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2007- Collected Postings,
2005-2006 Collected Postings,
2003-2004 Collected Postings,
2001-2002 Collected Postings,
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360/370 m'code
First 360 PCM/OEM Controller
Misc. 545 Tech Sq and Cambridge Science Center
Disk Engineering
Performance and/or Scheduling
Cluster, High Availability and/or Loosely-Coupled
APL and/or HONE
Multiprocessor, tightly-coupled, SMP, compare&swap
Working Set, LRU, WSClock Page Replacement Algorithm
801 &/or ROMP
Main subthreads moved:
Memory Mapping & File System
Backup, storage management
Benchmarking, workload profile, capacity planning
Future system
Problem determination, zombies, dump readers
System/R, SQL/DS, misc RDBMS
Location/address independent code
Misc. commercial time-sharing
peer-coupled shared data
GML origin at science center
misc VAMPS and/or bounce lock
continuous availability, disaster survivability, geographic survivability
mentioning HASP
IBM DASD, CKD, FBA, vtocs, multi-track search, etc
BDAM and/or CICS
Unbundling and charging for software
Networking postings moved
Public key postings moved
Integrity postings moved
Boyd postings moved
Working Set, LRU, WSClock Page Replacement Algorithm
- Related old email
- 93.html#0 360/67, was Re: IBM's Project F/S?
- 93.html#4 360/67, was Re: IBM's Project F/S?
- 93.html#5 360/67, was Re: IBM's Project F/S?
- 93.html#6 Self-virtualization and CPUs
- 93.html#7 HELP: Algorithm for Working Sets (Virtual Memory)
- 93.html#8 PowerPC Architecture (was: Re: PowerPC priced very low!)
- 93.html#31 Big I/O or Kicking the Mainframe out the Door
- 94.html#01 Big I/O or Kicking the Mainframe out the Door
- 94.html#1 Multitasking question
- 94.html#2 Schedulers
- 94.html#4 Schedulers
- 94.html#5 Schedulers
- 94.html#8 scheduling & dynamic adaptive ... long posting warning
- 94.html#10 lru, clock, random & dynamic adaptive
- 94.html#14 lru, clock, random & dynamic adaptive ... addenda
- 94.html#20 CP/67 & OS MFT14
- 94.html#42 bloat
- 94.html#46 Rethinking Virtual Memory
- 94.html#47 Rethinking Virtual Memory
- 94.html#49 Rethinking Virtual Memory
- 94.html#51 Rethinking Virtual Memory
- 94.html#54 How Do the Old Mainframes
- 95.html#1 pathlengths
- 95.html#2 Why is there only VM/370?
- 95.html#12 slot chaining
- 96.html#0a Cache
- 96.html#0b Hypothetical performance question
- 96.html#10 Caches, (Random and LRU strategies)
- 96.html#11 Caches, (Random and LRU strategies)
- 97.html#0 LRU in caches with bit decay
- 97.html#22 Pre S/360 IBM Operating Systems?
- 97.html#28 IA64 Self Virtualizable?
- 98.html#2 CP-67 (was IBM 360 DOS (was Is Win95 without DOS...))
- 98.html#12 S/360 operating systems geneaology
- 98.html#17 S/360 operating systems geneaology
- 98.html#54 qn on virtual page replacement
- 99.html#18 Old Computers
- 99.html#20 APL\360
- 99.html#104 Fixed Head Drive (Was: Re:Power distribution (Was: Re: A primeval C compiler)
- 99.html#237 I can't believe this newsgroup still exists
- 2000.html#5 IBM XT/370 and AT/370 (was Re: Computer of the century)
- 2000.html#52 Correct usage of "Image"???
- 2000.html#86 Ux's good points
- 2000c.html#35 What level of computer is needed for a computer to Love?
- 2000d.html#11 4341 was "Is a VAX a mainframe?"
- 2000d.html#13 4341 was "Is a VAX a mainframe?"
- 2000f.html#9 Optimal replacement Algorithm
- 2000f.html#10 Optimal replacement Algorithm
- 2000f.html#18 OT?
- 2000f.html#32 Optimal replacement Algorithm
- 2000f.html#34 Optimal replacement Algorithm
- 2000f.html#36 Optimal replacement Algorithm
- 2000f.html#60 360 Architecture, Multics, ... was (Re: X86 ultimate CISC? No.)
- 2000g.html#3 virtualizable 360, was TSS ancient history
- 2000g.html#30 Could CDR-coding be on the way back?
- 2000g.html#38 4M pages are a bad idea (was Re: AMD 64bit Hammer CPU and VM)
- 2001.html#13 Review of Steve McConnell's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH
- 2001b.html#17 Linux IA-64 interrupts [was Re: Itanium benchmarks ...]
- 2001b.html#18 Linux IA-64 interrupts [was Re: Itanium benchmarks ...]
- 2001c.html#10 Memory management - Page replacement
- 2001c.html#11 Memory management - Page replacement
- 2001e.html#45 VM/370 Resource Manager
- 2001f.html#49 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercompu
- 2001f.html#52 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
- 2001f.html#53 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
- 2001f.html#54 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
- 2001f.html#55 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
- 2001f.html#56 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
- 2001g.html#29 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
- 2001h.html#26 TECO Critique
- 2001i.html#20 Very CISC Instuctions (Was: why the machine word size ...)
- 2001i.html#42 Question re: Size of Swap File
- 2001l.html#55 mainframe question
- 2002b.html#10 hollow files in unix filesystems?
- 2002b.html#16 hollow files in unix filesystems?
- 2002c.html#48 Swapper was Re: History of Login Names
- 2002c.html#49 Swapper was Re: History of Login Names
- 2002c.html#52 Swapper was Re: History of Login Names
- 2002e.html#8 What are some impressive page rates?
- 2002e.html#9 What are some impressive page rates?
- 2002j.html#31 Unisys A11 worth keeping?
- 2002j.html#32 Latency benchmark (was HP Itanium2 benchmarks)
- 2002o.html#30 Computer History Exhibition, Grenoble France
- 2003f.html#5 Alpha performance, why?
- 2003f.html#53 Alpha performance, why?
- 2003f.html#55 Alpha performance, why?
- 2003g.html#0 Alpha performance, why?
- 2003g.html#55 Advantages of multiple cores on single chip
- 2003h.html#6 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs. IBM
- 2003h.html#8 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs. IBM
- 2004b.html#47 new to mainframe asm
- 2004b.html#60 Paging
- 2004c.html#59 real multi-tasking, multi-programming
- 2004f.html#46 Finites State Machine (OT?)
- 2004g.html#13 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
- 2004g.html#55 The WIZ Processor
- 2004h.html#46 self correcting systems
- 2004i.html#0 Hard disk architecture: are outer cylinders still faster than inner cylinders?
- 2004l.html#66 Lock-free algorithms
- 2004l.html#67 Lock-free algorithms
- 2004l.html#68 Lock-free algorithms
- 2004l.html#70 computer industry scenairo before the invention of the PC?
- 2004n.html#27 Shipwrecks
- 2004n.html#55 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
- 2004o.html#7 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
- 2004o.html#8 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
- 2004q.html#73 Athlon cache question
- 2004q.html#76 Athlon cache question
- 2004q.html#77 Athlon cache question
- 200rq.html#79 Athlon cache question
- 2005.html#2 Athlon cache question
- 2005.html#6 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
- 2005c.html#15 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
- 2005c.html#27 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
- 2005c.html#53 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
- 2005f.html#47 Moving assembler programs above the line
- 2005.html#10 Exceptions at basic block boundaries
- 2005.html#15 Exceptions at basic block boundaries
- 2005i.html#15 Now the crackpots are trying to make it their own
- 2005k.html#47 Performance and Capacity Planning
- 2005k.html#54 Determining processor status without IPIs
- 2005n.html#19 Code density and performance?
- 2005n.html#23 Code density and performance?
- 2005o.html#43 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS?
- 2005r.html#13 Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?
- 2006.html#17 DCSS as SWAP disk for z/Linux
- 2006b.html#14 Expanded Storage
- 2006b.html#15 Expanded Storage
- 2006b.html#16 Expanded Storage
- 2006c.html#2 Multiple address spaces
- 2006d.html#0 IBM 610 workstation computer
- 2006d.html#21 IBM 610 workstation computer
- 2006f.html#0 using 3390 mod-9s
- 2006f.html#18 how much swap size did you take?
- 2006g.html#3 The Pankian Metaphor
- 2006i.html#22 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#23 Virtual memory implementation in S/370
- 2006i.html#24 Virtual memory implementation in S/370
- 2006i.html#30 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#31 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#36 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#37 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#38 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#39 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#40 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#41 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#42 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#43 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#0 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#1 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#2 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#4 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#5 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#11 The Pankian Metaphor
- 2006j.html#13 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#14 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#17 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#18 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#19 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#22 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#25 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#30 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#39 virtual memory
- 2006l.html#3 virtual memory
- 2006l.html#5 virtual memory
- 2006l.html#9 virtual memory
- 2006l.html#11 virtual memory
- 2006l.html#12 virtual memory
- 2006l.html#13 virtual memory
- 2006l.html#14 virtual memory
- 2006l.html#15 virtual memory
- 2006m.html#54 DCSS
- 2006o.html#26 Cache-Size vs Performance
- 2006p.html#0 DASD Response Time (on antique 3390?)
- 2006q.html#19 virtual memory
- 2006q.html#20 virtual memory
- 2006q.html#21 virtual memory
- 2006r.html#12 Trying to design low level hard disk manipulation program
- 2006r.html#34 REAL memory column in SDSF
- 2006r.html#39 REAL memory column in SDSF
- 2006s.html#25 VM SPOOL question
- 2006s.html#59 Why magnetic drums was/are worse than disks ?
- 2006t.html#13 VM SPOOL question
- 2006v.html#43 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
- 2006w.html#7 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?
- 2006w.html#46 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
- 2006x.html#2 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
- 2006x.html#10 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
- 2006x.html#16 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
- 2006x.html#17 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
- 2006y.html#9 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
- 2006y.html#17 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
- 2007b.html#14 Just another example of mainframe costs
- 2007b.html#34 Just another example of mainframe costs
- 2007c.html#23 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
- 2007c.html#56 SVCs
- 2007d.html#25 modern paging
- 2007e.html#10 A way to speed up level 1 caches
- 2007e.html#27 IBM S/360 series operating systems history
- 2007f.html#18 What to do with extra storage on new z9
- 2007g.html#36 Wylbur and Paging
- 2007k.html#2 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
- 2007m.html#55 Capacity and Relational Database
- 2007o.html#45 Virtual Storage implementation
- 2007o.html#46 Virtual Storage implementation
- 2007o.html#47 Virtual Storage implementation
- 2007o.html#53 Virtual Storage implementation
- 2007p.html#11 what does xp do when system is copying
- 2007p.html#26 what does xp do when system is copying
- 2007p.html#74 GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up
- 2007r.html#51 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
- 2007r.html#65 CSA 'above the bar'
- 2007r.html#75 Real storage usage - a quick question
- 2007s.html#5 Poster of computer hardware events?
- 2007t.html#54 new 40+ yr old, disruptive technology
- 2007u.html#77 IBM Floating-point myths
- 2007u.html#79 IBM Floating-point myths
- 2008.html#16 No Glory for the PDP-15
- 2008c.html#65 No Glory for the PDP-15
- 2008c.html#78 CPU time differences for the same job
- 2008e.html#16 Kernels
- 2008e.html#39 z10 presentation on 26 Feb
- 2008f.html#3 Fantasy-Land_Hierarchal_NUMA_Memory-Model_on_Vertical
- 2008f.html#8 Fantasy-Land_Hierarchal_NUMA_Memory-Model_on_Vertical
- 2008f.html#12 Fantasy-Land_Hierarchal_NUMA_Memory-Model_on_Vertical
- 2008f.html#19 Fantasy-Land_Hierarchal_NUMA_Memory-Model_on_Vertical
- 2008f.html#21 Fantasy-Land_Hierarchal_NUMA_Memory-Model_on_Vertical
- 2008h.html#70 New test attempt
- 2008h.html#79 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
- 2008h.html#84 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
- 2008k.html#32 squirrels
- 2008k.html#34 squirrels
- 2008k.html#80 How to calculate effective page fault service time?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#7 Future architectures
- 2008m.html#13 Yet another squirrel question - Results (very very long post)
- 2008m.html#34 Future architectures
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First 360 PCM/OEM Controller
- 93.html#2 360/67, was Re: IBM's Project F/S?
- 93.html#15 unit record & other controllers
- 93.html#16 unit record & other controllers
- 93.html#19 1st non-ibm 360 controller
- 94.html#33a High Speed Data Transport (HSDT)
- 94.html#54 How Do the Old Mainframes
- 95.html#14 characters
- 96.html#30 interdata and perkin/elmer
- 96.html#37 interdata & perkin/elmer machines
- 96.html#39 Mainframes & Unix
- 97.html#7 Did 1401 have time?
- 97.html#16 Why Mainframes?
- 97.html#25 Early RJE Terminals (was Re: First Network?)
- 98.html#2 CP-67 (was IBM 360 DOS (was Is Win95 without DOS...))
- 98.html#33 ... cics ... from posting from another list
- 98.html#34 ... cics ... from posting from another list
- 98.html#49 Edsger Dijkstra: the blackest week of his professional life
- 99.html#12 Old Computers
- 99.html#44 Internet and/or ARPANET?
- 99.html#55 Modem history [was ba.b: Re: Gender Gap's Wildest Show!!! Tonight!!!]
- 99.html#67 System/1?
- 99.html#86 1401 Wordmark?
- 99.html#190 Merced Processor Support at it again
- 99.html#195 Anti trust suits--IBMs' compared to Microsoft
- 99.html#234 Computer of the century
- 2000.html#7 "OEM"?
- 2000.html#77 Mainframe operating systems
- 2000b.html#49 VM (not VMS or Virtual Machine, the IBM sort)
- 2000c.html#48 WHAT IS A MAINFRAME???
- 2000c.html#54 WHAT IS A MAINFRAME???
- 2000c.html#59 Does the word "mainframe" still have a meaning?
- 2000c.html#80 Unisys vs IBM mainframe comparisons
- 2000c.html#81 Unisys vs IBM mainframe comparisons
- 2000f.html#6 History of ASCII (was Re: Why Not! Why not???)
- 2000f.html#68 TSS ancient history, was X86 ultimate CISC? designs)
- 2001.html#4 First video terminal?
- 2001.html#5 First video terminal?
- 2001.html#13 [OT] FS - IBM Future System
- 2001.html#17 IBM 1142 reader/punch (Re: First video terminal?)
- 2001.html#71 what is interrupt mask register?
- 2001.html#72 California DMV
- 2001b.html#14 IBM's announcement on RVAs
- 2001b.html#74 Z/90, S/390, 370/ESA (slightly off topic)
- 2001b.html#75 Z/90, S/390, 370/ESA (slightly off topic)
- 2001d.html#34 Very CISC Instuctions (Was: why the machine word size ...)
- 2001d.html#35 Imitation
- 2001d.html#54 VM & VSE news
- 2001d.html#55 VM & VSE news
- 2001e.html#8 Blame it all on Microsoft
- 2001e.html#22 High Level Language Systems was Re: computer books/authors
- 2001e.html#53 Pre ARPAnet email?
- 2001e.html#55 Pre ARPAnet email?
- 2001e.html#58 Wireless Interference
- 2001f.html#44 Golden Era of Compilers
- 2001f.html#78 HMC . . . does anyone out there like it?
- 2001g.html#30 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s?
- 2001g.html#32 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s?
- 2001h.html#50 Flip the bits in a byte
- 2001i.html#21 3745 and SNI
- 2001i.html#30 IBM OS Timeline?
- 2001k.html#21 almost lost LBJ tapes; Dictabelt
- 2001l.html#8 mainframe question
- 2001l.html#30 mainframe question
- 2001l.html#43 QTAM (was: MVS History)
- 2001l.html#44 QTAM (was: MVS History)
- 2001n.html#44 PC/370
- 2002.html#11 The demise of compaq
- 2002.html#15 index searching
- 2002c.html#41 Beginning of the end for SNA?
- 2002c.html#42 Beginning of the end for SNA?
- 2002d.html#30 Mainframers: Take back the light (spotlight, that is)
- 2002f.html#37 Playing Cards was Re: looking for information on the IBM 7090
- 2002f.html#38 Playing Cards was Re: looking for information on the IBM
- 2002i.html#68 CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it?
- 2002j.html#36 Difference between Unix and Linux?
- 2002n.html#32 why does wait state exist?
- 2002n.html#33 why does wait state exist?
- 2003.html#17 vax6k.openecs.org rebirth
- 2003.html#25 vax6k.openecs.org rebirth
- 2003.html#67 3745 & NCP Withdrawl?
- 2003.html#73 Card Columns
- 2003b.html#8 Card Columns
- 2003b.html#11 Card Columns
- 2003c.html#15 diffence between itanium and alpha
- 2003c.html#28 diffence between itanium and alpha
- 2003c.html#70 COMTEN- IBM networking boxes
- 2003c.html#76 COMTEN- IBM networking boxes
- 2003d.html#44 Why only 24 bits on S/360?
- 2003d.html#49 unix
- 2003d.html#67 unix
- 2003d.html#72 cp/67 35th anniversary
- 2003e.html#1 cp/67 35th anniversary
- 2003e.html#2 cp/67 35th anniversary
- 2003e.html#3 cp/67 35th anniversary
- 2003e.html#4 cp/67 35th anniversary
- 2003e.html#16 unix
- 2003k.html#30 IBM channels, was Re: Microkernels are not "all or nothing"
- 2003l.html#30 Secure OS Thoughts
- 2003m.html#53 model 91/CRJE and IKJLEW
- 2003o.html#16 When nerds were nerds
- 2004.html#35 40th anniversary of IBM System/360 on 7 Apr 200
- 2004b.html#47 new to mainframe asm
- 2004b.html#49 new to mainframe asm
- 2004e.html#0 were dumb terminals actually so dumb???
- 2004e.html#5 A POX on you, Dennis Ritchie!!!
- 2004g.html#9 Need to understand difference between EBCDIC and EDCDIC
- 2004g.html#12 network history
- 2004h.html#6 The One True Language
- 2004h.html#20 Vintage computers are better than modern crap!
- 2004j.html#17 Wars against bad things
- 2004l.html#71 a history question
- 2004m.html#17 mainframe and microprocessor
- 2004m.html#36 Multi-processor timing issue
- 2004m.html#38 Multi-processor timing issue
- 2004m.html#39 Multi-processor timing issue
- 2004m.html#53 4GHz is the glass ceiling?
- 2004n.html#38 RS/6000 in Sysplex Environment
- 2004o.html#47 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
- 2004o.html#66 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
- 2004p.html#5 History of C
- 2004p.html#27 IBM 3705 and UC.5
- 2004p.html#30 IBM 3705 and UC.5
- 2004p.html#33 IBM 3705 and UC.5
- 2005b.html#29 M.I.T. SNA study team
- 2005b.html#30 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
- 2005c.html#52 Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
- 2005c.html#58 Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
- 2005c.html#65 Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
- 2005d.html#1 Self restarting property of RTOS-How it works?
- 2005e.html#35 Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
- 2005e.html#63 Mozilla v Firefox
- 2005f.html#1 System/360; Hardwired vs. Microcoded
- 2005f.html#45 Moving assembler programs above the line
- 2005f.html#56 1401-S, 1470 "last gasp" computers?
- 2005g.html#55 Security via hardware?
- 2005h.html#0 Where should the type information be?
- 2005j.html#32 IBM Plugs Big Iron to the College Crowd
- 2005k.html#6 IBM/Watson autobiography--thoughts on?
- 2005k.html#41 Title screen for HLA Adventure? Need help designing one
- 2005m.html#14 IBM's mini computers--lack thereof
- 2005o.html#25 auto reIPL
- 2005p.html#8 EBCDIC to 6-bit and back
- 2005p.html#15 DUMP Datasets and SMS
- 2005p.html#26 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
- 2005p.html#34 What is CRJE
- 2005p.html#37 CRJE and CRB
- 2005r.html#4 OS's with loadable filesystem support?
- 2005r.html#49 MVCIN instruction
- 2005s.html#16 Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?
- 2006.html#7 EREP , sense ... manual
- 2006c.html#18 Change in computers as a hobbiest
- 2006c.html#21 Military Time?
- 2006e.html#9 terminals was: Caller ID "spoofing"
- 2006f.html#11 Anyone remember Mohawk Data Science ?
- 2006g.html#18 TOD Clock the same as the BIOS clock in PCs?
- 2006h.html#52 Need Help defining an AS400 with an IP address to the mainframe
- 2006k.html#29 PDP-1
- 2006k.html#41 PDP-1
- 2006k.html#42 Arpa address
- 2006l.html#50 Mainframe Linux Mythbusting (Was: Using Java in batch on z/OS?)
- 2006m.html#2 An Out-of-the-Main Activity
- 2006m.html#41 Why Didn't The Cent Sign or the Exclamation Mark Print?
- 2006m.html#44 Musings on a holiday weekend
- 2006m.html#47 The System/360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That
- 2006n.html#15 Old IBM protocol IBM 1006
- 2006n.html#18 The System/360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That
- 2006o.html#3 MTS, Emacs, and... WYLBUR?
- 2006o.html#5 Gould, not Harris
- 2006o.html#29 oops, cics
- 2006o.html#62 Greatest Software, System R
- 2006p.html#50 what's the difference between LF(Line Fee) and NL (New line) ?
- 2006r.html#36 REAL memory column in SDSF
- 2006v.html#20 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
- 2006w.html#2 IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones
- 2006w.html#34 Top versus bottom posting was Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones
- 2007b.html#27 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
- 2007e.html#9 The Genealogy of the IBM PC
- 2007e.html#48 time spent/day on a computer
- 2007f.html#26 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
- 2007f.html#28 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
- 2007f.html#38 IBM System z9
- 2007f.html#45 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
- 2007f.html#46 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
- 2007f.html#79 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
- 2007h.html#39 sizeof() was: The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
- 2007j.html#6 MTS *FS tape format?
- 2007j.html#46 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
- 2007j.html#76 Linux: The Completely Fair Scheduler
- 2007l.html#10 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
- 2007l.html#11 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
- 2007l.html#17 Linux: The Completely Fair Scheduler
- 2007l.html#21 Non-Standard Mainframe Language?
- 2007l.html#62 Friday musings on the future of 3270 applications
- 2007p.html#4 what does xp do when system is copying
- 2007p.html#5 PL/S programming language
- 2007p.html#23 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
- 2007q.html#51 The history of Structure capabilities
- 2007r.html#39 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
- 2007r.html#74 System 360 EBCDIC vs. ASCII
- 2007s.html#33 Age of IBM VM
- 2007t.html#68 T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly
- 2007t.html#74 What do YOU call the # sign?
- 2007u.htmL#17 T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly
- 2007v.html#36 folklore indeed
- 2007v.html#41 IBM mainframe history, was Floating-point myths
- 2007v.html#101 It keeps getting uglier
- 2008d.html#16 more on (the new 40+ yr old) virtualization
- 2008d.html#46 Throwaway cores
- 2008e.html#36 Batch job to perform sftp transfer
- 2008g.html#48 How did third-party software companies deal with unbundling being sprung on them?
- 2008g.html#61 performance of hardware dynamic scheduling
- 2008k.html#65 Crippleware: hardware examples
- 2008l.html#23 Memories of ACC, IBM Channels and Mainframe Internet Devices
- 2008l.html#75 Intel: an expensive many-core future is ahead of us
- 2008m.html#1 Yet another squirrel question - Results (very very long post)
- 2008m.html#37 Baudot code direct to computers?
- 2008m.html#39 Baudot code direct to computers?
- 2008m.html#46 Baudot code direct to computers?
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Performance and/or Scheduling
- 93.html#12 managing large amounts of vm
- 93.html#15 unit record & other controllers
- 93.html#21 Too much data on an actuator (was: 3.5 inch 9GB )
- 93.html#28 Log Structured filesystems -- think twice
- 93.html#29 Log Structured filesystems -- think twice
- 93.html#31 Big I/O or Kicking the Mainframe out the Door
- 94.html#18 CP/67 & OS MFT14
- 94.html#21 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
- 94.html#22 CP spooling & programming technology
- 94.html#23 CP spooling & programming technology
- 94.html#27 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
- 94.html#33a High Speed Data Transport (HSDT)
- 94.html#35 mainframe CKD disks & PDS files (looong... warning)
- 94.html#38 IBM 370/195
- 94.html#43 Bloat, elegance, simplicity and other irrelevant concepts
- 94.html#44 bloat
- 94.html#46 Rethinking Virtual Memory
- 94.html#49 Rethinking Virtual Memory
- 94.html#50 Rethinking Virtual Memory
- 94.html#51 Rethinking Virtual Memory
- 94.html#52 Measuring Virtual Memory
- 94.html#54 How Do the Old Mainframes
- 94.html#55 How Do the Old Mainframes Compare to Today's Micros?
- 95.html#00 old mainframes & text processing
- 95.html#2 Why is there only VM/370?
- 95.html#3 What is an IBM 137/148???
- 95.html#5 Who started RISC? (was: 64 bit Linux?)
- 95.html#6 801
- 95.html#8 3330 Disk Drives
- 95.html#10 Virtual Memory (A return to the past?)
- 96.html#34 Mainframes & Unix
- 97.html#10 HELP! Chronology of word-processing
- 97.html#11 OSes commerical, history
- 97.html#12 OSes commerical, history
- 97.html#13 OSes commerical, history
- 97.html#15 OSes commerical, history
- 97.html#20 Why Mainframes?
- 97.html#22 Pre S/360 IBM Operating Systems?
- 97.html#28 IA64 Self Virtualizable?
- 97.html#29 IA64 Self Virtualizable?
- 98.html#6 OS with no distinction between RAM and HD?
- 98.html#12 S/360 operating systems geneaology
- 98.html#17 S/360 operating systems geneaology
- 98.html#21 Reviving the OS/360 thread (Questions about OS/360)
- 98.html#46 The god old days(???)
- 99.html#67 System/1?
- 99.html#74 Read if over 40 and have Mainframe background
- 99.html#75 Read if over 40 and have Mainframe background
- 99.html#90 CPU's directly executing HLL's (was Which programming languages)
- 99.html#93 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
- 99.html#96 IEFBR14 cookie from www.ibm.com
- 99.html#103 IBM 9020 computers used by FAA (was Re: EPO stories (was: HELP IT'S HOT!!!!!))
- 99.html#119 Computer, supercomputers & related
- 99.html#129 High Performance PowerPC
- 99.html#136a checks (was S/390 on PowerPC?)
- 99.html#137 Mainframe emulation
- 99.html#142 OS/360 (and descendents) VM system?
- 99.html#143 OS/360 (and descendents) VM system?
- 99.html#147 Dispute about Internet's origins
- 99.html#148 OS/360 (and descendents) VM system?
- 99.html#149 OS/360 (and descendents) VM system?
- 99.html#183 Clustering systems
- 99.html#187 Merced Processor Support at it again
- 99.html#188 Merced Processor Support at it again
- 99.html#204 Core (word usage) was anti-equipment etc
- 2000.html#12 I'm overwhelmed
- 2000.html#44 Historically important UNIX or computer things
- 2000.html#63 Mainframe operating systems
- 2000.html#75 Mainframe operating systems
- 2000.html#86 Ux's good points
- 2000.html#92 Ux's good points
- 2000.html#93 Predictions and reality: the I/O Bottleneck
- 2000d.html#0 Is a VAX a mainframe?
- 2000d.html#2 IBM's "ASCI White" and "Big Blue" architecture?
- 2000d.html#7 4341 was "Is a VAX a mainframe?"
- 2000d.html#17 Where's all the VMers?
- 2000d.html#21 S/360 development burnout?
- 2000d.html#28 RS/6000 vs. System/390 architecture?
- 2000d.html#30 Secure Operating Systems
- 2000d.html#45 Charging for time-share CPU time
- 2000d.html#46 Charging for time-share CPU time
- 2000d.html#47 Charging for time-share CPU time
- 2000d.html#50 Navy orders supercomputer
- 2000d.html#53 IBM 650 (was: Re: IBM--old computer manuals)
- 2000d.html#61 "all-out" vs less aggressive designs (was: Re: 36 to 32 bit transition)
- 2000d.html#62 iAPX-432 (was: 36 to 32 bit transition
- 2000d.html#70 When the Internet went private
- 2000d.html#71 When the Internet went private
- 2000d.html#74 When the Internet went private
- 2000d.html#75 When the Internet went private
- 2000d.html#76 When the Internet went private
- 2000d.html#82 "all-out" vs less aggressive designs (was: Re: 36 to 32 bit transition)
- 2000e.html#7 Ridiculous
- 2000e.html#10 Is Al Gore The Father of the Internet?^
- 2000e.html#19 Is Al Gore The Father of the Internet?^
- 2000e.html#36 War, Chaos, & Business (web site), or Col John Boyd
- 2000e.html#45 IBM's Workplace OS (Was: .. Pink)
- 2000e.html#52 Why not an IBM zSeries workstation?
- 2000e.html#56 Why not an IBM zSeries workstation?
- 2000e.html#57 Why not an IBM zSeries workstation?
- 2000f.html#13 Airspeed Semantics, was: not quite an sr-71, was: Re: jet in IBM ad?
- 2000f.html#18 OT?
- 2000f.html#19 OT?
- 2000f.html#23 Why trust root CAs?
- 2000f.html#31 OT?
- 2000f.html#32 Optimal replacement Algorithm
- 2000f.html#36 Optimal replacement Algorithm
- 2000f.html#45 Al Gore and the Internet (Part 2 of 2)
- 2000f.html#55 X86 ultimate CISC? No. (was: Re: "all-out" vs less aggressive designs)
- 2000f.html#57 X86 ultimate CISC? No. (was: Re: "all-out" vs less aggressive designs)
- 2000f.html#60 360 Architecture, Multics, ... was (Re: X86 ultimate CISC? No.)
- 2000f.html#66 360 Architecture, Multics, ... was (Re: X86 ultimate CISC? No.)
- 2000f.html#69 TSS ancient history, was X86 ultimate CISC? designs)
- 2000g.html#12 360 Architecture, Multics, ... was (Re: X86 ultimate CISC? No.)
- 2000g.html#18 360/370 instruction cycle time
- 2000g.html#42 4M pages are a bad idea (was Re: AMD 64bit Hammer CPU and VM)
- 2000g.html#45 4M pages are a bad idea (was Re: AMD 64bit Hammer CPU and VM)
- 2001.html#10 Review of Steve McConnell's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH
- 2001.html#13 Review of Steve McConnell's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH
- 2001.html#29 Review of Steve McConnell's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH
- 2001.html#37 Competitors to SABRE?
- 2001.html#38 Competitors to SABRE?
- 2001.html#39 Life as a programmer--1960, 1965?
- 2001.html#53 Disk drive behavior
- 2001.html#63 Are the L1 and L2 caches flushed on a page fault?
- 2001.html#73 how old are you guys
- 2001b.html#79 Z/90, S/390, 370/ESA (slightly off topic)
- 2001b.html#85 what makes a cpu fast
- 2001c.html#1 Z/90, S/390, 370/ESA (slightly off topic)
- 2001c.html#2 Z/90, S/390, 370/ESA (slightly off topic)
- 2001c.html#13 LINUS for S/390
- 2001c.html#16 database (or b-tree) page sizes
- 2001c.html#17 database (or b-tree) page sizes
- 2001c.html#26 The Foolish Dozen or so in This News Group
- 2001c.html#74 database (or b-tree) page sizes
- 2001d.html#10 Simpler technology
- 2001e.html#45 VM/370 Resource Manager
- 2001e.html#51 Ever hear of RFC 1149? A geek silliness taken wing
- 2001f.html#3 Oldest program you've written, and still in use?
- 2001f.html#26 Price of core memory
- 2001f.html#47 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
- 2001f.html#48 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
- 2001f.html#49 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercompu
- 2001f.html#56 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
- 2001f.html#57 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
- 2001f.html#62 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
- 2001h.html#11 checking some myths
- 2001h.html#12 checking some myths
- 2001h.html#18 checking some myths
- 2001h.html#19 checking some myths
- 2001h.html#34 D
- 2001h.html#35 D
- 2001h.html#57 Whom Do Programmers Admire Now???
- 2001h.html#59 Blinkenlights<
- 2001h.html#60 Whom Do Programmers Admire Now???
- 2001i.html#46 Withdrawal Announcement 901-218 - No More 'small machines'
- 2001k.html#20 almost lost LBJ tapes; Dictabelt
- 2001l.html#6 mainframe question
- 2001l.html#9 mainframe question
- 2001l.html#11 mainframe question
- 2002b.html#55 "Fair Share" scheduling
- 2002c.html#11 OS Workloads : Interactive etc
- 2002c.html#13 OS Workloads : Interactive etc
- 2002c.html#16 OS Workloads : Interactive etc
- 2002c.html#28 OS Workloads : Interactive etc
- 2002c.html#52 Swapper was Re: History of Login Names
- 2002c.html#54 Swapper was Re: History of Login Names
- 2002e.html#62 Computers in Science Fiction
- 2002e.html#63 Computers in Science Fiction
- 2002e.html#64 Computers in Science Fiction
- 2002h.html#49 Coulda, Woulda, Shoudda moments?
- 2002i.html#32 IBM was: CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it?
- 2002i.html#42 CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was it?
- 2002i.html#53 wrt code first, document later
- 2002i.html#55 wrt code first, document later
- 2002i.html#56 wrt code first, document later
- 2002i.html#59 wrt code first, document later
- 2002k.html#13 Difference between Unix and Linux?
- 2002k.html#40 hung/zombie users
- 2002k.html#46 OT (sort-of) - Does it take math skills to do data processing?
- 2002k.html#66 OT (sort-of) - Does it take math skills to do data processing?
- 2002l.html#25 Do any architectures use instruction count instead of timer
- 2002l.html#33 misc resource manager related folklore postings
- 2002n.html#48 Tweaking old computers?
- 2002n.html#73 Home mainframes
- 2002p.html#2 IBM OS source code
- 2002p.html#64 cost of crossing kernel/user boundary
- 2003.html#5 vax6k.openecs.org rebirth
- 2003.html#14 vax6k.openecs.org rebirth
- 2003.html#17 vax6k.openecs.org rebirth
- 2003.html#20 vax6k.openecs.org rebirth
- 2003.html#21 vax6k.openecs.org rebirth
- 2003.html#23 vax6k.openecs.org rebirth
- 2003.html#27 vax6k.openecs.org rebirth
- 2003.html#47 Timesharing TOPS-10 vs. VAX/VMS "task based timesharing"
- 2003e.html#12 Resolved: There Are No Programs With >32 Bits of Text
- 2003e.html#35 unix
- 2003e.html#56 Reviving Multics
- 2003f.html#3 Alpha performance, why?
- 2003f.html#5 Alpha performance, why?
- 2003f.html#8 Alpha performance, why?
- 2003f.html#12 Alpha performance, why?
- 2003f.html#15 Alpha performance, why?
- 2003f.html#17 History of project maintenance tools -- what and when?
- 2003f.html#30 Alpha performance, why?
- 2003g.html#15 Disk capacity and backup solutions
- 2003h.html#5 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs. IBM
- 2003j.html#34 Interrupt in an IBM mainframe
- 2003j.html#48 June 23, 1969: IBM "unbundles" software
- 2003j.html#54 June 23, 1969: IBM "unbundles" software
- 2003j.html#70 Multics Concepts For the Contemporary Computing World
- 2003k.html#2 Rexx vs. Batch
- 2003k.html#5 What is timesharing, anyway?
- 2003k.html#7 What is timesharing, anyway?
- 2003k.html#8 z VM 4.3<
- 2003k.html#9 What is timesharing, anyway?
- 2003k.html#11 humor in source code
- 2003k.html#12 humor in source code
- 2003k.html#19 Dealing with complexity
- 2003m.html#33 MAD Programming Language
- 2003m.html#40 MAD Programming Language
- 2003m.html#44 MAD Programming Language
- 2003n.html#45 hung/zombie users ... long boring, wandering story
- 2003o.html#28 When nerds were nerds
- 2003o.html#33 When nerds were nerds
- 2004.html#35 40th anniversary of IBM System/360 on 7 Apr 200
- 2004b.html#47 new to mainframe asm
- 2004c.html#35 Computer-oriented license plates
- 2004c.html#59 real multi-tasking, multi-programming
- 2004c.html#61 IBM 360 memory
- 2004d.html#62 microsoft antitrust
- 2004f.html#3 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
- 2004f.html#46 Finites State Machine (OT?)
- 2004g.html#2 Text Adventures (which computer was first?)
- 2004g.html#18 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
- 2004g.html#40 IBM 7094 Emulator - An historic moment?
- 2004g.html#55 The WIZ Processor
- 2004g.html#57 Adventure game (was:PL/? History (was Hercules))
- 2004k.html#31 capacity planning: art, science or magic?
- 2004l.html#9 Vintage computers are better than modern crap !
- 2004l.html#70 computer industry scenairo before the invention of the PC?
- 2004m.html#36 Multi-processor timing issue
- 2004m.html#53 4GHz is the glass ceiling?
- 2004n.html#2 Multi-processor timing issue
- 2004n.html#22 Shipwrecks
- 2004n.html#27 Shipwrecks
- 2004o.html#2 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
- 2004o.html#9 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
- 2004o.html#10 Multi-processor timing issue
- 2004o.html#14 Multi-processor timing issue
- 2004p.html#2 Integer types for 128-bit addressing