Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes

another family member then presides over the economic mess 70 times larger than the S&L crisis. S&L crisis had 1000 criminal convictions with jailtime, proportionally the economic mess should have 70,000.

How Much Does a Politician Cost? A Groundbreaking Study Reveals the Influence of Money in Politics.
https://theintercept.com/2017/05/04/how-much-does-a-politician-cost-a-groundbreaking-study-reveals-the-influence-of-money-in-politics/

from above:
According to the Roosevelt study, that was why Volcker had to go:

Baker's [explanation for why Volcker should not be reappointed] was startlingly direct: Possible repeal of Glass-Steagall was the signature issue used by investment bankers, led by then-Goldman Sachs executive Robert Rubin, to raise money for the Democratic Party from their cohorts on Wall Street. Getting rid of Glass-Steagall, Baker explained, would alter the balance of power between the two major parties by depriving the Democrats of a central revenue stream.
... snip ...

Rubin was then SECTREAS in the 90s when repeal of Glass-Steagall is added to GLBA (another head of the firm was SECTREAS last decade) ... and another from the firm is current SECTREAS (joke that Treasury Department is the firm's branch office in DC).

Gerstner was in competition to be next CEO of AMEX and wins. The looser leaves, taking their protegee with them to Baltimore, taking over what was called a loan-sharking business. They make some number of other acquisitions, eventually acquiring CITI in violation of Glass-Steagall. Greenspan gives them an exemption while they lobby Wash. DC for repeal. They enlist some number in DC including SECTREAS (Rubin). Repeal of Glass-Steagall is added to GLBA and once it is under way, the SECTREAS resigns and becomes what was described at the time as co-CEO of CITI.

posts mentioning Percora Hearings and/or Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
fed chairman posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
posts mentioning Gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner

trivia: GLBA initially passes along party lines (54-44) and folklore is that POTUS was prepared to veto it. They then went back and added amendments and it eventually passed with veto proof 90-8 (along with claim that there was total of $240M from wallstreet for congress, divided R$125M & D$115M)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93Bliley_Act

Milton Friedman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman

from above:
Friedman promoted an alternative macroeconomic viewpoint known as "monetarism", and argued that a steady, small expansion of the money supply was the preferred policy.[12] His ideas concerning monetary policy, taxation, privatization and deregulation influenced government policies, especially during the 1980s.
... snip ...

Milton Friedman's Cherished Theory Is Laid to Rest
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-12/milton-friedman-s-cherished-theory-is-laid-to-rest

from above:
Even now, when economic models have become far more complex than anything in Friedman's time, economists still go back to Friedman's theory as a mental touchstone -- a fundamental intuition that guides the way they make their models. My first macroeconomics professor believed in it deeply and instinctively, and would even bring it up in department seminars.
... snip ...

Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards
https://www.amazon.com/Economists-Powerful-Convenient-Distorted-Economics-ebook/dp/B01B4X4KOS/

"The Undoing Project" goes into some detail how Kahneman and Tversky disproved economists' assumption that people make rational decisions ... loc1155-59:
He had listened to an American economist talk about how so-and-so was stupid and so-and-so was a fool, then said, "All your economic models are premised on people being smart and rational, and yet all the people you know are idiots."
... snip ..

Kahneman (a psychologist) gets Nobel prize in economics, in part for debunking some cherished economic theories

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 that 2003-2009, tax revenue 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 only modest spending cuts, but not restored taxes so debt continues to increased. Sort of confluence of 1) Federal Reserve and wallstreet wanted huge federal debt, 2) wallstreet and special interests wanted huge tax cut, 3) military-industrial complex wanted huge spending increase.

fiscal responsibility act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture

recent posts in thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#31 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#37 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#38 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#39 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#41 [CM] cheap money, was What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#42 [CM] cheap money, was What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#43 [CM] cheap money, was What was your first home computer?

recent posts mentioning Friedman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#17 Destruction of the Middle Class
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#24 Destruction of the Middle Class
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#26 Milton Friedman's Cherished Theory Is Laid to Rest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#29 Milton Friedman's Cherished Theory Is Laid to Rest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#31 Milton Friedman's Cherished Theory Is Laid to Rest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#32 Star Trek (was Re: TV show Mannix observations)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#34 If economists want to be trusted again, they should learn to tell jokes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#64 Improving Congress's oversight of the intelligence community
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#66 Deep learning algorithm does as well as dermatologists in identifying skin cancer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#92 Trump's Rollback of the Neoliberal Market State
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#97 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#101 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#102 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#10 IBM 1970s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#11 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#16 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#17 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#24 Disorder
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#25 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#26 Virtualization's Past Helps Explain Its Current Importance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#35 Former CIA Analyst Sues Defense Department to Vindicate NSA Whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#43 when to get out???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#0 Locking our own orientation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#5 NSA Deputy Director: Why I Spent the Last 40 Years In National Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#25 Hamilton and "Fake News"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#32 Hamilton and "Fake News"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#67 Economists are arguing over how their profession messed up during the Great Recession. This is what happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#77 Trump delay of the 'fiduciary rule' will cost retirement savers $3.7 billion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#89 Understanding decisions: The power of combining psychology and economics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#93 United Air Lines - an OODA-loop perspective
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#96 Cognitive Bias Codex, 2016
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#97 IBM revenue has fallen for 20 quarters -- but it used to run its business very differently
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#7 Arthur Laffer's Theory on Tax Cuts Comes to Life Once More

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[CM] cheap money, was What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] cheap money, was What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 09:51:56 -0700

the "protegee" early in the century leaves CITI and becomes CEO of one of the other four largest TBTF (i.e. CITI and three other TBTF were still holding $5.2T in toxic assets ye2008; TARP originally appropriated to buy these toxic assets, but with only $700B, couldn't have done more than slight dent in the problem).

(triple-A rated) toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo

and:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#41 [CM] cheap money, was What was your first home computer?
Middle of last decade, the largest retailer in the US (something like 25-30% of transactions) announced it was going to acquire an Utah ILC (special kind of banking charter) ... in order to become its own merchant acquirer (responsible for sponsoring merchants to perform credit card transactions). Its existing (TBTF) merchant acquirer started publicity program to have congress block the merchant from acquiring the Utah ILC ... claiming the retailer would adversely affect the community banks and credit unions around the country ... when it would really mean that the TBTF would loose its enormous (credit card) interchange fees from that merchant. recent post mentioning interchange fees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#102 Electronic Payments
... snip ...

This particular TBTF is also the institution that the "protegee" (previously at AMEX & CITI) became (and still is) CEO of.

other Gerstner/AMEX/etc trivia ... AMEX and KKR are in competition for private-equity LBO of RJR and KKR wins. KKR runs into issues with RJR and hires away president of AMEX to turn it around
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
IBM has gone into the red and was being reorged into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the company. The board then hires away former president of AMEX to reverse the breakup and resurrect IBM ... using some of the same techniques used at RJR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml

After leaving IBM, former president of AMEX goes on to head up one of the other largest private-equity companies ... which will take-over betlway bandit that will employ Snowden
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/

same timeframe that IBM has gone into the red, AMEX spins off a lot of its dataprocessing and financial outsourcing in the largest IPO (up until that time) as FDC. FDC last decade, was doing "outsourced" processing for something over half of all credit cards in the US (in addition to owning WU); got very small percent of interchange fee for the actual processing ... including for the TBTF institution headed up by "protegee" that was previously at AMEX & CITI.

I've previously mentioned that middle of last decade, FDC spins of Western Union. Then after WU is spun off, KKR does a private-equity LBO of remaining FDC (in the largest LBO up until that time, 15yrs after FDC had been the larges IPO).

posts mentioning private-equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity

recent posts mentioning (FDC &) Western Union
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#45 Western Union Admits Anti-Money Laundering and Consumer Fraud Violations, Forfeits $586 Million in Settlement with Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#15 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#16 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#3 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#77 Trump's crackdown focuses on people in the U.S. illegally - but not on the businesses that hire them
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#9 Which States Account for Our Trade Deficit with Mexico?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#15 The Geniuses that Anticipated the Idea of the Internet

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 10:35:54 -0700

I get caught up in endicott project for (370) 138/148 for microcode assist. IBM low-end & mid-range were implemented in vertical microcode ... that executed an avg. of ten native instructures for every 370 instruction ... something like the current Hercules mainframe emulator.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(emulator)

they had 6k bytes of available microcode storage. objective was to identify the 6k bytes of most executed vm370 kernel pathlengths ... and move them into microcode ... 6kbyte pathlengths accounted for about 80% of kernel execution ... and move of 6k bytes of 370 to 6k bytes of native got a 10:1 speedup.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21 370 ECPS VM microcode assist

Then POK started doing something similar for MVS on 3033. High-end mainframe processors were horizontal microcode that could have a bunch of overlap for each machine cycle. 370/165 was about 2.1 machine cycles per 370 instruction. Move to 370/168 was (larger &) faster real storage, but also microcode optimization improved things to 1.6 machine cycles per 370 instruction.

With failure of FS, 3033 and 370/xa were kicked off in parallel. 3033 started off mapping 168-3 logic to 20% faster chips
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm

that would only moved from 3mips to 3.6mips ... which didn't compare well with clone processors. The 20% faster chips also had ten times the circuits ... the additional circuits going unused. There was then some redesign of some core logic to take advantage of additional circuits and get speedup with more onchip processing. There was also improvement in the microcode improving it to about one machine cycle per 370 instruction (from 2.1 in 165 and 1.6 in 168). Combination got 3033 to 1.5 times 168-3 ... or around 4.5mips.

On 3033, there was little or no difference between executing something in 370 instructions and executing the same logic in horizontal microcode. As a result the various MVS microcode assists on 3033, showed little or no performance improvement ... and in some cases ran slower. Things moving to microcode would only show improvement if it could be done in totally different way that actually reduced processing needed.

I did several presentations on the VM370 ECPS microcode assist at user group meetings that got quite a bit of interest from people at Amdahl. They explained that they had developed "macrocode" for their (highend, horizontal microcode) machines ... basically looked & felt like 370 ... but ran in microcode mode (significantly easier to program than horizontal microcode, with little loss of performance).

Starting with 3033, there seemed to be a constant stream of relatively trivial "microcode assists" ... supposedly for performance improvements ... but some conjecture that they actually was countermeasure to the clone processor makers (newer operating system releases always required the latest feature tweaks). There was some implication that Amdahl's "macrocode" was to make it relatively easy & trivial to track the constant stream of IBM's microcode assist tweaking.

Amdahl "macrocode" also made it relatively easy for them to implement "hypervisor" ... basically a subset of virtual machine vm370 function directly as part of the machine (w/o needing a vm370 operating system). This was in IBM's 3090 timeframe ... and it took IBM quite a bit longer to respond to Amdahl's hypervisor with 3090 LPAR supprot (since it had to be done in native horizontal microcode, which was significantly more complex to program).

past posts mentioning Amdahl's "macrocode":
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#44 Linux paging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#48 Linux paging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#9 Mainframe System Programmer/Administrator market demand?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#56 Wild hardware idea
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#59 Misuse of word "microcode"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#60 Misuse of word "microcode"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#24 Description of a new old-fashioned programming language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#14 Multicores
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#29 Documentation for the New Instructions for the z9 Processor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#40 POWER6 on zSeries?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#43 POWER6 on zSeries?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#48 POWER6 on zSeries?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#38 blast from the past ... macrocode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#9 Mainframe Jobs Going Away
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#32 Code density and performance?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#35 Code density and performance?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#39 Using different storage key's
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#42 old hypervisor email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#33 Assembler question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#34 Assembler question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#20 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#1 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#3 Has anyone ever used self-modifying microcode? Would it even be useful?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#9 Has anyone ever used self-modifying microcode? Would it even be useful?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#84 VLIW pre-history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#74 Non-Standard Mainframe Language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#96 some questions about System z PR/SM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#32 New Opcodes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#33 New Opcodes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#42 New Opcodes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#26 Op codes removed from z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#27 CPU time/instruction table
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#74 z millicode: where does it reside?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#93 Irrational desire to author fundamental interfaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#102 Question on PR/SM dispatcher
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#3 Is Microsoft becoming folklore?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#58 Was MVS/SE designed to confound Amdahl?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#68 Linear search vs. Binary search
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#27 World's worst programming environment?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#46 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#17 Write Inhibit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#20 Write Inhibit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#19 DG Nova 1200 as console
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#100 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#161 Slushware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#85 a bit of hope? What was old is new again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#44 John Titor was right? IBM 5100
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#37 IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper

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A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 11:07:37 -0700

We looked at this in the 70s & 80s on the internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime mid-80s). Similar technology was also used for the corporate sponsored university network (which was also larger than arpanet/internet for a time)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
but they (also) ignored some of the same issues as internet/arpanet ... and had a problem Dec1987, a year earlier than the internet Nov1988.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Tree_EXEC
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistir/threats/subsubsection3_3_2_1.html

internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
bitnet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet

I mentioned being brought into small client/server startup as consultant that wanted to do payment transactions, they had also invented this technology called "SSL" they wanted to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce". I had absolute authority on the server to gateway for the payment networks, but could only make recommendations on the client/server side, some of which were immediately violated/ingored, which account for some of the exploits that continue to this day. For the server/gateway I had to do compensating processes (documentation and software) to create what I considered industrial strength dataprocessing.

Until he passed, the internet standard RFC editor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel
use to let me help with periodic STD1. Also, he had me do a talk at ISI/USC (including USC computer security graduate students) on "Why the internet isn't business criticial dataprocessing".

recent ref:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#14 The Geniuses that Anticipated the Idea of the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#15 The Geniuses that Anticipated the Idea of the Internet

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 13:17:51 -0700

engineer working on 370/158 added virtual machine mode ... and original VM-assist. Normally, virtual machines were run in problem state mode and supervisor instructions interrupted into virtual machine kernel for emulation. Original VM assist added flag bit in control registers and modified microcode for some number of supervisor instructions to test for virtual machine mode ... and execute according to virtual machine rules ... w/o having to interrupt back into the kernel for software emulation.

Basic ECPS just added a bunch of new op-codes ... for each kernel path moved to microcode ... and the specific op-code was inserted in front of the kernel code ... and would complete with the next instruction after the set of instructions moved to microcode. The system boot process would test if ECPS microcode was installed and then go around, replacing all the ECPS opcodes with no-ops.

The ECPS effort also added one or two additional supervisor instructions that were supported by VM assist (supervisor instructions that could execute according to virtual machine rules).

The 370/xa architecture (started after the failure of FS and shows up finally in 3081) didn't support directly moving from virtual machine supervisor to virtual machine mode (like in 360 & 370) ... so they invented the SIE instruction for being able to enter virtual machine mode

As I've previously mentioned, the head of POK got VM370 product killed and all the people moved to POK as part of MVS/XA development (endicott did manage to save the vm370 product mission, but had to recreate a development group from scratch).

Some of the former VM370 people created the virtual machine TOOL ... for MVS/XA testing ... purely for internal only use and never intended to be released to customers. As part of that effort SIE was originally developed. However, performanance wasn't a specific issue and there wasn't enough space in 3081 for all the SIE function. It turns out that when SIE was too large for the available 3081 microcode space ... and so had to be "swapped" in each time it was executed (making it a rather time consuming process).

Later 3090 people go into some detail how they re-engineered SIE for performance ... and then later SIE microcode was critical part of LPAR microcode ... aka there wasn't a virtual machine supervisor that executed instructions on behalf of virtual machine ... the physical machine was split into multiple Logical PARtititons (LPAR) and operated as if they physically different machines (although relied heavily on lots of the microcode used for virtual machine operation). The original LPAR implementation couldn't run a virtual machine supervisor ... but didn't support virtual machine assist by the supervisor ... since it wasn't recursive implementation. Later it was enhanced to be recursive so virtual machine supervisor running in LPAR could use virtual machine assist for performance of its virtual machines.

LPARS also started out being contiguous range of real storage with base/limit bounds.

old email mentioning SIE for 3090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#email810630
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#email831118

past posts mentioning SIE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#37 SIE instruction (S/390)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#50 VM (not VMS or Virtual Machine, the IBM sort)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#51 VM (not VMS or Virtual Machine, the IBM sort)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#52 VM (not VMS or Virtual Machine, the IBM sort)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#29 z900 and Virtual Machine Theory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#21 Root certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#71 IBM 9020 FAA/ATC Systems from 1960's
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#73 Most complex instructions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#38 CMS under MVS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#53 TSS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#6 Microcode?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#44 PDP-10 Archive migration plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#15 Home mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#18 Everything you wanted to know about z900 from IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#40 Linux paging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#44 Linux paging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#48 Linux paging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#5 vax6k.openecs.org rebirth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#6 vax6k.openecs.org rebirth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#7 vax6k.openecs.org rebirth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#0 Disk drives as commodities. Was Re: Yamhill
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#54 ECPS:VM DISPx instructions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#56 ECPS:VM DISPx instructions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#42 Flash 10208
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#13 CPUs with microcode ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#52 Virtual Machine Concept
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#57 System/360; Hardwired vs. Microcoded
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#17 {SPAM?} DCSS as SWAP disk for z/Linux
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#9 Mainframe Jobs Going Away
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#27 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#29 How to implement Lpars within Linux
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#31 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#22 Virtual Virtualizers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#44 Any resources on VLIW?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#42 old hypervisor email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#1 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#21 history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#49 SVCs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#61 ISA Support for Multithreading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#65 IBM S/360 series operating systems history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#39 FBA rant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#72 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#59 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#96 some questions about System z PR/SM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#42 mainframe performance, was Is a RISC chip more expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#9 Open z architecture and Linux questions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#27 CPU time/instruction table
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#29 Status of Arpanet/Internet in 1976?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#51 "Portable" data centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#66 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#70 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#44 Need tool to zap core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#51 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#76 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#71 "SIE" on a RISC architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#72 "SIE" on a RISC architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#55 z millicode: where does it reside?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#74 z millicode: where does it reside?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#62 When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#71 Fujitsu starts shipping 800 rack 80,000 chip 'K' supercomputer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#28 Personal histories and IBM computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#62 SIE - CompArch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#18 Melinda Varian's history page move
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#70 vm/370 3081
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#87 A History of VM Performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#30 vm370 running in "XA-mode"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#22 First 5.25in 1GB drive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#27 First 5.25in 1GB drive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#39 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#2 WHAT WAS THE PROJECT YOU WERE INVOLVED/PARTICIPATED AT IBM THAT YOU WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#68 IBM Mainframe (1980's) on You tube
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#63 Before the PC: IBM invents virtualisation (Cambridge skunkworks)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#30 CMS load module format
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#113 Start Interpretive Execution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#114 Start Interpretive Execution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#115 Start Interpretive Execution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#116 Start Interpretive Execution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#117 Start Interpretive Execution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#118 Start Interpretive Execution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#39 SIE - CompArch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#50 SIE - CompArch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#37 Regarding Time Sharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#43 Regarding Time Sharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#67 Was MVS/SE designed to confound Amdahl?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#46 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#62 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#17 Write Inhibit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#40 The mainframe turns 50, or, why the IBM System/360 launch was the dawn of enterprise IT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#10 R.I.P. PDP-10?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#19 DG Nova 1200 as console
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#78 Microcode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#37 IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#53 Multics Timeline
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#80 Great mainframe history(?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#81 GREAT presentation on the history of the mainframe

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A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 13:27:30 -0700

... some of this prompted by ongoing thread on the article in facebook

the telco were really conflicted about all the "dark" fiber in the 80s ... it enormously increased available bandwidth ... however they were in a extreme chicken&egg situation. Their business model was "use" charges necessary to support very high run rate. They would have to drastically reduce the "use" charges in order to motivate the innovation needed for new high-bandwidth applications. However, it would take years for the high-bandwidth applications to evolve ... during which time the telcos would be operating at enormus loss. Somehow they had to break the chicken/egg deadlock.

the other part was that telcos were heavily involved in OSI model ... basically telco institutional centric paradigm ... no internetworking.

NSF provided support for internconnecting the NSF supercomputer centers ... and as regional networks connect into the centers, it evolves into the NSFNET backbone, precursor to modern internet. Telco resources provided to the backbone was something like 4-6 times the gov. funds awarded in the RFP ... basically significantly over provisioning ... helping encourage the development and evolution of new generation of bandwidth hungry applications ... and at the same time, the commercial use of the backbone was forbidden (minimizing telcos having to worry about loosing all their commercial "use charges"). past NSF email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
and posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet

Then in the very late 80s and early 90s, gov. agencies started to mandate the elimination of TCP/IP (and internetworking) and move to OSI (with telco institutional centric paradigm).

Of course it didn't quite work out that way ... but they have constantly trying to move back to institution centric controlled operation.

Part of the "compensating processes" .... was dealing with business trouble call desks for payment transactions ... moving to the internet. They had standard of 5mins elapsed time for 1st level problem determination ... starting with various circuit-based analysis diagnostics.

One of the original large scale pilot project (retailer that advertised during NFL halftime games), there was trouble call ... that spent 3hrs of intensive trouble desk time and eventually closed with NTF (no trouble found). I had to create a whole bunch of stuff to provide them with the equivalent of their circuit-based diagnostics in a packet-based environment (and try and meet 5min 1st level problem determination).

past posts mentioning moving circuit-based operation to packet-based
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm5.htm#asrn3 Assurance, e-commerce, and some x9.59 ... fyi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm16.htm#20 Ousourced Trust (was Re: Difference between TCPA-Hardware and a smart card and something else before
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#21 Reliable Connections Are Not
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#53 The One True Identity -- cracks being examined, filled, and rotted out from the inside
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000g.html#50 Egghead cracked, MS IIS again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#24 Computers in Science Fiction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#62 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs. IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#15 A Dark Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#37 The BASIC Variations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#8 Mars Rover Not Responding
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#51 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#52 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#53 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#57 high speed network, cross-over from sci.crypt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#30 Data communications over telegraph circuits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#24 is a computer like an airport?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006i.html#29 Which entry of the routing table was selected?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#10 The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#15 What if phone company had developed Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#23 Outsourcing loosing steam?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#25 LAX IT failure: leaps of faith don't work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#34 what does xp do when system is copying
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#54 Industry Standard Time To Analyze A Line Of Code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#53 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#37 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" tech stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#63 To what extent do IP networks meet the stringent requirements of High Availability (HA) where the target performance is 99.999%? What performance is obtained in practice
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#33 IBM touts encryption innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#31 comp.arch has made itself a sitting duck for spam
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#41 Follow up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#62 TV Big Bang 10/12/09
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#66 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#61 A computer at home?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#23 Commentary--time to build a more secure Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#27 History of Mainframe Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#21 Pre-internet email and usenet (was Re: How to choose the best news server for this newsgroup in 40tude Dialog?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#38 Trump to sign cyber security orde

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A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 14:24:51 -0700

the ibm cambridge science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech

port apl\360 to cp/67-cms for apl\cms ... fixed garbage collection for large (multi-mbyte) virtual paged storage (had been created for 16kbyte swapped workspaces) and added API support of calling system services (including file read/write) ... allowing lots of real-word applications.

One such was the business planning group in Armonk hdqtrs, which loaded the most prized corporate data (detailed customer info) on the system and used APL\CMS to do business modeling (remotely from Armonk).

Now this required some amount of security since the science center had lots of non-ibm employees from local univ, like BU & MIT ... including students.

internal network (originated at the science center) was larger than arpanet/internet from just about beginning until sometime mid-80s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet

one of the requirements was that all links (physically leaving datacenter bldg) had to have link encryptors. In the mid-80s, one of the major vendors said that the internal network had more than half of all the link encryptors in the world ... this created lots of conflict with various governments ... especially when links crossed national boundaries.

... at the time of the internet/arpanet great change-over to internetworking on 1jan1983, the internet/arpanet had approx. 100 IMP network nodes (and 255 connected hosts) ... at time when the internal network was rapidly approaching 1000 nodes ... past post with list of corporate locations that added one or more network nodes during 1983
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8

trivia: in the 70s while I was at the science center, IBM hired a new CSO that used to be gov. employee (at one time had been head of presidential detail) and I was asked to run around with him visiting IBM locations and talk about computer security (and I learned a little about physical security).

can't just criticize univ. environment. There has been recent threads about gov. cyberdumb ... adversaries dancing through "secure" networks gathering all sort classified information ... including detailed specification & design for major military weapons.

When former AMEX president leaves IBM ... he goes to head up major private equity company that will acquire the beltway bandit that will employ Snowden. Last decade there was enormous uptic in gov. outsourcing to for-profit companies ... especially private-equity subsidiaries (including 70% of the intelligence budget and over half the employees)
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner

private equity companies are under intense pressure to cut corners and provide money to their parents nearly any way possible, example
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0

Security clearances outsourced to private-equity subsidiaries were found to be filling out the paperwork, but not actually doing the background investigations.

In the wake of the Snowden incident they head of the agency announces something about (re-)instituting(?) multi-party for sensitive operations (like sysadm/root privileges) as countermeasure to insider threats (something that was standard practice in the industry by at least the 80s and presumably also the gov).

private-equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity

past cyberdumb posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#3 Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#47 Stolen F-35 Secrets Now Showing Up in China's Stealth Fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#49 Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#0 Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#32 The dark side of digital banking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#82 The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#90 A Drone Could Be the Ultimate Dogfighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#18 After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#25 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#31 The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#49 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#90 Friden Flexowriter equipment series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#12 Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#20 US No Longer Tech Leader in Military War Gear
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#22 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#23 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#28 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#34 UN to Five Eyes nations: Your mass surveillance is breaking the law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#65 New Military Gear Doesn't Have to Cost a Fortune
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#102 A-10 Warthog No Longer Suitable for Middle East Combat, Air Force Leader Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#8 Super Cane's Computers run Windows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#32 Univac 90 series info posted on bitsavers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#43 Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#45 Is coding the new literacy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#76 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#6 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#10 NYT on Sony hacking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#11 NYT on Sony hacking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#55 Do we really?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#75 How Russia's S-400 makes the F-35 obsolete
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#9 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#20 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#21 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#34 The joy of simplicity?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#42 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
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#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/2016d.html#17 Cybercrime
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#38 [BBC] US nuclear force 'still uses floppy disks'
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/2016g.html#17 Why Large Companies Can't Innovate
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)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#67 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#76 The F-35 Stealth Fighter Is Politically Unstoppable----Even Under President Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#62 Big Shrink to "Hire" 25,000 in the US, as Layoffs Pile Up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#15 China's claim it has 'quantum' radar may leave $17 billion F-35 naked
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#34 CBS News: WikiLeaks claims to release thousands of CIA documents of computer activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#47 WikiLeaks CIA Dump: Washington's Data Security Is a Mess

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 07:46:54 -0700

more recent in how language shapes how things are thought about

Language shapes how the brain perceives time
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/lu-lsh050217.php

if it works for times, the implication is language also affects how brain perceives (& deals with) other concepts as well.

past posts referencing proficiency in programming language similar to proficiency in naturual language (thinking/dreaming in the language rather than say thinking in english ... and having to translate to programming language).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/93.html#11 Where did the hacker ethic go?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#64 Programming in School (was: Re: Common uses...)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#39 Wrapping up the FBEMBA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#39 Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and maybe even an O)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#74 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#48 Is coding the new literacy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#49 Ada's fate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#65 Is coding the new literacy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#118 By the time we get to 'O' in OODA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#55 Do we really?

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 08:20:12 -0700

old reference to holy grail of programming is programming language that makes handling parallel processing simple/easy for majority of programmers (ceo of m'soft telling Intel senior VP to stop with the multi-core stuff and go back to making increasingly fast single processors ... because parallel programming was "too hard").

old post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#77 Sizing CPU

Microsoft super sizes multi-threaded tripe
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/01/mundie_mundie/

from above:
Microsoft, to its credit, has multi-threaded the calculations in Office Excel 2007. But that's about where the credit ends.

Intel and AMD executives fail to hide their disappointment with Microsoft well on the multi-threaded software front.

During a speech last June, Intel SVP Pat Gelsinger said the following:

"A couple of years ago, I had a discussion with Bill Gates (about the multi-core products). He was just in disbelief. He said, 'We can't write software to keep up with that.'"

Gates ordered the Intel executive to keep pumping out faster product. "No, Bill, it's not going to work that way," Gelsinger informed him.
... snip ...

other old threads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#78 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#24 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#26 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#34 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#38 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#60 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#63 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#2 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#5 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#13 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#14 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#19 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#22 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#26 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#29 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#36 Future of System/360 architecture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#37 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#39 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#49 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#51 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#52 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#53 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#54 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#58 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#59 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#61 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#70 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#1 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#3 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#6 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#25 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#28 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#38 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#39 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#56 Which Books Can You Recommend For Learning Computer Programming?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#60 Which Books Can You Recommend For Learning Computer Programming?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#48 The ICL 2900

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 08:42:20 -0700

from posting today:
I just tested a Pascal/VS program from 1991, which translates TABU reports (a RPG like language from the polish ODRA computer) to COBOL programs.

The program ran without change successfully on Windows; it only took me 5 minutes to set up a CMD file to do the file assignments etc.; see the CMD file below. The resulting COBOL program was identical to old COBOL results from 1991 - no difference; this is remarkable, because the original program ran on VM/CMS using the EBCDIC codepage and the IBM Pascal/VS compiler - and todays run was on Windows, using the New Stanford Pascal compiler, and ASCII.
... snip ...

other recent posts mentioning pascal/vs (or vs/pascal):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#53 COBOL and POSIX pipes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#58 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#60 [EXTERNAL] ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#32 The very beginning of TCP/IP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#72 more IBM online systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#17 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#18 [CM] What was your first home computer?

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 08:52:49 -0700

and from: "The beauty of runtime checks in Stanford Pascal"
https://www.facebook.com/notes/new-stanford-pascal-compiler/the-beauty-of-runtime-checks-in-stanford-pascal/375317846185196/
I would like to emphasize that it is not me who invented this; the honour of course belongs to the original authors of the compiler and (in this case) the P-Code translator, who invented this kind of runtime check. I only recently optimized the ASSEMBLER listing and, BTW, introduced an error here, and, by repairing it, analyzed and unterstood the technique used here.
...
This is almost 40 years old compiler technology, but in my opinion it is very interesting and still relevant today.
... snip ...

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Why Your Brain Loves You Not Having a Boss, According to Science

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Why Your Brain Loves You Not Having a Boss, According to Science
Date: 06 May 2017
Blog: Facebook

"Your brain works completely differently when you're able to direct yourself versus when someone else is directing you"

Somewhat related xcover from AI thread

There is also language affects perception/understanding ... recent reference: Language shapes how the brain perceives time
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/lu-lsh050217.php

and concept that programmers can achieve proficiency/fluency in computer language analogous to natural language (where they think/dream in the language). Some number of "bugs" can occur by less proficient programmers in translating from some (natural) language to programming language (translating from one conceptual frame of reference/framework to a different one). recent thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#51 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#52 [CM] What was your first home computer?

fingerspitzengefuhl and Coup d'oeil ... sometimes "intuition" ... thinking/conceptualizing in non-natural language, recent refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#49 Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#59 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#62 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#10 Boyd OODA-loop Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#14 New words, language, metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#84 We Use Words to Talk. Why Do We Need Them to Think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#14 Rogue sysadmins the target of Microsoft's new 'Shielded VM' security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#24 US Air Power
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#33 OODA-loop and virtual machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#79 Defense Meltdown
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#4 OODA in IT Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#7 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#73 Note on dis-orientation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#55 60 Minutes interview with Grace Hopper

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A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 19:39:57 -0700

in the case of the intelligence community ... there was enormous uptic in outsourcing last decade ... especially to private-equity subsidiaries (including beltway bandits being bought up by large private-equity firms).

Law prohibits gov. agencies from lobbying congress, and gov. contractors can't spend money from gov. contracts to lobby congress (beltway bandits with gov. only source of income) ... however, private-equity owners are free to spend as much money as they want to on congress.

It also contributed to rapid spreading success of failure culture by "for profit" companies (especially private-equity subsidiaries) ... make more money from sequence of failures
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/

congress has huge motivation for appropriating funds to companies that in turn, provide money back to congress.

note besides the snowden affair and a few others (employed by private-equity subsidiaries) ... the OPM breach also involved a private-equity subsidiary.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/24/opm-contractor-veritas/
and
https://fcw.com/articles/2015/06/24/house-oversight-opm.aspx

success of failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity

folklore ... one excuse put forward for the outsourcing was that top level technology salaries had increased to the point that it would put several thousands gov. positions at level requiring congressional approval ... exceeding available congressional time available. recent ref
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#25 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#75 ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches

It was easier for congress to appropriate tens/hundreds of billions in outsourced contracts than to approve several thousand individual gov. employees.

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 09:18:36 -0700

One of the things was some relatively straight-forward (highly optimized) cp67 kernel code with branches (goto), could turn into (complex) if/then/else nested 10-15 levels deep ... and much harder to understand.

the issue with branch/goto ... was after failure, trying to reconstruct execution path and how things got to the failure point (program forensics) ... especially if likely involved incorrect set register values. past posts mentioning redoing IPCS dump analysis program in REX(X)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dumprx

trivia: very early 70s, there was IBM technical conference at the old DC/arlington marriott (just off end of bridge on virginia side, no longer exists) with the IBM FSD guy doing superprogrammer and goto-less.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#20 How many Megaflops and when?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#24 How many Megaflops and when?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#25 How many Megaflops and when?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#64 Does the word "mainframe" still have a meaning?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#48 Whom Do Programmers Admire Now???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#49 CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#51 windows office xp
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#2 Share in DC: was somethin' else
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#40 Share lunch/dinner?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#25 Timeless Classics of Software Engineering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#26 Timeless Classics of Software Engineering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#51 Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#19 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#1 3270 response & channel throughput

past posts mentioning PLI program doing 360/370 assembler analysis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#12 360 "OS" & "TSS" assemblers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#41 Domainatrix - the final word
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#36 Assembly language formatting on IBM systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#8 "Clean" CISC (was Re: McKinley Cometh...)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#21 REXX still going strong after 25 years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#36 Vintage computers are better than modern crap !
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#35 Shipwrecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#16 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#72 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#52 Where should the type information be?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#45 IBM's POWER6
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#32 transputers again was: The demise of Commodore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#1 Greatest Software Ever Written?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#24 A Day For Surprises (Astounding Itanium Tricks)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#53 Is the teaching of non-reentrant HLASM coding practices ever defensible?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#31 To RISC or not to RISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#32 To RISC or not to RISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#41 Is this true? (Were gotos really *that* bad?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#21 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#35 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#64 IBM System/360 DOS still going strong as Z/VSE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#48 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#57 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#30 Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#43 Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#32 Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#65 You know you've been Lisp hacking to long when
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#37 Language first, hardware second
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#49 "How do you feel about 'gotos'"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#69 [Poll] Computing favorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#24 You thought IEFBR14 was bad? Try GNU's /bin/true code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#25 Is it a lost cause?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#97 ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

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A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 09:51:55 -0700

trivia from long ago and far away, 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

Note: i didn't have security clearance, but some would show up at computer/security classes I would teach periodically.

folklore form around 1980, the agency wanted exact source for a specific executing MVS (for evaluation). IBM spent $5M researching the issue and eventually came back and said that it wasn't practical.

Multics was on the (5th) flr above (from science center on 4th flr) and sold some number into gov. agencies. One of the customers was AFDS,
https://www.multicians.org/mga.html#AFDSC

old email about AFDS planning on coming by and discussing getting 20 4341s, when they got around to coming by, it had increased to 210 4341s.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#email790404
a.f.c. posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#12 Multics Nostalgia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#15 departmental servers

other sites
https://www.multicians.org/sites.html
including
https://www.multicians.org/mgd.html#DOCKMASTER
https://www.multicians.org/mgs.html#SiteN

IBM required link encryptors on all links leaving company facilities, middle 80s, major vendor claimed the internal network had half of all link encryptors in the world.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet

I had project HSDT with T1 & faster speed links
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt

... and didn't like what I had to pay for T1 link encryptors and higher speed link encryptors were almost impossible to find ... so I got involved doing link encryptor with objective of less than $100 to make and would handle multiple mbytes/sec. Initially the company crypto group said that it significantly weakened the crypto standard. It took me 3months to figure out how to explain that it actually was significantly stronger than the crypto standard ... but it was hollow victory. I was then told that there was only one organization in the world that could use such crypto, I could make as many as I wanted, but they all would have to be sent to location in Maryland. It was when I realized ther was three kinds of crypto in the world; 1) the kind they don't care about, 2) the kind you can't do, 3) the kind you can only do for them. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#87 New test attempt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#86 Own a piece of the crypto wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#32 Getting Out Hard Drive in Real Old Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#27 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#43 Internet Evolution - Part I: Encryption basics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#20 TELSTAR satellite experiment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#60 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#0 We list every company in the world that has a mainframe computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#63 ARPANET's coming out party: when the Internet first took center stage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#85 Key Escrow from a Safe Distance: Looking back at the Clipper Chip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#63 Reject gmail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#70 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#47 T-carrier
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#31 The Vindication of Barb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#69 The failure of cyber defence - the mindset is against it
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#77 German infosec agency warns against Trusted Computing in Windows 8
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#88 NSA and crytanalysis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#10 "NSA foils much internet encryption"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#50 Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#9 NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#25 Is there any MF shop using AWS service?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#27 TCP/IP Might Have Been Secure From the Start If Not For the NSA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#54 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#77 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#85 On a lighter note, even the Holograms are demonstrating
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#2 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#39 GM to offer teen driver tracking to parents
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#3 PROFS & GML
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#101 Internal Network, NSFNET, Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#31 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#106 How to Win the Cyberwar Against Russia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#0 Snowden

some past refs referencing agency
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#25 virtual machines for security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#20 Secure OS Thoughts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#30 Public disclosure of discovered vulnerabilities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#35 Determining processor status without IPIs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#0 Article: The True Value of Mainframe Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#23 winscape?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#44 winscape?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#36 Mainframe Applications and Records Keeping?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#37 Mainframe Applications and Records Keeping?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#51 Channel Distances
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#11 Some credible documented evidence that a MVS or later op sys has ever been hacked
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#14 Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#2 The System/360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#3 Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#52 the more things change, the more things stay the same
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#0 Patent buster for a method that increases password security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#6 GCN at 25: VAX for the memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#13 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#31 Wylbur and Paging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#20 Does anyone know of a documented case of VM being penetrated by hackers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#48 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#38 It's No Secret: VMware to Develop Secure Systems for NSA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#47 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#57 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#4 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#60 Job ad for z/OS systems programmer trainee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#32 Interesting Mainframe Article: 5 Myths Exposed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#67 Virtualization's security threats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#68 Virtualization's security threats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#26 CA ESD files Options
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#58 Virtualization: History repeats itself with a search for security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#46 Whitehouse Emails Were Lost Due to "Upgrade"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#74 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#81 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#62 German court finds Bank responsible for malwared PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#40 IBM--disposition of clock business
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#68 New technology trends?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#30 Macs for security (now, with new improved NSA hardening tips!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#47 Virtualization Adopters Hit The Tipping Point
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#67 Invitation to Join Mainframe Security Guru Group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#42 Password Rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#62 Virtualization: What is it exactly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#9 Comprehensive security?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#65 Did you think about Virtualization Security?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#5 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#45 Security experts identify 25 coding errors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#49 The 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#56 Data losses set to soar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#6 ATMs At Risk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#11 Lack of bit field instructions in x86 instruction set because of ?patents ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#18 System/360 Announcement (7Apr64)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#33 greenbar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#24 Top 10 Cybersecurity Threats for 2009, will they cause creation of highly-secure Corporate-wide Intranets?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#38 Top 10 Cybersecurity Threats for 2009, will they cause creation of highly-secure Corporate-wide Intranets?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#11 China deploys secure computer operating system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#24 IBM security expert: X86 virtualization not ready for regulated, mission-critical apps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#22 My Vintage Dream PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#77 More named/shared systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#5 Moving to the Net: Encrypted Execution for User Code on a Hosting Site
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#31 Disksize history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#3 Hacker charges also an indictment on PCI, expert says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#12 33 Years In IT/Security/Audit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#39 Status of Arpanet/Internet in 1976?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#33 U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#38 U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#21 Is Cloud Computing Old Hat?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#47 Is C close to the machine?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#56 Crypto dongles to secure online transactions ... addenda
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#59 EU agency runs rule over ID cards for online banking logins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#68 360 programs on a z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#63 Source code for s/360 [PUBLIC]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#97 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#62 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#59 More calumny: "Secret Service Uses 1980s Mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#74 Is Security a Curse for the Cloud Computing Industry?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#9 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#40 someone smarter than Dave Cutler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#53 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#17 Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#61 Information on obscure text editors wanted
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#37 Mainframe Hacking -- Fact or Fiction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#73 Mainframe hacking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#77 ZeuS attacks mobiles in bank SMS bypass scam
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#19 Virtualization: Making Seductive Promises a Reality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#26 Global Sourcing with Cloud Computing and Virtualization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#1 origin of 'fields'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#13 Sandboxing: Understanding System Containment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#34 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#73 From OODA to AAADA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#18 Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#35 VMSHARE Archives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#15 545 Tech Square
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#86 Utility of find single set bit instruction?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#15 History of copy on write
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#66 Boeing Plant 2 ... End of an Era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#78 RISCversus CISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#79 A History of VM Performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#8 Security flaws in software development
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#23 Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#24 Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#61 z/OS System Programmer Needed East Coast
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#5 Robert Morris, man who helped develop Unix, dies at 78
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#7 Innovation and iconoclasm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#10 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#29 It's Cool To Be Clever
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#35 How old is the oldest email in your current email inbox?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#50 ISBNs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#15 1979 SHARE LSRAD Report
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#61 Hybrid computing -- from mainframe to virtualization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#75 VM sysprogs don't need the keys to the door locks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#47 You Don't Need a Cyber Attack to Take Down The North American Power Grid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#49 Do you know where all your sensitive data is located?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#59 A computer metaphor for systems integration
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#2 What are the implication of the ongoing cyber attacks on critical infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#54 Open source and the National Security Agency, together again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#73 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#44 Simulated PDP-11 Blinkenlight front panel for SimH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#6 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#98 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#1 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#64 Guest Post: Beakley on Boyd, Aerial Combat and the OODA-Loop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#63 Is it possible to hack mainframe system??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#22 What is a Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#28 Some interesting post about the importance of Security and what it means for the Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#79 Still not convinced about the superiority of mainframe security vs distributed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#61 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#19 What Makes sorting so cool?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#15 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#19 It was 30 Years Ago Today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#51 Search for first Web page takes detour into US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#10 EBCDIC and the P-Bit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#63 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#3 A Brief History of Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#19 A Brief History of Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#38 Quote on Slashdot.org
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#69 PDCA vs. OODA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#20 Why IBM chose MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!' made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#58 The CIA's new "family jewels": Going back to Church?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#103 Microsoft publishes MS-DOS, Word for Windows source code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#36 Semi-OT: Government snooping was Re: Is there any MF shop using AWS service?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#95 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#40 Named Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#54 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#11 360/85
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#15 Do we really need 64-bit addresses or is 48-bit enough?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#35 BBC News - Microsoft fixes '19-year-old' bug with emergency patch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#60 The Road Not Taken: Knowing When to Keep Your Mouth Shut
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#39 Virtual Memory Management
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#57 The Stack Depth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#11 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#50 The joy of simplicity?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#54 Mainframes open to internet attacks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#81 DEC and The Americans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#63 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#40 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#69 Open DoD's Doors To Cyber Talent, Carter Asks Congress
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/2016g.html#33 OODA-loop and virtual machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#4 OODA in IT Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#21 History of Mainframe Cloud

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 10:12:47 -0700

One day the IBM salesman came by and asked him what he was doing. He said that he was adding ethernet support to vm370 to support SGI workstations. The salesman told him that he should do token-ring support instead or mainframe service calls wouldn't be handled in such timely matter. I then get a call and need to listen to an hour of four letter words. The next morning the company has a press conference announcing they were moving off IBM mainframe to SUN workstations.

IBM then has corporate wide task force looking at how to keep VLSI industry on IBM mainframes and why they might leave ... strictly limited to only considering purely technical details ... and not allowed to consider the (real) non-technical reasons.

old post looking for 5.25in diskette drive, wanting to image a bunch of old 5.25in diskettes ... somebody sends me a diskette drive, i'm able to read most of diskettes and upload them to some repository
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#35 Turbo C 1.5 (1987)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#36 Turbo C 1.5 (1987)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#37 Turbo C 1.5 (1987)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#56 Turbo C 1.5 (1987)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#57 Turbo C 1.5 (1987)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#4 Turbo C 1.5 (1987)

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The Illusion Of Victory: America In World War I

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: The Illusion Of Victory: America In World War I
Date: 07 May 2017
Blog: Facebook

The members of congress responsible for the neutrality laws leading up to WW2 said they did it because of the enormous war profiteering they saw in WW1 ... it was the war profiteers that were spinning it as isolationism.

author was congressman during first couple decades leading up to WW1, "Triumphant plutocracy" 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 ...

and there is "Smedley Butler"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
with "War Is a Racket"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

John Foster Dulles was major force in rebuilding Germany's industry and military during the 20s & 30s (from the law of unintended consequences, when the 1943 US Strategic Bombing Program needed locations of German industry and military targets, they got the coordinates from wallstreet)
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.

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 ...

June1940, Germany had a victory celebration at the NYC Waldorf-Astoria with major industrialists. Lots of them were there to hear how to do business with the Nazis (and circumvent the neutrality laws)
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Called-Intrepid-Incredible-Narrative-ebook/dp/B00V9QVE5O/

Later 5000 industrialists from across the US had conference (also) at NYC Waldorf-Astoria and in part because they had gotten such bad reputation for the depression and supporting Nazi Germany, they approved a major propaganda campaign to equate capitalism with Christianity, in part, in the early 50s, it leads to "In God We Trust" on money and "under God" in the allegiance.
https://www.amazon.com/One-Nation-Under-God-Corporate-ebook/dp/B00PWX7R56/

perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex

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Typesetting

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Typesetting
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 09:17:10 -0700

other recent
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#41 What are mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#76 Mainframe operating systems

more references
http://www.cap-lore.com/Agorics/Library/KeyKos/Gnosis/keywelcome.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EROS_(microkernel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOSIS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CapROS
http://www.capros.org/

Future System moved lots into the hardware ... one of the nails in the coffin was analysis that if Eastern's "System One" (ACP, airline control program) running on 370/195, if moved to the fastest possible FS box ... it would have throughput of 370/145 (about 30 times slow down).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys

Folklore is that some of the FS people retreated to Rochester and did a much simplifieed FS as S/38 (for low end market that had much fewer issues with throughput).

About the time (1975) I was asked to work on ECPS microcode assist for 370 138/148 (moving selected kernel code segments into microcode), recent refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#46 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#48 [CM] What was your first home computer?
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21 370 ECPS VM microcode assist

I also got con'ed into working on 5-way SMP 370/125. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#bounce

where I put even more into m'code ... basically all of ECPS ... but also queued task (dispatch) interface (akin to later i432) and queued I/O interface (superset of 370/xa) ... both had machine/hardware pulling elements off todo queue and putting things on completed queued interface.

Asilomar ACM SIGOPS (81 or 83?) conference, i432 people gave presentation about one of their major problems ... these complex, high-level functions were being done directly in silicon ... and every time they had a bug, they had to fab new silicon. for the 5-way SMP 370/125, it was all microcode ... so it was effectively as shipping new software release (possibly even simpler to install new microcode boot diskette). part of intro from iAPX 432 Architecture, references s/38 and burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#48 Famous Machines and Software that didn't

other posts mentioning i432
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#57 iAPX-432 (was: 36 to 32 bit transition
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#62 iAPX-432 (was: 36 to 32 bit transition
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#6 Ridiculous
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#36 What was object oriented in iAPX432?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#27 iAPX432 today?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#46 IBM Mainframe at home
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#19 Computer Architectures
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#5 Anyone here ever use the iAPX432 ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#54 Reviving Multics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#23 Intel iAPX 432
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#24 Intel iAPX 432
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#47 Intel 860 and 960, was iAPX 432
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#52 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#60 Will multicore CPUs have identical cores?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#64 Will multicore CPUs have identical cores?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#73 Athlon cache question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#64 Misuse of word "microcode"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#46 Performance and Capacity Planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#31 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#47 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#42 Why is zSeries so CPU poor?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#44 Any resources on VLIW?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#15 "25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#7 32 or even 64 registers for x86-64?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#36 Oracle Introduces Oracle VM As It Leaps Into Virtualization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#54 Throwaway cores
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#32 CPU time differences for the same job
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#22 CLIs and GUIs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#52 Lack of bit field instructions in x86 instruction set because of patents ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#13 Microprocessors with Definable MIcrocode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#18 Microprocessors with Definable MIcrocode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#46 U.S. begins inquiry of IBM in mainframe market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#74 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#1 IA64
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#45 IA64
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#8 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#40 Faster image rotation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#22 Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#7 RISCversus CISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#91 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#79 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#2 68000 assembly language programming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#15 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#42 i432 on Bitsavers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#14 International Business Marionette
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#57 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#40 history of Programming language and CPU in relation to each other
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#33 Delay between idea and implementation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#75 Bloat
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#23 1950: Northrop's Digital Differential Analyzer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#107 IBM 360/85 vs. 370/165
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#62 PL/I advertising
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#63 PL/I advertising
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#115 IBM History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#38 British socialism / anti-trust

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 10:13:00 -0700

as undergraduate in the 60s, worked on clone (of communication group) controller ... and four of us got written up as responsible for (some part of) clone controller business.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm

this has reference that major motivation in Future System was to make host/controller interface so complex that it would significantly "raise the bar" for clone controller competition
http://www.ecole.org/en/session/49-the-rise-and-fall-of-ibm

some speculation that the complex SNA vtam/37x5ncp (pu5/pu4) interface was one of the few survivors of failed FS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys

trivia ... during the early days of formation of SNA ... my wife was co-author of AWP39, peer-to-peer networking architecture ... aka they had to included "peer-to-peer" ... because communication group had co-opted "network" as part of SNA ... which doesn't have a network layer. Later she was con'ed into going to POK to be in charge of loosely-coupled (mainframe for cluster) architecture ... where she developed Peer-Coupled Shared Data architecture ... she didn't remain long, one reason was constant battle with communication group trying her to force her into using SNA/VTAM for loosely-coupled operation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata

from the law of unintended consequences ... during FS they were shutting down 370 efforts ... and the lack of 370 offerings during the FS period is credited with giving market foothold for clone processors.

in the 80s, recent posts about working NSF director about interconnecting the NSF supercomputer centers ... as regional networks connect into the centers, it grows into NSFNET backbone, precursor to modern internet:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#10 Encryp-xit: Europe will go all in for crypto backdoors in June
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#32 The very beginning of TCP/IP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#11 The Geniuses that Anticipated the Idea of the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#14 The Geniuses that Anticipated the Idea of the Internet

old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
and posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet

communication group was increasing vigorously fighting off client/server and distributed computing ... attempting to preserve their dumb terminal paradigm and install base.

internally they were spreading all sorts of mis-information ... mis-information claims about needing to convert the internal network to SNA/VTAM ... and mis-information claims that SNA/VTAM could be used for NSFNET.

old email about the internal backbone meetings got restricted to "management only" (didn't want technical details confusing their SNA/VTAM objectives)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email870302
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#email870306

somebody gathered up the communication group SNA/VTAM useable for NSFNET misinformation email ... and forwarded to use ... heavily snippted and redacted to prevent the guilty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109

and as frequently mentioned the senior disk engineer that gave the talk about how the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of disk division
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal

In the same time-frame as the claims about communication group was going to be responsible for demise of disk division, my wife was co-author of response to government request for large, distributed super-secure government operation ... where she included 3-tier architecture and middle layer. We were then out doing customer executive presentations including 3-tier architecture (and taking all sorts of arrows from the communication group)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#3tier

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 09:06:33 -0700

little topic drift, discussion on decision to have add virtual memory to all 370 machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73 Multiple Virtual Memory

IBM had Registered Confidential ... each page had large faded red number of the copy ... each copy was registered for specific person ... and required to keep under double lock ... and periodically audited by site security.

circa 1980, IBM brought trade-secret lawsuit against disk clone maker for couple billion dollars ... for having acquired detailed unannounced new (3380) disk drive documents. Judge ruled that IBM had to show security proportional to risk ... or "security proportional to value" ... i.e. temptation for normal person finding something not adequately protected and taking it for money ... couldn't be blamed (analogous to requiring fences around swimming pools because children couldn't be expected to not jump in unprotected pool). fences around plant site, guards at gate checking people, access control for buildings, access control inside high security rooms inside buildings, frequent employee education about protecting corporate information, etc.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#security.proportional.to.risk

In that time frame, I had full set of all the "Registered Confidential" documents for unannounced/unshipped 370/xa architecture (which would eventually show up on 3081).

For some reason, I got a call from head hunter asking me to interview for job of technical assistant to president of clone 370 processor company (that resold machines manufactured on the other side of the pacific). During the interview there were hints dropped that they were interested in new 370/xa architecture. I politely mentioned that I had submitted changes to IBM Employee ethics booklet because I didn't think that it had strong enough ethics guidelines. The interview ended shortly later ... and I never heard from them again.

Later the overseas company was involved in federal court case about industrial espionage and because I was listed on the US company's lobby checkin, I had 3hr interview with FBI agent. Afterwards, I wondered who had leaked the information (that I had full copy of the XA documents) ... that likely resulted in the job interview.

past posts mentioning Registered Confidential
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#30 IBM OS Timeline?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#8 Security Proportional to Risk (was: IBM Mainframe at home)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#9 Security Proportional to Risk (was: IBM Mainframe at home)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#42 Moving assembler programs above the line
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#26 IEH/IEB/... names?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#20 Old PCs--environmental hazard
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#2 WHAT WAS THE PROJECT YOU WERE INVOLVED/PARTICIPATED AT IBM THAT YOU WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#12 Clone Processors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#61 Was MVS/SE designed to confound Amdahl?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#1 RSA 2014: Target Breach Has Bigger Impact on Data Security than Snowden, says Vormetric
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#27 Complete 360 and 370 systems found

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 10:07:18 -0700

HITACHI GUILTY IN I.B.M. CASE
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/09/business/hitachi-guilty-in-ibm-case.html

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 11:11:12 -0700

to vm/370-cms ... and I got a copy (including source), email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email780405
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email780405b
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#email780414
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#email780517

posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#44 Call for folklore - was Re: So it's cyclical.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#43 Hardest Mistake in Comp Arch to Fix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#18 The History of Computer Role-Playing Games
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#4 Zork and Adventure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#6 Zork and Adventure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#14 New machine code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#41 Colossal Cave Adventure in PL/I
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#96 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)

a few (different) internal employees (independently) converted it from fortran to pli (and added more points).

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 11:19:52 -0700

from wiki:
One of the first efforts to port the code was by Jim Gillogly of the RAND Corporation in 1977. Gillogly, with agreement from Crowther and Woods, spent several weeks porting the code to C to run on the more generic Unix architecture. It can be found as part of the BSD Operating Systems distributions, or as part of the "bsdgames" package under most Linux distributions, under the command name "adventure". The game was also ported to Prime Computer's super-mini running PRIMOS in the late 1970s, utilising FORTRAN IV, and to IBM mainframes running VM/CMS in late 1978, utilizing PL/I. In the late 1970s a freeware Commodore PET version was produced by Jim Butterfield; some years later this version was ported to the Commodore 64. Microsoft also released versions of Adventure in 1980 for the Apple II Plus and TRS-80 computers.
... snip ...

as per previous email, tymshare had it on vm/370-cms (fortran) by at least early 1978 ... and several employees almost immediately ported to pli, spring 1977.

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 11:42:30 -0700

I've mentioned a number of times in this thread that after the failure of future system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys

3033 & 3081 (370/xa) were kicked off in parallel, some ref
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm

the 370/xa documents were referred to as "811" for their nov1978 publication date ... 370/xa ship was still several years in the future (mvs/xa wasn't even announced until 1981).

mentioning futuresys in this thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#18 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#25 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#46 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#62 [CM] What was your first home computer?

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I quit this NG

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: I quit this NG
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 08:37:53 -0700

we have friend that went into walter reed with five brain aneurysm ... and lived. He complained that his IQ dropped 70pts to only 130 ... but he also became quite religious ... that he recognized and complained about, but couldn't do anything.

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The knives are out for Trump's national security adviser H.R. McMaster

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: The knives are out for Trump's national security adviser H.R. McMaster
Date: 11 May 2017
Blog: Facebook

just finished: Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff
https://www.amazon.com/Dereliction-Duty-Johnson-McNamara-Chiefs-ebook/dp/

In "Dereliction of Duty", he referenced McNamara was statistician for Army Air Corp during WW2, but doesn't refer to McNamara was LeMay's staff planning fire bombing German & Japanese cities towards the end (McNamara later quotes Lemay if US had lost ww2, they would have been prosecuted for war crimes). He also references 4817-19:
Ball, a member of the American Strategic Bombing Survey team of 1944–45, which concluded that bombing had actually increased, rather than decreased, the resolve of the German people, was familiar with the inflated claims and expectations of air power enthusiasts
... aka one of the other issues was hard to hit target from 5-6 miles up.

European Campaign, loc2582-85:
The bomber preparation of Omaha Beach was a total failure, and German defenses on Omaha Beach were intact as American troops came ashore. At Utah Beach, the bombers were a little more effective because the IXth Bomber Command was using B-26 medium bombers. Wisely, in preparation for supporting the invasion, maintenance crews removed Norden bombsights from the bombers and installed the more effective low-level altitude sights.
... fire bombing cities, nearly impossible not to hit something.

John Foster Dulles was major force in rebuilding Germany's industry and military during the 20s & 30s (from the law of unintended consequences, when the 1943 US Strategic Bombing program needed locations of German industry and military targets, they got the coordinates from wallstreet)
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.

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 ...

"perpetual war" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex

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Domain Name System

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Domain Name System
Date: 11 May 2017
Blog: Facebook

I was brought in as consultant into small client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their server, they had also invented this technology they called "SSL" they wanted to use, it is now frequently called "electronic commerce". I had completely authority over the webserver to gateway to the payment networks ... but could only make recommendations on the client/server side, some of which were almost immediately violated, accounting from some number of exploits that continue to this day.

Original browser/SSL model is that the user understands the relationship between the URL they enter and the corresponding webserver entity they wish contact. "SSL" then (supposedly) provides the assurance that the webserver they contact corresponds to the URL they entered ... which combined, completes the end-to-end between the webserver they are talking to is the webserver that corresponds to the organization they think they are talking to.

This was almost immediately violated when merchants found that SSL cut their throughput by 90-99% and they dropped back to using non-SSL, unauthenticated URL (open to impersonation and man-in-the-middle attack). Then there is a "checkout/pay" button (provided by an unauthenticated website). Since the checkout/pay URL is no longer provided by the enduser, it breaks the underlying assumption underlying the browser/SSL model.

The PKI industry was also floating $20B/annum business case on wallstreet, based on financial industry underwriting $100/year/person certificate (200M people). When that wasn't happening, the industry was heavily lobbying govs to mandate person digital certificates ... including the cal. state electronic signature act (disclaimer: I was brought in to help wordsmith the act, possibly as countermeasure to the PKI industry influence).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature

I had HSDT project in early 80s with T1 and faster speed links and was working with director of NSF. We 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.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt

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 had running was at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP responses). As regional networks connect into the centers, it evovolves into the NSFNET backbone (precursor to modern internet). old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet

Telcos had huge problem in the early 80s with enormous bandwidth in dark fiber. They had bit/time use based charging model. In order to encourage new generation of bandwidth hungry applications, they would have to enormously drop their bandwidth charges ... which would mean that they operate at a loss for at least several years. Folklore is that various telcos provided resources several times larger than the RFP award ... as part of incubator for developing the bandwidth hungry applications ... with the additional restriction that the resources couldn't be used by commercial entities (which might have impacted their revenue). Lots of requirements for security were ignored. In the 90s until he passes, Internet RFC editor Postel use to let me help with STD1. He also sponsored a talk at ISI (along with USC graduate computer security) for me on why Internet isn't business critical dataprocessing.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads

I started referring to the SSL digital certificates, "comfort certificates" ... since they had become a source of comfort for the public (not necessary any security). A couple years ago at georgetown conferece, they had NSA director talk and people line up to ask questions. I got in line but the director had to leave for WH meeting before I got to the front. I stayed in line because they then had panel with former NSA director, former NSA COO, and some others. I finally got to the front and asked about the agency promoting confusion between authentication and identification. COO turned it into a joke about security acronym PAIN (privacy, authentication, identification, non-repudiation), I've had this conflict with them in the past.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#privacy

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 12:55:30 -0700

When I went to science center in 1970 ... got to rewrite even more of the production cp/67-cms system ... and 2741 access at home mar1970 (have had online access at home continuously since then). I had full access to rewriting all system software and could do some amount of (non-benchmark, non-throughput related tests in virtual machines).

ibm leased mainframes and most installations keeped accounting for use (even tho internally IBM, it was all "funny" money). At one point, I was told that I accounted for at least 1/2 of all time and could I do something about it. I suggested that maybe I could work less; it never came up again. other past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#41 When Does Folklore Begin???

one of the funny things, the reference apparently was just from the cp67 userid-based use accounting. It apparently didn't include the weekend off-shift dedicated time I used (as undergraduate at the univ., I had been use to getting datacenter all to myself from 8am sat until 8am monday, 48hrs w/o sleep could make monday classes difficult).

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Orient to Reality

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Orient to Reality
Date: 11 May 2017
Blog: Google+

Open Operations Forum: "Just Grow Stories" - or - Continuous Development Of Our Own Further Development
http://openmonetaryopsforum.blogspot.com/2013/08/just-grow-stories-or-continuous.html

The way forward for progressives
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=35980

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More Cyberdumb

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: More Cyberdumb
Date: 11 May 2017
Blog: Facebook

more "cyberdumb", most major classified weapon systems

Report: China gained U.S. weapons secrets using cyberespionage
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/28/world/asia/china-cyberespionage/
Confidential report lists U.S. weapons system designs compromised by Chinese cyberspies
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
REPORT: Chinese Hackers Stole Plans For Dozens Of Critical US Weapons Systems
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-hacked-us-military-weapons-systems-2013-5
A list of the U.S. weapons designs and technologies compromised by hackers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-list-of-the-us-weapons-designs-and-technologies-compromised-by-hackers/2013/05/27/a95b2b12-c483-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html

OODA-Loop 2.0: Information, Not Agility, Is Life
http://breakingdefense.com/2017/05/OODA-loop-2-0-information-not-agility-is-life/
The F-35 is a high bandwidth, networked, highly capable sensor/weapon, low observable platform that is superior in the information domain over all other types of aircraft. It will continue to win the "information dog fight" against all other adversaries if it maintains its IM advantage. This is information dominance. This same principle is also true for the Third Offset warfare areas of Electromagnetic Maneuver (EMW) and Cyber Warfare.
... snip ...

or more cyberdumb???

military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex

past cyberdumb posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#21 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
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/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#67 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#15 China's claim it has 'quantum' radar may leave $17 billion F-35 naked
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#34 CBS News: WikiLeaks claims to release thousands of CIA documents of computer activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#47 WikiLeaks CIA Dump: Washington's Data Security Is a Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#50 A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 08:54:01 -0700

quite critical of Johnson, McNamara, Westmoreland, body count, and whole counterinsurgency program (when Johnson was asked what they were suppose to do in Vietnam, he consistently replies, "kill more viet cong" ... also long litany of Johnson & McNamara lying to congress).

65-74 deaths, allied 282k, NVA/VC 444k, civilian 624k
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties

recent post over in facebook group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#69 The knives are out for Trump's national security adviser H.R. McMaster

which seems remarkable about claims McMaster is strong proponent of counterinsurgency that has been going on in Afghanastan for over 15yrs.

Doesn't get as far as Nixon's "treason" in manipulating peace talks to improve his winning election (but does talk about Johnson lying about vietnam and manipulating opinion to help him win election)
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#22 Nixon and the war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#23 Nixon and the war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#24 Nixon and the war

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11May1992 (25 years ago) press on cluster scale-up

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: 11May1992 (25 years ago) press on cluster scale-up
Date: 11 May 2017
Blog: Facebook

grid triva: late 70s, got con'ed into doing 4341 benchmarks (on engineering machine, before product ship) for national lab that was looking at getting 70 for compute farm. old 4300 related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341

Other things along the way, included getting asked in 1988 to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they were playing with, which quickly evolves into fibre channel standard. We were then doing our HA/CMP product
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp

and starting to work on cluster scale-up for both technical/scientific (working with national labs) and commercial (working with RDBMS vendors). In Jan1992 we have meeting on (commercial) cluster scale-up in Ellison's office ... old reference to the meeting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
some old cluster scale-up email, including efforts with LLNL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa

Within a few weeks of the Ellison meeting, cluster scale-up is transferred, announced as IBM supercomputer (for scientific/technical ONLY) and we are told we can't work on anything with more than four processors. We then leave IBM within a few months. Two of the Oracle people mentioned in the Ellison meeting have also left and are at a small client/server startup responsible for something called "commerce server". We are brought in as consultants because they want to do payment transactions on the server.

also 17Feb1992 press about scientific/technical only
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1

We are brought in as consultant into small client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their server, they had also invented this technology they called "SSL" they wanted to use, it is now frequently called "electronic commerce". I had completely authority over the webserver to gateway to the payment networks ... but could only make recommendations on the client/server side, some of which were almost immediately violated, accounting from some number of exploits that continue to this day.

Original browser/SSL model is that the user understands the relationship between the URL they enter and the corresponding webserver entity they wish contact. "SSL" then (supposedly) provides the assurance that the webserver they contact corresponds to the URL they entered ... which combined, completes the end-to-end between the webserver they are talking to is the webserver that corresponds to the organization they think they are talking to.

This was almost immediately violated when merchants found that SSL cut their throughput by 90-99% and they dropped back to using non-SSL, unauthenticated URL (open to impersonation and man-in-the-middle attack). Then there is a "checkout/pay" button (provided by an unauthenticated website). Since the checkout/pay URL is no longer provided by the enduser, it breaks the underlying assumption underlying the browser/SSL model.

The PKI industry was also floating $20B/annum business case on wallstreet, based on financial industry underwriting $100/year/person certificate (200M people). When that wasn't happening, the industry was heavily lobbying govs to mandate person digital certificates ... including the cal. state electronic signature act (disclaimer: I was brought in to help wordsmith the act, possibly as countermeasure to the PKI industry influence).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature

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

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 1988, I was asked to help LLNL 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 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

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 (104 to maybe 70 FICON, as opposed to 2 native fibre channel)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon

Besides (HSDT) channel-extender ... also had HSDT T1 and faster speed links and was working with director of NSF. We 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 (in part based on what we already had running)
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
and past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet

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 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).

Telcos had huge problem in the early 80s with enormous bandwidth in dark fiber. They had bit/time use based charging model. In order to encourage new generation of bandwidth hungry applications, they would have to enormously drop their bandwidth charges ... which would mean that they operate at a loss for at least several years. Folklore is that various telcos provided resources several times larger than the RFP award ... as part of incubator for developing the bandwidth hungry applications ... with the additional restriction that the resources couldn't be used by commercial entities (which might have impacted their revenue). Lots of requirements for security were ignored. In the 90s until he passes, Internet RFC editor Postel use to let me help with STD1. He also sponsored a talk at ISI (along with USC graduate computer security) for me on "Why Internet isn't business critical dataprocessing".

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Typesetting

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Typesetting
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 09:20:16 -0700

post in long-winded thread about how banks make money off of fraud.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#39 a fraud is a sale, Re: The bank fraud blame game
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#40 a fraud is a sale, Re: The bank fraud blame game
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#43 a fraud is a sale, Re: The bank fraud blame game

chip objective was to be less than dollar ... and only objective was to provide authentication.

prototype (in software) demo'ed at annual world-wide BAI retail banking show. part of press release
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#224 X9.59/AADS announcement at BAI this week

NACHA pilots in debit network ... some ref
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aadsnacha
NACHA reference gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine (results of pilot in 23july2001 reference)
https://web.archive.org/web/20070706004855/http://internetcouncil.nacha.org/News/news.html

old a.f.c. ref about chip being done in new security chip fab in dresden and doing security walkthru of the dresden fab
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#53 Getting old

from old a.f.c. thread, evaluation, security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#39 My Dream PC -- Chip-Based
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#40 My Dream PC -- Chip-Based
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#41 My Dream PC -- Chip-Based
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#42 My Dream PC -- Chip-Based
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#43 My Dream PC -- Chip-Based
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#46 My Dream PC -- Chip-Based
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#47 My Dream PC -- Chip-Based
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#48 My Dream PC -- Chip-Based

the difficulty was that it commoditized strong security and strong authentication ... vested interests wanted to preserve branding and proprietary infrastructure with additional software features.

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Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 09:37:41 -0700

note that much of their leaks have actually been done by contractors working for for-profit operations (frequently private-equity owned and under intense pressure to cut corners and make moeny every way possible ... part of snowden scenario was that the private-equity companies that security clearances were outsourced to were filling out the paper work ... but not actually doing background checks).

last decade enormous increase in outsource, 70% of the budget and over half the people for the intelligence community, not just NSA
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/

and contributes to the rapidly spreading success of failure culture, a series of failures results in more money for the for-profit companies (and plausibly, breaches means more appropriations for security monitoring, watched a midsummer murders last night with that theme, security company was doing home robberies when threatened by budget cut)
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/

past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity

trivia: the former president of AMEX, after he leaves IBM goes on to head up a major private-equity company that will acquire the beltway bandit that will employ snowden.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner

some recent refs on (gov) cyberdumb ... including breaches involving most major classified weapons systems
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)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#67 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#76 The F-35 Stealth Fighter Is Politically Unstoppable----Even Under President Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#62 Big Shrink to "Hire" 25,000 in the US, as Layoffs Pile Up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#15 China's claim it has 'quantum' radar may leave $17 billion F-35 naked
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#34 CBS News: WikiLeaks claims to release thousands of CIA documents of computer activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#47 WikiLeaks CIA Dump: Washington's Data Security Is a Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#50 A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#73 More Cyberdumb

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Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 10:05:02 -0700

TD for the agency information assurance directorate is doing assurance panel in the trusted computing track at the IDF and asks me to do talk on the chip ... gone 404 but lives on at the wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20011109072807/http://www.intel94.com/idf/spr2001/sessiondescription.asp?id=stp%2bs13
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#trusted.computing

the guy doing the TPM chip is sitting in the front row ... so I guip that it is nice to see the TPM is starting to look more and more like my chip ... he quips back that I don't have a committee of 200 people helping me with the chip design.

other recent posts mentioning that IDF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#39 History of Mainframe Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#41 History of Mainframe Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#10 Encryp-xit: Europe will go all in for crypto backdoors in June
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#92 Old hardware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#31 [CM] What was your first home computer?

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Typesetting

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Typesetting
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 10:54:39 -0700

triva: press release mentions a number of companies involved ... one was a kerberos startup ... including being hired by m'soft to do the their original kerberos implementation
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa378170(v=vs.85).aspx

interesting thing was their ceo at the time had once been head of IBM mainframe POK ... and then went on to be head of IBM/PC Boca ... and had been in the middle of the OS2/windows thing that went on with m'soft.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/27/the_os_wars_os2_25years_old/

and when he was in POK, he had con'ed my wife into coming to POK to be in charge of loosely-coupled (mainframe) architecture (aka mainframe for cluster). when my wife was in POK, she did Peer-Coupled Shared Data architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata

she didn't remain long because of 1) little uptake, except for IMS hot-standby (much later, sysplex & parallel sysplex) and 2) constant battles with the communication group trying to force her into using sna/vtam for loosely-coupled operations.

even more topic drift ... above OS2/windows wars as 25yrs before 27nov2012, recent post about 25yrs before 11may2017
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#75 11May1992 (25 years ago) press on cluster scale-up

somewhat topic drift back towards "Typesetting" ... our HA/CMP cluster project
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp

was originally kicked-off because somebody at IBM had promised NYTimes something with regard to Atex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atex_(software)

some past posts mentioning Atex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#22 DOS history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#23 DOS history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#21 DOS C prompt in "Vista"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#57 Ikea type font change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#58 Ikea type font change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#60 Ikea type font change

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 11:17:44 -0700

Google found over 1,000 bugs in 47 open source projects
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/05/09/fuzzing-open-source/
OSS-Fuzz combines various fuzzing engines (initially, libFuzzer) with Sanitizers (initially, AddressSanitizer) and provides a massive distributed execution environment powered by ClusterFuzz.
... snip ...

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Linear Thinking in a Nonlinear World

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Linear Thinking in a Nonlinear World
Date: 13 May 2017
Blog: Facebook

from the law of diminishing returns.

old post regarding details of ECPS microcode assist. low/mid-range mainframe 370 avg. 10 microcode instructions per 370 instruction. New 138/148 had 6kbytes of available microcode space. Objective was to find the 6kbytes of highest used 370 kernel instructions and move them into microcode for 10:1 performance improvement. following shows highest used 6kbytes accounted for 79.55%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21

also
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#75 11May1992 (25 years ago) press on cluster scale-up

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does linux scatter daemons on multicore CPU?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: does linux scatter daemons on multicore CPU?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 13:41:05 -0700

i have vague memories of SLAC meeting, a cp/67 (then vm/370) Amdahl guy saying one of his co-workers was doing the mp/m (muli-programming) implementation version of cp/m ... but it may have been mp/m-86
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP/M#MP.2FM-86

above then mentions in the 80s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexOS

one question is there any overlap between the mainframe Flex-ES emulator running on i86 hardware ... originally by some former Amdahl people ... and FlexOS. some old flex-es posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#63 Sizing the application
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#13 FlexEs and IVSK instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#39 Flex Question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#10 Low-end processors (again)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#0 IBM 3380 and 3880 maintenance docs needed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#21 IBM tried to kill VM?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#26 Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#29 Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#42 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#68 Entry point for a Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#71 Entry point for a Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#32 history of RPG and other languages, was search engine history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#13 AMC proposes 1980s computer TV series Halt & Catch Fire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#41 System Response

Platform Solutions ref:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/22/platform_solutions_sues_ibm/
PSI has ported the mainframe systems architecture developed by Amdahl to Intel's Itanium chip. Set up in 2003, the privately-held company is backed by Blueprint Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Intel and others.
... snip ...

and (also includes mention of FLEX-ES)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_Corporation#Amdahl_customer_options

The vestiges of Amdahl's ESA/390 emulation project were resurrected under a new name: Platform Solutions Inc. Using capital from Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and other major investors they designed a line of Itanium-based computers and software to emulate z/Architecture machines so that they could run zSeries operating systems, with zSeries channels for attaching real IBM equipment as well as virtual simulators for most hardware to minimize the need for IBM's peripheral equipment. Its LPARs hosted not only IBM operating systems but 64-bit Intel Itanium Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, and potentially other operating systems.
... snip ...

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Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 18:28:37 -0700

recently mentioned:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#47 A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another

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Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 21:35:43 -0700

Top NSA Whistleblower: Ransomware Hack Caused by "Swindle of the Taxpayers" by Intelligence Agencies
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-13/top-nsa-whistleblower-ransomware-hack-caused-%E2%80%9Cswindle-taxpayers%E2%80%9D-intelligence-agenci
Binney is the real McCoy. As we noted in 2013, Binney has been interviewed by virtually all of the mainstream media, including CBS, ABC, CNN, New York Times, USA Today, Fox News, PBS and many others.
... snip ...

William Binney (U.S. intelligence official)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_(U.S._intelligence_official)

from above, part of success of failure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailblazer_Project

Bio: William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe
https://www.whistleblower.org/bio-william-binney-and-j-kirk-wiebe

whistleblower posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower

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Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 10:53:50 -0700

Warren Buffett's cybersecurity wake-up call -- are we listening?
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/technology/333026-warren-buffetts-cybersecurity-wake-up-call-are-we-listening

During his Senate confirmation hearing, Clayton -- who had spent more than 20 years working for Wall Street companies on mergers, acquisitions and federal regulatory compliance -- said he did not think public companies were providing investors with enough information about cybersecurity.
... snip ...

dates back at least 20yrs, long winded post from jan1999 on the subject (thread between risk management and information security)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#riskm

Risk management is the art of managing earnings. A good description of the process would be to develop the ability to hindsight as much in advance, before an event occurs. Essentially senior management has to address the task of managing earnings in an uncontrollable environment. Managing a corporate entity is a process of making decisions based on insufficient data, of inadequate quality, facing an unknown future, within an uncontrollable environment.
... snip ...

In the 90s at the financial industry meetings in the white house annex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_infrastructure_protection
a major concern was that the ISAC be created in such a way that it not be subject to FOIA (they especially didn't want publicity about cyber crime).
https://www.fsisac.com/

we were brought in to help wordsmith the cal. state electronic signature law ... recent refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#70 Domain Name System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#75 11May1992 (25 years ago) press on cluster scale-up

several of the participants were heavily involved in privacy issues and had done detailed public privacy surveys and the #1 problem was fraudulent financial transactions primarily from breaches. There was little or nothing being done about these breaches and it was hoped that publicity from data breach notification legislation would prompt corrective action. The issue is entities normally take security measures in self-protection, the problem with the breaches was the institutions weren't at risk, it was their customers and the public.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_breach_notification_laws
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_S.B._1386

later there were a number of federal (preemption) notification bills introduced (none yet passed) that would effectively eliminate nearly all notification requirements.

electronic signature law posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
data breach notification posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification

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Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 16:21:36 -0700

more than decade ago, somebody gave a talk at conference about cyber crime had exceeded drug crime ... which got picked up by the press and reverberated around the world. I then got email asking if I find open source references to cyber crime had exceeded drug crime. The major LEO websites had drug crime numbers readily available ... but asking about cyber crime required special authentication on "need to know". I eventually found an extremely obscure reference (that hadn't been redacted).

past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#25 Cybercrime Could Be As Destructive As Credit Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#44 Cybercrime cost $1 trillion last year, study
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#38 Cybercrime running into trillions, experts claim
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#47 Cyber crime 'more profitable than drugs'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#56 Credit cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#58 Credit cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#20 Electronic Theft Costs Businesses More Than Physical Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#31 Cyber-crime: bigger than the drugs trade, and growing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#40 The Great Cyberheist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#53 What do you think about fraud prevention in the governments?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#27 Measuring Cyberfraud, the fall rate of sky, and other metrics from the market for Silver Bullets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#9 NSA chief criticises media and suggests UK was right to detain David Miranda
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#13 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#49 Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#15 Banking Culture Encourages Dishonesty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#19 Does Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#17 Cybercrime

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The advent of ADVENT

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: The advent of ADVENT
Date: 14 May 2017
Blog: Google+

I would stop by Tymshare periodically and one visit found that had ported fortran from Stanford PDP10 to VM370/CMS and I got a copy spring 1978. I would make it available on the internal network and very soon there were PLI versions.

recent post (with some spring 1978 email)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#65 [CM] What was your first home computer?

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I quit this NG

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: I quit this NG
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 18:43:47 -0700

Damage To Specific Site In The Brain May Be Linked To Religious Fundamentalism
http://www.iflscience.com/brain/damage-to-specific-site-in-the-brain-may-be-linked-to-religious-fundamentalism/
Biological and cognitive underpinnings of religious fundamentalism (June 2017)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393217301318
Neurologists Have Identified Brain Lesions That Could Be Linked to Religious Fundamentalism (May 2017)
https://www.sciencealert.com/damage-to-a-specific-part-of-the-brain-could-result-in-religious-fundamentalism
earlier, 2008 from NIH: Neurobiology of Spirituality
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190564/

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The head of the Census Bureau just quit, and the consequences are huge

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: The head of the Census Bureau just quit, and the consequences are huge
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 09:01:40 -0700

mid 90s we consulted (essentially for free) for the backend dataprocessing for the 2000 census. They still had 70s (burroughs) systems that were used for the 80s&90s census. The 70s systems were rolled out spring 1997 and the 90s systems were rolled in ... so there was plenty of time to work with the new systems getting ready for the 2000 census. When the effort was audited, they had me spend all day in front of the room answering questions.

Later we tried to do something similar for VA dataprocessing, which was coming off a failed billion dollar effort and were gearing up for a couple billion dollar project. However, doing something essentially for free is big threat to beltway bandits ... and the emerging success of failure culture
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/

success of failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree

contributing to the rapidly spreading success of failure culture was the massive uptic in outsourcing to for-profit companies last decade ... for intelligence, 70% of the budget and over half the people
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/

past posts mentioning 2000 census:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#16 Why are Mainframe Computers really still in use at all?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#21 Methods of payment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#43 Methods of payment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#63 was: 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" tech stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#92 Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#21 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#56 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#56 What's the most interesting thing you do in your non-work life?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#87 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#11 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#98 ACA (Obamacare) website problems--article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#37 OT this guy salary one dollar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#72 George W. Bush: Still the worst; A new study ranks Bush near the very bottom in history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/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#107 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#18 FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#12 Why a Single-Payer Health Care System is Inevitable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#40 Misc. Success of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#76 GLBA & Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#71 ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches

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Ransomware on Mainframe application ?

From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Ransomware on Mainframe application ?
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 15 May 2017 10:32:08 -0700

by nearly year, was xmas exec (email) on bitnet (this fora originated on corporate sponsored university bitnet).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Tree_EXEC

we had looked at problem before that ... but people wanted to do things like that anyway.

recent thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#47 A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#49 A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#50 A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#56 A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#59 A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#83 Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#85 Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS?

at 1996 Moscone MDC, all the banners said "internet" but the constant refrain in all the sessions was "preserve your investment". The issue was that a paradigm of automatic executed scripts included in data files had grown on on small, private, safe, business lans ... and was being extended to the wild anarchy of the internet w/o any additional countermeasures.

Until he passes, the Internet RFC standards editor use to let me help with STD1. He also sponsored my talk on Why the internet isn't business critical dataprocessing for ISI and USC computer security graduate students (in part based on the compensating procedures I had to do for "electronic commerce"). recent reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#11 The Geniuses that Anticipated the Idea of the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#14 The Geniuses that Anticipated the Idea of the Internet

Shortly after graduation and joining IBM, the science center had (also) ported APL\360 to CP/67-CMS for CMS\APL ... redoing memory management for large virtual memory, demand paged environment, also adding API to system services (like file i/o), opening APL to doing real world applications. One of the early users of CMS\APL on the science center system were the business planners in Armonk hdqtrs, loading the most valuable corporate data ... detailed customer information, and doing business models. The science center also had a lot of non-employee users, including staff and students from universities in the boston area (mit, bu, etc). As a result, we had to demonstrate a very high level of integrity and security.

A couple years later, IBM had hired former gov. employee as CSO (at one time had been head of presidential detail) and I got assigned to run around with him ... talking about computer security (and learning a little about physical security).

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Ransomware on Mainframe application ?

From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Ransomware on Mainframe application ?
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 15 May 2017 12:03:26 -0700

trivia from long ago and far away, gone 404, but lives on at the way back machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml

I didn't learn about them until much later. As undergraduate did lots of work on IBM software and I would even get requests from IBM for enhancements ... in retrospect, some of the requests may have originated from these guys.

ibmmain post from march about learning that there were three kinds of crypto around the mid-80s.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#69 ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches
also referenced in this more recent post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#58 A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another

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Check out New Wave of Ransom Threats Seen in Unprecedented Attack - Bloomberg

From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Check out New Wave of Ransom Threats Seen in Unprecedented Attack - Bloomberg
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 15 May 2017 14:51:12 -0700

recent posts mentioning ransoms:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#84 Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#90 Ransomware on Mainframe application ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#91 Ransomware on Mainframe application ?

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Ransomware on Mainframe application ?

From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Ransomware on Mainframe application ?
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 15 May 2017 15:17:03 -0700

in IBM Retirees facebook discussion, there has been a lot about recent news articles on buffett unloading IBM:

Buffett cuts stake in IBM and shares slide
https://phys.org/news/2017-05-buffett-stake-ibm.html
Not Just Buffett: IBM Unit Sells IBM, Wells Fargo
http://www.barrons.com/articles/not-just-buffett-ibm-unit-sells-ibm-wells-fargo-1494590407

But Buffett has also waded in on cybersecurity

Warren Buffett's cybersecurity wake-up call -- are we listening?
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/technology/333026-warren-buffetts-cybersecurity-wake-up-call-are-we-listening

recent post about this predates Buffett recent reference going back more than 20yrs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#85 Time to sack the cheif of computing in the NHS

includes reference to conference that Tandem/Compaq & Atalla (ATM machine crypto company that Tandem had bought) put on for me ... really long winded posting from Jan1999:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#riskm

I have prototype secure chip (strong authentication for both sessions and transactions) demos/booth at world wide retail banking show Dec1999:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#224 X9.59/AADS announcement at BAI this week

trivia: the CEO of one of the security companies that participated in both the conference and the BAI demo ... had at one time been head of mainframe POK.

recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#90 Ransomware on Mainframe application ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#91 Ransomware on Mainframe application ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#92 Check out New Wave of Ransom Threats Seen in Unprecedented Attack - Bloomberg

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Migration off Mainframe to other platform

From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: Migration off Mainframe to other platform
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 15 May 2017 18:13:08 -0700

SCI was fiber optic protocol adapted for a number of things ... including channel I/O ... but also a scalable (64-port) multiprocessor memory interface. Sequent (& Data General) used it for 256-way server with 64 four I486 chip boards (ibm later buys sequent).

Convex does a 128-system "snake" ... SCI with 64 two processor "HP snake" chip boards. HP then buys Convex. An engineer that had been at Cray, then IBM Kingston engineer&scientific, then IBM Austin RS6000 is hired by HP to do superdome ... sort of a less expensive convex machine.

some multiprocessor posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp

After leaving IBM, we did some consulting for both Sequent and Convex. Then the guy doing superdome tries to talk us into joining him. At the time we were doing some work for major payment card processor and HP had bought one of major point-of-sale terminal companies. The former CEO of the point-of-sale terminal company and the guy doing superdome both report to the same HP executives ... and we have to have meetings with all of them for different reasons.

all of these mostly predate ibm cmos highend mainframes.

While still at IBM, in 1988 I had been asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they have that quickly becomes fibre channel standard, including some stuff I had worked with in 1980 for channel extender. Later some POK channel engineers become involved and define a heavy weight protocol that radically reduces the native throuput that is eventually released as FICON.

some FICON posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon

latest peak I/O benchmark that I've found is z196 getting 2M IOPS with 104 FICON (running over 104 fibre standard). At about the same time a fibre channel was announced for e5-2600 claiming over million IOPS (two such have higher throughput than 104 FICON). There is reference to TCW for zHPF that is little like what I did in 1980, but it only claims 30% improvement (say 70 FICON instead of 104).

some channel-extender posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender

e5-2600v1 in the time-frame of z196 had between 400-530BIPS (depending on model) compared to 80-way z196 rated at 50BIPS.

Since then there have been 101 ec12 at 75BIPS and 141 Z13 at 100BIPS, and e5-2600 v2, v3, and v4 ... with v4 somewhere around 1500BIPS.

before IBM sold off its I86 server business it had announced an high-density e5-2600 rack with something like 64 e5-2600 blades ... or around 3500 BIPs for v1 e5-2600 and nearly 10,000 BIPS for v4 (something like equivalent of 100 z13).

the large megadatacenters with hundreds of thousands of blades ... have done an enormous amount of automation, a typical megadatacenter run by staff of 80-120 people. However, the enormous optimization in blade cost, blade operation, automation, etc ... by the large megadatacenters likely contributed to IBM selling off its i86 server business.

part of z196 performance claims (compared to z10) is the introduction of memory latency compensation features (out of order execution, branch prediction, etc) that have been in many of these other chip platforms for decades; with further improvements for ec12 and z13 ... although
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

early z13 specs said 30% more performance than ec12 (100BIPS) with 40% more processors (or 710MIPS/processors??) ... some current z13 specs says 40% more performance (w/40% more processors, so maybe same MIPS/proc).

some recent e5-2600 blade posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#19 follow up to dense code definition
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#73 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#6 How do BIG WEBSITES work?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#16 System z: I/O Interoperability Evolution - From Bus & Tag to FICON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#1 GREAT presentation on the history of the mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#17 The Pentagon still uses computer software from 1958 to manage its contracts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#25 ARM Cortex A53 64 bit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#57 What are mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#58 Paging subsystems in the era of bigass memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#88 Paging subsystems in the era of bigass memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#10 WD ships 'world's largest' 12TB HGST Ultrastar He12 Helium 7200 RPM Enterprise HDDs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#75 11May1992 (25 years ago) press on cluster scale-up

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The head of the Census Bureau just quit, and the consequences are huge

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: The head of the Census Bureau just quit, and the consequences are huge
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 21:28:39 -0700

350M standard ibm punch cards, 2000cards/box, 175,000 boxes, 5 boxes/carton, 35,000 cartons.

2540 reader, 1000 cards/minute, 350,000 minutes, 5833hrs, 243days, large shifts of people constantly feeding cards, maybe several 2540 readers, since they would need to have regular maintenance every day (possibly every shift). anybody know duty cycle of 2540 (i would expect it would be well under 350M cards).

maybe 100 2540s, 10 2540s in serial sequential streams and 10 parallel streams ... get things down to 24days.

all starts with census back in 1890s
https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/year_1890.html
Herman Hollerith's tabulating system is used in the U.S. Census, reducing a nearly 10-year long process to two and a half years and saving $5 million.
... snip ...

more history
https://www.census.gov/history/www/innovations/technology/tabulation_and_processing.html
and more
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/tabulating-equipment?ogmt_page=census-to-rand&edan_start=0&edan_fq=name%3A%22Remington+Rand%22&ogmt_view=list

past posts mentioning census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#16 Why are Mainframe Computers really still in use at all?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#41 How will current AI/robot stories play when AIs are real?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#39 DOD 5200.28-STD capable OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#28 Offshore IT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#45 Offshore IT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#13 Cost of patching "unsustainable"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#12 Danger: Derrida at work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#33 [IBM-MAIN] NY Times editorial on white collar jobs going
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#2 The SOB that helped IT jobs move to India is dead!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#42 The SOB that helped IT jobs move to India is dead!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#18 The SOB that helped IT jobs move to India is dead!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#48 Data Display & Modeling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#18 Low Bar for High School Students Threatens Tech Sector
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#21 Methods of payment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#43 Methods of payment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#18 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#48 Mozilla v Firefox
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005g.html#43 Academic priorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005g.html#50 Maximum RAM and ROM for smartcards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#44 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#20 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#21 Taxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#63 DEC's Hudson fab
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#7 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT Competitiveness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#18 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#24 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#70 illegal aliens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#79 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#7 Newbie question on table design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#31 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#51 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#85 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#30 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#22 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT Competitiveness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#12 ANT Censuses of the Internet Address Space
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#29 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#39 competitiveness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#63 was: 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" tech stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#92 Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#31 Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#5 Republican accomplishments and Hoover
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#39 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#82 Tell me why the taxpayer should be saving GM and Chrysler (and Ford) managers & shareholders at this stage of the game?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#22 Is Pride going to decimate the auto Industry?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#55 Can outsourcing be stopped?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#20 Five great technological revolutions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#23 Fresh start for lost file formats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#62 some '83 references to boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#43 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#38 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#21 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#33 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#34 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#35 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#36 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#37 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#39 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#45 not even sort of about The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#46 not even sort of about The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#51 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#54 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#56 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#62 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#67 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#69 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#76 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#79 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#81 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#84 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#86 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#87 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#18 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#19 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#62 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#63 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#69 No command, and control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#80 Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America's Lunch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#42 z/OS SYSLOG to UNIX syslog daemon?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#48 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#36 The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#18 Great Brian Arthur article on the Second Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#125 UC-Berkeley and other 'public Ivies' in fiscal peril
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#56 What's the most interesting thing you do in your non-work life?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#75 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#18 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#36 Race Against the Machine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#87 Cultural attitudes towards failure
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/2013l.html#11 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#98 ACA (Obamacare) website problems--article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#66 Salesmen--IBM and Coca Cola
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#47 Stolen F-35 Secrets Now Showing Up in China's Stealth Fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#32 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#37 OT this guy salary one dollar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#54 How do we take political considerations into account in the OODA-Loop?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#72 George W. Bush: Still the worst; A new study ranks Bush near the very bottom in history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#4 Decimal point character and billions
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#107 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#18 FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#12 Why a Single-Payer Health Care System is Inevitable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#40 Misc. Success of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#76 GLBA & Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#71 ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#27 US Education
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#94 A 40-year "conspiracy" at the VA

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 09:21:45 -0700

inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality

some drift, general middle class, but a little more focused on pensions

AMEX is in competition with KKR for LBO of RJR. KKR wins but runs into problems and hires away the president of AMEX to help turn it around
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco

IBM has gone into the red and was being reorganized into the 13 baby blues in preparation for breaking up the company. The board then hires away the former AMEX president to resurrect the company and reverse the breakup ... using some of the techniques at RJR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml

IBM couldn't just pull the plug on the subsidy, because pension law doesn't allow a company to take away a benefit a person has already earned or take away a pension right or feature the company has granted. "So we had to design something different," Sauvigne said. Enter Louis V. Gerstner Jr., IBM's new president. He'd headed RJR Nabisco in 1993 when it faced a similar dilemma: how to reduce pensions and remove the retirement subsidy without obviously violating the law or provoking an employee backlash. Gerstner and IBM turned to Watson Wyatt, the same consulting firm that had helped Nabisco solve its pension problem.
... snip ...

Gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions

Friedman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman

Friedman promoted an alternative macroeconomic viewpoint known as "monetarism", and argued that a steady, small expansion of the money supply was the preferred policy.[12] His ideas concerning monetary policy, taxation, privatization and deregulation influenced government policies, especially during the 1980s.
... snip ...

Milton Friedman's Cherished Theory Is Laid to Rest
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-12/milton-friedman-s-cherished-theory-is-laid-to-rest

Even now, when economic models have become far more complex than anything in Friedman's time, economists still go back to Friedman's theory as a mental touchstone -- a fundamental intuition that guides the way they make their models. My first macroeconomics professor believed in it deeply and instinctively, and would even bring it up in department seminars.
... snip ...

The Champions of the 401(k) Lament the Revolution They Started
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-champions-of-the-401-k-lament-the-revolution-they-started-1483382348?mod=e2fb

Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards
https://www.amazon.com/Economists-Powerful-Convenient-Distorted-Economics-ebook/dp/B01B4X4KOS/

loc1200-1206:

There are plenty of examples from other countries to copy: the US individual retirement account system is based on the Chilean pension reform of 1980/81 that in turn was based heavily on proposals made in the book Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman. In response to the Chilean system facing a likely collapse in a few decades time, it was substantially overhauled in 2008 to require mandatory participation of all citizens in exchange for universal pension coverage.
... snip ...

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
https://www.amazon.com/Undoing-Project-Friendship-Changed-Minds-ebook/dp/B01GI6S7EK/

goes into some detail how Kahneman and Tversky disproved Economists' assumption that people make rational decisions ... loc1155-59:

He had listened to an American economist talk about how so-and-so was stupid and so-and-so was a fool, then said, "All your economic models are premised on people being smart and rational, and yet all the people you know are idiots."
... snip ...

Kahneman (a psychologist) gets Nobel Prize in economics, in part for debunking Friedman economic theories

Peak Savings: Wall Street Faces 20 Years Of Retirement Withdrawals As Boomers Hit 70 1/2
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-16/peak-savings-us-demographic-time-bomb-ready-explode-boomers-hit-70-12-years

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 09:30:33 -0700

Iran Elected leader was going to review the Anglo-Persian contracts ... CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/
including
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Roosevelt,_Jr.
in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
and to help keep the shah stay in power, US (including Norman Schwarzkopf senior) trained
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK

military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex

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The head of the Census Bureau just quit, and the consequences are huge

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: The head of the Census Bureau just quit, and the consequences are huge
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 09:59:47 -0700

success of failure, original post ... includes lots of dataprocessing modernization projects over the years ... including intelligence, especially with the huge uptic in outsourcing last decade
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
70% of intelligence budget and over half the people
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/

success of failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree

recent ref to "Dereliction of Duty"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#69

repeatedly mentions belief that US prestige in the world would suffer more if it just pulled out of Vietnam than if it stayed in Vietnam and lost ... all the detailed analysis that regardless of the military victories, that US would eventually loose politically ... all the deaths were just cannon fodder for the politicians, 65-74 deaths, allied 282k, NVA/VC 444k, civilian 624k
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties

and now we have perpetual war (almost like old "star trek" episode)
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war
and "perpetual war" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war

WMD posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 11:04:33 -0700

after the Iran revolt against the Shah and SAVAK, the US was supporting Iraq in the iran/iraq war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
including supplying WMDs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
the VP and former CIA director claims no knowledge of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating financial industry, in part influence of Friedman, recent mention
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#96 [CM] What was your first home computer?
... creating S&L crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260

Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes

last decade, another family member presides over the economic mess 70 times larger than the S&L crisis. S&L crisis had 1000 criminal convictions with jailtime, proportionally the economic mess should have 70,000.

80s VP has become president and Iran/Contra prosecutors are working with former SECDEF on evidence ... including against the sitting president. The president then "pardons" the former SECDEF. However, they now have evidence that the president was involved in the Iran/Contra afair
https://www.amazon.com/Profiteers-Bechtel-Men-Built-World-ebook/dp/B010MHAHV2/

loc2752-54:
Pollard had accidentally "busted the most secret White House operation of modern times," as one account put it. "Neither Pollard nor the government of Israel was aware that they had smashed George Bush's first shipment of arms to Iran."

loc2764-65:
Despite his best efforts to silence Pollard, Weinberger would not escape his own entanglement in the Iran-Contra conspiracy, for which he would ultimately face criminal charges.
... snip ...

early 90s, a sat. photo recon analyst informed White House that Saddam was marshaling forces for invasion of Kuwait. White House says that Saddam told them he would do no such thing and proceeded to discredit the analyst. then the analyst informed the White House that Saddam was marshaling forces for invasion of Saudi Arabia. Now Bush1 has to choose between Saudi Arabia and Saddam.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2/

Iraq round 2 last decade, initially an invasion was justified on Iraq aiding Al Qaeda (and it would only cost $50B). Then justification was changed to (fabricated) WMDs (they had been given proof that the WMDs from Iran/Iraq war had been decommissioned). Early in the invasion the decomossioned WMDs (tracing back to US in the Iran/Iraq war) were found, but that information was classified until fall of 2014.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html

the two (nearing 20yrs) wars now $5T ... 100 times larger than the original Iraq invasion justification (and no end in sight)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds

old long-winded post from Jan1999 including mention of securitized mortgages.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#riskm

1999 I was asked to try and help prevent the coming economic mess by improving the integrity of securitized mortgages supporting documents. securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages (posterchild was office bldgs in Dallus/FtWorth that turn out to be empty lots). They then find that they can pay rating agencies for triple-A ratings (when rating agencies know that they aren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008 congressional testimony). Triple-A rating trumps supporting documentation and they can start doing no-documentation liar loans (and no longer had to care about borrower's qualification or loan quality). It was major factor in being able to do over $27T 2001-2008 (especially selling to institutions restricted to dealing only in "safe" investments, like large pension funds). From the law of unintended consequences, the largest TBTF economic mess fines so far are for the robo-signing mills fabricating the missing documents.

too big to fail postings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
(triple-A rated) toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 11:37:22 -0700

recent post in ibmmain mailing list
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#93 Ransomware on Mainframe application ?

references the Jan1999 post, it was a conference that compaq/tandem and atalla (ATM machine crypto company Tandem had bought) had sponsored for me.

It then mentions booth/demo I had in Dec1999 at the worldwide retail banking BAI show in Miami.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#224 X9.59/AADS announcement at BAI this week

The CEO of a security (originally kerberos startup) company that participated in both events ... had previously been head of POK high-end mainframe, and then head of Boca IBM/PC (and involved in the windows/OS2 deals with m'soft). At the time, the company also had contract to do m'soft's Kerberos implementation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#79 Typesetting

past posts also doing strong authentication implementation for Kerberos (not just strong authentication for financial operations)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#kerberos
as well doing strong authentication implementation for radius
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#radius

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The head of the Census Bureau just quit, and the consequences are huge

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: The head of the Census Bureau just quit, and the consequences are huge
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 17:33:44 -0700

20,000 cards is about ten boxes, two cartons ... 20mins to process at 1000/min. card trays held about box&half or around 3000 cards. web search comes up with pictures of two-wide, 7 high card tray cabinents ... or 14 trays, @3000, 42,000 cards.

when I first started, univ was (still) using mark sense cards for class registration ... which got punched
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_514
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/rochester/rochester_4011.html

and run through 2540. I did driver for registration that would read into middle stacker ... and on error/problem, application would punch (into middle stacker) colored (top edge) stripe card behind card with problem ... had somewhere between 20&30 thousand cards (ten card trays).

regular cards were all manila, so it was easy to spot problem registration in the card trays flagged with colored stripe.

past posts mentioning 2540 middle stacker
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#53 punch card editing, take 2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#20 HELP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#59 IBM System/360 DOS still going strong as Z/VSE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#71 IBM System/3 & 3277-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#0 IBM System/3 & 3277-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#47 IBM 029 keypunch -- 0-8-2 overpunch -- what hex code results?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#64 Reproducing Punch (513/514)--consecutive numbering, mark sense reading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#73 History: Mark-sense cards vs. plain keypunching?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#80 Got to remembering... the really old geeks (like me) cut their teeth on Unit Record
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#8 Last card reader?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#12 IEBPTPCH questions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#92 360/20, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#100 IBM's 96 column punch card (was System/3)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#27 Old IBM Mainframe Systems

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 19:34:08 -0700

Roosevelt complained that Churchill was constantly trying to postpone the invasion of europe ... with the objective of letting Russia and Germany to continue to slug it out until both were exhausted. Roosevelt said that would mean the war would drag on until 1947 and the American public wouldn't stand for it. some recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#60 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/2016h.html#80 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#85 US vs German Armies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#89 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#14 Trump to sign cyber security order

with both russia and germany taken out, that would leave britain a free hand in europe after the war.

US enters 8Dec41 ... 1947 ... would have been less than six years ... hardly anything compared to recent perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 07:22:16 -0700

i.e. Europe & later US, would loot resource rich countries. Example was Burma and portions of India had the highest standard of living and highest literacy rates in the world until British came in and looted the country. Burma went from the highest literacy rate & standard of living to the lowest.

US either compromise the ruler ... or replace with one that can be compromised .. and then loot the country ... "Economic Hit Man" (not stricly colonization done by european countries in earlier ages)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#63 21st Century Management approach?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#80 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#111 Matt Taibbi with Xmas Message from the Rich
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#25 You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#57 Study Confirms The Government Produces The Buggiest Software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#70 The Army and Special Forces: The Fantasy Continues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#83 Protected: R.I.P. Containment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#2 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#93 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#95 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#7 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#25 What Makes bank regulation and insurance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#51 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#78 Has the US Lost Its Grand Strategic Mind?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#69 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#80 The REAL Reason U.S. Targets Whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#40 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#38 Can America Win Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#62 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#41 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#49 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#37 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#38 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#47 Stolen F-35 Secrets Now Showing Up in China's Stealth Fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#66 Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#104 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#1 do you blame Harvard for Puten
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#4 Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#5 Swiss Leaks lifts the veil on a secretive banking system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#8 Shoot Bank Of America Now---The Case For Super Glass-Steagall Is Overwhelming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#67 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#30 Analysis: Root of Tattered US-Russia Ties Date Back Decades
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#44 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#45 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#11 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#14 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#122 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
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/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/2016f.html#22 US and UK have staged coups before
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)

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[CM] What was your first home computer?

From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 07:33:03 -0700

note that the military-industrial complex wanted the iraq2 invasion so badly that corporate reps were telling former soviet block countries that if they would vote for the invasion in the UN, they would get NATO membership and (directed appropriation) USAID (that could only be spent on military weapons from US companies)
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/

... much of the rest could be considered "Kabuki Theater"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater

WMDs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex

past refs to corporate reps lobbying for Iraq2 invasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#54 How do we take political considerations into account in the OODA-Loop?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#74 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#108 Occupy Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#17 Why do we keep losing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#29 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 ^A^K boy scouts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#34 43rd President
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#67 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#1 Jeb: George W. Bush is a top foreign policy adviser
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#76 Pentagon remains stubbornly unable to account for its billions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#78 New hard drive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#33 The wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were lost before they began, not on the battlefields
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#48 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#71 Thanks Obama
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#53 Trump Is Right, Bush Lied: A Little-Known Part of the Bogus Case for War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#107 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#40 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#50 Iraqi WMDs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#81 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#125 Iraq War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#48 Report: Nearly $5 Trillion Spent on Iraq and Afghanistan Wars So Far
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#81 The baby boomers' monumental quagmire in Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#102 Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#86 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#33 CBS News: WikiLeaks claims to release thousands of CIA documents of computer activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#42 Profitable Companies, No Taxes: Here's How They Did It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#13 The Pentagon still uses computer software from 1958 to manage its contracts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#55 Should America Have Entered World War I?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#59 Breaking: Entire Nation Experiencing Collective Amnesia About Iraq War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#1 How Desert Storm Destroyed the US Military