From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 02 Sep, 2011 Subject: Justifying application of Boyd to a project manager Blog: Boyd's Disciplesre:
budget woes are starting to infuse all aspects of the government
Playing with money; Budget-based war games would foster critical thinking
http://armedforcesjournal.com/2011/09/7558132
so how does project managers need to play????
It seemed to be that Boyd was playing with F20/tigershark ... significantly more numbers for the cost of the F16, more flying hrs per maintenance hrs, lower skill levels for maint. At one point it seemed that they weren't going to penetrate the gold-plated US market ... so they started going for export. Atlantic article from the period had them blind-sided by congress ... candidate countries got "directed appropriations" foreign aid ... i.e. could only be spent for the purchase of F16.
Budget-based war games ... are more in line with business ROI. Boyd was voicing much of this theme in the 80s and F20 was 20yrs ago.
In the Success of Failure articles there were references to how project manipulation was done with goal of keeping the money flowing ... not necessarily overtly maneuvering for failure (and requiring a succession of projects). Pentagon Labyrinth also goes into the subject of running projects with the #1 goal of keeping the money flowing (managing projects to produce results can be way down the list of objectives).
related budget-based (strategy) article:
Why Do We Still Need a Huge Army? - Round II
http://www.informationdissemination.net/2011/09/ive-received-significant-feedback-on.html
with regard to the end of the next to last paragraph in the above ... I heard that they had found 4000 that fitted the category ...
misc. boyd posts & web URLs:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 04 Sep, 2011 Subject: As Pressure Grows to Cut Spending, the True Cost of Weapons Is Anyone's Guess Blog: FacebookAs Pressure Grows to Cut Spending, the True Cost of Weapons Is Anyone's Guess
I've looked at a number of situations where complexity is specifically for obfuscating that primary objective is keeping the money flowing; actually delivering something is way down the list of objectives. I would get whacked for KISS; more than decade ago I got into festouche with GSA over CAC-card ... with design that was significantly simpler & cheaper while making it significantly more secure. I was being accused of being too parsimonious. In many arenas (including security), violations/exploits tend to be proportional to complexity. There is the issue that to make something simple that works, it actually requires in-depth, real understanding first.
There is line about something is done not when you've finished adding stuff ... but when you can find nothing more to remove.
In the 2008 congressional hearings into the rating agencies (they played pivotal role in current financial mess), there was testimony about the rating agencies had changed their business process ... became misaligned and opened it up for conflict of interest. There was observation that regulation is extraordinarily more difficult when people are motivated to do the wrong thing. In the congressional Madoff hearings, the person that had unsuccessfully tried for a decade to get SEC to do something about Madoff, was asked if new regulations were needed. He replied that much more important than regulation was transparency and visibility.
As an aside, in the area of security ... we actually have dozens of
patents (all assigned). The patent attorneys told executives that
there would be around 100 by the time we were finished. The
executives looked at cost of filing 100 patents world-wide and
directed the claims to be repackaged as nine patents. Later the patent
office came back and said they've gotten tired of the humongous
filings that fees didn't even cover the cost to read and directed that
the claims had to be repackaged as minimum of 20-30 patents.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
news from last week was estimating DOD contract problems at $1m/day
... from one of Winslow pieces, one might conclude it closer to 1000
times that. recent reference
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#88 Justifying application of Boyd to a project manager
with regard to complexity ... from Baer's "Sleeping With the Enemy",
pg 153/loc2329-11, Reverse collection is deeply complicated
... basically takes Saudi weapon sales off-book and out from under
arms legislation ... much of the rest of the chapter is about duplicity
of US industry.
http://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Devil-Washington-Saudi-ebook/dp/B000FBFO64
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 68000 assembly language programming Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:46:29 -0400Roberto Waltman <usenet@rwaltman.com> writes:
the group at 81(?) sigops asilomar had presenetation ... one of the things they highlighted was that there was a lot of very high-level complex things moved into silicon (like multiprocessing dispatching) which frequently needed bug corrections ... requiring frequent new silicon and chip replacements.
i've previously mentioned having done a design in '75 that had some of the characteristics of the (later) 432 ... but it was all in microcode ... so would have just required shipping a new floppy.
misc. other past posts mentioning 432:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#57 iAPX-432 (was: 36 to 32 bit transition
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#62 iAPX-432 (was: 36 to 32 bit transition
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#6 Ridiculous
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#36 What was object oriented in iAPX432?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#27 iAPX432 today?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#46 IBM Mainframe at home
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#19 Computer Architectures
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#5 Anyone here ever use the iAPX432 ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#23 Intel iAPX 432
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#24 Intel iAPX 432
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#47 Intel 860 and 960, was iAPX 432
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#45 hung/zombie users ... long boring, wandering story
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#52 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#60 Will multicore CPUs have identical cores?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#64 Will multicore CPUs have identical cores?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#73 Athlon cache question
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#64 Misuse of word "microcode"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#46 Performance and Capacity Planning
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#35 Implementing schedulers in processor????
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#31 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#47 IBM 610 workstation computer
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#44 Any resources on VLIW?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#15 "25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#7 32 or even 64 registers for x86-64?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#36 Oracle Introduces Oracle VM As It Leaps Into Virtualization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#78 CPU time differences for the same job
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#54 Throwaway cores
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#32 CPU time differences for the same job
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#35 Two views of Microkernels (Re: Kernels
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#22 CLIs and GUIs
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#52 Lack of bit field instructions in x86 instruction set because of patents ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#32 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#13 Microprocessors with Definable MIcrocode
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#18 Microprocessors with Definable MIcrocode
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#46 U.S. begins inquiry of IBM in mainframe market
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#74 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#1 IA64
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#45 IA64
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#8 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#40 Faster image rotation
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#22 Personal use z/OS machines was Re: Multiprise 3k for personal Use?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#28 Personal histories and IBM computing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#7 RISCversus CISC
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#91 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#79 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: computer bootlaces Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:50:18 -0400Peter Moylan <invalid@peter.pmoylan.org.invalid> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: computer bootlaces Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:01:53 -0400Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: computer bootlaces Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:19:47 -0400Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
recent post about wearing boots walking to work and getting mud in the
halls of bldg. 28 during raining season (area reserved for hiway 85 was
just open field and no sidewalks were it intersected cottle rd)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#17 Hey all you Old Geeks (and younger ones too)
older reference ... along with "Real Programmers Don't Write Specs"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#39 Why Use *-*
from above:
Real Programmers don't play tennis, or any other sport that requires
you to change clothes. Mountain climbing and caving are OK, and real
programmers wear their wilderness boots to work in case a mountain
should suddenly spring up in the middle of the machine room.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: segments and sharing, was 68000 assembly language programming Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.lang.asm.x86, alt.os.assembly Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:29:57 -0400John Levine <johnl@nospicedham.iecc.com> writes:
there was a period where lots of other locations started to pickup & use cp67 ... originally done at cambridge science center which had 768kbyte 360/67, 104 pageable pages after fixed storage. One was grenoble science center that had 1mbyte 360/67, 155 pageable pages (after fixed storage), approx. 50% available real storage than cambridge. As undergraduate in the 60s for cp67, I did my own multiprogramming level controls, page thrashing controls, and global LRU page replacement algorithms ... in contrast to what was published in academic literature circa 1968. In the 70s, Grenoble decided to modify cp67 with local LRU page replacement and working set controls ... from academic literature from 1968 (and Grenoble published article on the results in CACM in the early 70s). Note that with similar workload, Genoble supported 35 users with similar thruoughput and response as Cambridge system did for 75 users (grenoble 360/67 had 1.5 times the real storage of the cambridge 360/67 but only supported half as many users ... local LRU and "working set dispatcher"). misc. past posts
later, i did memory mapped filesystem for cms ... i worked hard to
provide for large block transfers and to avoid many of the tss/360
bottlenecks (that i had seen) and got on order of three times the
thruput of base cms filesystem. misc. past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
I had problem with segment & sharing because CMS was using lots of
conventions and applications borrowed from os/360 ... and some
of the internal characteristics caused me all sorts of problems
with segment sharing ... misc. past posts discussing some of the
segement sharing problems doing memory mapped filesystem for CMS
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#adcon
note that the internal (failed) Future System picked up a lot of stuff
from tss/360 with regard to memory mapped and "single level store" misc.
past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
In the early 80s, this raised its head with somebody working at Tandem
(co-working of Jim Gray) doing Phd at Stanford on global LRU page
replacement ... and there was stiff academic resistance to anything
other than "local LRU". Jim was aware of my work in Global LRU as
undergraduate in the 60s ... as well as the global/local comparsion
beteen the cambridge & grenoble systems (global and other stuff
on cambridge system outperforming much larger grenoble system with
local & other academic "acceptable").
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#clock
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: computer bootlaces Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:00:56 -0400Peter Brooks <peter.h.m.brooks@gmail.com> writes:
i encountered "compiler bootstrap" as undergraduate ... predating both unix & C-language
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 05 Sep, 2011 Subject: The True Cost of 9/11 -- Includes 18 Veteran Suicides a Day Blog: Facebookre:
The True Cost of 9/11 -- Includes 18 Veteran Suicides a Day
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/09/joseph-stiglitz-the-true-cost-of-911-include-18-veteran-suicides-a-day/
Stiglitz's "Three Trillion Dollar War" references that if public
company was run like DOD, it would be brought up on SEC
charges.
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Trillion-Dollar-War-ebook/dp/B0041OTAY8
Problem in the period, GAO didn't appear to believe SEC was doing anything and started reports showing uptic in public company fraudulent financial filings (even after passage of SOX audits, theoretically to prevent more Enrons & Worldcoms). Also approx. corresponded to the fiscal responsibility act expiring ye2002 and shortly afterwards congressional legislation was creating such a horrendous gap between revenues and spending, that the head of GAO had references in his speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle school arithmetic.
The part in "$3T War" with regard to SEC charges was mostly about program funding and audits ... thousands of miles from any actual war. Boyd had Pentagon example of this with regard to Vietnam where services would prefer to loose battles with inferior equipment than use something from another service ... the absolutely worst (Pentagon) crime was increasing one of the other service's budget share.
Stiglitz's "$3T war" also mentions the lack of auditability (/transparency/visibility) has resulted in lots of fraud which is significant factor in lack of adequate equipment for troops.
Vietnam and "perpetual war" scenarios hobble the troops so there can
never be decisive victory ... it just goes on and on (forever); the
continuing fraud is motivation for the strategy.
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
This is similar to beltway bandits Success of Failure culture,
always failure, means never finishing and money flows forever
http://www.govexec.com/management/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
misc. past posts mentioning Boyd
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@nospicedham.garlic.com> Subject: Re: segments and sharing, was 68000 assembly language programming Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.lang.asm.x86, alt.os.assembly Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:41:42 -0400John Levine <johnl@nospicedham.iecc.com> writes:
one of the last adtech conferences in the 70s was in POK ... we
presented 16-way 370 SMP and the 801 group was presenting 801/risc.
... the FS failure and mad rush to get products back into 370 product
pipeline also cannibalized adtech groups ... misc. past posts mentioning
FS
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
somebody in the 801 group was making statements that vm370 couldn't support 16way smp because he had looked at the production shipped code and it didn't contain any smp support.
the 801 group then presented inverted page tables and 16 segment "registers" ... 16 256mbyte segments (32bit addressing). I pointed out 16 segments were way too small a number. The response was 801 is a "closed" system with no (hardware) protection domains ... inline application/library code can change segment register values as easily as general purpose register values (security would be achieved by the pl.8 compiler only generating correct programs and cp.r loader would only load valid pl.8 compiled programs.
(the amount of vm370 code written to support 16way 370 smp ... was enormously less than the amount of code that the 801 group had yet to write)
later 801 email reference in the 80s
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#email810812
in this comp.arch post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#7 32 or even 64 registers for x86-64?
romp/801 was originally going to be follow-on to displaywriter. When that project was killed, there was search to find some other use and decided on unix workstation ... the group that had done AT&T unix port to ibm/pc as pc/ix was hired to do aixv2 running on pc/rt. for unix port, however romp/801 had to have hardware protection domain added ... which eliminate the ability to change segment register values with inline application/library code (instead requiring kernel calls).
i was dragged in working out how to package multiple small shared
segments into single large 256mbytes segment. ... old email refs
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email841114c
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email841127
in this comp.arch post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#36 Multiple mappings
misc. (other) old 801/risc email
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#801
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 06 Sep, 2011 Subject: Cracking the code Blog: Google+Cracking the code
from above:
After the 2008 financial crisis hit, many people were startled to
learn that the leaders of some investment banks knew little about the
risks their firms had taken.
... snip ...
Some amount of this is obfuscation ... the personal gain was so enormous that it swamped any possible concern for their institution, economy, and/or country. Risk managers claimed that the business leaders (also) directed them to fiddle the inputs (to the risk models) until the desired outputs (GIGO) were achieved.
How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/how-wall-streets-quants-lied-to-their-computers/
Subprime = Triple-A ratings? or 'How to Lie with Statistics'
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/07/25/subprime-triple-a-ratings-or-how-to-lie-with-statistics/
misc. past posts mentioning How Wall Street Lied to Its Computer:
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'
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#87 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#40 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#66 No command, and control
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#53 What do you think about fraud prevention in the governments?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#75 America's Defense Meltdown
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#42 Productivity And Bubbles
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#56 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: segments and sharing, was 68000 assembly language programming Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, comp.lang.asm.x86, alt.os.assembly Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:00:57 -0400Morten Reistad <first@nospicedham.last.name> writes:
some of the CTSS people went to the 5th flr and did Multics and some
went to science center on the 4th flr and did virtual machines (first
cp40 on specially modified 360/40 which morphed into cp67 when 360/67
became available). past posts mentioning sci center
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
when I joined the science center ... i figured I knew it all and I could do at least anything the multics group could do ... at least within the constraints of 360/67 hardware and some other restrictions (page mapped file system, virtual object segment sharing, demand paging, thrashing controls, dynamic adatpive resource management and bunch of other things).
360/67 virtual address space was linear and segments fit within that at specific boundaries ... but didn't have to be contiguous ... could have "invalid segments" as well as "short" segments, any number of virtual pages up to maximum per segment. 32bit address allowed for up to 4096 1mbyte segments for each virtual address space. transition to 370, dropped back to only having 24bit address ... but introduced option of (up to 256) 64kbyte segments as alternative to (up to) 16 1mbyte segments.
with the failure of FS ... and mad rush to get stuff back into 370
product pipelines ... decision was made to pickup and release some
amount of the 370 stuff I had been doing during the FS period (possibly
wasn't exactly career enhancing to also have periodically ridiculed the
FS activities).
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
a very small, basterized subset of my segment sharing (w/o page mapped
filesystem) was released in vm370 as DCSS. some reference & old email
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#7 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#8 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#9 dcss and page mapped filesystem
misc. past posts mentioning paged mapped filesystem
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:17:20 -0400hancock4 writes:
FS was partitioned into sections with different section being "owned" by different executives. While I was outside the FS effort and would periodically ridicule the effort ... my wife reported to one of the "section" owners and thought it was great adventure ... every (impractical) bluesky thing ever thought of was included ... although she was critical of several sections that were totally vaporware ... containing no content ("wheres the beef") ... aka as other references to FS ... there was much that was case of emperor's new clothes ... and some of the top executives trying to save face (had significant downside effect on corporate culture).
i've repeated 3rd hand story about gov. litigation and testimony by one of the other computer vendor executives ... that by the late 50s, everybody in the industry knew that the single most important thing in (commercial dataprocessing) market was to have compatible line of computers ... TJWjr was the only executive to achieve the goal ... the executives at the other vendors weren't able to force individual plant managers from doing local optimization for technology related to their particular model (creating incompatibilities). the theory was that having achieved the single most important item, it would still be able to get nearly everything else wrong ... and still prevail.
past posts in this thread:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#21 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#31 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#61 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#62 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#79 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#80 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
past posts mentioning gov. litigation and single most important
objective:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#44 bloat
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#231 Why couldn't others compete against IBM?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#33 Big black helicopters
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#71 Card Columns
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#22 System/360 40th Anniversary
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#0 IBM/Watson autobiography--thoughts on?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#4 IBM/Watson autobiography--thoughts on?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#27 IBM/Watson autobiography--thoughts on?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006i.html#5 Transition of platforms in british education
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006i.html#7 Transition of platforms in british education
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#60 Was FORTRAN buggy?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#77 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#42 1960s: IBM mgmt mistrust of SLT for ICs?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#34 IBM 8000 ???
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#8 what does xp do when system is copying
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#63 Remembering the CDC 6600
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#65 Remembering the CDC 6600
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#45 360 programs on a z/10
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#14 360 programs on a z/10
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#21 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#81 Hashing for DISTINCT or GROUP BY in SQL
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#52 TCM's Moguls documentary series
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#57 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#36 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#69 Who was the Greatest IBM President and CEO of the last century?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Scotland, was Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem! Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:46:03 -0400Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
the military museum at the castle in Edinburgh
http://www.edinburghcastle.gov.uk/
has memorial to brave scottish men enlisting in the military for WW1 and
killed at Gallipoli ... the BBC program mentioned lots of english
political appointed military officers getting lots of Commonwealth
soliders slaughtered ... including scottish ... not just from australia
and new zealand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_Campaign
past posts mentioning a visit
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#57 Pedantry (was RE: Shane's antipodes)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#10 Horrid thought about Politics, President Bush, and Democrats
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:00:46 -0400hancock4 writes:
from recent (linkedin) Greater IBM thread
Tom Watson Sr. (1914 - 1956)
Tom Watson Jr. (1956 - 1971)
T. Vincent Learson (1971 - 1973)
Frank T. Cary (1973 - 1981)
John R. Opel (1981 - 1985)
John F. Akers (1985 - 1993)
Louis V. Gerstner (1993 - 2002)
...
Learson was there for the start ... but was about to retire ... folklore is that he engineered the conversion from rental to purchase (which had long-term detrimental effects) ... to give company big one-time revenue boost so that he got a big "departing" bonus (some of the linkedin Greater IBM thread mentions other executives objecting to the rental->purchase conversion because of long-term downside).
While Cary was CEO during the rest of the FS period ... both Opel and
Akers were in significant executive position (and as many other
references have noted the FS failure reflected on both). misc. past
posts mentioning FS
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
recent posts mentioning Learson
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#69 Who was the Greatest IBM President and CEO of the last century?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#34 Who was the Greatest IBM President and CEO of the last century?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#45 HP getting out of computer biz
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#58 HP getting out of computer biz
other posts in the (linkedin) greater ibm thread:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#60 Who was the Greatest IBM President and CEO of the last century?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#65 Who was the Greatest IBM President and CEO of the last century?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#57 Who was the Greatest IBM President and CEO of the last century?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#73 Who was the Greatest IBM President and CEO of the last century
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:32:48 -0400Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
system/34
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/34
was approx. concurrent with system/38
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/38
from above:
System/38 was a descendant of the abandoned IBM Future Systems project,
which had been designed as the replacement for the System/360 and
System/370 mainframe architectures. System/38 offered more capacity than
the previous IBM computer system, System/34. Somewhat confusingly,
System/38 chronologically preceded System/36 which was a successor to
the System/34.
... snip ...
ibm system/38 archives
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/rochester/rochester_4009.html
i432 intro/abstracts make reference to system/38 ... recent reference:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#2 68000 assembly language programming
references this post that has reproduced intro mentioning s/38
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#48 Famous Machines and Software that didn't
future system wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Future_Systems_project
from above:
Although the FS project as a whole was killed, a simplified version of
the architecture for the smallest of the three machines continued to be
developed in Rochester. It was finally released as the IBM System/38,
which proved to be a good design for ease of programming, but it was
woefully underpowered. The AS/400 inherited the same architecture, but
with performance improvements. In both machines, the very CISCy
instruction set generated by compilers is not interpreted, but
translated into a lower-level machine instruction set and executed; the
original lower-level instruction set was a CISC instruction set with
some similarities to the System/360 instruction set,[1] with an extended
version of the PowerPC instruction set, which evolved from John Cocke's
RISC machine, used as the lower-level instruction set in later machines
... snip ...
One of the issues with s/38 was it was a single virtual address space and single-level-store ... everything mapped as virtual memory ... including all file/disk accesses. a simplification resulted in doing "scatter" allocation across all available disks (records for the same file might be spread across all s/38 disks). This necessitated s/38 backup/restores being doing in single aggregate operation ... and single disk failure met doing a complete system restore. This motivated s/38 to be an early adopter of RAID technology as countermeasure to effects of single-disk failures (common failure mode).
note starting circa 1980, there was internal effort standardization on 801/risc to replace the large number of internal microprocessors, controller microprocessors, low&midrange 370 microprocessor ... as well as the basis for as/400 ... many of these were 801/risc "iliad" chip. For various reasons those efforts floundered in the 80s.
In the case of the as/400 (to replace s/38), after iliad cratered,
rochester had mad rush to develop a cisc chip for the initial as/400.
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/rochester/rochester_4010.html
recent post mention 801/risc ROMP processor developed for the
displaywriter follow-on
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#9 segments and sharing, was 68000 assembly language programming
when displaywriter follow-on was canceled, it was retargeted to the unix
workstation market. That eventually begate follow-on RIOS processor for
rs/6000 ... and then spin-off was somerset effort with motorola and
apple for power/pc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC
and decade after it was originally suppose to use 801/risc, as/400
moved to power/pc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS64
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS/400
misc. past email mentioning 801, iliad, romp, etc
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#801
& past posts mentioning 801
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
past posts in this thread:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#21 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#31 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#61 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#62 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#79 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#80 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#12 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#14 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:51:52 -0400despen writes:
the s/38 wiki page references the Future System wiki pages ... which mentions that the s/38 was "woefully underpowered". It likely would have been much worse if not for the "simplification" ... there was whole sections of "FS" that was vaporware ... didn't exist ... which you could get away with not having in entry level market especially for customers that didn't have any dataprocessor or still moving tab machines.
For high-end dataprocessing large customers couldn't get away with lack of thruput; totally missing features, lack of scaleup (example is scatter allocation requiring static backup/restore of all available disks might be possible work for a few disks on s/38 ... but wouldn't work for 300 disk, disk-farm ... probability of single-disk failure increases significantly ... and strategy of complete system shutdown and complete restore of all 300 disks ... just because of single disk failure is totally infeasable).
Folklore is that one of the final nails in the FS coffin was analysis that a large commercial customer ... currently running on 370/195 ... if moved to the highest end Future System box ... made out of same performance components available in 370/195 ... would have about 1/30th the thruput of 370/195.
misc. future system posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 06 Sep, 2011 Subject: Washington's Cult of Continuous Failure Blog: phibetaiotaWashington's Cult of Continuous Failure
from above:
"Stiglitz's "$3T war" also mentions the lack of auditability
(/transparency/visibility) has resulted in lots of fraud which is
significant factor in lack of adequate equipment for troops. Vietnam
and "perpetual war" scenarios hobble the troops so there can never be
decisive victory ... it just goes on and on; the continuing fraud is
motivation for the strategy. This is similar to beltway bandits
Success of Failure culture, always failure, means never finishing
and money flows forever"
Domestic Roots of Perpetual War
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
Success of Failure Standard Operating Procedure
http://www.govexec.com/management/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
also:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#8 The True Cost of 9/11 -- Includes 18 Veteran Suicides a Day
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:47:26 -0400despen writes:
probably more significant was that security provisions obfuscated how much trouble the project was actually in ... contributing to the emperor's new clothes syndrome.
There had been document leak involving unannounced 370 virtual memory (370 was originally announced w/o virtual memory) that found its way to some industry publication. This resulted in a "pentagon-like witch hunt" for the leak. One of the results was that all corporate copying machines had serial numbers taped to the underside of the scanning glass ... so that it was reproduced on all copies made ... at least being able to track copied (leaked) documents to the machine where copy was made.
the vm370 development group (out in burlington mall) had a piece of Future System effort. The made several enhancements to their vm370 for being able to only view future system documents online from real 3270 display terminals located in bldg. (3270s with no hardcopy capability).
One weekend, I had some time on one of the other 370 machines in their
machine room ... as part of getting science center production
cp67 moved to vm370 base ... some old email on the subject:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
I was there late friday afternoon making sure that everything was setup for my test time. Some of the people took the opportunity to brag about all their vm370 enhancements for controlled access to Future System documentation ... and made the claim that even "I" wouldn't be able to breach the security ... even if i was left alone in the machine room all weekend. My response was that it would take less than five minutes. Most of the time was shutting down all access to the machine from outside the computer room ... and then from the front console, I flipped a bit in kernel storage ... it was in the authentication routine that resulted in everything being taken as valid authentication (its the only time I remembering rising to such provocation). One of the things I pointed out was that to close the vulnerability ... a new generation of front computer panels would be required that provided for authentication access facilities that controlled access to storage examination/modification facilities.
I've mentioned that there was something analogous with the european
payment card chip ... originally introduced in the mid-90s and a large
pilot done in the US at the start of the century (chip susceptable to
exploits) ... and then (after publication of exploits) appeared to
disappear w/o a trace ... and since then periodic news items about
possibly trying to re-introduce in the US. This article (that has gone
404) mentions that it was trivial to create counterfeit/cloned cards
http://web.archive.org/web/20030417083810/http://www.smartcard.co.uk/resources/articles/cartes2002.html
presentation of the exploits at the ATM Integrity Taskforce ... resulted in person from the audience making the comment that they managed to spend billions of dollars to prove that chips are less secure than magstripe.
The counterfeit cards were referred to yes card ... because whatever
the merchant's point-of-sale terminal asked the card ... it would always
reply "YES" (including whether correct authentication had been entered).
misc. past posts mentioning YES CARD
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:42:33 -0400hancock4 writes:
as result of gov. litigation there was the 23jun69 unbundling
announcement
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
for SE services, maintenance, and application software (the case was made that kernel software should still be free).
one of the results was they recognized that they "lost" traditional training for new SEs ... basically as apprentice type activity as part of SE team at customer site. with starting to charge for all SE time at customer site ... there wasn't anyway to justify new SE apprentice activity.
This spawned the original HONE effort ... several cp67 datacenters
around the country where technical people in branch office could access
remotely ... and have "hands-on" with operating systems running in
virtual machines. misc. past posts mentioning HONE (eventually evolves
into online world-wide sales & marketing support, original virtual
machine purpose disappearing)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
internal politics during FS period was killing off 370 efforts ... viewed as competitive ... but justified that FS would completely replace all 370 and it wouldn't exist any longer. With the failure of FS there was mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 hardware and software product pipelines ... however, the delay is credited with giving clone processor competition market foothold.
The clone processor market started out with MTS/370 (michigan terminal system) ... which didn't have any IBM support or VM/370 which tended to have little or no IBM onsite support. IBM executives were making claims that large "true blue" commercial "MVS" (POK favorite son operating system) wouldn't go with clone processor vendors because they would loose the large on-site support groups (possibly 20 IBM SEs at some large accounts) ... and clone vendors didn't have the staff to back-fill such skilled resources at customers (aka, executives were counting on MVS requring huge numbers of scarce skilled resources ... as marketing barrier to clone processor vendors).
In the mean time, IBM was in mad rush to turn out 303x machines in
parallel with work on 370/xa and 3081 machines ... recent posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#9 Was there ever a DOS JCL reference like the Brown book?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#11 Was there ever a DOS JCL reference like the Brown book?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#84 'smttter IBMdroids
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#86 'smttter IBMdroids
turns out there was an incident with a very large east coast financial institution (one of ibm's largest, prestige customers with huge datacenter filled with sea of ibm mainframes) ... where the local branch manager horribly offended the customer. The customer then told ibm that as a result, they were going to install a clone processor (hardly notice in the vast sea of ibm mainframes). This was supposedly going to ruin the branch manager's career since he would be known as the person that allowed clone processor to break into the "true blue" commercial dataprocessor. I was asked to go live at the customer for six months ... so it would create the impression that the customer was doing a technical evaluation between ibm and clone processors ... deflecting blame away from the branch manager (the technical evaluation was purely fiction, the clone installation was proceeding regardless to teach ibm a lesson). I refused the request ... even after i was told that the branch manager was personal friend of the ceo ... and if i didn't agree it would spell the end of any career i might have in the company (i still refused). After the clone processor barrier was broken with this customer, lots of other "true blue" customers would start buying them.
The 3033 eventually ships ... but so does endicott's 4341 mid-range
machines. There are similar total number of 43xx and vax sales
involving small volume orders (in mid-range market). old post with
decade of vax numbers:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0 Computers in Science Fiction
The big difference in numbers (between 43xx & vax) was large commercial accounts making large volume orders in units of hundreds. The 4341 machines were going out into departmental supply and conference rooms ... and became the leading wave of distributed computing. Within ibm the huge explosion in 4341 machines resulted in conference rooms becoming scarce commodity.
A datacenter cluster of 4341s had higher aggregate mip rate, lower cost,
smaller physical footprint and resource requirements ... than 3033 (in
addition to reduced resource and footprint allowed distributed
installations outside traditional datacenter). some past email
discussion exloding 4341 market
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
one of the things discussed in the above ... was internal datacenters starting to burst at the seams with large 168 and 3033 machines ... and still was not meeting the internal computing demand. The 4341 small physical & resource footprint ... allowed giving each organization their own 4341 w/o any impact to central datacenter. The enormous MVS support requirements as well as other special MVS requirements that were added to 3033 and not available on 4341 ... essentially resulted in all these 4341s going in as vm/370 systems. Then a lot of the old-time internal traditional MVS dataprocessing applications had to be ported to the distributed vm/4341 environment (as part of significantly increasing internal dataprocessing capacity & thruput).
In parallel with the big-spike in mid-range machines (43xx and vax) ... there was starting to be PCs and workstations ... by the mid-80s, those PCs and workstations were starting to take-over the mid-range market (as can be seen in the referenced vax numbers) as well as the distributed computing market. This shift in the late 80s and early 90s was not seen by top executives.
In the mid-80s, top executives predicted that ibm gross would double from $60B to $120B ... primarily mainframe ... and there started a big internal building program ... targeted at doubling mainframe manufacturing capacity. Many of these buildings were being finished as collapse of mainframe sales was so severe that it could even be seen by top executives. This late 80s period also appeared to have big uptick in "fast track" executive training program ... apparently trying to double ranks of top executives to go along with the doubling of mainframe sales.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:12:44 -0400Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
in the aftermath of 23jun69 unbundling announcement there appeared the
training issue with new "SE" technical support (onsite at customer
accounts).
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
which was original motivation for internal online (virtual machine
based) HONE
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
Then in the aftermath of FS failure and appearance of clone processor
vendors gaining market foothold ... executives viewed the scarcity of
skilled "SE" technical support for onsite at customer accounts a barrier
to entry for clone processor vendors (at least in the case of MVS).
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
unbundling started charging for application software ... but they
managed to make the case that kernel software should still be free.
with the appearance of clone processors in the market, there was
decision to transition to kernel software charging (and eventually OCO
... object-code-only). Also the mad rush to get stuff back in 370
product pipelines contributed to releasing some of the 370 stuff I had
been doing all during the FS period (as well as periodically ridiculing
what FS was doing). The decision was made to take part of the stuff I
was doing, package it as separate kernel component and use it as guinea
pig for starting to charge for kernel software. misc. past posts
about dynamic adaptive resource management
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
The significant improvement in midrange computing price/performance with 43xx and vax machines saw explosion in computer orders and installations (large customer with a few large datacenters adding several hundred or thousand 43xx machines all over the company ... out in departmental settings ... leading edge of the distributed computing wave). Scarcity of both vendor and customer skilled resources became an uptake barrier. Because of the extremely high level of skills required to support MVS ... it effectively eliminated it from this market. IBM "SHARE" user group had studies about VAX/VMS requiring somewhat fewer & lower skill levels than VM370 ... and that contributed to VM/43xx landscape against VAX/VMS ... i.e. claims that 43xx machines with better price/performance than vax/vms ... some 11,000 vax/vms machines should have been 43xx machines ... but market was starting to shift away from purely hardware price/performance. With improvement in hardware price/performance and "explosion" in the numbers, scarce skilled support skills was becoming growing factor in computing budget.
There is some cross-over at lower-end of the market with s/38 where
it significantly reduced programming and support costs although
it was woefully underpowered
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#15 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#16 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
This accelerated as larger volumes of workstations and PCs started to take over the mid-range market in the mid-80s. In linkedin Greater IBM posts, somebody mentioned that the internal order management system took a long time to adapt to change from a few single large orders to thousands of orders involving thousands of machines.
There are misc. other things inhibiting MVS uptake in the exploding
midrange market (with 43xx). One was that IBM had 3380 mainframe disks
that were still CKD and mainstay of datacenter operations. However, the
only mid-range disk was 3370 and it was purely FBA (and complimented
43xx physical&resource footprint for installation in deparmental
environments). MVS hasn't been able to break from its OS/360 CKD disk
heritage to this day ... even though all "CKD" disks have been emulation
on top of some form of FBA for decades. To provide MVS with some entre
into the mid-range market, eventually "3375" CKD product was developed
... which was CKD emulation with real 3370 FBA disks.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) Date: 07 Sep, 2011 Subject: HOLLOW STATES and a CRISIS OF CAPITALISM Blog: FacebookHOLLOW STATES and a CRISIS OF CAPITALISM
lots of trading has been subject to human emotion ... this has made it
vulnerable to manipulation by insiders biasing news up&down and taking
profit on the spread (playing moves in both direction, i.e. volatility).
lots of the high-frequency computer stuff is watching news ... and
predicting slight trends with smaller spreads but at much higher
frequency. Some discontinuities when it is mostly high-frequency
computer programs playing against each other. However, the insider
stuff has been well entrenched in stock market (like illegal naked short
sales) ... slight slip (pervasive but didn't have to worry about any
SEC action):
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03202007/business/cramer_reveals_a_bit_too_much_business_roddy_boyd.htm
Not quite so well entrenched, it is somewhat more apparent in
commodities market. Griftopia has commodities requiring players to
have significant positions because speculators resulted in wild,
irrational price swings. Then "19 secret letters" were issued to
specific speculators resulting in wild, irrational price swings
... like oil spiking over $100. Recent example: FIA "shocked and
outraged after Senator leaks oil trading data"
http://www.finextra.com/news/Fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=22911
The issue of lack of transparency and visibility comes up in almost
every case. I had been asked into NSCC (before merged with DTC to
become DTCC) to look at improving the integrity of trades. After
putting in some amount of work, it was suspended with the comment that
a side-effect of the integrity work would have greatly increased
trading transparency and visibility (which is antithetical to the
trading culture).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depository_Trust_%26_Clearing_Corporation
misc. past posts mentioning Cramer article and/or Griftopia book
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/2010h.html#41 Profiling of fraudsters
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#59 They always think we don't understand
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#6 What banking is. (Essential for predicting the end of finance as we know it.)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#7 What banking is. (Essential for predicting the end of finance as we know it.)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#43 WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#53 What do you think about fraud prevention in the governments?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#55 America's Defense Meltdown
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#59 Productivity And Bubbles
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#21 The first personal computer (PC)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#26 The first personal computer (PC)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#39 Back to architecture: Analyzing NYSE data
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#35 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#90 CFTC Limits on Commodity Speculation May Wait Until Early 2012
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#17 Hey all you Old Geeks (and younger ones too), with gas heading towards $6.00/gal, remote support, satellite offices and home office will become more cost effective
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#11 Innovation and iconoclasm
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#38 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#40 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#46 Sand in Machine Makes a Stable Market
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#60 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#76 FIA shocked and outraged after Senator leaks oil trading data
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#89 The Grand Message in the Conceptual Spiral
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM IMS - Vern Watts Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:23:51 -0400despen writes:
tributes, rip 4apr2009
http://www.vcwatts.org/
old email ... one of the things jim was "handing off" when he left
for tandem was consulting with ims group:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801016
in this post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#1 The Elements of Programming Style
ims wiki page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Information_Management_System
note that folklore is that STL was working on EAGLE as the next DBMS ...
that pre-occupation is credited being able to do system/r technology
to endicott for release of sql/ds ... past posts mentioning system/r
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
then with crash and burn of EAGLE, the system/r group was asked how fast system/r could ship on MVS (originally have been developed on vm370) ... and was originally released for decision/analysis (not transaction processing).
similar post from earlier this year in (linkedin) mainframe group
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#85
above mentions some rivalry between ims and system/r
there was also some "rivalry" between IMS and CICS ... old reference
gone 404
http://web.archive.org/web/20020618073815/http://objectz.com/columnists/tscott/part1.html
referenced in this old post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#16
I also did a couple other things for IMS group ... totally unrelated to
DBMS consulting ... STL (now SVL, silicon valley lab) was bursting at
the seams and to make move, 300 people from the IMS group was being
moved to offsite building. They had tested remote 3270 terminal support
for access back to the STL datacenter and found it horrible (totally
unacceptable human factors). I got dragged into doing HYPERChannel
driver ... as channel extender ... basically 300 "local" channel
attached 3270s at the remote site over microwave link. Response was
basically indistinguishable from real local 3270 in building (they were
use to small subsecond vm370/cms response). An interesting side-effect
was that mainframe system throughput went-up 10-15% because the direct
channel-attached 3270 controllers were removed from local mainframe
channels and replaced with HYPERChannel A220 adapters (which
significantly reduced aggregate channel busy ... resulting in
improvement in disk/file i/o thruput). misc. past posts mentioning
HSDT project ... some amount involving various HYPERChannel boxes
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: computer bootlaces Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:40:39 -0400Peter Brooks <peter.h.m.brooks@gmail.com> writes:
this might be considered a possible instance of recent comment about
possibly getting everything else wrong ... and still prevail:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#12 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
misc. past post mentioning Bemer's webpages
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#26 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#27 Origins of EBCDIC
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#39 Mainframe Utility for EBCDIC to ASCII conversion
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#41 Disksize history question
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#63 CAPS Fantasia
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#4 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#65 They've changed the keyboard layout _again_
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#9 Typewriter vs. Computer
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#67 Wondering if I am really eligible for this group
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#6 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#45 HP getting out of computer biz
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: computer bootlaces Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:53:59 -0400Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> writes:
had 2250-4 ... i.e. 2250-1 was direct mainframe channel attached vector graphics ... 2250-4 was a 2250 vector graphics with a 1130; 2250-1 and 2250-4 were about same price.
2250-4 at columbia
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/2250.html
more 2250-4
http://www.ibm1130.net/functional/DisplayUnit.html
somebody had ported spacewar to science center 2250-4/1130
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!
2250 keyboard was split in half for 2-person play ... analogous to one of the pictures in above wiki page.
sometimes I brought my kids to the science center on weekends and they would play spacewar
misc. past posts mentioning spacewar
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/97.html#2 IBM 1130 (was Re: IBM 7090--used for business or science?)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#67 oddly portable machines
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000g.html#24 A question for you old guys -- IBM 1130 information
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#71 Z/90, S/390, 370/ESA (slightly off topic)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#10 5-player Spacewar?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#12 5-player Spacewar?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#13 5-player Spacewar?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#14 5-player Spacewar?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#51 Logo (was Re: 5-player Spacewar?)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#8 VM: checking some myths.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#26 Help needed on conversion from VM to OS390
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#20 6600 Console was Re: CDC6600 - just how powerful a machine was
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#22 Computer Terminal Design Over the Years
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#17 PLX
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#0 Wanted: Weird Programming Language
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#72 OT: One for the historians - 360/91
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#38 The PDP-1 - games machine?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#39 1130 Games WAS Re: Any DEC 340 Display System Doco ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#14 Seven of Nine
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#10 IS CP/M an OS?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#34 Playing games in mainframe
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#45 who were the original fortran installations?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#32 Usenet invented 30 years ago by a Swede?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#20 Whatever happened to IBM's VM PC software?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#22 Where should the type information be?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#12 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#4 Fast action games on System/360+?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#28 MCTS
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#22 Was CMS multi-tasking?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#77 PDP-1 Spacewar! program internals
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#62 PC premiered 40 years ago to awed crowd
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#5 real-time messages
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#51 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#74 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#0 What is the protocal for GMT offset in SMTP (e-mail) header time-stamp?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#33 Was VM ever used as an exokernel?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#5 Is email dead? What do you think?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#45 My first mainframe experience
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#49 My first mainframe experience
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#56 VAXen on the Internet
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#66 Wasn't instant messaging on IBM's VM/CMS in the early 1980s
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#4 Announcement of the disk drive (1956)
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: computer bootlaces Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:28:16 -0400Peter Brooks <peter.h.m.brooks@gmail.com> writes:
part of folklore is at peak, tss/360 (virtual memory, single-level-store, paged-mapped filesystem, etc) had 1200 people ... about the time that science center had 12 people working on cp67/cms (both for same 360/67 virtual memory machine).
os/360 started out as PCP ... added MFT & MVT options ... MFT and MVT options somewhat continued in parallel ... MFT somewhat for mid-range 360s ... and MVT for larger 360s. then there was dos/360 for smaller and entry level machines ... quite independent groups.
then there were the compiler language groups ... quite a bit in NYC time/life building until it was closed in the 70s and moved elsewhere.
from ibm jargon:
TIME/LIFE - n. The legendary (defunct since 1975) New York Programming
Center, formerly in the TIME & LIFE Building on 6th Avenue, near the
Rockefeller Center, in New York City. For many years it was the home of
System/360 and System/370 Languages, Sorts and Utilities. Its
programmers are now primarily in Kingston, Palo Alto, and Santa Teresa
(or retired).
... snip ...
I got blamed for online computer conferencing in the late 70s and early
80s on the internal network ... larger than the arpanet/internet from
just about the beginning until possibly late '85 or early '86 ... some
past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
the folklore was that when the executive committee (ceo, pres, etc) was informed of online computer conferencing and the internal network, five-of-six wanted to immediately fire me.
some amount of the online discussion was about health & vitality
of the company ... from ibm jargon:
20sep1980 version of MIP Envy
some old email referencing Jim leaving for Tandem:
However, Tandem Memos was more a case of a visit I made to Jim at
Tandem (after he had left), I then wrote up a trip report about the
visit and distributed it online.
One of the comments in the online computer conferencing ... was that
successful efforts tended to complete on time with small number of
people and resources, while major disasters kept throwing people at it
... increasing the hierarchy, resources, and budgets for the associated
executives (where there compensation was somewhat proportional to the
number of people in their organizations ... executives running
disasters tended to be higher compensated than executives that had
successful efforts). This more recently appears as Success of Failure
culture ... article on the subject:
there was lots of corporate investigation into online computer
conferencing (and "tandem memos") ... one of the results was official
sanctioned online computer conferencing.
from ibm jargon:
somewhat one of the other results, was a researcher was paid to sit in
the back of my office for nine months and take notes on how I
communicated (face-to-face, telephone, etc, they also went with me to
meetings). The also got copies of all my incoming and outgoing email as
well as logs of all instant messages. The material was used in corporate
research report, Stanford Phd thesis (joint between language and
computer AI) as well as some number of papers and books. Misc. past
posts on computer mediated conversation
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Later when my wife was con'ed into going to POK to be in charge of
loosely-coupled architecture (aka mainframe cluster) and did
peer-coupled shared data architecture ... some past posts
she had lots of battles with the SNA organization ... who were trying to
force her to use SNA for cluster operation ... then there would be
temporary truces where she could use anything she wanted within
datacenter walls ... but SNA organization owned everything that crossed
the datacenter walls. A combination of the battles with SNA and little
uptake of the architecture ... except for IMS hotstandby ... until
sysplex; contributed to her not remaining long in the position.
item that discusses many things about the company:
from above, with regard to FS (major motivation was clone controller
competition):
and
there has been some folklore that prime feature of SNA is the tight
integration of VTAM & 3705 (pu5 & pu4) ... a legacy of FS. misc. past
posts mentioning FS
At one point at the height of FS, I was told that the only promotions
available in the company was by transferring to a FS group ... I refused
... and continued to periodically ridicule the FS activity.
as undergraduate in the 60s, I did a lot of work on cp67. The system
delivered jan68 had 1052 & 2741 terminal support (with automatic
terminal identification), ... but the univ. had ascii/tty terminals. I
wrote ascii/tty terminal support for cp67 (which was picked up and
shipped in the product) ... including extending automatic terminal
identification to include ascii/tty. This worked well for leased-lines
... but attempt to have single dial-up phone number for all terminals
(hunt group would find first non-busy line) didn't quite work. While the
terminal controller allowed dynamically switching terminal-specific
line-scanner ... they had taken a short-cut with the box and hardwired
the line-speed (1052 & 2741 had same line-speed but tty/ascii was
different line-speed).
This problem somewhat motivated the univ. to start a clone controller
effort; reverse engineered mainframe channel interface and built a
channel interface board for Interdata/3. The Interdata/3 was programmed
to simulate the mainframe controller box ... with the addition of doing
dynamic line-speed recognition. Vendor picked up the implementation and
was selling it commercially (Interdata was later bought by perkin/elmer
and the box sold under their brand). Four of us got written up as being
responsible for (some amount of) clone controller business. misc.
past posts mentioning clone controller
I took another swipe at the controller business in the mid-80s ... part
of presentation that I made at an SNA architecture review board (ARB)
meeting:
comparing a series/1 programmed to emulate 37x5 ... plus a lot of
additional functions ... and series/1 as NCP
during the presentation, one of the questions was about the SNA group
having over a thousand people and how could a couple dozen people
implement something that was so much better than what they were doing.
Afterwards, the top executive present at the presentation wanted to know
who authorized my presentation (he appeared really angry and seemed
intent on making sure something like that never happened again).
At the time, we were also working with NSF for what was to become the
NSFNET backbone (tcp/ip is technology basis for the modern internet,
NSFNET backbone was the operational basis for the modern internet and
CIX was the business basis for the modern internet) ... some old email
from the period
and about to come up with 3-tier architecture (and start pitching to
corporate executives) ... in period when SNA group was trying to stave
off client/server ... which gots us lots more barbs from the
organization
when nsfnet backbone RFP was finally released, internal politics prevented
us bidding. Director of NSF tried to help with letter to the
corporation, copying the CEO ... there were references to things like
what we already had running was at least five years ahead of all bid
submissions ... but that just appeared to aggravate the internal
politics more. misc. past posts mentioning NSFNET
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it originated (also) at the science center
possibly the first distributed use was between science center and
endicott ... to add virtual 370 support to cp67 ... 370 had some new
instructions that weren't available on 360 (requiring simulation) and
the virtual memory tables & related instructions were different (so
virtual memory simulation for 370 virtual machine had to map from 370
tables into 360/67 tables). This post-dated 360 development in the 60s.
the science center cp67 service was also available to some
non-employees, students & various others from various institutions of
higher learning in the boston/cambridge area. as a result there were
some additional measures to prevent knowledge of unannounced virtual
memory support from leaking out.
Standard operation was multiple/recursive virtualization levels
real 360/67
production cp67l system running on real hardware providing virtual 360
production cp67h system running virtual machine providing virtual 370
production cp67i system running 370 virtual machine providing virt370
CMS running in 370 virtual machine
as part of the effort, the standard cp67/cms source maintenance was
extended to support multi-level updates. cp67h had the source updates to
provide 370 virtual machines. It normally ran in 360 virtual machine
(rather than on direct bare hardware) to keep away the prying eyes of
non-employees. cp67i had the source updates so that cp67 used 370
hardware formats (rather than 360/67 hardware formats).
cp67i was running on regular basis a year before real 370 engineering
processor with virtual memory support was available. In fact, when the
engineering was first available ... booting cp67i was the original
test (aka "boot" & "booting" presumably derived from boot-strap).
Three people from San Jose physical came to Cambridge for a stay and did
the cp67 "sj" changes that added 3330 and 2305 devices support
As real 370s with virtual memory proliferated around the company (before
available to customers), cp67i+sj was standard production operating
system.
At the great change-over for arpanet (IMPs/host protocol) on 1jan83 to
internet & tcp/ip ... there were approx. 256 hosts (and something like
100 nodes ... IMP "front-end" nodes being differentiated from "back-end"
hosts). The same year, the internal network passed 1000 nodes. Old
email about getting ready for 1000 nodes:
mentions a desk ornament ... picture of mine here
this is post with list of corporate locations that added one or more new
nodes during 1983:
One of the things instrumental in internet passing internal network in
number of nodes was communication group enforcing that PCs and
workstations only be supported with terminal emulation ... while they
were starting to greating swell the internet numbers as nodes. The
communication group had created a strangle-hold on mainframe datacenters
trying to preserve the terminal emulation paradigm and blockade
client/server, networking, etc. (even the host network wasn't converted
to SNA until late 80s ... which was a traumatic event). misc. past
posts mentioning terminal emulation
In the late 80s, a senior disk engineer got a talk scheduled at the
world-wide, annual, internal communication group conference and open
the talk with statement that the communication group was going to be
responsible for the demise of the disk division (because of the
datacenter stranglehold). The disk division was seeing the start of
the wave of data fleeing the datacenter to more distributed computing
friendly platforms (in their declining disk sales). The disk division
had come up with a number of products to address the problem, which
the communication group would constantly veto (they had strategic
ownership for everything that crossed the datacenter walls ... and
they were holding the gates attempting to preserve their terminal
emulation install base).
misc. recent posts referencing the demise of the disk division:
--
that was used internally at many datacenters. After several internal
released, it morphed into workstation datasave facility "product" and
then later morphed into ADSM ... before being renamed TSM (tivoli
storage manager) ... misc. past posts mentioning backup/archive
In the early 90s, in prepartion for spinning off the disk division, it
starting logo'ing stuff AdStar ... after the company went into the red
and new executives came in ... they decided not to split up the
company. However, later when the company decided to unload the disk
hardware part ... some amount of disk related software was transferred
to remaining business units (i.e. ADSM went to tivoli unit and renamed
TSM).
I sponsored John Boyd's breifings at IBM ... misc past posts &
URLs from around the web referencing Boyd
Part of the briefing was about how US corporations were suffering from
former WW2 army officers started to climb corporate executive ranks. At
entry to WW2, the army was faced with fielding large numbers with little
or no training ... and so created a rigid, top-down, command&control
structure to leverage scarce skilled/experienced resources. Stategy to
prevail was to use massive overwhelming resources and strict top-down
command. As former WW2 army officers rose in corporate executive ranks
they were starting to emulate their army training ... humongous numbers
of people in rigid, hierarchical control infreastructures. More recently
this has been used to explain/justify reports that ratio of executive
compensation to worker compensation has exploded to 400:1 (after being
20:1 for a long time and 10:1 in most of the rest of the world) ... aka
only the executives at the very top know what they are doing ... and all
the rest is pure cannon fodder.
misc. past posts mentioning the 400:1 compensation ratio:
--
and ...
Managing The Psychological Bias Against Creativity
from above:
somewhat related long-winded post in (linkedin) Boyd discussion
--
related Success of Failure
Washington's Cult of Continuous Failure
was original part of thread on facebook, The True Cost of 9/11,
partially archived here:
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one of the two people responsible for pascal, left the company ... did
a 3270 terminal controller clone startup, then became VP of MIPS
software development ... and then after SGI bought MIPS, became general
manager of the SUN business group responsible for JAVA.
in the aftermath of going into the red in the early 90s ... there was
transition to off-the-shelf vendor tools ... this involved a deal with a
vendor ... to turn over many of the internal tools ... but they had to
be ported to other vendor workstations. It turned out that these other
pascals had possibly not been used for much other than teaching
classes. I had left the company but got a contract to port a 60k pascal
statement application and found it tough slogging. It also turns out
that a major workstation target had outsourced its pascal to a group
twelve timezones away (minimum overnight turn around for everything)
Earlier, although I was official part of research ... first bldg. 28 on
main san jose plant site and then at almaden when the new bldg. was
built, they let me wander around and do other stuff ... including play
disk engineer in bldg. 14&15 ... some past posts
and Los Gatos lab let me have several offices and labs in their bldg.
for doing projects (in return i would do stuff for them).
misc. past posts mentioning pascal and vlsi tools:
--
and another recent reference
the tribute website
past posts mentioning above:
I mentioned recently that when Jim was leaving sjr for tandem, he was
palming some amount of stuff on me:
... before we left in the early 90s, we were doing this work on
cluster scaleup (both commercial and numerical intensive) ... some old
email
part of the commercial stuff involved DBMS work ... old reference
to Jan92 meeting in Ellison's office
Not long later ... two of the (other) people named in the meeting, left
oracle and joined a small client/server startup responsible for
something called "commerce server". Later we left (in part because the
cluster scaleup work got transferred and we were told we couldn't work
on anything with more than four processors). We then got brought in to
consult with the small client/server startup because they wanted to do
payment transactions on the server; the small startup had also invented
this technology called "SSL" they wanted to use; the result is now
frequently referred to as e-commerce.
some recent posts mentioning the above e-commerce scenario:
we had to do audit/walk-thrus of some number of the businesses selling
these things called "digital certificates" ... as I mentioned in some of
the above references ... I fairly early coined the term comfort
certificates ... to try and differentiate between the appearance of
security and real security.
--
recent posts mentioning 3830 ACP lock feature for loosely-coupled
(cluster) operation:
it was more efficient & finer granular over device reserve/release i/o
commands. All players would agree on naming convention for locks ...
and when one of the processors wanted exclusive access to some resource,
it would include the name as part of i/o operation sent to the (shared)
3830 disk controller.
old email discussing the facility
The above has some numbers for ACP lock activity compared to System/R
lock activity ... misc. past posts mentioning (original relational/sql)
rdbms
in late 70s, for growing HONE loosely-coupled clusters implementing
single-system image ... w/o any special hardware ... used a special CKD
channel program sequence as step-up from RESERVE/RELEASE ... simulating
the processor compare&swap instruction. misc. past posts mentioning
HONE
special area on disk was reserved for collection of locks. one processor
would read the lock record and see if the desired lock was available
... then it would make a copy of the lock record ... indicating it was
reserving a special lock. Then a DASD CKD SEARCH-EQUAL for the original
record contents chained to write of the record using the new contents
(DASD I/O rules were chained I/O didn't allow other operations while
active chained request was in progress ... and the write update would
only occur if the SEARCH-EQUAL was match). There was possibility that
the SEARCH-EQUAL had failed because some other processor jumped in to
obtain a different lock that was contained in the same record ... (which
would require restarting with read of the current contents of the record
... even though the desired lock wasn't held) ... but lock activity was
fairly low (and tended to be held for long periods of time) that wasn't
high probabilty. If multiple locks in single record became throughput
problem ... it would be possible to go to multiple records with fewer
locks per record.
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above includes cost estimates going forward (including disability
payments and medical treatment for wounded troops)
from year ago, "What Did the Rumsfeld/Gates Pentagon Do with
$1 Trillion"
... past decade there was $2.144T appropriated by congress over the 1999
baseline ... $1.113T was appropriated for the war ... but where did the
other trillion go???
above also references that the lack of auditability allows significant
fraud and corruption which contributes to lack of adequate equipment for
the troops.
similar ... Domestic Roots of Perpetual War
Spinney takes Eisenhower's MIC (military/industry complex) and expands
it to MICC (military/industry/congress complex) ... minor note, Spinney
was one of Boyd's cohorts
the Success of Failure culture is similar theme
above references periodically touch on motivations related to middle
east and oil economy as well as complexity of the operations make it
difficult to audit. however, major motivation for complexity claims is
frequently to obfuscate fraud and corruption (fraud proportional to
complexity).
with regard to complexity ... from Baer's "Sleeping With the Enemy", pg
153/loc2329-11, "Reverse collection is deeply complicated" ... basically
takes Saudi weapon sales off-book and out from under arms legislation
... much of the rest of the chapter is about duplicity of US industry.
misc. recent posts mentioning pentagon labyrinth
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Spence was on TV yesterday pushing this book ... instant gratification
download to kindle. Book repeatedly mentions investment requires
putting off using the money for immediate things. The lack of
investment dates back decades and shows up in things like decaying
infrastructure. An example is call for 100% unearned profit tax on the
auto industry in the early 80s. The import quotas was to give auto
industry excess profits to invest in totally remaking themselves
... instead they used the profits for bonuses, salaries, dividends and
continued business as usual for several more decades.
misc. past posts mentioning 100% unearned profit tax:
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Spence also makes point about developing/3rd-world countries moving
from labor-wage sensitive to advanced/developed country
knowledge-based work (requiring lots of investment in productive
educational infrastructure). Report after the US 1990 census on
decaying education infrastructure (that has continued to decline) was
that half of 18yr olds were functionally illiterate. Recent news has
been states continue to postpone requiring 7th grade math proficiency
tests for high-school graduation. Note that after fiscal
responsibility act expired late 2002, and congress going budget fiscal
irresponsible crazy in 2003 ... comptroller general would include
comments in speeches about nobody in congress capable of middle school
arithmetic.
misc. past posts mentioning functionally illiterate report:
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1969, while still undergraduate ... i got talked into spending summer at
boeing helping set up BCS (consolidating most of boeing dataprocessing
in an independent business unit) ... something like first couple dozen
or so BCS "employees". even tho it was summer job ... they brought me on
as mid-level "permanent" employee. Previous spring they also talked me
in into giving a 40hr computer class (during spring break) to the BCS
technical staff that were onboard at the time.
that summer, 747 (serial #3) was doing FAA certification flights over
seattle. I remember being given the standard airline tour of the
mockup ... one of the things claimed was that 747 dual-aisle carried
so many passengers, that 747 would always be serviced by minimum of
two jetways. One of the 747 engineers was renting their basement
apartment ... so got some number of stories ... including some
sabatoge incidents that summer involving 747.
Part of the cockpit being elavated was to allow freight nose door to
compete in C5 competition. some recent comments were that various people
in Lockheed claimed that Boeing was the "real" winner of the C5
competition (having "lost" to Lockheed)
renton datacenter (which I thot at the time, possibly was largest in
the world) was being replicated up in Everett 747 plant ... there was
disaster scenario with Mt. Rainier warming up and resulting mud-slide
could possibly take out Renton datacenter. Some claim was that the
loss of the Renton datacenter for a week would cost the company more
than cost of the Renton datacenter.
the whole summer of 1969, there were constant pieces of 360/65s
systems in the halls around the renton datacenter machine room
... pieces constantly arriving, faster than they could be instsalled
on the machine room floor. Claim was that Renton datacenter had
several hundred million in comuting equipment.
Boeing employees and IBM branch office people told story that on the
day that 360 computers were announced, Boeing walked into the
salesman's office and placed a very larger 360 order (knowing more
about the machines, than the salesman). Supposedly the salesman's
commission on that order was larger than TJWjr's compensation that
year ... and prompted the IBM corporate switch-over from straight
commission to quota. The start of next year, Boeing placed an
additional large order, resulting in the salesman exceeding the year's
quota in the first couple weeks. Apparently the salesman's quota was
then "adjusted" ... resulting in the salesman resigning and starting
their own computer services corporation.
misc. past posts mentioning BCS:
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recent boeing 787 posts:
Boeings New Dreamliner Ready For Maiden Voyage
but there were various problems
another
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#59 Boeing Plant 2 ... End of an Era
End of an Era
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There is some about the Federal Reserve bailing too-big-to-fail here;
Federal Reserve has been lending trillions in free money to
too-big-to-fail, who are buying treasuries and booking the interest as
profits. federal reserve could have been buying treasuries at zero
percent directly ... but that would have eliminated the profits for
too-big-to-fail ... there is disconnect between Federal reserve
printing all the free money and not using it to directly underwrite
free federal borrowing.
TV business news interview with somebody just now, that said he
couldn't figure out why the stock market has gone up at all, for three
and half years they've refused to address the fundamental structural
problems and for three and half years the US economy has been the
"emperor's new clothes" in the room
TV business news just had segment on regional banks (never played in
securitized toxic CDOs like the too-big-to-fail). There has been
periodic industry publication comparing avg of major regional banks
against the avg of national banks for thousands of measures sliced and
diced all sorts of ways. Net was regional are slightly more
profitable&efficient than national ... invalidating major argument for
too-big-to-fail (which seems primarily to be top executive
compensation proportional to size).
TV business news just now had financial sector expert talking about
can any human comprehend the operation of these too-big-to-fail
institutions ... but I think he was more playing apologetic for their
executives making mistakes ... as opposed institutions of that size
aren't practical.
Steele mentions "theater" ... but in much more forceful way
more Kabuki theater 1603-1629:
Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult
middle of last decade there was comment that it use to be special
interests could buy congressmen, but with the corruption uptic the
first years of the century, enormous amounts of money now only rents
congressmen for short periods. the hostility & conflict themes in this
Kabuki theater helps keep the money flowing ... also acts as
distraction for the public, akin to Roman games.
misc. past posts mentioning Kabuki Theater
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loc.2372-74:
this skips the moral hazard issue. Most of moral hazard has been
about too-big-to-fail taking high rewards and laying off the risk on
the country. It skips the moral hazard of individuals seeing
enormous personal rewards and laying off the risk on their
institutions (stories of business people directing risk managers to
fiddle the inputs to the risk models until they came up with the
desired results, aka GIGO).
2008 wharton business school article had estimate that something like
1000 were responsible for 80% of the financial mess and it would go a
long way to correcting the situation if the gov. could figure out
something to eliminate those 1000.
the individual hotspots of greed and corruption had been kept damped
down by regulation®ulators ... which individuals saw as blocking
their way to enormous rewards. special interests were able to have
much of those controls removed &/or nullified ... allowing the
individual hotspots to combine together into firestorm.
Gov. has bailed out much of wallstreet ... leaving "mainstreet" to
bear most of the brunt of the firestorm.
misc. past posts mentioning wharton school article:
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trivia ... the executive that handled shutdown of time/life operatio,
then was given the job of shutting down vm370 development in burlington
mall ... supposedly part of killing off vm370 product ... recent
references
while Endicott managed to save the vm370 product missions ... there were
still some in POK that believed that it was only for the low&mid range
machines ... that MVS was going to be the only thing running on POK
high-end machines ... some old email
HONE was virtual machine based, online interactive system providing
world-wide sales&marketing support ... misc. past posts mentioning
HONE
HONE had started off after the 23Jun69 unbundling announcement
... several virtual machine cp67 datacenters ... to provide new/young
SEs (customer technical support) "hands-on" experience (substitute for
apprentice/journeyman role that they played in large SE groups at
customer sites) running operating systems in virtual machines remotely
from branch office. It fairly quickly morphed into also providing
large number (mostly APL-based) applications for sales&marketing
support (and the SE "hands-on" use died off).
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references even older a.f.c. post
mentions having three i432 books in boxes ... and reproduced one of the
intros ... which referenced s/38
somewhat concurrent with i432, TYMSHARE did capability-based operating
system "gnosis" for ibm mainframe. When M/D bought TYMSHARE in the
mid-80s, gnosis was spun off as keykos (disclaimer: I was brought in to
do gnosis audit as part of the spinoff).
Some more recent capability-based claim to trace back to gnosis;
some recent mention of gnosis
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followup thread in a.f.c. newsgroup mentioning that 23jun69 unbundling
announcement eliminated the normal training for new SEs (branch office
customer technical support) ... traditionally kind of
apprentice/journeyman as part of large team on customer site
(unbundling was supposed to charge for all time SE spent at customer,
couldn't justify charging for "apprentice") ... which gave rise to
HONE systems ... originally virtual-machine based cp67 systems for
branch office SEs to logon from branch offices and keep up their
operating system skills in virtual machine
past posts mentioning unbundling
earlier post in thread mentioning references to a motivation for the
"Future System" project in the early 70s was "clone controllers":
past posts mentioning Future System
recent reference that "Future System" (and killing off "competitive"
370 development) gave "clone processors" market foothold
above also references that then a lot of executives felt that clone
processor vendors wouldn't be able to crack the "true blue",
commercial, high-end IBM market because those vendors didn't have the
SE staffs to devote a dozen or more SEs at each customer (that was
required for the care & feeding of large MVS systems). It also
references that the enormous amount of resources to maintain MVS
systems was barrier to entry for MVS into the wave of distributed 43xx
systems (customers putting hundreds of 43xx systems out into every
departmental work area) ... as cost of computing was coming down
drastically, there wasn't a corresponding drop in support costs (at
least for MVS) ... which then started to become dominating factor.
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Spence's "The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World"
claims in resource rich countries that there is epidemic of leaders
pillaging the economy & resources ... making it difficult for
developing resource rich countries to transition to stable
democracies. loc:1966-67:
other recent reference to Spence's book
and similar from Diamond's: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human
Societies
loc4781-82;
other recent references to Guns, Germs, and Steel:
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mainframe 370/xa sort of backed into that.
os/360 transition from real-storage 360 to 370 with virtual memory
started with single 16mbyte virtual memory ... with the real storage
metaphor that had kernel+applications laid out in same (smaller) real
storage address space now in a larger/16mbyte virtual address space.
This was initially accomplished with single hardware table, little
bit of code hacked in to handle page faults and paging operations ...
and "CCWTRANS" borrowed from virtual machine cp67.
In virtual machine cp67 ... each virtual machine had its own virtual
address space ... I/O channel programs required real addresses. CCWTRANS
made copies of the virtual machine I/O channel programs ... replacing
the virtual machine addresses with real storage addresses. OS/360
conventions had applications (and/or library routines invoked by
applications) building I/O channel programs in the application space
before invoking the kernel. OS/360 transition to 370 virtual memory then
was faced with the same problem with I/O channel programs built with
virtual addresses ... needed to be cloned with real addresses
substituted.
The 2nd phase of OS/360 transition to virtual memory changed so that
every application got its own 16mbyte virtual address space (would look
almost like original os/360 if there was a single application running on
the whole machine) ... with (same) 8mbyte kernel image appearing in
every application address space (form of sharing). The problem was that
OS/360 consisted of some number of "sub-systems" that resided outside
the kernel ... and OS/360 heavily used pointer-passing API ... which
worked as long as everything was in the same address space. With this
latest transitiion, besides each application getting their own virtual
address space ... so did every "sub-systems". To preserve the
pointer-passing API ... and additional area called the common segment
was defined in every virtual address space. Application would obtain
exclusive use of some common segment area, copy in the API parameters
and make a kernel call. The kernel call would inventually switch to the
designated subsystems ... which would pickup the indicated parameters
from the "common segment".
Problem was that common segment size tended to be proportional to the
number of sub-systems and concurrent applications ... as systems got
larger, the common segment size would need to be 4-5mbytes (and for some
systems it was in danger of growing to 6mbytes). A 16mbyte virtual
address space with 8mbyte kernel image and a 6mbyte common segment image
... only left 2mbytes for actual application use.
to solve this problem they came up with access registers (hardware
registers that pointed to multiple different virtual address spaces) and
"program call" (combination of operating system hardware table and
instruction that operated somewhat like subroutine call ... but would
use information from the operating system hardware table to swap into
some subsystem address space ... avoiding overhead of kernel call).
a subset of this was retrofitted to 3033 late in 370 lifetime called
"dual-address" space. dual-address space added secondary address space
for semi-privileged subsystem operation. application would make kernel
call ... which would swap hardware address space pointers and enter
subsystem execution. The subsystem now had capability to access storage
in the calling application virtual address sapce.
current description of address space types:
initial introduction of multiple address space operation was with kernel
calls to perform all the address space swapping. later introduction of
program call/return ... and then later program transfer ... was done
with almost as little overhead as library call (residing in application
address space). with intro of program call ... it started being possible
to move various library routines into separate address space with little
overhead (for switching address spaces).
multiple address space operation then simulates some of the
characteristics of ring security operation ... but using arbitrary
address spaces (as opposed to rings).
long-winded description of program call operation
program call instruction
later program transfer was added
some recent posts mentioning common segment &/or dual-address space
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Societies-ebook/dp/B000VDUWMC/
and
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
To hurry things, there were instances of Europeans gathering blankets
from small pox and other disease victims for distribution to native
Indians.
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some of the participants were heavily involved in privacy issues
and had done detailed public privacy surveys and found the
#1 issue was "identity theft" ... namely of the form involving
account fraud (fraudulent financial transactions) frequently
from account numbers gained from various breaches.
The issue was that breaches were a threat to the account owners
(fraudulent transactions against their accounts) and not against the
institutions where the breaches occured (who therefor had nothing at
risk in the breaches). Since little was being done (frequently not even
getting publicity) ... there was some hope that the publicity from the
breach notifications might motivation institutions to take corrective
action (as well as the victims might take countermeasure).
In the decade or so since the cal. state legislation, several other
states have passed similar bills. Numerous federal data breach
notification bills have also been introduced ("federal" pre-emption of
state legislation) about evenly divided between those that were
effectively similar to the original cal. state legislation and those
that would have eliminated most notification requirement. The most
recent federal bill would have only required notification if there was
additional information in addition to account numbers (like SS#
... which is nearly never the case in the financial transaction
database breaches that have resulted in the majority of fraudulent
financial transactions).
we had been brought into small client/server startup that wanted to do
payment transactions on their server, the startup had also invented this
technology called "SSL" and the result is now frequently referred to as
"electronic commerce". somewhat as a result in the mid-90s we were asked
to participate in the x9a10 financial standard working group ... which
had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the
financial industry for ALL retail payments. As part of the effort,
there was vulnerability and threat studies of various kinds of retail
payments. We came up with a number of metaphors for the existing payment
environment.
naked transaction metaphor ... going around w/o any protection in an
extremely hostile environment ... resulting in an enormous target rich
environment for attackers. ... some past refs:
dual-use metaphor ... account numbers are used in dozens of business
processes at millions of locations around the world ... they are also
frequently sufficient for performing fraudulent transactions ... so
we've claimed that even if the planet was buried under miles of
information hiding encryption, it still wouldn't stop leakage.
security proportional to risk the account databases (frequent target
of breaches) where the value of the information for merchants is
basically profit margin on transaction (possibly a couple
dollars/account-transaction) and the value of the information for
transaction processors is a few cents/transactions. the value of the
information to attackers/crooks is the account balance/credit-limit
... frequently at least a couple hundred dollars. As a result, attackers
may be able to outspend the defenders by factor of two orders of
magnitude (100 times or possibly three orders of magnitude in the case
of transaction processors).
x9a10 financial standard working group produced the x9.59 financial
standard ... some references
X9.59 didn't do anything to address data breaches ... but it eliminated
the ability for crooks to use account numbers for fraudulent financial
transactions (aka it didn't eliminate data breaches ... it just
eliminated the financial motivation for crooks to perform the data
breaches ... and the fraudulent financial transaction risk to public
that came as result from data breach).
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as part of the work on "electronic commerce" ... we needed to do
walk-through/audits of these new businesses called certification
authorities that were selling SSL domain name digital certificates.
Not long after, i coined the term comfort certificates to try and
differentiate between the feeling of security and real security.
misc. past posts mentioning "SSL" digital certificates
some recent posts mentioning comfort certificates
some recent news URLs
Apple strikes stolen SSL certificates from OS X
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re:
a major fraction of interchange fees that merchants pay on electronic
payments is prorated based on the degree of fraud for the type of
transaction ... with possibly an order of magnitude fee spread between
lower & highest fraud. large US financial institutions in the US can
have approx. 50% of their bottom line coming from these
fees. Improvements in anti-fraud for electronic payments could have
significant impact on their bottom line. The other downside for these
institutions is that the crooks would shift from the current low-hanging
fruit (electronic payments) ... where financial institutions basically
make profit off fraud in their charges to merchant ... to other kinds of
fraudulent financial activity where merchants aren't involved and the
financial institutions would be solely liable for the fraud.
One of the next low-hanging (fraud) fruit (if major improvement is made
in electronic payment transactions) is opening new accounts (as opposed
to fraudulent transactions against existing accounts) where financial
institutions are also subject to "know your customer" gov. mandates
(including those involved in money laudering).
In the current fraudulent financial transactions involving information
gained from data breaches ... one of the criminal characteristics is
that the fraudulent financial transactions are usually done as far away
from the point of data breach as possible (if it is a merchant data
breach, majority of fraudulent financial transactions being performed as
far away from that data breach as possible). A countermeasure to data
breaches is turning off all the affected accounts ... so crooks want the
compromised accounts to be active for as long as possible ... which also
requires that the breach point is obfuscated. The net is merchants
"paying" for the fraudulent transactions tend to be totally different
than the institutions involved in the actual data breach (at least
before the various data breach legislation).
Even after the data breach legislation, the financial institutions have
still been able to manipulate interchange fees ... so that they are more
than compensated for any financial losses (in fact, making significant
profit). This "profit from fraud" scenario is possibly one of the
reasons that fraud might have been seen as a public relations issue (as
opposed to a security issue).
past references to Y2K remediation being let to lowest bidder.:
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I was in silicon valley in the late 90s and being told about
investment bankers running "IPO mills" ... formula for investing in
startups and then hyping up until the IPO. It was even desirable for
the startup to fail after the IPO ... since it left the market open
for the next round of IPOs (startups succeeding after their IPOs
actually had financial downside for their formula).
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--
from above:
Boyd would talk about this in his briefings when he referred to
Guderian's verbal orders only during the Blitzkrieg ... designed to
encourage local, independent action (and not have to worry about CYA
in after action reviews)
Boyd would contrast the exact opposite for the US Army in WW2.
advancement becomes more about not having black marks instead of
having done something ... in fact, lack of any black marks usually
implies always playing it safe and never doing anything
My wife's father commanded (1154th) engineering combat group in ETO
which had some of the flexibility feel (I've been able to scan copies
of his WW2 status reports at National Archives)
from 1154th status report:
past posts mentioning verbal orders only:
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I had sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM. Part of briefing was about US
corporate culture was suffering as former WW2 army officers were
coming of age in corporations. Scenario was that at entry to WW2, army
had to field large numbers of unskilled. To leverage scarce
experience, they created rigid, top-down, command&control structure
... relying on overwhelming resources and rigid logistic management to
prevail. The former WW2 army officers were starting to apply their
organization management training to corporate American.
For the first briefing, I first tried to have it sponsored through
employee education and at first they agreed. As I supplied them more
information about briefings ... with regard to prevailing in
competitive environment, they changed their mind. The comment was that
the corporation devotes significant resources to training managers to
handle employees and they felt Boyd's briefings could be detrimental
to those efforts. They recommended that attendance be limited to
senior members of competitive analysis departments.
While Boyd was pretty much disowned by the Air Force, the Marines
adopted him (he is the only non-Marine in the library lobby "shrines"
at Quantico).
as an aside, during the 80s, Marines were becoming less & less
differentiated from the Army and were possibly in danger of becoming
superfluous. For instance, the Marines were even forced to buy a whole
load of Abrahms tanks (so army could get the volume discount
price). The Abrahms at 65-70 tons are unusable in 95% of Marine
mission profiles with 35ton load limits. In the early 90s, Boyd
provided renewed differentiation for Marines (Boyd is also credited
with the battle plan for Desert Storm; comments have been that major
problem regarding the most recent conflicts is that Boyd died in '97).
re:
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from above:
stability can be another term for maintaining status quo
People are biased against creative ideas, studies find
Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel" has segment that unified china was
way ahead of europe (possibly even discovering america in 1421) and
then the empress eliminated all disruptive threats to her reign, cut
off all foreign contact, including destroying all ocean-going vessels.
few past posts mentioning Daimond's book:
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Compare-and-swap, CAS instruction introduced in 370 ... chosen because
"CAS" are the initials of the person that invented it at the science
center when doing fine-grain multiprocessor locking work on cp/67.
misc. past posts mentioning smp and/or compare-and-swap
misc. past posts mentioning science center
GNOSIS ... great new operating system in (the) sky ... 370 operating
system done by Tymshare.
HONE ... hands-on network environment ... originally virtual machine
cp67 datacenters for branch office SE to logon and practice operating
system in virtual machines (after 23jun69 unbundling
announcement). Later morphed into vm/cms with lots of apl applications
for world-wide online sales&marking support. HONE was one of my
hobbies providing them with highly customized operating systems. misc
old email mentioning hone
for some EDGAR drift ... there is somebody writing an article about
the early wars over scroll up/down convention ... and was looking for
early discussions. I provided this old email discussing EDGAR having
got it wrong (the file moves "UP" so you are looking at lines closer
to bottom of the file ... as opposed to "looking" up at lines closer
to the top of the file). This article is apparently part of looking at
"gesture" conventions for tablets. ... History of user model for
scrolling:
There were several internal editors that predated XEDIT that were much
more mature and had more function when XEDIT was selected for product
release. This was post with several old emails ... that blamed one of
the authors of one of the most capable of these editors ... for it
having more function than XEDIT ... and that it should be his
responsibility to make the necessary enhancements to XEDIT (as opposed
to selecting his editor for product release).
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previously mentioned privacy surveys that resulted in original
cal. state data breach notification legislation ... found that it wasn't
just loss of information ... but loss of information that had direct
detrimental effects on each person. #1 one was those that resulted in
fraudulent financial transactions against accounts belonging to the
person. #2 was information that would result in institutions denying the
person job &/or services (like medical insurance).
recent similar earlier thread:
with regard to interchange fees and fraud ... the early part of this
century there were a number of "safe" payment products developed for the
internet. Internet electronic payments are considered some of the least
"safe" with the "highest" fraud rate ... and therefor the highest
interchange fees.
The "safe" products were presented to large internet merchants
(accounting for 60-80% of total internet payments) and found high
acceptance. The merchants had been conditioned for decades that
interchange fees were proportional to fraud ... and they were
anticipating that the "safe" products would reduce their interchange
fees from the highest to nearly the lowest (possibly order of magnitude
reduction). Then set in the cognitive dissonance ... when the
merchants were told that the financial institutions decided to set the
interchange fees for "safe" internet payment products to effectively a
surcharge on top of the highest rate (reversing decades of merchant
conditioning) ... and all the "safe" products disappeared from the
scene.
misc. past posts mentioning interchange fees:
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and recent news item:
Outsourcing IT to other countries adds to cyber risks, report says; New
white paper warns of increasing national security risks from cyber
threats
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RFC 801 NCP/TCP(/IP) transition plan 1Nov81:
tcp/ip is the technology basis for the modern internet, NSFNET backbone
was the operational basis for the modern internet and CIX was the
business basis for the modern internet.
Misc. old email related to NSFNET backbone
In IMPs/host-protocol, the IMPs were the network nodes and typically one
or more hosts/mainframes connected to IMPs. At time of the switch-over,
there supposedly were approx. 100 IMPs (network nodes) and possibly 250
or so host/mainframes.
RFC 1000
from above:
RFC 240 Site Status (& list of hosts) 27Sep71:
The above mentions Joel Winnet getting host protocol up on cp67 (ran on
360/67, precusor to vm370) at lincoln labs.
IBM mainframe tcp/ip product was done about the time of the NSFNET
backbone (although some sites had implemented their own mainframe tcp/ip
support earlier) ... it was written in pascal/vs for vm370 ... a kludged
up version was later made available on MVS by implementing simulation
for some vm370 functions. The original version had some performance and
thruput issues. I did the changes for supporting RFC1044 and in some
tuning tests at Cray Research (between cray and 4341-clone) got possibly
500 times improvement (in instructions executed per bytes transferred)
running at 4341-clone channel media speed. misc. past posts mentioning
doing rfc 1044 support
not real machines ... but various players have old mainframe system
software running under hercules
as aside ... the internal network
was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until
possibly late-85 or early-86 ... originally implemented at the science
center on cp67
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one of the "irresponsible" was medicare part-d early in 2003 which the
comptroller general said was a $40T unfunded mandate (over time, would
come to totally swamp all other budget items).
cbs 60mins did segment on passage of medicate part-d ... supposedly
there were 18 congress members & staffers (republican) that were
sheperding the bill through passage. At the last hr, they inserted a
single sentence in the bill stating that part-d drugs weren't subject to
competitive bidding ... and prevented CBO from distributing a financial
report regarding the one sentence change until after the bill was
passed.
60mins then showed numerous drugs that for the veterans administration
(that allows competitive bidding) were 1/3rd the price of the
same/identical drugs under medicare part-d (w/o competitive bidding).
They followed up on the 18 shepherding the bill and found that within a
year of the bill passage, all had resigned and were on drug company
payrolls.
so ... apparently not only Canada ... but also the veterans
administration.
misc. past posts mentioning medicare part-d
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low-end & mid-range was to come out with its equivalent to TSO (os/360
time share option) for VS1. It was originally was going to be called
PCO (personal computing option) ... but that turned out to be an
acronym for a political party in Europe and eventually the name was
changed to VS/PC.
The PCO group viewed vm/cms as competitive effort ... and they had a
couple people that did a PCO model and would run a whole bunch
"simulated" benchmarks and then much of the vm/cms development group
was tied up doing real "equivalent" benchmarks (instead of
development). The benchmark PCO "model" numbers and vm/cms numbers
were usually quite close ... however, when PCO was finally running
... and there were "real" PCO numbers ... it turned out that "real"
PCO benchmark numbers were around ten times worse than the "model" PCO
benchmark numbers (the vm/cms developers had wasted an enormous amount
of their limited resources doing comparison benchmarks for something
that was total fabrication).
misc. past posts mentioning PCO
--
currently it is something of kludge to work-around emacs lack of thread
support (my current desk machine is hyper-threaded 4-core w/16gbyte
memory)
I do use firefox for browser support ... but i've got bunch of
shell/wget/emacs stuff that drives checking news websites for URLs i
haven't seen before ... which can fire-off a couple hundred URLs in
firefox tabs. wget to retrieve long list of news URL ... emacs to parse
file for URLs, sqlite to retrieve firefox history file, and then check
if any new URLs that aren't in firefox history ... and then fire-off
result in firefox background tabs.
the composition of archived stuff at garlic.com/~lynn is mostly done in
emacs as is generating URLs of past archived postings.
misc. past mention of mozilla/firefox tabs
--
Stiglitz's "Three Trillion Dollar War" references that if public
company was run like DOD during the last decade, it would be brought
up on SEC charges (aka Spinney's MICC ...
military-industrial-congressional complex)
above includes cost estimates going forward (including disability
payments and medical treatment for wounded troops). This shows that
$2T has been appropriated as of 2010 over 1999 DOD baseline, $1T for
the war and wonders where the other $1T went:
"What Did the Rumsfeld/Gates Pentagon Do with $1 Trillion"
However, by comparison there is an estimate that there was $27T in
triple-A rated toxic CDO transactions done during the same period
(i've referred to as financial-regulatory-congressional complex)
misc. past references to Stiglitz, "what happened to $1T at
Pentagon", and/or $27T triple-A rated, toxic CDO transactions:
--
There was something of manned versus unmanned discussion this
week. One of the points was that the F18 is already fly-by-wire
(unstable flight w/o computer controls) and can sustain very
significant damage and still able to fly (computer is already
adjusting large number of controls ... and is programmed to do
necessary adjustments to keep flying). As a result, it is relative
straight-forward incremental steps to fly much more autonomously. This
came up in article two years ago about Army UAV are operated by
sergeants that are trained but aren't flight rated and the Army UAV
has computerized automated landing. Similar UAVs operated by Air Force
pilots, landing under manual control,l have much higher crash rate.
Not dwelt so much on was that F35 was only strategic solution and got
enormous resources because it was too-important-to-fail. I've seen
quite a few too-important-to-fail ... which got into death spiral with
constantly trying to add features to justify the enormous costs. The
problem was that the added features would increase costs faster than
the justification for the added features. While it is possible to
build a UAV that costs as much as F35, there isn't a single designated
solution, a wide-variety can be built with a large number of different
costs. One observation was that at least 50 different kinds of UAVs
have been developed in just the past year.
It is possible to have a UAV that is as expensive as an F35 ... but it
is also possible to have 50-100 UAVs for the cost of a F35 and
hundreds of different kinds of UAVs.
I made some comment about mission specialist becoming more in control
of the UAV with autonomous operation of "fly-by-wire" in support of
the mission specialist. Somebody made the comment that things were
already heading in that direction. There was point made that cruise
missiles are already autonomous UAV ... just not designed to (also)
return.
As disasters happen with too-important-to-fail, more & more
resources typically are added until they also become too-big-to-fail
... which then tends to slow OODA-loops to glacier speeds. In the 70s
I had drawn analogies with massive resource efforts exceeding critical
mass and becoming black holes. The analogy wasn't quite perfect until
I ran across the paper about black holes evaporating.
Boyd would talk about F15 being stand-off missile platform ... but not
the best fighter. He talked about his effort then in doing F16. He
claimed head of the F15 forces went to sec. of airforce and wanted
Boyd thrown in leavenworth for the rest of his life; they claimed they
knew Boyd was doing F16, but wasn't authorized ... and must be using
millions of dollars in unauthorized supercomputer time for F16 design
... which amounts to theft of millions in dollars of gov. property. An
investigation was kicked off to find proof of the millions of
unauthorized supercomputer time .... but after several months they
gave up.
One of the issues is too-important/big-to-fail technology has
slow iteration ... currently UAV has large number of concurrent much
faster iterations.... including radically lower cost solutions. In
addition to coloring outside the lines ... they are also coloring on
large number of blank pages
misc. Boyd posts & references
--
circa 1980, somebody from the mvs organization contacted me about recent
change that had been to MVS, regarding not actually "swapping" pages
unless actually needed ... and they wanted to know about making similar
change to vm370. I commented, that it had never occured to me to not do
it that way ... dating back to when i did the original implementation in
the 60s.
I actually had earlier arguments with the organization when they were
first adding virtual memory to os/360 ... for svs and then mvs.
misc. past posts mentioning paging, swapping, page replace algorithms,
etc
--
from above:
--
from above:
Zakaria: Only China can save Europe
On his Sunday morning show ... comment was that US was only country
that had money to lend Europe after WW2 and was major factor in US as
world reserve. China is in similar position now.
Zakaria's Post-American World, pg187/loc3013-16: "No statistic seems
to capture this anxiety better than those showing the decline of
engineering. In 2005, the National Academy of Sciences released a
report warning that the United States could soon lose its privileged
position as the world's science leader. In 2004, the report said,
China graduated 600,000 engineers, India 350,000, and the United
States 70,000."
pg218/loc3515-17: "In 2007, China contributed more to global growth
than the United States did -- the first time any nation has done so
since at least the 1930s -- and surpassed it as the world's largest
consumer market in several key categories."
Spence: Future of Economic Growth in Multispeed World loc914-16: "One
way to think about this is that China and India account for about 60
percent of the population of the G20 countries. In another few
decades, these will be the major advanced income countries. At that
point, say by the middle of the twenty-first century, output of China
and India will be similar and account for almost 60 percent of the
world's advanced-country income."
--
The appropriated TARP funds would have barely been able to buy the
triple-A rated toxic CDO holdings of the four largest too-big-to-fail
at 22cents on the dollar ... however clearing the books at 22cents on
the dollar would have resulted in declaring the institutions insolvent
and gov. being forced to liquidate the institutions.
So, the gov. had to come up with some other use of the TARP funds ...
and triple-A rated toxic CDOs stay festering off-balance. The Federal
Reserve then stepped in and started buying trillions in triple-A rated
toxic CDOs at 98cents on the dollar as well as lending the institutions
additional trillions at effectively zero percent interest.
The anticipation was that the too-big-to-fail institutions would use
the little bit from TARP plus the huge trillions from the FED to start
lending ... what turned out was that they used the funds to buy
treasuries instead (booking the interest from treasuries as profit)
... which contributes significantly to all the congressional Kabuki
theater over the debt (1603-1629 period)
Instead the FED could have started directly buying trillions in
treasuries at zero percent interest (significantly reducing any issue
about debt since the federal gov. would be getting free money) and made
the additional trillions available to the regional and local community
banks that had been lending. The result would have been the
too-big-to-fail would have failed and liquidated.
There is a periodic financial industry publication that slices and dices
all sorts of operation ... showing avg. for largest national financial
institutions against the avg. for the largest regional financial
institutions. The regionals have come out slightly more profitable and
more efficient than the nationals (possibly the only justification for
the nationals is top executive compensation tends to be proportional
to the size of the institution).
Past posts referencing articles about $27T in triple-A rated toxic CDO
transactions, four largest too-big-to-fail holding $5.2T in triple-A
rated toxic CDOs at the end of 2008, congressional Kabuki theater,
and/or FOIA forced FED to release documents about what it had been
doing:
--
Buffett has been using the example of his effective tax-rate compared to
workers in his office for some years ... on the subject of eliminating
the enormous number of tax loopholes for special interests. The
proliferation of congress "selling" tax loopholes to special interests
has been enormous source of funds for members of congress (periodic
reports that the greatest plum in congress is being appointed to member
of tax committee ... where the special interests will concentrate a
significant amount of money). There are lots of scenarios that all of
congress creates a facade of political discord to help keep the money
flowing (as well as Roman games for the population). It contributes to
the claims that congress is the most corrupt institution on earth as
well as congress being Kabuki theater (1603-1629 period):
a couple recent posts
The other scenario is that all the special interest tax loopholes has
resulted in an enoromously large & complex 65,000 page taxcode ...
dealing with that taxcode costs the country as much as 3-5% of GDP (or
eliminating all the special interest tax loopholes possibly benefits
the country 3-5% GDP productivity).
misc. past posts reference the 65,000 page taxcode complexity and the
overall aggregate complexity costs to the country far outweighs the
benefits:
--
one of the other things that buffett played in was when the muni-bond
market froze (aka loans to municipalities for local services).
One of the pivotal plays in the financial mess was the GLBA repeal of
Glass-Steagall enabling emerging too-big-to-fail to play with
triple-A rated toxic CDOs being carried off-balance).
However, another pivotal play was the rating agencies selling triple-A
ratings (on the toxic CDOs) to (many unregulated) loan originators:
Subprime = Triple-A ratings? or 'How to Lie with Statistics'
When investors began to realize that the rating agencies were selling
triple-A ratings ... there was fear that no rating agency ratings could
be trusted ... and the muni-bond market totally froze. Buffett stepped
in with muni-bond "insurance" ... that unfroze the market and started
investors investing again.
misc. past posts mentioning Buffett
--
from above:
Zakaria's Post-American World, pg187/loc3013-16:
there was study that business was channeling enormous sums through
various associations into congress on illegal immigration over the
last decade. In the 90s, there were GAO reports (that had been
requested by congress) regarding the effects of amnesty & additional
legal immigration. One of the nets was business turned significant
profit by paying below scale rates to illegals (about
$10k/illegal/annum spread, just on cost of gov. services over what
they were paid, effectively a defacto subsidy to businesses). I had
expected to see similar GAO reports requested over the past few years
... but there has been nothing (the lack of reports is indicative).
misc. past posts mentioning illegal aliens:
--
similar (regardless of what was entered, it was treated as valid) ...
but different was YES CARD exploit of the chip payment card (used in
europe, uk, some other parts of the world, as well as rather large pilot
in the US that appeared to evaporate w/o a trace after the publication
of the exploit). old reference that has gone 404 ... but lives on at the
wayback machine:
a trival point-of-sale (POS) terminal cloning hack (identical to
technology previously developed for magstripe terminal attack)
... harvested information for making clone/counterfeit chip payment
card. The counterfeit card would be programmed to answer "YES"
(i.e. correct) to 1) was correct PIN entered, 2) perform "offline"
transaction, 3) is transaction within credit limit.
the description at a (US) ATM Integrity task force meeting in the
period, prompted somebody in the audience to explaim that they managed
to spend billions of dollars to prove chips are less secure than
magstripe.
in the counterfeit magstripe case, the transaction is always online and
the account number can be deactivated (once the fraud has been
discovered) and prevents future transactions. there was no way of
stopping fraudulent transactions with the couterfeit chipcard since the
transaction would never go online (to check if account was still valid).
I described the exploit to people running one of the US pilots (before
deployment) ... and their reply was that it wouldn't affect them because
all of their chipcards were programmed to always do online transactions
(which would catch invalidated account ... as in the magstripe
case). These people were intimately tied to the (valid) chipcard part of
the infrastructure ... and couldn't interpret that the exploit was an
attack on POS terminal part of the infrastructure ... and had *nothing*
to do with attascking valid chipcards ... aka valid POS terminals were
hacked to gain the information to create counterfeit chipcards ... and
countfeit chipcards (not valid chipcards) then were used with other POS
terminals.
They were so chipcard-centric focused, that when the exploit was
explained to them ... they couldn't see how it affect them, since it
wasn't a direct attack on their chipcard (even tho it was an attack on
their infrastructure ... and could easily drive their fraud through the
roof).
misc. past post mentioning YES CARD exploits
--
disclaimer: I had designed & prototyped chips that weren't vulnerable
to yes card vulnerabilities.
We had been brought in to consult with small client/server startup
that wanted to do payment transactions on their server, they had also
invented this technology they called "SSL" they wanted to use ... the
result is now frequently called "electronic commerce". misc. past
posts mentioning payment gateway work (interface to electronic
commerce internet webservers and payment network)
Somewhat as a result in the mid-90s, we were invited to participate in
the x9a10 financial standard working group which had been given the
requirement to preserve the integrity of the financial infrastructgure
for all retail payments (this was approx. the same time as the work on
european chip payment card was going on). We had to do detailed threat
& vulnerability of various payment methods as well as detailed look at
existing payment fraud.
A major exploit across nearly all the payment methods was various
kinds of replay attacks ... skim, harvest, data breach, evesdrop
existing transactions and use the information ("replay") for
performing fraudulent transactions. Part of x9a10 work for x9.59
electronic standard effort was to eliminate all kinds of replay
attacks (which obsoletes need for majority of "SSL" in the world
today ... countermeasure evesdropping information from valid
transaction for re-use in fraudulent transactions). Reference to x9a10
work
The european chip work claimed that they had two chip solutions
... one was what they called "static" data ... pretty much same
vulnerabilities as magstripe (or even worse as in the yes card
exploit) and "dynamic" data. However, they claimed that chip that did
dynamic data wasn't affordable and they had to deploy a "static" data
chip solution. I was saying that I would take a $500 milspec chip and
aggresively cost reduce by 2-3 orders of magnitude while improving the
security. This would have significantly higher security than their
"dynamic" chip payment card solution while being significantly cheaper
than their "static" chip payment card solution. reference to decade old
Intel Developer's Forum session
At issue is that there is significant amount of vested interest in
preserving the current infrastructure. Eliminating evesdropping,
skimming, harvesting, data breach, & other vulnerabilities (as well as
needing to "hide" transactions with things like "SSL") ... also
eliminates the need for much of the current infrastructures.
--
TARP wiki
congress appropriated $700B ... which turned out to barely make a dent
in the triple-A rated toxic CDO problem ... and it would have looked bad
to the public if gov. paid face value (a very tiny percentage of the
problem) and then took the huge loss (however paying 22cents on the
dollar would almost cover the $5.2T held by the four largest
too-big-to-fail, but wouldn't have prevented them from failing).
with regard to TARP wiki reference to S&L crash ... old, long-winded
post from jan99
also, once it was decided to not use TARP funds to purchase toxic assets
and use it for loans ... then it spread out into loans for other than
financial institutions ... like bailing out the auto industry.
there was an article (washington post?) early 1980s calling for 100%
unearned profit tax on the auto industry. The import auto quotas were
supposedly was to provide domestic manufacturs breathing room and
profits (from reduced competititon) to completely remake themselves,
however, the auto industry just took the profits and used it for
business as usuals (executive bonuses, raises, dividends). I've
mentioned before that the industry had C4 task force circa 1990 looking
at completely remaking themselves. It was supposedly going to heavily
leverage IT technology and so several vendors were asked to participate
... and I went to some of the meetings. The auto industry could clearly
articulate the problems, the competition, and what they needed to do ...
but apparently because of all the vested interests ... they still
weren't able to make the changes (it is still not clear that they've
made all the changes).
With respect to bailing out the financial industry, the actual heavy
lifting was left to the huge trillions provided by the Federal Reserve
... buying triple-A ratded toxic CDOs at nearly face value and providing
"loans" at effectively zero cost. It was anticipated that the
institutions would use the free money to make lots of loans that would
stimulate the economy ... instead they were buying treasuries and
booking the spread as profits.
recent reference
which is that the "new crisis" ... is actually continuation of the same
crisis for mainstreet (having only been temporary breathing spell for
wallstreet with the huge trillions from gov & federal
reserve). Providing trillions to the too-big-to-fail didn't spur the
economy, since they didn't use it (as hoped) for mainstreet loans
... instead bought treasuries and booked the spread as profit (even the
TARP loans appeared to be used to buy treasuries ... not lending to
mainstreet ... despite what it may have said in the TARP wiki article).
older article about FOIA to get FED to release what it had been doing
($9T):
related item on housing activity
Nevada Goes to War Against Bank of America
this is 2008 estimate that 1000 were responsible for 80% of the
financial mess (gone behind subscription wall but lives on at the
wayback machine) and it would go a long way to correcting the problem if
the gov. could figure out how to eliminate them:
Now, GLBA (1999 bank "modernization") repealed Glass-Steagall
... however on the floor of congress leading up to the vote, the
rhetoric was the primary purpose was "if you were already a bank you got
to remain a bank, but if you weren't already a bank you didn't get to
becomes a bank" (specifically calling out walmart and M'soft wouldn't be
able to get bank charter).
So GLBA played pivotal part in the current crisis with repeal of
Glass-Steagall ... but interestingly it supposedly stopped giving out
new bank charters. However, as part of the Federal Reserve actions, it
gave out new bank charters to some of the too-big-to-fail investment
banking houses ... so that they could (also) have access to some of the
"free money" (that supposedly limited to regulated financial
institutions with depository institution bank charters) ... which should
have been a violation of GLBA.
misc. past posts mentioning getting to play in C4 taskforce meetings
for the auto industry:
--
one of time's 25 people responsible for the financial mess:
responsible for GLBA & repeal of Glass-Steagall
It initially passed along party lines ... but folklore was that
president was going to veto ... they then went back and added other
features so that it passed nearly unanimously (making it veto proof).
recent reference
The time magazine article references both bank modernization act (repeal
of Glass-Steagall and several other things) as well as commodity trading
modernization act (precluding oversight of derivatives) ... implicated
in both Enron as well as AIG. Both legislation played significant role
in the economic collapse (as well as numerous agenices doing the past
decade doing little regarding remaining regulations).
Phil Gramm's Enron Favor
from above:
Gramm and the 'Enron Loophole'
from above:
Greenspan Slept as Off-Books Debt Escaped Scrutiny
from above:
Born must have been fairly quickly replaced by Gramm's wife, before
she then left to join Enron (and the Enron audit committee) Gramm's
wife apparently was put in as Born's replacement as a temporary
stop-gap until Gramm got law passed that exempted regulation. and
recent quote seen on the web: Enron was a dry run and it worked so
well it has become institutionalized.
past posts mentioning time's 25 people responsible for the financial
mess &/or wharton 1000 people responsible for 80% of the financial mess:
--
Tandem Memos - n. Something constructive but hard to control; a fresh
of breath air (sic). "That's another Tandem Memos." A phrase to worry
middle management. It refers to the computer-based conference (widely
distributed in 1981) in which many technical personnel expressed
dissatisfaction with the tools available to them at that time, and also
constructively criticized the way products were [are] developed. The
memos are required reading for anyone with a serious interest in quality
products. If you have not seen the memos, try reading the November 1981
Datamation summary.
... snip ...
and ...
MIP envy - n. The term, coined by Jim Gray in 1980, that began the Tandem
Memos (q.v.). MIP envy is the coveting of other's facilities - not just
the CPU power available to them, but also the languages, editors,
debuggers, mail systems and networks. MIP envy is a term every
programmer will understand, being another expression of the proverb The
grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
... snip ...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#email800920
in this post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#17 Jim Gray Is Missing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801006
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#email801016
in this post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#1
http://www.govexec.com/management/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
conferencing facility - n. A service machine that allows data files to
be shared among many people and places. These files are typically forums
on particular subjects, which can be added to by those people authorised
to take part in the conference. This allows anyone to ask questions of
the user community and receive public answers from it. The growth rate
of a given conferencing facility is a good indication of IBMers'
interest in its topic. The three largest conferences are the IBMPC,
IBMVM, and IBMTEXT conferences, which hold thousands of forums on
matters relating to the PC, VM, and text processing, respectively. These
are all open to any VNET user. append, forum, service machine
... snip ...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
computer bootlaces
Refed: **, - **, - **
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: computer bootlaces
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:12:25 -0400
Peter Brooks <peter.h.m.brooks@gmail.com> writes:
They were, apparently working for IBM to produce all this code and,
later, SNA as well.
in early days of SNA ... my wife was co-author of AWP39 (architecture
white paper #39), Peer-to-Peer Networking ... which the SNA group
possibly thot was competitive. SNA was primarily master control
infrastructure for communication with large number of dumb terminals. It
had nothing ever remotely related to networking. Closest is possibly
AWP164, APPN specification. However, the SNA organization non-concurred
with even announcing APPN ... and after some amount of executive
escalation, APPN was approved for announcement ... but it was required
that the APPN product announcement letter be carefully crafted to not
imply any possibly connection between APPN and SNA (disclaimer, in this
period, the person responsible for APPN and I, both reported to the same
executive ... I would periodically get digs in that instead of trying to
do something that might possibly find acceptance by the SNA group, he
should come and work on TCP/IP instead).
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata
http://web.archive.org/web/20110718153549/http://www.ecole.org/Crisis_and_change_1995_1.htm
http://www.ecole.org/en/seances/CM07
IBM tried to react by launching a major project called the 'Future
System' (FS) in the early 1970's. The idea was to get so far ahead that
the competition would never be able to keep up, and to have such a high
level of integration that it would be impossible for competitors to
follow a compatible niche strategy. However, the project failed because
the objectives were too ambitious for the available technology. Many of
the ideas that were developed were nevertheless adapted for later
generations. Once IBM had acknowledged this failure, it launched its
'box strategy', which called for competitiveness with all the different
types of compatible sub-systems. But this proved to be difficult because
of IBM's cost structure and its R&D spending, and the strategy only
resulted in a partial narrowing of the price gap between IBM and its
rivals
... snip ...
This first quiet warning was taken seriously: 2,500 people were
mobilised for the FS project. Those in charge had the right to choose
people from any IBM units. I was working in Paris when I was picked out
of the blue to be sent to New York. Proof of the faith people had in IBM
is that I never heard of anyone refusing to move, nor regretting
it. However, other quiet warnings were taken less seriously.
... snip ...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#360pcm
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#67
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#70
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#3tier
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
computer bootlaces
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: computer bootlaces
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:46:23 -0400
Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
That's one of the biggies I forgot to mention.
8) "OS/360" involved building all the tools needed to build the
system, including hardware simulators to run on the 709x(?). Nowadays
all(!) you need to do is port GCC and recompile your tools. Porting
Linux involves a relatively small amount of code. IBM had to
"bootstrap" [ ;-) ] everything they needed, Assembler, debuggers,
etc., and I assume the programmers had to do a lot of stand-alone
hardware debugging.
Other problems were:
7) Distributed development (Hursley, San Jose, Endicott, and
Poughkeepsie) at a time when there was no internet.
8) I have read that the OS design was firmed up very late, giving only
a relatively short time to develop this mess, which is why IBM tried
to speed it up by throwing bodies at it.
9) I think there was a "9", but I seem to have forgotten it:-(
I'm not arguing that IBM did a wonderful job, only that the early 60s
were a very different world from today and (like the discussion 0f
6800 vs. 8080) it's difficult to put ourselves in the place of the
people back then who had to go thru it.
I haven't found a really good reference for the software development
of OS/360. Brooks is too much of a summary, and Pugh is wonderful on
the hardware development of S/360, but spends only a chapter on
software development, a far as I've read.
there was the internal network ... which was larger than the internet
from just about the beginning until late '85 or possibly early '86.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#email830422
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#oldpicts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#emulation
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#0 I actually miss working at IBM
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#21 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#41 Is email dead? What do you think?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#79 Mainframe technology in 2011 and beyond; who is going to run these Mainframes?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#32 SNA/VTAM Misinformation
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#52 IBM100 - Rise of the Internet
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#83 History of APL -- Software Preservation Group
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#88 Would mainframe technology be relevant in the age of cloud computing?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#95 VM IS DEAD
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#11 History of APL -- Software Preservation Group
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#33 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#54 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#85 SV: USS vs USS
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#16 Running z/OS On Your Laptop
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#8 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#47 The IBM would have, could have and should have story
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#35 Having left IBM, seem to be reminded that IBM is not the same IBM I had joined
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#62 Announcement of the disk drive (1956)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#69 Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#0 program coding pads
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#70 New IBM Redbooks residency experience in Poughkeepsie, NY
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computer bootlaces
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: computer bootlaces
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:17:35 -0400
Peter Brooks <peter.h.m.brooks@gmail.com> writes:
I know that IBM mainframes had excellent backup facilities and, for
the time, advanced stuff like ISAM (though the HP3000 had KSAM that
was pretty much the same, if light weight), but, really, less than 100
people, against a cast of thousands? What were they all doing?
as to backup ... I had created CMSBACK in the late 70s ... some
old email
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#cmsback
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#backup
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#73 Should The CEO Have the Lowest Pay In Senior Management?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#24 To: Graymouse -- Ireland and the EU, What in the H... is all this about?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#76 lack of information accuracy
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#71 Cormpany sponsored insurance
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#25 Taxes
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#33 Taxes
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#53 Are family businesses unfair competition?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#93 What do you think are the top characteristics of a good/effective leader in an organization? Do you feel these characteristics are learned or innate to an individual?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#2 Blinkylights
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#58 Traditional Approach Won't Take Businesses Far Places
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#14 realtors (and GM, too!)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#17 realtors (and GM, too!)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#61 The vanishing CEO bonus
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#5 Greed - If greed was the cause of the global meltdown then why does the biz community appoint those who so easily succumb to its temptations?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#41 Executive pay: time for a trim?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#44 Executive pay: time for a trim?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#50 Greed Is
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/2009d.html#3 Congress Set to Approve Pay Cap of $500,000
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#73 Most 'leaders' do not 'lead' and the majority of 'managers' do not 'manage'. Why is this?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#2 CEO pay sinks - Wall Street Journal/Hay Group survey results just released
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#44 What TARP means for the future of executive pay
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#37 Young Developers Get Old Mainframers' Jobs
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#48 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#8 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#39 Agile Workforce
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#33 The 2010 Census
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#62 Dodd-Frank Act Makes CEO-Worker Pay Gap Subject to Disclosure
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#67 Idiotic programming style edicts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#22 60 Minutes News Report:Unemployed for over 99 weeks!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#59 They always think we don't understand
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#71 They always think we don't understand
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#10 OODA in highly stochastic environments
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#80 Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America's Lunch
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#53 Productivity And Bubbles
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#13 The Seven Habits of Pointy-Haired Bosses
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#69 Who was the Greatest IBM President and CEO of the last century?
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50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:33:28 -0400
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
People are biased against creative ideas, studies find
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-people-biased-creative-ideas.html
for the fun of it, search engine on creativity and status quo ... and
one of the many results:
Maintaining Organizational Status Quo Often Kills Creativity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4scAPcWJ7s
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#48 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddessig/2011/09/06/managing-the-psychological-bias-against-creativity/
But by making such discomfort expectable you just may be able to search
for and adopt potentially useful creative solutions that would have
otherwise been dismissed. Many people say they rely on "instincts," what
"feels right," their "gut." This research does not suggest changing
that.
... snip ...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#88 Justifying application of Boyd to a project manager
also open group ... full thread here:
http://lnkd.in/GhT2tJ
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computer bootlaces
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: computer bootlaces
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:53:21 -0400
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
One of the comments in the online computer conferencing ... was that
successful efforts tended to complete on time with small number of
people and resources, while major disasters kept throwing people at it
... increasing the hiearachy, resources, and budgets for the associated
executives (where there compensation was somewhat proportional to the
number of people in their organizations ... executives running
disasters tended to be higher compensated that executives that had
successful efforts). This more recently appears as Success of Failure
culture ... article on the subject:
http://www.govexec.com/management/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#25 computer bootlaces
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/09/lynn-wheeler-washingtons-cult-of-continuous-failure/
also archived here:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#17
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#8
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computer bootlaces
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: computer bootlaces
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:11:44 -0400
Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> writes:
Back in the '80s, I had a software engineering teacher who felt that IBM
had split the OS development along the wrong axis for a geographic path ...
through the middle of things rather than between things. As this was a
toss-off comment in a class using Pascal, no cites were provided. :-(
there were a bunch of internal vlsi tools done using vs/pascal.
originally, two people in the los gatos vlsi group had done an internal
vm370/cms pascal compiler for internal vlsi tools. this eventually
morphed into the mainframe pascal product ... and eventually was also
released for rs/6000 workstation.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#19 Beyond 8+3
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#52 Question about Unix "heritage"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#16 When nerds were nerds
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#21 TSO alternative
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#42 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#30 First single chip 32-bit microprocessor
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005o.html#11 ISA-independent programming language
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#20 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#31 To RISC or not to RISC
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#41 Fast and Safe C Strings: User friendly C macros to Declare and use C Strings
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/2007j.html#14 Newbie question on table design
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#16 Newbie question on table design
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#54 Newbie question on table design
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#58 Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#68 CA to IBM TCP Conversion
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#48 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#50 Running REXX program in a batch job
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#16 Fazing out x86
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#46 Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#52 China's Godson-2 processor takes center stage
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#77 CLIs and GUIs
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#11 Lack of bit field instructions in x86 instruction set because of ?patents ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#19 Top 10 Cybersecurity Threats for 2009, will they cause creation of highly-secure Corporate-wide Intranets?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#36 Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#11 Microprocessors with Definable MIcrocode
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#74 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#6 search engine history, was 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/2010e.html#11 Crazed idea: SDSF for z/Linux
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#18 Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer (warning: Conley rant)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#54 PL/I vs. Pascal
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#69 Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands
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Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:32:59 -0400
blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> writes:
Very interesting, but it seems tangential (in that the problem is
how to ensure atomicity in a situation in which communication is
not reliable)?
at Jim Gray tribute ... it was mentioned his work on formalizing
transaction semantics enabled electronic commerce (the scenario was that
formal transaction semantics provided financial auditors with higher
level of confidence in computer records). recent (really long-winded)
post going into some discussion
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#43 Sabre; The First Online Reservation System
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#80 Which building at Berkeley?
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/IPRO/JimGrayTribute/
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#32 A Tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#36 A Tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#27 Father Of Financial Dataprocessing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#78 ATMs by the Numbers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#51 8 ways the American information worker remains a Luddite
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#4 70 Years of ATM Innovation
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#13 Is the ATM still the banking industry's single greatest innovation?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#21 Mainframe Hall of Fame (MHOF)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#85 Hashing for DISTINCT or GROUP BY in SQL
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#9 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#6 segments and sharing, was 68000 assembly language programming
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#25 computer bootlaces
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#28 computer bootlaces
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#64 SQL Injection Deemed No. 1 Software Flaw
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#27 PDCA vs. OODA
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#59 Why did the OODA-loop tactic grow into a strategy?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#62 "How do you feel about 'gotos'"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#63 Why do defenders keep losing to smaller cyberwarriors?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#64 Fraudulent Google credential found in the wild
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#65 Somewhat off-topic: comp-arch.net cloned, possibly hacked
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Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:41:38 -0400
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#32 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#77 program coding pads
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#0 program coding pads
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#email800325
in this post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#39 American Airlines
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
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Scotland, was Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem!
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Scotland, was Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem!
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:59:24 -0400
Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
Maybe this has changed since Rumsfeld's reorganization.
Stiglitz's "Three Trillion Dollar War" references that if public company
was run like DOD during the last decade, it would be brought up on SEC
charges.
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Trillion-Dollar-War-ebook/dp/B0041OTAY8
http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?documentid=4623
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
above references Pentagon Labyrinth
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/pentagon-labyrinth.html
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
http://www.govexec.com/management/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
http://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Devil-Washington-Saudi-ebook/dp/B000FBFO64
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#83 End of an era
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#18 End of an era
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#33 The real cost of outsourcing (and offshoring)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#65 End of an era
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#28 US military spending has increased 81% since 2001
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#43 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#42 Senator urges DoD: Do better job defending F-35
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#49 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#88 Justifying application of Boyd to a project manager
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#0 Justifying application of Boyd to a project manager
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The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 09 Sep, 2011
Subject: The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
Blog: Google+
The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed
World
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/B004EPYWCO
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#41 Reason Japanese cars are assembled in the US (was Re: American bigotry)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#43 Reason Japanese cars are assembled in the US (was Re: American bigotry)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#43 Economic Factors on Automation
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#52 The SOB that helped IT jobs move to India is dead!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#22 Vintage computers are better than modern crap !
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#2 Internet today -- what's left for hobbiests
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#23 auto industry
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#14 The Pankian Metaphor
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#17 The Pankian Metaphor
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#20 The Pankian Metaphor
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#49 The Pankian Metaphor (redux)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#33 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#72 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#88 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#11 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#24 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#28 As Expected, Ford Falls From 2nd Place in U.S. Sales
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#39 competitiveness
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#84 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#77 Tell me why the taxpayer should be saving GM and Chrysler (and Ford) managers & shareholders at this stage of the game?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#10 realtors (and GM, too!)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#22 Is Pride going to decimate the auto Industry?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#63 Have you told your Congressman how to VOTE on the auto bailout?
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#57 Garbage in, garbage out trampled by Moore's law
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#20 What is the real basis for business mess we are facing today?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#2 China-US Insights on the Future of the Auto Industry
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#75 Favourite computer history books?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#22 60 Minutes News Report:Unemployed for over 99 weeks!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#17 What banking is. (Essential for predicting the end of finance as we know it.)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#23 They always think we don't understand
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#21 End of an era
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#34 Boyd's Reading List Revisited
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The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 09 Sep, 2011
Subject: The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
Blog: Google+
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#35 The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#45 How will current AI/robot stories play when AIs are real?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#28 Offshore IT
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#45 Offshore IT
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#55 Offshore IT
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#33 [IBM-MAIN] NY Times editorial on white collar jobs going
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#42 The SOB that helped IT jobs move to India is dead!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#18 The SOB that helped IT jobs move to India is dead!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#18 Low Bar for High School Students Threatens Tech Sector
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#48 Mozilla v Firefox
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005g.html#43 Academic priorities
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#20 The Pankian Metaphor
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#63 DEC's Hudson fab
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#7 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT Competitiveness
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#24 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#79 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#31 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#51 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#80 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#85 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#10 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#30 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#34 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#42 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#68 Poll: oldest computer thing you still use
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#21 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT Competitiveness
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#22 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT Competitiveness
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#31 EZPass: Yes, Big Brother IS Watching You!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#29 folklore indeed
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#39 competitiveness
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#5 Republican accomplishments and Hoover
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#55 Can outsourcing be stopped?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#20 Five great technological revolutions
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#43 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#38 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#80 Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America's Lunch
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#48 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
movie "Airport" on cable
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: movie "Airport" on cable
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:15:11 -0400
Louis Krupp <lkrupp@nospam.indra.com.invalid> writes:
McDonnell Douglas is part of Boeing, and as nice as the L1011 may have
been, Lockheed isn't going to try to come back and compete with Boeing
and Airbus on commercial airliners.
The 747-400 was introduced 20 years ago, the 747-8 freighter has just
been certified, so they're not going to run out of series numbers for
a while.
747 wiki ... first flt 9feb1969, "introduced" 22jan1970
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_C-5_Galaxy
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#32 Roads as Runways Was: Re: BA Solve
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/2001b.html#50 IBM 705 computer manual
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#56 YKYBHTLW....
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#32 mainframe question
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#55 TSS/360
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#44 PDP-10 Archive migration plan
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/2002p.html#56 cost of crossing kernel/user boundary
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#64 cost of crossing kernel/user boundary
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/2004.html#53 Mainframe not a good architecture for interactive workloads
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#55 If there had been no MS-DOS
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#46 Finites State Machine (OT?)
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/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/2006q.html#44 The not-so-little shop of 747s
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#49 Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#50 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/2007f.html#74 The interactive experience on yesterday's Unix?
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/2008k.html#64 Crippleware: hardware examples
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/2009k.html#41 Disksize history question
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#49 "Portable" data centers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#61 Source code for s/360 [PUBLIC]
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://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#29 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#76 Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer (warning: Conley rant)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#0 LPARs: More or Less?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#75 Is Security a Curse for the Cloud Computing Industry?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#54 Favourite computer history books?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#66 Global CIO: Global Banks Form Consortium To Counter HP, IBM, & Oracle
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#18 taking down the machine - z9 series
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#47 C-I-C-S vs KICKS
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#50 C-I-C-S vs KICKS
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#51 Mainframe Hacking -- Fact or Fiction
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#61 Mainframe Slang terms
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#59 z196 sysplex question
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#26 Global Sourcing with Cloud Computing and Virtualization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#65 They always think we don't understand
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#59 Boeing Plant 2 ... End of an Era
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#73 Speed of Old Hard Disks - adcons
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#7 Mainframe upgrade done with wire cutters?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#66 Boeing Plant 2 ... End of an Era
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#54 Downloading PoOps?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#61 Do you remember back to June 23, 1969 when IBM unbundled
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movie "Airport" on cable
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: movie "Airport" on cable
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:39:12 -0400
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#37 movie "Airport" on cable
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#45 Boeings New Dreamliner Ready For Maiden Voyage
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1799588/boeings_new_dreamliner_ready_for_maiden_voyage/index.html
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner
http://787flighttest.com/
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#66 Boeing Plant 2 ... End of an Era
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#69 Boeing Plant 2 ... End of an Era
http://www.rbogash.com/Plant%202/2Plant2.html
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Kabuki Theater 1603-1629
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 10 Sep, 2011
Subject: Kabuki Theater 1603-1629
Blog: Google+
re:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/09/cheery-waves-obama-feared-coup-in-2008-if-prosecutions-of-bush-team-cia-nsa-went-forward/
http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operative-who-left-cult/1314907779
GOP Defector Spills the Beans
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/05/congressional-staffer-mike-lofgren-turns-on-his-fellow-republicans.html
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#74 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/2011k.html#4 Geithner, Bernanke have little in arsenal to fight new crisis
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#18 What Uncle Warren doesn't mention
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The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 10 Sep, 2011
Subject: The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
Blog: Google+
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#35
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#36
That misinterpretation of risk led to rising debt levels that would
have been reasonable had the risks been accurately perceived. The
rising debt levels increased the systemic risk and caused the
correlations among asset classes to rise. It was a perfect storm.
... snip ...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#32 independent appraisers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#36 Lehman sees banks, others writing down $400 bln
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#44 Fixing finance
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#52 IBM CEO's remuneration last year ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#66 independent appraisers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#89 Credit Crisis Timeline
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#4 A Merit based system of reward -Does anybody (or any executive) really want to be judged on merit?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#67 Do you have other examples of how people evade taking resp. for risk
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#73 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
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/2009.html#85 Banks' Demise: Why have the Governments hired the foxes to mend the chicken runs?
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#11 Amid Economic Turbulence, Mainframes Counter IT Cost-Cutting Trend
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#18 Barbless
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#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#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#54 In your opinion, which facts caused the global crise situation?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#11 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/2009c.html#38 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#39 'WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GLOBAL MELTDOWN'
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#3 Congress Set to Approve Pay Cap of $500,000
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#35 Architectural Diversity
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#20 What is the real basis for business mess we are facing today?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#27 US banking Changes- TARP Proposl
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#35 US banking Changes- TARP Proposl
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/2010c.html#32 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#74 LPARs: More or Less?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#54 The 2010 Census
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#22 In the News: SEC storms the 'Castle'
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#34 Idiotic programming style edicts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#49 "Fraud & Stupidity Look a Lot Alike"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#40 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#65 the Federal Reserve, was Re: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#38 Idiotic programming style edicts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#55 The 10 Highest-Paid CEOs Who Laid Off The Most Employees
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#40 On Protectionism
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#74 The first personal computer (PC)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#20 Study shows powerful corporations really do control the world's finances
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computer bootlaces
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: computer bootlaces
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:43:20 -0400
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
from ibm jargon:
TIME/LIFE - n. The legendary (defunct since 1975) New York Programming
Center, formerly in the TIME & LIFE Building on 6th Avenue, near the
Rockefeller Center, in New York City. For many years it was the home of
System/360 and System/370 Languages, Sorts and Utilities. Its
programmers are now primarily in Kingston, Palo Alto, and Santa Teresa
(or retired).
... snip ...
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#25 computer bootlaces
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#9 Was there ever a DOS JCL reference like the Brown book?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#12 Was there ever a DOS JCL reference like the Brown book?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#email790216
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#email790220
in this post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#18 IBMLink 2000 Finding ESO Levels
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
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i432 on Bitsavers?
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: i432 on Bitsavers?
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:51:31 -0400
vandys writes:
I have at least one book concerning the i432 buried in a box... I should
probably dig it out and scan it in if it's not already archived.
similar/recent 432 thread/posts in a.f.c.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#2 68000 assembly language programming
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#15 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#48 Famous Machines and Software that didn't
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~KeyKOS/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CapROS
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#31 Colossal Cave Adventure in PL/I
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#2 Other early NSFNET backbone
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#71 Multiple Virtual Memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#35 junking CKD; was "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence"
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What is IBM culture?
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 12 Sep, 2011
Subject: What is IBM culture?
Blog: Greater IBM
these a.f.c. posts were duplicated in (linkedin) Greater IBM discussion
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#25 computer bootlaces
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#28 computer bootlaces
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#41
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
past posts mentioning HONE
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#26
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#19
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Kabuki Theater 1603-1629
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 12 Sep, 2011
Subject: Kabuki Theater 1603-1629
Blog: Google+
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#39 Kabuki Theater 1603-1629
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/B004EPYWCO
The Botswana case illustrates that the natural resource "curse,"
though pervasive, is not inevitable, and that leadership matters at
crucial points.
... snip ...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#35 The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#36 The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Societies-ebook/dp/B000VDUWMC
At worst, they function unabashedly as kleptocracies, transferring net
wealth from commoners to upper classes.
... snip ...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#59 Why did the OODA-loop tactic grow into a strategy?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#61 Why did the OODA-loop tactic grow into a strategy?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#1 Lessons Learned
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#88 Justifying application of Boyd to a project manager
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segments and sharing, was 68000 assembly language programming
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: segments and sharing, was 68000 assembly language programming
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, alt.os.assembly, alt.os.development
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:21:20 -0400
Morten Reistad <first@last.name> writes:
Same thing as with user/kernel. Protection rings are not that magic;
imagine a system where you have untermediate privilige layers between
kernel and user; and some user-space can have kernel-like priviliges
towards other user space.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#6 segments and sharing, was 68000 assembly language programming
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#9 segments and sharing, was 68000 assembly language programming
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#11 segments and sharing, was 68000 assembly language programming
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dz9zr003/3.2.1?SHELF=&DT=20040504121320&CASE=
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dz9zr003/5.5?DT=20040504121320
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dz9zr003/10.34?DT=20040504121320
program return instruction
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dz9zr003/10.35?DT=20040504121320
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dz9zr003/10.37?DT=20040504121320
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#79 Speed of Old Hard Disks - adcons
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#20 A brief history of CMS/XA, part 1
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#72 Multiple Virtual Memory
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#17 New job for mainframes: Cloud platform
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#39 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#11 History of byte addressing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#61 Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#11 Was there ever a DOS JCL reference like the Brown book?
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computer bootlaces
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: computer bootlaces
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, alt.usage.english
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:59:22 -0400
Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com> writes:
Very good point. A lot of lost history is much more recent than
that. The Anasazi inhabited the large pueblos up until the 1500s or
so, until the drought forced them to move, so they just missed
crossing paths with the Spanish, though their descendants the Hopi,
etc. did. I have read where one author suggests that South America
was more densely populated than Europe just before Columbus ("America,
1491" IIRC). Large groups of Indians were wiped out by disease
brought by the Europeans before they ever encountered them. The
Pilgrims came across many recently deserted villages. Their thought
was that God must have wiped out the Indians in order to clear the way
for them. Cahokia, near St. Louis, is not thought to have been a
very large city, but was destroyed my overpopulation and mismanagement
of resources.
I recently finished Diamond's
http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Societies-Succeed-Revised-ebook/dp/B004H0M8EA
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Does outsourcing cause data loss?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Does outsourcing cause data loss?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:27:18 -0400
hancock4 writes:
It seems to me these outsourcers are often in the news about data
leaks. There are intermediate credit card data processors most of us
don't know about, but who handle quite a big of data, and not always
securely.
We were tangentially involved with (original) cal. state data breach
notification legislation having been brought in to help wordsmith
electronic signature legislation. misc. past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#payments
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#harvest
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
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Does outsourcing cause data loss?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Does outsourcing cause data loss?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:49:49 -0400
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
we had been brought into small client/server startup that wanted to do
payment transactions on their server, the startup had also invented this
technology called "SSL" and the result is now frequently referred to as
"electronic commerce". somewhat as a result in the mid-90s we were asked
to participate in the x9a10 financial standard working group ... which
had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the
financial industry for *ALL* retail payments. As part of the effort,
there was vulnerability and threat studies of various kinds of retail
payments. We came up with a number of metaphors for the existing payment
environment.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#47 Does outsourcing cause data loss?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#sslcert
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#14 How is SSL hopelessly broken? Let us count the ways
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#25 Fear the Internet, was Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#24 Fight Fraud with Device ID
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#63 Why do defenders keep losing to smaller cyberwarriors?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#64 Fraudulent Google credential found in the wild
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#65 Somewhat off-topic: comp-arch.net cloned, possibly hacked
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219892/Apple_strikes_stolen_SSL_certificates_from_OS_X
Mac OS X update blocks stolen SSL certificates Security
http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/mac-os-x-update-blocks-stolen-ssl-certificates-172410
Apple patches OS X for DigiNotar threat - patches, security, Mac OS,
operating systems, software, Apple
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/400385/apple_patches_os_x_diginotar_threat/
Mozilla Give SSL Certificate Authorities 1 Week to Prove Security
http://www.internetnews.com/security/mozilla-give-ssl-certificate-authorities-1-week-to-prove-security.html
Mozilla pressures CAs to audit their own security
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/155798/169/
SSL Certificate Authority Recall Grows
http://www.internetnews.com/security/ssl-certificate-authority-recall-grows.html
Moxie Marlinspike's Solution To the SSL CA Problem
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/09/08/1454221/Moxie-Marlinspikes-Solution-To-the-SSL-CA-Problem
DigiNotar hacker threatens to expand spy attacks using stolen
certificates
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/090811-diginotar-hacker-threatens-to-expand-250642.html
DigiNotar hacker threatens to expand spy attacks using stolen
certificates
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219863/DigiNotar_hacker_threatens_to_expand_spy_attacks_using_stolen_certificates
Lessons from the DigiNotar certificate theft
http://blogs.computerworld.com/18921/lessons_from_the_diginotar_certificate_theft
Comodo CEO accuses nation state of sponsoring SSL certificate attacks
http://news.techworld.com/security/3301836/comodo-ceo-accuses-nation-state-of-sponsoring-ssl-certificate-attacks/
GlobalSign Suspends Issuance of SSL Certificates
http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/07/1518214/GlobalSign-Suspends-Issuance-of-SSL-Certificates
Web security certificate breach widens
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2011/09/08/247833/Web-security-certificate-breach-widens.htm
GlobalSign Stops Issuing Authentication Certificates For Investigation
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/2608538/globalsign-stops-issuing-authentication-certificates-for-investigation/index.html
GlobalSign Stops Issuing Security Certificates Pending Probe
http://news.yahoo.com/globalsign-stops-issuing-security-certificates-pending-probe-202157751.html
Dutch government root certificate banned in Chrome, Firefox and IE
http://news.yahoo.com/dutch-government-root-certificate-banned-chrome-firefox-ie-035320092.html
GlobalSign Stops Issuing Digital Certificates After Hack
http://www.datamation.com/news/globalsign-stops-issuing-digital-certificates-after-hack.html
CIA, MI6, Mossad issued false digital certificates via DigiNotar
http://www.fiercecio.com/story/cia-mi6-mossad-issued-false-digital-certificates-diginotar/2011-09-07
DigiNotar hacker says he stole huge GlobalSign cache
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/07/diginotar_hacker_proof/
Dutch government struggles to deal with DigiNotar hack
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/090711-dutch-government-struggles-to-deal-250575.html
Dutch Government Struggles to Deal With DigiNotar Hack
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/239639/dutch_government_struggles_to_deal_with_diginotar_hack.html
Dutch government struggles with DigiNotar hack
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219814/Dutch_government_struggles_with_DigiNotar_hack
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Does outsourcing cause data loss?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Does outsourcing cause data loss?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:45:15 -0400
greymaus <greymausg@mail.com> writes:
I think that its part of an Internet problem, a very professional
looking web site may be managed by a spotty 12year old, and be far enough
away physically that you can't call by to check it.
one of the too-big-to-fail outsourced major part of their Y2K
remediation to the lowest bidder. insufficient due diligenece was done
and it later turns out that the lowest bidder was front for criminal
organization. there was later found various kinds of obfuscated
transactions embedded in the Y2K code. there is folklore that they had
let their CSO go with senior executive comment that it was more
cost-effective to handle fraud as a public relations issue than a fraud
issue.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#47 Does outsourcing cause data loss?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#48 Does outsourcing cause data loss?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#41 60 Minutes News Report:Unemployed for over 99 weeks!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#39 TCM's Moguls documentary series
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#44 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#69 No command, and control
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#29 Looking for a real Fortran-66 compatible PC compiler (CP/M or DOSor Windows
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Bubble? What Bubble?
From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 13 Sep, 2011
Subject: Bubble? What Bubble?
Blog: Facebook
Bubble? What Bubble?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/magazine/marc-andreessen-on-the-dot-com-bubble.html
M.B.A. graduating classes are actually a reliable contrary indicator:
if they all want to go into investment banking, there's going
to be a financial crisis. If they want to go into tech, that means a
bubble is forming.
... snip ...
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
The Truth About the "Robber Barons"
From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 13 Sep, 2011
Subject: The Truth About the "Robber Barons"
Blog: Facebook
I remember getting (& reading) the "Robber Barons" from the school
library shortly after it was published. There is recent book
specifically about railroad industry that covers the train part
... some comment that the "barons" found that they could even make
profit from liquidating failed companies (on the backend ... besides
fraudulent share sales on the frontend and other gimmicks)
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
An elusive command philosophy and a different command culture
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 13 Sep, 2011
Subject: An elusive command philosophy and a different command culture
Blog: Facebook
An elusive command philosophy and a different command culture
http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/09/09/an_elusive_command_philosophy_and_a_different_command_culture
So why the heck did the Germans lose the war if they had such a
revolutionary command culture? As the name denotes, Auftragstaktik is
a tactical and at most an operational concept, it has no advantage on
the strategic level.
... snip ...
On 28 Apr we were put in D/S of the 13th Armd and 80th Inf Divs and
G/S Corps Opns. The night of the 28-29 April we cross the DANUBE River
and the next day we set-up our OP in SCHLOSS PUCHHOF (vic PUCHOFF); an
extensive structure remarkable for the depth of its carpets, the
height of its rooms, the profusion of its game, the superiority of its
plumbing and the fact that it had been owned by the original financial
backer of the NAZIS, Fritz Thyssen. Herr Thyssen was not at home.
Forward from the DANUBE the enemy had been very active, and an intact
bridge was never seen except by air reconnaissance. Maintenance of
roads and bypasses went on and 29 April we began constructing 835' of
M-2 Tdwy Br, plus a plank road approach over the ISAR River at
PLATTLING. Construction was completed at 1900 on the 30th. For the
month of April we had suffered no casualties of any kind and Die
Gotterdamerung was falling, the last days of the once mighty
WHERMACHT.
past posts mentioning engineering combat group:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#120 atomic History
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#19 Message To America's Students: The War, The Draft, Your Future
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#44 Universal constants
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#90 IBM Unionization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#52 Age
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#10 OODA in highly stochastic environments
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#37 The first personal computer (PC)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#51 On Protectionism
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#29 Review of Steve McConnell's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#36 Mainframers: Take back the light (spotlight, that is)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#38 Mainframers: Take back the light (spotlight, that is)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#33 Star Trek: TNG reference
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#51 employee motivation & executive compensation
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#27 The BASIC Variations
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#24 Timeless Classics of Software Engineering
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#86 Organizations with two or more Managers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#14 The Pankian Metaphor
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#9 The Pankian Metaphor
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#41 was change headers: The Fate of VM - was: Re: Baby MVS???
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#37 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#25 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#8a Using Military Philosophy to Drive High Value Sales
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#61 Up, Up, ... and Gone?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#63 how can a hierarchical mindset really ficilitate inclusive and empowered organization
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#69 Blinkenlights
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#73 Most 'leaders' do not 'lead' and the majority of 'managers' do not 'manage'. Why is this?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#34 Mission Control & Air Cooperation
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#43 Boyd's Briefings
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#68 Favourite computer history books?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#7 Innovation and iconoclasm
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#3 Preparing for Boyd II
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
What is IBM culture?
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 13 Sep, 2011
Subject: What is IBM culture?
Blog: Greater IBM
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#43 What is IBM culture?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Why stability trumps innovation
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 13 Sep, 2011
Subject: Why stability trumps innovation
Blog: Facebook
Why stability trumps innovation
http://fcw.com/articles/2011/09/12/back-talk-federal-employee-survey-innovation.aspx
Federal agencies often seem to discourage employees from taking
creative approaches to doing their jobs, FCW readers say.
... snip ...
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-people-biased-creative-ideas.html
Maintaining Organizational Status Quo Often Kills Creativity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4scAPcWJ7s
Managing The Psychological Bias Against Creativity
http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddessig/2011/09/06/managing-the-psychological-bias-against-creativity/
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#59 Why did the OODA-loop tactic grow into a strategy?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#61 Why did the OODA-loop tactic grow into a strategy?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#1 Lessons Learned
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#88 Justifying application of Boyd to a project manager
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#44 Kabuki Theater 1603-1629
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#46 computer bootlaces
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Any candidates for best acronyms?
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 13 Sep, 2011
Subject: Any candidates for best acronyms?
Blog: Greater IBM
GML ... invented at the science center in 1969 ... decade later
morphed into SGML and then another decade SGML morphed into HTML. GML
was originally chosen because it is the first letter of the last names
of the three inventors (and then words chosen to match the
letters). misc. past posts mentioning gml
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#hone
misc. past posts mentioning hone
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#7
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#26
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#61
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Does outsourcing cause data loss?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Does outsourcing cause data loss?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:48:54 -0400
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
a major fraction of interchange fees that merchants pay on electronic
payments is prorated based on the degree of fraud for the type of
transaction ... with possibly an order of magnitude fee spread between
lower & highest fraud.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#47 Does outsourcing cause data loss?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#48 Does outsourcing cause data loss?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#49 Does outsourcing cause data loss?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#56 The real cost of outsourcing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#33 The real cost of outsourcing (and offshoring)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#37 3 of the big 4 - all doing payment systems
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#1 Extended Validation - setting the minimum liability, the CA trap, the market in browser governance
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#25 EV - what was the reason, again?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#34 Failure of PKI in messaging
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#32 The bank fraud blame game
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#33 The bank fraud blame game
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#39 a fraud is a sale, Re: The bank fraud blame game
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#62 Fingerprint Firefox Plugin?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#1 2008: The year of hack the vote?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#18 Lack of fraud reporting paths considered harmful
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#47 delegating SSL certificates
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#77 How safe do you feel when using a debit or credit card?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#81 not crypto, but fraud detection
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#82 Can we copy trust?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm7.htm#rhose3 Rubber hose attack
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#16 AMD to leave x86 behind?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#23 Value of an old IBM PS/2 CL57 SX Laptop
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#27 Securing financial transactions a high priority for 2007
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#38 Securing financial transactions a high priority for 2007
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#28 sizeof() was: The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#56 T.J. Maxx data theft worse than first reported
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#17 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#47 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#59 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#72 Free Checking
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#35 My Dream PC -- Chip-Based
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#68 Poll: oldest computer thing you still use
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#31 Is the media letting banks off the hook on payment card security
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#40 Is the media letting banks off the hook on payment card security
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#64 Is the media letting banks off the hook on payment card security
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#0 folklore indeed
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#62 folklore indeed
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#7 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#90 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#3 Govt demands password to personal computer
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#58 dollar coins
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#59 dollar coins
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#7 Payments start-up Noca takes aim at interchange Achilles heel
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#59 Tesco to open 30 "bank branches" this year
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#60 Cobol hits 50 and keeps counting
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#20 IBM forecasts 'new world order' for financial services
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#57 LexisNexis says its data was used by fraudsters
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#3 Consumer Credit Crunch and Banking Writeoffs
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#19 Does anyone know of merchants who have successfully bypassed interchange costs
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#78 Kansas City Fed Chief Espouses ACH for Debit Card Processing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#50 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#51 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#77 Financial Regulatory Reform - elimination of loophole allowing special purpose institutions outside Bank Holding Company (BHC) oversigh
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#1 Is it possible to have an alternative payment system without riding on the Card Network platforms?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#50 How can we stop Credit card FRAUD?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#39 Network Rivalry Sparks 10-Year Quadrupling of PIN-Debit Pricing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#49 Hacker charges also an indictment on PCI, expert says
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#62 August 7, 1944: today is the 65th Anniversary of the Birth of the Computer
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#26 Signature specification without certificates
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#68 US retailers face $100bn in ID fraud losses a year - study
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#75 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#70 Post Office bank account 'could help 1m poor'
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#98 Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#86 Oldest Instruction Set still in daily use?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#21 Credit card data security: Who's responsible?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#44 Can't PIN be mandated in normal POS machines ? to avoid Losses / Frauds / NPA's ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#21 Should the USA Implement EMV?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#1 In SSL We Trust? Not Lately
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#26 In SSL We Trust? Not Lately
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#54 Trust Facade
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#69 Idiotic programming style edicts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#45 Swipe this card; shopping could be cheaper
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#62 blasts from the past -- old predictions come true
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#63 Wal-Mart to support smartcard payments
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#0 Wal-Mart to support smartcard payments
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#10 Wal-Mart to support smartcard payments
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#28 The Durbin Amendment Ignites a Lobbying Frenzy on Capitol Hill
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#7 taking down the machine - z9 series
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#59 A mighty fortress is our PKI
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#79 Five Theses on Security Protocols
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#82 Five Theses on Security Protocols
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#39 Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and maybe even an O)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#52 Payment Card Industry Pursues Profits Over Security
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#13 "Compound threats" to appear in 2011 ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#42 Looking for a real Fortran-66 compatible PC compiler (CP/M or DOSor Windows
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#11 Credit cards with a proximity wifi chip can be as safe as walking around with your credit card number on a poster
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#48 On Protectionism
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#64 Are Americans serious about dealing with money laundering and the drug cartels?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#22 An online bank scam worthy of a spy novel
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#23 Fight Fraud with Device ID
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#48 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#58 Pipeline and Network Security: Protecting a Series of Tubes
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Does outsourcing cause data loss?
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Does outsourcing cause data loss?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:55:35 -0400
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#47 Does outsourcing cause data loss?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#48 Does outsourcing cause data loss?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#49 Does outsourcing cause data loss?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#56 Does outsourcing cause data loss?
http://fcw.com/articles/2011/09/12/federal-it-outsourcing-cyberattacks.aspx
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Oldest computer on the internet?
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Oldest computer on the internet?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:20:38 -0400
Stan Barr <plan.b@dsl.pipex.com> writes:
I got myself into an argument with a newby today, he seemed to think the
internet started in about 1995* and he didn't believe I'd been using it
for around 20 years!
This prompted a question, what's the oldest computer still active on
the internet? I can only go back to 1989 but ISTR someone here runs an
old 286. I have a vague memory of someone with an IBM mainframe from
the sixties who has it hitched up - anyone any ideas?
"great" switch over from IMPs/host-protocol to tcp/ip was 1jan1983.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc801.txt
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1000.txt
The procurement of the ARPANET was initiated in the summer of 1968 --
Remember Vietnam, flower children, etc? There had been prior
experiments at various ARPA sites to link together computer systems, but
this was the first version to explore packet-switching on a grand scale.
("ARPA" didn't become "DARPA" until 1972.) Unlike most of the ARPA/IPTO
procurements of the day, this was a competitive procurement. The
contract called for four IMPs to be delivered to UCLA, SRI, UCSB and The
University of Utah. These sites were running a Sigma 7 with the SEX
operating system, an SDS 940 with the Genie operating system, an IBM
360/75 with OS/MVT (or perhaps OS/MFT), and a DEC PDP-10 with the Tenex
operating system. Options existed for additional nodes if the first
experiments were successful. BBN won the procurement in December 1968,
but that gets ahead of this story.
... snip ...
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc240.txt
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
http://www.hercules-390.org/
http://www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
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computer bootlaces
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: computer bootlaces
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:27:07 -0400
Cheryl <cperkins@mun.ca> writes:
I thought the drug companys' objections to places like Canada, where a
small number of very large purchasers of drugs get lower prices by
negotiation (and, of course, adding a competitor to their list of
approved drugs if the orignal company doesn't come down far enough) is
that this doesn't represent a free market, which is what they (the
pharmaceutical companies) want.
the fiscal responsibility act expired late 2002, and then congress went
irresponsible fiscally ... and the comptroller general in speeches would
include references to nobody in congress capable of middle school
arithmetic.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#0 Oldest Instruction Set still in daily use?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#3 Oldest Instruction Set still in daily use?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#9 Oldest Instruction Set still in daily use?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#34 The 2010 Census
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#35 The 2010 Census
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#46 not even sort of about The 2010 Census
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#75 origin of 'fields'?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#78 origin of 'fields'?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#72 77,000 federal workers paid more than governors
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#14 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#20 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#28 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#29 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#33 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#37 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#40 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
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Any candidates for best acronyms?
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 14 Sep, 2011
Subject: Any candidates for best acronyms?
Blog: Greater IBM
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#55 Any candidates for best acronyms?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#49 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercompu
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#30 IBM OS Timeline?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#14 EMV cards
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#51 Why did OSI fail compared with TCP-IP?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#26 LISTSERV Discussion List For USS Questions?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#0 VSPC
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#38 storage key question
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#19 HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#72 Subpools - specifically 241
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#5 Memory v. Storage: What's in a Name?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#77 Overloaded acronyms
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Agents
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Agents
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:28:30 -0400
Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:
There are Emacs users, and there are Emacs users. I wouldn't dream of
using anything else for text file editing[1], but unlike some people I
don't *live* inside it (no mail, news, M-x shell or M-x compile).
when i started moving from cms to unix ... i had enormous amount of
stuff in rexx ... and emacs was the only way to approx. the same degree
of tailoring.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#48 Mozilla v Firefox
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#50 Mozilla v Firefox
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#8 big endian vs. little endian, why?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#15 1.8b2 / 1.7.11 tab performance
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#51 Intel abandons USEnet news
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#30 tab browsing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#35 Tap and faucet and spellcheckers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#24 Javascript disabled in Firefox
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#71 Mainframe programming vs the Web
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#85 Which of the latest browsers do you prefer and why?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#72 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
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The true cost of 9/11: Trillions and trillions wasted on wars, a fiscal catastrophe, and a weaker America
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 18 Sep, 2011
Subject: The true cost of 9/11: Trillions and trillions wasted on wars, a fiscal catastrophe, and a weaker America.
Blog: Google+
The true cost of 9/11: Trillions and trillions wasted on wars, a
fiscal catastrophe, and a weaker America.
http://www.slate.com/id/2302949/
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Trillion-Dollar-War-ebook/dp/B0041OTAY8
http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?documentid=4623
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#7 Are Ctibank's services and products so vital to global economy than no other banks can substitute it?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#9 HSBC is expected to announce a profit, which is good, what did they do differently?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#16 The Formula That Killed Wall Street
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#30 I need insight on the Stock Market
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#59 Quiz: Evaluate your level of Spreadsheet risk
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#64 Should AIG executives be allowed to keep the bonuses they were contractually obligated to be paid?
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#35 US banking Changes- TARP Proposl
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#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/2009f.html#56 What's your personal confidence level concerning financial market recovery?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#65 Just posted third article about toxic assets in a series on the current financial crisis
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#1 Future of Financial Mathematics?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#5 Do the current Banking Results in the US hide a grim truth?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#27 Flawed Credit Ratings Reap Profits as Regulators Fail Investors
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#3 Consumer Credit Crunch and Banking Writeoffs
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#10 China's yuan 'set to usurp US dollar' as world's reserve currency
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?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#83 End of an era
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#48 On Protectionism
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#60 In your opinon, what is the highest risk of financial fraud for a corporation ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#28 US military spending has increased 81% since 2001
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#30 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#32 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#67 U.S. can't account for $8.7 billion of Iraq's money: audit
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#70 Pentagon Struggles To Keep Ships Sailing, Planes Flying As Budget Cuts Loom
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#11 Innovation and iconoclasm
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#18 Congressional Bickering
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#39 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#60 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#8 The True Cost of 9/11 -- Includes 18 Veteran Suicides a Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#17 Washington's Cult of Continuous Failure
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#34 Scotland, was Re: Solving the Floating-Point Goldilocks Problem!
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UAV vis-a-vis F35
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From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 18 Sep, 2011
Subject: UAV vis-a-vis F35
Blog: Boyd Strategy
re:
http://lnkd.in/Q3hJ5G
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
OUCB usage
From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Subject: Re: OUCB usage
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Date: 18 Sep 2011 17:28:56 -0700
Eric Jackson <jhril@ca.rr.com> writes:
For MVS, unlike most other platforms, the terms "swapping" and
"paging" refer to distinct operations. Paging is for a page of memory
in an address space, and swapping is when the entire address space is
swapped out to secondary storage. TSO address spaces waiting for
terminal I/O (for example) will get swapped out so that their memory
resources become available to other address spaces while waiting the
relatively long time for terminal input.
If you issue a DONTSWAP, paging still continues for your address space.
changes i made for cp67 (as undergraudate in the 60s) .. and since the
changes were mostly dropped in the simplification in the morph of
cp67->vm370 ... re-implemented for vm370 in the 70s ... was pages were
individually "paged" ... and at queue drop (for long wait) ... virtual
pages might be "collected" ... but nothing actually happened unless
there was sufficient demand for pages (aka agile, dynamic adaptive).
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#clock
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
UNIVAC: the troubled life of America's first computer
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: UNIVAC: the troubled life of America's first computer
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:24:34 -0400
UNIVAC: the troubled life of America's first computer
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09/univac-the-troubled-life-of-americas-first-computer.ars
On that night they witnessed the birth of an even newer technology --
machine that could predict the election's results. Sitting next to the
desk of CBS Anchor Walter Cronkite was a mockup a huge gadget called a
UNIVAC (UNIVersal Automatic Computer), which Cronkite explained would
augur the contest. J. Presper Eckert, the UNIVAC's inventor, stood next
to the device and explained its workings
... snip ...
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Batting .000 for the 00's, America's Lost Decade
From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 19 Sep, 2011
Subject: Batting .000 for the 00's, America's Lost Decade
Blog: Google+
Batting .000 for the 00's, America's Lost Decade
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-16/batting-000-in-00-s-u-s-sees-lost-decade-commentary-by-jonathan-alter.html
The Lost Decade: And the past 10 years? Shoes off in the airport.
Bruising unemployment. Slipping from first to 12th in college
graduation. Even classic loser decades, like the 1930s and 1970s, were
more productive than the oughts.
... snip ...
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/14/zakaria-only-china-can-save-europe/
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computer bootlaces
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: computer bootlaces
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:24:59 -0400
jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
If you stifle competition, smaller businnesses can't start to take
away unhappy customers of the initial big business. This is called
competition. The TARP money caused healthy, smaller banks to
disappear (bought out by the too-big-to-fail large banks) and now
we have a banking system which is not lending any money, especially
to home buyers and small businesses.
TARP original purpose was to buy triple-A rated toxic CDOs held
off-balance by the too-big-to-fail institutions (GLBA repeal of
Glass-Steagall playing pivotal role in allowing too-big-to-fail
institutions to even play in the estimated $27T in triple-A rated toxic
CDO transactions). At the end of 2008, just the four largest
too-big-to-fail institutions were holding $5.2T in triple-A rated
toxic CDOs off-balance ... and in the most recent fall2008 transactions,
triple-A rated toxic CDOs had been going for 22cents on the dollar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#59 Quiz: Evaluate your level of Spreadsheet risk
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/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/2009e.html#40 Architectural Diversity
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/2009f.html#56 What's your personal confidence level concerning financial market recovery?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#65 Just posted third article about toxic assets in a series on the current financial crisis
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#1 Future of Financial Mathematics?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#5 Do the current Banking Results in the US hide a grim truth?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#27 Flawed Credit Ratings Reap Profits as Regulators Fail Investors
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#52 Future of Financial Mathematics?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#53 We Can't Subsidize the Banks Forever
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#3 Consumer Credit Crunch and Banking Writeoffs
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#10 China's yuan 'set to usurp US dollar' as world's reserve currency
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#21 China's yuan 'set to usurp US dollar' as world's reserve currency
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/2009h.html#79 The $4 trillion housing headache
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#60 In the USA "financial regulator seeks power to curb excess speculation."
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#77 Financial Regulatory Reform - elimination of loophole allowing special purpose institutions outside Bank Holding Company (BHC) oversigh
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#35 what is mortgage-backed securities?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#69 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#13 UK issues Turning apology (and about time, too)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#21 UK issues Turning apology (and about time, too)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#62 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#4 alphas was: search engine history, was Happy DEC
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#5 alphas was: search engine history, was Happy DEC
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#8 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#10 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#11 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#26 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#29 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#74 LPARs: More or Less?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#15 LPARs: More or Less?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#33 The 2010 Census
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#54 The 2010 Census
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#69 The 2010 Census
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#76 The 2010 Census
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#15 The Revolving Door and S.E.C. Enforcement
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#22 In the News: SEC storms the 'Castle'
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#34 Idiotic programming style edicts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#47 "Fraud & Stupidity Look a Lot Alike"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#46 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#38 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#40 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#48 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#53 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#56 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#29 Idiotic programming style edicts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#33 Idiotic programming style edicts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#40 Idiotic programming style edicts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#22 60 Minutes News Report:Unemployed for over 99 weeks!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#24 What Is MERS and What Role Does It Have in the Foreclosure Mess?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#59 They always think we don't understand
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#6 What banking is. (Essential for predicting the end of finance as we know it.)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#7 What banking is. (Essential for predicting the end of finance as we know it.)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#17 What banking is. (Essential for predicting the end of finance as we know it.)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#23 They always think we don't understand
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#46 TCM's Moguls documentary series
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#63 TCM's Moguls documentary series
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#58 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#66 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#48 What do you think about fraud prevention in the governments?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#50 What do you think about fraud prevention in the governments?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#80 Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America's Lunch
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#84 The Imaginot Line
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#94 The Curly Factor -- Prologue
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#27 The Zippo Lighter theory of the financial crisis (or, who do we want to blame?)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#42 Productivity And Bubbles
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#43 Productivity And Bubbles
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#45 Productivity And Bubbles
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#56 Productivity And Bubbles
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#46 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#23 The first personal computer (PC)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#25 The first personal computer (PC)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#28 The first personal computer (PC)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#7 I actually miss working at IBM
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#36 On Protectionism
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#41 On Protectionism
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#48 On Protectionism
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#60 In your opinon, what is the highest risk of financial fraud for a corporation ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#74 The first personal computer (PC)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#43 Massive Fraud, Common Crime, No Prosecutions
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#66 Bank email archives thrown open in financial crash report
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#30 Bank email archives thrown open in financial crash report
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#71 Pressing Obama, House Bars Rise for Debt Ceiling
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#5 Home prices may drop another 25%, Shiller predicts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#7 Home prices may drop another 25%, Shiller predicts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#22 Is BitCoin a triple entry system?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#24 US Housing Crisis Is Now Worse Than Great Depression
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#25 US Housing Crisis Is Now Worse Than Great Depression
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#29 Obama: "We don't have enough engineers"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#13 'Megalomania, Insanity' Fueled Bubble: Munger
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#16 'Megalomania, Insanity' Fueled Bubble: Munger
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#19 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#33 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#37 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#3 Greed, Excess and America's Gaping Class Divide
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#11 Innovation and iconoclasm
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#24 rating agencies
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#38 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#39 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#41 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#44 S&P Downgrades USA; Time to Downgrade S&P?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#45 S&P's History of Relentless Political Advocacy
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#50 How Many Divisions Does Standard and Poors Have?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#2 First Website Launched 20 Years Ago Today
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#4 Geithner, Bernanke have little in arsenal to fight new crisis
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#16 Feds Launch Probe Into S&P Mortgage Rates
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#23 Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Fed's Secret Loans
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#25 Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Fed's Secret Loans
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#56 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#60 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#81 How Joe and Mary Six Pack Saved Wall Street, London, Frankfurt and Big Corporates in the USA and Europe
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#62 The true cost of 9/11: Trillions and trillions wasted on wars, a fiscal catastrophe, and a weaker America
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: computer bootlaces
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:50:12 -0400
jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
The target of today's politicians, especially Democrats, is to destroy
small business and make all citizens equal; the latter will be done
by making them all equal-ly poor. Whenever you applaud the politicians
who claim they want to "tax the rich" you are swallowing a line which
will result in taxing the middle class, especially their savings.
the "tax the rich" has been somewhat obfuscation and mis-direction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabuki
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#39 Kabuki Threater 1603-1629
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#44 Kabuki Threater 1603-1629
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#71 Cormpany sponsored insurance
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#49 Taxes
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#10 Blinkylights
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#43 Architectural Diversity
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#53 Are the "brightest minds in finance" finally onto something?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#53 Are the "brightest minds in finance" finally onto something?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#20 China's yuan 'set to usurp US dollar' as world's reserve currency
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#13 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#48 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#69 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#73 Idiotic programming style edicts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#14 Rare Apple I computer sells for $216,000 in London
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#74 TCM's Moguls documentary series
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#18 The first personal computer (PC)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#8 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#20 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#4 Geithner, Bernanke have little in arsenal to fight new crisis
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#18 What Uncle Warren doesn't mention
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#73 Who was the Greatest IBM President and CEO of the last century
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: computer bootlaces
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:04:45 -0400
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#67 computer bootlaces
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#68 computer bootlaces
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/07/25/subprime-triple-a-ratings-or-how-to-lie-with-statistics/
How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/how-wall-streets-quants-lied-to-their-computers/
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#66 independent appraisers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#20 dollar coins
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#17 Fraud due to stupid failure to test for negative
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#78 When risks go south: FM&FM to be nationalized
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#80 Fraud due to stupid failure to test for negative
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#83 Fraud due to stupid failure to test for negative
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#86 WSJ finds someone to blame.... be skeptical, and tell the WSJ to grow up
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#87 Fraud due to stupid failure to test for negative
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#92 Blinkylights
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#0 Blinkylights
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#29 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#8 The background reasons of Credit Crunch
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#81 The 2010 Census
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#27 In the News: SEC storms the 'Castle'
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#12 Warren Buffett faces hearing over ratings agencies
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#6 taking down the machine - z9 series
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#29 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#53 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#17 What banking is. (Essential for predicting the end of finance as we know it.)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#69 Moody's hints at move that could be catastrophic for US debt
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#40 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#42 Productivity And Bubbles
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#43 Productivity And Bubbles
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#46 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#25 The first personal computer (PC)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#30 The first personal computer (PC)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#2 'Megalomania, Insanity' Fueled Bubble: Munger
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#24 rating agencies
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#44 S&P Downgrades USA; Time to Downgrade S&P?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#18 What Uncle Warren doesn't mention
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#46 Sand in Machine Makes a Stable Market
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#56 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
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Zakaria: Only China can save Europe
From: lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
Date: 20 Sep, 2011
Subject: Zakaria: Only China can save Europe
Blog: Facebook
Zakaria: Only China can save Europe
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/14/zakaria-only-china-can-save-europe/
I've written a column in The Washington Post about Europe's debt
crisis where I argue that the true scale of the crisis is so large
that neither Germany nor all of Europe can handle it on their own. A
more drastic solution is necessary.
... snip ...
Comment on his show (morning 18sep2011) was that US was only country
that had money to lend Europe after WW2 and was major factor in US as
world reserve. China is in similar position now.
also
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#66 Batting .000 for the 00's, America's Lost Decade
Batting .000 for the 00's, America's Lost Decade
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-16/batting-000-in-00-s-u-s-sees-lost-decade-commentary-by-jonathan-alter.html
from above:
The Lost Decade: And the past 10 years? Shoes off in the
airport. Bruising unemployment. Slipping from first to 12th in college
graduation. Even classic loser decades, like the 1930s and 1970s, were
more productive than the oughts.
... snip ...
No statistic seems
to capture this anxiety better than those showing the decline of
engineering. In 2005, the National Academy of Sciences released a
report warning that the United States could soon lose its privileged
position as the world's science leader. In 2004, the report said,
China graduated 600,000 engineers, India 350,000, and the United
States 70,000.
pg218/loc3515-17:
In 2007, China contributed more to global growth
than the United States did -- the first time any nation has done so
since at least the 1930s -- and surpassed it as the world's largest
consumer market in several key categories.
Spence: Future of Economic Growth in Multispeed World loc914-16:
One
way to think about this is that China and India account for about 60
percent of the population of the G20 countries. In another few
decades, these will be the major advanced income countries. At that
point, say by the middle of the twenty-first century, output of China
and India will be similar and account for almost 60 percent of the
world's advanced-country income.
another possible scenario is that they've been buying (renting)
politicians just like all the other special interest groups
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#70 illegal aliens
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#79 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#81 illegal aliens
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#22 U.S. Cedes Top Spot in Global IT Competitiveness
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#61 Horrid thought about Politics, President Bush, and Democrats
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#46 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#39 competitiveness
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#17 The Return of Ada
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#55 TCM's Moguls documentary series
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Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:02:29 -0400
David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@dd-b.net> writes:
I've always kind of missed the complex front panel access I had on my
first few computers, both IBM and DEC. I'd never previously thought
about it as having security implications, but of course it very much
does.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#18 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
http://web.archive.org/web/20030417083810/http://www.smartcard.co.uk/resources/articles/cartes2002.html
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
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Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:43:57 -0400
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#18 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#71 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#gateway
misc. past posts mentioning "SSL" digital certificates
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#sslcerts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
http://web.archive.org/web/20011109072807/http://www.intel94.com/idf/spr2001/sessiondescription.asp?id=stp+s13 Assurance Session at Intel Developer's Conference (20010227),
and presenetation
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/iasrtalk.zip
other references to chip work
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: computer bootlaces
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:04:26 -0400
jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
My local bank decided not to feed at the TARP trough. It was bought
out a year later. There are no more local banks.
My fixit guy stopped by last week. He said that
the only houses getting sold were bought by people who have cash.
He can't get approval to borrow $1. He buys moldings from a business
whose owner has reduced his work force from 35 to 5 people; he doesn't
make enough profit to pay the electric bill.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#59 computer bootlaces
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#67 computer bootlaces
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#68 computer bootlaces
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#69 computer bootlaces
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#riskm
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#4 Geithner, Bernanke have little in arsenal to fight new crisis
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/1201/Federal-Reserve-s-astounding-report-We-loaned-banks-trillions
updated with $16T from the FED
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/21/audit-fed-gave-16-trillion-in-emergency-loans/
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2011/09/nevada-goes-to-war-against-bank-of-america.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20080606084328/http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1933
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#31 IBM obsoleting mainframe hardware
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#68 Toyota Beats GM in Global Production
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#31 IBM announced z10 ..why so fast...any problem on z 9
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#4 Michigan industry
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#77 Tell me why the taxpayer should be saving GM and Chrysler (and Ford) managers & shareholders at this stage of the game?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#22 Is Pride going to decimate the auto Industry?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#2 China-US Insights on the Future of the Auto Industry
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#3 IBM interprets Lean development's Kaizen with new MCIF product
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#10 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#31 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#14 360 programs on a z/10
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#47 z9 / z10 instruction speed(s)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#55 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#70 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#8 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#75 Favourite computer history books?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#0 Idiotic programming style edicts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#22 60 Minutes News Report:Unemployed for over 99 weeks!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#59 They always think we don't understand
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#90 PDCA vs. OODA
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#2 Car models and corporate culture: It's all lies
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#35 Having left IBM, seem to be reminded that IBM is not the same IBM I had joined
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#34 Boyd's Reading List Revisited
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Subject: Re: computer bootlaces
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english, alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:23:13 -0400
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
this is 2008 estimate that 1000 were responsible for 80% of the
financial mess (gone behind subscription wall but lives on at the
wayback machine) and it would go a long way to correcting the problem if
the gov. could figure out how to eliminate them:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080606084328/http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1933
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#73 computer bootlaces
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm-Leach-Bliley_Act
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#53 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#54 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-01-15/news/phil-gramm-s-enron-favor/
A few days after she got the ball rolling on the exemption, Wendy
Gramm resigned from the commission. Enron soon appointed her to its
board of directors, where she served on the audit committee, which
oversees the inner financial workings of the corporation. For this,
the company paid her between $915,000 and $1.85 million in stocks and
dividends, as much as $50,000 in annual salary, and $176,000 in
attendance fees,
... snip ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/business/17grammside.html
Enron was a major contributor to Mr. Gramm's political campaigns, and
Mr. Gramm's wife, Wendy, served on the Enron board, which she joined
after stepping down as chairwoman of the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
... snip ...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&refer=home&sid=aYJZOB_gZi0I
That same year Greenspan, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and SEC
Chairman Arthur Levitt opposed an attempt by Brooksley Born, head of
the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to study regulating
over-the-counter derivatives. In 2000, Congress passed a law keeping
them unregulated.
... snip ...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#32 independent appraisers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#44 Fixing finance
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#52 IBM CEO's remuneration last year ?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#66 independent appraisers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#89 Credit Crisis Timeline
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#4 A Merit based system of reward -Does anybody (or any executive) really want to be judged on merit?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#67 Do you have other examples of how people evade taking resp. for risk
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#73 CROOKS and NANNIES: what would Boyd do?
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/2009.html#85 Banks' Demise: Why have the Governments hired the foxes to mend the chicken runs?
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#11 Amid Economic Turbulence, Mainframes Counter IT Cost-Cutting Trend
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#18 Barbless
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#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#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#54 In your opinion, which facts caused the global crise situation?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#11 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/2009c.html#38 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#39 'WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GLOBAL MELTDOWN'
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#49 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#53 How to defeat new telemarketing tactic
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#55 Who will give Citigroup the KNOCKOUT blow?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#65 is it possible that ALL banks will be nationalized?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#3 Congress Set to Approve Pay Cap of $500,000
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#10 Who will Survive AIG or Derivative Counterparty Risk?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#28 I need insight on the Stock Market
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#61 Quiz: Evaluate your level of Spreadsheet risk
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#63 Do bonuses foster unethical conduct?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#73 Should Glass-Steagall be reinstated?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#0 What is swap in the financial market?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#8 The background reasons of Credit Crunch
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#13 Should we fear and hate derivatives?
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/2009e.html#35 Architectural Diversity
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#20 What is the real basis for business mess we are facing today?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#27 US banking Changes- TARP Proposl
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#29 What is the real basis for business mess we are facing today?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#35 US banking Changes- TARP Proposl
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#51 On whom or what would you place the blame for the sub-prime crisis?
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#5 Do the current Banking Results in the US hide a grim truth?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#7 Just posted third article about toxic assets in a series on the current financial crisis
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#33 Treating the Web As an Archive
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#76 Undoing 2000 Commodity Futures Modernization Act
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#17 REGULATOR ROLE IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT FINANCIAL SCANDALS
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#54 64 Cores -- IBM is showing a prototype already
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#60 In the USA "financial regulator seeks power to curb excess speculation."
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#74 Administration calls for financial system overhaul
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#77 Financial Regulatory Reform - elimination of loophole allowing special purpose institutions outside Bank Holding Company (BHC) oversigh
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#21 The Big Takeover
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#30 An Amazing Document On Madoff Said To Have Been Sent To SEC In 2005
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#35 what is mortgage-backed securities?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#5 Internal fraud isn't new, but it's news
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#56 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#84 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#51 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#77 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#82 Oldest Instruction Set still in daily use?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#92 Who's to Blame for the Meltdown?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#54 The 2010 Census
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#22 In the News: SEC storms the 'Castle'
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#28 Our Pecora Moment
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#67 The Python and the Mongoose: it helps if you know the rules of engagement
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#38 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#40 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#36 Idiotic programming style edicts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#38 Idiotic programming style edicts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#29 Ernst & Young sued for fraud over Lehman
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#9 I actually miss working at IBM
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#36 On Protectionism
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#38 On Protectionism
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#40 On Protectionism
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#74 The first personal computer (PC)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#52 Are Americans serious about dealing with money laundering and the drug cartels?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#25 US Housing Crisis Is Now Worse Than Great Depression
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#29 Obama: "We don't have enough engineers"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#8 'Megalomania, Insanity' Fueled Bubble: Munger
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#18 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#19 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#41 Advice from Richard P. Feynman
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#30 Regulators seek to plug derivatives data gaps
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#53 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#54 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
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