From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Social Security screening Facebook Instagram to evaluate disability claim. Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:29:24 -0700hancock4 writes:
Mapping the Growth of Disability Claims in America
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-16/mapping-the-growth-of-disability-claims-in-america
If you've paid into Social Security, become injured or sick, and can no
longer earn more than $1,130 a month, you can get a monthly subsidy from
Social Security's Disability Insurance Trust Fund. In 1990 fewer than
2.5 percent of working-age Americans were "on the check." By 2015 the
number stood at 5.2 percent. That growth has left the fund in periodic
need of rescues by Congress--most recently in 2015, when the Bipartisan
Budget Act shifted money from Social Security's old-age survivors' fund
to extend the solvency of the disability fund to 2023.
...
The OIG reports that its fraud units saved the fund $416 million in
2015; total payments that year were $89 billion.
... snip ...
trivia: by comparison, medicaid fraud is claimed to be 20% to 30% ...
however, medicaid is administrated by the states ... with matching fund
from the FEDs. CMS has program where if states adopted CMS based
anti-fraud practices, FEDs would increase FED funding from 50% to 60%
... presuming that FED funds actually decrease, the percent increase
more than offset by reduction in fraud. However, there are several
states with legislatures that don't pass the anti-fraud improvements
... possibly/apparently because it would reduce money coming into the
state. some past posts
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#31 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?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#66 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#89 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#64 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#38 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#108 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#49 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#59 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#83 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#53 endless medical arguments, Disregard post (another screwup)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Billions From Deutsche Bank Despite Trump's Bankruptcies, Defaults, and Financial Malfeasance Date: 20 Mar 2019 Blog: FacebookBillions From Deutsche Bank Despite Trump's Bankruptcies, Defaults, and Financial Malfeasance
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
S&L crisis posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
'29 crash, Pecora Hearings, FDIC insured and/or Glass-Steagall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
Black reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black#Savings_and_loan_scandal
The former Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention now teaches
Economics and Law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. During
the savings and loan crisis, it was Black who accused then-house
speaker Jim Wright and five US Senators, including John Glenn and John
McCain, of doing favors for the S&L's in exchange for contributions
and other perks. The senators got off with a slap on the wrist, but so
enraged was one of those bankers, Charles Keating -- after whom the
senate's so-called "Keating Five" were named -- he sent a memo that
read, in part, 'get Black -- kill him dead.' Metaphorically, of
course. Of course.
... snip ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black#Bill_Moyers_Journal_appearance
On April 3, 2009 Black appeared on Bill Moyers Journal on PBS and
provided critical commentary on the U.S. banking crisis.[6] In the
interview with Bill Moyers,[7] Black asserted that the banking crisis
in the United States that started in late 2008 is essentially a big
Ponzi scheme; that the "liar loans" and other financial tricks were
essentially illegal frauds; and that the triple-A ratings given to
these loans was part of a criminal cover-up. He said that the "Prompt
Corrective Action Law" passed after the Savings and loan crisis
mandated that ailing banks should be put into receivership. Black also
stated that trying to hide how bad the situation is will simply
prolong the problem, as happened in Japan and resulted in Japan's lost
decade. Black stated that Timothy Geithner was engaged in a cover-up,
and that the administration did not want people to understand what
went wrong or how bad the banking situation was.
... snip ...
control fraud reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black#Savings_and_loan_scandal
Enron posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
Madoff posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: After Forking Out $110 Billion on Stock Buybacks, IBM Shifts Its Spending Focus Date: 20 Mar 2019 Blog: FacebookAfter Forking Out $110 Billion on Stock Buybacks, IBM Shifts Its Spending Focus
last oct ... still doing buybacks ... but will shift focus needing it
for redhat purchase.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-30/ibm-to-buy-back-up-to-4-billion-of-its-own-shares
Uptic with Gerstner and continued, but after turn of century saw big surge, not only IBM, but lots of other corporations.
Stockman in "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America"
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Deformation-Corruption-Capitalism-America-ebook/dp/B00B3M3UK6/
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 ...
Note: buybacks use to be illegal because they were viewed as
executives manipulate market
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aalsin/2017/02/28/shareholders-should-be-required-to-vote-on-stock-buybacks/
stock buyback posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
AMEX, Private Equity, IBM related Gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie Date: 21 Mar 2019 Blog: FacebookCorporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie; How a farcical series of events in the 1880s produced an enduring and controversial legal precedent
somebody had (re-)posted above earlier today.
from the railroad fraud side:
http://phys.org/news/2012-01-railroad-hyperbole-echoes-dot-com-frenzy.html
and Railroaded
https://www.amazon.com/Railroaded-Transcontinentals-Making-America-ebook/dp/B0051GST1U
pg170/loc3706-12:
The San Francisco merchants joined an antimonopoly crusade led by the
Democrats that swept the California elections of 1882. The nearly
immediate defection of two of their new railroad commissioners had not
been what they expected. 108 And they were even more dismayed by two
decisions of Judge Stephen Field. The Southern Pacific had nearly
crippled many counties by refusing to pay taxes. Litigation culminated
in County of San Mateo v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company (1882) and
County of Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company (1883),
which famously voided the tax bills for charging different rates for
corporate and noncorporate owners and ruled that the corporation was a
person within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment and entitled to
all constitutional protections.
pg171/loc3735-36:
The political marriage of Leland Stanford and Christopher Buckley gave
birth to the Octopus. The Octopus temporarily thwarted
antimonopolists,
... snip ...
from the supreme court side
https://www.amazon.com/We-Corporations-American-Businesses-Rights-ebook/dp/B01M64LRDJ/
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#57 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#62 Railroaded
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#76 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#1 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#16 IBM Shrinks - Analysts Hate It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#73 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#45 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#53 Amdahl UTS manual
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#37 Income Inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#39 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#42 Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#38 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#35 Hammond threatens EU with aggressive tax changes after Brexit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#63 endless medical arguments, Disregard post (another screwup)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#5 The 1970s engineering recession
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#52 We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#93 Barb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#94 Barb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#16 America Celebrates Lateral Move From Monarchy To Corporate Rule
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#36 OT: Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#72 Top CEOs' compensation increased 17.6 percent in 2017
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#107 The LLC Loophole; In New York, where an LLC is legally a person
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#113 The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#8 The LLC Loophole; In New York, where an LLC is legally a person, companies can use the vehicles to blast through campaign finance limits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#9 A Tea Party Movement to Overhaul the Constitution Is Quietly Gaining
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#15 A Tea Party Movement to Overhaul the Constitution Is Quietly Gaining
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#22 A Tea Party Movement to Overhaul the Constitution Is Quietly Gaining
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#70 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#78 A Short History Of Corporations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#4 Noncompliant: A Lone Whistleblower Exposes the Giants of Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#35 The Myth of Capitalism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#43 Billionaire warlords: Why the future is medieval
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#44 People are Happier in Social Democracies Because There's Less Capitalism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#60 Grant (& Conkling)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Oct1986 IBM user group SEAS history presentation Date: 21 Mar 2019 Blog: FacebookOct1986 IBM user group SEAS history presentation, repeated at HILLGANG user group meeting 2011
was scheduled for one hour session at SEAS ... but lots of questions and asked to resume that night in function room off the bar ... ran another four hrs.
more trivia, IBM System magazine article from 2005 about active in
online forums and discussions on IBM history subjects (although they
garbled some of the history)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190524015712/http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/stoprun/Stop-Run/Making-History/
they had come to the house to take pictures, used in the paper
magazine copy.
for the fun of it, old archived email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#email830420
from long ago and far away
Date: 08/18/86 11:32:09
From: wheeler
I'm going to be in Austin tomorrow and Weds. for a earth station
installation review meeting. I should be back in San Jose on Thursday.
BTW, could you order me four pc/ats with 30meg. hard disks?
also, fyi, I'm giving a talk at SEAS in Oct. (Oct. 6th-9th on the isle
of Jersey). The following is the talk abstract/etc.:
History of VM Performance - 4.32 Lynn Wheeler .sk Abstract .sk I will present a quick historical perspective on VM performance, beginning in January of 1968 when I started work on CP/67. I will touch briefly on queue management, page thrashing controls, feedback algorithms, microcode assists, page I/O subsystems, multiprocessor support, shared segments, CP pathlengths, CMS file systems, virtual guests, page replacement algorithms and how many of these areas evolved over the last twenty years. .sk Systems covered will be CP/67, VM/370, VM/370 Resource Manager, VM/370 SEPP, VM/SP, and VM/HPO. .sk 2 -------- .sk 2 I began work on CP/67 while an undergraduate at Washington State University. .sk 2 I joined IBM at Cambridge Scientific Center in 1970. I worked primarily on CP & VM operating system technology and algorithms while at Cambridge. While at Cambridge, I released the VM/370 Resource Manager. .sk 2 I transfered to IBM San Jose Research in 1977. I continue to work primarily in the area of SCP software. Recently, I have been responsible for the SYSPAG changes that were released with VM/HPO3.4 and CMS Paging Access Method that are part of VM/PC release 2.
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
resource manager posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
paging algorithms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#wsclock
CMS page mapped filesystem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Oct1986 IBM user group SEAS history presentation Date: 21 Mar 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
Because I had mentioned HPO publically available information, local
management was concerned that respective organizations might not think
that I should be using publically available information.
Date: 09/16/86 10:14:45
From: wheeler
re: history of vm performance;
I don't compare pam to hpo. specs.
1) I have extract from a talk I gave at share in 1969 that shows work
that I did at wsu before joining ibm.
2) I have graph done in 1975 showing PID vm system, Resource Manger,
and plus PAM that was used as part of justification for Resource
Manager
3) I show the results of a benchmark (not comparison) that Bob Creasy
and I did in June of 1975 for ECPS.
4) I have numbers from 1979 that show PAM/CDF, PAM/EDF, and EDF/4k
performance.
5) Finally, I have a table that gives hardware configuration for a
typical PID CP/67 release 3.2 system and hardware configuration
for a typical PID HPO 2.5 system. There is then a column that gets
relative performance difference between the hardware in the two
configurations.
Those are the only comparisons done in the whole paper, the rest is
description of performance items taken out of published liturature
... w/o comparisons.
Because the time is short, which of the above five items do you
believe need approval for publication from Endicott or IBM Kingston (or in
the case of the hardware comparison, GPD, POK, etc.)?
items #1, #2, and #3 are all over ten years old and is work that I
did.
item #4 work is almost eight years old
item #5 comes from public published specifications on the performance
of the hardware in question (the 67 information is 15 years old and
the 3081 information is almost 5 years old).
I've been asked by local management for the mentioned topic (vmp003
script, history of vm performance) to get approval from endicott or
kingston. Do you know of anybody in Endicott that can approve the
talk? It is for fall SEAS meeting. I need to it by the 26th &/or
should contact SEAS immediately and tell them that the talk can't be
approved and they should cancel it.
... snip ... top of post, old email index
Most of the work I had done with CP/67 either as undergraduate or
shortly after joining IBM. Old email about migrating features from
CP/67 to VM/370 (for VM370, there was a great deal of simplification
and/or dropped from CP/67, the SEAS paper does reference the SHARE VM
paper about "VM/370 is regression from the best of CP67").
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
trivia: I had done a lot of work as undergraduate, dynamic adaptive
resource management and page replacement global least recently used
replacement algorithm, etc. With respect to Global LRU, Jim
Gray talked to me at ACM SIGOPS (Asilomar, 14-15Dec81) about helping a
co-worker at Tandem get his Stanford PHD (that involved Global
LRU technology). In the 60s when I was doing work on Global
LRU, there were papers published in CACM on "Local LRU" and then
the people responsible were heavily pressuring Stanford to not approve
PHD on Global LRU. I had lots of "apples-to-apples" detail
showing Global LRU had much better throughput than "Local LRU"
(which Jim wanted me to contribute). IBM then blocked my providing
that information for nearly a year. I hoped that IBM blocking me was
punishing me (for being blamed for online computer conferencing in the
late 70s and early 80s on the IBM internal network) and not because
they were taking sides in academic dispute. Finally allowed to
transmit information nearly year later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email821019
During this period, I was working with the IBM San Jose senior editor on drafts of several papers. He would comment that he had never seen anything like it before, management constantly objecting to content, regardless of how many times we would revise it. After five years of working with me, he returned all copies as pointless activity (IBM was never going to approve for publication anything I had written).
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
resource manager posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
paging algorithms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#wsclock
CMS page mapped filesystem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Oct1986 IBM user group SEAS history presentation Date: 22 Mar 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
with respect to upthread email reference about being in Austin for
earth station install meeting ... I also had project I called HSDT
doing T1 (1.5/2.0 mbit/sec) and faster speed links ... both
terrestrial and satellite, including working with NSF director and was
suppose to get $20M to interconnect NSF Supercomputer centers. Then
congress cuts the budget, some other things happens, and finally
release RFP. Old post with 28Mar1986 preliminary announce
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#12
reference
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
as regional networks connect into the centers, it morphs into NSFNET
backbone, precursor to modern internet.
Internal politics prevent us from bidding. The NSF director tries to
help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) with support from other gov. agencies, but that just makes the internal politics worse (as
does comments that what we already had running was at least 5yrs ahead
of all bid submissions). Part of internal politics was the
communication group was spreading a lot of internal misinformation
implying that SNA/VTAM could do the job. Somebody collected a bunch of
their internal email and forwarded to us ... heavily snipped and
redacted (to protect the guilty).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
Other old NSF related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
and old HSDT related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#hsdt
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
Internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Oct1986 IBM user group SEAS history presentation Date: 24 Mar 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
EVE (Endicott Verification Engine) was in Disk Engineering machine room, disk engineering had been temporarily relocated to offsite "bldg 86" just south of the plant site, while bldg 14 under went seismic retrofit. The use of HSDT sat. link and GPD EVE is credited with helping bring RIOS chipset (RS/6000) in a year early. HSDT had 4.5meter dishes at LSG & YKT, but a 7meter dish going into next to Austin bldg. 45 (more signal intereference).
Trivia: Ken filed raid patent 1977
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
801/risc, Iliad, romp, rios, power, power/pc, etc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie Date: 24 Mar 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
more Railroaded
pg77/pg1984-86:
By the end of the summer of 1873 the western railroads had, within the
span of two years, ended the Indian treaty system in the United
States, brought down a Canadian government, and nearly paralyzed the
U.S. Congress. The greatest blow remained to be delivered. The
railroads were about to bring down the North American economy.
pg510/loc10030-33:
The result was not only unneeded railroads whose effects were as often
bad as beneficial but also corruption of the markets and the
government. The men who directed this capital were frequently not
themselves capitalists. They were entrepreneurs who borrowed money or
collected subsidies. These entrepreneurs did not invent the railroad,
but they were inventing corporations, railroad systems, and new forms
of competition. Those things yielded both personal wealth and social
disasters.
pg515/loc10118-22:
The need to invest capital and labor in large amounts to maintain and
upgrade what had already been built was one debt owed to the past, but
the second one was what Charles Francis Adams in his days as a
reformer referred to as a tax on trade. All of the watered stock,
money siphoned off into private pockets, waste, and fraud that
characterized the building of the railroads created a corporate debt
that had to be paid through higher rates and scrimping on service. A
shipper in 1885 was still paying for the frauds of the 1860s.
... snip ...
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: England: South Sea Bubble - The Sharp Mind of John Blunt Date: 25 Mar 2019 Blog: FacebookEngland: South Sea Bubble - The Sharp Mind of John Blunt - Extra History - #1
South Sea Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company
The South Sea Bubble
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/South-Sea-Bubble/
South Sea Bubble
https://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/ssb/history.html
South Sea Bubble
https://www.britannica.com/event/South-Sea-Bubble
Railroad hyperbole echoes all the way down to the dot-com frenzy
http://phys.org/news/2012-01-railroad-hyperbole-echoes-dot-com-frenzy.html
and Railroaded (enormous fraud, graft, and corruption)
https://www.amazon.com/Railroaded-Transcontinentals-Making-America-ebook/dp/B0051GST1U
pg77/pg1984-86:
By the end of the summer of 1873 the western railroads had, within the
span of two years, ended the Indian treaty system in the United
States, brought down a Canadian government, and nearly paralyzed the
U.S. Congress. The greatest blow remained to be delivered. The
railroads were about to bring down the North American economy.
... snip ...
Economic mess, 2001-2008 over $27T (triple-A rated, toxic) CDOs/MBSs
... "Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With `Fools' Born to Buy Debt"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
The bundling of consumer loans and home mortgages into packages of
securities -- a process known as securitization -- was the biggest
U.S. export business of the 21st century. More than $27 trillion of
these securities have been sold since 2001, according to the
Securities Industry Financial Markets Association, an industry trade
group. That's almost twice last year's U.S. gross domestic product of
$13.8 trillion.
... snip ...
Economic mess, YE2008, four largest TBTF still carrying $5.2T in
offbook toxic CDOs/MBSs ... "Banks' Hidden Junk Menaces $1 Trillion
Purge"
https://quantnet.com/threads/banks-hidden-junk-menaces-1-trillion-purge.2444/
At the end of 2008, for example, off-balance-sheet assets at just the
four biggest U.S. banks -- Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc.,
JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co. -- were about $5.2
trillion, according to their 2008 annual filings.
... snip ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black#Bill_Moyers_Journal_appearance
On April 3, 2009 Black appeared on Bill Moyers Journal on PBS and
provided critical commentary on the U.S. banking crisis.[6] In the
interview with Bill Moyers,[7] Black asserted that the banking crisis
in the United States that started in late 2008 is essentially a big
Ponzi scheme; that the "liar loans" and other financial tricks were
essentially illegal frauds; and that the triple-A ratings given to
these loans was part of a criminal cover-up. He said that the "Prompt
Corrective Action Law" passed after the Savings and loan crisis
mandated that ailing banks should be put into receivership. Black also
stated that trying to hide how bad the situation is will simply
prolong the problem, as happened in Japan and resulted in Japan's lost
decade. Black stated that Timothy Geithner was engaged in a cover-up,
and that the administration did not want people to understand what
went wrong or how bad the banking situation was.
... snip ...
TARP was justified for buying these offbook toxic assets, but with only $700B appropriated, it would hardly make a dent in the problem. TARP was used for other stuff and it was up to the Federal Reserve to do the real bailout behind the scenes. Being able to pay for triple-A (when rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008 congressional hearings), eliminated any need to care about borrower's qualifications and/or loan quality; they could securitize the mortgages, pay for triple-A and immediately sell-off into bond market (including to institutions restricted to "safe investments", like large pension funds). Then they found that they could design CDOs/MBSs to fail, pay for triple-A, sell into the bond market, and take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail. The largest holder of these CDS gambling bets was AIG and negotiating to pay off at 50cents on the dollar, when SECTREAS (Geithner predecessor) steps in, has them sign document that they won't sue those making the bets and to take TARP funds to pay off at face value. The largest recipient of TARP funds was AIG and the largest recipient of face value payoffs was the firm formally headed by SECTREAS.
re: England still paying off South Sea Bubble, 300yrs later, Railroaded
pg515/loc10118-22:
The need to invest capital and labor in large amounts to maintain and
upgrade what had already been built was one debt owed to the past, but
the second one was what Charles Francis Adams in his days as a
reformer referred to as a tax on trade. All of the watered stock,
money siphoned off into private pockets, waste, and fraud that
characterized the building of the railroads created a corporate debt
that had to be paid through higher rates and scrimping on service. A
shipper in 1885 was still paying for the frauds of the 1860s.
... snip ...
recent Economic Mess still going on.
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
(triple-A rated) toxic CDO/MBS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
posts referencing Railroaded
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#57 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#62 Railroaded
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#76 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#1 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#73 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#37 Income Inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#39 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#42 Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#52 We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#72 Top CEOs' compensation increased 17.6 percent in 2017
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#60 Grant (& Conkling)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#3 Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#8 Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: England: South Sea Bubble - The Sharp Mind of John Blunt Date: 25 Mar 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
VP and former CIA director repeatedly claims no knowledge of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family (Neil)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another (Jeb)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
last decade (after turn of century) another family member is president and presides over the economic mess 70 times larger than the S&L crisis, proportionally there should be 70,000 convictions (with jailtime).
S&L crisis posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
'29 crash, Pecora Hearings, FDIC insured and/or Glass-Steagall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
other Black reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black#Savings_and_loan_scandal
The former Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention now teaches
Economics and Law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. During
the savings and loan crisis, it was Black who accused then-house
speaker Jim Wright and five US Senators, including John Glenn and John
McCain, of doing favors for the S&L's in exchange for contributions
and other perks. The senators got off with a slap on the wrist, but so
enraged was one of those bankers, Charles Keating -- after whom the
senate's so-called "Keating Five" were named -- he sent a memo that
read, in part, 'get Black -- kill him dead.' Metaphorically, of
course. Of course.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: For The Average Investor, The Next Bear Market Will Likely Be The Last Date: 25 Mar 2019 Blog: FacebookFor The Average Investor, The Next Bear Market Will Likely Be The Last
Are nightmares of the recession still haunting your investing dreams?
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/are-nightmares-of-the-recession-still-haunting-your-investing-dreams-2019-03-15?mod=mw_theo_homepage&mod=mw_theo_homepage
The 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 started doing reports of public company fraudulent financial filings, even showing uptic/increase after SOX goes into effect (and nobody doing jailtime).
In the congressional Madoff hearings they had the person that had tried unsuccessfully to get SEC to do something about Madoff (SEC hands were forced when Madoff turned himself in, folklore he was looking for gov. protection after having defrauded some unsavory characters). Congress asked him if new regulations were needed. He replied that while new regulations might be needed, much more important would be transparency and visibiilty (possibly because SEC was doing so little with the regulations they had).
Note traders make money from volatility ... pump&dump on the way
up and short on the way down. Stable, long-term hold drastically
cuts into their revenue. reference from last decade about they all do
it and have nothing to worry about from regulators
http://nypost.com/2007/03/20/cramer-reveals-a-bit-too-much/
Cramer ref was just before HFT getting started, which has
significantly increased ability to manipulate the market.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_trading
https://www.newsweek.com/how-high-frequency-trading-firms-can-rig-game-278000
sarbanes-oxley posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
financial reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
enron posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
madoff posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
HFT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#44 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#13 Study links ultrafast machine trading with risk of crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#86 The Dangers of High-Frequency Trading; Wall Street's Speed Freaks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#44 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#7 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#2 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#29 Destructive Destruction? An Ecological Study of High Frequency Trading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#41 Computer Simulations Reveal Benefits of Random Investment Strategies Over Traditional Ones
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#54 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#67 The End Of 'Orderly And Fair Markets'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#53 Retirement Savings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#40 The Wall Street Code: HFT Whisteblower Haim Bodek on Algorithmic Trading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#89 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#65 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#93 New York seeks curbs on high-frequency trading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#100 New York seeks curbs on high-frequency trading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#18 FBI Investigates High-Speed Trading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#60 FBI Investigates High-Speed Trading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#71 FBI Investigates High-Speed Trading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#72 Three Expensive Milliseconds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#20 HFT, computer trading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#1 HFT is harmful, say US market participants
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#107 The SEC's Mary Jo White Punts on High Frequency Trading and Abandons Securities Act of 1934
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#109 SEC Caught Dark Pool and High Speed Traders Doing Bad Stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#64 Dark Pool Greed Drove Barclays to Lie to Clients, N.Y. Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#106 only sometimes From looms to computers to looms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#58 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#17 Robots have been running the US stock market, and the government is finally taking control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#58 Time to Fire Mary Jo White: SEC Covers Up for Bank Capital Accounting Scam Promoted by Her Former Firm, Debevoise
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#46 seveneves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#47 seveneves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#66 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/2015h.html#23 It A "Liquidity Mirage": New York Fed Finally Grasps How Broken The Market Is Due To HFTs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#18 Bundesbank Confirms HFTs Reduce Liquidity, Contribute To Flash Crashes, Withdraw At Times Of "Market Stress"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#10 Nasdaq asks SEC for speed bump to protect retail traders
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#43 when to get out???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#23 How do BIG WEBSITES work?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#60 The Windows 95 chime was created on a Mac
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#95 The Return Of Haim Bodek - HFT's First Whistleblower
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#104 Netscape: The Fire That Filled Silicon Valley's First Bubble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#105 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#108 Share Buybacks and the Contradictions of "Shareholder Capitalism"
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: For The Average Investor, The Next Bear Market Will Likely Be The Last Date: 25 Mar 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
GRIFTOPIA
https://www.amazon.com/Griftopia-Machines-Vampire-Breaking-America/dp/0385529953
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griftopia
One of the topics in "Griftopia" was that the commodity markets had requirement that participants have significant position in the commodity because speculators resulted in wild, irrational price swings (pump&dump on the way up and short on the way down). There were then 19 "secret" letters allowing exemptions for specific entities, resulting in wild, irrational price swings ... ... including huge spike in oil (& gasoline) summer of 2008. Later, a member of congress published the summer of 2008 transactions showing those responsible ... somehow they then got the press to vilify the member of congress for violating corporate privacy (misdirection away from the speculators)
griftopia posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#griftopia
... "corporate privacy" possibly enabled by "corporations are people"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#35 Hammond threatens EU with aggressive tax changes after Brexit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#34 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#42 The Man Who Wrote Those Password Rules Has a New Tip: N3v$r M1^d!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#63 endless medical arguments, Disregard post (another screwup)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#97 Business as Usual: The Long History of Corporate Personhood
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#98 endless medical arguments, Disregard post (another screwup)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#23 How to Stuff a Wild Duck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#5 The 1970s engineering recession
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#102 Hidden History of How US Corporations Gained Legal Personhood and Civil Rights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#52 We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#93 Barb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#94 Barb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#30 These Are the Best Companies to Work For in the U.S
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#72 Top CEOs' compensation increased 17.6 percent in 2017
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#84 Top CEOs' compensation increased 17.6 percent in 2017
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#100 The (broken) economics of OSS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#107 The LLC Loophole; In New York, where an LLC is legally a person
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#113 The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#8 The LLC Loophole; In New York, where an LLC is legally a person, companies can use the vehicles to blast through campaign finance limits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#15 A Tea Party Movement to Overhaul the Constitution Is Quietly Gaining
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#16 IBM Z and cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#70 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#78 A Short History Of Corporations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#4 Noncompliant: A Lone Whistleblower Exposes the Giants of Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#60 Grant (& Conkling)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#3 Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#8 Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Tandem Memo Date: 26 Mar 2019 Blog: FacebookLate 70s & early 80s, I was blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal network; folklore is that when the corporate executive committee was told about online computer conferencing (and the internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me. From IBMJargon:
Jim Gray had left for tandem, palming off a bunch of stuff on me as
well as tome about IBM ... from IBMJargon:
MIP envy n. The term, coined by Jim Gray in 1980, that began the
Tandem Memos (q.v.). MIP envy is the coveting of other's facilities -
not just the CPU power available to them, but also the languages,
editors, debuggers, mail systems and networks. MIP envy is a term
every programmer will understand, being another expression of the
proverb The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
... snip ...
copy here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#email800920
Jim also had a slightly different version was up on his Microsoft
Research site.
http://jimgray.azurewebsites.net/papers/mipenvy.pdf
Some of us would periodically visit Jim at Tandem on Friday
afternoon. After one such visit, I distributed a trip report
(including comparison of Tandem & IBM management styles), which then
snowballed into "tandem memos" ... which had a lot to say about how
IBM operated. There was then some misdirection about how "Tandem
Memos" was about the lack of computer resources inside IBM (as opposed
to anything that might be interpreted as criticism about how IBM was
managed), aka earlier "MIP Envy". In support of that theme, there was
study tour of other research institutions. Pieces of those tour
reports:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#61
other pieces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#56
Jim disappeared at sea and then there was a tribute of his life at
Berkeley (archived at wayback machine)
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
IBMJargon on web:
http://www.comlay.net/ibmjarg.pdf
online computer conferencing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internal
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Tandem Memo Date: 26 Mar 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
Almost everything in HONE was done in APL, all the configurators ... SEQUOIA (the large tailored interactive environment that HONE users were placed in), etc. In the middle 70s all US HONE datacenters were consolidated in silicon valley and by late 70s had largest single system image, loosely-couple complex ... eight large POK (168) two processor systems sharing the same disk farm with load-balancing and fall-over across the complex. Even with 16 processors couldn't keep up with the APL CPU workload.
Around the time of the silicon valley consolidation, they started recoding some of the most intensive CPU APL applications in FORTRAN (some cases get 50 times CPU reduction).
HONE had started out with CP67 for branch office online use of guest operating systems in virtual machine. The science center also did port of APL\360 to CP67/CMS as CMS\APL ... and HONE started providing online sales&marketing support applications done in APL. Eventually the APL applications came to dominate all HONE use ... and the virtual guest withered away. There was short period when HONE moved off my CP67s to standard VM370 product.
I then did migration of lots of my CP67 code to VM370 (including lots
of stuff I had originally done as undergraduate in the 60s). Some old
email:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
Original CP67&VM370 limited "shared pages" to virtual machine IPL ("by name"). For HONE they created a special CMS system that included all of APL system as "shared system" (significantly cutting real storage requirements and paging activity). However, there was no automagic way to switch from APL to Fortran and back to APL. Part of my CP67/CMS enhancements moved to VM370 was paged mapped filesystem that allowed applications to be defined with shared pages ... which allowed transparent switching back and forth between APL & FORTRAN ... and HONE became one of my earliest CSC/VM (later SJR/VM) customer and then my multiprocessor support (allowing doubling processors from eight to 16). A small subset of my shared page later shipped to customers as DCSS in release 3 and then multiprocessor ships in standard product in release 4.
HONE &/or APL posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
csc/vm (&/or sjr/vm) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#cscvm
multiprocessor &/or compare&swap posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
paged mapped filesystem posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
shared pages/module posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#adcon
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Tandem Memo Date: 26 Mar 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
Regarding Jim's MIP Envy comments about porting System/R (original RDBMS had been done on dedicate VM/CMS 370/145 during the 70s) to MVS (eventually announced as DB2) ... having to do the work on MVS/TSO in virtual machine on (loaded) VM/370 158. SJR originally had the 370/145 for System/R and 370/195 for batch work. SJR then got a 370/158 for general VM/CMS (eliminating 370/145) and eventually the 370/195 was replaced with MVS 370/168.
The VM/158, MVS/168 configuration was a few (dedicated) strings of 3330s with two-channel controllers allowing access to all strings by both machines. However there were strict rules about not mixing MVS & VM packs on the "dedicated" MVS&VM controllers. One morning, MVS operations "accidentally" mounted a MVS 3330 pack on a VM/CMS controller. Almost immediately the datacenter got irate CMS user calls complaining about CMS server had suddently severely deteriorated. We identified the problem as the MVS 3330 on VM controller and asked that it had to be immediately moved. Operations replied that they would delay moving the MVS 3330 until offshift (meaning that VM/CMS service was going to horribly suffer all day). We then take a VS1 (optimized for running in VM370 virtual machine) and mounted its 3330 on MVS controller. All of a sudden MVS/168 throughput plummeted and VM/370 throughput got significantly better.
The issue is that OS/360 and its descendants make heavy use of multi-track search operations (VTOC, PDS directory, etc), which ties up the device, controller, and channel for the duration of the operation (lots of full cylinder multi-track searches taking 1/3rd second elapsed time on 3330). The MVS pack on VM controller was creating enormous controller busy, blocking CMS access. Turns out that tailored VS1 for VM370 virtual machine on heavily loaded VM/158, has higher throughput than dedicated MVS/168 ... VS1/VM370 multi-track search was slowing down all MVS throughput, including for the MVS application using the 3330 on the VM controller. The MVS operators immediately agreed to move the MVS 3330 (on the VM controller), if we would stop the VS1 system.
Not long later, I was brought into a large Oakland datacenter (for national grocery chain). They had several dedicated (batch) systems all sharing same disk farm, supporting store operations. They were experiencing severe degradation and throughput at all stores during peak load. All the usual corporate MVS experts had been brought in to investigate the problem, without any results. They brought me to class/meeting room with dozen tables, all covered with paper stacks of system activity. After 30-40 minutes I started to notice that the aggregate activity for a specific disk would peak around 6-7 I/Os per second (sum'ed across all system activity) corresponded with the periods of worst system throughput. It turns out that the disk contained a large software library of store controller transaction applications ... with 3cylinder PDS directory. Every store controller transaction loaded an application from the library required, seek/multi-track search for library member, then seek/read to load the member. It was taking avg. of two seek/multi-track search to find the directory member, then seek/read to load the member. First multi-track search was full cylinder, 19 tracks, 60revs/sec ... plus seek was 1/3sec elapsed time. The 2nd multi-track search avg. 9.5 tracks taking 1/6sec plus seek/read, a little over 1/2sec. It turns out the avg. was slightly less than 1/2sec ... being able to get a smidge more than two store controller transaction application loads per second, aggregate, across all the systems in the complex for all stores in the nation.
"FIX" involved 1) splitting store controller applications into multiple PDS libraries so each directory was less than single cylinder and 2) replicating dedicated application libraries on separate 3330 for each system, mounted on a dedicated system disk controller (so system library accesses weren't interfering with each other).
Disclaimer: I had run into this as undergraduate in the 60s when I
carefully redid the STAGE2 SYSGEN output from OS/360 STAGE1. Part of
it was to cluster highest used files and PDS members to minimize disk
arm seek distances. Placing the highest used PDS members first, also
met that their directory entries were first (significantly reducing
multi-track search time). In aggregate, cut elapsed time for typical
student jobs by nearly 2/3rds. From part of old 60s presentation at
SHARE ... includes both optimizing OS/360 as well as rewriting much of
CP67 code:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#18
posts mentioning DASD, multi-track search, performance, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
other posts mentioning getting to play disk engineer in bldgs 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
posts mentioning original SQL/relational, System/R
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Tandem Memo Date: 26 Mar 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
lots more trivia, in the 86/87 time-frame, the communication group was
spreading huge amount misinformation about the IBM internal network
had to be converted to SNA/VTAM (or bad things would happen). It would
have been significantly better, much better service and throughput,
and significant lower cost ... as the corporate sponsored university
BITNET did for BITNET2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
I had been working with members of the internal network backbone
steering committee on lots of enhancements ... and then was told that
the communication group had gotten meetings restricted to managers
only (not wanting to have their SNA/VTAM effort confused with
technical facts). some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email870302
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#email870306
At the same time they were spreading lots of misinformation that the
NSF supercomputer centers could be interconnected with SNA/VTAM.
Somebody collected a lot of their internal email and forwarded it to
us ... heavily snipped and redacted to protect the guilty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
Early in HSDT effort (doing T1/1.5&2.0 mbits/sec and faster links), we
were working with NSF director and was suppose to get $20M to
interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers. Then congress cuts the
budget, some other things happen and eventually release on RFP (in
part based on what we already had running). Copy of 3/28/86
preliminary announce:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#12
Internal politics prevent us from bidding, the NSF director tries to
help and writes the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO),
with the support from other agencies, but that just makes the internal politics worse (as does
comment that what we already had running was at least 5yrs ahead of
all RFP responses).
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
As regional networks connect into the centers, it morphs into the
NSFNET backbone, precursor to modern internet.
At the same time communication group was spreading misinformation that supercomputer center interconnect (which called for T1) could use SNA/VTAM, they generated a study for the corporate executive committee that customers wouldn't be interested in T1 support before sometime in the 90s (in part because 3705/3725 only supported 56kbit/sec). The study looked at customer "fat pipes" (multiple parallel 56kbit links treated as single logical link), finding that the use dropped to zero around six links. What they didn't know (and/or avoided presenting) was that typical TELCO tariffs for T1 was about the same as five or six 56kbit links. Customers were just switching to full T1 links supported by non-IBM controllers.
Communication group is then forced into corner to support some sort of
T1 support and come out with 3737 ... which is a box with a boat loads
of M68k processors and memory that simulates CTCA giving immediate
ACKs to data RUs ... trying to mask (terrestrial) transmission latency
(that SNA/VTAM doesn't tolerate well, max un-ACKed RUs quickly
exceeded). Even with all the resources, 3737 peaks about 2mbit/sec
aggregate, US T1 full-duplex is 3mbits/sec and EU T1 full-duplex is
4mbits/sec. old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#email880130
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#email880606
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#email881005
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
BITNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: How Iran Won Our Iraq War Date: 27 Mar 2019 Blog: FacebookHow Iran Won Our Iraq War
more from the law of unintended consequences (that come back to bite you), note that the decision to dissolve the Iraq military and throw all the members on the street ... gave rise to the formation of ISIS.
last decade (before invasion), cousin of white house chief of staff
Card ... was dealing with the Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence
that WMDs (tracing back to US in the Iran/Iraq war) had been
decommissioned. the cousin shared it with Card, Powell and others
... then is locked up in military hospital, book was published in 2010
(before decommissioned WMDs were declassified)
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
NY Times series from 2014, the decommission WMDs (tracing back to US
from Iran/Iraq war), had been found early in the invasion, but the
information was classified for a decade
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html
Note in the 80s during Iran/Iraq war, US supported Iraq & Saddam,
including supplying WMDs. Then in 90s, sat. photo recon analyst told
white house that saddam was marshaling forces to invade Kuwait. White
house said that they didn't believe him and proceeded to discredit the
analyst. Later the analyst informed the white house that saddam was
marshaling forces to invade Saudi Arabia, now the white house has to
choose between saddam and the Saudis.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2/
and more from the law of unintended consequences,
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
invaders were told to bypass ammo dumps looking for (fabricated) WMDs,
when they get around to going back, over a million metric tons had
evaporated. Later large artillery shells start showing up in
IEDs. Also, military-industrial complex wanted a war so badly that
corporate reps were telling former eastern block countries that if
they voted for IRAQ2 invasion in the UN, they would get membership in
NATO and (directed appropriation) USAID that can only be used for
purchase of US arms
Family of Secrets
https://www.amazon.com/Family-Secrets-Americas-Invisible-Government-ebook/dp/B003NSBMNA/
... has Bush creating "Team B" after becoming CIA Director. All the
other stuff I've read about "Team B" has Colby not approving the "Team
B" analysis and Rumsfeld getting Colby replaced with Bush, who would
approve "Team B" analysis (justifying huge DOD spending increase),
then Rumsfeld resigns as white house chief of staff (replaced by his
assistant Cheney) to become SECDEF.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
This century, H. is president, Cheney is VP, Rumsfeld is SECDEF and
one of the "Team B" members is deputy SECDEF (and major architect of
Iraq policy).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz
continuing the law of unintended consequences that come back to bite
you; pg292/loc6057-59:
There was also a calculated decision to use the Saudis as surrogates
in the cold war. The United States actually encouraged Saudi efforts
to spread the extremist Wahhabi form of Islam as a way of stirring up
large Muslim communities in Soviet-controlled countries. (It didn't
hurt that Muslim Soviet Asia contained what were believed to be the
world's largest undeveloped reserves of oil.)
... snip ..
... radical Islam let loose on the world
"Team B" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
WMD posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: How Iran Won Our Iraq War Date: 27 Mar 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
Note Sunni and Shia are akin to the Irish Catholics and Protestants ... although the Sunni/Shia conflicts have had lots of western oil politics thrown in.
Churchill describes the mess in the middle east starting before UK
when they wanted to move to more powerful battleships necessitating
move from coal to oil. The World Crisis, Vol. 1, loc2087-89:
To build any large additional number of oil-burning ships meant basing
our naval supremacy upon oil. But oil was not found in appreciable
quantities in our islands. If we required it, we must carry it by sea
in peace or war from distant countries.
loc2151-56:
This led to enormous expense and to tremendous opposition on the Naval
Estimates. Yet it was absolutely impossible to turn back. We could
only fight our way forward, and finally we found our way to the
Anglo-Persian Oil agreement and contract, which for an initial
investment of two millions of public money (subsequently increased to
five millions) has not only secured to the Navy a very substantial
proportion of its oil supply, but has led to the acquisition by the
Government of a controlling share in oil properties and interests
which are at present valued at scores of millions sterling, and also
to very considerable economies, which are still continuing, in the
purchase price of Admiralty oil.
... snip ...
After WW2, Iran has democratically elected president that wants to
look at the Anglo-Persian deal. US helps with coup to depose the
president
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 in power, US (including Norman Schwarzkopf
senior) trained
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK
Savak Agent Describes How He Tortured Hundreds
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/18/archives/savak-agent-describes-how-he-tortured-hundreds-trial-is-in-a-mosque.html
Iran people eventually revolt against the horribly oppressive,
autocratic government.
Original justification for Iraq invasion was their support of Al Qaeda
(which was just the opposite) and then changed to WMDs. White House
Chief of Staff Card's cousin was dealing with Iraq in the UN and given
proof that the WMDs (tracing back to US in the Iraq/Iran war) were
decommissioned; shares the information with their cousin Card and
others ... is then locked up in military hospital. Eventually
publishes account in 2010 (4yrs before information was declassified)
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
NY Times series from 2014, the decommission WMDs (tracing back to US
from Iran/Iraq war), had been found early in the invasion, but the
information was classified for a decade
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html
again from the law of unintended consequences that come back to bite, decision to disband the Iraq military and dump all the members on the street gives rise to ISIS
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
WMD posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
Churchill refs to needing "oil":
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#78 The World Crisis, Vol. 1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#102 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#21 US and UK have staged coups before
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#23 Frieden calculator
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#102 Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#39 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
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/2017h.html#104 Iraq, Longest War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#115 When It Comes to the War in the Greater Middle East, Maybe We're the Bad Guys
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#14 Predicting the future in five years as seen from 1983
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#82 DEC and HVAC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#30 free, huh, was Bitcoin confusion?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#59 America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#90 The G.O.P. Tax Cut Is Draining the Treasury Even Faster Than Expected
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#104 Iran shrink-wrapped $100 Payments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#99 tablets and desktops was Has Microsoft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#88 Trump administration appointee quits lobbying for Saudi Arabia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#48 Iran Payments
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Does Capitalism Kill Cooperation? Date: 28 Mar 2019 Blog: FacebookDoes Capitalism Kill Cooperation?
"RAILROADED"
https://www.amazon.com/Railroaded-Transcontinentals-Making-America-ebook/dp/B0051GST1U
has corporations cut-throat directly against each other ... and then evolving into using government against each other ... not just buying members of government to loot government funds ... but owning members of government & government decisions against other other.
There appeared to be periods of cooperation against a "common" enemy but then devolved into blind-siding each other when other threats had been dealt with. Lots of individuals with little sense of ethics ... lots of individuals in the economic mess last decade described as sociopaths.
In 80s, there were silicon valley get togethers where people could bring unannounced products that people from other companies could play with ... but that culture pretty much disappeared in the 90s ... with the rise of vulture capitalists. In 1999 when I was asked to help try and prevent the coming economic mess, I was told that some investment bankers had walked away "clean" from the S&L crisis and were then running Internet IPO mills, invest a few millions, hype, then IPO for a couple billion, should then fail, to leave the field clear for the next round of IPOs (and were predicted to get into securitzed mortgages next).
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
S&L crisis posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
posts mentioning railroaded:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#57 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#62 Railroaded
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#70 Regulatory Agency logo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#79 Bain: A consulting firm too hot to handle? (Fortune, 1987)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#2 Occupy the SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#62 Why Is Finance So Big?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#48 IBM cuts more than 1,000 U.S. workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#22 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#73 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#76 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#84 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#29 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#31 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#32 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#37 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#1 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#66 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#11 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#84 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#73 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#37 Income Inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#39 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#59 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#42 Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#45 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#49 How Finance Behaves like a Parasite Toward the Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#108 GE's $31 billion pension nightmare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#52 We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#72 Top CEOs' compensation increased 17.6 percent in 2017
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#44 People are Happier in Social Democracies Because There's Less Capitalism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#60 Grant (& Conkling)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#3 Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#8 Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#9 England: South Sea Bubble - The Sharp Mind of John Blunt
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Internal Telephone Message System Date: 28 Mar 2019 Blog: Facebookphone msg email from long ago and far away:
In the late 70s, we would have discussions at "Fridays" after work about the dismal level of computer literacy among managers and executives ... and what we could do to encourage computer use. We came up with online telephone books, Jim Gray would write the CMS application and I would write processes to collect softcopy of corporate phone books, format, and distribute ... with criteria that neither of us would spend more than a week on the effort. One of the biggest problems were security officers who felt that online phonebooks should have much higher security classification than the paper copy "internal use only" (aka only available to those with demonstrated "need to know").
It was also one of the internal applications collected by the PROFS organization. PROFS trivia: one of the other applications collected was very early "VMSG" for the email client. When the VMSG author tried to offer the PROFS group an enhanced version, they tried to get them fired (since they apparently had claimed credit). The whole thing quiets down when the "VMSG" author demonstrates that all PROFS email/notes have his initials in non-displayed field. After that the "VMSG" author would only share his source with me and one other person.
vmsg email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmsg
vnet email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vnet
cjntel email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#cjntel
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Online Computer Conferencing Date: 29 Mar 2019 Blog: Facebookmore than you every wanted to know, Online Computer Conferencing
TYMSHARE & mainframe online computer conferencing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare
Started offerring its CMS-based online computer conferencing free to
mainframe, user group, SHARE in Aug1976, vmshare archive at Marist
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
I cut a deal with TYMSHARE to get monthly "tape-dump", copy of all
VMSHARE (later PCSHARE) files for putting up on the internal network
(larger than ARPANET/Internet from just about the beginning until
sometime mid-80s). One of the biggest problems I faced was corporate
lawyers that were afraid that IBM employees would be contaminated by
exposure to customer information. Related old VMSHARE email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmshare
Note coworker at Cambridge science center was responsible for
RSCS/VNET technology used for the internal network. RSCS/VNET was also
later used for the corporate sponsored university BITNET (also for a
time larger than ARPANET/Internet).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
another former coworker at Cambridge (on sabbatical from Grenoble
science center) was then responsible for putting together EARN (BITNET
in Europe)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Academic_and_Research_Network
... old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#email840320
In the late 70s and early 80s, I was blamed for online computer
conferencing on the internal network. Folklore is that when the
corporate executive committee was told about online computer
conferencing (and the internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me. One
of the outcomes was an officially developed application/tool and
"officially" sanctioned discussion groups. At EARN in 1986, (a subset
of the internal tool) was developed in Paris, a mailing list based
online computer conferencing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISTSERV
The descendant of that product has been ported to lots of other
platforms
http://lsoft.com/products/listserv_os.asp
Google Groups includes gateways for many mailing list discussions,
this is a still active BITNET group from the mid-80s
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bit.listserv.ibm-main
the Google group copy shows everything sent to the mailing list, however if somebody posts to the Google group copy, it only shows up at Google (a copy isn't sent to the mailing list).
Listserv (& clones) typically provide a number of options,
http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/user/user.html
including being able to receive each individual post as separate email
or receiving periodic "digests" (all individual posts as single digest
email) as well as webserver that has online archive of all posts.
The "facebook-like" GOOGLE+ goes away in a few days, 2April2019.
https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723?hl=en
online computer conferencing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
bitnet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Online Computer Conferencing Date: 29 Mar 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
remember in the wake of Future System implosion, the head of POK went to Corporate and convinced them to kill the VM/370 product, shutdown the burlington mall development group, move all the people to POK to be part of MVS/XA development ... or otherwise MVS/XA wouldn't ship on time. They were planning on not telling the Burlington people of the shutdown/move until just before the shutdown (to minimize the number of people that might escape). The information about the shutdown manage to leak early ... and lots of people manage to escape (DEC VMS was just starting and there is joke that the head of POK was one of the biggest contributors to DEC VMS). There was then a witchhunt to find out who leaked the information ... fortunately for me, nobody gave up the leaker.
Endicott managed to save the VM370 product mission ... but had to
reconstitute a development group from scratch. There is quite a bit of
comments about the VM370 code quality during this period in VMSHARE
... some about online computer conferencing and VMSHARE in this recent
IBM Retirees post
https://www.facebook.com/groups/62822320855/permalink/10156875894775856/
Also during this period, Amdahl had a tshirt with a vulture on the front that said "VM/SP1 is waiting for you" ... all the problems that Endicott had building a brand new development group from scratch.
The other problem in this time-frame was the next new processor model was 3081 which was going to be multiprocessor only. The problem was that ACP/TPF support was still single/uni processor only (didn't have multiprocessort support). The clone makers were still coming out with newer single processor machines ... and IBM had concern that possibly the whole ACP/TPF market would move to non-IBM mainframes. To try and block this, there was some extremely unnatural things done to VM/SP1 to make ACP/TPF running in single virtual machine ... run faster on 3081 multirpocessor ... which had the unfortunate downside of significantly cutting throughput for all other vm/370 customers (contributing to Amdahl vm/sp1 "vulture" tshirt).
Eventually IBM did start shipping a single processor 3083 ... 3081 with one of the processors removed ... but VMSP1 still continued to suffer from the changes for ACP/TPF.
I would get called into various customer situations ... this is an
email about customers still suffering from the ACP/TPF changes
... this particular large government agency which had numerous virtual
machine based online systems back to CP67 in the 60s ... IBM was doing
some things that involved 3270 activity (and other things) to mask the
degradation of the ACP/TPF changes ... however this particular
customer was primarily 1200 baud ASCII terminals ... from long ago and
far away
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#email830420
including fixes brought forward from CP67 (remember VM/370 starting out significantly changing from CP67, dropping and/or simplifying lots of features).
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
posts mentioning Amdahl vm/sp1 vulture tshirt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#11 vm/sp1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#14 vm/sp1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#44 vm/sp1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#38 long-winded post thread, 3033, 3081, Future System
some recent posts mentioning 3083
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#58 Man Versus System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#74 Lineage of TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#81 DEC and The Americans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#82 DEC and The Americans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#23 IBM's 3033; "The Big One": IBM's 3033
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#130 3380 & 3081 history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#20 {wtf} Tymshare SuperBasic Source Code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#84 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#94 GREAT presentation on the history of the mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#56 What is the most epic computer glitch you have ever seen?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#33 Bad History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#39 IBM etc I/O channels?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#60 SABRE after the 7090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#62 The IRS Really Needs Some New Computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#38 long-winded post thread, 3033, 3081, Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#77 How many years ago?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Online Computer Conferencing Date: 29 Mar 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
In HSDT project we were having some hardware built on the other side of the Pacific, in 1986 ... Friday just before going to visit some ... somebody from communication group in Raleigh, sent out announcement for new FORUM with the following definitions
low-speed <9.6kbits medium-speed 19.2kbits high-speed 56kbits very high-speed 1.5mbitsThe following Monday on the wall of conference room on the other side of the Pacific
low-speed <20mbits medium-speed 100mbits high-speed 200-300mbits very high-speed >600mbitsthere is caustic tome by somebody that use to be in the branch office ... included section about a very large scale SNA customer ... had a lot of controllers on shop floors that they wanted to upgrade from leased to dial lines ... which required a new controller software release, which then required a new NCP release, which then required a new VTAM release, which then required a new MVS release ... and when some problem occurred in (unrelated) part of this sequence, they had to back it out and start all over.
Big HSDT problem inside IBM was requirement that all links had to be encrypted ... 56kbit, but T1 (1.5mbit) were hard to find and I really hated what I had to pay for them and faster speed were impossible to find. I then get involved with strong crypto, support up to 3mbyte for less than $100. The corporate crypto group 1st claimed that it significantly weakened crypto standard. It took 3months to figure how to explain to them that it was much stronger than the crypto standard. It was hollow victory, I was told I could build as many as I wanted, but there was only one user that could use such crypto ... all units had to be sent to location in Maryland. It was when I realized there are three kinds of crypto in the world 1) the kind they don't care about, 2) the kind you can't do and 3) the kind you can only do for them
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
posts mentioning three kinds crypto
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#87 New test attempt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#86 Own a piece of the crypto wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#32 Getting Out Hard Drive in Real Old Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#27 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#43 Internet Evolution - Part I: Encryption basics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#20 TELSTAR satellite experiment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#60 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#0 We list every company in the world that has a mainframe computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#63 ARPANET's coming out party: when the Internet first took center stage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#85 Key Escrow from a Safe Distance: Looking back at the Clipper Chip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#63 Reject gmail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#70 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#47 T-carrier
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#31 The Vindication of Barb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#69 The failure of cyber defence - the mindset is against it
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#77 German infosec agency warns against Trusted Computing in Windows 8
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#88 NSA and crytanalysis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#10 "NSA foils much internet encryption"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#50 Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#9 NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#25 Is there any MF shop using AWS service?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#27 TCP/IP Might Have Been Secure From the Start If Not For the NSA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#54 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#77 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#85 On a lighter note, even the Holograms are demonstrating
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#2 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#39 GM to offer teen driver tracking to parents
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#3 PROFS & GML
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#101 Internal Network, NSFNET, Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#31 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#106 How to Win the Cyberwar Against Russia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#0 Snowden
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#44 More on Mannix and the computer
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#35 Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor billing by 15 percent (our else)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#91 IBM Mainframe Ushers in New Era of Data Protection
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#10 Landline telephone service Disappearing in 20 States
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#33 Online History
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Online Computer Conferencing Date: 29 Mar 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
Other trivia: after transfer to SJR, they use to let me wander around
IBM and customer locations in Silicon Valley (incluing giving talks at
the SLAC monthly BAYBUNCH meetings). Over in disk engineer bldg. 14,
they had lots of mainframes running prescheduled 7x24 stand-alone
time, for dasd/controller development testing. They had tried MVS to
try and get some concurrent testing ... but MVS in that environment
had 15min MTBF (requiring manual re-ipl). I offerred to rewrite
input/output supervisor to make it bullet proof and never fail
... enabling any amount of on-demand, concurrent testing significantly
improving productivity. I did a internal only document about the
changes and happened to mention the MVS 15min MTBF ... which brings
down the wrath of the MVS group on my head. They initially tried to
get me separated from the IBM company, when that fails, they make
things unpleasant in other ways. With 3880 getting ready to ship, FE
has regression test of 57 expected problems, in all cases MVS is still
failing (requiring manual reboot) and in 2/3rds of the cases there is
no indication of what caused the failure. from long ago and far away
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801015
getting to play disk engineer in bldg14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
for other trivia about failure of Future System ... and mad rush to
use warmed over FS technology for the 3033 and 3081
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
a little humor ... the TLA gov agency mentioned above ... was very active in SHARE (as well as VMSHARE discussion groups) and chose as its 3-letter SHARE installation code "CAD" (supposedly for "cloak and dagger") ... CAD shows up in some number of VMSHARE posts.
vmshare archive at Marist
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
23June1969 unbundling announcement started to charge for (application) software, SE services, maint., etc (but they managed to make the case that kernel software should still be free). Part of the politics during FS period (completely different from 370 & replace all 370) was shutting down 370 efforts. The lack of 370 products during this period is credited with giving clone mainframe makers, market foothold. With death of FS, there is mad rush to get 370 products back into product pipeline.
unbundling posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
I continued to work on 360/370 stuff all during this period and
periodically ridicule FS activity (which wasn't exactly career
enhancing) ... one of my hobbies was enhanced operating systems for
internal datacenters. With the death of FS and the rise of clone
market, there is decision to start charging for kernel software. The
"rush" also contributed to decision to package some of my stuff for
product release as "Resource Manager" and be the guinea pig to start
charging for kernel software. As part of final work for release, do
2000 selected stress & performance benchmarks to validate operation,
that takes 3months elapsed time. At the time, VM was doing monthly
("PLC") fix/function customer distributions. They asked me to update
"Resource Manager" with latest PLC on the same monthly schedule. I
counter that I'm only doing this in my spare time (along with product
documentation & level 2&3 support) and I wouldn't ship on new PLC w/o
at least a couple hundred validation/regression benchmark/tests
... which I wouldn't be able to do more than once every three months,
benchmarking posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#benchmark
I came to realize, IBM wasn't really prepared to do that degree of quality assurance.
some of resource manager posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Online Computer Conferencing Date: 30 Mar 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
We use to joke that CMS had 64kbyte of code for OS/360 simulation .... compared to MVS 8mbytes of code for OS/360 simulation. The start of the rage for moving applications out of the datacenter to VM/4341s in departmental areas, found that there was a few large complex MVS applications that required another 12kbytes of OS/360 simulation code to get running in CMS.
Part of the issue was the rapidly decreasing space that applications had under MVS. MVS started out with 16mbyte virtual address space for each application, but reduced to 8mbytes with an image of MVS occupying every application address space. Then it was further reduced to 7mbytes because there was the 1mbyte common segment area (for passing parameters and results between applications and subsystems, which were in their own separate virtual address space). However, the 1mbyte common segment area quickly exceeds 1mbyte and becomes common system area (effectively proportional to number of concurrent applications and subsystems) and 5-6mbytes for large 3033 installation (leaving only 2-3mbytes for applications) ... and some CSAs threatening to become 8mbytes (leaving zero bytes for applications).
Under CMS was still able to get 16mbytes minus 196kbytes (and maybe the extra 12kbytes of additional OS/360 simulation).
some recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#61 Paging subsystems in the era of bigass memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#40 Mainframe Family tree and chronology 2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#48 64 bit addressing into the future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#57 64 bit addressing into the future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#71 A Computer That Never Was: the IBM 7095
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#92 S/360 addressing, not Honeywell 200
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#23 VS History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#106 The (broken) economics of OSS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#18 IBM assembler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#38 long-winded post thread, 3033, 3081, Future System
"virtual storage constraint relief", still going strong even after move to 31bit
Improving Performance for Sequential Data Sets
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.idai600/stripe.htm
IBM PM34323: VIRTUAL STORAGE CONSTRAINT RELIEF IN SUBPOOL 247
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PM34323
... even 64bit
Virtual storage constraint relief
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGMCP_5.1.0/com.ibm.cics.ts.intercommunication.doc/topics/dfht1c0023.html
little topic drift (from mention of BSAM, QSAM, 3390, ESCON): 1980, STL was bursting at the seams and was moving 300people from IMS group to off-site bldg with service back to the STL datacenter. They had tried "remote" 3270s and found the human factors totally unacceptable. I get con'ed into doing channel extender support allowing local channel attached 3270 controllers at the offsite bldg (and the group weren't able to tell the difference between service in STL and at offsite bldg. Hardware vendor then wants IBM to let them release my software to market. However there is group in POK that are playing with some serial stuff and were afraid that if my stuff was in the market, it might make it harder to ship what they were doing ... and get it vetoed.
channel extender posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
1988, I'm asked to help LLNL (national lab) get some serial stuff they are playing with standardized. It quickly becomes Fibre Channel Standard (including some stuff that I had done in 1980). Finally in 1990, the POK people get their stuff released with ES/9000 as ESCON, when it is already obsolete.
Later, some of the POK people get involved with FCS and define a heavy weight protocol that drastically reduces the native throughput, which finally gets released as FICON. Latest published numbers for FICON "peak I/O" benchmark was for z196 using 104 FICONs to get 2M IOPS. At that time there was a FCS announced for E5-2600 blades claiming over million IOPS, two such FCS getting higher throughput than 104 FICONS (running over 104 FCS).
FICON posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
other trivia: CKD DASD still required by OS/360 descendants, even though no real CKD has been made for decades, being simulated on industry standard "fixed-block" disks. I had offerred FBA support circa 1980, I was told that even if I provided fully integrated and tested FBA support for MVS, I would still need a $26M incremental revenue to cover documentation and training (say $200M-$300M in incremental sales); however since IBM was already selling every disk that it could be made, adding FBA support would just be shifting CKD to same amount of FBA.
DASD&FBA posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
logo on 3270 screens at offsite bldg
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/vmhyper.jpg
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: This Paper Map Shows The Extent Of The Entire Internet In 1973 Date: 30 Mar 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
other recent post mentioning SEQUOIA:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#14 Tandem Memo
There was growing problem at HONE. HONE VM systems, after login, would automatilly place branch people in APL running "SEQUOIA" (a large APL application that provided a tailored branch office sales&marketing support interactive environment). Starting in late 70s, started getting a series of branch managers promoted to hdqtrs executive over HONE ... and they were horrified to find that HONE was VM-based systems (so successful that HONE was at masking the underlying system). They felt that they could make their career in IBM by converting HONE to MVS-based systems. Nearly all HONE resources would be assigned to the conversion, after 9-12 months they would be found to not be possible, declared a success, the executive promoted and replaced with another newly promoted branch manager and the process would be repeated.
Towards the middle of the 80s, those forces started blaming me for not being able to migrate to MVS ... because I was providing HONE with so many enhancements. They then started leaning on HONE about how could they justify running my enhanced operating systems; what would they do if I was hit by bus, etc.
HONE (&/or APL) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
specific posts mentioning converting HONE to MVS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#18 IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO levels
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#61 JCL CROSS-REFERENCE Utilities (OT for Paul, Rick, and Shmuel)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#44 Data Areas?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#73 OT: A&P supermarket bankruptcy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#51 The ICL 2900
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Online Computer Conferencing Date: 31 Mar 2019 Blog: Facebookre: quality assurance reference
Cambridge Science Center did activity monitor for CP67 and collected years of CP67 data, first on cambridge system and then from many of the other internal datacenters running CP67, and then ported to VM370 and continued to collect data. Cambridge had several performance activity ... one was profiling all the activity data for configuations and workload ... which evolves into "capacity planning". Along with this was an APL analytical system performance model ... a version of this was made availble on HONE as the performance predictor; branch people could input customer configuration and workload information and then ask "what-if" questions about configuration and/or workload changes.
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
HONE (&/or APL) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
As part of my dynamic adaptive resource manager (done originally as
undergraduate in the 60s), created automatic benchmarks with synthetic
workload that could be tailored to emulate configuration and workload
profiles (originally did autolog command as part of driving the
automatic benchmark procedures, automatically booting and kicking off
different benchmarks). The early porting of a lot of new and/or stuff
dropped in the morph from CP67 to VM370 ... the heavy workload &
stress workload benchmarks were guaranteed to crash VM370 ... so one
of the earliest things needed from CP67 to VM370 was the CP67 kernel
serialization mechanism (in part eliminated problem where logoff
completes while there is still activity for that user going on). some
old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
dynamic adaptive resource management posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
also fixed hung/zombies .... some old posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/93.html#0 360/67, was Re: IBM's Project F/S ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#2 Schedulers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#1 pathlengths
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/97.html#15 OSes commerical, history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#198 Life-Advancing Work of Timothy Berners-Lee
some recent posts mentioning performance predictor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#36 Ransomware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#54 CMS\APL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#109 Bimodal Distribution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#5 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#27 Virtualization's Past Helps Explain Its Current Importance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#43 The Pentagon still uses computer software from 1958 to manage its contracts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#68 Pareto efficiency
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#103 why VM, was thrashing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#109 It's 1983: What computer would you buy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#30 Bottlenecks and Capacity planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#2 Has Microsoft commuted suicide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#38 long-winded post thread, 3033, 3081, Future System
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Science Center Date: 31 Mar 2019 Blog: FacebookNote that one of the earliest uses of VNET/RSCS (used for the internal network and then later corporate sponsored university BITNET) as distributed development project between Cambridge and Endicott to provide 370 virtual machines (including virtual memory operation) under CP67 running on real 360/67 (virtual machine operation simulated to 370 architecture specification). Eventually there was "CP67L" running on the real 360/67 (production operating system that I did for internal datacenters), modifications for "CP67H" running in a 360/67 virtual machine but adding option for 370 virtual machines, and modifications fo "CP67I" that ran in 370 virtual machine. CP67I was in regular operation a year before the first real engineering 370 (145) with virtual memory was operation (in fact booting CP67I on that machine was part of original validation). The necessity of running CP67H in virtual machine was to "wall-off" any 370 virtual memory information leaking to non-IBM users (cambridge CP/67 provided access to staff, professors and students from some Boston/Cambridge area universities).
Later "CP67I" was in regular production use on lots of internal 370s (before and even after VM370 was available). Along the way some San Jose engineers added 3330 and 2305 device support to CP67I which becomes "CP67SJ". Part of CP67I/CP67H/CP67I effort was the original development of the CMS multi-level source update process.
CMS multi-level source update trivia; Melinda (part of her computer
history tome), contacted me in the mid-80s about did I have copy of
the original implementation. I had a bunch of tapes from CSC in the
70s, including triple-redundant backup of lots of early source and was
able to pull off the original implementation and send to her. The bad
news was they were all in the Almaden Research datacenter tape
library, the good news was the request came just before Almaden had a
datacenter problem where random tapes were being mounted as scratch
(and I lost a dozen tapes, including triple-replicated backup). from
long ago and far away
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email850906
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#email850908
other Melinda email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email850607
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#email850820
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#email860111
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email860217
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#email860407
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#email861016
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#email861016b
Melinda's History pages at PUCC gone 404, but live on at wayback
machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20010124044900/http://pucc.princeton.edu/~melinda/
also here (scroll down), includes the Kindle versions I provided
https://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda#VMHist
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
posts mentioning Almaden mounting random tapes as scratch
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#66 Evolution of Floating Point
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#17 old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#65 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#19 The IETF is probably the single element in the global equation of technology competition than has resulted in the INTERNET
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#45 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#89 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#12 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#62 Hard Disk Drive Construction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#22 The Invention of Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#82 END OF FILE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#61 32760?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#9 IBM ad for Basic Operating System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#59 write rings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#28 System/360 celebration set for ten cities; 1964 pricing for oneweek
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#98 After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#88 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#76 git, z/OS and COBOL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#18 IBM Profs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#65 System recovered from Princeton/Melinda backup/archive tapes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#86 History of Virtualization
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: How corporate America invented 'Christian America' to fight the New Deal Date: 31 Mar 2019 Blog: FacebookHow corporate America invented 'Christian America' to fight the New Deal
other accounts, 5000 industrialists have convention at NYC
Waldorf-Astoria and because they got such a bad reputation for the
depression and supporting Nazi Germany, they approve a major
propaganda campaign to equate capitalism with Christianity
https://www.amazon.com/One-Nation-Under-God-Corporate-ebook/dp/B00PWX7R56/
Earlier, 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
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Called-Intrepid-Incredible-Narrative-ebook/dp/B00V9QVE5O/
and earlier still, John Foster Dulles plays major role in rebuilding
Germany's economy, industry and military 20s thru early 40s. The
Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World
War,
https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Foster-Dulles-Allen-Secret-ebook/dp/B00BY5QX1K/
loc905-7:
Foster was stunned by his brother's suggestion that Sullivan &
Cromwell quit Germany. Many of his clients with interests there,
including not just banks but corporations like Standard Oil and
General Electric, wished Sullivan & Cromwell to remain active
regardless of political conditions.
loc938-40:
At least one other senior partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, Eustace
Seligman, was equally disturbed. In October 1939, six weeks after the
Nazi invasion of Poland, he took the extraordinary step of sending
Foster a formal memorandum disavowing what his old friend was saying
about Nazism
... snip ...
From the law of unintended consequences; 1943 US Strategic Bombing Program, they need German industrial and military targets and coordinates, they got the information and plans from wallstreet.
past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#63 One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
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#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/2017g.html#99 The Real Reason You Should See Dunkirk: Hitler Lost World War II There
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#97 Business as Usual: The Long History of Corporate Personhood
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#98 endless medical arguments, Disregard post (another screwup)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#102 75 years ago, Hitler invaded Poland. Here's how it happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#24 What if the Kuomintang Had Won the Chinese Civil War?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#35 Tech: we didn't mean for it to turn out like this
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#31 The U.S. was not founded as a Christian nation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#70 Russia Invaded Japanese Islands With U.S. Ships -- After Japan Surrendered
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#8 The First World War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#13 Predicting the future in five years as seen from 1983
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#109 The Man From Sullivan & Cromwell
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#45 More Guns Do Not Stop More Crimes, Evidence Shows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#60 Revealed - the capitalist network that runs the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#72 Doubts about the HR departments that require knowledge of technology that does not exist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#67 IBM's Chief Executive's Message to Shareholders 75 Years Ago
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#81 What Lies Beyond Capitalism And Socialism?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#107 Post WW2 red hunt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#61 How American Racism Influenced Hitler; Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#33 old grudges, Computers, anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#70 meanwhile in eastern Asia^WEurope, was tablets and desktops was Has Microsoft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#77 Top CEOs' compensation increased 17.6 percent in 2017; The ratio of CEO-to-worker compensation grew to 312-to-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#19 A Tea Party Movement to Overhaul the Constitution Is Quietly Gaining
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#30 Scientists Just Laid Out Paths to Solve Climate Change. We Aren't on Track to Do Any of Them
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#50 More Americans Supported Hitler Than You May Think
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#34 The Rise of Leninist Personnel Policies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#43 Billionaire warlords: Why the future is medieval
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#44 People are Happier in Social Democracies Because There's Less Capitalism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#81 LUsers
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: This Paper Map Shows The Extent Of The Entire Internet In 1973 Date: 01 Apr 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
from long ago and far away
Date: 23 August 1984, 19:29:56 EDT
To: NETMAP Statistics Distribution
Hi -
I found an error in the statistics program and am resending the NETMAP
CITIES and NETMAP STATES to you.
When I computed nodes as a function of cities, I assumed all the city
names were unique. With RSCHCHNG UPDT103, this is no longer true, as
we now have a San Jose, Costa Rica!
The new NETMAP CITIES file now identifies each city by its
state/country.
Another interesting statistic: We now have 1499 nodes. Since we had
node 1000 in 4/83, the network is growing at almost 30 nodes/month!
... snip ... top of post, old email index
note starting with runup to 1000 nodes in 1983, and continued big node
number increases in 1984 was the huge explosion in number of VM/4341
systems. more from long ago and far away
Date: MON, 03/23/87 07:35:57 PST
From: wheeler
re: vnet historical;
Ed Hendricks architected and designed the system and implemented it
along with Tim Hartmann. Because it was a distributed control system,
it didn't require any central control point/organization. By the time
corporate started taking serious notice of it, network was over 750
nodes.
To reach 750 nodes, w/o company support, and in fact with a great deal
of company opposition was truly remarkable. It was a fluke that VNET
was even announced for customers. At about the same time VNET was up
and running internally, JES2 was working on NJI/NJE and the company
had no intention of announcing VNET. However, also the company had
switched to charging for software. Unfortunately, the JES2 group had
done their development in the old environment, and nobody was able to
come up with a forecast/pricing ratio for NJI that would cover the
development costs. So the JES2 group worked a deal with Ed & Tim, if
Ed/Tim would write a NJI line-driver and allow the JES2 group to
combine the VNET forecast (in theory considerable) and the VNET
development costs (compared to the JES2 costs, negligible) with the
JES2 project (for a combined product announcement), the JES2 group
would see to it that VNET got announced. Adding the VNET development
costs to the JES2 development costs made very little change in the
overall number, but dividing the JES2 development costs by the
combined JES2+VNET forecast resulted in getting the price down to
$600/month (at a point where forecasting predicted that customers
would order it). By comparison the price for a VNET-only product was
very close to the floor of the cost to make & ship the PID tape
... however it was a non-strategic product (VNET) on a non-strategic
system (VM), which would have met that it would have never gotten
announced.
... snip ... top of post, old email index
JES2 had several other problems, the original code still had letters "TUCC" in cols68-71 for customer that originally did the HASP implementation. They used available slots in the HASP 255-entry psuedo device table ... usually somewhere around 160-180 ... it wasn't until after the internal network had passed 1000 nodes, that JES2 support was upgraded to 999 node support. JES2 would trash traffic it didn't have an entry for either the destination or the origin ... so had to be relegated to boundary nodes, couldn't be trusted to do store&forward since it might only have 15-20% of network nodes defined. Another problem was the JES2 networking header information was intermixed with standard job control fields ... and traffic between JES2 systems at different release levels had nasty habit of crashing both JES2&MVS. The eventual solution was a special VNET driver to help JES2 ... which implemented canonical format for JES2 headers with special code to force the correct format for the release level of the JES2 on the other end of the immediate link ... aka not only move MVS/JES2 systems to boundary nodes, but also make sure they were fronted by VNET system with special reformatting driver (to keep JES2/MVS from crashing).
There was a notorious case of new JES2 system in San Jose that started crashing JES2/MVS systems in Hursley ... and Hursley blamed it on the Hursley VNET support (for not having an updated VNET JES2 driver to handle the latest header format change from San Jose JES2 systems ... preventing the JES2/MVS crashes).
another from the annals of "how we put it together" tome ... tight integration and synchronization that doesn't scale and starts to fall apart with tens (even before getting to thousands) of distributed units around the world.
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
old archived VNET email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vnet
HASP, JES, NJI/NJE posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: How corporate America invented 'Christian America' to fight the New Deal Date: 01 Apr 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
possibly with little help from brain damage.
Biological and cognitive underpinnings of religious fundamentalism
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5500821/
A link between brain damage and religious fundamentalism has now been
established by scientists
https://www.salon.com/2019/01/08/a-link-between-brain-damage-and-religious-fundamentalism-has-now-been-established-by-scientists_partner/
Scientists have established a link between brain damage and religious
fundamentalism
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippling/2019/01/14/scientists-have-established-a-link-between-brain-damage-and-religious-fundamentalism-among-vietnam-vets/
Brain damage is linked to religious extremism
https://nypost.com/2017/05/08/brain-damage-is-linked-to-religious-extremism/
Neurologists Have Identified Brain Lesions That Could Be Linked to
Religious Fundamentalism
https://www.sciencealert.com/damage-to-a-specific-part-of-the-brain-could-result-in-religious-fundamentalism
Study Finds Link Between Brain Damage and Religious Fundamentalism
https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/study-finds-link-between-brain-damage-and-religious-fundamentalism
Study uncovers how brain damage increases religious fundamentalism
https://www.psypost.org/2017/05/study-uncovers-brain-lesions-increase-religious-fundamentalism-48860
How Religious Fundamentalism Hijacks the Brain
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201810/how-religious-fundamentalism-hijacks-the-brain
Suffering a brain injury can make you more religious, scientists say
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/suffering-brain-injury-lesion-ventromedial-prefrontal-cortex-religious-beliefs-northwestern-a7722946.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The American Empire Is the Sick Man of the 21st Century Date: 02 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookThe American Empire Is the Sick Man of the 21st Century; Failure at the center has left the United States up for sale to the highest bidder.
How Congress gained reputation as most corrupt institution on earth
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, recent post
https://www.amazon.com/History-Decline-Fall-Roman-Empire-ebook/dp/B01H23KONK/
loc2186-88:
Public Sale Of The Empire To Didius Julianus By The Praetorian Guards
loc2246-49:
Sulpicianus had already promised a donative of five thousand drachms
(above one hundred and sixty pounds) to each soldier; when Julian,
eager for the prize, rose at once to the sum of six thousand two
hundred and fifty drachms, or upwards of two hundred pounds
sterling. The gates of the camp were instantly thrown open to the
purchaser; he was declared emperor, and received an oath of allegiance
from the soldiers, who retained humanity enough to stipulate that he
should pardon and forget the competition of Sulpicianus.
... snip ...
recent post with reference about political loyalty valued above all
else (The Rise of Leninist Personnel Policies)
https://www.facebook.com/notes/lynn-wheeler/the-rise-of-leninist-personnel-policies/10217373477344531/
The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow
Government
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-State-Constitution-Shadow-Government-ebook/dp/B00W2ZKIQM/
pg190/loc3054-55:
In early 2001, just before George W. Bush's inauguration, the Heritage
Foundation produced a policy document designed to help the incoming
administration choose personnel
pg191/loc3057-58:
In this document the authors stated the following: "The Office of
Presidential Personnel (OPP) must make appointment decisions based on
loyalty first and expertise second,"
pg191/loc3060-62:
Americans have paid a high price for our Leninist personnel policies,
and not only in domestic matters. In important national security
concerns such as staffing the Coalition Provisional Authority, a sort
of viceroyalty to administer Iraq until a real Iraqi government could
be formed, the same guiding principle of loyalty before competence
applied.
... snip ...
and "Family of Secrets" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#41 Family of Secrets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#71 Family of Secrets
Boyd reference: Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
https://www.amazon.com/Boyd-Fighter-Pilot-Who-Changed-ebook/dp/B000FA5UEG/
pg281/loc4905-6:
He stalked the office, staring at his underlings, then suddenly
walking up to them, sticking a bony finger into their chest, and
saying things such as, "If your boss demands loyalty, give him
integrity. But if he demands integrity, then give him loyalty."
... snip ...
Boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
other related recent posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#10 Employees Come First
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#34 The Rise of Leninist Personnel Policies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#38 long-winded post thread, 3033, 3081, Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#42 Army Special Operations Forces Unconventional Warfare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#45 Jeffrey Skilling, Former Enron Chief, Released After 12 Years in Prison
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#48 Iran Payments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#82 The Sublime: Is it the same for IBM and Special Ops?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#17 How Iran Won Our Iraq War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#29 How corporate America invented 'Christian America' to fight the New Deal
lots of past posts mentioning congress as the most corrupt institution on
earth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#40 F.B.I. Faces New Setback in Computer Overhaul
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#88 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#36 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#69 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#73 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#14 Rare Apple I computer sells for $216,000 in London
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#53 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#55 America's Defense Meltdown
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#64 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#18 What Uncle Warren doesn't mention
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#68 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#20 Million Corporation march on Washington
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#80 A Close Look at the Perry Tax Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#4 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#66 Civilization, doomed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#137 The High Cost of Failing Artificial Hips
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#0 Happy Challenger Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#58 Word Length
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#17 Let the IRS Do Your Taxes, Really
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#61 Zakaria: by itself, Buffett rule is good
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#14 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#27 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#61 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#41 Lawmakers reworked financial portfolios after talks with Fed, Treasury officials
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#86 Should the IBM approach be given a chance to fix the health care system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#55 CALCULATORS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#36 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#35 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#70 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#87 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#69 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#80 'Big four' accountants 'use knowledge of Treasury to help rich avoid tax'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#81 Ireland feels the heat from Apple tax row
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#86 How Wall Street Defanged Dodd-Frank
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#25 'Big four' accountants 'use knowledge of Treasury to help rich avoid tax'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#79 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#78 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#50 Broadband pricing
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/2014l.html#3 HP splits, again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#1 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#52 Report: Tax Evasion, Avoidance Costs United States $100 Billion A Year
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#53 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#80 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#96 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#48 Protecting Social Security from the Thieves in the Night
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#80 Corruption Is as Bad in the US as in Developing Countries
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#22 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#32 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#41 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#55 Congress, most corrupt institution on earth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#76 GLBA & Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#103 Minimum Wage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#7 Malicious Cyber Activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#97 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#41 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#37 New phone scams
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#2 Single Payer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#4 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#71 When Working From Home Doesn't Work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#77 U.S. Corporate Tax Reform
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#17 Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#26 DoD watchdog: Air Force failed to effectively manage F-22 modernization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#12 Companies buying back their own shares is the only thing keeping the stock market afloat right now
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#86 Trump's tax law threatens charities. The poor will pay
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Meet the 'rented white coats' who defend toxic chemicals Date: 02 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookMeet the 'rented white coats' who defend toxic chemicals
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on
Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (science for hire)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
http://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured-ebook/dp/B003RRXXO8/
http://www.economist.com/node/16374460
merchant of doubt posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#merchants.of.doubt
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Why "Many-Model Thinkers" Make Better Decisions Date: 02 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookWhy "Many-Model Thinkers" Make Better Decisions
Boyd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_(military_strategist)
and OODA-loop related
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
In briefings, Boyd would talk about observing from every possible facet (as countermeasure to orientation/confirmation bias).
Boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
John Boyd on Clausewitz: Don't Fall in Love with Your Mental Model
--
https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2018/3/22/john-boyd-on-clausewitz-dont-fall-in-love-with-your-mental-model
A New Concept of War, John Boyd, the U.S. Marines, and Maneuver Warfare
https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/ANewConceptionOfWar.pdf?ver=2018-11-08-094859-167
John Boyd's Art of War; Why our greatest military theorist only made colonel.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/john-boyds-art-of-war/
Spinney tribute to John Boyd (for those with subscriptions)
http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1997-07/genghis-john
lives free at
http://radio-weblogs.com/0107127/stories/2002/12/23/genghisJohnChuckSpinneysBioOfJohnBoyd.html
other refs:
https://www.amazon.com/Warfighting-Maneuver-Warfare-Marine-Corps/dp/1853671983
https://www.professionalmilitaryeducation.com/episode-eleven-john-boyd-maneuver-warfare-and-mcdp-1/
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/40-years-of-the-fighter-mafia/
http://www.aviation-history.com/airmen/boyd.htm
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Edward Snowden
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Edward Snowden
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 20:01:30 -0700
Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> writes:
Snowden != Wikileaks, and it's not clear he has much influence over
them. He's in Russia now (stuck there because the US voided his
passport), but the Russians aren't stupid enough to give him access to
_their_ classified documents.
AMEX & KKR were in competition for private-equity take-over of
RJR, KKR wins, but then runs into trouble and hires away amex
president to help with RJR. IBM has gone into the red and hires former
AMEX preside to "resurrect" IBM (which was be reorganized into the 13
"baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the company) ... using
some of the same techniques used for RJR (gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
Former AMEX president then leaves and becomes head of another large
private-equity company ... which acquires the company that will employ
Snowden. Gov. agencies can't lobby congress, and companies can't use
money from gov. contracts to lobby congress, but PE owners seem to not
be under any such restriction and hire prominent politicians to lobby
congress about outsourcing to the companies they own (enormous uptic
in gov. outsourcing after the turn of the centry.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/10/barbarians-capitol-private-equity-public-enemy/
Lou Gerstner, former ceo of ibm, now heads the Carlyle Group, a
Washington-based global private equity firm whose 2006 revenues of $87
billion were just a few billion below ibm's. Carlyle has boasted George
H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and former Secretary of State James Baker III
on its employee roster.
... snip ...
more about PE owned company that employs Snowden, also just
intelligence, 70% of budget and half the people outsourced
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us
Just this week, the NSA director testified that the agency would be
implementing a "buddy system" requiring two authorizations for the
download of classified information onto portable media.
... snip ...
PE gov outsurcing helping accelerate the rapid spreading success of
failure culture, aka lots more outsourcing profit from series of
failures.
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
companies in the private-equity mill are under intense pressure to cut corners to push money up to their PE owners (also have to service the enormous LBO debt load) ... outsourcing security clearances to PE-owned companies were found to be doing the paperwork but not doing actual the background checks. companies involved in the PE mill account for half corporate defaults, whats funny is that it doesn't seem to affect the credit rating of the (PE) companies that take out the original loan.
Note that "buddy system" (or "pairs of eyeballs") was common in high security, finance and gov. at least sometime before the 80s as countermeasure to insider threats (in fact, in 80s started to see countermeasures to collusion in multi-party operation countermeasures to insider threats) ... at the time of the above "buddy" item, I took the opportunity to ask if previous long-time "buddy system" had fallen victim to cost-cutting by PE-owned company.
In the 90s, I had done security walkthru-audit of silicon fab that specialized in financial transaction chips ... and all high integrity operations required (at least) "pairs of eyeballs".
also from "Spies like US":
Whether you view Snowden as a hero or a traitor, he clearly took
advantage of institutional security gaps that extend way beyond Booz
Allen.
... snip ...
private-equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
success of failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Why "Many-Model Thinkers" Make Better Decisions Date: 02 Apr 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
and periodically reposted:
Boyd had coup d'oeil and fingerspitzengefuhl with intuition and
instinct ... plausibly 1846 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 ...
So "see, decide, act" implied only single act and lacked the concept of a "mental map" (mental model) which might be static. Boyd needed to impart continuous operation and also address confirmation/observation bias from a static "mental map"; needed it to be dynamically updated. So get OODA-loop ... where "see" becomes observation and "orientation" (mental map, learning, knowledge) is added to decide and act. Problem is still not sufficient; in briefings he would say that needed to constantly observe from every possible facet (to constantly update "orientation", countermeasure to static "mental map" and confirmation/observation/orientation/etc bias). Also for many people "loop" implies sequential, step-by-step and what he really needed was something that implied not only continuous operation but all parts running simultaneously and asynchronously.
Boyd posts and WWW URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
Halleck specific posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#63 Difference between fingerspitzengefuhl and Coup d'oeil?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#14 Fast OODA-Loops increase Maneuverability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#47 The rise and fall of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#52 Boyd's OODA-loop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#35 OFF TOPIC: University of California, Irvine, revokes 500 admissions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#24 The Ultimate Guide to the OODA-Loop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#50 OT: Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#55 Bureaucracy and Agile
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: You elected them to write new laws. They're letting corporations do it instead. Date: 03 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookYou elected them to write new laws. They're letting corporations do it instead.
After the economic mess, there was no effort to do anything about it
... but possibly public image weighed in and they had to look like
they were doing something ... getting Dodd-Frank effort ; note #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
Dodd is a "Friends of Angelo"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Mozilo#Friends_of_Angelo_(FOA)_VIP_program
Age of Greed
https://www.amazon.com/Age-Greed-Triumph-Finance-Decline-ebook/dp/B004DEPF6I/
pg 370:
In addition, the Justice Department was now investigating reduced rate
mortgages Mozilo allegedly sold to Senators Chris Dodd of Connecticut
and Kent Conrad of North Dakota, as well as two former heads of Fannie
Mae, Jim Johnson and Franklin Raines. They were known as "Friends of
Angelo."
... snip ...
For Dodd-Frank, industry lobbyists were providing drafts to be included in Dodd-Frank, some basic principles were to make it massive and complex, creating impossible task for regulatory bodies to turn into regulations. However other lobbyist drafts were submitted for Dodd-Frank, leaked, and then industry would have press releases how ridiculous the draft provisions were (part of "false flag" program discrediting the process)
Bank Lobbyists Writing the Rules for Wall Street (gone 404, but lives
on at waybank machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180317171543/http://www.pogo.org/blog/2013/05/bank-lobbyists-writing-the-rules-for-wall-street.html
Banks' Lobbyists Help in Drafting Financial Bills
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/banks-lobbyists-help-in-drafting-financial-bills/
more recent, Democrats Add Momentum to G.O.P. Push to Loosen Banking Rules
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/15/us/politics/democrats-banking-rules.html
In 1999, I was asked to help try and prevent the coming economic mess
(we failed). Decade later, Jan. 2009, I'm asked to HTML'ize the Pecora
Hearings (30s senate hearings int the '29 crash) with lots of URLs
between what happened this time and what happened then (comments that
the new congress might have an appetite to do something). I work on it
for awhile and then get a call that it won't be needed after all
(comments that capital hill is totally buried under immense mountains
of wallstreet cash). Also
https://www.amazon.com/Confidence-Men-Washington-Education-ebook/dp/B0089LOKKS/
pg 430:
But they were fighting on too many fronts. Carl Levin of Michigan and
Jeff Merkley of Oregon had discovered that Dodd had discreetly gutted
the Volcker Rule, and the two set to work trying to counteract Dodd's
efforts. The Merkley-Levin Amendment articulated Volcker's idea
fully--and wrote it as law. No regulatory backsliding, once everything
settled down.
... snip ...
"Confidence Men" also has several references that essentially wallstreet was using the EHM (economic hit men) debt strategy against the American public. Other references were about new president having to choose between the economic A-team (Volcker et al) and the B-team. The A-team was instrumental in getting him elected, but the A-team would have held wallstreet and the too-big-to-fail accountable, which would have likely taken down most of those institutions (so new president chooses the b-team that wasn't going to hold anybody responsible).
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
'29 crash, Pecora Hearings, FDIC insured and/or Glass-Steagall
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
Too Big To Fail (Too Big To Prosecute, Too Big To
Jail) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Reminder over in linkedin, IBM Mainframe announce 7April1964 Date: 04 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookReminder over in linkedin, IBM Mainframe announce 7April1964
About year after taking two semester hour introduction to computing/fortran class, I was hired fulltime to be responsible for IBM mainframe academic and administration production OS/360 system. Then before I graduate I'm hired fulltime into a small group in the Boeing CFO office to help with the formation of Boeing Computing Systems (consolidate all dataprocessing into an independent business unit to better monetize the investment, including offering services to non-Boeing entities).
Both the Boeing & IBM branch office people tell story about the IBM salesman for the Boeing account. At the 360 announcement, Boeing (who knows significantly more about 360 than the salesman) walks into the salesman office and makes a large 360 order. That year, the salesman is the highest paid IBMer. Next year IBM changes from straight commission to quota. By the end of January he has made the years quota with another large Boeing 360 order and his quota is "adjusted". He leaves IBM.
747#3 was flying skies of Seattle getting FAA flt certification. I thought Renton datacenter was possibly largest in the world, $200M-$300M (60s dollars) in 360 systems, 360/65s were arriving faster than they could be installed, boxes constantly being staged in hallways around the machine room. There was disaster scenario where Mt. Rainier heats up and the resulting mud slide takes out the Renton datacenter, so there was plans to replicate Renton up at the new 747 plant at Paine field.
When I graduate, instead of staying at Boeing, I join the IBM science center at MIT.
Later in early 80s, I'm introduced to John Boyd and would sponsor his briefings at IBM. Boyd biographies has him in command of "spook base" about the same time I'm at Boeing, and claims "spook base" was $2.5B "windfall" for IBM (ten times Renton).
"spook base" reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Igloo_White
and (gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
and lots of Boyd topic drift
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_(military_strategist)
and OODA-loop related
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
John Boyd on Clausewitz: Don't Fall in Love with Your Mental Model
https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2018/3/22/john-boyd-on-clausewitz-dont-fall-in-love-with-your-mental-model
John Boyd's Art of War; Why our greatest military theorist only made colonel.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/john-boyds-art-of-war/
Spinney tribute to John Boyd (for those with subscriptions)
http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1997-07/genghis-john
lives free at
http://radio-weblogs.com/0107127/stories/2002/12/23/genghisJohnChuckSpinneysBioOfJohnBoyd.html
other refs:
https://www.amazon.com/Warfighting-Maneuver-Warfare-Marine-Corps/dp/1853671983
https://www.professionalmilitaryeducation.com/episode-eleven-john-boyd-maneuver-warfare-and-mcdp-1/
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/40-years-of-the-fighter-mafia/
http://www.aviation-history.com/airmen/boyd.htm
more drift: A New Concept of War, John Boyd, the U.S. Marines, and
Maneuver Warfare
https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/ANewConceptionOfWar.pdf?ver=2018-11-08-094859-167
#Reviewing A New Conception of War
https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2019/4/3/reviewing-a-new-conception-of-war
On the otherwise quiet Monday morning of March 6, 1989, a revolution
occurred in the private office at the Commandant of the Marine Corps'
home when General Al Gray affixed his signature to a document. Until
that moment, the Marine Corps thought about warfare in terms of the
firepower and attrition doctrine that had characterized its operations
in World War II, Korea, and the worst parts of Vietnam. With the
stroke of a pen, General Gray made maneuver warfare the official
doctrine of the Marine Corps.
... snip ...
by the time Boyd passes, the USAF had pretty much disowned him and it was the Marines at Arlington and all his effects go to Quantico and we've continued to have Boyd-themed conferences at Marine Corps University ... and in the tributes to Marines in the lobby of Quantico Gray Research Library, there is one for Boyd. After he passes (and is much less of a threat), in 1999 USAF does dedicate Boyd Hall at Nellis.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM Date: 06 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookBuilding the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM
Recent post about Boeing orders made the salesman the highest paid IBM
employee (they also said that was the motivation for the change from
straight commission to quota the following year)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#38 Reminder over in linkedin, IBM Mainframe announce 7April1964
Account by (IBM) "father of ascii" that 360 was originally going to be
ASCII ... but the ASCII unit record gear was late, so (temporarily)
had to go with BCD ... but didn't realize the magnitude of the
conversion; "The Biggest Computer Goof Ever" (gone 404 but lives on at
wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
I was myself in charge of such "Logical Systems Standards" for IBM at e he time, and have written 20 papers about ASCII. One doesn't get the sobriquet "Father of ASCII" for nothing.
The culprit was T. Vincent Learson. The only thing for his defense is that he had no idea of what he had done. It was when he was an IBM Vice President, prior to tenure as Chairman of the Board, those lofty positions where you believe that, if you order it done, it actually will be done. I've mentioned this fiasco elsewhere.
... snip ...
more history
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/HISTORY.HTM
BIO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Bemer
past posts referencing Bemer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#26 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#27 Origins of EBCDIC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#39 Mainframe Utility for EBCDIC to ASCII conversion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#41 Disksize history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#63 CAPS Fantasia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#4 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#65 They've changed the keyboard layout _again_
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#9 Typewriter vs. Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#67 Wondering if I am really eligible for this group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#6 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#45 HP getting out of computer biz
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#23 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#5 Any candidates for best acronyms?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#45 CRLF in Unix being translated on Mainframe to x'25'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#55 "Geek" t-shirts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#100 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#52 M68k add to memory is not a mistake any more
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#55 Just for a laugh... How to spot an old IBMer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#73 END OF FILE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#36 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#84 72 column cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#52 8-bit bytes and byte-addressed machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#56 Reduced Symbol Set Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#56 New HD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#72 One reason for monocase was Re: Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#14 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#61 32760?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#3 Ported Tools - Unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#49 Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#33 Teletypewriter Model 33
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#35 Teletypewriter Model 33
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#19 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#21 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#22 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#37 Subject Unicode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#5 How many EBCDIC machines are still around?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#13 How many EBCDIC machines are still around?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#15 50 years of timesharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#63 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#52 Rather nice article on COBOL on Vulture Central
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#78 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#24 Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#29 Special characters for Passwords
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#99 IBM architecture, was Fifty Years of nitpicking definitions, was BASIC,theProgrammingLanguageT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#4 Migration path for IBM 650 users?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#6 Migration path for IBM 650 users?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#65 16-bit minis, was Floating point
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#6 New Line vs. Line Feed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#47 ASCII vs. EBCDIC (was Re: On sort options ...)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#0 Is it a lost cause?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#64 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#70 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#71 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#79 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#5 RFE? xlc compile option for C integers to be "Intel compat" or Little-Endian
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#109 Online Terminals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#75 Nostalgia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#77 Nostalgia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#15 Has Microsoft commuted suicide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#63 EBCDIC Bad History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#42 SCP of file to USS from Mac is corrupted
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#58 So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Has Privatization Benefitted the Public? Date: 07 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookHas Privatization Benefitted the Public?
from the annals is Harvard responsible for the rise of Putin? after
the fall of the soviet union, those sent over to teach capitalism were
intent on looting the country. John Helmer: Convicted Fraudster
Jonathan Hay, Harvard's Man Who Wrecked Russia, Resurfaces in Ukraine
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/convicted-fraudster-jonathan-hay-harvards-man-who-wrecked-russia-resurfaces-in-ukraine.html
If you are unfamiliar with this fiasco, which was also the true
proximate cause of Larry Summers' ouster from Harvard, you must read
an extraordinary expose, How Harvard Lost Russia, from Institutional
Investor. I am told copies of this article were stuffed in every
Harvard faculty member's inbox the day Summers got a vote of no
confidence and resigned shortly thereafter.
... snip ...
How Harvard lost Russia; The best and brightest of America's premier university came to Moscow in the 1990s to teach Russians how to be capitalists. This is the inside story of how their efforts led to scandal and disgrace.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160325154522/http://www.institutionalinvestor.com:80/Article/1020662/How-Harvard-lost-Russia.html
Mostly, they hurt Russia and its hopes of establishing a lasting
framework for a stable Western-style capitalism, as Summers himself
acknowledged when he testified under oath in the U.S. lawsuit in
Cambridge in 2002. "The project was of enormous value," said Summers,
who by then had been installed as the president of Harvard. "Its
cessation was damaging to Russian economic reform and to the
U.S.-Russian relationship."
... snip ...
... note in 90s, Rubin was SECTREAS (had been former head of one of large wallstreet, GS) and was enlisted to help CITI get Glass-Steagall repealed, when that was underway, he resigned and joined CITI (referred to at the time as co-CEO). Rubin was replaced by his protegee and deputy SECTREAS Summers (who had specialized in dealing with Russia and later president of Harvard). After turn of century next administration had SECTREAS also formally head of same institution as Rubin ... current SECTREAS also from that same institution, joke was that treasury had become their branch office in DC (regardless of the administration or party). Another SECTREAS Rubin report at treasury was Geithner, who becomes head of NY FED after turn of century with oversight for Too Big To Fail during the economic mess and then became SECTREAS in previous administration.
'29 crash, Pecora Hearings, FDIC insured and/or Glass-Steagall
(repeal) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
Too Big To Fail (Too Big To Prosecute, Too Big To
Jail) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Black's comment about SECTREAS Geithner's role
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#1 Billions From Deutsche Bank Despite Trump's Bankruptcies, Defaults, and Financial Malfeasance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#9 England: South Sea Bubble - The Sharp Mind of John Blunt
other recent Geithner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#109 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#110 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#111 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#112 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#114 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#1 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#3 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#4 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#5 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#6 These Four Predicted The Global Financial Crisis; Here's What They Think Causes The Next One
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#56 Too Rich to Jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#10 Employees Come First
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#15 TARP Funds and Noncompliant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#41 Family of Secrets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#42 Army Special Operations Forces Unconventional Warfare
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Capitalism Gone Wild Date: 07 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookCapitalism Gone Wild
Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Maintenance_Organization_Act_of_1973
Written and pushed by Kaiser Permanente, it had the effect of allowing
medical care services, which previously had been uniformly nonprofit,
to be performed on a for-profit basis for the first time in the United
States.
... snip ...
from law of checks & balance, "On War"
https://www.amazon.com/War-beautifully-reproduced-illustrated-introduction-ebook/dp/B00G3DFLY8
loc394-95:
As long as the Socialists only threatened capital they were not
seriously interfered with, for the Government knew quite well that the
undisputed sway of the employer was not for the ultimate good of the
State.
... snip ...
the government needed general population standard of living sufficient that soldiers were willing to fight to preserve their way of life. Capitalists tendency was to reduce worker standard of living to the lowest possible ... below what the government needed for soldier motivation ... and therefor needed socialists as counterbalance to the capitalists in raising the general population standard of living.
Trivia: 1999 I was asked to try and help prevent the coming economic mess (we failed). Comment that some investment bankers had walked away "clean" from the S&L crisis, were then running Internet IPO mills (invest few million, hype, IPO for few billion, should then fail, leaving the field clear for next round of IPOs) and were predicted to next get into securitized mortgages.
economic mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
Then in Jan2009, I was asked to HTML'ize the Pecora Hearings (30s senate hearings into '29crash, resulted in criminal convictions with jailtime) with lots of URLs between what happened this time and what happened then (comments that the new congress might have appetite to do something). I work on it for awhile and then get a call saying that it wouldn't be needed after all (comments about enormous mountains of wallstreet cash totally burying capital hill).
'29 crash, Pecora Hearings, FDIC insured and/or Glass-Steagall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
VP and former CIA director repeatedly claims no knowledge of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
last decade (after turn of century) another family member is president and presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than the S&L crisis. Proportionally the economic mess should have 70,000 criminal convictions with jailtime (recently there has been suggestion that there has possibly been one).
S&L crisis posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
lots of analysis they didn't correct the problems, still festering,
from regulator involved in Keating & other S&L frauds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_K._Black#Bill_Moyers_Journal_appearance
Black asserted that the banking crisis in the United States that
started in late 2008 is essentially a big Ponzi scheme; that the "liar
loans" and other financial tricks were essentially illegal frauds; and
that the triple-A ratings given to these loans was part of a criminal
cover-up. He said that the "Prompt Corrective Action Law" passed after
the Savings and loan crisis mandated that ailing banks should be put
into receivership. Black also stated that trying to hide how bad the
situation is will simply prolong the problem, as happened in Japan and
resulted in Japan's lost decade. Black stated that Timothy Geithner
was engaged in a cover-up, and that the administration did not want
people to understand what went wrong or how bad the banking situation
was.
... snip ...
Private-equity has reputation for scorched earth, extracting
everything possible, leaving little or nothing behind. Has been
compared to house flipping but they transferred the 100% loan to
bought companies, can even selloff for less than they paid and still
walk away with boatloads of money. Half corporate defaults are
companies savaged by PE, what is strange is that there is no credit
hit to the PE operations that took out the original loan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
they moved into government contractors big time after the turn of the
century ... hiring prominent politicians to lobby congress to
outsource to their companies (agencies can't lobby congress, and
companies can't use money from gov. contracts to lobby congress, but
PE companies appear to be under no such restrictions).
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/10/barbarians-capitol-private-equity-public-enemy/
in gov. intelligence, 70% of budget and half the people
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us
also heavily contributing to the rapidly spreading for-profit success
of failure culture (make more money off series of failures)
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
then moving into health care .... Private equity is piling into health
care
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/07/26/private-equity-is-piling-into-health-care
Companies in the private equity mill are under immense pressure to cut corners as part of pushing profits up to their PE owners as well as having to service the enormous debt load that they now have to deal with
Since then, they have been also aggressively moving into health care.
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
some PE health care posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#60 spacewar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#17 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#48 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#58 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#105 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#106 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#107 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#108 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#18 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#42 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#30 HP splits, again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#64 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#77 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#65 A call for revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#110 The top 50 hospitals that gouge patients the most
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#34 free, huh, was Bitcoin confusion?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#69 Has Microsoft commuted suicide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#100 Barb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#35 OT: Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#64 Mystery of the Underpaid American Worker
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#1 As a grocery chain is dismantled, investors recover their money. Worker pensions are short million
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Capitalism Gone Wild Date: 07 Apr 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
Potential Implications of Private Equity Investments in Health
Care Delivery
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2727259
Much of the US health care system relies on private physician
practices. Little is known about the role of private equity in today's
health care delivery system. From 2010 to 2017, the value of private
equity deals involving the acquisition of a health care-related
company (most involving physician practices and hospitals) increased
187% and reached $42.6 billion, while the number of health care deals
increased by 48% (eFigure in the Supplement).1 Given the increasing
role of this type of financing, physicians and policy makers should
understand private equity, common strategies used by its firms, and
the potential risks and benefits for physicians and patients.
... snip ...
private-equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Actually, the Electoral College Was a Pro-Slavery Ploy Date: 07 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookActually, the Electoral College Was a Pro-Slavery Ploy
the prorated number of representatives (and corresponding votes in Electoral College) for a state, included number of slaves
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Jefferson-Power-Jon-Meacham-ebook/dp/B0089EHKE8/
loc6065-69:
At issue was the advantage Jefferson and his fellow Southerners had in
national elections because of the three-fifths clause, the
constitutional provision that counted a slave as three-fifths of a
person to establish the number of congressmen and presidential
electors allocated to each state. 31 When Jefferson went on to win the
presidency four years later, his Federalist critics would disparage
him as the "Negro President" because of his dependence on the
three-fifths clause.
... snip ...
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Origins-Prosperity-ebook/dp/B0058Z4NR8/
pg30/loc594-602:
The Constitution of the United States did not create a democracy by
modern standards. Who could vote in elections was left up to the
individual states to determine. While northern states quickly conceded
the vote to all white men irrespective of how much income they earned
or property they owned, southern states did so only gradually. No
state enfranchised women or slaves, and as property and wealth
restrictions were lifted on white men, racial franchises explicitly
disenfranchising black men were introduced. Slavery, of course, was
deemed constitutional when the Constitution of the United States was
written in Philadelphia, and the most sordid negotiation concerned the
division of the seats in the House of Representatives among the
states. These were to be allocated on the basis of a state's
population, but the congressional representatives of southern states
then demanded that the slaves be counted. Northerners objected. The
compromise was that in apportioning seats to the House of
Representatives, a slave would count as three-fifths of a free
person. The conflicts between the North and South of the United States
were repressed during the constitutional process as the three-fifths
rule and other compromises were worked out.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Banning Buybacks Would Crash The Market, Goldman Warns Date: 08 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookBanning Buybacks Would Crash The Market, Goldman Warns
buybacks have been propping up the market for long time ... note that buybacks use to be illegal because they could be used to easily manipulate the market.
The Ugly Truth Behind Stock Buybacks
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aalsin/2017/02/28/shareholders-should-be-required-to-vote-on-stock-buybacks/
For most of the 20th century, stock buybacks were deemed illegal
because they were thought to be a form of stock market
manipulation. But since 1982, when they were essentially legalized by
the SEC, buybacks have become perhaps the most popular financial
engineering tool in the C-Suite tool shed.
... snip ...
stock buyback posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
7 Reasons Stock Buybacks Should Be Illegal
https://investorplace.com/2019/02/7-reasons-stock-buybacks-should-be-illegal/
The SEC, operating under the Reagan Republicans, passed rule 10b-18,
which made stock buybacks legal. Up until the passing of this rule,
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 considered large-scale share
repurchases a form of stock manipulation.
... snip ...
part of deregulation that also led to S&L Crisis, VP and former CIA
director repeatedly claims no knowledge of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
last decade (after turn of century) another family member is president and presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than the S&L crisis. Proportionally the economic mess should have 70,000 criminal convictions with jailtime (recently there has been suggestion that there has possibly been one).
S&L crisis posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
Stockman (Reagan's budget director) in "The Great Deformation: The
Corruption of Capitalism in America"
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Deformation-Corruption-Capitalism-America-ebook/dp/B00B3M3UK6/
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 ...
not just IBM this century, but lots of other corporations.
Share buyback machine now in overdrive -- dropping a strong hint at
what CEOs plan to do with tax savings
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/share-buybacks-spike-dropping-a-strong-hint-at-what-ceos-plan-to-do-with-tax-savings-2017-12-08
How Much Can Buybacks Rise on Tax Cuts? This Estimate Says 70%
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-03/how-much-can-buybacks-rise-on-tax-cuts-this-estimate-says-70
Buyback binge is going strong, but here is why they are not the
solution
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/21/buyback-binge-is-going-strong-but-here-is-why-they-are-not-the-solution.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: What is ALEC? 'The most effective organization' for conservatives, says Newt Gingrich Date: 08 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookWhat is ALEC? 'The most effective organization' for conservatives, says Newt Gingrich
older post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#28 America's electoral system gives the Republicans advantages over Democrats
The Man Who Broke Politics; Newt Gingrich turned partisan battles into
bloodsport, wrecked Congress, and paved the way for Trump's rise. Now
he's reveling in his achievements.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/
recent posts, Democracy in Chains
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#37 Democracy in Chains
In recent CNN, Fareed called out political strife and conflict got much worse with speaker Gingrich. In 1999, after we were asked to help prevent the coming economic mess (we failed), one of other things we were told was that there has always been conflict between the two parties, but they could put their differences aside and come together to do things for the country. With Gingrich, everything came to be about party advantage and level of party conflict and strife got significant worse (weaponized party competition). Now everything is Kabuki dance/theater ... what you see is distraction for the public (like Roman circus) and has little to do with what is really going on.
Kabuki Theater posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
other past ALEC refs:
New ALEC Documents Show Regulatory Capture in Action
https://www.thenation.com/article/new-alec-documents-show-regulatory-capture-action
The GOP and ALEC's War on Cities
http://www.beyondchron.org/the-gop-and-alecs-war-on-cities/
The Hidden History of ALEC and Prison Labor
http://www.thenation.com/article/162478/hidden-history-alec-and-prison-labor
other references
Corporate Con Game; How the private prison industry helped shape Arizona's anti-immigrant law.
http://inthesetimes.com/article/6084/corporate_con_game/
another blog that quotes the "ALEC and Prison Labor" article
How ALEC Changed Policies To Allow Corporations To Use Prisoners As Coerced Slave Labor
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/how-alec-changed-policies-allow-corpo
ALEC Exposed
http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed
a few references from quick (specific) search for ALEC document dump
http://www.blueoregon.com/2011/04/do-blue-oregon-readers-want-help-expose-what-chamber-commerce-has-been/
past posts mentioning ALEC:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#51 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#43 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#52 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#5 Trump to sign cyber security order
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Banning Buybacks Would Crash The Market, Goldman Warns Date: 09 Apr 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
Stockman To Dalio: It's The Fed, Stupid!!
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-09/stockman-dalio-its-fed-stupid
Needless to say, artificial debt-fueled support of living standards
doesn't make for prosperity or the lost American Dream that Dalio
rightly laments. In fact, the main street economy has been so badly
pummeled by the Keynesian money printers in the Eccles Building that
hardly any breadwinner jobs have been created during the entirety of
the 21st century to date.
... snip ...
stock buybacks posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Union Pacific Announces 150th Anniversary Celebration Commemorating Transcontinental Railroad's Completion Date: 10 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookUnion Pacific Announces 150th Anniversary Celebration Commemorating Transcontinental Railroad's Completion
Railroad hyperbole echoes all the way down to the dot-com frenzy
http://phys.org/news/2012-01-railroad-hyperbole-echoes-dot-com-frenzy.html
and Railroaded
https://www.amazon.com/Railroaded-Transcontinentals-Making-America-ebook/dp/B0051GST1U
pg77/pg1984-86:
By the end of the summer of 1873 the western railroads had, within the
span of two years, ended the Indian treaty system in the United
States, brought down a Canadian government, and nearly paralyzed the
U.S. Congress. The greatest blow remained to be delivered. The
railroads were about to bring down the North American economy.
pg510/loc10030-33:
The result was not only unneeded railroads whose effects were as often
bad as beneficial but also corruption of the markets and the
government. The men who directed this capital were frequently not
themselves capitalists. They were entrepreneurs who borrowed money or
collected subsidies. These entrepreneurs did not invent the railroad,
but they were inventing corporations, railroad systems, and new forms
of competition. Those things yielded both personal wealth and social
disasters.
pg515/loc10118-22:
The need to invest capital and labor in large amounts to maintain and
upgrade what had already been built was one debt owed to the past, but
the second one was what Charles Francis Adams in his days as a
reformer referred to as a tax on trade. All of the watered stock,
money siphoned off into private pockets, waste, and fraud that
characterized the building of the railroads created a corporate debt
that had to be paid through higher rates and scrimping on service. A
shipper in 1885 was still paying for the frauds of the 1860s.
... snip ...
however not just graft and corruption of congress & state
legislatures, but also scammed supreme court into ruling corporations
are people ... and well established as precedent by the time found to
be fraud. We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil
Rights
https://www.amazon.com/We-Corporations-American-Businesses-Rights-ebook/dp/B01M64LRDJ/
pgxiii/loc45-50:
IN DECEMBER 1882, ROSCOE CONKLING, A FORMER SENATOR and close
confidant of President Chester Arthur, appeared before the justices of
the Supreme Court of the United States to argue that corporations like
his client, the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, were entitled to
equal rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. Although that provision
of the Constitution said that no state shall "deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" or "deny to
any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws,"
Conkling insisted the amendment's drafters intended to cover business
corporations too.
pgxiii/loc50-53:
Laws that referred to "persons" have "by long and constant acceptance
. . . been held to embrace artificial persons as well as natural
persons," Conkling explained. This long-standing practice was well
known to "the men who framed, the Congress which proposed, and the
people who through their Legislatures ratified the Fourteenth
Amendment."
pgxiii/loc53-56:
Conkling's claim was remarkable. The Fourteenth Amendment had been
adopted after the Civil War to guarantee the rights of the freed
slaves, not to protect corporations. Conkling, however, had unusual
credibility with the justices. For two decades, he had been the leader
of the Republican Party in Congress and was often said to be the most
powerful man in Washington. He had twice been nominated to the Supreme
Court himself, most recently in the spring of the same year he
appeared on behalf of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
pgxiv/loc67-69:
There was just one small problem with Conkling's account of the
drafting of the Fourteenth Amendment: it was not true. The drafters of
the Fourteenth Amendment did not try to secret into the Constitution
broad new protections for corporations, nor was the wording of the
amendment ever altered in the way Conkling suggested.
... snip ...
'Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/corporations-people-adam-winkler/554852/
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#57 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#62 Railroaded
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#76 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#1 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#16 IBM Shrinks - Analysts Hate It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#73 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#45 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#53 Amdahl UTS manual
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#37 Income Inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#39 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#42 Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#38 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#35 Hammond threatens EU with aggressive tax changes after Brexit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#63 endless medical arguments, Disregard post (another screwup)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#5 The 1970s engineering recession
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#52 We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#93 Barb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#94 Barb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#72 Top CEOs' compensation increased 17.6 percent in 2017
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#107 The LLC Loophole; In New York, where an LLC is legally a person
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#113 The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#8 The LLC Loophole; In New York, where an LLC is legally a person, companies can use the vehicles to blast through campaign finance limits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#78 A Short History Of Corporations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#60 Grant (& Conkling)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#3 Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#8 Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#9 England: South Sea Bubble - The Sharp Mind of John Blunt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#12 For The Average Investor, The Next Bear Market Will Likely Be The Last
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#19 Does Capitalism Kill Cooperation?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: 7 Charts Exposing The Nation's Pension Nightmare Date: 10 Apr 2019 Blog: Facebook7 Charts Exposing The Nation's Pension Nightmare
The Fed Has Created An Economy Of Zombies And Unicorns
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-10/fed-has-created-economy-zombies-and-unicorns
You must understand that 75% of today's wealth is in the hands of
retirees and pre-retirees. Most have a significant portion of their
money in index funds, and they're going to see significant erosion of
their retirement assets. I'm thinking especially of those depending on
public pensions, which are heavily weighted to a form of index
investing. Public pensions are already significantly underfunded (in
general) and a bear market will make them even more so. It will be
painful and I can assure you it will cause a lot of political
angst. Today I'll tell you why I think this. It may be one of the more
important letters I've written in the recent past, so read carefully.
... snip ...
some recent posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#81 What Lies Beyond Capitalism And Socialism?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#46 How Wall Street Drove Public Pensions Into Crisis and Pocketed Billions in Fees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#48 How Wall Street Drove Public Pensions Into Crisis and Pocketed Billions in Fees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#74 How Wall Street Drove Public Pensions Into Crisis and Pocketed Billions in Fees
Cal. State Pension articles
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/?s=calpers
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Union Pacific Announces 150th Anniversary Celebration Commemorating Transcontinental Railroad's Completion Date: 10 Apr 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
42 Years Ago, a corrupt United States Supreme Court Gave Corporations
Free Speech Rights
https://johnhively.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/42-years-ago-a-corrupt-united-states-supreme-court-gave-corporations-free-speech-rights/
In 1971, Powell wrote what has become known as the Lewis Powell memo,
which advocated a corporate "guerrilla war" of misinformation and
corporate take over of our schools, courts and other institutions.
That war has been successfully waged. A few months after Powell wrote
the memo and presented it to the United States Chamber of Commerce,
then-President Richard Nixon successfully nominated Powell to the
United States Supreme Court. You already know where Powell's
sympathies lay. He was the rich man's class warrior. So fast forward
to 1978.
... snip ...
Merchants of Doubt posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#merchants.of.doubt
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (science for hire)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
http://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured-ebook/dp/B003RRXXO8/
http://www.economist.com/node/16374460
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: You paid taxes. These corporations didn't. Date: 11 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookYou paid taxes. These corporations didn't.
Poster child is large US equipment manufacturer that built in the US and shipped directly to customers in the US. They then setup a "distributorship" in offshore tax haven. Equipment was "sold" wholesale at cost to the distributorship which then "sells" to customers in the US ... with all the profits booked in the offshore taxhaven. Equipment is still made in the US and directly shipped to customers in the US ... just fancy financial engineering to book all profits offshore. Note that money doesn't even actually leave US, "investments" someplace around wallstreet (again financial engineering bookkeeping).
Luxembourg Leaks
https://www.icij.org/investigations/luxembourg-leaks/
tax evasion, tax fraud, tax haven, tax avoidance posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: System/360 consoles Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 12:32:21 -0700hancock4 writes:
Spring semester, I had taken two semester hour intro to computing/fortran ... univ. had 709/1401 with 1401 doing unit record front-end for 709 running tape->tape student fortran jobs (in less than second per), tapes manually moved between 709 and 1401.
that summer 1401 was replaced with 360/30, I got a job rewriting the 1401 MPIO (tape<->unit record) program for 360 (1401 MPIO could still run on 360/30 in emulation mode, but i guess they wanted to get 360 experience). univ. shutdown the datacenter from 8am sat until 8am monday ... and I got the whole place to myself for 48hrs. I also got to design/implement my own monitor, interrupt handlers, device drivers, error recovery, storage management, user interface, etc. I got it to point for concurrent card->tape with tape->printer/punch
I eventually had 2000 card program with assembler option that generated a "stand-alone" version (loaded with BPS loader) or os/360 application. The stand-alone version assembled in about 30mins (360/30 64kbyte, os/360 release 6) ... but the os/360 version took an hour ... extra 30mins to assemble the DCB macros.
It was part of transition from 709/1401 to 360/67 ... originally intended for tss/360 ... which never got to production fruition ... and so ran most of the time as 360/65 with os/360. After 360/67 came in, I got hired fulltime to be responsible for the production systems ... and continued to have the datacenter to myself for 48hrs over the week (made any monday morning class a little hard after being up for 48hrs).
Initial fortran student jobs took over a minute elapsed time (after being under second on 709), fortgclg. Installing HASP (spooling) cut it to a little over 30seconds. I then started doing custom OS/360 sysgens, carefully ordering datasets and PDS members (minimize arm seek distance and multi-track search of PDS member directory) ... cutting elapsed student fortran job to 12.9secs (almost 3times faster).
Student fortran didn't get faster than 709 until installed WATFOR, single step batch monitor, typically full tray of student fortran jobs (around 2000 cards, typically 40-60 cards per job, around 40jobs). WATFOR was rated at 20,000 cards per minute on 360/65, or around 6seconds for tray of cards (w/HASP) ... plus approx. 4secs for os/360 step overhead ... or 10seconds elapsed time for 40jobs, about quarter second/job.
End Jan1968, 3 people from the Science Center came out and installed
CP/67 ... which I got to play with over the weekend (also). I rewrote a
lot of CP67 over that spring and summer ... and had presentation at
fall1968 (user group) SHARE meeting ... part in this old post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#18
Before graduation I got hired fulltime into Boeing CFO office to help with formation of Boeing Computer Services (consolidate all dataprocessing into independent business unit to better monetize the investment, including offering services to non-Boeing entities). There was company politics between CFO (who had 360/30 for payroll) and head of Renton datacenter, I thot possibly largest in the world ($200m-$300m, 60s dollars in IBM 360). They did enlarge the 360/30 machine room and install a 360/67 for me to play with cp/67). They also brought up the multiprocessor 360/67 from Boeing Huntsville to Seattle.
The IBM branch & Boeing people would tell story about 360 announce day ... Boeing (who knew a lot more about 360) walks into the IBM salesman and make a big 360 order. That year, the salesman is the highest paid IBM employee. IBM then changes from straight commission to "quota" system for the next year. Boeing places another large 360 order and by the end of Jan he has the year's quota, then IBM "adjusts" the salesman's quota, and the salesman leaves the company
747#3 as also flying skies of seattle getting FAA flt certificaiton. There was disaster scenario wher Mt. Rainier heats up and the resulting mud slide takes out Renton datacenter ... and there was plans for replicating the Renton datacenter up at new 747 plant in Everett.
When I graduate, I join the science center at MIT (rather than staying at Boeing).
IBM rented/leased systems and charged based on system meter (ran whenever the CPU and/or any channel was busy) ... even funny money charges for internal datacenters. As part of moving to 7x24 online operation, science center did a lot of CP67 work to let the system meter stop when things were idle ... including special channel programs that would let the system meter stop, but instantly wake-up for arriving characters. Trivia, system meter would continue running for 400ms after everything (cpu and channels) had stopped ... long after IBM converted to sales, MVS still had special timer request that woke up every 400ms, making sure any system meter would never stop.
science center also did a lot of cp67 work in the 60s for supporting dark room offshift operation (no human in the datacenter).
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: S/360 Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 11 Apr 2019 13:19:13 -0700lists@AKPHS.COM (Phil Smith III) writes:
the recent move from 512byte to 4096byte fixed blocks is largely
motivated by error correct.
fixed-block
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-block_architecture
FBA 512->4096 migration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format
original "raid" patent was by IBMer in the 70s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
first use was IBM S/38 ... because common single disk failure took out everything. part of S/38 organization simplification was scatter allocation across all disks (treated as single filesystem) ... and therefor any single disk failure took out the whole system ... all disks had to be backed up as single unit/pool (because of scatter allocation) ... and any recovery required complete system restore.
Note originally 3380 had 20 track spacings between each data-track ... flying lower met adjacent tracks had less interferance and cut the data track spacing in half (double-density with twice the number of tracks/cylinders), then spacing cut again for triple-density (three times the number of tracks/cylinders).
trivia: I got dragged into idea the IBM "father of risc" had for "wide-head" 16 adjacent datatracks with servo tracks on either side ... read/write all 16 simultaneously (while tracking servo tracks on both sides of the data tracks). This was in 3090 and 3380 triple-density time-frame. The problem was that the IBM mainframe data transfer is 16*3mbytes/sec or 48mbytes/sec. Even when ESCON is announced in 1990 (with ES/9000, when ESCON is alread obsolete) it is only 17mbytes/sec.
little more trivia: 70s, engineer was running "air bearing" (floating heads) simulation (part of reducing head flying height enabling greater densities) on research 370/195 ... but only getting a couple turn arounds a month (even with priority designation). I had done enhanced bullet proof, never fail operating system for bldg 14&15 allowing them moving from stand-alone testing to doing concurrent development testing under operating system. Turns out even concurrent testing only used percent or two of processor ... so we set up private online service using the machines. Bldg15 had 2ndor3rd engineering 3033 from POK, and we get the air bearing simulation moved over to the 3033, where he can get several turn-arounds a day (even tho 3033 has little less than 1/2 processing of 370/195).
more trivia: I had done channel-extender support in 1980 for STL that was moving 300 people from IMS group to offsite bldg ... but the POK people playing with what becomes ESCON ... blocks it release to customer. In 1988, I'm asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they are playing with which quickly becomes fibre-channel standard, including some stuff that I had one in 1980 (FCS, originally 100mbyte/sec concurrent in both directions).
Then some POK engineers get involved in FCS and define a protocol that radically cuts the native throughput ... which is eventually released as FICON. Most recent published FICON numbers I've seen is peak I/O z196 test that used 104 FICON (running over 104 FCS) getting 2M IOPS. About the same time there was FCS announced for E5-2600 blade claiming over million IOPS (two such FCS, getting more throughput than 104 FICON running over 104 FCS).
posts getting to play disk engineer in bldg 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
CKD, FBA, DASD, multi-track search, etc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
channel extender posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
FICON posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: S/360 Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 11 Apr 2019 16:18:21 -0700wmhblair@COMCAST.NET (WILLIAM H BLAIR) writes:
Ludlow was doing initial implementation of MVT for VS2/SVS ... work done on 360/67. Basically not that different of running MVT in a 16mbyte cp/67 virtual machine. Build table for single 16mbyte virtual address space at startup and a little bit of page I/O (not hihgly optimized because anticipating little or no actual paging). Biggest amount of code was same as CP/67 ... (EXCP/SV0) got channel programs built with virtual addresses ... and so had to make a channel program copy replacing the virtual addresses with real addresses ... and basically borrowed the code from CP/67 and hacked into EXCP.
Slight topic drift, in my previous post in this thread, I mentioned
doing bullet proof input/output supervisor for doing bldg14 disk
engineering testing and bldg15 product test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#52 S/360
They had previously tried MVS, but in that environment MVS had 15min
MTBF requiring manual re-ipl. This is later email just before 3380
customer ship ... FE had regression test of 57 simulated errors that
were expected to occur in normal operations. MVS was still failing in
all 57 error (requiring manual re-ipl) with no indication of what cause
the failure in 2/3rds of the case ... old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801015
I did an internal report of all the changes/fixes needed to support any amount of on-demand concurrent dasd development testing (previously they were running 7x24 pre-scheduled stand-alone testing) ... and (unfortunately) happened to mention the MVS 15min MTBF ... which brought down the wrath of the MVS group on my head (I was told initially they tried to have me separated from the IBM company).
posts getting to play disk engineer in bldg 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Misinformation: anti-vaccine bullshit Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:46:16 -0700Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
cambridge science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
listserv mailing list was then done on EARN in paris in 1986 (subset of
internal tools conferencing which supported both usenet like operation
and mailing list options)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISTSERV#Automated_mailing_list_management
things like ibm-main discussion group started out on BITNET in the
mid-80s, continue to live ... gatewayed to bit.listserv usenet hierarchy
... which is then gatewayed to google groups
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bit.listserv.ibm-main
recent S/360 discussion
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/Wl88nBPyF-c
from recent post about xmas exploit on bitnet
VMSHARE reference:
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse.cgi?fn=CHRISTMA&ft=PROB
note I recently complained about VMSHARE archive gone 404 at Marist,
they restored the "home" page, but the rest has still been 404, however,
it still lives at the wayback machine:
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/browse.cgi?fn=CHRISTMA&ft=PROB
risk digest ref (by Joe Morris) on risk digest (21dec87)
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/5.81.html#subj1
this was corporate sponsored BITNET ... mostly ibm mainframes at
institutions of higher learning in the US ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
interconnected with similar EARN in europe ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Academic_Research_Network
it used technology similar to internal network (which was larger than
arpanet/internet from just about beginning until possibly late '85 or
early '86), a year before the internet morris worm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
old post where I tried to do a rendition of the FSX XMAS in html (html
animation blinking)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#54
bitnet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
ibm internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
... snip ...
trivia: TYMSHARE started providing their CMS-based online computer
conferencing "free" to the (IBM user group) SHARE as VMSHARE in
Aug1976.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare
I would go by TYMSHARE every month or so and/or see their people at monthly BAYBUNCH meetings at SLAC. I had cut a deal with TYMSHARE to get monthly tape dump of all VMSHARE files to put up on internal network and systems ... one of the biggest problems I had was IBM lawyers were afraid of contaminanting IBM employees with customer information.
early 90s, I tried to get campaign to get ISPs throttling various kinds
of exploits ... like green card spamming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_email_spam
ISPs countered with they didn't have the technology to montior user activity ... but this was in the days of home dialup internet ... and the same technolog they were using for multiple concurrent logins could have been used. they were more interested in revenue. There was also legal liability ... if it looked like they were controlling bad activity ... then victims of bad activity that sneaked thru could more easily sue the ISPs.
Later 90s, was in scottsdale for X9 financial standard meeting and having dinner in mexican restaurant in old town ... and a couple came in with man and were seated behind us. The man spent the dinner explaining how he did the green card spamming and how he could be hired to do it for their business.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Most Corrupt Institution on Earth Date: 13 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookIn 1999, I was asked to help try and prevent the coming economic mess (we failed). Then a decade later, in Jan2009, I was asked to HTML'ize the Pecora Hearings (30s congressional hearings into '29crash, resulted in criminal convictions with jailtime) with lots of URLs between what happened this time and what happened then (references that the new congress might have appetite to do something). I work on it for awhile and then get a call saying it won't be needed after all, references to enormous mountains of wallstreet money totally burying capital hill ... and they may only be 2-3 "honest" member of congress left.
2008 there had been national TV broadcast of economic conference roundtable on "flat tax" ... eliminating *ALL* loopholes. Scenario was that it costs the country 3% of GDP paying tax preparers to deal with the loopholes and 3% of GDP in non-optimal business practices to conform with loopholes ... whatever "beneficial" loopholes might be eliminated, it would be more than gained back with the 6% in GDP.
There were then articles that congress is most corrupt institution on earth ... primarily for the selling of tax loopholes to special interests ... and paying congress for tax loopholes has one of the highest ROIs, getting $1000 for every $1 spent on congress (for every billion spent on congress returns a trillion for the corporations and special interests).
One of their current problems is that they have sold nearly every possible loophole ... they now are trying to convert to practice of renting loopholes that have to be paid for (renewed) every couple years. In the mean time they fabricate conflict between two parties over repealing tax loopholes, increasing payments for both sides.
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
tax avoidance, tax havens, tax evasion, tax fraud posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
2002 congress lets the fiscal responsibility act expire (spending can't exceed tax revenue, on the way to eliminating all federal debt). 2010 CBO report that 2003-2009, taxes reduced by $6T and spending increased by $6T for $12T gap compared to fiscal responsible budget. Sort of confluence of federal reserve and wallstreet wanting huge federal debt, special interests and wallstreet wanting huge tax cut, and military-industrial complex wanting huge spending increase (radically different congress than the one that originally passed the fiscal responsibility act).
fiscal responsibility act posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
military-industrial complex part last decade (with some background)
CIA director Colby refuses to approve "Team B" analysis greatly
exaggerating Russian military capability, justifying huge US military
spending increase.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
White House Chief of Staff Rumsfeld gets Colby replaced with somebody
(Bush1) that will agree with "Team B" analysis. Rumsfeld then resigns
to become SECDEF (and is replaced by his assistant Cheney).
In the 80s, US supports Iraq in the Iran/iraq war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
Bush1 is VP, two Bechtel SVPs are SECTREAS and SECDEF, and Rumsfeld is
involved in supporting Iraq, including supplying WMDs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
In the early 90s, Bush1 is president, Cheney is SECDEF and previous
SECTREAS is SECSTATE. Sat. photo recon analyst told white house that
Saddam was marshaling forces to invade Kuwait. White house said that
Saddam would do no such thing and proceeded to discredit the
analyst. Later the analyst informed the white house that Saddam was
marshaling forces to invade Saudi Arabia, now the white house has to
choose between Saddam and the Saudis.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2/
Records appear showing Bush ran Iran/Contra and he pardons everybody
https://www.amazon.com/Profiteers-Bechtel-Men-Built-World-ebook/dp/B010MHAHV2/
This century, Bush2 is president, Cheney is VP, Rumsfeld is SECDEF and
one of the "Team B" members is deputy SECDEF (and major architect of
Iraq policy).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz
Before the invasion, the cousin of white house chief of staff Card
... was dealing with the Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence that
WMDs (tracing back to US in the Iran/Iraq war) had been
decommissioned. the cousin shared it with Card, Powell and others
... then is locked up in military hospital, book was published in 2010
(4yrs before decommissioned WMDs were declassified)
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
NY Times series from 2014, the decommission WMDs (tracing back to US
from Iran/Iraq war), had been found early in the invasion, but the
information was classified for a decade
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html
and military-industrial-complex wanted a war so badly that corporate
reps were telling former eastern block countries that if they voted
for IRAQ2 invasion in the UN, they would get membership in NATO and
(directed appropriation) USAID (can *ONLY* be used for purchase
of modern US arms). From the law of unintended consequences, the
invaders were told to bypass ammo dumps looking for WMDs, when they
got around to going back, over a million metric tons had evaporated.
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
team B posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
military industrial complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
wmd postings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
and financial mess, VP and former CIA director repeatedly claims no
knowledge of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
S&L crisis posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
last decade (after turn of century) another family member is president and presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than the S&L crisis. Proportionally the economic mess should have 70,000 criminal convictions with jailtime (recently there has been suggestion that there has possibly been one).
more 80s financial deregulation
buybacks have been propping up the market for long time ... note that buybacks use to be illegal because they could be used to easily manipulate the market.
The Ugly Truth Behind Stock Buybacks
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aalsin/2017/02/28/shareholders-should-be-required-to-vote-on-stock-buybacks/
For most of the 20th century, stock buybacks were deemed
illegal because they were thought to be a form of stock market
manipulation. But since 1982, when they were essentially legalized by
the SEC, buybacks have become perhaps the most popular financial
engineering tool in the C-Suite tool shed.
stock buyback posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: U.S. Has Spent Six Trillion Dollars on Wars That Killed Half a Million People Since 9/11, Report Says Date: 14 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookU.S. Has Spent Six Trillion Dollars on Wars That Killed Half a Million People Since 9/11, Report Says
Family of Secrets
https://www.amazon.com/Family-Secrets-Americas-Invisible-Government-ebook/dp/B003NSBMNA/
from the law of unintended consequences that come back to bite you
(including 9/11, nearly all the terrorists were Saudis);
pg292/loc6057-59:
There was also a calculated decision to use the Saudis as surrogates
in the cold war. The United States actually encouraged Saudi efforts
to spread the extremist Wahhabi form of Islam as a way of stirring up
large Muslim communities in Soviet-controlled countries. (It didn't
hurt that Muslim Soviet Asia contained what were believed to be the
world's largest undeveloped reserves of oil.)
... snip ...
There was recent Fareed Zakaria GPS segment about Wahhabi violence now in Indonesia
In 2002, congress lets the fiscal responsibility act lapse, spending couldn't exceed revenue, on its way to eliminating all federal debt. 2005 comptroller general was including in speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle school arithmetic. CBO 2010 report was that 2003-2009, taxes was cut by $6T and spending increased by $6T for $12T gap compared to fiscal responsible budget. Sort of confluence of Federal Reserve and wallstreet wanting huge federal debt, special interests and wallstreet wanting huge tax cut, and military-industrial complex wanting huge spending increase (first time taxes were cut to not pay for two wars, now exceeding $6T).
fiscal responsibility act posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
This century, Bush2 is president, Cheney is VP, Rumsfeld is SECDEF and
one of the "Team B" members is deputy SECDEF (and major architect of
Iraq policy).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz
Before the invasion, the cousin of white house chief of staff Card
... was dealing with the Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence that
WMDs (tracing back to US in the Iran/Iraq war) had been
decommissioned. the cousin shared it with Card, Powell and others
... then is locked up in military hospital, book was published in 2010
(4yrs before decommissioned WMDs were declassified)
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
NY Times series from 2014, the decommission WMDs (tracing back to US
from Iran/Iraq war), had been found early in the invasion, but the
information was classified for a decade
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html
and military-industrial-complex wanted a war so badly that corporate
reps were telling former eastern block countries that if they voted
for IRAQ2 invasion in the UN, they would get membership in NATO and
(directed appropriation) USAID (can *ONLY* be used for purchase of
modern US arms, aka additional congressional gifts to MIC complex not
in DOD budget). From the law of unintended consequences, the invaders
were told to bypass ammo dumps looking for WMDs, when they got around
to going back, over a million metric tons had evaporated.
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
WMD posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
earlier, CIA director Colby refuses to approve "Team B" analysis
greatly exaggerating Russian military capability, justifying huge US
military spending increase.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
White House Chief of Staff Rumsfeld gets Colby replaced with somebody
(Bush1) that will agree with "Team B" analysis. Rumsfeld then resigns
to become SECDEF (and is replaced by his assistant Cheney). In the
80s, US supports Iraq in the Iran/iraq war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
Bush1 is VP, two Bechtel SVPs are SECTREAS and SECDEF, and Rumsfeld is
involved in supporting Iraq, including supplying WMDs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
"Team B" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
In the early 90s, Bush1 is president, Cheney is SECDEF and previous
SECTREAS is SECSTATE. Sat. photo recon analyst told white house that
Saddam was marshaling forces to invade Kuwait. White house said that
Saddam would do no such thing and proceeded to discredit the
analyst. Later the analyst informed the white house that Saddam was
marshaling forces to invade Saudi Arabia, now the white house has to
choose between Saddam and the Saudis.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2/
Records appear showing Bush ran Iran/Contra and he pardons everybody
https://www.amazon.com/Profiteers-Bechtel-Men-Built-World-ebook/dp/B010MHAHV2/
and financial mess, 80s VP and former CIA director repeatedly claims
no knowledge of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
last decade (after turn of century) another family member is president and presides over the economic mess, 70 times larger than the S&L crisis. Proportionally the economic mess should have 70,000 criminal convictions with jailtime (recently there has been suggestion that there has possibly been one).
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
S&L crisis posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
'29 crash, Pecora Hearings, FDIC insured and/or Glass-Steagall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
other 80s financial deregulation, buybacks have been propping up the market for long time ... note that buybacks use to be illegal because they could be used to easily manipulate the market.
The Ugly Truth Behind Stock Buybacks
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aalsin/2017/02/28/shareholders-should-be-required-to-vote-on-stock-buybacks/
For most of the 20th century, stock buybacks were deemed
illegal because they were thought to be a form of stock market
manipulation. But since 1982, when they were essentially legalized by
the SEC, buybacks have become perhaps the most popular financial
engineering tool in the C-Suite tool shed.
... snip ...
stock buyback posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: HA/CMP, HA/6000, Harrier/9333, STK Iceberg & Adstar Seastar Date: 14 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookIBM Adstar tried to counter (STK Iceberg) with seastar (software was seahorse) ... current web search for references just turn up my old usenet posts I've archived at garlic.com ... which have old online references that have gone 404 ... although some of them still live at the wayback machine
Besides working with LLNL on technical cluster scale-up
"supercomputers" ... we were also working with LLNL on porting their
high-performance filesystem LINCS they had originally done on Cray
... including HA/CMP version (Unitree). As I've periodically mentioned
before ... a week or two later we had meeting in ellison's conference
on commercial cluster scale-up, reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
then a couple weeks after that meeting, cluster scale-up was
transferred, announced as IBM supercomputer (for technical/scientifc
"ONLY") and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than
four processors (we leave IBM a few months later)
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 91 15:07:32 -0800
To: wheeler
Subject: Unitree log structured filesystem
Lynn, this could be useful for the high-end for a non-obvious reason.
We recently removed the only future CKD 5.25in DASD from the plan. The
next high-end DASD, Cortez, will do CKD emulation. Emulation is the
right way to do CKD, but unfortunately Cortez is forced to emulate
behind a 3990. This is badness because the DDC interface behind a
3990 is gap-synchronous. This means there is a Read-Modify-Write
cycle to do a write. This is inherent to a 3990.
The only way to do CKD Emulation correctly is to get rid of
3990. Seastar plans to do this, but not until 2Q95. In the interim,
we need a high performance high-end CKD subsystem. We would like
array support if possible, and compression.
What has this to do with HA/Unitree LFS you ask? If we added some
ESCON cards to an HA/950, and we did CKD Emulation SW and Compression
HW here at ARC, we could quickly build a cached/arrayed/CKD subystem.
We could stripe data across Harrier drawers 3+P. We could compress
because we have LSFS (update in place precludes compression). We
could cache in Unitree memory. Would this work ? It would be really
keen.
... snip ... top of post, old email index
other HA/CMP email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
In late 70s and first part of 80s, I got to spend some time playing disk engineer in bldgs 14&15 ... but later 80s, I was spending more time on risc & turning out HA/CMP product. Above email references HA/950 ... which is HA/CMP running on RS6000/950 (product started out HA/6000, but I fairly quickly renamed HA/CMP (High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing) when started on cluster scale-up) ... high-end rack mounted system. I've previous mentioned that ESCON was announced in 1990 with ES/9000 when it was already obsolete. In 1988, I was (also) asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff that they had been playing with which quickly becomes fibre channel standard (including some stuff that I had done in 1980), initially 100mbyte/sec concurrent in both direction, compared to ESCON 17mbyte/sec half-duplex.
recent post in IBM-main S/360 thread
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/Wl88nBPyF-c
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#52 S/360
The post about Jan1992 Ellison commercial cluster scale-up (128-way
ye1992) meeting, and the above email mentions Harrier(/9333) which we
were using in some HA/CMP configurations. It was high-speed
fixed-block disks using packetized SCSI protocol running over
80mbit/sec full-duplex serial copper. I mention that I had hoped that
it evolves into 1/8th speed interoperable fibre-channel standard
... but instead it evolves into IBM proprietary SSA (after we leave):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Storage_Architecture
The above wiki mentions that SSA was "overtaken" by FCS, but I had
been asked to help with standardizing what becomes FCS in 1988 ... and
I wanted Harrier/9333 to evolve into FCS interoperable instead of IBM
proprietary
ha/cmp posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
channel-extender (1980 for STL) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
FICON posts (mainframe channel protocol running over FCS)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
getting to play disk engineer posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
DASD, CKD, multi-track search, FBA, etc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Stuff We Can't Afford, Part 1: Paying People To Live On Flood Plains Date: 14 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookStuff We Can't Afford, Part 1: Paying People To Live On Flood Plains
there has been claims that half of the federal disaster flood insurance goes to the state of mississippi each year (some mississippi congressman that the federal government "owed" mississippi the money for economic stimulus) ... and rebuilding each year at the same locations in flood plain/zone ... even tho federal legislation at least from the 80s not allowing flood insurance paying for rebuilding in flood plain/zone
past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#41 Where do the filesystem and RAID system belong?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#42 Where do the filesystem and RAID system belong?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#67 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#41 August 7, 1944: today is the 65th Anniversary of the Birth of the Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#18 other days around me
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#48 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamationmade30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#27 Federal Subsidies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#13 1970--protesters seize computer center
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Make Stock Buybacks Illegal? Date: 14 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookMake Stock Buybacks Illegal?
recent post:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#2 After Forking Out $110 Billion on Stock Buybacks, IBM Shifts Its Spending Focus
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#44 Banning Buybacks Would Crash The Market, Goldman Warns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#46 Banning Buybacks Would Crash The Market, Goldman Warns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#55 Most Corrupt Institution on Earth
stock buyback posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: S/360 Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 15 Apr 2019 11:59:28 -0700tom@TOMBRENNANSOFTWARE.COM (Tom Brennan) writes:
recent (facebook ibm retirees) post ... with 3390/3990, iceberg, seastar, etc:
IBM Adstar tried to counter (STK Iceberg) with seastar (software was
seahorse) ... current web search for references just turn up my old
usenet posts I've archived at garlic.com ... which have old online
references that have gone 404 ... although some of them still live at
the wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20080608164743/http://www.informationweek.com/565/65mtrob.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20060328034324/http://www.stkhi.com/nearline.htm
Besides working with LLNL on technical cluster scale-up "supercomputers"
... we were also working with LLNL on porting their high-performance
filesystem LINCS they had originally done on Cray ... including HA/CMP
version (Unitree). As I've periodically mentioned before ... a week or
two later we had meeting in ellison's conference on commercial cluster
scale-up, reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
then a couple weeks after that meeting, cluster scale-up was transferred,
announced as IBM supercomputer (for technical/scientifc "ONLY") and we
were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors
(we leave IBM a few months later)
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#email911230
In late 70s and first part of 80s, I got to spend some time playing disk engineer in bldgs 14&15 ... but later 80s, I was spending more time on risc & turning out HA/CMP product. Above email references HA/950 ... which is HA/CMP running on RS6000/950 (product started out HA/6000, but I fairly quickly renamed HA/CMP (High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing) when started on cluster scale-up) ... high-end rack mounted system. I've previous mentioned that ESCON was announced in 1990 with ES/9000 when it was already obsolete. In 1988, I was (also) asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff that they had been playing with which quickly becomes fibre channel standard (including some stuff that I had done in 1980), initially 100mbyte/sec concurrent in both direction, compared to ESCON 17mbyte/sec half-duplex.
The post about Jan1992 Ellison commercial cluster scale-up (128-way
ye1992) meeting, and the above email mentions Harrier(/9333) which we
were using in some HA/CMP configurations. It was high-speed fixed-block
disks using packetized SCSI protocol running over 80mbit/sec full-duplex
serial copper. I mention that I had hoped that it evolves into 1/8th
speed interoperable fibre-channel standard ... but instead it evolves
into IBM proprietary SSA (after we leave):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Storage_Architecture The above wiki
mentions that SSA was "overtaken" by FCS, but I had been asked to help
with standardizing what becomes FCS in 1988 ... and I wanted
Harrier/9333 to evolve into FCS interoperable instead of IBM proprietary
... end of ibm retiree post ...
aka, real CKD DASD hasn't been made for decades ... but POK's favorite son operating system has not been able to ween itself off it.
as mentioned previously, somewhere along the way, some POK engineers become involved with FCS and define an extremely heavyweight protocol that drastically reduces the native throughput, eventually released as FICON. Latest published "peak i/o" benchmark I've seen is for z196 getting 2M IOPS using 104 FICON running over 104 FCS. About the same time a FCS was announced for E5-2600 blade claiming over million IOPS (two such FCS getting higher throughput than 104 FICON running over 104 FCS).
past posts mentioning FICON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
HA/CMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
some old archived cluster scale-up posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Location Independent Code Date: 15 Apr 2019 Blog: Facebookre: location independent code; a hot button. I had done paged mapped filesystem for CP67/CMS with shared segments that could concurrently appear at different addresses in different virtual address spaces (from the cms modules, none of the CP "named" segments). I then moved it to VM370/CMS ... and the product group released a very small subset, none of the paged mapped filesystem ... just the shared segment stuff ... but using (CP) named shared segments (at fixed address, the same in every virtual address space) as DCSS for vm370 release3.
For my full stuff, I had to manually fix all the (OS/360) adcons (CMS
using OS/360 assembler and compilers) .... poor man's version of
TSS/360 RCONs which supported location independent operation. old
email about moving from CP67/CMS to VM370/CMS (and doing CSC/VM for
internal datacenters)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
old email with Theo about fixing to be location independent *AND*
running in shared segment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#email781010
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#email781011
in this post about doing location indepentent code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#9
some more
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#email791012
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#39
Old email with the VMSG author about putting VMSG into shared segment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#email790312
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#email790312b
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#email790403
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#23
If I couldn't fix all adcons, I could still do shared "module" at same
fixed address across all virtual address spaces. Past posts mentioning
the issue manually fixing adcons for location independent code (also
references that I had done it earlier when I originally did pageable
kernel code for CP67 ... which was picked up and shipped as part of
VM370 release 1)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#adcon
aka ... the executable image in the filesystem is exactly the same as what executes in memory. OS/360 has all these RLDs where the executable has to be prefetched and all the RLDs (adcons) fiddled (allowing filesystem image to be loaded at any address) before the program can be started. CMS utilized OS/360 assemblers and compilers with the RLD/adcon convention ... but did have "MODULE" format files ... which was memory image after RLDs had been fiddled ... but then lost being able to load at different addresses (still had to be preloaded with channel program, but didn't require any further preprocessing).
My CMS page mapped filesystem eliminated the overhead of I/O simulation and also allowed execution to start before the complete program/file was in storage. It also allowed the same executable image to shared in different virtual address spaces ... and if so designated that it was location independent, it could be mapped arbitrary virtual address ... even being shared concurrently at different addresses in different virtual address spaces.
It did introduce hardware issues. The original (360/67 &) 370 virtual memory architecture allowed for concurrent sharing of same information at different virtual addresses ... but in the virtual->real address hardware mappings created synonyms ... the same real address having multiple different virtual addresses. When it came to invalidating some hardware virtual->real mapping table ... rather than single possible mapping entry ... may have to search for multiple possible entries.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Cobol Date: 15 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookWe are working with national labs on technical cluster scale-up and RDBMS vendors on commercial cluster scale-up. Reference to Jan1992 meeting in Ellison's conference room on commercial cluster scale-up (128-way by ye1992)
within a few weeks of the meeting, cluster scale-up is transferred, announced as IBM supercomputer (for technical/scientific "ONLY"), and we are told we can't work on anything with more than four processors. Contributing motivation may have complaints by mainframe DB2 group that if we were allowed to go ahead, it would be at least 5yrs ahead of them. We leave a few months later. Later two of the Oracle people in the Ellison's meeting have 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. The startup had also invented this technology called "SSL" they want to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
As a result of doing "electronic commerce" ... get dragged into lots
of financial industry, including national/international standards
bodies. At the turn of the century, get brought into large datacenter
handling over half of all credit cards in the US to look at
performance issues. They have 40+ max configured IBM mainframes (@$30M
each; then addin dasd, other stuff, etc; constantly upgraded, none
older than 18m) running a 450k statement Cobol application/program
... number mainframes needed to complete account settlement in the
overnight batch window. Was able to cut 2/3rds for something that
accounted for 21% of total processing (14% improvement, or $200M in
mainframes). Going in I semi-facetiously proposed getting 5% of the
savings ... didn't get it. The organization had large group
responsible for the performance care & feeding of the 450kloc for a
couple decades ... but they seemed to have become increasingly myopic
continually optimizing the same stuff over and over. Also did some
number of patents for the company, payments, crypto, chips
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadssummary.htm
past posts mentioning 450k statement cobol program
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#50 Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#20 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#21 Distributed Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#24 Job ad for z/OS systems programmer trainee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#73 Price of CPU seconds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#81 Intel: an expensive many-core future is ahead of us
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#5 Why do IBMers think disks are 'Direct Access'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#76 Architectural Diversity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#55 Cobol hits 50 and keeps counting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#20 IBM forecasts 'new world order' for financial services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#35 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#32 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#25 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#45 Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#83 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#69 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#78 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#65 A New Performance Model ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#112 Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#43 The Pentagon still uses computer software from 1958 to manage its contracts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#57 When did the home computer die?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#2 Has Microsoft commuted suicide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#43 How IBM Was Left Behind
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#13 IBM today
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The Only Man Who Flew Both The F-22 And The YF-23 On Why The YF-23 Lost Date: 16 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookThe Only Man Who Flew Both The F-22 And The YF-23 On Why The YF-23 Lost
from decade ago, jokes at the time couldn't take it out in weather
http://nypost.com/2009/07/17/cant-fly-wont-die/
more recent article about maintenance bays are booked around the clock
http://www.tyndall.af.mil/News/Features/Display/tabid/6651/Article/669883/lo-how-the-f-22-gets-its-stealth.aspx
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
lots of past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#51 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#56 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#10 UAV vis-a-vis F35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#41 The Heritage Foundation, Then and Now
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#56 Update on the F35 Debate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#34 Search Google, 1960:s-style
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#0 Navy's F-35C Completes Landing Tests Ahead of October Sea Trials
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#1 If We Don't Keep The F-22 Raptor Viable, The F-35 Fleet Will Be Irrelevant'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#40 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#66 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#92 Why do bank IT systems keep failing ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#90 A Drone Could Be the Ultimate Dogfighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#51 Has the last fighter pilot been born?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#18 After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#31 The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#102 A-10 Warthog No Longer Suitable for Middle East Combat, Air Force Leader Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#40 China's Fifth-Generation Fighter Could Be A Game Changer In An Increasingly Tense East Asia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#43 Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#6 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#59 A-10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#75 How Russia's S-400 makes the F-35 obsolete
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#14 With the U.S. F-35 Grounded, Putin's New Jet Beats Us Hands-Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#42 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#43 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
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#58 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#16 Modern computer brochures; military security; then and now ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#60 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#75 American Gripen: The Solution To The F-35 Nightmare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#21 DEC and The Americans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#55 How to Kill the F-35 Stealth Fighter; It all comes down to radar ... and a big enough missile
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#89 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#91 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#92 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#95 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#96 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#97 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#61 5th generation stealth, thermal, radar signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#62 5th generation stealth, thermal, radar signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#104 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#40 The F-22 Raptor Is the World's Best Fighter (And It Has a Secret Weapon That Is Out in the Open)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#67 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#76 The F-35 Stealth Fighter Is Politically Unstoppable----Even Under President Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#77 Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can't Dogfight
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#78 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#93 F35 Program
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#98 A Christmassy PL/I tale
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#51 The Not-So-Secret Way to Kill an F-22 or F-35 Stealth Fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#6 How do BIG WEBSITES work?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#15 China's claim it has 'quantum' radar may leave $17 billion F-35 naked
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#34 CBS News: WikiLeaks claims to release thousands of CIA documents of computer activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#51 F-35 Replacement: F-45 Mustang II Fighter -- Simple & Lightweight
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#17 The Pentagon still uses computer software from 1958 to manage its contracts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#50 A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#77 Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#44 F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#78 F-35 Multi-Role
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#44 Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#11 This is the plane that almost beat out the legendary F-16
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#39 Why China's New Supercomputer Is Only Technically the World's Fastest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#86 Lawmakers to Military: Don't Buy Another 'Money Pit' Like F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#117 F-35: Still No Finish Line in Sight
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#14 Air Force Risks Losing Third of F-35s If Upkeep Costs Aren't Cut
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#19 How China's New Stealth Fighter Could Soon Surpass the US F-22 Raptor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#21 How China's New Stealth Fighter Could Soon Surpass the US F-22 Raptor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#26 DoD watchdog: Air Force failed to effectively manage F-22 modernization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#60 11 crazy up-close photos of the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jet soaring through the air
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#63 The F-35 has a basic flaw that means an F-22 hybrid could outclass it -- and that's a big problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#68 The F-35 has a basic flaw that means an F-22 hybrid could outclass it -- and that's a big problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#74 The F-35 has a basic flaw that means an F-22 hybrid could outclass it -- and that's a big problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#76 Why the F-35 Isn't Good Enough for Japan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#108 F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#109 JSF/F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#20 Navy's Top-Dollar Stealth Fighter May Not Go the Distance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#37 Imagining a Cyber Surprise: How Might China Use Stolen OPM Records to Target Trust?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#44 Mission Command Is Swarm Intelligence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#52 Chinese Government Hackers Have Successfully Stolen Massive Amounts Of Highly Sensitive Data On U.S. Submarine Warfare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#30 Scientists Just Laid Out Paths to Solve Climate Change. We Aren't on Track to Do Any of Them
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#83 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#100 US Navy Contractors Hacked by China "More Than A Handful Of Times"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#108 Share Buybacks and the Contradictions of "Shareholder Capitalism"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#22 The American Military Sucks at Cybersecurity; A new report from US military watchdogs outlines hundreds of cybersecurity vulnerabilities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#32 The American Empire Is the Sick Man of the 21st Century
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM Tumbles After Reporting Worst Revenue In 17 Years As Cloud Hits Air Pocket Date: 16 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookIBM Tumbles After Reporting Worst Revenue In 17 Years As Cloud Hits Air Pocket
right after turn of century big cloud operators were assembling their own systems for 1/3rd the cost of brand name systems ... they also started doing detailed analysis of optimized lifetime costs of lots of different components. also system costs were so dramatically reduced that other costs were becoming more significant ... lots of automation, claiming typical large cloud megadatacenter with half million or more blade systems run with 80-120 people. Because systems & other costs had dropped so dramatically, electricity and cooling were starting to dominate ... they started pressuring chip makers for chips that highly optimized electricity & cooling per computation.
Also with system costs so dramatically dropping, they could enormously over provision for elastic "ondemand" (as long as power consumption drops to zero while idle ... and then be instant on when needed). About the time IBM sold off its server business ... the server chip makers were saying that they were shipping over half their product directly to large cloud megadatacenters (many of these chips had custom modifications to megadatacenter specs). Other parts of dataprocessing market was becoming more static, while the large cloud megadatacenter market was expanding ... but established players have extreme price/performance optimization (for long time IBM viewed computers as profit, while all the major cloud players view it as cost)
posts referring to cloud megadatacenters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#78 Entry point for a Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#8 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#122 Deja Cloud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#41 Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#16 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#20 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#28 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#34 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#42 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#13 Intel Confirms Decline of Server Giants HP, Dell, and IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#18 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#24 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#58 What is holding back cloud adoption?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#91 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#35 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#37 Where Does the Cloud Cover the Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#51 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#57 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#61 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#70 How internet can evolve
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#73 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#74 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#7 SAS Deserting the MF?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#12 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#21 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#43 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#45 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#40 The Mainframe is "Alive and Kicking"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#60 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#50 Mainframe On Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#70 50,000 x86 operating system on single mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#33 Why is the mainframe so expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#35 Why is the mainframe so expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#61 Bet Cloud Computing to Win
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#71 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#23 Scary Sysprogs and educating those 'kids'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#94 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#97 Santa has a Mainframe!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#4 IBM Plans Big Spending for the Cloud ($1.2B)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#27 IBM sells x86 server business to Levono
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#72 How many EBCDIC machines are still around?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#22 US Federal Reserve pushes ahead with Faster Payments planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#108 The IBM Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#4 Can the mainframe remain relevant in the cloud and mobile era?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#8 The IBM Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#12 The IBM Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#53 IBM hopes new chip can turn the tables on Intel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#69 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#80 IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#84 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#86 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#4 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#14 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#20 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#65 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#5 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#24 IBM Opens New SoftLayer Data Center In Hong Kong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#33 Can Ginni really lead the company to the next great product line?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#46 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#57 [CM] Mainframe tech is here to stay: just add innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#68 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#5 "F[R]eebie" software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#87 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#2 Flat (VSAM or other) files still in use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#0 HP splits, again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#56 This Chart From IBM Explains Why Cloud Computing Is Such A Game-Changer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#90 What's the difference between doing performance in a mainframe environment versus doing in others
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#113 How Much Bandwidth do we have?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#129 Is there an Inventory of the Installed Mainframe Systems Worldwide and or for Europe alone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#144 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#145 IBM Continues To Crumble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#155 IBM Continues To Crumble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#166 Slushware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#170 IBM Continues To Crumble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#35 [CM] IBM releases Z13 Mainframe - looks like Batman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#46 Why on Earth Is IBM Still Making Mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#78 Is there an Inventory of the Inalled Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#82 Is there an Inventory of the Installed Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#57 Economics of Mainframe Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#30 IBM Z13
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#69 Cambridge's HPC-as-a-service for boffins, big and small
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#0 What are some of your thoughts on future of mainframe in terms of Big Data?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#5 Can you have a robust IT system that needs experts to run it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#35 Moving to the Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#83 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#93 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#18 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#19 Linux Foundation Launches Open Mainframe Project
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#83 Term "Open Systems" (as Sometimes Currently Used) is Dead -- Who's with Me?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#93 HP being sued, not by IBM.....yet!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#57 Introducing the New z13s: Tim's Hardware Highlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#93 Google joins Facebook's game-changing project that's eating the $140 billion hardware market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#104 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#24 CeBIT and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#61 Can commodity hardware actually emulate the power of a mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#50 China takes the lead in supercomputing while America sleeps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#90 Google and Facebook put their fierce rivalry aside to save money in this key area
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#62 remote system support (i.e. the data center is 2 states away from you)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#77 Why the cloud is bad news for Cisco, Dell, and HP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#89 Why the cloud is bad news for Cisco, Dell, and HP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#45 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#61 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#47 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#48 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#55 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#57 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#60 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#21 History of Mainframe Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#6 How do BIG WEBSITES work?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#6 ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#40 What are mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#48 360 announce day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#57 What are mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#94 Migration off Mainframe to other platform
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#9 The Mainframe vs. the Server Farm: A Comparison
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#86 IBM Train Wreck Continues Ahead of Earnings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#89 z14 and zBX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#73 When Working From Home Doesn't Work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#30 Converting programs to accommodate 8-character userids and prefixes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#47 When did the home computer die?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#36 When did the home computer die?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#46 VSE timeline [was: RE: VSAM usage for ancient disk models]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#104 AW: mainframe distribution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#24 Old word processors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#46 Slashdot: Business under-investing in I.T
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#106 Has Microsoft commuted suicide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#4 MORGAN STANLEY: Tech giants are investing way more 'aggressively' in data centers than anyone thought, and it's driving double-digit growth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#27 The Medici Effect
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#96 The (broken) economics of OSS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#14 IBM today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#16 IBM Z and cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#21 IBM today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#111 Online Timsharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#7 10 Years With Tux
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#46 IBM Mainframe Z14
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The Government is Hard at Work Keeping Tax Preparation Complicated and Expensive Date: 17 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookThe Government is Hard at Work Keeping Tax Preparation Complicated and Expensive
2008 there had been national TV broadcast of economic conference roundtable on "flat tax" ... eliminating *ALL* loopholes. Scenario was that it costs the country 3% of GDP paying tax preparers to deal with the loopholes and 3% of GDP in non-optimal business practices to conform with loopholes ... whatever "beneficial" loopholes might be eliminated, it would be more than gained back with the 6% in GDP. There were jokes about the accounting and tax preparing industry were heavily lobbying against the proposal ... as well as country of Ireland (major beneficiary of tax loophole allowing hiding revenue in offshore tax havens).
There were then articles that congress is most corrupt institution on earth ... primarily for the selling of tax loopholes to special interests ... and paying congress for tax loopholes has one of the highest ROIs, getting $1000 for every $1 spent on congress (for every billion spent on congress returns a trillion for the corporations and special interests).
Twice as many companies paying zero taxes under Trump tax plan
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/taxes/twice-many-companies-paying-zero-taxes-under-trump-tax-plan-n993046
You paid taxes. These corporations didn't.
https://publicintegrity.org/business/taxes/trumps-tax-cuts/you-paid-taxes-these-corporations-didnt/
& related, year-old tax loopholes post
https://apps.publicintegrity.org/tax-breaks-the-favored-few/
tax fraud, tax avoidance, tax evasion, tax havens posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
flat tax posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#39 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#88 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#14 Rare Apple I computer sells for $216,000 in London
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#20 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#80 A Close Look at the Perry Tax Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#4 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#14 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#70 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#79 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#80 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#33 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#57 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#14 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#3 HP splits, again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#1 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#133 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#52 Report: Tax Evasion, Avoidance Costs United States $100 Billion A Year
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#48 These are the companies abandoning the U.S. to dodge taxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#80 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#96 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#10 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#13 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#13 1970--protesters seize computer center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#18 1970--protesters seize computer center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#65 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#41 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#41 Profitable Companies, No Taxes: Here's How They Did It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#4 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#71 When Working From Home Doesn't Work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#4 Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower? Would You Believe It's Barack Obama?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#77 U.S. Corporate Tax Reform
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#7 Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#88 The G.O.P. Tax Cut Is Draining the Treasury Even Faster Than Expected
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#88 The Pentagon Can't Account for $21 Trillion (That's Not a Typo)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#55 Most Corrupt Institution on Earth
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM Tumbles After Reporting Worst Revenue In 17 Years As Cloud Hits Air Pocket Date: 17 Apr 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
IBM stock sinks 3% after hours after missing Wall Street expectations on revenue
https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-earnings-q1-2019
This past quarter, IBM reported a revenue of $18.2 billion, down 4.7%
from this time last year. It marks IBM's third straight quarter of
declining revenue. However, IBM also posted better-than-expected
earnings of $2.25 per share.
... snip ..
i.e. down but apparently less down than expected???
Moving CP67 online use to 7x24 in the 60s (including the two online commercial spin-offs from the science center) did a lot of cloud type activities. There was something of chicken&egg ... needed to be available 7x24 to encourage offshift use (aka "on demand") ... but initially the system would be mostly idle. Partially as a result there was a lot of effort to reduced offshift costs; dark room operation w/o any human present, letting the system meter coast to stop, etc.
IBM use to lease/rent and charge based on time recorded by the system meter which ran whenever the cpu and any channels were busy. Even if CPU was in wait state, the system meter would run if there was any active channel programs. So had to come up with special channel programs that would allow channel to go idle/stop, but instantly wake up to accept any incoming characters. This was even important for internal datacenters being charged "funny money" out of their business unit budget.
trivia: all cpus and channels had to be idle for at least 400ms before the system meter came to a stop. Long after IBM had switched from lease/rent to sales ... the POK favorite son operating system (MVS) still had a timer task that woke up every 400ms (guaranteeing the system meter would never stop, even otherwise idle system).
Mainstream IBM was still myopically focused on computers were profit items ... maximize revenue. Numerous times, people would make snide remarks about improving customer computer efficiency was reducing IBM revenue ... however (IBM user group) SHARE had some number of reports that improving computer cost efficiency, increased use ... and the increased use resulted in increased revenue.
A month after joining IBM, I got a non-IBM, "portable" 2741 at home, replaced a month later with a real IBM 2741 (online at home ever since). Six months later, my manager called me in and said that I accounted for half of all computer use (again even with corporate "funny money", datacenter costs&expenses, still had accounting that charged use to individual users) and could I do anything about it (significant amount was off shift and/or at home) ... I suggested I could work less ... nobody ever mentioned it again.
One of the stumbling blocks was standard IBM systems required enormous amount of customer skilled people for care&feeding. In the late 80s & early 90s, visited some number of customers saying that they were moving off IBM systems. While IBM systems were more expensive and they could be moving to non-IBM purely based on price/performance ... but an increasing important factor was the increasing demand for computer services, they were running into brick wall trying to find the staff & skills to support any increasing number of (IBM) systems ... forcing them to non-IBM systems that they could find needed staff/skills (big difference in care/feeding is measured in numbers of highly skilled per system compared to thousands of systems per person).
It somewhat dates back to big explosion in VM/4341 systems being
placed out departmental areas (leading edge of the coming distributed
computing tsunami). Old email somebody nagging me to help Bank
America that was planning putting 60 VM/4341s spread around the world
... there were also early customer of SQL/relational System/R
implementation (originally done on VM 370/145 in the 70s).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email800311b
then sender of above email, following fall leaves IBM research for
tandem and wants to palm off bunch of other stuff on me, DBMS
consulting with the IMS group, supporting BofA with System/R, etc.
Note at the same time there was starting to be increasing number of
VM/4341s for compute farms, i.e. Jan1979, I got roped into doing
benchmarks for national lab that was looking at getting 70 VM/341s for
one such compute farm ... leading edge of coming cluster
supercomputing tsunami).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790212b
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790220
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email790226
more archived 4341 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
decade later I'm working with national lab (LLNL) on 1) helping
standardize some serial stuff they are playing with that becomes fibre
channel standard 2) scaling up HA/CMP RS/6000 for cluster
supercomputer, 3) moving their LINCS filesystem that they did on Cray
to HA/CMP. We were also working with RDBMS vendors for scale-up cluster
computing ... which may have contributed to (a little over 2 yrs
later), cluster scale-up being transferred, announced as IBM
supercomputer (for technical/scientific *ONLY*), and we were told we
couldn't work on anything with more than four processors. reference to
Jan1992 meeting in Ellison's conference room ... just a couple weeks
before the transfer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
we leave a few months later. Some time later, two of the Oracle people
in the Ellison meeting have left and are at a small client/server
startup responsible for something they call "commerce server" and we
are brought in as consultants because they want to do payment
transactions on the server, they had also invented this technology
they call "SSL" they want to use, the result is now frequently called
"electronic commerce".
Surprisingly how small the community and amount of stuff going on within a few miles. Google is having cluster scale-up issues for their backend servers. They first attempted load balancing distribution with DNS rotating multiple-A record lists. Problem is the DNS records are cached at major points ... which are then static (not constantly rotating). Google then rewrites code in their internet facing routers ... to keep track of load on the backend servers and distribute new incoming requests dynamically based on backend load.
Brewster has moved into Menlo Park (just over the line from Palo Alto;
he had been at thinking machines in Cambridge which shuts down) and
founds WAIS which he later sells to AOL. He then uses the money to
help found the wayback machine. Wayback working with SUN comes up with
"instant datacenter" expansion using containers packed with huge
number of blades.
https://archive.org/post/238517/new-archive-datacenter-with-sun
trivia: even after we left IBM, we do some consulting for CLaM (which we had contracted to do lots of HA/CMP implementation) ... the science center had moved from 545tech sq down the street to 101 Main ... and when IBM science centers are shut down, CLaM moves into the vacated space. I'm staying at the Sonesta and walking down to 101 Main along the Charles. A couple bldgs before 101 Main, there is worker prying the "Thinking Machines" letters off the front of their bldg and I stop and watch, considering if I might ask the worker for one of the letters.
ha/cmp posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
system/r posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Alsid raises $14.7 million to secure your Active Directory installation Date: 17 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookAlsid raises $14.7 million to secure your Active Directory installation
with a little IBM history ... 1999 (long after leaving IBM) we are asked to do a year assignment in Seattle area working with various parties in the Seattle area on electronic commerce related projects. One of the companies was a Kerberos security startup ... which then has a CEO that in prior life was head of IBM POK (mainframe) and then head of Boca (PS2, OS2) ... and among other things then has contract with m'soft to do a Kerberos port to windows for what becomes Active Directory.
For some of the electronic security stuff we do big booth & press
announcement at DEC1999 annual world wide retail banking conference
that includes partners in the seattle area, old archived post with
press release
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#224
One of the companies also has joint project with m'soft on retail online banking service that banks can contract for (and be branded with bank logo). M'soft people elect me to explain scale-up issues to head of m'soft and why it can't be done on window servers (and must use SUN servers). The week I'm scheduled to do the presentation, I'm told it won't be needed, some m'soft executives have decided that the online banking workload will be controlled to what can be handled by m'soft servers (avoiding raising the issue with head of m'soft).
other kerberos posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#kerberos
AADS refs/posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM revenue has fallen for 20 quarters -- but it used to run its business very differently Date: 19 Apr 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
From 2yr old "memory", IBM revenue has fallen for 20 quarters -- but
it used to run its business very differently
https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-corporate-america-history-2017-4
In the 80s, Boyd would include in briefings that former military officers were starting to contaminate US corporate culture. The issue was that officers had been indoctrinated in rigid, top-down, command&control with only those at the very top knew what they were doing. However, about the same time, articles were starting to appear that MBAs, with myopic focus on quarterly numbers were starting to destroy US businesses. Then there is this recent article:
Harvard Business School and the Propagation of Immoral Profit
Strategies
https://www.newsweek.com/2017/04/14/harvard-business-school-financial-crisis-economics-578378.html
Boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
... and a little more drift
Harvard Business School and the Propagation of Immoral Profit Strategies
https://www.newsweek.com/2017/04/14/harvard-business-school-financial-crisis-economics-578378.html
Twenty-two percent of the 150 largest public companies in the United
States as of 1980 had merged or been acquired by 1988, with another 5
percent taken private. The highly public spectacle of the takeover of
RJR Nabisco was an object lesson for all CEOs who weren't used to
looking over their shoulders.
... snip ...
AMEX and KKR were in competition for private-equity LBO take-over of
RJR and KKR wins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
Then KKR runs into some problems and hires away the president of AMEX
to help with RJR. Then IBM has gone into the red and the board hires
away the former AMEX president ... who uses some of the same
techniques used at RJR (gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
He then leaves to head up another large private-equity company, which
will include buying the beltway bandit that will employ Snowden
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/10/barbarians-capitol-private-equity-public-enemy/
"Lou Gerstner, former ceo of ibm, now heads the Carlyle Group, a
Washington-based global private equity firm whose 2006 revenues of $87
billion were just a few billion below ibm's. Carlyle has boasted
George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and former Secretary of State James
Baker III on its employee roster."
... snip ...
hiring lots of prominent politicians to lobby congress on outsourcing
government to their companies (gov. agencies can't lobby congress and
beltway bandits can't use gov. contract money to lobby congress, but
private-equity companies seem to be under no restriction) ...
including in gov. intelligence, 70% of budget and half the people
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us
heavily contributing to the rapidly spreading for-profit success of
failure culture (make more money off series of failures)
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
AMEX president posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
past posts mentioning Milton Freidman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#16 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#18 Once the dust settles, do you think Milton Friedman's economic theories will be laid to rest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#37 The human plague
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#39 The human plague
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#44 The human plague
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#11 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#50 Obama, ACORN, subprimes (Re: Spiders)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#53 Obama, ACORN, subprimes (Re: Spiders)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#54 Obama, ACORN, subprimes (Re: Spiders)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#57 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#58 Obama, ACORN, subprimes (Re: Spiders)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#66 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#58 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#8 Top financial firms of US are eyeing on bailout. It implies to me that their "Risk Management Department's" assessment was way below expectations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#32 How Should The Government Spend The $700 Billion?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#33 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#59 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#62 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#70 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#63 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
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#57 Credit & Risk Management ... go Simple ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#80 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#4 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#6 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#8 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#10 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#28 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#53 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#67 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#21 The Big Takeover
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#13 UK issues Turning apology (and about time, too)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#49 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#60 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#87 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#11 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#62 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#47 "Fraud & Stupidity Look a Lot Alike"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#29 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#33 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#66 No command, and control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#21 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#24 rating agencies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#56 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#10 Cracking the code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#71 Don't Dump the Volcker Rule Just Because It's Not Perfect
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#32 Wall Street Bonuses May Reach Lowest Level in 3 Years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#67 How Economists Contributed to the Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#32 US real-estate has lost $7T in value
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#58 Word Length
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#17 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#64 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#48 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#50 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#51 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#64 IBM Is Changing The Terms Of Its Retirement Plan, Which Is Frustrating Some Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#62 Taleb On "Skin In The Game" And His Disdain For Public Intellectuals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#4 Libor Lies Revealed in Rigging of $300 Trillion Benchmark
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#39 The Alchemy of Securitization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#34 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#44 Royal Pardon For Turing
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/2016.html#21 How Corrupt Is the American Government
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#72 Five Outdated Leadership Ideas That Need To Die
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#97 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#101 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#102 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#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#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/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)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#44 [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#53 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#73 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#6 Mapping the decentralized world of tomorrow
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#19 Financial, Healthcare, Construction, Education complexity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#49 Shareholders Ahead Of Employees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#63 Real World OODA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#79 Bad Ideas
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#83 How can we stop algorithms telling lies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#107 Why IBM Should -- and Shouldn't -- Break Itself Up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#9 Corporate Profit and Taxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#45 "Subprime Is Contained" (& Other Evidence That "They Really Don't Know What They're Doing")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#60 Pareto efficiency
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#92 'X' Marks the Spot Where Inequality Took Root: Dig Here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#116 The Real Reason Wages Have Stagnated: Our Economy Is Optimized For Financialization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#13 Merchants of Doubt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#47 Retirement Heist: How Firms Plunder Workers' Nest Eggs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#55 How Economists Turned Corporations into Predators
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#60 When Working From Home Doesn't Work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#70 Nobel in Economics Is Awarded to Richard Thaler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#84 "Worse Than Big Tobacco": How Big Pharma Fuels the Opioid Epidemic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#63 Sugar Industry Long Downplayed Potential Harms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#25 Trump's Infrastructure Plan Is Actually Pence's--And It's All About Privatization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#44 Predicting the future in five years as seen from 1983
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#82 The Real Reason the Investor Class Hates Pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#87 Where Is Everyone???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#114 Chevron's lawyer, speaking for major oil companies, says climate change is real and it's your fault
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#81 What Lies Beyond Capitalism And Socialism?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#83 Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#115 Economists Should Stop Defending Milton Friedman's Pseudo-science
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#30 Scientists Just Laid Out Paths to Solve Climate Change. We Aren't on Track to Do Any of Them
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#107 Politicians have caused a pay 'collapse' for the bottom 90 percent of workers, researchers say
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#117 What Minimum-Wage Foes Got Wrong About Seattle
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#37 Democracy in Chains
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Contractors Are Giving Away America's Military Edge Date: 19 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookContractors Are Giving Away America's Military Edge
our military networks leak like sieve, adversaries dance through them, snarfing up detailed designs of nearly all major weapon systems
Chinese Hackers Stole Boeing, Lockheed Military Plane Secrets: Feds
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/chinese-hackers-stole-boeing-lockheed-military-plane-secrets-feds-n153951
Report: China gained U.S. weapons secrets using cyberespionage
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/28/world/asia/china-cyberespionage/
Confidential report lists U.S. weapons system designs compromised by Chinese cyberspies
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/confidential-report-lists-us-weapons-system-designs-compromised-by-chinese-cyberspies/2013/05/27/a42c3e1c-c2dd-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html
REPORT: Chinese Hackers Stole Plans For Dozens Of Critical US Weapons Systems
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-hacked-us-military-weapons-systems-2013-5
A list of the U.S. weapons designs and technologies compromised by hackers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-list-of-the-us-weapons-designs-and-technologies-compromised-by-hackers/2013/05/27/a95b2b12-c483-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
cyberdumb posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#21 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#4 Cyberdumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#8 Cyberdumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#19 Does Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#20 DEC and The Americans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#91 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#95 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#104 How to Win the Cyberwar Against Russia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#0 Snowden
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#28 China's spies gain valuable US defense technology: report
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#67 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#15 China's claim it has 'quantum' radar may leave $17 billion F-35 naked
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#34 CBS News: WikiLeaks claims to release thousands of CIA documents of computer activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#47 WikiLeaks CIA Dump: Washington's Data Security Is a Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#50 A flaw in the design; The Internet's founders saw its promise but didn't foresee users attacking one another
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#73 More Cyberdumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#77 Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#78 This Afghan War Plan By The Guy Who Founded Blackwater Should Scare The Hell Out Of You
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#51 Russian Hackers Stole NSA Data on U.S. Cyber Defense
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#56 China's mega fortress in Djibouti could be model for its bases in Pakistan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#86 Lawmakers to Military: Don't Buy Another 'Money Pit' Like F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#26 DoD watchdog: Air Force failed to effectively manage F-22 modernization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#60 11 crazy up-close photos of the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jet soaring through the air
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#100 US Navy Contractors Hacked by China "More Than A Handful Of Times"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#22 The American Military Sucks at Cybersecurity; A new report from US military watchdogs outlines hundreds of cybersecurity vulnerabilities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#27 The American Military Sucks at Cybersecurity; A new report from US military watchdogs outlines hundreds of cybersecurity vulnerabilities
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Russia Hacked Clinton's Computers Five Hours After Trump's Call Date: 19 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookContractors Are Giving Away America's Military Edge; Mueller report finds that in July 2016, after then-candidate Donald Trump publicly called for Russia to "find the 30,000 emails," Russian agents targeted Hillary Clinton's personal office with cyberattacks.
email issue started with Ollie & IBM PROFS in the 80s, didn't realize that copies were on backup tapes. Then in the mid-90s, the first lady's assistant fiddles the backup process and 20,000 to 1,000,000 emails were lost. Then the gov strengthens email backup process. The following administration just after the turn of century, (as countermeasure) started using non-gov servers, lost 20million to 100million emails. Then this decade, the former first lady, could no longer fiddle backups and example from previous administration was using non-gov servers, lost 30,000(?) emails.
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#10 Deleting files and emails at Arthur Andersen and Enron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#46 Whitehouse Emails Were Lost Due to "Upgrade"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#87 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#97 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#59 FW: Mysterious Email (original had no subject)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#28 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#18 FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#21 FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#36 Whitehouse EMAIL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#25 How the U.S. Hobbled Its Hacking Case Against Russia and Enabled Truthers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#67 Trump White House Senior Staff Have Private RNC Email Accounts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#41 Iran/Contra and Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#34 The First E-mail Scandal, Long Before Hillary Clinton: Iran/Contra
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#91 Having learned 20yrs earlier, and both Bush1 & Bush2 as example, move to non-gov email servers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#105 tablets and desktops was Has Microsoft
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM revenue has fallen for 20 quarters -- but it used to run its business very differently Date: 19 Apr 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
The article mentions the benefits of transcontinental railroads
... but fails to refer to the enormous fraud, Railroad hyperbole
echoes all the way down to the dot-com frenzy
http://phys.org/news/2012-01-railroad-hyperbole-echoes-dot-com-frenzy.html
and Railroaded
https://www.amazon.com/Railroaded-Transcontinentals-Making-America-ebook/dp/B0051GST1U
pg77/pg1984-86:
By the end of the summer of 1873 the western railroads had, within the
span of two years, ended the Indian treaty system in the United
States, brought down a Canadian government, and nearly paralyzed the
U.S. Congress. The greatest blow remained to be delivered. The
railroads were about to bring down the North American economy.
pg510/loc10030-33:
The result was not only unneeded railroads whose effects were as often
bad as beneficial but also corruption of the markets and the
government. The men who directed this capital were frequently not
themselves capitalists. They were entrepreneurs who borrowed money or
collected subsidies. These entrepreneurs did not invent the railroad,
but they were inventing corporations, railroad systems, and new forms
of competition. Those things yielded both personal wealth and social
disasters.
pg515/loc10118-22:
The need to invest capital and labor in large amounts to maintain and
upgrade what had already been built was one debt owed to the past, but
the second one was what Charles Francis Adams in his days as a
reformer referred to as a tax on trade. All of the watered stock,
money siphoned off into private pockets, waste, and fraud that
characterized the building of the railroads created a corporate debt
that had to be paid through higher rates and scrimping on service. A
shipper in 1885 was still paying for the frauds of the 1860s.
... snip ...
The railroad corruption also behind scamming the supreme court to get
corporations considered as people under the constitution.
https://www.amazon.com/We-Corporations-American-Businesses-Rights-ebook/dp/B01M64LRDJ/
pgxiii/loc45-50:
IN DECEMBER 1882, ROSCOE CONKLING, A FORMER SENATOR
and close confidant of President Chester Arthur, appeared before the
justices of the Supreme Court of the United States to argue that
corporations like his client, the Southern Pacific Railroad Company,
were entitled to equal rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. Although
that provision of the Constitution said that no state shall "deprive
any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"
or "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of
the laws," Conkling insisted the amendment's drafters intended to
cover business corporations too.
pgxiii/loc50-53:
Laws that referred to "persons" have "by long and constant acceptance
. . . been held to embrace artificial persons as well as natural
persons," Conkling explained. This long-standing practice was well
known to "the men who framed, the Congress which proposed, and the
people who through their Legislatures ratified the Fourteenth
Amendment."
pgxiii/loc53-56:
Conkling's claim was remarkable. The Fourteenth Amendment had been
adopted after the Civil War to guarantee the rights of the freed
slaves, not to protect corporations. Conkling, however, had unusual
credibility with the justices. For two decades, he had been the leader
of the Republican Party in Congress and was often said to be the most
powerful man in Washington. He had twice been nominated to the Supreme
Court himself, most recently in the spring of the same year he
appeared on behalf of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
pgxiv/loc67-69:
There was just one small problem with Conkling's account of the
drafting of the Fourteenth Amendment: it was not true. The drafters of
the Fourteenth Amendment did not try to secret into the Constitution
broad new protections for corporations, nor was the wording of the
amendment ever altered in the way Conkling suggested.
... snip ...
'Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/corporations-people-adam-winkler/554852/
past refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#57 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#62 Railroaded
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#76 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#1 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#73 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#37 Income Inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#39 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#42 Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#52 We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#72 Top CEOs' compensation increased 17.6 percent in 2017
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#60 Grant (& Conkling)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#3 Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#8 Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#9 England: South Sea Bubble - The Sharp Mind of John Blunt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#19 Does Capitalism Kill Cooperation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#47 Union Pacific Announces 150th Anniversary Celebration Commemorating Transcontinental Railroad's Completion
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM revenue has fallen for 20 quarters -- but it used to run its business very differently Date: 21 Apr 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
Stockman (Reagan's budget director in the 80s) comments that Stock
Buybacks is mini-form of PE LBOs, heavily loading up on debt; last
oct ... still doing financial engineering buybacks ... but will shift
focus needing debt for redhat purchase.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-30/ibm-to-buy-back-up-to-4-billion-of-its-own-shares
some more about IBM stock buyback machine, EPS, and growing debt.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4170664-ibm-deceiving-dividend
Stockman in "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in
America"
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Deformation-Corruption-Capitalism-America-ebook/dp/B00B3M3UK6/
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 ...
The 80s had the confluence with several growing factors going on with financial deregulation (financial engineering)
VP and former CIA director repeatedly claims no knowledge of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family (Neil)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another (Jeb)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
The Ugly Truth Behind Stock Buybacks
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aalsin/2017/02/28/shareholders-should-be-required-to-vote-on-stock-buybacks/
For most of the 20th century, stock buybacks were deemed illegal
because they were thought to be a form of stock market
manipulation. But since 1982, when they were essentially legalized by
the SEC, buybacks have become perhaps the most popular financial
engineering tool in the C-Suite tool shed.
... snip ...
last decade (after turn of century) another family member is president and presides over the economic mess 70 times larger than the S&L crisis, proportionally there should be 70,000 convictions (with jailtime). Disclaimer: 1999 I was ask to help try and prevent the coming "economic mess" (we failed). I was told that some investment bankers had walked away "clean" from the S&L crisis, were then running Internet IPO mills (invest a few million, hype, IPO for a few billion, should fail, so field is left for next round) and were predicted to get into securitized mortgages again.
In the late 70s & early 80s, I was blamed for online computer
conferencing on the internal network. Folklore is that when the
corporate executive committee was told about online computer
conferencing (and the internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me. This
was also about the time that I sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM
(where he would comment that former military officers steeped in
rigid, heavy-weight, top-down command&control with only those at the
top knew what they were doing, were starting to corrupt US Corporate
culture). As I've mentioned this was aslo about the same time articles
started appearing that MBAs were destroying US corporations with their
myopic focus on short term results. That MBA culture also got
discussion in the "Tandem Memos" (some of the online discussion)
... 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 criticised 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 ...
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
S&L crisis posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
stock buyback posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
private-equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The Brawl in IBM 1964 Date: 21 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookThe Brawl in IBM 1964
Anybody read this? I don't remember running into Joe in IBM ... but
after leaving IBM and working in financial industry ... we had a big
contract with Template and spent lots of time with Joe and some other
former IBMers. The Amazon reviews has some mention of this 2nd part.
https://www.sebokwiki.org/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administration_(FAA)_Advanced_Automation_System_(AAS)
However, before leaving IBM, while we were doing HA/CMP product (studying how things fail) ... and got brought in to see some of AAS (and how not to do something).
HA/CMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Why the Infamous Trump Tower Meeting Didn't Take Down Trump Date: 21 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookWhy the Infamous Trump Tower Meeting Didn't Take Down Trump
What Mueller Found on Russia and on Obstruction: A First Analysis
https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-mueller-found-russia-and-obstruction-first-analysis
Trump Tower meeting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Tower_meeting
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#32 12 Russian Agents Indicted in Mueller Investigation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#10 Employees Come First
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#70 Russia Hacked Clinton's Computers Five Hours After Trump's Call
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM downturn Date: 22 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookThe planned 80s growth included a lot of fast path MBAs, being quickly rotated through various business units ... to the detriment of those units.
Communication group severely kneecapped 16mbit token-ring ... part of trying to preserve their dumb terminal install base and paradigm (>300 stations per LAN doing dumb terminal emulation). AWD had done a custom AT-bus 4mbit token-ring card for PC/RT. However AWD was forced to use standard corporate microchannel 16mbit token-ring cards for RS/6000... however they found that the PC/RT 4mbit T/R card had higher per card throughput than the microchannel 16mbit T/R card.
At the same time, new Almaden bldg had been heavily provisioned with CAT4 assuming 16mbit T/R. However, they found that $69 enet cards over CAT4 had higher per card throughput than $899 16mbit T/R cards, and 10mbit CAT4 enet LANs had higher aggregate throughput and lower latency than 16mbit T/R lans.
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 had stranglehold on datacenters with its corporate strategic ownership of everything that crossed the datacenter walls and 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.
dumb terminal paradigm posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
801, risc, iliad, romp, rios, pc/rt, rs/6000, power, etc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
Somewhat as countermeasure, while any IBM logo'ed distributed computing product would be constantly veto'ed by communication, Adstar would invest in startups that were doing distributed products that supported mainframe disk farms. The executive responsible asked us for help with several of those investments.
Mid-80s, the father of risc had this idea for a disk "wide-head" that read/write 16 data tracks in parallel ... with servo tracks on both sides that it followed ... increasing disk capacity (original 3380 had 20 track spacings between each data track, wide-head flew lower with adjacent data tracks) and transfer rate. One problem was that it would have 50mbyte/sec transfer ... and IBM didn't have computer system that supported that rate ... even ESCON in the 90s was only 17mbyte/sec (half-duplex).
Another was all disk technology was moving to fixed-block ... lots of
reasons, including high-speed error correcting based on fixed
blocks. I've recently posted old email (in this group) about
difficulty coming up with CKD emulation for fixed-block disks.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#email911230
Disk division was being crippled by communication group blocking any move into distributed computing market and crippled by mainframe channel not keeping up with state of the art and POK favorite son operating system unable to wean off CKD DASD (still required, decades after the last real CKD)
CKD, FBA, multi-track search, etc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM downturn Date: 22 Apr 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
Doing project with T1 & faster speed links ... and 1st half of 80s was
working with NSF director and suppose to get $20M to interconnect the
NSF supercomputer centers ... then congress cuts the budget, some
other things happen and they eventually release RFP ... copy of
preliminary announce archived here:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#12
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
internal politics prevent us from bidding, the NSF director tries to
help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO), but that just makes the internal politics worse. As regional networks connect into the centers, it
grows into the NSFNET backbone (precursor to the modern internet)
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
Internally there was increasing amounts of (SNA/VTAM & other)
misinformation (about using for NSF). Somebody collected much of that
internal misinformation email and forwarded it to us ... heavily
snipped and redacted to protect the guilty (including people later
involved in Academy of Technology).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
Later we are doing HA/CMP scale-up, working with both national labs
(scientific/technical) and RDBMS vendors (commercial). Some of it also
mentioned in this email about using platform for raid, caching, CKD
emulation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#email911230
A couple weeks later we have meeting in Ellisons conference room on
128-way cluster scale-up by ye1992 ... old reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
Another couple weeks and HA/CMP cluster scale-up is transferred (several people involved had also been involved in prevented us earlier bidding on NSF), announced as IBM supercomputer (for scientific/technical *ONLY*), and we are told we can't work on anything with more than four processors (we leave a few months later).
ha/cmp posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM downturn Date: 22 Apr 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
other trivia: in the wake of future system failure (during FS period,
370 efforts were being killed off, FS was completely different from
370 and plan was that it would completely replace 370, lack of 370
products also credited with giving clone 370 makers market foothold,
aslo IBM marketing/sales had to really scramble to try and compensate
for lack of products), there was mad rush to try and get products back
into the 370 pipeline, kicking of (quick & dirty) 3033 in parallel
with 3081 ... more information here:
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
as part of that, the head of POK convinced corporate to kill the VM370 product, shutdown the VM370 development group, and transfer all the people to POK to work on MVS/XA ... or otherwise MVS/XA wouldn't ship on time some 7-8yrs later. The plan was to not inform VM370 of their transfer until the very last moment to minimize the number of people that might escape ... the information leaked early and there was a witch hunt to find the leaker. There was also joke that head of POK was one of the largest contributors to DEC VAX/VMS (for all the VM370 people that managed to escape to the band new VAX/VMS project).
eventually Endicott managed to save the VM370 product mission (for mid-range computing, eventually the huge numbers of distributed VM/4300s), but had to reconstitute a development group from scratch. Note TYMSHARE had started providing its CMS-based online computer conferencing service free to the (IBM user group) SHARE in Aug1976 and there were lots of comments about VM370 code quality during this period ... archives here
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
marist has restored vmshare home page, but discussions still 404,
however, lives on at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
However, POK through the early to mid 80s, was also periodically telling the HONE (world-wide sales&market online support system) organization that VM370 was being dropped for high-end POK machines. HONE would then escalate and then somebody in POK would have to walk back the statements (one of my hobbies after joining IBM was enhanced operating systems for internal datacenters and HONE was long time customer, so I was kept in tight loop with what was happening at HONE).
HONE posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
Some of the former development group (in POK) did do the VMTOOL, a
virtual machine facility that was specifically tailored to MVS/XA
development and was never intended for customer release. Later when
customers weren't migrating to MVS/XA as planned, POK did do release a
version of the VMTOOL as the migration aid, specifically allowing
customers to concurrently run MVS and MVS/XA. At some point, politics
in POK proposed an enormous VM/XA development group (in IBM Kingston)
needed to bring the VMTOOL up to the feature, function, and
performance level of VM/370. Endicott countered with a VM/370 that was
done by programmer in Rochester that added full function 370/XA
support. For whatever reason, POK politics prevailed. some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#email860122
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#email860123
long winded post discussing vmtool, performance, as well as SIE
implementation difference in 3081 & 3090 (original SIE microcode in
3081 was purely for MVS/XA development and performance wasn't
consideration, as a result executing SIE microcode required "paging"
microcode in the limited 3081 microcode space, which had enormous
impact on performance).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#114
other recent SIE:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#38 long-winded post thread, 3033, 3081, Future System
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM Tumbles After Reporting Worst Revenue In 17 Years As Cloud Hits Air Pocket Date: 22 Apr 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
Head of POK managed to convince corporate to kill VM370 product,
shutdown the development group, and all the people moved to POK to
support MVS/XA development (with claims that otherwise MVS/XA wouldn't
ship on time) ... Endicott eventually managed to save the VM370
product mission, but had to reconstitute a development group from
scratch. POK did do a XA virtual machine platform for MVS/XA
development (with some SIE microcode for 3081) ... that was never
intended for product release. However, later customers weren't
converting to MVS/XA as planned, and they would ship the internal tool
as VM/SF & VM/MA (aka migration aid). The 3081 was one of the
quick&dirty efforts started after failure of "Future System" ... used
some warmed over technology
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
and SIE was never really intended for production use, part of the issue was there wasn't enough microcode memory ... so invoking SIE required "paging microcode" ... wasn't too bad with just switching between MVS & MVS/XA a few times a second ... but could get into situation where 3081 was spending more time paging SIE microcode.
It wasn't until get to 3090 when you get to SIE implementation for
production use. I was allowed to give presentations on how we did the
Endicott ECPS microcode assist ... reference to studies for original
selection:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21
at monthly user group meetings. The Amdahl people would corner me for
long discussions about the "HYPERVISOR" they were working on (long
before IBM's PR/SM finally came out for 3090 ... which effectively was
built expansion SIE). This is old email about the 3090 "SIE" was
actually built for production use (1.5 &/or trout 1.5 was code name
for 3090):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#email810630
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#email831118
SIE still expensive for 3090 (but at least didn't have to page the
microcode)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#email860121
other recent SIE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#77 IBM downturn
Part of the Amdahl hypervisor versus IBM PR/SM was that IBM was constantly coming out with lots of microcode tweaks which would be required by the latest operating system release. High-end horizontal microcode development was very expensive process ... so Amdahl in the very early 80s came out with "macrocode", something that looked like 370 instructions, but operated like microcode, enormously reducing the microcode development effort ... simplifying tracking the plethora of IBM trivial microcode changes as well making developing HYPERVISOR enormously easier (than the corresponding effort for doing PR/SM on 3090).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM downturn Date: 24 Apr 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
As Raleigh projects became less & less competitive, they resorted to increasing amounts of internal misinformation
In early 80s started project I called HSDT (high speed data transport) dealing with T1 and faster speed links. Mid-80s, was having some equipment built on the other side of the pacific, and friday before leave for trip, got announcement from Raleigh for a new online discussion forum on "high speed" with the following definitions:
low-speed <9.6kbits medium-speed 19.2kbits high-speed 56kbits very high-speed 1.5mbitsMonday morning on wall of conference room on the other side of the pacific
low-speed <20mbits medium-speed 100mbits high-speed 200-300mbits very high-speed >600mbitsHSDT posts
About the same time, possibly because they had no product that supported more than 56kbit, Raleigh did presentation for corporate executive committee that customers didn't need T1 support before sometime in mid-90s ... using statistics from customer 37x5 "fat-pipe" ... multiple parallel 56kbit treated as single logical link, showing that by 5 or 6 (parallel 56kbit) links, customer installations dropped to zero. What they didn't know ... or just didn't bother to mention, was typical telco tariff for five 56kbit links was about the same as single T1 link. We did trivial survey, finding 200 customers with T1 links with non-IBM controllers.
I periodically post, 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 had stranglehold on datacenters with its corporate strategic ownership of everything that crossed the datacenter walls and 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.
Communication group can veto IBM-logo'ed products (that "cross" the datacenter wall), so a disk division executive starts investing in startups what would support high-speed distributed computing involving mainframe datacenters & disks (and we get asked to help these startups where we could).
dumb terminal emulation posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
AWD had done their own 4mbit T/R card for AT-bus on PC/RT. However, for RS/6000 microchannel, AWD was forced to use standard PS2 microchannel cards .... including the 16mbit T/R card. Communication group had design point for 16mbit T/R cards for hundreds on the same LAN restricted doing dumb terminal emulation ... and so the 16mbit T/R had significantly restricted per card throughput (lower than the PC/RT 4mbit T/R card, aka a PC/RT server with 4mbit T/R card could have higher throughput than a RS/6000 server with 16mbit T/R card). By comparison, $69 vendor Ethernet cards had >8mbit sustained throughput (much, much better than the $899 16mbit T/R card)
Joke was that RS/6000 restricted to PS2 microchannel cards met that they wouldn't have any better throughput than PS2. Folklore is that was the justification for RS/6000 M730 ... technical solution to internal politics, a 6000 with VMEbus ... and could use industry standard high-speed VMEbus cards (wasn't allowed to have high-speed microchannel cards).
801/risc, iliad, romp, rios, power, power/pc, etc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: TCM Date: 26 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookDuring Future System project, internal politics was killing off 370 efforts ... then with FS imploding, there was mad rush to get stuff back into 370 product pipeline, ... including kicking off 3033 & 3081 in parallel, 3033 started out as 168-3 logic remapped to 20% faster chips, and 3081 was some other warmed over FS technology. future system posts
FE had bootstrap field maintenance process starting with scoping components. 3081 put components in TCM ... was no long able to scope ... so added "service processor", a UC processor (low end processor used by lot of communication group products) with lots of connections into TCM (and all specialized from scratch software). The UC processor could be "scopped" (& repaired/replaced, used 3310 FBA for disk), which then could be used to diagnose the TCMs. For 3090, it started out with 4331 (which could be scoped) running a modified version of VM370 release 6 for service/diagnostics (all screens written in CMS IOS3270 & using 3370 FBA disks) ... upgraded to a pair of redundant 4361s (referred to as 3092).
Some bean counters in disk division decided that 3880 disk controller should use slow speed JIB-prime processor. 3090s were configured (including number of channels) to give balanced throughput ... assuming that 3880 was faster than previous 3830 ... but it turns out that 3880 had special hardware path for 3mbyte transfer, but everything else was handled by JIB-prime ... which significantly drove up channel busy. 3090 realized to achieve target throughput it needed a big increase in number of channels ... which then required adding a TCM (at significant manufacturing cost). 3090 semi-facetiously were claiming they would charge off the (TCM) increase in 3090 cost to the 3880 group. Marketing eventually respun the huge increase in number of channels was for significant increase in I/O throughput (when it really was to offset the huge increase in 3880 busy overhead, fewer I/Os per channel because 3880 channel busy overhead, so needed more channels to achieve target I/O throughput).
3081 was not just slower chips ... but also enormously more circuits
... major reason that it needed TCM to cool all the extra circuits.
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
The 370 emulator minus the FS microcode was eventually sold in 1980
as as the IBM 3081. The ratio of the amount of circuitry in the 3081
to its performance was significantly worse than other IBM systems of
the time; its price/performance ratio wasn't quite so bad because IBM
had to cut the price to be competitive. The major competition at the
time was from Amdahl Systems -- a company founded by Gene Amdahl, who
left IBM shortly before the FS project began, when his plans for the
Advanced Computer System (ACS) were killed. The Amdahl machine was
indeed superior to the 3081 in price/performance and spectaculary
superior in terms of performance compared to the amount of
circuitry.]
... snip ...
recent posts mentioning TCMs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#0 Intrigued by IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#30 Bottlenecks and Capacity planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#48 IPCS, DUMPRX, 3092, EREP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#71 PDP 11/40 system manual
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#38 long-winded post thread, 3033, 3081, Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#51 3090/3880 trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#76 How many years ago?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#79 How many years ago?
End of ACS/360, IBM executives were so concerned that ACS/360 would
advance the state-of-the art so fast that they would loose control of
the market, so Amdahl shuts it down and leaves IBM not long
after. Article lists ACS/360 features that show up in ES/9000 more
than 20yrs later.
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
trivia: For much of my time at IBM, I was told I had no career, no promotions, etc ... one of the earliest involved possibly the largest financial customer on the east coast (large "football fields" of IBM mainframes), the datacenter manager liked me to drop by periodcially and talk technology. At some point the branch manager horribly offended the customer and to teach IBM a lesson they ordered an Amdahl machine (lonely orange box in vast sea of blue, back when Amdahl was selling scientific/technical & univ. customers, but hadn't broken into true blue commercial market). I was asked to go onsite for a year to help provide smokescreen for why customer ordered Amdahl box. I couldn't see any point. I was told the branch manager was good sailing buddy of IBM CEO, and if I didn't, I could forget career and promotions. Note IBM became well known for FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) marketing, really sharpened during FS period when 370 projects were being shut down and lack of 370 products during the FS period is credited with giving clone makers (Amdahl, Hitachi, etc) market foothold ... and then continued during the quick&dirty 3033 & 3081 period.
Note: original two processor 3081D claimed 10MIPS ... but lots of benchmarks showed it didn't beat 3033MP ... so they doubled cache size for 3081K and claimed 14MIPS ... but those same benchmarks showed it was only getting slightly better than 3033MP
3081 was originally intended to be multiprocessor only box. However, at the time ACP/TPF (airline control program) didn't have multiprocessor support. Clone makers were still producing newer & faster single processor boxes and IBM was afraid that the whole ACP/TPF customer market would move to clone systems. As temporary stopgap, they did horribly unnatural things to VM370 to improve virtual ACP/TPF throughput on 3081 (but significantly degraded multiprocessor throughput for all other customeres) ... while they came out with single processor 3083 ... easiest would have been to simply remove processor1, leaving processor0 which was at the top of the box and would have made it dangersouly top heavy (so had to rewire to move processor0 to middle of box) However, single processor 3083 still compared very unfavorably with clone makers ... as part of trying to juice up 3083 for ACP/TPF ... there was special ACP/TPF microcode that mostly targeted at trying to improve ACP/TPF I/O throughput that was marketed as 9083.
SMP, multiprocessor (and/or compare&swap) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
Most VM370 multiprocessor customers saw at least ten percent
throughput degradation with the VM370 ACP/TPF "enhancements". One was
long time major gov. customer dating back to CP67 in the 60s. At that
time, I was undergraduate and rewriting lots of CP67 ... I didn't
know about them at the time, but I would get suggestions from IBM for
CP67 improvements ... and looking back, some of the suggestions may
have originated from those customers). gov. reference 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
old email about 3-letter gov. agency troubles with the ACP/TPF changes
(which continued long after 3083/9083 was available)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#email830420
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email840618
more discussion in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#5
one of the agencies was active SHARE member with installation code
"CAD" (claims stood for "cloak and dagger") ... and also participated
in online discussion VMSHARE ... TYMSHARE made available to SHARE for
free starting in AUG1976 .... archives at Marist have been having some
problems ... but still lives free at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
other recent posts mentioning VMSHARE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#38 long-winded post thread, 3033, 3081, Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#21 Online Computer Conferencing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#22 Online Computer Conferencing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#24 Online Computer Conferencing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#54 Misinformation: anti-vaccine bullshit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#77 IBM downturn
trivia: undergraduate in the 60s I was making lots of OS/360 and CP/67 system enhancements at the university. Before I graduate, I'm hired fulltime into small group in Boeing CFO office to help with the formation of Boeing Computer Services (BCS) ... consolidate all dataprocessing into independent business group (to better monetize the investment, including offering services to non-Boeing entities). Lots of political battles with head of Renton datacenter ... which I thought was the largest IBM datacenter, $200M-$300M (60s dollars) in IBM systems (360/65s arriving faster than they could be installed, boxes constantly staged in hallways around the machine room). When I graduate, instead of staying at Boeing, I join the IBM science center at MIT.
Later in the early 80s, I'm introduced to John Boyd and would sponsor
his briefings at IBM. He would talk about being in command of spook
base (about the same time I'm at Boeing) and having the largest air
conditioned bldg in that part of the world. Later his biographies
would claim that "spook base" was a $2.5B "windfall" for IBM (again
60s dollars, ten times renton). some "spook base" refs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Igloo_White
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
Boyd posts & web URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
past 3083/9083 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#103 IBM 9020 computers used by FAA (was Re: EPO stories (was: HELP IT'S HOT!!!!!))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#65 oddly portable machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#9 4341 was "Is a VAX a mainframe?"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#69 TSS ancient history, was X86 ultimate CISC? designs)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#37 John Mashey's greatest hits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#17 I hate Compaq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002c.html#9 IBM Doesn't Make Small MP's Anymore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#83 HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#67 Tweaking old computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#28 TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#58 AMP vs SMP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#30 One Processor is bad?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#45 Saturation Design Point
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004.html#7 Dyadic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#35 Computer-oriented license plates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#44 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#22 The Soul of Barb's New Machine (was Re: creat)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005j.html#16 Performance and Capacity Planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#55 54 Processors?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#44 Intel engineer discusses their dual-core design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#7 Performance of zOS guest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#38 MVCIN instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006d.html#5 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#30 One or two CPUs - the pros & cons
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#16 On the 370/165 and the 360/85
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#44 vm/sp1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#16 What's a CPU second?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#37 Each CPU usage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#83 CPU time differences for the same job
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#40 Fantasy-Land_Hierarchal_NUMA_Memory-Model_on_Vertical
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#14 Was CMS multi-tasking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#38 American Airlines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#57 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#66 Mainframe articles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#68 IT Infrastructure Slideshow: The IBM Mainframe: 50 Years of Big Iron Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#70 Mainframe articles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#77 Operating Systems for Virtual Machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#55 IBM halves mainframe Linux engine prices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#65 ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#66 ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#67 ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#39 ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#70 While watching Biography about Bill Gates on CNBC last Night
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#21 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#14 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#79 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#23 Item on TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#78 IBM to announce new MF's this year
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#20 Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#16 Sabre Talk Information?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#19 zLinux OR Linux on zEnterprise Blade Extension???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#49 vm/370 3081
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#62 vm/370 3081
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#70 vm/370 3081
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#16 Other early NSFNET backbone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#43 Sabre; The First Online Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#49 Dyadic vs AP: Was "CPU utilization/forecasting"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#60 Dyadic vs AP: Was "CPU utilization/forecasting"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#7 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#77 program coding pads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#84 'smttter IBMdroids
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#115 Start Interpretive Execution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#59 Hard Disk Drive Construction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#71 Help with elementary CPU speed question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#59 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#90 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#28 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#41 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#37 AT&T Holmdel Computer Center films, 1973 Unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#11 Relative price of S/370 AP and MP systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#59 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#56 Early !BM multiprocessors (renamed from Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#20 Write Inhibit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#21 Complete 360 and 370 systems found
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#49 Beyond the EC12
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#50 Beyond the EC12
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#105 Fifty Years of nitpicking definitions, was BASIC,theProgrammingLanguageT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#99 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#107 crash, restart, and all that, was Your earliest dream?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#14 3033 & 3081 question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#84 ACP/TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#91 IBM 4341, introduced in 1979, was 26 times faster than the 360/30
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#58 Man Versus System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#74 Lineage of TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#81 DEC and The Americans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#82 DEC and The Americans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#23 IBM's 3033; "The Big One": IBM's 3033
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#130 3380 & 3081 history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#20 {wtf} Tymshare SuperBasic Source Code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#84 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#94 GREAT presentation on the history of the mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#56 What is the most epic computer glitch you have ever seen?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#33 Bad History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#39 IBM etc I/O channels?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#60 SABRE after the 7090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#62 The IRS Really Needs Some New Computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#38 long-winded post thread, 3033, 3081, Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#77 How many years ago?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#22 Online Computer Conferencing
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: China Retools Vast Global Building Push Criticized as Bloated and Predatory Date: 26 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookChina Retools Vast Global Building Push Criticized as Bloated and Predatory
and US had its transcontinental railroad
http://phys.org/news/2012-01-railroad-hyperbole-echoes-dot-com-frenzy.html
https://www.amazon.com/Railroaded-Transcontinentals-Making-America-ebook/dp/B0051GST1U
recent railroaded posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#44 People are Happier in Social Democracies Because There's Less Capitalism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#60 Grant (& Conkling)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#3 Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#8 Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#9 England: South Sea Bubble - The Sharp Mind of John Blunt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#19 Does Capitalism Kill Cooperation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#47 Union Pacific Announces 150th Anniversary Celebration Commemorating Transcontinental Railroad's Completion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#71 IBM revenue has fallen for 20 quarters -- but it used to run its business very differently
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: TCM Date: 28 Apr 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
Early in REX (before name change and ships to customers), I wanted to
demonstrate that it wasn't just another pretty shell scripting
language. I decided on demonstration to redo IPCS (large mainframe
assembler program doing software problem analysis), in REX(X) with ten
times the function and ten times the performance (slight of hand to
have interpeted REX beat assembler), taking half time over three
months (I finished early so started doing library of automated problem
signature analysis). I had thot it be released to customers in place
of the assembler version, but for some reason it wasn't, even tho it
was in use by almost every internal datacenter and PSR. I eventually
got approval to give presentations at customer user group conferences
on how I did the implementation ... and within a few months, customer
implementations started appearing. Old email about the 3092 (3090
service processor) group wanting to ship it as part of doing 3092
service processor analysis.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#email861031
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#email861223
DUMPRX posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dumprx
mentions 3092 service processor needing two IBM 3370 A2 FBA disks
(even for POK favorite son operating systems, which requires CKD disks
still, even tho no real CKD disks have been made for decades).
https://web.archive.org/web/20230719145910/https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP3090.html
CKD, FBA, multi-track search, etc, disks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons Date: 28 Apr 2019 Blog: FacebookFareed has Geithner, Poulson, and Bernanke talking about the economic mess and their new (co-authored) book
sort of theme that they saved the country from the economic mess ... however Poulson was SECTREAS (and former head of Goldman-Sachs with joke that Treasury was GS's branch office in DC) all during the decade of the economic mess and Geithner was head of NY FED that had direct regulatory responsibility for wallstreet (all during economic mess, then replaced Poulson as SECTREAS). Bernanke was named new FED chairman (replacing Greenspan, mid-way into economic mess).
"Confidence Men" has several references that essentially wallstreet
was using the EHM (economic hit men) debt strategy against the
American public. Other references were about new president having to
choose between the economic A-team (Volcker et al) and the B-team. The
A-team was instrumental in getting him elected, but the A-team would
have held wallstreet and the too-big-to-fail accountable, which
would have likely taken down most of those institutions (so new
president chooses the b-team that wasn't going to hold anybody
responsible).
https://www.amazon.com/Confidence-Men-Washington-Education-ebook/dp/B0089LOKKS/
VP and former CIA director repeatedly claims no knowledge of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair because he was
fulltime administration point person deregulating financial industry
... creating S&L crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
Republicans and Saudis bailing out the Bushes
last decade (after turn of century) another family member is president and presides over the economic mess 70 times larger than the S&L crisis, proportionally the economic mess should have 70,000 criminal convictions with jailtime.
from annals of more than you ever wanted to know; banks use to do
mortgages using deposits and make money off the mortgage payments (had
to care about borrowers' qualifications). With securitized mortgages
(& triple-A rating, OCT2008 congressional testimony was that rating
agencies were selling triple-A ratings on things that they knew
weren't worth triple-A), non-bank loan originators move in,
securitize, sell into the bond market through wallstreet; money made
off transaction fees (& new business for wallstreet), revenue
proportional to mortgage amount and how fast they can sell off the
mortgages (no longer needing to care about borrowers'
qualifications). Number one on time's list of those responsible for
the economic mess (loan originator CEO):
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877339,00.html
Number two on Time's list was responsible for GLBA and repeal of
Glass-Steagall, but is on the list because of legislation to prevent
regulation of CDS gambling bets.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
original described as gift to ENRON. Chair of CFTC proposes regulating CDS gambling bets ... and is quickly replaced with #2's wife, while he gets legislation preventing CDS gambling bets, his wife then resigns and is appointed to ENRON's board and audit committee.
Then they find that they can design securitize mortgages to fail, pay for triple-A, sell-off into the bond market and take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail (creating enormous demand for dodgy loans/mortgages, now they care about borrowers' qualifications, but not in traditional way). The largest holder of the 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 bets and to take TARP funds to pay off at face value. The largest recipient of TARP funds was AIG and the large recipient of face value payoffs was the firm formally headed by SECTREAS.
SECTREAS had lobbied congress for TARP funds to buy "off book" toxic assets, but with only $700B appropriated would hardly make dent in the off book toxic assets, with just the four largest TBTF holding $5.2T ye2008 (a few tens of billions had gone for 22cents on the dollar earlier in the year, if forced to "mark to market", the institutions would have been declared insolvent and forced to be liquidated). Bailout is mostly done behind the scenes by Federal Reserve, buying trillions in off book toxic assets at 98cents on the dollar and providing tens of trillions in ZIRP funds.
Lehman brothers was one of the first to get into it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman_Brothers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_of_Lehman_Brothers
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/lehman-brothers-collapse.asp
https://phys.org/news/2018-09-lehman-weekend-biggest-bankruptcy-american.html
stories from the time had NYFED with examiners sitting on site at
institutions long before the crash looking at what they were doing
... and one of the examiners raised red flags ... and got NYFED to
remove that person ... so things continued right up to disaster.
Implication was that many of the main principles walked away well off
while companies went down in flames.
https://www.amazon.com/Noncompliant-Whistleblower-Exposes-Giants-Street-ebook/dp/B079L5MMSP/
Segarra was shocked to discover, however, the full extent of the
relationship between Goldman and the Fed. She began making secret
recordings that later became the basis of a This American Life episode
that exposed the Fed's ineffectiveness in holding banks accountable.
... snip ...
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
(triple-A rated) toxic CDO posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
fed chairman posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
S&L crisis posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
'29 crash, Pecora Hearings, FDIC insured and/or Glass-Steagall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
Enron posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
ZIRP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: If Current Laws Prosecuting Bankers Aren't Used, What Can Warren Change? Date: 01 May 2019 Blog: FacebookRhetoric on flr of congress was that Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent future ENRONS and guarantee that executives and auditors did jailtime, but it required SEC to do something. Possibly because even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing anything, it started doing reports of public company fraudulent financial filings, even showing that they increased after SOX goes into effect (and nobody doing jailtime). There are reports that the statute of limitation has expired on many of the criminal acts involved with the economic mess, but the Too Big To Fail could still be prosecuted under SOX.
sarbanes-oxley posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
financial reporting fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
enron posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
If Current Laws Prosecuting Bankers Aren't Used, What Can Warren
Change?
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/05/bill-black-if-current-laws-prosecuting-bankers-arent-used-what-can-warren-change.html
"Confidence Men" has several references that essentially wallstreet
was using the EHM (economic hit men) debt strategy against the
American public. Other references were about new president having to
choose between the economic A-team (Volcker et al) and the B-team. The
A-team was instrumental in getting him elected, but the A-team would
have held wallstreet and the too-big-to-fail accountable, which
would have likely taken down most of those institutions (so new
president chooses the b-team that wasn't going to hold anybody
responsible).
https://www.amazon.com/Confidence-Men-Washington-Education-ebook/dp/B0089LOKKS/
Too Big To Fail (Too Big To Prosecute, Too Big To Jail) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
recent ref
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#83 Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons
other refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#109 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#110 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#111 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#112 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#114 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#1 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#3 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#4 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#5 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#13 China's African debt-trap ... and US Version
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#15 TARP Funds and Noncompliant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#37 Democracy in Chains
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#41 Family of Secrets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#42 Army Special Operations Forces Unconventional Warfare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#44 People are Happier in Social Democracies Because There's Less Capitalism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#58 Bureaucracy and Agile
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#60 Grant (& Conkling)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#3 Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#19 Does Capitalism Kill Cooperation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#29 How corporate America invented 'Christian America' to fight the New Deal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#48 7 Charts Exposing The Nation's Pension Nightmare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#68 IBM revenue has fallen for 20 quarters -- but it used to run its business very differently
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#81 China Retools Vast Global Building Push Criticized as Bloated and Predatory
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Yes, the Tech Giants Are a Big Problem--But the Untamed Finance Industry Could Still Blow Up the Economy Date: 03 May 2019 Blog: FacebookYes, the Tech Giants Are a Big Problem--But the Untamed Finance Industry Could Still Blow Up the Economy
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: What George Marshall Learned From His Time in China Date: 03 May 2019 Blog: FacebookWhat George Marshall Learned From His Time in China; Marshall couldn't stop the Chinese Civil War, but what did he learn?
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
past posts reference "China Mission"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#82 The Redacted Testimony That Fully Explains Why General MacArthur Was Fired
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#107 Post WW2 red hunt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#89 The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#98 tablets and desktops was Has Microsoft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#102 The Persistent Myth of U.S. Precision Bombing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#34 oriental old grudges, Computers, anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#38 oriental old grudges, Computers, anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#19 A Tea Party Movement to Overhaul the Constitution Is Quietly Gaining
other posts mentioning Miles "A Different Kind of War"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#47 WWII
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#55 WWII
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#37 The $30 billion Social Security hack
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#81 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#105 Iraq, Longest War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#68 Ghost Riders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#75 WW II cryptography
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#24 What if the Kuomintang Had Won the Chinese Civil War?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#56 Tech: we didn't mean for it to turn out like this
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#57 About Unconventional warfare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#3 Pearl Harbor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#61 Bill Slim and WWII's Forgotten Army - One Of The Most Successful Commanders Of The War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#64 Russia Invaded Japanese Islands With U.S. Ships -- After Japan Surrendered
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#70 Russia Invaded Japanese Islands With U.S. Ships -- After Japan Surrendered
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#33 Olympics opening ceremony
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#45 Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#81 LUsers
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Yes, the Tech Giants Are a Big Problem--But the Untamed Finance Industry Could Still Blow Up the Economy Date: 04 May 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
The Crash In US Economic Fundamentals Is Accelerating
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-04/crash-us-economic-fundamentals-accelerating
The most promoted and by extension most rigged indicators include
GDP, unemployment, and inflation. I would include stock markets to a
point in this list, but as I've always said, stocks are a trailing
indicator and never tell us accurately when an economic crash is
taking place. If anything, stocks are and always have been a placebo
for the masses, a psychological crutch meant to lull them to sleep
while the crash begins. Other than that, they have no value in
determining the health of the system. As a lagging indicator, we will
cover stocks at the end of this analysis.
... snip ...
Brace Yourself: The Next Epic Collapse Could Be Weeks Away
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-28/brace-yourself-next-epic-collapse-could-be-weeks-away
"Big Money Coupled With Cheap Money" Never Ends Well...
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-04/big-money-coupled-cheap-money-never-ends-well
None of Your Business; The rise of surveillance capitalism.
https://www.thenation.com/article/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-book-review/
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM 9020 FAA/ATC Systems from 1960's Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 04 May 2019 16:43:30 -0700Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> writes:
The Brawl in IBM 1964
https://www.amazon.com/Brawl-IBM-1964-Joseph-Fox/dp/1456525514
Two mid air collisions 1956 and 1960 make this FAA procurement
special. The computer selected will be in the critical loop of making
sure that there are no more mid-air collisions. Many in IBM want to not
bid. A marketing manager with but 7 years in IBM and less than one year
as a manager is the proposal manager. IBM is in midstep in coming up
with the new line of computers - the 360. Chaos sucks into the fray many
executives- especially the next chairman, and also the IBM president. A
fire house in Poughkeepsie N Y is home to the technical and marketing
team for 60 very cold and long days. Finance and legal get into the fray
after that.
Joe Fox had a 44 year career in the computer business- and was a vice
president in charge of 5000 people for 7 years in the federal division
of IBM. He then spent 21 years as founder and chairman of a software
corporation. He started the 3 person company in the Washington
D. C. area. He took it public as Template Software in 1995, and sold it
and retired in 1999. With 34 years of management, his enumeration and
depiction of the talents and traits that are to be recognized and
rewarded at all levels of management merit perusal - and even study. He
is also the author of Software and its Development published by Prentice
Hall in 1982, and two paperbacks, What If in 1979 and Trapped in the
Organization in 1980, both published by Price Stern Sloan. His software
book was translated into Russian, and his Executive Qualities was
translated into Spanish. Joe Fox grew up in Brooklyn N.Y., graduated
from St. John's University in Queens, N.Y. with a degree in Mathematics,
and joined IBM in 1956. Twenty years later, still in IBM, he had his
book Executive Qualities published by Addison Wesley in 1976. IBM, not
mentioned nor identified in the book, did not see it before
publication. IBM was not identified as the venue for the management
ideas and concepts. After 9 printings, the publisher discontinued the
book, but it still sells in book form on the Amazon used book
service. Mr. Fox frequently presented the traits, talents, trials and
tribulations detailed in his Executive Qualities book several times at
IBM's Sands Point executive month-long training, and at CIA management
meetings in Langley, Virginia. Mr. Fox chaired several committees for
DOD during his career.
... snip ...
I don't remember running into Joe in IBM ... but after leaving IBM and
working in financial industry ... we had a big contract with Template
and spent lots of time with Joe and some other former IBMers. The Amazon
reviews has some mention of this 2nd part.
https://www.sebokwiki.org/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administration_(FAA)_Advanced_Automation_System_(AAS)
while we were doing HA/CMP product, past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
we participated in some reviews of AAS.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: How Private Equity Is Turning Public Prisons Into Big Profits Date: 04 May 2019 Blog: FacebookHow Private Equity Is Turning Public Prisons Into Big Profits In recent years, corporations have privatized almost every part of the public prison system. Now, PE firms are swooping in, seeking lavish returns for investors.
PE posts ... beltway bandits, housing market, health care, hospitals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
the industry had gotten such a bad reputation during the S&L crisis,
it changed its name to private equity and "junk bonds" became "high
yield bonds"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
some for-profit prisons posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#37 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#43 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/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/2016.html#32 I Feel Old
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#3 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#4 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#12 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#19 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#45 What is ALEC? 'The most effective organization' for conservatives, says Newt Gingrich
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: You can't beat an unwinnable game, but you can break it Date: 05 May 2019 Blog: FacebookYou can't beat an unwinnable game, but you can break it
I've periodically commented that government contractors possibly used
war gaming technology to look at strategies for maximizing profits
... coming up with the Success of Failure (moke more on
gov. contracts from a series of failuers)
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
"perpetual war" is an analogous strategy
success of failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: SS Trustees Report Summary Date: 05 May 2019 Blog: FacebookSS Trustees Report Summary
Note, Stockman (Reagan's budget director) takes credit for revamping SS contributions in the 80s for 1) increasing life expectancy (although US life expectancy has recently shown slight decline rather than continued to increase) and 2) baby boomer generation larger than following generation, baby boomer contributions had to build up principle in SS trust fund to cover their retirement benefits. Stockman explains it that they actually wanted larger principle in SS trust fund to "borrow" for military spending, w/o actually showing up as increase in income tax rate, he also started to (double) tax SS benefits (i.e. contributions are taxed income then benefits taxed again), again more for military spending w/o actually showing increase in income tax rate.
The problem now is that the following generation will have to be taxed to pay back the borrowed principle from the SS Trust Fund (that was accumulating to pay for baby boomer benefits). Some spin lists the Federal Debt w/o what is owed to the SS Trust Fund, as if they are preparing to welsh on that debt.
past Stockman SS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#91 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#51 OT: DuPont seeks to screw workers of their pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#37 GOP Announces Privatization Of Medicare And The Details Are TERRIFYING
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#61 GOP introduces plan to massively cut Social Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#63 GOP introduces plan to massively cut Social Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#91 Your Social Security cuts are already on the way
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#94 Your Social Security cuts are already on the way
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#11 Attack SS Entitlements
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#30 $16T National Debt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#43 when to get out???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#12 SS Trust Fund
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#48 SS Trust Fund
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#51 Taxing Social Security Benefits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#59 How Income Tax on Social Security Became a $277 Billion Problem for Retirees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#37 Democracy in Chains
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: MVS Boney Fingers Date: 05 May 2019 Blog: FacebookMVS Boney Fingers
I have vague recollection when it was first played at SHARE ... something about the performers were relatives of somebody on the MVS committee. Randomly happen to hear the original on radio yesterday. During 70s & 80s there was a joke that could tell products weren't selling is when they were declared "strategic" and salesman given sales bonus.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#117 OS390 bundling and version numbers -Reply
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#11 Electric Light Orchestra IBM song, in 1981?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#14 Electric Light Orchestra IBM song, in 1981?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#56 Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
As undergraduate in 60s, I did dynamic adaptive resource management for CP67 ... which was picked up and shipped in the product. In the morph from CP67 to VM370, lots of stuff was simplified and/or dropped. Lots of SHARE resolutions during the 70s about letting me ship resource manager for VM370. During the FS period, lots of 370 activies were being shutdown (and lack of 370 products during the period is credited with giving clone makers, including Amdahl, market foothold) ... then with the failure of FS, there is mad rush to get stuff back into product pipeline.
After joining IBM, one of my hobbies was enhanced operating systems
for internal datacenters and I had moved a lot of my CP67 enhancements
to VM370, mostly during 1974 and I was shipping/supporting production
releases for numerous internal datacenters (the worldwide sales &
marketing support HONE systems were long time customer). some old
email:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
Some of my production enhancements were picked up for VM370 Release 3. With the rise of clone makers (because of FS) and then the failure of FS, seem to contribute to selecting my dynamic adaptive resource manager was selected to be guinea pig for transition to charging for kernel software (23jun1969 unbundling announcement, including starting to charge for application software, but managed to make the case that kernel software should still be free, then with the rise of clone makers, the decision was changed to start charging for kernel software).
MVS had whole bunch of manual performance tuning knobs and there were presentations at SHARE about huge array of benchmark tests showing all sorts of effects of the knobs settings. Somebody from corporate came by to review release of my dynamic adaptive resource manager and said he couldn't approve its release because the "state of the art" was huge numbers of manual tuning knobs ... and I didn't have any. I tred to explain dynamic adaptive resource management, but he couldn't understand. So I added some manual tuning knobs, adding formulas and description of how they worked. But it was a "joke" ... I failed to mention something, that in OR is referred to as "degress of freedom" ... although it could be easily seen in the code ... the manual settings had less "degrees of freedom" than the dynamic adaptive code ... i.e. the dynamic adaptive code could compensate for any manual setting.
Resource Manager posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
Unbundling posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
HONE (&/or APL) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
Trivia: There was some bickering between IMS and the original sql/relational RDBMS implementation, System/R done on VM370 on 370/145 at San Jose Research. IMS people saying that System/R required twice as much disk space (for the internal indexes) and lots more I/O (for reading indexes to get to record). The counter was that IMS required significant more human care&feeding to administer (lots of things that were automated by System/R indexes).
The next official DBMS effort was EAGLE ... and while corporation was preoccupied with EAGLE, we manage to do SYSTEM/R technology transfer to ENDICOTT and get it released as SQL/DS. Then when EAGLE implodes, there was request for how fast it would take to port SYSTEM/R to MVS ... which is finally released as DB2, originally for decision support *ONLY*.
In first part of the 80s, the IMS-SYSTEM/R comparison starts to flip with drastic reduction in disk cost/bit (minimizing the increased disk space for RDBMS indexes) and significant increase in system real memory sizes (allowing caching of indexes, eliminating a lot of the extra I/O) .... at the same time high-skilled (IMS) DBAs were becoming scarce and hard to find.
trivia: when Jim Gray leaves SJR for Tandem ... he tries to palm off a bunch of stuff on me ... consulting with the IMS group ... as well as helping support some of the early System/R customers ... like BofA looking at deploying 60 System/Rs around the world.
System/R posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
other trivia: this is account of justification for moving MVT to
virtual memory ... very similar to running MVT in 16mbyte CP/67
virtual machine (most of the new code was hacking CP/67
CCWTRANS into the side of EXCP to create copy of application channel
programs with real addresses rather than virtual address) ... hint: it
was to compensate for the horrible MVT storage management.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
i.e. VS2/SVS (single virtual storage) ... then things get horribly
more complex going to VS2/MVS (multiple virtual storage) ... which was
much of the genesis for the "boney fingers" song ... however, the song
reference somewhat confused what was FS ... more detailed reference
here
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
also this account: Ferguson & Morris, "Computer Wars: The Post-IBM
World", Time Books, 1993 .... reference to the "Future System" project
1st half of the 70s, was going to completely replace 370 and 370
efforts were being shutdown, the lack of 370 products during the
period is credited with giving clone processor makers market foothold:
... and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and
Jr of free and vigorous debate was replaced with sycophancy
and make no waves under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that
thereafter, IBM lived in the shadow of defeat
...
But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management,
F/S took years to kill, although its wrong headedness was obvious from
the very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism
became politically dangerous," recalls a former top executive.
....
I continued to work on 370 stuff all during the FS period, even periodically ridiculing FS activity ... which wasn't exactly career enhancing.
Future System posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM Retirement Heist Date: 05 May 2019 Blog: FacebookIBM Retirement Heist (gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine)
at the time 401k was being pushed, there were several articles that both big corporations AND wallstreet were heavily pushing new federal laws ... the big companies wanted to move all of pension funds off on to the individual employees ... AND wallstreet found that the big pension funds were negotiating hard on cutting fees .... and that wallstreet would be able to charge a lot more with individual 401Ks.
The president of AMEX was in competition to be the next CEO and wins. The looser takes his protegee and leaves, going to Baltimore acquiring what has been described as 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 DC for repeal of Glass-Steagall. One of the people they enlist is SECTREAS (and former head of GS). Once the repeal is underway the SECTREAS resigns and joins Citi in what is described at the time as co-CEO. The prodigree then leaves CITI to become CEO of one of the other four largest Too Big To Fail (with CITI accounts for major part of economic mess last decade).
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
AMEX is in competition with large private-equity company KKR for LBO
of RJR and KKR wins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
KKR then runs into trouble with RJR and hires away the president of
AMEX to help. Then IBM runs into the red and hires away the former
president of AMEX to be head of IBM ... who uses some of the same
tactics used at RJR.
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
The former president of AMEX then leaves IBM to become head of another
large private-equity company, which is hiring prominent politicians to
lobby congress to outsource to the beltway bandits they've been buying
... including company that will employ Snowden (agencies can't lobby
congress, beltway bandits can't use money from gov. contracts to lobby
congress, but PE owners don't seem to be under any restrictions,
enormous uptic in gov. outsourcing last decade)
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/10/barbarians-capitol-private-equity-public-enemy/
Companies in the private-equity mill are under tremendous pressure to
push money up to their owners every which way possible, intelligence
70% of the budget and half the people.
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us and the rapidly
spreading success of failure culture, lots more money for companies
in PE-mills with a series of failures
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
AMEX President posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
success of failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: MVS Boney Fingers Date: 05 May 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
... aka because of storage management issues, regions had to be four times larger than typically used ... limiting typical 370/165 1mbyte configuration to four regions (with only four regions, cpu spent much of the time waiting on disk i/o). Going to 16mbyte SVS virtual memory could increase number of regions by factor of four ... with little or no paging (aka MVT storage management needed large amounts of available "contiguous" storage locations, but its algorithm quickly fragmented storage which couldn't be used)
Going from 360/65 to 370/165 was much faster processor ... so needed a lot more regions overlapping execution waiting for disk i/o.
However, CPU speeds were increasing significantly faster than disk
speeds were increasing ... exhasberating the condition ... which I
started commenting about in the mid-70s. By the early 80s, I was
pontificating that relative disk system performance had declined by a
factor of ten times between the late 60s and the early 80s (systems
got 50 times faster, but disks got less than five times faster). A
disk division executive took exception to my comments and assigned the
division performance analysis group to refute my claims. After a few
weeks, they came back and effectively said that I had slightly
understated the problem. The performance group then respun the
analysis for a (customer user group) SHARE presentation about how to
configure disks to improve system throughput; part of late 60s/early
80s comparison
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/93.html#31
old posts with pieces of (respun analysis for) SHARE presentation B874
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#68
MVS had other bloated design issues which quickly ballooned up and overran both 370 16mbyte real as well as virtual storage limitations. MVT had heavy pointer passing API ... and so for MVS to access system call parameters needeed 8mbyte kernel image to appear in each of the application 16mbyte address spaces (leaving 8mbytes for application). However move from SVS to MVS, also moved subsystems into their own virtual address space. Now for subsystems to access parameters for application calls, they invented the COMMON SEGMENT AREA (CSA), which was one megabyte in every application virtual address space (leaving 7mbytes for applications). However CSA requirements were essentially proportional to number of concurrently running applications and number of subsystems. By 3033 time-frame this ballooned CSA (renamed COMMON SYSTEM AREA) to 5-6 mbytes (leaving 2-3mbytes for applications) and many installations threatening to increasing CSA to 8mbytes (leaving nothing for applications). At the same time, MVS system bloat was overruning the 16mbyte real storage configurations and they came out with a gimmick to add up to 64mbytes to 3033 (even though 370 instruction architecture limited addressing to 16mbytes) ... which helped reducing severe page thrashing as well as increase concurrent applications.
some recent CSA posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#78 Mainframe Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#57 Introducing the New z13s: Tim's Hardware Highlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#12 What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#101 Multitasking question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#8 BSAM vs QSAM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#61 Paging subsystems in the era of bigass memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#40 Mainframe Family tree and chronology 2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#48 64 bit addressing into the future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#57 64 bit addressing into the future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#92 S/360 addressing, not Honeywell 200
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#23 VS History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#18 IBM assembler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#38 long-winded post thread, 3033, 3081, Future System
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Why hiring the 'best' people produces the least creative results Date: 06 May 2019 Blog: FacebookWhy hiring the 'best' people produces the least creative results
Many focus on the speed of Boyd's OODA-loop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
but Boyd in briefings would also talk about needing to observe from every possible facet ... which would be needed as countermeasure to observation, orientation, and/or confirmation bias. In collections of people that would include needing to having people with multiple different viewpoints.
JOHN BOYD AND THE "OODA" LOOP (GREAT STRATEGISTS)
https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/special-series/great-strategists/boyd-OODA-loop-great-strategists/
simpler version from 1846, Elements of Military Art and Science Or,
Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles,
& C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry
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 ...
could claim transition "see" to "observe" and add "orientation" that captures concepts like learning as well as acquiring knowledge & understanding.
posts about Boyd and URLs from around the web
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Journey from Idea to Practice: Internetworking and Protocols Date: 07 May 2019 Blog: FacebookJourney from Idea to Practice: Internetworking and Protocols
Some of the MIT CTSS people went to the 5th flr and did
Multics. Others went to IBM science center on the 4th flr in 1964 and
did virtual machines (CP40&CP67 which later morphs into VM370),
internal network, bunch of online stuff, etc. GML was invented at
science center in 1969, a decade later it morphs into ISO SGML and
after another decade morphs into HTML at CERN.
http://infomesh.net/html/history/early/
first webserver in US was on SLAC's VM370 system
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit/early-web-chronology-and-documents-1991-1994
Science Center co-worker responsible for the internal network
technology (internal network was larger than arpanet/internet from
just about the beginning until sometime mid-80s) ... which was also
used for the corporate sponsored university BITNET (also for a time
larger than arpanet/internet).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
We both transferred to SJR (down the road from SLAC) after the mid-70s
... and became involved in non-proprietary networking. "IBM's missed
opportunity with the Internet"
https://web.archive.org/web/20000124004147/http://www1.sjmercury.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg092499.htm
IN 1980, some engineers at International Business Machines Corp. tried
to sell their bosses on a forward-looking project: connecting a large
internal IBM computer network to what later became the Internet. The
plan was shot down, and IBM's leaders missed an early chance to grasp
the revolutionary significance of this emerging medium. This is one of
those who-knows-what-might-have-been stories, an intriguing little
footnote in Internet history. It's a cautionary tale
... snip ...
In early 80s, I had HSDT project (T1/1.5mbit/sec and faster links) and we were working with NSF director and was suppose to get $20M to interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers. Then congress cuts the budget, some other things happen, and eventually NSF releases RFP. Internal politics prevent us from bidding. The NSF director tries to help, writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO), but that just makes the internal politics worse (as does comments that what we already had running was at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP responses).
At the same time, the communication group was spreading a lot of
mis-information (including claims that SNA could be used for
interconnecting NSF supercomputing centers at T1 or faster ... even
though SNA products didn't have support running on NSF supercomputers
and limited to 56kbits/sec, not 1.5mbits/sec and faster). Somebody
collected the communication group mis-information email and forwarded
... heavily snipped and redacted to protect the guilty:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
NSF 28Mar1986 preliminary announce, archived here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#12
as the regional networks connect into the centers, it morphs into
NSFNET backbone, precursor to modern internet
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
About the same time the communication group was also spreading
mis-information about needing to convert the internal network to
SNA/VTAM (or it might stop working) ... about the same time the
corporate sponsored BITNET converted to TCP/IP ... some old email:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email870302
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#email870306
trivia: mid-80s, HSDT was getting some equipment built on the other
side of the Pacific. The Friday before I was to visit, I get an
announcement from Raleigh about a new online forum on "high-speed"
with the following definitions:
low-speed: <9.6kbits
medium-speed: 19.2kbits
high-speed: 56kbits
very high-speed: 1.5mbits
Monday morning on a wall on the other side of the Pacific
low-speed: <20mbits
medium-speed: 100mbits
high-speed: 200-300mbits
very high-speed: >600mbits
... snip ...
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
BITNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
Internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
GML, SGML, HTML posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Journey from Idea to Practice: Internetworking and Protocols Date: 07 May 2019 Blog: Facebookre:
Original CMS script in mid-60s was science center port of CTSS RUNOFF. Then when GML was invented at the science center in 1969, GML tag processing was added to script.
CTSS RUNOFF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TYPSET_and_RUNOFF#CTSS
IBM Generalized Markup Language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_Markup_Language
trivia: "G", "M", and "L" are actually chosen from the first letters of the inventors last names
other trivia: CMS started out as Cambridge Monitor System (i.e. from
the Cambridge Science Center on the 4th flr), but changed to the
"Conversational Monitor System" as part of morph from CP67 to
VM370. Originally the Cambridge Science Center had done virtual
machine CP/40 (and CMS) implementation using a hardware modified
360/40 with virtual memory, which then morphs into CP/67 when 360/67
standard with virtual memory becomes available
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/CMS
IBM Cambridge Science Center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
GML posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
The last product we did at IBM was IBM's (RS/6000) HA/CMP; started out
as HA/6000, but I quickly changed to HA/CMP when started working with
national labs (technical/scientific) and RDBMS vendors (commercial) on
cluster scale-up. This is account of Jan1992 meeting in Ellison's
conference room
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
Within a couple weeks of that meeting, cluster scale-up is transferred,
announced as IBM supercomputer (for technical/scientific *ONLY*) and
we are told we can't work on anything with more than four processors
(possibly contributing was mainframe DB2 were complaining that if we
were allowed to proceed, we would be at least 5yrs ahead of them). A
few months later we leave IBM.
We are later brought in as consultants to a small client/server startup. Two of the former Oracle people (mentioned in the Ellison meeting) are now at the startup responsible for something called "commerce server" and they want to do payment transactions on the server, the startup had also invented this technology they called "SSL" they want to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
I have complete authority on the side between server and payment networks ... and do a number of tweaks to HTTPS code to provide additional integrity and availability ... however I can only make recommendations about the browser/server side operation ... some of which are almost immediately violated (some continue to account for problems).
HA/CMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The US Is Spending $1.25 Trillion Annually on War Date: 07 May 2019 Blog: FacebookThe US Is Spending $1.25 Trillion Annually on War
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Student Loan Forgiveness Program Offers False Hope, Rejects 99% of Applications Date: 07 May 2019 Blog: FacebookStudent Loan Forgiveness Program Offers False Hope, Rejects 99% of Applications
Part of the economic mess was being able to pay for triple-A ratings on securitized mortgages (when the rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A from Oct2008 congressional testimony); triple-A trumps supporting documents and they could transition to no-document, liar loans (didn't care about borrowers' qualifications or loan quality, because they could always sell off into bond market at premium price).
(triple-A rated) toxic CDO posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
Later the largest fines were for the robo-signing mills fabricating the missing documents. Supposedly those fines were suppose to go into HAMP and other programs benefiting the foreclosure victims. However, firms hired to administer those funds were frequently run by some of the same people that were instrumental in the economic mess, and only trivial benefits were ever seen by the victims.
Big Banks Are Hazardous to U.S. Financial Health
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-02/big-banks-are-hazardous-to-u-s-financial-health.html
In 1995, the Big Six -- JPMorgan, Bank of America Corp., Citigroup
Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley
-- had assets worth only 17 percent of U.S. gross domestic product. As
recently as 2005, their collective balance sheets were valued at less
than 50 percent of GDP.
Today, the Big Six are much bigger, with combined assets of 60 percent
of GDP.
... snip ...
Too Big To Fail (Too Big To Prosecute, Too Big To Jail) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
"Confidence Men"
https://www.amazon.com/Confidence-Men-Washington-Education-ebook/dp/B0089LOKKS/
"Bailout"
https://www.amazon.com/Bailout-ebook/dp/B00818J57W
pretty much have everything a bankster give-away from the
beginning. The congressional staffers "How Republicans Went Crazy"
https://www.amazon.com/The-Party-Over-Republicans-ebook/dp/B007V65OLG
and "The Payoff" describe efforts that appear to try and help the
public, just were never successful.
Bailout, pg157/loc3106-9:
HAMP was not separate from the bank bailouts; it was an essential part
of them. From that perspective, it didn't matter if the modifications
failed after a year or so of trial payments or if struggling borrowers
placed into doomed trial modifications ended up far worse off, as long
as the banks were able to stretch out their pain until their profits
returned
... snip ...
Mortgage Settlement Monitor Hires Firm that Has Worked on Countrywide
Matters
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/09/mortgage-settlement-monitor-hires-firm-that-has-worked-on-countrywide-matters.html
other older references:
"Fatally Flawed" Paper on HAMP Mortgage Program Gets Program Design
Backwards, Botches Regression Analysis, Yielding Propagandistic
Findings
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/10/fatally-flawed-paper-hamp-mortgage-program-gets-program-design-backwards-botches-regression-analysis-yielding-propagandistic-findings.html
Fed Investigating Goldman Over Possible HAMP Mortgage Mod Violations
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/05/fed-investigating-goldman-over-possible-hamp-mortgage-mod-violations.html
Mortgage Whistleblowers Say Servicers Foreclosed Rather Than Modify,
HAMP Program Designed to Help Banks, Not Borrowers
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/05/mortgage-whistleblowers-say-servicers-foreclosed-rather-than-modify-hamp-program-designed-to-help-banks-not-borrowers.html
Proof of Ongoing Foreclosure Fraud and Mortgage Document Fabrication,
in Five Emails
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/09/proof-of-ongoing-foreclosure-fraud-and-mortgage-document-fabrication-in-five-emails.html
Whistleblower Reveals Favoritism Toward the Rich, Robo-Signing at the
IRS
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/03/whistleblower-reveals-favoritism-toward-rich-robo-signing-irs.html
Treasury Waves Wet Noodle at Big Banks Over HAMP Mortgage Mod Abuses
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/06/treasury-waives-wet-noodle-at-big-banks-over-hamp-mortgage-mod-abuses.html
Mischaracterizing HAMP and Principal Reduction: A Regression
Discontinuity Test Error
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/11/hamp.html
SIGTARP: HAMP Servicing Abuses Led to Unwarranted Foreclosures
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/10/sigtarp-hamp-servicing-abuses-led-to-unwarranted-foreclosures.html
Some Foreclosure Mills Disregarding Post-Robo-Signing Requirements
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/12/some-foreclosure-mills-disregarding-post-robo-signing-requirements.html
More on the HAMP Train Wreck in Latest Congressional Oversight Panel
Report
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/12/more-on-the-hamp-train-wreck-in-latest-congressional-oversight-panel-report.html
Not to be outdone, FDIC joins the robo-signing club, too
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/10/not-to-be-outdone-fdic-joins-the-robo-signing-club-too.html
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 8 May 2019 10:06:43 -0700sipples@SG.IBM.COM (Timothy Sipples) writes:
Corporate also required that all links leaving IBM physical locations had to be encrypted ... which were external hardware link encryptors (mid-80s, major hardware link encryptor company claimed that IBM had over half of all the link encryptors in the world).
On of my problems was I really hated what I had to pay for T1 link encrptors (a few thousand) and it was really hard to find faster link encryptors (less of problem for links supported by standard IBM controllers which were limited to 56kbit links).
I eventually got involved in doing hardware link encryptor that would cost less than $100 to build and support at least 3mbyte/sec ... with some other tweaks. Initially the corporate crypto product group said that it significantly weakened the DES standard. It took me 3months to figure out how to explain what was happening (it was significantly stronger than standard DES, & not TDES) ... but it turned out to be a hollow victory. I was told that I could make as many as I wanted ... but there was only organization in the world that could use such crypto; i could make as many as I wanted to, but they all had to be shipped to an address in Maryland. It was when I realized that there was 3kinds of crypto in the world: 1) the kind they don't care about, 2) the kind you can't do and 3) the kind you can only do for them.
Other trivia: doing mainframe DES in the early 80s for a full-duplex T1 required both processors of a dedicated 3081K doing nothing else but executing standard DES. There was also work on doing public key for email (PGP-like public key).
Last product we did at IBM was RS/6000 HA/CMP (it originally started out
as HA/6000, but I quickly changed name to HA/CMP when started working
with national labs (technical/scientific) and RDBMS vendors (commercial)
on cluster scale-up. Old reference on Jan1992 meeting in Ellison's
conference room on 128-way cluster scale-up:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
within a few weeks of the meeting, cluster scale-up is transferred,
announced as supercomputer (for technical/scientific *ONLY*), and we are
told that we can't work on anything with more than four processors. A
few months later we leave.
Later two of the Oracle people in the Ellison meeting have left and are at a small client/server startup responsible for something called "commerce server" and we are brought in as consultants because they want to do payment transactions on the server, the startup had also invented this technology they call "SSL" they want to use, the result is now fequently called "electronic commerce".
I have absolute authority over everything from servers to payment networks ... and make several tweaks to the HTTPS implementation to improve integrity and availability ... but can only make recommendations on the browser/server side ... some of which are almost immediately violated ... contributing to problems, some that continue to this day.
Second half 90s, I'm giving presentations on "Why Internet Isn't Business Critical Dataprocessing" at various internet meetings. Problems aren't TCP/IP design ... but various glitches in deployments by various organizations.
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
HA/CMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
SSL posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#sslcert
some old (old) crypto email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#crypto
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