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- 94.html#8 scheduling & dynamic adaptive ... long posting warning
- 94.html#22 CP spooling & programming technology
- 94.html#50 Rethinking Virtual Memory
- 2000e.html#33 War, Chaos, & Business
- 2000e.html#34 War, Chaos, & Business (web site), or Col John Boyd
- 2000e.html#35 War, Chaos, & Business (web site), or Col John Boyd
- 2000e.html#36 War, Chaos, & Business (web site), or Col John Boyd
- 2000f.html#13 Airspeed Semantics, was: not quite an sr-71, was: Re: jet in IBM ad?
- 2001b.html#63 Java as a first programming language for cs students
- 2001b.html#64 Java as a first programming language for cs students
- 2001b.html#65 Java as a first programming language for cs students
- 2001d.html#45 A beautiful morning in AFM.
- 2001e.html#80 The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security
- 2001e.html#82 The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security
- 2001e.html#83 The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security
- 2001f.html#46 Ancient computer humor - The Condemned
- 2001h.html#18 checking some myths.
- 2001k.html#20 OT: almost lost LBJ tapes; Dictabelt
- 2001l.html#32 mainframe question
- 2001l.html#33 mainframe question
- 2001l.html#58 hammer
- 2001m.html#3 mainframe question
- 2001m.html#8 mainframe question
- 2001m.html#16 mainframe question
- 2001m.html#18 mainframe question
- 2001n.html#18 Call for folklore - was Re: So it's cyclical.
- 2002c.html#12 OS Workloads : Interactive etc
- 2002c.html#14 OS Workloads : Interactive etc
- 2002c.html#17 OS Workloads : Interactive etc
- 2002c.html#54 Swapper was Re: History of Login Names
- 2002d.html#1 OS Workloads : Interactive etc
- 2002d.html#36 Mainframers: Take back the light (spotlight, that is)
- 2002d.html#38 Mainframers: Take back the light (spotlight, that is)
- 2002g.html#75 Coulda, Woulda, Shoudda moments?
- 2002h.html#49 Coulda, Woulda, Shoudda moments?
- 2002j.html#43 Killer Hard Drives - Shrapnel?
- 2002k.html#11 Serious vulnerablity in several common SSL implementations?
- 2002k.html#66 OT (sort-of) - Does it take math skills to do data processing ?
- 2002l.html#5 What good is RSA when using passwords ?
- 2002m.html#13 Do any architectures use instruction count instead of timer
- 2002m.html#20 A new e-commerce security proposal
- 2002m.html#71 The next big things that weren't
- 2002o.html#13 BOYD, the fighter pilot who changed the art of war
- 2002o.html#38 META: Newsgroup cliques?
- 2002p.html#6 unix permissions
- 2002p.html#23 Cost of computing in 1958?
- 2002q.html#16 cost of crossing kernel/user boundary
- 2002q.html#28 Origin of XAUTOLOG (x-post)
- 2002q.html#33 Star Trek: TNG reference
- 2002q.html#34 Star Trek: TNG reference
- 2002q.html#43 Star Trek: TNG reference
- 2003.html#11 Mainframe System Programmer/Administrator market demand?
- 2003.html#32 Mainframe System Programmer/Administrator market demand?
- 2003.html#51 Top Gun
- 2003c.html#65 Dijkstra on "The End of Computing Science"
- 2003d.html#6 Surprising discovery
- 2003d.html#14 OT: Attaining Perfection
- 2003d.html#77 'Boyd': A military Strategist's Emphasis on Speed
- 2003e.html#10 'Boyd': A military Strategist's Emphasis on Speed
- 2003e.html#21 MP cost effectiveness
- 2003e.html#22 MP cost effectiveness
- 2003e.html#24 MP cost effectiveness
- 2003h.html#36 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs. IBM
- 2003h.html#42 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs
- 2003h.html#46 employee motivation & executive compensation
- 2003h.html#51 employee motivation & executive compensation
- 2003h.html#57 employee motivation & executive compensation
- 2003h.html#58 employee motivation & executive compensation
- 2003i.html#0 employee motivation & executive compensation
- 2003i.html#66 TGV in the USA?
- 2003i.html#67 Offshore IT
- 2003j.html#67 Dealing with complexity
- 2003k.html#22 What is timesharing, anyway?
- 2003n.html#27 Controversial paper - Good response article on ZDNet
- 2003p.html#27 The BASIC Variations
- 2004.html#2 The BASIC Variations
- 2004b.html#13 The BASIC Variations
- 2004b.html#24 The SOB that helped IT jobs move to India is dead!
- 2004c.html#49 [OT] Lockheed puts F-16 manuals online
- 2004c.html#50 [OT] Lockheed puts F-16 manuals online
- 2004d.html#61 If you're going to bullshit, eschew moderation
- 2004j.html#2 Authenticated Public Key Exchange without Digital Certificates?
- 2004j.html#27 US fiscal policy (Was: Bob Bemer, Computer Pioneer,Father
- 2004j.html#49 Losing colonies
- 2004k.html#14 I am an ageing techy, expert on everything. Let me explain the
- 2004k.html#24 Timeless Classics of Software Engineering
- 2004k.html#25 Timeless Classics of Software Engineering
- 2004k.html#57 US fiscal policy (Was: Bob Bemer, Computer Pioneer,Father of
- 2004l.html#11 I am an ageing techy, expert on everything. Let me explain the
- 2004l.html#34 I am an ageing techy, expert on everything. Let me explain the
- 2004l.html#49 "Perfect" or "Provable" security both crypto and non-crypto?
- 2004n.html#32 Shipwrecks
- 2004n.html#33 Shipwrecks
- 2004o.html#34 The Sling and the Stone & Certain to Win
- 2004p.html#18 Boyd makes wikipedia
- 2004p.html#25 IBM 3614 and 3624 ATM's
- 2004p.html#53 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
- 2004q.html#69 Organizations with two or more Managers
- 2004q.html#86 Organizations with two or more Managers
- 2005d.html#34 Adversarial Testing, was Re: Thou shalt have no
- 2005d.html#45 Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
- 2005e.html#1 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
- 2005e.html#2 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
- 2005e.html#3 Computerworld Article: Dress for Success?
- 2005f.html#6 Where should the type information be: in tags and descriptors
- 2005i.html#6 Blinky lights WAS: The SR-71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELY
- 2005j.html#11 The 8008
- 2005j.html#15 The 8008
- 2005k.html#23 More on garbage
- 2005l.html#18 The Worth of Verisign's Brand
- 2005m.html#22 Old Computers and Moisture don't mix - fairly OT
- 2005m.html#23 Old Computers and Moisture don't mix - fairly OT
- 2005m.html#24 Old Computers and Moisture don't mix - fairly OT
- 2005n.html#13 Why? (Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War
- 2005n.html#14 Why? (Was: US Military Dead during Iraq War
- 2005n.html#16 Code density and performance?
- 2005o.html#19 Data communications over telegraph circuits
- 2005p.html#11 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
- 2005r.html#41 winscape?
- 2005s.html#47 Gartner: Stop Outsourcing Now
- 2005t.html#1 Dangerous Hardware
- 2005t.html#2 Dangerous Hardware
- 2005t.html#5 Dangerous Hardware
- 2005t.html#10 Dangerous Hardware
- 2005t.html#12 Dangerous Hardware
- 2005t.html#13 Dangerous Hardware
- 2005t.html#16 Dangerous Hardware
- 2005t.html#26 Dangerous Hardware
- 2005t.html#37 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
- 2005u.html#5 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
- 2006.html#23 auto industry
- 2006.html#43 Sprint backs out of IBM outsourcing deal
- 2006d.html#0 IBM 610 workstation computer
- 2006d.html#12 IBM 610 workstation computer
- 2006d.html#25 Caller ID "spoofing"
- 2006f.html#14 The Pankian Metaphor
- 2006f.html#41 The Pankian Metaphor
- 2006g.html#1 The Pankian Metaphor
- 2006g.html#9 The Pankian Metaphor
- 2006g.html#13 News Release
- 2006g.html#17 The Pankian Metaphor
- 2006g.html#28 The Pankian Metaphor
- 2006h.html#4 The Pankian Metaphor
- 2006h.html#7 The Pankian Metaphor
- 2006k.html#38 PDP-1
- 2006l.html#29 Mainframe Linux Mythbusting (Was: Using Java in batch
- 2006m.html#40 Microcomputers As A Space Spinoff
- 2006o.html#7 Pa Tpk spends $30 million for "Duet" system; but benefits are unknown
- 2006o.html#55 When Does Folklore Begin???
- 2006q.html#15 The Fate of VM - was: Re: Baby MVS???
- 2006q.html#17 Was FORTRAN buggy?
- 2006q.html#28 was change headers: The Fate of VM - was: Re: Baby MVS???
- 2006q.html#37 Was FORTRAN buggy?
- 2006q.html#41 was change headers: The Fate of VM - was: Re: Baby MVS???
- 2006t.html#3 Universal constants
- 2006t.html#35 Universal constants
- 2006u.html#25 Universal constants: world wars
- 2006u.html#49 Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?
- 2006u.html#50 Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?
- 2006u.html#51 Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?
- 2006v.html#14 In Search of Stupidity
- 2006v.html#47 Why so little parallelism?
- 2006x.html#10 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
- 2006x.html#18 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
- 2006y.html#28 "The Elements of Programming Style"
- 2007.html#20 MS to world: Stop sending money, we have enough - was Re: Most ... can't run Vista
- 2007b.html#37 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules
- 2007c.html#25 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules
- 2007e.html#18 Is computer history taught now?
- 2007e.html#45 time spent/day on a computer
- 2007e.html#48 time spent/day on a computer
- 2007e.html#53 time spent/day on a computer
- 2007e.html#55 time spent/day on a computer
- 2007f.html#15 Designing database tables for performance?
- 2007f.html#23 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
- 2007f.html#29 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
- 2007f.html#41 time spent/day on a computer
- 2007g.html#13 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
- 2007h.html#29 sizeof() was: The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
- 2007h.html#57 ANN: Microsoft goes Open Source
- 2007h.html#68 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
- 2007h.html#69 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
- 2007h.html#71 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
- 2007h.html#73 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
- 2007h.html#74 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
- 2007h.html#75 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
- 2007i.html#2 Linux: The Completely Fair Scheduler
- 2007i.html#3 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
- 2007i.html#4 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
- 2007i.html#5 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
- 2007i.html#6 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
- 2007i.html#7 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
- 2007i.html#8 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
- 2007i.html#10 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
- 2007i.html#35 ANN: Microsoft goes Open Source
- 2007j.html#34 IBM Unionization
- 2007j.html#61 Lean and Mean: 150,000 U.S. layoffs for IBM?
- 2007j.html#63 IBM Unionization
- 2007j.html#66 Help settle a job title/role debate
- 2007j.html#69 Lean and Mean: 150,000 U.S. layoffs for IBM?
- 2007j.html#77 IBM Unionization
- 2007j.html#89 IBM Unionization
- 2007k.html#3 IBM Unionization
- 2007k.html#5 IBM Unionization
- 2007m.html#35 Boyd, Metcalfe, and Amdahl all in one article
- 2007m.html#60 Scholars needed to build a computer history bibliography
- 2007n.html#4 the Depression WWII
- 2007n.html#34 IBM obsoleting mainframe hardware
- 2007n.html#44 the Depression WWII
- 2007n.html#52 Windows Monitor or CUSP?
- 2007o.html#40 EZPass: Yes, Big Brother IS Watching You!
- 2007p.html#15 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT Competitiveness
- 2007p.html#32 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT Competitiveness
- 2007q.html#53 Damn
- 2007s.html#60 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
- aadsm28.htm#3 Why Security Modelling doesn't work -- the OODA loop of today's battle
- aadsm28.htm#5 Why Security Modelling doesn't work -- the OODA loop of today's battle
- aadsm28.htm#10 Why Security Modelling doesn't work -- the OODA loop of today's battle
- 2008.html#21 No Glory for the PDP-15
- 2008.html#45 No Glory for the PDP-15
- 2008.html#84 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
- 2008.html#87 Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?
- 2008b.html#28 No Glory for the PDP-15
- 2008b.html#36 windows time service
- 2008b.html#45 windows time service
- 2008b.html#71 was: 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" tech stuff
- 2008c.html#9 was: 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" tech stuff
- 2008c.html#26 Current Officers
- 2008c.html#30 was: 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" tech stuff
- 2008c.html#38 was: 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" tech stuff
- 2008c.html#39 Current Officers
- 2008c.html#40 Current Officers
- 2008c.html#43 Current Officers
- 2008c.html#51 Current Officers
- 2008c.html#52 Current Officers
- 2008c.html#58 Current Officers
- 2008c.html#64 Current Officers
- 2008e.html#51 was: 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" tech stuff
- 2008e.html#72 was: 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" tech stuff
- 2008f.html#50 Toyota's Value Innovation: The Art of Tension
- 2008g.html#4 CDOs subverting Boyd's OODA-loop
- 2008g.html#11 Hannaford case exposes holes in law, some say
- 2008g.html#16 independent appraisers
- 2008g.html#21 WWII supplies
- 2008g.html#34 WWII supplies
- aadsm28.htm#58 Who do we have to blame for the mortgage crisis in America?
- aadsm28.htm#70 VCs have a self-destruction gene, let's tweak it
- 2008h.html#8a Using Military Philosophy to Drive High Value Sales
- 2008h.html#21 To the horror of some in the Air Force
- 2008h.html#32 subprime write-down sweepstakes
- 2008h.html#38 Boyd again
- 2008h.html#51 subprime write-down sweepstakes