From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Oldest Instruction Set still in daily use? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:10:07 -0500jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv@aol> writes:
part of the concern is what happened with medicare part-d.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Part_D
60 minutes had segment on a (very late) one sentence change.
gao had done cost estimate for the bill ... before the one line change ... and according to 60 minutes, after the change, gao did a new cost estimate showing the effect of the one line change ... but there were some critical members that stalled making the revised estimate available until after the vote.
the one line change eliminated being able to do competitive bids and increased the cost enormously (large part of the tens of trillions of dollars in the stories about unfunded mandates). 60 minutes compared cost of identical drugs under part-d and to VA ... which is able to do competitive bids ... and VA is paying 1/3rd what medicare is paying for identical drugs. also within several months after passing the bill ... something like 18(?) key congressmen & staffers had resigned their positions and were working for drug industry (at significantly larger salary).
misc. past posts referencing drug bill, 60 minutes segment, and/or
related unfunded mandates:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#30 Health Care
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#7 what does xp do when system is copying
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#1 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#46 August 7, 1944: today is the 65th Anniversary of the Birth of the Computer
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main, alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:15:49 -0500lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
recent post also mentioning vm/4341 cluster support
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#90 Happy DEC-10 Day
and various vm/4341 cluster-wide operations going from small subsecond elapsed time to 30secs (or more) when forced to migrate to SNA for customer release.
i had done dynamic adaptive resource management and something I called "scheduling to the bottleneck" as undergraduate in the 60s ... so was sensitized to being constantly on the lookout for changing bottleneck conditions. as a result, it wasn't unusual to find by the mid-70s, bottleneck was shifting to disk i/o ... and real storage was more and more being leveraged to compensate for the disk i/o bottleneck.
by the early 80s, I had made statements about relative system disk thruput
had declined by order of magnitude over period of years ... old post
with comparison from the early 80 period:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/93.html#31 Big I/O or Kicking the Mainframe out the Door
i.e. the growth in cms users from cp67 on 360/67 to vm370 on 3081 should have been from 80 to something like 4000 ... instead of typically 300 (the ratio of 80:300 is more like change in disk thruput).
disk division executives tasked their performance group to refute the
statement ... but after a few weeks they came back and said that I had
slightly understated the problem. the spin on the analysis was then
changed to be recommendations on disk configuration to maximize system
thruput ... and turned into share presentation (B874 @ SHARE 63,
8/18/84). some past references
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#18 AS/400 and MVS - clarification please
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#46 AS/400 and MVS - clarification please
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#3 using 3390 mod-9s
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#68 DASD Response Time (on antique 3390?)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#5 Poster of computer hardware events?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#9 Poster of computer hardware events?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#88 CPU time differences for the same job
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#71 308x Processors - was "Mainframe articles"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#7 My Vintage Dream PC
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#34 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#52 Hercules; more information requested
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#67 ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps
in the period between 3330/3350 and 3380 there was also software technologies about disk thruput ... basically analysing traces of disk record accesses ... and generating profiles for re-allocation for better arm balance and concurrent operation. One such application was then modified for specifying allocation for moving from 3330/3350 to 3380s. Sort of guideline was that 3380s had to be limited to 80% allocation in order to avoid degrading thruput compared to same data spread across 3330/3350 configuration (i.e. 3380 byte capacity increased by much larger factor then 3380 performance increase).
another disk activity "trace" technology was extremely lightweight,
originally used as part of electronic cache modeling. one finding was
that given fixed amount of electornic cache ... using it for a single
large system cache was better than dividing/partitioning it into
channel, controller, and/or disk specific caches. Some work was then
done on the lightweight activity trace regarding incorporating into
standard system allocation ... for choosing optimal distribution of
data (of course lots of that has now all been moved to complex disk
subsystems). misc. past posts:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#104 Fixed Head Drive (Was: Re:Power distribution (Was: Re: A primeval C compiler)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#19 Hard disks, one year ago today
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#61 Disks size growing while disk count shrinking = bad performance
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#1 More newbie stop the war here!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002c.html#53 VAX, M68K complex instructions (was Re: Did Intel Bite Off More Than It Can Chew?)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#50 crossreferenced program code listings
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#7 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#8 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#76 Athlon cache question
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#79 Athlon cache question
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#4 Athlon cache question
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#45 winscape?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#45 using 3390 mod-9s
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#0 using 3390 mod-9s
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006i.html#27 Really BIG disk platters?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#33 CRAM, DataCell, and 3850
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#12 Trying to design low level hard disk manipulation program
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#35 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#5 Poster of computer hardware events?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: PC history, was search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:11:02 -0500John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> writes:
this required moving off of cp.r and pl.8 (although they did come up with abstract virtual machine implemented in pl.8 to keep all their programmers available; some presentation at the time was that they had over 200 pl.8 programmers working on the displaywriter followon that needed something to do) ... getting the company that had done the pc/ix product for the PC ... to do a port to the VRM. The unix programming paradigm at least required hardware protection domain (privileged/non-privileged) which didn't exist in basic 801/cp.r.
misc. past posts mentioning 801, iliad, romp, rios, power, power/pc
somerset, etc
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Oldest Instruction Set still in daily use? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:19:46 -0500jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv@aol> writes:
listening to former comptroller general description, part-d has already bankrupted the country in unfunded mandates ... larger than all the possible speculation and conjecture about amounts that may or may not be involved in current bill. Given the significant difference in the level of public furor between 2003 part-d and conjecture about what may or may not be in current bill ... raises question about what hidden agendas might be involved (or that there was significant more finesse used in 2003)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Processes' memory Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, comp.arch Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:34:10 -0500"Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <ag-news@patten-glew.net> writes:
os/360 was standard operating system product for running on 360s (w/o virtual memory). Boeing Huntsville had installed multiprocessor 360/67 for running os/360 doing a lot of (long-running) 2250 graphics display (lots of cadam-like design apps). os/360 had big problem with 1) applications required contiguous addressing and 2) storage fragmentation with long-running applications. Boeing modified os/360 MVT13 to support virtual address mapping (no page faults, no paging) to fake contiguous addressing ... as work-around to os/360 storage fragmentation problem.
some of the things involved in the way tss/360 implemented its (virtual memory) "one-level-store" ... resulted in severe performance degradation ... and lack of customer uptake.
A lot of the one-level-store concepts from tss/360 ... were then
involved in the failed future system effort ... lots of past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
folklore is that some number from future system retreated to rochester to do s/38 ... which as/400 is follow-on.
in the early 80s, I tried to get a project to re-implement CMS (from cp67 and then vm370) in portable (higher-level) programming language so that it could run on 801/risc Iliad chips ... in addition to 370.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Processes' memory Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, comp.arch Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:47:24 -0500Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
as undergraduate at the univ. in 60s, I got to worked on os/360, cp67, and little on tss/360. later when I did a paged-mapped filesystem for cms ... I used a lot about what not to do from what I had experienced with tss/360.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:42:44 -0500Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> writes:
some 1989 news item:
Chip Wars:
1972 Intel 8008 3,500 transistors; 8-bit
1978 Intel 8086
1979 Intel 8088 29,000 transistors; 16-bit
Motorola 68000 68,000 transistors
1981 IBM picks Intel 8088
Apple picks Motoroloa 68000
1982 Intel 80286 130,000 transistors
1983 Motorola 68010 (adopted by Sun, H-P, Apollo)
1984 Motorola 68020 195,000 transistors 32-bit
1985 Intel 80386 32-bit; IBM adopts it for PS/2 line
1987 Motorola 68030
1988 Intel 80486 (1-million transistor mark broken)
Motorola unexpectedly releases advance details of 68040
... snip ...
for other drift ...
Date: 02/08/82 13:11:13
To: wheeler
Lynn,
Rumors, garbage, et cetera...
1- Anything to the rumor that AT&T is going to buy Amdahl?
2- Toyota is using voice recognition on a regular basis on the
assembly line. Supposedly, it works very well.
3- Sony has shown a flat screen CRT which uses only electrostatic
deflection (no more shrieking displays).
4- M.I.T. claims to have a VLSI design tool that can "do a comparable
job (to designing a Motorola MC68000) in a few man-weeks." It is
called the McPitts design system.
... snip ... top of post, old email index.
I remember some trip to far east in the mid-80s where they explained that they were looking at replacing large auto wiring harness bundles with dual-loop LAN ... because it significantly reduced maintenance, service, and diagnostic costs.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:06:21 -0500Eric Chomko <pne.chomko@comcast.net> writes:
past references:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#61 IBM zSeries in HPC
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#1 The BASIC Variations
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#33 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#47 ANN: Microsoft goes Open Source
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#49 ANN: Microsoft goes Open Source
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#60 more on (the new 40+ yr old) virtualization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#69 Crippleware: hardware examples
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:45:19 -0500Eric Chomko <pne.chomko@comcast.net> writes:
in '79 there was some contention between endicott with their mid-range
products ... taking the lower-end of POK's high-end market ... this
mentions POK's attempted reaction was to get hardware allocation for
critical components needed for 4341s manufacture cut in half:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#87 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#99 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#1 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
The mid-range market moving to (low cost & commodity) workstations and large PCs ... and the high-end datacenters growth stalled with huge amount of data leaking out to the distributed environment; this is focus of disk division that communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk division.
In any case, there was big push of other lines of businesses, software, consulting, services, hosting, etc; even doing things like buying consulting houses.
That round of applications & data leaking out of high-end datacenters somewhat stabilized for a period (a big part was the billions spent by financial institutions on failed efforts for straight through processing in the 90s). Last week there was article about recent big drop in high-end mainframe sales ... but one scenario explanation is that those customers are holding back waiting for pending announcement of the next generation of high-end mainframes.
Part of the issue is that even high-end mainframe costs have dropped ... and the risk involved in something going badly with new implementation of the those remaining (high-end mainframe) business critical applications is enormous (far larger than the cost of the hardware and the cost of new software replacements).
misc. past posts mentioning the straight through processing forey
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#40 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#10 A way to speed up level 1 caches
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#15 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#36 Future of System/360 architecture?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#3 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#5 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#19 Distributed Computing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#44 Distributed Computing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#61 folklore indeed
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#19 Education ranking
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#64 folklore indeed
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#81 Tap and faucet and spellcheckers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#3 on-demand computing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#74 Too much change opens up financial fault lines
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#30 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#31 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#87 Berkeley researcher describes parallel path
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#89 Berkeley researcher describes parallel path
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#55 performance of hardware dynamic scheduling
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#50 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#56 Long running Batch programs keep IMS databases offline
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#26 What is the biggest IT myth of all time?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#30 Automation is still not accepted to streamline the business processes... why organizations are not accepting newer technolgies?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#35 Automation is still not accepted to streamline the business processes... why organizations are not accepting newer technolgies?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#7 If you had a massively parallel computing architecture, what unsolved problem would you set out to solve?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#87 Cleaning Up Spaghetti Code vs. Getting Rid of It
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#43 Business process re-engineering
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#14 Legacy clearing threat to OTC derivatives warns State Street
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#55 Cobol hits 50 and keeps counting
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#1 z/Journal Does it Again
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#2 z/Journal Does it Again
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#21 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#57 IBM halves mainframe Linux engine prices
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#22 PCI SSC Seeks standard for End to End Encryption?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#81 A Faster Way to the Cloud
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#81 big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#67 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#68 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#77 Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#16 How long for IBM System/360 architecture and its descendants?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Oldest Instruction Set still in daily use? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:37:46 -0500jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv@aol> writes:
part of the issue is will the real health bill please standup? with 2003 part-d (that former comptroller general has as much worse financially than any of the scenarios with current legislation), there seemed to be very focused agenda ... and no publicity. this time it seems like waring factions are generating lots of conflicting publicity
1) original draft of bill supposedly done by the health industry ... to get them all on board (and alienating all those advocating lots of social programs and benefits for the disadvantage)
2) guaranteed health insurance for everybody ... including the 40(?) million uninsured
3) bill that will fix all the current unfunded mandates and put the country back on sound fiscal responsible footing.
4) ...
on the show the other night ... the former comptroller general had one
liner about getting very vocal publicly after seeing what congress was
doing after the fiscal responsibility bill expired in 2002.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#60 Happy DEC-10 Day
I'm not familiar with legislation that he was referring to ... but could the expiring of fiscal responsibility legislation in 2002, be related to passing part-d in 2003 ... and characterized as badly bankrupting the country ... far worse than anything else.
other recent posts mentioning comptroller general
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#36 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#37 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#39 Happy DEC-10 Day
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:27:58 -0500Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> writes:
but all those 286 machines that had been built for the '88 xmas season still got caught ... and unloaded at significant fire sale.
in 90 ... boca was still doing PS2 business cases based on some assumptions about large quantity business bulk sale prices. I started posting (on internal forums) prices from sunday sjmn for quantity one prices ... that were way lower than their assumptions about clone large quantity sales.
then the head of PS2 line of business contracted dataquest for in-depth study about where the PC market was going over the next five yrs; part of the study was to include video taped, multiple hr round table discussions with dozen silicon valley exports. I knew the dataquest people and they asked me if I would be one of the silicon valley exports (they said they would garble my introduction so boca wouldn't know there was a ringer on the tape) ... I did clear it with my line of management before agreeing
misc. past posts mentioning sunday SJMN postings and/or dataquest
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#79 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#80 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#81 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#82 a.f.c history checkup... (was What specifications will the standard year 2001 PC have?)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#55 Moore law
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#56 Moore law
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#1 The BASIC Variations
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#21 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#48 time spent/day on a computer
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#81 IBM to the PCM market
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#0 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#69 Intel's Future is integrated
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#62 How long before Microsoft goes the way of DEC (and in part, IBM)?
the 2001n.html#79 posting also has forrester "MAINFRAME R.I.P." summary from Jun90.
a little x-over in this post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#8 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
and some stall in moving off mainframe involved extremely business critical apps ... where new implementations/re-engineering floundered (including various fed. gov. "modernization" efforts) ... and failing applications represented a significantly larger risk to the business ... than any savings that could be gained by moving off the mainframes.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: PC history, was search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:54:36 -0500Charles Richmond <frizzle@tx.rr.com> writes:
this was part of barrier for EPC RFID chips for some time ... aka the
chips that were to replace barcodes on cereal boxes and other grocery
store products.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Product_Code
and
http://www.epcglobalinc.org/home
in the mid-90s, i semi-facetiously commented that I was going to take $500 milspec security chip ... aggresively cost reduce it by 2-3 orders of magnitude while improving the security. Circa 2000, it was getting very close to cost curve of EPC RFID chips ... and further improvements in volume cost reduction was dependent on increasing the number of chips per wafer (fixed manufacturing cost per wafer, part of reducing costs getting more chips/wafer). At that time, problem was that chip size reduction had reached a point that the area lost to cutting (i.e. individual chips had to be cut from larger wafer) was larger than total chip area. Any futher significant increase in number of chips per wafer was dependent on some new technology for cutting that significantly reduced cut size.
The other way of limiting wafer area lost to cutting ... is by keeping the number of chips (and chip size) relatively constant, packing more and more into each chip (as circuits get smaller) ... which keeps chips/wafer relative constant and somewhat fixes that part of per chip cost (convince everybody that they need gigabit memories not megabit memories).
The other approach being worked on for EPC RFID ... is coming up with mechanisms where circuits can be printed on material (similar to barcodes) ... bypassing all the wafer technology issues.
misc. past references:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm13.htm#18 A challenge
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#6 x9.59
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm21.htm#11 Payment Tokens
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm21.htm#26 X.509 / PKI, PGP, and IBE Secure Email Technologies
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm22.htm#40 FraudWatch - Chip&Pin, a new tenner (USD10)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm24.htm#23 Use of TPM chip for RNG?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm24.htm#52 Crypto to defend chip IP: snake oil or good idea?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#37 The bank fraud blame game
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#50 If your CSO lacks an MBA, fire one of you
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#16 Dutch Transport Card Broken
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#49 Price point
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#18 Help! Good protocol for national ID card?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#26 RSA SecurID product
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#32 AMD to leave x86 behind?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#5 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#66 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#53 My Dream PC -- Chip-Based
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#8 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#12 My Dream PC -- Chip-Based
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#35 My Dream PC -- Chip-Based
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#59 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#5 Public Computers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#11 Public Computers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#70 folklore indeed
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#33 What is "timesharing" (Re: OS X Finder windows vs terminal window weirdness)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#44 What is "timesharing" (Re: OS X Finder windows vs terminal window weirdness)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#61 Osama bin Laden gets a cosmetic makevover in his British Vanity Passport
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#48 In your experience which is a superior debit card scheme - PIN based debit or signature debit?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#40 Signposts on the US Government's Trail of IT Failures
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#11 Can Smart Cards Reduce Payments Fraud and Identity Theft?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#46 Would you say high tech authentication gizmo's are a waste of time/money/effort?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#28 Online-Banking Authentication
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#26 Return of the Smart Card?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#21 ATMs At Risk
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#62 Solving password problems one at a time, Re: The password-reset paradox
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#54 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#2 Does this count as 'computer' folklore?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#4 Hacker charges also an indictment on PCI, expert says
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#14 The Art of Creating Strong Passwords
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#28 PCI Council Releases Recommendations For Preventing Card-Skimming Attacks
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#48 Hacker charges also an indictment on PCI, expert says
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#7 Some companies are selling the idea that you can use just a (prox) physical access badge (single factor) for logical access as acceptable
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#59 MasPar compiler and simulator
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#72 Crypto dongles to secure online transactions
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#15 security and online banking
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42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:02:02 -0500Charles Richmond <frizzle@tx.rr.com> writes:
says 386 adopted for PS/2 line in 1985 ... later they also adopt 486 for ps2 line (besides also having 286) ... i'm sure the 1989 article didn't mean to imply that 386 was only processor in ps/2 line.
"The first 10 years"
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/pc25/pc25_tenyears.html
1987, model 30 8086, model 50 & model 60 286, model 80 386 1990 ... 486 ps2
wiki ps/2 page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_System/2
...
then here
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#7 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#10 Happy DEC-10 Day
i refer to '88 summer/fall, (far east) clone builders built up big inventory of 286 clones for '88 xmas season ... but with introduction of 386sx that fall (also in clones) dropped the bottom out of the 286 (clone) market ... resulting in big firesale (big price drops on that big inventory of 286 clones).
and from long ago and far away ...
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vax shipments 1978-1987 sliced&diced by model, year, US/non-US
1987 from above:
PC/370 had severe useability ... design point of CMS had gotten somewhat
bloated so real-storage required (minimum virtual pages) and disk
intensive operations ... resulted in poor human factors.
original pc/370 was to ship with 384k of 370 memory ... i showed that
with only 384k ... system exhibited severe page thrashing behavior. I
then got blamed for six month slip in schedule while they retrofitted
another 128k (for 512k) for 370 memory. CMS filesystem was emulated on
DOS PC/XT harddisk ... which had 100ms access ... and became
excruciatingly slow compared to what people were used to with mainframe
disks.
CMS applications directly ported to DOS tried to be a lot more efficient
with their use of storage and disk activity ... old email of
somebody ported the CMS (script) document formating to TRS80:
other post/reference
CMS document formating had been done in mid-60s ... sort of port of ctss
runoff command. then GML (precursor to SGML, HTML, XML, etc) was
invented at the science center in '69 and CMS document formater was
upgrade to support GML tag commands (in addition to original "dot"
commands).
I had some work with my cms paged mapped file system for pc/370 to help
offset the slowness of the disks (i.e. on mainframe 3380s disk ... I
measured about a factor of three times improvement in moderately disk
limited applications).
for other drift ... recent references to high-end mainframe organization
(POK) trying to cut in half component allocation for mid-range 43xx
production (to limit mid-range eating into high-end revenue)
old reference (early '85) to proposal to pack a whole lot of processor
chips into single rack ... arbitrary mix of 370 & 801 (although I'm not
sure I had worked out all the heat issues):
so it was sort-of natural when medusa came along (801 only) ... lots of
old email
project was transferred and we were told we couldn't work on anything
with more than four processors ... and nearly immediately after
the transfer ... announced; 2/17/92 reference
some conjecture that the ease of the transfer was partially because of
the threat of RDBMS scaleup to mainframe ... implied here
some more discussed here:
--
it did 370 really slow ... and problem-state only (no privileged state)
instructions. ran cms with a highly modified version of vm370 ... i.e.
virtual machine privileged instructions interrupted into vm370 kernel.
vm370 kernel handled things like i/o and misc other stuff with transfers
between "cp/88" running on the PC processor.
misc. past posts mentioning cp/88
later there was the a74 (7437) ... which was much more like a real 370
in small form factor (with several press/news articles from 1988):
some a74 changes I tried to get released (including paged mapped
filesystem):
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I remember visiting a datacenter around the turn of the century that had
just moved in a bunch of pdp11s ... the company had acquired a business
that processed business electronic state tax payments (that were
processed on the pdp11s) ... I think it did both sales tax and income
tax for various states.
--
recent post
--
i was young and brash ... i had done lots of cp67 pathlength
optimization as undergraduate in the 60s ... that is less than anything
doing stuff like mouse and other stuff today.
the original cp67 group was focused on efficient operation of
lightweight microkernel (for virtual machine emulation). I've
periodically commented that growing bloat with vm370/cms was bringing in
developers with much more traditional operating system backgrounds.
in the mid-70s, I did stripped down vm370 kernel that ran relatively
well on 256kbytes 370/125 (it wasn't quite back to the efficiency of
what I had done on cp67 ... but getting close) .... so nearly decade
later vm370/cms was having significant problems working in 384kbytes
... and required 512kbytes. Part of the issue was that there had been
growing reliance on leveraging real storage to somewhat offset disks
thruput limitations ... but xt/370 had neither the real storage nor the
disk thruput ... and many of the CMS applications were becoming
increasingly bloated regarding both real storage (aka number of virtual
pages needed resident in real storage) and disk i/o.
--
its is little bit easier with faster processor than 360/67 ... this is
recent post that given the change in processor speed and real memory
sizes between 360/67 and 3081k ... that things should have gone from 80
users to 4000 users ... instead of typical 300 users found on 3081k in
early 80s (i.e. 300/80 is about the ratio in change in disk
performance).
thread discussing being able to handle the routes lookup part for all
airline reservations in the world ... changing both the implementation
paradigm as well as moving off mainframe (at the same time)
... including if raw MIP rate was the only consideration ... that the
whole process could now be run on a single TREO
--
boeblingen had done 115/125 370 ... it was nine-position shared memory
bus ... but typically only had 4-5 microprocessors in configuration.
115 had all identical 800kip microprocessors ... microcode load would
determine personality of each microprocessor ... and 370 microcode load
was about 10:1 so 115 was about 80kip 370 (about the same as xt/370).
125 was nearly identical to 115, but had a 1000kip processor for 370
... about 100kip 370. I spent some time doing 5-way SMP vm370 125
... loading up the remaining (typically empty) four slots with 1000kip
microprocessor running 370 microcode.
big difference nearly decade later for xt/370 was vm370, cms and the
applications got a lot more bloated ... so needed more than twice the
real storage ... and the 125 disks were a lot faster than the pc/xt
disks.
re:
about the time of xt/370, boeblingen had 3 chipset 370 running about the
speed of 168-3 (3mips) ... that I wanted to use in the above. For the
801, I would have liked to use blue iliad ... 1st 32bit 801 chip ...
really big and really hot ... ran about 20mips ... and was never
finished (next 32bit 801 chip was six chipset RIOS)
however at the time, real storage and disks for practical configurations
were outside the price range of desktop market.
--
Originally the s/38 as/400 followon was also going to be a 801
microprocessor ... when that floundered there was crash effort to do a
CISC for as/400 (although the next decade, as/400 did migrate to 801
power/pc).
misc. old email mentioning 801
past posts mentioning 801, risc, iliad, romp, rios, power, power/pc,
somerset, etc
other posts in this thread:
--
this is old post with various intel chip wiki references
from above:
--
today, hearing testimony repeatedly was that the financial crisis nearly
took down the whole country ... does that make those responsible,
"economic terrorists" and "traitors"?
however, there seemed to be so much smoke being blown ... its a wonder
that the TV cameras could pick up anything at all (theoritically should
be zero visibility in that room).
Elizabeth Warren was just on last night's (11pm) Daily Show (seen
tonight at 7pm)
chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel investigating TARP
she was really caustic about how the people at (too-big-to-fail and
other) institutions knowingly manipulated the infrastructure resulting
in the current financial mess. there was some praise for the house, but
comments about the financial industry (FIRE) owns the senate (she gave
scenario where it started in 1980 and continues up until now)
reference from year ago ...
Paulson Misled TARP Oversight Committee, Says Watchdog Warren
also
Congressional Oversight Panel web page
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there was a card emulating channel processing that was done originally
by the 3800 printer group in Boulder ... for 3800 testing
there was a card done in ykt that attached to channel and emulated a
controller. this was packaged in an rack-mount, industrial PC/AT and
sold as "8232" for use with vm370 tcp/ip support. later the vm370 tcp/ip
support was migrated to MVS ... by a hack that emulated some vm370
"diagnose" instructions (in MVS).
internal use of the ykt "controller card", initially was software
emulation of terminal emulation ... but over LAN interface.
prior terminal emulation was via real 327x controller, real 327x coax
cable, PC card that emulated 327x terminal ... file upload/download
was emulated screen input/output ... and ran into various bottlenecks.
There were two versions; ANR (original 3277) and DCA (newer
3274/3278). 3274/3278 moved a lot of electronics back into controller
(compared to 3277) reducing terminal manufacturing costs ... but
resulted in a lot more coax chatter. As a result DCA was significantly
slower than ANR for all sorts of stuff. MYTE using LAN interface for
terminal emulation was much faster than either ANR or DCA (for just
about everything ... especially noticable in file upload/download
speed). I would need to look up what the "M" stood for ... but YTE was
"yorktown terminal emulation".
For TCP/IP, there wasn't a lot changed for "8232" ... basically a LAN
bridge (rather than a router) ... as a result the host TCP/IP had to
do all protocol translation between tcp/ip and LAN. As a result on
vm370, tcp/ip 8232 thruput got around 44kbytes/sec sustained thruput
using a 3090 processor.
I then did the modifications to vm370 tcp/ip to support rfc1044 ....
and in some testing at cray research between 4341 and cray ... got
1mbyte/sec sustrained (4341 channel media) using only modest amount of
4341 processor (around factor of 500 times improvement in bytes moved
per instruction executed). misc. past posts mentioning 1044 support
the trip to cray research was notable since the plane departed SFO 20
mins late ... but 5 mins before the earthquake hit.
there were internal efforts to try and package the 8232 hardware at
about 1/10th the price (of the 8232), with significantly improved host
pathlength support ... but that encountered huge internal political
problems. attempt was oriented to positioning mainframe as major player
in distributed processing with the mainframe as a major data/file
server.
misc. past posts in this thread (mostly pc/370 stuff)
--
"8343"->"8232"
for some reason, ever since i worked on credit/debit payment card
network ISO standards (8583) ... I tend to fat finger the 8232 number.
--
it wasn't the part about financial innovation ... it was repeated
comment in the hearing that they had to do what they did because they
believed (that the financial mess had) the country on the verge of
collapse ... once or twice it was stated slightly stronger, believed
could have resulted in the collapse of the gov. (chaos and anarchy; as
well as death and destruction, far greater than anything seen so far)
... much worse than crash of 1929.
then that evening (originally broadcast the night before), warren
explain that the financial innovators knowingly did what they did.
most of the terrorists around the world have been loadly proclaiming
that their objective is the same as what was being said (in the hearing)
as what they believed nearly happened (justifying the actions they took
to prevent it).
there was some joke from a year ago about looking for terriosts and
seeing in the mirror themselves.
--
aka morning hearing with picture of western civilization on the verge of
collapse, things so fragile that anything could trigger the collapse;
used to justify the actions taken as well as withholding information
from the public.
that evening (but actually rebroadcast from night before), people
responsible knew what they were doing (and possibly didn't care or saw
the consequences as further opportunity).
--
above mentions 5100 pc use a simplified version of 370 apl.sv
the (cambridge) science center had originally ported apl\360 to
(cp67/)cms for cms\apl. misc. past posts mentioning science center
part of the issue was that apl\360 swapped whole, very small (16kbytes,
possibly 32kbytes). part of moving apl\360 to relatively large virtual
memory environment ... was redoing apl\360 storage allocation & garbage
collection (which tended to very quickly touch every possible address in
the workspace, for small workspaces that were completely swapped in/out
every time ... it wasn't an issue ... but resulted in severe page
thrashing in much larger virtual memory workspaces).
cms\apl also introduced semantics to directly invoke all sorts of cms
system services (file read/write, etc); this brought down the wrath of
the apl language purists.
later the palo alto science center morphed this into (vm370/cms) apl\cms
(and as per above PASC also responsible for the 5100) ... along with
adding the 370/145 apl microcode performance assist (for some class of
apl applications, they would run as fast on 145 with microcode assists
as on 370/168 ... nearly factor of ten times speed up).
one of the largest users of cms\apl ... and then apl\cms, was across
the back parking lot from the palo alto science center (building that
is next door to current facebook offices ... but now has different
occupant). misc. past posts mentioning the internal (virtual
machine based, online, sales&marketing support) HONE system
the various US HONE datacenters were consolidated there in the mid-70s
... however, clones of the US HONE system were sprouted up all over
the rest of world ... in part motivated by eventual requirement that
mainframe orders had to be (pre-)processed by various HONE(/APL)
applications.
eventually apl/sv was produced to replace apl\cms (and also ran on MVS)
that used "shared variable" paradigm for accessing system services
(eliminating the "abominations" introduced in cms\apl).
other posts in this thread:
--
sgi absorbs mips ... and mips vp of software then shows up as general
manager of sun business unit responsible for java. recent post about
executive that we reported to when we were doing our ha/cmp product,
moves over to head up somerset ... and then is hired by sgi to be
president of mips.
recent post mentioning blue iliad ... a los gatos lab effort (first
32bit 801 vlsi chip):
folklore is the person that went on to work on HP pa/risc and major
person behind wideword/Itanium ... that after he gave 2weeks notice
(leaving to join HP) spent his last two weeks working on blue iliad; a
few old references:
first 64bit sparc done by HAL computers ... heavily funded by Fujitsu
... and eventually absorbed by Fujitsu. HAL is taken from "H-and-L".
"H" is executive I directly reported to in the 80s ... and "L"
originally came from SUN ... but backed away when SUN objected.
one of the 801 engineers also shows up at AMD working on AMD 29k.
--
HAL wiki page:
there were a number of other 801 personas at HAL. .... also AA put in
MD11 nonstop SJC/Narita flts ... a couple flts a week seemed to have
permanent first class seat HAL reservations (they possibly got a price
break doing bulk reservation) ... the direct flt wasn't just because of
HAL ... I assume there were several other organizations involved with
fujitsu (and other foreign companies) in silicon valley that were
regularly on the flts.
sparc wiki
--
then followup
when I checked & found the posts were showing up in ibm-main archive
--
so various govs. have added the scenario (applicable to crashing just
about any market) to theoritical terrorist (or criminal organization)
attack.
the hearing scenario was that they effectively painted a picture of
financial mess putting western civilization on verge of imminent total
collapse ... as excuse for their actions.
then later in the day ... somebody paints picture that those responsible
for the financial mess (some of it tracing back to 1980) ... knew what
they were doing.
somewhat corresponds with wharton business school analysis that
approx. 1000 are responsible for 80percent of the financial mess.
--
another similar operation with crashing the price ... is "illegal naked
short sales". "Cramer" took some amount of heat when he claimed that
traders practice illegal naked short sales on regular basis with
impunity (since supposedly people at SEC haven't the faintest idea what
they are doing and would never figure it out).
part of this is trades being so obscure ... i've mentioned more than
decade ago being asked in to NSCC to do a secure trade protocol and
effort got suspended fairly early because a side effect would have been
transparency and visibility.
NSCC has since merged with DTC (for DTCC) ... and there was news that
DTCC has some sort of disclosure suit to release trading transaction
details (supposedly for being able to identity things like illegal naked
short sales). for the fun of it ... another aspect of it here (from
2004):
past references to Cramer's faux pas ("Cramer Reveals A Bit Too Much")
--
then there is the article titled "The Man Who Beat The Shorts" ... that
apparently, after pointing out (in 2003 annual report) that
CDO/securization by unregulated loan originators (major cornerstone of
the financial mess) was going to end badly ... was then hit hard by
traders shorting the stock (but managed to survive, apparently it was
punishment for publicly raising the CDO activity):
misc. past posts referencing the article.
--
re:
say little like peek/poke with shared memory ... but process could
either be an asynchronous operation or a synchronous system services
(apl masking kernel call behind shared variable).
a discussion of shared variable here ... avoiding mentioning the
cms\apl abomination
there was cambridge science center that did virtual machines, cms,
cms\apl, gml, etc.
the phili science center had falkoff, iverson, and apl\360
the palo alto science center does 5100, apl\cms and the 370/145 apl
microcode assist
....
cms\apl then shows up in large scale applications in the (initially
cp67-based) internal HONE system.
a lot of apl was used for lots of things that are done in spreadsheets
today
the cambridge science center did a little external time-sharing service
... for other internal locations ... as well as some number of
non-employees ... students & others from various institutions of higher
learning in the boston area.
a big early use of cms\apl on the cambridge science center cp67 system
... was the corporate hdqtrs business planning people who loaded the
most sensitive and most valuable corporate resource on the cambridge
system (all the customer information) and did cms\apl business
modeling. Big innovation from cms\apl was large enuf workspace size
and the ability to do file i/o involving large amounts of data ... for
real world applications. the cambridge cp67 had to have sufficient
security that the most valuable of corporate assets didn't leak out to
unauthorized & non-employee users.
--
wiki page
mentions both 5100 and xt/370 ... and then jumps to p/370 ... skips
over a74 all together (which was in expansion box with big thick cable
to back of PC).
the xt/370 cards were offered for at/370 ... big difference was PC/AT
hard disks were much faster ... which was big boost.
for version 2 of xt/370 rel.2 (9/84), cp88 "dos bypass" (i.e. pc/370
support software running on the 8088 side ... getting some pathlength
boost by doing some stuff directly rather than everything going thru
dos)
and my cms paged-mapped filesystem for cms (on the 370 side)
i shipped cms PAM (paged-mapped) filesystem internally and on xt/370 ... but
it never got out in standard cms release ... misc. past posts
mentioning paged mapped filesystem
minor example of PAM versus non-PAM for constrained real storage ... was
traditional filesystem had to load executable image from standard file
with simulated i/o ... several executable images were larger than
available real storage ... so it involved bringing in pieces from
emulated cms area on xt dos disk into virtual pages in 370 memory
... and then paging those pages out to emulated paging area on (same) xt
dos disk ... so additional parts of the executable images could be read
(from xt disk) into additional virtual pages (also going back out to the
xt disk). eventually when the whole process was complete ... it would
start execution ... which tended to be in virtual pages now out in
paging area (on xt disk) ... replacing virtual pages (having to be
written out to paging area (on xt disk).
PAM just sets up page mapped tables to point directly at the executable
and starts execution (w/o having to copy the executable image thru 370
memory from one area on the xt disk to another area on the same xt
disk). It can actually do a little bit better than that ... rather than
having to page fault each individual 4k page from the paging area on the
xt disk ... it can concurrently start fetch of several pages from the
filesystem while allowing execution (appropriately serializing execution
by fiddling the page invalid bits).
In traditional CMS environment with much less real storage constraint
... whole images could still be page mapped at one time ... and a much
higher level of multiple block asynchronous concurrent page transfers
could go on (dynamically tuned to match the amount of available real
storage).
--
another view might be with a lack of transparency and visibility along
with apparently huge amount of tolerated illegal activity ... it is
difficult to have controls that only deal with non-tolerated illegal
activity.
--
reference to tcp/ip code base on tenex/tops20 at bbn (bill Plummer and
ray tomlinson) ... in 78-83 timeframe:
above also mentions interop '88 ... misc. past posts mentioning interop 88
another tops20 tcp/ip reference
later, one of the most adopted tcp/ip source was bsd 4.3 (tahoe & reno)
... which they weren't suppose to do ... reference
CSRG being told by darpa that they couldn't to it and there was yes them
to death ... verbally aggreeing with darpa that they weren't doing
tcp/ip ... while totally ignoring them. original article went 404 ...
but there is always the way back machine.
from above:
another ref:
TCP/IP for TOPS-20
from above:
--
Before Google Books, we took on-demand publishing to the streets
from above:
another reference to brewster kahl
another reference ...
more recent article on books on demand
--
i had added tty terminal support as undergraduate in the 60s at the univ
... and was picked up and shipped in the product. I had done a gimick
with 1byte values for calculate lengths. USL was supporting a new kind
of TTY device (plotter? at harvard) ... and they changed the max.
length field (for the device) to 1200(?) bytes ... but didn't catch the
hack with one byte values. In any case, the result was that when an I/O
for such device was done ... there would be a buffer overrun and crash
cp67.
CP67 had a hack to automatically trap crashes ... take a core image
dump to disk and simulate a reboot ... which took a couple minutes
(auto restart was slightly longer than if operator pushed "IPL" button
from cold start after power up). Anyway ... above tale is about crash
& auto-restart happening 27 times in one day.
CP67 was done at science center on 4th flr of 545 tech sq ... and
Multics was 5th flr of 545 tech sq. Above tale mentions that the fast
"restart" for cp67 helped motivate Multics starting work on their "New
Storage System" (Multics was crashing 4-5 times a day normally and
salvaging the file system took an hour each time).
The above cp67 tale has recent 4apr09 update note from somebody that had
worked on tss/370 ... mentioning that in '78, tss/370 could "pump our
125% to 150% more terminal-driven engineering work than MVS/TSO". This,
of course, was actually quite trivial to do.
--
However, os/360 roots also had a lot of system functions that resided
outside the kernel ... that provided services to applications. For MVS
these were mapped into their individual virtual address space ... but
now had a logistic problems of being passed pointers to parameters
residing in the (different) application virtual address space. The
solution was something called the "COMMON SEGMENT" (or CSA, common
segment area), initially one megabyte area that was mapped in common to
every virtual address space (reducing area available to applications to
7mbytes). Part of library in application address space ... would place
the parameters in the COMMON SEGMENT ... before invoking the subsystem
API.
The problem was that the CSA was shared between all applications and all
subsystems installed. Larger configuraitons tended to have more
different subsystems and more concurrent application ... requiring an
ever increasing CSA size. Large 168-3 operations, the CSA was pushing
5mbytes ... only leaving 3mbytes virtual address space for application
use (and threating to increase to 6mbytes at some installations).
There is folklore about large fortran VLSI design application at the
burlington vt. lab ... starting to push the 7mbyte limit (running on
specially constructed MVS systems that limited CSA to one mbyte) ...
and being faced with the prospect of having to convert to CMS (opening
up nearly the full 16mbyte virtual address space to application). I've
mentioned before one of the big things that added to the 43xx volumes
compared to vax/vms volumes ... were the large corporate orders of
multiple hundreds. A couple of these were major chip shops (nearly 1k
machine orders each) for engineering applications and blanketing the
corporation with vm/4341 systems. misc. old email mentioning 43xx
There were two different ">16mbyte" hacks for 3033 (24bit addressing).
For the subsystem/CSA size constraint problem, there was "dual-address"
space mode. A pointer could be passed to a subsystem, and
semi-privileged subsystem would be entered with a home/primary address
space value ... and a secondary address space value (for the calling
application). Then there were instructions that would store/fetch in the
secondary address space. This provided some CSA size relief as
subsystems were rewritten to utilize secondary address space (instead of
CSA for accessing application parameters/storage).
This was later generalized in subsequent 370 architecturess with access
registers and program call/return; allowing multiple concurrent virtual
address spaces ... and hardware instructions that would reference a
kernel hardware table and do the switching between different address
spaces (eliminating kernel interrupt to transition back&forth between
applications and subsystem functions).
The other >16mbyte hack ... was that real storage was increasingly being
used to compensate for disk thruput performance (not tracking CPU
performance). As a result, lots of 3033 systems were becoming
increasingly bottlenecked by not having more than 16mbytes of real
storage. The hack was to allow (16mbyte) virtual page numbers to map to
greater than 16mbyte real page numbers ... using two spare bits in the
page table entry. Standard page table entry (for each virtual page) was
halfword/16bits, 12bits for real page number, two defined bits, and two
undefined bits. The two undefined bits were taken and used to prefix the
real page number ... giving 14bits total ... or allowing up to 64mbytes
of real storage.
misc. recent posts mentioning 3033 dual-address space &/or >16mbyte hack
--
misc. xt/370 & vm/pc posts from x-over thread in comp.arch
--
a little x-over from comp.arch thread mentioning boeblingen
there was joint bell/ibm effort to put higher-pieces of unix on top of a
stripped down tss/370 kernel (ssup).
in the 80s, boeblingen was doing these processors and were looking for
more market segments to appeal to ... and had big push to put tss/unix
out as major product offering on their (increasingly powerful ... aka
one of their 370 3chipset that ran about the same speed as 168-3) entry
level 370s. some number of people from the (dallas, tx) tss/370 support
group ... took assignments in boeblingen to work on turning out the
product.
--
so the 64meg real storage hack ... only worked for 4k page mode.
the 2k/4k issue showed up with introduction transition from 168-1 to
168-3 ... a performance enhancement ... primarily going from 16kbyte
processor cache to 32kbyte.
the 168-3 kept the same size cache lines but had twice as many ... and
the set-associative address bits for twice as many cache lines ... was
the 2k bit.
so if running in 4k page mode ... the 168-3 ran with the full cache
... but if running in 2k page mode, the 168-3 would drop back to running
with only half the cache (basically acting like a 168-1).
so a vm370 customer running heavy virtual vs1 workload ... upgraded from
168-1 to 168-3 ... and saw a severe performance degradation (as opposed
to just no performance increase). The problem was that vm370 would do a
default load of cr0 to indicate 4k page mode ... but when it went to run
vs1 ... it would dispatch it 2k page mode with virtual shadow tables
that emulated the vs1 2k page mode.
The problem was that everytime cr0 was flipped between 4k&2k page modes
... the 168-3 would stop and flush the cache before switching between
half-cache and full-cache operation (since it used different mapping as
to where things were located in the cache).
--
when population starts using services constantly as part of normal life
... that it starts to put pressure on ISP provisioning costs (and what
they may need to set monthly charges to recover those costs).
that is periodically when things about useage caps start to appear
... as the highly skewed heavy use (much less than one percent of total
population) starts to spread out into larger/general population.
i recently tripped across old email from the 80s from one of the
off-spring about his first CS class at the univ. and the VAX machines
were so overloaded that his lab unix terminal logon slot was
10pm-midnight three days a week (and even then simple input response
could be measured in minutes rather than seconds; 100x slower).
--
above was from one of the engineers that I worked with in Endicott on
the vm370 microcode assist (ECPS) for 138/148; old posts mentioning
ecps:
old post with reference to corporate advanced technology conference
I sponsored 4&5 Mar82
that included following theme:
Tom wasn't at the/my conference ... he was down in LA at
SHARE. However, one of the other people from Cambridge attended, part
of presentation on the TSS/370 UNIX work for Bell Labs.
Note that the CMS eventually used in xt/370 was relatively vanilla
product version (my internal/current paged-mapped changes for cms
filesystem adapted to xt/370 CMS w/o a lot of changes), it was in the
vm370 kernel that saw majority of changes; reference to paged-mapped
filesystem changes inclusion in xt/370 rel.2 (9/84)
misc. recent other posts mentioning xt/370
--
there was lots & lots in CICS attempting to isolate itself as much as
possible from the high overhead of the underlying operating system
... using the operating system for bare scaffold to operate the machine
... but attempting to do as much of everything else itself.
I was undergraduate at univ. in the 60s and responsible for os/360
support. The univ. library got an ONR grant for online catalog ... part
of the funds was used to purchase a 2321 datacell. The effort was also
selected to be one of the betatest sites for the original/first CICS
product release ... and I got tasked to also do CICS support (I didn't
even get sent to any CICS classes ... just had to figure things out from
code and dumps).
CICS would do all its file opens at start up and keep them open for the
duration of CICS execution. One of the first bugs I had to shoot was
CICS file open bug that resulting in abend ... problem turned out to be
that the BDAM file options used by the original (customer) CICS
implementation ... was different than the BDAM file options being used
by the library (and there was buried stuff in the code specific to the
particular BDAM options).
... as aside some of the posting problems seem to coincide with news
about SSL DOS attack on CIA & PAYPAL (& others). Some number of usenet
servers are utilized by SSL ... at least for entering userid/password as
part of posting. I haven't seen any specific evidence ... but recent
usenet posting issues seem to coincide with some of the recent reports
of SSL DOS attacks.
these URLs have gone 404 ... but still around on wayback machine
The Evolution of CICS: CICS and Multi-region Operation (1980)
The Evolution of CICS: CICS and Multiprocessor Exploitation (2004)
from above:
for a little multiprocessor topic drift ... charlie had invented
compare&swap instruction when working on fine-grain multiprocessor
support for cp67 (compare&swap chosen because CAS are charlie's
initials). First foreys into POK to get compare&swap instruction
included in 370 was rebuffed ... claim being that the POK favorite son
operating system had decided that the TEST&SET instruction (from 360
multiprocessor) was more than adequate. The challenge was that in order
to get compare&swap included in 370 ... it would be necessary to invent
some non-multiprocessor, non-SMP uses for the instruction. Thus was born
the examples for multithreaded/multitasking operation (whether or not
running in multiprocessor environment).
the principles of operation programming notes for compare&swap have
change little since the original version:
compare&swap became staple for use by highly multithreaded operation
(especially scalable DBMS applications) and showed up on wide variety
of platforms (or something with very similar semantics).
One of the early problems for rs/6000 starting to sell into DBMS
market segment ... was not having a compare&swap
instruction (DBMS were forced to use unix kernel calls to achieve
multithreaded serialization ... putting rs/6000 DBMS operation at
significant thruput disadvantage). Eventually AIX on rs/6000 offered
a special supervisor call interrupt hack; special fast path in the
supervisor call FLIH that would simulate the compare&swap
semantics and immediately return to the caller (disabled for
interrupts ... meets requirements for atomic operation in a
non-multiprocessor environment).
misc. past posts mentioning smp:
misc. past posts mentioning cics &/or bdam:
--
in theory the original TARP funds were appropriated to purchase toxic
CDOs being carried off-book by the too-big-to-fail financial
institutions. there was even a news item in the period that company
which had purchased the "pricing service division" from one of the
rating agencies in the early 70s ... was helping evaluate the assets.
Then apparently, the gov discovered that the appropriated TARP funds
were just a small drop in the bucket compared to the amount of toxic
CDOs being carried off-book by just the top four too-big-to-fail
institutions (and would represent little or no difference).
In any case:
Watchdog: Bailouts created more risk in system
from above:
In the congressional hearings into the rating agencies ... a big issue
was made that unregulated loan originators were packaging up toxic
CDOs and paying the rating agencies to obtain triple-A ratings
(even when both knew they weren't triple-A). The testimony was that
the seeds for this were sown in the early 70s when the rating agencies
changed from the buyers paying for the ratings, to the sellers paying
for the ratings (opening things for conflict of interest).
In the 60s, at least two online commercial time-sharing service bureaus
were formed based on cp/67 ... misc. past posts
in the early 70s, both of them were moving up the value stream and
offering lots of detailed financial information. One was eventually
purchased by D&B (and is part of D&B computer division). The other went
through various owners, but continues to operate under its original name
... although now its online services are browser/internet based. In any
case, it was this company that bought the "pricing services division"
from one of the rating companies in the early 70s ... about the same
time that the rating companies switched from buyers paying for the
ratings to the sellers paying for the ratings. It was also this company
that was mentioned as helping the gov. evaluate the toxic CDOs (during
the apparently fleeting period when the gov. thot it was going to be
using the TARP funds to by up all the toxic CDOs).
a few past posts mentioning the early 70s "pricing service division"
purchase
--
baseline blog today with more background on too-big-to-fail
also references this article
and this article
--
The Evolution of CICS: Myth and Matter (1968)
recent post with other references to wayback cics
misc. past posts mentioning cics
misc. past posts referencing yelavich CICS pages (updated to point to
wayback machine)
--
this morning business news show is doing quotes/comments about painting
picture that western civilization was on verge of collapse ... recent
posts
including belief even goldman sachs was about to fail ... aka stark
picture being used to justify actions taken in last months of 2008 and
early 2009. Then comments about goldman-sachs on verge of collapse have
commentators wandering off into that would invalidate various other
comments from goldman-sachs justifying their enormous compensation
significant agility being able to justify enormous compensation
packages ...
Bailed-Out Banks Dole Out Bonuses; Goldman Sachs, CitiGroup, Others
Mum on How They Are Using TARP Cash
from above:
misc. past posts mentioning above article:
--
interviews with Paulson's new book
On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global
Financial System
... other comments regarding the above ... mention lehman & bear-stern
failures ... old article about playing long/short games has been known
for centuries to take down institutions (following URL just shows
generic page now):
from above:
a few past posts referencing the above
--
from above:
Playing long/short mismatch was root of Lehman (and Bear-Stearns)
fialure; possibly he means that he blames FSA for not helping more with
salvaging Lehman.
recent post about TARP & evaluating toxic CDOs for purchase (apparently
discovering that $700bn barely made a dent in the amount of toxic CDOs
being carried)
2000 article by SF FRB on playing long/short mismatch & financial
fragility
past posts referencing the SF FRB article:
--
SCAMP at palo alto science center 1973, 5100 PALM was
follow-on/evolution in 1975
Palo Alto Science Center also did apl\cms on vm370 (follow-on to cms\apl
that cambridge science center did for cp67/cms) and the apl\cms
microcode assist for 370/145.
all, long before blue iliad (specific 32bit 801 risc chip design, large,
hot, etc) old email about blue iliad going to mfg FEB82 for 1st pass
parts (5100 was withdrawn Mar82):
other old email mentioning 801, Iliad, ROMP, Fort Knox, RIOS, risc, et
Originally, AS/400 planned on using a 801/risc Iliad chip.
i had a proposal for racks of large numbers of (arbitrary mix) 801 risc
blue iliad (about 20mips) and boeblingen's 3chip 370 (about 3mips) ...
a couple recent references
other posts in this thread:
--
semi-related subject ... ECPS was vm370 microcode assist for 138/148
(follow-on to 135/145) where parts of the vm370 kernel were moved into
microcode.
several traces of vm370 kernel activity was used to determine
instruction "hot-spots" for candidates to be moved into microcode. one
technology was extensive instrumentatation of the vm370 kernel with
time-stamped traces. another was a special microcode load for 370/145
... that periodically sampled kernel instruction address ... and had a
table of counts for instruction lines that was updated ... and
periodically dumped to software. The 370/145 microcode change was done
by the same person that did the 370/145 apl\cms microcode enhancement.
--
this included the 4331/4341 follow-ons; 4361 & 4381. I contributed to
white paper that "killed" that for 4381. Entry & mid-range 370s had been
implemented on wide-variety of different microprocessors ... that
tended to "avg" 10 microprocessor instruction per 370 instruction; this
was behind the previously mentioned "ECPS" vm370 microcode assist
... basically a one-for-one translation of vm370 kernel 370 instruction
into microprocessor instruction ... achieving 10:1 improvements for
those pathlengths.
the whitepaper that killed the Iliad effort for 4381 pointed out that
chip technology was getting to the point that nearly all of the 370
instructions could be implemented directly in silicon ... which would
result in much more cost effective implementation than retaining the
microcoded emulation paradigm using 801/risc Iliad.
it was the shutdown of various of those (early) 801/risc efforts that
resulted in some number of the 801/risc engineers leaving and showing up
at other vendors in the early 80s.
the technology trade-off arguments more recently shifted ... where the
investment in chip thruput because of enormous volumes ... outweighs
what could be invested in much smaller 370 chip volume (if there was
still entry/mid-range market for 370s).
there was some comment recently in ibm-main mailing list estimating that
there might be as few as 4000 high-end 370 installations (and the
several tens of thousands of entry & mid-range 370s have all
disappeared) ... and there are been some software 370 emulation
(effectively quite similar to the oldtime microcoded implementation)
getting relatively decent thruput.
misc. past posts mentioning 360/370 m'code
--
going into the east coast had some problems with local citizens
protesting to local country planning commissioners ... claiming that
they would be getting radition from the dish.
it was nominal 7w (with uplink power control during rain fade) ... in
the planning hearings ... calculations were shown that the shape of
the dish transmits majority of the power straight up ... and if a
resident was hoisted by a crane directly above the dish ... they would
still be receiving less radition than they were currently receiving in
their homes from a nearby 50,000 watt FM radio station.
network used a transponder on SBS4 (SBSD)
that flew on 41-D
... had vip passes for the launch ... one of the people that had
walked on the moon, was a few seats over with another group.
misc. past posts mentioning hsdt
the SBS wiki site mentions the original SBS earth station design being
done by IBM using highly modified IBM 8100 ... none of which HSDT used.
Did a brand new design and had brand new hardware built to spec. by
outside vendors (one of vendors later mentioned that they had been
approached by a large telco who asked if the vendor would build them a
duplicate set of earth stations to our specification; little industrial
espionage).
--
... or at least for HSDT earth station. SBS did C-band network for
internal ibm ... with 10meter dishes. before hsdt had earth stations
with transponder on SBS4 ... did have T1 data link tail circuit to the
san jose earth station up to satellite and then down to the kingston
earth station ... with tail circuit to the kingston engineering &
scientific lab ... recent reference:
one of the hsdt earth station dishes went into back parking lot of the
los gatos lab ... and another went into field near yorktown research
lab. The T1 connection to Kingston then moved to the HSDT satellite link
... with a tail circuit from Yorktown to Kingston.
hsdt had two complete different sets of tdma digital earth stations
built to spec. by two different vendors. picture of one of the tdma
modems (basement of los gatos lab)
--
from above:
also
France sounds death-knell for online passwords; Looking at password
alternatives
for some topic drift ... misc. past posts mentioning secret-based
authentication paradigm
and posts discussing 3-factor authentication model
• something you have (aka hardware token)
• something you know (aka pin, passwords, shared-secrets, etc)
• something you are (biometrics, fingerprint, etc)
there are various kinds of interactions ... in some scenarios,
fingerprint can degenerate to shared-secret ... aka fingerprint is
reduced to electronic pattern and recorded; subsequent authentication
is fuzzy matching of electronic pattern. W/o trusted fingerprint
"sensors" (i.e. under 24hr armed guard supervision), fingerprint
authentication can be reduced to shared-secret if an attacker is able
to replay a recorded fingerprint electronic pattern.
--
from above:
In the early 80s, when the corporation was looking at opening up to
external, dial-up access ... there was some security studies that
identified hotel phone systems as major vulnerability.
The corporation had requirement that internal network links had to be
encrypted ... in the mid-80s, there was some observation that the
internal network had more than half of all link encryptors in the
world (i.e. the internal network was larger than the arpanet/internet
from just about the beginning until possibly early '86).
In any case, the corporation developed a custom encrypting modem for
external dial-up access ... as countermeasure to things like
compromised hotel telephone systems.
--
from above:
also
Researcher hacks 'secure' Xbox 360 processor
--
--
from above
... Well according to the BBC it was Tim Berners-Lee, (0:39) "the man
who Invented the web" and Bill Gates.
... snip ...
At the '96 MSDC at Mascone ... all the banners were "preserving your
investment". the story apparently was that there were all these visual
basic programmers who had been writting automated scripting additions
to office applications for private, closed, business network environmets.
"preserving your investment" ... apparently was how all of these
automated scripting applications & visual basic investment for
private, closed business networks ... was going to be extended to the
internet.
--
"secure" (not necessarily human life) software development can also be
ten times the cost of otherwise identical "commodity" application; done
for military things (like 2167A) ... but also spread out into various
other environments ... some areas of financial infrastructure.
software.org use to have this spaghetti diagram (Framework quagmire)
that has gone 404 ... but there is always the wayback machine:
misc. past posts mentionin 2167A &/or framework quagmire
--
nearly all of the 90s, the majority of internet exploits were all the
result of "overflows" related to characteristics of C language
programming ... lots of past posts
i've pointed out before that original mainframe tcp/ip product was done
in pascal ... and didn't have any of the "overflow" exploits that were
characteristic of C language programming (it wasn't impossible in pascal
... but it was about as hard to have such problems in pascal as it was
hard to *NOT* have such problems in C).
by the early part of this century ... the overflow exploits were no
longer the majority (although the number hadn't decreased) ... the
number of "internet" exploits from automated script execution by these
business applications (that grew up from small, private, closed business
networks) had increased to equal the overflow exploits.
misc. past posts mentioning significantly increasing thruput of
(pascal-based) mainframe tcp/ip
--
in the 90s, we sponsored some meetings looking at where the costs were
in 2167A ... and could various technologies be leveraged to reduce the
factor of 10 overhead to only 3-4. the issue then wasn't so much
gold-plated DOD ... but the gold-plated beltway bandits.
it somewhat complimented some things we were looking at for reducing the
costs of business critical applicated applicates.
i've mentioned before that we had been brought in to consule with small
client/server startup that wanted to do payments on their server ... the
small client/server startup had also invented this technology called
"SSL" they wanted to use. Part of the deployment was something called
a "payment gateway" ... that acted as gateway between webservers on
the internet and financial network(s):
they had done an application that took the message formats from an SSL
session ... dumped it into the financial network and then returned the
results. a very early deployment test had a "call" to the "trouble desk"
... which after three hrs of investigation was closed as NTF
(no-trouble-found). The "standard" at the time (involving high-volume
merchant leased lines) was 5min first level problem determination.
we defined a matrix of possible failures and possible states ... and
then had to show that each case had automatic recovery (preferrable)
and/or at least simple first level problem determination. This involved
a lot of compensating procedures in various pieces of software that was
designed to handle a number of things we viewed as sort-comings in
tcp/ip & the internet (trivial scenario was translating financial
messages that had an implicit circuit-based environment to the wild
anarchy of the internet packet-based enviornment).
we then made some number of observations that it typically takes 4-10
times the effort to turn a well-tested, well-designed application into a
business-critical service. misc. past posts
--
one of the things that attracted the clones ... was that there was
enough mark-up in the corporate market ... that they could come in with
clone, charge less and still have profit. then the whole snowball thing
took over ... volumes drove more applications, more applications drove
volumes, volumes also resulted in manufacturing scale that cut costs,
cutting costs further drove volumes.
--
picture of m7 with manual cover ... new paper is at the floor in the
front ... feed up and over and collects on the floor at the back.
N1 made more noise (printing faster) and the whole thing was enclosed in
frame with sound absorbent material ... which also increased the weight
of the cover.
picture of rear of 1403N1
other picutres
--
1976, 3800 was "laser printer" ... non-impact ... and had multiple font
libraries and ... this references simplified version of proportional
fonts:
the above makes reference to its use with os360 & JCL.
3277 & 3278 display terminals were purely monofont ... but 3279 color
display was possible to download different fonts for display (3279 was
notorious for random screen "flashes" when new font was being
downloaded).
A History of Scientific Text Processing at CERN
above mentions using Waterloo's clone of CMS SCRIPT command and getting
first laser printer (3800) in 1979. Above also describes evolution from
script/GML/SGML to Web & HTML. the evolution from script/GML/SGML to
WEB/HTML also described here
and first webserver outside cern is slac/vm system
--
early to mid 80s ... in this period, there was big explosion in CS
enrollments at numerous institutions.
cal. univ. system was trying to spread people declaring CS major across
the various campuses.
a former co-worker at the science center was on MIT committee looking at
placing quota on CS ... worries that the institution might become one
large CS department.
--
this mentions putting 4.5 meter dish in back parking lot of los gatos
lab (and on east coast in field near yorkton research).
a dish also went into austin ... and austin credits the link and access
to hardware logic simulation (relatively high bandwidth for the period
... for transmission of chip design files) with helping bring in the
RIOS chipset 12 months early ... recent reference to six chipset RIOS
(aka POWER, used in rs/6000).
later hardware logic simulators assumed synchronous clock ... but the
LSM had clock support ... allowed simulation of digital chips with
analog circuits ... (the then) new generation of thin-film disk heads
and chips with non-globally synchronous circuit.
however, the 3033 in bldg. 15 (disk product test lab) was used for air
bearing software simulation (shape for floating disk heads) ... misc.
past posts getting to play disk engineer in bldgs. 14&15
misc. past posts mentioning LSM
--
from above:
also ...
Study: Hacking Passwords Easy As 123456
... not however that this is overlooking the issue that something you
know authentication ... from three-factor authentication model, lots
of past posts
doesn't scale ... everybody knows it. 40 years ago, an individual had
one or very few such pin/passwords ... impossible to
remember/guess. However, as something you know authentication ramps
up to scores (or hundreds) per individual, humans can't handle it
... however, articles like this are written as if it is still forty
years ago and individuals only have a single "impossible to
guess/remember" password to deal with.
another item
Credit card verification system not secure, says researcher
from above:
there have been numerous news items about the cited presentation
... but many of the issues have been previously mentioned going back
to early part of this century.
and then somewhat related recent item from today:
Benevolent hackers poke holes in e-banking
note that in the mid-90s ... there were conferences that had
presentations by the (earlier generation) dial-up online banking
operations. Consumer dial-up online banking operations were saying
that they were moving to the internet because of the high cost of
consumer support for (proprietary) dial-up operations (effectively
offload the support to internet service providers ... who could
amortize the cost across a much bigger set of applications).
at the same time, the commercial/business, cash-management dial-up
online banking operations claimed they would not move to the internet
because of a long litany of security issues (as has frequently been
demonstrated over the past 15 yrs).
might consider this a form of privilege escalation ... a bank website
might have background checks on employees with access ... as
countermeasure to insider id-theft. the whole scenario for something
you know authentication requires a unique pin/password for every
security domain as countermeasure to x-domain attacks ... aka
employees (or others) at much less secure website doing (potentially
insider) id-theft (of passwords) ... and then attempting to use them
at other websites.
Customers risk online banking fraud by reusing bank credentials
France sounds death-knell for online passwords; Looking at password
alternatives
for some topic drift ... misc. past posts mentioning secret-based
authentication paradigm
and related posts mentioning harvesting of various kinds of
secret-based authentication
3-factor authentication model
• something you have (aka hardware token)
• something you know (aka pin, passwords, shared-secrets, etc)
• something you are (biometrics, fingerprint, etc)
there are various kinds of interactions ... in some scenarios,
fingerprint can degenerate to shared-secret ... aka fingerprint is
reduced to electronic pattern and recorded; subsequent authentication
is fuzzy matching of electronic pattern. W/o trusted fingerprint
"sensors" (i.e. under 24hr armed guard supervision), fingerprint
authentication can be reduced to shared-secret if an attacker is able
to replay a recorded fingerprint electronic pattern.
there are somewhat two orthogonal issues with shared-secret something
you know authentication
1) hard to guess or hard to brute force shared-secret something you
know
2) unique shared-secret for every unique security domain as
countermeasure against x-domain attacks.
shared-secret in low-security environment may be compromised by
insiders ... (or poor security) ... and then used to attack an higher
security environment.
the intersection of the proliferation of environments using
shared-secret something you know authentication ... has led to
needing to keep track of scores or hundreds of unique shared-secrets
... each one required to be unique and hard-to-guess
static, shared-secret, something you know authentication are also
vulnerable to skimming and/or other evesdropping technologies.
furthermore, multi-factor authentication is supposedly more secure
based on assumption that the different factors have independent
vulnerabilities. however, when all factors involve static values (or
relatively static in the case of biometric) ... compromised end-points
have been able to skim/record all factors (a common vulnerability) and
then replay them (invalidating assumption that multi-factor is more
secure with independent vulnerabilities).
--
how about place where they would load more and more weight on the top
trying to find out how much it took to break it.
my first student programming job was porting 1401 MPIO (unit
record<->tape front end for 709) to 360/30 (aka rewritting in 360
assembler, i got to design & implement my own monitor, interrupt
handlers, device drivers, storage manager, console interface, etc).
they shut the datacenter down from 8am sat. until 8am monday ... so I
could have it for the whole weekend (could make monday classes a drag
after not having slept since friday night).
normally when I showed up ... I would have to do normal operator start
of shift stuff ... take apart the 2540 read/punch ... cleaning the
brushes and punch ... clean all the tape drives, etc. also sometimes
when I had showed sat. at 8am ... the 3rd shift operator would have
already finished everything ... powered everything off ... & left; it
would be lights out. I would need to power everything back up.
power up button on front of 360/30 ... would sequentially power-up cycle
each component. sometimes something would catch ... and the whole thing
would abort. I then would have to hit the power-off button, go around to
each individual component/controller ... and put each
component/controller in "CE-mode" ... and then go back and power-on the
360/30 (which would only have the computer to power on).
I would then go back to each individual component/controller and
manually power-on in "CE-mode" ... sometimes repeat cycle a couple
times. That was usually sufficient to get everything powered up and
running ... then go around and switch things out of "CE-mode"
--
old email mentioning APA6670 (aka SHERPA)
6670 started out (ibm) copier3 with computer interface; SHERPA was
enhanced support for "all-points-addressable". The author of the above
email (copy sent to me), later left and went to work for Adobe.
above post was in response to Brian Inglis post that included the
following:
misc. other posts mentioning SHERPA/APA6670:
--
as mentioned in this post ... there seems to have been several usenet
problems about the time of reports of wierd SSL attacks:
Besides missing posts on usenet ... during the period, I was also
getting sporadic wierd characteristic attempting to (SSL) connect to my
usenet server (time-outs, connection drops, long outages when couldn't
connect, reading email connected fine ... but unable to post, things
appearing to post ... and then not showing up, etc).
Usenet started out based on UUCP protocol. these were a lot of
sporadically dialup connections ... which would transfer accumulated
email and other stuff ... like usenet news ... some refs:
while the internal network ... some past posts
was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until
possibly late '85 or early '86. One of the major contributors to
internet exceeding size of internal network at that time ... was
appearance of workstations & PCs as network nodes ... while on the
internal network ... these machines were restricted to terminal
emulation ... misc. past posts mentioning terminal emulation
a listing of approx. nodes sometime 1985 (aka "VNET" was internal
network)
I had gotten blamed for computer conferencing on the internal network in
the late 70s and early 80s. There was then an "official" facility
deployed on the internal network called "TOOLSRUN" ... that could
operate either in USENET mode or mailing list mode.
Later, there was something similar deployed on BITNET supporting just
mailing list mode ... historical reference:
BITNET used somewhat similar technology as was used on the internal
network (and ibm-main mailing list originated on BITNET) ... misc.
past posts mentioning BITNET (and/or EARN ... bitnet outside US)
USENET also was distributed over other media. For a time there was
special modem that received USENET over unused part of broadcast TV
signal. There was also service that broadcast USENET over satellite. In
1993, I did device driver for a number of platforms (dos/windows, a
couple different unixes) for such a service ... along with article in
boardwatch (BBS industry mag) ... and got free dish/modem/service
... old posts (with picture of me in backyard with R/O satellite dish):
during the 90s, majority of USENET moved off of other distribution media
to tcp/ip and the internet. from my rfc index:
click on Term (term->RFC#) in the RFCs listed by section, then
click on "NNTP" in the Acronym fastpath section:
also, some number of the BITNET mailing lists created distribution
gateway to USENET (usually just one direction, i.e. outbound traffic
only) ... distributed email simulating USENET post in the usenet
bit.listserv hiearchy. GOOGLE supports two-way gateway between USENET
and google groups ... aka (old bitnet) mailing list gatewayed to USENET
bit.listserv hierarchy then gatewayed to google groups.
As mentioned ... during the wierd SSL attack period ... I was seeing
strange operation connecting to USENET server ... so I suspect that
the various gateways also might have had problems also.
misc. past posts mentioning TOOLSRUN
--
no direct knowledge and web search is rather sparse ... a couple IEEE
citations:
in the aftermath of the troubles of the early 90s ... there was push to
move to industry standard tools ... part of which involved transfer of
internal tools to chip tool vendors (and some number of the internal
chip tools people spending a lot of time with these vendors ... and then
some number leaving and joining external vendor).
I've mentioned recently porting nearly 60k statement pascal program
(that did circuit layout) to other platforms, as part of such a tool
transfer.
in the mid-80s ... internally, there was big push to expand a lot of
mainframe manufacturing capacity anticipating the market would double in
size by the early 90s. Not particularly "career enhancing" ... I made
some observation that computer hardware was becoming increasingly
commoditized ... resulting in thinner margins & profits ... which would
at least require significantly cutting the number of related employees
to stay out of the red. misc. past posts mentioning various (non)
"career enhancing":
--
also get a technical degree, out in the workforce for a while ... and
then go back and get a MBA ... folklore was that it was highly prized
combination when looking for VC money.
the other folklore was that it was all those MBAs that was destroying US
business and the economy (at least before the current financial mess;
although MBAs contributed significantly to this also).
--
at the univ. in the 60s, it still had (20,000? tube) 709.
i vaguely remember something about datacenter having a cooling unit
rated at 20tons ... quicky web search for 20ton air condition; 480v,
36kW (possibly units from 50s/60s were less efficient):
this reference has a 709 datacenter at 94.8kW for 709 & 26.5 ton cooling
unit (318,750 BTU/hr)
above has USN OTS China Lake, 70kW for the computer and 87kW for
the air conditioner. Above article has several other configurations
... somewhat in the 100kW to 300kW range.
when univ. 709 was replaced with 360/67 ... there were some issues with
recalibrating things for significantly lower heat output.
later in the early 70s at the science center ... the 360/67 machine room
had cooling units that dumped water from six inch pipe straight into
eight inch sewer pipe; some building code that there was "air gap"
between the two. In the mid-70s there was starting to be something about
city wanting to change building codes that there would be no more
straight through water for cooling ... and would need to start to
require recirculating water. This would require water towers on the roof
and there was big issues that the office buildings had not been built to
handle the weight of water towers on the roof.
in stories about pacific northwest ... and all the hydroelectric plants
... that bonneville power authority had enough excess electricity that
aluminum smelting plants were being built to consume the excess (at
discount).
the area is more recently seeing a new generation with "mega"
datacenters ... also using huge amounts of electricity and water. a
couple old refs:
in the 90s, the head of boca had large contract with Dataquest (since
bought by gartner) to investigate what future "PC" computers were to
look like ... which included a several hr video taped round-table with
dozen silicon valley experts. I knew the Dataquest people and they asked
me to be one of the experts ... they said that they would garble the
introductions so Boca wouldn't realize it had a ringer (I did clear it
with my line-of-business executives first).
I had been hassling boca business people in internal forums ... because
their projections on future volume pricing for PCs didn't even
correspond with volume one, local sunday newspaper advertisements (aka
their projections for volume pricing was significantly higher than
volume one, off-the-shelf prices).
--
related thread in Information Security Network
Users still make hacking easy with weak passwords
Users still make hacking easy with weak passwords
pieces of long-winded post
In the early part of this decade there were a couple token efforts
deployed in the US. One was rather large pilot chipcard involving
point-of-sale ... but involved yes card vulnerability ... that pilot
then seemed to totally evaporate. Reference to yes card presentation
at cartes2002, mentioning trivial to clone the chipcard:
another effort in the early part of the century was chipcard that
could be used for home use (home banking, home purchases) ... packaged
as part of point-of-sale payment plastic. There was free give-away of
card acceptor devices ... but was a "serial-port" device ... and the
resulting significant customer support problems resulted ib that
effort appearing to evaporate and rapidly spreading opinion in the
financial industry that chipcards weren't practical in the consumer
market. As a result ... several projects in progress were suspended
and canceled ... including the EU FINREAD standard effort. misc. past
posts
The problem wasn't with the chipcards ... but the "serial-port" card
readers that were part of specific program. In the mid-90s, the
dial-up consumer online banking was making presentations about moving
to the internet ... a major motivation was the consumer support
problems related to serial-port ... which would be offloaded to ISP
(however, commercial/cash-management dial-up online banking was also
making presentations that they would never move to internet). In any
case, the ephemeral (financial industry) institutional knowledge about
serial-port consumer support appeared to evaporate between the mid-90s
and the end of the 90s.
Note that serial-port issues was also major motivation for creation of
USB.
--
in this post
references this CERN article
A History of Scientific Text Processing at CERN
and this about evolution from (cms) gml/sgml to html at cern
there are references to web browser was very much return to 3270
terminal paradigm.
... also this reference to first webserver outside cern was slac/vm
system
for a little other topic drift:
for other topic drift ... followup post in iPad thread
so cloud computing is somewhat return to early days of terminal
emulation period ... use of PC is mostly as browser ("remote terminal")
to applications running on some central server ... with a little bit of
use for local computing. misc. past posts mentioning terminal emulation
--
MBAs also became the poster child for the 90-day business horizon ...
purely focused on the quarterly results ... w/o regard for the long term
effects.
during the internet bubble, they also played major roles in the
investment banking IPO machine; a few tens of millions on the front-end,
and then a billion or so out two years later in the IPO (a subsequent
failure was even advantagious since it kept the landscape open for the
next IPO).
a couple past posts mentioning the 2yr IPO formula
--
I then responded (in writing) that I found out that they were offering
starting salaries for new hires (that I was interviewing to work under
my direction) 1/3rd more than I was making.
I almost immediately got a 1/3rd raise (putting me level with the new
hire starting salaries) ... but no written response.
I then was feed all sorts stuff how such a situation might have happened
... misc. past posts:
when I had first joined ... the company was still going thru its huge
expansion period ... and after six months or so, almost everybody was
being pressured into becoming manager. I responded by asking to read the
corporate manager's manual (couple hundred pages in 3ring binder). after
reading the manual ... I pointed out that I had worked various labor and
construction in high school and first year in college ... and my
background regarding managing people was incompatible with their white
collar professional image. I would also periodically make snide remarks
about management career was for those that had become (or were)
technically incompetent.
then there were various things over the years that weren't particularly
carreer enhancing (like drawing comparisons between the future system
effort and a cult film playing down in central sq):
--
--
not very long after my interchange with HR ... I sponsored Boyd's
briefing at IBM for the first time ,,, more recently, I found this
reference to Boyd's To Be Or To Do on the web:
he is credited with the battle plan for the Iraqi conflict in the early
90s, and there have been comments that biggest problem in the current
conflict, was that Boyd had died during the interim.
misc. past posts mentioning Boyd
--
misc. other stuff from long ago and far away ("xxxx in LA" had done a
re-implementation of CMS script ... document formater ... for trs80)
TYMSHARE started offering their (vm370/cms-based) online computer
conferencing to (IBM user group) SHARE in Aug76 as "VMSHARE". This
was expanded to "PCSHARE" (after the IBM/PC) was announced. VMSHARE
archive is here:
--
as an aside ... a week or so ago ... one of the tv business news shows
had recommendation that businesses buy an extra PC and use it only for
online banking ... and never use it for anything else.
This somewhat corresponds to the online banking presentations in the
mid-90s. The consumer dial-up online banking were making presentations
about moving to the internet ... in large part motivated by the
significant consumer support costs related to their proprietary
dial-up operations (especially the large library of proprietary
serial-port modem drivers required to be supported ... mentions of
easily 60+ different drivers).
However, at the same time, the business/commercial/cash-management
dial-up online banking operations were making presentations that they
would never move to the internet (because of the huge number of
security, threat, and vulnerability related issues)
past posts mentioning above:
--
there have been numerous articles about overall general decline in STEM
(science, technoloyg, engineering, match) and/or science & engineering.
overall decline has been tied to declining position of the country in
the world ... and programs to improve position tied to increasing
enrollment and graduates. nsf stats on enrollment
a few past posts referencing the above:
this is also related to reports that the country's education is ranking
at or near the bottom of industrial nations (while tied for 1st place
for amount spent per student).
there have been periodic recent stories that math & CS majors played
significant role (having taken jobs in the financial industry) in
current economic mess. the counter has been that the business people
just directed them to produce the results they wanted (as part of
obfuscation about what was really going on) ... aka
How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers
misc. past posts mentioning the above article:
--
there are all the old stories about mid-level managers pre-empting all
sorts of stuff as status symbols ... 486/ps2 deliveries justified for
some real development work being redirected to their desks to spend the
day idle with the PROFS menu being burned into the screen (when they
bother to actually logon ... otherwise it is the VM370 logon logo being
burned into the screen). The status symbol redirection was because the
486/ps2 came with the larger 8514 display ... recent reference:
8514 wiki:
--
about the time Boeing Computer Services was being formed ... the univ.
datacenter had just gone thru a phase with the state legislature being
made an independent entity ... the legislature than had to allocate
univ. dept. budgets for different places to "buy" services from the
univ. datacenter. the univ. datacenter then was also allowed to sell
dataprocessing services to other state agencies and gov. operations.
It looked like Boeing was attempting to do something similar with BCS
... turning dataprocessing from a purely overhead expense item into
something that looked like P&L (even tho much of it was internal funny
money) ... but also allowed to sell dataprocessing services to
operations outside of Boeing.
I was con'ed into spending spring vacation teaching 40hr class to the
BCS technical staff (was only about half dozen people at the time)
... and then was con'ed into becoming a full-time BCS employee for the
summer (I got some sort of upper level designation that allowed me to
park in one of the nearer lots at boeing field, I was still within first
two dozen bcs employees ... possibly even within first dozen bcs
employees).
BCS was being scaffoled off of corporate hdqtrs administrative
dataprocessing ... which had a 360/30 primarily for doing payroll. In
theory BCS was going to take over control of the other major
dataprocessing ... big datacenter operation down in renton field ... and
the new one that went in up at Everett. That summer on visits to renton
datacenter ... there were constantly pieces of 360/65s sitting in the
hallways outside the datacenter ... 360/65s were arriving faster than
they could be installed (possibly eventually 20-30? 360/65s ... between
renton and everett). There were all sorts of political discussions about
getting head of renton (with dozens of high-end 360s and other
computers) to report to corporate hdqtrs guy responsible for 360/30.
That summer, they also installed (single processor) 360/67 for running
cp67/cms online timesharing in the corporate hdqtrs 360/30 computer
room. That summer they also moved the duplex 360/67 from boeing
huntsville to seattle boeing aerospace.
renton also had at least one 360/75 (did some amount of classified work
... had black cloth that was pulled over the 360/75 front panel lights
when running classified work ... also the view windows on the 1403
printers were covered, perimeter of the 360/75 area was also roped off)
and i believe (one or more) cdc6600 in the renton datacenter.
renton was pegged at having something like $300M in ibm 360s. there was
study about business continuity ... something about renton datacenter
being in the mudslide path from MT. Rainier. This was used to have a
complete replicated operation in Everett ... supposedly if the
dataprocessing provided by the renton center was unavailable for a week
... it would cost Boeing more than the complete cost of the datacenter.
At the end-of-the-summer ... they did the paper work to have me take
employee educational leave of abscence to go back to school. When I
finally graduated ... I went with the science center in boston
... rather than returning to boeing.
Current Boeing website claims that BCS wasn't officially formed until
the following year.
from above:
BCS did get some federal contracts. I remember visiting the BCS office
(in 70s) in washington (DC) area ... and being shown how they had used
cms\apl to do the financial modeling for justifying 1st class postage
stamp price increase (contract with usps).
misc. past posts mentioning BCS:
--
also from the BCS history page (not being officially formed until the
following year):
also in the reference boeing history page ... click "next narrative" and gets
from above:
--
360/67 was basically 360/65 with virtual memory hardware ... official
support was suppose to be tss/360 ... lots of people bought them for
that ... but tss/360 ran into lots of problems and many customers
dropped back to use them in purely 360/65 (real memory mode) ... others
ran (virtual machine) cp67.
boeing huntsville had two processor smp 360/67 ... but dropped back to
use them in 360/65 mode. they had gotten machine to use with bunch of
2250 (large vector graphic) displays for computer design kind of work.
the problem was that os/360 had severe storage fragmentation problems
with long running applications (like the 2250 graphic design work). so
boeing did special hack to os/360 to use the 360/67 virtual memory
hardware ... didn't actually do any paging ... just used address
relocation to create the appearance of contiguous storage.
2250 was pretty expensive device ... a 2250m1 (attached directly to 360
channel) was about the same price as 2250m4 (2250/1130 computer
combination)
this mentions 2250 attached to 360 at npg, it doesn't say but that
should be 360/67 cp67 system at npg.
they eventually came out with followon replacement called 3250 (which
was outsourced, i think sanders? in NH) ... which was also pretty
expensive.
there was a less expensive flavor called 3277GA .... which was large
tektronics display with special attachment that hooked into the side of
3277 terminal. some number of 3277ga were used internally by vlsi chip
design operations.
more expensive displays used by internal vlsi chip design were CALMAs
--
old news blurb from 1997:
there was still some internal competition going on.
--
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1987 12:32:37 PST
From: wheeler
re: pctech 11/87;
Besides having a really slick new cover ... more like upscale yuppie
Architecture than a techie periodical ... there is a review of two
alternative bus architectures to family II. One comes from AST Research
and the other from Compaq. In both cases, family I cards are accepted.
AST Premium/386 has an "AT-compatible" arbitrated multimaster design.
To take advantage of the extension, AST will first be offering Bus
Master Cache Disk Controller (ESDI) ... presumably high performance disk
controller with onboard cache (i.e. shades of 3880-21). Conceivably it
will support speed-matching buffering at the same time (i.e. support
20mbit/sec+ disk transfer rates).
Compaq Deskpro 386/20 offers bus compatible with 8Mhz AT bus. However
it has a separate 32bit bus operating at 20mhz (40mbyte/sec) for the
386, 387 and cache memory (shades of rt). The two buses and the cache
are managed by an Intel 82385.
AST Premium/386 $5600
20mhz, 40MB disk
Deskpro 386/16 $6500
PS/2 M80-041 $7000
16mhz, 40MB disk
Deskpro 386/20 $7500
20mhz, 60MB disk
PS/2 M80-071 $8500
16mhz, 70MB disk
Deskpro 386/20 $10,000
20mhz, 130MB disk
PS/2 M80-111 $11,000
20mhz, 115MB disk
Deskpro 386/20 $13,700
20mhz, 300MB disk
For Deskpro, the delta to go from 60MB to 130MB (+70MB) is $2500 or
$35/MB. To go from 60 to 300 (+240) is $6200 or $26/MB. IBM offers
the 314MB Fixed Disk Option for the 80-071 and 80-111 for $6,495 (less
than $21/MB). Maxtor is offering a 160MB hard disk at $2,000 (less
than $13/MB). The higher-density hard disks are driving the price to
under $10/MB (as an aside, the magazine is almost totally devoid of
hard disk advertisements).
From these numbers it is easy to see some of the driving force behind
diskless workstations, especially for a UNIX system which can easily
run 100MB. The first big advantage with diskless workstations is to
have DASD storage at $26/MB (or less) rather than $35/MB (i.e. 100MB
UNIX system is $2600 rather than $3500). The next advantage comes by
storing the common system stuff once rather than multiple times
(i.e. except for configuration files, the majority of the 100MB UNIX
files are identical for all systems). At some point there becomes a
performance bottleneck, at which time files/data may have to be
replicated (mirrored) for performance (and availability) purposes.
10 copies of 100MB UNIX
@$35 $35,000
10 copies of 100MB UNIX
@$26 $26,000
1 copy of 100MB UNIX
@$26 $2,600
2 copies of 100MB UNIX
@$10
$2,000
... snip ... top of post, old email index.
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search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:02:03 -0500
Pat Farrell <pfarrell@pfarrell.com> writes:
You mean the 87 October Monday crash where the Dow dropped 500 points
from a start of 1800?
With the inflated Dow, 500 points today is no big deal, in 87, it was huge.
IIRC, DEC was still making solid money off the zillions of Vaxens in 87/88.
1987 was dominanted by microvax-2
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0 Computers in Science Fiction
VAX SHIPMENTS - WORLD-WIDE
--------------------------
SYSTEM 1987
-------- --------
11/725 0
11/730 0
11/750 370
11/780 370
11/782 0
11/785 200
MVI 0
MVII 29,000
82XX 2,795
83XX 1,000
85XX 1,380
86XX 1,200
8700 530
8800 420
---------
TOTAL 37,265
--
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Processes' memory
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, comp.arch
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:01:52 -0500
"Mike" <mike@mike.net> writes:
I have often wonder how modern systems would have evolved in an
alternate universe where IBM did not fund MicroSoft and OS/2 but
instead chose to implement Presentation Manager to provide a GUI on
top of VM/CMS and compete in the micro and workstation arena with a
370 instruction set chip. In 1984 IBM had a PC/370 but decided it
would eat mainframe revenue and limited software licenses to machines
connected to mainframes thus killing their attraction.
Your suggestion of a portable version of CMS is an intriguing
alternate especially if combined with a portable GUI. Just think, an
industrial strength GUI on 370, 801, and S/38 and on PC's to compete
with Windows 3.1.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#4 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#5 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801016
in this post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#1
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#74
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#87 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#99</a> "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#1 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
also old email reference:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#email790429
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#17 mainframe and microprocessor
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
another
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#71 Happy DEC-10 Day
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Processes' memory
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, comp.arch
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:18:44 -0500
"Peter Dickerson" <first.last@tiscali.invalid> writes:
I distinctly recall handling an IBM PC card which ran 370 code and OS. As I
recall it was supposedly based on a modified 68K - don't know about two
though. When I had it in the mid 80s, say 1986, it was considered scrap.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#14 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#28 IBM's "VM for the PC" c.1984??
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#19 Very CISC Instuctions (Was: why the machine word size ...)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#24 HP Compaq merger, here we go again.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#43 IBM 5100 [Was: First DESKTOP Unix Box?]
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#7 Whatever happened to IBM's VM PC software?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#6 Where should the type information be: in tags and descriptors
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#10 Where should the type information be: in tags and descriptors
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#56 DCSS
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#41 z/VM usability
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#46 pc/370
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#2 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#4 IBM Mainframe at home
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#56 ECPS:VM DISPx instructions
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search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:29:14 -0500
Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
I can name two, and they were not fools. They were raking
in money on their pdp11s. They could have raked in more
if DEC had listened.
One was Reuters, who ran their worldwide communications
network on pdp11s. Those pdp11s were really containers for
their proprietary communications boards, running about
50k terminals at $200/month in lease; and struggling to
meet demand because DEC tried to cancel the pdp11 series.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#13 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Processes' memory
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, comp.arch
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:42:34 -0500
nmm1 writes:
If anyone had delivered a viable form of Unix at an affordable price,
that would have eliminated Windows 3.1. They didn't, until far too
late, and that was marketing and not technical. I doubt that IBM
could have moved fast enough to convert CMS to such a very different
style of use.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#4 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#5 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#14 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#15 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#12 Happy DEC-10 Day
with an old email discussion of "affordable unix" (and
diskless workstations):
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#email871115
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Processes' memory
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, comp.arch
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:58:22 -0500
nmm1 writes:
I was closely involved with that. It was a bigger job than you might
think. A multi-user version was infesible, because even CMS couldn't
handle the interrupt rate needed for a WIMP GUI (i.e. one of the sort
produced by Xerox, Apple, X Windows and PM). It was a major problem
(and still is) even with Unix and Windows 3 - and the latter got its
performance (such as it was) by running everything in kernel mode!
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#4 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#5 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#14 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#15 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#17 Processes' memory
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Processes' memory
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, comp.arch
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:32:52 -0500
nmm1 writes:
Yes, that's the point. With a line-level interaction model, you
have two context switches per line, and need deliver only a 0.25
second response time. Character reflection can be offloaded or
done in a really stripped down interrupt routine.
With curses-style interaction, you have two context switches per
character, and need to deliver a 0.1 second response time.
With a modern WIMP GUI, you have between 12 and 80 context switches
per character or mouse click, and still need to deliver a 0.1 second
response time.
Once you bring in dragging, line drawing etc., you are talking many
dozens or even hundreds of context switches a second, and need to
deliver a 0.02 second response time.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#4 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#5 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#14 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#15 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#17 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#18 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#1 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#79 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#80 Happy DEC-10 Day
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Processes' memory
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, comp.arch
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:19:40 -0500
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
in the mid-70s, I did stripped down vm370 kernel that ran relatively
well on 256kbytes 370/125 (it wasn't quite back to the efficiency of
what I had done on cp67 ... but getting close) .... so nearly decade
later vm370/cms was having significant problems working in 384kbytes
... and required 512kbytes. Part of the issue was that there had been
growing reliance on leveraging real storage to somewhat offset disks
thruput limitations ... but xt/370 had neither the real storage nor the
disk thruput ... and many of the CMS applications were becoming
increasingly bloated regarding both real storage (aka number of virtual
pages needed resident in real storage) and disk i/o.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#18 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#14 Processes' memory
with regard to
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#17 mainframe and microprocessor
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Processes' memory
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, comp.arch
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:44:57 -0500
"Mike" <mike@mike.net> writes:
Your suggestion of a portable version of CMS is an intriguing
alternate especially if combined with a portable GUI. Just think, an
industrial strength GUI on 370, 801, and S/38 and on PC's to compete
with Windows 3.1.
the other scenario was that late 70s & early 80s ... there was the 801
Iliad chip scenario ... that was targeted at using 801s to replace the
large number of different corporate microprocessors with 801s. The
follow-on to 4341 was going to be an iliad-based 801 microprocessor; I
contributed to white paper that killed that ... based on technology had
gotten to the point that majority of 370 could be directly implemented
in silicon (in part, demonstrated by the boeblingen 3chipset 370).
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#801
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#4 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#5 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#14 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#15 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#17 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#18 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#19 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#20 Processes' memory
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:49:35 -0500
Eric Chomko <pne.chomko@comcast.net> writes:
Other than have an Intel 8088 chip and run MS-DOS. Can you cite me a
system that had an 8088 in it that ran MS-DOS that was at least PC-
compatible. Again, I'll buy into the concepts of "PC-compatible", true
"PC-compatible" and "clone", where the latter two may be the same
thing. And, I'll believe that the Rainbow was a PC-compatible, but I
can't grasp a machine running MS-DOS on an 8088 as being none of the
above without an example.
somewhat unrelated ... didn't radio shack try and do a
msdos/pc-compatible with 186? i vaguely remember something about 186
being 8086 with a lot of support chip functions integrated into single
chip (made for cost reduced manufacturing) ... but it was about the time
286 came out. old post with several fall82/old emails discussing 286 (and
passing reference to 186):
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#15 "25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#45 ANN: Microsoft goes Open Source
including
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80186
The 80186 would have been a natural successor to the 8086 in personal
computers. However, because its integrated hardware was incompatible
with the hardware used in the original IBM PC, the 80286 was used as the
successor instead in the IBM PC/AT.
Few personal computers used the 80186, with some notable exceptions: the
Australian Dulmont Magnum laptop, on of the first laptops; the Wang
Office Assistant, marketed as a PC-like stand-alone word processor; the
Mindset; the Siemens PC-D (not 100% IBM PC-compatible but using MS-DOS
2.11 [1]); the Compis (a Swedish school computer); the RM Nimbus (a
British school computer); the Unisys ICON (a Canadian school computer);
ORB Computer by ABS; the HP 200lx; the Tandy 2000 desktop (a somewhat
PC-compatible workstation with sharp graphics for its day); the Philips
:YES. Acorn created a plug-in for the BBC Master range of computers
containing a 80186-10 with 512 KB of RAM, the Master 512 system.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:16:26 -0500
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
david walker (former comptroller general) was on last night's john
stewart's daily show ... didn't see it last night ... but it was
rebroadcast today a 7pm. walker was pitching his new book "comeback
america".
http://www.amazon.com/Comeback-America-Turning-Restoring-Responsibility/dp/1400068606
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#60 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Warren
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oversight_of_the_Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/06/paulson-misled-tarp-overs_n_164589.html
http://cop.senate.gov/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Processes' memory
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, comp.arch,
alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:53:48 -0500
"Mike" <mike@mike.net> writes:
If I recall, they had a PC/AT with an Intel cpu emulating a channel
processor and a modified Motorola 68000 providing the /370 instruction
set. It ran VM/CMS and could run essentially any mainframe
application program and almost any system program. The announced
price was about $5,400 but they would only license the software if it
was attached to a mainframe with a VM/CMS license.
unrelated to pc/370 (originally xt/370 and then at/370):
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#4 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#5 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#14 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#15 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#17 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#18 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#19 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#20 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#21 Processes' memory
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Processes' memory
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, comp.arch,
alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:32:02 -0500
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
there was a card done in ykt that attached to channel and emulated a
controller. this was packaged in an rack-mount, industrial PC/AT and
sold as "8343" for use with vm370 tcp/ip support. later the vm370 tcp/ip
support was migrated to MVS ... by a hack that emulated some vm370
"diagnose" instructions (in MVS).
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#24 Processes' memory
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Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:56:18 -0500
greymaus <greymausg@mail.com> writes:
This is in the 'your terrorist is my freedom fighter' area (Though I
think that there is hard core terrorism, the people who killed the
children in Russia are "terrorists")(as are the 9/11 people)
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#60 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#23 Happy DEC-10 Day
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:22:55 -0500
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#60 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#23 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#26 Happy DEC-10 Day
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Processes' memory
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, comp.arch,
alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:58:19 -0500
EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> writes:
I can't say about it running System/370 but it was out of
the lab, though perhaps not an "announced product", because
IPSA had their APL up and running on PC/370 in the early 1980's.
I wasn't involved so can't provide details of the port.
the ibm 5100 PC ... 1975 precusor to 5150 pc ... did 370 emulation for
running port of apl\360.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#4 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#5 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#14 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#15 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#17 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#18 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#19 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#20 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#21 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#24 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#25 Processes' memory
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Subject: Re: search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:02:14 -0500
Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> writes:
Flamebait. The pdp10 is what the pdp10 should have been. The pdp10
instruction set architecture was written for humans programming in
assembly language. MIPS architecture was written to be a target for
compilers.
one of two people responsible for mainframe pascal at los gatos lab
leaves and goes thru a couple startups ... before becoming mips vp of
software when mips forms. mainframe pascal started out using metaware
technology (lots of vlsi tools at los gatos lab starts out with
metaware); the other person responsible for mainframe pascal eventually
leaves and shows up at metaware. later mainframe pascal product also
morphs into being ported to rs/6000. recent post mentioning porting
large vlsi design tool (nearly 60k vs/pascal statements) to other
platforms:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#74 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#76 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#93 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#20 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#97 VLIW pre-history
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#1 VLIW pre-history
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#6 VLIW pre-history
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#7 VLIW pre-history
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#14 Some IBM 3033 information
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#27 user level TCP implementation
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search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:19:29 -0500
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
first 64bit sparc done by HAL computers ... heavily funded by Fujitsu
... and eventually absorbed by Fujitsu. HAL is taken from "H-and-L".
"H" is executive I directly reported to in the 80s ... and "L"
originally came from SUN ... but backed away when SUN objected.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#29 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_Computer_Systems
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC
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Posts missing from ibm-main on google groups
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Posts missing from ibm-main on google groups
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:42:57 -0500
ibmmain@INTERGATE.COM (Arthur T.) writes:
The problem is not with Google Groups. It appears that some
posts are not making it to Usenet.
What's odd is that recently this happened in at least one other
newsgroup (comp.risks). Some posts are not making it through the
mirrors to Usenet. I doubt that there is anything odd in Ron's post;
he's a victim, too.
initially I first thot it was the usenet service I was using ...
i.e. after I double posted:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#99 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#100 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
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Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:31:50 -0500
Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
You have also carefully seen to it that you have access to lots of
pounds to sell. Then suddenly you do so. Dump it, just when everyone
else is selling, and the Bank of England frantically is buying;
with fewer and fewer dollars to pay for it.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#23 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#26 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#27 Happy DEC-10 Day
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:04:13 -0500
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#32 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000157.html
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#4 dollar coins
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#31 SEC bans illegal activity then permits it
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#1 illegal naked short selling
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#83 Chip-and-pin card reader supply-chain subversion 'has netted millions from British shoppers'
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#8 Global Melt Down
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#50 Obama, ACORN, subprimes (Re: Spiders)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#63 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#67 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#63 Do bonuses foster unethical conduct?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#75 Whistleblowing and reporting fraud
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Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:24:17 -0500
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#32 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#33 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.forbes.com/personalfinance/global/2008/1124/042.html
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#68 Obama, ACORN, subprimes (Re: Spiders)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#69 if you are an powerful financial regulator , how would you have stopped the credit crunch?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#36 Blinkenlights
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#64 Is This a Different Kind of Financial Crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#67 What is securitization and why are people wary of it ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#9 Blind-sided, again. Why?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#18 What next? from where would the Banks be hit?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#20 Five great technological revolutions
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#23 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#35 Is American capitalism and greed to blame for our financial troubles in the US?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#55 Is this the story behind the crunchy credit stuff?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#14 What are the challenges in risk analytics post financial crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#42 Lets play Blame Game...?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#52 The Credit Crunch: Why it happened?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#73 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#1 Are Both The U.S. & UK on the brink of debt disaster?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#37 A great article was posted in another BI group: "To H*** with Business Intelligence: 40 Percent of Execs Trust Gut"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#52 What has the Global Financial Crisis taught the Nations, it's Governments and Decision Makers, and how should they apply that knowledge to manage risks differently in the future?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#53 Credit & Risk Management ... go Simple ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#54 In your opinion, which facts caused the global crise situation?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#73 What can we learn from the meltdown?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#78 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#39 'WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GLOBAL MELTDOWN'
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#61 Accounting for the "greed factor"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#65 is it possible that ALL banks will be nationalized?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#37 NEW SEC (Enforcement) MANUAL, A welcome addition
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#62 Is Wall Street World's Largest Ponzi Scheme where Madoff is Just a Poster Child?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#73 Should Glass-Steagall be reinstated?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#77 Who first mentioned Credit Crunch?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#8 The background reasons of Credit Crunch
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#23 Should FDIC or the Federal Reserve Bank have the authority to shut down and take over non-bank financial institutions like AIG?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#31 What is the real basis for business mess we are facing today?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#38 On whom or what would you place the blame for the sub-prime crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#49 Is the current downturn cyclic or systemic?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#53 What every taxpayer should know about what caused the current Financial Crisis
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#27 Flawed Credit Ratings Reap Profits as Regulators Fail Investors
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#25 The Paradox of Economic Recovery
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#29 Analysing risk, especially credit risk in Banks, which was a major reason for the current crisis
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#49 IBM to Build Europe, Asia 'Smart Infrastructure'
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#60 In the USA "financial regulator seeks power to curb excess speculation."
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#35 what is mortgage-backed securities?
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Processes' memory
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Processes' memory
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, comp.arch,
alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:43:48 -0500
On 01/28/10 20:16, Andy "Krazy" Glew wrote:
Lynn: can you expand on this? "Shared Variable" sounds like it is
relevant to parallelism or concurrency; system services sounds like
syscalls. Abominations sounds bad, but makes me curious.
I assume "ape" = A Programming Language. Iverson? Vectors? +/array?
note ... i see the above in email and in google ... but it hasn't shown
up at my usenet server ... there seems to be some connectivity problem
with usenet "gateways" .... ibm-main mailing list usenet gateway
recently has had several things go totally missing; ... in any case.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#28 Processes' memory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_Shared_Variables
http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLDesign.htm
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Subject: Re: Processes' memory
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, comp.arch
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:48:14 -0500
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
later there was the a74 (7437) ... which was much more like a real 370
in small form factor (with several press/news articles from 1988):
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#4 IBM Mainframe at home
some a74 changes I tried to get released (including paged mapped
filesystem):
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#56 ECPS:VM DISPx instructions
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#15 Processes' memory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-based_IBM-compatible_mainframes
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#14 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:51:16 -0500
Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
And, what if someone arranges a few financial tripwires, so this
avalanche is started by some quite unsuspecting people? Like it seems
the 1987 crash was.
It is, however, impossible to legally distiguish between such tripwires
and normal hedging.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#32 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#33 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#34 Happy DEC-10 Day
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Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:02:56 -0500
Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
I am thinking about the tcp/ip part. At least large parts of that
happened outside DEC, and was an import into the tops20 codebase.
search engine turns up quite a bit for tcp/ip and tops20
http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_tcpip.htm
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#interop88
http://ftp.arl.army.mil/ftp/tcp-ip-digest/tcp-ip-digest.v1n27.1
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#15
http://web.archive.org/web/20050418032606/http://www.be.daemonnews.org/199909/usenix-kirk.html
He said (paraphrased) that every DARPA meeting ended up the same, with
the Military coming in and giving CSRG (at UCB, the group that worked on
BSD) a stern warning that they were to work on the Operating System, and
that BBN will work on the networking. Every time, Bob Fabry, then the
advisor of CSRG, would "Yes: them to death" and they'd go off and just
continue the way they were going. Much to the frustration of the DARPA
advisory board.
... snip ...
http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/misc/tcp_ip/8604.mm.www/0183.html
A neighboring university has got two DEC 2060s and would like to run
TCP/IP on them. The problem is that Digital doesn't support TCP/IP in
Europe and refuse to sell the product.
... snip ...
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book machines
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: book machines
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:30:08 -0500
greymaus <greymausg@mail.com> writes:
There was a thread recently her about book machines,
computer +printer, etc, that would sit in a shop and
print any book on demand. in rec.arts.sf.written, there is
a thread started when someone saw such a book machine (I
think in Harvard. )
brewster kahle has been pushing it for several years ... he was at
Thinking Machines when he started wais (we went by wais inc a number of
times, a house in menlo park, just over the line from palo alto). he
then sold wais inc, to AOL ... and then started the wayback machine. he
has showed up at conferences with a van specially fitted out to do on
demand printing.
http://www.silobreaker.com/brewster-kahle-11_4498533
Back in 2002, Brewster Kahle invented the Internet Archive
Bookmobile. This was a low-tech affair. Starting with scans or
plain-text of public domain works (The Wizard of Oz and Alice in
Wonderland were favorites), the bookmobile could spit out bound
... snip ...
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/kahle.html
http://www.theknowledgetrust.org/wordpress/?page_id=62
http://dltj.org/article/espresso-print-on-demand/
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PC history, was search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: PC history, was search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:05:21 -0500
Charles Richmond <frizzle@tx.rr.com> writes:
And if this 3090 clone was like the IBM 370/155 at my college... it
would take *twenty* minutes just to IPL the darn thing!!! ISTR that we
ran MVT instead of MVS...
story here about cp67 crashing 27 times at the MIT Urban Systems Lab (in
another tech sq bldg., across the court yard from science center)
http://www.multicians.org/thvv/360-67.html
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Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:28:16 -0500
Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
Heck, you couldn't run gcc in that. A port of gcc to the 370
architecture (16MB address space) ran into trouble. The Herculeans
came up with a "380" architecture that lets *one* address space be
(AFAIK) 32MB to get around that.
MVS had somewhat similar problem on 370 ... MVS inherited from its
os/360 roots ... an environment that was heavily dependent on pointer
passing APIs. So translation to virtual memory ... the MVS kernel was
mapped into 8mbytes of every 16mbyte virtual address space.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#59 Why do IBMers think disks are 'Direct Access'?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#48 Mainframe Hall of Fame: 17 New Members Added
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#71 308x Processors - was "Mainframe articles"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#73 308x Processors - was "Mainframe articles"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#74 Best IEFACTRT (off topic)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#58 Rudd bucks boost IBM mainframe business
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#84 locate mode, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#87 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
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Mythical computers and magazine reviews
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Mythical computers and magazine reviews
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:00:02 -0500
Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com> writes:
See eg http://old.nabble.com/AT-370-td21063234.html, where there's a
discussion of XT/370 and AT/370, including getting the AT/370 card and
VM/PC working in genuine IBM PC/ATs and clones. Now, these folks could
all be lying through their teeth, but that doesn't seem terribly likely.
I had done some early benchmarking for 384k xt/370 and showed that
things had somewhat bloated (decade earlier I had done work for vm370 on
256k 370/125) ... and were page thrashing. I then got blamed for six
month slip while they added another 128k (for 512kbyte 370 memory)
before first customer ship.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#14 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#15 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#18 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#20 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#24 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#36 Processes' memory
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PC history, was search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: PC history, was search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:19:22 -0500
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
The above cp67 tale has recent 4apr09 update note from somebody that had
worked on tss/370 ... mentioning that in '78, tss/370 could "pump our
125% to 150% more terminal-driven engineering work than MVS/TSO". This,
of course, was actually quite trivial to do.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#40 PC history, was search engine history was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#20 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#21 Processes' memory
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Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:46:36 -0500
glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
One interesting feature of the original S/370 was allowing for
either 2K or 4K page size in a 64K segment. For 2K pages the
page tables would require 13 bits. I presume one of those bits
was used for page addressing in 2K page size systems.
With either 2K or 4K pages, memory protection was done on 2K
boundaries until the 4K key (non-) feature was added.
Not so long ago I was running VM/370 and MVS3.8 on a P/370.
The only complication is that one control register bit needs
to be on to allow ISK and SSK to work. With MVS3.8 there is
only one value that is loaded into control register 0 to change.
With VM/370 there are about 10 different values used, all of
which have to be changed.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#41 Happy DEC-10 Day
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search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:05:09 -0500
Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
But it depends on what you're doing with it. A VAX would be expected
to support tens of users and a PC only one. If all you want to do is
email, a system could be 100X faster and it wouldn't matter.
one of the big things for monthly fixed-rate ISP in the 90s were people
that would only check their email once or twice a month. It was only a
percent or two of their customers that ever used service on regularly
daily basis (they basically could get by provisioning for a couple users
but spreading the costs across hundreds/thousands/etc users).
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Mythical computers and magazine reviews
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Mythical computers and magazine reviews
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:16:59 -0500
"Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net> writes:
I also found a citation of a related presentation at SHARE 58 in Los Angeles
two years earlier by T. D. Rosato ("Micro CMS/370 (Cambridge nano-System)"),
although I don't recall attending that session.
for a couple yrs before vm370 development group outgrew space at 545tech
sq and moved out to Burlington Mall, Tom and I used to car pool
(alternatiing weeks on who drove). When the vm370 development group was
shutdown and everybody was suppose to move to POK, Tom wrangled one of
the few exemptions and managed to return to the science center.
To: wheeler
Date: 82/03/01 15:35:27
howdy...
how r things? i need a favor....
please tell me again how to
log onto vmshare from my home using a 3101?????
r u going to la-share 58? i'm presenting micro/cms on tuesday.
take care...
... snip ... top of post, old email index.
Date: 10 September 1982, 11:08:12 EST
To: wheeler
.... misc. snip ...
Meanwhile I am working on Tom Rosato's CnS project follow on here in
Endicott.... We have one guy who put together a cp, and we are
stealing CMS and putting the combination on the pc, with a couple of
new boards. It is intreresting work, except that I feel ....
... snip ... top of post, old email index.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#27 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#28 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#4a
High level system programming language
Software development tools
Distributed software development
Migration of CP functions to virtual address spaces
Migration to non-370 architectures
370 simulators
Dedicated, end-user system
... snip ...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#36 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#2 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#18 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#20 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#24 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#42 Mythical computers and magazine reviews
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Extracting STDOUT data from USS
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Extracting STDOUT data from USS
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:14:48 -0500
shmuel+ibm-main@PATRIOT.NET (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
Who R U? In CICS you're supposed to use CICS services for I/O, not to do
your own in the main CICS task. One of those services is to run code in a
separate subtask so that you are allowed to do things directly that would
otherwise be prohibited.
one of the examples of not appearing to be multithreaded to the
operating system ... was that CICS didn't utilize multiprocessors until
less than ten years ago ... it appeared like one large task to the
operating system ... and CICS provided all the subtask & thread
management internally. Since CICS only appeared like one large
application to the operating system ... there was no way of having
concurrent pieces executing simultaneously on different processors. For
a long time, to utilize additional processors required having multiple
separate CICS regions executing concurrently (I was in datacenter less
than decade ago with banner mentioning having over 120 CICS regions).
http://web.archive.org/web/20040705000349/http://www.yelavich.com/history/ev198001.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20041023110006/http://www.yelavich.com/history/ev200402.htm
CICS chose to provide for a multi-tasking environment under a single
Task Control Block (TCB) using its own dispatcher (Task Control Program)
rather than attempt to multi-task concurrent transaction processing
using operating system subtasks. Not only was the overhead of operating
system subtasking considered excessive, but having concurrently
dispatched applications would have required programs to be reentrant and
serialize their use of shared resources. That was felt to be too
complicated at the time.
... snip ...
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dz9zr003/A.6?DT=20040504121320
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#cics
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Happy DEC-10 Day
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:44:24 -0500
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
then there is the article titled "The Man Who Beat The Shorts" ... that
apparently, after pointing out (in 2003 annual report) that
CDO/securization by unregulated loan originators (major cornerstone of
the financial mess) was going to end badly ... was then hit hard by
traders shorting the stock (but managed to survive, apparently it was
punishment for publicly raising the CDO activity):
http://www.forbes.com/personalfinance/global/2008/1124/042.html
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#34 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100131/ap_on_bi_ge/us_bailout_watchdog
The government's response to the financial meltdown has made it more
likely the United States will face a deeper crisis in the future, an
independent watchdog at the Treasury Department warned.
... snip ...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#timeshare
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#21 Banks to embrace virtualisation in 2009: survey
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#31 Banks to embrace virtualisation in 2009: survey
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#32 What are the challenges in risk analytics post financial crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#42 Lets play Blame Game...?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#52 The Credit Crunch: Why it happened?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#77 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#79 The Credit Crunch: Why it happened?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#38 A great article was posted in another BI group: "To H*** with Business Intelligence: 40 Percent of Execs Trust Gut"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#49 US disaster, debts and bad financial management
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#53 Credit & Risk Management ... go Simple ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#78 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#1 Audit II: Two more scary words: Sarbanes-Oxley
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#15 The background reasons of Credit Crunch
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#30 Timeline: 40 years of OS milestones
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#53 Are the "brightest minds in finance" finally onto something?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#70 When did "client server" become part of the language?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#41 On whom or what would you place the blame for the sub-prime crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#49 Is the current downturn cyclic or systemic?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#27 Flawed Credit Ratings Reap Profits as Regulators Fail Investors
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#40 Analysing risk, especially credit risk in Banks, which was a major reason for the current crisis
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#20 UK issues Turning apology (and about time, too)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#68 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#47 Is C close to the machine?
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Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:49:14 -0500
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
Watchdog: Bailouts created more risk in system
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100131/ap_on_bi_ge/us_bailout_watchdog
from above:
The government's response to the financial meltdown has made it more
likely the United States will face a deeper crisis in the future, an
independent watchdog at the Treasury Department warned.
... snip ...
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#48 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://baselinescenario.com/2010/01/31/final-thoughts-on-volckerfest-2010/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/27/AR2009082704193.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aYlWNEyLQzPk
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The origins of CICS
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: The origins of CICS
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:22:36 -0500
web pages gone 404 ... but there is always the wayback machine
http://web.archive.org/web/20060325095552/http://www.yelavich.com/history/ev196803.htm
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#47 Extracting STDOUT data from USS
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#cics
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#15 Amusing acronym
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#10 Cost: Teletype 33 vs. IBM Selectric Terminal (2741?)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#44 TLAs - was summit else entirely
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#47 Article: The True Value of Mainframe Security
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#14 Does software life begin at 40? IBM updates IMS database
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#26 Does software life begin at 40? IBM updates IMS database
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#27 Does software life begin at 40? IBM updates IMS database
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#23 folklore indeed
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#19 Mainframe Hall of Fame: 17 New Members Added
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#68 Lack of bit field instructions in x86 instruction set because of patents ?
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Happy DEC-10 Day
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:05:13 -0500
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
Watchdog: Bailouts created more risk in system
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100131/ap_on_bi_ge/us_bailout_watchdog
from above:
The government's response to the financial meltdown has made it more
likely the United States will face a deeper crisis in the future, an
independent watchdog at the Treasury Department warned.
... snip ...
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#48 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#27 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#32 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Business/story?id=6498680&page=1
Goldman Sachs, which accepted $10 billion in government money, and
lost $2.1 billion last quarter, announced Tuesday that it handed out
$10.93 billion in benefits, bonuses, and compensation for the year.
... snip ...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#61 The vanishing CEO bonus
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#32 How Should The Government Spend The $700 Billion?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#33 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#35 Is American capitalism and greed to blame for our financial troubles in the US?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#41 Executive pay: time for a trim?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#73 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#80 Are reckless risks a natural fallout of "excessive" executive compensation ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#25 The recently revealed excesses of John Thain, the former CEO of Merrill Lynch, while the firm was receiving $25 Billion in TARP funds makes me sick
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#41 The subject is authoritarian tendencies in corporate management, and how they are related to political culture
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#45 The recently revealed excesses of John Thain, the former CEO of Merrill Lynch, while the firm was receiving $25 Billion in TARP funds makes me sick
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#49 US disaster, debts and bad financial management
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#57 Credit & Risk Management ... go Simple ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#59 As bonuses...why breed greed, when others are in dire need?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#17 Why is everyone talking about AIG bonuses of millions and keeping their mouth shut on billions sent to foreign banks?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#36 Average Comp This Year At Top Firm Estimated At $700,000
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#81 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
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Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:23:25 -0500
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#51 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/mmframe?prid=441535&attachid=850879
"In 1973, Wm. Mack Terry and his colleagues at the Bank of America in
San Francisco introduced the world's first matched maturity transfer
pricing system," added Dr. Donald R. van Deventer, Kamakura Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer. "Over the last 35 years, the concept has been
increasingly refined and modified to incorporate the best practice
calculations embedded in KRM Version 7.0. Best practice transfer pricing
calculations would have made it clear that neither Bear Stearns nor
Lehman Brothers had more than a marginal chance of survival when funding
30 year sub-prime mortgage loans with thirty day borrowings. Board
members can and should demand clarity of disclosure on the total risk of
an institution and the contribution of each business unit and
transaction to total risk. This capability is available now, and
Kamakura has been gratified that so many institutions have reached out
to Kamakura for best practice risk analytics during the current crisis."
... snip ...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#14 Blinkylights
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#27 Blinkylights
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#46 Bernanke Says Regulators Must Protect Against Systemic Risks
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#31 OODA-loop obfuscation
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Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:40:10 -0500
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#51 Happy DEC-10 Day
interviews with Paulson's new book
On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global
Financial System
Hank Paulson blames FSA for Lehman failure; The former US Treasury
Secretary's book reveals how he blames the FSA for not helping the
stricken bank.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/globalbusiness/7111156/Hank-Paulson-blames-FSA-for-Lehman-failure.html
But he was in uncharted waters. His original suggestion - a $700bn pool
to buy up toxic assets named the Troubled Assets Relief Programme (TARP)
- had to be modified to a pool of capital injected directly on to banks'
balance sheets.
... snip ...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#48 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.frbsf.org/econrsrch/wklyltr/2000/el2000-26.html
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#51 Why are some banks failing, and others aren't?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#52 Why is sub-prime crisis of America called the sub-prime crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#62 Would anyone like to draw a diagram of effects or similar for the current "credit crisis"?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#65 Can the financial meltdown be used to motivate sustainable development in order to achieve sustainable growth and desired sustainability?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#75 In light of the recent financial crisis, did Sarbanes-Oxley fail to work?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#82 Greenspan testimony and securization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#8 Global Melt Down
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#70 Is there any technology that we are severely lacking in the Financial industry?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#19 Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#9 Blind-sided, again. Why?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#23 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#35 Is American capitalism and greed to blame for our financial troubles in the US?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#55 Is this the story behind the crunchy credit stuff?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#14 What are the challenges in risk analytics post financial crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#42 Lets play Blame Game...?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#52 The Credit Crunch: Why it happened?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#63 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#80 Are reckless risks a natural fallout of "excessive" executive compensation ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#23 BarCampBank - informal finance rantathon in London
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#37 A great article was posted in another BI group: "To H*** with Business Intelligence: 40 Percent of Execs Trust Gut"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#52 What has the Global Financial Crisis taught the Nations, it's Governments and Decision Makers, and how should they apply that knowledge to manage risks differently in the future?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#53 Credit & Risk Management ... go Simple ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#54 In your opinion, which facts caused the global crise situation?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#73 What can we learn from the meltdown?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#79 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#32 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#39 'WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GLOBAL MELTDOWN'
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#46 Bernanke Says Regulators Must Protect Against Systemic Risks
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#8 The background reasons of Credit Crunch
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#31 OODA-loop obfuscation
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Processes' memory
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Processes' memory
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, comp.arch,
alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:33:12 -0500
"Del Cecchi" <delcecchi@gmail.com> writes:
Played with it? heck, helped with design. They wanted to use blue
illiad and got mad when we proposed a gate array alternative.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#28 Processes' memory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5100
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#email810422
in this old post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#38 To RISC or not to RISC
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#801
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#20 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#21 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#43 PC history, was search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#4 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#5 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#14 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#15 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#17 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#18 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#19 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#24 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#25 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#35 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#36 Processes' memory
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Processes' memory
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Processes' memory
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, comp.arch,
alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:40:28 -0500
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
Palo Alto Science Center also did apl\cms on vm370 (follow-on to cms\apl
that cambridge science center did for cp67/cms) and the apl\cms
microcode assist for 370/145.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#54 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#27 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#28 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
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Processes' memory
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Processes' memory
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer, comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, comp.arch,
alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:33:10 -0500
"Del Cecchi" <delcecchi@gmail.com> writes:
Played with it? heck, helped with design. They wanted to use blue
illiad and got mad when we proposed a gate array alternative.
there were other projects that were to use some iliad chip or another.
there was major corporate initiative the end of 70s to migrate large
variety of different corporate microprocessors to 801/risc architectures
... including the entry & mid-range (microprogrammed) 370s.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#55 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#mcode
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watches
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: watches
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:46:39 -0500
glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
I am not so sure about GPS, but TV satellites (the ones used by
broadcasters with the big dishes) transmit 7W per channel and
cover the whole US with that. The signal is barely above the thermal
noise level.
one of the hsdt 4.5meter dish (tdma, transmit and receive) Ku band
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_band
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Business_Systems
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-41D.html
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
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watches
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: watches
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:27:19 -0500
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
the SBS wiki site mentions the original SBS earth station design being
done by IBM using highly modified IBM 8100 ... none of which HSDT used.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#5 watches
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#71 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#44 IBM-MAIN longevity
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Customers risk online banking fraud by reusing bank credentials
From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 3 Feb, 2010
Subject: Customers risk online banking fraud by reusing bank credentials
Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security
Customers risk online banking fraud by reusing bank credentials
http://searchfinancialsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid185_gci1380406,00.html
Study shows many use their Internet banking password and ID to login
to other websites, opening the door to potential online banking fraud,
according to online security vendor Trusteer
... snip ...
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/france-sounds-death-knell-for-online-passwords-667847 ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#secrets
and related posts mentioning harvesting of various kinds of
secret-based authentication
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#harvest
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#3factor
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Cybercrime Checks Into The Hotel Industry
From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 3 Feb, 2010
Subject: Cybercrime Checks Into The Hotel Industry
Blog: Information Security Network
Cybercrime Checks Into The Hotel Industry
http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/01/cybersecurity-breaches-trustwave-technology-security-hotels.html
Hackers are increasingly targeting hotels and resorts, raiding more
than the minibar
... snip ...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
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Engineer shows how to crack a 'secure' TPM chip
From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 3 Feb, 2010
Subject: Engineer shows how to crack a 'secure' TPM chip
Blog: Computer Security and Forensics
Engineer shows how to crack a 'secure' TPM chip
http://gcn.com/articles/2010/02/02/black-hat-chip-crack-020210.aspx
A security engineer shared at the Black Hat Federal Briefings how he
cracked the Infineon chip family that includes the supposedly secure
TPM chips.
... snip ...
http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/hardware/processors/news/index.cfm?newsid=18652
Xbox 360 chip can be hacked, claims researcher; Questions security of TPM processor used to protect smartcards, computers
http://news.techworld.com/networking/3211829/xbox-360-chip-can-be-hacked-claims-researcher/
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Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:38:59 -0500
Eric Chomko <pne.chomko@comcast.net> writes:
IBM was offering certain new employees an IBM PC as sort of a signing
bonus. That was in the summer of 1981. I knew a guy who left CSC,
where we worked, to go to IBM to get a PC!
there is the opposite ... i ordered pc at employee discount ... but
(early) delivery schedules were so long ... that the day i went to pick
it up (provisioning done by computerland), the full-list, non-discounted
price was lowered to what I had paid with the employee discount.
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who pioneered the WEB
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: who pioneered the WEB
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:02:35 -0500
who pioneered the WEB
http://slashdot.org/submission/1165728/who-pioneered-the-WEB
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Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:30:18 -0500
jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv@aol> writes:
Was that (high overhead) due to memory management? Or are you
talking about a different overhead?
"human rating" ... at FAA, NASA, etc ... software applications that may
involve human life ... can easily have ten times the cost of otherwise
identical application that doesn't involve human life. reference here to
NASA and enormous costs for changing the way a timer work (in an old y2k
discussion thread from 1984)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#email841207
http://web.archive.org/web/20001018151708/http://www.software.org/quagmire/frampapr/frampapr.html
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#48 If your CSO lacks an MBA, fire one of you
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#50 If your CSO lacks an MBA, fire one of you
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#55 Computer security: The Future
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#59 Computers in Science Fiction
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#69 Computers in Science Fiction
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#70 Computers in Science Fiction
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#16 Dealing with complexity
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#1 Systems software versus applications software definitions
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#46 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#52 Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#42 Development as Configuration
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#17 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#37 The new High Assurance SSL Certificates
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#13 Was FORTRAN buggy?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#40 Was FORTRAN buggy?
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who pioneered the WEB
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: who pioneered the WEB
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:25:27 -0500
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#63 who pioneered the WEB
http://www.garlic.om/~lynn/subintegrity.html#overflow
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
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Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:38:25 -0500
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#64 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#gateway
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm#37 How the Classical Scholars dropped security from the canon of Computer Science
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#48 If your CSO lacks an MBA, fire one of you
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm9.htm#cfppki10 CFP: PKI research workshop
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#75 Test and Set (TS) vs Compare and Swap (CS)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#4 Smart Card vs. Magnetic Strip Market
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#91 Buffer overflow
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#93 Buffer overflow
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#59 Computer Naming Conventions
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#11 Wanted: the SOUNDS of classic computing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#62 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs. IBM
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#15 A Dark Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#52 Call-gate-like mechanism
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#37 The BASIC Variations
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#8 Mars Rover Not Responding
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#48 Automating secure transactions
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#20 Vintage computers are better than modern crap !
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#49 "Perfect" or "Provable" security both crypto and non-crypto?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#51 stop worrying about it offshoring - it's doing fine
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#23 Systems software versus applications software definitions
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#63 Systems software versus applications software definitions
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#64 Systems software versus applications software definitions
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#40 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#42 Development as Configuration
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#26 Data communications over telegraph circuits
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#20 The System/360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#37 Is computer history taught now?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#51 IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#78 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#10 The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#76 PSI MIPS
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#77 PSI MIPS
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#23 Outsourcing loosing steam?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#54 Industry Standard Time To Analyze A Line Of Code
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#53 folklore indeed
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#41 IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#50 fraying infrastructure
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#53 Why Is Less Than 99.9% Uptime Acceptable?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#33 Mainframe Project management
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#35 Builders V. Breakers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#48 How much knowledge should a software architect have regarding software security?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#0 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ??
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#26 comp.arch has made itself a sitting duck for spam
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Happy DEC-10 Day
Refed: **, - **, - **, - **
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:18:43 -0500
Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> writes:
It started happening before the IBM PC. IMO S-100 systems lost their
supremacy because the the single board computers were far less
expensive and far more ready to just sit down and use. People who
bought them just wanted something to run spreadsheets on, or to write
on. The O-1 came out four months before the IBM PC, and (if you
credit the list price of the software bundle) cost half the price.
For the corporate market, maybe price didn't matter, but for
individuals and small businesses/nonprofits, price was an enormous
issue. Those markets didn't take to PCs until cheap clones started to
appear.
part of the corporate market was that they already had 3270 terminal
... some corporations having tens of thousands of such terminals.
ibm/pc came in about the cost of 3270 terminal, single desktop
footprint, provide 3270 terminal emulation ... along with some amount of
local computing. as a result ... it was a brain dead business case
justification to switch an order from thousands of 3270 terminals to
thousands of IBM/PCs (since the money had already been allocated for the
3270 terminals) ... aka there was no financial business justification
needed for the PC ... since the money had already been appropriated for
terminals (it wasn't that money wasn't an issue, it was that the money
had already been justified).
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OT: PC clock failure--CMOS battery?
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: OT: PC clock failure--CMOS battery?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:07:07 -0500
Jim Stewart <jstewart@jkmicro.com> writes:
I have heard of an IBM line printer, circa early 1970's,
that had an motor driven cover. The motor fuses were
inside the cover and were regularly blown by operators
placing boxes of paper on top of the cover and hitting
the open button.
1403N1 ... the traditional story is the cover would open automatically
when ran out of paper ... dumping all the coffee cups and misc. other
stuff that might be on top. never heard of operators placing boxes of
paper on top of the thing ... it was relatively high, full box of paper
was fairly heavy and new boxes of paper were placed inside at floor
level (the open cover was needed to thread the paper thru the paper
path).
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/supplies/supplies_5404PH09.html
http://www.gilbertostrapazon.hpg.ig.com.br/galeria/ibm1403highspeedlineprinter.jpg
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/1401.html
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/1401/printer.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_line_printer_1403.JPG
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vcf7-ibm_1403_printer-x768.jpg
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Apple iPad -- this merges with folklore
Refed: **, - **, - **, - **, - **, - **, - **
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Apple iPad -- this merges with folklore.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:50:26 -0500
Larry__Weiss <lfw@airmail.net> writes:
"... ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh
computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the
Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had
never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have
never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since
Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer
would have them."
2741 had multiple typefaces ... by switching the typeball ... but 1403
printers and 2741 terminals didn't have proportional fonts. CMS script
document formating did games with adding spaces in order to get left and
right edges to be even/aligned
http://outputlinks.com/html/Columnists/Cooper/news-03510.shtml
http://ref.web.cern.ch/ref/CERN/CNL/2001/001/tp_history/Pr/
http://infomesh.net/html/history/early
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/history.shtml
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search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
Refed: **, - **, - **
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:02:12 -0500
Charles Richmond <frizzle@tx.rr.com> writes:
A friend's daughter went to Vassar from about 1994 to 1998. At that
time, students at Vassar could get an account on a Vax simply by
applying for it, *no* specific class enrollment required. I have *no*
idea what their system looked like, but my friend's daughter *never*
applied for that account IIRC.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#45 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
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using an FPGA to emulate a vintage computer
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: using an FPGA to emulate a vintage computer
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.arch.fpga
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:15:55 -0500
James Dow Allen <jdallen2000@yahoo.com> writes:
It's the answer to a different question of course,
but a National Semiconducter subsidiary once tried to
emulate an IBM 3033 at full speed using Fairchild 100k parts.
... the reason for failure is interesting ...
in the early 80s los gatos did custom hardware for chip logic simulation
(LSM ... "losgatos state machine" ... then "logic simulation machine"
for publication) ... dozen plus rack boxes ... ran 50,000 times faster
faster than logic simulation in software on 3033
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#57 watches
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#20 Processes' memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#3 Chip Emulators - was How does a chip get designed?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#55 Multics hardware (was Re: "Soul of a New Machine" Computer?)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#77 Pipelining in the past
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#82 Future architecture
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#26 LSM, YSE, & EVE
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#31 asynchronous CPUs
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#3 Ping: Anne & Lynn Wheeler
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#14 Ping: Anne & Lynn Wheeler
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#38 When nerds were nerds
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#16 US fiscal policy (Was: Bob Bemer, Computer Pioneer,Father of ASCII,Invento
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#25 CKD Disks?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#65 360 longevity, was RISCs too close to hardware?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#6 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#33 Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#42 Was FORTRAN buggy?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#11 Was FORTRAN buggy?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#73 Is computer history taught now?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#61 Fast and Safe C Strings: User friendly C macros to Declare and use C Strings
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#53 Drums: Memory or Peripheral?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#58 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#61 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#22 What if phone company had developed Internet?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#67 1401 simulator for OS/360
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#68 CA to IBM TCP Conversion
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#68 Toyota Beats GM in Global Production
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#75 Disksize history question
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#63 What happened to computer architecture (and comp.arch?)
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
Users still make hacking easy with weak passwords
Refed: **, - **, - **
From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 6 Feb, 2010
Subject: Users still make hacking easy with weak passwords
Blog: Information Security Network
Users still make hacking easy with weak passwords
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9147138/Users_still_make_hacking_easy_with_weak_passwords?taxonomyId=17
In a report likely to make IT administrators tear out their hair, most
users still rely on easy passwords, some as simple as
... snip ...
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/012110-study-hacking-passwords-easy-as.html
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#3factor
http://www.fiercecio.com/techwatch/story/credit-card-verification-system-not-secure-says-researcher/2010-01-29
Don't expect the situation to change anytime soon, though. As noted by
one of the researchers, Steven J. Murdoch, "Most banks have chosen to
go for passwords than anything better...Passwords are really cheap."
... snip ....
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527455.400
http://searchfinancialsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid185_gci1380406,00.html
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/france-sounds-death-knell-for-online-passwords-667847 ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#secrets
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#harvest
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
OT: PC clock failure--CMOS battery?
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: OT: PC clock failure--CMOS battery?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:10:21 -0500
hancock4 writes:
The IBM 1403 line printer would open automatically when the paper ran
out. This often toppled cups of coffee that had been placed atop it.
In thinking about it, I'm not sure why someone would put a paper
carton on top of the printer. The cartons were heavy and placed in
the printer at ground level. Lifting it up that high was unnecessary
work.
One day while IPLing our 360-40 I did something to the 2314 and
somehow blew a key circuit breaker. The machine was totally dead and
required a C/E visit to reset it. I'm not exactly sure what I did
since normally the power-up was done automatically.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#68 OT: PC clock failure--CMOS battery?
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
Apple iPad -- this merges with folklore
Refed: **, - **, - **, - **
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Apple iPad -- this merges with folklore.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:18:17 -0500
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
1976, 3800 was "laser printer" ... non-impact ... and had multiple font
libraries and ... this references simplified version of proportional
fonts:
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#69 Apple iPad -- this merges with folklore.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#email820304
in this old post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#44 Material and graft
1971 Xerox PARC EARS (Ethernet, Alto, Research character generator,
Scanned laser output terminal) laser printer
1976 IBM 3800 mainframe datacentre (@ Woolworth)
1977 Xerox 9700 mainframe datacentre
1979 IBM 6670 departmental office (copier sized)
1982 Canon LBP-10 (desktop)
1984 HP LaserJet
1985 Apple LaserWriter
... snip ...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#48 1403 printers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#49 Materiel and graft
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#1 Materiel and graft
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#27 The Complete April Fools' Day RFCs
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#72 Parse/Template Function
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#51 It has been a long time since Ihave seen a printer
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#68 Blinkenlights
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#69 Blinkenlights
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
Posts missing from ibm-main on google groups
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Posts missing from ibm-main on google groups
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:07:24 -0500
shmuel+ibm-main@PATRIOT.NET (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
There are no group owners. Usenet is a distributed network implemented by
autonomous peers; the admin of each news server runs it in accordance with
his local policy. See RFC 3977 and 5537.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#31 Posts missing from ibm-main on google groups
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#47 Extracting STDOUT data from USS
http://www.uucp.org/history/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_UsenetOverviewHistoryandStandards-3.htm
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#emulation
BITNET 435
ARPAnet 1155
CSnet 104 (excluding ARPAnet overlap)
VNET 1650
EasyNet 4200
UUCP 6000
USENET 1150 (excluding UUCP nodes)
... snip ...
http://www.lsoft.com/products/listserv-history.asp
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#66 UUCP email
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005l.html#20 Newsgroups (Was Another OS/390 to z/OS 1.4 migration
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#19 Another one bites the dust
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#21 Disksize history question
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
network news transfer protocol (NNTP )
4644 4643 4642 3977 2980 977
then there is:
1036 -
Standard for interchange of USENET messages, Adams R., Horton M.,
1987/12/01 (19pp) (.txt=45825) (Obsoleted by 5536) (Obsoletes 850)
(Ref'ed By 1468, 1554, 1580, 1630, 1700, 1738, 1842, 1922, 1945, 2068,
2076, 2110, 2557, 2616, 2924, 2980, 3864, 3977, 4707, 5064, 5536, 5537)
...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001c.html#5 what makes a cpu fast
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#11 Was FORTRAN buggy?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#16 Was FORTRAN buggy?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#35 Top versus bottom posting was Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#10 Why so little parallelism?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#23 How to write a full-screen Rexx debugger?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#7 information utility
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#31 IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO levels
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#32 IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO levels
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#55 IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO levels
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#70 Using rexx to send an email
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#30 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#48 Anyone know of some good internet Listserv's?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#46 Anyone still have access to VMTOOLS and TEXTTOOLS?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#49 Discussions areas, private message silos, and how far we've come since 199x
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#61 Discussions areas, private message silos, and how far we've come since 199x
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#12 Discussions areas, private message silos, and how far we've come since 199x
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#13 "Telecommunications" from '85
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#37 BITNET & LISTSERV
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#45 Usenet - Dead? Why?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#14 Top 10 Cybersecurity Threats for 2009, will they cause creation of highly-secure Corporate-wide Intranets?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#79 Timeline: The evolution of online communities
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#6 Timeline: The evolution of online communities
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#55 Tell me something about how you use signature files!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#38 U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#52 Mainframe Hacking
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#84 Anyone going to Supercomputers '09 in Portland?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#4 Arpanet
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#17 toolsrun
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#12 user group meetings
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#7 CAPS Fantasia
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#36 Happy DEC-10 Day
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
using an FPGA to emulate a vintage computer
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: using an FPGA to emulate a vintage computer
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.arch.fpga
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:51:24 -0500
glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
I remember when I first started working with computers I had a
book from our library about ECAP, IBM's Electronic Circuit
Analysis Program. I never saw or used the actual program,
and haven't heard about it since. I wonder where it went...
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#71 using an FPGA to emulate a vintage computer
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel5%2F23%2F4335780%2F04335910.pdf%3Farnumber%3D4335910&authDecision=-203
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel5%2F6%2F5218140%2F05218152.pdf%3Farnumber%3D5218152&authDecision=-203
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#74 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#29 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#48 time spent/day on a computer
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#30 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#6 The history of Structure capabilities
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#23 Memories of ACC, IBM Channels and Mainframe Internet Devices
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#54 THE runs in DOS box?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#34 big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#49 "Portable" data centers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#50 "Portable" data centers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#4 While watching Biography about Bill Gates on CNBC last Night
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:02:57 -0500
jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv@aol> writes:
In the 80s, it was fashionable to get an MBA masters degree.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#70 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
SLIGHTLY OT - Home Computer of the Future (not IBM)
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: SLIGHTLY OT - Home Computer of the Future (not IBM)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:50:41 -0500
ps2os2@YAHOO.COM (Ed Gould) writes:
I do not remember the power requirements of the computers back then
but they had to have been huge so I do not think that a home computer
was even remotely possible. Maybe some of the real old timers that
remember what they were and how much it cost. Even in the 1950's
electricity was expensive. WHich sort of brings up the side issue if
it was for a submarine where were they going to get the power?
not just electricity but power and water for cooling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_709
http://www.portablerentalsolutions.com/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=0&idproduct=66
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-ibm0709.html
http://www.informationweek.com/galleries/showGallery.jhtml?galleryID=62
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/cloudware_pr.html
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
Customers risk online banking fraud by reusing bank credentials
From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 8 Feb, 2010
Subject: Customers risk online banking fraud by reusing bank credentials
Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#59 Customers risk online banking fraud by reusing bank credentials
http://www.linkedin.com/newsArticle?viewDiscussion=&articleID=104734837&gid=80784
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9147138/Users_still_make_hacking_easy_with_weak_passwords?taxonomyId=17
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#72 Users still make hacking easy with weak passwords
http://web.archive.org/web/20030417083810/http://www.smartcard.co.uk/resources/articles/cartes2002.html
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#finread
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
Happy DEC-10 Day
Refed: **, - **, - **, - **
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:40:22 -0500
Eric Chomko <pne.chomko@comcast.net> writes:
I recall working with 3270 terminals running CICS once. It was so
strange, the environment seemed so sterile and surreal, I literally
got nauseous. I was always enthusiastic about computers, but that day,
I knew I never wanted to do that sort of computing. I quickly forgot
all the COBOL I knew and ran back to doing BASIC on an IBM 5100, which
really wasn't much better! But that is another story...
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#67 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#69 Apple iPad -- this merges with folklore.
http://ref.web.cern.ch/ref/CERN/CNL/2001/001/tp_history/Pr/
http://infomesh.net/html/history/early
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/history.shtml
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#78 SLIGHTLY OT - Home Computer of the Future (not IBM)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#74 Apple iPad -- this merges with folklore.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#emulation
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:11:43 -0500
jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv@aol> writes:
In the 80s, it was fashionable to get an MBA masters degree.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#45 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#70 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#77 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#25 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#26 Happy DEC-10 Day
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:02:24 -0500
jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv@aol> writes:
All of that had to do with how salary/performance reviews were done in
personnel. If you were a wage class 2 (paid by the hour), there was a
salary ceiling. If you had worked long enough, you would hit that
ceiling and could not get a raise for the year. The only way to get a
raise was to become a supervisor. This was disasterous for those
people who had found their technical niche, were very productive, but
needed the raise. Transferring into management to become a supervisor
required a completely different set of skills and left no time for the
person to do the work they did best.
old posts about HR telling me (in writing) that after a review of my
complete professional work history (over decade with them and nearly
five years before that), that I was making exactly what I should. I had
written a (hard copy) letter raising my salary issue (purely technical
position) with some generalized supporting information.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#48 time spent/day on a computer
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#75 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#83 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#94 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#9 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#74 My Vintage Dream PC
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#57 U.S. begins inquiry of IBM in mainframe market
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#50 "Portable" data centers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#30 The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#72 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#6 The history of Structure capabilities
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#23 Memories of ACC, IBM Channels and Mainframe Internet Devices
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#53 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#54 THE runs in DOS box?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#37 How do you see ethics playing a role in your organizations current or past?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#36 U.S. students behind in math, science, analysis says
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#52 Revisiting CHARACTER and BUSINESS ETHICS
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#57 U.S. begins inquiry of IBM in mainframe market
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#34 big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#49 "Portable" data centers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#50 "Portable" data centers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#4 While watching Biography about Bill Gates on CNBC last Night
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#38 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#76 using an FPGA to emulate a vintage computer
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:38:03 -0500
Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> writes:
Somebody has to mention the IBM PC Junior here. Not only a chicklet
keyboard, but also impossible to upgrade to usefulness. One person I
know bought it for her kids because it allowed them to run games the
other
old reference to "hotshot" upgrade
Date: 11/14/86 09:58:02
From: wheeler
re: hotshot; hotshot has 150 ns chips ... at the same time I put in
hotshot, I also replaced 8088 with 8mhs v20. The hotshot comes with a
couple of DOS device drivers that a) allocates the first 128k of
memory so dos runs in the 150ns memory which really makes things fly.
The first 128k can either go unused or be allocated for a electronic
disk (variable size with it potentially spilling over into fast
memory).
following from pcjr home forum:
..... PCJRHOME FORUM modified at 18:02:16 on 86/09/29 GMT
Subject: Clock/2nd Diskette Drive Adapter/512K Memory
Let me replace my original append of 86/09/24 to include all that I
currently know on the jrHOTSHOT(tm). Be sure your 8088 card is socketed
before you place your order -- unless you are willing to unsolder it.
WHO: WHAT:
ES Quality Products -- Clock = $ 35
5311 Mango Blossom -- Drive Adapter = $ 45
San Jose, CA 95123 -- 512K Memory = $179
(408) 224-5574 -- ----
-- TOTAL = $259
Ed Straus is the -- Sidecar trade-in = -$ 89
the owner (?). -- Net Total = $170
You can buy each feature separately -- no need to buy the entire
package. The trade-in was because he needed it -- not sure he will
continue to need a sidecar, even so you could probably sell on the open
market.
Installation was VERY EASY. The physical part of the job was done in
less then an hour and I had never had the covers off my PCjr.
INVENTORY:
1) One jrHOTSHOT(tm) board
2) One flat cable for two diskette drives
3) A set of instructions
INSTALLATION:
1) Remove the top cover
2) Remove/set aside the diskette drive
3) Remove 8088 chip and reinstall on the jrHOTSHOT board
4) Insert the board into the 8088 socket
5) Put diskette back in place
6) Install flat cable for two diskette drives
7) Reinstall top cover
8) Setup DOS and go
The instructions were clear. There is a two year warranty which
includes fixing the product and giving you technical support. In
addition, they will give you your money back within 60 days if you are
not satisfied.
One more item is that the memory is "designed as fast memory which
produces a 80-130% performance increase over a standard PCjr". I'm not
sure exactly what that means, but there is a performance bench mark
check in the package -- I have not done any checking yet.
Now for the disclaimer -- I am very satisfied, but I have not checked
everything out. The warranty is only as good as the company -- I'm
impressed with the company, but I have not done a Dun & Bradstreet check
on the their status. You are really on your own. .
Good luck to all of us -- MIKEY LIKES IT!!
... snip ... top of post, old email index.
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:20:13 -0500
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#82 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
"There are two career paths in front of you, and you have to choose
which path you will follow. One path leads to promotions, titles, and
positions of distinction.... The other path leads to doing things that are
truly significant for the Air Force, but the rewards will quite often be a
kick in the stomach because you may have to cross swords with the party
line on occasion. You can't go down both paths, you have to choose. Do
you want to be a man of distinction or do you want to do things that
really influence the shape of the Air Force? To be or to do, that is the
question." Colonel John R. Boyd, USAF 1927-1997
From the dedication of Boyd Hall, United States Air Force Weapons
School, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. 17 September 1999
... snip ...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html#boyd1
misc. URLs from around the web mentioning Boyd
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html#boyd2
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
Apple iPad -- this merges with folklore
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Apple iPad -- this merges with folklore.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:14:21 -0500
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
1971 Xerox PARC EARS (Ethernet, Alto, Research character generator,
Scanned laser output terminal) laser printer
1976 IBM 3800 mainframe datacentre (@ Woolworth)
1977 Xerox 9700 mainframe datacentre
1979 IBM 6670 departmental office (copier sized)
1982 Canon LBP-10 (desktop)
1984 HP LaserJet
1985 Apple LaserWriter
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#69 Apple iPad -- this merges with folklore
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#74 Apple iPad -- this merges with folklore
Date: 07/03/80 08:56:19
From: wheeler
I was down in LA yesterday and xxxx showed some output from an $800
printer he has attached to trs80. It is as good or better than 3800.
The printer looks like it could also be attached to 3101s and/or just
driven from a 370 directly. Amoung other things the printer has
support for proportional spacing between letters (i.e. will adjust
white spaces between letters so that right and left margins come out
even) rather than what script has to do by adding extra blanks. Small
problem is that it only runs at 30 cps and only prints in one
direction. Supposedly cutting one jumper cable and transmitting every
other line in reverse allows it to print bi-directional. Hopefully
newer model will have full bi-directional printing support.
... snip ... top of post, old email index
Date: 08/06/80 08:45:31
From: wheeler
To: xxxx in LA
just got some specs. on centronics 737-1 parallel printer. It is
listed at $995, 80cps in proportional spaced mode, 50cps in monospaced
modee, 3-way paper handling system, etc. What it doesn't say is can it
be attached off an RS232 interface, say in the place of the 3202
printer on a 3101 or does it require a specialy programmed mini to
drive it ???? (i.e. we've been able to hang TI & CDI terminals off the
3101 interface and use them as printers instead of the 3102 -- it is a
standard interface).
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http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
Date: 22 December 1983, 00:37:08 PST
To: distribution
This week's interesting tidbit from PCSHARE:
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Lucky me, I got my hands on an illicit copy of an advertising brochure
for the new Apple MacIntosh! It is a blow by blow, screen by screen
comparison (somewhat unfair) between the IBM PC and the Mac. They even
show side by side pictures of the 8088 and 68000 chips. The Mac's is
bigger therefor its better?? Anyway, there is lots of interesting
technical stuff. No prices tho. Of course, if they are comparing it
to the PC, its obviously around $2500. Here's the dope:
MC6800DL8 CPU with 128K RAM and 64K ROM (probably 5 MHZ to support the
graphics.)
Doesn't look like you can add more RAM.
9 inch 512 x 342 pixel bit-mapped monochrome display.
The basic box is 10.9in deep by 9.7in wide by 13.5in high (very small). Comes with
carrying handle -- supposed to be lighter than most portables. It looks like a
baby 3278 with built-in diskette drive.
Built-in 3.5in floppy diskette drive using 400K Sony-style diskettes.
Optical track ball mouse with a single button (So it's extremely difficult to
press the wrong button).
No fan -- clever venting.
Calendar/clock
Connectors in the back: mouse; external disk drive (second diskette drive);
RS232 and RS422 DB9 connectors; polyphonic sound port (it talks!).
Keyboard is detached with telephone type jack. I count 58 keys. Not as extensive
as IBM's.
Supposedly you can generate 217 characters, including accented letters and
math symbols.
Also described are the Apple Imagewriter printer (Epson-like) and a modem.
Software includes:
- Standard LISA pull-down menus and icons (there's the little trash can!)
- MacWrite word processor (multiple fonts, proportional spacing, etc.)
- MacPaint for making pictures
- MacProject for critical path charting
- MacTerminal VT100, 3278 emulation, VT52, or TTY.
- MacIntosh BASIC and MacIntosh Pascal
- MacDraw (whatever that is)
- Also, 3rd party offerings including: Lotus 1-2-3, PFS, MultiPlan, and
Microsoft Chart, File, and Word.
All software is integrated with windows, icons, pull-down menus, and mouse
control.
There is also support for Apple's local area network, AppleBus.
The basic unit comes with: computer, display, built-in disk drive, and
firmware, a detached keyboard, the mouse, a system disk (Finder and
Desk Accessories {eg. calculator, etc.}), a tutorial diskette and audio
diskette ("A Guided Tour of Macintosh"), and "one -- count it -- one manual."
I guess I will have to try to find room in my home computer room for yet
ANOTHER goodie!
... snip ... top of post, old email index
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
NY Town's Bank Account Hacked; Poughkeepsie Loses $378K in Fraudulent Transfers
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010
Subject: NY Town's Bank Account Hacked; Poughkeepsie Loses $378K in Fraudulent Transfers
Blog: Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security
NY Town's Bank Account Hacked; Poughkeepsie Loses $378K in Fraudulent Transfers
http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=2182
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#35 The bank fraud blame game
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#32 sizeof() was: The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#11 Public Computers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#61 German court finds Bank responsible for malwared PC
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#9 Homebanking authentication methods: what's being used by your bank?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#18 Can Smart Cards Reduce Payments Fraud and Identity Theft?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#28 Can Smart Cards Reduce Payments Fraud and Identity Theft?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#31 FC5 Special Workshop CFP: Emerging trends in Online Banking and Electronic Payments
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#64 Do you feel secure with your bank's online banking service?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#65 Barbless
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#26 Return of the Smart Card?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#7 An interesting take on Verified by Visa Policy
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#20 IBM forecasts 'new world order' for financial services
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#2 Cyber attackers empty business accounts in minutes
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#61 Hacker charges also an indictment on PCI, expert says
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#9 Cyber crooks increasingly target small business accounts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#12 Need new 3270 emulator: SSH, inexpensive, reliable
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#49 Hacker charges also an indictment on PCI, expert says
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#68 Definition of a computer?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#70 Client Certificate UI for Chrome?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#73 Definition of a computer?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#3 Hacker charges also an indictment on PCI, expert says
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#44 Nearly 500 People Fall Victim to ATM Skimming Scam
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#65 Crypto dongles to secure online transactions
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#56 Crypto dongles to secure online transactions ... addenda
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#59 EU agency runs rule over ID cards for online banking logins
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#18 security and online banking
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#21 security and online banking
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#72 Users still make hacking easy with weak passwords
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#79 Customers risk online banking fraud by reusing bank credentials
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:01:23 -0500
Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> writes:
There have been a couple of cycles like that in the time I've been
around -- one in 1980s, one in the 1990s. The surprise was that as the
economy recovered in the mid-2000s, we didn't see an enrollment
increase.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#70 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#77 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#81 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#82 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#84 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#38 Taxes
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#5 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#57 Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#6 Science and Engineering Indicators 2008
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#69 Toyota Beats GM in Global Production
http://www.oecd.org/document/60/0,3343,en_2649_201185_39700732_1_1_1_1,00.html
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/how-wall-streets-quants-lied-to-their-computers/
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#49 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#52 Technology and the current crisis
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#53 Your thoughts on the following comprehensive bailout plan please
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#56 VMware Chief Says the OS Is History
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#65 Whether, in our financial crisis, the prize for being the biggest liar is
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#69 Another quiet week in finance
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#72 Why was Sarbanes-Oxley not good enough to sent alarms to the regulators about the situation arising today?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#78 Isn't it the Federal Reserve role to oversee the banking system??
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#80 Why did Sox not prevent this financal crises?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#82 Fraud in financial institution
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#15 Financial Crisis - the result of uncontrolled Innovation?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#18 Once the dust settles, do you think Milton Friedman's economic theories will be laid to rest
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#19 What's your view of current global financial / economical situation?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#26 SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act), is this really followed and worthful considering current Financial Crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#28 Does anyone get the idea that those responsible for containing this finanical crisis are doing too much?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#34 The human plague
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#75 In light of the recent financial crisis, did Sarbanes-Oxley fail to work?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#82 Greenspan testimony and securization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#83 Chip-and-pin card reader supply-chain subversion 'has netted millions from British shoppers'
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#8 Global Melt Down
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#70 Is there any technology that we are severely lacking in the Financial industry?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#49 Have not the following principles been practically disproven, once and for all, by the current global financial meltdown?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#50 Obama, ACORN, subprimes (Re: Spiders)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#58 Blinkenlights
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#64 Is This a Different Kind of Financial Crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#8 Top financial firms of US are eyeing on bailout. It implies to me that their "Risk Management Department's" assessment was way below expectations
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#9 Blind-sided, again. Why?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#23 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#29 Let IT run the company!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#35 Is American capitalism and greed to blame for our financial troubles in the US?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#55 Is this the story behind the crunchy credit stuff?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#62 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#14 What are the challenges in risk analytics post financial crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#63 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#80 Are reckless risks a natural fallout of "excessive" executive compensation ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#36 A great article was posted in another BI group: "To H*** with Business Intelligence: 40 Percent of Execs Trust Gut"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#53 Credit & Risk Management ... go Simple ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#54 In your opinion, which facts caused the global crise situation?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#65 What can agencies such as the SEC do to insure us that something like Madoff's Ponzi scheme will never happen again?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#4 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#28 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#16 The Formula That Killed Wall Street
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#18 HSBC is expected to announce a profit, which is good, what did they do differently?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#30 I need insight on the Stock Market
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#36 Bernanke Says Regulators Must Protect Against Systemic Risks
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#40 Bernanke Says Regulators Must Protect Against Systemic Risks
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#59 Quiz: Evaluate your level of Spreadsheet risk
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#8 The background reasons of Credit Crunch
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#1 Future of Financial Mathematics?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#31 OODA-loop obfuscation
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#29 Analysing risk, especially credit risk in Banks, which was a major reason for the current crisis
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#38 what is mortgage-backed securities?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#49 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#21 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:35:31 -0500
jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv@aol> writes:
Sigh! Managers are important. They do the work that real programmers
don't want to do (and would do it badly). A well-trained manager
holds the umbrella which keeps the bullshit from falling into the
keyboard and bollixing up the day's work.
*GOOD* managers are important ... otherwise they may be spending all
their time doing stuff for themselves ... and directing others to do
even more stuff than they would have to do otherwise (and/or making a
bad situation worse); then you are not only doing your job ... and their
job ... but also having to compensate for the stuff that they are doing
badly.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#41 another item related to ASCII vs. EBCDIC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_8514
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
Notes on two presentations by Gordon Bell ca. 1998
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Notes on two presentations by Gordon Bell ca. 1998
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:58:16 -0500
Robert Myers <rbmyersusa@gmail.com> writes:
Even Boeing had to sell time on its Cray to justify it, and the
important thing about a Cray at the time was that it always had
potential customers, unlike the one-off machines of today. Then, as
now, only the government could make silly purchases and not go out of
business.
I was undergraudate and responsible for IT stuff at the univ.
http://www.boeing.com/history/narrative/n071boe.html
Boeing Computer Services (BCS), an independent subsidiary of the
company. Within three years, BCS had six sales offices to market five
commercial computer products -- including BCS/Mainstream, a time-sharing
computer service used by 148 government and commercial customers.
... snip ...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#130 early hardware
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#66 360 Architecture, Multics, ... was (Re: X86 ultimate CISC? No.)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#8 "HAL's Legacy and the Vision of 2001: A Space Odyssey"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#9 "HAL's Legacy and the Vision of 2001: A Space Odyssey"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#23 Linux IA-64 interrupts [was Re: Itanium benchmarks ...]
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#56 YKYBHTLW....
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#55 TSS/360
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#30 Computers in Science Fiction
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#22 Computer Terminal Design Over the Years
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#43 Killer Hard Drives - Shrapnel?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#64 10 choices that were critical to the Net's success
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#71 bps loader, was PLX
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#72 bps loader, was PLX
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#30 Computer History Exhibition, Grenoble France
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#30 Alpha performance, why?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#34 Thoughts on Utility Computing?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#37 Thoughts on Utility Computing?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#32 SR 15,15 was: IEFBR14 Problems
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#23 Tools -vs- Utility
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004.html#53 Mainframe not a good architecture for interactive workloads
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#46 Finites State Machine (OT?)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#55 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#58 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#8 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#19 Device and channel
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#10 Where should the type information be: in tags and descriptors
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#47 Gartner: Stop Outsourcing Now
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#40 All Good Things
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#43 Sprint backs out of IBM outsourcing deal
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#29 PDP-1
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#30 PDP-1
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#29 Mainframe Limericks
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#11 Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#13 The SEL 840 computer
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#49 Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#44 Is computer history taught now?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#54 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#19 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#60 Scholars needed to build a computer history bibliography
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#26 T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#36 What do YOU call the # sign?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#36 windows time service
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#71 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#72 Price of CPU seconds
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#60 Costing for IT Services
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#74 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ??
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#12 why stopped?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#83 F111 related discussion x-over from Facebook
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#13 Four decades of a flying giant
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#15 System/360 Announcement (7Apr64)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#5 mainframe replacement (Z/Journal Does it Again)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#2 The computer did it
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#3 The computer did it
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#15 Mainframe Hall of Fame: Three New Members Added
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#37 Young Developers Get Old Mainframers' Jobs
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#33 Survey Revives Depate Over Mainframe's Future
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#43 Boeings New Dreamliner Ready For Maiden Voyage
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#44 Boeings New Dreamliner Ready For Maiden Voyage
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#49 "Portable" data centers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#61 Source code for s/360 [PUBLIC]
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
Notes on two presentations by Gordon Bell ca. 1998
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Notes on two presentations by Gordon Bell ca. 1998
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:34:57 -0500
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#89 Notes on two presentations by Gordon Bell ca. 1998
In 1970, 13 different computing organizations in Boeing, each supporting
different operations within the company, were combined as Boeing
Computer Services (BCS), an independent subsidiary of the
company. Within three years, BCS had six sales offices to market five
commercial computer products -- including BCS/Mainstream, a time-sharing
computer service used by 148 government and commercial customers.
... snip ...
http://www.boeing.com/history/narrative/n072boe.html
During the 1980s, Boeing Computer Services headquarters were on a
90-acre site in Bellevue, Wash. The organization also served the federal
government from a large facility in Vienna, Va.
BCS designed, installed and operated a nationwide telecommunications
network for NASA and provided voice, data, facsimile and full-motion
video across the network using the CRAY X-MP supercomputer.
... snip ...
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
Notes on two presentations by Gordon Bell ca. 1998
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Notes on two presentations by Gordon Bell ca. 1998
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:12:06 -0500
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
That summer, they also installed (single processor) 360/67 for running
cp67/cms online timesharing in the corporate hdqtrs 360/30 computer
room. That summer they also moved the duplex 360/67 from boeing
huntsville to seattle boeing aerospace.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#89 Notes on two presentations by Gordon Bell ca. 1998
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#90 Notes on two presentations by Gordon Bell ca. 1998
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2250
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/2250.html
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0711009
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=849&dat=19771128&id=pZkmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=a1QDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6107,3530676
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3270
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calma
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
Notes on two presentations by Gordon Bell ca. 1998
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Notes on two presentations by Gordon Bell ca. 1998
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:46:01 -0500
Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> writes:
Does it even have to be a "supercomputer" to look like a big
multi-tiered switch?
So, a system near to my paycheck - HP Superdome - a "cell based" (no,
not *that* cell thank you very much :) system - two processors on an
FSB with an agent chip that speaks to an interconnect fabric. I
suspect it would be considered a "real" computer produced by "real"
architects and developers. (those feeling snarky are encouraged to
send your snarks in direct email)
we would drop by periodically and talk to the guy brought in to do
superdome (had come by way of cray, kingston, & austin) ... HP had
acquired convex ... and one of the supposedly objectives of superdome
was less expensive flavor of examplar (& more cost effective than
SCI). on the table for awhile was a proposal that superdome be done by a
subsidiary where the participants got equity in the operation.
HP/Convex has won a hard-fought competition to provide a 256-CPU, 184
GFLOPS Exemplar for a multi-year collaboration with CalTech and JPL.
Steve Wallach says plans include a Merced-equipped 256 CPU Exemplar
and, around 2000/2001, a Merced-powered TFLOPS system.
... snip ...
42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
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