From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old Date: Oct 29, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
one of his stories about being very vocal that the electronics across
the trail wouldn't work ... and possibly as punishment, he is put in
command of "spook base" (about the same time I'm at Boeing). His
biographies mention that "spook base" was a $2.5B "windfall" for IBM
(ten times Renton).
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Igloo_White
The $2.5B would have helped with the enormously expensive IBM "Future
System" disaster (early 70s, was completely different than 370 and was
going to completely replace it)
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
John Boyd post and web URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old Date: 29 Oct, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
long ago and far away, my wife was in the gburg JES group and one of the "catchers" for ASP/JES3 ... also co-author of JESUS (JES Unified System) specification, all the features in JES2 & JES3 that the respective customers couldn't live w/o (for various reasons never came to fruition). She was then con'ed into going to POK to be in charge of loosely-coupled (mainframe cluster) architecture where she did Peer-Coupled Shared Data architecture. She didn't remain long because 1) constant battles with the communication group trying to force her into using SNA/VTAM for loosely-coupled operation and 2) little uptake (except for IMS hot-standby) until much later with sysplex and parallel sysplex. She has story about after work, asking Vern Watts who he was going ask, to get approval from, to do IMS hot-standby ... he told her, "nobody, he would just tell them when it was all done".
Peer-Coupled Shared Data architecture posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata
HASP/JES2, ASP/JES3, NGI/NGE posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 360/91 Date: 30 Oct, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
Tomasulo's algorithm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasulo%27s_algorithm
from 23apr1981 ("tandem memos") email recently included in this
long-winded (facebook mainframers) post
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfessionalMainframers/posts/1690693904618975/
bob tomasulo and dave anderson, the two poeple responsible for the
model 91 and the (incredible but killed) hawk project, just left pok
for the new stc computer company. management reaction: when dave told
them he was thinking of leaving they said 'ok. 'one word. 'ok. ' they
tried to keep bob by telling him he shouldn't go (the reward system in
pok could be a subject of long correspondence). when he left, the
management position was 'he wasn't doing anything anyway. '
in some sense true. but we haven't built an interesting high-speed
machine in 10 years. look at the 85/165/168/3033/trout. all the same
machine with treaks here and there. and the hordes continue to sweep
in with faster and faster machines. true, endicott plans to bring the
low/middle into the current high-end arena, but then where is the
high-end product development?
... snip ...
email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#email810423
also in this archived post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#61 Channel Program I/O Processing Efficiency
other recent posts with email copy:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#email810423
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#email810423
other tomasulo refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#60 Honeywell 200
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#53 PL/I advertising
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#52 PL/I advertising
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#91 Critique of System/360, 1967
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#38 Sad news of Bob Tomasulo's passing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#18 why doesn't processor reordering instructions affect most
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#15 How many Megaflops and when?
trivia: I had gotten involved with effort to do 16 processor 370 multiprocessor and we had con'ed the 3033 processor engineers to work on it in their spare time (lot more interesting than remapping 168-3 logic to 20% faster chips) ... going great guns until somebody told the head of POK that it could be decades before the POK favorite son operation system had effective 16-way support (POK doesn't ship 16-way until turn of the century). The head of POK then invites some of us to never visit POK again and tells the 3033 processor engineers, nose to 3033 grindstone. Once the 3033 is out the door, they start on trout/3090.
quick&dirty 3033/3081 projects kicked off in parallel after Future
System implodes
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
multiprocessors posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
note there is also ACS/360 ... end of effort when executives were
afraid it would advance the state-of-art too fast and IBM would loose
control of the market; following also mentions features that show up
more than 20yrs later with ES/9000.
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
Consolidated US HONE did do 16 processor complex 2nd half of 1970s ... 1st eight loosely-coupled, single-system image systems and then added second processor make each a multiprocessor for total of 16 processors (I periodically have comment that support wasn't released to customers until 2009). At the time, closest similar was airlines ACP/TPF configurations ... but ACP/TPF didn't have tightly-coupled multiprocessor support.
HONE posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: AL Gore Invented The Internet Date: 30 Oct, 2022 Blog: FacebookAl Gore Inventing the Internet
Co-worker (responsible for the internal network) and I transfer from
Cambridge Science Center to IBM San Jose Research in 1977 ... some
more background
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-3-lynn-wheeler/
archived "z/VM 50th - part 3"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#50 z/VM 50th - part 3
has a lot of references to IBM blocking participating in
internetworking activity and TCP/IP
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
Early 80s, I started HSDT (high-speed data transport) project with T1
and faster computer links and was working with NSF director; was
suppose to get $20M to interconnect the NSF supercomputer
centers. Then congress cuts the budget, some other things happen and
finally an RFP is released (based in part on what we already had
running). Preliminary Announcement (28Mar1986)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#12
The OASC has initiated three programs: The Supercomputer Centers
Program to provide Supercomputer cycles; the New Technologies Program
to foster new supercomputer software and hardware developments; and
the Networking Program to build a National Supercomputer Access
Network - NSFnet.
... snip ...
IBM internal politics not allowing us to bid (being blamed for online
computer conferencing inside IBM, likely contributed). The NSF
director tried to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF
Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of
Research, copying IBM CEO) with support from other gov. agencies
... but that just made the internal politics worse (as did claims that
what we already had operational was at least 5yrs ahead of the winning
bid), as regional networks connect in, it becomes the NSFNET backbone,
precursor to modern internet
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
NSFnet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
RFP awarded 24nov87 and RFP kickoff meeting 7Jan1988
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#email880104 Kickoff Meeting 7Jan1988
Later 80s, got involved in turning out HA/6000, originally NYTimes to
move their newspaper system (ATEX) from VAXCluster to RS/6000. However
as I started doing technical/scale-up cluster scale-up with national
labs and commercial cluster scale-up with RDBMS vendors (Ingres,
Informix, Sybase, Oracle, all had vax/cluster support in the same
source base with unix support ... also lots of discussion on improving
over Vaxcluster and easing Vaxcluster RDBMS port to HA/CMP unix base)
... rename it from HA/6000 to HA/CMP (High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_High_Availability_Cluster_Multiprocessing
HA/CMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
I'm also participating in National Information Infrastructure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Information_Infrastructure
& High Performance Computing meetings at LLNL.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Performance_Computing_Act_of_1991
End of Jan1992, I'm not able to attend a meeting, but one of the other
vendors stop by my office afterwards to fill me in on what went on
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email920129
within possibly hrs, cluster scale-up is transferred for announce as
IBM supercomputer (for technical/scientific *ONLY*) and we are told we
can't work on anything with more than four processors (we leave IBM a
few months later). Possibly contributing was (mainframe) DB2 group
complaining if we were allowed to continue, it would be at least five
yrs ahead of them (other trivia, more than decade earlier, I was
involved with the orignal SQL/relational implementation at San Jose
Research, precursor to DB2).
system/r posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
another email on 29Jan1992 from "office of FSD President" (we were
good friends with his technical assistant)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#email920129
... again possibly hrs before cluster scale-up ("MEDUSA") is
transferred, announced as IBM supercomputer and we were told we
couldn't work on anything with more than four processors.
Computerworld news 17feb1992 (from wayback machine) ... IBM establishes
laboratory to develop parallel systems (pg8)
https://archive.org/details/sim_computerworld_1992-02-17_26_7
17Feb1992 press, announced for scientific and technical *ONLY*
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
11May1992 press, cluster supercomputing caught IBM by "surprise"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
The joke about (Gore's) NII was US gov. wanted all the vendors to do the testbed/pilot program on their own nickel. They recouped some of it when Singapore gov invited all the US NII participants to do a fully gov. funded identical implementation in Singapore.
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
Did Al Gore Say 'I Invented the Internet'? Despite decades of media
mirth-making about the supposed statement, former vice president Al
Gore never claimed he "invented the Internet."
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/internet-of-lies/
Development and passage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Performance_Computing_Act_of_1991#Development_and_passage
Senator Al Gore developed the Act[1] after hearing the 1988 report
Toward a National Research Network[7] submitted to Congress by a group
chaired by UCLA professor of computer science Leonard Kleinrock, one
of the creators of the ARPANET, which is regarded as the earliest
precursor network of the Internet.[8]
The bill was enacted on December 9, 1991, and led to the National
Information Infrastructure (NII)[9] which Gore referred to as the
"Information superhighway". President George H. W. Bush predicted that
the Act would help "unlock the secrets of DNA," open up foreign
markets to free trade, and a promise of cooperation between
government, academia, and industry.[10]
... snip ...
News articles mentioning Gore in post about NSFNET RFP kickoff meeting
John Markoff, NY Times, 29 December 1988, page D1
Paving way for data 'highway' Carl M Cannon, San Jose Mercury
News, 17 Sep 89, pg 1E
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#10 Is Al Gore The Father of the Internet?
US was concerned about being competitive in the world market ... part of the legislation was "high performance act of 1991" ... another aspect was commercializing gov. technology ... using consortiums of gov. agencies and commercial corporations ... however they needed exception to the anti-trust laws.
My recent tome about bureaucrats and careerists destroying Watsons'
legacy.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
archived John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#103 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#104 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#2 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#32 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#42 IBM Bureaucrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#60 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#67 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#24 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
some old (usenet/afc) posts referencing Al Gore Inventing Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#43 Al Gore: Inventing the Internet...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#38 I'll Be! Al Gore DID Invent the Internet After All ! NOT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#39 I'll Be! Al Gore DID Invent the Internet After All ! NOT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#38 Did this 1985 film coin the phrase 'information superhighway' and predict Siri?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#5 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM CAD Date: 31 Oct, 2022 Blog: FacebookWithin year of taking 2 semester hr intro to fortran/computers, univ hires me fulltime responsible for os/360 (they had been sold 360/67 for tss/360, but were running as 360/65). Then before I graduate, I'm hired fulltime into small group in Boeing CFO office to help with the formation of Boeing Computer Services (consolidate all dataprocessing into independent business unit to better monetize the investment, including offering services to non-Boeing entities). I thot Renton datacenter possibly largest in the world, 360/65s arriving faster than they could be installed and boxes constantly staged in hallways around machine room. Lots of politics between Renton director and CFO (who only had 360/30 up at Boeing field for payroll, although they enlarge the room to install a 360/67 for me to play with when I'm not doing other stuff). Also disaster plan to duplicate Renton up at new 747 plant in Everett (scenario where Mt. Rainier heats up and the resulting mud slide takes out Renton datacenter). IBMer I remember mostly dealing with was John Maloof. When I graduate, I join IBM cambridge science center (instead of staying at Boeing).
Something like three decades later (and having left IBM) was invited
into BCS (Bellevue) about how to get Boeing off IBM cad/cam ... IBM
had sold them Dassault's CATIA ... they complained about having to
send bug reports to IBM STL and STL sends them to Dassault, which
might have questions that had to be routed back through STL. That was
beside the fact that they building huge list of new enhancements that
they needed and not getting any response. They felt being forced to
reverse engineer all the CATIA files, extract the data and implement
their own enhancements. Some grousing that it was all part of putting
US airplane competition at disadvantage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CATIA#History
Boeing 60s trivia: Boeing Huntsville had been sold two processor 360/67 with large number of channel attached 2250s for TSS/360 CAD, however TSS/360 never came to production fruition so ran as two single processor MVT systems doing CAD.
I've periodically post about being asked to track down IBM decision to
add virtual memory to all 370s ... aka MVT storage management was so
bad that typical 1mbyte 370/165 would only be running four regions
concurrently (because regions had to be specified four times larger
than normally used, insufficient to keep 370/165 busy and justified)
... going to 16mbyte virtual memoy, number of regions could be increase by
factor of four times with little or no paging ... old archived email
with snippets from somebody that reported to executive making
decision.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
Well Boeing Hunstville had run into the problem in spades running MVT 2250 CAD and had modified MVT R13 to create virtual memory tables (somewhat akin to initial VS2 SVS) but without paging, just sufficient to compensate for the significant MVT storage management problems.
past catia posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#63 IBM DPD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#32 IBM Graphical Workstation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#41 CADAM & Catia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#110 ROMP & Displaywriter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#53 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#47 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#28 MCTS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#56 Why not an IBM zSeries workstation?
recent posts mentioning MVT storage management
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#87 CICS (and other history)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#122 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#110 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#83 COBOL and tricks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#54 Channel Program I/O Processing Efficiency
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#97 MVS support
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#93 Operating System File/Dataset I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#61 IBM 360/50 Simulation From Its Microcode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#55 CMS OS/360 Simulation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#34 Retrotechtacular: The IBM System/360 Remembered
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#20 COMPUTER HISTORY: REMEMBERING THE IBM SYSTEM/360 MAINFRAME, its Origin and Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#72 IBM Mainframe market was Re: Approximate reciprocals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#50 IBM 3033 Personal Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#2 IBM 2250 Graphics Display
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#92 Computer BUNCH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#76 Link FEC and Encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#73 MVT storage management issues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#70 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#31 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#10 360/65, 360/67, 360/75
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Elizabeth Warren to Jerome Powell: Just how many jobs do you plan to kill? Date: 01 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookElizabeth Warren to Jerome Powell: Just how many jobs do you plan to kill?
Political posturing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_posturing
... political theatre, or "kabuki"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_posturing#Kabuki
In common English usage, a kabuki dance, also kabuki play,[10] is an
activity or drama carried out in real life in a predictable or
stylized fashion, reminiscent of the kabuki style of Japanese stage
play.[1][11][12] It refers to an event that is designed to create the
appearance of conflict or of an uncertain outcome, when in fact the
actors have worked together to determine the outcome beforehand. For
example, Tom Brokaw used the term to describe U.S. Democratic party
and U.S. Republican party political conventions,[11] which purport to
be competitive contests to nominate presidential candidates, yet in
reality the nominees are known well beforehand.
... snip ...
trivia: In jan1999, I was asked to help try and prevent the coming economic mess (we failed). In jan2009 (ten yrs later), I was asked to web'ize the Pecora Hearings (30s congressional hearings into '29crash) with lots of internal hrefs and URLS between what happened this time and what happened then (comments that the new congress might have appetite to do something). I work on it for awhile and then get a call that it won't be needed after all (various comments about any legislature that might be passed will purely be facade).
it was also used for articles about congress is the most corrupt institution on earth ... especially regarding enormous tax loopholes. The issue had been congress selling "tax loopholes" .... but they had pretty quickly saturated the market. The issue was how to get reoccurring revenue from tax loopholes. A couple solutions ... apparent conflict to eliminate a loophole ... collecting contributions from both sides (pro & con) ... the other was loopholes that had expiration dates ... requiring frequent renewal.
kabuki theater posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
pecora and/or glass-steagall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
tax fraud, tax evasion, tax loopholes, tax avoidance, tax havens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Elizabeth Warren to Jerome Powell: Just how many jobs do you plan to kill? Date: 02 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
... other comment spring 2009 not needing the Pecora Hearings was that capital hill was buried under enormous mountains of wall street cash.
Misc. other congress: rhetoric in congress about Sarbanes-Oxley would that it would prevent future Enrons and would guarantee that executives and auditors did jailtime ... however it required that SEC do something. Possibly because even GAO didn't think SEC was doing anything, it was doing reports of public company fraudulent financial reporting, even showing fraud increased after SOX went into effect (and nobody doing jailtime).
Also 2002, congress lets fiscal responsibility act lapse (spending couldn't exceed revenue, on its way to eliminating all federal debt). By 2005, US Comptroller General was including in speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle school arithmetic for how badly they were savaging the budget. 2010, CBO did a report that 2003-2009, spending increased by $6T and tax revenue dropped by $6T, for $12T gap compared to fiscal responsible budget. Sort of confluence of Federal Reserve and Too Big To Fail needed huge federal debt, special interests wanted huge tax cut, and Military-Industrial Complex wanted huge spending increase (and perpetual wars).
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
pecora and/or glass-steagall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
sarbanes-oxly posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
enron posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
financial reporting fraud posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud
fiscal responsiblity act posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
US Comptroller General posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
Federal Reserve Chairman posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
Too Big To Fail (too-big-to-prosecute, too-big-to-jail) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
tax fraud, tax evasion, tax loopholes, tax avoidance, tax havens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
military-industrial(-congressional) complext posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Cambridge Science Center Performance Technology Date: 02 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
Yon Bard was responsible for the APL analytical model that became the
performance predictor and single-system-image load balancing. I have
long winded post from Oct2021 (year ago) in (facebook "private") IBM
Retirees, archived version here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#30
I have longer winded archived post to usenet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#53
mentions a couple system journal and the 81 R&D. As an aside the V10N3, 1971 systems journal also has another CSC article by the people that did the work for what was eventually released as VS/Repack (also mentioned).
a few more (of several) archived posts mentioning vs/repack and people
responsible for VS/Repack
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#84 VS/Repack
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#66 Messing Up the System/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#35 Interesting Mainframe Article: 5 Myths Exposed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#1 IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#11 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#24 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006i.html#37 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#5 Code density and performance?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#22 Lock-free algorithms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#50 Blade architectures
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002c.html#49 Swapper was Re: History of Login Names
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#20 Very CISC Instuctions (Was: why the machine word size ...)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001c.html#31 database (or b-tree) page sizes
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Elizabeth Warren to Jerome Powell: Just how many jobs do you plan to kill? Date: 02 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
shortly after joining IBM in 1970 ... I had a number of IBM trips overseas. One of the IBMers that went along to Tokyo told story about his 1st trip to Tokyo where he gave a presentation, started out by saying he had learned Japanese from his roommate in college. At the break, they took him aside and told him there were three vocabularies in Japanese, and he was speaking "women's language".
a couple recent tomes mentioning co-worker at the cambridge science center
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-3-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
... reference book about him being bullied and is american way of life, stamping out creativity and enforce conformity
https://www.amazon.com/Its-Cool-Be-Clever-Hendricks/dp/1897435630/
permeates nearly all levels of US education system ... even extending to military academies ... reference to study of German and US military academies the first half of 1900s ... including reference to George Marshall (WW2 chief of staff) was so badly injured in a bullying/hazing incident that he almost had to drop out
https://www.amazon.com/Command-Culture-Education-1901-1940-Consequences-ebook/dp/B009K7VYLI/
again lots tracing to "industrial age education" ... Industrial Age Education Is a Disservice to Students
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/industrial-age-education-_b_2974297
AETC Focused on Breaking Away From Industrial-Age Thinking
https://www.airforcemag.com/AETC-Focused-on-Breaking-Away-From-Industrial-Age-Thinking/
Lessons in learning
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/study-shows-that-students-learn-more-when-taking-part-in-classrooms-that-employ-active-learning-strategies/
The modern education system was designed to teach future factory workers to be "punctual, docile, and sober"
https://qz.com/1314814/universal-education-was-first-promoted-by-industrialists-who-wanted-docile-factory-workers/
Industrial Age education, from late 1800s, early 1900s (time & motion studies, etc), teaching memorization, not thinking, strict conformity, stamping out factory workers for the capitalists and robber barons
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1212588
How to Break Free of Our 19th-Century Factory-Model Education System. A technology and education entrepreneur gazes into the future of the classroom
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/05/how-to-break-free-of-our-19th-century-factory-model-education-system/256881/
Why Our Industrial-Age Schools Are Failing Our Information-Age Kids
https://www.qualitydigest.com/inside/quality-insider-column/why-our-industrial-age-schools-are-failing-our-information-age-kids
The One Type of Game That Kills Creativity and Innovation. There are two types of games. One kills creativity and the other is for kids...
https://www.inc.com/stephen-shapiro/why-your-business-needs-more-kid-games-fewer-adult-games.html
Everyone is born creative, but it is educated out of us at school
https://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2016/may/18/born-creative-educated-out-of-us-school-business
US education system in general focused on stamping out creativity and enforcing conformity. Teachers Don't Like Creative Students
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/12/teachers-dont-like-creative-students.html
IQ tests can't measure it, but 'cognitive flexibility' is key to learning and creativity
https://theconversation.com/iq-tests-cant-measure-it-but-cognitive-flexibility-is-key-to-learning-and-creativity-163284
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: US Banks Reported $1 Billion in 2021 Ransomware Payments Date: 02 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookUS Banks Reported $1 Billion in 2021 Ransomware Payments
I had been invited to financial CIP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_infrastructure_protection
and meetings were in white house annex. One of the biggest issues was
making sure the FS-ISAC wasn't subject to FOIA (freedom of information
act) because they didn't want the public to know how bad it really is
(or they might loose faith in their institutions).
https://www.fsisac.com/
posts mentionint fraud, risk, exploits, and/or vulnerabilities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#fraud
misc. past posts mentioning financial CIP and/or ISAC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#26 Why Things Fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#74 Frameworks Quagmire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#17 Data Breach
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#56 Hacking, Exploits and Vulnerabilities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#87 Bizarre Career Events
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#4 Microsoft president asks Congress to force private-sector orgs to publicly admit when they've been hacked
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#10 mainframe hacking "success stories"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#94 Private sector needs a little sumthin' sumthin' to get it sharing threat intel - US security chap
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#56 Mexico Foiled a $110 Million Bank Heist, Then Kept It a Secret
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#10 Graph database on z/OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#32 Tech: we didn't mean for it to turn out like this
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#85 Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#102 Electronic Payments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#96 ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#8 Too big to fail was Malicious Cyber Activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#7 Malicious Cyber Activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#17 Cybercrime
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#19 Does Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#6 Repealing Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#99 Cyber Threat Sharing is Great in Theory, But Tough in Practice
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#74 N.Y. Bank Regulator Says Third-Party Vendors Provide Backdoor to Hackers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#14 President to Issue Executive Order Encouraging Threat Intelligence Sharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#15 Banking Culture Encourages Dishonesty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#100 The SDS 92, its place in history?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#70 Alan Grayson: Is Keith Alexander Selling Classified Information to the Banks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#0 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#64 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#76 The failure of cyber defence - the mindset is against it
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#65 The Real Snowden Question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#41 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#10 EBCDIC and the P-Bit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#20 How about the old mainframe error messages that actually give you a clue about what's broken
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#77 U.S. banks on high alert against cyberattacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#63 history of Programming language and CPU in relation to each other
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#58 2012 History Conference
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Google Cloud Launches Service to Simplify Mainframe Modernization Date: 02 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookGoogle Cloud Launches Service to Simplify Mainframe Modernization
SABRE/Amadeus trivia: My wife did short stint as chief architect for Amadeus (built off the old 370/195 Eastern Air System/ONE) ... however she backed the Europeans in the use of x.25 (instead of SNA). The communication group then got her replaced ... but it didn't do them much good because Europe went with x.25 anyway ... and replaced their replacement.
After leaving IBM in 1st half of 90s, was asked into SABRE to look at the ten things they couldn't do. It started with ROUTES (25% of mainframe workload) ... which still used design from the 60s, prebuilding database of direct and one-connects for origin/destination ... but anything more complex required experienced travel agent. They provided me full OAG (every schedule commercial flt segment in the world). I left and came back in couple months and demo'ed RS/6000 implementation that could find origin/destination involving any number of connects, ran with nearly raw OAG data (eliminating org. of some 700-800 people), eliminated the sporadic 3rd shift outage rebuilding the origin/destination database, and could handle every ROUTE request for every commercial airline in the world with ten RS6000/990s. Then the hand wringing started, they said they didn't actually want me to solve the problem, they just wanted to tell the parent board that I would be working on it for the next five years (apparently one of the board members was former IBMer that I had known). They also wouldn't let me look at FARES (40% of mainframe workload) or any of the other apps.
some other recent google cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#125 Google Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#126 Google Cloud
cloud megadatacenter posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#megadatacenter
past posts mentioning Amadeus and/or OAG/ROUTES
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#113 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#75 lock me up, was IBM Mainframe market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#18 Channel I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#37 Why Sabre is betting against multi-cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#77 IBM ACP/TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#76 IBM ITPS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#8 Air Traffic System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#66 ACP/TPF 3083
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#6 Airline Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#0 Will The Cloud Take Down The Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#71 Airline Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#67 SABRE after the 7090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#63 SABRE after the 7090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#60 SABRE after the 7090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#45 learning Unix, was progress in e-mail, such as AOL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#42 What are mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#0 IBM & SABRE
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Computer History IBM 305 RAMAC and 650 RAMAC, 1956 (350 Disk Storage) Date: 03 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookComputer History IBM 305 RAMAC and 650 RAMAC, 1956 (350 Disk Storage)
re: RDBMS; I worked with Jim Gray and Vera Watson on original SQL/relational implementation, System/R (done at san jose research) ... some amount of conflict with IMS group in STL. We were able to do tech transfer to Endicott "under the radar" for SQL/DS ... while companywas preoccupied with "EAGLE" ... next great new DBMS. When EAGLE implodes, there is request for how fast could System/R could be ported to MVS (before EAGLE implodes RDBMS was never going to be strategic IBM DBMS) which is eventually released as DB2 ... originally for decision support only.
When Jim departs for Tandem, he palms some amount of stuff on me ... including DBMS consulting with IMS group in STL.
Posts from year ago on System/R, SQL/DS, EAGLE, and DB2 history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#104 Mainframe Hall of Fame
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#105 Mainframe Hall of Fame
from
https://www.mcjones.org/System_R/index.html
https://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/
reverse citation (includes my references)
https://www.mcjones.org/System_R/citations.html
This mentions working with four major RDBMS vendors (that had cluster
and unix support) for HA/CMP
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
also recent post in facebook internet group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/internetoldfarts/permalink/658391949141360/
I also was sucked into playing disk engineer in bldg14 (disk
engineering) and bldg15 (disk product test) ... recent mention
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mainframe-channel-io-lynn-wheeler/
system/r posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
ha/cmp posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
playing disk engineer posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
archived posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#100 Mainframe Channel I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#102 Mainframe Channel I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#103 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#104 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#0 Mainframe Channel I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#2 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#32 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#60 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#67 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#24 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Inventing the Internet Date: 04 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookInventing the Internet
Co-worker (responsible for the internal network, also used for the
corporate sponsored univ "BITNET") and I transfer from Cambridge
Science Center to IBM San Jose Research in 1977 ... some more
background
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-3-lynn-wheeler/
has a lot of references to IBM blocking participating in
internetworking activity and TCP/IP ... as well as this ref:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks
In June 1975, MIT Professor Jerry Saltzer accompanied Hendricks to
DARPA, where Hendricks described his innovations to the principal
scientist, Dr. Vinton Cerf. Later that year in September 15-19 of 75,
Cerf and Hendricks were the only two delegates from the United States,
to attend a workshop on Data Communications at the International
Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 2361 Laxenburg Austria where
again, Hendricks spoke publicly about his innovative design which
paved the way to the Internet as we know it today.
... snip ...
Early 80s, I started HSDT (high-speed data transport) project with T1
and faster computer links and was working with NSF director; was
suppose to get $20M to interconnect the NSF supercomputer
centers. Then congress cuts the budget, some other things happen and
finally an RFP is released (based in part on what we already had
running). Preliminary Announcement (28Mar1986)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#12
The OASC has initiated three programs: The Supercomputer Centers
Program to provide Supercomputer cycles; the New Technologies Program
to foster new supercomputer software and hardware developments; and
the Networking Program to build a National Supercomputer Access
Network - NSFnet.
... snip ...
IBM internal politics not allowing us to bid (being blamed for online
computer conferencing inside IBM, likely contributed). The NSF
director tried to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) with support from other gov. agencies ... but that just made the internal politics
worse (as did claims that what we already had operational was at least
5yrs ahead of the winning bid, RFP awarded 24Nov87), as regional networks connect in, it
becomes the NSFNET backbone, precursor to modern internet
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
Later 80s, got involved in turning out HA/6000, originally NYTimes to
move their newspaper system (ATEX) from VAXCluster to RS/6000. However
as I started doing technical/scale-up cluster scale-up with national
labs and commercial cluster scale-up with RDBMS vendors (Ingres,
Informix, Sybase, Oracle, all had vax/cluster support in the same
source base with unix support ... also lots of discussion on improving
over Vaxcluster and easing Vaxcluster RDBMS port to HA/CMP unix base)
... rename it from HA/6000 to HA/CMP (High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_High_Availability_Cluster_Multiprocessing
I'm also participating in National Information Infrastructure meetings
at LLNL.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Information_Infrastructure
& High Performance Computing meetings at LLNL.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Performance_Computing_Act_of_1991
End of Jan1992, I'm not able to attend a meeting, but one of the other
vendors stop by my office afterwards to fill me in on what went on
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email920129
within possibly hrs, cluster scale-up is transferred for announce as IBM supercomputer (for technical/scientific *ONLY*) and we are told we can't work on anything with more than four processors (we leave IBM a few months later). Possibly contributing was (mainframe) DB2 group complaining if we were allowed to continue, it would be at least five yrs ahead of them (other trivia, more than decade earlier, I was involved with the orignal SQL/relational implementation at San Jose Research, precursor to DB2).
Computerworld news 17feb1992 (from wayback machine) ... IBM establishes
laboratory to develop parallel systems (pg8)
https://archive.org/details/sim_computerworld_1992-02-17_26_7
17Feb1992 press, announced for scientific and technical *ONLY*
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
11May1992 press, cluster supercomputing caught IBM by "surprise"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
The joke about (Gore's) NII was US gov. wanted all the vendors to do the testbed program on their own nickel. They recouped some of it when Singapore gov invited all the US NII participants to do a fully gov. funded identical implementation in Singapore.
My recent tome about bureaucrats and careerists destroying Watsons'
legacy.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
the above 29jan1992 email mentions meeting with Oracle CEO Ellison on
cluster scale-up earlier in Jan, with 16-way available mid92 and
128-system available ye92 ... old ref
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
Later after leaving IBM, are brought into a small client/server company as consultants, two of the former Oracle people (had worked with us on HA/CMP & were in the Ellison meeting) are there responsible for something called "commerce server" and 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".
another email on 29Jan1992 from "office of FSD President" (IBM Federal
Systems Division)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#email920129
... again possibly hrs before cluster scale-up ("MEDUSA") is transferred, announced as IBM supercomputer and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors ... aka possibly because FSD told kingston supercomputer group that they were going with HA/CMP for the gov. ... the group decided that they would take it over for (their) supercomputer
Cambridge Science Center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
IBM internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
BITNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
NSFnet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
online computer conferencing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
HA/CMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
electronic commerce payment gateway posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#gateway
Did Al Gore Say 'I Invented the Internet'? Despite decades of media
mirth-making about the supposed statement, former vice president Al
Gore never claimed he "invented the Internet."
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/internet-of-lies/
Development and passage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Performance_Computing_Act_of_1991#Development_and_passage
Senator Al Gore developed the Act[1] after hearing the 1988 report
Toward a National Research Network[7] submitted to Congress by a group
chaired by UCLA professor of computer science Leonard Kleinrock, one
of the creators of the ARPANET, which is regarded as the earliest
precursor network of the Internet.[8]
The bill was enacted on December 9, 1991, and led to the National
Information Infrastructure (NII)[9] which Gore referred to as the
"Information superhighway". President George H. W. Bush predicted that
the Act would help "unlock the secrets of DNA," open up foreign
markets to free trade, and a promise of cooperation between
government, academia, and industry.[10]
... snip ...
NSFNET RFP awarded 24nov87 and RFP kickoff meeting 7Jan1988
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#email880104 Kickoff Meeting 7Jan1988
News articles mentioning Gore in post about NSFNET RFP kickoff meeting 7Jan1988
John Markoff, NY Times, 29 December 1988, page D1
Paving way for data 'highway' Carl M Cannon, San Jose Mercury
News, 17 Sep 89, pg 1E
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#10 Is Al Gore The Father of the Internet?
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: I predicted the 2008 crash - these are the global 'megathreats' I can see now Date: 05 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookI predicted the 2008 crash - these are the global 'megathreats' I can see now
Well, Jan1999 I had been asked to help try and prevent the coming economic mess (we failed). I had been told some investment bankers had walked away "clean" from the S&L crises, where then running Internet IPO mills (invest a few million, hype, IPO for a couple billion, needed to fail to leave the field clear for the next round of IPOs) and were predicted next to get into securitized mortgages. Spreading enough money, they were able to get around every countermeasure.
Jan2009, I was asked to web'ize the Pecora hearings (30s senate hearings into '29 crash, resulting in jail terms) with lots of internal HREFs and URLs between what was done this time and what happened then (comments that the new congress might have appetite to do something). I work on it for awhile, but then get a call that it wouldn't be needed after all (comments that capital hill was buried under enormous mountains of wallstreet cash).
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-bit-to-fail
Pecora (and/or Glass-Steagall) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
S&L crisis posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: New Report Sheds Light on Pentagon's Secret Wars Playbook Date: 06 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookNew Report Sheds Light on Pentagon's Secret Wars Playbook. The analysis suggests that the U.S. war in Somalia was waged with no clear legal basis.
Will Iraq Become Another 'Lesson Lost' Like Vietnam? The Army
commissioned, then sat on a 1,300-page evaluation of the war. It
probably fell short of the truth anyway.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/will-iraq-become-another-lesson-lost-like-vietnam/
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
WMD posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: It's still Ben Bernanke and Milton Friedman's Fed Date: 06 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookIt's still Ben Bernanke and Milton Friedman's Fed
Fed Researve Chairmen posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
some recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#25 Did Ben Bernanke Implement QE before the 2008 Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#24 Did Ben Bernanke Implement QE before the 2008 Financial Crisis?
older Bernanke ref from
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#81 Economic Mess
the Federal Reserve fought hard legal battle to prevent disclosing that they were doing the real bailout. When they lost and the details became public, the FED Chair held a press conference. He said that he believed that the TBTF would have used the ZIRP funds to help main street ... but when they didn't (buying treasuries and banking the spread, at least $300B/annum), he had no way to force them ... but that didn't stop the ZIRP funds. Note that the FED Chair had been chosen in part because of having been a student of the '29crash & depression ... when the FED had tried something similar with the same results ... so there should have been no expectation of anything different this time.
Too Big To Fail (Too Big To Prosecute, Too Big To Jail) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
ZIRP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
regulatory capture posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
some recent posts mentioning milton friedman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#84 Destruction Of The Middle Class
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#97 Why Companies Are Becoming B Corporations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#96 Why Companies Are Becoming B Corporations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#30 Why Mislead Readers about Milton Friedman and Segregation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#34 Chicago Boys' 100% Private Pension System in Chile Is in Big Trouble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#36 We've Structured Our Economy to Redistribute a Massive Amount of Income Upward
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#22 Neoliberalism: America Has Arrived at One of History's Great Crossroads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#17 Jamie Dimon: Some Americans 'don't feel like going back to work'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#21 ESG Drives a Stake Through Friedman's Legacy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#25 Huawei 5G networks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#15 The Other 1 Percent": Morgan Stanley Spots A Market Ratio That Is "Unprecedented Even During The Tech Bubble"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#158 Goliath
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#149 Why big business can count on courts to keep its deadly secrets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#64 Capitalism as we know it is dead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#51 Big Pharma CEO: 'We're in Business of Shareholder Profit, Not Helping The Sick
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#50 Economic Mess and Regulations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#34 The U.S. Forgot What Antitrust Is For
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#32 Milton Friedman's "Shareholder" Theory Was Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#31 Milton Friedman's "Shareholder" Theory Was Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#14 Chicago Theory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#68 Wage Stagnation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#117 What Minimum-Wage Foes Got Wrong About Seattle
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/2018e.html#115 Economists Should Stop Defending Milton Friedman's Pseudo-science
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#83 Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#81 What Lies Beyond Capitalism And Socialism?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#87 Where Is Everyone???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#82 The Real Reason the Investor Class Hates Pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#25 Trump's Infrastructure Plan Is Actually Pence's--And It's All About Privatization
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Inventing the Internet Date: 06 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
other recent (linkedin) posts/articles
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-2-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-3-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-4-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-5-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mainframe-channel-io-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
and (facebook public) mainframers
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfessionalMainframers/posts/1781529862202045/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfessionalMainframers/posts/1690693904618975/
Old email with some more about working with LLNL on porting their
LINCS filesystem to HA/CMP ... also ADSTAR working on high-speed disks
(not CKD DASD, but would require CKD emulation in order support POK
favorite son operating system.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#email911230
in this archived post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#57 HA/CMP, HA/6000, Harrier/9333, STK Iceberg & Adstar Seastar
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
getting to play disk engineer posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
HA/CMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
recent archived posts referencing LinkedIn and/or facebook postings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#11 Computer History IBM 305 RAMAC and 650 RAMAC, 1956 (350 Disk Storage)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#8 Elizabeth Warren to Jerome Powell: Just how many jobs do you plan to kill?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#3 AL Gore Invented The Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#2 360/91
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#95 Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#91 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#90 IBM Cambridge Science Center Performance Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#88 IBM Cambridge Science Center Performance Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#87 CICS (and other history)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#84 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#82 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#80 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#75 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#74 Mainframe and/or Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#72 Mainframe and/or Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#68 Datacenter Vulnerability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#67 30 years of (IBM) Management Briefings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#66 IBM Dress Code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#65 IBM DPD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#62 IBM DPD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#60 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#59 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#58 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#57 IBM changes to retirement benefits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#54 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#53 Wednesday Night Round table
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#52 IBM changes to retirement benefits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#49 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#47 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#44 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#43 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#40 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#31 Sears is shutting its last store in Illinois, its home state
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#24 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#23 IBM APL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#20 9/11
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#5 IBM Tech Editor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#3 IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#2 VM/370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#122 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#120 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#119 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#118 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#113 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#110 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#108 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#105 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#101 Father, Son, and Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#95 VM I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#85 IBM CKD DASD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#82 Why the Soviet computer failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#79 Why the Soviet computer failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#73 IBM/PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#72 IBM/PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#71 COMTEN - IBM Clone Telecommunication Controller
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#69 360/67 & DUMPRX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#67 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#61 200TB SSDs could come soon thanks to Micron's new chip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#60 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#57 The Man That Helped Change IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#53 z/VM 50th - part 4
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#51 IBM Career
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#50 z/VM 50th - part 3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#49 z/VM 50th - part 2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#47 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#46 What's something from the early days of the Internet which younger generations may not know about?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#44 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#42 IBM Bureaucrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#28 IBM Power: The Servers that Apple Should Have Created
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#6 What is IBM SNA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#75 Frameworks Quagmire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#3 Final Rules of Thumb on How Computing Affects Organizations and People
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#112 GM C4 and IBM HA/CMP
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virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Arguments for a Sane Instruction Set Architecture--5 years later Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 17:02:03 -1000Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
some archived afc posts mentioning Tomasulo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#91 Critique of System/360, 1967
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#38 Sad news of Bob Tomasulo's passing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#18 why doesn't processor reordering instructions affect most
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#15 How many Megaflops and when?
from 23apr1981, piece of ("tandem memos") email from POK hardware group:
Date: 04/23/81 09:57:42
To: wheeler
your ramblings concerning the corp(se?) showed up in my reader
yesterday. like all good net people, i passed them along to 3 other
people. like rabbits interesting things seem to multiply on the
net. many of us here in pok experience the sort of feelings your mail
seems so burdened by: the company, from our point of view, is out of
control. i think the word will reach higher only when the almighty $$$
impact starts to hit. but maybe it never will. its hard to imagine one
stuffed company president saying to another (our) stuffed company
president i think i'll buy from those inovative freaks down the
street. '(i am not defending the mess that surrounds us, just trying
to understand why only some of us seem to see it).
bob tomasulo and dave anderson, the two poeple responsible for the
model 91 and the (incredible but killed) hawk project, just left pok
for the new stc computer company. management reaction: when dave told
them he was thinking of leaving they said 'ok. 'one word. 'ok. ' they
tried to keep bob by telling him he shouldn't go (the reward system in
pok could be a subject of long correspondence). when he left, the
management position was 'he wasn't doing anything anyway. '
in some sense true. but we haven't built an interesting high-speed
machine in 10 years. look at the 85/165/168/3033/trout. all the same
machine with treaks here and there. and the hordes continue to sweep
in with faster and faster machines. true, endicott plans to bring the
low/middle into the current high-end arena, but then where is the
high-end product development?
... snip ... top of post, old email index
trout is code name for what was released mid-80s as 3090
https://web.archive.org/web/20230719145910/https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP3090.html
some here about "Tandem Memos" in recent post
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
"tandem memos", online computer conference posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
trivia: in later half of 70s, I had gotten involved with effort to do 16 processor 370 multiprocessor and we had con'ed the 3033 processor engineers to work on it in their spare time (lot more interesting than remapping 168-3 logic to 20% faster chips) ... going great guns until somebody told the head of POK that it could be decades before the POK favorite son operation system had effective 16-way support (POK doesn't ship 16-way until turn of the century). The head of POK then invites some of us to never visit POK again and tells the 3033 processor engineers, nose to 3033 grindstone. Once the 3033 is out the door, they start on trout/3090.
quick&dirty 3033/3081 projects kicked off in parallel after Future
System implodes
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
note there is also ACS/360 ... end of effort when executives were afraid
it would advance the state-of-art too fast and IBM would loose control
of the market; following also mentions features that show up more than
20yrs later with ES/9000.
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
shortly after joining IBM, the 370/195 group wanted me to help with hyperthreading the ... two instruction streams simulating two processor multiprocessor (see multithreading patents near bottom of the "acs_end" webpage, before the es/9000 side-bar near the bottom). The issue was 195 pipelined stalled/drained with conditional branches ... so most codes only ran at half 195 rated speed ... it was felt two instruction streams (running at half rated speed) could maintain "peak" throughput.
caveat: MVT two-processor 360/65MP (and later two-processor OS/VS2) only claimed to have 1.2-1.5 throughput of single processor (because of the multiprocessor overhead).
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
multiprocessor posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
370/195 two-istream effort got canceled when it was decided to make all
370s "virtual memory" and it was considered not worthwhile to add
virtual memory to the 195. trivia: a decade ago, mainframe customer
asked me if I could track down decision to make all 370s "virtual
memory" ... basically OS/360 MVT storage management was so bad that
regions sizes had to be specified four times larger than actual used ...
as a result typical 1mbyte 370/165 could only concurrently run four
regions ... insufficient to achieve throughput to justify the
machine. Mapping MVT to virtual memory could increase the number of
concurrent executing regions by factor of four times with little or no
paging. old archived afc with pieces of the email exchange (with somebody
that reported to IBM executive making the decision):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73 Multiple Virtual Memory
other parts of long winded thread in afc:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#71 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#72 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#74 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#81 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#82 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#1 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#2 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#3 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#4 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#5 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#8 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#10 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#11 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#12 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#13 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#14 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#20 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#22 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#25 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#26 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#27 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#29 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#42 Multiple Virtual Memory
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd Date: 07 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebooksome recent tomes
John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
Martial Arts OODA-loop
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lynnwheeler_john-boyd-usaf-the-fighter-pilot-who-changed-activity-6807163421579186176-ZO9G/
John Boyd and Innovation Management
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lynnwheeler_innovation-management-future-activity-6955256629466398720-AkPQ/
Enhanced Production Operating Systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#95
topic drift; recent John Boyd joke: Seventh Day Clausewitzians
https://www.facebook.com/DoctrineMan/photos/a.169913026375190/1059844200715397/
Early 80s email, past archived posts, and some web URLs ... all Boyd
related
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
other topic drift
Inventing The Internet
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/inventing-internet-lynn-wheeler/
some more "internet" background
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-3-lynn-wheeler/
Price Wars and being asked Jan1999 to help try and prevent the coming
economic mess (we failed), they had so much money they could handle
all our countermeasures
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/price-wars-lynn-wheeler/
IBM corporate/internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
In the referenced posts, I make mention of being at Boeing about same time Boyd was at spook base ... so in the Boeing troubles of last decade, I did some research into what happened.
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333780-400-downfall-the-case-against-boeing-review-tragedy-and-broken-trust/
2016 Boeing 100th anniv article "The Boeing Century"
https://issuu.com/pnwmarketplace/docs/i20160708144953115
included long article "Scrappy start forged a company built to last",
has analysis of the Boeing merger with M/D ("A different Boeing") and
the disastrous effects that it had on the company ... and even though
many of those people are gone, it still leaves the future of the
company in doubt. One was the M/D (military-industrial complex)
culture of outsourcing to lots of entities in different jurisdiction
as part of catering to political interests ... as opposed to focusing
on producing quality products ... which shows up in the effects that
it had on 787.
Boeing merger w/MD brought with it the financiers' military-industrial
complex success of failure culture. The Coming Boeing Bailout?
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-coming-boeing-bailout
Unlike Boeing, McDonnell Douglas was run by financiers rather than
engineers. And though Boeing was the buyer, McDonnell Douglas
executives some how took power in what analysts started calling a
"reverse takeover." The joke in Seattle was, "McDonnell Douglas bought
Boeing with Boeing's money."
... snip ...
Crash Course
https://newrepublic.com/article/154944/boeing-737-max-investigation-indonesia-lion-air-ethiopian-airlines-managerial-revolution
Sorscher had spent the early aughts campaigning to preserve the
company's estimable engineering legacy. He had mountains of evidence
to support his position, mostly acquired via Boeing's 1997 acquisition
of McDonnell Douglas, a dysfunctional firm with a dilapidated aircraft
plant in Long Beach and a CEO who liked to use what he called the
Hollywood model" for dealing with engineers: Hire them for a few
months when project deadlines are nigh, fire them when you need to
make numbers. In 2000, Boeing's engineers staged a 40-day strike over
the McDonnell deal's fallout; while they won major material
concessions from management, they lost the culture war. They also
inherited a notoriously dysfunctional product line from the
corner-cutting market gurus at McDonnell.
... snip ...
Boeing's travails show what's wrong with modern
capitalism. Deregulation means a company once run by engineers is now
in the thrall of financiers and its stock remains high even as its
planes fall from the sky
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/11/boeing-capitalism-deregulation
and then there is: F22 hangar empress (2009)
http://nypost.com/2009/07/17/cant-fly-wont-die/
Pilots call high-maintenance aircraft "hangar queens." Well, the
F-22's a hangar empress. After three expensive decades in development,
the plane meets fewer than one-third of its specified
requirements. Anyway, an enemy wouldn't have to down a single F-22 to
defeat it. Just strike the hi-tech maintenance sites, and it's game
over. (In WWII, we didn't shoot down every Japanese Zero; we just sank
their carriers.) The F-22 isn't going to operate off a dirt strip with
a repair tent.
But this is all about lobbying, not about lobbing bombs. Cynically,
Lockheed Martin distributed the F-22 workload to nearly every state,
employing under-qualified sub-contractors to create local financial
stakes in the program. Great politics -- but the result has been a
quality collapse.
... snip ...
In 2002 we were tangentially involved in this, but didn't realize
until the (success of failure) articles showed up, beltway bandits and
gov. contractors making more money off series of failures
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
We got a call asking us if we would respond to an unclassified BAA by IC-ARDA (since renamed IARPA) which was about to close (that basically said that none of the tools they had did the job). We get in the response and have some meetings showing that we could do what was required ... and then nothing. We initially wondered why the agency allowed the BAA to be released (if they weren't going to do anything, one conjecture was anticipating that nobody would respond which would help damp down complaints, the person who originally called us apparently had to get a different job). Disclaimer: I don't have clearance, although agencies have used my software back to my undergraduate days in the 60s (I didn't find that out until later, they have since joked about knowing where I'm at every day of my life back to birth).
Success of Failure Posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failure
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Boyd talked about trying to get F20/tigershark out the door ... more appropriate for many uses, 1/5th cost of F16, 1/3rd maintenance hrs, more flying hrs per maintenance (combination of more F20s for same amount of money as F16, and more flying hrs, possibly ten times the number in the air ... although these days would be UAV) ... since USAF wouldn't take them, concentrated on foreign market. Later details emerge that F16 forces got congress to appropriate "directed appropriation" USAID (aka in this case could only be spent on F16s) to every candidate country. Foreign countries would sometimes say that the F20 was significantly more appropriate for their needs, but it would "cost" them money, where they could effectively get F16s for "free".
Similar to theme that attacking well established defensive forces, it takes (at least) three times.
... I could relate when Jan1999 I was asked to help try and prevent coming "economic mess" ... and it turned out that (with enough money/influence in congress) they were able to circumvent all countermeasures.
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
some past ic-arda baa posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#120 Programming By Committee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#40 After IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#114 Watch Thy Neighbor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#53 The Kill Chain
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#68 RDBMS, SQL, QBE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#88 Bizarre Career Events
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#129 Republicans abandon tradition of whistleblower protection at impeachment hearing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#54 Acting Intelligence Chief Refuses to Testify, Prompting Standoff With Congress
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#40 Acting Intelligence Chief Refuses to Testify, Prompting Standoff With Congress
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#82 The Sublime: Is it the same for IBM and Special Ops?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#49 Pentagon harbors culture of revenge against whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#11 The General Who Lost 2 Wars, Leaked Classified Information to His Lover--and Retired With a $220,000 Pension
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#23 This Is How The US Government Destroys The Lives Of Patriotic Whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#101 Nice article about MF and Government
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#47 WikiLeaks CIA Dump: Washington's Data Security Is a Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#5 NSA Deputy Director: Why I Spent the Last 40 Years In National Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#35 Former CIA Analyst Sues Defense Department to Vindicate NSA Whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#64 Improving Congress's oversight of the intelligence community
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#96 This Is How The US Government Destroys The Lives Of Patriotic Whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#40 Misc. Success of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#39 Failure as a Way of Life; The logic of lost wars and military-industrial boondoggles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#32 (External):Re: IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#26 Gerstner after IBM becomes Carlyle chairman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#20 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#72 George W. Bush: Still the worst; A new study ranks Bush near the very bottom in history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#54 How do we take political considerations into account in the OODA-Loop?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#47 Stolen F-35 Secrets Now Showing Up in China's Stealth Fighter
some specific Boeing troubles posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#64 Massachusetts, Boeing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#91 Short-term profits and long-term consequences -- did Jack Welch break capitalism?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#117 Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#109 Not counting dividends IBM delivered an annualized yearly loss of 2.27%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#69 'Flying Blind' Review: Downward Trajectory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#40 Boeing Built an Unsafe Plane, and Blamed the Pilots When It Crashed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#78 The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#57 "Hollywood model" for dealing with engineers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#87 Congress demands records from Boeing to investigate lapses in production quality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#70 Boeing CEO Said Board Moved Quickly on MAX Safety; New Details Suggest Otherwise
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#40 IBM & Boeing run by Financiers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#10 "This Plane Was Designed By Clowns, Who Are Supervised By Monkeys"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#153 At Boeing, C.E.O.'s Stumbles Deepen a Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#151 OT: Boeing to temporarily halt manufacturing of 737 MAX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#39 Crash Course
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#33 Boeing's travails show what's wrong with modern capitalism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#39 The Roots of Boeing's 737 Max Crisis: A Regulator Relaxes Its Oversight
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#20 The Coming Boeing Bailout?
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#26 DoD watchdog: Air Force failed to effectively manage F-22 modernization
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/2017k.html#58 Failures and Resiliency
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#20 The Boeing Century
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd Date: 08 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
lots of practice, developing confidence in their own ability and trust in other members of the organization.
Boyd's "To Be or To Do", frequently referred to mavericks or wild
ducks and not "team players".
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
One of Boyd's stories was about Guderian, 1940 "blitzkrieg" and
verbal orders only ... he didn't want the people on the spot
worrying that detailed written orders would be used in post action
reviews, to blame people doing something less than perfect.
also muth's
https://www.amazon.com/Command-Culture-Education-1901-1940-Consequences-ebook/dp/B009K7VYLI/
and NOT "industrial age education" ... Industrial Age Education Is a
Disservice to Students
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/industrial-age-education-_b_2974297
The modern education system was designed to teach future factory
workers to be "punctual, docile, and sober"
https://qz.com/1314814/universal-education-was-first-promoted-by-industrialists-who-wanted-docile-factory-workers/
Boyd would also talk about "Fingerspitzengefuhl" in relation to OODA-loop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspitzengef%C3%BChl
related concepts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspitzengef%C3%BChl#Related_concepts
The concept may be compared to ideas about intuition and neural net
programming. The same phenomenon, but conceptualized in a radically
different way, seems to be described by D.T. Suzuki in swordsmanship
teaching stories recounted in his Zen and Japanese Culture, and given
in analytical detail in Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis.[5]
... snip ...
Martial Arts OODA-loop
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lynnwheeler_john-boyd-usaf-the-fighter-pilot-who-changed-activity-6807163421579186176-ZO9G/
similar to Coup d'oeil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C5%93il
and EFBAS
https://slightlyeastofnew.com/2014/12/23/another-candidate-for-ebfas/
... similar, How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/how-toyota-turns-workers-into-problem-solvers
To paraphrase one of our contacts, he said, "It's not that we don't
want to tell you what TPS is, it's that we can't. We don't have
adequate words for it. But, we can show you what TPS is."
We've observed that Toyota, its best suppliers, and other companies
that have learned well from Toyota can confidently distribute a
tremendous amount of responsibility to the people who actually do the
work, from the most senior, experienced member of the organization to
the most junior. This is accomplished because of the tremendous
emphasis on teaching everyone how to be a skillful problem solver.
... snip ...
update: What Really Makes Toyota's Production System Resilient
https://hbr.org/2022/11/what-really-makes-toyotas-production-system-resilient
Boyd posts & web URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd Date: 08 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
re: fingerspitzengeful, note: Boyd would present OODA-loop in terms of fingerspitzengefuhl and emphasize that observations should be made from every possible facet (countermeasure to biases, aka observation, orientation, confirmation, cognitive, etc).
I've suggested Boyd could plausibly have taken 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 ...
changing "see" to "observe" and added "orientation" for experience and learning ... however others say they've seen no evidence that Boyd read Halleck
Boyd would also comment about former military officers were starting to contaminate US corporate culture with their rigid, top-down, command&control structure (& only those at the very top knew what they were doing). Scenario was that at entry to WW2, US has to rapidly deploy millions with little or no skill or experience ... the rigid, top-down, command&control structure was required to leverage the few skilled resources available. Boyd would compare 11% (growing to nearly 20%) US officers to maintain rigid, top-down command&control structure, compared to 3% (or less) for German army. However, this was about the time that articles were starting to appear that business school MBAs were beginning to destroy US companies with their myopic focus on short term results.
Boyd posts & web URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 370 virtual memory Date: 09 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookaccount of Evans justification for adding virtual memory to all 370s
A decade ago, a customer asked me if I could track down the decision
to make all 370s virtual memory. It turns out that MVT storage
management was so bad that regions had to be specified four times
larger than nominally used ... as a result a typical 370/165 with
1mbyte of memory would only support four concurrent executing regions
... not sufficient to keep 370/165 busy/justified. Moving to 16mbyte
virtual memory would allow increase in number of regions by a factor
of four times with little or no paging (helping solve the MVT storage
management problems and multitasking sufficient to keep 370/165
busy). Old archived afc post from decade ago:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
.... while I was involved in lots of 370 virtual memory, I didn't know details of decision ... the person I tracked down reported to Evans on his staff.
More (CP67 & VM370) history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP-67
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversational_Monitor_System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/CMS
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_CP/CMS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)
and
https://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda#VMHist
https://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda/25paper.pdf
pg9:
Rasmussen consistently portrayed CP-40 as a research project to "help
the troops in Poughkeepsie" by studying the behavior of programs and
systems in a virtual memory environment. In fact, for some members of
the CP-40 team, this was the most interesting part of the project,
because they were concerned about the unknowns in the path IBM was
taking. TSS was to be a virtual memory system, but not much was really
known about virtual memory systems. Les Comeau has written:
Since the early time-sharing experiments used base and limit registers
for relocation, they had to roll in and roll out entire programs when
switching users....Virtual memory, with its paging technique, was
expected to reduce significantly the time spent waiting for an
exchange of user programs.
What was most significant was that the commitment to virtual memory
was backed with no successful experience. A system of that period that
had implemented virtual memory was the Ferranti Atlas computer, and
that was known not to be working well. What was frightening is that
nobody who was setting this virtual memory direction at IBM knew why
Atlas didn't work.23
... snip ...
Before VS2/SVS shipped, I got into big argument with POK performance group about understanding of Least Recently Used (LRU) page replacement algorithm and the "little tweaks" they were doing that effectively invalidated their implementation of LRU. Eventually they said that since there would never be more than five paging operations per second, it wouldn't make any difference anyway. Well into late 70s with MVS, somebody in POK finally pointed out that MVS was (still) selecting high-use, shared linklib pages for replacement before they would select low-used, non-shared application data pages.
trivia: When CP67/CMS was first installed at univ. Jan1968, TSS/360 SE
was still around and able to get some univ 360/67 test time on
weekends. He and I set up simulated user benchmmark, fortran program
edit, compile and executed. CP67/CMS running 35 simulated users had
better throughput and response time thatn TSS/360 running four
users. I then did a lot of CP67/CMS pathlength optimize and algorithm
work. I started with os/360 MFT jobstream that took 322sec, but 856sec
under CP67 (CP67 CPU 534sec). After a few months, I had it down to
435secs (CP67 CPU 113sec, down from 534sec). Part of SHARE
presentation in fall 1968
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#18
OS/360 trivia: I had responsibility for os/360 at univ. Student fortran job ran less than second on 709 IBSYS tape->tape. Initial move to OS/360 (360/67 running as 360/65) they ran over minute. I installed HASP, cutting time in half. I then did hand crafted OS/360 sysgens, reordering stage2 to careful order data on disk, optimizing arm seek and PDS directory multi-track searches, cutting another 2/3rds to 12.9sec (it never got better than 709 until I installed WATFOR).
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
paging, lru replacement algorithm, optimization, etc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#clock
schedule, dynamic adaptive resourcement management posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
FBA, CKD, DASD, multi-track search posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 370 virtual memory Date: 09 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
Ludlow was doing initial MVT VS2/SVS on real 360/67 (I dropped by a time or two when he was working offshift) .. very close/similar to running MVT in CP/67 16mbyte virtual machine. There was little bit of code to build the tables and simple paging (because they anticipated doing little or no actual paging).
Biggest problem (and amount of code) was excp/svc0 with identical problems that cp67 had with virtual machine channel programs ... all the CCWs had virtual addresses. A copy of the passed channel program had to be built with all the virtual addresses replaced with real addresses. For this Ludlow borrowed a copy of the CP67 routine CCWTRANS that performed the function (for hacking into MVT EXCP/SVC0)
Cambridge had joint project with Endicott to implement 370 virtual memory architecture.
My CP67L ran on real 360/67. Then in 360/67 virtual machine, CP67H ran providing both 360 and 370 virtual machines (issue was that Cambridge had staff, profs, students from local boston area univ, using the 'real' CP67 and required extra level of security to prevent details of unannounced 370 virtual memory from leaking). Then in a (CP67H) 370 virtual machine, would run CP67I (modified to run on 370). All in general use a year before 1st virtual memory 370 engineering hardware was operational (a 370/145, in fact CP67I was used to validate the implementation)
CP67I was then running on internal IBM, real 370s for a long time before any other software was operation. Three people from San Jose came out and added 3330 and 2305 device support to CP67I ... which becomes CP67SJ.
Then 370/165 is complaining that it would slip virtual memory announce 6months if it had to implement the full 370 virtual memory architecture ... so 370 architecture was reduced to 370/165 subset and all the other machines and software (already built) had to regress to the 165 subset.
Note: One of my hobbies after joining IBM was enhanced production
operating systems for internal datacenters (including online,
world-wide, sales&marketing support HONE was long time customer). In
the morph from CP67->VM370 lots of stuff was simplified and/or dropped
(including multiprocessor support and much of the stuff I had done as
undergraduate). I spent much of 1974 adding the CP67
simplified/dropped stuff into VM370 (initially VM370 R2 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
During the Future System period
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
lots of 370 efforts were shutdown (or radically reduced). With the implosion of FS, there was mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 product pipelines (including kick off quick&dirty 3033&3081 in parallel) and a few simplified versions of my CSC/VM Release2 enhancements were included in VM/370 Release 3.
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
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
other recent posts mentioning 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#88 IBM Cambridge Science Center Performance Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#87 CICS (and other history)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#32 Early EMAIL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#113 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#44 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#94 Enhanced Production Operating Systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#91 Enhanced Production Operating Systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#80 IBM Quota
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#42 WATFOR and CICS were both addressing some of the same OS/360 problems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#6 RED and XEDIT fullscreen editors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#61 IBM 360/50 Simulation From Its Microcode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#59 CMS OS/360 Simulation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#18 Computer Server Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#12 Computer Server Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#92 Computer BUNCH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#51 IBM History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#89 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#83 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#81 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#80 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#79 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#77 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#76 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#75 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#74 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#73 MVT storage management issues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#72 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#71 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#70 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#58 Computer Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#55 Precursor to current virtual machines and containers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#12 Programming Skills
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd Date: 09 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
Couple yrs ago at presentation by commander of growlers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_EA-18G_Growler
He said that proficient A6-prowler pilots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_EA-6B_Prowler
were taking a year to become proficient in Growler digital cockpit (although youngsters that grew up on video games were picking it up faster). Also he observed that pizza with too much salt, or a couple extra drinks, even couple days before going up, was affecting performance.
Also commented that the problem with passing out, they are starting to believe is not plane airflow ... but the design of digital cockpit can so engross the brain ... that it forgets to breathe
John Boyd post and web URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
some posts mentioning growler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#72 Mainframe and/or Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#15 China VSLI Foundry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#95 Finland picks F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#17 In Pursuit of Clarity: the Intellect and Intellectual Integrity of Pierre Sprey
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#100 The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#81 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#54 RR songs, was Re: e50th/60th anniversary of SABRE--real-time airline reservations computer system
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Inventing the Internet Date: 09 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
Before graduating (and joining IBM), I was hired into a small group in
the Boeing CFO office to help with creating Boeing Computer Services
(consolidate all dataprocessing into an independent business unit to
better monetize the investment, including offering services to
non-Boeing entities). I thot Renton datacenter possibly largest in the
world, 360/65s arriving faster than they could be installed, boxes
constantly staged in the hallways around machine room. Lots of
politics between Renton director and CFO ... who only had a 360/30 up
at Boeing Field for payroll (although they enlarged it to install a
360/67 for me to play with when I wasn't busy with other stuff)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-lynn-wheeler/
Within six months of joining IBM, was asked to be a manager. I asked to take the manager's manual home over the weekend to read. Monday I told them that I wouldn't make a good IBM manager ... my experience as manager with people issues was in the parking lot after work; nobody at IBM asked me again (I had worked for hardware store in high school and would periodically be loaned out to contractors, summer after freshman year, I was foreman on construction job with three nine person crews.)
After more than decade at IBM, I had submitted speakup with supporting material that I was drastically underpaid. Got written response from head of HR that after detailed review of my complete career, I was being paid just what I was suppose to be. I then took original, written response and wrote a cover that I was being asked to interview graduating college students for a group that would be working under my technical direction ... and they were being offered 30% more than I was making. I never got a written response but within a few weeks, I got 30% raise. Co-workers would remind me that in IBM, "Business Ethics" was an oxymoron.
I was told by a number people that tried to make me a fellow, that
with 5of6 corporate executive committee wanting to fire me, there was
no way it could happen ... and besides the fellow "position" was
increasingly becoming political. They did behind the scenes provide me
funding for projects, but suppose to keep low profile so executives
wouldn't notice. Some discussion in wild ducks post about periodically
being told I had no career, promotions or raises at IBM.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
archived posts referencing the linkedin zVM-50th and/or Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#21 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#19 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#18 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#17 Arguments for a Sane Instruction Set Architecture--5 years later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#11 Computer History IBM 305 RAMAC and 650 RAMAC, 1956 (350 Disk Storage)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#8 Elizabeth Warren to Jerome Powell: Just how many jobs do you plan to kill?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#3 AL Gore Invented The Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#95 Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#88 IBM Cambridge Science Center Performance Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#82 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#80 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#72 Mainframe and/or Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#68 Datacenter Vulnerability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#67 30 years of (IBM) Management Briefings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#66 IBM Dress Code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#65 IBM DPD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#62 IBM DPD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#60 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#59 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#58 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#57 IBM changes to retirement benefits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#54 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#52 IBM changes to retirement benefits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#49 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#40 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#31 Sears is shutting its last store in Illinois, its home state
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#24 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#23 IBM APL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#20 9/11
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#5 IBM Tech Editor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#3 IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#2 VM/370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#113 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#110 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#108 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#105 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#101 Father, Son, and Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#95 VM I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#82 Why the Soviet computer failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#79 Why the Soviet computer failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#73 IBM/PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#72 IBM/PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#71 COMTEN - IBM Clone Telecommunication Controller
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#69 360/67 & DUMPRX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#67 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#61 200TB SSDs could come soon thanks to Micron's new chip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#60 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#57 The Man That Helped Change IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#53 z/VM 50th - part 4
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#51 IBM Career
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#50 z/VM 50th - part 3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#49 z/VM 50th - part 2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#47 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#46 What's something from the early days of the Internet which younger generations may not know about?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#44 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#42 IBM Bureaucrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#28 IBM Power: The Servers that Apple Should Have Created
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#6 What is IBM SNA?
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd Date: 09 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
Some accident articles are claiming that "distracted driver" (like cellphone) accidents are approaching (or passed) DUI accidents. People working on self-driving cars, claiming that they will eliminate all such accidents.
Some years ago I got into arguments with some F35 supporters (claiming F35 would replace/obsolete all other jets, including growlers radar jamming). Doing some online research, found website that went into some detail that F35 "stealth" was cost reduced assuming F22 would fly cover ... going into some detail about F35 radar signature from different angles and at different frequencies. Also found 2011 article about radar technology that had claim ability to do real-time tracking/targeting of stealth jets required more compute power than was currently available. Early 2015, DOD put export restrictions on certain computer technology. Fall 2015, supercomputer conference, China showed they started building their own supercomputer chips (also used for radar signatures). YE2017, self-driving cars had 100 times the compute power that 2011 radar article said was needed to real-time stealth tracking/targeting.
Then got claim from F35 supporters that I shouldn't be allowed to do those postings (even tho all info was non-classified and came from online). More recently newer generations of radar jamming pods for growlers and F35 strategy for large swarms of F35s firing long-range missiles "over the horizon".
Recent article about GO-AI beating best human players but was recently
beat by another AI trained on novice moves (that were't used in
training the AI beating the best human players ... and so didn't
recognize how it needed to respond).
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/new-go-playing-trick-defeats-world-class-go-ai-but-loses-to-human-amateurs/
a quote from recent post
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
Gen. James Mattis, USMC (ret.): "Take the mavericks in your service,
the ones that wear rumpled uniforms and look like a bag of mud but
whose ideas are so offsetting that they actually upset the people in
the bureaucracy. One of your primary jobs is to take the risk and
protect these people, because if they are not nurtured in your
service, the enemy will bring their contrary ideas to you."
... snip ...
John Boyd post and web URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
some past posts mentioning 2011 radar article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#9 China VSLI Foundry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#101 The US's best stealth jets are pretty easy to spot on radar, but that doesn't make it any easier to stop them
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#8 Why Not Use Self-Driving Cars as Supercomputers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#48 The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#55 Why Not Use Self-Driving Cars as Supercomputers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#60 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#35 US Stealth Fighter Jets Like F-35, F-22 Raptors 'No Longer Stealth' In-Front Of New Russian, Chinese Radars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#100 The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#46 Watch AI-controlled virtual fighters take on an Air Force pilot on August 18th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#53 Stealthy no more? A German radar vendor says it tracked the F-35 jet in 2018 -- from a pony farm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#104 F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#49 IBM NUMBERS BIPOLAR'S DAYS WITH G5 CMOS MAINFRAMES
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#83 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#108 F-35
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#60 11 crazy up-close photos of the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jet soaring through the air
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#39 Why China's New Supercomputer Is Only Technically the World's Fastest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#78 F-35 Multi-Role
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#77 Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can't Dogfight
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Inventing the Internet Date: 10 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
Kingston supercomputer center was sometime in mid-80s ... possibly grew out of work to add vector to 3090 ... as well as 3090 kludge to support (100mbyte/sec) HIPPI I/O devices on 3090.
In HSDT, 1st part of 80s, we had done a T1 link (initially ran over
the internal IBM SBS satellite system) between Los Gatos lab
(microwave LSG to SJ plant site and then satellite SJ plant site to
Kingston) and Clementi's E&S lab
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Clementi
(also) in IBM Kingston that eventually had boatload of floating point
systems (FPS) boxes (which also included 40mbyte/sec disk arrays)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_Point_Systems
Besides HSDT working with NSF director on interconnecting NSF supercomputing centers ... was also working on how many ("Blue Iliad", 1st 32bit) 801/risc chips in a rack and how many racks I could tie together (this was before the HA/CMP effort, "blue iliad" chip never came to production was really large and "hot", and later HA/CMP was with RS/6000 and the RIOS chipset). Later, every time we were asked to visit a national lab (especially LLNL & LANL) ... we would frequently get some sort of hate mail from the IBM Kingston supercomputer group. Note that the IBM Kingston supercomputer group was backed by IBM EVP. When he retired the end of OCT1991, there was audit of all the projects he was backing. Then there was an announcement for an internal supercomputer conference for JAN1992 ... effectively trolling the company for supercomputing technology. We strongly recommended that nobody from AWD attend.
trivia: old email from 1985, Yorktown was insisting that I attend a
one week meeting in Yorktown on cluster computing at same time I was
suppose to make presentation for the NSF director.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email850312
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email850313
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email850314
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email850325
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email850325b
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email850326
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email850402
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email851106
Mentions HSDT/NSF scheduled meeting, then some IBM exec called
everybody up canceling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#email860505
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#email860512
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#email860513
other trivia: I had also been asked to help with the Berkeley 10m
telescope people, they were in process of converting from film to CCD
and wanted to do remote viewing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#email841121
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#email850409
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#email860519
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
HA/CMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
and of course
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
archived:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#103 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#104 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#2 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#32 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#60 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#67 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#24 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 370 virtual memory Date: 11 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
TSS/360 single-level-store .. whole filesystem was pagemapped
... everything was data-in-virtual. I then did cms paged mapped
filesystem for cp67/cms that was much faster ... claiming I learned
what not to do from tss/360 (mentioned in 70s email URLs about
CP67->VM370).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
Simpson (hasp fame) was later doing something similar with MFT2
("RASP") ... os/360 pagemapped/virtual filesystem (see URL ref for
discussion of making all 370 virtual memory, later left for Amdahl and
redid)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#47 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#44 z/VM 50th
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-lynn-wheeler/
Initial MVT to virtual memory was VS2/SVS .. very close to MVT running in CP67 16mbyte virtual machine, keeping (non-virtual) os/360 filesystem. VS1 was similar ... but MFT running in 4mbyte virtual address space ... but also keeping standard os/360 filesystem. VS2/MVS changed to giving each region/app its own 16mbyte virtual address space ... but stuffed with increasing amounts of extra system stuff .. so that by 3033 time frame, virtual space available for application had been reduced to 2-3mbytes and threatening to drop to zero.
64mbyte real with 31bit virtual came along in the nick of time for the grossly bloated MVS.
Burlington had a major problem with the bloated MVS system stuff in every 16mbyte app address space, fortran chip design application (plus libraries) at 7mbytes; special cut-down MVS at minimum 9mbytes for their systems, mostly running chip-design app (however, every time any changes or enhancements, they kept hitting the 7mb brickwall). We offered VM/CMS which would have allow close to all of the 16mbytes ... however it would have been enormous loss of face for MVS ... especially since the head of POK had recently convinced corporate to kill VM370 product, shutdown the group, transfer all the people to POK for MVS/XA (or otherwise MVS/XA wouldn't ship on time) ... Endicott did eventually manage to save the VM370 mission, but had to reconstitute dev. group from scratch.
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
cms pagemapped filesystem posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
some recent posts mentioning MVS common segment area (CSA) bloating
and becoming common system area (CSA)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#122 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#55 CMS OS/360 Simulation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#69 IBM Mainframe market was Re: Approximate reciprocals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#49 IBM 3033 Personal Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#19 Channel I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#113 IBM Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#17 Versatile Cache from IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#70 IBM Research, Adtech, Science Center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#63 Early Computer Use
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#36 IBM S/360 - 370
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: NSA to developers: Think about switching from C and C++ to a memory safe programming language Date: 11 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookNSA to developers: Think about switching from C and C++ to a memory safe programming language
frequently pontificating that "C" was major unsafe language ... the
first IBM mainframe TCP/IP implementation was done in vs/pascal and
had none of the memory vulnerabilities and exploits found in
C-language implementations. Something similar was found in MIT Multics
implementation in PLI. IBM paper moved here after gone 404 at
domino.watson.ibm.com
http://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf
about USAF Multics report from 1974
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/karg74.pdf
I was then trying to do statistics from the nist/mitre CVE database
... and asked mitre if they could request reports to be more exact,
reply was they felt lucky in getting any detail at all ... old archived
post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#43
following year, NIST came out with similar report
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#20
Memory bug posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#buffer
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 370 virtual memory Date: 11 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
... 370 architecture dropped for 370/165
major one was r/o shared segments ... bit in (each) segment table entry ... as a result it was unique for each virtual address space ... so some address spaces could have r/w access and other address spaces would have r/o access for the same (shared) segment. Other machines had it implemented. VM370/CMS used it for cms shared (segment) r/o data. When it was dropped for 165, had to fall back to real kludge.
posts mentionin dropping 370 virtual memory features for 165
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#95 The (broken) economics of OSS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#86 History of Virtualization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#90 IBM Embraces Virtual Memory -- Finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#36 1950: Northrop's Digital Differential Analyzer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#31 REFRPROT History Question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#36 390 vector instruction set reuse, was 8-bit bytes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#2 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#51 "Portable" data centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#41 Why do IBMers think disks are 'Direct Access'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#34 What if the computers went back to the '70s too?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#7 IBM S/360 series operating systems history
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Byte Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 09:01:19 -1000Fred Weigel <fridtjof.martin.weigel@gmail.com> writes:
compatibility with pre-360 cards was "column binary" ... two six-bit "bytes" per column. read/write on 360 ... would (column binary) i/o card with 160 length ... two 360 bytes per column (using just 6bits/byte).
univ. had 709 tape->tape with 1401 "unit record" front-end running MPIO (tape->printer/punch, card read->tape). They were sold a 360/67 for TSS/360, replacing 709/1401. Temporarily pending arrival of 360/67, the 1401 was replaced with 360/30 (which had 1401 emulation mode). I had just taken two credit hr intro to fortran/computers and at the end of the semester I was hired to rewrite 1401 MPIO in 360 assembler (running 360/30 as 360 instead of as 1401). The univ. shutdown the datacenter on weekends and they gave me bunch of software & hardware manuals and I would have the datacenter all to myself over the weekends (although 48hrs w/o sleep made monday classes hard). I got to design & implement my own monitor, device drivers, interrupt handlers, error recovery, storage management, etc. Within a few weeks had 2000 card 360 assembler program.
Later, I assumed it was just exercise in somebody learning 360 (since 1401 MPIO ran just fine on 360/30 in 1401 emulation). Within year of taking intro class, 360/67 came in (replacing 709 & 360/30), TSS/360 never came into production, and I was hired fulltime responsible for OS/360 (and continued to have my dedicated weekend 48hr datacenter time).
2540 reader/punch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2540
2540 trivia: univ. class registration was card based. 2540 had five output stackers, two dedicated for reader, two dedicated for punch and middle stacker could feed from both reader and punch. program processing cards would read into middle stacker. punch feed was loaded with colored striped cards ... if a problem was found with registration card, a blank card would be "punched" into middle stacker behind problem card. There was more than a dozen card trays (2000+ cards/tray). After run would pull each registration card that had a blank colored card behind it (for further processing).
past posts mentioning column binary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#95 Operating System File/Dataset I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#87 Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#79 Where Would We Be Without the Paper Punch Card?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#44 Blank 80-column punch cards up for grabs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#73 Movie Computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#72 Movie Computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#68 Movie Computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#65 Movie Computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#152 Is true that a real programmer would not stoop to wasting machine capacity to do the assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#92 curly brace languages source code style quides
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#84 72 column cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#70 History of byte addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#72 1130, was System/3--IBM compilers (languages) available?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#36 IBM 029 service manual
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#47 IBM 029 keypunch -- 0-8-2 overpunch -- what hex code results?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#77 Usefulness of bidirectional read/write?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#17 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#49 can a program be run withour main memory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#29 Collating on the S/360-2540 card reader?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#19 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#72 ummmmm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#24 "Hollerith" card code to EBCDIC conversion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#20 HELP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#6 ascii to binary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#79 Mainframe operating systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#59 Living legends
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#13 Old Computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#9 ** Old Vintage Operating Systems **
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#4 1401 overlap instructions
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM OS/360 Date: 14 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookIBM OS/360
IBM Cambridge Science Center ported APL\360 to CP67/CMS for CMS\APL, increasing APL\360 workspace size from 16k (sometimes 32k) to virtual memory size, redoing storage management for demand page virtual memory and adding APIs for system services (like file i/o), allowing real-world applications. Then Armonk corporate hdqtrs business planners loaded the most valuable corporate data on the CSC CP/67 and wrote APL-based business applications.
About the same time, there was joint project with Endicott to modify CP67 to provide 370 virtual machines (with extended unannounced 370 virtual memory support). It was in regular production use a year before an engineering 370 with hardware virtual memory was operational.
CSC had to show extrenely high security because there were staff, professors and students (from boston area institutions), also using the system (not leaking unannounced 370 virtual memory details and/or IBM corporate business data).
Two of the commercial online CP67/CMS spinoffs from the science center were moving up value stream and offering services to financial industry ... also needed to show high security since competitive wallstreet firms were using the same systems.
also from long ago and far away.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml
I had taken two credit hour intro to fortran/computers. Then end of semester, I got a job rewriting 1401 MPIO for 360/30. The univ. had been sold 360/67 for TSS/360 replacing 709/1401 (709 tape->tape, 1401 unit record front end, tape->printer/punch card reader->tape) and got 360/30 temporarily replacing 1401 pending availability of 360/67. Univ. shutdown datacenter on weekends and I was given a bunch of software & hardware manuals and would have the datacenter dedicated weekends (although 48hrs w/o sleep made monday morning classes hard). I got to design & implement my own monitor, device drivers, interrupt handlers, error recovery, storage management, etc. Within a few weeks had 2000 card 360 assembler program. When 360/67 came in it was used as 360/65 running os/360 (tss/360 never really came to production) and I was hired fulltime responsible for OS/360.
Student fortran jobs ran under second on 709. Initially running on OS/360, they ran over a minute. I installed HASP and cut the time in half. I then started doing custom SYSGENs, rearranging STAGE2 cards to order data on disk for optimizing arm seek and PDS directory multi-track search ... cutting another 2/3rds off the time to 12.9secs. It never got better than 709 until I installed WATFOR.
Then before I graduate, I'm hired fulltime into small group in Boeing CFO office to help with the formation of Boeing Computer Services (consolidate all dataprocessing into independent business unit to better monetize the investment, including offering services to non-Boeing entities). I thought Renton datacenter possibly largest in the world (couple hundred million ???), 360/65s arriving faster than they could be installed, boxes constantly staged in the hallways around the machine room (which also contained one 360/75 that ran classified programs). Lots of conflict between director of the Renton datacenter and Boeing CFO (who only had a small machine room with 360/30 up at Boeing field for payroll, although they enlarged it for 360/67 for me to play with when I wasn't doing other stuff).
re: Boeing/Renton; both the Boeing people and the IBM team told story about day of 360 announce ... Boeing walks into the IBM Boeing marketing rep and presents a 360 order ... that makes the marketing rep the highest compensated IBMer that year. This was back when IBM was still sales commission ... and claim that it was the motivation for IBM converting to "quota" the following year. January of the following year, Boeing makes another large 360 order, giving the marketing rep his quota for the year. IBM then "updates" his quota and he leaves IBM.
other details in recent (linkedin) posts
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-2-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-3-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-4-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-5-lynn-wheeler/
recent archived posts with linkedin zVM-50th reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#27 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#26 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#25 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#24 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#21 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#19 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#18 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#17 Arguments for a Sane Instruction Set Architecture--5 years later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#16 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#12 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#11 Computer History IBM 305 RAMAC and 650 RAMAC, 1956 (350 Disk Storage)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#8 Elizabeth Warren to Jerome Powell: Just how many jobs do you plan to kill?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#3 AL Gore Invented The Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#95 Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#91 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#88 IBM Cambridge Science Center Performance Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#84 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#82 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#80 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#75 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#74 Mainframe and/or Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#72 Mainframe and/or Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#68 Datacenter Vulnerability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#67 30 years of (IBM) Management Briefings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#66 IBM Dress Code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#65 IBM DPD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#62 IBM DPD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#60 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#59 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#58 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#57 IBM changes to retirement benefits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#54 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#53 Wednesday Night Round table
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#52 IBM changes to retirement benefits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#49 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#47 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#44 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#43 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#40 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#31 Sears is shutting its last store in Illinois, its home state
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#24 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#23 IBM APL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#20 9/11
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#5 IBM Tech Editor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#3 IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#2 VM/370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#122 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#120 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#119 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#118 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#113 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#110 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#108 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#105 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#101 Father, Son, and Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#95 VM I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#85 IBM CKD DASD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#82 Why the Soviet computer failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#79 Why the Soviet computer failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#73 IBM/PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#72 IBM/PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#71 COMTEN - IBM Clone Telecommunication Controller
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#69 360/67 & DUMPRX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#67 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#61 200TB SSDs could come soon thanks to Micron's new chip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#60 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#57 The Man That Helped Change IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#53 z/VM 50th - part 4
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#51 IBM Career
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#50 z/VM 50th - part 3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#49 z/VM 50th - part 2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#47 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#46 What's something from the early days of the Internet which younger generations may not know about?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#44 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#42 IBM Bureaucrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#28 IBM Power: The Servers that Apple Should Have Created
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#6 What is IBM SNA?
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: do some Americans write their 1's in this way ? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 08:42:42 -1000Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
other trivia: after joining IBM, I got asked to help with 370/195
hyperthreading ... hypertreading mention in this post about
end of acs/360
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
195 out-of-order, but no branch-prediction and speculative execution, so conditional branches drained pipeline ... and most codes ran at half 195 rated speed. simulating multiprocessor with two i-streams (running at half rated speed) could keep execution units busy ... modulo MVT/MVS claimed two-processor was 1.2-1.5 throughput of single processor (because of multiprocessor software overhead and lock contention).
they also said that big difference between 360/195 and 370/195 (in addition to the few new instructions) was adding 370 hardware instruction retry ... 195 had so many circuits that mean-time between a system transient hardware error was a few hrs.
project was canceled when decision was made to add virtual memory to all
370s (and it wasn't justified to do it for 195). trivia: decade ago, i
was asked if I could track down the virtual memory decision ... archived
afc post from decade ago
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
... basically MVT storage management was so bad that regions had to be specified four times larger than actually used ... result was 1mbyte 370/165 typically only running four concurrent executing regions ... not sufficient to keep it busy/justified. Going to 16mbyte virtual memoy would allow number of concurrent regions to be increased by four times with little or no paging.
801/risc, iliad, romp, rios, pc/rt, rs/6000, power, power/pc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
recent posts memntion 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#17 Arguments for a Sane Instruction Set Architecture--5 years later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#10 Google Cloud Launches Service to Simplify Mainframe Modernization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#95 Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#9 3880 DASD Controller
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#113 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#10 VM/370 Going Away
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#47 360&370 I/O Channels
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#34 Retrotechtacular: The IBM System/360 Remembered
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#22 COMPUTER HISTORY: REMEMBERING THE IBM SYSTEM/360 MAINFRAME, its Origin and Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#12 Computer Server Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#11 Computer Server Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#0 Programming By Committee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#101 IBM 4300, VS1, VM370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#74 IBM Mainframe market was Re: Approximate reciprocals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#41 CMSBACK & VMFPLC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#99 CDC6000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#95 IBM Salary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#88 Computer BUNCH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#73 IBM Disks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#53 IBM History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#51 IBM History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#50 100 days after IBM split, Kyndryl signs strategic cloud pact with AWS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#1 On why it's CR+LF and not LF+CR [ASR33]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#96 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#87 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#64 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#60 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#41 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#31 370/195
some recent posts mentioning virtual memory decision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#27 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#21 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#17 Arguments for a Sane Instruction Set Architecture--5 years later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#4 IBM CAD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#2 VM/370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#122 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#113 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#110 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#83 COBOL and tricks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#44 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#41 MVS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#7 Vintage Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#91 Enhanced Production Operating Systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#54 Channel Program I/O Processing Efficiency
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#42 WATFOR and CICS were both addressing some of the same OS/360 problems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#97 MVS support
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#93 Operating System File/Dataset I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#61 IBM 360/50 Simulation From Its Microcode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#55 CMS OS/360 Simulation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#51 IBM Spooling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#20 COMPUTER HISTORY: REMEMBERING THE IBM SYSTEM/360 MAINFRAME, its Origin and Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#18 Computer Server Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#72 IBM Mainframe market was Re: Approximate reciprocals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#50 IBM 3033 Personal Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#2 IBM 2250 Graphics Display
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#92 Computer BUNCH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#76 Link FEC and Encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#51 IBM History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#89 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#74 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#73 MVT storage management issues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#70 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#58 Computer Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#31 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#10 360/65, 360/67, 360/75
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: computer history thru the lens of esthetics versus economics Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 08:57:47 -1000Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
other trivia: FS was completely different than IBM 360/370 and was going to completely replace it (some of the complexity motivation was countermeasure to clone i/o controllers). During FS, internal politics was shutdown/killing 370 efforts and the lack of new 370 products is credited with giving (Amdahl & other) clone mainframes, their market foothold (attempted countermeasure to clone i/o controllers contributed to the rise of clone mainframes).
note Amdahl had left after IBM killed ACS/360 project .. executives were
afraid that it would advance state of the art too fast and IBM would
loose control of the market
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
above also mentions hyperthreading patents and some of the acs/360 features showing up more than 20yrs later with es/9000 in the 90s.
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Mainframe Development Language Date: 15 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookback in early days of REX (before renamed REXX and released to customers), I wanted to show REX wasn't just another pretty scripting language. Demo chosen was to redo a large assembler application (problem analysis, dump reader) with ten times the function and running 10 times faster (some slight of hand for interpreted language run faster than assembler) in less than 3 months working half time ... I finished early so started library of automated scripts that search for most common failure signatures.
I had anticipated that it would replace existing app shipped to customers ... for whatever reason they didn't do it (even tho it was in use by nearly every internal datacenter and customer support PSR). I eventually got permission to give presentations on how I did the implementation at user group meetings and within a few months similar (customer) applications started to appear.
dumprx posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dumprx
couple years later, had email exchange with the 3090 service processor (3092) group that asked if it would be ok to include it in the 3092.
a few posts mentioning dumprx for the 3090 service processor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#7 3880 DASD Controller
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#69 360/67 & DUMPRX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#2 IBM Games
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#108 System Dumps & 7x24 operation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#5 4361/3092
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#36 Error Handling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#104 DUMPRX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#84 Happy 50th Birthday, EMAIL!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#24 Programming Languages in IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#61 Virtual Machine Debugging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#55 even an old mainframer can do it
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#27 IBM Fan-fold cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#25 Field Support and PSRs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#2 What's Fortran?!?!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#58 MAINFRAME (4341) History
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 360/85 Date: 15 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookold archived 85/165/168/3033/trout email (trout becomes 3090) ... about all the machines were the same with slight tweaks
Early 70s, IBM was doing Future System project that would replace all
370s (and was completely different) ... and internal politics was
killing 370 effort (lack of new 370 during the period is credited with
giving the clone mainframe makers their market foothold). When FS
finally implodes, there is mad rush to get stuff back into the 370
product pipelines, including kicking off quick&dirty 3033&3081
efforts.
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
I had gotten involved with a 16processor 370 effort and we had con'ed the 3033 processor engineers into working on it in their spare time (a lot more interesting than 3033 remapping 168 logic to 20% faster chips). Everybody thot it was great until somebody told the head of POK that it could be decades before the POK favorite son operating system (MVS) had effective 16processor support (POK doesn't ship 16processor machine until after the turn of the century, over 20yrs later) ... some of us were then invited to never visit POK again and the 3033 processor engineers were told to keep their noses to the 3033 grindstone and don't be distracted (I would still sneak back into POK). Once the 3033 is out the door, the 3033 processor engineers start on trout/3090
posts mentioning future system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
multiprocessor support
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 360/85 Date: 15 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
I've pontificate that originally, 360s had relative more I/O resources
than processor and real storage ... so got CKD that allowed offloading
stuff to I/O (like multi-track searches). By the mid-70s that
trade-off started to invert ... and early 80s I was claiming that disk
relative system throughput had declined by a factor of ten times
between 360 announce and early 80s (disks got 3-5 times faster,
processor and memory resources increased 40-50 times). A disk division
executive took exception to the claims and assigned the division
performance group to refute the claim. They came back after a few
weeks and basiqcally said I had slightly understated the problem. They
then respun the analysis into a presentation at share on how to
configure disks for improved system throughput. 16Aug1984 SHARE63,
presentation B874. more discussion in this recent posts
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfessionalMainframers/posts/1690693904618975/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mainframe-channel-io-lynn-wheeler/
some recent archived
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#88 IBM Cambridge Science Center Performance Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#87 CICS (and other history)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#84 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#0 Mainframe Channel I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#49 Channel Program I/O Processing Efficiency
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#48 360&370 I/O Channels
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#22 COMPUTER HISTORY: REMEMBERING THE IBM SYSTEM/360 MAINFRAME, its Origin and Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#77 Channel I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#92 Processor, DASD, VTAM & TCP/IP performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#70 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
this is somewhat related to the motivation for make all 370s "virtual
memory" ... that MVT storage management was so bad that region sizes
had to be specified four times larger than used ... a typical 1mbyte
370/165 would only have space for four concurrently executing regions,
insufficient to keep 165 utilized/justified. Moving to 16mbyte virtual memoy
could increase number of regions by a factor of four times with little
or no paging ... aka lot more overlapped execution with disk
I/O. Archived post from decade ago that has pieces of email with
person on the staff of executive making decision
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
more discussion here
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-5-lynn-wheeler/
some recent archived posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#32 do some Americans write their 1's in this way ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#27 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#21 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#17 Arguments for a Sane Instruction Set Architecture--5 years later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#4 IBM CAD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#2 VM/370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#122 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#113 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#110 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#83 COBOL and tricks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#44 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#41 MVS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#7 Vintage Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#91 Enhanced Production Operating Systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#54 Channel Program I/O Processing Efficiency
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#42 WATFOR and CICS were both addressing some of the same OS/360 problems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#97 MVS support
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#93 Operating System File/Dataset I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#61 IBM 360/50 Simulation From Its Microcode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#55 CMS OS/360 Simulation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#51 IBM Spooling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#20 COMPUTER HISTORY: REMEMBERING THE IBM SYSTEM/360 MAINFRAME, its Origin and Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#18 Computer Server Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#72 IBM Mainframe market was Re: Approximate reciprocals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#50 IBM 3033 Personal Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#2 IBM 2250 Graphics Display
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#92 Computer BUNCH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#76 Link FEC and Encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#51 IBM History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#89 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#74 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#73 MVT storage management issues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#70 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#58 Computer Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#31 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#10 360/65, 360/67, 360/75
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 360/85 Date: 16 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
How AMD, Intel, Nvidia are keeping their cores from starving. Chips
are only as fast as the memory that feeds them
https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/14/amd_intel_nvidia_ram_bandwidth/
... analysis is that memory latency, when measured in number of processor cycles, is at least as large as 60s disk access, when measured in 60s processor cycles. Things like multi-threading and out-of-order execution (to help mask cache miss and memory latency) is similar to 60s multi-tasking ... overlapping execution while waiting for disk i/o.
some past posts mentioning 60s disk/processor latency similar to
memory/processor latency this century
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#22 COMPUTER HISTORY: REMEMBERING THE IBM SYSTEM/360 MAINFRAME, its Origin and Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#6 Computer Server Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#77 Channel I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#70 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#58 Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#102 MIPS chart for all IBM hardware model
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#63 IBM 3330 & 3380
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#12 IBM mainframe today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#11 thrashing, was Re: A Computer That Never Was: the IBM 7095
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#46 Temporary Data Sets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#61 computer component reliability, 1951
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#101 SEX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#48 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#13 follow up to dense code definition
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#98 A Christmassy PL/I tale
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#92 ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#91 ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#36 z/OS Operating System size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#68 Raspberry Pi 3?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#27 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#101 This new 'skyscraper' chip could make computers run 1,000 times faster
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#106 [CM] How ENIAC was rescued from the scrap heap
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/2014j.html#5 The SDS 92, its place in history?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#51 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#2 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#103 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#29 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#20 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Christmas 1989 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 07:57:39 -1000Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
note fall 88 , clone makers on the other side of the pacific, had built up large inventory of 286 machines for the xmas season ... and then Intel announce 386sx (386sx consolidated lots of chips needed for 286 build) and the market/prices drops out of the 286.
some old afc posts ... includes some reports on killer micros
taking over mainframe market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#79 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#80 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#81 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#82 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
i386 & 486
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I386
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486DX
other past posts mentioning dataquest study
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#53 IBM Personal Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#89 Silicon Valley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#0 EasyLink email ad
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#113 IBM PS2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#23 IBM "Breakup"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#94 What would Klinger look like in business attire?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#46 Could this be the wrongest prediction of all time?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#26 upcoming TV show, "Halt & Catch Fire"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#24 IBM sells Intel server business, company is doomed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#20 9th Feb 2014
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#4 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#69 Intel's Future is integrated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#6 Houses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#5 Houses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#21 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Teddy Bear Date: 16 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookIBM SHARE mainframe user group, history and user group teddy bear
VM Mascot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)#VM_mascot
In the early 1980s, the VM group within SHARE (the IBM user group)
sought a mascot or logo for the community to adopt. This was in part a
response to IBM's MVS users selecting the turkey as a mascot (chosen,
according to legend, by the MVS Performance Group in the early days of
MVS, when its performance was a sore topic). In 1983, the teddy bear
became VM's de facto mascot at SHARE 60, when teddy bear stickers were
attached to the nametags of "cuddlier oldtimers" to flag them for
newcomers as "friendly if approached". The bears were a hit and soon
appeared widely.[32] Bears were awarded to inductees of the "Order of
the Knights of VM", individuals who made "useful contributions" to the
community.[33][34]
... snip ...
trivia, I'm one of the original "Knights of VM"
http://mvmua.org/knights.html
... as well as the mainframe hall of fame
https://www.enterprisesystemsmedia.com/mainframehalloffame
added 2010
https://web.archive.org/web/20170726211623/http://enterprisesystemsmedia.com/article/mainframe-hall-of-fame-four-new-members-added
MVS trivia (MVS song sung at SHARE HASP sing-along)
http://www.mxg.com/thebuttonman/boney.asp
from above:
Words to follow along with... (glossary at bottom)
If it IPL's then JES won't start,
And if it gets up then it falls apart,
MVS is breaking my heart,
Maybe things will get a little better in the morning,
Maybe things will get a little better.
The system is crashing, I'm having a fit,
and DSS doesn't help a bit,
the shovel came with the debugging kit,
Maybe things will get a little better in the morning,
Maybe things will get a little better.
Work Your Fingers to the Bone and what do you get?
Boney Fingers, Boney Fingers!
from glossary
$4K - MVS was the first operating system for which the IBM Salesman
got a $4000 bonus if he/she could convince their customer to install
VS 2.2 circa 1975. IBM was really pissed off that this fact became
known thru this
... snip ...
post mentioning (MVS) "turkey" and/or "boney fingers"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#113 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#49 z/VM 50th - part 2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#41 MVS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#34 Vintage Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#97 MVS support
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#122 SHARE LSRAD Report
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#81 IBM Fridays
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#25 IBM Acronyms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#92 MVS Boney Fingers
this was about the time that CERN presented a paper on comparison of MVS/TSO and VM370/CMS ... copies freely available outside IBM ... inside IBM copies were stamped "IBM Confidential - Restricted" (available on need to know basis only, aka limiting IBMers that saw it conflicted with MVS marketing info). Note not long later, Future System project imploded and mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 product pipelines, including kicking off quick&dirty 3033&3081 projects in parallel. Also head of POK managed to convince corporate to kill the VM370 product, shutdown the development group and transfer all the people to POK for MVS/XA (claim was otherwise MVS/XA wouldn't ship on time) .... note that Endicott managed to save the VM370 product mission, but had to reconstitute a development group from scratch
re: head of POK "killing" VM370 product ... they weren't planning on telling the VM people until the very last minute in order to minimize the number of people that might escape the move ... however the information leaked early and numerous managed to escape IBM (and stay in the boston area, one joke was the head of POK was a major contributor the DEC VAX/VMS product). There was also a witch hunt for the person that leaked the shutdown/move, fortunately for me ... nobody gave up the leaker.
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
recent posts mentioning killing VM370 product
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#27 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#68 Datacenter Vulnerability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#65 IBM DPD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#49 z/VM 50th - part 2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#17 What's different, was Why did Dennis Ritchie write that UNIX was a modern implementation of CTSS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#86 Enhanced Production Operating Systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#60 VM/370 Turns 50 2Aug2022
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#56 CMS OS/360 Simulation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#55 CMS OS/360 Simulation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#101 IBM 4300, VS1, VM370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#98 Virtual Machine SIE instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#55 Precursor to current virtual machines and containers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#33 138/148
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#29 IBM HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#49 VM/SP crashing all over the place
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#4 IBM 370 and Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#53 PROFS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#75 In the 1970s, Email Was Special
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#57 ES/9000 as POK was being scaled way back
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#39 If Memory Had Been Cheaper
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Mainframe Development Language Date: 17 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
First part of 80s, a co-worker at IBM San Jose Research leaves and is doing a lot of contracting work in silicon valley (Fortran for HSPICE vendor and mainframe support for major VLSI chip shop). He does a lot of fixes and enhancements to the AT&T C for mainframe and was porting BSD VLSI tools to the mainframe (and his C work was licensed to a mainframe ship ... which was in turn licensed by IBM). One day the local IBM marketing rep stops by and asks him what he was doing. He tells him, mainframe ethernet support so they can use SGI graphics terminals with backend mainframe. The IBM marketing rep then tells him he should be doing token-ring support instead, or the customer might find their mainframe maintenance not as timely as in the past. I then get a phone call and have to listen to an hour of four-letter words. The next morning, the executive vice president of engineering has a press conference where they are moving completely off IBM mainframes to SUN servers. IBM then has a number of task forces to investigate why silicon valley wasn't using mainframes (but weren't allowed to look at some of the real reasons).
Los Gatos VLSI group was using MetaWare's TWS for various languages ... including doing Pascal which was used for implementing VLSI tools (also morphs in VS/Pascal product for both mainframe and rs/6000). Two people doing much of the language work, leave IBM ... one for MetaWare. I had been doing some stuff with Palo Alto on the BSD (Berkeley UNIX) port to 370 and suggested they contract with MetaWare for a 370 "C" compiler. Before 370 BSD ships ... the group gets redirected to instead port BSD to the PC/RT (801/risc) workstation ... and the Palo Alto group has MetaWare do a "C" for the PC/RT (for what becomes "AOS", alternative to AIX).
801/risc, iliad, romp, rios, pc/rt, rs/6000, power, power/pc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
In the 90s during IBM troubles when IBM was unloading a bunch of stuff ... including a lot of VLSI tools to industry standard vendor, but was required to have everything run on SUN (since that was the standard industry platform) ... I get a contract (had already left IBM) to port a LSG Pascal/VS 50,000 statement VLSI design tool to SUN. I have lots of problems with SUN Pascal ... claiming that it didn't appear to have been used for anything other than student programs at educational institutions (I could drop by SUN hdqtrs with the problems but they had out-sourced Pascal support to an operation on opposite side of the earth in "Space City", so even trivial discussions had 24hr turn around). As it turned out, it would have been easier to rewrite in "C" than the port to SUN pascal.
VS/Pascal was also used to implement IBM's mainframe TCP/IP support
... but release was fought by the communication group ... when they
lost, they changed their tactic that since they had corporate
"ownership" for everything that crossed datacenter walls, it had to be
released through them. What shipped used nearly whole 3090 processor
getting aggregate of 44kbytes/sec. I then do the enhancements for
RFC1044 and in some tuning tests at Cray Research between 4341 and
Cray, get sustained channel speed throughput using only nominal amount
of 4341 CPU (getting something like 500 times improvement in bytes
moved per instruction executed). Several times over the years I've
pointed out that the Pascal implementation had none of the memory
vulnerabilities/exploits of the C-language implementations
... including recent post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#28 NSA to developers: Think about switching from C and C++ to a memory safe programming language
with this article
https://www.zdnet.com/article/nsa-to-developers-think-about-switching-from-c-and-c-to-a-memory-safe-programming-language/
RFC1044 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
Memory bug posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#buffer
some (other) recent posts mentioning metaware and/or vs/pascal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#6 "In Defense of ALGOL"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#22 STL & other San Jose facilities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#13 COBOL and tricks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#82 ROMP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#100 IBM PLI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#69 MTS, 360/67, FS, Internet, SNA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#27 Programming Languages in IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#26 Programming Languages in IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#24 Programming Languages in IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#23 Programming Languages in IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#47 vs/pascal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#45 not a 360 either, was Design a better 16 or 32 bit processor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#37 IBM Programming Projects
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#31 IBM Programming Projects
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#6 What's Fortran?!?!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#5 What's Fortran?!?!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#95 What's Fortran?!?!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#37 IBM HA/CMP Product
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#19 What is a mainframe?
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Christmas 1989 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 12:38:20 -1000Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
previously posted
Total share: 30 years of personal computer market share figures
https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/
and has graph of personal computer sales 1975-1980
https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/3
and graph from 1980 to 1984 ... with the only serious competitor to PC
in number of sales was commodore 64
https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/4
and then from 1984 to 1987 the ibm pc (and clones) starting to
completely swamp
https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/5
past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#33 IBM/PC 12Aug1981
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#137 Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#28 XT/370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#27 PC Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#103 Old word processors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#68 The Rise and Fall of Commodore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#5 What if the computers went back to the '70s too?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#76 Why Didn't Digital Catch the Wave?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#63 The Development of the Vital IBM PC in Spite of the Corporate Culture of IBM
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: computer history thru the lens of esthetics versus economics Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 12:51:18 -1000Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:
this has some about 60s
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
As the quote above indicates, the ACS-1 design was very much an
out-of-the-ordinary design for IBM in the latter part of the 1960s. In
his book, Data Processing Technology and Economics, Montgomery Phister,
Jr., reports that as of 1968:
Of the 26,000 IBM computer systems in use, 16,000 were S/360 models
(that is, over 60%). [Fig. 1.311.2]
Of the general-purpose systems having the largest fraction of total
installed value, the IBM S/360 Model 30 was ranked first with 12%
(rising to 17% in 1969). The S/360 Model 40 was ranked second with 11%
(rising to almost 15% in 1970). [Figs. 2.10.4 and 2.10.5]
Of the number of operations per second in use, the IBM S/360 Model 65
ranked first with 23%. The Univac 1108 ranked second with slightly over
14%, and the CDC 6600 ranked third with 10%. [Figs. 2.10.6 and 2.10.7]
Richard DeLamarter in Big Blue reproduces an undated IBM profit table
that indicates that the "system profit" for the S/360 Model 30 was 32%
and for the Model 40 was 35%. The "system profit" for the Model 65 was
24%, and the Models 75 and 85 were lumped together at a negative 17%
(that is, a loss). [Table 20, p. 98] Thus, the business trend was that
the low-end to mid-range S/360 computers were where IBM was making its
profits.
... snip ...
other recent past posts mentioning "end of ACS/360"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#32 do some Americans write their 1's in this way ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#17 Arguments for a Sane Instruction Set Architecture--5 years later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#2 360/91
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#95 Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#59 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#22 3081 TCMs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#109 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#54 z/VM 50th - part 4
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#61 Channel Program I/O Processing Efficiency
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#99 IBM Stretch (7030) -- Aggressive Uniprocessor Parallelism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#34 Retrotechtacular: The IBM System/360 Remembered
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#19 COMPUTER HISTORY: REMEMBERING THE IBM SYSTEM/360 MAINFRAME, its Origin and Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#12 Computer Server Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#107 TCMs & IBM Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#99 CDC6000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#88 Computer BUNCH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#51 IBM History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#77 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#74 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#60 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#31 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#119 70s & 80s mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#116 Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#105 IBM Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#46 Transaction Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#113 IBM Downturn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#93 IBM 3278
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#76 IBM 370 and Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#70 IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#68 MTS, 360/67, FS, Internet, SNA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#66 IBM ACP/TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#3 IBM Lost Opportunities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#79 IBM Downturn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#77 IBM ACP/TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#75 IBM ITPS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#51 OoO S/360 descendants
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#51 Intel rumored to be in talks to buy chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries for $30B
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#5 IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#67 Amdahl
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#66 Amdahl
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#35 April 7, 1964: IBM Bets Big on System/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#33 April 7, 1964: IBM Bets Big on System/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#28 IBM 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#9 IBM 360/85
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#23 IBM Recruiting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#57 ES/9000 as POK was being scaled way back
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#39 IBM Tech
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 1973 ARPANET Map Date: 17 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebook1973 ARPANET Map
lincoln 360/67 in upper right is running CP67/CMS from IBM science
center (lincoln was 2nd CP67 installation after cambridge itself;
trivia some of the 7094/CTSS people went to 5th flr for multics,
others went to science center on 4th flr) ... RFC10 29july1969 has two
members from lincoln labs, couple other early RFCs mentioning Lincoln
RFC43, RFC100, RFC109. Recent (old farts). post here mentioning
science center
https://www.facebook.com/groups/internetoldfarts/permalink/658391949141360/
related:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-3-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/inventing-internet-lynn-wheeler/
I was at undergraduate and univ fulltime employee responsible for IBM system software, when three people came out to install CP67/CMS Jan1968 ... making univ. the 3rd CP67 installation.
trivia: 1jan1983 cutover to internetworking, there were approx. 100
IMPs and 255 hosts ... while corporate internal network was about to
pass 1000 hosts. old archived post with list of world-wide corporate
locations that would added one or more hosts during 1983:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8
Big gov. issue was corporate requirement that all links be encrypted
... especially difficult when links cross country borders.
couple recent (archived) posts referencing inventing the internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#3 AL Gore Invented The Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#12 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#18 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 360/85 Date: 18 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
some CP-40 from VM/370 history paper
https://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda#VMHist
https://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda/25paper.pdf
pg9:
Rasmussen consistently portrayed CP-40 as a research project to "help
the troops in Poughkeepsie" by studying the behavior of programs and
systems in a virtual memory environment. In fact, for some members of
the CP-40 team, this was the most interesting part of the project,
because they were concerned about the unknowns in the path IBM was
taking. TSS was to be a virtual memory system, but not much was really
known about virtual memory systems. Les Comeau has written:
Since the early time-sharing experiments used base and limit registers
for relocation, they had to roll in and roll out entire programs when
switching users....Virtual memory, with its paging technique, was
expected to reduce significantly the time spent waiting for an
exchange of user programs.
What was most significant was that the commitment to virtual memory
was backed with no successful experience. A system of that period that
had implemented virtual memory was the Ferranti Atlas computer, and
that was known not to be working well. What was frightening is that
nobody who was setting this virtual memory direction at IBM knew why
Atlas didn't work.23
... snip ...
archived post from 2017 (usenet) afc thread about ferranti atlas
paging with chilton-computing refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#85
including description of atlas 1-level (single-level) store
http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/pdfs/atlas-1-level.pdf
other posts in the thread
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#83
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#87
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#88
posts mentioning paging, page replacement algorithms, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#clock
posts mentioning doing memory/page CP67/CMS mapped filesystem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
posts/threads mentioning atlas
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#21 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#54 IBM History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#20 CP-67
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#71 A Computer That Never Was: the IBM 7095
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#47 The Stack Depth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#37 S/360 architecture, was PDP-10 system calls
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#81 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#79 IBM Floating-point myths
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#77 IBM Floating-point myths
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#54 new 40+ yr old, disruptive technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#64 CSA 'above the bar'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#51 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006i.html#30 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#4 Robert Creasy, RIP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#1 Disk drives as commodities. Was Re: Yamhill
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#72 Disk drives as commodities. Was Re: Yamhill
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002.html#42 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#10 VM: checking some myths.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#78 TSS ancient history, was X86 ultimate CISC? designs)
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Christmas 1989 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 10:40:07 -1000Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> writes:
a couple years ago there was analysis of IBM revenue ... mainframe hardware had dropped to couple percent of revenue ... but the mainframe group was 25 percent of revenue (and 40% of profit, effectively all software and services).
recent posts mentioning Mainframe group 40% of profit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#68 Security Chips and Chip Fabs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#49 z/VM 50th - part 2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#12 What is IBM SNA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#10 9 Mainframe Statistics That May Surprise You
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#71 FedEx to Stop Using Mainframes, Close All Data Centers By 2024
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#45 IBM Chairman John Opel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#35 IBM 37x5 Boxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#70 IBM Z16 - The Mainframe Is Dead, Long Live The Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#5 Computer Server Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#111 Financial longevity that redhat gives IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#98 IBM Systems Revenue Put Into a Historical Context
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#63 Mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#54 Automated Benchmarking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#120 Computer Performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#18 IBM email migration disaster
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#3 Will The Cloud Take Down The Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#80 IBM: Buying While Apathetaic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#35 Transition to cloud computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#19 IBM assembler over the ages
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: New FTX CEO says he's never seen 'complete failure' of corporate controls in his career, including at Enron Date: 18 Nov, 2022 Blog: LinkedInNew FTX CEO says he's never seen 'complete failure' of corporate controls in his career, including at Enron
Rhetoric in 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 GAO didn't believe SEC was doing anything, it started doing reports of public company fraudulent financial filings, even showing they increased after SOX is passed (and nobody doing jailtime). Joke was SOX was fabrication/facade for the public and because congress felt bad for Enron's auditor that went out of business, they significantly increased audit requirements as a gift to the audit industry.
Gramm, #2 on time's list of those responsible for economic mess
(2001-2008)
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
Now better known for GLBA and repeal of Glass-Steagall (enabling Too
Big To Fail), but on the list for legislation blocking regulation of
CDS gambling bets (derivatives). Born, CFTC chair, suggested
regulating derivatives. Gramm's wife replaces Born, then resigns to
join Enron board (and audit committee).
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/business/17grammside.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20080711114839/http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-01-15/news/phil-gramm-s-enron-favor/
ENRON posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
financial reporting fraud posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud
Sarbanes-Oxley posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxle
Pecora &/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: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Computer History, OS/360, Fred Brooks, MMM Date: 19 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookIn Memoriam: Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. -- a Personal Recollection
Account of Amdahl leaving IBM after ACS/360 was canceled because
executives felt it would advance state-of-art too fast and IBM would
loose control of the market:
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
more acs (including ES/9000 more than 20yrs later)
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs.html
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_legacy.html
spread of superscalar concept
branch target buffer
register renaming
direct descendant for ACS/360 appears to be ES/9000 Model 520
... snip ...
my recent tome on later executives destroying watson legacy
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: smaller faster cheaper, computer history thru the lens of esthetics versus economics Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 15:27:33 -1000John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> writes:
in the wake of the future system project (completely different than 370 and was going to completely replace, during which 370 efforts were being shutdown ... lack of new 370 was credited with giving clone 370 makers their market foothold) failure, there was mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 product pipelines ... including kicking off the quick&dirty 303x and 3081 efforts in parallel.
they took 158-3 engine with just the integrated channel microcode
external channels. a 3031 was two 158-3 engines, one with just 370
microcode and 2nd was just the integrated channel microcode. A 3032 was
168-3 tweaked to use the 158-3 integrated channel as external
channels. A 3033 started out with 168-3 logic remapped to 20% faster
chips. lots more on future system, 3033, and 3081 (compared to Amdahl)
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.]
... aka, Amdahl single processor had about same throughput as two
processor 3081, and Amdahl two processor had better throughput than
four processor 3084.
Account of Amdahl leaving IBM after ACS/360 was canceled because
executives felt it would advance state-of-art too fast and IBM would
loose control of the market:
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
more acs/360 (including ES/9000 more than 20yrs later)
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs.html
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_legacy.html
spread of superscalar concept
branch target buffer
register renaming
direct descendant for ACS/360 appears to be ES/9000 Model 520
... snip ...
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
I was running early engineering 4341 and jan1979 got con'ed into doing benchmarks for national lab that was looking at getting 70 for a compute farm (sort of the leading edge of the coming cluster supercomuting tsunami). Large corporations were also making orders of 100-1000 4341s for placing out in departmental areas (sort of leading edge of the coming departmental computing tsunami).
A cluster of five 4341s was much cheaper than 3033, had higher aggregate throughput, and significantly smaller footprint and environmentals. At one point, head of POK lab (maker of 3033) felt so threatened that he managed to convince corporate to cut Endicott lab (maker of 4341) allocation of critical 4341 manufacturing component in half.
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: smaller faster cheaper, computer history thru the lens of esthetics versus economics Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 15:47:11 -1000Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
actually, I should qualify that ... single processor Amdahl had about same MIP rate as two processor 3081 aggregate MIP rate ... however IBM "MVS" operating system documentation quoted a two processor system only having 1.2-1.5 the throughput of single processor (because of multiprocessor software overhead). A two processor Amdahl had higher aggregate MIP rate than four processor 3084 (because of cross-cache interface from three other processors rather than one other processor) and significantly higher throughput (combination of both hardware and software 4-processor overhead).
trivia: in the wake of FS failure, I had gotten involved in doing a 16-processor, tightly-coupled (shared memory) multiprocessor and we had con'ed the 3033 processor engineers into working on it in their spare time, a lot more interesting that remapping 168-3 logic to 20% faster chips. It was going great guns until somebody told the head of POK, that it could be decades before the POK favorite son operating system (MVS) had effective 16-way support (POK didn't ship 16-way until after turn of century). The head of POK then invited some of us to never visit POK again ... and directed the 3033 processor engineers to only focus on the 3033.
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
multiprocessor support
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: SystemView Date: 19 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookMid-80s, I was con'ed into running project to do type1 release of a baby bell implementation of VTAM/NCP on series/1 ... with plans for later release on what would be rs/6000. They also had a graphical network monitor/management package. There was all sorts of things done to wall off the dirty tricks of the communication group; what happened next could only be described as truth is stranger than fiction ... and somehow the communication group had acquired rights to the graphical network package (and series/1 effort was trashed). Part of fall 1986 presentation I had made at a SNA ARB meeting in Raleigh:
communication group were constantly saying that the ARB comparison wasn't valid ... however the 3725 NCP/VTAM numbers came from the communication group configurator on HONE and the series/1 numbers came from the real life baby bell deployment.
misc. recent archived posts mentioning the project
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#32 IBM 37x5 Boxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#79 Peer-Coupled Shared Data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#102 370/158 Integrated Channel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#120 Series/1 VTAM/NCP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#115 Peer-Coupled Shared Data Architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#87 IBM and Internet Old Farts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#14 IBM SNA ARB
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#83 IBM Downturn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#2 IBM Series/1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#91 IBM SNA/VTAM (& HSDT)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#114 IBM HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#109 IBM HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#106 IBM HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#52 Series/1 NCP/VTAM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#2 The rise and fall of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#34 The rise and fall of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#94 It's 1983: What computer would you buy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#2 Frank Heart Dies at 89
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#109 It's 1983: What computer would you buy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#93 It's 1983: What computer would you buy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#52 IBM Branch Offices: What They Were, How They Worked, 1920s-1980s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#99 Boca Series/1 & CPD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#90 pneumatic cash systems was Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#59 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#98 360 & Series/1
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd Date: 20 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
Computer equivalent to parallel, asynchronous OODA ... is the multiprocessor/multicore computer "holy grail" ... for a parallel programming language that can easily be used by population that is only familiar with sequential, synchronous operation. Example from more than decade ago:
Intel's server chip chief knocks Itanium, Gates and AMD
https://www.theregister.com/2006/06/08/intel_gelsinger_stanford?page=2
Microsoft super sizes multi-threaded tripe
https://www.theregister.com/2007/05/01/mundie_mundie/
Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/07/05/29/0058246/is-parallel-programming-just-too-hard
It is analogous to Toyota being able to distribute problem solving
paradigm to all parts of the organization from the highest to the
lowest ... and not having the words and mental abstractions to
describe it. I had found computer parallel, asynchronous very natural
in my first intro to computer class and then after taking the class,
univ hires me as programmer and within a year of taking the class,
hires me fulltime responsible for their IBM mainframe systems. Then
nearly two decades later being introduced to John Boyd ... I found
parallel asynchronous OODA also a natural concept. In briefings, Boyd
would talk about former military officers, steeped, in rigid,
top-down, command and control (i.e. sequential, synchronous) starting
to contaminate US corporate culture (not parallel, asynchronous
OODA). ... Toyoto reference
https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/how-toyota-turns-workers-into-problem-solvers
Boyd posts and web references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
multiprocessing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
some parallel programming holy grail posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#52 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#7 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#175 Holy Grail for parallel programming language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#123 Holy Grail for parallel programming language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#119 Holy Grail for parallel programming language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#85 Parallel programming may not be so daunting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#48 New HD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#91 Difference between fingerspitzengefuhl and Coup d'oeil?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#77 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#44 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#48 Difference between fingerspitzengefuhl and Coup d'oeil?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#36 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#15 Why do people say "the soda loop is often depicted as a simple loop"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#21 Eurofighter v F16
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#8 No command, and control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#9 Age
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#62 Problem with XP scheduler?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#26 What is the biggest IT myth of all time?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#44 Are multicore processors driving application developers to explore multithreaded programming options?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#42 Panic in Multicore Land
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#78 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: smaller faster cheaper, computer history thru the lens of esthetics versus economics Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 17:15:18 -1000Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:
Charlie had done a lot of work on CP67 multiprocessor fine-grain multiprocessor locking. In the morph of CP67->VM370 they dropped and/or simplified a lot of stuff (including a lot of kernel fastpath, dynamic adaptive resource management and other stuff I had done as undergraduate as well as multiprocessors support.) I spent much of 1974 putting a lot of it back into VM370 and then light-weight kernel threads for multiprocessor.
SMP/multiprocessor posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
I had some benchmarks of standard 370 two-processor showing twice throughput of single processor (compared to 2-processor MVS showing 1.2-1.5 times throughput of single processor, including kernel spending a lot of time in spinlocks). Start of 1975, I was asked to do something for a five processor 370 (by the group in boeblingen that never shipped) and then got involved in 16 processor 370 project.
"bouce locks" (instead of spinlock) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#bounce
The original sql/relational implementation was System/R ... early work done on vm370 370/145. They wanted to be able to run System/R with VM370 multi-threading ... basically multiple adderss spaces with large portions of the address spaces shared (both r/o and r/w shared segments called DWSS, also enabled different address spaces/thread concurrently on different processors, if available). This is part what we sent to Endicott for what became SQL/DS ... but Endicott wanted SQL/DS to *NOT* require VM370 changes (so that feature got dropped).
system/r posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
It almost got shipped in the early 80s as simulated unix fork support, part of porting BSD to VM370 ... but before it was ready to ship, the group got redirected to do the BSD port to PC/RT workstation instead (as "AOS" alternative to AIX).
trivia: I had an internal technology conference spring 82 and one of the
pitches was about BSD->mainframe ... old archive post (mentions previous
adtech conference in the 70s where we presented 16-way 370 and the 801
group presented 801/risc).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#4a
the above mentions dearth of "advance technology" efforts before 1982. Issue was during Future System period, 370 efforts were being shutdown. Then with implosion of Future System and mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 product pipelines ... much of the company adtech groups were thrown into the 370 development breach (which took awhile to recover).
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: US Is Focused on Regulating Private Equity Like Never Before Date: 22 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookUS Is Focused on Regulating Private Equity Like Never Before. An industry that has long escaped scrutiny in Washington has found agencies slow-walking deals and enforcing long-dormant competition laws.
... the industry had gotten such a bad reputation during the S&L Crisis that they changed the industry name to private equity and "junk bonds" became "high-yield bonds". I remember a TV business interview where the moderator was repeatedly saying "junk bonds" and the guest was repeatedly saying "high-yield bonds".
Private equity analogy to house flipping ... except they put
"mortgage" on the company books, extract every cent out of the company
and then can flip for less money than they paid (because they don't
have to pay off the loan), and still walk away with enormous amounts
of money. Over half corporate defaults are companies currently or
formally in private equity mill (for some reason the defaults never
seem to affect the credit rating of the original private equity
borrowers)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
When Private Equity Takes Over a Nursing Home. After an investment
firm bought St. Joseph's Home for the Aged, in Richmond, Virginia, the
company reduced staff, removed amenities, and set the stage for a
deadly outbreak of COVID-19.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/when-private-equity-takes-over-a-nursing-home
The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would
Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat". In 1970 Roger Freeman, who
also worked for Nixon, revealed the right's motivation for coming
decades of attacks on higher education.
https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/
Freeman's remarks were reported the next day in the San Francisco
Chronicle under the headline "Professor Sees Peril in Education."
According to the Chronicle article, Freeman said, "We are in danger of
producing an educated proletariat. ... That's dynamite! We have to be
selective on who we allow [to go to college]."
... snip ...
AMEX was in competition with KKR for (private equity) LBO (reverse IPO)
of RJR and KKR wins. KKR runs into trouble and hires away AMEX
president to help with RJR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
IBM has one of the largest losses in history of US companies and was being
reorged into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the
company. Th Board hires former president of AMEX as new CEO, who
reverses the breakup and uses some of the same tactics used at RJR
(gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
above some IBM related specifics from
https://www.amazon.com/Retirement-Heist-Companies-Plunder-American-ebook/dp/B003QMLC6K/
... then former AMEX president leaves IBM to head up another major
private equity company, private equity found buying up beltway bandits
and gov. contractors (that become involved in success of failure
culture) and hiring prominent politicians to lobby congress to
outsource gov to their companies (there is law against companies using
gov. contract money to lobby congress, but apparently it is
"laundered" when money is pushed up to private-equity owners)
... including buying company 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 ...
private equity significantly cutting the expenses to maximize their
revenue, private equity owned companies doing gov. security clearances
were found to be filling out the paper work, but not actually doing
background checks, private equity gov. intelligence companies becoming
70% of budget and half the people
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us
also the rise of the success of failure culture, a series of
failures resulting in more contracts for the private equity owned
companies.
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
S&L Crisis posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
success of failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failure
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: smaller faster cheaper, computer history thru the lens of esthetics versus economics Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 13:53:46 -1000Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> writes:
Turn of century, I was doing some stuff for dataprocessing outsourcer. One datacenter had banner hung over maxed ibm mainframe that said 129 cics instances (it was handling dataprocessing for all TV cable companies in the US, office terminals, account management, billing, call centers, downloads to settop boxes, etc).
I also got called into datacenter that was doing complete handling of half the credit cards in the US (transactions, statementing, billing, call centers, plastic embossing, mailing, payments, etc). It had over 40 maxed out IBM mainframes (@$30M/system, something like 16processors/system, >600 processors) running the same 450K cobol statement application ... number needed to finish financial settlement in the overnight batch window. They had a large group for decades handling the application throughput/performance but had gotten somewhat myopically focused. I used some other kinds of performance technology and within a few weeks was able to come up with 14% improvement.
Before that there was small initiall pilot program with 16M accounts to start including target offerings on credit card statements (based on past credit card purchases) ... had all the analysis done on large Sequent NUMA-Q machine. When we took it over, their initial design would have taken months or years to do each month's target marketing analysis ... was able to get it down to a few hrs for multi-hundred million accounts. I had also done some consulting for Steve Chen when he was CTO at Sequent.
Trouble was program was sold to merchants and billed on how many matches were sent out based on their target marketing criteria ... but the processing cost was based on how many accounts they wanted to run match against ... marketing people even sometimes include it as "free" sweetener as part of selling overall processing contract ... in any case, it always operated at a loss.
CICS was highly optimize pathlengths/services ... it tried to avoid as
much as possible using (heavy weight) os/360 services, it would
acquire as much storage as possible and open all files at startup,
then doing much its own storage management, file access, its own
multithreading/multiprogramming/multitasking ... took decades to rewrite
code to support operating system multi-threading and enable some
parallel multiprocessing. multiprocessor exploitation (2004)
https://web.archive.org/web/20071124013919/http://www.yelavich.com/history/ev200402.htm
trivia: undergraduate, I took 2 credit hr intro to computers/fortran. Within year of intro class was hired fulltime responsible for OS/360 (univ had been sold 360/67 for tss/360, but tss/360 never really came to production fruition and so ran as 360/65, they shutdown datacenter on weekends, and I had it dedicated, although 48hrs w/o sleep made monday classes hard). Univ. library had gotten a ONR grant to do online catalog and used part of the money for 2321 datacell. The project was also selected to be betatest for CICS program product (after 23jun69 unbundling announcement and starting to charge for software) and CICS support was added to my tasks. First problem was CICS wouldn't come up. No source, took a little while to isolate the problem. Turns out CICS had some undocumented, hard coded BDAM file options and the library had built their CICS files with different set of options.
cics &/or bdam posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#cics
smp, multiprocessing, and/or compare&swap posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
some posts mentioning the 450k cobol statement app
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#3 COBOL and tricks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#58 Channel Program I/O Processing Efficiency
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#11 IBM z16: Built to Build the Future of Your Business
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#56 Fujitsu confirms end date for mainframe and Unix systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#104 Mainframe Performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#23 Target Marketing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#120 Computer Performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#58 Card Associations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#30 VM370, 3081, and AT&T Long Lines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#87 UPS & PDUs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#10 A brief overview of IBM's new 7 nm Telum mainframe CPU
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#61 Performance Monitoring, Analysis, Simulation, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#68 How Gerstner Rebuilt IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#61 MAINFRAME (4341) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#49 IBM CEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#4 Killer Micros
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#7 IBM CEOs
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: More John Boyd and OODA-loop Date: 23 Nov, 2022 Blog: LinkedInMore John Boyd and OODA-loop
John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
Martial Arts OODA-loop
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lynnwheeler_john-boyd-usaf-the-fighter-pilot-who-changed-activity-6807163421579186176-ZO9G/
John Boyd and Innovation Management
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lynnwheeler_innovation-management-future-activity-6955256629466398720-AkPQ/
Boyd would talk being very vocal about the electronic sensors on the
trail not working, possibly as punishment he was put in charge of
Spook Base. Spook Base reference ... gone 404, but lives on at wayback
machine ... includes references to "Quacker" (pilotless drone). I was
at Boeing (before joining IBM) about same time Boyd was at "spook
base". His biographies mention "spook base" was $2.5B windfall for
IBM.
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
Note Boyd had story that they spent 18months making sure that Spinney
was covered in all details in congressional testimony (all details had
written authorization), however SECDEF blamed Boyd for the article and
wanted him banned from the Pentagon and transferred to Alaska. Boyd
had congressional coverage and Weinberger directive was rescinded week
later. Gone behind paywall, but mostly free at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20070320170523/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953733,00.html
also
https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953733,00.html
... may have to click on individual page numbers (instead just
"Next>>", not all pages captured). Supposedly Weinberger directed new
classification "NO-SPIN" ... unclassified but not to be shared with
Spinney.
A New Conception of War
https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Marine-Corps-University-Press/Books-by-topic/MCUP-Titles-A-Z/A-New-Conception-of-War/
PDF->kindle, loc1783-88:
Boyd's collaboration with associate Pierre Sprey on the development of
the A-10 close air support (CAS) aircraft sparked his exploration of
history. The project was Sprey's, with Sprey consulting Boyd on
performance analysis, E-M Theory, and views on warfare in
general. When designing the A-10, Sprey had to determine what aircraft
features provided the firepower and loiter time required by ground
forces, while also granting survivability against the enemy ground
fire that would inevitably be directed against it.4The German
Wehrmacht had pioneered both the design and employment of dedicated
CAS aircraft in World War II.
... snip ...
Boyd would also talk about doing something much simpler than F16, 1/3rd the maintenance hrs and 1/5th the costs ... something along the lines of F20-Tigershark. Recognizing that USAF/MIC would never accept cost optimized so they tried targeting export market. They got undercut by F16/MIC forces lobbying congress to offer "directed appropriation" USAID (could only be used to buy F16s) to the candidate countries. The claim is from the candidate countries that F16 was less appropriate for their needs, but the choice was getting F16s for "free" (USAID) or having to spend their own money.
Desert Storm, 17Jan91 to 28Feb91, only last 100 hrs was land war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
Desert Storm Air Power Effectiveness report A10s were so effective
taking out Iraq tanks (million A10 30mm shells) ... that crews were
walking away ... also finding a lot of abandoned tanks after end of
hostilities (stories of fierce tank battles with coalition forces
taking no damage, don't mention if the Iraqi tanks had anybody
home). Burton's "Pentagon Wars" has them getting A10 30mm cost reduced
by nearly a factor of ten ... the desert storm million 30mm shells
*ONLY* costing $13M. Burton also suggest a mini-A10 that could be
forward deployed and maintained ... however these days increasingly
likely to be autonomous (Burton would say that Boyd destroyed his
career when Boyd challenged him to do what was right).
http://www.gao.gov/products/NSIAD-97-134
https://www.amazon.com/Pentagon-Wars-Reformers-Challenge-Guard-ebook/dp/B00HXY969W/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/03/books/corrupt-from-top-to-bottom.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II#A-X_program
Boyd is credited with the (desert storm) "left hook" strategy ... and
all sorts of explanations why the Abram M1s weren't in position to cut
off the retreating Republican Guard ... another possibility is Boyd
didn't realize the disparity between the M1 rated speed and their
effective speed (over distance) being so tightly tethered to supply &
maintenance.
https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2015/12/14/historys-last-left-hook
In the meantime, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney consulted one of his
favorite military strategists, retired Air Force Colonel John
Boyd. During the run up to Desert Storm, Cheney regularly met with
Boyd, where Boyd developed "a version of the von Schlieffen plan"
[5]. Boyd was intimately familiar with the Battle of Cannae, the
Schlieffen plan, as well as the concept of strategic envelopment; he
used his vast knowledge of history to inform his strategic advice to
the DOD
... snip ...
Boyd would talk about "Fingerspitzengefuhl" in relation to OODA-loop
and emphasize that all parts running constantly (and asynchronous) and
observations should be made from every possible facet (countermeasure
to biases; observation, orientation, confirmation, cognitive, etc).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspitzengef%C3%BChl related
concepts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspitzengef%C3%BChl#Related_concepts
The concept may be compared to ideas about intuition and neural net
programming. The same phenomenon, but conceptualized in a radically
different way, seems to be described by D.T. Suzuki in swordsmanship
teaching stories recounted in his Zen and Japanese Culture, and given
in analytical detail in Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis.[5]
... snip ...
similar to Coup d'oeil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C5%93il
and EFBAS
https://slightlyeastofnew.com/2014/12/23/another-candidate-for-ebfas/
... and "How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers"
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/how-toyota-turns-workers-into-problem-solvers
To paraphrase one of our contacts, he said, "It's not that we don't
want to tell you what TPS is, it's that we can't. We don't have
adequate words for it. But, we can show you what TPS is."
We've observed that Toyota, its best suppliers, and other companies
that have learned well from Toyota can confidently distribute a
tremendous amount of responsibility to the people who actually do the
work, from the most senior, experienced member of the organization to
the most junior. This is accomplished because of the tremendous
emphasis on teaching everyone how to be a skillful problem solver.
... snip ...
I've suggested Boyd could plausibly have taken 1846 Halleck
https://www.amazon.com/Elements-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 ...
changing "see" to "observe" and added "orientation" for experience and learning ... however others say they've seen no evidence that Boyd read Halleck
In 1990 book introduction, one of the "fathers of AI", Bogh Andersen says that AI was done all wrong because it failed to take into account "context". I periodically equated that to the "OO" part of Boyd's OODA-loop, real time observation placed in context (orientation). Possible excuse was that the computers were not yet large enough and powerful enough to perform "context" processing ... just simply following set of rules.
... and computer equivalent to parallel, asynchronous OODA ... is the multiprocessor/multicore computer "holy grail" ... for a parallel programming language that can easily be used by population that is only familiar with sequential, synchronous, step-by-step operation. Articles from more than decade ago:
Intel's server chip chief knocks Itanium, Gates and AMD
https://www.theregister.com/2006/06/08/intel_gelsinger_stanford?page=2
Microsoft super sizes multi-threaded tripe
https://www.theregister.com/2007/05/01/mundie_mundie/
Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/07/05/29/0058246/is-parallel-programming-just-too-hard
Boyd would also comment about former military officers were starting to contaminate US corporate culture with their rigid, top-down, command&control structure (& only those at the very top knew what they were doing). Scenario was that at entry to WW2, US has to rapidly deploy millions with little or no skill or experience ... the rigid, top-down, command&control structure was required to leverage the few skilled resources available. Boyd would compare 11% (growing to nearly 20%) US officers to maintain rigid, top-down command&control structure, compared to 3% (or less) for German army. However, this was about the time that articles were starting to appear that business school MBAs were beginning to destroy US companies with their myopic focus on short term results.
Boyd posts/ and web references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
multiprocessor, multicore, parallel programming posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
a few past posts mentioning bogh andersen
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#32 progress in e-mail, such as AOL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#6 A Theory of Reality as More Than the Sum of Its Parts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#5 Mission Command: The Who, What, Where, When and Why An Anthology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#2 Does OODA-loop observation carry a lot of baggage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#61 Why did the OODA-loop tactic grow into a strategy?
Archived LinkedIn posts, comments and/or linkedin refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#47 Computer History, OS/360, Fred Brooks, MMM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#43 1973 ARPANET Map
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#36 360/85
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#31 IBM OS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#27 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#26 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#25 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#24 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#21 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#19 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#18 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#17 Arguments for a Sane Instruction Set Architecture--5 years later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#16 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#12 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#11 Computer History IBM 305 RAMAC and 650 RAMAC, 1956 (350 Disk Storage)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#8 Elizabeth Warren to Jerome Powell: Just how many jobs do you plan to kill?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#3 AL Gore Invented The Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#95 Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#91 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#88 IBM Cambridge Science Center Performance Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#84 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#82 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#80 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#75 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#74 Mainframe and/or Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#72 Mainframe and/or Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#68 Datacenter Vulnerability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#67 30 years of (IBM) Management Briefings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#66 IBM Dress Code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#65 IBM DPD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#62 IBM DPD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#60 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#59 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#58 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#57 IBM changes to retirement benefits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#54 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#53 Wednesday Night Round table
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#52 IBM changes to retirement benefits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#49 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#47 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#44 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#43 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#40 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#31 Sears is shutting its last store in Illinois, its home state
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#24 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#23 IBM APL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#20 9/11
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#5 IBM Tech Editor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#3 IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#2 VM/370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#122 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#120 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#119 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#118 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#113 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#110 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#108 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#105 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#101 Father, Son, and Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#95 VM I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#85 IBM CKD DASD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#82 Why the Soviet computer failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#79 Why the Soviet computer failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#73 IBM/PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#72 IBM/PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#71 COMTEN - IBM Clone Telecommunication Controller
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#69 360/67 & DUMPRX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#67 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#61 200TB SSDs could come soon thanks to Micron's new chip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#60 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#57 The Man That Helped Change IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#53 z/VM 50th - part 4
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#51 IBM Career
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#50 z/VM 50th - part 3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#49 z/VM 50th - part 2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#47 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#46 What's something from the early days of the Internet which younger generations may not know about?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#44 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#42 IBM Bureaucrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#28 IBM Power: The Servers that Apple Should Have Created
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#6 What is IBM SNA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#75 Frameworks Quagmire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#3 Final Rules of Thumb on How Computing Affects Organizations and People
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#112 GM C4 and IBM HA/CMP
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Tandem Memos Date: 25 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookJim Gray palms off some stuff on me when he leaves IBM Research for Tandem, fall of 1980 ... some old email in this archived post
We use to drop by to see Jim at Tandem on their Friday afternoons. I had been blamed for online computer conferencing on the IBM internal network in the late 70s and early 80s, but it really took off the spring 1981 when I distributed a trip report of Tandem visit to see Jim, only about 300 participated by claims that upwards of 25,000 were reading. We then printed six copies some 300 pages, along with executive summary and summary of summary, packaged in six Tandem three ring binders and sent them to corporate executive committee (folklore is 5of6 wanted to fire me).
... from IBM Jargon
https://comlay.net/ibmjarg.pdf
Tandem Memos - n. Something constructive but hard to control; a fresh
of breath air (sic). That's another Tandem Memos. A phrase to worry
middle management. It refers to the computer-based conference (widely
distributed in 1981) in which many technical personnel expressed
dissatisfaction with the tools available to them at that time, and
also constructively criticized the way products were [are]
developed. The memos are required reading for anyone with a serious
interest in quality products. If you have not seen the memos, try
reading the November 1981 Datamation summary.
... snip ...
At Dec81 SIGOPS, Jim asks me to help Tandem co-worker get Stanford
PHD, which involved GLOBAL LRU page replacement algorithms
... and was being strongly opposed by "LOCAL LRU" forces. I had done a
lot of work on it as undergraduate in the 60s and had detailed data on
GLOBAL versus LOCAL. IBM management then prohibits me from sending
response for a year, I hoped it wasn't IBM executives getting involved
in academic dispute but punishment for "Tandem Memos".
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email821019
my recent tome on "Tandem Memos" & IBM Chairman Learson trying to
block the rise of the (old boy) careerists and bureaucrats destroying
the Watson legacy.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
we leave IBM 1992 during IBM's big downturn (see more in "wild ducks")
and get involved in financial industry and security protocols.
Tandem/ACI/Compaq sponsors workshop for me held in large class room at
Tandem, Cuppertino, Jan1999 ... old account by one of the attendees:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#riskm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#riskmaads
trivia: Jan1999 I was also asked to help try and prevent the coming economic mess (we failed) ... I was told some investment bankers had walked away "clean" from the 80s S&L Crisis, were then running Internet IPO mills (invest a few million, hype, and then IPO for a couple billion; needed to fail so field would be clear for next round), and were predicted next to get into securitized mortgages.
online computer conferencing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
page replacement algorithm posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#clock
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
recent archived posts mentioning wild ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#55 More John Boyd and OODA-loop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#47 Computer History, OS/360, Fred Brooks, MMM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#26 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#25 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#24 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#19 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#18 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#17 Arguments for a Sane Instruction Set Architecture--5 years later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#16 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#12 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#11 Computer History IBM 305 RAMAC and 650 RAMAC, 1956 (350 Disk Storage)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#8 Elizabeth Warren to Jerome Powell: Just how many jobs do you plan to kill?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#3 AL Gore Invented The Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#95 Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#82 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#80 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#72 Mainframe and/or Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#68 Datacenter Vulnerability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#67 30 years of (IBM) Management Briefings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#66 IBM Dress Code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#65 IBM DPD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#62 IBM DPD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#59 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#58 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#57 IBM changes to retirement benefits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#54 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#52 IBM changes to retirement benefits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#49 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#31 Sears is shutting its last store in Illinois, its home state
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#24 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#20 9/11
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#5 IBM Tech Editor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#3 IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#108 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#105 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#101 Father, Son, and Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#95 VM I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#82 Why the Soviet computer failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#79 Why the Soviet computer failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#73 IBM/PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#67 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#61 200TB SSDs could come soon thanks to Micron's new chip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#60 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#57 The Man That Helped Change IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#53 z/VM 50th - part 4
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#51 IBM Career
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#50 z/VM 50th - part 3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#49 z/VM 50th - part 2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#47 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#42 IBM Bureaucrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#32 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#28 IBM Power: The Servers that Apple Should Have Created
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#6 What is IBM SNA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#2 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#104 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#103 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#65 IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#64 IBM Wild Ducks
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Christmas 1989 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 16:21:15 -1000Andy Leighton <andyl@azaal.plus.com> writes:
IBM AWD had built their own 4mbit token-ring card for the PC/RT workstation (had a pc/at bus). For the RS/6000 workstation that had microchannel, they were ordered to only use the heavily performance kneecapped PS2 microchannel cards. It turned out that the PS2 microchannel 16mbit token-ring card had lower card throughput than PC/RT 4mbit token-ring card.
801/risc, iliad, romp, rios, awd, pc/rt, rs/6000, power, power/pc
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
New IBM Almaden research center had been heavily provisioned with CAT4 wiring, in theory for 16mbit token-ring ... but they found the 10mbit ethernet cards had higher per card throughput than 16mbit microchannel cards, also 10mbit ethernet LANs had higher aggregate LAN throughput and lower LAN network latency than 16mbit token-ring LANs. At the same time the high performance 10mbit ethernet CAT4 cards were $69, while the heavily performance kneecapped microchannel 16mbit token-ring cards were $800 (i.e. heavily performance kneecapped microchannel cards was just a little part of communication group fiercely fighting off client/server and distributed computing).
About this time the IBM Dallas E&S center published paper showing 16mbit token-ring having significantly higher throughput than ethernet ... I could only think that they were comparing with the early experimental 3mbit ethernet cards before listen-before-transmit standard.
Summer 1988, ACM SIGCOMM had paper where they did an ethernet study with 30 stations all running low-level device driver loops, constantly transmitting minimum sized packets ... finding effective aggregate 10mbit ethernet LAN throughput dropping off to 8mbit/secs.
My wife had been con'ed into co-authoring response to gov. agency request for super-secure, large campus, network environment ... where she included 3-tier network architecture. We were then out making customer executive presentation on large, fast, secure, 3tier networks with TCP/IP, high-performance routers, and ethernet ... and constantly taking all sorts of barbs and arrows (with enormous amount of misinformation) from the communication group, SNA, and SAA people.
trivia: communication group also fiercely fighting off release of mainframe tcp/ip support ... when they lost that battle, they changed and since they had corporate strategic ownership of everything that crossed datacenter walls, it had to be shipped through them; what shipped got aggregate 44kbytes/sec using nearly whole 3090 processor. I did the enhancements for RFC1044 and in some tuning tests at Cray Research between Cray and 4341, got sustained 4341 channel throughput using only modest amount of the 4341 processor (something like 500 times improvement in bytes moved per instruction executed).
rfc 1044 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
finally: late 80s, senior disk engineer got talk scheduled at annual, internal, world-wide communication group conference, supposedly on 3174 performance ... put opened the talk with statement that the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division ... they were seeing drop in disk sales with data fleeing mainframes to more disributed computing friendly platforms. They had come up with a number of (IBM) solutions, but were all being vetoed by the communication group (with their corporate strategic ownership for everything that crossed datacenter walls) ... note that the communication group stranglehold on mainframe datacenters wasn't just networking and DASD ... but extended to whole mainframe business ... and it was just a couple years before IBM has one of the largest losses in history of US companies and was being reorganized into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the company (board eventually brings in new CEO that reverses the breakup ... but wasn't enough to prevent the demise of disk division).
communicaton group stranglehold posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
topic drift; recent long winded tome on the bureaucrats and careerist
destroying the Watson legacy at IBM
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
recent archive posts mentioning IBM wild ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#56 Tandem Memos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#55 More John Boyd and OODA-loop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#47 Computer History, OS/360, Fred Brooks, MMM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#26 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#25 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#24 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#19 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#18 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#17 Arguments for a Sane Instruction Set Architecture--5 years later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#16 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#12 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#11 Computer History IBM 305 RAMAC and 650 RAMAC, 1956 (350 Disk Storage)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#8 Elizabeth Warren to Jerome Powell: Just how many jobs do you plan to kill?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#3 AL Gore Invented The Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#95 Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#82 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#80 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#72 Mainframe and/or Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#68 Datacenter Vulnerability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#67 30 years of (IBM) Management Briefings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#66 IBM Dress Code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#65 IBM DPD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#62 IBM DPD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#59 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#58 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#57 IBM changes to retirement benefits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#54 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#52 IBM changes to retirement benefits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#49 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#31 Sears is shutting its last store in Illinois, its home state
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#24 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#20 9/11
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#5 IBM Tech Editor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#3 IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#108 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#105 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#101 Father, Son, and Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#95 VM I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#82 Why the Soviet computer failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#79 Why the Soviet computer failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#73 IBM/PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#67 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#61 200TB SSDs could come soon thanks to Micron's new chip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#60 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#57 The Man That Helped Change IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#53 z/VM 50th - part 4
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#51 IBM Career
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#50 z/VM 50th - part 3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#49 z/VM 50th - part 2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#47 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#42 IBM Bureaucrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#32 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#28 IBM Power: The Servers that Apple Should Have Created
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#6 What is IBM SNA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#2 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#104 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#103 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Model Mainframe Date: 26 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookModel Mainframe
Mid-90s, after leaving IBM, was brought into the largest airline res system (SABRE), wanted me to look at the ten impossible things they couldn't do (on TPF/mainframe). Started with ROUTES (25% of multi-system TPF processing) ... and given full OAG tape (all commercial airline flts for all airlines and all airports in the world). I came back two months later with (RS/6000, unix) implementation that did all their impossible things. Initial code did all the stuff they did then, 100 times faster; then adding implementation of all the additional things, reduced it to only ten times faster. Sized, ten rack mount RS/6000-990s could handle all ROUTES requests in the world for all commercial airlines. Less than decade later (2002), cellphone (XSCALE) processor had MIP rate nearly aggregate of those ten 990s.
(1993) 990 claim: 126MIPS (ten 990s: 1.26BIPS);
(1993) eight processor ES/9000-982 claim: 408MIPS
http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/mips.htm
other recent (mostly mainframe) history posts:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mainframe-channel-io-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-2-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-3-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-4-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-5-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
a few archived post references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#16 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#95 Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#54 z/VM 50th - part 4
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#53 z/VM 50th - part 4
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#50 z/VM 50th - part 3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#49 z/VM 50th - part 2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#47 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#44 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#24 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#67 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#60 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#32 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#2 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#104 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#103 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
some past posts mentioning TPF, airline res systems, and redoing ROUTES
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#76 lock me up, was IBM Mainframe market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#8 Air Traffic System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#6 Airline Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#71 Airline Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#9 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#38 LIFE magazine 1945 "Thinking machines" predictions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#109 Airlines Reservation Systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#93 Delta Outage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#58 Man Versus System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#117 25 Years: How the Web began
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#84 ACP/TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#69 RR songs, was Re: e50th/60th anniversary of SABRE--real-time airline reservations computer system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#54 RR songs, was Re: e50th/60th anniversary of SABRE--real-time airline reservations computer system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#0 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made 30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#87 Old data storage or data base
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#59 history of Programming language and CPU in relation to each
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#16 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#8 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#43 Sabre; The First Online Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#42 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#73 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#41 Automation is still not accepted to streamline the business processes... why organizations are not accepting newer technologies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#32 CLIs and GUIs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#19 American Airlines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#41 US Airways badmouths legacy system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#22 Bidirectional Binary Self-Joins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#18 RAMAC 305(?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#85 The TransRelational Model: Performance Concerns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#23 Demo: Things in Hierarchies (w/o RM/SQL)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#6 Mainframe not a good architecture for interactive workloads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#83 Summary: Robots of Doom
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#2 Computers in Science Fiction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#69 Block oriented I/O over IP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#20 Competitors to SABRE?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#136a checks (was S/390 on PowerPC?)
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: 360/85 Date: 27 Nov, 2022 Blog: LinkedInre:
2301 similar to 2303 drum, except 2301 transferred four heads in parallel, data rate was four times 2303, each track four times larger and 1/4 the number of tracks.
CP/67 delivered to univ did fifo queue order and single page transfer per i/o ... 2301 was about 70 page transfers/sec. I rewrote i/o code ... did ordered seek for 2311 and 2314; and chained all page transfers for same arm position in rotational order (2311, 2314, 2303, 2301). For 2301 increased page transfers/sec from 70 to about 270.
Two models of 2305, one was 12mbytes capacity, 1.5mbytes/sec, avg access 1/2 rotational delay. The other was 6mbytes, 3mbytes/sec and avg access 1/4 rotational delay.
some recent cp67 and vm370 posts
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-2-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-3-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-4-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-5-lynn-wheeler/
& archived versions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#44 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#47 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#49 z/VM 50th - part 2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#50 z/VM 50th - part 3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#53 z/VM 50th - part 4
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#54 z/VM 50th - part 4
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#113 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#114 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#115 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#118 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#21 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#22 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#27 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#29 370 virtual memory
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Fortran Date: 27 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookAnn Hardy
If Discrimination, Then Branch: Ann Hardy's Contributions to Computing
https://computerhistory.org/blog/if-discrimination-then-branch-ann-hardy-s-contributions-to-computing/
Much more Ann Hardy at Computer History Museum
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102717167
Ann rose up to become Vice President of the Integrated Systems
Division at Tymshare, from 1976 to 1984, which did online airline
reservations, home banking, and other applications. When Tymshare was
acquired by McDonnell-Douglas in 1984, Ann's position as a female VP
became untenable, and was eased out of the company by being encouraged
to spin out Gnosis, a secure, capabilities-based operating system
developed at Tymshare. Ann founded Key Logic, with funding from Gene
Amdahl, which produced KeyKOS, based on Gnosis, for IBM and Amdahl
mainframes. After closing Key Logic, Ann became a consultant, leading
to her cofounding Agorics with members of Ted Nelson's Xanadu project.
... snip ...
Gnosis/KeyKOS trivia: I was brought in to review Gnosis as part of the spinoff to Key Logic.
One of their other online applications was (VM370/)CMS-based online
computer conferencing ... TYMSHARE started offering it free to (IBM
mainframe user group) SHARE in Aug1976 as "VMSHARE" ... archives here:
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
At end of semester taking two credit hr intro to fortran/computers. I got a student programming job to re-implement 1401 MPIO on 360/30. The univ. shutdown the datacenter on the weekend and I would have the place all to myself, although 48hrs w/o sleep made Monday classes a little hard. They gave me a bunch of manuals, and let me figure it all out on my own (within a few weeks I had 2000 card assembler program, got to design & implement my own monitor, device drivers, interrupt handlers, error recover, storage management, etc). They univ had been sold 360/67 to replace 709/1401 combo running tss/360 .... and the 1401 is temporary replaced with 360/30 (which had 1401 emulation microcode) pending 360/67.
When 360/67 finally came in, it was run as 360/65 with os/360 (tss/360 never coming to production fruition) and I was hired fulltime responsible for os/360 (and continued to have my 48hrs dedicated weekend time). Student fortran jobs ran less than second on 709 (tape->tape), when first cutover to 360 & os/360, they ran over a minute. I install HASP which cuts time in half, then started doing custom STAGE2 SYSGENS (re-arrange cards for careful placement on DASD, optimize arm seek and PDS directory multi-track search) which cuts student fortran another 2/3rds to 12.9secs. It never got better than 709 until I install WATFOR.
Before I graduate, I'm hired fulltime into small group in the Boeing CFO office to help with the formation of Boeing Computer Services (consolidate all dataprocessing in independent business unit to better monetize the investment, including offering services to non-Boeing entities). I thot Renton datacenter possibly largest in the world, getting 360/65s faster than they could be installed, boxes constantly staged in the hallways around the machine room. Lots of politics between Renton director and CFO, who only had a 360/30 up at Boeing field (although they enlarge the machine room for 360/67 for me to play with when I wasn't doing other stuff). When I graduate, I join the IBM Cambridge Science Center, instead of staying at Boeing.
When I transfer to IBM San Jose Research, Backus had office down the
hall.
https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/builders/builders_backus.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Backus
He directed the team that invented and implemented FORTRAN, the first
widely used high-level programming language, and was the inventor of
the Backus-Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation to define formal
language syntax.
... snip ...
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
commerical, online, virtual machine service bureaus
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#online
some recent posts mentioning Ann Hardy and/or GNOSIS/KeyKOS:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#92 TYMSHARE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#92 Cobol and Jean Sammet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#45 Transaction Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#71 book review: Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#100 CMSBACK, ADSM, TSM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#98 CMSBACK, ADSM, TSM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#27 Someone Else's Computer: The Prehistory of Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#25 Rust in peace: Memory bugs in C and C++ code cause security issues so Microsoft is considering alternatives once again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#33 IBM Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#77 Douglas Engelbart, the forgotten hero of modern computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#95 The (broken) economics of OSS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#24 1963 Timesharing: A Solution to Computer Bottlenecks
some recent posts mentioning Backus
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#99 IBM Stretch (7030) -- Aggressive Uniprocessor Parallelism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#67 RDBMS, SQL, QBE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#82 Amdahl
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#28 System/R, QBE, IMS, EAGLE, IDEA, DB2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#35 Who introduced named files?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#26 What's Fortran?!?!
some recent posts mentioning WATFOR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#31 IBM OS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#21 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#88 IBM Cambridge Science Center Performance Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#87 CICS (and other history)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#8 CICS 53 Years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#95 Enhanced Production Operating Systems II
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#50 Channel Program I/O Processing Efficiency
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#45 IBM Chairman John Opel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#43 WATFOR and CICS were both addressing some of the same OS/360 problems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#42 WATFOR and CICS were both addressing some of the same OS/360 problems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#31 Technology Flashback
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#110 Window Display Ground Floor Datacenters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#95 Operating System File/Dataset I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#69 Mainframe History: How Mainframe Computers Evolved Over the Years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#57 CMS OS/360 Simulation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#20 COMPUTER HISTORY: REMEMBERING THE IBM SYSTEM/360 MAINFRAME, its Origin and Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#10 Computer Server Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#70 IBM Mainframe market was Re: Approximate reciprocals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#0 System Response
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#89 Computer BUNCH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#13 360 Performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#72 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#23 Target Marketing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#12 Programming Skills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#108 IBM Disks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#1 PCP, MFT, MVT OS/360, VS1, & VS2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#105 IBM CKD DASD and multi-track search
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#64 addressing and protection, was Paper about ISO C
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#63 IBM 360s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#70 the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#44 iBM System/3 FORTRAN for engineering/science work?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#17 iBM System/3 FORTRAN for engineering/science work?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#43 IBM Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#33 Univac 90/30 DIAG instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#32 Univac 90/30 DIAG instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#21 Univac 90/30 DIAG instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#19 Univac 90/30 DIAG instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#37 April 7, 1964: IBM Bets Big on System/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#64 Early Computer Use
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Retirement Date: 28 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookGone from IBM in the early 90s, and did lot of work in financial industry. Mar/Apr '05 eserver mainframe article, I retired not long later, gone 404, but still lives on at wayback machine, (some details a little garbled) they did photo shoot at office for the paper mag
.. have continued to be active online (I've made lots of references to being blamed for online computer conferencing on the IBM internal network in the late 70s & early 80s ... precursor to modern social media).
online computer conferencing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
A few recent group posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#55 More John Boyd and OODA-loop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#3 AL Gore Invented The Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#24 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#72 IBM/PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#71 COMTEN - IBM Clone Telecommunication Controller
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#67 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#60 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#54 z/VM 50th - part 4
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#53 z/VM 50th - part 4
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#50 z/VM 50th - part 3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#49 z/VM 50th - part 2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#47 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#46 What's something from the early days of the Internet which younger generations may not know about?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#45 What's something from the early days of the Internet which younger generations may not know about?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#43 What's something from the early days of the Internet which younger generations may not know about?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#40 What's something from the early days of the Internet which younger generations may not know about?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#38 What's something from the early days of the Internet which younger generations may not know about?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#37 What's something from the early days of the Internet which younger generations may not know about?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#32 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#2 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#104 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#103 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: New FTX CEO says he's never seen 'complete failure' of corporate controls in his career, including at Enron Date: 29 Nov, 2022 Blog: LinkedInre:
... seems to obfuscate the behavior that allowed ENRON ... working up to another gift for the audit industry, like sox?
Tipping Point: The Financial Fragility of the Big Four Global Audit
Firms. Criticism has been intense of Big Audit, for sure, but the
tipping point to "the next Arthur Andersen" is not discussed in polite
company.
https://thedig.substack.com/p/tipping-point-the-financial-fragility
What size financial hit could kill a Big Four accounting network --
litigation damages or an enforcement penalty on the scale of the fatal
blow that Enron inflicted on Arthur Andersen?
... snip ...
Sarbanes-Oxley posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxle
ENRON posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
financial reporting fraud posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Computer History, OS/360, Fred Brooks, MMM Date: 29 Nov, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Computer Design Innovator, Dies at 91. He was
a lead designer of the computers that cemented IBM's dominance for
decades. He later wrote a book on software engineering that became a
quirky classic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/technology/frederick-p-brooks-jr-dead.html
RIP Fred 'Mythical Man-Month' Brooks: IBM guru of software project
management. Turing Award winner who helped spread the eight-bit byte
https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/28/fred_mythical_man_month_brooks/
The most important single decision I ever made was to change the IBM
360 series from a 6-bit byte to an 8-bit byte, thereby enabling the
use of lowercase letters. That change propagated everywhere.
... snip ...
8bit ... then there is ebcdic fiasco (instead of ascii)
BCD was supposed to go to 8-bit ASCII ... but (comedy? of)
circumstances, it went to EBCDIC instead (gone 404, but lives on at
wayback machine):
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/ASCII.HTM
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/BACSLASH.HTM
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/FATHEROF.HTM
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/HISTORY.HTM
some recent Bemer posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#24 COMPUTER HISTORY: REMEMBERING THE IBM SYSTEM/360 MAINFRAME, its Origin and Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#116 What's different, was Why did Dennis Ritchie write that UNIX was a modern implementation of CTSS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#56 ASCI White
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#51 Why did Dennis Ritchie write that UNIX was a modern implementation of CTSS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#91 Computer BUNCH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#58 Interdata Computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#13 360 Performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#126 On the origin of the /text section/ for code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#44 Blank 80-column punch cards up for grabs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#92 EBCDIC Trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#7 IBM timesharing terminal--offline preparation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#39 Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#58 So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#42 SCP of file to USS from Mac is corrupted
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#63 EBCDIC Bad History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#15 Has Microsoft commuted suicide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#77 Nostalgia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#75 Nostalgia
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Amazon's New Chip Moves AWS Into High-Performance Computing Date: 29 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookAmazon's New Chip Moves AWS Into High-Performance Computing. Technology was designed in-house and represents a challenge to partners like Intel and Nvidia.
(cloud) megadatacenter posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#megadatacenter
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 18:31:12 -1000re:
In Memoriam: Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. - a Personal Recollection
https://circleid.com/posts/20221119-in-memoriam-frederick-p-brooks-jr-a-personal-recollection
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Computer Design Innovator, Dies at 91. He was a
lead designer of the computers that cemented IBM's dominance for
decades. He later wrote a book on software engineering that became a
quirky classic.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/technology/frederick-p-brooks-jr-dead.html
RIP Fred 'Mythical Man-Month' Brooks: IBM guru of software project
management. Turing Award winner who helped spread the eight-bit byte
https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/28/fred_mythical_man_month_brooks/
The most important single decision I ever made was to change the IBM 360
series from a 6-bit byte to an 8-bit byte, thereby enabling the use of
lowercase letters. That change propagated everywhere.
... snip ...
also has URLs for PDFs, Mythical Man Month
https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~weimerw/2018-481/readings/mythical-man-month.pdf
... 8bit ... then there is ebcdic fiasco (instead of ascii)
BCD was supposed to go to 8-bit ASCII ... but (comedy? of)
circumstances, it went to EBCDIC instead (gone 404, but lives on at
wayback machine):
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/ASCII.HTM
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/BACSLASH.HTM
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/FATHEROF.HTM
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/HISTORY.HTM
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The Pentagon Can't Count: It's Time to Reinvent the Audit Date: 30 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookThe Pentagon Can't Count: It's Time to Reinvent the Audit
... DOD has been required to pass an audit every year since the 90s when legislation was passed requiring annual audit of every federal agency
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex.
some past posts referencing multitary spending &/or audit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#22 Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#14 How to spot a dodgy company - never trust a high achiever
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#109 Iraq, Longest War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#13 The Pentagon still uses computer software from 1958 to manage its contracts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#21 $6.5 TRILLION IS MISSING FROM OBAMA'S DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#108 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#30 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#84 New hard drive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#76 Pentagon remains stubbornly unable to account for its billions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#29 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 ^A^K boy scouts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#17 Why do we keep losing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#75 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#108 Occupy Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#68 Why do we have wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#99 US Debt In Public Hands Doubles Under Barack Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#77 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#2 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#61 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#69 Littoral Warfare Ship
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#104 Defense Department Needs to Act Like IBM to Save Itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#63 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#41 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#37 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#58 2 v 2 - How the Typhoon kills the F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#103 ObamaCare Web Site Problems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#29 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#51 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#67 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: How Capitalism--Not a Few Bad Actors--Destroyed the Internet Date: 30 Nov, 2022 Blog: FacebookHow Capitalism--Not a Few Bad Actors--Destroyed the Internet. Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.
late 90s, was brought into cal. legislation to help word smith some
legislation (they were working on electronic signature, identity
theft, and "opt-in personal information sharing). Before "opt-in
personal information sharing" passed (required record of individual
agreeing to sharing their private/personal information), a federal
pre-emption, "opt-out" was added to GLBA (private/personal information
could be shared unless institution had record of individual
objecting).
https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/privacy-security/gramm-leach-bliley-act
2004 at annual, national privacy conference in WashDC, there was
session with panel discussion with the FTC commissioners. During the
session, somebody got up asked if they were going to do anything about
GLBA opt-out legislation. He said he worked for a major callcenter
technology company and he said that all the major 1-800 callcenters
handling "opt-out" calls were not recording any information from the
call (i.e. there was never a record of anybody objecting to their
information being shared) ... they just ignored him.
Some of the participants had also done extensive detailed public surveys about consumer threats. One of the major consumer threats were institutional breaches where criminals were using the information for fraudulent financial transactions and little or nothing was being done (normally security efforts are made in self protection, but in these situations, the institutions weren't at risk, it was the public). Cal. breach notification legislation hoped that the resulting publicity would motivate institutions to take security measures to protect the public.
Then several years while dozen (pre-emption) federal breach notification bills were introduced, about evenly divided between those similar to the cal legislation and those worded in such away that criteria would rarely be met to require notification. Then there was financial industry proposal floated that if institution met an industry security certification, it wouldn't be subject to breach notification. Lots of institutions got security certification and then had a breach which the industry would immediately revoke the certification (joke about security certified institution were all those that just hadn't been breached yet).
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
electronic signature posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
data breach notification posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:39:43 -1000Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:
lots of 2741 (selectric) terminal on CTSS, Multics, and CP67 in 60s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741
also used for APL (with APL selectric golf ball). 2741 used tilt-rotate
"code" ... translation between computer character and tilt-rotate golf
ball character position.
CTSS (some of the CTSS people had gone to 5th flr for multics, others
went to science center on the 4th flr) runoff was rewritten for CMS
SCRIPT and output runoff on 1403 "TN" (w/lower case; some number of IBM
CP67/CMS documents) ... final copy was sometimes even runoff on 2741
with "film" ribbon (rather than fabric
ribbon)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TYPSET_and_RUNOFF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCRIPT_(markup)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_CP/CMS
GML was invented at the science center in 1969 and GML tag processing
added to SCRIPT (decade later, GML morphs into ISO standard SGML, after
another decade morphs into HTML at CERN).
https://web.archive.org/web/20231001185033/http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/roots.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Generalized_Markup_Language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Generalized_Markup_Language
one of the first main stream IBM documents done in CMS SCRIPT was 370 architecture document (sometimes called "REDBOOK" for distribution in RED 3-ring binders). CMS SCRIPT command line options were used to select printing the full 370 architecture document or the 370 Principles of Operation subset (w/o all the engineering notes, alternatives, justification, etc) can be seen from printing with 1403 TN ... something blocky w/o proportional spacing, predating 3800).
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
GML/SGML posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
a couple other recent Brooks posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#63 Computer History, OS/360, Fred Brooks, MMM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#47 Computer History, OS/360, Fred Brooks, MMM
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 14:44:40 -1000Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
PLMs were less so, it was the unannounced features ... like before 370 virtual memory ... somebody leaked some details to industry press which resulted in witch hunt ... and then all internal IBM copiers were retrofitted with serial under the glass that would appear on every page copied ... to try and help localize where leak might have originated.
Cambridge did have a joint project with Endicott to modify CP67 to provide 370 (virtual memory architecture) virtual machines. This was in regular operation a year before any engineering 370 hardware supporting virtual memory was operational. Cambridge had to demonsrate fairly strong security since staff, professors, and students from Boston area univ. were also using the Cambridge CP67 system.
Then for FS
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
https://www.ecole.org/en/session/49-the-rise-and-fall-of-ibm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Future_Systems_project
IBM tried to eliminate all classified hard copy documents, specially modified VM370 system where documents could only be read on specifically identified 3270 terminals and all functions but reading was disabled.
When FS imploded, there was mad rush to get stuff back into 370 product pipelines ... including kicking off 370/xa and quick and dirty 3033 and 3081 in parallel. Initially 370/xa hard copy were "IBM registered confidential" (referred to as "811" for nov78 publication date) ... each page had off-color, page size, document serial number embossed ... serial number was registered to specific person and there were periodic surprise security audits to make sure they were kept under double lock&key.
IBM security classification had evovled to:
IBM Internal Use Only
IBM Confidential
IBM Confidential - Restricted
IBM Confidential - Registered
something of a joke: 1974, CERN had done an analysis comparing
VM370/CMS and MVS/TSO and presented result at (IBM mainframe user
group) SHARE ... and copies were freely available ... except inside
IBM where they got stamped "IBM Confidential - Restricted" (available
on need to know basis only) ... wanted as much as possible to minimize
availability of the analysis to IBM employees.
I ran into something similar when TYMSHARE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare
in Aug1976 started offering their CMS-based online computer
conferencing facility free to SHARE as VMSHARE ... archives
here:
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
I cut a deal with TYMSHARE to get monthly tape dump of all VMSHARE files for putting up on internal network and internal systems. The biggest problem I had were the lawyers concerned that IBM employees would be contaminated exposed to customer information (and/or internal employees were being fed stuff about customers that didn't correspond to what customers were actually saying).
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
commerical, online, virtual machine service bureaus
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#online
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Researchers found security pitfalls in IBM's cloud infrastructure. Date: 01 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookResearchers found security pitfalls in IBM's cloud infrastructure. A demonstrated attack by cybersecurity researchers in IBM's cloud infrastructure were able to gain access to the internal server used to build database images for customer deployments.
After HA/CMP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_High_Availability_Cluster_Multiprocessing
cluster scale-up was transferred to IBM Kingston, announced as IBM
supercomputer (for technical/scientific *ONLY*) and we were told we
couldn't work on anything with more than four processors, we leave IBM
... old archived post about a jan1992 (>30yrs ago) meeting in
Ellison's conference room (Oracle CEO) where Hester told Ellison that
IBM would have 128 processor HA/CMP by ye1992 (cluster scale-up is
transferred a couple weeks later)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
Later two of the Oracle people in the meeting, had left Oracle and are at a small client/server startup responsible for something called "commerce server" and we are brought in as consultants (responsible for everything between webservers and the payment networks) because they want to do payment transactions on the webservers. The small client/server startup had also invented technology they called "SSL" they wanted to use, the result is now frequently called electronic commerce (lots of IBM were still fighting the new emerging paradigms).
Emerging new exploits involved the increasing use of RDBMS for webservers ... which were significantly more complex to administer ... humans were making a lot more mistakes ... including over running the maintenance window and in rush to get everything back up and operational would overlook many critical items. I had absolute authority for everything to the payment networks ... but could only make recommendations in other areas ... many of which were regularly violated.
original sql/relational, system/r posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
ha/cmp posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
electronic commerce gateways to payment networks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#gateway
cloud megadatacenter posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#megadatacenter
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The CHRISTMA EXEC network worm - 35 years and counting! Date: 02 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookThe CHRISTMA EXEC network worm - 35 years and counting!
REX author would do xmas exec (well before renamed REXX and released
to customers) ... used fsx for color 3279 terminals to blink colored
lights ... I did a Q&D translation to html
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#54
... note 1987 exploit required the person to manually execute ... jokes about how to baby proof computers ... decade later, there was rapidly proliferating system convention of automatically execute scripts embedded in data files (didn't require any action by a person).
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
note before pervasive inclusion of automatically executed scripts
embedded in data files became common place (giving rise to whole virus
industry constantly searching all files for suspicious embedded
automatically executed scripts) .. majority of
vulnerabilities/exploits was associated with tcp/ip implementations in
C-language (memory unsafe bugs) ...
https://www.zdnet.com/article/nsa-to-developers-think-about-switching-from-c-and-c-to-a-memory-safe-programming-language/
memory unsafe c-language posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#buffer
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
trivia: original mainframe tcp/ip was done in vs/pascal and had none of those exploits epidemic in c-language implementations; other trivia: the IBM communication group was fiercely fighting off release of TCP/IP support. When they lost, they changed their tactic and said that since the communication group had corporate responsibility for everyhing that crossed the datacenter walls, it had to be release through them. What shipped had aggregate 44kbytes/sec throughput using nearly whole 3090 processor. I did support for TCP/IP RFC1044 and in some tuning tests at Cray Research between 4341 and Cray, got 4341 sustained channel throughput using only modest amount of 4341 processor (something like 500 times improvement in bytes moved per instruction executed).
rfc1044 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
even more trivia: senior disk engineer got a talk scheduled at annual, internal, world-wide communication group conference supposedly on 3174 performance, but opened the talk with the statement that the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division. The communication group had stranglehold on mainframe datacenters with corporate strategic responsibility for everything that crossed datacenter walls and was fiercely fighting off client/server and distributed computing. The disk division was seeing data fleeing the mainframe datacenters to more distributed computing friendly platforms with drop in disk sales.
some posts mentioning communication fiercely fighting off
client/server and distributec computing and their mainframe datacenter
stranglehold
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
A couple years later, IBM has one of the largest losses in history of US companies
and was being reorganized into the 13 "baby blues" in
preparation for breaking up the company .... gone behind paywall, but
mostly lives free at wayback machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
may also work
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,977353-1,00.html
had already left IBM, but get a call from the bowels of Armonk asking if could help with breakup of the company. Lots of business units were using supplier contracts in other units via MOUs. After the breakup, all of these contracts would be in different companies ... all of those MOUs would have to be cataloged and turned into their own contracts. However, before getting started, the board brings in a new CEO that reverses the breakup. However, wasn't sufficient to reverse the demise of the disk division.
... some other communication group topic drift: an analysis of VTAM LU6.2 and BSD4.3 Reno/Tahoe TCP ... had VTAM executing 160k instructions for LU6.2 and 15 buffer copies (processor overhead for 15 buffer copies on large scale cache machine could exceed processor time for 160k instructions) compared to BSD4.3 Reno/Tahoe for TCP doing 5k instructions and five buffer copies. Later communication group hired a silicon valley contractor to implement TCP/IP support directly in VTAM. What he initially demonstrated was TCP running much faster than LU6.2. He was then told that everybody "knows" that a properly implemented TCP is much slower than LU6.2 and they would only be paying for a "proper" implementation.
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The CHRISTMA EXEC network worm - 35 years and counting! Date: 02 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
co-worker at science center responsible for internal network (larger
than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime
mid/late 80s) and technology also used for corporate sponsored
univ. BITNET (where the 1987 CHRISTMA EXEC started)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Tree_EXEC
cambridge science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
BITNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
also recent long winded post about him ... including presented
internetworking idea to DARPA in 1975
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-3-lynn-wheeler/
His "IBM's Missed Opportunity With The INTERNET" press article (gone
behind paywall)
https://web.archive.org/web/20000124004147/http://www1.sjmercury.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg092499.htm
he has passed, but his website lives on at wayback machine, includes
written exchange with IBM management
https://web.archive.org/web/20000115185349/http://www.edh.net/bungle.htm
more on "Inventing the Internet"
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/inventing-internet-lynn-wheeler/
... somewhat related tome about efforts to prevent bureaucrats and
careerists from destroying Watsons' legacy at IBM
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
archived posts referencing the LinkedIn posts/topics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#59 360/85
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#58 Model Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#43 1973 ARPANET Map
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#31 IBM OS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#18 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#16 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#12 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#8 Elizabeth Warren to Jerome Powell: Just how many jobs do you plan to kill?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#3 AL Gore Invented The Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#95 Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#88 IBM Cambridge Science Center Performance Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#74 Mainframe and/or Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#54 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#47 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#44 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#43 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#40 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#23 IBM APL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#2 VM/370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#113 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#110 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#108 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#95 VM I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#82 Why the Soviet computer failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#79 Why the Soviet computer failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#72 IBM/PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#71 COMTEN - IBM Clone Telecommunication Controller
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#67 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#61 200TB SSDs could come soon thanks to Micron's new chip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#57 The Man That Helped Change IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#53 z/VM 50th - part 4
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#50 z/VM 50th - part 3
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The CHRISTMA EXEC network worm - 35 years and counting! Date: 03 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
trivia: RSCS/VNET had its own native drivers. JES2/NJE started out ported from HASP (original had "TUCC" in cols68-71 of source code) .... network node configurations were with spare entries in the HASP 255-entry psuedo-device table, usually around 160-180 definitions (the internal network had already quickly passed 255 entries) ... also had issue with trashing traffic where origin and/or destination wasn't in local table. RSCS/VNET did NJE emulation driver ... usually with special compensating code for NJE shortcomings ... as a result NJE nodes were restricted to network edges behind RSCS/VNET node. NJE also intermixed job control and network fields ... and NJE traffic between different releases had habit of crashing host MVS system ... as a result the RSCS/VNET emulated NJE drivers accumulated a body of code that recognized the originating NJE format and would reformat required for by a directly connected MVS/JES node.
Circa 1980, there is an infamous case of traffic from a San Jose, Ca. MVS/JES system was crashing a MVS/JES system in Hursley, England (it was eventually blamed on the Hursley RSCS/VNET staff because they weren't aware of San Jose NJE format changes and hadn't added the necessary required reformatting to keep MVS from crashing).
In the early 80s, JES2/NJE was finally updated to handle 999 nodes, after the internal network had passed 1000 nodes. Later in the 80s, IBM stopped shipping the native RSCS/VNET drivers to customers, but they continued to be used on the internal network, in part because they had higher throughput.
Note some MVS/JES installations tried to compensate for the shortage of node definitions by updates with the most required nodes. However, JES node table update required a new JES system build, which most installations restricted to system change control restrictions ... events that might only be allowed a few times a year.
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
hasp, jes, nje posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: This Declassified 9/11 Memo Is a Reminder that America's Closet Is Full of Skeletons Date: 03 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookThis Declassified 9/11 Memo Is a Reminder that America's Closet Is Full of Skeletons. Looking forward and never back is just another way of hiding in the dark.
from 2dec2018, 4yrs ago
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#69 The Bushes: Fathers and Sons
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#76 The Bushes: Fathers and Sons
"team b" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
S&L Crisis posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
WMD posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Researchers found security pitfalls in IBM's cloud infrastructure. Date: 04 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
... passwords ... single purpose ... never use for multiple purposes (standard compartmentalizing). Long ago and far away, shortly after graduating and joining IBM ... IBM got a new CSO, had come from gov. service (head of presidential detail) and being one of the few experts in the field, was asked to run around with him some, talking about computer security ... while a little bit of physical security rubs off.
also long ago and far away, Cambridge had ported APL\360 to CP67/CMS for CMS\APL, fixing storage management for large demand page workspaces and adding APIs for system services (like file i/o), enabling lots of real-world applications. Armonk business planners then started using (Cambridge) CMS\APL system remotely, loading the most valuable IBM information assets on the Cambridge system. We had to demonstrate strong security since staff, profs, and students from Boston area institutions were also using the same system.
other from long ago and far away,
https://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml
Note some of the MIT CTSS people had gone to the 5th flr to MIT Project Mac and Multics, while others had gone to the IBM Science Center on the 4th flr. The lobby directory listed a law firm on part of the 3rd flr ... which eventually found out was an agency office. With the beginning of VM370, some of the CP67/CMS people started VM370 development group taking over part of the 3rd flr. The 3rd flr telco closet was on the IBM side and one of the telco panels had "IBM" in large letters and the other telco panel (for the "law firm") had a 3-letter gov agency in large letters.
cambridge science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
shared-secret security/authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#secrets
risk, fraud, exploits, threats, vulnerabilities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#fraud
assurance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#assurance
misc past posts mentioning IBM new CSO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#115 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#98 Enhanced Production Operating Systems II
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#4 Industrial Espionage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#38 Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#57 Computer Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#102 IBM CSO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#37 IBM Confidential
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#66 The Case Against SQL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#16 IBM Zcloud - is it just outsourcing ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#57 Hacking, Exploits and Vulnerabilities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#84 Bizarre Career Events
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#40 Teaching IBM class
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#0 IBM "Wild Ducks"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#66 Facebook Knows More About You Than the CIA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#67 Economic Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#0 The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#99 IBM 5100
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#28 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#60 Bridgestone Sues IBM For $600 Million Over Allegedly 'Defective' System That Plunged The Company Into 'Chaos'
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Parasitic Private Equity is Consuming U.S. Health Care from the Inside Out Date: 04 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookParasitic Private Equity is Consuming U.S. Health Care from the Inside Out
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The Internet Is Having Its Midlife Crisis Date: 05 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookThe Internet Is Having Its Midlife Crisis
z/VM 50th, Part 3
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-3-lynn-wheeler/
Inventing the Internet
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/inventing-internet-lynn-wheeler/
Bureaucrats and Careerists Destoring Watsons' Legacy
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
nsfnet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Global income inequality: time to revise the elephant Date: 05 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookGlobal income inequality: time to revise the elephant
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
economic mess ... i.e. 2001-2008; Jan1999, I was asked to help try and
prevent the coming economic mess. I was told 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 couple
billion, needed to fail to leave the field clear for the next round),
were then predicted to next get into securitized mortgages
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
S&L Crisis posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The GOP wants to cut funding to the IRS. We can't let that happen. Date: 05 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookThe GOP wants to cut funding to the IRS. We can't let that happen.
2002 congress lets the fiscal responsibility act lapse (spending can't exceed revenue, on its way to eliminating all federal debt), by 2005, FED Comptroller General was including in speeches that nobody in congress could do middle school arithmetic for how badly they were savaging the budget. 2010, CBO report that 2003-2009, tax revenue had been cut by $6T and spending increased by $6T for $12T gap compared to fiscal responsible budget (first time that taxes had been cut to not pay for two wars). Sort of confluence of Federal Reserve and Too Big To Fail needed huge federal debt, special interests wanted huge tax cut, and Military-Industrial Complex wanted huge spending increase (and perpetual wars).
posts mentioning fiscal responsibility act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
After Obama election, lead Republican legislators were claiming that their #1 objective was to block all legislation as part of making sure Obama wouldn't have a 2nd term. In spring 2009, IRS has press that they are going after 52,000 wealthy Americans who have illegally stashed trillions offshore and owe $400B (that besides the trillions that had been stashed "legally" overseas as result of new legislation).
In spring 2011, the new house speaker has press conference where he says he is cutting the budget for the IRS department responsible for recovering the $400B. On DC weekend radio show he also brags about putting latest party darlings on finance committee because those members receive the largest payments/donations from special interests (part of the claims that congress is the most corrupt institution on earth). Since then there has been periodic news about the banks and financial advisers have been fined a few billion for their part in facilitating tax evasion, illegally stashing trillions overseas (again, over and above the trillions that congressional tax loopholes allowed to be stashed overseas "legally") ... but nothing about recovering the $400B in taxes owed on the trillions illegally stashed overseas.
IRS press had it going after $400B in taxes owed by 52,000 wealthy
americans (gone 404/500, but lives on at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20090418170658/http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/04/03/first-american-client-charged-in-ubs-tax-shelter-probe/
Then spring 2011, new house speaker says he is cutting the budget for
the IRS department responsible for recovering that $400B. Policing Tax
Evasion Could Save Billions, But Republicans Won't Fund Enforcement
Policing Tax Evasion Could Save Billions, But Republicans Won't Fund
Enforcement
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/irs-budget-cuts-deficit_n_850243.html
The U.S. government loses around $300 billion in revenue each year
because of tax cheats, some of whom hide their earnings in offshore
accounts or disguise them using complicated business structures,
according to the Internal Revenue Service. Since 2001, tax evasion has
cost as much as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush tax cuts
and the 2009 stimulus combined, according to the financial-services
analysis firm The Motley Fool.
... snip ...
"Influence Machine" also has quite a bit on Boehner; "They Pray to the
Money"; House Republicans Decry Speaker John Boehner's
Lobbyist-Friendly Congress
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/07/pray-money-house-republicans-decry-speaker-john-boehner-lobbyist-run-congress/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boehner
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/04/john-boehner-memoir-review.html
tax fraud, tax evasion, tax loopholes, tax avoidance, tax havens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
medicare part-d posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#medicare.part-d
posts mentioning Comptroller General
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
Too Big To Fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
military-industrial 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: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: self-documenting APL, not COBOL and tricks Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2022 10:59:29 -1000greymaus <greymaus@dmaus.org> writes:
Story that (assistant SECTREAS) Harry Dexter White was operating on
behalf of Stalin ... Stalin had sent White draft of ten demands to
include in ultimatum hoping to provoke Japan into opening a war with US
... Stalin was already dealing with 3/4ths of German military in the
west and was worried that Japan would open a second front in the east.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White#Venona_project
More
Venona https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/venona/
Benn Stein in "The Battle of Bretton Woods" spends pages 55-58
discussing "Operation Snow".
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Bretton-Woods-Relations-University-ebook/dp/B00B5ZQ72Y/
pg56/loc1065-66:
The Soviets had, according to Karpov, used White to provoke Japan to
attack the United States. The scheme even had a name: "Operation
Snow," snow referring to White.
... snip ..
also: Another example of White acting as an agent of influence for the Soviet Union was his obstruction of an authorized $200 million loan to Nationalist China in 1943, which he had been officially instructed to execute. ... contributing to Nationalist loosing China.
There is folklore that US used the bombs to warn off Soviets. The War
Was Won Before Hiroshima--And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew
It. Seventy years after the bombing, will Americans face the brutal
truth?
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/why-the-us-really-bombed-hiroshima/
Supposedly Roosevelt didn't feel that US could defeat Japan alone and had understanding with Stalin that the Soviets would attack Japan after Germany was defeated. Stalin sent in 1.5M soldiers into Manchuria and quickly defeated million Japanese and was supposedly within three days of invading the Japanese homeland ... compared to US attacked Okinawa with 600,000 military and battleships to defeat 76,000 Japanese ... and might be months away from invading Japanese homeland.
... other trivia: Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of
Midway
https://www.historynet.com/wwii-book-review-shattered-sword/
The Untold story of the Battle of Midway
http://www.shatteredswordbook.com/reviews.htm
Shattered Sword
http://www.combinedfleet.com/MidwayBook.htm
... the age of the battleship was passing, it was now the time of the carriers
Parshall's Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
https://www.amazon.com/Shattered-Sword-Untold-Battle-Japanese-ebook/dp/B005NIQ8SM/
pg5/loc76-78:
The battleships wouldn't be sailing this morning. No surprise there,
joked Akagi's crewmen–they hadn't done anything during the entire
war. For them the battleships were irrelevant, nothing more than a
symbol of a bygone era. Worse yet, in the workaholic culture of the
Imperial Navy, which, popular lore had it, operated eight days a week,
the battleships were seen as slackers.
... snip ...
other comments about the bombing of Pearl & battleships ... they didn't get the fuel dumps (which would have taken months to replenish), they didn't get the carriers, and taking out the battleships accelerated the US Navy cultural transition to carriers.
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Dexter White, Hull note, &/or Shattered Sword posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#103 Who Knew ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#102 Who Knew ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#81 "The Spoils of War": How Profits Rather Than Empire Define Success for the Pentagon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#109 The Age of Battleships Is Dead and Long Gone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#95 The War Was Won Before Hiroshima--And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#91 OSS in China: Prelude to Cold War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#30 The Shape of Things to Come: Why the Pentagon Must Embrace Soft Power to Compete with China
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#29 The Shape of Things to Come: Why the Pentagon Must Embrace Soft Power to Compete with China
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#18 When Nazis Took Manhattan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#32 Fascism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#62 Profit propaganda ads witch-hunt era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#60 Reviewing The China Mission
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#78 Bretton Woods Institutions: Enforcers, Not Saviours?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#48 Here's what Nobel Prize-winning research says will make you more influential
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#66 The Forever War Is So Normalized That Opposing It Is "Isolationism"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#107 Post WW2 red hunt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#82 The Redacted Testimony That Fully Explains Why General MacArthur Was Fired
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#35 Olympics opening ceremony
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#49 1963 Timesharing: A Solution to Computer Bottlenecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#71 Russia Invaded Japanese Islands With U.S. Ships -- After Japan Surrendered
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#5 The 1970s engineering recession
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#3 Pearl Harbor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#36 Tech: we didn't mean for it to turn out like this
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#24 What if the Kuomintang Had Won the Chinese Civil War?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#87 WW II cryptography
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#85 WW II cryptography
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#81 WW II cryptography
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#79 WW II cryptography
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#28 WW2 Internment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#105 Iraq, Longest War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#18 5 Naval Battles That Changed History Forever
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#55 Should America Have Entered World War I?
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/2016h.html#80 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#94 The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#113 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#75 Dinosaurisation of we oldies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#49 Fateful Choices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#74 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#39 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#70 God No, the U.S. Air Force Doesn't Need Another Curtis LeMay
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#55 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#54 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#51 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#45 The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Air Force unveils B-21 stealth plane. It's not a boondoggle, for a change Date: 06 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookAir Force unveils B-21 stealth plane. It's not a boondoggle, for a change.
and
B-21 Raider: World's First 6th-Gen Warplane Unveiled! Can Penetrate
'Toughest Defenses Anywhere In the World'
https://eurasiantimes.com/b-21-raider-worlds-first-6th-gen-warplane-unveiled-can-penetrate/
Air Force unveils B-21 Raider stealth aircraft
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/02/politics/b-21-stealth-bomber-air-force/index.html
US Air Force reveals B-21 Raider stealth bomber
https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/03/us_air_force_reveals_b21/
This Is The B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber (Updated)
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/this-is-the-b-21-raider-stealth-bomber
The secret's out: Pentagon unveils its newest stealth bomber
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/02/pentagon-unveils-newest-stealth-bomber-00071999
After Years of Secrecy Air Force Rolls Out B 21 Raider Bomber
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2022/12/2/after-years-of-secrecy-air-force-rolls-out-b-21-raider-bomber
The Air Force Reveals New B-21 Bomber, Keeping the Pilot for Now
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/12/03/air-force-reveals-new-b-21-bomber-keeping-pilot-now.html
US Air Force Unveils B-21 Bomber After Marking 75th Anniversary
https://www.cnet.com/science/us-air-force-unveils-b-21-bomber-after-marking-75th-anniversary/
2011 naval academy conference ... somebody observed/claimed that work
for F35 had been going on for 20yrs ... and it would be at least
another decade before deployable (30yrs/generation while drones were
going through generation/month). F35 originally designed as bomb truck
assuming F22 was flying cover to handle real threats. F35 compared to
original prototype, stealth characteristics significantly compromised.
http://www.ausairpower.net/jsf.html
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-JSF-Analysis.html
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-2009-01.html
Some years ago I got into arguments with some F35 supporters (claiming F35 would replace/obsolete all other jets, including growlers radar jamming). Doing some online research, found website that went into some detail that F35 "stealth" was cost reduced assuming F22 would fly cover ... going into some detail about F35 radar signature from different angles and at different frequencies. Also found 2011 article about radar technology that had claim ability to do real-time tracking/targeting of stealth jets required more compute power than was currently available. Early 2015, DOD put export restrictions on certain computer technology. Fall 2015, supercomputer conference, China showed they started building their own supercomputer chips (also used for radar signatures). YE2017, self-driving cars had 100 times the compute power that 2011 radar article said was needed to real-time stealth tracking/targeting. More recently newer generations of radar jamming pods for growlers and F35 strategy for large swarms of F35s firing long-range missiles "over the horizon".
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
some posts mentioning F-35:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#25 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#55 F-35A fighters unreliable, 'unready 234 times over 18-month period'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#58 Secret spending by the weapons industry is making us less safe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#25 Powerless F-35s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#15 China VSLI Foundry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#9 China VSLI Foundry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#101 The US's best stealth jets are pretty easy to spot on radar, but that doesn't make it any easier to stop them
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#2 The Bunker: Pentagon Hardware Hijinks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#105 The Bunker: Pentagon Hardware Hijinks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#78 Future F-35 Upgrades Send Program into Tailspin
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#90 Navy confirms video and photo of F-35 that crashed in South China Sea are real
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#95 Finland picks F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#94 Finland picks F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#67 A Mini F-35?: Don't Go Crazy Over the Air Force's Stealth XQ-58A Valkyrie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#88 IBM Downturn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#55 America's 'White Elephant': Why F-35 Stealth Jets Are USAF's 'Achilles Heel' Amid Growing Chinese Threats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#48 The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#17 In Pursuit of Clarity: the Intellect and Intellectual Integrity of Pierre Sprey
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#16 In Pursuit of Clarity: the Intellect and Intellectual Integrity of Pierre Sprey
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#87 The Bunker: Follow All of the Money. F-35 Math 1.0 Another portent of problems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#48 The F-35 Fighter Jet Program Must be Grounded to Protect Pilots and Tax Dollars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#88 The Bunker: More Rot in the Ranks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#46 SitRep: Is the F-35 officially a failure? Cost overruns, other issues prompt Air Force to look for "clean sheet" fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#35 US Stealth Fighter Jets Like F-35, F-22 Raptors 'No Longer Stealth' In-Front Of New Russian, Chinese Radars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#18 Did They Miss Yet Another F-35 Cost Overrun?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#77 Cancel the F-35, Fund Infrastructure Instead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#0 THE PENTAGON'S FLYING FIASCO. Don't look now, but the F-35 is afterburnered toast
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#82 The F-35 and other Legacies of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#11 Air Force thinking of a new F-16ish fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#8 Air Force thinking of a new F-16ish fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#102 The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#100 The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Boeing's last 747 to roll out of Washington state factory Date: 06 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookBoeing's last 747 to roll out of Washington state factory
I had taken two credit hr intro to fortran/computers, at the end of the semester was hired as student programmer ... the univ. shutdown datacenter weekends and I would have the whole place dedicated for the weekend (although 48hrs w/o sleep made Monday morning classes hard). Within a year of the intro class, was hired fulltime by univ. responsible for IBM mainframe systems.
Then before I graduate, was hired fulltime into a small group in the Boeing CFO office to help with the formation of Boeing Computer Services (consolidate all dataprocessing into an independent business unit to better monetize the investment, including offering services to non-Boeing entities). I thought Renton datacenter possibly largest in the world, IBM 360/65s arriving faster than they could be installed, boxes constantly staged in hallways around machine room. Lots of politics between Renton director and CFO, who only had a 360/30 up at Boeing Field for payroll (although they enlarge the machine room for a 360/67 that I could play with when I wasn't doing other stuff).
747#3 was flying skies of Seattle getting FAA flt certification. Had fun hearing stories from 747 engineers. A tour of 747 cabin mockup south of Boeing Field claimed that 747 would never have fewer than four jetways (because of the large number of passengers); when has anybody even observed more than two jetways?
some posts earlier this year mentioning boeing cfo/bcs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#31 IBM OS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#24 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#4 IBM CAD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#95 Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#63 IBM DPD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#49 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#26 Why Things Fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#23 IBM APL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#11 360 Powerup
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#44 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#42 IBM Bureaucrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#95 Enhanced Production Operating Systems II
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#42 WATFOR and CICS were both addressing some of the same OS/360 problems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#13 VM/370 Going Away
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#10 VM/370 Going Away
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#9 VM/370 Going Away
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#110 Window Display Ground Floor Datacenters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#106 IBM Quota
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#100 IBM Stretch (7030) -- Aggressive Uniprocessor Parallelism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#95 Operating System File/Dataset I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#91 Short-term profits and long-term consequences -- did Jack Welch break capitalism?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#57 CMS OS/360 Simulation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#19 COMPUTER HISTORY: REMEMBERING THE IBM SYSTEM/360 MAINFRAME, its Origin and Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#10 Computer Server Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#72 IBM Mainframe market was Re: Approximate reciprocals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#42 Why did Dennis Ritchie write that UNIX was a modern implementation of CTSS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#8 Cloud Timesharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#2 IBM 2250 Graphics Display
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#0 System Response
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#126 Google Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#117 Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#73 IBM Disks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#35 Dataprocessing Career
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#27 Dataprocessing Career
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#10 Seattle Dataprocessing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#120 Series/1 VTAM/NCP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#109 Not counting dividends IBM delivered an annualized yearly loss of 2.27%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#73 MVT storage management issues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#48 Mainframe Career
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#30 CP67 and BPS Loader
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#22 IBM IBU (Independent Business Unit)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#12 Programming Skills
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: self-documenting APL, not COBOL and tricks Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 12:51:48 -1000Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
... from law of unattended consequences, another story is that after defeat of Japan, the chinese army units that had been in Japanese occupied territory, tried to come over to the nationalists, but was vetoed by the US, so they went over to communists. In the Korean war, it were those chinese army units that were sent to Korea to fight the US (part of the stories how china was given to the communists).
military-industrial(-congressional) complext posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
some past references
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#67 OSS in China: Prelude to Cold War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#50 tablets and desktops was Has Microsoft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#11 tablets and desktops was Has Microsoft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#62 Profit propaganda ads witch-hunt era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#60 Reviewing The China Mission
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#72 This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#19 A Tea Party Movement to Overhaul the Constitution Is Quietly Gaining
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#74 meanwhile in eastern Asia^WEurope, was 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/2018c.html#107 Post WW2 red hunt
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#45 Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#70 Russia Invaded Japanese Islands With U.S. Ships -- After Japan Surrendered
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#64 Russia Invaded Japanese Islands With U.S. Ships -- After Japan Surrendered
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#87 WW II cryptography
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/2017h.html#105 Iraq, Longest War
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: CDC, Cray, Supercomputers Date: 07 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookThornton and Cray had done cdc6600 ... Cray left to form cray research and Thornton left to form network systems (makers of hyperchannel).
CDC 6600
http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/CDC_6600
Working with Jim Thornton, who was the system architect and the
'hidden genius' behind the 6600, the machine soon took form.
... snip ...
"Considerations In Computer Design - Leading Up To The Control Data 6600" (1963)
https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp11/cse240C-a/Papers/thornton_6600_paper.pdf
"DESIGN Of A COMPUTER: The Control Data 6600" (1970)
https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/CDC/cdc.6600.thornton.design_of_a_computer_the_control_data_6600.1970.102630394.pdf
When I was doing HSDT in IBM ... had some amount to do with NSC (and
the former CDC people). HSDT started in early 80s with T1 and faster
computer links ... and was working with director of NSF and was
suppose to get $20M to interconnect the NSF supercomputer
centers. HYPERchannel was fairly standard in the supercomputer
centers, so HSDT had some number of their boxes for connectivity. As
I've periodically commented, then congress cuts the budget, some other
things happen, and finally an RFP is released. Old archived post with
copy of Preliminary Announcement (28Mar1986)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#12
The OASC has initiated three programs: The Supercomputer Centers
Program to provide Supercomputer cycles; the New Technologies Program
to foster new supercomputer software and hardware developments; and
the Networking Program to build a National Supercomputer Access
Network - NSFnet.
... snip ...
... internal IBM politics prevent us from bidding on the RFP. 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 did claims that what we already had running was at least 5yrs
ahead of the winning bid, RFP awarded 24Nov87). As regional networks connect in, it becomes
the NSFNET backbone, precursor to modern internet
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
Later when doing HA/CMP cluster scale-up (commercial scale-up with RDBMS
vendors and technical/scientific with national labs), spent a lot of
time with LLNL ... including getting their Cray UNICOS LINCS
filesystem ported to HA/CMP (as Unitree). Related post:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/inventing-internet-lynn-wheeler/
HA/CMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
other (CRAY) trivia: Communication group had been fighting off release of mainframe TCP/IP. When they lost, they changed their tactic and said that because they had corporate strategic ownership that crossed datacenter walls, TCP/IP had to be release through them. What shipped got aggregate 44kbytes/sec using nearly whole 3090 processor. I then did the changes for RFC1044 and in some tuning tests at Cray Research between Cray and 4341, got sustained channel throughput using only modest amount of 4341 processor (something like 500 times improvement in bytes moved per instruction executed)
RFC1044 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
some other related linkedin posts
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-2-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-3-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-4-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-5-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
and some archived posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#103 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#104 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#2 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#32 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#44 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#47 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#49 z/VM 50th - part 2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#50 z/VM 50th - part 3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#53 z/VM 50th - part 4
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#54 z/VM 50th - part 4
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#60 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#67 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#105 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#106 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#107 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#108 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#109 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#110 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#111 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#112 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#117 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#24 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#12 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#16 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#24 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#26 Inventing the Internet
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Three Signals We've Entered a New Economic Era Date: 09 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookThree Signals We've Entered a New Economic Era
... late summer 2008, PIMCO picked up a few tens of billions in off-book toxic CDOs from CITI at 22cents on the dollar (establishing "mark-to-market"). Year-end 2008, just the four largest Too Big To Fail were still carrying $5.2T in off-book toxic CDOs (if forced to bring back on the books at market vallue 22cents/dollar, they would have all been declared insolvent and forced to liquidate)
Jan1999 I was also asked to help try and prevent the coming economic mess (we failed) ... I was told some investment bankers had walked away "clean" from the 80s S&L Crisis, were then running Internet IPO mills (invest a few million, hype, and then IPO for a couple billion; needed to fail so field would be clear for next round), and were predicted next to get into securitized mortgages.
Oct 2008, congressional hearings into the economic mess had testimony that the rating agencies were paid for triple-A ratings on securitized loans and mortgages (when they knew they weren't worth triple-A), largely enabling to do over $27T selling into the bond market, 2001-2008. SECTREAS convinced congress for TARP funds, supposedly to buy the off-book, toxic assets (TBTF bailout") ... but only $700B was appropriated, which would have hardly made a dent ... even for just the four largest Too Big To Fail ($5.2T still carried YE2008). TARP was then used for other purposes.
The Federal Reserve fought a legal battle to prevent disclosing that they were doing the real bailout (buying trillions in off-book toxic assets at 98cents on the dollar, and providing tens of trillions in ZIRP funds). When the FEDRES lost the legal battle, the FEDRES chairman held a press conference and said that he had believed the Too Big To Fail would use the ZIRP funds to help mainstreet, but when they didn't, he couldn't force them (but that didn't stop the ZIRP funds). Note the chairman had partially been selected for having been a depression scholar, when FEDRES tried something similar with similar results, so chairman shouldn't have had any expectations that there would be different results this time.
Other trivia: the rhetoric in congress for Sarbanes-Oxley was that it would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee that executives and auditors did jailtime, but it required that SEC do something. Possibly because even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing anything, it started doing reports of public company fraudulent financial filings, showing that they even increased after SOX went into effect (and nobody doing jailtime). Less known is that SOX also required SEC to do something about the rating agencies.
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
(triple-A) toxic asset posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Too Big To Fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
FED Chairman posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
ZIRP fund posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
Sarbanes Oxley posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
ENRON posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
finanncial reporting fraud posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud
regulatory capture posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Mainframe TCP/IP Date: 12 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookMiddle 80s, communication group had been fighting off release of mainframe TCP/IP. When they lost, they changed their tactic and said that because they had corporate strategic ownership for everything that crossed datacenter walls, TCP/IP product had to be released through them. What shipped got aggregate 44kbytes/sec using nearly whole 3090 processor. I did the changes for RFC1044 and in some tuning tests at Cray Research between Cray and 4341, got sustained channel throughput using only modest amount of 4341 processor (something like 500 times improvement in bytes moved per instruction executed). The communication group also strongly opposed me being on (Chesson's) XTP technical advisory board.
RFC 1044 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
hsdt posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
xtphsp posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#xtphsp
Late 80s, an analysis of VTAM LU6.2 and BSD4.3 Reno/Tahoe TCP ... had VTAM executing 160k instructions for LU6.2 and 15 buffer copies (processor overhead for 15 buffer copies on large scale cache machine could exceed processor time for 160k instructions) compared to BSD4.3 Reno/Tahoe for TCP doing 5k instructions and five buffer copies. Later communication group hired a silicon valley contractor to implement TCP/IP support directly in VTAM. What he initially demonstrated was TCP running much faster than LU6.2. He was then told that everybody "knows" that a properly implemented TCP is much slower than LU6.2 and they would only be paying for a "proper" implementation.
a little topic drift:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-3-lynn-wheeler/
and
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/inventing-internet-lynn-wheeler/
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
archived "zvm 50th part 3: & "inventing internet" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#84 CDC, Cray, Supercomputers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#72 The CHRISTMA EXEC network worm - 35 years and counting!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#59 360/85
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#58 Model Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#43 1973 ARPANET Map
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#31 IBM OS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#18 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#16 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#12 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#3 AL Gore Invented The Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#95 Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#88 IBM Cambridge Science Center Performance Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#74 Mainframe and/or Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#54 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#47 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#44 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#43 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#40 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#23 IBM APL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#2 VM/370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#113 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#110 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#108 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#95 VM I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#82 Why the Soviet computer failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#79 Why the Soviet computer failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#72 IBM/PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#71 COMTEN - IBM Clone Telecommunication Controller
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#67 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#61 200TB SSDs could come soon thanks to Micron's new chip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#57 The Man That Helped Change IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#53 z/VM 50th - part 4
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#50 z/VM 50th - part 3
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: US Senate blocks major anti-money laundering bill, the Enablers Act Date: 13 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookUS Senate blocks major anti-money laundering bill, the Enablers Act. Lawmakers are hopeful that the legislation, introduced last year in the wake of the Pandora Papers, will be passed through alternative means.
money laundering posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
tax fraud, tax evasion, tax loopholes, tax avoidance, tax havens posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
some posts specificially mentioning Panora Papers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#38 US Tops World Financial Secrecy Ranking, Enabling With Tax, Legal Systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#35 Nearly $500 billion lost yearly to global tax abuse due mostly to corporations, new analysis says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#6 The COVID Supply Chain Breakdown Can Be Traced to Capitalist Globalization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#44 The City of London Is Hiding the World's Stolen Money
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#17 Trashing the planet and hiding the money isn't a perversion of capitalism. It is capitalism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#8 Pandora Papers: 'Biggest-Ever' Bombshell Leak Exposes Financial Secrets of the Super-Rich
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#6 Pandora Papers: 'Biggest-Ever' Bombshell Leak Exposes Financial Secrets of the Super-Rich
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Psychology of Computer Programming Date: 14 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebook
The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary eBook
Edition
https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Computer-Programming-Silver-Anniversary-ebook/dp/B004R9QACC/
My observation from 50 some yrs ago are that all the really hard
problems are people ... related recent tome on bureaucrats and
careerists destroying watson legacy (and IBM)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
Boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
some archived posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#24 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#67 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#60 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#32 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#2 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#104 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#103 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: As US-style corporate leniency deals for bribery and corruption go global, repeat offenders are on the rise. Date: 14 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookAs US-style corporate leniency deals for bribery and corruption go global, repeat offenders are on the rise. An ICIJ analysis finds a surge in closed-door non-prosecution agreements, with more governments allowing companies to pay to settle cases. But deep-pocketed firms keep breaking the law.
"deferred prosecution"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_prosecution
repeated "deferred prosecution" of the too big to fail for the same offenses continued to happen all during (and after) the "economic mess" (2001-2008).
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
money laundering posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
Too Big To Fail (Too Big To Prosecute, Too Big To Jail)
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
some past posts mentioning "deferred prosecution"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#73 Wall Street Has Deployed a Dirty Tricks Playbook Against Whistleblowers for Decades, Now the Secrets Are Spilling Out
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/2018d.html#60 Dirty Money, Shiny Architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#56 Feds WIMP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#39 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#13 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#45 Western Union Admits Anti-Money Laundering and Consumer Fraud Violations, Forfeits $586 Million in Settlement with Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#109 Why Aren't Any Bankers in Prison for Causing the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#99 Why Is the Obama Administration Trying to Keep 11,000 Documents Sealed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#41 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#29 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#73 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#0 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#10 25 Years: How the Web began
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#65 Economic Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#47 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#44 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#31 Talk of Criminally Prosecuting Corporations Up, Actual Prosecutions Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#61 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#57 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#37 LIBOR: History's Largest Financial Crime that the WSJ and NYT Would Like You to Forget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#36 Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#47 Do we REALLY NEED all this regulatory oversight?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#44 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#23 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#80 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#10 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Psychology of Computer Programming Date: 14 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
from "Real Programmers" ... long ago and far away:
Real Programmers never work 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around
at 9am, it's because they were up all night.
... snip ...
... aka much more productive working w/o interruptions.
past archived postings of "Real Programmers":
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001e.html#31 High Level Language Systems was Re: computer books/authors (Re: FA:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#39 Why Use *-* ?
trivia: In wake of "tandem memos" (see wild ducks/boyd ref), one of the results was a researcher was paid to sit in the back of my office for nine months, studying how I communicated; they went with me to meetings, got logs of all instant messages, and copies of all incoming/outgoing email (some stat for the 9months, I had interactions with avg of 270 different people/week). Results was IBM research reports, conferences talks&papers, and Stanford Phd (joint with language & computer AI, winograd was advisor on computer side). The research had been ESL (English as 2nd language) instructor in prior life and commented that I had all the characteristics of non-native English speaker (even tho I have no other natural language) ... some amount of discussion about "real programmers" think directly in computer abstractions ... not translating specifications into code.
online computer communication/conferencing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: AL Gore Invented The Internet Date: 15 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
Originally requirement was for T1 links (what we already had running),
but only 440kbit/sec links were installed and possibly to make it look
like meeting requirement ... T1 trunks with telco multiplexers were
installed (running multiple 440kbit/sec links per trunk). I use to
ridicule saying why don't they call it a T5 network since some of the
T1 trunks were likely multiplexed over T5 trunks at some point. Later
claim was what the winning bid deployed what was more than four times
the bid (various justification for why such sizable non-profit
donations to the gov) ... also "donations" contributed to excuse for
all the "acceptable use policies" by nsfnet and regional networks
(usually some sort of non-commercial requirement). I tended to archive
some number of these ... from early 90s:
INDEX FOR NSFNET Policies and Procedures
3 Jun 93
This directory contains information about the policies and procedures
established by the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) and
its associated networks. These documents were collected by the NSF
Network Service Center (NNSC). With thanks to the NNSC and Bolt
Berenek and Newman, Inc., they are now available by anonymous FTP from
InterNIC Directory and Database Services on ds.internic.net.
... list:
ans.policy, barrnet.policy, cerfnet.policy, cicnet.policy,
cren.policy, farnet.policy, fricc.policy, indnet.policy, jvnc.policy,
los-nettos.policy, michnet.policy, mrnet.policy, ncsanet.policy,
nearnet.policy, nevadanet.policy, northwestnet.policy, nsfnet.policy,
nysernet.policy, oarnet.policy, onet.policy, prepnet.policy,
uninet.policy
... snip ...
Possibly figuring to shutdown my sniping ... for the "T3 upgrade", I was asked to be the "red team" ... and there were representatives from half dozen labs around the world on the "blue team". I presented first, then one of the blue team presented. Five minutes into the blue team presentation, the executive running the review, banged on the table and said he would lay down in front of a garbage truck before any but the "blue team" proposal went forward (I then walked out along with some number of other people).
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
hsdt posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Psychology of Computer Programming Date: 15 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
... SQL trivia ... original sql/relational implementation was System/R. After transfer to SJR did some work on it with Vera Watson and Jim Gray ... who palmed off some amount of stuff on me when he left for TANDEM (also referenced in above ducks/Boyd url) ... made it easier later working on HA/CMP cluster scale-up with the RDBMS vendors (also referenced in the ducks/Boyd url)
John Boyd, IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
System/R posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
HA/CMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
re: ducks&boyd also goes into IBM downfall and by early 90s and was
being reorged into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up
the company. This gets into "lack of words" organizations, Martial
Arts OODA-loop
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lynnwheeler_john-boyd-usaf-the-fighter-pilot-who-changed-activity-6807163421579186176-ZO9G/
ooda-loop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
and Coup d'oeil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C5%93il
and EFBAS
https://slightlyeastofnew.com/2014/12/23/another-candidate-for-ebfas/
and "Fingerspitzengefuhl"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspitzengef%C3%BChl
related concepts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspitzengef%C3%BChl#Related_concepts
The concept may be compared to ideas about intuition and neural net
programming. The same phenomenon, but conceptualized in a radically
different way, seems to be described by D.T. Suzuki in swordsmanship
teaching stories recounted in his Zen and Japanese Culture, and given
in analytical detail in Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis.[5]
... snip ...
... organizational example, How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/how-toyota-turns-workers-into-problem-solvers
To paraphrase one of our contacts, he said, "It's not that we don't
want to tell you what TPS is, it's that we can't. We don't have
adequate words for it. But, we can show you what TPS is."
We've observed that Toyota, its best suppliers, and other companies
that have learned well from Toyota can confidently distribute a
tremendous amount of responsibility to the people who actually do the
work, from the most senior, experienced member of the organization to
the most junior. This is accomplished because of the tremendous
emphasis on teaching everyone how to be a skillful problem solver.
... snip ...
Boyd posts & WEB urls
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM 360 Date: 16 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebookclaims are major motivation for FS was a countermeasure to clone controllers, completely different from 360 and so complex that it would be too difficult to keep up with compatible products
... but the (failing) FS was project too complex for IBM ... and
lack of new 370 products during the period gave clone processor makers
their market foothold (and sales/marketing had to rely on an enormous
amount of FUD). more detail
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
somewhat having shot themselves with shutting down ACS/360 (executives
were afraid that it would advance the state-of-the-art too fast and
IBM would loose control of the market)
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
70s budding Future System disaster, from Ferguson & Morris, "Computer
Wars: The Post-IBM World", Time Books, 1993 ....
"and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr of
free and vigorous debate was replaced with *SYNCOPHANCY* 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."
... snip ...
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
my recent tome on executives destroying watson legacy
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
A decade ago, I was asked to track down the decision to make all 370s
virtual memory. I found somebody that reported to the executive making
the decision. Basically MVT storage management was so bad, regions had
to be four times larger than typically used. As a result, a standard
1mbyte 370/165 only had four regions, insufficient to keep the machine
busy and justified. Going to 16mbyte virtual memoy (initially VS2/SVS, very
similar to running MVT in CP67 16mbyte virtual machine), would allow
increasing the number of regions by a factor of four times with little
or no paging. Ludlow is doing initial work on MVT for SVS on 360/67
and biggest code is for EXCP/SVC0 making copy of passed channel
programs, replacing virtual addresses with real ... and crafts in CP67
CCWTRANS (that provides similar function for virtual machine channel
programs) into EXCP/SVC0. some archived/posting pieces of the email
exchange
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
virtual memory, page replacement algorithms, demand paging posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#clock
clone controller trivia: within year of taking two credit hr intro to
fortran/computers, univ. hired me full time responsible for os360
running on 360/67 (originally sold for tss/360 which never came to
production fruition ... so mostly ran as 360/65
w/os360). Univ. shutdown datacenter over the weekends ... so I had the
whole place dedicated to myself, although 48hrs w/o sleep sometimes
made monday classes hard. Then 3people from IBM science center came
out and installed CP67 (3rd after cambridge itself and mit lincoln
labs) ... and I got to mostly play with it on my weekend dedicated
time. CP67 had 1052 & 2741 terminal support with automagic terminal
type identification. Univ. had some number of tty/33 terminals so I
added ascii support integrated with automagic terminal type (any
terminal on almost any port and it would identify type correctly). I
wanted to have single phone number for all terminal types ... hunt
group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_hunting
didn't quite work since IBM had taken short cut and hard wired line
speed for each port.
Thus was born the univ project to build our own clone controller
... building (wire-wrap) channel interface board for Interdata/3
programmed to emulate the IBM controller with the addition of
supporting automatic line speed. Later it was enhanced with
Interdata/4 for the channel interface and cluster of Interdata/3s for
the port interfaces. Interdata (and later Perkin/Elmer) sell it
commercially as IBM clone controller. Four of us at the univ. get
written up responsible for (some part of the) clone controller
business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkin-Elmer#Computer_Systems_Division
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Computer_Corporation
clone controller posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM 360 Date: 16 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
The IBM communication group was fiercely fighting off release of mainframe TCP/IP support (trying to preserve their dumb terminal paradigm and install base) ... then in part because increasing univ. requirements, they eventually lost ... at which point they changed their strategy and said that since the communication group had corporate strategic responsibility for everything that crossed datacenter walls ... any mainframe TCP/IP product had to be released through them (communication group). What eventually shipped took nearly whole 3090 processor getting 44kbytes/sec aggregate. I then added RFC1044 support and in some tuning tests at Cray Research, between Cray and (one MIP) IBM 4341 got sustained mbyte/sec channel throughput using only modest amount of 4341 processor (something like 500 times improvement in bytes moved per instruction executed).
rfc 1044 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
The communication group was distributing internally, inside IBM,
misinformation about TCP/IP, NSFnet, univ. customers, etc. Somebody
collected a lot of the (misinformation) email and forwarded to us
... heavily clipped and redacted to protect the guilty:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
nsfnet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
In the late 80s, a senior disk engineer got a talk scheduled at communication group internal, annual, world-wide conference, supposedly on 3174 performance, but opened the talk with the comment that the communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division (their fierce opposition to client/server and distributed computing); the disk division was seeing data fleeing the mainframe to more distributed computing friendly platforms with a drop in disk sales. The disk division had come up with a number of solutions, but they were continually veto'ed by the communication group (with their corporate strategic ownership of everything that crossed datacenter walls).
communication group dumb terminal defense posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
more on IBM battling TCP/IP and Internet
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-3-lynn-wheeler/
Later in the 90s, the communication group hired silicon valley contractor to implement TCP/IP support directly in mainframe VTAM. He initially demo'ed TCP/IP running much faster than (SNA) LU6.2. He was then told that "everybody knows" that a "proper" TCP implementation runs much slower than LU6.2 ... and they would only be paying for a "proper" TCP/IP implementation.
late 80s analysis, unix bsd tahoe/reno tcp/ip stack had 5k instruction pathlength and five buffer copies. By comparison, (mainframe) VTAM LU6.2 had 160k instruction pathlength and 15 buffer copies (at the time, that many large record buffer copies on cache machine could have involved more CPU time than the 160k instructions).
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Folks in Canada, Illinois etc. may now laugh Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 12:01:01 -1000Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> writes:
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM 3270 Date: 17 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebook3277 had most of the logic in keyboard and screen head ... enough so that it could be tweaked to improve human factors ... also wire in large screen graphics terminal into side (sort of inexpensive 2250) for 3277GA. Then they moved much of the electronics back into the shared 3274 controller for 3278s (reducing terminal manufacturing costs) ... enormously increasing coax protocol chatter.
This was back in the day of studies about increased productivity with quarter second response. Several internal labs were bragging about having quarter second system response ... however 3272/3277 had hardware response of .086 sec ... so needed .164 system response for human to see .25 response. After joining IBM one of my hobbies was enhanced production operating systems for internal datacenters ... and in this time frame was seeing .11 system response (similar workloads and hardware configurations to other systems seeing .25). However, with much of the 3270 processing moved back into the 3274 controller and increase in latency from all the coax protocol chatter, 3274/3278 was seeing at least .3sec-.5sec hardware response (so never could make the .25 total human response).
Of course it wasn't noticed by the MVS/TSO systems since they rarely had even one sec system response (and usually much worse). Letter to the 3278 product administrator about worsening interactive computing human factors eventually got back reply that the 3278 wasn't an interactive computing terminal but targeted for "data entry" (aka electronic keypunch). Also could see the difference with IBM/PC, where a 3277 terminal card would have at least three times the upload/download throughput of a 3278 terminal card (because of the enormous increase in 3278 coax protocol chatter).
past posts mentioning 3272/3277 & 3274/3278
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#18 3270 Trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#68 IBM Mainframe market was Re: Approximate reciprocals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#123 System Response
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#110 IBM 4341 & 3270
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#33 IBM 3270 Terminals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#94 VM/370 Interactive Response
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#0 Colours on screen (mainframe history question) [EXTERNAL]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#84 3272/3277 interactive computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#28 XT/370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#54 PROFS, email, 3270
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#32 Walt Doherty - RIP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#38 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#33 Remember 3277?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#38 [CM] IBM releases Z13 Mainframe - looks like Batman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#127 How Much Bandwidth do we have?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#90 Just for a laugh ... How to spot an old IBMer
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM 360 Date: 17 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
More than you may want to know ... trivia ... my wife did short stint as chief architect for Amadeus ... bldg European airline res system off the old eastern system/one ... she didn't last long, she sided with europeans on x.25 and the communication group got her replaced ... but didn't do them much good ... since Europeans went with x.25 anyway (and their replacement was replaced)
She was then writing (IBM fsd) response to gov request for super secure, high performance, large campus environment ... she wrote in 3tier architecture, high speed routers and ethernet cards. We were then out pitching it to corporate executives showing much cheaper, much higher performance, much better price/performance and function.
We were taking fabricated, misinformation and FUD arrows in the back from SNA and SAA folks. The SAA executive had large top flr corner office in Somers, we would periodically drop by and complain how badly SAA(&SNA) people were behaving. Back in the 70s he had con"ed me into helping with (Endicott's) 138/148 and then running around the world presenting business case to business planners/forecasters (I learned that US regional business people got promoted based on agreeing with what corporate said was strategic and the plants had to eat bad forecasts; non-US were a lot more dependable ... good forecasting was rewarded; countries ordered from plants and orders were shipped to the countries .. and they were responsible for bad forecasts).
past posts mentioning 3tier, middle layers, saa
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#3tier
few past posts mentioning Amadeus
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#10 Google Cloud Launches Service to Simplify Mainframe Modernization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#113 360/67 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#76 lock me up, was IBM Mainframe market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#75 lock me up, was IBM Mainframe market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#66 ACP/TPF 3083
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#0 Will The Cloud Take Down The Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#71 Airline Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#67 SABRE after the 7090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#60 SABRE after the 7090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#45 learning Unix, was progress in e-mail, such as AOL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#0 IBM & SABRE
other posts mentioning 138/148
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#91 CDC6600, Cray, Thornton
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#49 z/VM 50th - part 2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#44 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#10 9 Mainframe Statistics That May Surprise You
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#102 Mainframe Channel I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#9 VM/370 Going Away
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#56 CMS OS/360 Simulation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#108 TCMs & IBM Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#101 IBM 4300, VS1, VM370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#66 IBM Mainframe market was Re: Approximate reciprocals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#65 IBM Mainframe market was Re: Approximate reciprocals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#41 CMSBACK & VMFPLC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#5 4361/3092
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#110 IBM 4341 & 3270
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#91 ECPS Microcode Assist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#87 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#55 Precursor to current virtual machines and containers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#33 138/148
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#119 70s & 80s mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#106 IBM Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#38 IBM Boeblingen
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#4 IBM 370 and Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#4 IBM Lost Opportunities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#31 What is the oldest computer that could be used today for real work?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#107 3277 graphics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#91 IBM XT/370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#69 Mainframe mid-range computing market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#66 Amdahl
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#62 MAINFRAME (4341) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#49 Holy wars of the past - how did they turn out?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#34 HONE story/history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#54 IBM Quota
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#39 If Memory Had Been Cheaper
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM 360 Date: 17 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
another communication group "dirty tricks" trivia; One of the baby bells had done a VTAM/NCP emulation implementation on IBM Series/1 ... all resources "owned" by the (distributed S/1) VTAM (with no single point of failure) emulating NCP to host vtam using "cross-domain". IBM marketing team con'ed me into turning it out as type-1 product quickly ported to the (planned) RS/6000. The IBM marketing team had lots of experience with communication group "dirty tricks" and were building brickwalls for everything they thot the communication group might try. The "type-1" product work would be subcontracted to the "baby bell" and the largest 37x5 customer was talked into fully funding the effort (business case that cost would be totally recovered within 9months using the type-1 S/1 product).
Part of presentation I made at Oct1986 SNA ARB in raleigh (tunneling
SNA thru "real" networking)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#67
part of baby bell 1986 presentation at IBM COMMON user group meeting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#70
what the communication group did next can only be described as truth is stranger than fiction.
a few past archived posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#50 SystemView
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#32 IBM 37x5 Boxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#79 Peer-Coupled Shared Data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#102 370/158 Integrated Channel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#120 Series/1 VTAM/NCP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#115 Peer-Coupled Shared Data Architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#87 IBM and Internet Old Farts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#14 IBM SNA ARB
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#83 IBM Downturn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#2 IBM Series/1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#91 IBM SNA/VTAM (& HSDT)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#72 IMS Stories
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#39 IBM IIN
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#0 Will The Cloud Take Down The Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#114 IBM HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#109 IBM HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#106 IBM HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#52 Series/1 NCP/VTAM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#2 The rise and fall of IBM
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM 360 Date: 17 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
Boeing people and IBM account team told an 360 announcement day story ... Boeing walked into the marketing rep's (who know little about 360) office and placed a large order ... making the rep the highest paid employee that year (on straight commission). This was supposedly IBM's motivation for moving from commission to quota the next year. However, Boeing gave him another large order in Jan ... making his quota for the year. IBM then recalculates his quota and he leaves IBM a short time later.
Note: I had taken two credit hr intro to fortran/computers and end of semester hired to rewrite 1401 MPIO in 360 assembler. Univ. had 709 tape->tape with 1401 unit record frontend ... and had been sold a 360/67 with TSS/360 replacing 709/1401. The 1401 was temporary replaced with 360/30 pending availability of 360/67. The univ. shutdown the datacenter on weekends; I was given a bunch of manuals and had the datacenter all to myself for the weekend (although 48hrs w/o sleep made monday morning classes hard). I got to design & implement my own monitor, device drivers, interrupt handlers, error recovery, storage management, etc. Within a few weeks I had a 2000 card 360 assembler program. Within a year of taking intro class, the 360/67 had arrived and I was hired fulltime responsible for OS/360 (TSS/360 never came to production fruition and so 360/67 ran as 360/65). Student fortran jobs had run under a second on 709, but started out over a minute on (360/65) OS/360. I installed HASP, cutting the time in half. Then I started reorg'ing cards in STAGE2 SYSGEN, careful placement of files and PDS members to optimize disk arm seek and PDS directory multi-track search ... cutting another 2/3rds to 12.9secs. Student fortran never got better than 709 until I installed (Univ. of Waterloo's) WATFOR.
Before I graduate, I was hired fulltime into a small group in the Boeing CFO's office to help with the formation of Boeing Computer Services, consolidate all dataprocessing into independent business unit to better monetize the investment, including offering services to non-Boeing entities (sort of early cloud). I thought Renton datacenter was possibly largest in the world, 360/65s arriving faster than they could be installed, boxes constantly staged in the hallways around the machine room. There was also lots of politics between director of Renton and CFO (who only had a 360/30 up at Boeing field for payroll, although they enlarge the machine room to install a 360/67 for me to play with when I wasn't doing other stuff).
Related to Future System disaster and bureaucrats/careerists
destroying Watsons' legacy
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
from old email (during Tandem memos) about 85/165/168/3033/trout (aka
3090) were all the same machine with tweaks here and there
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#email810423
also earlier reference that executives shutdown ACS/360 because they
thought it would advance the state of the art too fast and IBM would
loose control of the market
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
some ACS/360 features not showing up until more than 20yrs later with
ES/9000.
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
some posts mentioning working for Univ. and/or Boeing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#60 Fortran
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#31 IBM OS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#30 Byte
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#95 Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#11 360 Powerup
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#8 CICS 53 Years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#95 Enhanced Production Operating Systems II
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#45 IBM Chairman John Opel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#31 Technology Flashback
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#0 IBM Quota
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#110 Window Display Ground Floor Datacenters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#95 Operating System File/Dataset I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#87 Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#78 US Takes Supercomputer Top Spot With First True Exascale Machine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#69 Mainframe History: How Mainframe Computers Evolved Over the Years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#57 CMS OS/360 Simulation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#45 MGLRU Revved Once More For Promising Linux Performance Improvements
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#19 COMPUTER HISTORY: REMEMBERING THE IBM SYSTEM/360 MAINFRAME, its Origin and Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#10 Computer Server Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#8 Computer Server Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#35 Dataprocessing Career
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#126 On the origin of the /text section/ for code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#72 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#48 Mainframe Career
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#35 Error Handling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#12 Programming Skills
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#1 LLMPS, MPIO, DEBE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#1 PCP, MFT, MVT OS/360, VS1, & VS2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#64 addressing and protection, was Paper about ISO C
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#63 IBM 360s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#61 Virtual Machine Debugging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#79 Where Would We Be Without the Paper Punch Card?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#20 1401 MPIO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#19 1401 MPIO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#47 Recode 1401 MPIO for 360/30
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#44 Blank 80-column punch cards up for grabs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#43 Blank 80-column punch cards up for grabs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#38 Blank 80-column punch cards up for grabs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#27 Learning EBCDIC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#25 Field Support and PSRs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#40 Teaching IBM class
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#63 Early Computer Use
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#27 DEBE?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#61 Mainframe IPL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#41 CADAM & Catia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#32 IBM TSS
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM 360 Date: 17 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
story that 360s were originally suppose to be ASCII machines ... and
they became EBCDIC machines instead (gone 404, but lives on at wayback
machine):
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
some other related
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/BACSLASH.HTM
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/FATHEROF.HTM
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/HISTORY.HTM
some recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#65 Fred P. Brooks, 1931-2022
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#63 Computer History, OS/360, Fred Brooks, MMM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#24 COMPUTER HISTORY: REMEMBERING THE IBM SYSTEM/360 MAINFRAME, its Origin and Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#116 What's different, was Why did Dennis Ritchie write that UNIX was a modern implementation of CTSS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#56 ASCI White
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#51 Why did Dennis Ritchie write that UNIX was a modern implementation of CTSS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#91 Computer BUNCH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#58 Interdata Computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#13 360 Performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#126 On the origin of the /text section/ for code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#44 Blank 80-column punch cards up for grabs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#92 EBCDIC Trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#7 IBM timesharing terminal--offline preparation?
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: PSR, IOS3270, 3092, & DUMPRX Date: 17 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebookback in early days of REX (before renamed REXX and released to customers), I wanted to show REX wasn't just another scripting language. Demo chosen was to redo a large assembler application (problem analysis, dump reader) with ten times the function and running 10 times faster (some slight of hand for interpreted language run faster than assembler) in less than 3 months working half time ... I finished early so started library of automated scripts that search for most common failure signatures.
I had anticipated that it would replace existing app shipped to customers ... for whatever reason the didn't do it (even tho it was in use by nearly every internal datacenter and customer support PSR). I eventually got permission to give presentations on how I did the implementation at user group meetings and within a few months similar (customer) applications started to appear.
inside IBM, a green card was implemented in CMS IOS3270 (which was
also used for all the 3092, 3090 service processor, screens). I added
sense data originally from 360/67 "blue card" with some added
devices. done a quick&dirty conversion to html:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/gcard.html
some old email with the 3092 service processor group wanting to ship
program analysis/dump reader ("dumprx")
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
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Pension Date: 17 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebook1992, ibm has one of the largest losses in history of US companies and was being reorged into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the company
had already left IBM, but get a call from the bowels of Armonk asking if could help with breakup of the company. Lots of business units were using supplier contracts in other units via MOUs. After the breakup, all of these contracts would be in different companies ... all of those MOUs would have to be cataloged and turned into their own contracts. However, before getting started, the board brings in a new CEO and reverses the breakup.
AMEX was in competition with KKR for (private equity) LBO (reverse IPO)
of RJR and KKR wins. KKR runs into trouble and hires away AMEX
president to help with RJR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
The Board hires former president of AMEX as new CEO, who reverses the
breakup and uses some of the same tactics used at RJR (gone 404, but
lives on at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
above some IBM related specifics from
https://www.amazon.com/Retirement-Heist-Companies-Plunder-American-ebook/dp/B003QMLC6K/
lot more about careerists and bureaucrats destroying the Watson legacy.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
pension posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM 360 Date: 18 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
trivia ... as/400 announce jun1988, ship aug1988 ... combination
replacement for both s/36 and s/38 (some amount of s/38 features were
"further" simplified or dropped)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AS/400
folklore that after "Future System" implosion, some retreated to do
S/38 (greatly simplified FS). However, one of the last nails in the FS
coffin was analysis by Houston Science Center that if 370/195 apps
were ported to FS machine made out of the fastest available hardware,
they would have throughput of 370/145 ... 30 times slowdown. There was
hardware 30 times faster to meet throughput requirements of the s/38
entry market. FS refs
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
Future System posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
there were several large 801/RISC efforts in the early 80s (including AS/400 follow-on to S36/S38 4361/4381 follow-on to 4331/4341), which all floundered for various reasons (returning to traditional CISC) and some number of engineers left for other vendors. 801/RISC ROMP was going to be for the displaywriter follow-on. When they got canceled they decided to retarget to the UNIX workstation market and hired the company that had done PC/IX for the IBM/PC, to do a UNIX for ROMP (which becomes AIX and PC/RT, precursor to RS/6000). In the 90s, AS/400 did move to 801/risc power/pc.
801/risc, iliad, romp, rios, power, power/pc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
other trivia: I coined term disaster survivability and geographic
survivability when out marketing HA/CMP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_High_Availability_Cluster_Multiprocessing
I was then asked to provide a section for the corporate continuous
availability strategy document ... however it got pulled when both
Rochester/AS400 and POK/mainframe complained that they couldn't meet
requirements.
ha/cmp posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
continuous availability, disaster survivability, geographic
survivability posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#available
the FS failure contributed to the destruction of the Watson legacy
... more
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM 360 Date: 19 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
The communication group was fiercely fighting off distributed computing and client/server trying to preserve their dumb terminal paradigm and install base ... along with severely performance kneecapping microchannel cards.
AWD (workstation division) had PC/RT with AT-bus and had done their own 4mbit token-ring card. Then the RS/6000 with microchannel, were told they could only use PS2 microchannel cards. One of the examples was the PS2 16mbit token-ring had lower card throughput than the PC/RT 4mbit token-ring card (i.e. a PC/RT 4mbit token-ring server would have higher throughput than RS/6000 16mbit token-ring server). Joke was that RS/6000 limited to the severely performance kneecapped PS2 microchannel cards wouldn't have better throughput than PS2/486 (token-ring, display, disks, etc).
801/risc, iliad, romp, rios, pc/rt, rs/6000, power, power/pc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
Late 80s, senior disk engineer got talk scheduled at internal, world-wide, annual communication group conference supposedly on 3174 performance, but opened the talked with statement that the communication group would be responsible for the demise of the disk division. Scenario was that communication group had stranglehold on mainframe datacenters with their corporate strategic ownership of everything that crossed datacenter walls (and were fiercely fighting off distributed computing and client/server). The disk division was seeing data fleeing 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 death grip and demise of disk division posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
It wasn't just mainframe disks that communication group had their
death grip, but nearly all mainframes and a couple years later, IBM
has one of the largest losses in history of US companies and was being
reorged into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the
company. Gone behind paywall, but lives free at wayback machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
may also work
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,977353-1,00.html
had already left IBM, but get a call from the bowels of Armonk asking if could help with breakup of the company. Lots of business units were using supplier contracts in other units via MOUs. After the breakup, all of these contracts would be in different companies ... all of those MOUs would have to be cataloged and turned into their own contracts. However, before getting started, the board brings in a new CEO and reverses the breakup.
Not long before leaving IBM, Boca had contracted with Dataquest (since acquired by Gartner) to do detailed study of PC business and its future ... including a video taped round table discussion of silicon valley experts. I had known the person running the Dataquest study for years and was asked to be one of the silicon valley experts (they promised to obfuscate my vitals so Boca wouldn't recognize me as IBM employee ... and I cleared it with my immediate management). I had also been posting SJMN sunday adverts of quantity one PC prices to IBM forums for a number of years (trying to show how out of touch with reality, Boca forecasts were).
Other trivia: disk division VP of software ... as a partial work around to communication group death grip on mainframe datacenters (and constant veto of disk division distributed computing products) was investing in distributed computing startups that would use IBM disks ... and he would periodically ask us to visit his investments to see if we could lend any help.
other references to bureaucrats and careerists destroying Watson
legacy
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
other recent archived posts referencing IBM bureaucrats and
careerists
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#92 Psychology of Computer Programming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#88 Psychology of Computer Programming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#84 CDC, Cray, Supercomputers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#77 The Internet Is Having Its Midlife Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#72 The CHRISTMA EXEC network worm - 35 years and counting!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#58 Model Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#57 Christmas 1989
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#56 Tandem Memos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#55 More John Boyd and OODA-loop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#47 Computer History, OS/360, Fred Brooks, MMM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#26 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#25 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#24 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#19 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#18 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#17 Arguments for a Sane Instruction Set Architecture--5 years later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#16 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#12 Inventing the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#11 Computer History IBM 305 RAMAC and 650 RAMAC, 1956 (350 Disk Storage)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#8 Elizabeth Warren to Jerome Powell: Just how many jobs do you plan to kill?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#3 AL Gore Invented The Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#95 Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#82 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#80 RS/6000 (and some mainframe)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#72 Mainframe and/or Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#68 Datacenter Vulnerability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#67 30 years of (IBM) Management Briefings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#66 IBM Dress Code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#65 IBM DPD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#62 IBM DPD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#59 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#58 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#57 IBM changes to retirement benefits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#54 Stanford SLAC (and BAYBUNCH)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#52 IBM changes to retirement benefits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#49 Some BITNET (& other) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#31 Sears is shutting its last store in Illinois, its home state
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#24 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#20 9/11
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#5 IBM Tech Editor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#3 IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#108 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#105 IBM Downfall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#101 Father, Son, and Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#95 VM I/O
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#82 Why the Soviet computer failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#79 Why the Soviet computer failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#73 IBM/PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#67 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#61 200TB SSDs could come soon thanks to Micron's new chip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#60 John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#57 The Man That Helped Change IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#53 z/VM 50th - part 4
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#51 IBM Career
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#50 z/VM 50th - part 3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#49 z/VM 50th - part 2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#47 z/VM 50th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#42 IBM Bureaucrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#28 IBM Power: The Servers that Apple Should Have Created
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#6 What is IBM SNA?
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM 360 Date: 19 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
... saving IBM from breakup apparently also required turning it into a financial engineering company
AMEX was in competition with KKR for (private equity) LBO (reverse IPO)
of RJR and KKR wins. KKR runs into trouble and hires away AMEX
president to help with RJR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
The Board hires former president of AMEX as new CEO, who reverses the
breakup and uses some of the same tactics used at RJR (gone 404, but
lives on at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
above some IBM related specifics from
https://www.amazon.com/Retirement-Heist-Companies-Plunder-American-ebook/dp/B003QMLC6K/
lot more about careerists and bureaucrats destroying the Watson
legacy.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
IBM: No Longer The Investing Juggernaut Of Old
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4479605-ibm-no-longer-investing-juggernaut-of-old
stock buybacks use to be illegal (because it was too easy for
executives to manipulate the market ... aka banned in wake of
'29crash)
https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/10/23/the-dangers-of-buybacks-mitigating-common-pitfalls/
Buybacks are a fairly new phenomenon and have been gaining in
popularity relative to dividends recently. All but banned in the US
during the 1930s, buybacks were seen as a form of market
manipulation. Buybacks were largely illegal until 1982, when the SEC
adopted Rule 10B-18 (the safe-harbor provision) under the Reagan
administration to combat corporate raiders. This change reintroduced
buybacks in the US, leading to wider adoption around the world over
the next 20 years. Figure 1 (below) shows that the use of buybacks in
non-US companies grew from 14 percent in 1999 to 43 percent in 2018.
... snip ...
Stockman and IBM financial engineering company:
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/loc10014-17:
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 ...
(2013) New IBM Buyback Plan Is For Over 10 Percent Of Its Stock
http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2013/10/29/new-ibm-buyback-plan-is-for-over-10-percent-of-its-stock/
(2014) IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate
Fudge; Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks (gone behind paywall)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140201174151/http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/ibm-asian-revenues-crash-adjusted-earnings-beat-tax-rate-fudge-debt-rises-20-fund-st
The company has represented that its dividends and share repurchases
have come to a total of over $159 billion since 2000.
... snip ...
(2016) After Forking Out $110 Billion on Stock Buybacks, IBM Shifts
Its Spending Focus
https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/04/25/after-forking-out-110-billion-on-stock-buybacks-ib.aspx
(2018) ... still doing buybacks ... but will (now?, finally?, a
little?) 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
(2019) IBM Tumbles After Reporting Worst Revenue In 17 Years As Cloud
Hits Air Pocket (gone behind paywall)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190417002701/https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-16/ibm-tumbles-after-reporting-worst-revenue-17-years-cloud-hits-air-pocket
Gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
pensions posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
stock buyback posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: US health agency accused of bowing to drug industry with new opioid guidance Date: 19 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookUS health agency accused of bowing to drug industry with new opioid guidance. Doctors say CDC's softer guidelines 'tossing aside' safety limits put lives at risk as opioid epidemic continues to rage in the country
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
some past posts mentioning Opioid Epidemic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022e.html#57 Behind the Scenes, McKinsey Guided Companies at the Center of the Opioid Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#41 Your Money and Your Life: Private Equity Blasts Ethical Boundaries of American Medicine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021i.html#0 Billionaire Sacklers granted lifetime legal immunity in opioid settlement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#89 A Secret Opioid Memo That Could Have Slowed an Epidemic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#53 Patient Advocates Get Big Funding from Big Pharma
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#5 The drug industry's triumph over the DEA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#84 "Worse Than Big Tobacco": How Big Pharma Fuels the Opioid Epidemic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#70 LEO
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Downfall Date: 20 Dec, 2022 Blog: LinkedInIBM Downfall
besides
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
there is "The rise and fall of IBM"
https://www.ecole.org/en/session/49-the-rise-and-fall-of-ibm
somewhat related TCP/IP and Internet
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-3-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/inventing-internet-lynn-wheeler/
other recent tomes
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-2-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-4-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-5-lynn-wheeler/
IBM downfall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ibmdownfall
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM 360 Date: 20 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebookre:
after I transferred to sjr/bld28 in the 70s, i got sucked into playing
part time disk engineer in bldg14&15, one of the stories, Mainframe
Channel I/O
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mainframe-channel-io-lynn-wheeler/
the above mentions 3033 in bldg15. another story is the person doing air bearing simulation for floating head design was getting week or two turn around on sjr's 370/195 ... even with high priority. we set him up on the bldg15 3033 where he could get multiple turn arounds a day (even tho 3033 was less than half the throughput of the 370/195).
playing disk engineer in bldg14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
posts mentiong bldg15 3033 and floating head air bearing simulation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#9 3880 DASD Controller
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#74 IBM Mainframe market was Re: Approximate reciprocals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#73 IBM Disks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#64 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#97 This chemist is reimagining the discovery of materials using AI and automation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#28 IBM 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#83 The Sublime: Is it the same for IBM and Special Ops?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#57 DASD Development
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#41 VSAM usage for ancient disk models
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#61 ou sont les VAXen d'antan, was Variable-Length Instructions that aren't
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#134 Start Interpretive Execution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#26 Deja Cloud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#26 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#77 Disk drive improvements
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#52 Drums: Memory or Peripheral?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#43 FBA rant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#18 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#6 Google Architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006d.html#14 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#6 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#4 System/360; Hardwired vs. Microcoded
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004.html#21 40th anniversary of IBM System/360 on 7 Apr 2004
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#45 hung/zombie users ... long boring, wandering story
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#20 360 Microde Floating Point Fix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#69 Multics Concepts For the Contemporary Computing World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#30 Weird
Jan1979, I also got sucked into doing 4341 benchmarks for national lab on the engineering machine in bldg15 (endicott people were complaining that I had more 4341 time than them), they were looking to get 70 for a compute farm (sort of the leading edge of coming cluster supercomputing tsunami).
The MVS 370 people in bldg26 were starting to get traumatized ... by all the computing offloading to vm/4341s going into departmental areas (sort of the leading edge of the coming departmental computing tsunami). There was a couple GPD MVS apps that didn't run with CMS and its OS/360 simulation (some amount of developed VM370/CMS OS/360 simulation enhancements had gotten trashed when head of POK convinced corporate to kill VM370 product). Then VLSI group in bldg29 wrote 12kbytes of new OS/360 simulation that managed to move much of the remaining MVS-only apps to CMS.
posts mentioning rain/rain4 benchmarks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#89 CDC6600, Cray, Thornton
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021j.html#94 IBM 3278
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#49 IBM NUMBERS BIPOLAR'S DAYS WITH G5 CMOS MAINFRAMES
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#42 Mainframes and Supercomputers, From the Beginning Till Today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#51 Resurrected! Paul Allen's tech team brings 50-year -old supercomputer back from the dead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#44 Resurrected! Paul Allen's tech team brings 50-year-old supercomputer back from the dead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#116 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#71 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#37 History--computer performance comparison chart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#61 I Must Have Been Dreaming (36-bit word needed for ballistics?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#53 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#38 DEC/PDP minicomputers for business in 1968?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#54 mainframe performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#21 moving on
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#31 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#25 IBM's mini computers--lack thereof
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#4 misc. old benchmarks (4331 & 11/750)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#22 CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#19 CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#7 CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#75 Computers in Science Fiction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#0 Microcode?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#67 Pentium 4 Prefetch engine?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#0 Is a VAX a mainframe?
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: terminals and servers, was How convergent was the general use of binary floating point? Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 14:02:18 -1000anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
also reposted in archived long-winded facebook thread which also wanders
into the IBM communication group responsible for the downfall of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#104 IBM 360
Not long before leaving IBM, Boca had contracted with Dataquest (since
acquired by Gartner) to do detailed study of PC business and its
future ... including a video taped round table discussion of silicon
valley experts. I had known the person running the Dataquest study for
years and was asked to be one of the silicon valley experts (they
promised to obfuscate my vitals so Boca wouldn't recognize me as IBM
employee ... and I cleared it with my immediate management). I had
also been posting SJMN sunday adverts of quantity one PC prices to IBM
forums for a number of years (trying to show how out of touch with
reality, Boca forecasts were).
...
from long ago archived afc post (with some of the earlier SJMN sunday
adverts)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#79 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
from other PC posts; 30 years of personal computer market share figures
https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/
and has graph of personal computer sales 1975-1980
http://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/3/
and graph from 1980 to 1984 ... with the only serious competitor to PC
in number of sales was commodore 64
http://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/4/
and then from 1984 to 1987 the ibm pc (and clones) starting to
completely swamp
http://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/5/
market 1990-1994
https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/7/
2001-2004
https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/9/
communication group fiercely fighting off client/server and distributed
computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
other past posts mentioning PC market share article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#41 Christmas 1989
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#33 IBM/PC 12Aug1981
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#137 Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#28 XT/370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#27 PC Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#49 PC Personal Computing Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#103 Old word processors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#73 Mannix "computer in a briefcase"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#72 Mannix "computer in a briefcase"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#54 Could this be the wrongest prediction of all time?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#28 upcoming TV show, "Halt & Catch Fire"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#80 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#56 Steve Jobs passed away
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#4 What is the protocal for GMT offset in SMTP (e-mail) header
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#68 The Rise and Fall of Commodore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#5 What if the computers went back to the '70s too?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#76 Why Didn't Digital Catch the Wave?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#63 The Development of the Vital IBM PC in Spite of the Corporate Culture of IBM
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: CICS sysprogs Date: 22 Dec, 2022 Blog: Facebooktrivia: undergraduate, I took 2 credit hr intro to computers/Fortran (709 tape->tape, 1401 front end for unit record). Within year of intro class was hired fulltime responsible for OS/360 (univ had been sold 360/67 for tss/360, but tss/360 never really came to production fruition and so ran as 360/65, they shutdown datacenter on weekends, and I had it dedicated, although 48hrs w/o sleep made monday classes hard). Student Fortran ran under second on 709. Initial conversion to OS/360 ran well over minute, installing HASP cut that in half. Then started doing reordering of STAGE2 SYSGEN cards to carefully place datasets and PDS members to optimize disk arm seek and PDS directory multi-track search ... cutting time another 2/3rds to 12.9secs. Student Fortran never got better than 709 until I installed (Univ. of Waterloo's) WATFOR.
Univ. library had gotten a ONR grant to do online catalog and used part of the money for 2321 datacell. The project was also selected to be betatest for CICS program product (after 23jun69 unbundling announcement and starting to charge for software) and CICS support was added to my tasks. First problem was CICS wouldn't come up. No source, took a little while to isolate the problem. Turns out CICS had some undocumented, hard coded BDAM file options and the library had built their CICS files with different set of option.
Other CICS lore, gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20071124013919/http://www.yelavich.com/history/toc.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20050409124902/http://www.yelavich.com/cicshist.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20060325095613/http://www.yelavich.com/history/ev200401.htm
80s, my wife co-authored (IBM FSD) response to gov agency request for super secure, high performance, large campus environment ... she wrote in middle layer (aka 3tier) architecture, high speed routers and ethernet cards. We were then out pitching it to corporate executives showing it was much cheaper, much higher performance, much better price/performance and function. This was at time the communication group was fiercely fighting off client/server (i.e. hated 2tier and really hated my wife's 3tier) and distributed computing ... and we were taking loads of fabricated arrows in the back by the SNA & SAA forces.
old posts with pieces of 80s presentation including 3tier/middle-layer,
100 station/terminal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#40 ibm time machine in new york times?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#7 Voyager 1 just left the solar system using less computing powerthan your iP
numbers redone with 300 station/terminal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#9 Voyager 1 just left the solar system using less computing powerthan your iP
cics/bdam posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#bdam
23jun1969 unbundling posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundling
3tier (middle layer) architecture posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#3tier
communication death grip and demise of disk division posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: OODA-loop and agility Date: 22 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookOne of Boyd's stories was about doing periodic/audit review of large scale war games ... staffs would spend all year practicing while flag officers spent the time playing golf. When it came time for the game, the flag officers had no "finger feel" for war room information flow (complaining that it was a problem with information overload and how to reduce the information flow to rate that flag officers could absorb and make decisions, as opposed to not sufficiently practiced). However, related to information overload is decision overload ... both the appropriate information as well as the appropriate decisions. The issue of decision overload is another way approaching mission command. Boyd would also talk about pushing decisions down as far as possible to the appropriate level and to the people closest to the problem.
Another story was being branded a luddite for objecting to the original F16 headsup display (because of scrolling digital numbers took longer and more effort to translate into meaning).
More recently was at talk by commander of EA-18g Growlers claiming it was taking experience prowler pilots a year to become proficient in the growler digital cockpits (although youngsters that grew up with video games were doing it faster). Also they have come to suspect that pilots passing out, was not lack of oxygen but the digital cockpit had so overloaded their brains, that they forgot to breath (also related to proficiency). He also mentioned that a little too much alcohol or salt ... even 2-3 days before going up, affected proficiency.
Boyd related posts and web URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
posts mentioning growler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#81 Air Force unveils B-21 stealth plane. It's not a boondoggle, for a change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#25 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#23 Sun Tzu, Aristotle, and John Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#72 Mainframe and/or Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#15 China VSLI Foundry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#9 China VSLI Foundry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021k.html#95 Finland picks F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#17 In Pursuit of Clarity: the Intellect and Intellectual Integrity of Pierre Sprey
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#47 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#35 US Stealth Fighter Jets Like F-35, F-22 Raptors 'No Longer Stealth' In-Front Of New Russian, Chinese Radars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#100 The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#104 F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#81 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#108 F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#54 RR songs, was Re: e50th/60th anniversary of SABRE--real-time airline reservations computer system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#96 Lockheed Martin F-35 Jet's Software Delayed, GAO Says
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: TOPS-20 Boot Camp for VMS Users 05-Mar-2022 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 10:34:13 -1000Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
Periodically some mainframe numbers manage to leak. Industry standard MIPS benchmark wasn't instructions/sec but number of program iterations compared to the standard's processor ... assumed to be one MIP machine (and easier to find for IBM's non-mainframe systems).
IBM mainframe this century
z900, 16 processors, 2.5BIPS (156MIPS/proc), Dec2000
z990, 32 processors, 9BIPS, (281MIPS/proc), 2003
z9, 54 processors, 18BIPS (333MIPS/proc), July2005
z10, 64 processors, 30BIPS (469MIPS/proc), Feb2008
z196, 80 processors, 50BIPS (625MIPS/proc), Jul2010
EC12, 101 processors, 75BIPS (743MIPS/proc), Aug2012
z13, 140 processors, 100BIPS (710MIPS/proc), Jan2015
z14, 170 processors, 150BIPS (862MIPS/proc), Aug2017
z15, 190 processors, 190BIPS* (1000MIPS/proc), Sep2019
• pubs say z15 1.25 times z14 (1.25*150BIPS or 190BIPS)
• z16, 200?? processors, ???BIPS (???MIPS/proc),
Max configured z196 was $30M ($600,000/BIPS) and in that timeframe,
cloud megadatacenters (with half million or more systems) standard was
E5-2600 blades benchmarked at 500BIPS. This was shortly before IBM sold
off its blade server business ... but IBM had E5-2600 base list price of
$1815 ($3.60/BIPS). However, cloud megadatacenters had been saying for
at least a decade that they assembled their own systems for 1/3rd the
cost of brand name blade servers ($1.20/BIPS) ... likely contributing to
IBM selling off its blade server business ... this was also about the
time that server chip maker press said that they were shipping half
their product directly to cloud megadatacenters.
z196 pubs also claimed that over half the per processor performance improvement from z10 to z196 was the introduction of cache miss (memory latency) compensation features (that had been in other platforms in some cases for decades) ... out-of-order execution, branch prediction, speculative execution, etc.
Big cloud operators (with dozen or more megadatacenters around the
world, each with half million or more systems) had so drastically
reduced their system costs that power & cooling were becoming
increasingly large part of their costs ... and they were putting
pressure on Intel/AMD to significantly increase computational power
efficiency (and looking at moving to ARM, originally designed for low
power, battery use, computational power efficiency offsetting increasing
the number of systems). They had so decreased cost of systems that they
could justify complete upgrade of all systems when there was improvement
computational power efficiency. Also start seeing TPC including
computational efficiency in benchmarks, being able to calculate
electrical power cost per transaction ... and IBM still participates for
their non-mainframe systems.
https://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_results5.asp?orderby=hardware
cloud megadatacenter posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#megadatacenter
system/R posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
trivia: 50+ yrs ago, IBM 195 mainframe had out-of-order execution but
conditional branches drained the pipeline ... so most 360&370 codes ran
at half the 195 throughput. Shortly after joining IBM, the 195 group
tried to suck me into helping with hyperthreading the 195 ... simulating
two processor with two threads, each running at half machine throughput.
In this description of the shutdown of ACS/360 (executives were afraid
it would advance the state of art too fast and IBM would loose control
of the market) ... there is reference to multithreading patents
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
new work for 195 (including multithread) was canceled when it was decided to add "virtual memory" to all 370s ... and it wasn't believed that adding virtual memory to 195 was practical. Also claims that at the time, MVT/MVS two-processor SMP systems were claimed to only have 1.2-1.5 system throughput of single processor (because of their multiprocessor system software overhead) ... which would have more than offset any benefit of having a multithreaded (simulated two processor) 195.
other trivia: in the morph from cp67->vm370, they simplified and/or dropped (including dropping cp67 multiprocessor support). after joining IBM, one of my hobbies was enhanced production operating systems for internal datacenters ... including world-wide, sales&market support "HONE" systems. The US HONE systems had been consolidated in Palo Alto in the mid-70s (when facebook 1st moves into silicon valley, it was into a new bldg built next door to the former US HONE datacenter). Their VM370 was enhanced to have eight loosely-coupled (cluster, shared DASD) single-system image, aka cluster with load balancing and fall-over across the complex. I had added lots of CP67 features/function back into VM370 and then (initially for HONE) added tightly-coupled (shared memory) multiprocessor into VM370 release 3 ... giving them 16 processor complex (at the time I considered largest IBM mainframe single-system image complex; some ACP/TPF complexes may have had eight loosely-coupled system complex but ACP/TPF didn't have tightly-coupled support so was limited to one processor/system), With very short multiprocessor pathlengths and some games with "cache affinity" ... could get two processor machine with twice the throughput of single processor machine (improved cache hit rate offsetting the multiprocessor software overhead).
SMP, multiprocessor, compare-and-swap posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
HONE posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
cambridge science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
some recent z196/e5-2600 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022g.html#71 Mainframe and/or Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#12 What is IBM SNA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022f.html#10 9 Mainframe Statistics That May Surprise You
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#6 Computer Server Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#111 Financial longevity that redhat gives IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#19 Telum & z16
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#12 IBM z16: Built to Build the Future of Your Business
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#7 Cloud Timesharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#125 Google Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#63 Mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#96 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#84 Mainframe Benchmark
some 195 multithread posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022h.html#17 Arguments for a Sane Instruction Set Architecture--5 years later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#34 Retrotechtacular: The IBM System/360 Remembered
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#22 COMPUTER HISTORY: REMEMBERING THE IBM SYSTEM/360 MAINFRAME, its Origin and Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022d.html#12 Computer Server Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022b.html#51 IBM History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#28 IBM 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#73 Backwards compatibility
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#80 BYTE Magazine Pentomino Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#96 computer component reliability, 1951
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#90 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#85 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#3 Is multiprocessing better then multithreading?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#7 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#37 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#3 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#110 Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#57 Gene Amhdahl Dies at 92
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#23 A Modest Proposal (for avoiding OOO)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#69 A New Performance Model ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#26 OT: Digital? Cloud? Modern And Cost-Effective? Surprise! It's The Mainframe - Forbes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#27 Webcasts - New Technology for System z
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#164 Slushware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#106 [CM] How ENIAC was rescued from the scrap heap
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#11 DEC Technical Journal on Bitsavers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#15 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#33 DRAM is the new Bulk Core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#22 Query for Destination z article -- mainframes back to the future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#67 relative speeds, was What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#73 One reason for monocase was Re: Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#73 Execution Velocity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#45 Processors stall on OLTP workloads about half the time--almost no matter what you do
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#92 CPU time differences for the same job
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#34 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#45 IBM System/360 Model 85: The Bashful Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#21 Very slow booting and running and brain-dead OS's?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#14 Multicores
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: TOPS-20 Boot Camp for VMS Users 05-Mar-2022 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:18:02 -1000Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
other trivia: 1980, STL (since renamed silicon valley lab) was bursting at the seams and were moving 300 people from the IMS group to offsite bldg (with dataprocessing back to STL datacenter). They had tried "remote 3270" terminals, but found the human factors totally unacceptable (especially compared to channel attached 3270 controlers in STL bldg). I get con'ed into doing channel extender support ... allowing channel attached controllers to be placed at offsite bldg ... with no perceptible human factors difference between offsite and inside STL.
Then the hardware vendor tries to get IBM to release my support, but there are some engineers in POK playing with some serial stuff who get that vetoed (because they were afraid if it was in the market, it would make it harder to get their stuff released).
channel extender posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
In 1988, the IBM branch wants me to help LLNL standardize some stuff they are playing with, ... which quickly becomes FCS (including some stuff that I had done in 1980), initially full-duplex 1gbit, 2gbit aggregate, 200mbytes/sec
The POK people finally get their stuff released in 1990 with ES/9000 as ESCON, when it is already obsolete (17mbytes/sec). Some POK engineers start playing with FCS and define a heavy weight protocol that drastically reduces the native throughput, which eventually ships as FICON. The most recent public benchmark I can find is z196 "peak I/O" which gets 2M IOPS aggregate using 104 FICON. About the same time there was a FCS announced for E5-2600 claiming over million IOPS (two such FCS getting higher throughput than 104 FICON) ... and E5-2600 blade at 500BIPS is ten times processing of max configured z196 50BIPS.
FICON (& FCS) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
posts getting to play disk engineer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: TOPS-20 Boot Camp for VMS Users 05-Mar-2022 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2022 07:55:42 -1000Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
... "stamping out" benchmarks for mainframes ... not just MIPS (conflating that they are actual count of instructions frequently highlighting significant RISC/CISC differences ... rather than industry benchmark is number of program iterations per second compared to reference platform) ... but also TPC (transactions/sec, $$/transaction, power/transaction) and other of the ilk ... however participate in benchmarks for their non-mainframe platforms.
reminiscence of the enormous marketing FUD from the 70s Future System days where internal politics from the Future System project was killing off 370 efforts ... and the lack of new IBM 370 products was credited with giving the 370 clone makers their market foothold (leaving IBM marketing little else but "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt")
some FS details:
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
before that ... killing off ACS/360 because executives were afraid that
it would advance state-of-the-art too fast and IBM would loose control
of the market:
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
above list some of the ACS/360 features that don't show up until more than 20yrs later with ES/9000.
another FUD trivia: 3880 was designed to handle the 3mbyte/sec 3380 transfer speed ... along with data streaming channel architecture (previously enormous channel protocol chatter with end-to-end handshake for ever byte transferred, 3mbyte channels allowed multi-byte transfer per end-to-end handshake). The trout/3090 effort had number of channels assuming 3880 was similar to the previous 3830 but with 3380 3mbyte/sec transfer. However, 3880 had special hardware path for data transfer but everything else was done by an extremely slow "vertical" microcode processor (not the much faster 3830 "horizontal" microcode processor). When trout/3090 finally found out that the 3880 channel busy would be significantly larger than anticipated, they realized that had to significantly increase the number of channels ... in order to achieve IOPS required to achieve targeted system throughput. It turns out that the increase in channels required an additional (expensive) TCM. They joked that they were going to bill the 3880 organization for the increase in 3090 manufacturing cost (additional TCM).
Note that marketing eventually respins the significant increase in channels for 3090 (compared to previsious mainframe genereations) ... needed to compensate for the enormous increase 3880 channel busy ... as making the 3090 and wonderful I/O machine.
This is somewhat analogous to the peak I/O z196 benchmark of 2M IOPS reqired 104 FICON (FICON protocol running over FCS) compared to IOPS for single native FCS of over a million.
recent post on linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mainframe-channel-io-lynn-wheeler/
getting to play disk engineer posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: TOPS-20 Boot Camp for VMS Users 05-Mar-2022 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2022 14:03:26 -1000Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
the previous story about no. of channels and i/o throughput for 3090 ... was to have sufficient concurrent work load to keep cpu busy (in aggregate) ... i/o throughput power matching cpu throughput power.
the story this was the justification of making all 370s, virtual memory machines ... customer asked me a decade ago to track down the decision; found somebody that reported to the executive. Bascially (OS/360) MVT storage management was so bad that region sizes had to be usually four times larger than actually used ... as a result it restricted number of concurrently executing regions for typical 1mbyte 370/165 to four ... insufficient to keep processor adequately justified and busy.
Going to 16mbyte virtual memory, allowed increasing number of concurrently executing regions by four times ... with little or no paging. Original VS2 was SVS ... very similar to running MVT in a CP67 16mbyte virtual machine. The biggest code change was for channel program copies with virtual addresses translated to real ... OS/360 running in CP67 virtual machines had I/O channel programs with virtual addresses and CP67 "CCWTRANS" made copies of the virtual machine channel programs where the virtual addresses replaced with real addresses.
OS/360 had libraries executed by application programs, generating I/O channel programs and then invoking (kernel SVC0) EXCP to invoke the channel program. In VS2/SVS (and later MVS), EXCP had same problem (as CP67) making I/O channel program copy, replacing virtual addresses with real addresses. The initial VS2 implementation borrowed CP67 CCWTRANS and crafted it into EXCP.
old archived post from decade ago with pieces of the email exchange
about MVT (bad) storage management was motivation for making all 370s,
virtual memory machines.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
other trivia is seen in EC12->z13 numbers (from upthread post), max configurations, had EC12/75BIPS going to z13/100BIPS ... but EC12 had 101 743MIPS processors while z13 had 140 710MIPS processors (1/3rd increase in aggregate MIPS by having 40% increase in number of processors with slightly lower MIPS).
another comparisons was communication group fiercely fighting off client/server and distributed computing, also trying to block release of mainframe TCP/IP support ... when they lost, somewhat because of univ. demand ... the communication group changed their tactic and said that since they had corporate strategic responsibility for everything that crossed datacenter walls, it had to be shipped through them. What shipped, used nearly a while 3090 processor getting 44kbytes/sec aggregate throughput. I did the changes for RFC1044 and in some tuning tests at Cray Research between IBM 4341 (about 1+mips) and cray, got sustained channel I/O throughput (about 500 times improvement in bytes moved per instruction executed).
rfc 1044 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
A few years later, the communication group hired silicon valley contractor to implement TCP/IP directly in VTAM. What he demo'ed had TCP running much faster than (SNA) LU6.2. He was then told that everybody "knows" thaa a "proper" TCP/IP implementation is much slower than LU6.2 ... and they would only be paying for a "proper" implementation.
In that time-frame there was analysis that had (mainframe) pathlength
for VTAM/LU6.2 at 160K instructions and 15 buffer copies ... while
UNIX TCP/IP pathlength was 5K instructions and 5 buffer copies. Other
history about IBM (mainframe) downfall
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ibm-downfall-lynn-wheeler/
and
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
IBM downfall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ibmdownfall
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: TOPS-20 Boot Camp for VMS Users 05-Mar-2022 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2022 14:46:06 -1000Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
... as an aside, IBM mainframe has hyping its faster processor Ghz and no hardware multi-threading ... somehow trying to imply it corresponded to faster instruction execution ... when the mainframe didn't come close to approaching processor power of other platforms i.e. totally lacked out-of-order (and multi-threaded) cache miss compensation until z196 and then only started to evolve the technology.
this century articles started to appear that (cache miss) memory latency, when measured in count of processor cycles is comparable to 60s IBM 360 mainframe disk access latency, when measured in count of 360 mainframe processor cycles.
The (relatively) huge wait for 360 mainframe for disk I/O was some of the motivation for software multiprogramming, multithreading, multitasking
This started to appear at the hardware level with caches (and cache misses), with waiting for memory is the modern equivalent to 60s waiting for disk I/O ... giving rise to things like hardware multithreading, out-of-order execution, branch prediction and speculative execution
IBM mainframes were very late to this game, while at the same time, they were exhacerbating the memory latency problem with increasing processor Ghz speeds ... emphasizing faster Ghz speeds while discounting industry standard MIPS benchmarks (which had better correlation with actually processor throughput, not physically counting instructions ... but counting program iterations compared to the reference platform).
past archived posts referencing measuring memory wait and disk i/o
wait in the corresponding number of processor cycles.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#87 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022.html#70 165/168/3033 & 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#37 learning Unix, was progress in e-mail, such as AOL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#61 computer component reliability, 1951
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#26 Multitasking, together with OS operations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#43 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#2 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#14 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#96 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#103 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#35 Why is the mainframe so expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#36 390 vector instruction set reuse, was 8-bit bytes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#7 My Vintage Dream PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#79 Any benefit to programming a RISC processor by hand?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#92 CPU time differences for the same job
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: TOPS-20 Boot Camp for VMS Users 05-Mar-2022 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2022 09:12:31 -1000D.J. <chucktheouch@gmnol.com> writes:
IBM water cooled machines had flow sensor on inboard fluid side but not on outboard side of heat exchanger ... and a customer machine outboard side lost water flow ... by the time the thermal sensor registered temperature was increasing (and shutoff power) ... it was too late and circuits fried. All heat exchangers were then retrofitted with flow sensor on the outboard side.
as periodically mentioned, during Future System project (in first half
of 70s), 370 projects were being shutdown (FS was going to completely
replace 370s and completely different). When FS imploded there was mad
rush to get stuff back into the 370 product pipelines, including kicking
off quick&dirty 3033 & 3081 in parallel.
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 ...
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
the enormous number of circuits for 3081 helped motivate TCMs ... to
pack them in reasonable sized physical volume
https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/vintage_4506VV2137.html
... note above marketing respinning the enormous number of circuits, also the increased heat density significantly exacerbated sensitivity to loss of cooling.
Note initial 3081D was two processor claiming 5mips/processor (although several benchmarks were slower than 4.5mips 3033). IBM then doubled the cache size for 3081K claiming 7mips/processor (aka from improved cache hit rate, with some of those benchmarks now equivalent to 4.5mips 3033 or slightly better, see previous post increasingly machine throughput was becoming increasingly sensitive to cache miss and waiting on memory) ... or two processor aggregate of 14mips claimed. By comparison, the single processor Amdahl benchmarked at around 13mips.
shutdown of ACS/360
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Breakup Date: 26 Dec, 2022 Blog: LinkedInIBM Breakup
Attempts to save IBM from the careerists and bureaucrats failed.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ibm-downfall-lynn-wheeler/
Then the effort to save IBM from breakup (although lots of the parts have since been sold off, disks, chips, comms, etc), included turning it into financial engineering company.
IBM has one of the largest losses in history of US companies and was being
reorged into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the
company. Gone behind paywall, but lives free at wayback machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
may also work
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,977353-1,00.html
... had already left IBM, but get a call from the bowels of Armonk asking if could help with breakup of the company. Lots of business units were using supplier contracts in other units via MOUs. After the breakup, all of these contracts would be in different companies ... all of those MOUs would have to be cataloged and turned into their own contracts. However, before getting started, the board brings in a new CEO and reverses the breakup.
AMEX was in competition with KKR for (private equity) LBO (reverse IPO)
of RJR and KKR wins. KKR runs into trouble and hires away AMEX
president to help with RJR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
The IBM Board hires former president of AMEX as new CEO, who reverses
the breakup and uses some of the same tactics used at RJR (gone 404,
but lives on at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
above some IBM related specifics from
https://www.amazon.com/Retirement-Heist-Companies-Plunder-American-ebook/dp/B003QMLC6K/
IBM: No Longer The Investing Juggernaut Of Old
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4479605-ibm-no-longer-investing-juggernaut-of-old
stock buybacks use to be illegal (because it was too easy for
executives to manipulate the market ... aka banned in wake of
'29crash)
https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/10/23/the-dangers-of-buybacks-mitigating-common-pitfalls/
Buybacks are a fairly new phenomenon and have been gaining in
popularity relative to dividends recently. All but banned in the US
during the 1930s, buybacks were seen as a form of market
manipulation. Buybacks were largely illegal until 1982, when the SEC
adopted Rule 10B-18 (the safe-harbor provision) under the Reagan
administration to combat corporate raiders. This change reintroduced
buybacks in the US, leading to wider adoption around the world over
the next 20 years. Figure 1 (below) shows that the use of buybacks in
non-US companies grew from 14 percent in 1999 to 43 percent in 2018.
... snip ...
Stockman and IBM financial engineering company:
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/loc10014-17:
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 ...
(2013) New IBM Buyback Plan Is For Over 10 Percent Of Its Stock
http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2013/10/29/new-ibm-buyback-plan-is-for-over-10-percent-of-its-stock/
(2014) IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate
Fudge; Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks (gone behind paywall)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140201174151/http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/ibm-asian-revenues-crash-adjusted-earnings-beat-tax-rate-fudge-debt-rises-20-fund-st
The company has represented that its dividends and share repurchases
have come to a total of over $159 billion since 2000.
... snip ..
(2016) After Forking Out $110 Billion on Stock Buybacks, IBM Shifts
Its Spending Focus
https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/04/25/after-forking-out-110-billion-on-stock-buybacks-ib.aspx
(2018) ... still doing buybacks ... but will (now?, finally?, a
little?) 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
(2019) IBM Tumbles After Reporting Worst Revenue In 17 Years As Cloud
Hits Air Pocket (gone behind paywall)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190417002701/https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-16/ibm-tumbles-after-reporting-worst-revenue-17-years-cloud-hits-air-pocket
IBM Downfall posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ibmdownfall
gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
pension posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
stock buyback posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Patients for Profit: How Private Equity Hijacked Health Care Date: 27 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookPatients for Profit: How Private Equity Hijacked Health Care. ER Doctors Call Private Equity Staffing Practices Illegal and Seek to Ban Them
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Controlling the Market Date: 28 Dec, 2022 Blog: LinkedInIBM Controlling the Market
End of ACS/360 ... shutdown because they were afraid that it would
advance the state of the art too fast and IBM would loose control of
the market.
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
near the bottom of web page are ACS/360 features that show up nearly 25yrs later in ES/9000.
Mentions that major motivation for Future System project (totally
different from 360/370 that FS would completely replace), so complex
that clone controller makers wouldn't be able to keep up ... some
referrence:
https://www.ecole.org/en/session/49-the-rise-and-fall-of-ibm
... however the shutdown of 370 efforts during FS and the resulting
lack of 370 products is credited with giving clone 370 makers their
market foothold. With the implosion of FS, there is mad rush to get
stuff back into the product pipelines, including kicking off
quick&dirty 3033 and 3081 in parallel. More details:
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html
from Ferguson & Morris, "Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World", Time
Books, 1993 ....
http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Wars-The-Post-IBM-World/dp/1587981394
and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr of
free and vigorous debate was replaced with *SYNCOPHANCY* 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.
... snip ...
Future System posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
trivia: old email from POK mainframe engineer that
85/165/168/3033/3090 were all the same machine with minor tweaks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#email810423
other old email from the same period about trout/3090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#email810630
John Boyd and IBM Wild Ducks (failing to prevent bureaucrats and
careerists from destroying Watson legacy)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
Martial Arts OODA-loop
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lynnwheeler_john-boyd-usaf-the-fighter-pilot-who-changed-activity-6807163421579186176-ZO9G/
John Boyd and Innovation Management
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lynnwheeler_innovation-management-future-activity-6955256629466398720-AkPQ/
other recent articles:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-2-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-3-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-4-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-5-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/inventing-internet-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mainframe-channel-io-lynn-wheeler/
In briefings, Boyd would comment about former military officers were starting to contaminate US corporate culture with their rigid, top-down, command&control structure (& only those at the very top knew what they were doing). Scenario was that at entry to WW2, US has to rapidly deploy millions with little or no skill or experience ... the rigid, top-down, command&control structure was required to leverage the few skilled resources available. Boyd would compare 11% (growing to nearly 20%) US officers to maintain rigid, top-down command&control structure, compared to 3% (or less) for German army. However, this was about the time that articles were starting to appear that business school MBAs were beginning to destroy US companies with their myopic focus on short term results
Boyd posts and web URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our
Future
https://www.amazon.com/Price-Inequality-Divided-Society-Endangers-ebook/dp/B007MKCQ30/
pg35/loc1169-73:
In business school we teach students how to recognize, and create,
barriers to competition -- including barriers to entry -- that help
ensure that profits won't be eroded. Indeed, as we shall shortly see,
some of the most important innovations in business in the last three
decades have centered not on making the economy more efficient but on
how better to ensure monopoly power or how better to circumvent
government regulations intended to align social returns and private
rewards
... snip ...
How Economists Turned Corporations into Predators
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/10/economists-turned-corporations-predators.html
Since the 1980s, business schools have touted "agency theory," a
controversial set of ideas meant to explain how corporations best
operate. Proponents say that you run a business with the goal of
channeling money to shareholders instead of, say, creating great
products or making any efforts at socially responsible actions such as
taking account of climate change. Many now take this view as gospel,
even though no less a business titan than Jack Welch, former CEO of
GE, called the notion that a company should be run to maximize
shareholder value "the dumbest idea in the world."
... snip ...
Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts,
Ample Rewards
https://www.amazon.com/Economists-Powerful-Convenient-Distorted-Economics-ebook/dp/B01B4X4KOS/
pg127/loc2480-82:
On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the
world. Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy... Your main
constituencies are your employees, your customers and your
products. --Jack Welch, 2009
... snip ...
Reversing the downfall and breakup of IBM, including turning it into a
financial engineering company
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ibm-downfall-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ibm-breakup-lynn-wheeler/
Corporate charters used to be for organizations that did things in the public interest. Almost from the start there has been efforts to allow corporations to operate in self-interest and then to give corporations "rights" (as people).
False Profits: Reviving the Corporation's Public Purpose
https://www.uclalawreview.org/false-profits-reviving-the-corporations-public-purpose/
I Origins of the Corporation. Although the corporate structure dates
back as far as the Greek and Roman Empires, characteristics of the
modern corporation began to appear in England in the mid-thirteenth
century.[4] "Merchant guilds" were loose organizations of merchants
"governed through a council somewhat akin to a board of directors,"
and organized to "achieve a common purpose"[5] that was public in
nature. Indeed, merchant guilds registered with the state and were
approved only if they were "serving national purposes."[6]
... snip ...
In the 1880s, Supreme Court were scammed (by the railroads) to give
corporations "person rights" under the 14th amendment.
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.
... snip ...
... testimony falsely claiming authors of 14th amendment intended to
include corporations, pgxiv/loc74-78:
Between 1868, when the amendment was ratified, and 1912, when a
scholar set out to identify every Fourteenth Amendment case heard by
the Supreme Court, the justices decided 28 cases dealing with the
rights of African Americans--and an astonishing 312 cases dealing with
the rights of corporations.
pg36/loc726-28:
On this issue, Hamiltonians were corporationalists--proponents of
corporate enterprise who advocated for expansive constitutional rights
for business. Jeffersonians, meanwhile, were populists--opponents of
corporate power who sought to limit corporate rights in the name of
the people.
pg229/loc3667-68:
IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, CORPORATIONS WON LIBERTY RIGHTS, SUCH AS
FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND RELIGION, WITH THE HELP OF ORGANIZATIONS LIKE
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
... snip ...
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
IBM downturn, downfall, breakup, controlling the market,
bureaucrats and careerists posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ibmdownfall
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Controlling the Market Date: 28 Dec, 2022 Blog: LinkedInre:
a little topic drift; I was introduced to John Boyd in the early 80s
and would sponsor his briefings at IBM ... more in this referenced
post
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
in the 89/90 time-frame, the commandant of the Marine Corps leverages
Boyd for corps make-over ... at the time when IBM was desperately in
need of make-over. IBM then has one of the largest losses in history
of US companies and was being reorg'ed into the 13 "baby blues" in
preparation for breakup of the company ....
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
may also work
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,977353-1,00.html
had already left IBM, but get a call from the bowels of Armonk asking
if could help with breakup of the company. Lots of business units were
using supplier contracts in other units via MOUs. After the breakup,
all of these contracts would be in different companies ... all of
those MOUs would have to be cataloged and turned into their own
contracts. However, before getting started, the board brings in a new
CEO that reverses the breakup. However, wasn't sufficient to reverse
the demise of the disk division. more
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ibm-breakup-lynn-wheeler/
Boyd posts and web URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
IBM downturn, downfall, breakup, controlling the market,
bureaucrats and careerists posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ibmdownfall
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The History of Electronic Mail Date: 28 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookThe History of Electronic Mail
... aka some of the MIT CTSS people go to 5th flr for Multics and
others go to the science center on the 4th flr ... redeveloping
similar functions (cp/cms in mail-history)... some like Tom do some of
both
https://www.multicians.org/thvv/360-67.html
In the late 70, one of the discussions at friday's after work was any silver bullet to get the (largely computer illiterate) management & executives to use computers. Then there was rapidly spreading rumor that members of the corporate executive committee were using email to communicate. From the law of unintended consequences: at the time 3270 terminals were part of annual budget planning process and required VP level sign-off. After the executive committee rumor there was rash of managers pre-empting 3270 deliveries to have them placed on their desks ... providing the appearance of computer literacy. Mostly the management/executive 3270 terminals were powered on in the morning with the same image being burned into the screen (while secretaries would be responsible for handling any of their boss's email).
Note: it was also pointed out that the 3270 3yr capital depreciation was about the same $$$ as monthly business telephone on a desk ... which came standard (not required in annual budget cycle or requiring executive signoff). In the early 90s, this was still going on ... managers pre-empting large screen PS2/486 (ordered for development projects), to be rerouted to their desks ... spending all day as 3270 terminal emulation with the same late 70s image being burned into the screen.
other trivia: Tymshare started offering their CMS-based online
computer conferencing system free to the (mainframe user group) SHARE
in Aug1976 ... archives here:
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
commerical, online, virtual machine service bureaus
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#online
some past posts mentioning Tom's mail history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#27 IBM Cambridge Science Center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2022c.html#25 IBM Mainframe time-sharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#50 PROFS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#92 Was E-mail a Mistake? The mathematics of distributed systems suggests that meetings might be better
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#54 PROFS, email, 3270
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#31 1963 Timesharing: A Solution to Computer Bottlenecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#21 Congratulations IBM for 'inventing' out-of-office email. You win Stupid Patent of the Month
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#39 [CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#51 The Invention of Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#15 Authorized functions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#12 Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#10 Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#81 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#49 OT The inventor of Email - Tom Van Vleck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#44 OT The inventor of Email - Tom Van Vleck
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Wars and More Wars: The Sorry U.S. History in the Middle East Date: 30 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookWars and More Wars: The Sorry U.S. History in the Middle East
The World Crisis, Vol. 1, Churchill explains the mess in middle east
started with move from 13.5in to 15in Naval guns (leading to moving
from coal to oil)
https://www.amazon.com/Crisis-1911-1914-Winston-Churchill-Collection-ebook/dp/B07H18FWXR/
loc2012-14:
From the beginning there appeared a ship carrying ten 15-inch guns,
and therefore at least 600 feet long with room inside her for engines
which would drive her 21 knots and capacity to carry armour which on
the armoured belt, the turrets and the conning tower would reach the
thickness unprecedented in the British Service of 13 inches.
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 ...
When the newly elected democratic government wanted to review the
Anglo-Persian contract, US arranged coup and backed Shah as front
https://unredacted.com/2018/03/19/cia-caught-between-operational-security-and-analytical-quality-in-1953-iran-coup-planning/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Roosevelt,_Jr%2E
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat"
... and Schwarzkoph (senior) training of the secret police to help
keep Shah in power
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, (US backed) autocratic government.
CIA Director Colby wouldn't approve the "Team B" analysis (exaggerated
USSR military capability) and Rumsfeld got Colby replaced with Bush,
who would approve "Team B" analysis (justifying huge DOD spending
increase), after Rumsfeld replaces Colby, he resigns as white house
chief of staff to become SECDEF (and is replaced by his assistant
Cheney)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
Then in the 80s, former CIA director H.W. is VP, he and Rumsfeld are involved in supporting Iraq in the Iran/Iraq war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War
including WMDs (note picture of Rumsfeld with Saddam)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_war
VP and former CIA director repeatedly claims no knowledge of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_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
In the early 90s, H.W. is president and Cheney is SECDEF. 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/
... roll forward ... Bush2 is president and presides over the huge cut
in taxes, huge increase in spending, explosion in debt, the economic
mess (70 times larger than his father's S&L crisis) and the forever
wars, 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 Iraq 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 (cousin, white house chief
of staff) Card 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
note the military-industrial complex had 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 (showing up later in IEDs)
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
... from truth is stranger than fiction and law of unintended
consequences that come back to bite you, much of the radical Islam &
ISIS can be considered our own fault, VP Bush in the 80s
https://www.amazon.com/Family-Secrets-Americas-Invisible-Government-ebook/dp/B003NSBMNA/
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 ...
Saudi radical extremist Islam/Wahhabi loosened on the world ... bin
Laden & 15of16 9/11 were Saudis (some claims that 95% of extreme Islam
world terrorism is Wahhabi related)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism
Mattis somewhat more PC (political correct)
https://www.amazon.com/Call-Sign-Chaos-Learning-Lead-ebook/dp/B07SBRFVNH/
pg21/loc349-51:
Ayatollah Khomeini's revolutionary regime took hold in Iran by ousting
the Shah and swearing hostility against the United States. That same
year, the Soviet Union was pouring troops into Afghanistan to prop up
a pro-Russian government that was opposed by Sunni Islamist
fundamentalists and tribal factions. The United States was supporting
Saudi Arabia's involvement in forming a counterweight to Soviet
influence.
... snip ...
and internal CIA
https://www.amazon.com/Permanent-Record-Edward-Snowden-ebook/dp/B07STQPGH6/
pg133/loc1916-17:
But al-Qaeda did maintain unusually close ties with our allies the
Saudis, a fact that the Bush White House worked suspiciously hard to
suppress as we went to war with two other countries.
... snip ...
The Danger of Fibbing Our Way into War. Falsehoods and fat military
budgets can make conflict more likely
https://web.archive.org/web/20200317032532/https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2020/01/the-danger-of-fibbing-our-way-into-war/
The Day I Realized I Would Never Find Weapons of Mass Destruction in
Iraq
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/magazine/iraq-weapons-mass-destruction.html
The Deep State (US administration behind formation of ISIS)
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 ...
... including kicked hundreds of thousands of former soldiers out on the streets created ISIS ... and bypassing the ammo dumps (looking for fictitious/fabricated WMDs) gave them over a million metric tons (for IEDs).
Military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
"team b" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
Perpetual War posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
WMD posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
S&L crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Corporate Computer Conferencing Date: 31 Dec, 2022 Blog: FacebookIn Aug1976, Tymshare started offering their CMS-based online computer conferencingto the (IBM mainframe user group) SHARE
I cut a deal with Tymshare to get monthly tape dump of all VMSHARE files for putting up on internal machines and network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime mid/late 80s, i.e. part of the reason was communication group limited network to corporate mainframes; workstations, PCs, etc ... all connected in with dumb terminal emulation). Biggest problem I had was with the lawyers, concerned that exposing internal employees to customer information, might contaminate them (and/or that customers weren't actually saying what was being said internally).
I was then blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal
network in the late 70s and early 80s. Jim Gray had left for Tandem
(foisting some number of things on me) and we would periodically visit
him on Friday afternoons at Tandem. The online computer conferencing
really took off spring 1981 after I distributed trip report of visit
to Tandem, claim was that 25,000 were reading although only 300
actively participated. We then printed six copies of around 300 pages,
packaged them in TANDEM 3-ring binders and sent them to corporate
executive committee (folklore is 5of6 wanted to fire me). One of the
results was researcher was paid to sit in the back of my office for
9months taking notes on how I communicated, result was papers, books,
conference presentations and Stanford phd (joint with language and
computer ai). They also got copies of all my incoming and outgoing
email and logs of all instant messages. There was then officially
sanctioned conferencing software and moderated "forums". Recent
long-winded tomes with some details
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ibm-downfall-lynn-wheeler/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/inventing-internet-lynn-wheeler/
The internal network technology had been developed by co-worker at the
science center ... another long tome
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zvm-50th-part-3-lynn-wheeler/
which was also used for the corporate sponsored univ. network
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
and similar conferencing software was deployed on BITNET (for a time,
also larger than arpanet/internet). Old email from
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#email840320
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISTSERV
https://www.lsoft.com/products/listserv-history.asp
The communication group was fiercely fighting release of mainframe tcp/ip product. When they lost (in part because of univ. demand), they changed their strategy and said that since they had corporate responsibility for everything that crossed datacenter walls, it had to be shipped through them; what shipped got 44kbytes/sec aggregate using nearly whole 3090 processor. I did the changes for RFC1044 and in some tuning tests at Cray Research between Cray and 4341, got sustained 4341 channel throughput using only a modest amount of 4341 processing (something like 500 times improvement in bytes moved per instruction executed).
from IBM Jargon
https://comlay.net/ibmjarg.pdf
Tandem Memos - n. Something constructive but hard to control; a fresh
of breath air (sic). That's another Tandem Memos. A phrase to worry
middle management. It refers to the computer-based conference (widely
distributed in 1981) in which many technical personnel expressed
dissatisfaction with the tools available to them at that time, and
also constructively criticized the way products were [are]
developed. The memos are required reading for anyone with a serious
interest in quality products. If you have not seen the memos, try
reading the November 1981 Datamation summary.
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