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 16:04:40 -0700Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> writes:
from 2004
California's SUV Ban; The Golden State has outlawed big SUVs on many of
its roads but doesn't seem to know it.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/hey_wait_a_minute/2004/08/californias_suv_ban.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 11:58:05 -0700re:
long ago and far away we were brought in as consultants to a small client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their (commerce) server (we had previously worked with the two people responsible for the commerce server, when they were at oracle), the startup had also invented this technology called "SSL" they wanted to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
Somewhat from having done "electronic commerce", we were asked to participate in financial standards X9A10 (now over 20yrs ago) that had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the financial industry for *ALL* retail payments (not just internet). We did end-to-end investigation of several kinds of payments and came up with standard that met the objectives. Possibly an issue was that it radically commoditized payments, significantly lowering barriers to entry (affecting existing stakeholders)
earlier thread post 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
and then prototype secure chip (for both transactions and sessions) demos/booth at world wide retail banking BAI show Dec1999:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#224
trivia: the CEO of one of the security companies (originally Kerberos startup) that participated in both the conference and the BAI demo ... had at one time been head of mainframe POK and then IBM/PC boca.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#76 Typesetting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#79 Typesetting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#93 Ransomware on Mainframe application ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#100 [CM] What was your first home computer?
posts on risk, fraud, exploits, threats, vulnerabilities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#threat
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Gotcha, Tatcha! Thieves hide in servers to hoover up victims' bank card numbers mid-order Date: 18 May 2017 Blog: FacebookGotcha, Tatcha! Thieves hide in servers to hoover up victims' bank card numbers mid-order
long ago and far away we were brought in as consultants to a small client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their (commerce) server (we had previously worked with the two people responsible for the commerce server, when they were at oracle), the startup had also invented this technology called "SSL" they wanted to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
Somewhat from having done "electronic commerce", we were asked to
participate in financial standards X9A10 (now over 20yrs ago) that had
been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the financial
industry for *ALL* retail payments (not just internet). We did
end-to-end investigation of several kinds of payments and came up with
standard that met the objectives. Possibly an issue was that it
radically commoditized payments, significantly lowering barriers to
entry (affecting existing stakeholders)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html
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
Prototype secure payment demos/booth at world wide retail banking BAI
show Dec1999:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#224
trivia: the CEO of one of the security companies (originally Kerberos startup) that participated in both the conference and the BAI demo ... had at one time been head of mainframe POK and then IBM/PC boca.
posts on risk, fraud, exploits, threats, vulnerabilities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#threat
harvesting account number posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#harvest
naked payments metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#payments
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 08:45:48 -0700jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
pg464/loc9995-10000:
IBM was not the born-again growth machine trumpeted by the mob of Wall
Street momo traders. It was actually a stock buyback contraption on
steroids. During the five years ending in fiscal 2011, the company
spent a staggering $67 billion repurchasing its own shares, a figure
that was equal to 100 percent of its net income.
pg465/10014-17:
Total shareholder distributions, including dividends, amounted to $82
billion, or 122 percent, of net income over this five-year
period. Likewise, during the last five years IBM spent less on capital
investment than its depreciation and amortization charges, and also
shrank its constant dollar spending for research and development by
nearly 2 percent annually.
... snip ...
top executives bonus plan tied to stock market.
stock buyback posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
supported by ZIRP funds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 12:33:19 -0700hancock4 writes:
periodically mention televised round table of economists from economic conference ... on potential of flat tax. something to the effect that congress is the most corrupt institution on earth, in large part for selling tax loopholes. Each individual loophole adds up over time, so in aggregate doing income taxes cost something like 3% of GDP in preparation and 3% of GDP in non-optimal business decisions that qualify for loophole. Going to flat tax would eliminate all that ... and 6% GDP savings would more than offset any advantages from specific loopholes.
Major lobbying against "flat tax" is tax preparation industry (the 3% of GDP) and the country of Ireland (a major beneficiary of loopholes).
One of the things happened in congress was when they figured that they could make a lot more money from reoccurring payments ... than simple one time sale; they have loopholes that are just for fixed number of years so they can get reoccurring payments (to renew loophole).
I've mentioned before industries with large work forces really started
to shift profits to a small workforce subsidiary ... example was airline
industry shifting profit to selling tickets. Parent company could show
substantial profit even when airline operations was showing loss ...
since they had shifted profit to making reservations and selling
tickets. They could even declare bankruptcy in airine operations
and offload pension obligation on the gov.
https://www.pbgc.gov/
http://www.gao.gov/highrisk/pension_benefit/why_did_study
Then last decade, they started moving subsidiary where profit is booked to offshore tax haven (like Ireland) ... that might consist of little more than shoebox of papers in some closet. Poster child was large equipment maker that makes in the US and sells and delivers to customers in the US. They then created distributor subsidiary in offshore tax haven, they sell to the distrubutor at cost, which then sells to the US customers (with all the profit booked in tax haven) ... the equipment is still made in the US and shipped/delivered directly to customers in the US.
tax evasion, tax avoidance, tax havens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
2002 congress lets the fiscal responsibility act (can't spend more than
tax revenue, on its way to eliminating all federal debt) lapse. 2010,
CBO report in 2003-2009, tax revenue was cut by $6T and spending
increased by $6T, $12T gap compared to the fiscal responsibility act.
since then no renewal of fiscal responsibility act, and only modest cuts
in some spending, so federal debt continues to increase.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
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(-congressional) complex wanted huge spending
increase.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: SDB (system determined Blksize) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 19 May 2017 14:45:21 -0700R.Skorupka@BREMULTIBANK.COM.PL (R.S.) writes:
In between are 4k FBA that simulate 512 byte.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format
where you might have CKD simulated on 512 byte FBA simulated on 4096 byte FBA
gets even more complex when RAID is layered over the top.
ckd, fba, multi-track search, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 21:15:24 -0700re:
some more tax evasion and tax haven
Luxembourg Leaks, Secret Tax Deals Exposed
https://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks
New Leak Reveals Luxembourg Tax Deals for Disney, Koch Brothers Empire
https://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks/new-leak-reveals-luxembourg-tax-deals-disney-koch-brothers-empire
Luxembourg tax deals for Disney, Koch brothers empires revealed
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/12/09/16382/luxembourg-tax-deals-disney-koch-brothers-empires-revealed
New Bank Leak Shows How Rich Exploit Tax Haven Loopholes
https://www.icij.org/offshore/new-bank-leak-shows-how-rich-exploit-tax-haven-loopholes
Faux Corporate Directors Stand in for Fraudsters, Despots and Spies
https://www.icij.org/offshore/faux-corporate-directors-stand-fraudsters-despots-and-spies
The Panama Papers * ICIJ
https://panamapapers.icij.org/
Swiss Leaks: Murky Cash Sheltered by Bank Secrecy
https://www.icij.org/project/swiss-leaks
Deutsche Bank Helped Customers Maintain Hundreds of Offshore Entities
https://www.icij.org/offshore/deutsche-bank-helped-customers-maintain-hundreds-offshore-entities
Map: The Offshore Leaks Revelations
https://www.icij.org/offshore/map-offshore-leaks-revelations
spring 2009, IRS announced it was going after 52,000 wealthy americans that owed $400B in taxes on money illegally hidden overseas. spring 2011, new speaker of the house announced that it was cutting funds for the IRS office responsible for recovering the $400B. Since then news have been about a couple billion in fines on the TBTFs that facilitated the tax evasions ... but nothing about the $400B (even after the $6T in "legal" cuts 2003-2009, they still needed to do $400B in illegally)
past posts: tax evasion, tax avoidance, tax havens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
TBTF posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 08:46:04 -0700mausg writes:
also 80s when bush1 was VP, he claims credit as administration point
person deregulating financial industry causing S&L crisis, along
with other members of his family.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
then last decade, another family member presides over the economic mess (70 times larger than the S&L crisis)
adjustable rate mortgage rates were being use sort of
bait&switch. late 90s I was asked to help try and prevent coming
economic mess. securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L
crisis to obfuscate fraudulent mortgages (poster child was office
bldgs in Dallas area that turn out to be empty lots). I was to improve
the integrity of supporting documents as countermeasure. Then
they found they could pay credit rating agencies for triple-A rating
on securitized instruments (when both the sellers and the rating
agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A ... from Oct2008
congressional hearings into role rating agencies paid). Triple-A
trumps supporting documentation and they could start doing
no-documentation liar loans. It also met that they no longer had to
care about loan quality or borrower's qualifications. Triple-A allows
them to sell off everything they generate, including to entities
restricted to only dealing in "safe" investments (like large pension
funds), largely responsible for being able to do over $27T 2001-2008.
past posts mentioning (triple-A) toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
spring 2007, some buyers were starting to realize that credit agency ratings were for sale and might no longer be trusted and that froze the muni-bond market. Warren Buffet steps in and starts offering muni-bond insurance to unfreeze the market (profiting off the credit agency rating problems).
Triple-A and selling off everything as fast as they can be generated eliminated any concern about buyers' qualifications and loan quality. However, they then found they could securitize loans, pay for triple-A, sell off to their victims, and pay for CDS gambling bets that they would fail. Now they cared about loan quality, but not in manner that one might think, having created enormous demand for loans that would fail.
The largest holder of CDS gambling bets was AIG and was negotiating to pay off at 50cents on the dollar, when the SECTREAS steps in and says they have to sign a document that they can't sue those making the CDS gambling bets and take TARP funds to pay off at face value. The largest recipient of TARP funds was AIG and the largest recipient of face value payoffs was the firm formally headed by SECTREAS.
Only $700B was appropriated for TARP (supposedly for purchase
of too big to fail offbook toxic assets), but end of 2008, just
the four largest too big to fail were holding $5.2T in offbook
toxic assets. TARP funds then used for other stuff, and it was left
to Federal Reserve to bailout TBTF.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
The FedRes fought long legal battle to prevent disclosing what they
were doing ... buying trillions in offbook toxic assets at 98cents on
the dollar and providing tens of trillions in ZIRP funds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
When they lost the legal battle, the chairman of Federal Reserve held
a press conference and said that he had believed the TBTF would
use tens of trillions in ZIRP funds to help main street, but
when they didn't, he had no way to force them (but that didn't stop
the ZIRP funds). Note that chairman supposedly had been
selected in part for being student of '29 crash and depression, when
the FEDS had done something similar with the same results, so there
should have been no expectations of something different.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
TBTF have been using ZIRP funds to buy treasuries,
reportedly making $300B/annum ... but it requires enormous federal
debt for it to work ... which starts in 2002 after congress lets
fiscal responsibility act lapse ... mentioned upthread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
In the past, financial insttitutions have used interest rates to
attract deposits for money. However, with tens of trillions
in ZIRP funds ... they have no need to attract deposits.
Corporations have also been using ZIRP funds for stock
buybacks, proping up the stock market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
Other trivia: last decade rhetoric on the floor of congress was that
sarbanes-oxley would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee that
executives and auditors did jailtime, however it required SEC to do
something. Possibly because even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing
anything, it starts doing reports of fraudulent financial filings,
even showing uptic after Sarbanes-Oxley goes into effect (and nobody
doing jailtime).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
less well known was that Sarbanes-Oxley also included provision that SEC do something about credit rating agencies, but it apparently did about as much about them as it did about financial reporting fraud.
Note that the administration last decade also presides over the
fabrication of WMDs as excuse for the Iraq invastion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
and the emergence of perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
for the miltiary-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
past posts mentioning freezing of muni-bond market and Warren Buffett
steps in offering muni-bond insurance:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#45 The human plague
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#60 Did sub-prime cause the financial mess we are in?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#11 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#78 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#29 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#77 Who first mentioned Credit Crunch?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#8 The background reasons of Credit Crunch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#81 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#17 What banking is. (Essential for predicting the end of finance as we know it.)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#43 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#46 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#30 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#60 In your opinon, what is the highest risk of financial fraud for a corporation ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#2 'Megalomania, Insanity' Fueled Bubble: Munger
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#44 S&P Downgrades USA; Time to Downgrade S&P?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#69 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#54 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#66 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#63 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#68 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#1 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#0 S&L Crisis and Economic Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#5 Swiss Leaks lifts the veil on a secretive banking system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#8 Shoot Bank Of America Now---The Case For Super Glass-Steagall Is Overwhelming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#24 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#31 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#82 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#67 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#78 The Global Financial Crisis: Analysis and Policy Implications
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#0 Repealing Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#65 A call for revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#19 Banking; The Book That Will Save Banking From Itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#80 GLBA & Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#27 Are We Nearing a Cyber Sarbanes-Oxley?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#81 Economic Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#36 Moody's Agrees to Settle Financial Crisis-Era Claims for $864 Million
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#7 OT: Trump Moves to Roll Back Obama-Era Financial Regulations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#43 when to get out???
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 20 May 2017 09:40:46 -0700re:
the freezing of the muni-bond market sort of the start of imploding
triple-A rated toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
during 2008 there was stories of executives responsible for the TBTF offbook toxic assets ... selling to each other (one bank would buy a billion at face value from another bank, if the other bank bought equivalent amount from them) ... these transactions help prop-up the apparent value ... and also provided those executives transaction commissions.
However end of the summer of 2008 things were starting to really
collapse (not just freezing of muni-bond market), CITI (TBTF
with the largest amount of the $5.2T held by the four
largest TBTF ye2008) sold something like $60B in off-book toxic
assets at 22cents on the dollar (the TARP $700B was almost enough to
buy all YE2008 $5.2T at 22cents on the dollar, $1T ... but then all
four would have declared insolvent and forced to be liquidated).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
no.2 on times list of those responsible for economic mess ... not so
much for GLBA and repeal of Glass-Steagall ... but for bill
that prevents CDS gambling bets from being regulated.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
Glass-Steagall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
original billed as gift to Enron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
when chair of CFTC suggested regulating CDS gambling bets, the chair was replaced with #2's wife while he got bill based blocking regulation. The wife then resigns and joins ENRON board and audit committee.
past posts mentioning selling off-book toxic assets at 22cents on the
dollar late summer 2008
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#44 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#67 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#70 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#26 Fraud due to stupid failure to test for negative
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#95 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#24 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#11 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#10 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#29 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#55 Who will give Citigroup the KNOCKOUT blow?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#65 is it possible that ALL banks will be nationalized?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#67 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#0 PNC Financial to pay CEO $3 million stock bonus
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#23 Should FDIC or the Federal Reserve Bank have the authority to shut down and take over non-bank financial institutions like AIG?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#50 TARP Bailout to Cost Less Than Once Anticipated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#17 What banking is. (Essential for predicting the end of finance as we know it.)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#63 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#58 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#50 What do you think about fraud prevention in the governments?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#84 The Imaginot Line
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#27 The Zippo Lighter theory of the financial crisis (or, who do we want to blame?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#42 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#45 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#56 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#46 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#41 On Protectionism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#71 Pressing Obama, House Bars Rise for Debt Ceiling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#7 Home prices may drop another 25%, Shiller predicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#29 Obama: "We don't have enough engineers"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#39 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#44 S&P Downgrades USA; Time to Downgrade S&P?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#45 S&P's History of Relentless Political Advocacy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#50 How Many Divisions Does Standard and Poors Have?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#4 Geithner, Bernanke have little in arsenal to fight new crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#25 Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Fed's Secret Loans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#56 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#59 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#81 How Joe and Mary Six Pack Saved Wall Street, London, Frankfurt and Big Corporates in the USA and Europe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#67 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#73 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#38 The Mark to Market Fantasy Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#41 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#57 The Mortgage Crisis---Some Inside Views
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#82 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#37 Civilization, doomed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#52 Civilization, doomed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#74 The Wall Street Pentagon Papers: Biggest Scam In World History Exposed: Are The Federal Reserve's Crimes Too Big To Comprehend?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#77 How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#70 No One Telling Who Took $586B in Fed Swaps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#32 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#45 Fannie, Freddie Charge Taxpayers For Legal Bills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#46 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#40 Who Increased the Debt?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#42 Who Increased the Debt?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#28 REPEAL OF GLASS-STEAGALL DID NOT CAUSE THE FINANCIAL CRISIS - WHAT DO YOU THINK?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#70 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#14 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#28 Why Asian companies struggle to manage global workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#65 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#75 What's the bigger risk, retiring too soon, or too late?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#64 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#50 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#6 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#12 Why Auditors Fail To Detect Frauds?
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/2012p.html#35 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#51 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#38 Adair Turner: A New Debt-Free Money Advocate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#46 Bankers Who Made Millions In Housing Boom Misled Investors: Study
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#47 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#54 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#66 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#64 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#67 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#23 What Makes bank regulation and insurance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#3 Lending is still lagging according to Reuters. Why do you think that is?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#87 Logics of Transformation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#48 Citigroup is the Real Reason We Need the Volcker Rule
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#98 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#0 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#22 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#24 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#0 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#60 GAO and Wall Street Journal Whitewash Huge Criminal Bank Frauds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#14 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#66 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#89 Forbes perspective on IBM's troubles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#8 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#11 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#126 Wall Street's Revenge
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#131 Memo To WSJ: The CRomnibus Abomination Was Not "A Rare Bipartisan Success"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#17 Cromnibus cartoon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#31 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#28 Bernie Sanders Proposes A Bill To Break Up The 'Too Big To Exist' Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#69 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#76 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#93 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#16 Interactive Data Corp taps banks for sale or IPO -sources
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#20 After 6 Years Of QE, And A $4.5 Trillion Balance Sheet, St. Louis Fed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#25 After 6 Years Of QE, And A $4.5 Trillion Balance Sheet, St. Louis Fed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#49 seveneves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#65 Michael Hudson's New Book: Wall Street Parasites Have Devoured Their Hosts -- Your Retirement Plan and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#70 AIG freezes defined-benefit pension plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#25 Hillary Clinton's Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#95 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#28 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#42 Nobody saw the economic mess coming last decade
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#58 Wall Street strikes back against Bernie Sanders
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#86 Wells Fargo "Admits Deceiving" U.S. Government, Pays Record $1.2 Billion Settlement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#0 Why Is the Obama Administration Trying to Keep 11,000 Documents Sealed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#19 Banking; The Book That Will Save Banking From Itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#98 Trust in Government Is Collapsing Around the World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#89 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#0 IBM is Absolutely Down For The Count
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#8 "Too big to fail" was Malicious Cyber Activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#31 Milton Friedman's Cherished Theory Is Laid to Rest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#33 Moody's Agrees to Settle Financial Crisis-Era Claims for $864 Million
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#92 Trump's Rollback of the Neoliberal Market State
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#96 Trump, Wall Street and the "banking caucus" ready to rip apart Dodd-Frank
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#6 OT: Trump Moves to Roll Back Obama-Era Financial Regulations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#43 when to get out???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#52 when to get out???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#90 Economist, Harry Dent Hints: Global Banks Facing a Serious Crisis in Months Ahead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#38 [CM] What was your first home computer?
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: The Mainframe vs. the Server Farm: A Comparison Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 20 May 2017 16:37:10 -0700mike.a.schwab@GMAIL.COM (Mike Schwab) writes:
same z196 time-frame e5-2600v1 was 400-550BIPS (depending on model) ... about 10 times max z196. Also in same time frame, native fibre channel was announced for e5-2600 claiming over million IOPS (for single fibre channel, two such fibre channel with more thruput than 104 FICON, FICON is heavy duty prototol running over fibre channel that drastically reduces native throughput).
current max configured z13 is still around $30M and 100BIPS ... compared to e5-2600v4 around 1500BIPS (1.5TIPS, more than 10 times z13, not strictly "small").
Before IBM got out of server business it had base list price for e5-2600 as $1815 (a little over $3/BIPS, compared to z13 now around $300,000/BIPS). IBM also had a high-density rack holding something like 64 blades ... would now be possibly 100,000BIPS in single rack.
Large cloud operations claim they assemble their own blades for 1/3rd the price of brand named blades ... around $1/BIPS ... possibly contributing to IBM selling off its server business.
typical cloud megadatacenter "server farm" will have several hundred thousand blades.
recent posts mentioning e5-2600/mainframe comparisons
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#1 GREAT presentation on the history of the mainframe
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#94 Migration off Mainframe to other platform
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 09:48:02 -0700Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> writes:
pointed out that the equality in the "Bill of Rights" was result of scottish immigrants from the mid-atlantic states, if the english immigrants from new england and new york had prevailed, we would have had much different government. This also shows up in biographies contrasting Jefferson and Hamilton.
Why Nations Fail ... has frequent "inequality" examples
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Prosperity-ebook/dp/B0058Z4NR8
The English original setup for Jamestown was to emulate the Spanish in
the new world, enslave the local population. However, the natives in the
North America and Jamestown area didn't take to be enslaved and
Jamestown almost starved. Then a different composition was sent over,
effectively "slaves" from the British Islands "leet-men", pg27:
The clauses of the Fundamental Constitutions laid out a rigid social
structure. At the bottom were the "leet-men," with clause 23 noting,
"All the children of leet-men shall be leet-men, and so to all
generations."
... snip ...
a lot more extracts/quotes in these recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#12 Separation church and state
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#32 Star Trek (was Re: TV show Mannix observations)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#55 Comanche Empire
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: The Mainframe vs. the Server Farm: A Comparison Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 21 May 2017 10:30:21 -0700dcrayford@GMAIL.COM (David Crayford) writes:
the initial wave was in the late 80s & early 90s, sort of the low-hanging fruit ... and as a result the company goes into the red. The company was being reorganized into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the company. The board then brings in a new CEO to reverse the breakup and resurrect the company.
In the mid-80s, the top IBM executives were predicting the world-wide revenue would shortly double, mostly based on mainframe revenue and there was big internal bldg program to double mainframe hardware manufacturing capacity. There was also huge uptik in "fast track" MBAs being rotated through mid-level executive positions (apparently getting ready for doubling the workforce).
Late 80s, senior disk engineer got a talk scheduled at internal,
annual world-wide communication group conference, supposedly on 3174
performance, but opened the talk that the communication group was
going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division. The issue
was the communication group was fighting off client/server and
distributed computing trying to preserve their (emulated) dumb
terminal paradigm and install base. The disk division was seeing data
fleeing the mainframe datacenters to more distributed computing
friendly platforms with drop in disk sales. The disk division had come
up with a number of solutions, but they were constantly being vetoed
by the communication group.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
One of the major mainframe strongholds was the financial industry. In the 90s they spent billions of dollars to convert legacy financial transactions that did settlement in overnight batch window. They were under increasing pressure from globalization that was cutting the size of the window and increasing the work that needed to be done. They were going to convert to straight-through processing using parallelization on large numbers of "killer micros". However, they were using some industry parallelization libraries that had 100 times the overhead of batch cobol. When this was pointed out (including by me), they just ignored the input. It wasn't until they started deploying large scale pilots that they could see that the overhead increase totally swamped any throughput increase they anticipated from large numbers of killer micros ... with things going down in spectacular flames. The industry retrenches to safety of the running legacy mainframe systems.
The dependency of financial industry on legacy mainframes may have played a major role in bringing in new CEO to resurrect the company. The new CEO had been president of AMEX ... and about the same time that new CEO was resurrecting IBM, AMEX spun off a major part of its mainframe dataprocessing in the largest IPO up until that time. The unit was continuously rolling over something like $1.5B in mainframe hardware, no mainframe older than 18months ... by itself accounting for significant percentage of IBM annual mainframe hardware revenue.
For ten years up through z196, IBM financials for mainframe sales showed about the equivalent of around 100-150/yr max. configured mainframes. This was around 5% of revenue ... but the whole mainframe group (including software) accounted for 25% of revenue and 40% of profit (mainframe software & services is major cash cow). Since then hardware sales seems to have dropped to about half that (but the overall mainframe group still accounts for significant profit).
some recent posts mentioning straight-through processing effort:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#3 We need to talk about TED
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#22 US Federal Reserve pushes ahead with Faster Payments planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#90 Why do bank IT systems keep failing ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#10 Can the mainframe remain relevant in the cloud and mobile era?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#69 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#78 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#71 Decimation of the valuation of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#119 Holy Grail for parallel programming language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#78 Is there an Inventory of the Inalled Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#2 More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#25 1976 vs. 2016?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#48 Windows 10 forceful update?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#84 The mainframe is dead. Long live the mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#23 How to Fix IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#72 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#82 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#63 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#39 The Pentagon still uses computer software from 1958 to manage its contracts
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 11:01:19 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
later the significant increase in for-profit prisons were looking for large numbers of non-violent young people ... their incarceration costs were lower than avg. prison population ... and were more easily used for free labor (cases were found of for-profit prisons providing judges with kick-backs for sentencing non-violent young offenders and "lobbying" state legislatures for increasing prison sentences for non-violent activity).
freakonomics references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#55 ANN: Microsoft goes Open Source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#53 What do you think about fraud prevention in the governments?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#88 NASA proves once again that, for it, the impossible is not even difficult
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#30 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#57 speculation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#57 a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#12 The Secret Consensus Among Economists
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#46 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#74 prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#27 OT: efforts to repeal strict public safety laws
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#3 E.R. Burroughs
past posts mentioning for-profit prisons and/or prison-industrial
complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#37 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#52 What Makes a substance Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#61 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#82 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#9 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#10 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#25 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#27 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#81 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#85 prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#27 OT: efforts to repeal strict public safety laws
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#4 Decimal point character and billions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#70 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#39 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#89 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#4 E.R. Burroughs
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Pascal Source for APL Interpreter--Want Info Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 13:12:09 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
STANFORD PASCAL VERIFIER USER MANUAL (from Mar1979)
http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/79/731/CS-TR-79-731.pdf
New Stanford Pascal Compiler
https://www.facebook.com/StanfordPascal/
Stanford Pascal Compiler
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Stanford_Pascal_Compiler
Targets of the Stanford Pascal Compiler were IBM mainframes (including
IBM 360 and 370 series) and LSI-11 (PDP-11).
A modern version of the Stanford Pascal Compiler is maintained by Bernd
Oppolzer. This version targets VM/370 on the Hercules emulator, and the
programs will probably run on today's z/VM and z/OS (aka MVS), too. And
it was ported to Windows, Linux and OS/2 in 2016. Pascal programs (and
the compiler itself) can run there with the help of the P-Code
interpreter PCINT (written in ANSI-C).
... snip ...
web search "pascal checker" turns up other results
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Fast OODA-Loops increase Maneuverability Date: 22 May 2017 Blog: FacebookFast OODA-Loops increase Maneuverability
also:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6270634737732325376/
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6271448160648986624/
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6271375156153843712/
in briefings, Boyd would emphasize that all parts of OODA-loop went on simultaneously ... not purely serial operations. Also necessary to observe from every possible facet (as countermeasure to orientation bias).
I ran into Boyd in the early 80s and use to sponsor his briefings at IBM. The 1st time I tried to sponsor his briefings, it was just Patterns of Conflicts and I tried to do it through employee education. At first they agreed, but then as I supplied more information ... they changed their mind. They said that IBM spend lots of money on training managers on how to handle employees, and exposing general employees to Boyd would be counter productive. They suggested that I restrict the audience to senior members of competitive analysis departments. I held it for large audience in research auditorium (old bldg 28 on San Jose plant site). The next time, he also tried out early version of Organic Design for Command and Control ... both at one time made for a long day.
Boyd would include in briefings that former military officers, steeped in rigid, top-down, command&control was starting to contaminating US corporate cultures (only those at the very top knew what they were doing). However in the early 80s, articles were starting to appear that MBAs were destroying US businesses with their myopic focus on quarterly numbers.
Boyd would complain that when engineers initially added "heads-up" to F16 that it was just scrolling digital numbers. Rather than helping pilots, it was distracting since it took enormous cognitive effort to convert the scrolling digital numbers to meaning.
...
Boyd was considered possibly the best fighter pilot in the world when he was instructor at USAF weapons school ... and wrote the fighter pilot training manual that became used by nearly every air force in the world (including adversaries). However, when he was working on F16 design, other factions of USAF tried to get him thrown in Leavenworth for the rest of his life on trumped up charges. By the time he passes, he had been disowned by the USAF and it was the Marines that were at Arlington. What is somewhat surprising is after he passes, USAF commemorates Boyd Hall at USAF weapons school.
Boyd had redone the original F15 design, including cutting the weight in half. However, when he started on the F16 design, other factions wanted him stopped. They claimed that he wasn't authorized to do the F16 design and so the millions of dollars in supercomputer time was theft of gov. property ... however, the investigation wasn't able to find any record of the computer time.
One of things mentioned at some recent Boyd conferences is Kahneman's "Thinking Fast and Slow" ... which is somewhat related to implicit/explicit. Boyd would frequently mention fingerspitzengefuhl ... aka "finger feel", an intuition touch metaphor. There is also Coup d'oeil, an intuition observe metaphor.
also:
There are two career paths in front of you, and you have to choose
which path you will follow. One path leads to promotions, titles, and
positions of distinction.... The other path leads to doing things that
are truly significant for the Air Force, but the rewards will quite
often be a kick in the stomach because you may have to cross swords
with the party line on occasion. You can't go down both paths, you
have to choose. Do you want to be a man of distinction or do you want
to do things that really influence the shape of the Air Force? To be
or to do, that is the question. Colonel John R. Boyd, USAF 1927-1997
From the dedication of Boyd Hall, United States Air Force Weapons
School, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. 17 September 1999
... snip ...
Burton was in the 1st USAF academy class on fast track to general when
Boyd challenged him to do what is right and destroyed his career. He
wrote a book about it, Pentagon Wars (HBO made into movie)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars
Another Boyd acolyte was responsiple for A10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Sprey
and another is Chuck Spinney
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/
Boyd is credited with battle plan for Desert Storm land war was only the last 100hrs (of 43days). GAO air power effectiveness study has A10 so effective destroying tanks that Iraqis were walking away as sitting ducks. There was million A10 30mm shells used in Desert Storm, Burton has account of getting them down from nearly $100 to $13 ... or $13M (way too cost effective for the military-industrial complex). The ferocious tank battles with coalition forces taking no damage, doesn't mention if Iraqi tanks had anybody home. There are lots of excuses why Boyd's "left hook" didn't succeed. One may be that the Abrams specs don't usually include how tightly tethered they are to supply & maintenance.
in briefings, Boyd would complain about the initial heads-up displays engineers added to F16 that was just scrolling digital numbers. He said that it took significant cognitive effort to convert the scrolling digital numbers to meaning ... and distracted from what they were suppose to do ... rather than help.
...
about the same time I first started sponsoring Boyd's briefings there was analogous online discussion in the early 80s about analog watches provide more information than digital; not only current time but provided spatial representation about how long to something and how long since something.
recent item, Language shapes how the brain perceives time
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/lu-lsh050217.php
In dataprocessing there are periodic discussions about computer language literacy analogous to natural language literacy ... especially when there are computer concepts that have no direct natural language equivalents. trivia: I was blamed for online computer conferencing (precursor to social networking) on the internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about beginning until sometime mid-80s) in the late 70s and early 80s (folklore is that when corporate executive committee was told about it, 5of6 wanted to fire me). Somewhat as result, a researcher was assigned for nine months to study how I communicate, sat in my office and took notes, got logs of all my instant messages, copies of all my incoming/outgoing email, etc. Results were research reports, talks, books, and Stanford Phd (joint between language and computer AI). One of the observations was my use of English is like non-native speaker ... but I have no other natural language.
...
Boyd is known for saying people, ideas, technology ... in that order ... usually in situations where technology is misused. Slightly related is he would talk about doing audits of periodic large-scale wargames. He characterized the generals and admirals playing golf all year while their staffs practiced. When it came time for wargames the generals&admirals had no "finger feel" for information flow in the war rooms. Some numbers of studies emphasized information overload to obfuscate the real problem.
... free kindle book from 1846 ... has lots & lots of minutia ... almost OODA-loop, see/decide/act
Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In
Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties
Of Staff, Infantry (Henry Wager Halleck)
https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Military-Instruction-Fortification-Embracing-ebook/dp/B004TPMN16/
loc5019-20:
A rapid coup d'oeil prompt decision, active movements, are as
indispensable as sound judgment; for the general must see, and decide,
and act, all in the same instant.
... snip ...
in briefings, Boyd would focus on US military, rigid, top-down
(centralized) command&control for WW2 (deploy millions of soldiers
with little or no training, leverage few experienced officers),
requiring 11% officers (growing to 20%) compared to German's culture
requiring only 3% officers. He highlighted (EBFAS):
Einheit is mutual trust, oneness, unity, cohesion, similar implicit orientation.
Behendigkeit is mental agility, the ability to see and break out of deep patterns or ruts in thinking. Boyd called this process 'building snowmobiles' or creativity under fire. Or improvisation under fire.
Fingerspitzengefuhl is a 'finger tip feel' for the battle field or market or organization. It is a sense of health of the organization, intuitive competence, know yourself/know your enemy.
Auftragstaktik is mission command or mission orders. It is a contract between leaders and subordinates. The German's now call it fuhren mit auftrag or leading by mission. The why is emphasized and not the how. It is also referred to as commander's intent. It is decentralized command concept.
Schwerpunkt is focus and direction, goal, strategic objective, destination, vision. It is the 'hard point' or 'difficult point'. In German, it is the center of gravity. It is an unmoving target that everyone is working towards.
... snip ...
As an example of Auftragstaktik he used Guderian's Verbal Orders Only in the Blitzgrieg, encouraging person on the spot to make their own decisions (and not have to be concerned about monday afternoon quarterbacks).
He would then observe that former military officers, steeped in rigid, top-down, command&control were starting to contaminate US corporate culture.
Note in myers-briggs, they characterize possibly a majority of the population as strictly "how" people, once learned that is how they live their life ... as opposed to much smaller percentage of the population as "why" people ... and when circumstances change ... they comprehend that the "how" needs to change also.
...
In the 60s as undergraduate I was computer geek, univ. even hired me
fulltime to be responsible for production mainframe systems. I would
rewrite a lot of mainframe software, that IBM would pickup and ship in
their products. One of the things I did as undergraduate was dynamic
adaptive resource management, which included added extensive
instrumentation (observation) as part of analysing (orientation) what
was going on, and then reordering work queues for execution (decide
and act). It also included doing some things in "zero instructions" by
careful ordering of other operations so things would happen implicitly
as side-effect of other things. IBM would also make suggestions about
things to do, I didn't learn about these guys until much later, but in
retrospect some of the IBM suggestions may have originated with them
... 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
When I ran into Boyd (and OODA-loops) in the early 80s, I felt quite a bit of affinity.
Note a downside of implicit was that nobody else understood why things worked ... and it could become a maintenance nightmare. A decade later, somebody else innocently tweaking a sequence of code and all of a sudden all sorts of things stop working.
Implicit can be macro/hollistic while explicit can be step-by-step, sequential. Example is story told by Intel SVP last decade, M'soft CEO was demanding Intel go back to faster single processor (rather than multi-core) because parallel programming is "too hard" & Intel telling him that isn't the way it is. Holy Grail is for new programming language that handles parallel paradigm rather strictly sequential step-by-step. This can contribute to perceving Boyd's OODA-loop as simple step-by-step sequential, rather than simultaneous, concurrent (large overlap with recent articles about natural language affects how world is perceived).
I was involved in the original SQL/Relational RDBMS implementation (System/R) which did some optimization for table organization to improve performance of financial transactions (affects world view like explicit slots and name goes into different slots). I then was dragged into doing different kind of relational implementation that directly created relationships in any order. Organization that be represented with each name appearing once ... and having large number of relations (any-to-any). We did some work with NIH/NLM UMLS (medical knowledge) which has concurrent table, hierarchical as well as any-to-any mesh organizations, which had taken a large organization a number of years to partially force-fit into RDBMS (tables). By comparison, it took me a couple weeks to load into this other kind of relational.
Boyd/OODA posts & URLs from around web:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
system/r posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
EBFAS posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#52 EBFAS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#61 Are you tired of the negative comments about IBM in this community?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#79 EBFAS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#21 IBM ushers in BIGGEST EVER re-org for the cloud era, say insiders
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#80 Here's how a retired submarine captain would save IBM
verbal orders only posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#120 atomic History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#29 Review of Steve McConnell's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#36 Mainframers: Take back the light (spotlight, that is)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#38 Mainframers: Take back the light (spotlight, that is)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#33 Star Trek: TNG reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#51 employee motivation & executive compensation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#27 The BASIC Variations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#24 Timeless Classics of Software Engineering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#86 Organizations with two or more Managers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#14 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#9 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#41 was change headers: The Fate of VM - was: Re: Baby MVS???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#37 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#25 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#8a Using Military Philosophy to Drive High Value Sales
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#61 Up, Up, ... and Gone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#63 how can a hierarchical mindset really ficilitate inclusive and empowered organization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#69 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#73 Most 'leaders' do not 'lead' and the majority of 'managers' do not 'manage'. Why is this?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#34 Mission Control & Air Cooperation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#43 Boyd's Briefings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#68 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#7 Innovation and iconoclasm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#3 Preparing for Boyd II
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#52 An elusive command philosophy and a different command culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#45 You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#26 Strategy subsumes culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#51 How would you succinctly desribe maneuver warfare?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#2 Did they apply Boyd's concepts?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#84 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#63 Is this Boyd's fundamental postulate, 'to improve our capacity for independent action'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#50 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#7 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#10 The Knowledge Economy Two Classes of Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#81 How Criticizing in Private Undermines Your Team - Harvard Business Review
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#48 John Boyd's Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#16 Command Culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#46 The Pentagon Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#80 Here's how a retired submarine captain would save IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#19 Where to Flatten the Officer Corps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#18 What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#28 Manazir: Networked Systems Are The Future Of 5th-Generation Warfare, Training
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#13 Rogue sysadmins the target of Microsoft's new 'Shielded VM' security
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Conservatives and Spending Date: 22 May 2017 Blog: FacebookConservatives and Spending
The "conservatives" were responsible for the fiscal responsibility act
(spending can't exceed tax revenue, on its way to eliminating all
federal debt) in the 90s. Then in 2002 ... the same "party" lets the
fiscal responsibility act lapse. 2010 CBO report that 2003-2009, tax
revenue was cut by $6T and spending increased by $6T for $12T gap
compared to the fiscal responsibility act (also 1st time taxes were
reduced to not pay for two wars). Since then taxes haven't been
restored and only modest spending cuts .... so debt continues to
increase.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
VP and former CIA director repeatedly claims no knowledge of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
S&L crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
another family member then (also) presides over the economic mess last decade, 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.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Conservatives and Spending Date: 22 May 2017 Blog: Facebookre:
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/
Milton 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" 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
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 5 Naval Battles That Changed History Forever Date: 22 May 2017 Blog: Facebook5 Naval Battles That Changed History Forever
Roosevelt justified (europe first) that Germany could win WW2 w/o Japan, however, Japan wasn't capable of winning WW2 w/o Germany. Germany had 3/4s of military resources against Russia (and Japan had 2/3rds of its military resources against China). Recent claim was that Japan didn't surrender because of the a-bomb, but because Russia was about to enter the conflict.
With defeat of Germany, Russia was free to move forces to the far east. Defeating Japan first would have had little impact on the european war. However, Roosevelt complained that Churchill kept delaying invasion of France (wanting to let Germany and Russia to continue slugging it out until both were totally exhausted, which would have given Britain free reign in Europe). However, Roosevelt said that would have prolonged the war until 1947, something the American public wouldn't have stood for.
and the anti-submarine warfare: Lessons Not Learned: The U.S. Navy's
Status Quo Culture;
https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Not-Learned-Status-Culture-ebook/dp/B00DKMWP2Q/
loc1289-90:
fact is frequently played down in the United States that the British
and Canadians, in fact, conducted most of the ASW operations in the
Atlantic.
loc1293-95:
Canada started the war with a navy of only eleven ships, five of which
were minesweepers, and just 1,800 men in the regular Navy, but by the
end had accounted for the destruction or capture of nearly fifty
German submarines. The U.S. Navy began the war with over 337,000
personnel and more than 300 ships.
loc1303-4:
Despite this "less than overwhelming" performance, the U.S. Navy did
not seem to have a clue that the Canadians and British were far more
significant players in the Battle of the Atlantic.
loc1317-18:
Not surprisingly, much of what the American public was told about
U.S. Navy ASW performance in the Atlantic was outright fabrication,
said Regan.
loc1321-22:
Basically, the Navy department began issuing lies. They claimed
twenty-eight U-boats had been sunk off the east coast whereas the
correct figure was nil.
loc1322-24:
Regan summarized that "the Navy PR officers were not so easily
defeated as their anti-submarine operation," 76 in what amounted to a
vast spin campaign to protect negligent senior admirals from public
disgrace and possible dismissal.
... snip ...
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 5 Naval Battles That Changed History Forever Date: 23 May 2017 Blog: Facebookre:
from "General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman"
https://www.amazon.com/General-Army-Marshall-Soldier-Statesman-ebook/dp/B009D1ED3M/
pg372/7836-39:
"We are now at the crossroads—if we were committed to the
Mediterranean, except for air alone, it meant a prolonged struggle and
one which was not acceptable to the United States. "This was "playing
hardball," as the politicians on the Hill termed it; Marshall's threat
to turn to the Pacific was deliberately implied and surely inferred.
pg373/7844-45:
The Americans had no intention of waiting until 1945 to invade
France. Such a timetable suggested the war in the Pacific raging into
1947 or 1948, far too long for public opinion to sustain.
also pg340/loc7228-31:
Never far from mind in the Pentagon lurked the fear that delay in the
Mediterranean furthered Imperial Britain's political aims: the longer
Soviet Russia fought Germany alone, the weaker both nations would be,
allowing "the British to enjoy their historic role of arbiter in the
balance of power within continental Europe," as the head of the
Strategy and Policy Group of the Operations Division, Albert
Wedemeyer, argued.
... snip ...
some of this also shows up in "Churchill's Secret War: The British
Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II"
https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Secret-War-British-Ravaging-ebook/dp/B003VTZXC2/
and "The Battle of Bretton Wood: John Maynard Keynews, Harry Dexter
White, and the Making of a New World Order"
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Bretton-Woods-Relations-University-ebook/dp/B00B5ZQ72Y/
trivia from "Bretton Wood" book, White was under the influence of
Soviets, Stalin worried that Japan would attack while he was dealing
with Germany, sent White draft of demands for US to present to Japan,
which would motivate Japan to attack US
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_note#Interpretations
other trivia from "The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and
Their Secret World War"
https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Foster-Dulles-Allen-Secret-ebook/dp/B00BY5QX1K/
John Foster Dulles played major role in rebuilding German industry and military in 20s&30s. From law of unintended consequences, when 1943 US Strategic Bombing program needed location of German industry and military targets, they got the coordinates from wallstreet. After the war, he made some justification that he was building up Germany as a countermeasure to the Soviets.
past refs to Churchill's Secret War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#62 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#89 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
past refs to "The Battle of Bretton Woods" &/or "Hull Note"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#45 The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#51 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#54 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#55 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#70 God No, the U.S. Air Force Doesn't Need Another Curtis LeMay
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#53 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#31 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#39 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#64 Isolationism and War Profiteering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#74 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#75 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#49 Fateful Choices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#94 The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#80 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#90 Economist, Harry Dent Hints: Global Banks Facing a Serious Crisis in Months Ahead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#91 Godwin's Law should force us to remember & fear our shared heritage with Nazi Germany
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#55 Should America Have Entered World War I?
past refs "John Foster Dulles":
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#35 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#36 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#26 channel islands, definitely not the location of LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#62 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#13 Keydriven bit permutations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#52 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#69 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#71 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#78 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#86 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#35 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#45 The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#51 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#70 God No, the U.S. Air Force Doesn't Need Another Curtis LeMay
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#13 Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#37 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#53 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#29 Eric Holder Returns as Hero to Law Firm That Lobbies for Big Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#36 Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#77 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#7 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#10 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#55 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#0 How Corporate America Invented Christian America; Inside one reverend's big business-backed 1940s crusade to make the country conservative again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#26 Putin's Great Crime: He Defends His Allies and Attacks His Enemies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#28 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#119 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#31 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#38 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#86 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#49 Corporate malfeasance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#64 Isolationism and War Profiteering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#75 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#77 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#78 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#79 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#80 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#91 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#11 Study: Cost of U.S. Regulations Larger Than Germany's Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#49 Fateful Choices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#88 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#27 British socialism / anti-trust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#56 "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#94 The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#9 Wall Street Preparing Dodd-Frank Rule Workaround
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#63 America's Over-Hyped Strategic Bombing Experiment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#2 Smedley Butler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#32 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
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#83 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#63 One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#54 Mary Jo White Seriously Misled The US Senate To Become SEC Chair
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#64 Jean Tirole's Proposal to Appoint Felons to Monitor CEOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#36 Trump's S.E.C. Nominee Disclosure Offers Rare Glimpse of Clients and Conflicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#91 Godwin's Law should force us to remember & fear our shared heritage with Nazi Germany
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#38 Imperial Hubris
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#55 Should America Have Entered World War I?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#22 Ironic old "fortune"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#23 Ironic old "fortune"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#60 The Illusion Of Victory: America In World War I
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#69 The knives are out for Trump's national security adviser H.R. McMaster
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 12:52:30 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
For-profit prisons want large numbers of non-violent youth offenders
that they can use for slave labor. seems to go along with increasing
inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
they also have been coming up with new gimmicks for debtors prisons
(which are otherwise against the law in the US)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debtors%27_prison
modern debtors prisons (in the US)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debtors%27_prison#Modern_debtors.27_prisons_.281970.E2.80.93current.29
and
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/debtors-prison/462378/
https://www.motorists.org/alerts/policing-profit-can-lead-debtors-prisons-nma-e-newsletter-429/
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/36271-these-seven-states-still-operate-debtors-prisons
https://www.aclu.org/feature/ending-modern-day-debtors-prisons
note that china recently have strictly enforced 1child families ... to
try and get control over the over population problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
It did have unintended side effects, families primarily selected for
males ... to they now have a scarcity of females.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy#Disparity_in_sex_ratio_at_birth
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 13:07:57 -0700mausg writes:
How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick
Scheme -- Again
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/wall-street-buying-foreclosed-homes
Hedge funds and private equity firms have quietly bought 200,000 cheap,
mostly foreclosed houses in cities hardest hit by the economic meltdown.
... snip ...
Private-equity fund snaps up foreclosures to turn into rentals
https://www.probuilder.com/private-equity-fund-snaps-foreclosures-turn-rentals
Private Equity Funds Target Foreclosed Homes As Rental Play
http://www.nreionline.com/finance-amp-investment/private-equity-funds-target-foreclosed-homes-rental-play
This Could Get Interesting: Private Equity Is Jumping Into The
Distressed Housing Market
http://www.businessinsider.com/this-could-get-interesting-private-equity-is-jumping-into-the-distressed-housing-market-2012-1
Wall Street buyers snap up thousands of local homes for rentals
http://www.seattletimes.com/business/wall-street-buyers-snap-up-thousands-of-local-homes-for-rentals/
Rental Market's Big Buyers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443768804578034821658901916
The Top 5 Real Estate Private Equity Firms in the US
https://fundrise.com/education/blog-posts/deep-pockets-the-top-5-real-estate-private-equity-firms-in-the-us
Since the late 80s, private equity funds have experienced tremendous
growth, becoming the dominant capital provider in commercial real estate
markets. This growth began following the savings and loan crisis of the
late 80s and early 90s, when private equity firms began opportunistic
real estate funds.
... snip ...
trivia: industry had gotten such a bad reputation during the S&L
crisis, that they changed the industry name to private equity
(and "junk bonds" became "high yield bonds").
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
private equiity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 16:47:35 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
some more
Jared Kushner's Other Real Estate Empire, Baltimore-area renters
complain about a property owner they say is neglectful and
litigious. Few know their landlord is the president's son-in-law.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/magazine/jared-kushners-other-real-estate-empire.html
That June, the company and its equity partners bought 4,681 units of
what are known in real estate jargon as "distress-ridden", Class B"
apartment complexes" units whose prices fell somewhere in the middle of
the market, typically of a certain age and wear, whose owners were in
financial difficulty. The properties were spread across 12 sites in
Toledo, Ohio; Pittsburgh; and other Rust Belt cities still reeling from
the Great Recession.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] overpriced housing, was What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 18:36:54 -0700John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> writes:
... offshore accounting gimmick to avoid taxes ... with the money possibly not ever even actually leaving the country ... with the aid of various congressional tax loopholes
The myth of Corporate America's offshore cash
http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/10/news/economy/offshore-cash/
Here's why: Foreign subsidiaries of companies often put their unused
earnings into U.S. bonds, stocks and bank deposits. That money, in
essence, is helping to finance federal and corporate debt and to make
bank loans to American businesses.
... snip ...
tax evasion, tax avoidance, tax havens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
other
The Biggest Tax Scam Ever; Some of America's top corporations are
parking profits overseas and ducking hundreds of billions in taxes. And
how's Congress responding? It's rewarding them for ripping us off
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-biggest-tax-scam-ever-20140827
Offshore Shell Games 2016
https://itep.org/offshore-shell-games-2016/
Approximately 58 percent of companies with tax haven subsidiaries have
set up at least one in Bermuda or the Cayman Islands -- two particularly
notorious tax havens. The profits that all American multinationals --
not just Fortune 500 companies -- collectively claimed they earned in
these two island nations according to the most recent data totaled 1,884
percent and 1,313 percent of each country's entire yearly economic
output, respectively.
... snip ...
some past bermuda & cayman posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#12 Amid Economic Turbulence, Mainframes Counter IT Cost-Cutting Trend
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#77 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#91 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#26 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#91 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#2 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#76 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#94 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#91 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#92 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#35 Deutsche Bank and a $10Bn Money Laundering Nightmare: More Context Than You Can Shake a Stick at
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 09:47:11 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
back when I was responsible for production os/360 at the univ. The first thing you did after building new system was verify all the production JCL continued to work. Release-to-release changes routinely broke some production JCL.
hasp, jes2, nji, etc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
Philosophically, online systems tended to start out assuming that the responsible person was there in case something went wrong. Batch systems started assuming the reverse, that the responsible person wasn't there ... so increasingly had provisions to automate handling issues (and help led the way to server, dark room operations).
I periodically pontificate about being brought in as consultant to 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, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce". I had absolute authority over webserver to internet gateway to payment networks.
The payment networks trouble desk (with circuit-based infrastructure) had standard of 5mins elapsed time for first-level problem determination. Early pilot operation with webserver had trouble call that was eventually closed after 3hrs with "no trouble found". I had to do a lot of documentation and compensating diagnostic software to try and get internet/packet-based to comparable to legacy circuit-based infrastructure.
Until he passes, the internet standard RFC editor also would let me help do STD1. He also sponsored a talk I gave at ISI (including inviting USC graduate computer sec. group) on Why Internet Isn't Business Critical Dataprocessing.
past posts claiming it can take 4-10 times the (original) effort to
take a well designed and testing application and turn it into
"service".
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#75 Test and Set (TS) vs Compare and Swap (CS)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#93 Buffer overflow
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#11 Wanted: the SOUNDS of classic computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#62 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs. IBM
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/2004b.html#48 Automating secure transactions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#49 "Perfect" or "Provable" security both crypto and non-crypto?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#23 Systems software versus applications software definitions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#63 Systems software versus applications software definitions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#64 Systems software versus applications software definitions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#40 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#42 Development as Configuration
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#26 Data communications over telegraph circuits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#20 The System/360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#37 Is computer history taught now?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#51 IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#78 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#77 PSI MIPS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#23 Outsourcing loosing steam?
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/2008e.html#41 IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#50 fraying infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#53 Why Is Less Than 99.9% Uptime Acceptable?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#33 Mainframe Project management
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#35 Builders V. Breakers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#48 How much knowledge should a software architect have regarding software security?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#0 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ??
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#27 PDCA vs. OODA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#67 Somewhat off-topic: comp-arch.net cloned, possibly hacked
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#44 Faster, Better, Cheaper: Why Not Pick All Three?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#13 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#86 Economic Failures of HTTPS Encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#146 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#10 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#16 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#27 History of Mainframe Cloud
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 10:06:00 -0700Richard Thiebaud <thiebauddick2@aol.com> writes:
CRAMER REVEALS A BIT TOO MUCH
http://nypost.com/2007/03/20/cramer-reveals-a-bit-too-much/
He added that the strategy - while illegal - was safe enough because,
"the Securities and Exchange Commission never understands this."
... snip ...
recent posts mentioning HFT:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#43 when to get out???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#22 How do BIG WEBSITES work?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#23 How do BIG WEBSITES work?
the other explanation was industry/gov. "revolving door" and SEC (and other regulators, federal reserve, office comptroller currency, FDIC, CFTC, etc) just turning blind eye.
Rhetoric on flr of congress was that Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent future
ENRONs and guarantee that executives and auditors did jailtime, however
it required SEC to do something. Possibly because even GAO didn't
believe SEC was doing anything, it started doing reports of public
company fraudulent financial filings ... even showing uptic after SOX
goes into effect
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
I've mentioned before getting asked in 1999 to help try and prevent the
economic mess (basically improve integrity of securitized instrument
supporting documents as countermeasure to fraud). However they then
figured out that they could pay credit rating agencies for triple-A
rating (when the rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from
OCT2008 congressional testimony). Triple-A trumps supporting documents
and they can start doing no-documentation, liar loans. Triple-A
significantly contributes to them doing over $27T 2001-2008, even
selling to entities restricted to only dealing in "safe" investments
(like large pension funds).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
trivia: SOX included provision that SEC also do something about the credit rating agencies, but they did about as much about them as it did about fraudulent financial filings.
part of the industry got such a bad reputation during the S&L crisis
that they change the industry name to private-equity and "junk bonds"
became "high-yield bonds" ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
note that the economic mess last decade was 70 times larger than S&L crisis which had 1000 criminal convictions with jailtime (proportionally, economic mess should have been 70,000 criminal convictions with jailtime). trivia: same family involved in both the S&L crisis and the economic mess.
Possibly from the law of unintended consequences ... the real too big
to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
bailout was by the federal researve including tens of trillions
in ZIRP funds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
large corporations have been low interest rate loans for stock buybacks,
helping prop up their stock prices and meeting executive bonus
objectives (executives getting enormous bonuses when otherwise
the company may be tanking).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
Stockman's The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism
pg464/loc9995-10000:
IBM was not the born-again growth machine trumpeted by the mob of Wall
Street momo traders. It was actually a stock buyback contraption on
steroids. During the five years ending in fiscal 2011, the company spent
a staggering $67 billion repurchasing its own shares, a figure that was
equal to 100 percent of its net income.
pg465/10014-17:
Total shareholder distributions, including dividends, amounted to $82
billion, or 122 percent, of net income over this five-year
period. Likewise, during the last five years IBM spent less on capital
investment than its depreciation and amortization charges, and also
shrank its constant dollar spending for research and development by
nearly 2 percent annually.
... snip ...
some recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#54 Why the Pursuit of Shareholder Value Kills Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#43 when to get out???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#58 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#5 IBM's core business
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#3 [CM] What was your first home computer?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 10:28:38 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
cp/40-cms was originally implemented on 360/40 that had been modified to ad hardware support for virtual memory. CP/40-CMS morphs into CP/67-CMS when standard 360/67 with virtual memory becomes available.
lots of installations were sold 360/67 for use with tss/360 ... but
because tss/360, lots of installations just used it as 360/65 with
os/360 (not using virtual memory). Other installations did their own
virtual memory support ... Univ of Mich did MTS, Stanford did
Orvyl/Wylbur, some recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#28 {wtf} Tymshare SuperBasic Source Code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#10 IBM 1970s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#3 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#50 Univ. 709
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#75 Mainframe operating systems?
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#58 A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another
and the IBM science center did CP/67-CMS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
CMS ran a lot of the OS/360 compilers, assemblers and other applications by providing simulation of some of OS/360 system services (less than 64kbytes of code). Later at the VM370/CMS development group they added much more extensive simulatio of MVS system services (joke was in 120kbytes of code, it did better cost effective simulation than MVS did in 8mbytes of code). However that was all lost when the POK MVS group convinced corporate to kill VM370 product, shutdown the Burlington, Mass development group and move all the people to POK to work on MVS/XA (Endicott eventually manages to save the VM370 product mission, but had to resurrect a development group from scratch).
In the early 80s, internal mainframe datacenters were running out of space ... and they were moving a lot of online computer out into 4341s in departmental areas. There were several large MVS-based development applications that wouldn't run on CMS. They managed to move quite a few of these applications to vm370/cms (on distributed 4341s) by providing another 12kbytes of MVS system services simulation.
old 4341 emial (including refs to additional 12kbytes simulation).
triva: in 67/68 time-frame when science center had 12 people working on cp67 & CMS and various online applications, the TSS/360 group had around 1200 people.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 11:24:58 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
the low-end version is penny stock ... pump and dump.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump
note no just stocks, CFTC had rule that commodidities players had to have
significant (commoditiy) position because speculators resulted in wild,
irrational price swings (aka they are skimming money on volatility,
pump&dump on the way up and shorting on the way down). Then there were
19 "secret letters" allowing specific speculators to play. One of the
results was the huge spike in gas the summer of 2008. some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#griftopia
in 2011 a senator releases transaction details showing the speculators responsible for the huge spike in oil/gas the summer of 2008. For some reason, the press then pillers/criticizes the senator for violating privacy of the corporations responsible (rather than criticizing those responsible for the commodity manipulation).
too big to fail have gotten heavily into manipulating commodities
(apparently with impunity in mainstream press) ... however they have
also gotten away pretty free, getting periodic fines for repeatedly
(also) manipulating LIBOR and FOREX (besides commodities, stocks, etc).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
the first time I noticed the use of too big to presecute and too big
to jail ... when they were also got caught (and only moderate fines)
money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
including tieing the money laundering enabling militerizing cartels and their weapons and the big uptic in cartel violence on both sides of the border.
In the late 90s, I was also asked to looking at improving the exchange trading floor transactions ... I worked on it for awhile and then get dall saying the work is being suspended. The explanation was a side effect of the integrity work would greatly increase transparency and visibility and basically a large portion of transactions couldn't stand the light of day (also see Cramer reference) ... transparency and visibility antithetical to wallstreet culture.
Later at the Madoff congressional hearings, they had the person that had
tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about
Madoff (eventually SEC's hands were forced when Madoff turned himself
in). During testimony, he was asked if new regulations were needed. He
replied that while new regulations might be needed, much more important
was transparency and visibility (possibly because SEC wasn't doing a lot
about existing regulations).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 12:07:37 -0700Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> writes:
an early CP/67-CMS customer was Union Carbide. One of the Union Carbide people wrote a OS/360 program that ran on the operator's console that implemented most of the CMS commands ... similuating them with OS/360 system services (gave os/360 operator's console look&feel of CMS). This could be run on real 360 ... but was frequently used running os/360 in virtual machine.
one of the early commercial service bureau spinoffs of science center
was NCSS. Another involved people from both science center and the guy
that ran MIT lincoln labs and cp67 people from lincoln labs ... that had
their office in waltham, mass. The Union Carbide guy joined the
waltham, mass group (they also tried to recruit me when I graduated,
rather than joining the science center).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
trivia: both cp67 service bureaus quickly moved up the value chain to
providing financial information to wallstreet and other financial
institutions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#timeshare
when there was still facade that TARP funds would be used to buy Too Big To Fail offbook toxic assets ... the waltham corporation was briefly mentioned in Jan2009 that they would be involved in helping value the offbook toxic assets (they had previously bought the pricing services division from one of the major credit rating agencies, giving rise to some jokes that credit rating agencies didn't really need to know value of things they were rating).
Then there was publicity that it was too hard to rate the TBTF offbook toxic assets. Various issues:
1) late summer some offbook toxic assets went for 22cents on the dollar, if the rest of the offbook toxic assets went for that price, the TBTF would be declared insolvent and have to be liquidated.
2) ye2008, just the four largest TBTF were still carrying $5.2T in offbook toxic assets while there had only been $700B appropriated for TARP. There wasn't even enough to cover $5.2T at 22cents on the dollar ($1.14T) which would have also been $4.06T loss
3) paying for triple-A ratings trumps documentation so they could start doing no-documentation, liar loans ... liar loans w/o documentation it would be impossible to value the offbook toxic assets.
some too big to fail posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
some (triple-A rated) toxic asset posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 12:48:01 -0700Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> writes:
there is recent thread on ibm-main mailing list about choosing the optimal blocking factor for (CKD) disks improved performance, taking into account track size, tracks/cyl, number of cylinders, etc.
However real CKD disks haven't been built for decades, being simulated
on industry standard fixed-block disks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#3 SDB (system detrmined Blksize)
ckd, fba, multi-track search, etc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
thread (archived at google)
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/FjMmn2SWS1g
big OS360 problem with CKD was early 360 using multi-track search (and channel capacity) trade-off for limited real storage. By late 70s, the situation had inverted ... real storage was getting large enough to cache location tables instead of constantly doing multi-track searches. I was called into a number of customer severe VS2 performance accounts, that turned out were doing wide-spread transaction activity with each transaction loading application out of large PDS library on (loosely-coupled shared) 3330 with a three cylinder directory. After depth of search was 1.5cyls, multi-track search of 19tracks (19recolutions at 60/sec) or .317 seconds elapsed time I/O plus 9.5 tracks 0.156 seconds elapsed time I/O ... plus random access to load the application ... total around .5seconds elapsed time to load each transaction application. This is for national retailer that really wanted to do tens or hundreds of transactions per seconds.
I had offered the MVS group FBA support (which required keeping tables and eliminating multi-track search). However, I was told that even if I provided fully tested and integrated implementation, it would still cost $26M for education and documentation ... so I needed a $200M-$300M additional new sales business case (and since customers were already buying disks as fast as they could be made, it would have just met they would be same amount of FBA as they were buying CKD).
past posts getting to play disk engineer in bldgs. 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
other perspective ... current processors latency to memory, when measured in count of machine cycles ... is comparable to number of 60s machine cycles for latency to 60s disk.
In the 70s, I was pointing out that relative system disk troughput was declining. Early 80s, I was pointificating that relative system disk throughput had declined by factor of ten times since 60s (processors were getting faster, much faster than disks were getting faster). The disk division executives took exception and assigned the division performance group to refute my claims. They came back a few weeks later and effectively said that I had slightly understated the situation. past posts with comparison https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/93.html#31
they then respun the analysis for configurating disks to improve system
throughput ... which was presented at SHARE (session B874). some recent
posts mentioning b874
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#32 Virtualization's Past Helps Explain Its Current Importance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#70 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#61 Paging subsystems in the era of bigass memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#5 TSS/8, was A Whirlwind History of the Computer
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 12:58:16 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
India's population already overtaken China's: Chinese demographer;
According to the demographer's numbers, India is now the world's most
populous country, overtaking China five years ahead of forecasts.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/indian-population-overtakes-china-chinese-demographer/1/960581.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 13:55:47 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
first one of these, was invited into large national retailer hdqtrs datacenter ... took me to classroom with 15-20 classroom tables. half dozen tables covered with piles of performance activity printouts from multiple high-end mainframe VS2 systems.
I start leafing through the printouts, after 30mins or so start to realize that big drop-off in performance seemed to be correlated with maximum/peak total activity (across multiple systems) on particular 3330 shared disk of around 7 I/Os second (bascially the two multi-track search I/Os plus application load for approx. two transactions/sec ... plus part of something additional).
futher investigation was disk that contained the transaction application PDS dataset library ... for all national retail stores. Eventually solutions was to split it into three PDS libraries and give each loosely-coupled system, their own private copy of the three PDS libraries. Highest used applications load-balanced in PDS dataset with fewest number of members, to minimize the multi-track search revolutions.
about same time, had something related in IBM San Jose Research. At the time had 370/158 for VM and 370/168 for MVS with shared 3330 disk pool ... but stricked rules that strings were dedicated for systems, and MVS 3330s couldn't be mounted on VM370 strings.
around 10am one moring, the datacenter starting getting angry calls from vm370 users about CMS response had radically degrading. Investigating, turns out an operator had accidentally mounted 3330 pack on vm370 string. The standard MVS multi-track search operations were horribly interfering with CMS response i.e. a multi-track search ties/locks up the device, but also channel and (shared) controller. MVS/TSO users are so use to the problem that they don't know enough to complain ... but it came as a horrible shock to CMS users (how badly CKD DASD multi-track searches affect response).
demands were made to immediately move the offending MVS pack. Operations say they wouldn't do it until 2nd shift. We placed a pack on MVS string for a VS1 system highly optimived for running under VM370 and brought it up in a virtual machine ... and started do things involving multi-track search ... which brings the MVS/168 to its knees (even running under loaded vm370 running on 370/158 easily outperforms MVS/168) which significantly improves CMS response. Operations then say they will immediately move the MVS pack off the VM370 string, if we move the VS1 pack.
past posts mentioning CKD, FBA, multi-track search, pds, vtoc, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 14:55:35 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
one of the problems were PTF fixes where constantly being applied, which would delete old PDS member and insert replacement PDS member at the end. After 6months or so of PTF activity, there could be noticeable degradation (and I might have to rebuild system packs to recover the optimized disk performance).
other posts in thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#92 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#94 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#23 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#25 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#27 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#28 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#30 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 21:39:05 -0700Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> writes:
charlie invented compare&swap instruction (instruction name chosen
because CAS are charlie's initials) while doing fine-grain
multiprocessor locking for cp/67 (kernel code could run simultaneously
on both processors) at the science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
initially when we attempted to try and get compare&swap added to 370
architecture ... it was rejected because the pok favorite sone operating
system people said that test&set was sufficient to multiprocessor
support. The 370 architecture owners said that in order to justify
compare&swap for 370, we had to come up with uses besides kernel
multiprocessing locking/serialization. Thus was born the application
multiprogramming uses (whether running on single processor or multiple
processors) ... examples continued to be in principles of operation
appendix.
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DZ9ZR003/A.6.2?SHELF=DZ9ZBK03&DT=20040504121320&CASE=
and
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DZ9ZR003/A.6.3?SHELF=DZ9ZBK03&DT=20040504121320&CASE=
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DZ9ZR003/A.6.4?SHELF=DZ9ZBK03&DT=20040504121320&CASE=
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DZ9ZR003/A.6.5?SHELF=DZ9ZBK03&DT=20040504121320&CASE=
however, lter as MVS tries to move from single multiprocessor kernel
spin-lock to finer grain locking, the enormous number of bit flag
operations gave rise to the folklore is that high-end 370 MVS machines
had to fiddle the oi&ni instructions ... since they aren't automic like
compare&swap ... aka the processor hardware has to fetch the storage,
modify the bit and then store it back in single instruction operation
(but involves multiple non-atomic storage operations from memory
standpoint) ... aka they had to "fix" the multiprocessor hardware so
that oi/ni operate more like compare&swap (because mvs couldn't fix all
the problems). It is one of the reasons why they also explicitly added
this to principles of operation appendix
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DZ9ZR003/A.6.1?SHELF=DZ9ZBK03&DT=20040504121320&CASE=
os/360 bit flag problems show up again in moving to mvs/xa 31-bit addressing because lots of them where in the high-order byte of 24-bit address fields.
posts in thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#92 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#93 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#94 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#23 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#25 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#27 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#28 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#30 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#31 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 22:16:32 -0700drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) writes:
she didn't remain long in part because of little uptake (except for IMS hot-standby until sysplex & parallel sysplex) and in part because of never ending battles with communication group trying to force her into using SNA/VTAM for loosely-coupled operations.
a little more mention of HASP in this old post primarily having to do
with the justification for mobing to 16mbyte virtual memoy for all 370s
.... primarily because of the really bad MVT storage management ...
typically requiring regions to be four times larger than actually used
... resulting in only four regions on 1mbyte 370/165. As processors were
getting faster than disks were getting faster ... so high-end 370 needed
increasing numbers of concurrent applications running simultaneously to
keep system utilized.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73 Multiple Virtual Memory
posts mentioning hasp, jes2, nji, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
posts in thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#92 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#93 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#94 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#23 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#25 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#27 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#28 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#30 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#31 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#32 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
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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: Thu, 25 May 2017 08:50:39 -0700Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> writes:
Did a couple visits with NIH national library of medicine in the 90s
about UMLS (unified medical language system) ... basically how
you organize medical knowledge
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/
When I was undergraduate, univ. I was at got ONR grant for online
catalog, part of the money went for IBM 2321 datacell. It was also
selected to be betatest site for the original IBM CICS product. I got
task to support/debug ... there were a couple CICS bugs that I had to
patch (since no source). One was CICS had hard coded spectific set of
BDAM options (not documented) and Library had chosen a different set.
some past cics &/or bdam posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#bdam
at NIH/NLM there were still a couple of people that had done the original NLM online catalog implementation (about the same time I was debugging CICS) while they used BDAM, they had written their own online transaction monitor. Item (article/book) had 80 different classifications they were indexed by (keywords, author, date, etc). There was BDAM record for every book/article/etc. Each index had the BDAM record number for each item that matched that index.
For "AND" queries they just looked for BDAM record numbers that appeared in both index record ("AND" was set intersection, "OR" was set join).
Early 80s, there was client online query program that ran on Apple (Grateful Med). One of the problems was by then, the index (medical knowledge articles/books) had grown so large that queries tended to return more than thousand items ... even out to 4-5 query terms ... and tended to be bimodel, either returning thousands of matches or zero matches. GratefulMed query interface defaulted to just returning the number of matches. (GratefulMed) Search objective was to find query that returned more than zero and less than hundred.
UMLS was organization of medical knowledge ... both hierarcical relations as well as mesh (any-to-any) organizations. They had hired a SQL/relational firm to load UMLS into RDBMS ... they had spend over two years for the initial load ... mostly unnormalized and were spending 18 months to update the RDBMS for 9months of new medical knowledge. The real-world UMLS didn't fit the structured table organization required by RDBMS
I had worked on the original SQL/relational implementation System/R
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
and then was brought in to do a different kind of relational implementation that directly instantiated every relation (rather than implied by structured table entry in RDBMS) which made it trivial to represent any kind of relational structure, including any-to-any mesh. After leaving IBM, I complete rewrote a new version of this from scratch ... and for NLM it took a few weeks to load the full UMLS.
This also had query language that supported 3-value logic. some past
3-value logic posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#40 How to cope with missing values - NULLS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#75 NULL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#15 Amusing acronym
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#35 The Worth of Verisign's Brand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#19 Implementation of boolean types
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#23 So what's null then if it's not nothing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#33 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#34 CJ Date on Missing Information
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#22 3 value logic. Why is SQL so special?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#23 3 value logic. Why is SQL so special?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#29 3 value logic. Why is SQL so special?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#27 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#21 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#30 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#1 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#34 Is the Relational Database Doomed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.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/2012o.html#8 Initial ideas (orientation) constrain creativity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#6 "hexadecimal"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#77 Bloat
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#55 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#123 Holy Grail for parallel programming language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#152 Is true that a real programmer would not stoop to wasting machine capacity to do the assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#63 Do we really?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#24 You thought IEFBR14 was bad? Try GNU's /bin/true code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#13 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#93 The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds Kindle Edition
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#102 Trump to sign cyber security order
past posts mentioning Grateful Med
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#1 Off-topic everywhere [was: Re: thee and thou
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#51 Author seeks help - net in 1981
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#3 Why are Mainframe Computers really still in use at all?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#0 c.d.theory glossary (repost)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#47 Shipwrecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#31 Google Architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#80 Book: "Everyone Else Must Fail" --Larry Ellison and Oracle ???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#88 Continous Systems Modelling Package
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#25 Old datasearches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#9 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#87 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#63 Do we really?
also posts that mention UMLS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#26 Misc. more on bidirectional links
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#27 History of Microsoft Word (and wordprocessing in general)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#1 Off-topic everywhere [was: Re: thee and thou
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#45 XML, AI, Cyc, psych, and literature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#50 XML, AI, Cyc, psych, and literature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#53 c.d.theory glossary (repost)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#7 The Network Data Model, foundation for Relational Model
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#52 Specifying all biz rules in relational data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#67 Relational vs network vs hierarchic databases
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#0 Relational vs network vs hierarchic databases
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#57 Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#45 Where should the type information be?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#47 Where should the type information be?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#74 Speculation ONLY
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#10 Boyd & Beyond 2010, review at Zenpundit
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/2013g.html#87 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#77 Bloat
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#55 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#36 The Network Nation, Revised Edition
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#14 Fast OODA-Loops increase Maneuverability
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Hitachi to Deliver New Mainframe Based on IBM z Systems in Japan Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 25 May 2017 10:27:20 -0700sipples@SG.IBM.COM (Timothy Sipples) writes:
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.
Note IBM later also unloaded the disk division on them.
Trivia ... during the Future System period in the 70s, 370 efforts were
being shutdown (credited with giving clone makers market foothold)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
then when FS imploded in mid-70s, there was mad rush to get things back
into 370 product pipelines ... 3033, 3081, & 370/xa being kicked off in
parallel ... reference:
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
Head of POK also managed to convince corporate to kill VM370, shutdown the development group and have all the people to transfer to POK to work on MVS/XA (claim that otherwise MVS/XA wouldn't ship on time quite a few years later). Note: Endicott eventually manages to save the VM370 product mission, but have to reconstruct a development group from scratch.
Some of the people do a virtual machine tool supporting MVS/XA development ... but was never intended to ship to customers. However, when customers weren't installing MVS/XA as POK planned, they decide to release the tool as the VM/MA (migration aid) ... allowing customers to run MVS & MVS/XA concurrently as aid in migration to MVS/XA.
Later they have large development plan to bring VM/MA up to feature/function level comparable to VM370. Endicott already had VM370 supporting full 370/xa ... done by system support programmer at IBM Rochester. However, internal politics resulted in the POK large development plan for VM/MA to win out.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 16:25:50 -0700Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> writes:
my 1st programming job was to reimplement 1401 MPIO that did the tape->printer/punch and cardreader->tape as unit record front end to 709 running tape->tape IBSYS. The 360/30 had 1401 hardware emulation ... so I guess it was purely part of effort for transitioning to 360 (709 & 360/30 then replaced with 360/67). I got to design and implement my own monitor, device drivers, interrupt handlers, error recovery, storage management, dispatching, etc.
eventually had tray of 2000 cards, with assembler option that either did stand-alone or os/360 with DCB macros and get/put macros. stand-alone version assembled in about 30mins on 360/30 under os/360 pcp release 6. DCB version assembled in around an hour because assembly of each DCB macro took 5-6 minutes elapsed time.
student fortran jobs with ibsys tape->tape took under a second.
initial move to os/360 360/65, each student fortran job took around a
minute. this was reduced to around 30secs elapsed time with HASP. Then
with my careful manual reording of stage2 sysgen (optimized arm seek
and multi-track PDS search) I got it to around 12secs ... mentioned
earlier in thread:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#93 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#31 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
it wasn't until installing watfor that student fortran jobs got back to under second (running faster than 709 ibsys). student fortran jobs started out 3-step fortrang, compile, link-edit and go/execute ... and effectively all the time was step job scheduler and file open/close which involved huge number of CKD disk i/os.
Watfor was one step "monitor" than handled multiple student jobs per execution ... effectively 360/65&2314 step time was 4seconds (with my sysgen optimization) and then watfor processed fortran at "20,000 cards/min" (on 360/65) ... around 333 statements/sec. Avg student fortran tended to avg around 60 statements (30-100) usually with almost instantaneous execution. Input window would accept student jobs and place them in card tray. When tray got nearly full (2000-3000 cards, 30-50 jobs, maybe partial full, if it has been a couple hrs since the last run), which would be run as single watfor job step ... 5+jobs/sec plus 4sec startup ... 9-13secs elapsed per run.
past posts mentioning watfor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#18 CP/67 & OS MFT14
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#9 cics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/97.html#22 Pre S/360 IBM Operating Systems?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/97.html#28 IA64 Self Virtualizable?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#21 Reviving the OS/360 thread (Questions about OS/360)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#93 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#175 amusing source code comments (was Re: Testing job applicants)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#55 OS/360 JCL: The DD statement and DCBs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#45 Charging for time-share CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#46 Charging for time-share CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#52 Review of Steve McConnell's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#20 Golden Era of Compilers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#22 Golden Era of Compilers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#12 checking some myths.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#33 Waterloo Interpreters (was Re: RAX (was RE: IBM OS Timeline?))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#53 WATFOR's Silver Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#54 WATFOR's Silver Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#1 WATFOR's Silver Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#3 The problem with installable operating systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#29 Collating on the S/360-2540 card reader?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#31 Collating on the S/360-2540 card reader?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#51 HASP assembly: What the heck is an MVT ABEND 422?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#26 A Dark Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004.html#48 AMD/Linux vs Intel/Microsoft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#53 origin of the UNIX dd command
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#60 IBM 360 memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#16 CPU time and system load
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#7 HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#0 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#15 S/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#5 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#70 The name "shell"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#0 The use of "script" for program
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#33 JCL parms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#51 IBM LCS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#71 IBM tried to kill VM?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#18 Microminiaturized Modules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#24 Opinion: The top 10 operating system stinkers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#41 Book on Poughkeepsie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#37 Young Developers Get Old Mainframers' Jobs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#73 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#19 PDP-10s and Unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#21 PDP-10s and Unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#61 Source code for s/360 [PUBLIC]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#54 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#61 Mainframe Slang terms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#66 PL/1 as first language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#44 My first mainframe experience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#50 My first mainframe experience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#17 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#13 program coding pads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#17 Last card reader?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#34 Data Areas?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#5 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#36 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#43 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#7 PCP - memory lane
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#98 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#31 Regarding Time Sharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#24 Is Microsoft becoming folklore?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#31 Java Security?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#39 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#4 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#18 A Brief History of Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#54 Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#87 The Mother of All Demos: The 1968 presentation that sparked a tech revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#23 Scary Sysprogs and educating those 'kids'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#76 Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#85 Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#134 A System 360 question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#51 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#15 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#102 End of vacuum tubes in computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#21 the legacy of Seymour Cray
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#35 high level language idea
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#29 Multitasking, together with OS operations
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 23:19:39 -0700Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> writes:
more recent multi-track
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#30 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#31 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#36 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
other recent multi-track
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#88 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#28 Virtualization's Past Helps Explain Its Current Importance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#36 IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#5 SDB (system determined Blksize)
vtoc & PDS directory multi-track search ... find directory entry ... trading off lots of channel I/O for scarce real storage. Part of the problem was sequential (multi-track) search doesn't scale well as systems grew ... from multi-track with couple tracks to couple cyclinders.
ISAM did complex multi-track operations along with self-modifying channel programs ... all in one channel program ... do multi-track search for item with location, read the location into argument for subsequent search in the same channel program ... which can be repeated until finally read/write the actual record.
ckd, fba, multi-track search, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
I was involved in original sql/relational implementation (System/R)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
in the late 70s, IMS was criticizing System/R as taking twice the physical disk space as IMS and 4-5 disk I/Os for the same database. The issue was that IMS had physical record numbers as part of the actual data ... while relational had separate index infrastructure (doubling required disk space) ... and the index required 4-5 disk I/Os to process the index. The relational response was that IMS had several times the manual administration effort because the physical record locations were exposed as part of the data.
Going into the 80s, there was significant drop in disk price/mbyte ... making the relational index space less of issue. Also computer system processor memory was significantly increasing ... and there was increasing use of caching to offset the reduction in relative system disk throughput ... rdbms index caching then minimized the number of separate disk i/os to access desired record. At the same time significant increase in DBMS (in part because of significant decrease in system and dataprocessing costs). The much lower (manual) effort and skill met that they would mostly be RDBMS.
when Gray was leaving research for tandem ... he was palming off a bunch
of stuff on me ... including DBMS consulting with the IMS group, old
email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801016
after Gray's disappearance
http://www.informationweek.com/database/sailing-mystery-unsolved-court-declares-jim-gray-dead/d/d-id/1104453
http://www.informationweek.com/the-search-for-microsoft-researcher-jim-gray/d/d-id/1053601
there is celebration of Gray at UCB
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/18/closure-in-disappearance-of-computer-scientist-jim-gray/
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/31/a-tribute-to-jim-gray-sometimes-nice-guys-do-finish-first/
Tribute press release:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080616153833/http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/IPRO/JimGrayTribute/pressrelease.html
podcast of the tribute:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080604010939/http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=23082
https://web.archive.org/web/20080604072804/http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=23083
https://web.archive.org/web/20080604072809/http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=23087
https://web.archive.org/web/20080604072815/http://webcast.berkeley.edu/event_details.php?webcastid=23088
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 08:32:49 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
finger slip ... that is ISAM (index sequential access method, not IMS) doing the modifying channel programs ... where search index, and then read address of record for subsequent seek/search in the same channel program.
ckd, fba, multi-track search, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 09:53:20 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
CP/67 CMS formated 829, originally from optimal fit on 2311 track size:
Files stored on disk are formatted into records 829 bytes long. This
formatting is handled internally by CMS. and is not controlled by the
user. The maximum CMS file size (assuming that the user·s assigned disk
area can accommodate it), is 24.358 million bytes, or 65,533 records. If
a file consists of a source language program.. a size limitation may be
imposed by the language in which that program is written. and this size
may be smaller than the 24.358 million bytes allowed by CMS. The maximum
disk file for user disks is 203 cylinders each. Although there is no
inherent limitation to the number of files a user may create. he is
limited practically by the sizes of his disk areas. When a user has
filled either of these areas. a message to this effect is typed at his
terminal. Refer to "Recovery Procedures" for steps to be taken in this
case.
.... snip ...
This was "CDF" file system and later changed to 800. In later half of 70s, "EDF" file system was introduced, which had format selection of 1k, 2k, or 4k (fixed block) record size (it also allowed increasing index depths for much larger file size). On 512byte FBA, a 1k, 2k, 4k logic record size was 2, 4, or 8 contiguous physical blocks.
CDF & EDF had master file directory ... updating filesystem MFD would write changed information to new block locations and then single write would rewrite master record pointing to current MFD.
CKD DASD had failure mode that during power-failure could write zeros to record w/o any error indication (dropping power to memory, but enough power to continue channel, controller, disk, so channel would be generating zeros to finish write). This affected CDF file system during the update of the pointer to the MFD. EDF fixed this "bug" by having a pair of master records and would alternate writes. After failure, access would read both records and select the latest valid (with version number at the end of the record, undetected zeros write would never be the latest record). Note that this also affected VTOC and other filesystems that were never fixed. Later fixed-block (and CKD implementation on fixed-block) supported never starting a record disk write unless all data was available to complete the record disk write.
ckd, fba, multi-track search, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
Note that in the early 70s, disk division started migration to fixed block size with sector feature. 3330 had 20 surfaces, but the 20th surface was reserved for current rotational position ... and only 19 data surfaces. Original CKD channel program could be seek/search/read-write all as single uninterruptable channel program. Quickly goes to "stand-alone" seeks ... while channel is left available (for other operations) during arm motion. However channel was still busy during the rotation of the search operation preceding the read/write. For fixed formating, it was possible to predeterming the rotational sector position for the start of each record. channel program then became "set sector"/search/read-write ... where the channel would disconnect until the specified "set sector" came under the head and reconnect to the channel for the search operation (minimizing enormous channel/controller unnecessary busy).
trivia: TSS/360 had page mapped filesystem (single level store) ...
which had significant throughput/performance issues ... and something
similar was adapted for future system ... which contributed to the
enormous future system problems that eventually resulted in its
failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
For page-mapped filesystem that I did for CP67/CMS ... and then moved
to VM370/CMS, I would claim that I learned from TSS/360 what not to do
... and avoid its significance performance limitations. While a lot of
my stuff was picked up and released in VM370, I blame the bad rep that
page mapped filesystems got from the Future System failure ... for my
CMS paged mapped filesystem not being released. Old email at science
center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
csc/vm (&/or sjr/vm) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#cscvm
about moving from CP67 to VM370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
most of the CSC/VM features (that I would support for operation and production at internal datacenters) got picked up and shipped in standard vm370 product ... except for the page mapped support.
some old PAM, CDF, and EDF performance comparison
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#25 DCSS as SWAP disk for z/Linux
Not apparent in the above numbers, there were a lot of embedded features that resulted in scaling up significantly better in heavily loaded concurrent environment.
page mapped filesystem posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
a constant ongoing problem was page-mapped would support address location independent sharing of file images concurrently in different address spaces ... like executables. The problem was that CMS used lots of OS/360 assemblers and compilers which had "relocatable adcons" which weren't location independent execution. OS/360 when loading "relocatable adcons" ... would swizzle relocatable adcons to the loaded address before starting execution aka after loading the file, the storage is altered, which results in problems for both straight page mapping as well as concurrent (read-only) sharing in different address spaces. TSS/360 did address this issue with generated executabes that allowed direct file memory mapping and location independent sharing.
past posts about memory mapping and all the problems I had with the
os/360 relocatable adcons paradigm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#adcon
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 16:46:48 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
pg.8, "Instructions" standard set, basic processing and logic; commercial feature set, floating-point scientific set, two instructions for storage proection:
The universal instruction set, a standard facility on Models 50-70 and optional on Models 30 and 40, includes the standard set, the decimal, the floating-point, and the two instructions for storage protection.
... snip ...
360/44 seems to be stripped down (less expensive) 360/50 with subset of
standard instruction set ... and scientific ... "its performance on
problems for which it is optimized is 30 to 60 percent faster than that
of model 50"
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/functional_characteristics/A22-6875-5_360-44_funcChar.pdf
A22-6821-0 360 Principles of Operation
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/princOps/A22-6821-0_360PrincOps.pdf
I was told folklore about gov IBM case ... where seven dwarfs testified that by the late 50s all those in the computer business realized that the single most important criteria was compatible machine architecture across the line ... greatly simplifying business customers to greatly expand their computer use over time ... and that IBM executives were the only ones able to force individual product line managers to toe the compatible product line. With IBM the only one in the business, able to meet that objective ... IBM would still prevail even if they got lots of other things wrong.
bunch and/or IBM&7dwarfs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BUNCH
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/ibm-and-the-seven-dwarfs-dwarf-one-burroughs/
past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#22 System/360 40th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#4 IBM/Watson autobiography--thoughts on?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#27 IBM/Watson autobiography--thoughts on?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#60 Was FORTRAN buggy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#77 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#42 1960s: IBM mgmt mistrust of SLT for ICs?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#45 360 programs on a z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#14 360 programs on a z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#57 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#36 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#12 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#73 Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#65 Decimation of the valuation of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#60 Honeywell 200
previous posts in thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#23 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#25 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#27 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#28 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#30 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#31 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#32 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#33 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#36 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#37 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#38 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#39 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 18:10:02 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
past inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
The members of congress behind the 30s neutrality laws claim they were
motivated because of the enormous war profiting they saw in the US
during WW1. During the 30s & early 40s, it was industrialist &
capitalists spinning it as isolationism ... especially those
part of the military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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 coordinates of German
industry and military targets, they got the information 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 '29 crash, 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/
... there is also John Faster Dulles playing major role in the Tready of Versailles
The Illusion Of Victory: America In World War I
https://www.amazon.com/Illusion-Victory-America-World-War-ebook/dp/B00AFYVIDO/
loc7495-98:
The war guilt clause pretended this central event never happened.
Instead, the document curtly demanded that Germany acknowledge its
responsibility "for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied
and Associated governments have been subjected as a consequence of the
war imposed on them by the aggression of Germany and its allies."
loc7498:
Compounding the irony, this statement was written by a former Wilson
pupil at Princeton (and future secretary of state), John Foster Dulles.
... snip ...
Used for (among other things) justifying allies confiscation of Germany's merchant ships, which Germany was dependent on for importing food, and played a major factor in tens of thousand starvation deaths.
from "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 ...
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
and then 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
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 20:52:06 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
Are Credit Rating Agencies America's Secret Fifth Column?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/26/are-credit-rating-agencies-americas-secret-fifth-column/
Even a full-blown war with North Korea or Russia could not inflict the
damage done to this Country by Moody's, Fitch and S&P. The
rating agencies have declared war on the United States and the damage
they are inflicting will eventually destroy this Country from within.
... snip ...
Oct2008 congressional hearings into the (significant) role that the credit rating agencies played in the economic mess .... that they were selling triple-A ratings when they knew they weren't worth triple-A.
some (triple-A rated) toxic CDO posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
triple-A rating played significant factor in over $27T being done 2001-2008, including being able to sell to entities restricted to only dealing in safe investments (like large pension funds).
rhetoric in congress that the purpose of Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent
future ENRONS and guarantee that executives and auditors did jail time,
but it required SEC to do something. Possibly because even GAO didn't
believe SEC was doing anything, it started doing reports about public
company fraudulent financial reports, even showing increase after SOX
goes into effect (and nobody doing jail time). Less well known is that
SOX also required SEC to do something about rating agencies ... but they
appeared to do about the rating agencies as they did about fraudulent
financial reports.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
player in all this, #1 on times list of those responsible for the
economic mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877339,00.html
and recent posts mentioning rating agencies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#5 The Champions of the 401(k) Lament the Revolution They Started
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#8 "Too big to fail" was Malicious Cyber Activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#31 Milton Friedman's Cherished Theory Is Laid to Rest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#33 Moody's Agrees to Settle Financial Crisis-Era Claims for $864 Million
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#36 Moody's Agrees to Settle Financial Crisis-Era Claims for $864 Million
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#40 The economics of corporate crime
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#50 Finance Is Not the Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#65 Mnuchin Lied About His Bank's History of Robo-Signing Foreclosure Documents
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#76 Avaya: How we arrived at Chapter 11
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#92 Trump's Rollback of the Neoliberal Market State
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#96 Trump, Wall Street and the "banking caucus" ready to rip apart Dodd-Frank
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#97 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#0 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#7 OT: Trump Moves to Roll Back Obama-Era Financial Regulations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#11 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#12 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#43 when to get out???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#48 Janet Yellen debunks Trump's case for killing Dodd-Frank
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#50 when to get out???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#8 Congress just obliterated Obama-era rules preventing ISPs from selling your browsing history
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/2017e.html#38 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#99 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#7 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#24 [CM] What was your first home computer?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 09:42:21 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
The Limping Middle Class
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/jobs-will-follow-a-strengthening-of-the-middle-class.html
slouching towards 3rd world country status and return of the robber barons.
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic.html
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
Third World America
http://thesovereigninvestor.com/us-economy/third-world-america/
Three interrelated factors cause "Third World-itis": lopsided
distribution of income; a government hijacked by the economic elite; and
a political focus on stasis rather than change. Together those features
form a self-reinforcing engine that moves in one direction only: toward
conflict, tyranny and eventual collapse.
... snip ...
The surging ranks of America's ultrapoor
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-surging-ranks-of-americas-ultrapoor/
By one dismal measure, America is joining the likes of Third World
countries.
... snip ...
USA: The World's Newest Third World Nation
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23535-usa-the-worlds-newest-third-world-nation
Six Ways America Is Like a Third-World Country; Our society lags behind
the rest of the developed world in education, health care, violence and
more
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/six-ways-america-is-like-a-third-world-country-20140305
U.S. students' academic achievement still lags that of their peers in
many other countries
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/15/u-s-students-internationally-math-science/
The World's Most Reputable Countries 2016: U.S. Ranks 28th - Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2016/06/24/the-worlds-most-reputable-countries-2016-u-s-a-ranks-28th/
Why Nations Fail ... has frequent/general "inequality" examples that are
also cited in above articles
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Prosperity-ebook/dp/B0058Z4NR8
past posts mentioning "Why Nations Fail"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#31 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#34 The never-ending SCO lawsuit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#35 The Dallas Fed Is Calling For The Immediate Breakup Of Large Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#36 The never-ending SCO lawsuit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#57 speculation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#60 Candid Communications & Tweaking Curiosity, Tools to Consider
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#70 Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#2 Did they apply Boyd's concepts?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#32 Back to the future: convict labor returns to America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#70 The Army and Special Forces: The Fantasy Continues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#80 The Failure of Central Planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#84 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#10 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#15 Imbecilic Constitution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#85 Naked emperors, holy cows and Libor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#81 GBP13tn: hoard hidden from taxman by global elite
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#7 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#42 The IBM "Open Door" policy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#45 If all of the American earned dollars hidden in off shore accounts were uncovered and taxed do you think we would be able to close the deficit gap?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#17 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#29 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#34 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#39 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#83 Protected: R.I.P. Containment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#71 Is orientation always because what has been observed? What are your 'direct' experiences?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#44 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#39 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#40 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#69 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#72 Versailles on the Potomac at it again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#61 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#84 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#62 Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#49 Corporate malfeasance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#38 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#123 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#32 Star Trek (was Re: TV show Mannix observations)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#10 [CM] What was your first home computer?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 10:19:09 -0700jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
was the US Patent system was created to promote innovation and change and protect the individual innovator from large institutions intent on preserving the status quo. However, the US Patent system has been subverted by large institutions to control innovation and preserve status quo.
Along with business schools teaching MBAs to protect postion and control markets (preserve status quo and inhibit change).
inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our
Future (Joseph E. Stiglitz) pg35/loc1169-73
In business school we teach students how to recognize, and create,
barriers to competition -- including barriers to entry -- that help
ensure that profits won't be eroded. Indeed, as we shall shortly see,
some of the most important innovations in business in the last three
decades have centered not on making the economy more efficient but on
how better to ensure monopoly power or how better to circumvent
government regulations intended to align social returns and private
rewards.
... snip ...
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
(Joseph E. Stiglitz) pg271/loc5101-4
Standard economic theory (the neoclassical model discussed earlier in
this chapter) has had little to say about innovation, even though most
of the increases in U.S. standards of living in the past hundred years
have come from technical progress.56 As I noted earlier, just as
"information" was outside the old models, so too was innovation
... snip ...
In Boyd briefings in the early 80s, he would comment that former military officers, steeped in rigid, top-down, command&control (with only those at the very top knew what they were doing) were starting to contaminate corporate culture. However about the same time (early 80s), articles were starting to appear that MBAs were starting to destroy US businesses
which corresponds to this pivot point in inequality
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic.html
Boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
not just MBAs, but also economists, Milton 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
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/
Kahneman (a psychologist) gets Nobel prize in economics, in part for debunking some cherished economic theories.
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#34 If economists want to be trusted again, they should learn to tell jokes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#92 Trump's Rollback of the Neoliberal Market State
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#93 The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds Kindle Edition
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/2017.html#104 Trump to sign cyber security order
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#43 when to get out???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#0 Locking our own orientation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#65 Paging subsystems in the era of bigass memory
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/2017e.html#7 Arthur Laffer's Theory on Tax Cuts Comes to Life Once More
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#44 [CM] cheap money, was What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#96 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#99 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#8 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#16 Conservatives and Spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#42 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 11:06:58 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
also in the 80s, VP and former CIA director repeatedly claims no
knowledge of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
another family member (bush2) 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.
other trivia: because the industry had gotten such a bad reputation during the S&L crisis, the industry changes its name to private equity and "junk bonds" becomes "high yield bonds"
S&L ciris posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
private-equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
as an aside, by the early 90s, more things did start to leak about
Iran/Contra
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."
... snip ...
other trivia: 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
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
Last decade the bush2 administration (besides the economic mess) justifies invasion of Iraq because they supported Al Quada. They then changed the justification to WMDs and the invasion would only cost $50B. However, Iraq had already provided proof that they had decommissioned the WMDs ... through White House chief of staff Card's cousing at the UN.
The decommissioned WMDs (tracing back to the US) had been found early in
the invasion, but the information was classified until fall of 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
and miltiar-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 17:21:01 -0700Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> writes:
search operation tied up the device, controller, and channel ... constantly accessing processor storage for the search argument for each compare.
RDBMS has index ... but as system processor memory size was greatly
increasing, it was possible to cache index in memory and find items
significantly faster with higher throughput ... than having purely
linear sequential on-disk search for every time needed to load item
(scales badly as size of directory increases) i.e.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#37 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
partway was done with introduction of "sectors" on 3330, for known track
layout and known record location, the channel program would have
set-sector that would disconnect from the channel until the sector
location, presumably just in front of the record that matched the search
argument.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#39 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
eventually IBM introduced index-based PDSE ... to address the
enormous PDS director sequential search penalty every time
a member has to be loaded
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/zosbasics/com.ibm.zos.zconcepts/zconcepts_166.htm
The directory can expand automatically as needed, up to the addressing limit of 522,236 members. It also has an index, which provides a fast search for member names. Space from deleted or moved members is automatically reused for new members, so you do not have to compress a PDSE to remove wasted space. Each member of a PDSE can have up to 15,728,639 records. A PDSE can have a maximum of 123 extents, but it cannot extend beyond one volume. When a directory of a PDSE is in use, it is kept in processor storage for fast access.
... snip ...
PDS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_set_(IBM_mainframe)#Partitioned_data_sets
PDSE and PDS Differences
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.idad400/d4289.htm
CKD, FBA, multi-track search, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 17:28:21 -0700Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> writes:
some past description of 360/75 is 360/65 with hardwired instructions but same memory subsystems
30 funct characteristics
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/functional_characteristics/GA24-3231-7_360-30_funcChar.pdf
orig 2msec/memory, later 1.5msec memory, 1byte fetch/store
40 funct characteristics
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/functional_characteristics/A22-6881-2_360-40_funcChar.pdf
2.5msec memory with 2byte fetch/store
44 funct characteristics
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/functional_characteristics/A22-6875-5_360-44_funcChar.pdf
1msec memory with 4byte fetch/store
50 funct characteristics
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/functional_characteristics/A22-6898-1_360-50_funcChar_1967.pdf
2msec memory with 4byte fetch/store
360/44 has 4byte wide data paths like 360/50, but with 1mic memory (instead of 2mic memory)
following doesn't have 360/44
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360#Table_of_System.2F360_models
360/30, 29kips, 1.3mbyte/sec cpu bandwidth, 0.7mbyte/sec memory bandwidth
360/40, 75kips, 3.2mbyte/sec cpu bandwidth, 0.8mbyte/sec memory bandwidth
360/50, 168kips, 8mbyte/sec cpu bandwidth, 2.0mbyte/sec memory bandwidth
claim of 360/44 having 1.3-1.6 times performance of 360/50 for scientific is combination of memory twice as fast and hardwired rather mcode instruction.
other posts in thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#23 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#25 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#27 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#28 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#30 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#31 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#32 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#33 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#36 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#37 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#38 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#39 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#42 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#43 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 18:32:03 -0700re:
more posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
The Wars In Iraq And Afghanistan Have Cost The U.S. $6 Trillion
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-wars-in-iraq-and-afghanistan-have.html
Iraq and Afghanistan: The U.S. $6T Bill for America's Longest War Is Unpaid
http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2017/05/26/iraq_and_afghanistan_the_us6_trillion_bill_is_unpaid_111462.html
The enormous figure reflects not just the cost of fighting -- like guns,
trucks and fuel -- but also the long-term cost of providing medical care
and disability compensation for decades beyond the end of the
conflict. Consider the fact that benefits for World War I veterans
didn't peak until 1969. For World War II veterans, the peak came in
1986. Payments for Vietnam-era vets are still climbing.
The high rates of injuries and increased survival rates in Iraq and
Afghanistan mean that over half the 2.5 million who served there
suffered some degree of disability. Their health care and disability
benefits alone will easily cost $1 trillion in coming decades.
... snip ...
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
note last decade, the military-industrial complex wanted the invasion so
badly that corporate reps were telling former Soviet block countries
that if they voted for the invasion in the UN, they would get USAID
(that could only be spent on US arms) and membership in NATO.
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 19:36:41 -0700hancock4 writes:
Boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
US ratio of executive to worker compensation was 20:1 for a long time (and 10:1 in much of the rest of the world) ... but idea that only those at the very top know what they are doing, helps justify the ratio exploding to 400:1.
graph
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic.html
older posts mentioning ratio of executive:worker compensation exploding to
400:1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#73 Should The CEO Have the Lowest Pay In Senior Management?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#24 To: Graymouse -- Ireland and the EU, What in the H... is all this about?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#76 lack of information accuracy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#71 Cormpany sponsored insurance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#25 Taxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#33 Taxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#53 Are family businesses unfair competition?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#93 What do you think are the top characteristics of a good/effective leader in an organization? Do you feel these characteristics are learned or innate to an individual?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#2 Blinkylights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#58 Traditional Approach Won't Take Businesses Far Places
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#14 realtors (and GM, too!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#17 realtors (and GM, too!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#61 The vanishing CEO bonus
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#5 Greed - If greed was the cause of the global meltdown then why does the biz community appoint those who so easily succumb to its temptations?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#41 Executive pay: time for a trim?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#44 Executive pay: time for a trim?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#50 Greed Is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#80 Are reckless risks a natural fallout of "excessive" executive compensation ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#25 The recently revealed excesses of John Thain, the former CEO of Merrill Lynch, while the firm was receiving $25 Billion in TARP funds makes me sick
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#41 The subject is authoritarian tendencies in corporate management, and how they are related to political culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#3 Congress Set to Approve Pay Cap of $500,000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#73 Most 'leaders' do not 'lead' and the majority of 'managers' do not 'manage'. Why is this?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#2 CEO pay sinks - Wall Street Journal/Hay Group survey results just released
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#44 What TARP means for the future of executive pay
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#37 Young Developers Get Old Mainframers' Jobs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#48 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#8 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#39 Agile Workforce
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#33 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#62 Dodd-Frank Act Makes CEO-Worker Pay Gap Subject to Disclosure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#67 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#22 60 Minutes News Report:Unemployed for over 99 weeks!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#59 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#71 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#10 OODA in highly stochastic environments
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 10:09:27 -0700Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
went to the 5th flr to do multics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
and others went to the IBM science center on the 4th flr
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
MULTICS project was single-level store, page-mapped filesystem, virtual
memory segments. IBM bid modified 360 and lost out to GE bid machine
with those hardware features (as "standard product")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE-645
The 645 was a modified 635 processor that provided hardware support for
the Multics operating system developed at MIT.
... snip ...
a lot more history
https://www.multicians.org/index.html
and
https://www.multicians.org/history.html
Multics ran on specialized expensive CPU hardware that provided a
segmented, paged, ring-structured virtual memory. The supervisor
implemented symmetric multiprocessing with shared physical and virtual
memory. Standard Honeywell mainframe peripherals and memory were
used. The operating system was programmed in PL/I.
... snip ...
the science center thot it would be the focus for the MIT bid and also
center for virtual memory expertise. A lot more history details here
https://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda/neuvm.pdf
So, only weeks after his arrival in Cambridge, Rasmussen had to deal
with MIT's very negative reaction to System/360. Within days of the
System/360 announcement, the chief S/360 architect, Gene Amdahl, came to
Cambridge to meet with Professor Corbato and his colleagues, but that
meeting seems only to have made matters worse. As a loyal IBMer,
Rasmussen was deeply embarrassed by IBM's failure to heed the advice of
such an important customer, and he became determined to make things
right, to do whatever was necessary to make System/360 right for MIT and
other customers.
...
The machine that IBM proposed to Project MAC was a S/360 that had been
modified to include the "Blaauw Box". This machine was also bid to
Bell Labs at about the same time. It was never built, however, because
both MIT and Bell Labs chose another vendor. MIT's stated reason for
rejecting IBM's bid was that it wanted a processor that was a main-line
product, so that others could readily acquire a machine on which to run
Multics. It was generally believed, however, that displeasure with IBM's
attitude toward time-sharing was a factor in Project MAC's decision.
Losing Project MAC and Bell Labs had important consequences for IBM.
... snip ...
IBM eventually does come out with 360/67 but too late. I refer to
standard TSS/360 product for 360/67 at one point had something like
1200 at a time when science center had 12 people doing cp/67-cms.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#25 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
being in same bldg only one flr apart there was some rivalry ... also would see each other frequently for lunch ... in lunch room on 1st flr of 545 tech sq ... or other places along main street or down in central sq or harvard sq.
more multics history
https://www.multicians.org/history.html
Elliott Organick's book, The Multics System, an Examination of its
Structure, describes the system as it was in about 1968. MIT started
providing timesharing service on Multics to users in fall of 1969. GE
sold the next system to the US Air Force, and the military use of
Multics led to some of the system's security features. Honeywell sold
more systems to government, and to auto makers, universities, and
commercial data processing services.
... snip ...
Much later I post in multics usenet some old email about USAF coming by
looking for 20 4341s, but it then grew to 120 4341s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#email790404
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#12 Multics Nostalgia
much more drift, this also mentions that MULTICS shipped (first
commercial) RDBMS product before IBM did
https://www.multicians.org/history.html
Codd was at San Jose Research which did the first SQL/relational
product, system/R implementing on VM370 370/145 ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
there was heavy opposition inside IBM to RDBMS ... which was all
involved in implementing the next mainstream DBMS product (code-name)
"EAGLE". While the rest of IBM was pre-occupied with "EAGLE", we (by
this time I had transferred to SJR) managed to do tech transfer
("under the radar") to Endicott and release as SQL/DS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_SQL/DS
Later when "EAGLE" implodes, there is request for how fast System/R
(SQL/DS) can be ported to MVS. It is eventually released as DB2,
initially for decision support only:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_DB2
Even later, when we are working on HA/CMP cluster scale-up ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
referenced here in this Jan1992 meeting with Oracle in ellison's
conference room
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
The oracle EVP in the meeting, mentions that when he was at (IBM) STL
he did the SQL/DS technology transfer from Endicott back to STL for
DB2. However, within a few weeks of the Ellison meeting, cluster
scale-up was transferred to IBM Kingston, announced as IBM supercomputer
(for technical and scientific *ONLY*), and we were told we couldn't
work on anything with more than four processors. Possibly contributing
to the decision was that the (mainframe) DB2 group was claiming
(complaining) that if we (HA/CMP) were allowed to proceed, we would be
at least five years ahead of them. related old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 11:42:16 -0700hancock4 writes:
In the mid-90s, I saw references to IBMers in (mainframe) pok sending
out email about would the last person to leave POK, please turn out the
lights. a couple old posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#52 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#57 How will mainframers retiring be different from Y2K?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#47 Making mainframe technology hip again
it reminded me of the seattle billboard in the early 70s by some boeing employee, would the last person to leave seattle turn out the lights ... boeing was going through downturn and laying off people.
trivia: I had been brought into boeing in the late 60s to help form boeing computer services (consolidate dataprocessing in an independent business unit to better monetize the investment).
some past posts mentiong in late 80s, senior disk enginneer gave a talk
at communication group conference about the communication group was
going to be responsible for the demise of disk division (seeing data
fleeing mainframe datacenters to more distributed computing friendly
platforms with drop in disk sales)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
however, there was a temporary spike in the late 90s with remaining mainframe customers for Y2k remediation ... but in the US it was in competition with internet bubble for people ... and as a result a lot of (one time) Y2K remediation was being outsourced overseas. However, after the start of the century the internet bubble burst and offshore Y2K remediation continued with other projects. That downturn finally started to focus on how much was being done offshore.
some posts mentioning Y2K remediation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#21 Roads as Runways Was: Re: BA Solves Y2K (Was: Re: Chinese Solve Y2K)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#22 Roads as Runways Was: Re: BA Solves Y2K (Was: Re: Chinese Solve Y2K)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#23 Roads as Runways Was: Re: BA Solves Y2K (Was: Re: Chinese Solve Y2K)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#24 BA Solves Y2K (Was: Re: Chinese Solve Y2K)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#27 Roads as Runways Was: Re: BA Solves Y2K (Was: Re: Chinese
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#44 Internet and/or ARPANET?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#78 Mainframes Relevant?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#214 Ask about Certification-less Public Key
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#2 The SOB that helped IT jobs move to India is dead!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#39 Who said "The Mainframe is dead"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#66 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#20 I told you ... everybody is going to Dalian,China
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#16 Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#21 Taxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#40 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#7 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT Competitiveness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#39 India is outsourcing jobs as well
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#26 The new urgency to fix online privacy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#36 Students mostly not ready for math, science college courses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#19 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#81 Is IT becoming extinct?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#65 How do you manage your value statement?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#27 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#55 Can outsourcing be stopped?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#2 IBM 'pulls out of US'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#9 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#18 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#37 Disksize history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#37 Young Developers Get Old Mainframers' Jobs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#63 U.S. students behind in math, science, analysis says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#67 I would like to understand the professional job market in US. Is it shrinking?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 12:17:36 -0700hancock4 writes:
1) they captured oil fields and making money off oil
ISIS is making up to $50M a month from oil sales
http://www.businessinsider.com/isis-making-50-million-a-month-from-oil-sales-2015-10
and 2) Fareed this morning had segment on Saudi Arabia is supporting world wide wahhabism ... which is "extreme" version of Islam ... including ISIS. There seems to be a conflict here, lot of Wahhabi seems to be anti-Saudi gov because of their relationships with the US & the west, but also claims that Saudi money for Wahhabi is bribes/tributes to take their activities elsewhere.
Fareed also had something like 96% of world-wide extreme Islam terrorism is Wahhabi related and that Iran is one of the major forces fighting Wahhabi extremism (highlighting US war on terror supporting saudi and opposing Iran).
You Can't Understand ISIS If You Don't Know the History of Wahhabism in
Saudi Arabia
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/isis-wahhabism-saudi-arabia_b_5717157.html
Also some misc. items about enormous funds being pumped into the two wars. There was also graph that the current annual DOD budget is something like $100B more than the combined spending of the next eight countries combined.
There was recent claim that there are now more (US) military contractors (mercenaries) in Afghanistan than US soldiers.
2010 CBO report had that after congress allows fiscal responsibility act
(spending couldn't exceed tax revenue) to lapse in 2002, there was
enormous cut in tax revenue (first time taxes were cut to not pay for
two wars) and enormous increase in total spending for a $12T budget gap
compared to fiscal responsibility act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
part of the 2010 CBO report for 2002-2009 increase in DOD spending ... was over a trillion dollars that couldn't be accounted for. This was totally separate from increase in DOD spending that went to the two wars ... including tens of billions in pallets of shrink wrapped $100 bills that were air lifted to pay for bribes & tributes during the "surge" to pay for reducing violance ... as well as huge amount involved in enormous corruption.
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
for the miltiar-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Rumsfeld white house chief of staff (74-75). CIA director wasn't
agreeing with "TEAM B" analysis justifying huge increase in DOD spending
Rumsfeld then replaces CIA director with somebody that would go along
with Team B analysis (aka bush1) and then becomes SECDEF (75-77), and
replaced by one of his staffers, Dick Cheney. He is again SECDEF
2001-2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld
When Rumsfeld was white house chief of staff 74-75, Cheney was on his
staff. Cheney then becomes white house chief of staff when Rumsfeld
becomes SECDEF. Cheney is then SECDEF from 89-93 and VP 2001-2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney
How Private Contractors Have Created a Shadow NSA; A new cybersecurity
elite moves between government and private practice, taking state s
ecrets with them (also references oil rig company that was transformed
into one of the largest defense contractors after former SECDEF and
future VP becomes CEO, including enormous no-bid contracts in Iraq)
http://www.thenation.com/article/how-private-contractors-have-created-shadow-nsa/
another former "Team B" member
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz
He is a leading neoconservative.[4] As Deputy Secretary of Defense, he
was "a major architect of President Bush's Iraq policy and ... its most
hawkish advocate."[5] In fact, "the Bush Doctrine was largely [his]
handiwork."
... snip ...
Team B posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 15:01:06 -0700Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> writes:
then a major consideration is reducing worker compensation (while
increasing executive compensation). other recent refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#54 Why the Pursuit of Shareholder Value Kills Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#90 Old hardware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#93 United Air Lines - an OODA-loop perspective
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#97 IBM revenue has fallen for 20 quarters -- but it used to run its business very differently
graph with pivot point in early 80s, also corresponds to boyd's comment
about former military officers contaminating corporate culture, MBAs
destroying US businesses, and Milton Friedman's influence
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic.html
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 15:41:46 -0700"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
after the fall of the wall, there supposedly was suppose to be a "peace
dividend" ... reduction in the enormous DOD budget (including reduction
in number in military service). There was significant push back from the
military-industrial complex because that would serious hit their profit.
They really needed "perpetual war" to maintain their profits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
and fabricating justification for the Iraq invasion and corporate
reps lobbying former soviet block countries with promises of NATO
membership an USAID (that could only be spent on US military equipment).
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
the perpetual war churns through large number of service personnel as well as modern medicine saving lots of lives that results in long term disability costs.
Iraq and Afghanistan: The U.S. $6T Bill for America's Longest War Is Unpaid
http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2017/05/26/iraq_and_afghanistan_the_us6_trillion_bill_is_unpaid_111462.html
The enormous figure reflects not just the cost of fighting -- like guns,
trucks and fuel -- but also the long-term cost of providing medical care
and disability compensation for decades beyond the end of the
conflict. Consider the fact that benefits for World War I veterans
didn't peak until 1969. For World War II veterans, the peak came in
1986. Payments for Vietnam-era vets are still climbing.
The high rates of injuries and increased survival rates in Iraq and
Afghanistan mean that over half the 2.5 million who served there
suffered some degree of disability. Their health care and disability
benefits alone will easily cost $1 trillion in coming decades.
... snip ...
One of the issues is that VA benefits are starting to hit DOD funds that
impact what is available to the military-industrial complex ... and
they've started lobbying for reduction in VA benefits (so there is more
to line their pockets).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Part of it resulted in significant underfunding of VA hospitals to provide service to military personnel (from the current perpetual wars). Distraction of wait times being fudged is in large part obfuscation ... because the underlying real problem is not funding enough people and faciities to provide for the big increase in need.
I've mentioned before about VA eventually got some funding for PTSD
... and put out requests effectively for every mental healt care
professional in the country (having not been increasing staff on
continuous basis since the start of the perpetual wars). In the mean
time they have been treating PTSD with heavy drug dosages ... that are
nearly impossible to get off and may now be on for the rest of the lives
(with the drug industry not exactly a disinterested party). Previous
posts mentioning VA mental health card
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#76 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#110 The Koch-Fueled Plot to Destroy the VA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#16 House GOP appallingly votes to conceal cost of Obamacare repeal to taxpayers
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 17:31:14 -0700JimP. <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
members of congress behind the neutrality laws (before WW2) claims it was because of the enormous (US) war profiteering they saw before and during WW1.
recent reference to WW1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#41 [CM] What was your first home computer?
The Illusion Of Victory: America In World War I
https://www.amazon.com/Illusion-Victory-America-World-War-ebook/dp/B00AFYVIDO/
loc3430-31:
The Shipping Board had spent a half billion dollars and had yet to
launch a ship; the aircraft program had spent even more and had yet to
put a single plane in the sky.
recruits die of exposure in the US, loc3667-69:
found the four American divisions in Lorraine unprepared for the harsh
conditions. Still in summer uniforms, the men shivered in unheated barns
and attics of farmhouses as the temperature sank to seven below
zero. Some soldiers started calling it their Valley Forge winter. They
were baffled—and sometimes angry by the way their country had seemingly
abandoned them.
... with regard to US having to make do with cast off French planes,
loc4674-77:
For Theodore Roosevelt, his son's death had a very different
meaning. Quentin had died flying a second-rate French plane, because
Woodrow Wilson's administration had refused to prepare for war and after
war was declared the president's appointees had failed to produce a
single aircraft, in spite of spending almost a billion dollars. There
was only one way to give Quentin's death meaning. Woodrow Wilson had to
die an equivalent political death. His presidency must be -- and would
be -- destroyed.
... snip ...
even back then, billions disappearing into
miltiary-industrial(-congressional) complex with little or nothing to
show for it
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
akin to how well congress anticipated the necessity to fund VA
hospitals for the big increase in returning soldiers.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#54 What was your first home computer?
US corporations were supporting Nazis in the 20s & 30s ... then 5000
industrialists at conference at NYC Waldof-Astoria approved a major
propaganda campaign to equate capitalism with Christianity (because of
the bad reputation they got for the depression and supporting the Nazis)
... in the early 50s, leads to "In God We Trust" added to money
and "under God" added to the pledge of allegiance.
https://www.amazon.com/One-Nation-Under-God-Corporate-ebook/dp/B00PWX7R56/
Earlier they had been at a German victory celebration held at the
NYC Waldorf-Astoria in June1940 to hear about how to do business
with the Nazis (and circumvent the neutrality laws)
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Called-Intrepid-Incredible-Narrative-ebook/dp/B00V9QVE5O/
In WW2, there are accounts about how badly logistics were performing in Europe. Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith
pg319/loc6373-74:
Smith agreed with Clark: the logistical problems in ETO derived from a
faulty command structure that conferred too much authority on Lee.
pg616/loc12170-71:
If that situation held true on the Continent, it would represent a world
turned upside down, where the logisticians, not the commanders, dictated
the pace of operations. In early May they had a long talk with
Eisenhower, trying to convince him to remove Lee.
... snip ...
With regard to Battle of the Bulge ... Patton had suggested to just let Germans advance to the outskirts of Paris (w/o opposition) and the Germans would outrun their supply lines ... and then it would be possible to easily role them up with little effort. Eisenhower claimed that wouldn't be political expediate. The plan then was for Patton to attack one side of the base of the bulge while Montgomery attacked the other side (cutting them off). Montgomery failed to get into position and most of the Germans managed to escape.
Boyd is credited with the (land war) Desert Storm battle plan and the
"left hook" to cut off retreating forces including the Republican
Guard. There are various excuses now why the force that was suppose to
cut off the retreat failed to get into position.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
McMaster's book is very critical of the Vietnam war ... basically
advisers didn't see US could win (wasn't military issue) ... but it
would be worse position in world opinion if didn't try.
https://www.amazon.com/Dereliction-Duty-Johnson-McNamara-Chiefs-ebook/dp/B004HW7834/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 21:01:25 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
America's military is built to help defense contractors, not troops
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-brooks-beehner-military-procurement-20170524-story.html
Greed and incompetence have always infected the equipment of armies. The
term "shoddy" comes from the flimsy, mass-produced shoes that "shod" our
troops during the Civil War. When President Eisenhower warned against
the military-industrial complex, he foresaw a new age of collusion
between politicians, defense contractors and those who wear the
stars. It was bad enough during the Cold War, but the dysfunction is
even worse now. Consider that of the 63 largest Pentagon programs at the
moment, 50 are over budget by $296 billion.
... snip ...
that doesn't include over trillion increase in DOD budget 2003-2009 that CBO couldn't find anything to account for ... or the tens of billions in pallets of shrink-wrapped $100 bills airlifted to Iraq.
past posts mention airlifted pallets of shrink-wrapped $100 bills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#67 U.S. can't account for $8.7 billion of Iraq's money: audit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#97 What a Caveman Can Teach You About Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#86 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#65 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#51 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#68 The Pentagon Spent $2.7 Billion on an Intelligence System That Doesn't Work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#76 Pentagon remains stubbornly unable to account for its billions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#50 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#12 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#50 A National Infrastructure Program Is a Smart Idea We Won't Do Because We Are Dysfunctional
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#110 The Koch-Fueled Plot to Destroy the VA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#11 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
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/2017c.html#40 Stop Believing in the Many Myths of the Iraq Surge
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/2017e.html#1 How Desert Storm Destroyed the US Military
federal gov saw huge uptick in outsourcing last decade, mercenaries,
etc. OPM was outsourced to one of the private-equity owned subsidiaries.
opm contractor owner also with contracts in iraq
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/24/opm-contractor-veritas/
and other Iraq private contractors (with no-bid contracts)
http://www.thenation.com/article/how-private-contractors-have-created-shadow-nsa/
for intelligence, 70% of budget to (frequently private-equity owned)
for-profit companies and over half the people
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
the search of profit contributing significantly to the rapid spread of
success of failure culture ... frequently involving dataprocessing
modernization efforts
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
private-equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
success of failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 09:32:55 -0700Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> writes:
I remember Ted Kennedy frequently voted against DOD appropriations and
when there was BRAC, Massachusetts was high on the list ... then Ted was
heavily for some DOD appropriations ... they went ahead and closed
Devens anyway.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#21 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#25 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#25 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#0 I actually miss working at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#76 computer bootlaces
however, there was the "big dig" ... originally suppose to be $2B but
eventually closer to ten times that, attributed to massive graft and
corruption ... supposedly Ted is claimed to say that the Fed government
"owed" it to Massachusetts. past posts mentioning "big dig"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#25 TGV in the USA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#73 Cormpany sponsored insurance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#41 fraying infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#56 IBM drops Power7 drain in 'Blue Waters'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#0 Urban transportation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#55 TV Big Bang 10/12/09
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#11 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#14 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#15 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#18 other days around me
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#68 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#48 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamationmade30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#4 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#105 only sometimes From looms to computers to looms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#27 Federal Subsidies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#72 IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#6 The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 10:00:39 -0700mausg writes:
there is account that the listening installation was heavily mined and at first sign of anything happening, they vaporize themselves ... then just in case anything was left, every heavy artillery within range, automatically follows up.
one of the things that A10 was designed for, tank killer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II
from one of the Boyd acolytes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Sprey
another Boyd acolyte
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars
is credited with reducing cost of 30mm shell from nearly $100 to $13. A
million were used in desert storm ($13M, way too little for the
military-industrial-complex). GAO desert storm air power effectiveness
study has them taking out so many Iraq tanks, that the occupants were
walking away from the tanks because they were sitting ducks. Later
account of furious tank battles with coalition forces taking no damage,
don't mention whether the Iraq tanks had anybody home. Desert Storm
was 43 days, only last 100hrs was land war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
he had been in the first air force academy graduation class and
on fast track to general, when he says Boyd destroyed his career
by challenging him to do what is right
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#97 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#99 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#102 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#104 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#105 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#4 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#7 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#41 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#45 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#48 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#52 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#54 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#55 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#56 [CM] What was your first home computer?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 10:12:39 -0700jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
Germany Breaks A Solar Record -- Gets 85% Of Electricity From
Renewables
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/05/08/germany-breaks-solar-record-gets-85-electricity-renewables/
As it turns out, wind and solar energy are often cheaper than fossil
fuels and nuclear energy these days, even ignoring the many negative
effects fossil fuels create for society.
... snip ...
Solar Could Beat Coal to Become the Cheapest Power on Earth
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-03/for-cheapest-power-on-earth-look-skyward-as-coal-falls-to-solar
Solar power is now cheaper than coal in some parts of the world. In less
than a decade, it's likely to be the lowest-cost option almost
everywhere.
In 2016, countries from Chile to the United Arab Emirates broke records
with deals to generate electricity from sunshine for less than 3 cents a
kilowatt-hour, half the average global cost of coal power. Now, Saudi
Arabia, Jordan and Mexico are planning auctions and tenders for this
year, aiming to drop prices even further. Taking advantage: Companies
such as Italy's Enel SpA and Dublin's Mainstream Renewable Power, who
gained experienced in Europe and now seek new markets abroad as
subsidies dry up at home.
... snip ...
Why the Saudis Are Going Solar; The fate of one of the biggest
fossil-fuel producers may now depend on its investment in renewable
energy.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/saudis-solar-energy/395315/
Saudi Arabia begins shift from oil to solar power to fuel electricity generation
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/saudi-arabia-oil-revenue-production-solar-power-shift-electricity-energy-opec-a7488626.html
Solar Employs More Workers Than Coal, Oil and Natural Gas Combined
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/solar-employs-more-workers-than-coal-oil-and-natural-gas-combined
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 11:43:05 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
from 2015 ... and has kept up at steady pace since
The U.S. is running out of bombs to drop on ISIS
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/04/politics/air-force-20000-bombs-missiles-isis/
US Air Force Running Out of Bombs to Fight ISIS
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/12/06/us-air-force-running-out-of-bombs-to-fight-isis.html
The US military says its 15-month bombing campaign on the Islamic State
is depleting its munitions supply and that additional money and other
support is "critical" for "the long fight."
...
The Air Force has reportedly fired more than 20,000 bombs and missiles
in Syria in the fight to dismantle the self-proclaimed Islamic State.
... snip ...
Note: 2015 estimated number of ISIS in Syria was 19,000-25,000 ... i.e. had fired approx. one bomb/missile for every ISIS with little impact on numbers (spending million dollars/ISIS and not succeeding).
more recent:
U.S. Running Low on Bombs Due to Strikes Against ISIS
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-running-low-bombs-due-to-strikes-against-isis/
US military is hammering ISIS so heavily it is running out of bombs
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/798279/US-military-bombing-ISIS-low-munitions-Donald-Trump-North-Korea
using bombs & missile supplies with little or nothing to really
show for it. part of "perpetual war"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
keeping military-industrial(-congressional) complex fed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
and could claim also success of failure culture as part of supporting
"perpetual war" ... don't really want a success because
it would reduce the spending.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree.
missiles tend to be hundreds of thousands (rather than $13) ... all the Tomahawk missiles (over a million each) used last month would have been trivial drop in the bucket.
note 2/3rds of total US WW2 spending went to air program ... with half that (1/3rd) to strategic heavy bombing program . LeMay was justifying it claiming the strategic heavy bombing program could even win the european war w/o even having to invade Europe. However, strategic heavy bombing from 5-6 miles high was almost impossible to hit target ... which possibly explains the switch to fire bombing cities (since it would have been almost impossible to not hit someplace in a city).
from law of unintended consequences when the 1943 US strategic bombing
program needed location of industrial and military targets in Germany,
it got the coordinates from wallstreet. recent posts about US industry
and wallstreet heavily involved in supporting Nazis:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#10 Separation church and state
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#63 One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#97 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#40 Job Loyalty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#64 Jean Tirole's Proposal to Appoint Felons to Monitor CEOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#36 Trump's S.E.C. Nominee Disclosure Offers Rare Glimpse of Clients and Conflicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#91 Godwin's Law should force us to remember & fear our shared heritage with Nazi Germany
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#55 Should America Have Entered World War I?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#23 Ironic old "fortune"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#60 The Illusion Of Victory: America In World War I
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#69 The knives are out for Trump's national security adviser H.R. McMaster
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#41 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#55 [CM] What was your first home computer?
McNamara had been LeMay's staff planning fire bombing cities. After WW2, McNamara leaves for the auto industry, but then returns as SECDEF for Vietnam where Laos becomes the most bombed country in the world (more bombs than Germany & Japan combined).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 12:04:01 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
(4 engine) high-altitude heavy bombers w/Norden sights .... aka B17s. 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.
... snip ...
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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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 12:17:28 -0700Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> writes:
Why patents are holding back U.S. innovation
https://venturebeat.com/2015/03/12/why-patents-are-holding-back-u-s-innovation/
The Founding Fathers of the United States considered intellectual
property so important that they gave it a special place in the
Constitution: "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by
securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right
to their respective writings and discoveries."
... snip ...
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#34 The never-ending SCO lawsuit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#42 The IBM "Open Door" policy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#39 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#40 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#49 Corporate malfeasance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#104 PC Compromise and Internet Transactions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#44 [CM] What was your first home computer?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 13:17:10 -0700Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> writes:
another was Thysson, my wife's father was command of 1154 engineering
combat group in WW2, found his status reports in National Archive, past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#82 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#10 OODA in highly stochastic environments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#37 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#52 An elusive command philosophy and a different command culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#51 How would you succinctly desribe maneuver warfare?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#16 a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#54 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#35 What Makes sorting so cool?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#41 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#19 UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#33 Crossing the Rhine - 70 Years Ago Today - In Pictures!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#38 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#49 Corporate malfeasance
he was frequent senior officer in enemy territory (and some camps) towards the end and had a collection of german officer daggers from surrenders. After hostilities, they offered him German district command and he refused, even when promised promotion to general ... and continued to refuse until he retired more than 15yrs later.
Note after wall fell there was extraordinary cooperation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#56 25th Anniversary Implementation of Nunn-Lugar Act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#83 Sleepwalking Into a Nuclear Arms Race with Russia
and program to teach Russia about capitalism ... however a lot of US version has turned into looting other countries.
is "Harvard being responsible for the rise of Putin" (i.e. Russia needed
strongman to oppose the westerners that seemed intent on looting the
country). John Helmer: Convicted Fraudster Jonathan Hay, Harvard's Man
Who Wrecked Russia, Resurfaces in Ukraine
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/convicted-fraudster-jonathan-hay-harvards-man-who-wrecked-russia-resurfaces-in-ukraine.html
If you are unfamiliar with this fiasco, which was also the true
proximate cause of Larry Summers' ouster from Harvard, you must read an
extraordinary expose, How Harvard Lost Russia, from Institutional
Investor. I am told copies of this article were stuffed in every Harvard
faculty member's inbox the day Summers got a vote of no confidence and
resigned shortly thereafter.
... snip ...
How Harvard lost Russia; The best and brightest of America's premier
university came to Moscow in the 1990s to teach Russians how to be
capitalists. This is the inside story of how their efforts led to
scandal and disgrace.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160325154522/http://www.institutionalinvestor.com:80/Article/1020662/How-Harvard-lost-Russia.html
Mostly, they hurt Russia and its hopes of establishing a lasting
framework for a stable Western-style capitalism, as Summers himself
acknowledged when he testified under oath in the U.S. lawsuit in
Cambridge in 2002. "The project was of enormous value," said Summers,
who by then had been installed as the president of Harvard. "Its
cessation was damaging to Russian economic reform and to the
U.S.-Russian relationship."
... snip ...
I was in discussion (non-looting version) about creating 5000 bank
branches at $1M and how to provide the $5B funding ... but that all
collapses with the rest. other past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#98 Convicted Fraudster Jonathan Hay, Harvard's Man Who Wrecked Russia, Resurfaces in Ukraine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#1 do you blame Harvard for Puten
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/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/2015h.html#26 Putin's Great Crime: He Defends His Allies and Attacks His Enemies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#70 Department of Defense Head Ashton Carter Enlists Silicon Valley to Transform the Military
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#91 Happy Dec-10 Day!!!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#122 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#16 1970--protesters seize computer center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#39 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#73 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#31 Putin holds phone call with Obama, urges better defense cooperation in fight against ISIS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#39 Failure as a Way of Life; The logic of lost wars and military-industrial boondoggles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#7 Why was no one prosecuted for contributing to the financial crisis? New documents reveal why
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#69 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#59 How Putin Weaponized Wikileaks to Influence the Election of an American President
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#22 US and UK have staged coups before
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#105 How to Win the Cyberwar Against Russia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#92 The Lessons of Henry Kissinger
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#3 Smedley Butler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#38 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#7 Malicious Cyber Activity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 13:50:07 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
actually a lot of wallstreet and US capitalists are predators with everybody else prey ... not just other countries
S&L crisis posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
economic mess posts ... 70 times larger than S&L crisis,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
and concurrent with the two (perpetual) wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
and fabricated WMDs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
inbeween was the internet IPO mill
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#25 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#84 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#38 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#78 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#59 SSL digital certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#50 Bubble? What Bubble?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#84 A Conversation with Peter Thiel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#5 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#16 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#20 Are mothers naturally better at OODA because they always have the Win in mind?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#26 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#54 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#28 The Reformers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#26 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#61 Association Of Certified Fraud Examiners Release 2014 Report On Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#94 Why Financialization Has Run Amok
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#69 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#37 Income Inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#78 The Global Financial Crisis: Analysis and Policy Implications
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#10 25 Years: How the Web began
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#7 Study: Cost of U.S. Regulations Larger Than Germany's Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#19 Banking; The Book That Will Save Banking From Itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#87 Finance Is Not the Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#43 when to get out???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#50 when to get out???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#76 Another Big Company Departs California
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#31 Too-Big-To-Fail Not Punished
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
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: View of Russia Date: 29 May 2017 Blog: FacebookNote after wall fell there was extraordinary cooperation and program to teach Russia about capitalism, From CSPAN, talks about extraordinary cooperation between US & Russia military in the 90s, 25th Anniversary Implementation of Nunn-Lugar Act
... however a lot of US capitalism has turned into looting other
countries; is "Harvard responsible for the rise of Putin" (i.e. Russia
needed strongman to oppose the westerners that seemed intent on
looting the country). John Helmer: Convicted Fraudster Jonathan Hay,
Harvard's Man Who Wrecked Russia, Resurfaces in Ukraine
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/convicted-fraudster-jonathan-hay-harvards-man-who-wrecked-russia-resurfaces-in-ukraine.html
If you are unfamiliar with this fiasco, which was also the true
proximate cause of Larry Summers' ouster from Harvard, you must read
an extraordinary expose, How Harvard Lost Russia, from Institutional
Investor. I am told copies of this article were stuffed in every
Harvard faculty member's inbox the day Summers got a vote of no
confidence and resigned shortly thereafter.
... snip ...
How Harvard lost Russia; The best and brightest of America's premier
university came to Moscow in the 1990s to teach Russians how to be
capitalists. This is the inside story of how their efforts led to
scandal and disgrace.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160325154522/http://www.institutionalinvestor.com:80/Article/1020662/How-Harvard-lost-Russia.html
Mostly, they hurt Russia and its hopes of establishing a lasting
framework for a stable Western-style capitalism, as Summers himself
acknowledged when he testified under oath in the U.S. lawsuit in
Cambridge in 2002. "The project was of enormous value," said Summers,
who by then had been installed as the president of Harvard. "Its
cessation was damaging to Russian economic reform and to the
U.S.-Russian relationship."
... snip ...
I was in discussion (non-looting version) about creating 5000 bank branches at $1M and how to provide the $5B funding ... but that all collapses with the rest.
trivia: President of AMEX was in competition for next CEO and
wins. The looser leaves, taking their protegee to Baltimore where they
takeover what was referred to as a loan sharking business. They make
some number of other acquisitions eventually acquiring CITI in
violation of Glass-Steagall. Greenspan gives them exemption while they
lobby Congress for repeal (enabling Too Big To Fail). Among others
they enlist in lobbying was the SECTREAS (and former head of
Goldman-Sachs). When the repeal is underway, the SECTREAS resigns to
become what was described at the time as co-CEO of CITI. The protegee
of head of CITI (and previously at AMEX) leaves and becomes CEO of
another Too Big To Fail. The SECTREAS protegee becomes SECTREAS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers
Summers was appointed Undersecretary for International Affairs of the
United States Department of the Treasury under the Clinton
Administration. In 1995, he was promoted to Deputy Secretary of the
Treasury under his long-time political mentor Robert Rubin. In 1999,
he succeeded Rubin as Secretary of the Treasury. While working for the
Clinton administration Summers played a leading role in the American
response to the 1994 economic crisis in Mexico, the 1997 Asian
financial crisis, and the Russian financial crisis. He was also
influential in the American advised privatization of the economies of
the post-Soviet states, and in the deregulation of the U.S financial
system, including the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act.
... snip ...
former president of AMEX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
Pecora Hearings and/or Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
Fed Chairman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
S&L crisis as result of deregulation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
and economic mess as result of more deregulation (70 times larger
than S&L crisis)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
recent posts mentioning Nunn-Lugar Act:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#56 25th Anniversary Implementation of Nunn-Lugar Act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#83 Sleepwalking Into a Nuclear Arms Race with Russia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#63 [CM] What was your first home computer?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 18:11:21 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
actually Thyssen & Krupp merged in 1999
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThyssenKrupp
and from National Archives status report
On 28 Apr we were put in D/S of the 13th Armd and 80th Inf Divs and G/S
Corps Opns. The night of the 28-29 April we cross the DANUBE River and
the next day we set-up our OP in SCHLOSS PUCHHOF (vic PUCHOFF); an
extensive structure remarkable for the depth of its carpets, the height
of its rooms, the profusion of its game, the superiority of its plumbing
and the fact that it had been owned by the original financial backer of
the NAZIS, Fritz Thyssen. Herr Thyssen was not at home.
Forward from the DANUBE the enemy had been very active, and an intact
bridge was never seen except by air reconnaissance. Maintenance of roads
and bypasses went on and 29 April we began constructing 835' of M-2 Tdwy
Br, plus a plank road approach over the ISAR River at PLATTLING.
Construction was completed at 1900 on the 30th. For the month of April
we had suffered no casualties of any kind and Die Gotterdamerung was
falling, the last days of the once mighty WEHRMACHT.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Explore the groundbreaking Colossal Cave Adventure, 41 years on Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 10:04:45 -0700Explore the groundbreaking Colossal Cave Adventure, 41 years on
TYMSHARE had started making their online CMS-based computer conferencing
system free to SHARE (as VMSHARE) in Aug1976, archives here
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmshare
I setup process to getting periodic updates of all VMSHARE files, making
them available on internal network/machines ... including the worldwide
sales&marketing HONE system. The biggest problems I had was with the IBM
lawyers who were afraid that customer information would contaminate IBM
employees. On one visit to TYMSHARE they demo'ed Adventure that they had
gotten from Stanford PDP10 system and ported to vm370/cms. I got a copy
and made executable available on internal systems, sending source to
people that could show they got all points. Within a short period, there
appeared PLI version as well as adding more points. Old email:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email780405
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email780405b
One of my hobbies after joining IBM (in 1970) was making enhanced
operating systems available for internal datacenters ... the internal
world-wide online sales&marketing HONE system was long-time
customers. When HONE first started making HONE clones around the world,
I was asked to go along for the initial installation. Sometimes various
IBMers were bewildered when I would make some comment about making
things available on HONE (they couldn't understand why HONE would give
me access to their systems ... when they didn't know that I was
supplying HONE with their systems)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
Seminal game 'Colossal Cave Adventure' released onto GitLab; Eric
Raymond says it's time 'hallowed artifacts of hacker folklore' were
hackable again
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/30/eric_raymond_sets_colossal_cave_adventure_free/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 11:33:51 -0700Osmium <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
note that europe financial institutions were making something like 10% of their bottom line off such fees ... while in the US it was been somehting like 40-60% ... making them vulernable to disruptive competition (huge gap between when they are charging merchants and what it cost them to provide the service).
fallback is to use legislation to try and keep competition out of banking (as well as try to tie up any disruptive technologes that might come along through the patent system). Original rhetoric on floor of congress as to the original purpose of GLBA (now better known for repeal of Glass-Steagall) was that if you already had banking charter you got to keep it, but if you didn't already have one you couldn't get one .... aka blocking new competition with more cost effective technologies (also specifically mentioned on the floor of congress was blocking walmart and microsoft).
past posts mentiong GLBA:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
recent posts mentioning institutions subverting patent system
as part of protecting status quo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#44 [CM] What was your first home computer?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 17:38:50 -0700Osmium <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
the original rhetoric on the floor of congress as to the
(original/primary) purpose of GLBA ... was about restricting competition
in banking ... including credit-cards. Before GLBA passes, there were
several additional items added to GLBA ... including repeal of
Glass-Steagall ... and initially passes pretty much along party lines,
53:44. Folklore was that the president was going to veto the bill. They
then go back and add some other things so that it eventually passes with
a "veto proof" 90-8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93Bliley_Act
posts mentioning Pecora Hearings &/or Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
a couple years later as there is increased use of debit cards at point-of-sale ... which significantly lower interchange fee, walmart leads a retail merchant class action lawsuit against the card associations ... because the card associations have setup point-of-sale terminals to default to "signature debit" ... which flows through the credit card networks and have credit card interchange fees ... instead of flowing through the debit card networks with substantially lower interchange fees. Retail merchants "win" that class action lawsuit.
then walmart announces it is purchasing a UTAH ILC, existing bank charter (instead of new bank charter), that are UTAH state chartered bank but there are limited number that are "grandfathered" allowing them to bank nationally) for the purposes of being its own credit card "merchant bank" (credit card "issuing banks" issue consumers credit cards, credit card "merchant banks" sponsor merchants for accepting credit cards, issuing & merchant banks split the merchant interchange fee with the card associations).
walmart accounts for 25-30% of US retail store purchases and the
existing (too big to fail) merchant bank starts a lobbying campaign to
have community (issuing) banks write their congressmen asking them to
block Walmart's purchase of an UTAH ILC, because it would impact their
issuing business. However it would actually make a substantial dent in
walmart's merchant bank revenue (their part of interchange fee from
credit card purchases at Walmart). walmart withdraws its effort to
buy UTAH ILC
http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/16/news/companies/walmart/index.htm?cnn=yes
there then is another retail merchant interchange fee antiturst lawsuit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Interchange_Fee_and_Merchant_Discount_Antitrust_Litigation
from the law of unintended consequences ... supposedly TARP was
justified for too big to fail bailout, by buying offbook toxic assets.
However, only $700B was appropriated and just the four largest TBTF
still had $5.2T in offbook toxic assets ye2008. TARP was then used for
other purposes and the real bailout was by the Federal Reserve, buying
trillions in offbook toxic assets at 98cents on the dollar and providing
tens of trillions in ZIRP funds. However to be eligible for Federal
Reserve largesse, TBTF had to be a depository institutions with banking
charter ... and some of the Federal Reserve best friends were
investment banks w/o banking charters. Federal Reserve then gives them
banking charters, theoretically in violation of (the original purpose
for) GLBA.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
past posts mentioning UTAH ILC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#36 3 of the big 4 - all doing payment systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#42 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#47 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#58 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#12 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#25 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#19 Does anyone know of merchants who have successfully bypassed interchange costs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#28 Why Asian companies struggle to manage global workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#54 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#20 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#76 Did these tech and telecom
companies assess the risk and return with respect to Anti-Money
Laundering challenges?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#37 Married Couples and the Financial Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#84 Support Senator Warren's Postal Banking Proposal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#37 Sale receipt--obligatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#39 Sale receipt--obligatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#46 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#8 "Too big to fail" was Malicious Cyber Activity
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#45 [CM] cheap money, was What was your first home computer?
other trivia (includes WalMart's credit card merchant bank):
President of AMEX was in competition for next CEO and wins. The looser
leaves, taking their protegee to Baltimore where they takeover what was
referred to as a loan sharking business. They make some number of other
acquisitions eventually acquiring CITI in violation of Glass-Steagall.
Greenspan gives them exemption while they lobby Congress for repeal
(enabling Too Big To Fail). Among others they enlist in lobbying was
the SECTREAS (and former head of Goldman-Sachs). When the repeal is
underway, the SECTREAS resigns to become what was described at the time
as co-CEO of CITI. The protegee of head of CITI (and previously at AMEX)
leaves and becomes CEO of another Too Big To Fail (also WalMart's
credit card "merchant bank") The SECTREAS protegee becomes SECTREAS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers
Summers was appointed Undersecretary for International Affairs of the
United States Department of the Treasury under the Clinton
Administration. In 1995, he was promoted to Deputy Secretary of the
Treasury under his long-time political mentor Robert Rubin. In 1999, he
succeeded Rubin as Secretary of the Treasury. While working for the
Clinton administration Summers played a leading role in the American
response to the 1994 economic crisis in Mexico, the 1997 Asian financial
crisis, and the Russian financial crisis. He was also influential in the
American advised privatization of the economies of the post-Soviet
states, and in the deregulation of the U.S financial system, including
the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act.
... snip ...
former president of AMEX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
further trivia:
Note after wall fell there was extraordinary cooperation and program to
teach Russia about capitalism, From CSPAN, talks about extraordinary
cooperation between US & Russia military in the 90s, 25th Anniversary
Implementation of Nunn-Lugar Act
https://www.c-span.org/video/?419918-3/implementation-nunnlugar-act
... however a lot of US capitalism has turned into looting other
countries; is "Harvard responsible for the rise of Putin" (i.e. Russia
needed strongman to oppose the westerners that seemed intent on looting
the country). John Helmer: Convicted Fraudster Jonathan Hay, Harvard's
Man Who Wrecked Russia, Resurfaces in Ukraine
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/convicted-fraudster-jonathan-hay-harvards-man-who-wrecked-russia-resurfaces-in-ukraine.html
If you are unfamiliar with this fiasco, which was also the true
proximate cause of Larry Summers' ouster from Harvard, you must read an
extraordinary expose, How Harvard Lost Russia, from Institutional
Investor. I am told copies of this article were stuffed in every Harvard
faculty member's inbox the day Summers got a vote of no confidence and
resigned shortly thereafter.
... snip ...
How Harvard lost Russia; The best and brightest of America's premier
university came to Moscow in the 1990s to teach Russians how to be
capitalists. This is the inside story of how their efforts led to
scandal and disgrace.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160325154522/http://www.institutionalinvestor.com:80/Article/1020662/How-Harvard-lost-Russia.html
Mostly, they hurt Russia and its hopes of establishing a lasting
framework for a stable Western-style capitalism, as Summers himself
acknowledged when he testified under oath in the U.S. lawsuit in
Cambridge in 2002. "The project was of enormous value," said Summers,
who by then had been installed as the president of Harvard. "Its
cessation was damaging to Russian economic reform and to the
U.S.-Russian relationship."
... snip ...
I was in discussion (non-looting version) about creating 5000 bank branches @$1M and how to provide the $5B funding ... but that all collapses with the rest.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 18:23:42 -0700hancock4 writes:
majority of costs of major highways are building them to handle 18wheel
heavy trucks ... while the majority of the funding comes from the rest
of the public. old posts about major highway building is done for
axle-ton-mile lifetime by heavy trucks (all other traffic has negligible
effects). there is significant more people involved in heavy trucking
and can get into lobbying. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#41 Transportation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#21 Spam Bomb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#57 TGV in the USA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#20 Parallel programming again (Re: Intel announces "CT" aka
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#7 OT Global warming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#44 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#2 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#5 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#6 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#7 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#10 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#12 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#15 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#19 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#24 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#26 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#32 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#35 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#46 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#48 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#49 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#50 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#51 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#52 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#53 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#54 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#1 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#2 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#3 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#5 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#6 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#11 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#23 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#97 Loads Weighing Heavily on Roads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#21 Horrid thought about Politics, President Bush, and Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#55 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#56 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#48 fraying infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#68 Historian predicts the end of 'science superpowers'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#25 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#36 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#37 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#41 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#40 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#61 Idiotic cars driving themselves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#52 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#80 A Close Look at the Perry Tax Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#83 A Close Look at the Perry Tax Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#48 What Makes a bridge Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#28 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#29 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#168 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#47 Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#76 IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#12 1970--protesters seize computer center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#109 Minimum Wage
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 18:34:22 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
this is similar to private equity buying companies and then extracting
money every which way possible ... private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
or CEOs nearing end of contract ... doing everything possible to meet
their bonus provisions ... regardless of the long term effects on the
company ... like stock buybacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buybacks
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 18:58:08 -0700Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
one of the other issues in many states ... was that the governments were deferring road maintenance ... and using the income from various road maintenance fees to other purposes ... until the roads are falling apart ... the people responsible are frequently long gone &/or leaving ... and the future has been heavily mortgaged.
this is part of the couple trillion dollars in (deferred) infrastructure maintenance (where funds have been used for other purposes).
from the law of unintended consequences: the previous administration stimulus funds supposedly for infrastructure work ... some was diverted by states for other purposes ... but some went to companies to do actual work ... however in severeal cases they had to hire civil engineering firms from china.
Volcker talking to civil engineering professor about money has been
diverted from infrastructure spending for so long ... there aren't civil
engineering jobs, lack of jobs, students stop taking classes, w/o
students, univ. start shutting down programs and dropping professors
... Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a
President
https://www.amazon.com/Confidence-Men-Washington-Education-ebook/dp/B0089LOKKS/
pg290:
Well, I said, 'The trouble with the United States recently is we spent
several decades not producing many civil engineers and producing a huge
number of financial engineers. And the result is s**tty bridges and a
s**tty financial system!'
... snip ...
posts mentioning ecnomic mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
past posts repeating above Volcker ref:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#91 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#44 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#43 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#63 The Economist's Take on Financial Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#67 Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#30 24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#48 Owl: China Swamps US Across the Board -- Made in China Computer Chips Have Back Doors, 45 Other "Ways & Means" Sucking Blood from US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#31 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#77 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#6 Good article. Friday discussion type
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#36 Race Against the Machine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#40 Core characteristics of resilience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#3 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#33 War or Jobs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#105 only sometimes From looms to computers to looms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#106 only sometimes From looms to computers to looms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#80 HP splits, again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#75 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#48 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#4 Decimal point character and billions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#50 A National Infrastructure Program Is a Smart Idea We Won't Do Because We Are Dysfunctional
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#17 Destruction of the Middle Class
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 21:57:28 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
oops, 94% not 96% and:
Iran is fighting those groups, not fueling them. Almost every terror
attack in the West has had some connection to Saudi Arabia.
... snip ...
recent posts mentioning saudi arabia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#7 Malicious Cyber Activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#45 when to get out???
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#40 Stop Believing in the Many Myths of the Iraq Surge
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#20 Imperial Hubris
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#1 How Desert Storm Destroyed the US Military
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#99 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#59 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#63 [CM] What was your first home computer?
recent posts mentioning Iran Shah & SAVAK (put in by US):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#72 A Coal Fire May Have Helped Sink the 'Titanic'
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#90 Economist, Harry Dent Hints: Global Banks Facing a Serious Crisis in Months Ahead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#59 Breaking: Entire Nation Experiencing Collective Amnesia About Iraq War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#97 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#99 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#45 [CM] What was your first home computer?
and then supporting Iraq in Iran/Iraq war:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#7 Malicious Cyber Activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#26 Milton Friedman's Cherished Theory Is Laid to Rest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#14 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#45 when to get out???
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#40 Stop Believing in the Many Myths of the Iraq Surge
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#99 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#45 [CM] What was your first home computer?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Early use of word "computer", 1944 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 08:39:24 -0700mausg writes:
BBC program about english conquer scotland, english took over all the land and positions and about the only thing left for male scotts was the military (or immigrate). Then about incompetent english generals used scots and others from british empire as cannon fodder
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#57 Pedantry (was RE: Shane's antipodes)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#10 Horrid thought about Politics, President Bush, and Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#72 The Watches Guy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#53 August 7, 1944: today is the 65th Anniversary of the Birth of the Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#13 Scotland, was Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#22 channel islands, definitely not the location of LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#32 Star Trek (was Re: TV show Mannix observations)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 09:25:53 -0700jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
similar to around 20,000 ISIS in syria at beginning of 2015, US fired 20,000 bombs & missiles during 2015, and at the end of 2015 there are around 20,000 ISIS in syria ... and syria campaign has so drawn down bomb/missile stocks that they are requresting additional funding to replenish what has been used in the "intense" syria campaign.
In the militarization of local police, the US military has transferred
so much equipment to police force, they are asking for additional
funding to replenish all that eqiupment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarization_of_police
in both cases, lots more funding for the military industrial complex.
all the media coverage of the texas law overshadows congress
Urgent Warning Issued by Rights Group over New Police Bill in Congress
http://theantimedia.org/rights-group-police-bill-congress/
similarly lots of the media coverage directed elsewhere (obfuscation and misdirection) ... repeal of internet privacy had been repeatedly defeated over the last decade ... but now has passed
Trump signs internet privacy repeal
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/327107-trump-signs-internet-privacy-repeal
some more GLBA (opt-out, 3rd cal. legislation mentioned below)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#68 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#69 [CM] What was your first home computer?
We were brought in to help wordsmith some cal. state legislation,
primarily state electronic signature legislation ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
but several participants were heavily involved in privacy issues and had
done detailed public privacy surveys and had found that the #1 issue was
fraudulent financial transactions primarily as a result of breaches and
there was little or nothing being done. The issue is that entities
normally take security measures in self-protection. The problem with the
breaches was that the institutions weren't at risk, it was their
customers and the public. It was hoped that publicity from the breach
notifications would prompt countermeasures. since then there have been
dozen or so federal bills (none yet passed), about evenly divided
between those that are similar to the california legislation and those
sponsored by wallstreet and the financial industry that would
effectively eliminate notifications. some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
A third cal. bill being worked on was "opt-in" personal information sharing (aka institution would need record of person agreeing to the institution sharing their personal information). Before "opt-in" could pass, "opt-out" provision was (also) added to GBLA (which would pre-empt state legilsation) ... i.e. an institution could share your personal information unless they had record of you objecting.
Several years later at annual national privacy conference in DC (renaissance hotel on 9th) there was panel with all the FTC commissioners. somebody in the audience got up and asked if they were going to do anything about "opt-out" privacy sharing. He said that he worked for call-center technology company used by all the major/TBTF financial institutions. He said that all the "opt-out" (personal infromatio sharing) 1-800 services weren't being provided any mechanism to make record of the call (i.e. there would never be any record of somebody objecting to their information being shaed). The FTC commissioners just ignored the question.
This is similar to SEC not enforcing lots of the financial regulations
last decade ... like Sarbanes-Oxley affecting both credit rating agencies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
and public company fraudulent financial filings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
or Madoff (SEC hands were forced when Madoff turned himself in),
in the Madoff congressional hearing they had testimony from
person that had tried unsuccessfully for over decade to
get SEC to do something about Madoff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
former chair of SEC is #4 on times list
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877323,00.html
of those responsible for the economic mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
former chair of Federal Reserve
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
is #3 on times list of those responsible (for similar reasons)
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877331,00.html
and #2 on times list ... is senator responsible for GLBA
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 10:03:46 -0700Osmium <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
for little more drift, GLBA eventually had a number of different/lots of
provisions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93Bliley_Act
including original/primary trying to prevent new competition in banking
(especially payment transactions), and then opt-out personal information
sharing (pre-empting state opt-in) as well as repeal of Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
enabling too big to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
person responsible for GLBA is #2 on times list
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
of those responsible for the economic mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
not so much for GLBA, but provision added to commodity futures modernization act preventing CDS (gambling bets) regulation.
From the law of unintended consequences, preventing CDS gambling
bets was originally billed as "gift" to ENRON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
when the chairman of CFTC originally proposed CDS regulation, they were
quickly replaced by "#2's" wife while "#2" got provision added
prohibiting regulation. His wife then resigns and joins the ENRON board
and audit committee ... recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#8 "Too big to fail" was Malicious Cyber Activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#40 The economics of corporate crime
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#8 Congress just obliterated Obama-era rules preventing ISPs from selling your browsing history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#41 [CM] cheap money, was What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#8 [CM] What was your first home computer?
Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate
fraudulent mortgages
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
In 1999, I was asked to help try and prevent the economic mess by improving the integrity of supporting documents in securitized mortgages. They then find they can pay the credit rating agencies for triple-A rating (when the rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008 congressional testimony). Triple-A trumps supporting documents and they can start doing no-documentation, liar loans. With triple-A they can sell off everything they originate so they no longer have to care about borrower's qualification or loan quality ... largely enabling being able to do over $27T 2001-2008 (including selling to entities required to only deal in "safe" investments like large pension funds).
Then they find they can do securitized loans designed to fail, pay for triple-A, sell to their victims, and take out CDS gambling bets (regulation blocked courtesy of #2 on times list responsible for economic mess, originally billed as gift to ENRON) that they would fail, creating enormous demand for bad loans (now they cared about loan quality, but not in the normal expected way).
The largest holder of CDS gambling bets was AIG and was negotiating to
pay off at 50cents on the dollar when the SECTREAS steps in and has them
sign a document that they can't sue those making the CDS gambling bets
and to take TARP funds to pay off at face value. The largest recipient
of TARP funds was AIG and the largest recipient of the face value
payoffs was the firm formally headed by SECTREAS ... who is #6 on times
list of those responsible for the economic mess.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877341,00.html
aka above mentions #6 responsible for mess of bailout bill ... aka TARP
... but that may have been the objective all along ... never really
intended to use for buying off-book toxic assets.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
and #1 is one of the major person paying for triple-A ratings on
securitized mortgages (w/o caring about borrower's qualifications or
loan quality)
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877339,00.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Early use of word "computer", 1944 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 13:24:21 -0700Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
Part of the original plan was to take & use Antwerp for major/real port (with sufficient capacity), but that wasn't happening. However, Marshall fought hard to continue with Anvil (British were constantly trying to divert Anvil resources to balkans and eastern Mediterranean) after taking Marseilles in southern France ... and that became the major supply port with sufficient capacity
"General of the Army: George C. Marshall" has slightly different take on
importance of Marseilles from the Mulberry wiki, past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#79 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#84 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#54 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#62 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#120 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#121 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
pg456/loc9607-9:
A week after the landings, Bordeaux fell; in another week, Marseilles
and Toulon were in Allied hands. With them, Eisenhower had gained the
port capacity necessary to supply his ammunition- and gasoline-short
armies. By the time the Combined Chiefs of Staff gathered in Quebec,
Marshall, the principal exponent of ANVIL, had been vindicated.
... snip ...
other D-day, (4 engine) high-altitude strategic heavy bombers w/Norden
sights .... aka B17s. 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.
... snip ...
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Go Greyhound and leave the computing to us ??? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 16:46:25 -0700hancock4 writes:
Greyhound Lines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound_Lines
By the 1970s, Greyhound had moved its headquarters to Phoenix, Arizona
and was a large and diversified company, with holdings in everything
from the Armour meat-packing company (which in turn owned the popular
Dial deodorant soap brand), acquired in 1970; Traveller's Express money
orders, MCI bus manufacturing company, and even airliner leasing.
... snip ...
Greyhound Computer Corporation, Inc., Plaintiff-appellant,
v. International Business Machines Corporation, Defendant-appellee, 559
F.2d 488 (9th Cir. 1977)
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/559/488/436621/
We agree with the district court that Greyhound's separate claim that
IBM breached a contractual obligation to provide services to first users
of IBM machines was not supported by sufficient evidence to carry it to
the jury. Viewed most favorably to Greyhound, the evidence showed only
that some unspecified customers had bargained on an individual basis for
some unspecified allotment of only generally defined services, and that
some undetermined portion of these services had been withheld.
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded for further proceedings
in accordance with this opinion.
... snip ...
Note by this time, Future System effort (lack of 370 products during
the FS period is credited with giving clone makers market foothold)
had imploded and there was mad rush to get products back into the
product pipeline ... 3033 & 370/xa (3081) kicked off in parallel
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
FS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 05:33:05 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
The U.S. Has Forgotten How to Do Infrastructure; The nation once built
things fast and cheaply. Now experts are puzzled why costs are higher
and projects take longer than in other countries.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-31/the-u-s-has-forgotten-how-to-do-infrastructure
Unfortunately, this is going to be hard, given all the vested interests
and institutional inertia blocking deep reform of the construction
sector. As Yglesias ruefully notes, a study by the Government
Accountability Office looking into the problem of high
train-construction costs was recently killed by Congress, with no
explanation given.
... snip ...
... could it be large lobbying payments paid to congress by special interests?
... and maybe long delays is simply all the parties needing to work out the enormous graft and corruption ... like what has been claimed for the boston "big dig" ... something that was supposed to be $2B becomes $20B ... and then Mass. senator claiming the federal gov. "owed" it to Mass. (the graft and corruption being equated to some sort of economic stimulus)
I've commented before about moving to Mass. in 1970 when I joined the
science center at tech sq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
driving cross country in the winter ... the I90/Mass pike sections with frost heaves was worse road than county/state roads across the rockies. That mass pike possibly had been done with improper road bed and that other roads in mass. appeared to use water soluble asphalt.
I was told by locals it was part of the state highway construction industry ... that way that got annual reoccurring payments for non-stop road work.
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#22 Roads as Runways Was: Re: BA Solves Y2K (Was: Re: Chinese Solve Y2K)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#28 trains was: Al Gore and the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#35 pop density was: trains was: Al Gore and the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#36 pop density was: trains was: Al Gore and the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#42 Transportation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#68 Killer Hard Drives - Shrapnel?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#11 Idiot drivers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#45 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#62 Fixing our fraying Internet infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#24 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#26 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#36 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#12 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#4 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#72 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#72 IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#76 IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Early use of word "computer", 1944 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 06:46:24 -07007 times Allied troops stole Nazi vehicles
from
http://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/xx-times-allied-troops-stole-nazi-vehicles
including: "British commandos stole a Nazi radar station"
http://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/that-time-british-paratroopers-stole-a-nazi-radar-station-from-occupied-france
The raid received praise from all over, including the Germans and
Americans. A German report from the leader of the army's airborne forces
praised the execution of the raid.
A New York Times article dated March 3, 1942, predicted that the success
of the raid had "changed the nature of warfare itself" and that soon
these types of commando units and actions would grow to encompass much
larger formations such as the airborne divisions that the Allies formed.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 09:01:58 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
and:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#1 How Desert Storm Destroyed the US Military
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#14 Fast OODA-Loops increase Maneuverability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#58 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#75 [CM] What was your first home computer?
more perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#75 [CM] What was your first home computer?
America's Afghan War: 16 Years, as Many as One Million Killed -- and the
War Machine Keeps on Rolling No wonder that the Taliban has been making
swift gains over the past few years. Its adversary is not prepared to
contain its advance.
http://www.alternet.org/world/americas-afghan-war-16-years-many-one-million-killed-and-war-machine-keeps-rolling
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a
U.S. monitor for the money spent, has released 35 reports of
considerable merit. They make for harrowing reading. They show that
corruption has been endemic to the process of reconstruction. Little can
be seen for the billions of dollars spent to rebuild Afghanistan
... snip ...
besides long-term cost to the US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#48 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#52 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#54 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#56 [CM] What was your first home computer?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Early use of word "computer", 1944 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 18:29:46 -0700JimP. <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
How the Soviet Union helped save the world from Hitler during World War
II; 'It was the Western Allies' extreme good fortune that the Russians,
and not themselves, paid almost the entire 'butcher's bill' for
defeating Nazi Germany'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/the-soviet-union-helped-save-the-world-from-hitler-a7020926.html
Don't forget how the Soviet Union saved the world from Hitler
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/05/08/dont-forget-how-the-soviet-union-saved-the-world-from-hitler/
following opinion poll in 1945, majority believed Russia had defeated Germany and only 20% believed US had defeated Germany. However 2015 poll, the numbers had inverted
Who Beat Hitler? USA, Britain, Or Russia
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-09/who-beat-hitler-usa-britain-or-russia
... and analysis that japan didn't surrender because of the a-bombs
(they continued on after fire-bombing of tokyo which took more lives
than either a-bombs) ... but because the soviets were coming ... recent
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#17 5 Naval Battles That Changed History Forever
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#18 5 Naval Battles That Changed History Forever
The Bomb Didn't Beat Japan ... Stalin Did; Have 70 years of nuclear
policy been based on a lie?
http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did/
Why did Japan surrender?; Sixty-six years ago, we dropped a nuclear bomb
on Hiroshima. Now, some historians say that's not what ended the war.
http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/08/07/why_did_japan_surrender/
Would Japan have surrendered without the atomic bombings?
https://www.stripes.com/news/special-reports/world-war-ii-the-final-chapter/wwii-victory-in-japan/would-japan-have-surrendered-without-the-atomic-bombings-1.360300
Japanese students were generally taught a very different narrative: that
Japan already had been defeated and dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki three days apart was a geopolitical calculation to keep the
Soviet Union at bay.
... snip ...
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 22:08:09 -0700hancock4 writes:
i.e. local DC news periodic refers to DC politics as "Kabuki Theater",
what you see publickly has little to do with what really goes on
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
old thread on medicaid ... run by states but feds cover 50%. there is
estimate of 20-30% fraud and/or inflated billing.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#71 "Rat Your Boss" or "Rats to Riches," the New SEC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#37 WHAT, WHY AND HOW - FRAUD, IMPACT OF AUDIT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#12 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#31 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#37 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#69 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#81 Should the IBM approach be given a chance to fix the health care system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#86 Should the IBM approach be given a chance to fix the health care system?
FEDS started offering states increase from 50% to 60% of medicaid if the staates would adopt "best practices" for billing (billing data improvements prevents lots of the fraud/abuse) and fraud recovery many state legislations approved the arrangement, there was at least 20% reduction in overall medicaid ... win-win for both feds and states ... the states got an additional bonus from the FEDs (states was .5x, now .4*.8x = .32*old, feds now .6*.8x = .48*old).
However, for several states the legislature wouldn't pass the legislation approving the "best practices" ... the fed deal had no personal benefit for the members of the state legislature. medicaid suppliers would pay members of the state legislature large amounts to maintain the status quo (in some states, head of medicaid fraud resigned over legislature not passing act).
2014, medicaid $415B, total medical fraud/abuse estimate between $82B &
$272B but doesn't say how many states have adopted anti-fraud best
practices
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21603078-why-thieves-love-americas-health-care-system-272-billion-swindle
The CMS is still getting to grips with a new predictive-analysis system,
which was introduced in 2011 to catch Medicare fraud earlier and is
modelled on tools used by credit-card firms. This identified $115m of
dodgy payments in 2012, its first full year.
...
A bigger worry is that, as ever more Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries
move to "managed care" (privately administered) plans, government
sleuths will have access to less data. This could lead to lower
fraud-related recoveries.
... snip ...
aka:
Fraudsters bank on public and private payers not working together to
connect the dots, said Louis Saccoccio, the head of the NHCAA, at a
recent hearing.
.... snip ...
but then there are the bigger guys lobbying congress and other places.
FEDs have a law that corporations that don't pay their federal taxes
can't bid on federal contracts ... however, there are constact reports
of corporations failing to pay federal taxes then lobbying their members
of congress to get exemption allowing eligible for federal contracts.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#81 illegal aliens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#100 Royal Pardon For Turing
that is separate from congress allowing fiscal responsibility act to
lapse in 2002 ... CBO reporting that 2003-2009, taxes cut $6T and
spending increased $6T for $12T budget gap compared to fiscal
responsibiity budget.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Early use of word "computer", 1944 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 09:27:54 -0700JimP. <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
But not more than fire bombing cities that they had already experienced (McNamara was LeMay's stafff planning fire bombing german and japanese cities, McNamara later quotes LeMay as saying if the US had lost the war, they would have been tried for war crimes for the fire bombing).
I've seen numerous western accounts after Okinawa, then justification
for a-bomb was because the homeland would be worse. past post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#64 OT: "Highway Patrol" back on TV
"American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964", loc8789-90:
The consensus was that Japan would hold out possibly for another two
years.
loc8815-17:
He had no illusions about the savagery that lay ahead-he told Stimson
that Downfall would "cost over a million casualties to American forces
alone"—but he was confident that with the tanks from Europe he could
outmaneuver the defenders on the great Kanto Plain before Tokyo.
... snip ...
book mentions that in retrospect they had as grossly over-estimated Japan at the end as they had under-estimated before the beginning.
...
aka the million casualty quotes may have all originated from single source.
The counter explanation is that the Soviets entering the fray would be more ruthless than any defenders .... and a-bomb was warning to the soviets
Okinawa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa
http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-okinawa-operation-iceberg.htm
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
misc other past posts mentioning US fire bombing cities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#52 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#55 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#33 The wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were lost before they began, not on the battlefields
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#60 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#8 What Does School Really Teach Children
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#30 AM radio Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#82 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#90 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#113 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#27 British socialism / anti-trust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#56 "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#64 Strategic Bombing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#21 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#32 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#38 Imperial Hubris
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#60 [CM] What was your first home computer?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Early use of word "computer", 1944 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 10:02:42 -0700re:
also, John Foster Dulles (and many of his US banking & corporate
clients) played major role in building German industry and mulitary in
20s, 30s, and still into early 40s ... including supporting Nazis. Later
during the McCarthyism period
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
John Foster gave as a justification for supporting Nazis, was building up Germany as counter to the Soviets. The anti-Soviet pre-occupation could be part of the explanation that a-bomb was warning to soviets.
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
still lots of US industry/corporate support for Nazis at the German
June1940 NYC Waldorf-Astoria victory celebration;
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Called-Intrepid-Incredible-Narrative-ebook/dp/B00V9QVE5O/
recent posts mentioning US support for Nazis (lot of which has been
written out of much of US history)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#10 Separation church and state
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#63 One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#97 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#40 Job Loyalty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#54 Mary Jo White Seriously Misled The US Senate To Become SEC Chair
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#64 Jean Tirole's Proposal to Appoint Felons to Monitor CEOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#36 Trump's S.E.C. Nominee Disclosure Offers Rare Glimpse of Clients and Conflicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#91 Godwin's Law should force us to remember & fear our shared heritage with Nazi Germany
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#38 Imperial Hubris
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#55 Should America Have Entered World War I?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#22 Ironic old "fortune"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#23 Ironic old "fortune"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#60 The Illusion Of Victory: America In World War I
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#69 The knives are out for Trump's national security adviser H.R. McMaster
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#18 5 Naval Battles That Changed History Forever
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#41 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#55 [CM] What was your first home computer?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Goes to War with Oracle: IT Customers Praise Result Date: 07 June 2017 Blog: FacebookIBM Goes to War with Oracle: IT Customers Praise Result
Some people at Stanford come to IBM (PASC) about producing workstation
they developed. PASC scheduled review with several IBM groups
... including group in Boca with unannounced ibm/pc. All the IBM
groups claimed they were doing something significantly better and IBM
shouldn't produce SUN workstation. past posts mention IBM declined to
do SUN workstations ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#4a John Hartmann's Birthday Party
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#30 Stanford University Network (SUN) 3M workstation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#98 After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out
As part of IBM's HA/CMP,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
we were doing cluster scale up, both scientific/technical with
national labs and commercial with RDBMS vendors (IBM didn't have
non-mainfrsme RDBMS). We had meeting with Oracle Jan1992 in Ellison's
conference room on commercial HA/CMP scale up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
but IBM's mainframe group complained that if we were allowed to go
ahead, it would be a minimum of 5yrs ahead of them. some old cluster
scale-up email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
Within a couple weeks, cluster scale up was transferred, announced as
supercomputer for scientific/technical ONLY, and we were told we
couldn't work on anything with more than 4 processors. ... 17Feb1992
press scientific and technical only
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
11May1992 press, suprised by national lab interest in cluster scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
From the annals of never release any software before it's time, nearly
20yrs later, IBM is announcing (non-mainframe) cluster RDBMS
benchmarks against Oracle.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#43 From the Annals of Release No Software Before Its Time
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: How a few yellow dots burned the Intercept's NSA leaker Date: 07 June 2017 Blog: FacebookHow a few yellow dots burned the Intercept's NSA leaker; By providing copy of leak, Intercept likely accelerated ID of contractor.
IBM had a pentagon papers type event when a copy of document with
details of unannounced 370 virtual memory makes into the hands of
industry publication. Aftermath of the investigation ... all internal
IBM copier machines had (unique) serial number under the glass plate
so it shows up on all copies made on that machine ... shows up on this
document copied nearly 15yrs later ("IBM-SJ-086")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/grayft84.pdf
also
https://jimgray.azurewebsites.net/papers/TandemTR86.2_FaultToleranceInTandemComputerSystems.pdf
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#39 repeat after me: RAID != backup
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#73 Mainframe hacking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#77 Just for a laugh... How to spot an old IBMer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#18 350 DBAs stare blankly when reminded super-users can pinch data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#87 These hackers warned the Internet would become a security disaster. Nobody listened
As countermeasure, the following activity, "Future System" tried to use specially constructed VM370/CMS systems where "all" documentation was softcopy and could only be "read" from internal 3270 terminals.
Some FS Comments
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/
Discussion of old FS evaluation
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
FS description and discussion
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
note lots of FS single-level-store was taken from TSS/360, including rather poor performance/throughput. As undergraduate (before doing many cp67 performance enhancements) ... the TSS/360 SE and I did a simulated user script ... fortran edit, compile, bind/link-edit, execute (including simulate think/wait time). On same 360/67, I did 35 simulated CMS users with better throughput and response time than TSS/360 with 4 simulated users.
S/38 (and FS if it ever got to an implementation) single-level-store had similar throughput limitations. S/38 treated all disks as single filesystem and did scatter allocation (pieces of files could be spread across all disks) ... which didn't scale ... since the complete filesystem (all disks) had to be backed up as single entity ... and restored as single entity. As system sizes increased a single disk failure, a s/38 recovery could take 24hrs ... since the failed disk had to be replaced, and then a complete system restore had to be performed (can you imagine 300 disk drive system??). Fortuantely, performance/throughput didn't play that much of a factor in s/38 entry-level customers.
I did a page-mapped filesystem for cp/67-cms that ran much faster than
native cms filesystem (I claimed that i learned what not to do from
observing IBM's tss/360) ... and while various of my enhancements were
picked up and shipped in vm370/cms ... single-level-store had gotten
such bad reputation from FS ... that wasn't one of the items. past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Story Date: 07 June 2017 Blog: FacebookNot long after graduating and joining IBM I was asked to run around some with new CSO, as common in the period companies tended to hire people that had formally been with the gov.,, this one at one time had been head of presidential detail. I was suppose to talk about computer security ... and a little physical security rubbed off on me. some past posts
Much later, I had project I called HSDT involved T1 (1.5mbits/sec) and
faster speed links (at a time when fastest IBM product supported only
56kbiit/sec) ... both terrestrial and satellite. Because of satellite,
got invited to launch ... and in the stands a couple seats over was
somebody that had formally walked on the moon.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
Since the communication group didn't have T1 support, they prepared a
report for the executive committee why customer's didn't want T1 (at
least for the next decade). Their (37x5) products had "fat-pipe"
support, multiple parallel 56kbit links running as single logical
link. They showed number of "fat-pipes" for 2, 3, 4, 5 56kbit links
... which dropped to zero by 6. Turns out what they didn't know (or
carefully failed to report to the executive committee) was that telco
tariffs for 5-6 56kbit links was about the same as single T1 .... and
customers switch to straight T1 support from some other vendor. some
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#28 SR 15,15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#59 SR 15,15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#37 network history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#59 Q ALLOC PAGE vs. CP Q ALLOC vs ESAMAP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#4 Google Architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#21 SNA/VTAM for NSFNET
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#45 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" tech stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#19 Nerdy networking kid crashes the party
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#24 August 7, 1944: today is the 65th Anniversary of the Birth of the Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#44 SNA: conflicting opinions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#80 Entry point for a Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#69 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#16 Other early NSFNET backbone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#40 Other early NSFNET backbone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#54 Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (Part One)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#98 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#41 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#41 VM Workshop 2012
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#80 A joke seen in an online discussion about moving a box of tape backups
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#87 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#89 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#29 History--punched card transmission over telegraph lines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#24 Does the IBM System z Mainframe rely on Security by Obscurity or is it Secure by Design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#47 PC/mainframe browser(s) was Re: 360/20, was 1132 printerhistory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#45 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#66 OSI: The Internet That Wasn't
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#13 The IBM Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#66 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#108 How Much Bandwidth do we have?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#40 Remember 3277?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#47 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#2 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#82 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#29 Samsung's million-IOPS, 6.4TB, 64Gb/s SSD is ... well, quite something
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#46 1970--a family gets a home computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#57 TV Show "Hill Street Blues"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#69 ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Story Date: 07 June 2017 Blog: Facebookre:
RSA 2000 party
there was the party/gala at RSA 2000 ... written up in the press as the last great party of the valley. Somebody at IBM had written the check ... San Jose coliseum, jefferson starship performing ... by the time of the party, things were already imploding and the person at IBM had been reliaved of his duties ... but the checks had already been written ... so he was in tuxedo on the steps of the coliseum greeting attendees. As we came in, he introduced us to the person next to him (some other IBM executive, but I don't remember now).
scroll out to the right to the "RSA Conference 2000 IBM Gala Program"
(gone 404, but lives on at the wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20070206152557/http://www.joemonica.com/pages/print.html
somebody's trip report
http://seclists.org/politech/2000/Jan/58
http://seclists.org/politech/2000/Jan/54
above also mentions PGP & Phil Z. topic drift: old email discusses
proposal for PGP-like implementation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#email810506
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email810515
other old crypto email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#publickey
Somebody from IBM was escorting around CEO from a PKI digital certificate company. He saw me and introduced me to the CEO. The CEO asked me what I was doing. I told him I was on campaign to eradicate digital certificates from the face of the earth ... they quickly scurried away. A couple years later, that company had gone out of business.
IBM's gala at RSA '99 wasn't even remotely as extravagant ... and only
$250K
http://pix.paip.net/Party/IBM99/
disclaimer: I was brought in to help wordsmith some cal. legislation,
including the cal. electronic signature legislation. They had been
under heavy lobbying pressure by the PKI industry to mandate digital
certificates for the electronic signature legislation. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#15 50th Anniversary of invention of disk drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#69 PKI and SSL - the jaws of trust snap shut
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#54 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: pneumatic cash systems was Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 19:52:27 -0700Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
under medium load, they will let customers line up at casher of their choice (assumption that customer will dynamically load balance). However under peak/heavy loads ... I've seen them setup single queue with human directing to the next available cashier.
computer related ... this comes closer to my long time rant about global
LRU outperforming local LRU .... somebody needs a page ... and global
LRU checks all possible pages for virtual page as best choice to replace
(serve) ... while local LRU, partitions and only examines small
subset. local LRU can come close to global LRU when everything is steady
state and homogeneous ... but real world tends to be bursty and
non-homogeneous ... one partition has a bunch of non-used pages while
another partition has high demand for partition. LRU & local/global past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#clock
Something similar was remote 3270 with 19.2kbits link per controller or
channel extension with T1 for group of controllers. Total bandwidth and
total 3270 terminals are the same ... best case for remote 3270 is
19.2kbits, but 3270 terminal activity tends to be very bursty
(full-screen writes and possibly full screen reads) ... shared T1 will
never be worse than remote 3270 and majority of the time enormously
better. channel extension posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
similar analysis with 37x5 telecommunication controller supporting
19.2kbit remote 3270, versus Series1 and some non-IBM hadware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#67 System/1 ?
when google started out with load increasing ... they load balanced
queries against back-end server with rotating DNS A-records (i.e. they
would change the top ip-address in the list of server ip-addresses for
"google.com"). That worked somewhat ... however, large ISPs cache DNS
responses ... so it would be static for potentitally 2-3 hrs (server
with ip-address at top of list would be overloaded, while other servers
in the list would have little or no traffic). They then went to pool of
internet facing routers that had extra code that would track back-end
server load and do dynamic routing for load-balancing requests to the
backend servers.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#13 RFC 2616 change proposal to increase speed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#59 Problem with XP scheduler?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#51 Has there been a change in US banking regulations recently?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#81 What is Cloud Computing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#83 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#61 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#8 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#50 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#35 Moving to the Cloud
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: pneumatic cash systems was Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 08:27:00 -0700Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> writes:
places like coffee shops with multiple clerks taking orders and single queue ... "next please" sometimes is said several times, increasingly louder.
slightly larger, pull paper number from dispenser, multiple server/clerks behind counter and lighted number. free clerk will increment number and call it out loud. customers not actually in line/queue , but milling around and may have wandered off ... so clerk may have to repeat for several numbers.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: pneumatic cash systems was Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 09:01:05 -0700Osmium <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
much simpler ... airlines calling bording by seat number ranges ... large number of people not able to tell whether their seat number is within range. airlines then start printing boarding group letter ... only board when their letter is called. still some significant number of people don't even understand directions ... just when they see some number of the crowd moving ... they start moving also.
that is separate from the people that don't believe rules apply to
them ... recent articles about people (fraudulently) claiming "service
dog" for their dog ... and I've previously posted about people parking
in handicapped parking, a couple old handicapped parking posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#46 MP cost effectiveness
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#26 Linguistic loggerheads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#11 50th anniversary S/360 coming up
and some number of articles that make survey of ethical behavior and identify graduates like lawyers, economists, MBAs, investmnet bankers being especially ethically challenged ... effectively being taught that systems are something to be "gamed".
and with regard to references having been asked in 1999 to try and help
stop the coming economic mess,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
I've periodically posted about wallstreet and investment banking
especially attractive to sociopaths ... as well as programs that pay
prominent economists to fabricate excuses for what went on.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#16 should I encrypt over a private network?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#21 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#28 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#51 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#52 How Many Divisions Does Standard and Poors Have?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#4 Geithner, Bernanke have little in arsenal to fight new crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#5 AIG's Bank Of America Suit Puts Trashy Paper On Display
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#62 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#20 The Big Fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#57 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#73 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#44 Adair Turner: A New Debt-Free Money Advocate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#89 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#29 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#1 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#48 Ex-Wall Street chieftains living large in post-meltdown world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#52 Lehman Brothers collapse: was capitalism to blame?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#76 The Scholars Who Shill for Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#81 Academics Who Defend Wall St. Reap Reward
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#3 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#68 Economists and our responsibilities to society
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#2 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#24 Forget the McDonnells. We're ignoring bigger, more pernicious corruption right under our noses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#67 Economics Has a Math Problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#73 Economists' Tribal Thinking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#28 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#38 Ransomware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#84 Wells Fargo "Admits Deceiving" U.S. Government, Pays Record $1.2 Billion Settlement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#26 How the computer transformed economics. And didn't
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#34 If economists want to be trusted again, they should learn to tell jokes
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 09:43:03 -0700Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89
She was at IBM 545 tech.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
I would periodically come in on weekends with my kids and set them up to play spacewars ( had been ported to 2250m4, i.e. 1130+2250) ... but sometimes they would get away and chase each other up down the halls. Jean was usually the only other person in and would come by to complain that the kids were making too much noise
... language drift
GML was invented at science center in 1969 ... "G", "M", & "L" taken from the 3 person's last name. GML tag processing was then added to cms script formating (CMS script had previously been done as implementation of CTSS runoff). A decade later it morphs into ISO standard SGML. Another decade and SGML morphs into HTML at CERN.
gml/sgml history at science center by "G"
https://web.archive.org/web/20231001185033/http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/roots.htm
SGML morph into HTML
http://infomesh.net/html/history/early
1st webserver in the US on SLAC's vm370/cms system
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit
trivia: Object oriented operating systems had become rage in silicon valley, Apple was doing "PINK" and SUN was doing SPRING (which eventually get suspended/aborted). I had left IBM and SUN asks me if I would be interested in commercializing SPRING for product release. I do some reviews and decline to take on project. SPRING includes a client-side stub interpreter ... which looked a lot like JAVA ... but SUN JAVA people claim that they weren't influenced at all by SPRING.
other trivia: at the time of JAVA release, head of the SUN business unit had previously been at IBM Los Gatos lab and was one of two people responsible for original mainframe IBM Pascal.
past posts mentioning spring client-side stub interpreter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#32 Whom Do Programmers Admire Now???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#51 A Speculative question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#69 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#46 Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#60 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#80 Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#18 Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer (warning: Conley rant)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#94 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#71 Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#85 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#39 Resistance to Java
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#97 ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#46 The ICL 2900
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 15:40:48 -0700Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> writes:
Los Gatos VLSI lab was using MetaWare's TWS to implement a number of
mainframe tools (including pascal) for VLSI chip design ... past
reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#62
STL then picked it up for customer release ... guy at STL didn't like me referencing Los Gatos or the two people that had done the original work ... including that they didn't even go to Pascal Standards meetings (but he was the one that went to all the standards meetings).
One of the two LSG guys leaves IBM for startup, then was VP of Software at MIPS, and after SGI buys MIPS, goes to SUN.
I was talking to the other LSG guy about doing a (mainframe) C language
front-end for the psscal backend. I then leave for six weeks to give
talks around Europe. When I get back, he had left IBM and joined
Metaware. PASC is starting to work on port of BSD unix to mainframe and
I suggest they contract Metaware for the (mainframe) C compiler. They
start on the project with Metaware ... and then get redirected to do BSD
port to the (801/risc ROMP) PC/RT ... which is released as AOS (somebody
once asked why the PC/RT AOS/BSD used a Metaware C compiler). some 801
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Early use of word "computer", 1944 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 16:02:37 -0700Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
Bureau of Reclamation is starting 12yr modernization project ... replacing the original generators in powerhouse 1&2 (and upgrading reversable pumps, pumping water into banks lake during offpeak and reversing flow to generate electricity to peak periods) ... and they are expecting big influx of workers & their families into the area.
In the past federal government contributed heavily to local school system ... based on children of federal workers ... and there is little real estate base except for the dam. There is now something of battle between local school system and Bureau about funding big influx of students (possibly bureau doesn't want to ask congress for the money???).
dam also credited with electricity for producing aluminum used in WW2
planes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#64
Grand Coulee Dam: Leaving a Legacy
https://depts.washington.edu/depress/grand_coulee.shtml
"Without Grand Coulee and Bonneville dams it would have been almost
impossible to win this war."[23] Specifically, the Grand Coulee Dam
provided the electricity needed to produce aluminum, which was crucial
for the airplane construction taking place at Boeing in Seattle. With
no capacity to produce aluminum in 1940, the Pacific Northwest was
producing 36% of the nation's aluminum output by 1946. It is estimated
that one third of the aluminum used in aircraft during World War II
came from the power generated by the Grand Coulee Dam.
... snip ...
other Grand Coulee posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#43 VR vs. Portable Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#32 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs. IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#14 Geothermal was: VLIW pre-history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#7 was: 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" tech stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#68 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#13 A "portable" hard disk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#66 A "portable" hard disk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#47 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#69 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#3 a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#10 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#11 a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#44 [Poll] Computing favorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#63 [Poll] Computing favorities
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM downfall Date: 09 June 2017 Blog: Facebooklate 80s, a senior disk engineer gets a talk scheduled at internal annual world-wide communication group conference supposedly on 3174 performance ... but opens the talk with the statement that the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division. The issue was that the communication group had stranglehold on datacenters with strategic responsibility for everything that crossed the datacenter walls and were fiercely fighting off client/server and distributed computing, trying to preserve their (emulated) dumb terminal paradigm and install base. The disk division was seeing data fleeing the data center to more distributed computing friendly platforms with drop in disk sales. The disk division had come up with several solutions to address the problem but they were constantly being vetoed by the communication group. A few short years later the company has gone into the red. past posts
mid-80s, senior executives were predicting that IBM revenue was going to double, mostly based on mainframe business and had huge bldg program to double mainframe manufacturing capacity ... even when things were starting to head in the opposite direction. There was also a lot of fast-track MBAs being rotated quickly through lots of the middle management positions (anticipating big business increase, even when things were starting to head in opposite direction).
AMEX was in competition with KKR for private equity take-over of RJR
and KKR wins. KKR runs into trouble and hires away the president of
AMEX to turn it around. 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 president of AMEX to
reverse the breakup and resurrect the company ... using some of the
same techniques used at RJR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
trivia: about same time that IBM has gone into the red, AMEX spins off much of its mainframe dataprocessing outsourcing business in the largest IPO up until that time. Beginning part of the century, I do stint at the company as chief scientist until KKR does what was the largest reverse IPO up until that time (15yrs after it was the largest IPO).
more trivia: former president of AMEX leaves IBM to head up another of
the largest private equity operations .... which among other things
will acquire the beltway bandit that will employ Snowden:
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
companies in the private equity mill are under intense pressure to cut
corners and generate revenue every way possible ... also responsible
for responsible for half of all commercial defaults
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
... last decade there had been uptic in gov outsourcing to private equity owned subsidiaries .... some of those doing security clearances were found to be filling out the paperwork, but not doing the background checks.
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
former president of AMEX posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The evolution of the laptop computer Date: 09 June 2017 Blog: FacebookThe evolution of the laptop computer
5100 done by PASC, they also did the APL microcode assist for 370/145
(lots of APL on 145 ran almost like 370/168). Also in the 2nd half of
70s, US online sales&marketing HONE systems were consolidated in bldg
across the back parking lot from PASC ... much of HONE sales&marketing
applications were implemented in APL. some HONE &/or APL posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
trivia: when FACEBOOK moved to Palo Alto, it was into new bldg, built next door to the old HONE datacenter (and behind old PASC location).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Early use of word "computer", 1944 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 19:05:00 -0700hancock4 writes:
Congress gets after USBR on school issue
http://www.grandcoulee.com/story/2012/02/08/news/congress-gets-after-usbr-on-school-issue/020820121443818160455.html
School district sends strong comments to USBR
http://www.grandcoulee.com/story/2017/05/17/news/school-district-sends-strong-comments-to-usbr/8866.html
The Bureau had advertised for draft environmental assessment comments on
its 12-year plan to modernize and overhaul generators in both the left
and right powerhouses.
...
Turner stated that the school district is already faced with financial
restraints, some of which occurred because of the accumulation of
projects, such as the Third Powerhouse overhaul and the John W. Keys III
Pump-Generating Plant modernization, as well as the new fire station.
"These cumulative impacts have and will continue to result in an
undeniable increase in student enrollment within the district, leaving
it financially burdened and unable to provide high-quality educational
opportunities the district's students need to ensure their
future success," Turner stated.
The district has already stated difficulties it faces as it begins the
preparation of its budget for the 2017-18 school year.
... snip ...
earlier posts in this thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#74 Early use of word "computer", 1944
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#77 Early use of word "computer", 1944
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#80 Early use of word "computer", 1944
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#82 Early use of word "computer", 1944
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#84 Early use of word "computer", 1944
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#85 Early use of word "computer", 1944
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM downfall Date: 10 June 2017 Blog: Facebookre:
The Future System effort in the early 70s was different than 370 and
was going to totally replace 370 (major objective was to counter clone
controllers by creating a tighter more complex coupling between
controllers and processors). During the FS period 370 efforts were
being suspended and/or killed (from the law of unintended
consequences, lack of 370 offerings during the FS period is credited
with giving clone processors a market foothold). When FS finally
imploded, there was mad rush getting products back into the 370
pipeline ... including kicking off 3033 and 3081 at the same time
.... 3033 started out being remap of 168-3 logic to some warmed chips
from FS that were 20% faster and 3081 was using other pieces warmed
over from FS.
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
It wasn't until 3033 was out the door, that the processor engineers
could start working on really new offering (trout which eventually
ships as 3090). reference to the effect of FS failure had on corporate
culture, Ferguson & Morris, "Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World", Time
Books,
... and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr
of free and vigorous debate was replaced with sycophancy and make no
waves under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that thereafter, IBM lived in
the shadow of defeat
and ...
But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management, F/S
took years to kill, although its wrongheadedness was obvious from the
very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism
became politically dangerous," recalls a former top
executive.reference to the effect of FS failure had on corporate
culture,
past FS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
during the 3033 period we had a project to do 16-way 370 SMP ... which nearly everybody thought was really great ... and we got the 3033 processor engineers to work on in their spare time (lot more interesting than remap of 168-3 logic). Then somebody told the head of POK that it could be decades before the POK favorite son operating system had (effective) 16-way SMP support. The head of POK then invites some of us to never visit POK again and instructed the 3033 processor engineers to stop being distracted.
Note that 370 16-way SMP doesn't ship until nearly 25yrs later, in 2000 for z900.
past SMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89 Date: 10 June 2017 Blog: Facebookre:
Late 70s, transferred from science center to San Jose Research and in
early 80s, had "HSDT" project with T1 and faster speed links and was
working with director of NSF and was suppose to get $20M to
interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers. Then congress cuts the
budget, some other things happen, and eventually NSF releases an
RFP. Then as regional networks connect into the centers, it evolves
into the NSFNET backbone, precursor to modern internet.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
hsdt posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
Late 80s, as part of IBM's HA/CMP, some old posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
we were doing cluster scale up, both scientific/technical with
national labs and commercial with RDBMS vendors (IBM didn't have
non-mainfrsme RDBMS). We had meeting with Oracle Jan1992 in Ellison's
conference room on commercial HA/CMP scale up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
but IBM's mainframe RDBMS group complained that if we were allowed to
go ahead, it would be a minimum of 5yrs ahead of them. some old
cluster scale-up email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
Within a couple weeks of Ellison meeting, cluster scale up was transferred, announced as supercomputer for scientific/technical ONLY, and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than 4 processors (and we leave IBM a few months later)
Later, two of the oracle people 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, they had
also invented this technology called "SSL" they want to use, the
result is now frequently called "electronic commerce". I have absolute
authority on the servers to payment networks gateway side, but can
only make recommendations on the client/server side. Almost
immediately some number of recommendations were violated, which
continue to account for some of the exploits that continue to this
day. some gateway posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#gateway
1996 MDC at Moscone, find that some old timers are on Internet Explorer team and have done some of the stuff that I still hadn't been able to get the Netscape people to do. Jim Gray also had open house for SanFran research center (at SJR I had also worked with Jim on original relational/SQL implementation, before he leaves for Tandem and palms bunch of stuff on me). Also in the 90s, before he passes, the RFC internet standards editor would let me help do part of the periodic STD1. Postel also sponsors my talk at ISI/USC on why the internet isn't business critical dataprocessing. Later, before Jim disappears, he cons me into interviewing for chief security architect in Redmond ... the interview drags on for a couple weeks, but we never come to agreement on what needs to be done.
some past posts mentioning interview for chief security architect
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#7 Hypervisors May Replace Operating Systems As King Of The Data Center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#5 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#37 Tap and faucet and spellcheckers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#80 Making tea
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#60 The 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#18 Top 10 Cybersecurity Threats for 2009, will they cause creation of highly-secure Corporate-wide Intranets?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#28 Computer virus strikes US Marshals, FBI affected
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#22 My Vintage Dream PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#20 Cyber attackers empty business accounts in minutes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#15 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#40 The Great Cyberheist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#56 Microsoft Wants 'Sick' PCs Banned From The Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#21 Closure in Disappearance of Computer Scientist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#74 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#93 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#14 The growing openness of an organization's infrastructure has greatly impacted security landscape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#24 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#77 Insane Insider Threat Program in Context of Morally and Mentally Bankrupt US Intelligence System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#44 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#72 *uix web security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#35 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#66 Catching Up on the OPM Breach
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#57 PL/I advertising
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#58 PL/I advertising
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#19 Rogue sysadmins the target of Microsoft's new 'Shielded VM' security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#91 IBM Jargon and General Computing Dictionary Tenth Edition
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Nice article about MF and Government Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 10 Jun 2017 09:45:17 -0700gabe@GABEGOLD.COM (Gabe Goldberg) writes:
The former president of AMEX then leaves IBM to head up another large
private equity company that will acquire a large beltway bandit that
employes Snowden. There was enormous uptic in gov. outsourcing last
decade, especially to private equity owned companies ... in
intelligence, 70% of the budget and over half the people
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
private equity owned companies are under intense pressure to cut
corners and do what ever is necessary to generate profits for their
owners. In the case of outsourced security clearances, they were found
to be filling out the paper work and not actually doing the background
checks. Companies in private equity mill are sometimes compared to
"house flipping", except rather than paying off the mortgage as part
of the flip, the loan to buy the company stays on the company's books
after the sale. Combination of factors contribute to over half of
corporate defaults are companies that are in (or previously in) the
private equity mill.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
former AMEX president posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
this has also contributed to the rapid spreading success of failure
culture ... beltway bandits (especially private equity owned
subsidiaries) get more revenue from a series of failures
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
This all sounds cynical, because it is. Whether or not it's deliberate
is another matter. But you don't have to believe that people consciously
fail to recognize the windfall it brings. Even if they don't know why,
there's a reason people keep making the same mistakes: Failure is one of
the most successful things going.
... snip ...
success of failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
which also includes a long list of failed legacy system modernization efforts. Badmouthing legacy systems might just be obfuscation and misdirection regarding the real source of the "problems".
disclaimer: early in the century we gat a call asking us to respond to an unclassifed BAA (by IC-ARDA, since renamed IARPA) that was about to close and nobody else had responded (basically said that the tools they have didn't do the job). We get response in and then have some meetings showing we could do what was needed and then it goes silent and hear nothing more. It wasn't until the above article that we realize what was going on (although we wondered why the agency had allowed the BAA to be released in the first place, possibly some internal politics were still being played out).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: pneumatic cash systems was Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 16:26:11 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
Want to Kill Your Economy? Have MBA Programs Churn Out Takers Not
Makers.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/06/want-to-kill-your-economy-have-mba-programs-churn-out-takers-not-makers.html
The number of MBAs graduating from America's business schools
has skyrocketed since the 1980s. But over that time, the health of
American business has decreased by many metrics: corporate R&D spending,
new business creation, productivity, and the level of public trust in
business in general.
... snip ...
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
i've mentioned before that in briefings, Boyd would refer to former military officers starting to contaminate US corporate culture with their rigid, top-down command&control (and only those at the very top know what they are doing). However, about the same time in the early 80s, there started to be articles about MBAs were starting to destroy US businesses.
boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
somewhat related (predating the rise of MBAs)
https://www.amazon.com/One-Nation-Under-God-Corporate-ebook/dp/B00PWX7R56/
... in the 40s, 5000 industrialist had annual meeting at NYC Waldorf-Astoria ... and because they had gotten such a bad reputation for the depression and supporting the NAZIs, they approved funding a propoganda campaign equating capitalism and christianity.
recent posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#10 Separation church and state
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#63 One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#97 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#40 Job Loyalty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#91 Godwin's Law should force us to remember & fear our shared heritage with Nazi Germany
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#55 Should America Have Entered World War I?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#23 Ironic old "fortune"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#60 The Illusion Of Victory: America In World War I
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#41 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#55 [CM] What was your first home computer?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Health Care Spending Date: 10 June 2017 Blog: Facebook2002, congress lets fiscal responsibility act lapse (spending can't exceed revenue, on its way to eliminating all federal debt). 2010 CBO report that 2003-2009, tax revenue cut $6T and spending increased $6T for $12T gap compared to fiscal responsibility act (also 1st time taxes cut to not pay for two wars). past posts
First major act after allowing fiscal responsibility act lapse is
Medicare Part-D. CBS 60mins does expose on the process. Just before
the final vote, a one line sentence is added (preventing competitive
bidding) and CBO is prevented distributing an analysis of the
change. 60mins then show drugs bought by the VA (which is allowed
competitive bidding) that are 1/3rd the price of identical drugs under
part-D. 60mins also finds that within 6months after part-d passes, the
18 republicans responsible for getting part-d passed have resigned and
are on drug industry payroll.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#medicare.part-d
US Comptroller General starts including in speeches that part-d comes
to be a long term $40T item that swamps all other budget items (he is
also including in speeches that nobody in congress is capable of
middle school arithmetic for how badly they are savaging the budget).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Early use of word "computer", 1944 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 09:39:26 -0700JimP. <solosam90@gmail.com> writes:
more, Hanford most polluted/toxic place in US:
Welcome to 'the Most Toxic Place in America'
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/welcome-most-toxic-place-america-n689141
Whitney said the DOE has taken more than 170,000 measurements of the
breathing zones in Hanford's tank farms, and never found measurements
higher than the permitted occupational exposure limits.
NBC, however, has documents showing DOE readings from Hanford in 2009
that are far in excess of occupational limits. Mercury was measured at
473 percent above limits, and ammonia was measured at 1800 percent above
limits -- and workers were not told.
... snip ...
reference to much of gov. nuclear outsourced to Bechtel last decade:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#6 The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#82 Gov. Privatization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#34 Good News and Bad News at Hanford, America's Most Polluted Site
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#83 Sleepwalking Into a Nuclear Arms Race with Russia
just part of huge uptic in government outsourcing last decade, recent
news that there are now more US contractors ("mercenaries") in
afghanistan than US soldiers, refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#52 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#56 [CM] What was your first home computer?
for intelligence, 70% of budget to (frequently private-equity owned)
for-profit companies and over half the people
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
the search for profit by every means possible, contributing
significantly to the rapid spread of success of failure culture
... including failed dataprocessing modernization efforts
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
private-equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
success of failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
trivia: father of president last decade, was VP in the 80s, when the
SECDEF and SECSTATE were former Bechtel executives, recent refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#21 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#67 Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private RNC Email Accounts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#59 Breaking: Entire Nation Experiencing Collective Amnesia About Iraq War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#99 [CM] What was your first home computer?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The IBM 7094 and CTSS Date: 12 June 2017 Blog: FacebookThe IBM 7094 and CTSS
Some of the CTSS people went to the 5th flr to work on Multics, others went to the IBM science center on the 4th flr and did (virtual machine) cp40/cms (on modified 360/40 with virtual memory), bunch of line stuff, internal network, etc. cp40 morphs into cp67 when 360/67 standard with virtual memory becomes available.
GML was invented at science center in 1969 ... "G", "M", & "L" taken from the 3 person's last name. GML tag processing was then added to cms script formating (CMS script had previously been done as implementation of CTSS runoff). A decade later it morphs into ISO standard SGML. Another decade and SGML morphs into HTML at CERN.
gml/sgml history at science center by "G"
https://web.archive.org/web/20231001185033/http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/roots.htm
SGML morph into HTML
http://infomesh.net/html/history/early
1st webserver in the US on SLAC's vm370/cms system (vm370/cms follow-on
to cp67/cms done by science center)
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit
some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
also former co-worker at science center and san jose research (we both
transferred from cambridge to san jose the same year):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks
Cool to be Clever: Edson Hendricks
http://downloads.zdnet.com/product/31709-75651341/
Loads of pre-Internet emails, anecdotes and other computer science
archival material, 12 video interviews with Edson Hendricks and 3
audio interviews of author/composer Leanne Jones, exploration of the
"genius" and "inventive" mind, predicting the future, first email
virus, advice to programmers, the origin of tektites, and so much
more. Ideal for all ages, especially clever children 6+ and anyone
with an interest in Internet history and inventing. How was the
Internet really invented?
It's Cool To Be Clever, The story of Edson C. Hendricks
https://www.amazon.com/Its-Cool-Be-Clever-Hendricks/dp/1897435630/
IT'S COOL TO BE CLEVER tells the true story of an inquisitive boy in
the 1950s who doesn't fit in at school. Edson Hendricks is bullied
because he is so smart (people accuse him of getting answers from his
father who is the principal) and has red hair. He finds comfort in an
imaginary world where he has machine parts, and no internal organs or
emotions.
Years later, Edson's strange capacity to think like a machine helps
him create a new way for computers to communicate. His
"connectionless" network design paves the way for today's Internet.
... snip ...
He was responsible for the technology used in the internal network
(larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until
mid-80s),
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
and also used for the corporate sponsored university BITNET (for a
time also larger than the internet)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
At the time arpanet/internet switched from IMPs to internetworking
protocol in 1Jan1983, there were approx. 100 IMPs and 255 connected
hosts. At that time, the internal network was rapidly approaching 1000
network nodes. old post with list of world wide internal locations
that added one or more nodes during 1983:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8
in early 80s, had "HSDT" project with T1 and faster speed links and
was working with director of NSF and was suppose to get $20M to
interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers. Then congress cuts the
budget, some other things happen, and eventually NSF releases an RFP
(in part based on what we already had running). Then as regional
networks connect into the centers, it evolves into the NSFNET
backbone, precursor to modern internet.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
hsdt posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
ibm systems mag article from last decade
https://web.archive.org/web/20190524015712/http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/stoprun/Stop-Run/Making-History/
I had been blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal
network in the late 70s and early 80s. Folklore is that when corporate
executive committee was told about online computer conferencing (and
the internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me. From IBMJARGON:
Tandem Memos - n. Something constructive but hard to control; a fresh
of breath air (sic). That's another Tandem Memos. A phrase to worry
middle management. It refers to the computer-based conference (widely
distributed in 1981) in which many technical personnel expressed
dissatisfaction with the tools available to them at that time, and
also constructively criticized the way products were [are]
developed. The memos are required reading for anyone with a serious
interest in quality products. If you have not seen the memos, try
reading the November 1981 Datamation summary.
... snip ...
lots of stuff archived here:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/
old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html
trivia, when I was undergraduate, univ. hired me fulltime to be
responsible for IBM production systems. After graduating and joining
science center in cambridge, one of my hobbies was doing enhanced
operating systems for internal datacenters. As might be expected there
was some competition between the 4th & 5th flrs ... however it wasn't
fair to compare total virtual machine systems to total multics systems
https://www.multicians.org/index.html
so would compare just the number of internal datacenters running my
systems to total number of multics systems
https://www.multicians.org/sites.html
during the early days of online computer conferencing ... some past
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
there was still large number of internal datacenters running my
systems, including the world-wide, online sales&marketing HONE systems
... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
other triva: somewhat as result of online computer conferencing, a resercher was paid to sit in the back of my office for 9months, studying how I communicate, face-to-face, went with me to meetings, telephone, online, they got logs of all my instant messages and copies of all my incoming and outgoing email. The result was research reports, Stanford Phd (joint with language and computer AI), papers, books, etc.
GML was picked because they are the letters of the inventors last name, then they invented "General Markup Language"
another trivia from the science center: Charlie invented
compare&swap while he was working on fine-grain multiprocessor
locking on CP67 at the science center (compare&swap chosen because
CAS are Charlie's initials). Initial attempt to get compare&swap
added to 370 was rebuffed .... the 370 architecture owners said that
the POK favorite son operating system people claimed that "test&set"
(from 360) was sufficient. They said to get compare&swap added to
370 would require coming up with additional uses ... thus were born
the examples (that are still in the appendex of principles of
operation) showing how multi-threaded applications can use
compare&swap
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: pneumatic cash systems was Re: [CM] What was your first home computer? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 11:57:55 -0700re:
possibly because spent a lot of time on scheduling&queuing implementations, I'm sensitive to issues outside computers.
I've posted here in the past observation about highways where it only takes a couple percent of drivers behaving badly to drastically reduce throughput .... people trying to roar up in "fast" lanes until just before exit and then at the last moment cut off several lanes of traffic to make exist. countermeasure in some locals is extending a barrier separating traffic lanes & exit lane far up the highway. Others is express lanes for extended distances with no exits.
similar is behavior that constantly switching lanes .... apparently believing that it gets them an extra car lane or two.
even with a percent or two of the drivers exhibiting the lane changing behavior, it can drastically reduce heavy traffic flowing at speed to stop&go ... quickly darting into small opening in adjacent lane also results in accordian effect of increasingly rapid brake lights in cars behind ... and has known to precipitate rear end collusions.
then there was university study published that found similar results.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#18 Traffic Jam Mystery Solved By Mathematicians
a few other past post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#17 If there had been no MS-DOS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#4 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#7 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#5 sorting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#12 sorting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#34 Is computer history taught now?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#5 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#64 Shockwave traffic jam recreated for first time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#98 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#99 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#2 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#3 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 'Madoff Whistleblower' Harry Markopolos Has Uncovered A New Fraud Date: 12 June 2017 Blog: Facebook'Madoff Whistleblower' Harry Markopolos Has Uncovered A New Fraud
In the congressional Madoff hearings, they had the person that had tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about Madoff (SEC hands were forced when Madoff turned himself in). He pointed out that whistleblowers turn up 13 times more fraud than audits, but the SEC didn't have a whistleblower hotline, but had a hotline for corporations to complain about (SOX) audits.
Madoff posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
Sarbanes-Oxley posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The IBM 7094 and CTSS Date: 12 June 2017 Blog: Facebookre:
old post in this group ... Mosher gave me one of his "blue cards"
https://www.facebook.com/lynn.wheeler/posts/10203018063788164
also here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#56
the other card in above ... "VMSHARE Users Guide", TYMSHARE started
providing its CMS-based computer conferencing system free to SHARE
http://www.share.org/
(as vmshare) in AUG1976 .... archives here:
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
I setup process for TYMSHARE to provide me monthly copies of all
VMSHARE files so I could put them up on internal network and systems,
including the online world-wide, sales&marketing support
HONE systems:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
Biggest problem I had was that the IBM lawyers were afraid that customer information would contaminate IBM employees.
Some old VMSHARE related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmshare
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM downfall Date: 12 June 2017 Blog: Facebookre:
Early 70s Learson.... then Future System starts and it's Opel and
Akers https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
Management Briefing
Number 1-72: January 18,1972
ZZ04-1312
TO ALL IBM MANAGERS:
Once again, I'm writing you a Management Briefing on the subject of
bureaucracy. Evidently the earlier ones haven't worked. So this time
I'm taking a further step: I'm going directly to the individual
employees in the company. You will be reading this poster and my
comment on it in the forthcoming issue of THINK magazine. But I wanted
each one of you to have an advance copy because rooting out
bureaucracy rests principally with the way each of us runs his own
shop.
We've got to make a dent in this problem. By the time the THINK piece
comes out, I want the correction process already to have begun. And
that job starts with you and with me.
Vin Learson
... and ...
... snip ...
+-----------------------------------------+ | "BUSINESS ECOLOGY" | | | | | | +---------------+ | | | BUREAUCRACY | | | +---------------+ | | | | is your worst enemy | | because it - | | | | POISONS the mind | | STIFLES the spirit | | POLLUTES self-motivation | | and finally | | KILLS the individual. | +-----------------------------------------+
"I'M Going To Do All I Can to Fight This Problem . . ." by T. Vincent Learson, Chairman
past posts mentioning "business ecology"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#92 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#11 How do we fight bureaucracy and bureaucrats in IBM?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#19 Where to Flatten the Officer Corps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#56 Wild Ducks
"How To Stuff A Wild Duck", 1973, IBM poster
https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18618011/
Note that the failed FS effort had all sorts of unanticipated consequences. Dearth of products during (and after) FS period contributing significantly to IBM as a FUD marketing organization (as well as opening market to the clone processors) Top executives trying to stamp out opposition and doubt during FS period starts the destruction of the Watson corporate culture. The failure of FS lost huge amount of money and further cast doubt on top executives capability
"How IBM Was Left Behind" also references being reorged into the 13
"baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the company ... behind
paywall ... but some lives free at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
We had left the company, but somebody from the bowels of Armonk called and asked if we could help with breaking up the company. The issue was different business units relied on supplier contracts in other business units using MOUs. With the breakup (and units in different companies), all those MOUs had to be changed into contracts. We were suppose to help go through all the records looking for the MOUs and organizing things to change them into contracts. The new CEO was brought in and the breakup reverse ... before we got started.
Also we had heard from former co-workers complaining that top executives were spending all their time shifting expenses from the following year to the current year (and ignoring the business). We asked what was going on. From the bowels of Armonk the explanation was that the way the senior executive bonus plan was written, if they could get the following year's bottom line the tiny little bit out of the red, they would get a bonus that was more than twice as large as the previous largest bonus ever given out (i.e. effectively they would get paid for taking the company into the red)
posts mentioning new CEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts mentioning bowels of Armonk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#65 Thousands Of IBM Employees Got A Nasty Surprise Yesterday: Here's The Email They Saw
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#54 IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#68 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#90 Is IBM Suddenly Vulnerable To A Takeover?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#143 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#81 Ginni gets bonus, plus raise, and extra incentives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#42 Remember 3277?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#89 China builds world's most powerful computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#15 Leaked IBM email says cutting 'redundant' jobs is a 'permanent and ongoing' part of its business model
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#97 IBM History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#108 Some (IBM-related) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#29 Samsung's million-IOPS, 6.4TB, 64Gb/s SSD is ... well, quite something
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#17 Destination z article: Lessons Learned
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#5 IBM's core business
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM downfall Date: 12 June 2017 Blog: Facebookre:
Head of POK had moved to head up Boca/PC. There was a joke that Boca
was loosing $5 on every PS2, but they were planning on making it up in
volume. They were forecasting very high prices for PS2 that seemed out
of line with the business. I started posting on internal forums the
unit1 prices from SJMN sunday adverts ... that were way lower than
Boca was forecasting. Then Boca contracted with Dataquest (since
bought by Gartner) for a study of the future of PC business. The study
was to inlude a 2-3hr video taped round-table of silicon valley
experts. I knew the Dataquest person running the study and they asked
if I would be one of the experts .... and they promised to garble my
identity so Boca would recongize me. I first cleared it with my
management
http://www.pcworld.com/article/258989/the_ibm_ps_2_25_years_of_pc_history.html
Far east had built up a huge inventory of 286 clone machines
... planned on big fall88/xmas sales ... and then Intel announces
386sx and crashes the 286 market (386sx had higher chip integration,
systems could be built with fewer chips and cheaper). For some time
286 systems were going for next to nothing
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386#The_80386SX_variant
past posts mentioning Sunday SJMN PC prices:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#79 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#80 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#81 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#82 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#1 The BASIC Variations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#10 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#26 upcoming TV show, "Halt & Catch Fire"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#62 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#94 What would Klinger look like in business attire?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#23 IBM "Breakup"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#26 ARM Cortex A53 64 bit
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM downfall Date: 12 June 2017 Blog: Facebookre:
My wife had written middle layer/ware into response for large, super secure gov. campus environment. This was when communication group was selling PCs and 16mbit token-ring for 3270 terminal emulation fighting off distributed computing and client/server trying to preserve their dumb terminal install base. They were also fabricating token-ring/ethernet comparison and SAA was just starting. We were out making customer executive presentations on middle layer & Ethernet that was significantly faster, better, cheaper ... and the SAA & t/r people were spreading all sorts of false claims about us
The new Almaden Research bldg had been heavily wired with CAT4 for 16mbit t/r ... but they found that 10mbit ethernet had higher aggregate LAN throughput and lower latency than 16mbit t/r. Also IBM's 16mbit T/R cards went for $800 and assumed dumb terminal emulation with 300+ terminal sharing same T/R network ... so had very low per card thruput. A high performance 10mbit enet were going for $69 and each card could sustain the full 10mbit enet bandwidth.
The Dallas IBM E&S 16mbit t/r comparison to ethernet appeared to use the early 3mbit enet specification before standard listen-before-transmit protocol.
SNA didn't support networking layer so t/r LANs tended to be done with bridges ... so large number of stations shared common network bandwidth.
A TCP/IP router with 400mbit backplane and 16 10mbit enet LAN interface & mainframe channel interface along with 300 10mbit enet card (20 stations/10mbit LAN segments, instead of 300 sharing single logical 16mbit T/R LAN) ... whole configuration was less expensive than equivalent 16mbit T/R configuration ... each of the 16 10mbit enet has higher throughput than 16mbit t/r ... and the enet overall configuration had 200mbit aggregate throughput (200mbit in, 200mbit out)
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#3tier
For PC/RT, AWD did their own high-performance 4mbit T/R card. For RS/6000 with microchannel, AWD was told that they couldn't do their own cards, but had to use all PS2 cards. Turns out the PC/RT 4mbit T/R card had higher per card throughput than the PS2 16mbit T/R card. There was joke that if RS/6000 was limited to only using PS2 cards, for lots of stuff, RS/6000 wouldn't have any higher throughput than PS2. As work-around to internal politics, AWD eventually came out with VMEbus version of RS/6000 and were "forced" to get industry high-performance cards (and couldn't use the slow PS2 cards).
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
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