already had running was at least
5yrs ahead of all bid responses). As regional networks connect into
the centers, it becomes the NSFNET backbone, precursor to the modern
internet. some old email from the period
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
In the late 80s & early 90s we where doing HA/CMP and were working on
cluster scale-up with national labs for technical/scientific and RDBMS
vendors for commercial. This is reference to Jan1992 meeting in
Ellison's on cluster scale-up for Oracle RDBMS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
within a few weeks of that meeting, the scale-up work was transferred,
announced as IBM supercomputer (for technical and scientific *ONLY*),
and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four
processors (part of it was the mainframe RDBMS group complained that
if I was allowed to go ahead, it would be at least 5yrs ahead of
them). Press article, 17Feb1992, for "scientific and technical
*ONLY*":
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
press from 11May1992, "caught by surprise" in national lab interest in
cluster supercomputers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
old email from the period
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
other trivia: I had first gotten involved with LLNL on large cluster computing back in 1979.
Modern generation of supercomputers use large number of advanced processors ... many of them are the same that are used in signal processing that are critical in applications like radar, sonar, guidance, etc. Presumably this is why in spring of 2015, DOD put these processors on export control (China had previously built largest supercomputer in the world using processors from the US). At fall 2015 supercomputer conference, China demonstrated that they had started producing their own advanced processors. Recently, China demonstrated they had started producing these processors in quantity with even larger, largest supercomputer in the world.
recent posts on the subject:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#20 DEC and The Americans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#55 How to Kill the F-35 Stealth Fighter; It all comes down to radar ... and a big enough missile
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#89 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#89 China builds world's most powerful computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#22 Iran Can Now Detect U.S. Stealth Jets at Long Range
other trivia: As a result for being told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors, we had additional motivation not to stay with IBM. A couple years later, two of the other people in the Ellison meeting (that we had worked with at Oracle) show up at a small client/server startup responsible for something called the "commerce server". We are brought in as consultants because they want to do payment transactions on the server. The startup had also invented this technology they called "SSL" they wanted to use; the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Nightmare on Wall Street: Republicans & Democrats Agree on Reinstating Glass-Steagall Act Date: 20 July 2016 Blog: FacebookNightmare on Wall Street: Republicans & Democrats Agree on Reinstating Glass-Steagall Act
Folklore is that the congressional bill for repeal of Glass-Steagall was couple hundred million, evenly divided between the two parties. One of the issues that periodic comes up is how congress can get reoccurring payments. The "Kabuki Theater" theory for reoccurring payments is then to periodically propose reinstating a bill to keep the funds flowing.
The original rhetoric on the floor of congress as to the prime purpose for GLBA was if you already had a banking charter, you got to keep it, but if you didn't already have one, you couldn't get one (i.e. keep new competition out of banking, they called out specific new technology companies that would do banking much more efficiently). Later repeal of Glass-Steagall was added to GLBA. Originally the bill passed along party lines, but they then went back and bought both parties and it passed with nearly unanimous veto-proof.
posts mentioning Glass-Steagall (&/or Pecora hearings)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
posts mentioning DC is "Kabuki Theater" (what you see has little to do
with what is really going on)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: CIA Reactions to Finding No WMD in Iraq Date: 20 July 2016 Blog: FacebookCIA Reactions to Finding No WMD in Iraq
"team B" fabricated Russian capability (to justify enormous military
budget increase) but the CIA director won't agree to the
analysis. White House Chief of Staff Rumsfeld asks the CIA director to
resign and replaces him with somebody that would agree to the
analysis, Bush1. Rumsfeld then becomes SECDEF and is replaced as chief
of staff by his assistant Cheney.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
80s, US is supporting Iraq in the Iran/Iraq war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
including supplying WMDs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
former CIA director and vp bush1 says he doesn'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
early 90s, sat. recon analyst notified administration that Saddam was
preparing to invade Kuwait. The administration said Saddam would do no
such thing and proceeded to discredit the analyst. Then the analyst
notifies that Saddam was preparing to invade Saudi Arabia, the
administration now has to choose between Iraq and Saudi Arabia (Bush1
is president and Cheney is SECDEF)
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2/
Last decade, the cousin of White House chief of staff (Card) is
dealing with Iraq in the UN and given proof that the WMDs have been
decommissioned ... which is forwarded to Card, Powell and others
... before it can be made public, the cousin is locked up in military
hospital. (Bush2 is president, Cheney is VP, and Rumsfeld is SECDEF
again). The cousin eventually gets out and publishes a book in 2010.
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
NY times series from fall 2014 about finding the decommissioned WMDs
(tracing back to the US) and the information was kept classified for a
decade (corroborates details in Card cousin's book published 2010)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html
also last decade is the economic mess, 70 times larger than S&L crisis
"WMDs" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
"team b" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
"perpetual war" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: New, better way to build circuits for world's first useful quantum computers Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:36:12 -0700"D. Aaron Sawyer" <aaron@110.net> writes:
d-wave
http://www.dwavesys.com/
1000 qubit
http://www.dwavesys.com/d-wave-two-system
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: China takes the lead in supercomputing while America sleeps Date: 21 July 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
Note the supercomputers of the 70s&80s were monolithic creations. The emerging generations of supercomputers starting using massive numbers of commodity, COTS chips ... in fact is enormous overlap between putting together supercomputers and the massive cloud computing megadatacenters. In fact, there are accounts of supercomputers being spun up on-demand from available processors in a cloud computing megadatacenter using a credit card.
recent megadatacenter posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#35 [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/2015c.html#30 IBM Z13
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#69 Cambridge's HPC-as-a-service for boffins, big and small
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/2015g.html#18 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#19 Linux Foundation Launches Open Mainframe Project
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/2016b.html#93 Google joins Facebook's game-changing project that's eating the $140 billion hardware market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#104 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#24 CeBIT and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#61 Can commodity hardware actually emulate the power of a mainframe?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How the internet was invented Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 08:04:41 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
as undergraduate in the 60s, the univ. hired me to be responsible for
the ibm production systems. the univ. library got an ONR grant to do
online catalog, some of the money went to getting an IBM 2321
datacell. The univ. was also selected to be betatest site for the
original CICS product (and I was tasked to support/debug) lots of CICS,
gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20071124013919/http://www.yelavich.com/history/toc.htm
and
https://web.archive.org/web/20050409124902/www.yelavich.com/cicshist.htm
one of the issues, was that CICS ran under single OS/360 TCB (task) ... and as multiprocessor became more of standard scale-up, CICS was still limited to running on only one processor (and therefor no matter how many tasks CICS was running, it still only ran serialized on single processor at a time). Large processor/installations might have over 100 copies of CICS running concurrently on single system ... to make use of all the processors available.
it wasn't until 2004, before CICS shipped multiprocessor support (and
it took some customers a few years to upgrade)
https://web.archive.org/web/20090107054344/http://www.yelavich.com/history/ev200402.htm
past posts mentioning CICS &/or BDAM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#cics
early 80s, there were some number of internal studies showing improved productivity when interactive computing response was guarter sec or better. 3272/3277 controller/terminal had .086sec hardware response ... so needed .164sec system response for human to see .25sec response.
Follow-on 3274/3278 controller/terminal moved lots of the electronics back into the controller (reduce terminal manufacturing cost) ... and introduced enormous new coax cable protocol chatter and latency ... typical hardware response increase to .530sec (but was datastream dependent, could be more, minimum was around .28secs) ... so it was impossible to achieve .25sec response for human. This was direct channel attached controllers ... SNA/VTAM connected controller would futher increase this.
Some of us complained to 3274/3278 product administrator about it was much worse for interactive computing ... eventually got response 3274/3278 wasn't for interactive computing, but for data entry.
Note that MVS-based (TSO, editors, etc) interactive computing typically had one second or worse system response ... so they didn't notice the degradation moving to 3274/3278.
Note that at one point, one of the internal IBM locations were claiming that they had the best online, interactive computer service in the company with .2sec avg trivial system response (but with 3272/3277 .086sec hardware response, couldn't make .25 interactve response). However, I had several internal systems with .11sec 90th percental trivial interactiver response, giving .196sec human response.
One of the issues with 3270 block-mode interacive computing is that if you happened to be typing at the same time the system wrote to the screen, it would lock the keyboard ... and you had to stop and hit reset button to unlock the keyboard. A "FIFO" box was built, unplug keyboard from terminal head, plug in the "FIFO" box and plug the keyboard into the "FIFO" box, it would queue keystrokes if screen write was in progress ... eliminating really annoying 3270 human factors. We also did a little hardware hack inside the keyboard to speedup the key repeat start delay and rate. The transition to 3274/3278 (with move of electronics back to controller) eliminated such improvements ... and some of us kept our 3277 around until could upgrade with ibm/pc terminal emulation.
From law of unintended consequences, the enormous 3274/3278 protocol
chatter and latency shows up in IBM/PC emulation. A 3277 IBM/PC
emulation card had three times the upload/download throughput of a 3278
IBM/PC emulation card. posts mentioning various terminal emulation
issues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#emulation
past posts mentioning 3272/3277 having much faster response that
3274/3278
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#19 3270 protocol
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#6 IBM 327x terminals and controllers (was Re: Itanium2 power
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#22 What is timesharing, anyway?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#12 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#15 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#42 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#19 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#53 The 50th Anniversary of the Legendary IBM 1401
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#72 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#31 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#43 My first mainframe experience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#61 Migration off mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#13 From Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#15 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#19 Writing article on telework/telecommuting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#87 Just for a laugh... How to spot an old IBMer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#15 cp67, vm370, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#37 Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#37 PDP-10 and Vax, was System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#1 3270 response & channel throughput
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#14 Tech Time Warp of the Week: The 50-Pound Portable PC, 1977
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#21 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#41 System Response
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#23 Three Reasons the Mainframe is in Trouble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#26 Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#106 TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#127 How Much Bandwidth do we have?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#15 Dilbert ... oh, you must work for IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#8 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#42 Old Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#104 Is it a lost cause?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 12:49:10 -0700JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
Anti-intellectualism In the Army: The bureaucracy or the people?
http://www.thestrategybridge.com/the-bridge/2014/1/14/anti-intellectualism-in-the-army-the-bureaucracy-or-the-people
somebody commented that while they were working as concept developer for joint forces command ... he tried using epistemology and it was rejected because it was too difficult to explain, "inexorability" had too many syllables, and several other examples.
I remember something about program that calculates reading grade level for gov. documents ... lots try and target for the 4th grade reading level.
afc has had discussions in the past about high school graduation
proficiency tests being rejected that required 7th grade math
proficiency because they assumed too many students wouldn't be able to
pass.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#57 Govt demands password to personal computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#43 On whom or what would you place the blame for the sub-prime crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#47 TARP Disbursements Through April 10th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#36 The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#39 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 13:05:39 -0700re:
bullying and hazing in our culture to force conformity ... especially in
US military academies ... mentions that Marshall (army chief of staff
during WW2) was injured so badly that he almost had to drop out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Marshall
discussed in this long winded post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#91 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
other threads about bullying and hazing to force conformity and
not stand out intellectually (or otherwise). There is a anti-bullying
book written about a former co-worker at the cambridge science center,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
"It's Cool To Be Clever"
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cool-to-be-clever-edson-hendricks/id483020515?mt=8
and
https://www.amazon.com/Its-Cool-Be-Clever-Hendricks/dp/1897435630/
past posts mentioning "It's Cool To Be Clever"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#10 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#12 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#15 Any candidates for best acronyms?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#16 Two new (internal network related) wiki entries
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#17 What is IBM culture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#29 It's Cool To Be Clever
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#35 How old is the oldest email in your current email inbox?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#2 Soups
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#16 ARPANET's coming out party: when the Internet first took center stage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#33 Last Word on Dennis Ritchie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#65 Teachers Don't Like Creative Students
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#73 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#66 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#80 Term "Open Systems" (as Sometimes Currently Used) is Dead -- Who's with Me?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#99 PROFS & GML
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#66 IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#73 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#96 Systems thinking--still in short supply
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#103 Median Age of US Managers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#108 25 Years: How the Web began
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#101 Internal Network, NSFNET, Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#8 What Does School Really Teach Children
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Social Security Trust Fund IOUs Date: 24 July 2016 Blog: FacebookSocial Security Trust Fund IOUs
Congress lets fiscal responsibility act expire in 2002 (spending
couldn't exceed tax revenue, on its way to eliminate all federal
debt). CBO 2010 report was that between the act expired and CBO 2010
report, tax revenue was cut by $6T and spending increased by $6T for
$12T budget gap compared to fiscal responsible budget (first time tax
revenue was cut to not pay for wars). In the middle of last decade,
the US Comptroller General was including in speeches that nobody in
congress was capable of middle school arithmetic (for how badly it was
savaging the budget). fiscal responsibility act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
comptroller general
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
In the 2nd half of 90s, in order to pay for the baltic wars, the intelligence community required to cut their budget by equivalent amount (so baltic wars were budget neutral, i.e. Clinton operating under fiscal responsibility act) ... we saw turfed people from intelligence community applying for security jobs in silicon valley.
There is long winded analysis why Greenspan, wallstreet, banks, and several other players didn't want federal debt eliminated, in fact wanted enormous increase in federal debt ... and were paying congress billions in order to get their way.
Part of analysis is currently significant numbers of too big to fail
banks are using the tens of trillions in federal reserve ZIRP funds
(zero percent interest) to buy treasuries (federal debt, approaching
$20T) and making $300B/yr off the spread (w/o federal debt, there
would be no treasuries). The unintended consequences, is that with
tens of trillions in ZIRP funds, institutions have little motivation
to pay interest to attract investments and deposits. There is a joke
that if the federal reserve were to use the ZIRP funds directly to buy
treasuries, the federal debt wouldn't cost anything, but then
wallstreet would be out the $300B/yr subsidy. too big to fail (too
big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
The federal reserve had lost a long fought legal battle to prevent
public disclosure of what it was doing (with tens of trillions in ZIRP
funds). When it lost, the new chairman had press conference and said
that he assumed the TBTF would use the tens of trillions in ZIRP funds
to help mainstreet and when they didn't he had no way to force them
(but that didn't stop the ZIRP funds). Note that the new chairman was
selected in part because he was a student of the depression. However,
the FED had tried something similar during the depression with the
same results (so he should of had *NO* expectations that they would do
something different this time). fed chairman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
Disclaimer: Jan2009 I was asked to HTML'ize the Pecora Hearings (30s
congressional hearings into '29 crash, resulted in criminal
convictions and Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal HREFs and URLs
between what happened this time and what happened then (comments that
the new congress might have appetite to do something). I work on it
for awhile and then get a call saying that it won't be needed after
all (comments that capital hill was totally buried with enormous
mountains of wallstreet money). posts mentioning Pecora hearings
and/or Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 12:20:19 -0700Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
I was mostly big for my age and did lots of heavy labor so harder to physical bully (they had to be much older, and there was much reduced cross-over when large gap in classes).
I went through all the bookmobile math books summer between 5th & 6th grade (had up through trig). 6th grade I got 15mins/week with junior high math teacher on high school algebra (that I had already done). In his 8th grade math classes, I read science fiction books ... I got "100" on all tests and exercises ... but a zero for class participation.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM 1401 vs. 360/30 emulation? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 16:18:56 -0700Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> writes:
I mention that I did a lot of rewrite of I/O supervisor for
disk engineering and product test labs (bldgs 14&15) .... some
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
part of it was to make it bullet proof and never fail (they had tried MVS in that environment and found it had 15min MTBF that required manual reboot/re-ipl).
Another part was to cut the device I/O redrive latency to as close as possible to SSCH (pending queue in hardware and hardware capable of picking next requests off the queue and redriving the hardware). It turned out it was "too good" for the new 3880 disk controller.
Going from 3830 with superfast horizontal microcode engine to 3880 with dedicated hardware for data movement, but a really slow JIB-prime vertical microcode engine for control ops. To try and make the 3880 look like it was fast as 3830 ... they decided to present operation finished interrupt early ... before it actually finished ... and figured they could do the actual finishing cleanup overlapped with the host operating system redrive code. Unfortunately, I did redrive in less time than it took the 3880 to finish cleanup ... as a result it had to signal SM+BUSY (control unit busy) in response to the SIOF ... which required the device driver to requeue the operation ... and wait for a subsequent CUE (control unit end) interrupt ... significantly increasing overhead.
recent posts mentioning 3880 controller:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#79 Asynchronous Interrupts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#81 Asynchronous Interrupts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#24 What was a 3314?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#42 Old Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#45 How the internet was invented
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 16:26:40 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
I've been reading "The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval
Command"
https://www.amazon.com/Rules-Game-Jutland-British-Command/dp/B00B6TZGLM/
for the past few weeks. A couple weeks ago attended a talk on US shore defense forts built late 1800s and early 1900s. Talked about requiring approx. 1000 men per battery ... a fort with a few batteries could require several thousand men. They used manual trig calculations for firing solutions (wind, range, motion, etc) ... to hit ships that could be on the horizon. At US entry to WW1, many of the those men went to Europe and operated anti-aircraft batteries. During the talk somebody brought up the long time it took the British to calculate firing solutions played a significant role at Jutland.
The book starts off talking about Jutland and then goes back 30-40 years and examines a great deal of British minutia leading up to Jutland (British fleet against German fleet). One of the issues was that British was provided option to deploy a slow human calculated firing solution and an analog computer that quickly and accurately calculated firing solution ... even over the horizon ... and chose the manual method (goes into some of the political leverage behind the manual calculation forces).
I interpret that it then spends quite a bit of time on the rigid command&control forces epitomized by the "signal book" and maneuverists. They look at a fleet manuver exercise following the "signal book" where the flagship was struck and sunk with loss of many lives ... supposedly wouldn't have happened if they were maneuverists. Then after the investigations, they managed to portray it as they needed even more rigid command&control (rather than the other way around).
pg212/loc4648-51:
One can readily understand the stresses which manoeuvring without
signals placed upon captains and divisional leaders, especially in the
early days. The C-in-C was enjoined by Queen's Regulations "to ascertain
[their] skill, capacity and intelligence"; but they had not bargained
for this. They had been brought up to regard independent thinking, at
least within signalling reach of a superior, as "a form of mutiny", 70
and many were content to find refuge in that philosophy.
pg332/loc7430-32:
It must be apparent by now – at least to the ‘profane' reader – that the
codes and conventions of the Craft (if taken seriously) harmonize
broadly with the ‘authoritarian' personality traits defined by Professor
Dixon in On the Psychology of Military Incompetence and described here
in Chapter 9
pg353/loc7906-9:
There was much more to Nelson than merely ‘engaging the enemy more
closely' – "Do not imagine that I am one of these hotheaded people who
fight at an immense disadvantage without an adequate object" – but the
Edwardian Navy, with its anti-intellectual tradition, still sheltered
and promoted men whose repertoire of military skill (when explicit
orders defaulted, and sometimes even when they did not) amounted to
gallantry, muscle and frontal assault.
... snip ...
It makes me think of more recent case of a parody by anonymous from the
marine gazette
https://web.archive.org/web/20110817133447/http://www.mca-marines.org/gazette/attritionist-letters-archives
and Boyd and Maneuver warfare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuver_warfare#Boyd_and_US_acceptance_of_maneuver_warfare
According to the writer Grant Hammond, Boyd believed that the Battle of
Marathon, Battle of Leuctra, Battle of Arbela and the Battle of Cannae
were battles of maneuver warfare with "unequal distribution of forces to
gain a local advantage and decisive leverage to collapse adversary
resistance".[6]
Recent theorists
Aside from Boyd, other recent military theorists of a non-firepower
focus include H. John Poole, Robert Leonhard, Robert Bateman, Michael
Wyly, and Donald Vandergriff.
... snip ...
past Boyd Posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Programmers who defined the technology industry: Where are they now? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 19:21:17 -0700Programmers who defined the technology industry: Where are they now?
this was recently posted to small online facebook discussion group ... includes the author of the above article and (at least) Bob Frankston. Bob (w/Brinklin) was responsible for visicalc ... however before that he worked at (one of the first virtual machine) cp67/vm370 service bureau that move up value stream and specialized in services for the financial industry. Bob mentions the book was suppose to be the start of a series (that would have covered a lot more of the industry) but apparently there was not enough interest.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: How Putin Weaponized Wikileaks to Influence the Election of an American President Date: 26 July 2016 Blog: FacebookHow Putin Weaponized Wikileaks to Influence the Election of an American President
... much of the focus on possible source of the hack appears to be attempts to distract from the contents of the email.
Case for rise of Putin as reaction to Harvard & cohorts looting
Russia: 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
If you are unfamiliar with this fiasco, which was also the true
proximate cause of Larry Summers' ouster from Harvard, you must read
an extraordinary expose, How Harvard Lost Russia, from Institutional
Investor. I am told copies of this article were stuffed in every
Harvard faculty member's inbox the day Summers got a vote of no
confidence and resigned shortly thereafter.
... snip ...
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
Mostly, they hurt Russia and its hopes of establishing a lasting
framework for a stable Western-style capitalism, as Summers himself
acknowledged when he testified under oath in the U.S. lawsuit in
Cambridge in 2002. "The project was of enormous value," said Summers,
who by then had been installed as the president of Harvard. "Its
cessation was damaging to Russian economic reform and to the
U.S.-Russian relationship."
... snip ...
note that president of Harvard had also been involved in some of the
economic mess last decade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers
In 1993, Summers was appointed Undersecretary for International
Affairs of the United States Department of the Treasury under the
Clinton Administration. In 1995, he was promoted to Deputy Secretary
of the Treasury under his long-time political mentor Robert Rubin. In
1999, he succeeded Rubin as Secretary of the Treasury. While working
for the Clinton administration Summers played a leading role in the
American response to the 1994 economic crisis in Mexico, the 1997
Asian financial crisis, and the Russian financial crisis.
... snip ...
President of AMEX was in competition to be the next CEO and wins. The
looser leaves and takes their protegee and goes to Baltimore taking
over what has been described as loan-sharking business. They make some
number of other acquisitions eventually acquiring CITIBANK in
violation of Glass-Steagall. Greenspan gives them exemption while they
lobby Congress for repeal of Glass-Steagall (enabling too big to
fail). They enlist some number in DC to help them, including the
secretary of treasury, to get repeal of Glass-Steagall added to
GLBA. Once that is underway, the secretary of treasury resigns and
joins CITI as what is described at the time as co-CEO.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
there were some recent interviews claiming that nobody has been
recently convicted under 1917 treason law. However those involved in
the success of failure case
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
had reported to the responsible congressional oversight committee as
required by law ... and were then charged under the 1917 law. Congress
then puts the agency on probation and not allowed to manage their own
projects for 5yrs ... but that might have just been a gimmick to
further outsource federal gov. ... aka 70% of the budget and over half
the people outsourced to for-profit companies
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
The judge eventually threw out the 1917 charges, but not until after
the peoples' lives were ruined. In any case, Snowden had that as an
example of how the system works. Note that the president of AMEX
... eventually goes on to head up the private-equity company that does
an LBO of the company that will be Snowden's employer. As referenced
in the article, victim companies in the private-equity mill are under
intense pressure to generate revenue for their parents in every way
possible ... in the case of those doing outsourced security
clearances, they were filling out the paperwork, but not actually
doing background checks. Victim companies in the private-equity mill
also are responsible for over half of corporate defaults (because of
the intense pressure to generate revenue for their parents).
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
Note that it is illegal for gov. agencies to lobby congress ... and also gov. contractors to use money from gov. contracts to lobby congress, beltway bandits that only have gov. contracts as revenue source, can't lobby. After turn of the century there was 1) big uptick in private-equity companies taking over beltway bandits and 2) big increase in gov. outsourcing to for-profit companies (large private equity companies can lobby on behalf of their victims and congress sees big upswing in lobbying money for outsourcing to for-profit companies).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Honeywell 200 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 11:39:48 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
2nd hand story was that in the antitrust hearings, the BUNCH testified that by the late 50s, everybody in the industry realized that the single most important business criteria was becoming compatible architecture across the line ... people installed computer, wrote software and combination of growing business and computer use required to upgrading to faster computers ... needing to rewrite applications from scratch was major market inhibitor. their testimony was that for one reason or another, only IBM Watson was able to force all the plant managers to toe the line on maintaining architecture compatibility.
Other part was IBM customer care with everything bundled .... as part of
settlement, IBM announed unbundling 23Jun1969 ... starting to charge for
maintenance, application software, SE services, etc. ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
slightly related ... story about shutting down ACS because IBM
executives felt it would advance state-of-the-art too fast and they
would loose control of market.
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
recnet refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#33 IBM STRETCH repricing decision?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#23 IBM's 3033; "The Big One": IBM's 3033
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#3 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#10 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#89 China builds world's most powerful computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#37 How the internet was invented
past posts mentioning antitrust testimony about needing compatible
line
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#20 1401 series emulation still running?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#34 IBM 8000 ???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#9 CA to IBM product swap
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#45 360 programs on a z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#14 360 programs on a z/10
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/2012e.html#105 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 5th generation stealth, thermal, radar signature Date: 26 July 2016 Blog: Facebooklooks at F35 stealth signature by aspect and band
strongly optimized for its mission as "bomb truck" for taking out
ground defenses assuming F22 is flying cover to handle (high treat
adversaries). also discusses of some of the F35 thermal issues
http://ausairpower.net/APA-2009-01.html#mozTocId142087
and net/conclusion
http://ausairpower.net/APA-2009-01.html#mozTocId61836
The F-35 Is Still Horribly Broken
https://warisboring.com/the-f-35-is-still-horribly-broken-16abd647cf7a
other references are that this maintenance is extremely time-consuming
and very exacting ... with big backlogs in the maintenance bays
... and easy to messup that isn't visually obvious.
http://www.tyndall.af.mil/News/Features/Display/tabid/6651/Article/669883/lo-how-the-f-22-gets-its-stealth.aspx
Why Lockheed CEO's F-35 Remarks Ring Hollow
http://www.pogo.org/straus/issues/weapons/2016/why-lockheed-ceos-f-35-remarks-ring-hollow.html
the original F22 coating was fragile and susceptible to moisture (reputation for not being able to go out in the rain). Since then a "better" coating has been developed ... comments about it being retrofitted to F22 and used for F35 .... however there is some concern that there may be wear problems at F22 higher top speed. If it weren't for all the resources being diverted into the F35 ... could almost describe what happen has been F22 technology demonstrator.
This is F-22: Can't Fly Won't Die
http://nypost.com/2009/07/17/cant-fly-wont-die/
Pilots call high-maintenance aircraft "hangar queens." Well, the
F-22's a hangar empress. After three expensive decades in development,
the plane meets fewer than one-third of its specified requirements.
...
Anyway, an enemy wouldn't have to down a single F-22 to defeat
it. Just strike the hi-tech maintenance sites, and it's game over. (In
WWII, we didn't shoot down every Japanese Zero; we just sank their
carriers.) The F-22 isn't going to operate off a dirt strip with a
repair tent.
But this is all about lobbying, not about lobbing bombs. Cynically,
Lockheed Martin distributed the F-22 workload to nearly every state,
employing under-qualified sub-contractors to create local financial
stakes in the program. Great politics -- but the result has been a
quality collapse
... snip ...
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: 5th generation stealth, thermal, radar signature Date: 26 July 2016 Blog: FacebookThere is recent long winded article about 100th anniversary of Boeing. Part of it goes into after the M/D merger, the MIC practice of distributing piece-meal work scattered all over the place was infused into the Boeing business practices ... and that may still result in the demise of Boeing. recent reference
But this is all about lobbying, not about lobbing bombs. Cynically, Lockheed Martin distributed the F-22 workload to nearly every state, employing under-qualified sub-contractors to create local financial stakes in the program. Great politics -- but the result has been a quality collapse
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#61 5th generation stealth, thermal, radar signature
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:16:28 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
for those w/o subscription ... "Attrtionist Letters" in style of
C.S. Lewis "Screwtape Letters"
https://fabiusmaximus.com/2011/05/11/27461/
From your lessons at The Basic School (TBS), you no doubt recall the
great 1989 victory won in Quantico by those who called themselves
"maneuverists." Then-Commandant, Gen Alfred M. Gray, arrayed his forces
against us -- we the noble "attritionists" -- to do battle over the
philosophy upon which the Marine Corps would operate. Gen Gray's forces
attempted to redefine the Marine Corps with a new interpretation of
military theory, that of "maneuver warfare."
... snip ...
I've characterized as Gray leveraged Boyd as make-over of the Corp
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
and calculating fire solution pg351/loc8761-64:
In opting for Captain Frederick Dreyer's cheaper, inferior system, the
Admiralty, in effect, shelved its campaign to master long-range gunnery
and forgot that in 1905 (with the switch to dreadnoughts) it had boldly
gambled for qualitative, over crudely quantitative, superiority.
Dreyer's cost-saving package prolonged the Royal Navy's submission to
the courtly convention of parallel battle-lines, for it was unable to
assimilate erratically changing ranges and bearings --and indeed its
inventor tendentiously argued that foreseeable tactical needs made such
capabilities unnecessary.
... snip ...
not choosing the analog computer solution for calculating fire solution had significant impact; sacrificed accuracy and firing rate (longer time to calculate much less accurate solution) ... basically political forces behind much worse solution.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: One Thing Both Parties Want: Break Up the Banks Again Date: 26 July 2016 Blog: FacebookOne Thing Both Parties Want: Break Up the Banks Again
... or just a ploy to get another round of enormous mountains of money. Jan2009 I'm asked to HTML'ize the Pecora hearings (30s senate hearings into '29 crash that resulted in criminal convictions and Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal HREFs and URLs between what happened this time and what happened then (references that the new congress might have an appetite to do something). I work on it awhile and then get a call saying it won't be needed after all (references to enormous mountains of wallstreet money totally burying capital hill).
repeal of Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
enabling too big to fail (too big to prosecute and too big to
jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Dinosaurisation of we oldies? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 14:12:15 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
i.e. executives were worried that it would advance state of art too
fast and they would loose control of the market. recent refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#33 IBM STRETCH repricing decision?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#23 IBM's 3033; "The Big One": IBM's 3033
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#3 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#10 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#89 China builds world's most powerful computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#37 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#60 Honeywell 200
SMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Dinosaurisation of we oldies? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 14:17:29 -0700hancock4 writes:
that there was competing forces for calculating navy gun firing
solutions ... and the British did not choose the analog computer,
pg351/loc8761-64:
In opting for Captain Frederick Dreyer's cheaper, inferior system, the
Admiralty, in effect, shelved its campaign to master long-range gunnery
and forgot that in 1905 (with the switch to dreadnoughts) it had boldly
gambled for qualitative, over crudely quantitative, superiority.
Dreyer's cost-saving package prolonged the Royal Navy's submission to
the courtly convention of parallel battle-lines, for it was unable to
assimilate erratically changing ranges and bearings --and indeed its
inventor tendentiously argued that foreseeable tactical needs made such
capabilities unnecessary.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Was Microsoft built on stolen goods? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 08:34:17 -0700Was Microsoft built on stolen goods?
before ms/dos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
there was seattle computer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products
before seattle computer there was cp/m,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M
before cp/m, kildall worked with cp/67 (precursor to vm370) at npg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Postgraduate_School
trivia: I did a lot of work on cp/67 as undergraduate in the 60s, which IBM picked up and shipped as part of the product.
posts mentioning science center (responsible for cp/67)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Was Microsoft built on stolen goods? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:59:32 -0700re:
from (somebody's posting) in thread in another venue:
Before all this, Gates stole BASIC from Harvard and Dartmouth.
He recompiled the BASIC interpreter to which Harvard held a license
(which did not permit that) for the Intel 8080 instruction set, and
licensed that interpreter to users for the Altair. By exceeding the
scope of Harvard's license from Dartmouth he created an unauthorized
derivative work and infringed copyright... Generally called stealing.
Daniel Golden and John Yemma, Globe Staff. "Harvard amasses a colossal
endowment." The Boston Globe (Boston, MA). The New York Times
Company. 1998. HighBeam Research. 28 Jul. 2016
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Was Microsoft built on stolen goods? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 17:54:51 -0700Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> writes:
from colon/: in line from (somebody's posting) in thread in another venue:
until "... snip ..." is all from somebody else ... who somewhat paraphrased globe ... and then provided reference to globe article.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 07:55:31 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
pg589/loc13042-44:
First, by the Royal Navy as a whole - and this no doubt applies to other
navies and other services - an essential principle continues to be
under-acknowledged: (20) There is an inverse law between robust doctrine
and the need for signalling.
pg589/loc13048-49:
The other side of this coin is that (21) Heavy signalling, like copious
orders, is symptomatic of doctrinal deficiency, and is often the
preamble to disaster.
... snip ...
video clip from Boyd about never mentioning doctrine in his works
because day-2 doctrine turns into dogma
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heWpHSOMAmY&feature=share
The Boyd doctrine/dogma scenario is process w/o need for understanding
(as is heavy signalling and copious orders), implicit in
observation->orientation (OODA-loop)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_(military_strategist)#The_OODA_Loop
Boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Dinosaurisation of we oldies? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 12:32:29 -0700"Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> writes:
Visicalc originally done by Bricklin and Frankston.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc
I've mentioned before Brankston had been employed at one of the original
CP67/CMS commercial online service bureaus (which had moved over to vm370 in
the 70s) ... and had move up the value stream into financial information
tailored for the value stream. recent refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#62 Which Books Can You Recommend For Learning Computer Programming?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#35 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#41 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#58 Programmers who defined the technology industry: Where are they now?
posts mentioning commercial online (virtual machine based) cp67/vm370
service bureaus
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#online
other trivia was 4th generation languages done at cp67&vm370 commercial
service bureaus ... financial industry being early adopters.
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/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/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/2006k.html#35 PDP-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#37 PDP-1
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/2012o.html#33 360/20, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#42 360/20, was 1132 printer history
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#27 the legacy of Seymour Cray
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#14 1970--protesters seize computer center
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Dinosaurisation of we oldies? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 12:49:33 -0700JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
today (somewhat followup to recent Jutland discussions) we have Bismark
v.s Iowa
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/nazi-germanys-battleship-bismarck-vs-americas-iowa-class-who-17172
and Yamoto vs. Iowa
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-ultimate-battleship-battle-japans-yamato-vs-americas-13737
with slight advantage to Iowa for better fire control computer (unless the foe got a lucky hit)
There is a lot of preserving status quo and not adapting well to change. For decades British seapower was based on close-in, short range fire power moving in massed organized formation.
Move from sail to coal to oil, faster ships and more powerful long range guns, it still took a long time to change from earlier doctrine.
and previously mention in
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#78 The World Crisis, Vol. 1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#30 The World Crisis, Vol. 1
the British move from coal to oil is significant contributor to the mess in the middle east today.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The chip card transition in the US has been a disaster Date: 30 July 2016 Blog: FacebookThe chip card transition in the US has been a disaster
Specification is from 1996 targeted solely for POS.
About the same time we were asked to participate in X9A10 financial
standard working group (because we had done electronic commerce) which
had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the
financial infrastructure for *ALL* retail payments (aka not just
POS, ALL). some refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
Part of the standards effort was hardware token that suffered from
none of the security vulnerabilities of their specification, was
nearly 100 times faster and nearly 100 times less expensive (late
90s). some refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
There was large pilot deployment of their specification in the US around the turn of the century ... in their YES CARD vulnerability period. At the 2003 ATM Integrity task force meeting ... a federal LEO went into some detail ... and there was comment from the audience that they managed to spend billions of dollars to prove that chips are less secure than magstripe.
In the wake of the YES CARD problems, all evidence of the large
pilot appeared to disappear w/o a trace. There was speculation that it
would be a long time before it was tried again in the US ... while
they worked out more of the kinks in other jurisdictions. some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
About the same time as the large pilot POS around the turn of the century ... one of the other card brands had internet focused chipcard deployment ... and as part of that program, they were giving away free chipcard readers (with a PC serial port interface).
Now in the mid-90s, there were several financial industry
presentations from consumer dialup banking about the motivation for
their move to the internet ... at the top of the list was the
enormous consumer support costs associated with serial port modems. At
the same time there were presentations by commercial dialup banking
operations that they would *NEVER* move to the internet because of a
long list of vulnerabilities (and even tho they have since moved to the
internet, many of the vulnerabilities continue to this day). dial-up
banking posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#dialup-banking
Now roll forward a few years to the (serial port) chipcard reader give away and the institutional memory of the enormous consumer support costs for serial-port devices has been lost. There was then a rapidly spreading opinion in the industry that chipcards weren't practical in the consumer market because of those consumer support problems ... when in actuality it wasn't the chipcards but the serial-port reader problems. In the wake of that program ... there was massive industry pullback from consumer chipcard activity. We had some postmortems identifying the problem was the serial port reader, not the chipcards themselves ... but it was too late to turn the industry around. As an aside, all the consumer serial port problems were also major motivation for the USB standard ... and possibly the free give-away of the (obsolete) serial-port readers was they got them on the cheap at some fire sale.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The chip card transition in the US has been a disaster Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 14:14:14 -0700The chip card transition in the US has been a disaster
Specification is from 1996 targeted solely for POS.
About the same time we were asked to participate in X9A10 financial
standard working group (because we had done electronic commerce) which
had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the
financial infrastructure for *ALL* retail payments (aka not just POS,
ALL). some refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
Part of the standards effort was hardware token that suffered from
none of the security vulnerabilities of their specification, was
nearly 100 times faster and nearly 100 times less expensive (late
90s). some refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
There was large pilot deployment of their specification in the US around the turn of the century ... in their YES CARD vulnerability period. At the 2003 ATM Integrity task force meeting ... a federal LEO went into some detail ... and there was comment from the audience that they managed to spend billions of dollars to prove that chips are less secure than magstripe.
In the wake of the "YES CARD" problems, all evidence of the large
pilot appeared to disappear w/o a trace. There was speculation that it
would be a long time before it was tried again in the US ... while
they worked out more of the kinks in other jurisdictions. some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
About the same time as the large pilot POS around the turn of the century ... one of the other card brands had internet focused chipcard deployment ... and as part of that program, they were giving away free chipcard readers (with a PC serial port interface).
Now in the mid-90s, there were several financial industry
presentations from consumer dialup banking about the motivation for
their move to the internet ... at the top of the list was the enormous
consumer support costs associated with serial port modems. At the same
time there were presentations by commercial dialup banking operations
that they would *NEVER* move to the internet because of a long list of
vulnerabilities (and even tho they have since moved to the internet,
many of the vulnerabilities continue to this day). dial-up banking
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#dialup-banking
Now roll forward a few years to the (serial port) chipcard reader give away and the institutional memory of the enormous consumer support costs for serial-port devices has been lost. There was then a rapidly spreading opinion in the industry that chipcards weren't practical in the consumer market because of those consumer support problems ... when in actuality it wasn't the chipcards but the serial-port reader problems. In the wake of that program ... there was massive industry pullback from consumer chipcard activity. We had some postmortems identifying the problem was the serial port reader, not the chipcards themselves ... but it was too late to turn the industry around. As an aside, all the consumer serial port problems were also major motivation for the USB standard ... and possibly the free give-away of the (obsolete) serial-port readers was they got them on the cheap at some fire sale.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Dinosaurisation of we oldies? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2016 17:45:06 -0700JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
as the articles mention, the matchup is purely hypothetical. and this
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-ultimate-battleship-battle-japans-yamato-vs-americas-13737
recommends Parshall's "Shattered Sword" ... Shattered Sword references Japanese from carriers believed that the time of the battleship has passed and it is now the era of the carriers.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: PROFS Date: 30 July 2016 Blog: FacebookPROFS group collected various internal applications and packaged them up ... including a very early version of VMSG as the email client. Later the VMSG author offered them a very enhanced version ... and PROFS group tried to get him terminated (they apparently took credit for everything in PROFS). Everything quieted down after the VMSG author demonstrated that every PROFS email in the world contained his initials in non-displayed field. After that the VMSG author only shared the source with me and one other person.
from ibmjargon:
PROFS - profs n. Professional Office System. A menu-based system that
provides support for office personnel such as White House staff, using
IBM mainframes. Acclaimed for its diary mechanisms, and accepted as
one way to introduce computers to those who don't know any better. Not
acclaimed for its flexibility. PROFS featured in the international
news in 1987, and revealed a subtle class distinction within the ranks
of the Republican Administration in the USA. It seems that Hall, the
secretary interviewed at length during the Iran-Contra hearings,
called certain shredded documents PROFS notes as do IBMers who use the
system. However, North, MacFarlane, and other professional staff used
the term PROF notes. v. To send a piece of electronic mail, using
PROFS. PROFS me a one-liner on that. A PROFS one-liner has up to one
line of content, and from seven to seventeen lines of boiler
plate. VNET
... snip ...
Virtual machines were done by ibm cambridge science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
... and the ibm internal network technology was done by former
co-worker at the ibm cambridge science center (internal network was
larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until
sometime mid-80s).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
I was blamed for online computer conferencing (early form of social
networking) on the internal network in the late 70s and early
80s. Folklore is that when the corporate executive committee was told
about online computer conferencing (and the internal network), 5of6
wanted to fire me
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
also 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.
... snip ...
past posts referencing ibm jargon:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#5 New IBM history book out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#6 New IBM history book out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#7 New IBM history book out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#31 Title Inflation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#79 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#45 REXX and its designer (was: IBM 7090 instruction set)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#7 disk write caching (was: ibm icecube -- return of
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#39 Vnet : Unbelievable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#73 They Got Mail: Not-So-Fond Farewells
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#19 Card Columns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#43 Early attempts at console humor?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#49 Rant (Re: Programmer's unpaid overtime)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#0 Weird new IBM created word
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#23 Jargon Files Wanted
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#61 Shipwrecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#69 IBMism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#50 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#48 1403 printers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#51 1403 printers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005g.html#19 DOS/360: Forty years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#29 Job seperators
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#36 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#17 Jim Gray Is Missing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#45 Is computer history taugh now?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#50 Is computer history taught now?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#13 Why is switch to DSL so traumatic?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#70 Is computer history taught now?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#33 Internal DASD Pathing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#30 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#71 Password Rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#35 Why do IBMers think disks are 'Direct Access'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#19 Disksize history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#68 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#45 Taglines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#49 GML
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#61 Mainframe Slang terms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#32 IBM Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#1 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#4 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#25 Melinda Varian's history page move
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#31 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#33 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#67 IBM Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#83 IBM Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#84 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#86 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#87 A History of VM Performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#90 A History of VM Performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#1 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#2 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#5 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#6 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#10 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#12 I actually miss working at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#13 I actually miss working at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#16 I actually miss working at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#41 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#53 3270 Terminal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#71 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#79 Mainframe technology in 2011 and beyond; who is going to run these Mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#81 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#14 Multiple Virtual Memory
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#20 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#44 junking CKD; was "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#45 junking CKD; was "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#55 junking CKD; was "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#57 SNA/VTAM Misinformation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#78 Internet pioneer Paul Baran
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#83 History of APL -- Software Preservation Group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#92 PDCA vs. OODA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#2 Car models and corporate culture: It's all lies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#11 History of APL -- Software Preservation Group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#13 Car models and corporate culture: It's all lies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#16 Jean Bartik, "Software" Pioneer, RIP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#21 WHAT WAS THE PROJECT YOU WERE INVOLVED/PARTICIPATED AT IBM THAT YOU WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#36 Early mainframe tcp/ip support (from ibm-main mailing list)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#78 Wylbur, Orvyl, Milton, CRBE/CRJE were all used (and sometimes liked) in the past
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#21 program coding pads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#43 My first mainframe experience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#78 The Unix revolution -- thank you, Uncle Sam?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#42 assembler help!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#25 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#41 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#45 What is IBM culture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#84 Any candidates for best acronyms?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#81 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#84 Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#12 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#71 What's your favorite quote on "accountability"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#2 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#31 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#59 Original Thinking Is Hard, Where Good Ideas Come From
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#88 Original Thinking Is Hard, Where Good Ideas Come From
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#90 IBM Doing Some Restructuring?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#93 Original Thinking Is Hard, Where Good Ideas Come From
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#15 Authorized functions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#17 5 Byte Device Addresses?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#16 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#19 Writing article on telework/telecommuting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#37 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#47 You Don't Need a Cyber Attack to Take Down The North American Power Grid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#49 Do you know where all your sensitive data is located?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#6 Origins of "User-friendly"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#55 Just for a laugh... How to spot an old IBMer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#66 Typeface (font) and city identity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#67 Typeface (font) and city identity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#76 Companies struggling to fill mainframe skills gap
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#87 Just for a laugh... How to spot an old IBMer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#3 Time to Think ... and to Listen
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#73 Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#90 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#21 Closure in Disappearance of Computer Scientist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#65 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#55 Transition to Retirement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#65 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#1 Time to choose the Knights of 2012
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/2012m.html#0 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#15 cp67, vm370, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#37 Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#37 PDP-10 and Vax, was System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#6 Real Hackers use Big Iron (Humor)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#7 Why former IBMers who left maybe years ago for any reason are still active on the Greater IBM Connection?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#46 How do we fight bureaucracy and bureaucrats in IBM?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#64 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#43 AT&T Holmdel Computer Center films, 1973 Unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#47 AT&T Holmdel Computer Center films, 1973 Unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#55 Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#58 Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#58 As an IBM'er just like the Marines only a few good men and women make the cut,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#81 How Criticizing in Private Undermines Your Team - Harvard Business Review
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#58 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#19 It was 30 Years Ago Today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#49 Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#11 50th anniversary S/360 coming up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#52 Bridgestone Sues IBM For $600 Million Over Allegedly 'Defective' System That Plunged The Company Into 'Chaos'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#21 23Jun1969 Unbundling Announcement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#24 Tandem Memos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#44 System Response
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#47 Are you tired of the negative comments about IBM in this community?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#81 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#7 You can make your workplace 'happy'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#49 IBM's Ginni Rometty Just Confessed To A Huge Failure -- It Might Be The Best Thing For The Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#68 Decimation of the valuation of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#140 IBM Continues To Crumble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#170 IBM Continues To Crumble
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#48 IBM's One Hundred Year History Is About Cash, Culture and Mutualism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#9 PROFS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#20 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#31 The joy of simplicity?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#60 [Poll] Computing favorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#80 Term "Open Systems" (as Sometimes Currently Used) is Dead -- Who's with Me?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#98 PROFS & GML
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#67 IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#113 Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#49 Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#56 Compile error
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#4 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#8 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#72 Fridays
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Honeywell 200 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 08:34:42 -0700jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
In the 60s, ibm rented/leased mainframes and charges was based on "system meter" which ran whenever the processor and/or any I/O channel was busy. As part of starting to offer 7x24 service ... initially offshift use was relatively light ... so there were all sort of effort to minimize as much as possible offshift cost.
Part of that was move to minimal or no human operators ... the other part was to minimize when "system meter" was running when there was little or no operation. One of was hack a channel program for terminal input that would let the channel go idle (allowing "system meter" to stop) but be prepared to immediately receive incoming characters.
science center had extended its service to 7x24 ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
and it was even further motivated when the first two online commercial
service bureau spun-off (one was from people at the science center,
there other from people at MIT Lincoln Labs) ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#online
Moving into the 70s (and transition from cp67 to vm370) more and more
services were being provided by applications running in virtual machines
(sort of like demons, but referred to virtual appliances in recent
generations of virtual machine). Fast (re)boot had the system up ready
to login ... this is tale of somebody at MIT making modification to CP67
(on system in bldg on other side of tech sq from 545) ... where system
crashed and auto-reboot 27 times in single day (and was somewhat
motivation to improve MULTICS to significantly enhance its boot time,
science center was on 4th flr 545, MULTICS was on 5th flr 545)
https://www.multicians.org/thvv/360-67.html
In my porting from CP67 to VM370 (the CP67 develpment group and split
off from the science center and in morph to VM370 moved out to the
vacant SBS bldg at Burlington Mall), I was doing enormous amount of
benchmarking. As part of that I created command that could login
simulated users (under software control) to run automated benchmarks ...
this included ability to auto-reboot and autolog simulated users between
each benchmark. The autolog command ... including bringing up default
user at boot ... was then leveraged by operations to support
automatically brining up service virtual machines at boot time.
Autolog then was picked up and incorporated into vm370 release 3 shipped
to customers. a couple old emails on the subject from the period
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
The mad rush to get stuff in 370 product pipeline ... after the
demise of Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
contributed to decision to release some of my stuff for Release 3 ...
but a bunch of my performance (& integrity stuff) was then selected as
guinea pig to start charging for kernel software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#wsclock
As part of final release of this "charged-for" kernel package,
did 2000 automated benchmarks that took 3months elapsed time
to run
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#benchmark
In the wake of the legal action at the 23Jun1969 unbundling
announcement, it included starting to charge for software, but the
company had made the case that kernel software should still be free
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
The dearth of 370 products during the FS period is credited with giving the clone processor makers a market foothold. The FS implosion, the mad rush to get products back into the 370 pipeline, and the rise of clone makers is then motivation to start transition to charging for (eventually all) kernel software. The initial transition was only newly released kernel software (not including direct hardware support, device drivers, etc) would start to be charged for as addon kernel features.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Honeywell 200 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 15:06:42 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
MULTICS scenario was it was taking an hour or more to reboot ... so a couple times a day and it was down more than up.
Science center installed CP67 end of Jan1968 at the univ ... with 1052 & 2741 terminal support. The univ. had some number of ascii/tty terminals so I added ascii/tty support ... and did a hack in calculating number of line input chars with a single byte field (max 80 char minus residual).
Some group down at harvard had got some sort of ascii device (plotter?) connected to the MIT (Urban System Laboratory) online cp67 system (datacenter across the technology center courtyard from 545) that needed 1200 char length lines. They changed all the max. lengths from 80 to 1200 ... but failed to catch the issue with one byte calculatio ... and resulted in miscalculated length which overlaid other data ... resulting in crash. The MIT cp67 system would then crashed when something was done with the ascii device up at harvard.
MIT urban system lab archives
https://libraries.mit.edu/archives/research/collections/collections-ac/ac366.html
past posts mentioning the 27 crashes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#77 write rings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000g.html#4 virtualizable 360, was TSS ancient history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#47 Vintage computers are better than modern crap !
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#43 Vintage computers are better than modern crap !
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#48 New machine code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#14 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#22 Who hasn't caused an outage? What is the worst thing you have done?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#22 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#57 The Stack Depth
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: And the Award for Best Financial Crisis Book ... Date: 02 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookAnd the Award for Best Financial Crisis Book ...
Trivia: The Mortgage Banker's Association hosted some X9 (financial standard) meetings in their hdqtrs (across park from world bank and IMF) to discuss electronically signed documents (including titles). After things imploded, the head of MBA was doing press conferences talking about how bad it would be for people to walk away from their mortgage (at the same time they had walked away from the mortgage on their hdqtrs bldg).
Other trivia: we had been brought in to help wordsmith the cal. state electronic signature legislation
toxic CDO posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
posts mentioning brought in to help wordsmith cal. electronic
signature legislation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
past posts mentioning MBA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#36 The Incredible Con the Banksters Pulled on the FBI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#111 Maine Supreme Court Hands Major Defeat to MERS Mortgage Registry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#14 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#15 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#40 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#41 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#95 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#92 Leaked Seattle Audit Concludes Many Mortgage Documents Are Void
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#1 Why Is the Obama Administration Trying to Keep 11,000 Documents Sealed?
past posts mentioning robo-signing mills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#126 Wall Street's Revenge
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#131 Memo To WSJ: The CRomnibus Abomination Was Not "A Rare Bipartisan Success"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/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/2015.html#54 How do we take political considerations into account in the OODA-Loop?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#90 NY Judge Slams Wells Fargo For Forging Documents... And Why Nothing Will Change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#92 Ocwen's Servicing Meltdown Proves Failure of Obama's Mortgage Settlements
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#108 Occupy Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#4 "Trust in digital certificate ecosystem eroding"
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/2015d.html#18 Can we design machines to automate ethics?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#20 Wall Street Bailouts Are Finally Over, Right?
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#76 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#34 43rd President
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#39 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#40 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#47 Do we REALLY NEED all this regulatory oversight?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#71 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#80 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#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#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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#44 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#53 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#8 Too Big To Fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#10 25 Years: How the Web began
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#11 25 Years: How the Web began
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#16 1970--protesters seize computer center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#26 1970--protesters seize computer center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#71 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#94 Pension Funds at Risk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#99 Why Is the Obama Administration Trying to Keep 11,000 Documents Sealed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#0 Why Is the Obama Administration Trying to Keep 11,000 Documents Sealed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#1 Why Is the Obama Administration Trying to Keep 11,000 Documents Sealed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#98 Trust in Government Is Collapsing Around the World
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Nightmare on Wall Street: Republicans & Democrats Agree on Reinstating Glass-Steagall Act Date: 02 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
More Banking Mystifications
https://baselinescenario.com/2016/07/26/more-banking-mystifications/
posts mentioning Pecora hearings and/or Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Why you need a strong authentication platform Date: 02 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookWhy you need a strong authentication platform
AADS patent portfolio (all assigned):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadssummary.htm
Some (AADS) X9.59 financial transaction standard
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
In the mid-90s, somewhat for having worked on "electronic commerce" we were invited to participate in the X9A10 financial standard working group (that had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the financial infrastructure for *ALL* retail payments). We did end-to-end threat & vulnerabiilty studies of various retail payments methods and came up with X9.59 financial transaction standard which slightly tweaked the current infrastructure and specified that financial transactions for account nos. designated as "X9.59" would only be executed if strongly authenticated.
SSL for "electronic commerce" addressed by hiding transaction details during transmission. X9.59 eliminated the threat of crooks using information from previous transactions to perform fraudulent transactions ... and therefor eliminated the need to hide transaction information. X9.59 didn't do anything about breaches, but eliminated the threat and motivation for breaches (since crooks couldn't use the information for fraudulent financial transactions) ... and also eliminated the need for using SSL to hide transaction information.
Part of the end-to-end analysis came up with the security proportional to risk metaphor. The value of a transaction information to a merchant is the profit from the transaction, which can be a couple dollars or less. The value of the transaction information to a transaction processor can be a few cents. The value of the transaction information to a crook can be the account balance or credit limit. As a result, a crook could afford to outspend by a couple orders of magnitude attacking as can be spent defending. X9.59 didn't address breaches, but eliminated the treat and motivation for breaches. Also the current attack surface is enormous with tens or hundreds of millions of points around the world (X9.59 significantly reduced the attack surface).
a long-winded recent post on the subject in "How the internet was invented" thread: https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#35
We were tangentially involved in the cal. state data breach
notification legislation (original in the country) having been brought
in to help wordsmith the electronic signature legislation. Many of the
participants were heavily involved in privacy issues and had done
in-depth public surveys and found the #1 issue was fraudulent
financial transactions. A problem was that there was little or nothing
being done about data breaches (resulting in fraudulent financial
transactions). The issue was that normally entities take security
measures in self-protection, however it wasn't the institutions that
were at risk from data breaches, but the public. It was hoped that
publicity from data breach notification might motivate institutions to
take data breach countermeasures. Note in the wake of the
Cal. legislation, there have been several Fed. notification bills
introduced (none passed) about evenly divided to those equivalent to
the Cal. legislation and those that would effectively eliminate
requirement for notification.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Honeywell 200 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 10:26:35 -0700scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
CP67 was done automated fast boot/ipl w/o human intervention (including automated "fast" failures & reboot) ... except for the growing number of service virtual machines ... which I later addressed with autolog ... originally for doing automated benchmarks.
original 801 included "transaction memory" and CP.r demo'ed DBMS using "transaction memory" to drive logging ... rather than explicit journaling/logging calls. ROMP/801 was originally for displaywriter follow-on ... but then when that was canceled, it was retargeted to the unix workstation market ... becoming PC/RT and AIX (at&t unix port by company that had done PC/IX).
RIOS/801 (aka RS/6000) AIX was enhanced to implemented journaled filesystem (eliminating FSCK at boot) using transaction memory ... logging/journaling updates to filesystem metadata/control information. There was several claims about hos much more effecient transaction memory was.
Then the IBM Palo Alto group was tasked to port journaled memory to other platforms (w/o transaction memory) and had to go through and put in explicit journal/logging calls. It turns out that the version ported back to RS/6000 AIX ... ran faster than the transaction memory version.
we relied on journaled filesystem in HA/CMP for fast take-over/recovery
and reboot ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
801, romp, rios, pc/rt, rs/6000, aix, somerset, power/pc, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Looking for info on IBM ATMs - 2984, 3614, and 3624 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 10:11:42 -0700NickB <nickpb@hotmail.com> writes:
trivia: part of the time I was allowed to play disk engineer in bldgs
14&15 ... some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
the only environmental chamber I remember was in bldg. 15 (disk product test lab) ... temperature, humidity and air pressure ... it had to be large enough for large controllers and disk drives ... and looked like decompression chamber ... fairly heavily armored for low-pressure and high-pressure.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 12:44:09 -0700Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
trace back to British Navy needing oil as part of moving from coal to oil and 13.5in to 15in guns (many of our administrations since that time trying to manipulate the status quo in the middle east)
loc2151-56:
This led to enormous expense and to tremendous opposition on the Naval
Estimates. Yet it was absolutely impossible to turn back. We could
only fight our way forward, and finally we found our way to the
Anglo-Persian Oil agreement and contract, which for an initial
investment of two millions of public money (subsequently increased to
five millions) has not only secured to the Navy a very substantial
proportion of its oil supply, but has led to the acquisition by the
Government of a controlling share in oil properties and interests
which are at present valued at scores of millions sterling, and also
to very considerable economies, which are still continuing, in the
purchase price of Admiralty oil.
... snip ...
and then "The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command"
https://www.amazon.com/Rules-Game-Jutland-British-Command-ebook/dp/B00B6TZGLM
pg8/loc296-301:
But here was another gamble, for whereas South Wales was made of coal,
Britain had no indigenous sources of oil, and an oil-fired Fleet might
be cut off from overseas fuel supplies in time of war. That risk, with
all its political and military implications, was lightly shouldered,
and Churchill extracted GBP2.2m. from Parliament to buy a controlling
interest in the Anglo-Persian Oil Company: a transaction second only
to Disraeli's purchase of the Suez Canal shares in strategic
ramifications for Britain and the Middle East.
... snip ...
other recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#31 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#49 Corporate malfeasance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#64 Isolationism and War Profiteering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#75 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#49 Fateful Choices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#102 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Honeywell 200 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2016 08:24:09 -0700David Wade <dave.g4ugm@gmail.com> writes:
in prior life, my wife had been in JES group ... help with move of ASP
to JES3 product and was co-author of JESUS (JES Unified System, all the
things in JES2 and JES3 that neither community could live without, for
various reasons, never shipped). She was then con'ed into going to POK
to be in charge of loosely-coupled (mainframe for "cluster") architecture
... where she did Peer-Coupled Shared Data architecture .... some
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata
She didn't stay very long because 1) the communication group was constantly trying to force her into using SNA/VTAM for cluster operation and 2) except for IMS Hot-Standby, there was very little uptake (until SYSPLEX and Parallel SYSPLEX).
Note a research group had done an vm370 8-way cluster implementation using trotter/3088 (8-way channel-to-channel) but before they could release it, the communication group did forced them into re-implementation using SNA/VTAM. The original (non-VTAM) implementation did any cluster update/coordination operation in under a second elapsed time. The SNA/VTAM took well over 30seconds elapsed time to perform same operations.
In the mid-80s, I got sucked into effort to take a VTAM/NCP emulation
one by one of the original baby bells on Series/1 platform that
implemented real network with outboard session control (as
"cross-domain" emulation) with RUs enapsulated running over *real*
networking (what communication resorted to making sure it never got
shipped can only be described as truth is stranger than fiction).
a couple past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#67 System/1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#70 Series/1 as NCP (was: Re: System/1 ?)
Did some work with IMS group ... because while the MVS hot-standby could do take-over and operational in a few minutes ... a large configuration with 30k-60k terminals/sessions ... it could take VTAM well over an hour to re-establish the sessions (VTAM session establishment was resource hog and increased non-linear). The VTAM/NCP emulator had the capability of keeping shadow sessions on the hot-standby in sync with "primary" session ... so take-over was near instantaneously.
later we were doing (RS/6000) HA/CMP product (and *NOT* SNA/VTAM) ...
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
including cluster scale-up for both technical (aka supercomputers)
and commercial (RDBMS scale-up) ... frequently referenced post
about Ellison meeting January 1992
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
some old email from period
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
and as frequently mentioned, 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. Possibly contributing, the (mainframe) DB2 group were complaining that if I was allowed to proceed, it would be at least 5yrs ahead of them.
Helping with RDBMS cluster was that the RDBMS vendors we were dealing with, had VAX-cluster support in the same source base as their unix implementation ... and they had strong views on what DEC had done wrong in VAX-cluster implementation. To simplify the port, I implemented semantics of the VAX-cluster API ... while addressing all of the issues that they felt had been done wrong.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 07:25:04 -0700Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> writes:
along with this is KISS ... and poorly designed implementation is mistaken for complexity ... and it would be harder to actually do a well designed, "simple" implementation.
a case where complexity may be considered well designed is when they eliminate redundancy as part of infrastructure cost savings ... the problem is that they've eliminated redundancy and it becomes more and more prone to systemic failures (which could also be considered a subset of poor design , because they've sacrificed understanding of failure modes in pursuit of saving money). the other way of looking at it is they've optimized short term cost savings at the expense of long term resiliency (in many cases, assuming they would be long gone before things hit the fan).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 07:31:58 -0700hancock4 writes:
Private Equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 07:54:26 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
in iran/contra period
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
they were using PROFS ... which automatically backed/kept email ... even when the user deleted their copy ... subsequent administrations learned from that (aka ... following administrations had to come up with more sophisticated techniques to eliminate email).
I had created a convention of triple redundant backup for my files and emails in the 70s ... unfortunately in the mid-80s at the IBM Almaden Research Center all three copies of 70s backup tapes were in the Research Center tape library ... when they went through an operational problem where random tapes were being mounted for scratch ... and managed to loose nearly all my files from late 60s and early 70s.
In the late 70s, I did CMSBACK for internal datacenters (unfortunately I
didn't transfer my 60/70s files to CMSBACK which included process for
offsite copies) ... which was used at Research, HONE (world-wide online
sales & marketing support)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
and various other internal locations. some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#cmsback
CMSBACK went thru a number of internal releases ... and then a reserarch group upgrades CMSBACK for WDSF product released to customers ... which included support distributed PC/workstation networked client backup. It was then transferred to the disk product division and renamed ADSM (adstar storage manager), this was in the period when the company was being reorganized into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the company, and the disk division had been rebranded adstar. The breakup was eventually reversed ... but later the decision was made to unload the disk division anyway ... and ADSM was transferred to Tivoli (which the company had acquired) and rebranded TSM.
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#backup
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 11:03:37 -0700scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
in the middle of last decade, US comptroller general was including in
speeches that nobody in congress was capable middle school arithmetic
(for how they were savaging the budget).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
the first major bill after fiscal responsibility act was allowed to
expire was medicare part-d. CBS 60mins did expose on it ... the 18
republicans responsible for getting the bill passed, just before the
final vote they insert one sentence and prevent CBO from distributing
report on the change. comptroller general says that medicare part-d
eventually comes to be a $40T long-term item, totally swamping all
other budget items. CBS 60mins finds that within 6months after
passing, all 18 have resigned and are on drug industry payroll.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#medicare.part-d
Note that some analysis that Greenspan and wallstreet were some of those pushing for enormous federal debt ... looking at clearing enormous amount off interest on the debut (currently pushing half trillion).
End of 2008, just the four largest TBTF were carrying $5.2T in off-book
toxic assets (at the time going for 22cents on the dollar, if forced to
bring back on the books, would have been declared insolvent and force to
be liquidated).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
TARP appropriation was $700B to buy the toxic assets couldn't cover the
problem ... so were used for other stuff ... and the federal reserve
does the real bail-out behind the scenes. Federal reserve fights long
legal battle to prevent public release of what they are doing (buying
trillions in toxic assets at 98cents on the dollar and providing tens of
trillions in ZIRP funds). Finally when they loose, Bernanke holds press
conference and says that he had expected wall street to use the funds to
help mainstreet, but when they didn't he couldn't force them (but that
doesn't stop the ZIRP funds). TBTF are using the tens of trillions in
ZIRP funds to buy treasuries (federal debt) and making hundreds of
billions per annum on the spread. Not supposedly Bernanke was selected
at least in part because he was a depression era scholar ... but the FED
had tried something similar then with the same results ... so Bernanke
would have had no reasonable expectations for something different this
time.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
And possibly(?) from the law of unintended consequences ... since the
TBTF are getting tens of trillions in ZIRP funds from the fed, they have
no motivation to pay interest to attract deposits ... which is wrecking
havoc with retirement plans. That is separate from what the economic
mess done to pension plans. They found that they could pay the rating
agencies for triple-A ratings on the securitized mortgages and loans
(when both the sellers and the rating agencies knew they weren't worth
triple-A, from oct2008 congressional hearing testimony). The triple-A
rating largely enabled the over $27T done 2001-2008 in part being able
to sell to institution funds restricted to only *SAFE* investments (like
the large pension funds, which took something like a 30% hit as a
result).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
note that the 80s administration also had the Iran/Contra affair
... where PROFS email played a role ... resent post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#88 E.R. Burroughs
The VP claimed that he knew nothing about it because he was
fulltime administration point person deregulating the financial
industry causing the 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
who then: Lehman's Gift To Jeb Bush For Funneling Pension Money: A $1.3
Million Consulting "Job"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-19/lehmans-gift-jeb-bush-funneling-pension-money-13-million-consulting-job
more recent: Wall Street Fine Print: Retirees Want FBI Probe Of Pension
Investment Deals
http://www.ibtimes.com/wall-street-fine-print-retirees-want-fbi-probe-pension-investment-deals-2250476
That VP then goes on to be the next president ... and last decade his son is president presiding over the economic mess, 70 times larger than the S&L crisis.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Google and Facebook put their fierce rivalry aside to save money in this key area Date: 09 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookGoogle and Facebook put their fierce rivalry aside to save money in this key area
One of the issues is that for the large cloud operations, computer hardware isn't a profit center, it is a cost .... and they have been on the bleeding edge of aggressively cutting computing costs. They've managed to cut computer system hardware costs so dramatically, that power and cooling have become increasingly major cost for operating megadatacenters
increasing computerization has been eliminating jobs for (at least)
50yrs ("The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command" has
details of Britain before WW1 had option of selecting between humans
calculating naval gun fire control or ship central analog computer
calculating for all guns on battleship ... enabling coordinating fire
control for all guns on battleship faster with much greater accuracy
at much greater distance ... and for various human politics chose the
human calculating). recent posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#30 The World Crisis, Vol. 1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#57 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#66 Dinosaurisation of we oldies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#72 Dinosaurisation of we oldies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#84 E.R. Burroughs
recent posts mentioning megadatacenters:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#57 Introducing the New z13s: Tim's Hardware Highlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#93 Google joins Facebook's game-changing project that's eating the $140 billion hardware market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#104 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#24 CeBIT and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#61 Can commodity hardware actually emulate the power of a mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#50 China takes the lead in supercomputing while America sleeps
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:40:14 -0700re:
Stockman was Reagon's budget director ... one of the ways to get money
to pay for (some of the) military spending ... w/o increasing (income)
taxes ... was to increase SS taxes ... and then "borrow" the money from
the SS Trust fund to pay for military spending.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stockman
and
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/about-david-stockman-and-contra-corner/
The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed
https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-Politics-Reagan-Revolution-Failed-ebook/dp/B00BSETVI4
As Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the early 1980s,
David Stockman was a chief architect of the Reagan Revolution -- bold
plan to cut taxes and reduce the scope and cost of government. The
Triumph of Politics was Stockman's frontline report of the
miscalculations, manipulations, and political intrigues that led to its
failure. A major publishing event and New York Times bestseller in its
day, The Triumph of Politics is still startling relevant to the conduct
of Washington politics today.
... snip ...
some past posts mentioning Stockman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#3 What Makes a thread about the European debt crisis Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#4 What Makes a thread about the European debt crisis Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#5 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#13 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#30 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#36 Fed proposes annual assessments for large financial companies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#48 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#49 As an IBM'er just like the Marines only a few good men and women make the cut,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#63 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#5 SAS Deserting the MF?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#69 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#2 IBM Relevancy in the IT World
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/2013k.html#57 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#49 The Original IBM Basic Beliefs for those that have never seen them
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#57 What the Orgy of "Lehman Five Years On" Stories Missed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#60 Retirement Heist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#24 Voyager 1 just left the solar system using less computing powerthan your iP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#37 Why is the mainframe so expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#61 IBM now employs more workers in India than US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#84 3Q earnings are becoming the norm at IBM. What is IBM management overlooking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#85 How do you feel about IBM passing off it's retirees to ObamaCare?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#1 IBM board OK repurchase of another $15B of stock
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#60 Bridgestone Sues IBM For $600 Million Over Allegedly 'Defective' System That Plunged The Company Into 'Chaos'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#14 Microsoft, IBM lobbying seen killing key anti-patent troll proposal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#15 IBM Shrinks - Analysts Hate It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#16 IBM Shrinks - Analysts Hate It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#64 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#48 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#14 IBM to invest 1.2B into Cloud Data Centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#25 IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge; Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#48 IBM Dumps Its Server Business On Lenovo For $2.3B
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#79 Shocking news: Execs do what they're paid to do
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#93 Maximizing shareholder value: The Goal that changed corporate America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#101 Defense Department Needs to Act Like IBM to Save Itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#24 IBM sells Intel server business, company is doomed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#54 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#55 Maximizing shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America
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/2014e.html#75 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#1 Why IBM Is Tumbling: BRIC Sales Plunge, Total Revenue Lowest Since 2009
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#33 upcoming TV show, "Halt & Catch Fire"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#48 IBM hopes new chip can turn the tables on Intel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#54 IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#69 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#0 The Decline and Fall of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#3 The Decline and Fall of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#95 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#35 IBM 'major announcement' points to deal on chip manufacturing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#36 IBM 'major announcement' points to deal on chip manufacturing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#50 IBM's Ginni Rometty Just Confessed To A Huge Failure -- It Might Be The Best Thing For The Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#60 IBM's Ginni Rometty Just Confessed To A Huge Failure -- It Might Be The Best Thing For The Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#89 Forbes perspective on IBM's troubles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#94 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#4 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#37 Income Inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#39 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#43 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#61 Decimation of the valuation of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#83 OT: article on foreign outsourcing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#120 Memo To Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat: Does Your Crony Capitalist Plunder Know No Shame?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#131 Memo To WSJ: The CRomnibus Abomination Was Not "A Rare Bipartisan Success"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#145 IBM Continues To Crumble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#150 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#155 IBM Continues To Crumble
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#25 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#51 bloomberg article on ASG and Chpater 11
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#58 Neocons Guided Petraeus on Afghan War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#80 Moody's Has a Cow, Slams GE's Masterful Financial Engineering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#15 Blogger Ben's Basically Full Of It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#69 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#80 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#68 Yes, Computers Have Improved. No, Communism Hasn't
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#51 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#70 Department of Defense Head Ashton Carter Enlists Silicon Valley to Transform the Military
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#91 Happy Dec-10 Day!!!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#75 Another Private-Equity LBO Queen Bites the Dust
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How the internet was invented Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:35:17 -0700Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> writes:
360/60 & 360/70 were originally announced with 1mic memory, the model
numbers were upgraded to 65 & 75 when memory was changed to 750ns. 360
functional characteristics with detail instruction timings, 75 add is
.8mics
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/functional_characteristics/
and 370 functional characteristics, 145 "add" is 1.373 mics.
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/370/funcChar/
note that 145 CPU speed was further degraded under normal operation because the processor execution was shared with integrated channel while 65&75 external channels.
360/75 (& 360/65) had up to 1meg memory (from IBM), and did 8byte
fetches and interleaved memory banks
https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP2075.html
370/145 was up to 512kbytes (for 370, max order ould be a little more
since loadable microcode used the same storage)
https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP3145.html
370/148 got faster memory and much faster floating point and bunch of
microcode enhancements ... more like 1/2+ mip. I got roped into helping
endicott with the ECPS microcode for 37/148 ... old reference:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
This was in the wake of the demise of Future System (FS period is
credited with giving clone processor makers market foothold) ... and the
mad rush to get products back into the 370 pipelines. Endicott also
con'ed me into periodically running around the world ... pitching to
product/market planners around the world ... who would then forecast
number sold in their region/market.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
Endicott wanting to leverage ECPS to make every 370/148 shipped with VM370 builtin (sort of like current LPAR feature). Outside the US, they really wanted every unique product feature possible because they were starting to experience significant competition from the clone makers. For the US, there was still the effort by the POK forces to kill VM370 ... and the clone market competition hadn't ramped up as much.
Outside the US, product planners would make forecast and the country would order that many machines to sell ... and if they didn't, that country business ate the additional machines ... and product planners could loose their job over forecast miss. For the US regions, the product planners would forecast what ever corporate said was strategic ... but regions didn't actually book machines, and manufacturing plants had to eat missed forecasts by US regions (plants would pretty much take world trade forecasts at face value, but had to redo US region forecasts). As a result US product planners gotten promoted for how well they matched corporate strategic direction (and didn't get fired for big forecast misses). US corporate strategic statement was that IBM machines would sell the same number regardless of the features (and competition didn't play a part) ... and was used to shoot down making VM370 part of every machine shipped (even tho the rest of the world wanted every additional feature they could get while the US strategy was planning on killing VM370 and wasn't worrying about clone competition).
The 138/148 line was then followed with 4331/4341 in very late 70s ... and were part of enormous spike in sales in the mid-range.
past posts in this thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#31 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#32 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#33 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#34 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#35 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#36 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#37 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#38 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#41 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#42 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#43 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#44 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#45 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#51 How the internet was invented
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Delta Outage Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 10 Aug 2016 14:33:19 -0700Jesse1.Robinson@SCE.COM (Jesse 1 Robinson) writes:
Now they had reorged things so that the airline operations and the airline reservation system were in different subsidiaries with nearly all the profit booked in the res subsidiary ... airline operations was loosing money at the time, but the res subsidiary was making such large profits ... the parent company showed significant overall profit.
Large human intensive operations were doing things like that starting in the 80s ... moving profit out of human intensive operations into subsidiary that had much fewer number of humans.
Last decade a new twist was added ... moving the subsidiary where the
profit is booked, into a tax haven where tax rate had been negotiated to
be nearly zero. The poster child is large equipment manufacture that
built and sold to customers in the US. They created distribution
subsidiary in an over seas tax haven, paper "transfer" US built
equipment to the (offshore) distribution subsidiary at cost, which then
sells to US customers and the profit is all booked offshore (and the US
manufacturing plant still ships directly to US customers). some more
scenarios here:
https://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks
"tax avoidance", "tax havens", "tax loopholes", "tax evasion"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
some past airline res posts
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/2015h.html#117 25 Years: How the Web began
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#58 Man Versus System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#75 American Gripen: The Solution To The F-35 Nightmare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#34 Qbasic
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:43:56 -0700hancock4 writes:
DHS, militarizing nation's police forces also overlaps with the
privatizing of prisons ... and keeping the funds flowing to those
for-profit entities ... some posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#37 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#43 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#61 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#82 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#34 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#25 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#74 prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#32 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#89 Qbasic
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM History Date: 10 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookFerguson & Morris, "Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World", Time Books, 1993 (talking about the "Future System" project in the early 70s, was going to completely replace 370 and 370 efforts were being shutdown, the lack of 370 products during the period is credited with giving clone processor makers market foothold):
... 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
another quote from the book:
But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management, F/S took years to kill, although its wrong headedness was obvious from the very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism became politically dangerous," recalls a former top executive.
... snip ...
trivia: I continued to work on 360/370 activities during this period
and would even periodically ridicule FS ... which wasn't exactly a
career enhancing activity.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
I had HSDT project during the 80s and was working with Clementi's E&S
group in IBM Kingston ... but carrying on periodic running battle with the
supercomputer project there ... they would complain when I visited
national labs.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
more trivia: Later half of 70s, Amdahl was making headway in technical and university market, but hadn't broken the true blue commercial market. I was good friends with people at one of the largest commercial customers on the east coast. At some point the branch manager had horribly offended the customer and in revenge they announced they were going to order an Amdahl machine (single red box in a very large room with a vast sea of blue). I was asked to go sit at the customer site for 6months to make it look like it was a technical issue and misdirect from the true reason (had long talks with the customer and they were installing that machine regardless). I refused to take the bullet for the branch manager ... and was told that the branch manager was good sailing buddy of the CEO and this would ruin his career if I didn't do it. Furthermore, if I didn't do it, I could forget about having a career in IBM (just one of long list of being told I could forget promotions, raises, and/or career).
1979, I got roped into doing 4341 benchmarks for national lab that was looking
at getting 70 4341s for compute farm, sort of leading edge of cluster
supercomputing. some 4300 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
Later in the early 80s, large corporations were ordering hundreds of
4341s at a time for distribution out in departmental areas, leading
edge of the coming distributed computing tsunami. Starting in lates
80s, we were doing the HA/CMP product
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
... including cluster scale-up for both technical/scientific with
national labs and commercial RDBMS. This is old post referencing
Jan1992 meeting in Ellison's conference room about commerical RDBMS
scale-up (projecting 128-way by YE1992)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
End of Oct1991, a senior EVP retires and there is audit of several of
the projects he was backing, including IBM Kingston
supercomputing. Afterwards a new executive was brought for
supercomputing group and a internal technical conference for mid-Jan
1992 (trolling the company for technology). By the end of January, the
cluster scale-up was transferred to IBM Kingston, announced as a
supercomputer and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more
than four processors. some old email from the period ... also has
copies of supercomputer press from Feb and May of 1992
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
The US auto industry had C4 taskforce 1990 to look at completely remaking themselves .... and since they were planning on heavily using technology, representatives from technology vendors were asked to attend. One of the issues was that US auto industry was taking 7-8yrs from concept to rolling off the line (they would run efforts in parallel offset 3-4 years ... so something new could come out every 4yrs with cosmetic changes in between). The foreign competition had previously cut that to 3-4 years and were in the process of cutting it in half again (18-24months) ... making foreign competition significantly more agile and responsive to changing technology and marking conditions.
In the early 80s, there were articles calling for 100% unearned profit tax on the US auto industry. Supposedly the foreign auto import quota was to reduce competition giving US auto industry significant profits that they were to use to completely remake themselves; however they just pocketed the money and continued business as usual.
The recent bailouts indicate that the US auto industry didn't do any better after the C4 taskforce.
trivia: offline at the meetings, I would chide the POK mainframe
attendees how could they expect to help since they suffered (at the
time) from some of the same problems.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#auto.c4.taskforce
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Wild Ducks Date: 10 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebookconsistent with Watson's "wild ducks" .... from military reform group today ... ht/DV
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM History Date: 11 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
Late 80s Japan had an economic policy to become the #1 technology country in the world .... they told all their large successful manufacturing companies that they had to invest at least 5% of their profit in technology or it would be taken in taxes. Through the 90s you saw Japanese manufacturing companies provide significant percentage of the funding for US technology startups. Oracle was in financial trouble and signed a deal to be bought by NIPPON Steal ... before it could be finalized Oracle backed out of the deal (having gotten a large corporate 6000 "seat" contract with Shell Oil ... every Shell operation and drilling platform).
After the cluster scale-up transfer (and being told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors, mentioned upthread), we decide to leave and in middle of a lot of silicon valley stuff. Two of the Oracle people we worked with on commercial cluster scale-up and in the Ellison meeting (mentioned upthread) had left and were at a small client/server startup responsible for something called "commerce server". They wanted to do payment transactions on their server and we were brought in as consultants, the startup had also invented this technology they called "SSL" they wanted to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
Late 80s, a senior disk engineer got at talk scheduled at internal annual world-wide communication group conference supposedly on 3174 performance ... but open the talk with the statement that the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division. The issue was that the communication group had strategic responsibility for everything that crossed the datacenter walls and were fiercely fighting off client/server and distributed computing, trying to preserve their (emulated) dumb terminal paradigm and install base. The disk division was seeing data fleeing the data center to more distributed computing friendly platforms with drop in disk sales. The disk division had come up with several solutions to address the problem but they were constantly being vetoed by the communication group.
A few short years later, the company had gone into the red and was
being reorged into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up
the company ... when the board brings in the former president of of
AMEX to reverse the breakup and resurrect the company ... using some
of the same techniques he used at RJR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
i.e.
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
folklore/trivia ... after leaving but before the breakup was reversed, we were contacted by somebody in the bowels of Armonk about helping with the mechanics of the breakup. Lots of operations had MOUs with other divisions about using supplier contracts ... all the supplier contracts had to be cataloged and all the dependent MOUs had to be identified and turned into contracts (since these MOUs would then be across different corporations).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 11:08:04 -0700jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
Airlines played the game by creating a separate subsidiary for the airline operations ... and organize the financials so that most of the profit was booked in airline reservation subsidiary. The airline operations easily run into the red (allowing it to declare bankruptcy and dump pension plans on PBGC) at the same time the parent company was making significant profit (profit from reservation subsidiary more than offset loss from airline operations, all in how you organize the books).
past posts mentioning PBGC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#61 Health Care
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#91 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#65 As Expected, Ford Falls From 2nd Place in U.S. Sales
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#38 What do YOU call the # sign?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#13 Michigan industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#24 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#46 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#77 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#94 Bankruptcy a reprieve for some companies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#4 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#8 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#10 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#24 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#90 Is IBM Suddenly Vulnerable To A Takeover?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#7 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#59 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#81 prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#88 prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#89 prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#83 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#98 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#94 Pension Funds at Risk
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Delta Outage Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 11 Aug 2016 11:22:45 -07000000000248cce9f3-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.UA.EDU (Edward Finnell) writes:
the previous scenario
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing
one of the disaster recovery/backup companies had a datacenter on low floor and was affected by the 1993 case.
Earlier we had been doing the IBM HA/CMP product ... and marketing
included meeting with SIAC (ran the datacenters for exchange trade
transactions) ... had offices in the WTC. They had a datacenter in
manhatten bldg that was carefully chosen to have different two water
mains on two sides of the building, two different power feeds (to
different substations) on two different sides on of the building and
different telco feeds (to different central offices) on four sides of
the building. They had a recent outage when a power transformer
(with PCBs) exploded in the basement ... and the building had to be
evacuated and shutdown.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
I had coined the term disaster survivability and geographic
survivability (as alternative to disaster/recovery) when out marketing
HA/CMP. I was then asked to write a section for the corporate strategic
continuous availability document ... but the section got pulled when
Rochester (AS/400) and POK (mainframe) complained that (at the time)
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: Don't be Delta: Four pillars of high availability Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:46:07 -0700Don't be Delta: Four pillars of high availability
couple recent posts on Delta & high availability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#93 Delta Outage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#99 Delta Outage
over in ibm-main group:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/RizydHz-ylQ
ha/cmp posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 07:33:52 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
In the early 80s, there were articles calling for 100% unearned profit tax on the US auto industry. Supposedly the foreign auto import quota was to reduce competition giving US auto industry significant profits that they were to use to completely remake themselves; however they just pocketed the money and continued business as usual.
The recent bailouts indicate that the US auto industry didn't do any better after the C4 taskforce.
trivia: offline at the meetings, I would chide the POK mainframe
attendees how could they expect to help since they suffered (at the
time) from some of the same problems.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#auto.c4.taskforce
Leading up to the foreign auto import quoto ... there were large number of foreign autos selling well below the US auto prices ... the volume of foreign autos as well as their low price but significant downward price pressure on what US makers could charge. After the foreign auto quota, the foreign auto markers determine that they given the quota, they could sell that many high priced cars (as they could sell low priced cars) ... and completely changed the kind of car they were making over a couple years. The limited number of foreign autos and their move from low-end to higher end market significantly reduced the competition on US auto makers as well as reducing price pressure, allowed US makers to significantly increase the numbers they sold as well as the price they were charging (enormous spike in their profit which was supposed to have been used to completely remake themselves).
One of the downsides for nearly doubling US auto price over short period was that they had to move from standard 3yr auto loan to 6yr loan. This put enormous strain on US auto maker quality (which was also under pressure because of strain with dealing with much better foreign auto car quality) ... since loan period was now exceeding auto normal lifetime.
The foreign auto makers then (also) responded by building manufacturing plants in the US ... there were some periodic stories showing some foreign auto makers having larger US content than some of the US auto makers.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 07:38:53 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: August 12, 1981, IBM Introduces Personal Computer Date: 12 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookAugust 12, 1981, IBM Introduces Personal Computer
TYMSHARE got a copy off Adventure from Stanford DEC10 system and ported it to their VM370/CMS system. I then got a copy and made the executable available inside IBM ... and would send anybody that got all points a copy of the source.
TYMSHARE had made their online CMS based computer conferencing system
available for free to IBM user group SHARE starting in Aug1976
... archive here:
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
I got TYMSHARE to make me a copy of all VMSHARE files once a month so I could make them available on internal systems (including the world-wide online sales&marketing vm370/cms based HONE system). The hardest part was dealing with the IBM lawyers that believed that customer information would contaminate internal IBM employees.
I also ordered IBM/PC on employee plan when it was 1st announced, delivery took so long that by the time it was delivered, the IBM/PC street price was less than the original IBM employee price.
recent posts mention ibm/pc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#52 Compile error
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#77 DEC and The Americans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#101 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#5 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#8 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#70 Microprocessor Optimization Primer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#42 Old Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#54 PL/I advertising
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#76 IBM plans for the future - an imaginary tale
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#41 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#51 How the internet was invented
recent posts mentioning tymshare and/or vmshare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#29 1976 vs. 2016?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#78 Mainframe Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#14 Ancient History (OS's) - was : IBM Destination z - What the Heck Is JCL and Why Does It Look So Funny?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#28 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#99 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#12 What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#27 Old IBM Mainframe Systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#33 The Network Nation, Revised Edition
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#34 The Network Nation, Revised Edition
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#47 PL/I advertising
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#77 PDP-8 advertising
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#95 Is it a lost cause?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#28 Is it a lost cause?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#71 Dinosaurisation of we oldies?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 11:00:54 -0700Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
But this is all about lobbying, not about lobbing bombs. Cynically, Lockheed Martin distributed the F-22 workload to nearly every state, employing under-qualified sub-contractors to create local financial stakes in the program. Great politics -- but the result has been a quality collapse.
... snip ...
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
since then a more durable stealth coating has been developed that
is used for F35 and retrofitted to F22 ... but maintenance of the
coating is still a major effort:
http://www.tyndall.af.mil/News/Features/Display/tabid/6651/Article/669883/lo-how-the-f-22-gets-its-stealth.aspx
F35 was original developed as "cost reduced" (cheap) bomb truck,
assuming F22 would be flying cover to handle enemy threats. Assumed it
would be deliverying bombs to take out enemy ground-to-air defense
... stealth primarily in the front approaching enemy ground radar. F35
stealth from different directions/aspects and different radar bands
http://ausairpower.net/XIMG/JSF-RCS-Qualitative-A-XLVHF.png
long-winded discussion of F35 "stealth" compared to "real" stealth
http://ausairpower.net/APA-2009-01.html
Also the software complexity exploded goring from F22 1.7M LOCs to F35 >25M LOCs.
recent posts mentioning F22 &/or F35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#57 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#75 American Gripen: The Solution To The F-35 Nightmare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#4 Cyberdumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#8 Cyberdumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#10 What Will the Next A-10 Warthog Look Like?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#20 DEC and The Americans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#21 DEC and The Americans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#55 How to Kill the F-35 Stealth Fighter; It all comes down to radar ... and a big enough missile
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#89 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#90 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#91 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#92 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#95 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#96 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#97 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#105 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#13 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#89 China builds world's most powerful computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#22 Iran Can Now Detect U.S. Stealth Jets at Long Range
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#61 5th generation stealth, thermal, radar signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#62 5th generation stealth, thermal, radar signature
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Washington Corruption Date: 13 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebook2002 congress allows fiscal responsibility act to expire (required spending not exceed tax revenue, on its way to eliminating all federal debt). 2010 CBO did report that afterwards tax revenue was reduced by $6T and spending increased by $6T for $12T budget gap compared to fiscal responsible budget (1st time taxes were cut to not pay for wars).
First major bill after fiscal responsibility act expired was Medicare
Part-D. 60mins did program on 18 republican members in congress
responsible for getting it passed; right before final vote, they
insert one line change and prevent CBO from distributing report effect
of the change, within 6m after bill passed, all 18 have resigned and
on drug industry payroll. US Comptroller General claims that Part-D
comes to be long term $40T item totally swamping all other budget
items (term limits wouldn't have helped).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#medicare.part-d
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
1999 was asked to help try and help prevent economic crisis ... FED
LEOs were predicting what they would do. Securitized mortgages had
been used during S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages ... I
was to improve the integrity of supporting documents as
countermeasures. Then they find they could pay rating agencies for
triple-A when both sellers and rating agencies knew they weren't worth
triple-A (from Oct2008 congressional testimony), triple-A trumps
supporting documents and they could do no-documentation liar loans
... largely enabling over $27T done 2001-2008.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Jan2009 was asked to HTML'ize the Pecora Hearings (30s Senate hearings
into '29crash, resulted in criminal convictions and Glass-Steagall)
with lots of internal XREFs and URLs between what happened this time
and what happened then (comments that new congress might have appetite
to do something). I work on it and then get a call it won't be needed
after all (comments that capital hill has been totally buried under
enormous mountains of wallsteet cash).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
Spring 2011, new speaker of the house is on local DC radio program and
highlights that he is putting the new (tea) party darlings on the tax
committee because those members get the most money (from special
interests). Local DC news outlets periodically refer to congress as
Kabuki theater ... what is seen publicly is mostly staged and has
little to do with what is really going on.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Blogs Date: 15 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookI was blamed for online computer conferencing (precursor to social media) on the internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about beginning until sometime mid-80s) in the late 70s and early 80s. Folklore is that when executive committee was told about online computer conferencing (and internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me. past posts
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 ...
trivia: I was doing semi-automated software up through tandem memos. Jim Gray had palmed off some number of things on me (related to DBMS, IMS, System/R, RDBMS, etc) when he was leaving for Tandem. A few of us went by to visit him after he had been there for awhile. Tandem memos were specifically kicked off when I distributed a trip report about that visit,
In the wake of tandem memos there were some number of task forces kicked off to investigate the phenomenon. One of them brought in Hiltz&Turoff authors of "Network Nation". There was also more automated software then developed (TOOLSRUN) for officially sanctioned discussion groups.
Somewhat as a result, there was also a researcher paid to study how I communicated, face-to-face, telephone, online, etc. Sat in the back of my office for nine months, went with me to meetings, got copies of all my incoming and outgoing email, logs of all instant messages. etc. Results were used in research reports, some number of conference papers, talks, books, and a Stanford PHD (joint between language and computer AI).
other trivia: Tandem had developed a CMS-based computer conferencing
system and in Aug1976 started providing it for free to IBM user group
SHARE ... starting as VMSHARE ... archives here
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
later "PCSHARE" was also added. I arranged to get full copies of
VMSHARE files from TYMSAHRE every month for putting up on internal IBM
systems and also available over the internal network (with some
automated software) ... including the world-wide online
sales&marketing support HONE system (some people doubted that HONE
would do such a thing, but one of my hobbies was providing enhanced
production operating systems for internal datacenters and HONE had
been a long time customer since just about its original inception in
the early 70s). The biggest problem I had making the VMSHARE available
inside IBM was with the lawyers who were concerned that IBM employees
would be contaminated by customer information. Some old email
mentioning VMSHARE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmshare
more trivia: internal network was larger than arpanet/internet from
just about the beginning until sometime mid-80s. One of the biggest
factor was the dominant internal network technology (VNET) had a form
of gateway in every node ... which didn't happen until the great
change-over to internetworking protocol on 1Jan1983 for the
internet. At the time of the 1jan1983 change-over it had approx 100
IMP nodes and 255 connected hosts ... while the internal network was
rapidly approaching a 1000 nodes ... old post with list of corporate
sites that got one or more new network nodes during 1983
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8
A flavor of the internal network technology was also used for the
corporate sponsored university network ... which for a time also had
more nodes that the internet ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
The IBM communication group was doing everything it could to block non-SNA networking, client/server, distributed computing, etc. Just after the mid-80s, it was distributing all sorts of misinformation about how the internet could be run on SNA, justifying why the internal network had to be converted to SNA (at a time when BITNET was being converted to TCP/IP and it would be much better to convert the internal network to TCP/IP instead of SNA).
Eventually the communication group could no long block release
mainframe tcp/ip support ... but they had other dirty tricks up their
sleeves and it shipped peaking around 44kbytes/sec using nearly full
3090 processor. I did the software enhancements to support RFC1044 and
in some tuning testing at Cray research and a 4341, got sustained
channel throughput using only modest amount of 4341 processor
(something like 500 times improvement in bytes moved per instruction
executed)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
comment ... It would have been before Dave worked at IBM; from long
ago and far away:
Date: 10/06/80 11:19:34
From: wheeler
Tymshare runs a VM which (of course) is accessible via Tymnet. As a
service to the share organization, tymshare provides a userid, VMSHARE
on their machine. It has a number of CMS restrictions and also
enhancements. Dave Smith sent up most of the procedures when he worked
for Tymshare (he is now at YKT, YKTVMV/DNSMITH). There are a number of
specialized programs for keyword look-up, etc. of the information
entered into the VMSHARE userid which we don't have. All the data
files tho are dumped to tape once a month and sent to me. The
information can be found by linking to VMSHARE 291.
... snip ... top of post, old email index, HONE email
Before TYMSHARE, I think Dave was at BCS (Wichita?). trivia: as undergraduate in the 60s, the univ. hired me fulltime to be responsible for their os/360 production systems. Then summer of 1969, Boeing hired me as fulltime employee to help with the formation of BCS ... move dataprocessing into independent business unit to monetize the investment. I was at Boeing hdqtrs across from Boeing field ... which started with 360/30 for payroll. Was to take over the other datacenters which involved all sort of politics. Renton datacenter had something like $300M in IBM 360s, that summer 360/65s were arriving faster than they could be installed in Renton (there were always 360/65 boxes sitting around in the hallways outside the machine room). At the time, I thought Renton datacenter was possibly largest in the world.
SLAC (vm370 system) was also first webserver (outside europe).
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit/early-web-chronology-and-documents-1991-1994
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit
other silicon valley trivia: when facebook moved to silicon valley, it
was into a new bldg, built next door to the former consolidated US
HONE datacenter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
Blog is (online digital) log/journal and making a log/journal entry. Social networking is more like old time groups from 70s where entries were added by sending off email ... aka mailing or "posting" (a letter). Server would aggregate "posts" and redistribute aggregate ... could go directly to individuals or to distributed servers (where people viewed on their local servers). Servers ran mailing lists of subscribers for each group (individuals and or servers) ... enhancements required postings only from authenticated subscribers, subscribers having option of being sent individual posting as they arrived at server ... or receiving periodic aggregation. The tandem memo stuff .. I only partially automated ... I would read every one and then manually decide if it would be included (more like "moderated" groups)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: some computer and online history Date: 16 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebookold post with decade (78-87) of vax sales, sliced & diced by model, year , us/non-us
includes micro-vax. By the mid-80s, workstations and large PCs were starting to take over the mid-range market. IBM 4300 sold in the mid-range market (against VAX) in approx. the same numbers in small unit orders. The big difference was large corporate 4300 orders of several hundred at a time for distribution out in departmental areas ... sort of the leading edge of coming the distributed computing tsunami. IBM 4331/4341 follow-on (4361/4381) were expected to continue the explosion in the mid-range market sales ... but by that time the workstation/PCs were starting to take-over the mid-range market.
In the 60s, there were a couple spinoffs setting up (virtual machine)
CP67 commercial online services ... but they quickly moved upstream to
specialize in offering financial information for the financial
industry. On the west coast, there was TYMSHARE started with SDS/XDS,
but later also offered VM370 (follow-on to CP67) based services
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare
In Aug1976, TYMSHARE started offering there VM370/CMS-based online
computer conferencing system free to IBM user group SHARE as VMSHARE
... archives here:
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
trivia: in the 70s TYMSHARE developed their own IBM mainframe
(capability-based) operating system GNOSIS specifically for online
computing services business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOSIS
When M/D acquired TYMSHARE, I was brought in to audit GNOSIS as part
of its spinoff to Key Logic. documents
http://cap-lore.com/CapTheory/upenn/
other trivia: NCSS (one of the CP67-based service bureaus) starts
offering 4GL RAMIS. TYMSHARE then starts offering RAMIS follow-on
FOCUS on VM370 ... and NCSS then develops NOMAD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramis_Software
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOCUS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomad_software
Computer History
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_History/RAMIS_and_NOMAD/RAMIS_and_NOMAD.National_CSS.oral_history.2005.102658182.pdf
online service bureau posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#online
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Some (IBM-related) History Date: 17 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebooksome IBM-related history
and
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10209383026868263&set=p.10209383026868263&type=3&theater
and
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10209383063589181&set=p.10209383063589181&type=3&theater
There was latter some folklore that HTML was originally SGML DTD
... however ... this comes up periodically in afc ... recent post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#34 How the internet was invented
cites:
http://infomesh.net/html/history/early/
from above:
1992
With 1992 came (some) stability. See the HTML page.
One of the related files contains a very important idiom:-
It is required that HTML be a common language between all
platforms. This implies no device-specific markup, or anything which
requires control over fonts or colors, for example. This is in keeping
with the SGML ideal.
However, HTML suffered greatly from the lack of standardization, and
the dodgy parsing techniques allowed by Mosaic (in 1993). If HTML had
been precisely defined as having to have an SGML DTD, it may not have
become as popular as fast, but it would have been a lot
architecturally stronger.
Standardization?
The first official standard for HTML (HTML 2.0) came out in November
1995: way too late!
HTML has been in use by the World Wide Web (WWW) global information
initiative since 1990. This specification roughly corresponds to the
capabilities of HTML in common use prior to June 1994. HTML is an
application of ISO Standard 8879:1986 Information Processing Text and
Office Systems; Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
... snip ...
First WEB server outside europe was on SLAC's vm370 system
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit/early-web-chronology-and-documents-1991-1994
Internal network technology was (virtual machine based) developed by
former co-worker (also) at sience center. It did store&forware using
local node spool system ... which block date to 4k ... but used a
synchronous interface (during which VNET didn't run) ... which could
limit it to 4-5 4k records/sec (when there was other uses of spool
system) ... aka 16kbytes-20kbytes/sec. This wasn't too bad with a node
having a couple 9600 baud lines ... but increasingly became the
bottleneck with 56kbit links. I had project I called HSDT that was
supporting T1 and faster speed links and need multiple mbytes/sec
throughput. I did a spool file rewrite with asynchronous non-blocking
interface with read-ahead and write-behind multiple 4k block and
contiguous allocation. I tried to get it into the CJN internal network
backbone nodes ... but the communication group was in the process of
trying to force the internal network to SNA ... and were excluding
technical people from the CJN meetings (didn't want their dirty tricks
confused with technical facts). Old email from one of the CJN meeting
members:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#email870306
other old email reference that the communication group was telling the
executive committee that PROFS was a "VTAM" application
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email870302
some HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
some internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
as I've mentioned before communication group fought hard battle trying to prevent mainframe TCP/IP support from being release. When finally forced to do original release its monthly cost was nearly 10 times the original justification and performance was it got 44kbytes/sec using nearly whole 3090 processor. I then did the software enhancements to support RFC1044 and some tuning tests at Cray Research between a Cray and 4341 got sustained channel speed throughput using only modest amount of 4341 processor (possibly 500 times improvement in number bytes moved per instruction executed).
some RFC 1044 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#rfc1044
another reference ... gone 404 but lives on at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20000124004147/http://www1.sjmercury.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg092499.htm
After Ed left IBM, I hired him as consultant for projects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks
and related to the SJMERC article, late 80s, a senior disk engineer got at talk scheduled at internal annual world-wide communication group conference supposedly on 3174 performance ... but open the talk with the statement that the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division. The issue was that the communication group had strategic responsibility for everything that crossed the datacenter walls and were fiercely fighting off client/server and distributed computing, trying to preserve their (emulated) dumb terminal paradigm and install base. The disk division was seeing data fleeing the data center to more distributed computing friendly platforms with drop in disk sales. The disk division had come up with several solutions to address the problem but they were constantly being vetoed by the communication group.
some related posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
A few short years later, the company had gone into the red and was
being reorged into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up
the company ... when the board brings in the former president of of
AMEX to reverse the breakup and resurrect the company ... using some
of the same techniques he used at RJR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
i.e.
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
folklore/trivia ... after leaving but before the breakup was reversed, we were contacted by somebody in the bowels of Armonk about helping with the mechanics of the breakup. Lots of operations had MOUs with other divisions about using supplier contracts ... all the supplier contracts had to be cataloged and all the dependent MOUs had to be identified and turned into contracts (since these MOUs would then be across different corporations).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Why Aren't Any Bankers in Prison for Causing the Financial Crisis? Date: 17 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookWhy Aren't Any Bankers in Prison for Causing the Financial Crisis?
That is ignoring the repeated "deferred prosecution" for the same
crimes, not just with mortgage securities, but also money laundering
for drug cartels and terrorists, tax evasion, manipulating LIBOR,
FOREX, commodities, etc. The joke is the aggregate $300B they've been
fined is so small compared to the tens of trillions involved, it is
just being viewed as cost of running criminal enterprise.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
recent posts mentioning "deferred prosecution"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#10 25 Years: How the Web began
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#0 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#73 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#29 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#41 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#99 Why Is the Obama Administration Trying to Keep 11,000 Documents Sealed?
disclaimer: 1999 I was asked to try and help prevent the coming
economic mess. securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L
crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages and I was asked to look at
improving the integrity of mortgage supporting documents as
countermeasure. They then find that they can pay the rating agencies
for triple-A ratings. The triple-A ratings mean that they can start
doing no-documentation liar loans (triple-A trumps documentation),
securitize, pay for triple-A and sell as fast as they can make them
(no longer needing to care about buyers qualifications or loan
quality). The triple-A ratings also open the market to operations that
are restricted to "safe" investments (like large public & private
pension funds). Federal Reserve, FDIC, and SEC that have jurisdiction
do nothing. Oct2008 congressional hearings into the pivotal role that
the rating agencies played say that both the sellers and the rating
agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A. This is largely the enabler
to do over $27T done 2001-2008. A tv reporter during the hearings
comments that he believes that there would never be any criminal
prosecution (being able to blackmail the gov. over federal rating).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
and too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
With no-documentation mortgages, there is no longer any issue of supporting documentation integrity. From the law of unintended consequences, the largest fines for the too big to fail are for the robo-signing mills fabricating the documentation for the (no-documentation) mortgages.
A decade later, Jan2009 I'm asked to HTML'ize the Pecora hearings (30s
senate hearings into '29 crash that resulted in criminal convictions
and Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal HREFs and URLs between what
happened this time and what happened then (references that the new
congress might have an appetite to do something). I work on it awhile
and then get a call saying it won't be needed after all (references to
enormous mountains of wallstreet money totally burying capital hill).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
Note that in the wake of ENRON, the rhetoric in congress was that
Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee executives
and auditors did jail time (prosecution becomes relatively trivial),
but it required SEC to do something. Possibly because even GAO didn't
think SEC was doing anything, GAO started doing reports of fraudulent
public company financial filings (even showing increase after SOX goes
into effect) and nobody doing jailtime. Less well known is that SOX
also had requirement for SEC to do something about the rating agencies
.... but they did as little about them as the public company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
Every now and then local DC press will refer to congress as Kabuki
Theater .... what you see publicly has little to do with what is
really going on. In this case, Congress can get a lot of public press
on things like SOX&Enron, when they know that the responsible
regulatory agencies aren't actually going to do anything. Something
similar showed up in the Madoff congressional hearings, they had
testimony from the person that had tried unsuccessfully for a decade
to try and get SEC to do something about Madoff (SEC's hands were
forced when Madoff turned himself in). Kabuki Theater
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Tymshare sold to McDonnell Douglas Date: 17 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookTymshare sold to McDonnell Douglas
"After five years, peace was breaking out in many places in the world and McDonnell Douglas sold off MDNSC and MDFSC at a profit for much needed cash."
... snip ...
the countermeasure, of course, is "perpetual war"; posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
trivia: TYMSHARE had developed a capability-based IBM mainframe
operating system ... GNOSIS. As part of MD purchasing TYMSHARE, I was
brought in to audit GNOSIS as part of its spinoff to Key Logic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOSIS
and
http://cap-lore.com/CapTheory/upenn/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Success of Failure Date: 17 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookBlack Widow loc5601:
outsourcing and the growing Success of Failure culture (higher
profit off string of failures):
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
goes along with culture of "Perpetual War"
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:07:25 -0700JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:53:06 -0700maus <mausg@mail.com> writes:
US also had advantage over Japanese with decryption and radar; decrypting messages warned the US about the Midway attack so they had beefed up airplanes on Midway ... and sent carrier forces (land-based on Midway and US carrier forces were both about equal to total forces Japan sent to attack Midway). Downside for US, was the ZERO was superior to what the US had at the time.
Also the US 4-engine B-17s were dropping bomb loads from 11,000+ ft and invariably missed (it was the dive bombers that accounted for the hits).
This somewhat mirrors the tactical ground support in Europe versus the
strategic 4-engine high altitude bombers. An hypothesis is that switch
to fire-bombing cities ... hard to miss a whole city even from 5-6miles
up, Mcnamara was LaMay's staff planning fire-bombing of German and
Japanese cities and possibly also accounts for when he came back as
SECDEF for Vietnam, Laos becomes the most bombed country in the
world. some past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#31 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#57 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#60 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#10 What Will the Next A-10 Warthog Look Like?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#49 Corporate malfeasance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#64 Isolationism and War Profiteering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#73 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#75 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#91 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#8 What Does School Really Teach Children
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#30 AM radio Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#49 Fateful Choices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#82 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#88 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#90 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM History Date: 18 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
With the imploding of Future System project (was going to completely
replace 370, was suspending 370 products, lack of 370 products during
the FS period is credited with giving clone makers market foothold),
there was mad rush to get 370 products back into pipeline. 3033 and
3081 kick off about the same time, 3033 starts out being 168-3 logic
remapped to 20% faster chips. some FS, 3033, & 3081 history
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
FS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
I was involved in project to do 16-way 370 MP and we con'ed the 3033
processor engineers to working on it in their spare time (lot more
interesting than what they were doing on 3033). At 1st everybody thot
it was great until somebody told the head of POK it could be decades
before the POK favorite son operating system had effective 16-way
support (pok finally ships 16-way system in 2000, more than 20yrs
later). Then the head of POK invites some of us to never visit POK
again, and directs the 3033 processor engineers to never be distracted
again (they would still let me sneak into POK). SMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM History Date: 18 Aug 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
iAPX432 people had presentation at SIGOPS (1981?) about 432
problems. They pushed a lot of complex stuff into silicon ... and the
only way to "fix" was to replace the processor chips with new
silicon. One of the things pushed into the 432 silicon was
multiprocessor dispatching ... masking the number of processors from
software. I had done something similar to that in 1975 for 370/125
effort (one of the mad rush to get features back into 370 product
pipeline). The 115/125 was 9 position memory bus ... the 115 had up to
nine identical microprocessors ... all with different microcode load
... i/o controllers ... and one with 370 emulation. The 125 was the
same except the microprocessor running 370 emulation was 50%
faster. They wanted to do configurations (which was eventually
canceled before announce/ship) that had up to five "125/370"
processors. I pushed a lot of stuff into microcode ... I had task
queuing for both processor dispatching as well as I/O disk controller
(something like later SSCH for 3081). The 432 multprocessor dispatcher
was something like what I had done in spring 1975 for 5-way 370/125
... but I did it in microcode and they did it in silicon. some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#bounce
One of the final nails in Future System coffin was done by Houston
Science Center where they showed that Eastern Airlines ACP running on
370/195 .... if moved to the fastest Future System box projected
... would have the throughput of 370/145. Part of the issues was that
so much of blue sky ideas had been poured into the design .... with
absolutely no thought given to throughput. I continue to work on
360/370 during this period and periodically ridicule Future System
activity (which wasn't exactly career enhancing). Part of translation
to S/38 ... was the S/38 market was low-end and not particularly
throughput oriented ... there was enormous room to throw hardware at
the issue and mask performance throughput.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
One of the issues in Future System was page mapped filesystem with scatter allocation across all available disk drives. The result was to handle a single disk failure ... the complete filesystem had to be backed up as single entity (all disks) and restored as single entity ... which scaled very poorly. Even for low-end S/38 systems it could take 24hrs of down time for the process. One of the people I worked with in disk engineering is credited with disk "RAID" invention in the 70s ... and S/38 was driven to be an early RAID adopter because single disk failures were so traumatic.
The other part was Future System picked up TSS/360 page mapped
filesystem model ... where file I/O was done with synchronous page
fault operations (task was disabled during transfer). This was
bottleneck for high-end, high-performance throughput. At the Univ. in
the 60s, the IBM SE and I did identical fortran edit, compile, and
executed benchmarks on TSS/360 and CP/67 using 360/67. I did CP67
simulated 35 user benchmark that had better response and throughput
than his TSS/360 benchmark for 4 users. I then did page-mapped
filesystem for CP67/CMS (and VM370/CMS) that I claimed avoided all the
TSS/360 (and Future System) shortcomings ... and ran three times
faster than standard CMS filesystem (on moderate I/O benchmarks). This
was used internally, but never shipped to customers (possibly because
page-mapped filesystems got such a bad reputation from Future System
failure)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How the internet was invented Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 23:59:34 -0700Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> writes:
370/165&370/168 were horizontal microcode machine ... rather measured in terms of native instructions per 370 instruction, it was measured in avg. machine cycles per 370 instruction. 370/165 to 370/168 got faster memory and microcode optimized to reduce avg. machine cycles per 370 instruction from 2.1cycles for 370/165 to 1.6cycles for 370/168
precursor to the 370/165 was the 360/85 with cache. 360/85 product announcement
http://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/IBM-ProdAnn/360-85.pdf
then there was also 360/91, 360/195 and 370/195
https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP2091.html
https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP2195.html
https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_2423PH3195.html
4341s was 1979. I got roped into doing 6600 benchmark for national lab that was looking at getting 70 4341s for compute farm (sort of precursor to current cluster 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 ran on 6600 in 35.77secs.
....
Future System ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
was going to completely replace 370, and 370 efforts were being shutdown (given credit for letting clone makers get market foothold). when the implosion of FS, there was mad rush to get stuff back into 370 product pipelines.
They took 370/158 engine with just integrated channel microcode and made
it 303x externel channel processor. A 3031 was a 370/158 engine with
just 370 microcode (and no integrated channel microcode) and a 2nd
370/158 (channel director) with just the integrated channel microcode
(and no 370 microcode). A 3032 was 370/168 engine using 303x (370/158
engine) for external channels. 3033 (1977) started out 168 logic
remapped to 20% faster chips, other hacks got it up to 4.5mips (around
50% faster).
https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/3033/3033_intro.html
IBM very carefully controlled shipping by date order received. The first 3033 was going to be installed in vm370 account which was going to be great loss of face for POK favorite son operating system MVS. Since they couldn't fiddle the shipping order ... they were able to fiddle the arrival of the machine so that the first installation was an MVS customer (as mentioned in above URL).
However a cluster of 4341s was cheaper than 3033, cost significantly less than 3033, had higher processor and I/O throughput than 3033, used significantly less floor space and environmentals than 3033. 303x boxes were "high-end" POK and 4341 was mid-range Endicott. At one point POK internal politics got the allocation of critical 4341 manufacturing component cut in half (as means of reducing competition).
some old 4341 email from the period:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
4300s sold in mid-range market against VAX in approx. same numbers for small unit orders. Big difference was large corporations ordering hundreds of 4300s at a time for placing out in departmental areas ... sort of the leading edge of the coming distributed computing tsunami.
past posts in thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#31 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#32 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#33 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#34 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#35 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#36 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#37 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#38 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#41 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#42 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#43 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#44 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#45 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#51 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#92 How the internet was invented
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:25:45 -0700JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
"The European Campaign: Its Origins and Conduct" loc2574-77:
Two problems contributed to this ineffectiveness: First, the aircraft
used by the American 8th Air Force were designed for strategic campaigns
like the CBO and were built to operate effectively at high
altitudes. The famed B-17 had a service ceiling of 35,800 feet, and the
B-24 could operate at 28,000 feet. Despite all claims of that time and
since the war, at that height even the fabled Norden bomb-sight was
incapable in delivering precision bomb loads.
... snip ...
and then using strategic heavy bombers for low-level tatical battlefield
bombing loc2582-85:
The bomber preparation of Omaha Beach was a total failure, and German
defenses on Omaha Beach were intact as American troops came ashore. At
Utah Beach, the bombers were a little more effective because the IXth
Bomber Command was using B-26 medium bombers. Wisely, in preparation for
supporting the invasion, maintenance crews removed Norden bombsights
from the bombers and installed the more effective low-level altitude
sights.54
... snip ...
past posts:
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/2015c.html#64 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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#54 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#120 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#91 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#88 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:30:57 -0700Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
some articles:
Private Equity Funds Target Foreclosed Homes As Rental Play
http://nreionline.com/finance-amp-investment/private-equity-funds-target-foreclosed-homes-rental-play
How Housing's New Players Spiraled Into Banks' Old Mistakes
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/27/business/dealbook/private-equity-housing-missteps.html
Private Equity's Real-Estate Empire
https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/rent-wall-street-is-my-landlord
Private Equity Firms Repeat Banks' Past Errors?
http://realtormag.realtor.org/daily-news/2016/06/28/private-equity-firms-repeat-banks-past-errors
Housing Market's New Buyers: Private Equity
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443768804578034821658901916
Big boys entering Residential Foreclosure market via Hedge funds
(again)
https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/41/topics/74305-big-boys-entering-residential-foreclosure-market-via-hedge-funds-again
How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick
Scheme--Again
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/wall-street-buying-foreclosed-homes
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: OT: Japanese navy, was Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:55:37 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
past posts mentioning (traitor) british lord that helped japanese with
carrier technology ... instrumental in Pearl Harbor and fall of
Singapore:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#72 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#49 channel islands, definitely not the location of LEO
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Memory management on x86_64 Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:45:56 -0700Ivan Godard <ivan@millcomputing.com> writes:
it also helps with virtual machine "guests" translates (i.e. the virtual machine guest is running its own virtual->virtual/real translate).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Busting The Banksters---The Case For Super Glass-Steagall Date: 20 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookBusting The Banksters---The Case For Super Glass-Steagall, Part 1
Disclaimer: Jan2009, I was asked to HTML'ize the Pecora Hearings (30s
senate hearings into '29crash, resulted in criminal convictions and
Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal HREFs and URLs between what
happened then and what happened this time (remarks 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 (reference to
enormous piles/mountains of wallstreet money totally burying capital
hill).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: U.S. Defense Contractors Tell Investors Russian Threat Is Great for Business Date: 20 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookU.S. Defense Contractors Tell Investors Russian Threat Is Great for Business
"Team B" spawns a political dynasty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
White House chief of staff, Rumsfeld replaces director of CIA with somebody that agrees to "Team B" analysis, then Rumsfeld resigns to become SECDEF ... and his assistant Cheney becomes White House chief of staff.
also remember the important thing about U2 reconnaissance, it gave Eisenhower proof that USAF had fabricated the "bomber gap" ... contributing to his warning about military-industrial-complex in his farewell speech
"team b" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
"perpetual war" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
"WMDs" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: E.R. Burroughs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 08:00:38 -0700"Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> writes:
past posts reference english royal charter in america ... specified
"leet-men"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#31 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#15 Imbecilic Constitution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#7 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#17 Cultural attitudes towards failure
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/2014e.html#61 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#84 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#29 the previous century, was channel islands, definitely not the location of LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#62 Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#38 Qbasic
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Early Networking Date: 21 Aug 2016 Blog: Interesting PeopleFive myths about the Web
Ed was co-worker at the science center when he did the technology for
the internal network
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks
... which was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the
beginning until sometime 85 or 86.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
the technology was also used for the corporate sponsored univ. bitnet
... which for a time was also larger than the arpanet/internet.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
the internal network had a form of gateway in every node from just
about the beginning ... at the time of the arpanet/internet conversion
to internetworking protocol on 1jan1983, there were approx. 100 IMP
nodes and 255 hosts ... when the internal network was rapidly
approaching a 1000 nodes ... which it passed a few months later. old
post giving world-wide corporate locations that added one or more
network nodes during 1983:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8
We had HSDT project starting in the early 80s (T1 and faster speed
links)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
and was working with the director of NSF to interconnect the NSF
supercomputer centers. Then congress cut the budget, some other things
happened and finally NSF released an RFP (in part based on what we
already had running).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
Internal politics prevented me from bidding. The director of NSF tried to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) with support from other gov. agencies, but that just made the internal politics worse (as did the comments that what we already had running was at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP responses). As regional networks connect into the centers it matures into the NSFNET backbone ... precursor to modern internet. Trivia: the NSF RFP called for T1 links (since we already had them running), but the winning bid put in 440kbit/links ... and then for something of a facade to make it look like it met the RFP ... put in T1 trunks with telco multiplexors running multiple 440kbit links over T1 trunks (I would ridicule them why don't they claim T5 network, since some of their T1 trunks were in turn multiplexed over telco T5 trunks).
Science center, was on part of 4th flr 545tech sq, cambridge
... besides Ed's network work in the 60s... also responsible for
virtual machines, bunch of online stuff and the invention of GML (in
1969, name taken from 1st letter of the inventor's last name).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
GML morphs into ISO standard SGML a decade later ... and after another
decade morphed into HTML at CERN. First webserver outside Europe was
at SLAC virtual machine system (previously invented at science center
in the 60s)
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit
and
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit/early-web-chronology-and-documents-1991-1994
Note that email lore goes back to MIT CTSS. Some of the CTSS people go
to the 5th flr to do MULTICS and other of the CTSS people join the
science center on the 4th flr.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
In the early 80s Ed leaves the company ... but I keep him on as consultant in HSDT. In the early 90s I leave the company ... but am brought in as consultant to small client/server startup that wants to do payment transactions on their server (people responsible for their "commerce server" I had previously worked with when they were at oracle), the startup had also invented "SSL" they want to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce". I have complete authority over the webserver to payment gateway operation ... but can only make recommendations over the client server interface .... some of which were almost immediately violated ... accounting for some of the exploits that continue to this day.
Also in the 90s, until he passes, Postel would let me do part of STD1.
note prior to the Ed's wiki 1973 references work between Tim & Ed .... there was link with Endicott and some other sites where we were doing distributed development of cp67 (on 360/67) supporting 370 virtual machines .... with 370 virtual memory architecture.
Because there were non-employees (students and staff from univ. in cambridge area) using the production CP67 system, the 370 virtual machine work was almost all conducted in virtual machines (wasn't yet announced and needed to be kept confidential and secure from all non-employees).
The real 360/67 ran CP67-L production system that provided 360/67 virtual machines
In 360/67 virtual machines ran CP67-H system that was modified to emulate 370 virtual machines
In 370 virtual machine, ran CP67-I system that was modified to support 370 architecture (rather than 360/67 architecture).
The CP67-I systems were running in regular operation a year before the first engineering 370 supporting virtual memory was available ... in fact, the CP67-I system was used for regression tests of that machine..
Then the CP67-I system were used internally for internal 370s ... before 370 was announced and shipped to customers ... and even for some time even after vm370 product (follow-on to cp67) had been developed.
The 1973 wiki Tim/Ed reference is that HASP/JES2 had a form of their
own networking ... source had TUCC in cols 68-71 ... from where it was
originally developed. Ed had layered gateway architecture ... and Tim
implemented a HASP/JES2 driver for VNET. And because HASP/JES2
implementation was so bad .... intermixing networking fields with job
control fields, the VNET HASP/JES2 drivers had to develop field format
conversions specifically for the JES2 system it was talking to keep
JES2 from bringing down MVS (VNET was used between two JES2 systems at
different release levels where changes in field formats in one JES2
would crash other JES2/MVS systems at different release levels)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
Other trivia:
When I was undergraduate at Univ. in 60s, four of us were written up responsible for (some part of) clone controller business. We had build our own telecommunication controller ... building hardware interface for Interdata/3 programmed to emulate 270x. Subsequent claim is that major motivation for Future System was countermeasure to clone controller business ... making the processor/controller interface so complex, that competitor would have a tough time keeping up.
Hypothesis is that much of SNA from that period ... had objective of
satisfying those FS requirements ... but not as "networking" but as
dumb terminal control communication infrastructure.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
However in the time-frame that SNA was being specified, my wife was co-author with Bert Moldow of (IBM internal) AWP39 "peer-to-peer" network architecture (had to use "peer-to-peer" qualifier because SNA had co-opted "networking" for their communication infrastructure).
Also in the time-frame that we were working with director of NSF on interconnecting the NSF supercomputers, the corporate communication group was spreading misinformation as part of justification to convert the internal network to SNA. I had a bunch of pathlength and other stuff for supporting T1 & faster speed links ... which I wanted to get into the corporate backbone ... but the communication group had tied up the corporate steering committee with the SNA conversion issue. Note also at that time ... the fastest communication link supported by SNA was 56kbit ... and besides the other misinformation they were generating ... they had to obfuscate the 56kbit link restriction.
Even more trivia:
I got involved with Greg Chesson and on the technical advisery board
for XTP ... and we tried to take it as HSP to x3s3.3 (iso chartered
standards body for OSI level3&4, network/transport) but ISO had a rule
that it wouldn't standardize anything that violated OSI model. HSP was
rejected because if violated OSI model:
1) supported LAN MAC interface ... which sits in the middle of layer 3
which doesn't exist in the OSI model
2) supported internetworking layer ... exists between network &
transport ... doesn't exist in OSI model
3) went directly from transport to LAN MAC interface ... skipping
level 3/4 interface.
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#xtphsp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Iraq War Date: 21 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookNot just Cheney ... whole "Team B" and military-industrial complex looking for big uptick in military budget.
Director of CIA won't agree to Team B analysis justifying big increase in military budget. White House chief of staff Rumsfeld gets the CIA director to resign, replacing him with somebody (Bush1) that would agree with the analysis, Rumsfled then resigns to become SECDEF and is replaced by his assistant Cheney.
80s, they are involved with supporting Iraq in the Iran/Iraq war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
including supplying WMDs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
more trivia: early 90s, sat. recon analyst notified administration
that Saddam was preparing to invade Kuwait. The administration said
Saddam would do no such thing and proceeded to discredit the
analyst. Then the analyst notifies that Saddam was preparing to invade
Saudi Arabia, the administration now has to choose between Iraq and
Saudi Arabia (Bush1 is president and Cheney is now SECDEF)
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2/
Last decade, the cousin of White House chief of staff (Card) is
dealing with Iraq in the UN and given proof that the WMDs have been
decommissioned ... which is forwarded to Card, Powell and others
... before it can be made public, the cousin is locked up in military
hospital. (Bush2 is president, Cheney is VP, and Rumsfeld is SECDEF
again). The cousin eventually gets out and publishes a book in 2010.
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
NY times series from fall 2014 about finding the decommissioned WMDs
(tracing back to the US) and the information was kept classified for a
decade (corroborates details in cousin's book published 2010)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html
WMD posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
MIC wanted a war so badly that corporate reps were telling former
eastern block countries that if they voted for IRAQ2 invasion in the
UN, they would get membership in NATO and (directed appropriation)
USAID (for purchase of modern US arms).
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
another "Team B" member (see wiki reference above)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz
He is a leading neoconservative.[4] As Deputy Secretary of Defense, he
was "a major architect of President Bush's Iraq policy and ... its
most hawkish advocate."[5] In fact, "the Bush Doctrine was largely
[his] handiwork."
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Five myths about the Web Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 17:51:46 -0700Five myths about the Web
In large mailing list ... somebody cited this wiki entry about former
co-worker at the science center:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks#Technological_Innovations
and I have long winded stuff to say ... archived here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#124
recent posts mentioning edh:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#101 Internal Network, NSFNET, Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#8 What Does School Really Teach Children
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#31 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#53 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#108 Some (IBM-related) History
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Early Networking Date: 21 Aug 2016 Blog: Interesting Peoplere:
other trivia ....
in the early 80s, some of HSDT links were satellite ... and we moved
to (dynamic) rate-based pacing. Then in XTP ... I wrote rate-based
pacing into the spec.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#xtphsp
The summer that Jacobson presented "slow start" (adjusting window size) at IETF, annual ACM SIGCOMM had paper showing "slow start" was not stable in large heterogeneous network. One scenario was that returning ACKs tend to bunch at intermediate nodes and arrive at origin in large batch .... opening windows for multiple back-to-back packet transmissions ... which then saturates some intermediate node (as a result, "slow start" slowly opens window number of packets ... and then quickly shuts it down).
One scenario for "slow start" was a lot of the platforms being dealt with at the time had lacked adequate timer support ... making "rate based" pacing implementation difficult (but that almost immediately changed).
In the last decade or so there have been some "fast TCP" demonstrations ... which basically involved replacing "slow start" with rate-based pacing.
HTTP (& HTTPS) shortcut was to use TCP session management for atomic packet protocol. As HTTP/HTTPS server activity started to scale up ... server CPU went quickly to 100% trying to manage the TCP session FINWAIT list. It then took six months before vendors started deploying optimized FINWAIT list processing.
TCP requires a minimum of 7 packets for reliable packet delivery, XTP was optimized to do it in 3 packets. I wrote up HTTPS spec where all the HTTPS crypto protocol chatter (on top of the TCP 7 packet minimum) could be piggy-backed on XTP 3-packet exchange ... but couldn't get it adopted.
People may have noticed some of this when NETSCAPE was increasing the number of NETSCAPEnn webservers .... telling users to manually load balance across those servers. That continued until until they installed SEQUENT machine ... SEQUENT had run into the FINWAIT problem some time previously when supporting commercial 20,000 TELNET configurations and encountering the FINWAIT problem (separate from a SEQUENT server having large number of tightly coupled multiprocessors).
One of the issues for the internal network was that the different divisions, regions, countries ... were different administration organizational operations ... something that arpanet may have been thinking about but needed internetworking support before dealing with the problem.
Another requirement was that the corporation required all internal
networks to be encrypted ... which resulted in all sorts of problems
to be dealt with ... especially when links crossed national boundaries
(mid-80s, the major link encryptor vendor claimed that the internal
network had more than half of all link encryptors in the world).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
I've referenced previously ... but this old post has list of
world-wide corporate locations that added one or more network nodes in
1983:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8
I was blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal network
in the late 70s and early 80s ... folklore is that when the corporate
executive committee was told about online computer conferencing (and
the internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
Some of the internal network technology was used in the corporate
sponsored univ. network BITNET (which was also larger than
arpanet/internet for some time)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
In europe, it was referred to as EARN ... old email from person
responsible for EARN asking about online applications.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#email840320
I have the X3S3.3 HSP minutes ... including from summer 1990: X3S3.3 is not yet progressing TCP/IP as a national standard, because of procedural concerns and lack of official coordination between the Internet Activities Board and ANSI.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: This Day in History: 22Aug1955, The First Computer User Group Is Founded Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 22 Aug 2016 09:09:51 -0700This Day in History: 22Aug1955, The First Computer User Group Is Founded
Back when software was free (& shared) ... before legal actions and
23Jun1969 unbundling announcement ... that started to charge for
(application) software. Company was able to make the case that operating
system software should still be free. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
Then the "Future System" effort in the early/mid 70s ... was completely
different and replace 370 ... so 370 efforts were being shutdown ...
the lack of 370 products during the period is credited with giving clone
processor makers a market foothold. more discussion
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
and past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
when Future System imploded, there was mad rush to get products back into the 370 pipeline ... and also because of the clone processors ... decision to transition to charging for operating system software.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM is Absolutely Down For The Count Date: 22 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookIBM is Absolutely Down For The Count
This essay is in direct response to Daniel Katz's IBM Is Not Down for the Count.
... snip ...
i.e. IBM's Survival Instinct
http://seekingalpha.com/article/3999712-ibms-survival-instinct
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 3380 & 3081 history Date: 22 Aug 2016 Blog: FacebookAfter I transferred to SJR and they let me wander around San Jose plant site. I did some stuff for engineers in bldg14 (engineering development) and then they started wanting me to play disk engineer ... including sitting in on conference calls with POK channel engineers (I was being tapped because I knew a little about channel interface). past posts
From long ago and far away.
Date: 09/17/82 10:40:29
From: wheeler
Talking to a GPD engineer he says that IBM has not technical talent to
come out with another control unit. As an example, he said that when
he joined the group out here, there were at least 10-12 people in his
area alone that understood the channel interface ... he thinks that
there might be one such person now in the whole GPD division ... the
rest have left the company.
I've heard what sounds like contigency projects on the east coast with
channel development that completely bypass control units and connects
directly to drives. .... I was in meetings all day yesterday, but one
time I stopped by my office two people down the hall were talking
about head crash on 3380 and now might be a good time to sell all your
IBM stock. SJRLVM1 took head crash on customer ship level of 3380s
yesterday and they replaced the HDAs last night in the box. ...
Performance numbers for the 3084 seem to have some liberties. 4-way
should have three times the performance interferance that a 2-way
(cache invalidation signals from 3 other processors instead of
one). They cheat with the 3083 versis 3081. for example, on a 158ap,
running a UP generated system ... the processor runs 10% slower if the
switch on the machine is in AP-mode rather than UP-mode (additional
delay in each machine cycle just to listen for cache invalidation
signals from the other processor ... this is w/o the other processor
even executing anything generating storage alterations & cache
invalidation signals). For 3083 the machine cycle invalidation
listening delay was left in the machine. I've heard that the 3084
numbers are somewhat selected benchmarks that do minimal storage
alterations ... extensive storage alteration programs can have
disastrous effects on 3084 performance.
I've been told that almost every control unit that has attached to a
308x has had to undergo hardware ECs ... apparently it was easier for
every control unit hardware group in the company (even on machines no
longer with development group people available) to resolve the
problems than for the 308x channels. Also did you see the message that
ACP runs 20% slower on a 3081d than on a 3033. On a 3081k, ACP runs 5%
faster than a 3033. POK is started a special 3081k CPU program where
the 3081s coming down the line will be tested to see if they can run
with their clock cranked down. If they pass, they will be special high
performance 3081Ks which run slightly faster than normal 3081ks.
... snip ... top of post, old email index
some more about 3033 & 308x lore:
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
related Future System posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Five myths about the Web Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:40:55 -0700hancock4 writes:
comment from mailing list ....
Western Union torn tape routing in telegraphy was well known at the time and it seems Davies and Baran deserve some mention.
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