From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Snowden Date: 22 Nov 2016 Blog: FacebookEdward Snowden Is a F**king Idiot
In the early 80s, we were working with the director of NSF and was
suppose to get $20M to interconnect the NSF supercomputer
centers. Then congress cuts the budget, some other things happen and
finally NSF releases an RFP (in part based on what we already had
running). Internal politics prevent us from responding to the RFP. The
NSF director tries to help, writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO), with support from other agencies, but that just makes the internal politics worse
(as did comments that what we already had running was at least 5yrs
ahead of all RFP responses). As regional networks connect into the
centers, it grows into the NSFNET backbone, precursor to modern
internet. some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
One difference bertween the internet and the internal network, was
that all internal network links had to be encrypted (created lots of
problems with gov. entities, especially when links crossed national
boundaries). I got tired of what I had to pay for T1 encryptors and
faster encryptors were almost impossible to find. I got involved with
new kind of link encryptor, objective was cost less than $100 and
easily handle T3. The corporate crypto product group complained that
what was done significantly compromised crypto strength. It took me
3months to figure out how to explain to them what was happening (so
they would understand), aka rather than weaker than crypto standard,
it was significantly stronger than crypto standard. It was hollow
victory, I got told I could make as many as I wanted, but they all had
to be sent to address in Maryland. It was when I realized that there
was three kinds of crypto: 1) the kind they don't care about, 2) the
kind you can't do, and 3) the kind you can only do for them.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
Note by the early 90s, two-party operations was standard in finance
and gov. as countermeasure to insider threats. In the wake of Snowden
there was some press that the agency was going to (re?-)implement
two-party operations. One scenario is that last decade there was an
enormous uptic in outsourcing to private-equity beltway bandit
subsidiaries ... that are under enormous pressure to cut costs in the
search of profits (Snowden and the latest case in the news, were both
employed by the same company)
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
and
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/us/nsa-leak-booz-allen-hamilton.html
further aggravated by realization that series of failures is more
profitable than immediate success
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
in the success of failure paradigm, with gov. contractors doing everything possible in the pursuit of profit, not only does a series of failures represent more profit ... but collecting everything (as opposed to just what is needed) represents significant uptic in revenue
Director shelves working $3M ThinThread for multi-billion dollar
Trailblazer that doesn't work
https://www.whistleblower.org/bio-william-binney-and-j-kirk-wiebe
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
the narrative can change significantly if you play follow the money
I was industry rep to Key Escrow meetings ... where gov "gave" into strong crypto ... but wanted all crypto keys escrowed and available. I made the case that escrowing keys used for (crypto-based) strong authentication was fundamental security violation. Gov. reps complained that people would then cheat, using authentication keys for encryption; which was one of the last key escrow meetings, 20yrs ago. Current narrative is very similar to the mid-90s.
Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb; Got to get
educated before we can defeat Internet threats
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/30a00a8d29ad
We are cyberdumb. Opponents have danced through our networks (years
before it was even discovered), several times extracting detailed
designs for advanced weapon systems (including radar & stealth)
.... going on all last decade.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/confidential-report-lists-us-weapons-system-designs-compromised-by-chinese-cyberspies/2013/05/27/a42c3e1c-c2dd-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html
... more
OPM hack was avoidable, says congressional report
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3117352/opm-hack-was-avoidable-says-congressional-report.html
Congressional Report Slams OPM on Data Breach (actually outsourced to
private equity subsidiary)
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/congressional-report-slams-opm-on-data-breach/
OPM Contractor's Parent Firm Has a Troubled History
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/24/opm-contractor-veritas/
How Private Contractors Have Created a Shadow NSA; A new cybersecurity
elite moves between government and private practice, taking state
secrets with them (also references oil rig company that was
transformed into one of the largest defense contractors after former
SECDEF and future VP becomes CEO, including no-bid contracts in Iraq)
http://www.thenation.com/article/how-private-contractors-have-created-shadow-nsa/
I was tangentially involved in the Cal. data breach notification law
(had been brought in to help with some word smith'ing) ... the problem
was little or nothing was being done; the issue is normally entities
take security measures in self-protection. The issue with most of the
breaches is that the entities weren't at risk, it was their customers
and/or the public. It was hoped that the publicity from the
notifications would motivate institutions to take corrective
action. It can be seen in the private-equity beltway bandit
subsidiaries. There was enormous uptic in gov. outsourcing last decade
and a major platform of the 2008 presidential campaign was to reverse
that enormous increase in gov. outsourcing ... however, it didn't
happen.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 08:15:03 -0800"Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> writes:
I started out only distributing executable internally inside IBM ... but would send source to people that proved that they had gotten all points. From that came versions with more points, FORTRAN converted to PLI, also ports to MVS/TSO.
This is old post reference to PLI port of ADVENTURE to MVS/TSO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#41 Colossal Cave Adventure in PL/I
from version sent to me ... when I complained that I didn't have any in my archives. It had been ported back to CMS ... using assembler emulation of WYLBUR TSO I/O Interface used by mvs pli version.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Smedley Butler Date: 23 Nov 2016 Blog: Google+Smedley Butler
and then: If you haven't heard anything yet about the "Panama Papers"
... "Dirty little secrets" ... setting up Panama as one of the worlds
money laundering capitals ...
http://interactive.fusion.net/dirty-little-secrets/
Of course, the U.S. had a big hand in shaping Panama's destiny,
stretching back to days when the canal was still a pipe dream, and
even laid the groundwork for its financial system today. A circle of
American financiers, chief among them J.P. Morgan, made $40 million
off the canal deal, following a stealthy lobbying effort to get
lawmakers to choose Panama over Nicaragua, according to author Ovidio
Diaz-Espino's critical history "How Wall Street Created a Nation." At
the time, the canal arrangement was the most expensive land deal of
all time. Afterwards, Morgan and William Nelson Cromwell, the chief
lobbyist for the financiers, managed Panama's finances up until the
1930s. Cromwell, who co-founded the prominent law firm Sullivan &
Cromwell, also became Panama's de facto attorney General.
How Wall Street Created a Nation
https://www.amazon.com/How-Wall-Street-Created-Nation-ebook/dp/B08D741M2K/
How Wall Street Created a Nation
https://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/221/46782.html
And the U.S. was already on its way to building the canal in
Nicaragua. The House of Representatives unanimously passed a Nicaragua
canal bill, a treaty was signed with Nicaragua, President McKinley had
already signed the bill, and the excavation had already began in
Nicaragua. It was a done deal -- until Cromwell arrived on Capitol
Hill and began throwing money around.
... snip ...
then there is "perpetual war" from this
http://archive.org/details/triumphantpluto00pettrich
loc6265-74:
XXX. THE LEAGUE TO PERPETUATE WAR The war has just begun. I said that
when the Armistice terms were published and when I read the Treaty and
the League Covenant I felt more than ever convinced of the justice of
my conclusion. The Treaty of Versailles is merely an armistice -- a
suspension of hostilities, while the combatants get their wind. There
is a war in every chapter of the Treaty and in every section of the
League Covenant; war all over the world; war without end so long as
the conditions endure which produce these documents.
... snip ...
one of Boyd acolytes, tome on "pepetual war" (I wasn't ever really an
acolyte, although I sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM)
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
and in 20s&30s, John Foster Dulles (also) at Sullivan&Cromwell played
major role in rebuilding Germany's economy and military
https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Foster-Dulles-Allen-Secret-ebook/dp/B00BY5QX1K/
loc865-68:
In mid-1931 a consortium of American banks, eager to safeguard their
investments in Germany, persuaded the German government to accept a
loan of nearly $500 million to prevent default. Foster was their
agent. His ties to the German government tightened after Hitler took
power at the beginning of 1933 and appointed Foster's old friend
Hjalmar Schacht as minister of economics.
loc873-79:
Sullivan & Cromwell floated the first American bonds issued by the
giant German steelmaker and arms manufacturer Krupp A.G., extended
I.G. Farben's global reach, and fought successfully to block Canada's
effort to restrict the export of steel to German arms makers.
loc905-7:
Foster was stunned by his brother's suggestion that Sullivan &
Cromwell quit Germany. Many of his clients with interests there,
including not just banks but corporations like Standard Oil and
General Electric, wished Sullivan & Cromwell to remain active
regardless of political conditions.
loc938-40:
At least one other senior partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, Eustace
Seligman, was equally disturbed. In October 1939, six weeks after the
Nazi invasion of Poland, he took the extraordinary step of sending
Foster a formal memorandum disavowing what his old friend was saying
about Nazism
... snip ...
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Boyd refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Smedley Butler Date: 23 Nov 2016 Blog: Google+re:
more than 100yrs later: Experts urge Panama to reform financial
services industry
https://www.icij.org/blog/2016/11/experts-urge-panama-reform-financial-services-industry
and very similar to Smedley's account
"The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World"
https://www.amazon.com/Profiteers-Bechtel-Men-Built-World-ebook/dp/B010MHAHV2/
"Economic Hit Man"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
and "Is Havard responsible for the rise of Putin" (needed as
countermeasure to US capitalists looting the country); 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 ...
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
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: OODA in IT Security Date: 23 Nov 2016 Blog: LinkedInOODA in IT Security
almost OODA-loop:
The Business of America is Lobbying: How Corporations Became
Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate, loc2732-34:
Daft and Weick model the process in a three-stage cycle: first
organizations scan their environment for information; then they
interpret it; and finally they learn as part of a "process of putting
cognitive theories into action."
... snip ...
and older reference:
Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In
Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties
Of Staff, Infantry, ... Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. (1846,
Henry Wager Halleck), loc5019-20:
A rapid coup d'oeil prompt decision, active movements, are as
indispensable as sound judgment; for the general must see, and decide,
and act, all in the same instant.
... snip ...
other trivia ... gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml
there are lots of things that could have been done for the internet that would have radically reduced many of the attack surfaces ... needing to only strengthen a radically smaller number of points. The current paradigm is vulnerabilities are so large that it guarantees constant reactive (rather than proactive to prevent).
more folklore
long ago and far away we were brought in as consultants to small client/server startup that wanted to do payments on their server; they had also invented this technology they called "SSL" they wanted to use, the result is now sometimes called "electronic commerce". I had complete authority over server to payment gateway (which haven't been known to have exploits) ... but could only make recommendations on the client/server part ... which were almost immediately violated ... continue to account for some number of exploits that continue to this day.
we were tangentially involved in the (Cal, original) data breach notification act, having been brought in to help wordsmith the cal. state electronic signature act. Some were heavily involved in privacy issues and had done extensive public surveys. The #1 issue was identity theft, notably fraudulent financial transactions as the result of breaches. The issue is normally entities take security measures in self protection ... in the case of breaches, it wasn't the institutions at risk, it was the public. It was hoped that the publicity from the breaches would motivate security measures
data breach notification posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
somewhat having done "electronic commerce" we were asked to participate in 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 detailed end-to-end exploit and vulnerability studies of all kinds of retail payments. We didn't do anything directly about breaches or evesdropping, we write a standard that slightly tweaked the current infrastructure and eliminated the ability of the crooks to use information from previous transactions for fraudulent transactions (eliminated the primary motivation for breaches and need for "SSL", a variation on "replay" attack, enormously reducing the attack surface). The agency was quite ambivalent, the transactions no longer needed encryption to hide details as countermeasure to fraud, but they were also anonymous.
some refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
and posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#x959
"dual use" threat, in the current paradigm, the information necessary for the crook to make a fraudulent transaction ... is also required in the standard transaction business processes at millions of location around the world; as a result the information is simultaneously both a) needed to be readily available and b) kept confidential and never divulged.
also security proportional to risk to describe the current paradigm, the value of transaction information to the merchant is the profit ... which can be a few dollars, while the value of the information to the criminal is the credit limit &/or account balance. As a result the crooks may be able to outspend attacking by orders of magnitude (compared to what merchants can spend defending).
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#security.proportional.to.risk
other folklore, in the early 80s (about the same time I was started sponsoring Boyd's briefings at IBM), we were working with the director of NSF to interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers. We were suppose to get $20M, then congress cuts the budget, some number of other things happen and finally an RFP was released. Internal politics prevent us from bidding, the NSF director tries to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) with support from other agencies, but that just makes the internal politics worse (as does comments that what we already have running is at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP responses). As the regional networks tie into the centers, it becomes the NSFNET backbone ... precursor to the modern internet.
some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
and posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
even more folklore, I worked on CP67/CMS as undergraduate in the 60s, IBM picked up a lot of my stuff and shipped it in the product ... including to many gov. agencies ... which I didn't learn about until much later. Besides, the 3-letter gov. agencies reference in the URL upthread ... there was also (at least) NPG school in Monterey. In fact windows lore, before MS/DOS there was Seattle Computing, and before that CP/M and before that, Kildall worked on CP67 at NPG
the transaction information value to the merchant is the profit on the transaction ... possibly only a couple dollars, the transaction information can be used by the crook for fraudulent transactions to drain the account and/or upto the credit limit. Therefor the value to the crook can be several orders of magnitude times the value to the merchant. The work in X9A10 financial standard work basically eliminated crooks being able to use information from previous transactions to perform fraudulent transaction ... basically a variation on replay attack. It didn't do anything to prevent breaches by crooks to obtain the information ... but it eliminated the risk if crooks had the information and also their motivation for the breaches.
My observation about almost OODA-loop was see/decide/act was it was published in 1846 not bad for over 150yrs ago
in briefings, Boyd would stress observing from every possible facet as countermeasure to orientation bias ... isn't possible to deal with such issues w/o including orientation.
some boyd posts & refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
as referenced upthread ... a lot of data breaches were where the institution wasn't at risk .... it was there customers &/or public ... so the institutions had little at stake to motivate them to take security precautions. Along with that many involve the "dual-use" scenario ... where critical information was needed in dozens of business processors at millions of locations around the world ... at the same time the information had to be kept confidential and never divulged (dual-use paradigm making the information readily available for exploits) .... along with the security proportional to risk. Part of the work in the X9A10 financial standard working group was slightly tweaking the current paradigm and eliminating both the "dual-use" problem as well as the security proportional to risk problem. That enormously reduces the (at risk) attack surface ... there still could be intrusions in those places ... but there was nothing at risk ... and therefor no motivation for the intrusions.
trivia: Postel (long-time internet IETF RFC editor) before he passed, use to let me help with doing STD1 (internet standards) and also had me give a long talk at ISI on what was needed for business critical internet (the graduate network security people from USC also came over ... which totally filled the room to overflowing).
my IETF RFC index
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 16:36:23 -0800Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> writes:
co-worker at science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
had "ported" spacewar to 1130/2250 ("2250-m4", a 2250 graphics display
with 1130 computer) for two users, split 2250 in left/right half for
controls. my kids would come in and play it on weekends. He and I both
transferred from science center to San Jose Research later in the
70s. He was also responsible for technology in the internal network some
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
The Story of Edson C. Hendricks, the Genius Who Invented the
Design for the Internet (there is also ipad version)
https://www.amazon.com/Its-Cool-Be-Clever-Hendricks/dp/1897435630
wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks
other ...
atari, chuck e. cheese, etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell
1st chuck e. cheese opened in old grocery store bldg
in south sanjose behind almaden mall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_E._Cheese's
(a few miles from san jose plant site) a couple old posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#24 I'll see your deep-fried mars-bar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#34 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
other history
http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/computer-games/16/185
other history
http://www.shortlist.com/tech/gaming/the-power-of-pong
we would run into various of above around silicon valley.
the author of rexx (originally on vm370, later mvs, amiga, etc) ... did multi-user space-war game ... clients running on 3270s communicating with (vm370) SPM to "server" (and internal network supported SPM, so users didn't have to be on the same mainframe).
controls were straight-forward ... so almost immediately a number of
users wrote bot players .... which would beat human players. somewhat
in response, server was updated to increase energy use non-linearly as
interval between commands dropped below what could be expected from
human players. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#26 Help needed on conversion from VM to OS390
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#20 Whatever happened to IBM's VM PC software?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#12 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#4 Fast action games on System/360+?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#22 Was CMS multi-tasking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#5 real-time messages
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#74 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#33 Was VM ever used as an exokernel?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#5 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#49 My first mainframe experience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#24 Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#27 Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#38 Invention of Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#64 Typeface (font) and city identity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#7 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#27 RBS Mainframe Meltdown: A year on, the fallout is still coming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#38 1969 networked word processor "Astrotype"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#1 Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#48 Before the Internet: The golden age of online service
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#9 PROFS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#17 IBM Destination z - What the Heck Is JCL and Why Does It Look So Funny?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#1 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
various old posts mentioning SPM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#32 z900 and Virtual Machine Theory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#51 other cp/cms history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#8 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#16 intersection between autolog command and cmsback (more history)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#11 vm/sp1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#14 more shared segment archeology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#25 IBM 360 Model 20 Questions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#22 Was CMS multi-tasking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#33 Was VM ever used as an exokernel?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#28 CSC History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#66 Wasn't instant messaging on IBM's VM/CMS in the early 1980s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#24 Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#38 Invention of Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#1 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: The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World Date: 24 Nov 2016 Blog: Google+The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World
Bechtel and the big dig, log3034-36:
The Big Dig would take twenty years and become the most expensive
urban highway redevelopment in US history. "If total expenditures are
adjusted for inflation, it cost more than the Panama Canal," according
to author Judith Nies. Originally budgeted at $2.8 billion when the
congressional bill passed, its final cost in 2009 would be $16
billion.
and outsourcing nuclear to Bechtel, log4288-91:
A congressional commission, led by former undersecretary of the army
Norman Augustine and retired admiral Richard Mies, concluded in 2014
that the privatization of the nuclear weapons laboratories had
resulted in a "dysfunctional management and operations relationship,"
and "uneven collaboration with customers"—the "customers" being the
DOE.
log4296-98:
In 2000 Bechtel received the $4.3 billion deal for the cleanup, which
the company estimated would cost $14 billion to complete. But eleven
years later, with the job still uncompleted, Bechtel predicted that
the final cost would be more than $120 billion.
... snip ...
like outsourcing intelligence that also went on last decade
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
... 70% of the budget and over half the people,
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Director shelves working $3M ThinThread for multi-billion dollar
Trailblazer that doesn't work
https://www.whistleblower.org/bio-william-binney-and-j-kirk-wiebe
posts referencing success of failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
posts mentioning "big dig"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#25 TGV in the USA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#73 Cormpany sponsored insurance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#41 fraying infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#56 IBM drops Power7 drain in 'Blue Waters'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#0 Urban transportation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#55 TV Big Bang 10/12/09
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#11 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#14 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#15 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#18 other days around me
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#68 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#48 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamationmade30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#4 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#105 only sometimes From looms to computers to looms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#42 Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#27 Federal Subsidies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#72 IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:09:53 -0800scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
hyperthread originally shows up in acs; next to last section "sidebar:
multithreading" (just before section on ACS features showing up 20yrs
later in es/9000)
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
however, very few programmers are adept at multithreading/multiprocessor.
I've mentioned before charlie inventing compare&swap (name chosen
because CAS are charlie's initials) at the science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
working on fine-grain multiprocessor locking for cp67. The initial
attempt to get it included it 370 was rebuffed ... because the
architecture owners claimed that the POK favorite son operating system
people said that test&set (from 360/65MP) was more than
adequate. The 370 architecture owners said that to get
compare&swap included in 370, justification other than
kernel multiprocessor locking was needed. Thus was born the
application multithreading examples that still are included in
mainframe principles of operation. It was picked up by large thoughput
applications, like DBMS ... and then the same and/or similar semantics
started showing up on other hardware platforms. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
as more and more microporcessors started moving to multiple core (somewhat in lieu of faster clock speeds), the holy grail became a multi threaded/programming/processor (parallel) programming language which would simplify concurrent programming for the majority of programmers that don't quite "get it".
old posts referencing news article from middle of last decade, where
head of microsoft was demanding that intel stop this multicore stuff
and return to faster & faster single processors because
concurrent/parallel programming was just too hard. Intel then had to
explain to the head of microsoft that it wasn't going to happen.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#78 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#42 Panic in Multicore Land
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#15 Why do people say "the soda loop is often depicted as a simple loop"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#44 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#90 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#28 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#48 New HD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#85 Parallel programming may not be so daunting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#118 By the time we get to 'O' in OODA
other posts mentioning parallel/concurrent programming "holy grail"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#15 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#44 Are multicore processors driving application developers to explore multithreaded programming options?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#63 Intel: an expensive many-core future is ahead of us
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#26 What is the biggest IT myth of all time?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#9 Age
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#8 No command, and control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#21 Eurofighter v F16
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#15 Why do people say "the soda loop is often depicted as a simple loop"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#36 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#48 Difference between fingerspitzengefuhl and Coup d'oeil?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#44 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#77 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#91 Difference between fingerspitzengefuhl and Coup d'oeil?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#118 By the time we get to 'O' in OODA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#119 Holy Grail for parallel programming language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#123 Holy Grail for parallel programming language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#175 Holy Grail for parallel programming language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#56 Which Books Can You Recommend For Learning Computer Programming?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#10 Boyd OODA-loop Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#14 New words, language, metaphor
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Make companies pay full cost of breaches to restore trust in the internet, says ISOC Date: 24 Nov 2016 Blog: LinkedInMake companies pay full cost of breaches to restore trust in the internet, says ISOC
We were tangentially involved in the Cal. data breach notification act, having been brought in to help wordsmith the electronic signature act. Several of the participants were heavily involved in privacy issues and had done detailed public surveys. At the top was fraudulent financial transactions as a result of breaches. The problem was little or nothing was being done about the breaches. An issue is institution normally takes security measures in self protection, in these cases the institutions weren't at risk, it was their customers &/or public. It was hoped that the publicity from the notification might prompt institutions to take corrective action.
data breach notification posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
aside: I used the above explanation in the intro to the financial industry privacy standard. I've also used metaphors "dual-use" and security proportional to risk in reference to majority of the breaches that have occurred (criminal harvesting account information for the purpose of fraudulent financial transactions).
In the "dual-use" scenario ... account information is needed in dozens of business processors at millions of locations around the world ... at the same time the information has to be kept confidential and never divulged (dual-use making the information readily available for exploits)
In the security proportional to risk. the value of electronic payment transaction information to the merchant is the profit ... which can be a few dollars, while the value of the information to the criminal is the credit limit &/or account balance (several hundred to tens of thousands). As a result the crooks can afford to outspend attacking by orders of magnitude (compared to what merchants can spend defending).
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#security.proportional.to.risk
Long ago and far away we were brought in as consultants to small client/server startup that wanted to do payments on their server; they had also invented this technology they called "SSL" they wanted to use, the result is now sometimes called "electronic commerce". I had complete authority over server to payment gateway (which haven't been known to have exploits) ... but could only make recommendations on the client/server part ... which were almost immediately violated ... accounts for some number of exploits that continue to this day.
Somewhat for earlier having done "electronic commerce" at a small client/server startup, in the mid-90s we were asked to participate in the X9A10 financial standard working group which had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the financial infrastructure for *ALL* retail payments (POS, attended, unattended, internet, debit, credit, ACH, etc). Detailed end-to-end threat and vulnerability studies were done for most kinds of payments. One of the objectives of the resulting standard was to slightly tweak the existing paradigm and eliminate the dual-use characteristic. It did nothing to eliminate the breaches at millions of locations around the world, but it did eliminate the risk, since the crooks were no longer able to use the information to perform fraudulent financial transactions (enormously reducing the attack surface that needed to be protected).
some refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
and posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#x959
trivia: Before he passed, long-time internet IETF RFC standards editor Postel, use to let me help with doing STD1 (internet standards) and also had me give a long talk at ISI on what was needed for business critical internet (the graduate network security people from USC also came over ... which totally filled the room to overflowing).
my IETF RFC index
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
More long ago and far away, in the early 80s we were working with the director of NSF and were suppose to get $20M to interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers. Then Congress cuts the budget, some other things happen and finally NSF releases an RFP but internal politics prevent us from bidding. The director of NSF tries to help, writing a letter to the company (with support from other agencies), but that just makes the internal politics worse (as does comments that what we already had running was at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP responses). As regional networks connect into the centers, it becomes the NSFNET "backbone" (precursor to modern internet).
some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
and posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 15:13:31 -0800Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
posix async i/o for unix ... was used by unix platforms for mutli-threading transactions.
it was predated by "read/write" & "wait" system services from
original os/360 from mid-60s ... and higher level languages with
library functions interfacing to the os/360 system services.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_method
just straight-forward read, write, wait, etc ... left it to the
application to do the multithreading services ... the application
appeared as single "large" executable to the system. This is basically
what CICS did ... doing its own multithreading scheduling/dispatching
... and one reason why CICS didn't support multiprocessing
multithreading until this century. ... recent CICS post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#51 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
OS/360 had "ATTACH" which would create multiprogramming (multithreading) tasks managed by OS/360 dispatching. However, OS/360 system services tended to be really heavyweight ... and so early multithreaded "subsystem" applications (like CICS) would do their own internal "lightweight" multithreading. However, it appeared as single large dispatching unit ... and OS/360 then only dispatches on single task on single processor.
Large DBMS on unix would use posix asynch I/O (similar to os/360 read, write, wait) and do their own multithreading ... for running on single processor. There was also forking with shared memory ... which would allow different forks to run on different processors concurrently ... before Posix lightweight threads.
posix asynch i/o
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=607373
posix threads
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_POSIX_Thread_Library
DBMS just doing its own threads and dispatching worked single processor (like CICS). For UNIX to get concurrent execution on multiple processors started with forking and shared memory.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Nasdaq asks SEC for speed bump to protect retail traders Date: 25 Nov 2016 Blog: LinkedInNasdaq asks SEC for speed bump to protect retail traders
HFT makes something appear ... proposal is that HFT can't make it disappear for at least one second (big divide between short-term traders and long-term investors)
recent posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#75 American Gripen: The Solution To The F-35 Nightmare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#68 Eric Hunsader Explains To CNBC That "Markets Are Always Rigged"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#11 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#95 Is it a lost cause?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#40 Misc. Success of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#65 old Western Union Telegraph Company advertising
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#18 Bundesbank Confirms HFTs Reduce Liquidity, Contribute To Flash Crashes, Withdraw At Times Of "Market Stress"
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Smedley Butler Date: 25 Nov 2016 Blog: Google+re:
John Boyd's Art of War; Why our greatest military theorist only made colonel.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/john-boyds-art-of-war/
Here too Boyd had a favorite line. He often said, 'It is not true the
Pentagon has no strategy. It has a strategy, and once you understand
what that strategy is, everything the Pentagon does makes sense. The
strategy is, don't interrupt the money flow, add to it.'
... snip ...
... part of the for-profit "perpetual war"
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
and success of failure
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
paradigms, are never finish/complete something ... because that would interrupt the flow of money
posts referencing success of failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
John Boyd posts and refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The FBI Is Wrongly Telling People To Change Passwords 'Frequently' Date: 25 Nov 2016 Blog: FacebookThe FBI Is Wrongly Telling People To Change Passwords 'Frequently'
passwords & pins are something you know, shared-secret authentication, things weren't too bad nearly 50yrs ago when I got cp67/cms online password ... when it was my only password. However, institutions security guidelines are that passwords have to be hard-to-guess, impossible-to-remember that have to be changed every 30 days and can never be written down. Also since they are shared-secrets, every unique security domain has to have unique passwords (as countermeasure to cross-domain attacks). Now institutions still act like their "hard to guess", "impossible to remember" unique password that has to be changed every 30 days, is the only password that a person has. The paradigm started to break down by the time a person had to deal with a dozen shared-secrets ... and now many people have a hundred or more to deal with.
posts mentioning three factor authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#3factor
posts mentioning shared-secrets authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#secrets
disclaimer: we have more than a couple dozen patents on the
subject. We were dealing with the patent attorneys and the claims were
packaged as 50 some patents and the attorneys said that there would be
well over 100 patents. When the executives reviewed it (cost of filing
all the patents in the US and international as well as the
$6k/patent/inventor) they directed all claims to be packaged in nine
patents. Somewhat later the patent office came back and said they were
getting tired of getting the humongous patents where the fee doesn't
even carry the cost of reading all the claims ... and the claims had
to be repackages as at least 30 patents (there was something in the
fine print about only $6K/patent/inventor for just original
patents). reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadssummary.htm
more references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Jeff Sessions set to show his steel on white-collar crime Date: 25 Nov 2016 Blog: FacebookJeff Sessions set to show his steel on white-collar crime
VP (and former CIA director) ... claims no knowledge of such activities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
and another presides over the financial mess, 70 times larger than S&L crisis. The S&L crisis had 1000 criminal convictions with jailtime, proportionally the economic mess should have 70,000; so far there have been none.
S&L crisis posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
Jan2009, I was asked to HTML'ize the (recently scanned) Pecora Hearings (30s senate hearings into the '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 (comment 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 (reference to enormous mountains of wallstreet cash totally burying capital hill).
Pecora Hearing and/or Glass-Steagall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The FBI Is Wrongly Telling People To Change Passwords 'Frequently' Date: 25 Nov 2016 Blog: Facebooknote shared-secret passwords are vulnerable to various kinds of skimming and breach attacks (as opposed to brute force guessing).
late thursday/early friday, somebody in POK sent me the following. On friday I distributed it to several people. over the weekend somebody printed it on official corporate letterhead paper and stuffed all the bulletin boards in the bldg. Monday was 2April1984 and several people believed it was a real directive (see last paragraph). Some got very angry when they learned it was a Sundary, 1April directive. There was an effort to find out who was responsible ... and then all corporate letterhead paper was moved to lock cabinet.
CORPORATE DIRECTIVE NUMBER 84-570471 April 1, 1984
In order to increase the security of all IBM computing facilities, and to avoid
the possibility of unauthorized use of these facilities, new rules are being put
into effect concerning the selection of passwords. All users of IBM computing
facilities are instructed to change their passwords to conform to these rules
immediately.
RULES FOR THE SELECTION OF PASSWORDS:
1. A password must be at least six characters long, and must not contain two
occurrences of a character in a row, or a sequence of two or more characters
from the alphabet in forward or reverse order.
Example: HGQQXP is an invalid password.
GFEDCB is an invalid password.
2. A password may not contain two or more letters in the same position as any
previous password.
Example: If a previous password was GKPWTZ, then NRPWHS would be invalid
because PW occurs in the same position in both passwords.
3. A password may not contain the name of a month or an abbreviation for a
month.
Example: MARCHBC is an invalid password.
VWMARBC is an invalid password.
4. A password may not contain the numeric representation of a month.
Therefore, a password containing any number except zero is invalid.
Example: WKBH3LG is invalid because it contains the numeric representation
for the month of March.
5. A password may not contain any words from any language. Thus, a password
may not contain the letters A, or I, or sequences such as AT, ME, or TO
because these are all words.
6. A password may not contain sequences of two or more characters which are
adjacent to each other on a keyboard in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal
direction.
Example: QWERTY is an invalid password.
GHNLWT is an invalid password because G and H are horizontally
adjacent to each other.
HUKWVM is an invalid password because H and U are diagonally
adjacent to each other.
7. A password may not contain the name of a person, place or thing.
Example: JOHNBOY is an invalid password.
Because of the complexity of the password selection rules, there is actually only
one password which passes all the tests. To make the selection of this password
simpler for the user, it will be distributed to all managers. All users are
instructed to obtain this password from his or her manager and begin using it
immediately.
some past posts mentioning 84-570471
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: BREAKING: Trump Announces Big Gift To Banks Despite His Campaign Rhetoric Against Wall Street Date: 26 Nov 2016 Blog: FacebookBREAKING: Trump Announces Big Gift To Banks Despite His Campaign Rhetoric Against Wall Street
well
Wall Street Preparing Dodd-Frank Rule Workaround
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/38033-wall-street-preparing-dodd-frank-rule-workaround
There was lots of obfuscation/misdirection with Dodd/Frank. Congress
had to appear to be doing something
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodd-Frank_Wall_Street_Reform_and_Consumer_Protection_Act
Dodd was high on "Friends of Mozilo" list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Mozilo#Friends_of_Angelo_.28FOA.29_VIP_program
who is #1 on time's list of those responsible for the economic mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877339,00.html
so one of the tactics was to make it extremely complex and take forever to figure out how to specify regulations ... which would move it out of public eye and any resulting regulations have good chance of actually not doing anything (and/or bill would be repealed before regulations could be enacted). Another tactic, wallstreet lobbyists would supply (extremely onerous) text to be inserted in the bill, then when draft bill provision leak, wallstreet would come out publicly lambasting the text (discrediting the process)
various articles about the shenanigans
http://www.thenation.com/article/174113/how-wall-street-defanged-dodd-frank
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/banks-lobbyists-help-in-drafting-financial-bills/
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2013/05/bank-lobbyists-writing-the-rules-for-wall-street.html
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-wall-street-killed-financial-reform-20120510
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/05/josh-rosner-on-how-dodd-frank-institutionalizes-too-big-to-fail.html
http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/are-treasury-and-the-fed-at-odds-over-big-banks-20130524
http://billmoyers.com/segment/gretchen-morgenson-on-why-banks-are-still-too-big-to-fail/
also from "Confidence Men" regarding Volcker rule (in Dodd-Frank),
pg430:
But they were fighting on too many fronts. Carl Levin of Michigan and
Jeff Merkley of Oregon had discovered that Dodd had discreetly gutted
the Volcker Rule
... snip ...
recent Trump &/or Dodd-Frank posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#51 OT: DuPont seeks to screw workers of their pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#65 old Western Union Telegraph Company advertising
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#69 IBM Buying Promontory Clinches It: Regtech Is Real
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#73 IBM Buying Promontory Clinches It: Regtech Is Real
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#8 Wall Street Preparing Dodd-Frank Rule Workaround
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#9 Wall Street Preparing Dodd-Frank Rule Workaround
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#10 Wall Street Preparing Dodd-Frank Rule Workaround
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#58 Drafting of Dodd-Frank
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#65 In the Trump Era, Leaking and Whistleblowing Are More Urgent, and More Noble, Than Ever
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#78 More Dodd-Frank
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#93 The annual Budget Games begin: Trump vs. Congress to control spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#13 Jeff Sessions set to show his steel on white-collar crime
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 12:22:15 -0800"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
clinton 64,433,399, trump 62,337,643, johnson 4,418,013, stien 1,395,182
articles right after the election was that obama had won 70M to 60M and clinton had lost with nearly even 60M to 60M (lost 10M voters compared to Obama). Now, she may be down only 5M compared to Obama when they are done. Since she has won the popular vote by comfortable margin, it then only becomes distribution of votes by states. The polls are that Bernie would have won popular vote by significantly larger margin.
note that every once and awhile local DC news will refer to congress as
Kabuki Theater ... that what you see has very little to do with what is
really going on ... apparent conflict between the two parties is just
Roman Circus for the public. ... posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Destination z article: Lessons Learned Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 26 Nov 2016 12:45:19 -0800gabe@GABEGOLD.COM (Gabe Goldberg) writes:
Part of the T/R forces critism involved comparing 16mbit t/r with what it claimed was ethernet ... but they only way they could make those numbers come out was if they used pre-product 3mbit ethernet before listen-before-transmit. I would make facetious references that obviously somewhere in the bowels of Armonk (or Raleigh) that they have time-machine to justify comparing 1990 token-ring technology with 1980 ethernet.
as an aside, my wife had also included 3-tier architecture in response to large, very secure, gov network campus request ... and took a lot of heat & FUD.
as I've periodically mentioned, in the late 80s a senior disk engineer
got a talked scheduled at the world-wide, internal, annual 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. As referenced the
communication group was fightting off distributed computing and
client/server and the disk division was seeing data fleeing the
datacenter to more distributed computing friendly platforms with drop in
disk sales. The disk division had come up with a number of solutions but
were constantly vetoed by the communication group (with its corporate
strategic ownership of everything that crossed the datacenter walls).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
In the early 80s, we were working with the director of NSF and suppose
to get $20M to interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers. Then congress
cuts the budget, some other things happened and finally an RFP was
release (in part based on what we already had running). Internal
politics prevent us from bidding and the NSF director tries to help by
writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) with support of other 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
regional networks connect into the centers, it evolves into the NSFNET
backbone, precursor to the modern internet. some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
and posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
somebody collected the email going around the communication group with
lots of misinformation and FUD ... and forwarded it to us ... heavily
snipped and REDACTED to protect the guilty:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
and other SNA/VTAM misinformation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email870302
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#email870306
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The Winds of Reform Date: 26 Nov 2016 Blog: FacebookBoyd had story about SECDEF Weinburger associated with 18pg cover article ... gone behind paywall, but much of it still lives free at wayback machine:
He said that he knew SECDEF would attempt to take revenge (something like the Pollard case) ... so Boyd started 18months earlier making sure that there was written approval for public release of every piece of information, and then it was orchistrated that every piece was made public in congressional hearings. When SECDEF ordered retribution, it turned out that every piece of information made public in the hearings was covered. Attempt was made to move one of the smallest congressional rooms (on Friday afternoon) ... to minimize the chances of press coverage. Supposedly there was review in Pentagon on Sat. morning and no mention of the hearing was found. The pentagon then was taken by surprise when 18 page front page article shows up in the Pentagon on Monday ... and all sorts of anger breaks out. Then when Weinburger realizes he can't get Spinney, he goes after Boyd, who is assumed to be behind the whole thing. Boyd contract is moved to Alaska and he is forbidden to ever enter the Pentagon bldg. again. Congressional cover at the time got that reversed and Boyd got even better Pentagon office. He joked that afterwards Pentagon established a new classification "NO-SPIN" (unclassified but not to be given to Spinney).
This account "The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World" has both Shultz and Weinburger being hired by Bechtel after the Nixon administration, even though there was intense rivalry between the two. When Weinburger is brought in as SECDEF by Reagon, Weinburger tells Reagon that Shultz is not interested in SECSTATE because he wants to stay at Bechtel (which wasn't true). Later when Haig is removed as SECSTATE, Reagon does bring Shultz in as SECSTATE. Account has both Shultz and Weinburger working on behalf of Bechtel all during their gov. service.
Boyd posts & references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
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: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 11:33:44 -0800Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
A major factor was US entering to conflict.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_entry_into_World_War_I
from
http://www.ushistory.org/us/45.asp
The contributions of the United States military to the Allied effort
were decisive. Since the Russians decided to quit the war, the Germans
were able to move many of their troops from the eastern front to the
stalemate in the West. The seemingly infinite supply of fresh American
soldiers countered this potential advantage and was demoralizing to the
Germans. American soldiers entered the bloody trenches and by November
1918, the war was over.
... snip ...
and
https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/why-did-us-ender-ww1-what-affect-did-its-entry-162415
The Russian Revolution in 1917 had given the Germans victory on the
Eastern Front with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, allowing the Kaiser to
concentrate his entire army on the Western Front, which had stalemated
into bloody trench warfare with both side bled white. A final offensive
by a reinforced German army might capture Paris and end the war for
good. This was a real possibility when the US came in on the Allied
side. In fact, one of the major effects of our entry into the war not
yet discussed here was the American Army's role in breaking up that much
of that last offensive at Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood.
... snip ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Belleau_Wood
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ch%C3%A2teau-Thierry_(1918)
Despite the revolution in Russia, fortune seemed to favor the Allies
with the arrival of the Americans to France. However, these troops
needed time to train before they could be combat effective. Recognizing
the window of opportunity, Ludendorff consolidated the manpower freed up
from the Eastern Front to conduct Operation Michael in order to split
the Allies' lines. The successes of the German Stormtroopers
infiltration tactics earned Germany approximately 40 miles of
territory. But the offensive lost momentum when it surpassed its supply
lines. Up to this point, American General Pershing refused to hand over
American divisions to either the British or French armies, insisting on
keeping them together as one army. But in the face of the German
onslaught, Pershing relented and sent a portion of his army to assist
the French in blocking the German advance.
Spring Offensive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Offensive
The Germans had realized that their only remaining chance of victory was
to defeat the Allies before the overwhelming human and materiel
resources of the United States could be fully deployed. They also had
the temporary advantage in numbers afforded by the nearly 50 divisions
freed by the Russian surrender (the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk).
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Jeff Sessions set to show his steel on white-collar crime Date: 27 Nov 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
Reagan's Iran-Contra affair 30 years later has lessons for Trump
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB567-Iran-Contra-Reagan-Oliver-North-and-Post-Truth-30-years-later/
Vice President George H. W. Bush was substantially aware of, and even
participated in aspects of, the illicit operations even though he
denied it vociferously at the time. Confirmation eventually came in
the form of dictated notes which he had refused for years to turn over
to the independent counsel (Document 06), as well as in the form of
other documents about proscribed quid pro quo deals with the Honduran
government.
... and
The final act of post-truthism came with then-President George
H.W. Bush's decision to pardon several key participants in
Iran-Contra. Among them were defendants who had not even had their day
in court, thus taking Bush further than other presidents have been
willing to go with the pardon power. The not-so-subtle implication of
the act was to make it impossible to pursue already-developed plans to
investigate Bush himself in greater detail
... snip ...
aka, he was full-time administrative point person deregulating the
financial industry creating the S&L crisis (along with other family
members) ... posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
posts referencing November 1, 2001 executive order blocking
release of Reagan era papers, violating Presidential Records
Act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#53 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#92 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#41 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#42 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#24 1976 vs. 2016?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#38 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#71 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#27 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#93 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#83 IBM's Gerstner to Join Carlyle As Investment Firm's Chairman
President who Eviscerated Presidential Records Act Relying on His
Presidential Library to Boost Legacy.
http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/president-who-eviscerated-presidential-records-act-relying-on-his-presidential-library-to-boost-his-legacy/
HISTORIANS, PUBLIC INTEREST GROUPS SUE TO STOP BUSH ORDER; Say New
Restrictions on White House Files Violate Presidential Records Act;
"Bush Order Attempts to Overturn the Law, Take the Power Back"
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/20011128/
Court Rules Delay in Release of Presidential Papers is Illegal; Fails to
Address Authority of Former Vice Presidents to Hold Up Disclosure of
Papers
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/20071001/
another recent post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#39 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
referencing gwu.edu archive ... CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:58:05 -0800JimP. <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
Boyd had another story about being asked to review the new USAF air-to-air missile (prior to vietnam) that claimed that it hit every time ... and he projected that it would hit 10% or less. Roll forward to vietnam and he was prooved correct. At one point the USAF 1star on the ground in vietnam ground all USAF fighters until they could be rearmed with (NAVY) sidewinder (which had better than twice hit rate of USAF missile). The 1star lasted 3months until he was called back to Pentagon. He was reducing USAF budget by loosing less planes and pilots and not using the USAF missile ... but every worse he was increasing the Navy's budget share (by using sidewinders) ... aka perspective of the war from the Pentagon was purely focused on the money.
actually winning or finishing ... can interrupt the flow of money ...
also shows up in the rapidly spreading success of failure
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
and Perpetual War
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
McNamara had been LeMay's staff planning fire bombing of German and
Japanese cities (even with norden sites, it was difficult for strategic
bombing to hit targest from 5-6miles up, aka precision bombing was
myth), but hard to miss a whole city with fire bombs. After WW2,
McNamara leaves for auto industry, but returns as SECDEF for Vietnam
where Laos becomes the most bombed country in the world (more tonnarge
than Germany and Japan combined).
http://legaciesofwar.org/about-laos/secret-war-laos/
other recent posts mentioning McNamara and Lemay
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#60 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#73 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#88 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#90 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#64 Strategic Bombing
Boyd would tell story about spending 18months getting sign-off for
public release of every piece of information ... and then still had it
done in congressional hearing ... anticipating that SECDEF Weinberger
would attempt to throw them in brig for life (something like he did in
the Pollard case). Manipulation was to have hearing late friday
afternoon in small room ... minimizing press coverage. Supposedly there
was Pentagon analysis Sat. that find no coverage. Supposedly SECDEF &
staff were shocked when article hit the desks Monday morning. gone
behind paywall ... but mostly free at wayback machine (may have to
select pg. number to skip over pages that didn't make it to wayback
machine).
https://web.archive.org/web/20070320170523/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953733,00.html
also
https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953733,00.html
When SECDEF Weinberger couldn't make anything stick on Spinney, he turned attention to Boyd, transfering contract to Alaska, and forbidding Boyd from entering the Pentagon. At the time, Boyd had congressional coverage and actually ending getting better office in the Pentagon. Boyd claimed that DOD then invented "NO-SPIN" security classification (unclassified but not to be provided to Spinney).
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Boyd posts and references:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Nixon and the war Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 16:14:40 -0800hancock4 writes:
Boyd had another story incisting that the electronic sensors across the
trail wouldn't work ... so apparently in punishment, he was put in
command.of."spook base" ... reference here gone 404, but lives on at
wayback machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
Boyd posts & refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
There are several accounts that Nixon committed treason, convincing
South Vietnam to undermine the Paris peace talks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#38 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#93 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#98 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#5 Lessons Learned from the Iraq War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#21 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#22 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#23 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#61 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#75 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#87 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#34 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#39 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#68 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#73 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#76 Qbasic
Declassified LBJ Tapes Accuse Richard Nixon of Treason
http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/03/21/0331256/declassified-lbj-tapes-accuse-richard-nixon-of-treason
The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21768668
It begins in the summer of 1968. Nixon feared a breakthrough at the
Paris Peace talks designed to find a negotiated settlement to the
Vietnam war that he knew would derail his campaign.
Nixon therefore set up a clandestine back-channel to the South
Vietnamese involving Anna Chennault, a senior campaign adviser. In late
October 1968 there were major concessions from Hanoi which promised to
allow meaningful talks to get underway in Paris. This was exactly what
Nixon feared. Chennault was dispatched to the South Vietnamese embassy
with a clear message: the South Vietnamese government should withdraw
from the talks, refuse to deal with Johnson, and if Nixon was elected,
they would get a much better deal. Meanwhile the FBI had bugged the
ambassador's phone and transcripts of Chennault's calls were sent to the
White House
In the end Nixon won by less than 1% of the popular vote, escalated the
war into Laos and Cambodia with the loss of an additional 22,000
American lives, and finally settled for a peace agreement in 1973 that
was within grasp in 1968.
... 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: Re: Nixon and the war Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 16:36:41 -0800Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
mistype ... "South Vietnam"
This account "The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World" has both Shultz and Weinburger being hired by Bechtel after the Nixon administration, even though there was intense rivalry between the two. When Weinburger is brought in as SECDEF by Reagon, Weinburger tells Reagon that Shultz is not interested in SECSTATE because he wants to stay at Bechtel (which wasn't true). Later when Haig is removed as SECSTATE, Reagon does bring Shultz in as SECSTATE. Account has both Shultz and Weinburger working on behalf of Bechtel all during their gov. service.
recent refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#3 Smedley Butler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#6 The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#11 Smedley Butler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#18 The Winds of Reform
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Nixon and the war Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:43:15 -0800re:
some more articles:
How Richard Nixon Sabotaged 1968 Vietnam Peace Talks to Get Elected
President
http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/13994-how-richard-nixon-sabotaged-1968-vietnam-peace-talks-to-get-elected-president
Newly Released Secret Tapes Reveal LBJ Knew but Never Spoke Out About
Nixon's 'Treason'
http://www.thewire.com/national/2013/03/newly-released-secret-tapes-reveal-lbj-knew-never-spoke-out-about-nixons-treason/63188/
Did Nixon Commit Treason in 1968? What The New LBJ Tapes Reveal.
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/60446
Richard Nixon at 100: not just criminal, but treasonous too
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/10/richard-nixon-100-criminal-traitor
Yes, Nixon Scuttled the Vietnam Peace Talks - John Aloysius Farrell
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/yes-nixon-scuttled-the-vietnam-peace-talks-107623.html
Richard Nixon's long shadow
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-f-will-nixons-long-shadow/2014/08/06/fad8c00c-1ccb-11e4-ae54-0cfe1f974f8a_story.html
Nixon's Treason Now Acknowledged
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/08/nixons-treason-now-acknowledged.html
Fleshing Out Nixon's Vietnam 'Treason'
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/09/08/fleshing-out-nixons-vietnam-treason/
Nixon betrayal far worse than GOP Iran letter: Column
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/03/10/senators-letter-doesnt-rise-to-nixons-level/24695093/
George Will Confirms Nixon's Vietnam Treason
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/12/george-will-confirms-nixons-vietnam-treason
In the four years between the sabotage and what Kissinger termed "peace
at hand" just prior to the 1972 election, more than 20,000 US troops
died in Vietnam. More than 100,000 were wounded. More than a million
Vietnamese were killed.
But in 1973, Kissinger was given the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating
the same settlement he helped sabotage in 1968.
According to Parry, LBJ wanted to go public with Nixon's treason. But
Clark Clifford, an architect of the CIA and a pillar of the Washington
establishment, talked Johnson out of it. LBJ's close confidant warned
that the revelation would shake the foundations of the nation.
In particular, Clifford told Johnson (in a taped conversation) that
"some elements of the story are so shocking in their nature that I'm
wondering whether it would be good for the country to disclose the story
and then possibly have [Nixon] elected. It could cast his whole
administration under such doubt that I think it would be inimical to our
country's best interests."
...
Fittingly, Clark Clifford's upper-crust career ended in the disgrace of
his entanglement with the crooked Bank of Credit and Commerce (BCCI),
which financed the terrorist group Al Qaeda and whose scandalous
downfall tainted the Agency he helped found.
Johnson lived four years after he left office, tormented by the
disastrous war that destroyed his presidency and his retirement. Nixon
won re-election in 1972, again with a host of dirty dealings, then
became the first American president to resign in disgrace.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Erich Bloch, IBM pioneer who later led National Science Foundation, dies at 91 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 20:04:28 -0800Erich Bloch, IBM pioneer who later led National Science Foundation, dies at 91
Just before he left for NSF, he had some title in Armonk responsible for employee innovation or some such thing. I had written some tome and he asked if he could come out to talk to me ... which I thought was fine to discuss the subjects. Turns out it was setup, he came out with it all marked up in red ... and was going to take me to task for each point ... turns out I had significant amount of backup detail for each point. I think he eventually got exasperated and said something about the IBM company and I were at loggerheads. Got on a lot better when he was at NSF ... even would drop in on him after he left NSF when he was at one of those K-street places.
recent posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#25 Globalization Worker Negotiation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#30 Globalization Worker Negotiation
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 08:55:05 -0800pechter@T61.(none) (Bill Pechter) writes:
Later I had "HSDT" effort at IBM doing T1 and faster speed links and was
suppose to have some IBM content ... the standard product that supported
T1 was 2701 controller that was a couple decades old. FSD had done
special bid ZIRPEL card for Series/1 that supported T1 for the
gov. market that I was suppose to get and use.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
Along the way IBM buys ROLM which used data general. "ROLM" then oders a couple hundred Series/1 (as replacement) creating a years lead time for (other) Series/1 orders. I do some horse trading with person running "ROLM" datacenter to get a couple of their Series/1. They wanted some help with ROLM switch development which ran on the Data General ... but it was taking enormous long time to load a new system over 56kbit link ... for internal development, they wanted to be able to use T1 link ... getting load elapsed time down to under an hour.
as I've mentioned before, we were also working with NSF director
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#25 Erich Bloch, IBM pioneer who later led National Science Foundation, dies at 91
and were suppose to get $20M to interconnect the NSF supercomputer
centers; then congress cuts the budget, some other things happen and
finally NSF releases RFP (in part based on what we had already had
running). Internal politics prevent us from bidding, NSF director tries
to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) 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 regional networks connect into the centers, it
evolves into the NSFNET backbone (precursor to modern internet).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Are We Nearing a Cyber Sarbanes-Oxley? Date: 30 Nov 2016 Blog: FacebookAre We Nearing a Cyber Sarbanes-Oxley?
Rhetoric in congress was that Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent future
ENRONs and guarantee that executives (and auditors) would do jail
time, but it requires SEC to do something. Possibly because GAO didn't
believe SEC is doing anything, it starts doing reports of fraudulent
public company financial filings, even showing increase after SOX goes
into effect (and nobody doing jail time). Turns out that
Sarbanes-Oxley also calls for SEC to do something about rating
agencies, but SEC did about as much about rating agencies as they did
about the public company fraudulent financial filings.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
In the congressional Madoff hearings, they had the person that had
tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about
Madoff (SEC's hands were forced when Madoff turned himself in,
speculation he was looking for gov. protection from some bad people he
had defrauded). Part of the testimony was that tips/whistleblowers
turn up 13 times more fraud than audits and SEC didn't have tip
hotline, but did have 1-800 line for companies to complain about
audits.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
In 1999, we were asked if we would help try and prevent the coming
economic mess by improving the integrity of securitized mortgage
supporting documents (securitized mortgages had been used during S&L
crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages, posterchild were office
bldgs around Dallas that turned out to be empty lots). They then found
they could pay for triple-A ratings (when both the sellers and rating
agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A from Oct2008 congressional
testimony), triple-A trumps supporting documents, they can start doing
no-document liar loans and no longer have to care about borrowers'
qualifications and loan quality ... being able to sell everything as
fast as they could be made. Triple-A also enables being able to sell
to institutions restricted to safe investments like large public &
private pension funds (claims that it accounts for 30% loss in their
value). Triple-A rating major factor in being able to do over $27T
2001-2008 (and outside the traditional mortgage market).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
triva: spring of 2008, some investors began to suspect that rating agencies were selling ratings ... and none of their ratings could be trusted ... which totally froze the muni-bond market. Finally, Warren Buffett steps in and starts offering muni-bond insurance to unfreeze the market.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: China's spies gain valuable US defense technology: report Date: 30 Nov 2016 Blog: FacebookChina's spies gain valuable US defense technology: report
Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb; Got to get
educated before we can defeat Internet threats
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/30a00a8d29ad
We are cyberdumb. Opponents have danced through our networks (years
before it was even discovered), several times extracting detailed
designs for advanced weapon systems (including radar & stealth).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/confidential-report-lists-us-weapons-system-designs-compromised-by-chinese-cyberspies/2013/05/27/a42c3e1c-c2dd-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html
recent posts mentioning cyberdumb:
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#19 Does Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#20 DEC and The Americans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#91 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#95 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#104 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#104 How to Win the Cyberwar Against Russia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#0 Snowden
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Erich Bloch, IBM pioneer who later led National Science Foundation, dies at 91 Date: 01 Dec 2016 Blog: LinkedInErich Bloch, IBM pioneer who later led National Science Foundation, dies at 91
Just before he left for NSF, he had some title in Armonk responsible
for employee innovation or some such thing. I had written some tome
and he asked if he could come out to talk to me ... which I thought
was fine to discuss the subjects. Turns out it was setup, he came out
with it all marked up in red ... and was going to take me to task for
each point ... turns out I had significant amount of backup detail for
each point. I think he eventually got exasperated and said something
about the IBM company and I were at loggerheads. Got on a lot better
when he was at NSF ... even would drop in on him after he left NSF
when he was at one of those K-street places.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
We were working with NSF director and was suppose to get $20M to
interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers; then congress cuts the
budget, some other things happen and finally NSF releases RFP (in part
based on what we had already had running). Internal politics prevent
us from bidding, NSF director tries to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) with support from other 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 regional
networks connect into the centers, it evolves into the NSFNET backbone
(precursor to modern internet).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
The last product we did before leaving IBM was HA/CMP ... and was
working on cluster scale-up for both commercial and scientific ... old
post with reference to Jan1992 meeting in Ellison's conference room on
cluster scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
and some old cluster scale-up email from the period
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
within a few weeks of the Ellison meeting, cluster scale-up was
transferred to kingston, announced as supercomputer and we were told
we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors. Old
17Feb1992 press item, announced for scientific and technical *ONLY*
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
and more from 11May1992 (caught by surprise by national lab interest)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
conjecture was that possibly part of being blind-sided was complaints by mainframe DB2 if we were allowed to go ahead it would be at least five years ahead of them.
Trivia: In 1980 I had done some work on channel technology, but when
it was tried to be released, some people in POK working on their
serial stuff managed to block it getting released. In 1988, I was
asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they had, which
quickly becomes fibre channel standard (& working with LLNL regarding
HA/CMP and supercomputer cluster scale-up). The POK stuff was finally
released in 1990 as ESCON with ES/9000, when it was already obsolete.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
Other trivia: In 1979, I was con'ed into doing some benchmarking on (pre-FCS) 4341 for national lab, which was looking at getting 70 4341s for compute farm. Later big corporations were ordering hundreds of 4341s at a time for placing out in departmental areas (i.e. 4341 was precursor to both the coming cluster supercomputing and the distributed computing tsunami).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM project discussions Date: 01 Dec 2016 Blog: LinkedInNote mid-80s they were predicting revenue would double mostly based on mainframe business ... and there was massive manufacturing building program to double mainframe manufacturing (at a time when the business was starting to go the other way). There was also big uptic in "fast track" MBAs being rotated around different business units (to the detriment of some of those businesses) ... apparently part of preparing those business. It wasn't exactly career enhancing to point out problems with those businesses.
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 statement that the
communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the
disk division. The issue was that communication group had corporate
strategic ownership of everything that cross the datacenter walls and
was fighting off distributed computing and client/server trying to
preserve its dumb terminal paradigm and install base. The disk
division was seeing data fleeing the datacenter to more distributed
computing friendly platforms with drop in disk sales. The disk
division had come up with a number of solutions that were constantly
being vetoed by the communication group (a few short years later the
company goes into the red and was being reorganized into the 13 "baby
blues" in preparation for breaking up the company ... before the board
brings in former AMEX president to reverse the breakup and resurrect
the company).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
and FS
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
and another FCS page
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
as well as end of ACS
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs.html
end of ACS
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
where executives decided that it would advance the state of the art
too fast and they could loose control of the market (lists some
features of ACS that show up more than 20yrs later in ES/9000)
oh and this has some discussion of FS (appears to have gone 404
sometime after this snapshot, but lives on at wayback machine)
https://www.ecole.org/en/session/49-the-rise-and-fall-of-ibm
FS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
AMEX, Private Equity, IBM related Gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Erich Bloch, IBM pioneer who later led National Science Foundation, dies at 91 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 11:08:44 -0800re:
from long ago and far away:
Date: 10/21/82 19:02:12
From: wheeler
it was something of a set-up ... but I don't think it proceeded quite
the way he figured. "the company & I are on collision course
unless I stop distributing things like TRIP0782 SCRIPT".
I think that since he wasn't making any points anywhere else, he had
to pull out the file and go over it. I had rebuttal for his specific
objections ... and then he would finish up with I've got to decide
what I want to do ... because the company and I are currently on a
collision course.
I guess he was suppose to ease into it gently but I had too large a
body of facts of things wrong. He thot he had me with Vulcan
... because apparently he was involved in some way. He kept saying
that Vulcan was killed and these other projects made it out. He
stopped when I gave him the reason that Vulcan was killed and that the
Vulcan fill-ins are post-Vulcan done on crash project (and not done
very well).
First hour was not too bad. Second hour he tried to make points and
since I had rebuttals ... he would resort to the collision course
line.
He wants to have more meetings, next time he is out here &/or next time
I'm on the east coast.
... snip ... top of post, old email index
past posts discussing Vulcan:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#8 IBM S/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#104 Fixed Head Drive (Was: Re:Power distribution (Was: Re: A primeval C compiler)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#53 IBM 650 (was: Re: IBM--old computer manuals)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#73 DASD Architecture of the future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#3 Expanded Storage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#38 Is VIO mandatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#45 Why magnetic drums was/are worse than disks ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#59 Why magnetic drums was/are worse than disks ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#61 Z/VM support for FBA devices was Re: z/OS support of HMC's 3270 emulation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#74 relative mainframe speeds, was What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#63 Mac at 30: A love/hate relationship from the support front
I've mentioned before getting blamed for online computer conferencing (a precursor to modern social media) on the internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime mid-80s) in the late 70s and early 80s. Folklore is that when the executive committee (in armonk) was 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
from IBM Jargon:
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.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 13:30:33 -0800Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
from today on WW2 strategic bombing program: "Arrogant U.S. Generals
Made the P-51 Mustang a Necessity"
https://warisboring.com/arrogant-u-s-generals-made-the-p-51-mustang-a-necessity-fd6063ff4893
Throughout World War II, the Army Air Forces bombarded the American
public with press releases about the accuracy of the Norden bombsight
and how it and the four-engine bomber would bring Germany to its
knees. Both the gullible public and the politicians, believing in the
integrity of high ranking officers, swallowed the propaganda about
American bombers flying so high and so fast that enemy fighters and
surface-to-air guns couldn't possibly prevent them from destroying the
Hun's means and will to wage war.
... snip ...
other recent posts about WW2 strategic bombing program (possibly even
winning the war w/o need to send troops to europe).
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#75 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#91 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#49 Fateful Choices
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#113 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#117 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#27 British socialism / anti-trust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#56 "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#64 Strategic Bombing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#68 Strategic Bombing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#94 The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#17 Why Large Companies Can't Innovate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#24 US Air Power
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#63 America's Over-Hyped Strategic Bombing Experiment
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 16:29:14 -0800hancock4 writes:
however, the air issue was significantly more egregious, 2/3rds of TOTAL US WW2 spending went to air program ... half that (1/3rd of TOTAL) went just to strategic heavy bombers & strategic bombing (and norden bomb sights). Given that such a huge amount of total WW2 spending went to strategic bombing with so little to show for it ... possible prompted the switch to fire bombing cities (since it was harder to miss a whole city).
The fire bombing cities cost enormous number of civilian lives ... but
also the representations about strategic bombing claimed a significant
number of US lives ... D-Day just a simple example, "The European
Campaign: Its Origins and Conduct" (no precision strategic bombing),
https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/2011/pubs/the-european-campaign-its-origins-and-conduct/
loc2582-85:
The bomber preparation of Omaha Beach was a total failure, and German
defenses on Omaha Beach were intact as American troops came ashore. At
Utah Beach, the bombers were a little more effective because the IXth
Bomber Command was using B-26 medium bombers. Wisely, in preparation for
supporting the invasion, maintenance crews removed Norden bomb sights
from the bombers and installed the more effective low-level altitude
sights.
... snip ...
Claims are that the British warned US Stratetic Bombing command about
need for long-range fighters (the german's having learned the lesson in
the battle for britain) ... but they wanted all the money to go into
heavy bombers.
https://warisboring.com/arrogant-u-s-generals-made-the-p-51-mustang-a-necessity-fd6063ff4893
And one of the important things to remember about U2 flights, it debunked the USAF "bomber gap" claims (justifying enormous increase in USAF budget for new bombers in the 50s) ... and likely also contributed to Eisenhower's warnings about the military-industrial complex in his goodby speech.
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
some recent posts mentioning "Omaha Beach" &/or "Bomber Gap"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#79 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#80 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#91 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#88 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#99 Trust in Government Is Collapsing Around the World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#117 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#122 U.S. Defense Contractors Tell Investors Russian Threat Is Great for Business
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#47 British socialism / anti-trust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#56 "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#64 Strategic Bombing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#24 US Air Power
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#63 America's Over-Hyped Strategic Bombing Experiment
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 17:18:02 -0800Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
also could assert that this was result of claims that WW2 could be won just with air power (over estimated need for air crews and underestimated need for infantry).
"The European Campaign: Its Origins and Conduct" loc4585-88:
For example, the AAF trained more pilots and aircrew members than were
needed for the demands of the war. The War Department staff began to
recognize that they had underestimated the number of combat arms
Soldiers necessary to win the war. In 1944, the AAF transferred about
24,000 air cadets to Army ground forces to be retrained as infantrymen.7
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Erich Bloch, IBM pioneer who later led National Science Foundation, dies at 91 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 07:57:46 -0800hancock4 writes:
Erich Bloch, IBM mainframe pioneer, dies at 91; Mainframe computers he
helped to develop ushered in the modern computing era.
https://www.cnet.com/news/erich-bloch-ibm-mainframe-pioneer-dies-stretch-s360/
IBM's then-CEO, Thomas Watson Jr., is said to have "bet the company" on
development of the S/360, the ancestor to today's mainframes. IBM
invested $5 billion in the project at a time when the company's annual
revenue came to $3.2 billion.
... snip ...
I use to sponsor John Boyd's briefings at IBM. He would say this would
never work ... so possibly as punishment he was put in command.of."spook
base" ... gone 404 but lives on at the wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
from "Kill Chain" pg21/loc393-95:
To process the data Garwin, the IBM scientist, recommended the IBM-360
computer to analyze the signals, he explained, and "try to characterize
the sounds so you wouldn't be bombing birds or peasants but convoys,
trucks, or whatever." Once birds and peasants had been eliminated,
promised Garwin, the computer would order "response, immediate response"
from attack aircraft.
... snip ...
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#82 Computing Luminaries Honored with Presidential Medal of Freedom
One of Boyd's biographies claims it was a $2.5B (60s $$) windfall for
IBM ... which would have helped with cost of 360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:49:12 -0800hancock4 writes:
possible the significance of soviet lend lease ($11.3B) was inflated
similar to how the effectiveness of strategic bombing was inflated
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_in_World_War_II
By the end of 1943, the Soviets occupied half of the territory taken by
the Germans from 1941-42.[203] Soviet military industrial output also
had increased substantially from late 1941 to early 1943 after Stalin
had moved factories well to the East of the front, safe from German
invasion and air attack.[204] The strategy paid off, as such industrial
increases were able to occur even while the Germans in late 1942
occupied more than half of European Russia, including 40 percent (80
million) of its population, and approximately 2,500,000 square
kilometres (970,000 sq mi) of Soviet territory.[204] The Soviets had
also prepared for war for more than a decade, including preparing 14
million civilians with some military training.[204] Accordingly, while
almost all of the original 5 million men of the Soviet army had been
wiped out by the end of 1941, the Soviet military had swelled to 8
million members by the end of that year.[204] Despite substantial losses
in 1942 far in excess of German losses, Red Army size grew even further,
to 11 million
,, snip ...
strategic heavy bombing did manage to destroy some german military/industrical capacity but significantly less than claimed and far out of proportion to resources (1/3rd of total US WW2 spending) put into strategic bombing (fire bombing cities shows much more dramatic damage than what it had been doing against military & industrial targets).
I've seen claims that strategic bombing helped the war effort ... not so much the damage from the bombing ... but it diverted german resources attacking the bombers ... that would have otherwise been used directly against allied forces .... sort of decoy ... but a decoy (strategic bombers) that cost 1/3rd of total US military spending ... however that money could have been much more effectively spent in direct support. An example was the previously mentioned difference between effectiveness of strategic bombing at Omaha beach versus tactical bombing at Utah beach
soviet union fielded 500 divisions and 3/4s of german military effort
were fielded agasinst the soviets ... 1/4 of german military forces
against the rest of the allies ... us had 90 divisions
http://www.history.army.mil/books/70-7_15.htm
there were complaints Churchill kept obstructing launching european invasion ... supposedly Churchill wanted Germany & Russia to continue slugging it out until both were exhausted ... and also wanted to campaigns to help preserve British position in the middle east ... and its oil resources.
Many of the accounts comparing effectiveness of French blitzkrieg versus soviet attack ... was that French had paved roads ... soviets kept pulling back and germany ran into enormous difficulty supplying and tactical air support becomes very limited.
At the time Germany attack soviets, soviets had better tanks and
significantly larger tank manufacturing capacity ... and the plants were
far in the east, outside range of german bombers (distances and lack of
transportion infrastructure, created significant advantage for the
defenders). Guderian claims that Hitler expected to take Moscow and the
russians would sue for peace/truce ... and it would be quickly over
(Germany didn't have enough resources to carry on extended 2-front
war). Russians just withdraw a lot of arms, industry, and plants to the
east. In the 30s, Guderian had estimated that Russia had 17,000 tanks
(and better than the German's). Later Guderian quotes Hitler as saying
if he had believed Guderian estimates, he wouldn't have started the
eastern front war (at the time, germany had total annual tank production
of 1,000; soviets had multiple tank plants, each capable of several
thousand tanks/annum). past refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#13 Keydriven bit permutations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#69 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#119 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#55 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
Churchill had written in the 20s about how the country had been led into
the mess with the middle east and oil (and then dragged the US along)
with the switch from 13.5 to 15 naval guns (before ww1), which required
larger battleships, which required switch from coal to oil (Britain had
lots of coal resources but almost no oil resources) past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#78 The World Crisis, Vol. 1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#102 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#84 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#21 US and UK have staged coups before
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#23 Frieden calculator
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#102 Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud
past references to failure of strategic bombing at omaha beach:
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/2015c.html#62 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#117 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#56 "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#64 Strategic Bombing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#24 US Air Power
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#63 America's Over-Hyped Strategic Bombing Experiment
past posts referencing 3/4s of German military was against Soviets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#10 The Knowledge Economy Two Classes of Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#60 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#77 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#70 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#38 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#70 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#34 upcoming TV show, "Halt & Catch Fire"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#12 1950: Northrop's Digital Differential Analyzer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#62 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#63 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#49 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#51 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#28 channel islands, definitely not the location of LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#52 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#119 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#74 Qbasic
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: GOP Announces Privatization Of Medicare And The Details Are TERRIFYING Date: 02 Dec 2016 Blog: FacebookGOP Announces Privatization Of Medicare And The Details Are TERRIFYING
One indication is when some members of congress started referring to the size of the federal debt as the amount w/o what is owed the SS Trust Fund ... when not too long ago, the same members were referring to the total federal debt including the amount owed the SS Trust Fund.
2002 congress lets the fiscal responsibility act expire (spending
can't exceed tax revenue, on its way to eliminating all federal
debt). 2010 CBO report was in the interval, tax revenue was cut by $6T
and spending increased by $6T for $12T budget gap compared to the
fiscal responsibility budget (first time taxes were cut to not pay for
two wars). Since then tax revenue hasn't been restored and only
little cut in spending so debt continues to increase.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
Lots of members of congress were highlighting the total federal debt (including amount owned SS Trust Fund) ... attributing it to the current administration ... but more recently, some of those same members have started to refer to amount of the total federal debt w/o what is owed the SS Trust Fund.
Some analysis claims debt was confluence of interests, Greenspan &
wallstreet wanting huge debt (so the ZIRP/treasury scam works),
special interests wanting huge tax cuts, and military-industrial
complex and other gov contractors wanting huge spending increase
(along with huge uptic in gov. outsourcing last decade).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
In 1999, we were asked if we would help try and prevent the coming
economic mess by improving the integrity of securitized mortgage
supporting documents (securitized mortgages had been used during S&L
crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages, posterchild were office
bldgs around Dallas that turned out to be empty lots). They then found
they could pay for triple-A ratings (when both the sellers and rating
agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A from Oct2008 congressional
testimony), triple-A trumps supporting documents, they can start doing
no-document liar loans and no longer have to care about borrowers'
qualifications and loan quality ... being able to sell everything as
fast as they could be made. Triple-A also enables being able to sell
to institutions restricted to safe investments like large public &
private pension funds (claims that it accounts for 30% loss in their
value). Triple-A rating major factor in being able to do over $27T
2001-2008 (and outside the traditional mortgage market).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Supposedly TARP funds were appropriated to bail out the TBTF, buying
offbook toxic assets. But with only $700B appropriated it would hardly
make a dent in the problem (with just the four largest TBTF holding
$5.2T in offbook toxic assets). TARP was then used for other purposes
and the Federal Reserve was left to do the real bailout. FEDRES fought
hard, long legal battle to prevent public release of what it was doing
(buying offbook toxic assets at 98cents on the dollar and providing
tens of trillions in ZIRP funds). When they lost the legal battle the
chairman held press conference to say that he thought the TBTF would
use the ZIRP funds to help mainstreet, but when they didn't that
didn't stop the ZIRP funds (used to buy treasuries and making
$300+B/annum on the spread). Supposedly the chairman in part selected
for depression scholar ... where the FEDRES had tried something
similar with the same results (so the chairman shouldn't have any
expectation of different result this time). As an aside, FEDRES could
use ZIRP to buy treasuries directly and the federal dept wouldn't cost
anything ... but then the TBTF would be out their $300+B/annum.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
The Triple-A ratings eliminated any reason to care about borrower's qualifications or loan quality since they could sell-off as fast as loans could be made. Then they discovered they could design securitized mortgages designed to fail (creating enormous demand for bad mortgages), pay for triple-A, sell to their victims, and take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail. The largest holder of the CDS gambling bets was AIG and was negotiating to pay-off at 50cents on the dollars when the SECTREAS steps in and have them sign a document that they can't sue those making the bets and take TARP funds to pay-off at face value. The largest recipient of TARP funds was AIG and the largest recipient of face-value payoffs was firm formally headed by SECTREAS.
Note that all the money in the SS Trust Fund has been "loaned" to federal gov. to help cover the federal dept. Recently some members of congress have been quoting the total federal debt as a number w/o what is owed the SS Trust Fund.
Stockman claims credit for increasing SS taxes under Reagan so the money would be available for DOD ... and for starting to tax SS benefits (tax on the money paid into SS and taxed again when it is paid out).
Many in congress were treating the amount paid into the SS Trust fund
each year in excess of what was paid out each year as slush fund for
other activities (wouldn't have to be paid back until long after they
were gone). A few years ago as the leading edge of baby boomers
started to retire there was explanation that the baby boomer
generation was four times as large as the previous generation and
twice as large as the following generation (baby boomer birth
bubble). With baby boomers in the prime working years there was
significantly more being paid into the SS Trust Fund each year than
had to be paid out. However as the baby boomers move into retirement,
the situation will invert. The following (smaller) generation will
have to not only pay back what is owed the SS Trust Fund, but also be
asked to pay taxes for what use to be covered by the slush money taken
from the SS Trust Fund (as well as make their own SS contributions)
past refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#13 Michigan industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#72 I would like to understand the professional job market in US. Is it shrinking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#37 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#38 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#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/2010f.html#45 not even sort of about The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#2 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#69 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#75 origin of 'fields'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#44 Ratio of workers to retirees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#57 The Mortgage Crisis---Some Inside Views
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#67 The debt fallout: How Social Security went "cash negative" earlier than expected
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#73 These Two Charts Show How The Priorities Of US Companies Have Gotten Screwed Up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#67 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#4 Mandated Spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#68 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#48 Protecting Social Security from the Thieves in the Night
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#54 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#25 SS Trust Fund
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#23 How Generation Y is paying the price for baby boomer pensions
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2016 08:11:56 -0800"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
The meme about Harvard is responsible for Putin ... after the fall of the wall, US sent a lot of a lot of people over supposedly to teach democratic capitalism ... but they were there to loot the country ... Russia reacts with a strong man that would stand up to their country being looted.
"Is Havard responsible for the rise of Putin" (needed as
countermeasure</b> to US capitalists looting the country); 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 ...
The looting of russia sounds right out of Butler's "War is a Racket"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
"Economic Hit Man"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
and "The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World"
https://www.amazon.com/Profiteers-Bechtel-Men-Built-World-ebook/dp/B010MHAHV2/
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
not everybody involved was looking to just loot the country ... I got tangentially involved in figuring out how to fund building 5000 bank branches around the country (as part of a capitalist economy).
also before all this looting strained the relationships between the two
countries there was program involving a US west coast univ. that had a
fair number of former russians ... they were given access to a lot
of soviet military and political archives to study. At some of the Boyd
conferences there were presentations by professor on some of what they
were finding
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
recent posts mentioning above:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#73 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#5 The Deep State
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#31 Putin holds phone call with Obama, urges better defense cooperation in fight against ISIS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#39 Failure as a Way of Life; The logic of lost wars and military-industrial boondoggles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#42 Nobody saw the economic mess coming last decade
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#7 Why was no one prosecuted for contributing to the financial crisis? New documents reveal why
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#69 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#59 How Putin Weaponized Wikileaks to Influence the Election of an American President
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#22 US and UK have staged coups before
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#105 How to Win the Cyberwar Against Russia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#92 The Lessons of Henry Kissinger
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#3 Smedley Butler
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2016 14:47:38 -0800Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> writes:
as referenced in Churchill writing in the 20s about the mess in the
middle east started before Ww1 with switching from 13.5inch naval guns
to 15inch which required larger battleships, which required switching
from coal to oil ... britain had lots of coal but very little oil.
loc2012-14:
From the beginning there appeared a ship carrying ten 15-inch guns,
and therefore at least 600 feet long with room inside her for engines
which would drive her 21 knots and capacity to carry armour which on
the armoured belt, the turrets and the conning tower would reach the
thickness unprecedented in the British Service of 13 inches.
loc2080-83:
For instance, nearly a hundred men were continually occupied in the
Lion shovelling coal from one steel chamber to another without ever
seeing the light either of day or of the furnace fires. The use of oil
made it possible in every type of vessel to have more gun-power and
more speed for less size or less cost. It alone made it possible to
realize the high speeds in certain types which were vital to their
tactical purpose. All these advantages were obtained simply by burning
oil instead of coal under the boilers.
loc2087-89:
To build any large additional number of oil-burning ships meant basing
our naval supremacy upon oil. But oil was not found in appreciable
quantities in our islands. If we required it, we must carry it by sea
in peace or war from distant countries.
loc2123-24:
An unbroken series of consequences conducted us to the Anglo-Persian
Oil Convention.
... snip ...
In the early 50s, Iran had democratically elected president who said he
was going to audit the Anglo-Persian oil contract ... when Kermit
Roosevelt help managed to overthrow the government and put the Shah in
power (in part to maintain the British oil status quo).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
Schwarzkopf senior is brought in to train the Shah's secret police,
helping keep the Shah in power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK
which help set the stage for the 1979 revolution and the current
mess in the middle east.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution
US was then supporting Sadam 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
Last decade, cousin of white house chief of staff Card was dealing with
Iraq in the UN and given proof that the WMDs had been decommissioned
... the information is provided to Card, Powell and others ... and then
cousin gets locked up in military hospital ... eventually gets out and
publishes this in 2010
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
turns out that the decommissioned WMDs tracing back to the US were
eventually found in the invasion, but kept classified for a decade ...
eventually declassified in fall of 2014, at least partially
corroborating the cousin's account
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html
there appeared to be a number cooperating commercial interests pushing
for iraq invasion ... here corporate military-industrial complex reps
were telling former soviet block countries that if they voted for
IRAQ2 invasion in the UN, they would get membership in NATO and
(directed appropriation) USAID ... that can be used (only) for
purchase of modern US arms.
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
note: directed appropriation USAID (that can only be used for US arms
purchases) is just one way congress has for supporting
military-industrial complex that doesn't show up in the pentagon
budget.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
but there were also the no-bid, tens-of-billion dollar contracts in Iraq
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The F-22 Raptor Is the World's Best Fighter (And It Has a Secret Weapon That Is Out in the Open) Date: 02 Dec 2016 Blog: FacebookThe F-22 Raptor Is the World's Best Fighter (And It Has a Secret Weapon That Is Out in the Open)
In briefings, Boyd would talk about really needing something that cost
1/3rd the F16 and needed 1/3rd the maintenance hours per flying hours
and maintenance required much lower skill level ... what was being
claimed for the F20/Tigershark (between more planes and more flying
hrs, possibly at least ten times the flying hours per dollar). At the
time they stopped the F22, there were references to enormous
maintenance (including jokes about not being able to take out in the
weather) ... from the period referring to F22 not just "hangar queen"
but a hangar empress
http://nypost.com/2009/07/17/cant-fly-wont-die/
this is recent article, makes reference to bottleneck with hrs needed
in maintenance bays
http://www.tyndall.af.mil/News/Features/Display/tabid/6651/Article/669883/lo-how-the-f-22-gets-its-stealth.aspx
Last couple years, major game changer is latest generation of computer
chips ... much faster and powerful requiring less power. They are
major driving factor behind drones ... as well as multi-band radar for
tracking and targeting (as countermeasure to stealth). The increased
power to do real-time multi-band radar analysis extends over to claim
that the number of transmit/receive pairs in the F22 AESA could be
reduced by nearly two orders of magnitude w/o loss of capability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/APG-77
part of technology background, Boyd would claim that he told them it
would never work ... but possibly as punishment they put him in charge
of "spook base" ... he said it had largest air conditioning bldg in
that part of the world. Some detail here ... gone 404, but lives on at
the wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
One of Boyd's biographies claims it was a $2.5B (1970 $$) windfall for
IBM. and from "Kill Chain" pg21/loc393-95:
To process the data Garwin, the IBM scientist, recommended the IBM-360
computer to analyze the signals, he explained, and "try to
characterize the sounds so you wouldn't be bombing birds or peasants
but convoys, trucks, or whatever." Once birds and peasants had been
eliminated, promised Garwin, the computer would order "response,
immediate response" from attack aircraft.
... snip ...
Garwin also involved in the Soviet nuclear arms treaty ... but the
computer power to process the verification sensor information
... required ten times more computer power, Garwin was instrumental in
FFTs that could do the processing with existing computer power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Fourier_transform#History
and
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/white-house-honors-5-technology-innovators-with-the-presidential-medal-of-freedom/
radar FFT
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1278838
Boyd also would tell story about evaluating USAF air-to-air missile and rather than "hitting" every time, hit rate would lucky to be 10%. Role forward to Vietnam and Boyd is correct. Major problem is pentagon USAF were all wrapped up in "budget share" (as opposed to effectiveness) ... using Navy sidewinder (that was better than twice as effective) would mean loosing budget share to the Navy.
Another story was original F16 HUD ... which had scrolling digital numbers ... which degraded pilot effectiveness with brain power needed to turn digital numbers into meaning.
Lots of Boyd's references to technology were the exaggerated claims
... along the lines of
https://warisboring.com/arrogant-u-s-generals-made-the-p-51-mustang-a-necessity-fd6063ff4893
Another computer related issue is that F22 was 1.7M lines of software ... F35 project is claimed to be pushing 25M lines ... with complexity/difficulty increasing non-linearly with size. At USNI conference a couple years ago, somebody pointed out that F35 would be pushing a couple decade generation ... at a time when drones were evolving at the rate of nearly a new generation every month.
as an aside ... this article was from 2011
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1278838
spring of 2015, DOD put latest generation of multi-core chips on
export control. At fall 2015 supercomputer conference, China announced
it had started production of its own chips for supercomputer (and
military radar) systems. This fall supercomputer conference has china
with the top two on the list and the power of its #1 has as much power
as the aggregate of the other eight in the top 10.
In Part 4 of this Radar Basics series, Space Time Adaptive Processing
(STAP) radar processing will be examined. This class of algorithms
provides capabilities beyond that of Doppler radar processing, but has
extremely high processing requirements and also requires the dynamic
range of floating point.
Until recently, only the most advanced computer types have been able
to implement this type of algorithm, due to these extreme processing
requirements. However, now FPGAs can provide complex floating point
processing at the performance levels required. As will be shown, STAP
requires the processing capability to invert matrices containing of
100,000 or more elements in well under a millisecond
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1278878
STAP graph shows processing requirement starting at 83GFLOPs
... latest generations are showing processing rates of ten times that
or better. ... from part 4:
In fact, this is a very conservative scenario. The PRF is rather low
and the number of antenna array inputs is very small. Should the
number of antenna array inputs increase by 12 to 48, the processing
load of the matrix processing, in particular QR Decomposition, goes up
by the third power or 64 times. This would require over 3 TeraFLOPs of
realtime floating point processing power. Because of this, the
limitations on STAP are clearly the processing capabilities of the
radar system.
....
a couple current multi-core chips and/or multi-core chips with some custom digital signal processing chips.
e5-2600v3 (2015) when DOD export list put into effect, 1.3Tflop single
precision and 589gflop double precision
https://www.hpcwire.com/2015/06/02/cpu-benchmarking-haswell-versus-power8/
Here is 20TFLOPS
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-pascal-gpu-gtc-2016/
This brings up the issue of how the suspected targets are identified
for subequent STAP processing. This can come from weak detections
found in Doppler processing, from other IR or visual sensors, from
intelligence data, or from many other sources. This issue is beyond
the scope of these discussions on how STAP processing works. But as
will be shown, STAP has the capability to pull targets that are below
the clutter into a range that can be reliably detected
VHF/L-band for tracking ... STAP for targeting
Boyd posts &/or references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
recent F22 &/or F35 posts
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#104 E.R. Burroughs
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Are We Nearing a Cyber Sarbanes-Oxley? Date: 03 Dec 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
posts mentioning Sarbanes-Oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
Wall Street Preparing Dodd-Frank Rule Workaround
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/38033-wall-street-preparing-dodd-frank-rule-workaround
Dodd was high on "Friends of Mozilo" list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Mozilo#Friends_of_Angelo_.28FOA.29_VIP_program
who is #1 on time's list of those responsible for the economic mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877339,00.html
so one of the tactics was to make it extemely complex and take forever to figure out how to specify regulations ... which would move it out of public eye and any resulting regulations have good chance of actually not doing anything (and/or bill would be repealed before regulations could be enacted). Another tactic, wallstreet lobbiests would supply (extremely onerous) text to be inserted in the bill, then when draft bill provision leaked, wallstreet would come out publicly lambasting the text (descrediting the process)
various articles about the shenanigans
http://www.thenation.com/article/174113/how-wall-street-defanged-dodd-frank
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/banks-lobbyists-help-in-drafting-financial-bills/
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2013/05/bank-lobbyists-writing-the-rules-for-wall-street.html
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-wall-street-killed-financial-reform-20120510
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/05/josh-rosner-on-how-dodd-frank-institutionalizes-too-big-to-fail.html
http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/are-treasury-and-the-fed-at-odds-over-big-banks-20130524
http://billmoyers.com/segment/gretchen-morgenson-on-why-banks-are-still-too-big-to-fail/
also from "Confidence Men" regarding Volcker rule (in Dodd-Frank),
pg430:
But they were fighting on too many fronts. Carl Levin of Michigan and
Jeff Merkley of Oregon had discovered that Dodd had discreetly gutted
the Volcker Rule
... snip ...
We were tangentially involved in the Cal. data breach notification act, having been brought in to help wordsmith the electronic signature act. Several of the participants were heavily involved in privacy issues and had done detailed public surveys. At the top was fraudulent financial transactions as a result of breaches. The problem was little or nothing was being done about the breaches. An issue is institution normally takes security measures in self protection, in these cases the institutions weren't at risk, it was their customers and/or the public. It was hoped that the publicity from the notification might prompt institutions to take corrective action.
Since the (original) cal. state act, there have been several bills introduced in congress (none yet passed) about evenly divided between those similar to the cal. state act and those that effectively eliminate notification (breach conditions that would never be met).
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
recent posts mentioning Dodd-Frank
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#102 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#69 IBM Buying Promontory Clinches It: Regtech Is Real
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#73 IBM Buying Promontory Clinches It: Regtech Is Real
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#8 Wall Street Preparing Dodd-Frank Rule Workaround
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#9 Wall Street Preparing Dodd-Frank Rule Workaround
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#10 Wall Street Preparing Dodd-Frank Rule Workaround
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#58 Drafting of Dodd-Frank
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#78 More Dodd-Frank
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#15 BREAKING: Trump Announces Big Gift To Banks Despite His Campaign Rhetoric Against Wall Street
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: TARP Bailout Date: 04 Dec 2016 Blog: FacebookSECTREAS convinces congress to pass TARP for purchase of TBTF offbook toxic assets (TBTF bailout). However, just the four largest TBTF were carrying $5.2T in offbook toxic assets the end of 2008 and the appropriated $700B would hardly make a dent in the problem.
The "real" bailout was performed by Federal Reserve, buying offbook
toxic assets at 98cents on the dollar and providing tens of trillions
in ZIRP funds (that the TBTF have been clearing
$300+B/annum).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
1999, we were asked if we would help try and prevent the coming economic mess by improving the integrity of securitized mortgage supporting documents (securitized mortgages had been used during S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages, posterchild were office bldgs around Dallas that turned out to be empty lots). They then found they could pay for triple-A ratings (when both the sellers and rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A from Oct2008 congressional testimony), triple-A trumps supporting documents, they can start doing no-document liar loans and no longer have to care about borrowers' qualifications and loan quality ... being able to sell everything as fast as they could be made. Triple-A also enables being able to sell to institutions restricted to safe investments like large public & private pension funds (claims that it accounts for 30% loss in their value). Triple-A rating major factor in being able to do over $27T 2001-2008 (and outside the traditional mortgage market).
Then they found they could they could do securitized mortgages purposefully designed to fail, pay for Triple-A, sell to their victims and then take out (CDS) gambling bets they would fail (before triple-A rating met they didn't have to care about loan quality, now they created enormous demand for bad mortgages). AIG was largest holder of the CDS gambling bets and was negotiating to pay off at 50cents on the dollar. Then SECTREAS steps in and had them sign document that they can't sue those making the bets and to take TARP funds to payoff at face value. The largest recipient of TARP funds was AIG, the largest recipient of face-value payoffs was firm formally headed by SECTREAS (which may have been the real reason for TARP all along).
Congress had passed auto import quotas to reduce competition and
provide domestic industry enormous profits that they use to completely
remake themselves. Early 80s, Washington Post had article calling for
100% unearned profit tax on domestic industry because they were
pocketing the money and continued business as usual. In 1990, the
domestic auto industry had the C4 taskforce, looking at completely
remaking themselves ... and because they were planning on heavily
leveraging technology, they invited major tech companies to send
reps. In the meetings, they could accurately describe what competition
was doing right and how the domestic industry needed to respond. As
shown when TARP funds were used for the domestic industry, all the
entrenched vested interests continued business as usual (for well over
30yrs).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#auto.c4.taskforce
2002, Congress allows fiscal responsibility act to expire (spending
couldn't exceed tax revenue, on its way to eliminating all federal
debt). 2010 CBO report that in the interim, tax revenue was cut by $6T
and spending increased by $6T for $12T budget gap compared to fiscal
responsible budget (first time taxes were cut to not pay for two
wars). Since then taxes haven't been restored and only modest cuts in
spending so debt has continued to increase.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
Some analysis claims debt is confluence of interests, Greenspan &
wallstreet wanting huge debt (so TBTF using ZIRP funds
to buy US treasury $300+B/annum works), special interests wanting huge
tax cuts, and military-industrial complex and other gov contractors
wanting huge spending increase (along with huge uptic in gov.
outsourcing last decade). Trivia, in theory Fed could use ZIRP
funds to directly buy treasuries and the debt wouldn't cost anything,
but then the TBTF would be out the $300+B/annum.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
VP (and former CIA director) ... claims no knowledge of such activities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
and another presides over the financial mess, 70 times larger than S&L crisis. The S&L crisis had 1000 criminal convictions with jailtime, proportionally the economic mess should have 70,000; so far there have been none.
S&L crisis posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
Jan2009, I was asked to HTML'ize the (recently scanned) Pecora Hearings (30s senate hearings into the '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 (comment 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 (reference to enormous mountains of wallstreet money totally burying capital hill).
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 11:21:20 -0800JimP. <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
one trip I went over with IBMer that had been a history major and we spent some weekends touring military memorials (to french soldiers that died in battle) in and around paris. at the end of one weekend he asked me if I had noticed anything ... and I said no. He said that there were no WW2 military memorials for dead french soldiers.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Resurrected! Paul Allen's tech team brings 50-year-old supercomputer back from the dead Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 14:35:05 -0800hancock4 writes:
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 cdc6600 in 35.77 secs.
370/195 for most codes would be about the same as 360/91 because
conditional branches drained the pipeline ... optimized codes would get
about twice 91 or about three times 168-3 ... my past posts about
getting sucked into hyperthreading project for 370/195 that never
announced/shipped ... reference to patent from ACS (next to last
"sidebar" near the bottom).
past posts mentioning 4341 rain benchmark:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#0 Is a VAX a mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#67 Pentium 4 Prefetch engine?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#0 Microcode?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#75 Computers in Science Fiction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#7 CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#12 CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#19 CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#22 CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#4 misc. old benchmarks (4331 & 11/750)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#68 IBM zSeries in HPC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#25 IBM's mini computers--lack thereof
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#31 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#21 moving on
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#62 Cycles per ASM instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#54 mainframe performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#67 ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#37 While watching Biography about Bill Gates on CNBC last Night
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#65 Comparing YOUR Computer with Supercomputers of the Past
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#40 IBM Watson's Ancestors: A Look at Supercomputers of the Past
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#45 Under what circumstances would it be a mistake to migrate applications/workload off the mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#38 DEC/PDP minicomputers for business in 1968?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#53 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#61 I Must Have Been Dreaming (36-bit word needed for ballistics?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#37 History--computer performance comparison chart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#71 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#106 DOS descendant still lives was Re: slight reprieve on the z
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#116 How the internet was invented
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Resurrected! Paul Allen's tech team brings 50-year-old supercomputer back from the dead Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 09:52:37 -0800Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
the 195 engineers said that the major difference between 370/195 & 360/195 (besides the few new instructions) was the addition of instruction retry (for recoverable hardware errors) that significantly improved reliability.
then the decision was made to move all 370s to virtual memory support
... discussed here:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#47 junking CKD; was "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence"
more workloads were disk i/o and systems were getting faster, much faster than disks were getting faster ... so throughput was increasingly becoming disk limited. to compensate needed increasingly larger number of concurrent tasks (with their "dedicated" disks). The big problem was that MVT storage management was so bad, that multiprogramming regions had to be four times larger than typically used ... so concurrent multiprogramming on typical 1mbyte, 370/165 was only four. With virtual memory ... that could be increased by four times with little or no paging penalty.
However, retrofitting 370 virtual memory architecture proved so difficult to 370/165 ... that several 370 virtual memory features were dropped (and other hardware & software groups had to go back and remove support &/or use of the dropped features) ... and nobody had any illusions about being able to retrofit virtual memory to 370/195.
note that this discussion about ACS (previously mentioned with
hyperthreading reference) ... mentions that executives felt that it
would advance state of the art too fast and IBM would loose control of
the market.
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
past references about repeatedly pontificating that relative disk
throughput was increasingly becoming major bottleneck ... between period
of 360/67 w/2314s and 3081 w/3380s ... the relative system disk
throughput had declined by order of magnitude
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/93.html#31 Big I/O or Kicking the Mainframe out the Door
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#43 Bloat, elegance, simplicity and other irrelevant concepts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#55 How Do the Old Mainframes Compare to Today's Micros?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#10 Virtual Memory (A return to the past?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#46 The god old days(???)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#4 IBM S/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#66 Pentium 4 Prefetch engine?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#62 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#40 MVS History (all parts)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#61 MVS History (all parts)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#23 Smallest Storage Capacity Hard Disk?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002.html#5 index searching
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#11 Microcode? (& index searching)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#20 index searching
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#8 What are some impressive page rates?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#9 What are some impressive page rates?
in early 80s, disk executives took exception to the claim and assigned
the division performance group to refute the claims. After a few weeks
they came back and effectively said that I slightly understated the
problem. This was respun for a (IBM user group) SHARE presentations on
configuring disks for improving system throughput (B874, DASD
Performance Review)
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/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/2011.html#35 CKD DASD
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?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Resurrected! Paul Allen's tech team brings 50-year-old supercomputer back from the dead Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 13:21:10 -0800timcaffrey420 writes:
sorry, I didn't mean to imply that 6600 and 4341 were direct contemporaries ... but the question was 6600 benchmark compare to 360/195 ... and the only benchmark that I had done that had some 6600 numbers were rain that I had done for national lab on 4341 ... and the national lab also had number for 6600.
the 6600 benchmark number that they provided was similar to the 4341 number ... and the 195 was about ten times faster than 4341 ... and about twice as fast as the 360/91 number.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 6 Dec 2016 13:39:38 -0800CPVITULLO@ARKBLUECROSS.COM (Vitullo, Carmen P) writes:
For big cloud megadatacenters, the price of systems has so dramatically dropped that they have hundreds of thousands of "blades" (each blade with more processing power than max. configured mainframe) supported by staff of 80-120 people per megadatacenter. Also with the dramatic cut in system cost, the major expense has increasingly become power & cooling. The big cloud datacenters have been on the leading edge of systems where power&cooling drop to near zero when idle ... but are effectively instant on for ondemand computing.
while an undergraduate in the 60s, I was hired as fulltime boeing employee to help with the formation of boeing computer services ... consolidate all computing into independent business unit as part of better monetizing the investment (which would also have the freedom to sell computing services to non-boeing entities, a precursor to cloud computing). at the time, I thought renton data center was possibly the largest in the world with something like $200M-$300m (60s dollars) in ibm mainframe gear (for a period, there were 360/65s arriving faster than they could be installed, boxes were constantly being staged in the hallways outside the datacenter).
there was disaster scenario where mt rainier warms up and the resulting mudslide takes out the renton datacenter. the analysis was that the cost of being w/o the renton datacenter for a week was more than the cost of the renton datacenter ... so there was a effort underway to repicate the renton datacenter up at the new 747 plant in everett.
in any case, the politics with the different plant managers tended to dwarf any technical issues.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 6 Dec 2016 14:16:16 -0800allan.staller@HCL.COM (Allan Staller) writes:
note that IBM 4300s in single & small unit orders sold about the same
as VAX .... old post with decade of VAX sales, sliced & diced by
model, year, US/non-us
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0
the big difference was large corporations with orders of hundreds of 4300s at a time for placing out in departmental areas (leading edge of the distributed computing tsunami). the 4361/4381 follow-on were expected to continue the explosion in mid-range sales ... but as can be seen by the vax numbers ... by that time, the mid-range market was moving to workstations and large PCs.
note that cluster of 4341s also had higher throughput, more processing power, more i/o, smaller space and environmental footprint than 3033 at less cost. POK felt the threat to 3033, that at one point the head of POK got the allocation of critical 4341 manufacturing componenent cut in half.
in 1979, I got con'ed into doing 4341 benchmarks (before 4341s shipped to customers) for national lab that was looking at getting 70 4341s for compute farm (leading edge of current cluster supercomputing, grid computing, and cloud megadatacenters).
other trivia ... ACS getting canceled because IBM executives were afraid
that it would advance the state of art too fast and they might loose
control of the market ... Amdahl leaves shortly afterwards to start
his own computer company.
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
at the bottom of above ... it shows ACS features that show up more than 20 yrs later in ES/9000.
even more trivia ... in the early/mid 70s ... the company started the
Future System effort which was completely different than 360/370 and was
going to replace 360/370. During the FS period, 370 efforts were being
killed off. The lack of 370 offerings during the FS period is credited
with giving clone processor makers a market foothold. When FS was
finally killed (long delayed because top executives stiffled any
criticism), there was mad rush to get stuff back into product pipelines.
303x & 3081 Q&D efforts kicked off at the same time. 3031 was repackaged
158-3, 3032 was repackaged 168-3, 3033 started out 168-3 logic mapped to
20% faster chips. 3081 was some warmed over FS technology ... much
more longer winded analysis:
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
I continued to work on 360/370 all during the FS period ... periodically ridiculing FS ... including drawing comparisons with long-running cult film down in central sq. ... which wasn't exactly career enhancing activity.
late 80s, a senior disk engineer got a talk scheduled at world-wide,
annual, internal communication group conference, supposedly on 3174
performance but opened the talk with the satement that the communication
group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division.
The issue was that the communication group had strategic ownership of
everything that crossed the datacenter walls and were fiercely fighting
off distributed computing and client/server trying to preserve their
(emulated) dumb terminal paradigm and install base. The disk division
was seeing data fleeing the datacenter to more distributed computing
friendly platforms with drop in disk sales. The disk division had come
up with a number of solutions that were constantly being veoted by the
communication group.
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 reorganized in preparation for breaking up into the 13 "baby blues"
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Resurrected! Paul Allen's tech team brings 50-year -old supercomputer back from the dead Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 09:47:12 -0800jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
one of the things that I did in 370 context switch was trying to manage them because context switch blew the cache ... besides making context switch (and timeslicing) as well as short a pathlength as possible. Furthermore asynchronous I/O interrupts would also have detrimental effects on cache locality and hit rate ... so trying to "batch" I/O interrupts (in very high I/O workload environments) would show improved throughput, because of improved cache hit rates (keeping locality for i/o interrupt and redrive processing before switching to application cache locality). For multiprocessor support, I carried this over so that rather than kernel spin-locks ... do very lightweight queued interface (eliminate lost processor cycles to lock spinning as well as could serialize kernel usage for improved cache usage).
POK favorite son (MVS) operating system documentation advised that multiprocessor would have 1.3-1.5 times the throughput of single processor ... because of extremely long multiprocessor pathlengths and stuff like inefficient kernel spin-locks.
My very short multiprocessor pathlengths, attempting to maintain cache locality, no spinlocks ... could come very close to the tbroughput of the underlying multiprocessor hardware (there were lost cycles compared to two completely independent machines because of underlying hardware cross-cache consistency protocol overhead).
However, in some asymmetric multiprocessor environments (i.e. 370 offered both asymmetric and symmetric configurations, i.e. processors w/o channels were less expensive) ... got better than twice single processor throughput. If I/O load was sufficiently high enough, all I/O requests had to be placed on queue anyway (because device was busy with other I/O) plus switch to another application. As a result the non-I/O processors tended to have improved application cache hit rates (no asynchronous I/O interrupts) and I/O processor tended to have improved improved i/o processing cache hit rates (two processor asymmetric multiprocessor having better than twice the effective MIP rate of single processor ... because of the improved cache hit rate).
In environments with high multiprogramming and I/O rates, nearly all I/O requests required queuing and context switch ... so application processing and pathlength was the same whether the physical I/O was done on same processor or different processor (and cache "affinity", cache hit rates and asynchronous interrupt cache effects play large role).
posts mentioning multiprocessing support (and/or compare&swap
instruction)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
old reference to VAX announcement adding symmetric multiprocessor
support (and where it might help with throughput compared to its
asymmetric support).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email880324
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email880329
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#46 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
trivia drift: ibm mainframe "channel programs" can be viewed as queued
independent I/O processing interface ... however 370/158 had "integrated
channels" ... 158 processor engine executed both the 370 microcode and
the integrated channel migrated. In the aftermath of FS failure (and 370
efforts being killed off during FS) ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
there was mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 product pipelines ... including kicking off 303x and 3081 projects in parallel. For 303x they took a 158 processor engine with just the integrated channel microcode (and no 370 microcode) for the 303x "channel director".
A 3031 then was a 158 engine with the 370 microcode (and w/o the integrated channel microcode) reconfigured to work with a 2nd 158 engine with the integrated channel microcode (and w/o channel microcode) ... and a asymmetric two-processor 3031 multiprocessor was three 158 engines and a symmetric two-processor 3031 multiprocess was four 158 engines.
This can be seen in the recently posted rain/rain4 benchmarks where 158 was 45.64/43.90 and 3031 was 37.04/36.61 ... even tho the underlying 158 processor engines were identical (but the 3031 wasn't also running the integrated channel microcode, overhead was there even if i/o was idle and nothing else running during rain/rain4 benchmark).
The 3032 was 168 reconfigured to use channel director as external channels ... and 3033 started out being 168 logic mapped to 20% faster chips.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Resurrected! Paul Allen's tech team brings 50-year -old supercomputer back from the dead Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 10:30:30 -0800re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
when I originally did multiprocessor support ... I only touched I/O supervisor around the edges ... however, when I got involved with disk development ... past posts getting to play disk engineer in bldgs 14&15 disk development was running "test cells" stand alone with mainframe time prescheduled around the clock 7x24. They had tried running with MVS to get some concurrent testing ... but MVS had 15min MTBF in that environment (requiring manual reboot). I offered to rewrite I/O supervisor to make it bullet proof and never fail ... so they could do any amount of ondemand, concurrent testing (greatly improving productivity).
bldg15 also tended to get very early engineering processor models (frequently #3 or #4) for disk i/o testing. bldg15 got something like the 3rd 3033 engineering machine. Since I/O testing only used 1-2% of the processor (even with several concurrent testing) ... we setup the 3033 to also provide online service ... two strings of 8drive 3330s and 3830 controller.
one monday morning, I got irate call from bldg 15 asking what I had done to the system ... online response had enormously degraded. I said absolutely nothing ... after lots of investigation ... eventually turned out that they had replaced the 3830 controller with 3880 controller.
3830 had very fast horizontal microcode processor. The 3880 had special data transfer hardware path ... but a very modest vertical microcode processor for all the other functions (much slower than 3830). Company had requirement that new hardware had to be within 5% of earlier. 3880 was taking longer to process channel programs so appeared like it degraded throughput. To fake it they modified 3880 controller to signal i/o complete to channel before it had actually completed all final processing ... figuring that they could get it finished overlapped with system processing of the interrupt.
I had so optimized the I/O supervisor pathlength ... that I had finished the i/o interrupt processing and was back trying to redrive with queued I/O ... before 3880 had finished previous channel program processing cleanup (after the "early" interrupt). Because it was still busy, it had to reflect bcontrollerb busy (SM+BUSY) to the redrive SIO. This required system to requeue the I/O. Later when the controller had really finished, it would now have to reflect CUE (control unit end) interrupt. As a result, as soon as load ramped up, all I/O was requiring two SIOs (first one failed with SM+BUSY) and two I/O interrupts (the early one, and then CUE) ... with additional system processing pathlength (in aggregate appeared to be 30% degradation).
Fortunately this was 6months before 3880 first customer ship ... and they did all sorts of additional tweaks to 3880 microcode to try and mask how it had degraded performance (compared to previous 3830 controller).
other triva: afterwards I authored an internal document and happened to mention the MVS 15min MTBF .... when the MVS RAS people called I thought they wanted to work on fixing all the shortcomings. Turns out it was first step that was bringing the wrath of the MVS group on my head, that apparently included trying to get me separated from the IBM corporation (it wasn't that the information wasn't untrue, it was that it was brought to the attention of their upper management ... it reminded me of the joke about gov. security clearance levels ... the absolute highest level is "downright embarrassing").
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Resurrected! Paul Allen's tech team brings 50-year -old supercomputer back from the dead Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 10:53:22 -0800Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
aka the highest security classifications are frequently used for things that would affect a person's career (as opposed to something that is really national security).
... and the reason that I got sucked into doing the rain/rain4 4341 benchmarks was because bldg. 15 had early engineering 4341 ... and I had more time&access to that machine ... than the engineers in endicott had access to 4341s.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Resurrected! Paul Allen's tech team brings 50-year -old supercomputer back from the dead Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 16:07:47 -0800re:
in the simplification morph from cp67 to vm370 ... they dropped a lot of stuff, charlie's smp and fine-grain locking support ... lots of performance enhancements i did as undergraduate, etc.
I then eventually moved a lot of stuff back into vm370 ... for the
internal "csc/vm" (one of my hobbies was production systems for internal
datacenters) ... old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
then with the failure of FS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
and mad rush to get stuff back into product pipeline contributed to
decisions to pick up lots of my stuff for release to customers ... some
of it went into the base vm370 "release 3". However, the lack of 370
products during the FS period is credit with giving the clone processors
a market foothold ... and decision was made to start charging for kernel
software. The 23june69 unbundling announcement (result of various legal
actions) resulted in starting to charge for (application) software, se
services, maintenance, etc. However, they managed to make the case
that kernel software should still be free.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
the rise of clone processors then resulted in decided to (also) start charging for kernel software ... and a bunch of my performance stuff was selected for the guinea pig for starting to charge for kernel software, eventually transitioning to charge for all kernel softare. However, during the transition period ... the rule was already free kernel software stayed free and any new direct hardware & device support would still be free.
My performance stuff in charged for product, included a bunch of other
stuff ... didn't actually included SMP support ... but did include a
bunch of kernel reorganization that was required for multiprocessor
supprt. A later decision was made to release multiprocessor support (for
free), but it was dependent on the kernel reorg that was already
released as part of charged for product (which violated requiring
customers to pay for something in order to get hardware multiprocessing
support). The eventual resolution was to move close to 90% of the lines
of code in my charge for performance product into the free base ... but
w/o changing the price of the performance product. Some of performance
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
and paging performance posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#wsclock
and multiprocessor related posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 7 Dec 2016 16:54:07 -0800cvitullo@HUGHES.NET (Carmen Vitullo) writes:
1980, I was con'ed into doing channel-extension support (over
microwave) for STL (even tho the lab was only a couple years old, it
was already bursting at the seams), they were moving 300 people from
the IMS group to offsite bldg ... but with dataprocessing support back
into the STL datacenter. They had tried "remote" 3270 support but
found the human factors totally unacceptable (use to vm370/cms local
channel attached 3270 controllers). It turns out that the support
downloaded channel programs to a channel emulator at the remote site
for execution which radically reduced the latency and channel protocol
chatter overhead on the real channels. A combination of factors
resulted in them not seeing any degradation and because lots of
channel protocol chatter was moved off the real IBM channels, total
system throughput increased 10-15% (reduced channel busy for the 3270
operations). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
Then the FE IMS support group in Boulder was being moved acrossed the road with infrared optical modem between the roofs of the two bldgs. with same support. There was concern that optical modems would be subject to weather outages. Turns out in a white-out snow storm when nobody could get into work, we recorded only a modest number of transmission bit-errors. There was a problem with poles with the modems on the roofs ... it turns out sun during the day, unevenly heated the sides of the bldgs causing them to slightly lean ... causing the modems to get out of alignment (took some careful engineering).
The vendor wanted to get IBM to let them release my support ... but there was a group in POK working on some serial stuff that got it blocked, because they felt if it was released, it would make it harder to get their stuff released. In any case, the vendor eventually managed to reimplement my support from scratch and sell it in the market. A year after 3090s had been in the field, the 3090 product administrator tracked me down. There is an industry publication that gathered customer EREP reports and generated summary reports ... able to compare different models as well as IBM processors against clone makers. 3090 had been design to have less than 3-5 total channel check errors over period of year ... and it turned out something like 15 were reported. It turns out that nearly all of them was because I had chosen to reflect "channel check" error for channel-extender unrecoverable errors ... setting up standard system error retry. After doing some research, I figured that reflecting IFCC (interface control check) would result in same system error recovery (as CC, channel check). I then got the vendor to make the change (to IFCC) in their support ... to improve the 3090 EREP statistics.
In 1988, I was asked to help LLNL (national lab) standardize some
serial channel stuff they had, which quickly becomes fibre channel
standard ... including the support for downloading I/O programs to
minimize latency and protocol chatter overhead. In 1990, the POK
people get their serial stuff released as ESCON with ES/9000, when it
was already obsolete. Later, some POK channel engineers get involved
with fibre channel standard and define an extremely heavyweight
protocol (that drastically reduces the throughput of the native
standard), that is eventually released as FICON ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
Relatively recently, IBM published peak I/O benchmark that used 104 FICON getting 2M IOPS on z196 (I haven't been able to find anything similar published since then) ... at about the same time, a native fibre channel was announced for e5-2600 blade claiming over million IOPS (two such fiber channel with higher throughput than 104 FICON running over 104 fibre channel). About the same time there was specification for enhanced FICON protocol using TCWs ... a little like what I had done originally in 1980 ... but it claimed only about 30% improvement compared to the base FICON heavyweight protocol.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: CFTC Reproposes Position Limits Rule Date: 08 Dec 2016 Blog: FacebookCFTC Reproposes Position Limits Rule
CFTC used to have a rule that significant position in a commodity was
required in order to play, because speculators cause wild, irrational
price swings. Then 19 "secret letters" go out allow speculators to
play ... results include the huge spike in oil&gas summer of 2008
(speculators pump&dump on the way up and short on the way down,
enormous profits on volatility they cause).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#griftopia
A senator then publishes transaction detail showing those responsible; the mainstream press lambasts the senator for violating those corporations' privacy.
Earlier, chair of CFTC had proposed regulating derivatives ... and was
quickly replaced by the wife of senator that is #2 on time's list of
those responsible for the economic mess, while the senator gets law
passed preventing derivative regulation. The wife then resigns and
joins ENRON board & audit committee. It was originally billed as gift
to ENRON, but then used by those creating securitized mortgages
designed to fail, paying for triple-A rating, selling to their
victims, and then taking out derivative gambling bets that they would
fail.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, loc4985-88:
The final result, Jefferson believed, was "the least bad of all the
turns the thing can take." 90 It was true that he hated the financial
speculation that would result from the Hamiltonian vision of
commerce. "It is much to be wished that every discouragement should be
thrown in the way of men who undertake to trade without capital,"
Jefferson said.
... snip ...
Senate Democrats Push CFTC to Curb Excessive Speculation in Futures
Contracts
http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2016/3/senate-democrats-push-cftc-to-curb-excessive-speculation-in-futures-contracts
CFTC Nears New Rules to Curb Excessive Speculation
http://www.wsj.com/articles/cftc-nears-new-rules-to-curb-excessive-speculation-1421964452
Traders Face Curbs on Speculation With CFTC Vote on New Limits
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-05/traders-face-curbs-on-speculation-with-cftc-vote-on-new-limits
Position Limits Regulation
http://www.marketsreformwiki.com/mktreformwiki/index.php/Position_Limits_Regulation
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 8 Dec 2016 10:15:35 -0800re:
old news articles about AWS spinning up, on-demand supercomputer using credit card ... and no AWS human intervention, all automated processes.
$1,279/hr, (42nd largest supercomputer in world, 240TFLOP in 17,000
cores)
https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-takes-supercomputing-to-the-cloud/
https://www.wired.com/2011/12/nonexistent-supercomputer/all/1
$4,824/hr, 51,132 cores
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/4829-per-hour-supercomputer-built-on-amazon-cloud-to-fuel-cancer-research/
part of the thread from the period that a cloud megadatacenter have hundreds of thousands blades with millions of cores ... staffed with 80-120 people. large cloud operators had been claiming for decade that they built their own server blades for 1/3rd the cost of brand name vendors ... and in this period there was news that server chip vendors were shipping over half the server chips directly to cloud operators (possible motivation for IBM selling off its server business).
also from the period, IBM's mainframe price was something like million times IBM's base list price of e5-2600 server blade (in price/BIPS) ... making the cloud server blades something like 1/3,000,000 (price/BIPS, aka cloud price 1/3rd brand name servers). The cost of servers for typical 500,000 system cloud megadatacenter then would be something like the cost of a dozen or so max-configured mainframes (and easily have more processing power than all mainframes in the world today)
some old posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#78 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#80 Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#50 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#12 Can Mainframes Be Part Of Cloud Computing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#70 How many cost a cpu second?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#84 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#34 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#42 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#47 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#51 Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
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/2012m.html#28 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#86 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#10 FW: mainframe "selling" points -- Start up Costs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#15 A Private life?
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 8 Dec 2016 14:08:26 -0800john.archie.mckown@GMAIL.COM (John McKown) writes:
big cloud operators view systems, power, cooling. hardware, people, etc as costs ... and they have scale of operation that allows them to aggresively address those costs (for a decade they've been claiming they build their own systems for 1/3rd the cost of brand name servers) ... huge automation, dramtic reduction in cost of systems (with extensive investigation into optimal reliability&availability price/performance), etc. Recent claims that over half server processor chips to ship to cloud operators also give them huge leverage in the market.
a couple years ago, mainframe hardware was 4% percent of IBM revenue,
but whole mainframe group (including software & services) was 25% of IBM
revenue and 40% of its profit. past refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#31 Still think the mainframe is going away soon: Think again. IBM mainframe computer sales are 4% of IBM's revenue; with software, services, and storage it's 25%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#67 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than any of the other countries in the world including the USA.?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#13 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#25 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#17 Still think the mainframe is going away soon: Think again. IBM mainframe computer sales are 4% of IBM's revenue; with software, services, and storage it's 25%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#25 Still think the mainframe is going away soon: Think again. IBM mainframe computer sales are 4% of IBM's revenue; with software, services, and storage it's 25%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#24 New HD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#4 Oracle To IBM: Your 'Customers Are Being Wildly Overcharged'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#35 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#37 Where Does the Cloud Cover the Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#64 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#7 SAS Deserting the MF?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#61 Bet Cloud Computing to Win
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#80 IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#84 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#90 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#95 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#71 Decimation of the valuation of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#155 IBM Continues To Crumble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#170 IBM Continues To Crumble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#30 Why on Earth Is IBM Still Making Mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#85 a bit of hope? What was old is new again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#19 Linux Foundation Launches Open Mainframe Project
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#20 the legacy of Seymour Cray
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#52 MVS Posix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#69 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 8 Dec 2016 14:21:36 -0800charlesm@MCN.ORG (Charles Mills) writes:
a big issue in the cluster supercomputing, cluster grid, and cloud computing megadatacenters was that they needed to make significant changes to the system operating paradigm ... and in order to do that, they needed source ... and full freedom to change it (which effectively met linux).
for awhile, the big cloud megadatacenters were threatening to move to ARM ... which had specifically been design for effecient battery powered operation ... but as a result represented significant power/BIPS savings (as cost of their systems have so dramatically dropped, power&cooling were increasingly becaming major expense). They even installed some number of ARM-based complexes ... with same Linux systems (processor architecture becoming relatively transparent). This then prompted the i86 server processor chip makers to make significant improvement in the power efficiency of their chips (and stories about big cloud megadatacenters migrating to ARM have since dropped off). Some of the big cloud operators are even getting server processor chips with custom designed features specifically for their use.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Every US taxpayer has effectively paid Apple at least $6 in recent years Date: 08 Dec 2016 Blog: FacebookEvery US taxpayer has effectively paid Apple at least $6 in recent years; If you think Apple is cheating via overseas tax trickery, you'll hate this move.
Americans Are Paying Apple Millions to Shelter Overseas Profits
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-apple-profits/?cmpid=BBD120716_BIZ/
Luxembourg added 172 new tax deals in year after LuxLeaks
https://www.icij.org/blog/2016/12/luxembourg-added-172-new-tax-deals-year-after-luxleaks
Luxembourg Leaks: Global Companies' Secrets Exposed
https://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks
Some of this started with large human instensive manufacturing and services operations that would create separate subsidiaries where the profit was booked. They then got congress to pass loophole so the subsidiary is moved to offshore tax haven. Poster child is heavy equipment manufacture that makes, sells and ships in the US. It then created distributor subsidiary in tax haven, wholesale at cost to the distributor that then sells to the customers in the US ... all the profit is booked in the tax haven distributor (equipment is still made in the US and ships directly to customers in the US, but the profit is booked in tax haven).
tax evasion, tax haven, tax avoidance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Resurrected! Paul Allen's tech team brings 50-year -old supercomputer back from the dead Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 08:44:51 -0800jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
For my "resource manager" charged for monitor add-on ... recent ref
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#52 Resurrected! Paul Allen's tech team brings 50-year -old supercomputer back from the dead
and past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
I've mentioned before that part of the technology at the science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
for performance work was automated benchmarking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#bench
For initial release of "resource manager" ... did 2000 benchmarks that took three months elapsed time ... varied workload, configurations, stress tests, etc. They wanted me to provided an updated "resource manager" every month in-sync with PLC distributions. I countered with every three months ... because I insisted on at least 100 benchmarks that continued to validate "resource manager" operation ... and "resource manager" release was only a small part-time of what I was doing.
trivia: after having move from CP67 to VM370
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 stress test benchmarks started out crashing VM370 every time, as a result had to do a complete rewrite of the VM370 serialization mechanism as well as a whole lot individual fixes ... which was included in the "resource manager" release (as was the kernel restructuring changes needed for multiprocessor support). I had claimed that the serialization rewrite had eliminated all serialization related failures ... as well as all cases of zombie processors. Several years later, instances of zombie processes started reappearing ... which I tracked down to specific (poorly done) "fix".
past posts on problem determination, zombies, dump readers, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dumprx
past posts mention VM13025
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#61 VM13025 ... zombie/hung users
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#81 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 9 Dec 2016 11:02:19 -08000000000a2a8c2020-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.UA.EDU (Tom Marchant) writes:
posts in this thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#47 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#48 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#53 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#55 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#56 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#57 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: GOP introduces plan to massively cut Social Security Date: 09 Dec 2016 Blog: FacebookGOP introduces plan to massively cut Social Security
Note that all the money in the SS Trust Fund has been "loaned" to federal gov. to help cover the federal dept. Recently some members of congress have been quoting the total federal debt as a number w/o what is owed the SS Trust Fund.
Stockman claims credit for increasing SS taxes under Reagan so the money would be available for DOD ... and for starting to tax SS benefits (tax on the money paid into SS and taxed again when it is paid out).
Many in congress were treating the amount paid into the SS Trust fund each year in excess of what was paid out each year as slush fund for other activities (wouldn't have to be paid back until long after they were gone). A few years ago as the leading edge of baby boomers started to retire there was explanation that the baby boomer generation was four times as large as the previous generation and twice as large as the following generation (baby boomer birth bubble). With baby boomers in the prime working years there was significantly more being paid into the SS Trust Fund each year than had to be paid out. However as the baby boomers move into retirement, the situation will invert (drawing on the principal they paid in). The following (smaller) generation will have to not only pay back what is owed the SS Trust Fund, but also be asked to pay taxes for what use to be covered by the slush money taken from the SS Trust Fund (as well as make their own SS contributions)
This proposal can drastically reduce the payouts ... so there will continue to be more being paid in than would have to be paid out, the difference being diverted for other purposes .... plus effectively never having to return the amount that has already been borrowed.
fiscal responsibility act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
recent posts mentioning SS Trust Fund:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#22 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#44 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#25 SS Trust Fund
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#23 How Generation Y is paying the price for baby boomer pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#88 Goldman Slammed With $5.1 Billion Fine For "Serious Misconduct" In Mortgage Selling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#54 Social Security Trust Fund IOUs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#91 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#65 old Western Union Telegraph Company advertising
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#101 Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#95 Social Security Trust Fund
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#37 GOP Announces Privatization Of Medicare And The Details Are TERRIFYING
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2016 18:20:22 -0800"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
an exception was possibly russia ... where US went in to loot the country under the guise of teaching them how to be capitalist democracy ... the "Is Harvard responsible for Putin" meme
recent posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#22 US and UK have staged coups before
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#105 How to Win the Cyberwar Against Russia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#92 The Lessons of Henry Kissinger
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#3 Smedley Butler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#38 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
Fareed Zakaria interview with Kissinger a couple weeks ago had running ticker at the bottom somewhat paraphrasing Kissnger (because he was somewhat hard to hear?). Fareed was asking Kissinger about Putin, referring to Kissinger having 30 or so meetings with Putin. At one point Fareed said something about clarifying what Kissinger had said (about Russia) which was reflected in the ticker at the bottom) and Kissinger said not at all ... and explained what he met ... somewhat indirectly referring to US efforts to loot the country, which was not reflected in the ticker, seemed very much like Zakaria was trying to obfuscate that subject.
however, there were actually a few that were actually working for capitalist democracy. I got tangentially involved with effort to create 5000 banks around Russia (as part of supporting capitalism economy) .... needed $1M/bldg+bank ... or $5B.
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: GOP introduces plan to massively cut Social Security Date: 10 Dec 2016 Blog: LinkedInre:
GOP introduces plan to massively cut Social Security
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-introduces-plan-to-massively-cut-social-security-222200857.html
Note that all the money in the SS Trust Fund has been "loaned" to federal gov. to help cover the federal dept. Recently some members of congress have been quoting the total federal debt as a number w/o what is owed the SS Trust Fund.
Stockman claims credit for increasing SS taxes under Reagan so the money would be available for DOD ... and for starting to tax SS benefits (tax on the money paid into SS and taxed again when it is paid out).
Many in congress were treating the amount paid into the SS Trust fund each year in excess of what was paid out each year as slush fund for other activities (wouldn't have to be paid back until long after they were gone, used for benefits never paid for and "loans" for the federal debt). A few years ago as the leading edge of baby boomers started to retire there was explanation that the baby boomer generation was four times as large as the previous generation and twice as large as the following generation (baby boomer birth bubble). With baby boomers in the prime working years there was significantly more being paid into the SS Trust Fund each year than had to be paid out. However as the baby boomers move into retirement, the situation will invert (hopefully drawing on the principal they paid in). The following (smaller) generation will have to not only pay back what is owed the SS Trust Fund, but also be asked to pay taxes for what use to be covered by the slush money taken from the SS Trust Fund (as well as make their own SS contributions)
This proposal can drastically reduce the payouts ... so there will continue to be more being paid in than would have to be paid out, the difference being diverted for other purposes .... plus effectively never having to return the amount that has been "borrowed".
2002 congress lets the fiscal responsibility act lapse (spending can't exceed tax revenue, on its way to eliminating all federal debt). 2010 CBO report was in the interval, tax revenue was cut by $6T and spending increased by $6T for $12T budget gap compared to the fiscal responsibility budget (first time taxes were cut to not pay for two wars). Since then tax revenue hasn't been restored and only little cut in spending, so debt continues to increase.
fiscal responsibility act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
Lots of members of congress were highlighting the total federal debt (including amount owned SS Trust Fund) ... attributing it to the current administration ... but more recently, some of those same members have started to refer to amount of the total federal debt w/o what is owed the SS Trust Fund.
Some analysis claims debt was confluence of interests, Greenspan &
wallstreet wanting huge debt (so the ZIRP/treasury $300+B/annum
works), special interests wanting huge tax cuts, and
military-industrial complex, beltway bandits and other gov contractors
(with the huge uptic in outsourcing last decade) wanting huge spending
increase. posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Supposedly TARP funds were appropriated to bail out the TBTF, buying
offbook toxic assets. But with only $700B appropriated it would hardly
make a dent in the problem (with just the four largest TBTF holding
$5.2T in offbook toxic assets end of 2008). TARP was then used for
other purposes and the Federal Reserve was left to do the real
bailout. FEDRES fought hard, long legal battle to prevent public
release of what it was doing (buying offbook toxic assets at 98cents
on the dollar and providing tens of trillions in ZIRP funds). When
they lost the legal battle the chairman held press conference to say
that he thought the TBTF would use the ZIRP funds to help mainstreet,
but when they didn't that didn't stop the ZIRP funds (used to buy
treasuries and making $300+B/annum on the spread). Supposedly the
chairman in part selected for depression scholar ... where the FEDRES
had tried something similar with the same results (so the chairman
shouldn't have any expectation of different result this time). As an
aside, FEDRES could use ZIRP to buy treasuries directly and the
federal dept wouldn't cost anything ... but then the TBTF would be out
their $300+B/annum.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
First major bill after fiscal responsibility act is allowed to lapse, was Medicare part-D in 2003. CBS 60mins does expose on 18 republicans & staffers responsible for getting it passed. Just before final vote, they insert one line change and prevent CBO from distributing report on the effects of the change. Six months after it passes, CBS finds all 18 have resigned and on drug industry payroll. Middle of last decade, US Comptroller General starts including in speeches that part-D comes to be a long-term $40T item (totally swamping all other budget items) and nobody in congress is capable of middle school arithmetic (for how badly they are savaging the budget).
part-d posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#medicare.part-d
US Comptroller General posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
last decade private-equity companies were buying up beltway bandits
and then heavily lobbying congress outsourcing to their subsidiaries
(70% of intelligence budget and over half their people, two most
recent well known whistleblowers/leakers were actually employed by
private-equity subsidiaries) ... scenario is that private-equity
owners put their subsidiaries under heavy pressure to cut corners and
produce revenue any way possible. Trivia: IBM CEO last decade had
previously worked for large private-equity company and then left to
head up another large private-equity company that bought the beltway
bandit employing some of the most well known leakers.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
This decade, there are numerous accounts of the private equity
companies buying non-profit hospital and medical practices and turn
them into huge profit making organizations. Privatizing medicare
would be consistent with what private-equity did last decade with
other government operations.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
private equity beltway bandit subsidiaries last decade also cultivated
a rapidly spreading success of failure culture
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
and
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 12:36:53 -0800Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
other recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#43 Ransomware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#47 ASCII vs. EBCDIC (was Re: On sort options ...)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#0 Is it a lost cause?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 12:46:33 -0800hancock4 writes:
i've mentioned before writing the cp67 terminal support for TTY ... the ascii<->ebcdic translate tables were a little odd, the mainframe terminal controllers placed leading bit in low-order byte bit position ... so incoming chacters from terminal controller had bit-reversed characters (for all terminals). ebcdic->outgoing had to translate to bit-reversed characters/codes ... and then the controller would reverse the bits for each byte ... as it went on the line.
some past posts doing clone controller (with interdata) because
the ibm controller didn't quite do what I wanted
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: just what is micro-code anyway? Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 14:20:48 -0800Ivan Godard <ivan@millcomputing.com> writes:
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
note that 370/158 was horizontal microcode, split between the 370 emulator microcode and "integrated channel" microcode. For 303x, an external "channel director" was created with a 370/158 engine running the "integrated channel" microcode (w/o the 370 emulation). A 3031 is then 370/158 engine (with 370 emulation) and a 2nd 370/158 engine with the integrated channel microcode (and no 370 emulation). A cpu intensive benchmark ... doing no I/O, was still about 1/4th-1/3rd faster on 3031 than 370/158 ... since the integrated channel microcode was still using cycles even when no I/O was going on.
circa 1980, there was effort to replace the large number of internal microprocessors (low-end/mid-range 370s, controllers, as/400 follow-on to s/38, etc) with 801/risc Iliad. For various reasons the efforts floundered/canceled ... resulting in some number of risc engineers leaving for other vendors.
The follow-ons to the 4331&4341 were going to 801/risc Iliad with 370 emulation "microcode" implemented in 801. Contributing to killing that effort was white paper showing that for 4341 follow-on, the majority of 370 could be directly implemented in CISC silicon, having much better price/performance than Iliad (disclaimer: I contributed to that white paper).
As an aside, the 370 "microcode" implementation on 801/risc Iliad
... looked somewhat like Hercules
http://www.hercules-390.org/
however, there was effort to look at doing JIT 370 code snipet translation to native 801/risc Iliad. In the 90s, some of the commerical 370 emulators (running on sparc & intel platforms) did implement JIT 370 code snipet translation to native.
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 14:25:08 -0800JimP. <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb; Got to get
educated before we can defeat Internet threats
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/30a00a8d29ad
We are cyberdumb. Opponents have danced through our networks (years
before it was even discovered), several times extracting detailed
designs for advanced weapon systems (including radar & stealth)
.... going on all last decade.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/confidential-report-lists-us-weapons-system-designs-compromised-by-chinese-cyberspies/2013/05/27/a42c3e1c-c2dd-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html
some recent posts:
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#19 Does Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#20 DEC and The Americans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#91 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#95 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#104 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#104 How to Win the Cyberwar Against Russia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#0 Snowden
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#28 China's spies gain valuable US defense technology: report
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#40 The F-22 Raptor Is the World's Best Fighter (And It Has a Secret Weapon That Is Out in the Open)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 11:36:33 -0800Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
this theme shows up in a number of works, book on the Dulles brothers has John Foster major force behind rebuilding German's industry and military in the 20s & 30s ... up until almost US entry into the war.
"intrepid" has lots of US corporations showing up at the June1940 German victory celebration at NYC Waldorf-Astoria to learn about how to do business with Germany (and how to get around the neutrality law).
Later annual industry national conference (5,000 corporations) at NYC Waldorf-Astoria, because corporations had gotten such a bad repudiation during the depression and for supporting Germany, they launch a major propaganda campaign to equate capitalism with Christianity, part of trying to refurbish the image of US corporations (this eventually includes in the early 50s, getting "In God We Trust" put on paper money and "Under God" added to the pledge).
enormous war profiteering also major contributor to Eisenhower's warning
about the militar-industrial complex in his goodby speech.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
which also shows up in the drive for "perpetual war"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
from the law of unintended consequences ... us army air corp were making claims that strategic high altitude bombing could even win WW2 w/o need for land forces ... but one of the issues was that they needed target locations. For the 1943 US Strategic Bombing program, they got the locations of industry and military targets from wallstreet. One of the later issues about it not really working ... was the switch to fire bombing cities (hard to miss whole city even from 5-6 miles up and provided more dramtic results). The other was that 24,000 air cadets were transferred to Army ground forces to be retrained as infantrymen.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 14:56:39 -0800Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
from member of congress a century ago: Triumphant plutocracy; the story
of American public life from 1870 to 1920
http://archive.org/details/triumphantpluto00pettrich
loc6265-74:
XXX. THE LEAGUE TO PERPETUATE WAR The war has just begun. I said that
when the Armistice terms were published and when I read the Treaty and
the League Covenant I felt more than ever convinced of the justice of
my conclusion. The Treaty of Versailles is merely an armistice -- a
suspension of hostilities, while the combatants get their wind. There
is a war in every chapter of the Treaty and in every section of the
League Covenant; war all over the world; war without end so long as
the conditions endure which produce these documents.
... snip ...
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
and "War is Racket"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
by Smedley Butler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
wiki references "perpetual war"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war
references one of the "boyd people" ... no relation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow_T._Wheeler
and full article (many "boyd people")
http://pogoarchives.org/labyrinth/full-labyrinth-text-w-covers.pdf
including Chuck's "Perpetual War"
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
Boyd posts & URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 16:35:45 -0800Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
some history by "father of ascii"
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/ASCII.HTM
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/BACSLASH.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
account of why went to ebcdic (rather than ascii):
EBCDIC and the P-Bit, (The Biggest Computer Goof Ever)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
Who Goofed?
The culprit was T. Vincent Learson. The only thing for his defense is
that he had no idea of what he had done. It was when he was an IBM Vice
President, prior to tenure as Chairman of the Board, those lofty
positions where you believe that, if you order it done, it actually will
be done. I've mentioned this fiasco elsewhere. Here are some direct
extracts:
... snip ...
other past posts mentioning above:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#26 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#27 Origins of EBCDIC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#39 Mainframe Utility for EBCDIC to ASCII conversion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#41 Disksize history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#63 CAPS Fantasia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#4 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#65 They've changed the keyboard layout _again_
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#9 Typewriter vs. Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#67 Wondering if I am really eligible for this group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#6 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#45 HP getting out of computer biz
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#23 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#5 Any candidates for best acronyms?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#45 CRLF in Unix being translated on Mainframe to x'25'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#55 "Geek" t-shirts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#100 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#52 M68k add to memory is not a mistake any more
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#55 Just for a laugh... How to spot an old IBMer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#73 END OF FILE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#36 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#84 72 column cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#52 8-bit bytes and byte-addressed machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#56 Reduced Symbol Set Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#56 New HD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#72 One reason for monocase was Re: Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#14 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#61 32760?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#3 Ported Tools - Unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#49 Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#33 Teletypewriter Model 33
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#19 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#21 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#22 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#37 Subject Unicode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#5 How many EBCDIC machines are still around?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#13 How many EBCDIC machines are still around?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#63 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#52 Rather nice article on COBOL on Vulture Central
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#78 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#24 Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#29 Special characters for Passwords
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#99 IBM architecture, was Fifty Years of nitpicking definitions, was BASIC,theProgrammingLanguageT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#4 Migration path for IBM 650 users?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#6 Migration path for IBM 650 users?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#65 16-bit minis, was Floating point
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#6 New Line vs. Line Feed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#47 ASCII vs. EBCDIC (was Re: On sort options ...)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#0 Is it a lost cause?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 10:12:46 -0800Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
more from "father of ascii", ebcdic and the p-bit
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
I mention this because it is a classic software mistake. IBM was going
to announce the 360 in 1964 April as an ASCII machine, but their
printers and punches were not ready to handle ASCII, and IBM just HAD to
announce. So T.V. Learson (my boss's boss) decided to do both, as IBM
had a store of spendable money. They put in the P-bit. Set one way, it
ran in EBCDIC. Set the other way, it ran in ASCII.
But nobody told the programmers, like a Chinese Army in numbers! They
spent this huge amount of money to make software in which EBCDIC
encodings were used in the logic. Reverse the P-bit, to work in ASCII,
and it died. And they just could not spend that much money again to redo
it.
After all, the entire 360 venture was nicknamed "You Bet Your Company",
after a TV game show of that era. And IBM found the reason, or excuse,
to use EBCDIC in the huge costs to their users to change their existing
files to ASCII ordering. But this short-range argument fell apart when
we added a lower case alphabet.
... snip ...
upthread, I mentioned that I had done the TTY terminal support for CP67 while undergraduate at univ ... and one of the "interesting" things was that it wasn't just a simple matter of choosing ebcdic characters for ascii characters ... there was also the issue of the terminal controller inverted the bit-order in bytes i.e. leading bit was put in low order bit position in byte ... so bytes arriving in computer memory were in bit-reversed order. This had less meaning for 2741 & 1052 (selectric-based terminals) ... since the terminal code wasn't actually some character ... it was tilt/rotate code for the selectric mechanism ... and needed different (bit-reversed order) translate tables for the particular (golf) typeball.
tty keyboard had left/right brace&brackets (which don't exist in ebcdic)
for right little finger. on selectric it was at-sign/cent-sign. However,
both cp67 & cms used at-sign/cent-sign for character/line delete edit
(i.e. at-sign deleted previous character, cent-sign deleted all
characters to start of line). "at" sign was there but not cent-sign, so
I translated bracket to/from cent-sign
http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/kybint.htm
science center picked up my tty support (as well as lots of other
changes I made as undergraduate) and shipped it in product. pg. 22,
figure one has at/cent sign next to letter "P" ... which was all the
2741s I used
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/cp67/GH20-0859-0_CP67_Version_3_Users_Guide_Oct70.pdf
pg.24 starts tty terminal but doesn't describe the translation for ascii characters not in ebcdic.
pg. 34 describes line-delete (cent-sign) and character-delete (at-sign) convention (and ascii left bracket for line delete). pg. 35 describes a couple other of the ascii->ebcdic
past posts about problems I had with IBM terminal controller, led to
univ. starting clone controller project (using interdata) ... and
emulation including having to follow bit-reverse bytes over channel
interface
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
Later as part of mainframe tcp/ip support ... input/output wasn't going thru controller that bit-reversed within byte ... so it used different translate tables that went directly from bit-ordered ascii to bit-ordered ebcdic.
trivia ... I didn't do the original tcp/ip product ... which was written
in vs/pascal. however, as I've commented before about senior disk
engineer giving talk about how communication group was going to be
responsible for demise of disk division ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
they were fiercely fighting off distributed computing and client/server
... including affecting how tcp/ip product released ... it would get
44kbytes/sec throughput using nearly whole a 3090 cpu processor. I did
the changes to the tcp/ip product to support RFC1044 and in some testing
at cray research, got sustained channel speed 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
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 12 Dec 2016 11:25:17 -0800mitchdana@GMAIL.COM (Dana Mitchell) writes:
1992 IBM had gone into the red and was being reorganized into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breacking up the company.
At the time, large number of customers were moving off mainframes to other platforms (major factor in company going into the red) ... however large part of the financial industry & wallstreet was still heavily invested in mainframes (I've periodically told story about senior disk engineer doing talk in the late 80s at annual, world-wide, internal communication group ... claiming the communication group was going to be responsible for demise of disk division, they were seeing data fleeing mainframe datacenters with drop in disk sales).
The former president of AMEX .... which had been in battle with
KKR for private-equity take-over of RJR ... and KKR won:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
KKR ran into problem with RJR and hired away president of AMEX to turn
it around. Then the IBM board hired him away to resurrect IBM and
reverse the breakup ... using some of the same techniques that were
used at RJR:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
Also in 1992, AMEX spun off a lot of its dataprocessing into independent business unit which was the largest IPO up until that time. Besides doing a lot of AMEX stuff, it also does a significant amount of transaction, statementing, account management, etc outsourcing for large number of other financial institutions (including, at one point handling everything for over half of all credit card accounts in the US). It has been one of the largest mainframe customers (total trivia, 15yrs later, KKR does private-equity take-over of that business, in the largest reverse-IPO up until that time).
Starting in the middle 90s, major financial institutions spent billions of dollars to move off mainframe cobol overnight batch settlement to straight-though processing on large number of "killer micros". Over decades, batch financial had been front-ended with "real-time" transaction, but they were really just being queued for overnight batch processing window. In the 90s, globalization was cutting size of overnight batch window and singificantly increasing workload ... breaking the overnight window. Turns out the efforts were using some standard parallization libraries that had 100 times the overhead of cobol batch. The toy demos looked good ... but pointing out to them that they wouldn't scale was ignored. They had to go into deployments that went down in spectacular flames (100 times overhead totally swamping any throughput anticipated with large number of "killer micros").
Middle of last decade I was involved in project that did high-level specification of business processes that was then decomposed into large number of light-weight SQL statements. It leveraged the significant efforts by major RDBMS vendors (including IBM) in enormous throughput for parallized cluster operation. It easily demonstrated the required throughput for straight-through processing along with being able to easily add all sort of enhancements (helped by advances in "killer micros" gave them throughput comparable to mainframes). Did well accepted demonstrations for major financial associations ... and then hit brickwall. Was finally told that there were too many executives that bore the scars of the failed efforts in the 90s and it was going to have to wait for new generation of executives (which could be demise of one of the last major mainframe cash cows).
Trivia: I was involved in the original relational/SQL implementation,
System/R and tech transfer to Endicott for product release. At the time
this was done "under the radar" because most of the company was focused
on the strategic next generation DBMS, (code-name) EAGLE. When EAGLE
imploded, there was request for how fast could System/R be available on
MVS ... which was eventually released as DB2 (originally for decision
support only).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Note on dis-orientation Date: 12 Dec 2016 Blog: Slightly East of NewsNote on dis-orientation
There is big overlap between anticipation and orientation basis ... orientation bias directs observation to specific anticipation .... when if it is the wrong things, it is orientation bias. Boyd would talk about continually observation from every possible facet as countermeasure to orientation bias (anticipation focused on the wrong things and surprised when it comes from completely different direction).
for the fun of it, from 1846, Elements of Military Art and Science Or,
Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles,
& C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, ... Notes On The
Mexican And Crimean Wars. loc5019-20:
A rapid coup d'oeil prompt decision, active movements, are as
indispensable as sound judgment; for the general must see, and decide,
and act, all in the same instant.
... snip ...
Adding orientation ... then is able to talk about orientation bias and whether focus is on the right or wrong things.
this 2011 talks about STAP being able to target even the best stealth
... if it knows where to look (aka predictable flt. path, vhf/l-band
radar that can track the best stealth, etc) ... but it requires TFLOPS
of real-time computing ... which is starting to appear in the latest
computer chips (spring 2015, DOD put them on export control, fall 2015
at supercomputer conference, china shows it was building their own)
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1278878
sometimes eetimes server has problems so wayback
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052450/http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1278878
Boyd posts & web references:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Arpanet May 1973 Date: 12 Dec 2016 Blog: FacebookTrivia, the corporate internal network was larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime mid-80s. The corporate sponsored univ network (bitnet in us, earn in europe using technology similar to internal network) was also larger than internet for a time in the 80s
One of the problems in the early/mid 70s was the hasp/jes support used
leftover entries in the 256 entry psuedo device table and would trash
all traffic not in its table (maybe 160-180 available entries) ... and
the internal network had quickly passed 255 entries. If hasp/jes nodes
were on the network, they had to be carefully restricted to edge nodes
(to avoid constantly trashing traffic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
1jan1983 in the great change-over from IMPs to internetworking
protocol ... there was approx 100 IMP nodes and 250 connected hosts
.. at a moment when the internal network was about to pass 1000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
When JES gets around to increasing node limit to 999, internal network was well over 1000
Early 80s we were working with NSF director and were suppose to get
$20M to interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers. Then congress cuts
the budget, some other things happen and finally NSF releases RFP (in
part based on what we already have running). Internal politics prevent
us from bidding. The NSF director tries to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) with support from other agencies, but that just makes the
internal politics worse (as does statements that what we already have
running was at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP responses). As regional
networks hook into the centers, it becomes the NSFNET backbone
(precursor to modern internet)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
Part of move from IMPs to internetworking protocol was IMP protocol didn't scale ... 1980 there were claims that when there was any configuration event, the IMP administration protocol chatter would totally saturate all the ARPANET dedicated 56Kbit lines
aka the myth of robust availability in face of failures didn't continue to actually work as things scaled
for no particular reason, RFC109 (24March1971) by Joel Winett
describes 360/67 CP67 support (and ascii/ebcdic translation).
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc109
Mid-80s, I started shadowing all the IETF documents. And then put up
detailed index of RFCs on the web.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
Then (before he passes), Postel (IETF RFC document editor) starts letting me do part of STD1.
Recently in a.f.c. I've had long winded postings about when I was
undergraduate in the 60s, did the TTY/ASCII terminal support for CP67
(that science center picks up and ships) ... that includes some
discussion of ascii/ebcdic translation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#71
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 19:27:14 -0800Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
part of story from "father of ascii" about 360 was originally suppose to be ascii machine was that the ascii unit record gear wouldn't be available in time for announcement ... so they had to adapt previous generation unit record gear. since 360 was incompatible with previous machines, there was much less issue with software compatibility.
as aside, Amdahl leaves sortly have acs was terminated (supposedly
because executives thought it would advance state of the art too fast
and they would loose control of the market)
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
and starts his own computing company (bldg clone 370s). He had talk at
MIT in filled, large auditorium in the early 70s talking about starting
his new company. He was asked convinced investors to fund his new
company. He said that even if IBM completely walked away from 370, that
there was enough customer 360/370 software that would keep him in
business through the end of the century. Now this was in the Future
system period
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
which was completely different from 360/370 and going to completely replace it (also 370 efforts were being shutdown during this period, the lack of offerings during this period was credited with giving clone processors market foothold). Now Amdahl's reference to IBM completely walking away from 360/370 appears like he knew about FS, but he claims at the time that he had no knowledge of FS at all.
there is thread on Facebook today about early ARPANET ... one of my
(many) references is (Joel Winett) lincoln labs cp67 support for
arpanet, rfc109 (24march71 rfc also discusses some ascii/ebcdic
translation)
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc109
archived here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#74
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The F-35 Stealth Fighter Is Politically Unstoppable----Even Under President Trump Date: 12 Dec 2016 Blog: FacebookThe F-35 Stealth Fighter Is Politically Unstoppable----Even Under President Trump
note they said something similar about the F-22, but apparently company simply switched effort to F-35
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.
... snip ...
re:
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#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#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#97 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#104 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#40 The F-22 Raptor Is the World's Best Fighter (And It Has a Secret Weapon That Is Out in the Open)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can't Dogfight Date: 12 Dec 2016 Blog: FacebookTest Pilot Admits the F-35 Can't Dogfight
F-35 stealth for different radar bands (low frequency really good for
tracking, but not necessarily good enough for targeting)
http://ausairpower.net/XIMG/JSF-RCS-Qualitative-A-XLVHF.png
discussed in detail here
http://ausairpower.net/APA-2009-01.html
2011 discussion of radar technology, STAP requires TFLOPs of real-time
computing power to target best of stealth (especially when provided
tracking info for where to look), which is becoming available from
latest generation of computer chips. Spring 2015 DOD put them on
export control, fall 2015 at supercomputer conference, china
demonstrated they were making their own.
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1278878
sometimes server has problems, so article at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052450/http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1278878
STAP requires Tflop computation even when tracking gives it part of
sky to focus on. F22 stealth much better than F35 ... and even F22 can
be tracked. Real-time Tflop computation extracts low-observable
targeting information when focused in specific area.
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/revealed-can-chinas-radars-track-americas-stealth-f-22-15261
reference on low-observable from above:
http://ndupress.ndu.edu/portals/68/Documents/jfq/jfq-55.pdf
and another
http://aviationweek.com/defense/ways-track-low-observable-aircraft
from article references US Navy approach for tracking stealth
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/revealed-japans-secret-weapon-destroy-chinas-j-20-j-31-14016
ausairpower just provided convenient graphics (doesn't seem to be any change in F35 low-observable characteristics since article written)
The STAP reference was part 4 of 2011 article on radar technology (and
where STAP can extract targeting when AESA can't), part 3 discusses
AESA:
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1278838
note that latest generation of computer chips provide the real-time tflops needed for STAP stealth targeting ... the claim is the latest generation of computer chips also could reduce the number of transmit/receive pairs in the F22&F35 AESA by nearly two orders w/o loss of capability.
recent posts referring to radar article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#40 The F-22 Raptor Is the World's Best Fighter (And It Has a Secret Weapon That Is Out in the Open)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#73 Note on dis-orientation
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:15:22 -0800Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/confidential-report-lists-us-weapons-system-designs-compromised-by-chinese-cyberspies/2013/05/27/a42c3e1c-c2dd-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html
Some of the weapons form the backbone of the Pentagon's regional missile
defense for Asia, Europe and the Persian Gulf. The designs included
those for the advanced Patriot missile system, known as PAC-3; an Army
system for shooting down ballistic missiles, known as the Terminal High
Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD; and the Navy's Aegis ballistic-missile
defense system.
..
Also on the list is the most expensive weapons system ever built -- the
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which is on track to cost about $1.4
trillion. The 2007 hack of that project was reported previously.
... snip ...
are the major military-industrial complex companies
really, really incompetent?
... or
as part of "perpetual war" ... do they have to periodically aid
adversaries in order to maintain them as credible threats and keep the
military budget flowing?
...
incompetent or duplicit???
note in the F-35 case, the F-22 had 1.7M lines-of-code, they are projecting 25M lines-of-code for F-35.
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
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: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:33:14 -0800Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
recent posts referencing Bob Beamer pages
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#47 ASCII vs. EBCDIC (was Re: On sort options ...)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#0 Is it a lost cause?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#64 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#70 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#71 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 19:21:33 -0800"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
portrays White as heavily under the influence of the Soviets, who secretly provided him with a draft of demands for him to get US to issue to Japan (which he did) ... that would prompt Japan into attacking the US (which they did ... Soviets were battling Germany in the west and were worried that Japan would attack in the east ... needed to divert Japan into pacific conflict with the US).
Hull Note
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_note
According to Benn Steil, director of international economics at the
Council on Foreign Relations, while "no single individual can be said to
have triggered" the Pearl Harbor attack Harry Dexter White "was the
author of the key ultimatum demands". Steil also maintains "the Japanese
government made the decision to move forward with the Pearl Harbor
strike after receiving the ultimatum".
... snip ...
Part of discussions is that Churchill is characterized as attempting to delay invasion of europe for as long as possible ... allowing the Germans & Soviets to completely exhaust each other ... afterwards allows Britain to easily co-op Europe as well as the mid-east (and preserve the rest of its empire). Roosevelt response to it would delay end of the war into 1947 ... and the American public wouldn't tolerate for the war to drag on that long.
THE EUROPEAN CAMPAIGN:ITS ORIGINS AND CONDUCT, loc1311-15:
In 1942, Eisenhower and Marshall pushed hard for a ground campaign in
Europe, but the British were at best reticent about the concept of
SLEDGEHAMMER.
loc1618-20:
First, the proposed American operations SLEDGEHAMMER and BOLERO-ROUNDUP
were the preferred operations for the Americans who had set their sights
on a cross-channel attack. George Marshall, Albert Wedemeyer, and Dwight
Eisenhower had agreed that this was the logical path to victory over
Nazi Germany.
loc1636-38:
Although Marshall consistently pressed Allied leadership for an attack
on northern France, it was again Churchill and his military advisers
who carried the day. Consequently, once the North African campaign was
over, the Allies (beginning to refer to themselves as the United
Nations) would invade Sicily, firming up Allied control over the
Mediterranean.
loc1642-43:
For Marshall and Eisenhower, the failure of the British to agree to
some type of military action in Europe in late 1942 to early 1943
remained a bitter pill.
... snip ...
they constantly pointed out that these side efforts didn't directly strike German military capability ... snide remarks that if Churchill had his way it would be 1947
loc5428-29:
As a result, Eisenhower dropped the capture of Berlin as a priority. On
March 28, Eisenhower ordered the encirclement of the Ruhr. His plan was
to first capture the Ruhr and then cut Germany in half on an east-west
axis.
... snip ...
from recent on going "misson command" (auftragstaktik) discussions:
Logistics and industrial capability wins in state on state wars. On D
Day (6 Jun) the US alone flew over 3,000 sorties the Germans could only
manage 150. The famous debrief of a German anti-tank commander when
captured at Normandy when asked how he came to be captured, his answer
was he ran out of anti-tank shells before the americans ran out of
tanks.
....
Massive overwhelming resources and willingness to fight a war of
attrition (whether or not it is called a strategy) can offset otherwise
significant strategic and tactical shortcomings. One of Roosevelt
stories was reference to Churchill wanting to postpone D-Day another
year or two while Germany&Russia further exhausted each other on the
eastern front (3/4 of german military resources were used against
Russia) ... but Roosevelt didn't believe the American public would stand
for the war continuing into 1947. Current version is how the
military-industrial complex manages American public opinion for a war
that continues forever.
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
From Guderian's Panzer Leader, loc2902-3:
Hitler then said: 'If I had known that the figures for Russian tank
strength which you gave in your book were in fact the true ones, I
would not--I believe--ever have started this war.'
... snip ...
other past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#52 An elusive command philosophy and a different command culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#52 EBFAS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#61 Are you tired of the negative comments about IBM in this community?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#21 IBM ushers in BIGGEST EVER re-org for the cloud era, say insiders
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#22 channel islands, definitely not the location of LEO
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#70 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#84 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#85 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#45 The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#51 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#55 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#60 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#61 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#62 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#64 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#70 God No, the U.S. Air Force Doesn't Need Another Curtis LeMay
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#119 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#39 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#55 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#74 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#49 Fateful Choices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#18 Bullying
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#94 The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#13 Rogue sysadmins the target of Microsoft's new 'Shielded VM' security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#14 Rogue sysadmins the target of Microsoft's new 'Shielded VM' security
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Economic Mess Date: 18 Dec 2016 Blog: Facebook2002, Congress allows fiscal responsibility act to lapse (spending couldn't exceed tax revenue, on its way to eliminating all federal debt, from 90s republican congress). 2010 CBO report that in the interim, tax revenue was cut by $6T and spending increased by $6T for $12T budget gap compared to fiscal responsible budget (first time taxes were cut to not pay for two wars). 2005, US comptroller general starts including in speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle school arithmetic because of how badly they were savaging the budget. Since then taxes haven't been restored and only modest cuts in spending so debt has continued to increase.
Some analysis claims debt is confluence of interests, FED chairman &
wallstreet wanting huge debt (so TBTF using tens of trillions in ZIRP
funds to buy US treasury $300+B/annum works), special interests
wanting huge tax cuts, and military-industrial complex and other gov
contractors wanting huge spending increase (along with huge uptic in
gov. outsourcing last decade). Trivia, in theory Fed could use ZIRP
funds to directly buy treasuries and the debt wouldn't cost anything,
but then the TBTF would be out the $300+B/annum.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Current speculation is another round of huge tax cuts and further spending increases ... surpasses the republican congress of last decade (in contrast to the fiscal responsible republican congress of the 90s)
But claim is TBTF getting tens of trillions in ZIRP funds no longer were motivated to pay interest rates to attract deposits ... which then percolates thru rest off economy ... including adversely affecting things like pension funds
FED zero (or near zero) interest rate funds for TBTF bailout ... TARP was pure facade ... supposedly justified to buy off-book toxic assets, but only $700B appropriated ... end of 2008, just the four largest TBTF were carrying $5.2T. FED fought hard legal battle to prevent disclosure of what it was doing ... buying trillions in offbook toxic assets at 98cents on the dollar and providing tens of trillions in ZIRP funds (but it required enormous gov debt to make the scheme work. ... clearing $300+B/annum on spread)
When FED was forced to disclose what it was doing, chairman held press conference to say he thought TBTF would use ZIRP funds to help main street ... When they didn't, he had no way to force them (but that didn't stop ZIRP funds). Note that chairman was supposedly chosen in part because he was a student of the depression ... but the FED had tried something similar then with the same results. (so he .should have had NO expectation of different results)
ZIRP
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_interest-rate_policy
and posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
Some of this is little smoke to obfuscate what is going on behind the scenes after FED lost legal battle to prevent disclosure of what it was doing
Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to
obfuscate fraudulent mortgages (poster child was office bldgs in
dallas/ft.worth that turned out to be empty lots). 1999, I was asked
to look at improving integrity of supporting documents
as countermeasure and help prevent the coming economic
mess. Then they found they could pay for triple-A rating (when rating
agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008 congressional
testimony) ... triple-A trumps supporting documents and they can start
doing no-documentation liar loans (no-documents means that there is no
longer any supporting documents so no integrity issues). The
securitization and triple-A rating enables selling into bond market,
largely responsible for being able to do over $27T 2001-2008 (even
selling to funds restricted to dealing in "safe" investments like
large public & private pension funds).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Jan2009, I'm asked to HTML'ize the Pecora hearings (30s senate
hearings into the '29 crash that resulted in criminal convictions and
Glass-Steagall) with lots of internal cross-HREFs and URLs between
what happened this time and what happened then (comments that the new
congress might have an appetite to do something). I work on it for
awhile and then get a call that it won't be needed after all (comments
that capital hill buried under enormous mountains of wallstreet cash).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
Being able to pay for triple-A ratings eliminated any reason for loan originators to care about borrowers' qualifications or loan quality (since they could immediately sell off nearly everything in bond market). Then they found that they could make securitized mortgages designed to fail, sell-off to their victims, and take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail (creating enormous demand for bad mortgages). AIG was the largest holder of these CDS gambling bets and was negotiating to pay off at 50cents on the dollar. The SECTREAS then steps in and says that it is illegal for them to pay off at less than face value, forcing them to sign document that they can't sue those making the CDS gambling bets and to take TARP funds to pay off at face value. The largest recipient of TARP funds was AIG and the largest recipient of face-value payoffs is the firm formally headed by the SECTREAS (which may have been motivation for TARP funds all along)
Trivia: spring 2008, some investors realized that triple-A ratings were being sold and it might not be able to trust any ratings. As a result the muni-bond market froze. To unfreeze the muni-bond market, Warren Buffett starts offering muni-bond insurance
Other trivia: from the law of unintended consequences ... so far, the largest fines for the TBTF associated with the economic mess are for the robo-signing mills fabricating documents to foreclose on no-documentation, liar mortgages.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Gov. Privatization Date: 18 Dec 2016 Blog: Facebookalso privatizing much of the gov., 70% of intelligence budget and over half the people went to for-profit companies (the "leakers" in the news actually were for-profit company employees), much of DoE operation become privatized, lots of military and overseas operation, etc., etc. However, one of the major presidential campaign planks in 2008 was to reverse the enormous privatization that went on ... the new administration did stop the huge increase in privatization, but actually didn't reverse what had already happened ... but a lot of that may be congress ... somebody joked that lobbyist took 10% of appropriations to for-profit companies ... which was then evenly split with congress (congress didn't get any kickback on appropriations to gov. agencies)
many of the beltway bandit outsourcing are private equity subsidiaries
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
Bechtel and Los Alamos National Laboratory: The Privatization of the
Nuclear Industry
https://lajicarita.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/bechtel-and-los-alamos-national-laboratory-the-privatization-of-the-nuclear-industry/
Nuclear Workers Deserve Better from Bechtel
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joanne-doroshow/nuclear-workers-deserve-b_b_6902776.html
"The Department of Energy is the largest military and weapons racket
in the U.S. Government."
https://pando.com/2016/04/06/profiteer/
The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World
https://www.amazon.com/Profiteers-Bechtel-Men-Built-World-ebook/dp/B010MHAHV2/
It's a Bumpy Ride to Private Management for Los Alamos, Livermore
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201006/losalamos.cfm
Investigative reporter details Bechtel's influence
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/readings_signings/investigative-reporter-details-bechtel-s-influence/article_7520013c-32ad-5af8-b836-5ba9c8710b5d.html
the VP (and former head of CIA) claims no knowledge of
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
S&L crisis posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
another presides over the economic mess last decade, 70 times larger than the S&L crisis
trivia: the bechtel account looking at two bechtel employees serving as SECDEF and SECSTATE in the 80s ... does find that the VP was also involved in Iran/Contra
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 09:10:17 -0800mausg writes:
another side is that john foster dulles was instrumental in rebuilding german industry and military during 20s & 30s ... with lots of help with US industry .. the members of congress behind the neutrality laws are characterized trying to counteract the enormous war profiteering that they saw during the "Great War". US corporations were continuing trying to respin it as isolationism ... because they were after more enormous war profiteering. "intrepid" has lots of US corporations showing up at the June1940 German victory celebration at NYC Waldorf-Astoria to learn about how to do business with Germany (and how to get around the neutrality law).
Later at annual industry national conference (5,000 corporations) at NYC Waldorf-Astoria (because corporations had gotten such a bad repudiation during the depression and for supporting Germany), they launch a major propaganda campaign to equate capitalism with Christianity, part of trying to refurbish the image of US corporations (in the early 50s, this eventually includes getting "In God We Trust" put on paper money and "Under God" added to the pledge).
I imagine that there are lots of wallstreet and corporations don't
really want too much examination of what they were doing during that
period. And from the law of unintended consequences, for the 1943 US
Strategic bombing program, they needed locations of military and
industrial targets in Germany ... which they got from wallstreet (behind
funding and building the facilities).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#68 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
with respect to being able to destroy targets from 5-6miles up (and
switching to fire bombing cities ... lot harder to completely miss a
whole city, but strategic "precision bombing" was a myth), I recently
ran across this reference, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard
Feynman, pg236/loc4305-7
Dyson saw the scattershot bomb patterns in postmission photographs, saw
the Germans' ability to keep factories operating amid the rubble of
civilian neighborhoods, worked through the firestorms of Hamburg in 1943
and Dresden in 1945, and felt himself descending into a moral hell.
... snip ...
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
slightly related (Jefferson insisting on separation of god & country),
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, loc6457-59:
For Federalists, Jefferson was a dangerous infidel. The Gazette of the
United States told voters to choose GOD—AND A RELIGIOUS PRESIDENT or
impiously declare for "JEFFERSON-AND NO GOD."
... snip ...
Jefferson was constantly battling what he felt were the Federalists
striving for British form of government with Lords and eventually a
Monarch. starting with things like loc6254-58
The alien laws collectively invested the president the authority to
deport resident aliens he considered dangerous. The sedition bill
criminalized free speech, forbidding anyone to "write, print, utter or
publish … any false, scandalous, and malicious writing or writings
against the government of the United States, or either House of the
Congress of the United States, with intent to defame … or to bring them
… into contempt or disrepute, or to excite against them, or either or
any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States."
log6266-67:
Once sedition legislation passed and was signed by Adams, the speaking
of one's mind—a foundational freedom—could result in fines up to $2,000
and up to two years in prison.
... snip ...
other trivia, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman,
pg180/loc3320-24:
Having requisitioned the machines, the scientists now also requisitioned
a maintenance man—an IBM employee who had been drafted into the
army. They were gaining adroitness at military procurement. The crates
arrived two days before the repairman; in those two days Feynman and his
colleagues managed to get the machines unpacked and assembled, after a
fashion, with the help of nothing but a set of wiring blueprints. So
much more powerful were they that Feynman—sensitive to rhythms as
always—rapidly discovered that he could program them to clatter out the
cadence of well-known songs.
pg181/loc3339-42:
John von Neumann served as a traveling consultant with an eye on the
postwar future. Von Neumann—mathematician, logician, game theorist (he
was more and more a fixture in the extraordinary Los Alamos poker game),
and one of the fathers of modern computing—talked with Feynman while
they worked on the IBM machines or walked though the canyons.
... snip ...
some past posts mentiong US 1943 strategic bombing program
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#52 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#69 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#37 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#77 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#7 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#55 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#0 How Corporate America Invented Christian America; Inside one reverend's big business-backed 1940s crusade to make the country conservative again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#26 Putin's Great Crime: He Defends His Allies and Attacks His Enemies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#28 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#119 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
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/2016c.html#91 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#11 Study: Cost of U.S. Regulations Larger Than Germany's Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#88 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#56 "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#64 Strategic Bombing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 11:37:02 -0800re:
recently, retired boeing employee gave a series of talks on the "battle for britain" (had been british, propeller fighter pilot, then came to the states to work for boeing). Hitler had directed Luftwaffe to only attack military & industrial targets and was rapidly depleating British military resources & defenses. Then one raid on london docks, some bombs went astray, hitting nearby neighborhood. Churchill (got mad? and) directed a large bombing raid on Berlin (& civilians). Hitler than removed restrictions on civilian targets. From the law of intended(or unintended?) consequences, the diversion of raids to British civilian targets allowed the British to replenish the military resources and defenses.
past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#52 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#53 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#89 Your earliest dream?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#38 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#81 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: US vs German Armies Date: 19 Dec 2016 Blog: FacebookIn briefings in the early 80s, Boyd would comment about former military officers starting to contaminate US corporate cultures with their rigid, top-down, command&control structure (& only those at the very top knew what they were doing). Scenario is that at entry to WW2, US has to deploy large numbers with little or no skills and experience ... the rigid, top-down, command&control structure was used to leverage the few skilled resources available. Boyd would compare 11% (growing to nearly 20%) US officers to maintain rigid, top-down command&control structure, compared to 3% (or less) for German army. Note it wasn't just former military officers contaminating US corporate culture ... but about the same time, news articles started to appear that MBAs were starting to destroy US corporate culture with myopic focus on quarterly results (possibly some synergy between MBAs and former military officers with simplistic, single, near-term, quarterly results objective).
German deployed 3/4s of its military resources against Russia.
Part of discussions are that Churchill is characterized as attempting to delay invasion of europe for as long as possible ... allowing the Germans & Soviets to completely exhaust each other ... afterwards allows Britain to easily co-op Europe as well as the mid-east (and preserve the rest of its empire). Roosevelt response was it would delay end of the war into 1947 ... and the American public wouldn't tolerate for the war to drag on that long (we have now entered period of perpetual war).
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
past references to Germany & Soviets exhaust each ohter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#119 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#80 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Computer/IBM Career Date: 19 Dec 2016 Blog: Facebookshortly after taking computer intro course in the 60s, university hired me fulltime to be responsible for production 360/65 os/360 systems. Along the way I also rewwrote large amounts of CP67 (science center had originally created virtual machine cp40 on modified 360/40 with hardware virtual memory support, it morphs into cp67 when 360/67 standard with virtual memory becomes available, later it morphs into vm370). still undergraduate, Boeing hires me as fulltime employee to help with the creation of boeing computer services (consolidate all dataprocessing into independent business unit to better monetize the investment). before graduation I go to job fair and take the IBM programming test ... which I don't pass ... but I already have offer from the science center (they apparently didn't tell the rest of ibm that I didn't know how to program). science center posts
in the late 70s and early 80s I'm blamed for online computer
conferencing (precursor to social media) on the internal network
(larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until
sometime late 80s). folklore is that when the corporate executive
committee was told about online computer conferencing (and the
internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me. possibly one factor was one
of my hobbies back to when I first joined IBM, was enhanced production
operating systems distributions used by large number of internal
datacenters ... upper management was somewhat dismayed to find so much
of the company ran on the stuff ... including world-wide sales
marketing and hdqtrs HONE systems (one of my 1st overseas trips was
when EMEA hdqtrs moved from NY to Paris and HONE asked me to go over
for the installation). HONE posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
Original CP67 provided vanilla 360 virtual machines ... somebody on assignment from France did the enhancements to support running CP67 under CP67 (360/67 virtual machines).
This was then modified to provide the 370 virtual memory architecture ... and was part of joint program with Endicott. A year before 370 with virtual memory engineering machines was operation, science center regularly ran plan cp67 ("cp67l") on real 360/67, then in a virtual 360/67 ran modified cp67 ("cp67h") that provided 370 virtual machines (in part because there were a lot of non-employees from boston area univ. using the base system, and needed to provide strong security for unannounced 370 virtual memory), and then in a virtual 370 machine ran cp67 modified to run on 370 ("cp67i") ... which then ran CMS. In fact, "CP67I" was eventually used as original regression test for first 370/145 engineer machine that had virtual memory hardware (turns out that they had incorrectly swapped some of the new opcodes, when they finally figured it out, they patched "cp67i" for the incorrect opcodes and got it running).
trivia: as part of the joint effort with endicott for cp67h & cp67i, the original CMS multi-level source update implementation was done
When I 1st joined IBM ... it was still doing lots of new hirings ... and after a couple months got asked to be a manager. I asked to read the managers manual over the weekend. I came back and said that it wouldn't be a good idea. I worked for hardware store in highschool and they would lend me out to contractors for various kinds of construction activities. Summer after freshman year I was forman on construction job and sometimes needed to do employee attitude readjustment in the parking lot after work (which wasn't covered in the manager's manual).
During the FS period in the 70s (completely different and incompatible
with 370), I was told FS was the only place there was promotions and
raises. I continued to work on 370 and even periodically ridicule FS
(which wasn't exactly career enhancing). FS was going to completely
replace 370 so 370 efforts were being shutdown and lack of 370
products during the period is credited with giving clone processor
makers market foothold. After FS imploded there was mad rush to get
products back into the 370 pipeline. Clone makers were still primarily
universities, technical, scientific, but hadn't broken into true blue
commercial market yet. I got to know a lot of customers that I could
periodically drop by and talk to. One customer was one of the largest
commercial financial account on the east coast. At one point the IBM
branch manager did something that horribly offended the customer
... and the customer went public as first true blue commercial
customer to order clone processor. I was asked to go sit onsite at the
customer for six months, trying to make the order look like a
technical issue (rather than for something the branch manager did). I
said that was pointless, I'd had lots of talks with the customer about
the situation and they weren't going to change. I was told that the
IBM branch manager was a sailing buddy of the IBM CEO and if I didn't
obfuscate what was going on it would put a black mark on the branch
manager's career ... furthermore if I refused, it would be the end of
any career at IBM and I could forget any promotions or raises. At lot
of stuff I did was inspite of the company ... I would just wander
around and talk with datacenter managers (inside and outside IBM). FS
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] 40 years of man page history Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 10:05:02 -0800Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:
was redone on cp/cms at the science center as "script" command.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
then in 1969, gml (three letters chosen as 1st letter of last name of
three inventors) was invented at the science center (almost 50yrs ago)
... and gml tag processing added to script. after a decade gml morphs
into sgml
https://web.archive.org/web/20230703135757/http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/sgmlhist.htm
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
after another decade sgml morphs into html at cern
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 ...
https://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html
https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/index.html
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6RBX_11.4.2/com.ibm.sa.xml.design.doc/topics/c_history.html
I was brought in as consultant (little involved with the formating stuff) because they wanted to do payment transactions on the server (now frequently referred to as "electronic commerce") I had authority over interfacing webservers over the internet to the payment networks ... but only could make recommendations on the browser/server side (some of which were almost immediately violated, accounting for some number of exploits that continue to today).
past posts mentioning CTSS RUNOFF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#0 What good and old text formatter are there ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#46 ... the need for a Museum of Computer Software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#16 instant messaging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#32 who invented the "popup" ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#73 Specifying all biz rules in relational data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#74 Specifying all biz rules in relational data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#55 History of first use of all-computerized typesetting?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#27 What part of z/OS is the OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#86 CLIs and GUIs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#90 z/OS Documentation - again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#67 Web Security hasn't moved since 1995
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#46 Lawyers & programming (x-over from a.f.c discussion)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#5 history of comments and source code annotations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#11 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#53 IBM 029 service manual
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#10 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#41 Unix systems and Serialization mechanism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#48 GML
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#53 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#55 GML
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#61 GML
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#69 GML
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#58 So why doesn't the mainstream IT press seem to get the IBM mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#60 Daisywheel Question: 192-character Printwheel Types
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#73 IBM and the Computer Revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#86 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#81 TSO Profile NUM and PACK
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#38 IBM Assembler manuals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#49 OT The inventor of Email - Tom Van Vleck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#37 First Website Launched 20 Years Ago Today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#68 Wondering if I am really eligible for this group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#34 Data Areas?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#89 Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#64 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#9 History of UNIX Manpages
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#50 Word Length
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#8 "execs" or "scripts"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#15 "execs" or "scripts"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#73 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#39 PC/mainframe browser(s) was Re: 360/20, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#72 IBM documentation - anybody know the current tool? (from Mislocated Doc thread)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#52 Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#21 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#32 The Vindication of Barb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#40 Reader Comment on SA22-7832-08 (PoPS), should I?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#37 Why is the mainframe so expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#21 CTSS DITTO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#74 The Mother of All Demos: The 1968 presentation that sparked a tech revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#84 The Mother of All Demos: The 1968 presentation that sparked atech revolutio
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#88 DCF on OS/2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#56 Computer Architecture Manuals - tools for writing and maintaining- state of the art?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#3 IBM PCjr STRIPPED BARE: We tear down the machine Big Blue wouldrather you f
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#48 Before the Internet: The golden age of online service
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#60 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#98 PROFS & GML
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#34 How the internet was invented
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 10:37:58 -0800re:
The Blitz
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/about-blitz.htm
Britain bombs Berlin
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/events/britain_bombs_berlin
On the evening of 24 August the Luftwaffe, whilst targeting London's
docks, also dropped bombs on the city's financial heart and Oxford
Street in the West End. This was probably not intentional, as it was in
defiance of Hitler's strict instructions that central London should not
be attacked. Winston Churchill was outraged and, 24 hours later, RAF
Bomber Command retaliated.
... 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: Re: "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 11:38:19 -0800hancock4 writes:
Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India
during World War II, loc22-25:
By Hindustan, or Land of the Hindus, Churchill meant India, which during
the war was part of the British Empire. Britain's wartime prime minister
did not discuss in his six-volume account the 1943 famine in the eastern
Indian province of Bengal, which killed 1.5 million people by the
official estimate and 3 million by most others. One primary cause of the
famine was the extent to which Churchill and his advisers chose to use
the resources of India to wage war against Germany and Japan, causing
scarcity and inflation within the colony.
... snip ...
discussions bengal had been one of the wealthiest and highest standard of living in the world, after becoming part of the British Empire they turned into one of the poorest. the story has Britain have substituted growing cotton (benefit english mills) for food ... but that resulted in exhausting food stocks during poor harvest. story talks about Churchill diverting shipping capacity (for providing food to starving India) to building up stockpiles for postwar England.
a few past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#54 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#56 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#62 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#55 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
One of the issues with how much US helped USSR during WW2 was that the shipping capacity (to soviets) was far less than what was available for India.
US USSR Lend-Lease
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease#US_deliveries_to_the_Soviet_Union
In total, the U.S. deliveries through Lend-Lease amounted to $11 billion
in materials: over 400,000 jeeps and trucks; 12,000 armored vehicles
(including 7,000 tanks, about 1,386[37] of which were M3 Lees and 4,102
M4 Shermans);[38] 11,400 aircraft (4,719 of which were Bell P-39
Airacobras)[39] and 1.75 million tons of food.[40]
... snip ...
comparison of US and USSR production:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3ku09p/in_ww2_who_had_greater_industrial_capacity_the/
some items
Total wartime production numbers for select weapons systems (Ellis) Item US USSR Tank/SPG 88,410 105,251 Artillery 257,390 516,648 MGs 2,679,840 1,477,400 Trucks 2,382,311 197,100 Planes (all types) 324,750 157,261 Fighters 99,950 63,087 Bombers 97,810 21,116... snip ...
note while US out-produced USSR during WW2, for the most part, lend-lease deliveries was small percent of USSR production.
Guderian talks about Germany having tank production of couple thousand/yr and USSR tanks were frequently more effective and reliable than Germans (and US Shermans). The US massive production advantage over both Germany and USSR ... is in contrast to claims about Churchill wanted to delay Europe invasion until Germany and USSR had totally exhausted each other (Roosevelt didn't believe US public would stand for war dragging into 1947) ... and that 3/4s of German military resources was in fighting USSR.
Military deaths, USSR: 8m-11m, Germany: 4m-5m, US: 400k
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
in some recent military discussions, it was pointed out that Germany had lost so many in the USSR campaigns, that by the time US had gotten around to invading Europe, it faced 14&15 yr old boys.
other trivia (from past discussions), 2/3rds of total US WW2 military budget went to planes & air campaign ... half that, 1/3rd of total went to strategic heavy bombers & strategic bombing campaign. Roosevelt commissioned the strategic bombing survey because the cost of strategic bombing seemed all out of proportion to the benefits.
I've mentioned before that the important thing to remember about the
50s U2, was it debunks the USAF "bomber gap" claims (justifying
enormous increase in DOD budget for building strategic bombers) and
contributes to Eisenhower's warning about military-industrial
complex in his goodby speech
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
past posts mentioning strategic bombing survey:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#10 America's Defense Meltdown
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#67 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#73 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#90 Friden Flexowriter equipment series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#91 Friden Flexowriter equipment series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#92 Off topic screeds (was Re: Friden Flexowriter equipment series)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#40 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#13 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#52 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#69 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#77 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#82 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#0 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#70 God No, the U.S. Air Force Doesn't Need Another Curtis LeMay
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#76 Your earliest dream?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#89 Your earliest dream?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#37 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#52 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#77 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#81 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#87 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#55 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: GOP Announces Privatization Of Medicare And The Details Are TERRIFYING Date: 22 Dec 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
aka they spent the baby boomer trust fund .... assuming they would be long gone by the time it was noticed ... and following generations weren't as large as the baby boomer bubble (collapses like Ponzi scheme).
Why Social Security Is Doomed: "Birthrate At Lowest Level On
Record"... And the Future Is Unfunded
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-22/why-social-security-doomed-birthrate-lowest-level-record-and-future-unfunded
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Your Social Security cuts are already on the way Date: 23 Dec 2016 Blog: FacebookOpinion: Your Social Security cuts are already on the way
Why Social Security Is Doomed: "Birthrate At Lowest Level On
Record"... And the Future Is Unfunded
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-22/why-social-security-doomed-birthrate-lowest-level-record-and-future-unfunded
The excess into the trust fund has been used to cover other debts ... now they don't want to pay it back. Recent explanation is baby boomer bubble was 4times larger than previous generation and twice as large as following generation. Baby boomers during their prime working years were paying more into the trust fund each year (building up principal for their retirement) than was being paid out each year (for previous generations), and this excess was being used to pay for other debt. Now they don't want to pay it back (similar to ponzi scheme) ... only way to pay it back is take it from following generations (alternative is throw baby boomers under the bus and radically cut their payout).
Lots of stories during the 90s that wallstreet (and CEOs of large
corporations) were lobbying hard for 401Ks ... for wallstreet, large
pension plans negotiated very slim fees, they get higher percentage
from 401Ks. Some IBM:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
Last decade they came up with another scam to attack large pension plans, the did toxic securitized mortgages designed to fail, paid for triple-A ratings, allowing them to unload on funds restricted to "safe" investments (including pension plans, some claim that it accounts for 30% loss in value). They (also) then took out CDO gambling bets they would fail. The largest holder of CDO gambling bets was AIG and netogiating to payoff at 50cents on the dollar. Then SECTREAS steps in, has them sign a document that they can't sue those making the bets, and has them take TARP funds to payoff at face value. The largest recipient of TARP funds is AIG and the largest recipient of face-value payoffs is corporation formally headed by SECTREAS.
Disclaimer: 1999 I was asked to try and help stop the coming economic
mess. securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to
obfuscate fraudulent mortgages. As countermeasure, I was asked to help
improve the integrity of supporting documents. Then they find they can
pay for triple-A ratings (which trumps supporting documents) and they
start doing no-documentation, liar loans.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
avg life span has stayed relatively static since major adjustment to SS in the 80s ... except this year, US life span has slightly dropped/decreased
there are members of congress harping on the total size of debt ... but recently in respin, they are only talking about debt w/o what is owed the trust fund (as if they are preparing for campaign to make trust fund evaporate) ... they are also making noise about another round of huge tax cuts.
Note 2002, congress allows fiscal responsibility act to lapse
(spending couldn't exceed tax revenue, on its way to eliminating all
federal debt, from the 90s republican congress). 2010 CBO report was
in the interim (2003 thru 2009), tax revenue was cut $6T and spending
increase $6T for $12T gap compared to fiscal responsible budget (1st
time taxes were cut to not pay for two wars, courtesy of new
republican congress). By 2005, the U.S. Comptroller General was
including in speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle
school arithmetic (for what they were doing to the budget). Since
then, taxes haven't been restored and only modest cuts in spending, so
debt continues to increase.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
Stockman (80s budget director) takes credit for accelerating trust
fund contribution (to cover longer life span) in order to use the
extra money for DOD. Stockman more recently wrote a book about stock
buybacks where IBM has prominent role ... its easier for top
executives to get huge bonuses by juicing stock price with stock
buybacks.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
2013 breakdown
http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/52586e38ecad048c0e57f2e9-800-/screen%20shot%202013-10-11%20at%205.20.55%20pm.png
i.e. $16T 2013, $19T 2016 (but only $16T again, if you take out what is owed trust fund) ... increased by approx. $1T/yr, down from nearly $2T/yr last decade. Part of the problem now is interest on the debt is nearing half trillion/yr.
Some analysis claims debt is confluence of interests (letting fiscal
responsibility act to lapse in 2002), Greenspan & wallstreet wanting
huge debt (easy investment interest), special interests wanting huge
tax cuts, and military-industrial complex and other gov contractors
wanting huge spending increase (along with huge uptic in
gov. outsourcing last decade).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
AMEX, Private Equity, IBM related Gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Elections Fair? Date: 23 Dec 2016 Blog: FacebookThere was recent article about Sanders suing DNC for unfair. Response was that statements and process during election aren't basis for litigation ... it is equivalent of used-car salesmen puffery (buyer beware).
Example: during 2008 election, DEM presidential candidate made lots of
statements about reversing the enormous outsourcing of the federal
government that went on last decade ... which didn't happen, although
it didn't seem to increase much. Example enormous outsourcing of
intelligence to beltway bandits last decade, 70% of budget and over
half the people ... accelerated by large private-equity companies
buying up beltway bandits then heavily lobbying congress.
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Some IBM, after 90s IBM CEO leaves ... he goes on to head up
private-equity company that buys the beltway bandit that will employ
Snowden.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
Part of the explanation is that companies can't use money from gov. contracts to lobby congress (recent news that companies involved in Hanford cleanup are fined for violating lobbying law) ... but private-equity owners of belt-way bandits can.
Note standard criticism of private-equity is that they put their
subsidiaries under heavy pressure to cut corners and provide money
every way possible ... example is the outsourced security clearances
to (private-equity) betlway bandits were found to filling out the
paper work but not actually doing background checks (and leaking
examples where previously sensitive operations had required multiple
parties as countermeasure to insider threats).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: F35 Program Date: 23 Dec 2016 Blog: FacebookF35 over trillion, total lifetime program costs ... way behind schedule, even "revised, updated" schedule redone in 2011, and way over budget. This talks about general process used by military-industrial complex ... problem was F-22 was going into production still having all the problems ... so the maker switches from F-22 production to F-35 development (where all the problems haven't become so apparent yet, and pretend F-22 never existed)
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 ...
more than you possibly ever want to know about F-35 and some of the
things that happened during the evolution of the F-35 program,
including shows original "true" stealth in Boeing and Lockheed
prototypes and then how it is compromised.
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-JSF-Analysis.html
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-2009-01.html
http://www.ausairpower.net/jsf.html
in the military-industrial complex & beltway bandits rapidly spreading
success of failure culture (except its trillions now instead of
simply billions)
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
can expect something new to come along to replace F-35 and start the cycle all over again.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Your Social Security cuts are already on the way Date: 23 Dec 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
It will be getting harder & harder with interest on the debt pushing half trillion, big push for another big round of tax cuts and another big round of spending increases.
One of the stories, is about major purchases of treasuries are from tax havens (with opaque laws about who is doing what). Congress allowed loopholes for revenue to be hidden overseas. Posterchild is large heavy equipment maker that manufactures in the US and sells&ships directly to customers in the US. They get help setting up "distributorship" in tax haven, they sell to the distributorship at cost, and then the distributorship sells to customers in the US, equipment is shipped directly from US plant to US customer, and all the profit is booked in the tax haven. Possibility is that the money never actually left the US and is being used to buy treasuries ... but wizardry of accounting, you can't see it.
Part of the reason that there are references that congress is the most corrupt institution on earth
tax evasion, tax haven, tax avoidance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
Note stockman also claims credit for starting to tax SS benefits ... double taxation ... taxes were paid on SS payments into the trust fund ... and then again when the benefits are paid out (backdoor transfer of some of the money in the trust fund into the general fund).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Retrieving data from old hard drives? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 11:18:48 -0800Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> writes:
1990, Hursley had done SCSI commands over 80mbit/sec serial copper ... I did some server i/o throughput with 4&8 drives and got three times the throughput with serial than straight SCSI with essentially identical drives.
eariler in 1988, I had been asked to help LLNL standardize some
serialize some serial stuff they had been playing with that quickly
becomes fibre channel standard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_Channel
Initially ran IPI drives over FCS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Peripheral_Interface
In practice, the theoretical advantages of IPI over SCSI were often not realized, as they only materialized when several disks were connected to the interface, which could then easily become a bandwidth bottleneck.
... snip ...
LANL had standardized parallel 100mbyte/sec cray channel as HIPPI that
was used to run IPI disk arrays. That was then adopted for FCS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIPPI
there was then work on "serial" HIPPI ... competing with FCS.
Having been involved with both FCS and Hursley's serial copper ... I
wanted them to interoperate ... as part of cluster scale-up (for both
commerical and technical/scientific). However when cluster scale-up was
transferred to IBM Kingston (for technical/scientific *ONLY*), we were told
we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors ... some old
email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
and posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
Then Hursley's serial copper evolves into (non-interoperable, initially
160mbyte/sec) SSA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Storage_Architecture
I had been con'ed into doing channel extender for STL lab in 1980,
bursting at the seams, and moving 300 from the IMS group to offsite bldg
with dataprocessing back in STL datacenter. They had tried remote 3270s
but found human factors totally unacceptable. Part of the support was
downloading channel programs to channel emulator at the remote building
... enormously reducing the latency for the heavy weight channel
protocol chatter. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
semi-related posts, getting to play disk enginneer in bldgs 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
The vendor tried to get my support released ... but some engineers in
POK objected because they were afraid that it would make it harder to
get some serial stuff they were playing with, released. There stuff is
finally released in 1990 as ESCON when it is aleady obsolete. Later some
of the POK channel engineers become involved in fibre channel standard
and define a heavy-weight protocol that drastically reduces the native
throughput, eventually released as FICON. Most recent (2012) peak
mainframe disk I/O I can find was z196 2M IOPS running over 104 FICON
(running over 104 FCS). At the same time there was a (native) fibre
channel announced for E5-2600 blade claiming over million IOPS (two such
FCS having higher native throughput than 104 FICON running over 104
FCS). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
About the same time (2012), they announced zHPF/TCW enhancement for FICON (a little bit like what I had done for channel extender in 1980 and included in fibre channel standard), but only claims 30% improvment over FICON.
For whatever reason, I also got dragged into SCI standards, originated
at SLAC (possibly in part because I use to attend regular monthly
meetings at SLAC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Coherent_Interface
some slac refs
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/5000/slac-pub-5184.pdf
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/5500/slac-pub-5656.pdf
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/5500/slac-pub-5699.pdf
which was used for directory based scalable shared memory ... Sequent & Data General did 256-way intel multiprocessor, Convex did 128-way HP multiprocessor. However, there was also lots of work on using SCI for disk i/o.
mentioned in Futurebus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurebus
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: This Is How The US Government Destroys The Lives Of Patriotic Whistleblowers Date: 24 Dec 2016 Blog: FacebookThis Is How The US Government Destroys The Lives Of Patriotic Whistleblowers
some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
Boyd had story that when SECDEF couldn't get Chuck and him thrown in
Leavenworth for (behind paywall, but mostly lives free at wayback
machine) ... he created new security classification, NOSPIN
(unclassified but not to be given to Chuck)
https://web.archive.org/web/20070320170523/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953733,00.html
also
https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953733,00.html
there is a joke about Washington that the highest security classification is "downright embarrassing" (usually nothing to do with national security, but individual careers).
boyd posts & web URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
somewhat related:
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
We didn't know it at the time, but we were possibly involved on the
periphery. In 2002 the agency released IC-ARDA (since renamed IARPA)
unclassified BAA that basically said none of the tools that the agency
had did the job. Just before closing, we got a call asking us to
respond before closing. We quickly got in response and then had a
number of meetings showing we could do what was needed ... and then
nothing. It wasn't until this series that we had any idea of what
might be going on.
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: In American Towns, Private Profits From Public Works Date: 24 Dec 2016 Blog: FacebookIn American Towns, Private Profits From Public Works
private-equity companies bought up lot of beltway bandits last decade
... which appeared to go along with huge congressional lobbying and
uptic in gov. outsourcing ... in intelligence, 70% of budget and over
half the people (private-equity pressure for profits results in things
like subsidiaries doing security clearances, filling out paperwork but
not actually doing background checks). Prior to Snowden incident
(employed by beltway bandit, private equity subsidiary) ... common
practice for sensitive operations required multi-party processes (as
countermeasure to insider threats)
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
and contributed to the rapidly spreading success of failure culture
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
they've also gotten into buying up medical practices and non-profit hospitals (another big potential for profits with the rapidly graying baby boomers).
During the S&L crisis, they got such a bad reputation, they changed
the industry name to private equity and "junk bond" becomes
"high-yield bond"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
S&L crisis posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
old NYTIMES article equating private-equity to house flipping, but
they can even resell for less than they paid and walk away with boat
loads of money (since loan goes on the books of the victim company and
goes with it, when sold). over half corporate defaults are companies
currently or previously in private-equity mill
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
What is strange is that all the private-equity loans that default ... never seem to be associated with the original private-equity borrowers or affect their credit rating (all those records seem just to have evaporated).
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: A Christmassy PL/I tale Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 26 Dec 2016 10:04:25 -0800patrick.vogt@AXA-TECH.COM (Patrick Vogt) writes:
current cache miss, memory access latency, counted in number of
processor cycles is compariable to the 60s disk access latency when
counted in 60s processor cycles ... accounts for out-of-level and
hardware multi-threaded work ... comparable to starting to do
multiprogramming/multitasking in the 60s ... i.e MFT & MVT. Note
folklore is that original justification for moving all of 370 to
virtual memory was based on horrible MVT storage managment ...
regions required 4times the memory typical used, typical MVT 1mbyte
165 only had four regions, mobing to 16mbyte virtual memoy would allow four
times the regions with little or no actual paging (better CPU
utilization and aggregate throughput, larger virtual memory size
compensating for the horrible MVT storage management problem). ref:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
note that 360/195 pipeline had out-of-order but no branch prediction, so
conditional branches drained the pipeline and most codes only ran half
processor peak throughput (and some amount of RISC literature attribute
out-of-order to the 195 work). I had gotten sucked into helping with
hardware (hyper)threading for 370/195 (never announced or shipped), two
instructions streams (simulating two processors) ... running two
simulated CPUs typically running at half througput ... keeping single
195 pipeline 100% utilized. hardware threading mentioned in this article
about end of (360) ACS (canceled because executives thot it would
advance state-of-art too fast and IBM would loose control of the market,
also references some ACS features show up more than 20yrs later with
ES9000)
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
latest mainframes
z900, 16 processors, 2.5BIPS (156MIPS/proc), Dec2000
z990, 32 processors, 9BIPS, (281MIPS/proc), 2003
z9, 54 processors, 18BIPS (333MIPS/proc), July2005
z10, 64 processors, 30BIPS (469MIPS/proc), Feb2008
z196, 80 processors, 50BIPS (625MIPS/proc), Jul2010
EC12, 101 processors, 75BIPS (743MIPS/proc), Aug2012
z196 documentation claims that half the per processor performance
improvement (compared to z10), is the introduction of out-of-order
(compared to being used for decades in other processors) ... i.e. half
of 156MIPS increase from 469MIPS to 625MIPS. Part of the 118MIPS
improvement from z196 to EC12 is attributed to further refinement in
out-of-order implementation.
z13 claims 30% increased (system) throughput (over EC12) or about 100BIPS with 40% increase in no. of processors or about 710MIPS/proc.
z196 era e5-2600v1 blades are rated at 400-500+BIPS (depending on model/frequency) ... latest e5-2600v4 blades are 3-4 times that, around 1.5TIPS (1500BIPS) ... they've had decades more experience with processor design for throughput.
trivia: mid-70s, I was involved in 16-way 370 effort ... and had
involved spare time of some early 3033 processor engineers. People in
POK thot it was really great until somebody told the head of POK that it
might be decades before the POK favorite son operating system had
effective 16-way support. Head of POK then invited some of us to never
visit POK again ... 16-way, z900 finally ships in 2000 (almost 25yrs
later).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
recent posts mentiong e5-2600:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#15 Dilbert ... oh, you must work for IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#19 Fibre Chanel Vs FICON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#23 IBM's 3033; "The Big One": IBM's 3033
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#27 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#74 Fibre Channel is still alive and kicking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#103 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
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#60 Which Books Can You Recommend For Learning Computer Programming?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#61 Can commodity hardware actually emulate the power of a mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#24 What was a 3314?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#81 The mainframe is dead. Long live the mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#42 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#25 Samsung's million-IOPS, 6.4TB, 64Gb/s SSD is ... well, quite something
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#28 Computer hard drives have shrunk like crazy over the last 60 years -- here's a look back
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#40 The F-22 Raptor Is the World's Best Fighter (And It Has a Secret Weapon That Is Out in the Open)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#53 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#55 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#95 Retrieving data from old hard drives?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: PC Compromise and Internet Transactions Date: 26 Dec 2016 Blog: Facebookalmost as soon as on-screen keyboards appeared (as countermeasure to keyloggers), there were mouse/cursor trackers ... then came randomized letter position in screen keyboard to combat rote mouse/cursor trackers ... which then added letter recognition.
mid-90s, consumer dialup banking were making presentation in industry
conferences that they were moving to the internet (primarily because
of the significant costs in supporting proprietary dialup
infrastructure). at the same time the commercial dialup online backing
said they would never move to the internet (because of a long list of
vulnerabilities ... many which continue to this day). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#dialup-banking
commercial dialup online banking eventually did move to the internet ... and the FED starting publishing guidelines that businesses should have a dedicated PC that is *ONLY* used for online financial transactions ... and *NEVER* used for any other purpose (as countermeasure to long list of PC easy compromises).
In the late 90s, there was EU effort to come up with external hardened
box ... that provided secure end-to-end integrity ... especially for
financial (attached to PC ... but used PC more like intermediate
router) ... as countermeasure to long list of how PCs get compromised
(what happened to those efforts is another story, when they were
imploding, we sponsored meeting in Redmond with major stakeholders to
reverse things, but it was too late). past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#finread
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Attack SS Entitlements Date: 26 Dec 2016 Blog: FacebookCongress have passed some (unfunded) social benefit acts where the benefits are taken from the SS Trust Fund (even when people haven't paid in or related to retirement). Although a small percentage ... congress can now turn around and claim some SS is being used for Entitlements ... but that could be considered just part of congressional duplicity. The much larger problem is congress has borrowed everything out of the SS Trust fund ... and are acting more and more like they don't want to have to pay it back ... lots of this other rhetoric is just misdirection and obfuscation wanting to default on what they borrowed from SS Trust fund.
Baby Boomer (birth bubble) generation was 4times larger than the previous generation and twice as large as the following generation. During baby boomer prime working years, they were paying in much more each year than was being paid out in benefits to earlier generations. As baby boomers retire they will be expecting benefits from the priniciple built up during their working years ... but congress has looted the Trust fund and will have to heavily tax the following generation to pay it back (or figure out some slight of hand to not pay it back).
I've known people who have never worked and got benefits classified as disabled for drug and/or alcohol abuse. Checking online, it says that 1996 law prohibits classifying somebody as disabled if the drug/acohol abuse is "material" factor causing the disability (but that seems to be rather loose).
SSDI requires some work, for 30-40yr olds, requires at least one quarter/year for last ten years (paying FICA), for younger, it is adjusted based on how long they have been of "working age" and for older, it is adjusted because they may not be "employable".
Two trust funds, old-age retirement (OASI) and disability insurance
(DI), but I've never seen the differentiation in accounting for the
trust fund
https://www.ssa.gov/.../press/factsheets/WhatAreTheTrust.htm
this says that the two funds were combined in 1957 ... possibly
enabling skimming disability benefits from retirement fund. There is
comment that the US Treasury has credited the trust fund for
disability benefit payments to (some of the) uncovered people.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/funds.html
this says SSI is paid out of general fund, not trust fund (and no work
requirements)
https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/
some might also use the SSI "entitlement" to justify attacking SS retirement
recent posts mentioning SS trust fund:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#22 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#44 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#25 SS Trust Fund
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#23 How Generation Y is paying the price for baby boomer pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#88 Goldman Slammed With $5.1 Billion Fine For "Serious Misconduct" In Mortgage Selling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#54 Social Security Trust Fund IOUs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#91 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#65 old Western Union Telegraph Company advertising
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#101 Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#95 Social Security Trust Fund
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#37 GOP Announces Privatization Of Medicare And The Details Are TERRIFYING
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#61 GOP introduces plan to massively cut Social Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#63 GOP introduces plan to massively cut Social Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#90 GOP Announces Privatization Of Medicare And The Details Are TERRIFYING
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#91 Your Social Security cuts are already on the way
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Multitasking question Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 27 Dec 2016 10:54:32 -08000000000433f07816-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.UA.EDU (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
tss/360 did implement location independent executable images (where same image could be mapped simultaneously into different virtual address spaces at different locations.
when i did page-mapped filesystem for (cp67/)cms in the early 70s, I also implemented location independent support ... but CMS primarily used OS/360 assembler/compile/loader conventions (with relocatable adcons that got fixed at load time, rather than the tss/360 model) ... I frequently had to significantly massage os/360 "generated" code to make it location independent. I then ported the support to vm370/cms ... and a very small subset was included in vm370 release 3, w/o the paged map filesystem and the location independent support.
past posts mentioning horrible contortions I sometimes had to resort
to in order to have location independent code.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#adcon
I would say that when I did the CMS page-mapped filesystem ... I avoided
doing all the things that I saw tss/360 had done wrong (from performance
stand point, it did do the location independent correctly). Possibly one
of the reasons that the full page-mapped stuff wasn't included in vm370
release 3 was because the (failed) FS effort had pretty much adopted the
tss/360 model ... and "page-mapped" got such a bad reputation with
the FS failure ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
even tho I could show my cms page-mapped filesystem had 3-4 times the
throughput of the native cms filesystem (both original and EDF). some
past filesystem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
other trivia, something similar also shows up at the time of decision to
migrate all 370 to virtual memory ... recent post mentioning major
motivation was the horrible MVT storage management.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#98 A Christmassy PL/I tale
Simpson (from HASP), rather than going to gburg as part of HASP/JES group ... went to Hawthorne and did "RASP" ... a MFT2 based implementation supporting a (os/360 oriented) paged-map filesystem ... which showed some of the advantages for (os/360 based) virtual memory systems.
When it wasn't picked up, he left IBM and joined a clone processor maker ... where he re-implemented RASP from scratch.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Multitasking question Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 27 Dec 2016 17:57:31 -08000000000433f07816-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.UA.EDU (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
part of the issue was that CMS had a 64kbyte os/360 system services simulation implementation. With the introduction of MVS ... and its 8mbyte kernel image ... there was a joke that CMS 64kbyte os/360 system services simulation was significantly more effective than the MVS 8mbyte os/360 system services simulation.
In the mid-70s, somebody in the burlington vm370/cms development group did a rewrite increasing the size to approx 128kbyte os/360 system services simulation ... with lots more feature/function compatibility (including read/write os/360 disks supporting file access methods).
However this was about the time that Future System was failing and the
mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 product pipelines ... including
kicking off 3033, 3081/xa and mvs/xa. the head of POK tells corporate
that he needs vm370 product killed and all the people moved to POK or
otherwise he won't be able to ship mvs/xa on schedule (this is still
mid-70s). All the enhancements not already shipped ... disappear in the
shutdown of the burlington site.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
They were not planning on telling the burlington group until shortly before the shutdown goes into effect, to minimize the number of people that could escape the move. Unfortunately(?) the shutdown leaks several months early and lots manage to escape (there was joke that the head of POK is one of the major contributors to DEC vax/vms) ... and then there was witchhunt to find who leaked the information ... fortunately, nobody gave me up.
Endicott finally managed to save the vm370 product mission ... but they had to reconstitute a development group from scratch ... and Endicott was much more interested in providing dos/vs system service simulation (than os/360 system services simulation)
lots of past post about location independent code and fighting RLDs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#adcon
other multitasking tivia: charlie had invented compare&swap (chosen
because CAS are his initials) ... while doing fine-grain cp67
multiprocessor locking at science center ... some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
attempting to get compre&swap added to 370 was repulsed because the POK favorite son operating system people said that test&set (from 360/65MP) was more than sufficient. 370 architecture owners said that in order to add compare&swap to 370, uses other than SMP kernel locking was needed. Thus was born the application multitasking/multithreaded examples that still are included in appendix of POO. This was picked by large mulithreaded/multitasking subsystems like DBMSes (IMS, DB2, etc).
In the 80s, other platforms started adding compare&swap instructions (or instructions with semantics similar to compare&swap) ... as part of supporting large commercial DBMS. Platforms w/o compare&swap semantics had to use kernel calls with significantly higher overhead.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Minimum Wage Date: 27 Dec 2016 Blog: Facebookin the late 90s, congress asked GAO do a study of effect of paying workers below living wage ... GAO report found it cost (city/state/federal) govs. avg $10K/worker/year .... basically worked out to an indirect gov. subsidy to their employers. The interesting thing is that it has been almost 20yrs since that report ... and no congress this century have asked the GAO to update the study.
the (2002) congress is also responsible for letting fiscal
responsibility act lapse (couldn't spend more than tax revenue, on its
way to eliminating all federal dept, courtesy of 90s congress). 2010
CBO report had 2003-2009, tax revenue cut was $6T and spending
increased $6T, for $12T gap compared to fiscal responsibility
budget. By 2005, the U.S. Comptroller General was including in
speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle school
arithmetic (for what they were doing to the budget). Since then, taxes
haven't been restored and only modest cuts in spending, so debt
continues to increase. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
all part of congress this century considered most corrupt institution on earth.
In 1992, AMEX spun off a lot of its dataprocessing in the largest IPO up until that time as FDC. FDC then looked at acquiring Western Union, but backed out because it was doing poorly ... however it later got WU anyway (which was still doing poorly) in merger with First Financial (had to divest MoneyGram as part of the deal) ... which was about the time of the GAO study (that also looked at illegal workers being paid less than minimum wage ... and how much they cost in gov. services, in effect significant more gov. subsidy to their employers). However, with the explosion in illegal workers (being paid less than minimum wage) after the start of the century, by 2005, WU had exploded to half of FDC's bottom line (at the time time, the other half of FDC was enormous outsourcing, including "soup-to-nuts" for over half of all credit cards in the US, issuing, statementing, transactions, callcenters, on&on). Possibly in part because President of Mexico invited FDC executives to Mexico to be thrown in jail (for how much they were making off all the illegal workers), FDC then spun off WU. Claim is one of the reasons that the corrupt congress this century ignored the problem (including not asking for update of the GAO report) was because of heavy lobbying by industries that effectively get the indirect gov. subsidies being allowed to pay less than minimum & living wage.
But the industry lobbying dominated ... turning blind eye to enormous explosion in illegal workers that occurred after the start of the century and being paid less than minimum wage.
There is book written how (national) chamber of commerce became the
center of it around the turn of the century ... and it got so bad that
local chapters started divorcing themselves from the national
organization.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NDTUDHA/
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#38 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#102 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#18 Qbasic
minimum wage has been used for different purposes at different times
... however recently this shows that minimum wage has not only not kept
pace with cost of living ... has actually declined in terms of real
dollars (sometimes story is being spun to obfuscate fundamental
issues)
http://bebusinessed.com/history/history-of-minimum-wage/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_States
corresponds to this that real wages have remained flat since 1980
... while productivity has gone up significant (the increasing
difference being siphoned off).
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic.html
Even more was siphoned off with enormous explosion in illegal workers last decade, being paid not only less than living wage ... but also less than minimum wage (demonstrated with the explosion in WU revenue between 2000 & 2005 from illegal workers sending paychecks home) ... and then from 90s GAO report (not being updated is strong indication of lobbying pressure) ... gov. services were increasingly necessary to cover the widening gap (effectively indirect gov. subsidy for many industries).
The tens of millions in illegal workers since the start of the century is far more of impact on jobs for working poor than any minimum wage issue
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: PC Compromise and Internet Transactions Date: 27 Dec 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
Turn of the century, lots of financial institutions were starting to add chips to their magstripe cards ... for both home/internet use as well as point of sale. Because of various missteps, they floundered/failed with all traces of the efforts evaporated ... and the prediction was it would be a long time before it would be tried again.
One of the major internet-oriented chip efforts involved the distribution of free chip readers by major financial institution ... however they must have gotten a fire sale on obsolete serial-port readers for the free distribution and the resulting customer support problems were a disaster ... creating a rapidly spreading opinion throughout the financial industry that chipcards weren't practical for home use (and the whole US industry dropping similar efforts). We then sponsored a meeting in Redmond to try and reverse the situation, members of the kernel security group, what was left of PC/SC people that we could find and several financial institutions ... but it was too late.
The "funny" thing in the upthread reference about the mid-90s financial industry meetings regarding moving consumer dialup online banking to the internet, at the top of the list about customer support problems/costs with proprietary dialup infrastructure was serial-port dialup modems. All the financial institutional knowledge about serial-port customer support problems had evaporated in a period of 5yrs.
During the same period there was large US pilot to deploy
point-of-sale chipcard that had originated in Europe. Unfortunately
this was in its "YES CARD" vulnerability period (one description that
they spent billions of dollars to prove that chipcards are less secure
than magstripe cards). Before deployment, I tried to convince them of
the problems ... but they were so myopically focused on lost/stolen
card problem, they were oblivious to some greater threats. That effort
also evaporated w/o a trace and there was also prediction that it
would be a long time before it was tried again. Old trip report from
cartes2002 (gone 404 but lives on at the wayback machine), at the
bottom mentions it is as easy to clone a "YES CARD" as a magstripe
card and has worse fraud.
https://web.archive.org/web/20030417083810/http://www.smartcard.co.uk/resources/articles/cartes2002.html
"Yes card" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
A combination of both deployment failures heavily influenced the industry to back away. After 15yrs, the point-of-sale is finally being tried again, however the chip design/operation isn't useful for the internet.
Disclaimer: when they complained that the chips could cost tens of
dollars, took several seconds to tens of seconds for transaction ... I
designed a chip that was more secure, cost less than a dollar, and
could do the most secure transaction in 1/10th sec. when they
complained that issuing/deployment cost too much, I designed a
person-centric secure infrastructure (as opposed to
institutional-centric infrastructure where every institution issues
their own card) where a single card could be used for all
authentication (the same secure trusted card could be used for secure
bldg. entry, point-of-sale financial transactions for all financial
institutions, and for all online operations). lots of patents
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadssummary.htm
refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
We were tangentially involved in the cal state data breach
notification act ... having been brought in to help wordsmith some
legislation where privacy organizations were heavily involved. They
had done extensive public surveys and the number one issue were
fraudulent financial transactions as the result of breaches and little
or nothing was being done. The problem turns out that normally
institutions take security measures in self interest ... but in these
situations, the institutions weren't at risk, it was the public. It
was hoped that the publicity from the notifications might prompt
corrective action.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
trivia ... an industry standard was developed shortly after the Cal. data breach notification act ... and a federal (preemption) data breach notification bill was introduced (didn't pass) that almost totally eliminated all cases for notification ... in part justified on having the industry standard.
For a long time the industry joke about lots of cases of breaches for institutions that had "standard" certification ... the "industry standard" primarily represented revenue for those doing certification and certification would be revoked if you had a breach (and purpose of the industry standard was to get a breach notification act passed that eliminated the notification requirement).
Note in financial industry, there are frequent situations in dispute between consumer and the institutions ... that if the institution is following standard, the burden of proof is on the consumer ... while if the institution isn't following standard, the burden of proof falls on the institution. When financial chipcards were introduced in UK, legislation went into effect that placed burden of proof on the customer involving fraudulent financial transactions. I was contacted by legal representative in one such case ... where the bank couldn't find the surveillance video involving a (fraudulent) ATM transaction ... so the customer had no way of proving it wasn't him. If the burden of proof had been on the institution, the bank would have had to produce the surveillance video showing it was the customer.
posts mentioning "burden of proof"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm17.htm#59 dual-use digital signature vulnerability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm18.htm#0 dual-use digital signature vulnerability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm18.htm#55 MD5 collision in X509 certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm19.htm#33 Digital signatures have a big problem with meaning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm20.htm#0 the limits of crypto and authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm21.htm#35 [Clips] Banks Seek Better Online-Security Tools
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#14 Shifting the Burden - legal tactics from the contracts world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#33 Chip-and-Pin terminals were replaced by "repairworkers"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#60 crypto component services - is there a market?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#63 Public key encrypt-then-sign or sign-then-encrypt?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#38 The Trouble with Threat Modelling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm6.htm#nonreput Sender and receiver non-repudiation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm6.htm#terror7 [FYI] Did Encryption Empower These Terrorists?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay10.htm#72 Invisible Ink, E-signatures slow to broadly catch on
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#57 RealNames hacked. Firewall issues.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000g.html#34 does CA need the proof of acceptance of key binding ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#59 PKI/Digital signature doesn't work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#62 PKI/Digital signature doesn't work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#69 Digital signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004i.html#17 New Method for Authenticated Public Key Exchange without Digital Certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#41 xml-security vs. native security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#6 Creating certs for others (without their private keys)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#11 Question about authentication protocols
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#26 How good is TEA, REALLY?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#42 Catch22. If you cannot legally be forced to sign a document etc - Tax Declaration etc etc etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006d.html#32 When *not* to sign an e-mail message?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#8 Beginner's Pubkey Crypto Question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#28 sizeof() was: The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#23 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#67 open source voting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#62 Solving password problems one at a time, Re: The password-reset paradox
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#52 Credit cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#71 Sophisticated cybercrooks cracking bank security efforts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#72 Why don't people use certificate-based access authentication?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#1 Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#3 Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#21 Credit card data security: Who's responsible?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#24 Cambridge researchers show Chip and PIN system vulnerable to fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#47 Industry groups leap to Chip and PIN's defence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#63 Wal-Mart to support smartcard payments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#7 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#82 Five Theses on Security Protocols
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#77 towards https everywhere and strict transport security (was: Has there been a change in US banking regulations recently?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#60 A Two Way Non-repudiation Contract Exchange Scheme
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#71 Password shortcomings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#62 Gordon Gekko Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#35 The Conceptual ATM program
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#10 The Knowledge Economy Two Classes of Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#8 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#38 regulation,bridges,streams
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#52 U.S. agents 'got lucky' pursuing accused Russia master hackers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#90 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#17 Steve B sees what investors think
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#20 Steve B sees what investors think
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#58 US a laggard in adopting more secure credit cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#60 Target Offers Free Credit Monitoring Following Security Breach
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#69 Why is the US a decade behind Europe on 'chip and pin' cards?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#67 Sale receipt--obligatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#43 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#39 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#65 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#6 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#7 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#17 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Multitasking question Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 21:04:20 -08000000000433f07816-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.UA.EDU (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
fixed in the 128kbyte version ... unfortunately, head of POK killed VM370 product and had all the work destroyed before it shipped, Endicott eventually managed to resurrected the VM370 product (and had to build new development group from scratch) but they were much more interested in doing dos/vs system services ... than going back and trying to fix up the os/360 system services (especially when POK and POK favorite son operating system people were working so hard to kill vm370)
the folklore about the primary reason that POK got back into virtual machines (at all) was that customers weren't migrating from MVS to MVS/XA like they were suppose to, ... so POK started back again with virtual machines .... supposedly just for migration aid for helping customers transitioning from MVS to MVS/XA (*NO* cms interest).
then when one of the clone vendors came out with hardware hypervisor (virtual machine subset in hardware) ... it took POK quite some time to respond with LPAR (on 3090). Funny thing was that several years before, I had worked with endicott to ship all entry&mid-range machines with virtual machine subset support built in ... but it was veto'ed by POK (part of their ongoing campaign to kill off virtual machines).
primary blame for lack of better os/360 simulation in CMS lies with the MVS organization.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Minimum Wage Date: 28 Dec 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
and funniest darn thing ... this just shows up
The New Normal 'Safety Net': Surging Disability Benefits Claims
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-27/new-normal-safety-net-surging-disability-benefits-claims
and story about (national) chamber of commerce still at it
Election Losses Don't Stop Corporate Efforts to Block Voter-Approved
Minimum Wage Hikes
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/38874-election-losses-don-t-stop-corporate-efforts-to-block-voter-approved-minimum-wage-hikes
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Minimum Wage Date: 29 Dec 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
conventional wisdom has minimum wage for teenagers, entry level, no/unskilled, no experience
what we know
minimum wage hasn't kept pace with inflation
before 2000, congress was interested in fiscal responsibility budget (spending not exceed taxes) and reliable (GAO) reports on minimum wage, illegal workers, working poor
after 2000, somebody is spending huge amount on expensive lobbying at city, state, and federal level regarding large tax cuts & loopholes, large spending increases, minimum wage, illegal workers, and working poor
after 2000, congress is no longer interested in fiscal responsibility budget (allowing fiscal responsibility act to expire in 2002, cutting taxes at $1T/yr and increased spending at $1T/yr for $12T deficit through 2009, since 2009 spending cut back but taxes not restored so deficit continues to increase around $1T/yr), no longer interested in reliable reports on minimum wage, illegal workers, working poor, etc.
after 2000, there was explosion in bringing in illegal workers at less then minimum wage, based on explosion in WU revenue from fees on illegal workers sending wages home
after 2000, there was drop in legal workers as percent of legal population
with spending having been cut and taxes haven't been restored, to
eliminate the $1T/yr defict, start would be to restore taxes to the
fiscal responsibility budget level. But that won't fix the situation
since interest on debt is now pushing half trillion/yr. Just restoring
the $1T/yr taxes to the fiscal responsibility budget level won't be
enough, taxes would have to be increased by another $1T/yr ($2T/yr
more than now) to cover the debt interest and make payments on
reducing the debt (still will take something like 40yrs). some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
hypothesis
the explosion in illegal workers brought in (at below minimum wage) since 2000 have taken over minimum wage jobs (teenagers, no/unskilled, no experience) and also account for the drop in legal workers (as percent of legal population).
large percentage of semi-skilled and working poor with experience have been reduced to minimum wage
which accounts for very significant financial interest in funding the expensive lobbying at city/state/federal level on minimum wage, illegal workers, and working poor (including faking and spinning news stories for obfuscation and misdirection)
a possible alternative spin on the sanctuary cities ... is entities bringing in the huge numbers of illegal workers and paying less than minimum wage hold the threat of INS & deportation over their heads
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Minimum Security Required Date: 29 Dec 2016 Blog: FacebookOn the news today, somebody raised the question whether there was sufficient security and countermeasures in lots of breaches that have been in the news.
In the early 80s, IBM brought a lawsuit for several billion dollars
against a clone disk maker for theft of proprietary information. Judge
ruled that lawsuit can't proceed unless IBM could demonstrate that it
had security measures/protection proportional to claimed
value. Basically people can't be held responsible for taking
attractive target (that didn't have sufficient security) somewhat akin
to requiring fences around swimming pools to prevent children
wandering in ("attractive nuisance"). posts mentioning security
proportional to risk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#security.proportional.to.risk
This would show up in the Chinese making off with whole raft of
classified details compromising high priority weapons system and
Russian breaches of numerous targets.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/confidential-report-lists-us-weapons-system-designs-compromised-by-chinese-cyberspies/2013/05/27/a42c3e1c-c2dd-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html
I was tangentially involved in the cal. state breach notification act
... having been brought in to help wordsmith legislation. The issue
was there appeared to be little or nothing being done about fraudulent
financial transactions as a result of breaches. The issue in this case
was that normally that entities take security measures in
self-protection. In the case of these breaches, the institution wasn't
at risk; it was their customers and the public. It was hoped that the
publicity from notifications might prompt corrective action. posts
mentioning data breach notification
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
posts mentioning IBM lawsuit & judge required demonstration of security
measures proportional to value at risk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#42 IBM was/is: Imitation...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#8 Security Proportional to Risk (was: IBM Mainframe at home)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#48 Speaking of Gerstner years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#60 Where should the type information be: in tags and descriptors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#7 DDJ Article on "Secure" Dongle
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#41 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#36 Was FORTRAN buggy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#29 Intel abandons USEnet news
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#25 Tap and faucet and spellcheckers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#26 Tap and faucet and spellcheckers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#5 Greed - If greed was the cause of the global meltdown then why does the biz community appoint those who so easily succumb to its temptations?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#24 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#4 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#71 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#26 Microminiaturized Modules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#82 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#28 Computer virus strikes US Marshals, FBI affected
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#29 Online Computer Conferencing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#71 Trade Secrets and Confidential Information
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#42 Intelligence and foreign policy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#72 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#25 Economic espionage discussed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#58 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#26 Julian Assange - Hero or Villain
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#10 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#82 What Makes Economic History Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#45 U.S. agents 'got lucky' pursuing accused Russia master hackers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#46 Feds indict indentity theft ring
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#32 Surveillance Reform Theater
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#67 We Must Stop The Race to Attribution After Each Cyberattack
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Minimum Wage Date: 30 Dec 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
Part of obfuscating and misdirection on this issue is to cherry pick anecdotal stories ... that aren't statistically significant.
I was once challenged on 18-wheeler road-use gas tax should be at
least $40-$50/gallon and near zero for everybody else. The basic
scenario was that it would be extremely disruptive to the current
trucking industry ... which has established economic niche that is
subsidized by road-use gas tax being equal for all kinds of
vehicles. However, road wear&tear is near zero for all vehicles except
for 18-wheel heavy trucks and roads are designed based on projected
18-wheeler heavy truck axle-ton mile load lifetime use.
603.1 Introduction
The primary goal of the design of the pavement structural section is
to provide a structurally stable and durable pavement and base system
which, with a minimum of maintenance, will carry the projected traffic
loading for the designated design period. This topic discusses the
factors to be considered and procedures to be followed in developing a
projection of truck traffic for design of the "pavement structure" or
the structural section for specific projects.
Pavement structural sections are designed to carry the projected truck
traffic considering the expanded truck traffic volume, mix, and the
axle loads converted to 80 kN equivalent single axle loads (ESAL's)
expected to occur during the design period. The effects on pavement
life of passenger cars, pickups, and two-axle trucks are considered to
be negligible.
Traffic information that is required for structural section design
includes axle loads, axle configurations, and number of
applications. The results of the AASHO Road Test (performed in the
early 1960's in Illinois) have shown that the damaging effect of the
passage of an axle load can be represented by a number of 80 kN
ESAL's. For example, one application of a 53 kN single axle load was
found to cause damage equal to an application of approximately 0.23 of
an 80 kN single axle load, and four applications of a 53 kN single
axle were found to cause the same damage (or reduction in
serviceability) as one application of an 80 kN single axle.
... snip ...
past posts quoting above reference:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#41 Transportation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#42 Transportation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#56 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#59 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#60 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#61 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#62 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#0 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#76 IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The top 50 hospitals that gouge patients the most Date: 31 Dec 2016 Blog: FacebookThe top 50 hospitals that gouge patients the most
there have been a number of articles about private-equity moving into
health care, buying up hospitals, primary care practices, etcs
... similar to how they victimize other industries ... this is article
comparing it to house-flipping ... but since they put the loan on the
victim company's books ... they can even sell-off for less than they
paid ... and still walk away with boat-loads of money (over half
corporate defaults are victims that are currently or previously in the
private-equity mill)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
The intelligence community and huge uptic in outsourcing to beltway bandits last decade ... part of it is companies can't use money from gov. contracts to lobby congress ... but private equity companies can lobby on behalf of the beltway bandits they bought up. For intelligence community, 70% of the budget and over half the people have been outsourced.
Slight IBM content, after 90s CEO left IBM, he went on to head up one
of the major private-equity companies involved in buying up beltway
bandits ... including the one that employed Snowden. The beltway
bandits are under intense pressure to cut corners and provide money to
their private-equity owners, security clearances were outsourced to
private-equity subsidiaries that were found to be filling out the
paperwork ... but not actually doing the background checks.
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
For a long time, up through at least last decade, sensitive operations required multi-party operations as countermeasure to insider threats ... (at least in Snowden case) seems to have been abandoned by private-equity subsidiaries
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Definition of "dense code" Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 11:48:06 -0800jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
Optimizing code-size with the GNU gcc compiler for STM32 and other ARM
Cortex-M targets
http://blog.atollic.com/optimizing-code-size-with-the-gnu-gcc-compiler-for-stm32-and-other-arm-cortex-m-targets
Reducing Code Size on ARM/Thumb processors
http://www.simplemachines.it/doc/ARM_COMBO_ap01.html
Difference between size of binaries - x86_64 vs ARM
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/254418/difference-between-size-of-binaries-x86-64-vs-arm
this used to be an issue in days gone by with code fitting in real memory sizes, code organization that work well in virtual paged environment, and/or fit in virtual address space size.
at the science center in the early 70s, there was work on application
that analyzed programs and did semi-automated reorganization to better
improve throughput in virtual paged environment (it was used by a lot of
internal development groups as part of moving from os/360 to VS1 & VS2).
This was released to customers in the later half of 70s as VS/Repack.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
Internally there was large fortran program developed for chip design. It started out being hosted on MVS ... in the days when it had 16mbyte virtual address space for every application. However since OS/360 APIs were primarily pointer-pass paradigm, a 8mbyte image of the MVS kernel occupied every 16mbyte virtual address space. Then because subsystems were moved to their own virtual address space, it created a huge problem in the pointer-passing API between applications and subsystems. Solution was "common segment", a one mbyte segment that (also) occupied every virtual address space (leaving only 7mbyte for application use) that was used to allocate space for API parameter calls ... so a pointer could be passed from application and subsystem. However, common requirement size turned out to be proportional to number of subsystems, number of concurrent applications and size of system ... by 3033 time, common area requirement (that allocated in virtual address space) was frequently 5-6mbytes (leaving 2mbytes for application use) ... and threatening to increase to 8mbytes (leaving nothing for application use). The critical chip design program required specially created dedicated MVS that only had a single 1mbyte common area ... but the chip-design program was still constantly bumping its head against the 7mbyte size limitation. The proposal was to move it to vm370/cms environment where it would have nearly the full 16mbytes (less about 128kbyes).
dense has also been used to refer to tight, something being implemented optimally in the fastest, fewest instructions possible (although things like unrolling loops trades off size for efficiency).
6.2 Speed-space tradeoffs
http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~fsalvi/docs/gcc/www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/gccintro/gccintro_40.html
3.10 Options That Control Optimization
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.4/gcc/Optimize-Options.html
-O2 Optimize even more. GCC performs nearly all supported optimizations that do not involve a space-speed tradeoff. The compiler does not perform loop unrolling or function inlining when you specify -O2.
past posts mentioning vs/repack
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#7 IBM 7090 (360s, 370s, apl, etc)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#68 The Melissa Virus or War on Microsoft?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000g.html#30 Could CDR-coding be on the way back?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#83 Z/90, S/390, 370/ESA (slightly off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001c.html#31 database (or b-tree) page sizes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001c.html#33 database (or b-tree) page sizes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#20 Very CISC Instuctions (Was: why the machine word size ...)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002c.html#28 OS Workloads : Interactive etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002c.html#45 cp/67 addenda (cross-post warning)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002c.html#46 cp/67 addenda (cross-post warning)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002c.html#49 Swapper was Re: History of Login Names
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#50 IBM going after Strobe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#50 Blade architectures
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#15 Alpha performance, why?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#21 "Super-Cheap" Supercomputing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#53 Alpha performance, why?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#15 Disk capacity and backup solutions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#8 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs. IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#32 Language semantics wrt exploits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004.html#14 Holee shit! 30 years ago!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#21 PSW Sampling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#22 Lock-free algorithms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#55 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#7 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#73 Athlon cache question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#76 Athlon cache question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#4 Athlon cache question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#41 Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#48 Secure design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#15 Exceptions at basic block boundaries
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#62 More on garbage collection
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#17 More on garbage collection
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#28 IBM's mini computers--lack thereof
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#18 Code density and performance?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#5 Code density and performance?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#15 {SPAM?} Re: Expanded Storage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#23 Seeking Info on XDS Sigma 7 APL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#20 About TLB in lower-level caches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#46 using 3390 mod-9s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006i.html#37 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#18 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#22 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#24 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#11 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#23 Strobe equivalents
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#26 Cache-Size vs Performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#12 Trying to design low level hard disk manipulation program
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#1 IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#16 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#31 Wylbur and Paging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#55 Capacity and Relational Database
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#53 Virtual Storage implementation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#57 ACP/TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#41 Age of IBM VM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#24 Job ad for z/OS systems programmer trainee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#78 CPU time differences for the same job
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#35 Interesting Mainframe Article: 5 Myths Exposed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#16 Kernels
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#36 Object-relational impedence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#81 Intel: an expensive many-core future is ahead of us
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#69 Speculation ONLY
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#65 APL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#48 Knuth Got It Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#81 Percentage of code executed that is user written was Re: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#8 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#9 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#5 Memory v. Storage: What's in a Name?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#8 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#73 Execution Velocity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#20 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#82 printer history Languages influenced by PL/1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#19 Assembler vs. COBOL--processing time, space needed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#20 Assembler vs. COBOL--processing time, space needed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#62 Suggestions Appreciated for a Program Counter History Log
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#81 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#71 assembler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#66 Messing Up the System/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#69 A New Performance Model ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#79 Limit number of frames of real storage per job
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#92 ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer
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