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360/370 m'code
First 360 PCM/OEM Controller
Misc. 545 Tech Sq and Cambridge Science Center
Disk Engineering
Performance and/or Scheduling
Cluster, High Availability and/or Loosely-Coupled
APL and/or HONE
Multiprocessor, tightly-coupled, SMP, compare&swap
Working Set, LRU, WSClock Page Replacement Algorithm
801 &/or ROMP
Mainframe related subthreads moved:
MOVED: Memory Mapping & File System
MOVED: Backup, storage management
MOVED: Benchmarking, workload profile, capacity planning
MOVED: Future system
MOVED: Problem determination, zombies, dump readers
MOVED: System/R, SQL/DS, misc RDBMS
MOVED: Location/address independent code
MOVED: Misc. commercial time-sharing
MOVED: peer-coupled shared data
MOVED: GML origin at science center
MOVED: misc VAMPS and/or bounce lock
MOVED: continuous availability, disaster survivability, geographic survivability
MOVED: mentioning HASP
MOVED: IBM DASD, CKD, FBA, vtocs, multi-track search, etc
MOVED: BDAM and/or CICS
MOVED: Unbundling and charging for software
Networking postings moved
Public key postings moved
Integrity postings moved
Boyd postings moved
Working Set, LRU, WSClock Page Replacement Algorithm
- Some Related old email
- 93.html#0 360/67, was Re: IBM's Project F/S?
- 93.html#4 360/67, was Re: IBM's Project F/S?
- 93.html#5 360/67, was Re: IBM's Project F/S?
- 93.html#6 Self-virtualization and CPUs
- 93.html#7 HELP: Algorithm for Working Sets (Virtual Memory)
- 93.html#8 PowerPC Architecture (was: Re: PowerPC priced very low!)
- 93.html#31 Big I/O or Kicking the Mainframe out the Door
- 94.html#01 Big I/O or Kicking the Mainframe out the Door
- 94.html#1 Multitasking question
- 94.html#2 Schedulers
- 94.html#4 Schedulers
- 94.html#5 Schedulers
- 94.html#8 scheduling & dynamic adaptive ... long posting warning
- 94.html#10 lru, clock, random & dynamic adaptive
- 94.html#14 lru, clock, random & dynamic adaptive ... addenda
- 94.html#20 CP/67 & OS MFT14
- 94.html#42 bloat
- 94.html#46 Rethinking Virtual Memory
- 94.html#47 Rethinking Virtual Memory
- 94.html#49 Rethinking Virtual Memory
- 94.html#51 Rethinking Virtual Memory
- 94.html#54 How Do the Old Mainframes
- 95.html#1 pathlengths
- 95.html#2 Why is there only VM/370?
- 95.html#12 slot chaining
- 96.html#0a Cache
- 96.html#0b Hypothetical performance question
- 96.html#10 Caches, (Random and LRU strategies)
- 96.html#11 Caches, (Random and LRU strategies)
- 97.html#0 LRU in caches with bit decay
- 97.html#22 Pre S/360 IBM Operating Systems?
- 97.html#28 IA64 Self Virtualizable?
- 98.html#2 CP-67 (was IBM 360 DOS (was Is Win95 without DOS...))
- 98.html#12 S/360 operating systems geneaology
- 98.html#17 S/360 operating systems geneaology
- 98.html#54 qn on virtual page replacement
- 99.html#18 Old Computers
- 99.html#20 APL\360
- 99.html#104 Fixed Head Drive (Was: Re:Power distribution (Was: Re: A primeval C compiler)
- 99.html#237 I can't believe this newsgroup still exists
- 2000.html#5 IBM XT/370 and AT/370 (was Re: Computer of the century)
- 2000.html#52 Correct usage of "Image"???
- 2000.html#86 Ux's good points
- 2000c.html#35 What level of computer is needed for a computer to Love?
- 2000d.html#11 4341 was "Is a VAX a mainframe?"
- 2000d.html#13 4341 was "Is a VAX a mainframe?"
- 2000f.html#9 Optimal replacement Algorithm
- 2000f.html#10 Optimal replacement Algorithm
- 2000f.html#18 OT?
- 2000f.html#32 Optimal replacement Algorithm
- 2000f.html#34 Optimal replacement Algorithm
- 2000f.html#36 Optimal replacement Algorithm
- 2000f.html#60 360 Architecture, Multics, ... was (Re: X86 ultimate CISC? No.)
- 2000g.html#3 virtualizable 360, was TSS ancient history
- 2000g.html#30 Could CDR-coding be on the way back?
- 2000g.html#38 4M pages are a bad idea (was Re: AMD 64bit Hammer CPU and VM)
- 2001.html#13 Review of Steve McConnell's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH
- 2001b.html#17 Linux IA-64 interrupts [was Re: Itanium benchmarks ...]
- 2001b.html#18 Linux IA-64 interrupts [was Re: Itanium benchmarks ...]
- 2001c.html#10 Memory management - Page replacement
- 2001c.html#11 Memory management - Page replacement
- 2001e.html#45 VM/370 Resource Manager
- 2001f.html#49 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercompu
- 2001f.html#52 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
- 2001f.html#53 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
- 2001f.html#54 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
- 2001f.html#55 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
- 2001f.html#56 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
- 2001g.html#29 any 70's era supercomputers that ran as slow as today's supercomputers?
- 2001h.html#26 TECO Critique
- 2001i.html#20 Very CISC Instuctions (Was: why the machine word size ...)
- 2001i.html#42 Question re: Size of Swap File
- 2001l.html#55 mainframe question
- 2002b.html#10 hollow files in unix filesystems?
- 2002b.html#16 hollow files in unix filesystems?
- 2002c.html#48 Swapper was Re: History of Login Names
- 2002c.html#49 Swapper was Re: History of Login Names
- 2002c.html#52 Swapper was Re: History of Login Names
- 2002e.html#8 What are some impressive page rates?
- 2002e.html#9 What are some impressive page rates?
- 2002j.html#31 Unisys A11 worth keeping?
- 2002j.html#32 Latency benchmark (was HP Itanium2 benchmarks)
- 2002o.html#30 Computer History Exhibition, Grenoble France
- 2003f.html#5 Alpha performance, why?
- 2003f.html#53 Alpha performance, why?
- 2003f.html#55 Alpha performance, why?
- 2003g.html#0 Alpha performance, why?
- 2003g.html#55 Advantages of multiple cores on single chip
- 2003h.html#6 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs. IBM
- 2003h.html#8 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs. IBM
- 2004b.html#47 new to mainframe asm
- 2004b.html#60 Paging
- 2004c.html#59 real multi-tasking, multi-programming
- 2004f.html#46 Finites State Machine (OT?)
- 2004g.html#13 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
- 2004g.html#55 The WIZ Processor
- 2004h.html#46 self correcting systems
- 2004i.html#0 Hard disk architecture: are outer cylinders still faster than inner cylinders?
- 2004l.html#66 Lock-free algorithms
- 2004l.html#67 Lock-free algorithms
- 2004l.html#68 Lock-free algorithms
- 2004l.html#70 computer industry scenairo before the invention of the PC?
- 2004n.html#27 Shipwrecks
- 2004n.html#55 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
- 2004o.html#7 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
- 2004o.html#8 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
- 2004q.html#73 Athlon cache question
- 2004q.html#76 Athlon cache question
- 2004q.html#77 Athlon cache question
- 200rq.html#79 Athlon cache question
- 2005.html#2 Athlon cache question
- 2005.html#6 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
- 2005c.html#15 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
- 2005c.html#27 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
- 2005c.html#53 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
- 2005f.html#47 Moving assembler programs above the line
- 2005.html#10 Exceptions at basic block boundaries
- 2005.html#15 Exceptions at basic block boundaries
- 2005i.html#15 Now the crackpots are trying to make it their own
- 2005k.html#47 Performance and Capacity Planning
- 2005k.html#54 Determining processor status without IPIs
- 2005n.html#19 Code density and performance?
- 2005n.html#23 Code density and performance?
- 2005o.html#43 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS?
- 2005r.html#13 Is a Hurricane about to hit IBM ?
- 2006.html#17 DCSS as SWAP disk for z/Linux
- 2006b.html#14 Expanded Storage
- 2006b.html#15 Expanded Storage
- 2006b.html#16 Expanded Storage
- 2006c.html#2 Multiple address spaces
- 2006d.html#0 IBM 610 workstation computer
- 2006d.html#21 IBM 610 workstation computer
- 2006f.html#0 using 3390 mod-9s
- 2006f.html#18 how much swap size did you take?
- 2006g.html#3 The Pankian Metaphor
- 2006i.html#22 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#23 Virtual memory implementation in S/370
- 2006i.html#24 Virtual memory implementation in S/370
- 2006i.html#30 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#31 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#36 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#37 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#38 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#39 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#40 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#41 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#42 virtual memory
- 2006i.html#43 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#0 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#1 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#2 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#4 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#5 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#11 The Pankian Metaphor
- 2006j.html#13 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#14 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#17 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#18 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#19 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#22 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#25 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#30 virtual memory
- 2006j.html#39 virtual memory
- 2006l.html#3 virtual memory
- 2006l.html#5 virtual memory
- 2006l.html#9 virtual memory
- 2006l.html#11 virtual memory
- 2006l.html#12 virtual memory
- 2006l.html#13 virtual memory
- 2006l.html#14 virtual memory
- 2006l.html#15 virtual memory
- 2006m.html#54 DCSS
- 2006o.html#26 Cache-Size vs Performance
- 2006p.html#0 DASD Response Time (on antique 3390?)
- 2006q.html#19 virtual memory
- 2006q.html#20 virtual memory
- 2006q.html#21 virtual memory
- 2006r.html#12 Trying to design low level hard disk manipulation program
- 2006r.html#34 REAL memory column in SDSF
- 2006r.html#39 REAL memory column in SDSF
- 2006s.html#25 VM SPOOL question
- 2006s.html#59 Why magnetic drums was/are worse than disks ?
- 2006t.html#13 VM SPOOL question
- 2006v.html#43 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
- 2006w.html#7 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?
- 2006w.html#46 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
- 2006x.html#2 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
- 2006x.html#10 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
- 2006x.html#16 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
- 2006x.html#17 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
- 2006y.html#9 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
- 2006y.html#17 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
- 2007b.html#14 Just another example of mainframe costs
- 2007b.html#34 Just another example of mainframe costs
- 2007c.html#23 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
- 2007c.html#56 SVCs
- 2007d.html#25 modern paging
- 2007e.html#10 A way to speed up level 1 caches
- 2007e.html#27 IBM S/360 series operating systems history
- 2007f.html#18 What to do with extra storage on new z9
- 2007g.html#36 Wylbur and Paging
- 2007k.html#2 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
- 2007m.html#55 Capacity and Relational Database
- 2007o.html#45 Virtual Storage implementation
- 2007o.html#46 Virtual Storage implementation
- 2007o.html#47 Virtual Storage implementation
- 2007o.html#53 Virtual Storage implementation
- 2007p.html#11 what does xp do when system is copying
- 2007p.html#26 what does xp do when system is copying
- 2007p.html#74 GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up
- 2007r.html#51 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
- 2007r.html#65 CSA 'above the bar'
- 2007r.html#75 Real storage usage - a quick question
- 2007s.html#5 Poster of computer hardware events?
- 2007t.html#54 new 40+ yr old, disruptive technology
- 2007u.html#77 IBM Floating-point myths
- 2007u.html#79 IBM Floating-point myths
- 2008.html#16 No Glory for the PDP-15
- 2008c.html#65 No Glory for the PDP-15
- 2008c.html#78 CPU time differences for the same job
- 2008e.html#16 Kernels
- 2008e.html#39 z10 presentation on 26 Feb
- 2008f.html#3 Fantasy-Land_Hierarchal_NUMA_Memory-Model_on_Vertical
- 2008f.html#8 Fantasy-Land_Hierarchal_NUMA_Memory-Model_on_Vertical
- 2008f.html#12 Fantasy-Land_Hierarchal_NUMA_Memory-Model_on_Vertical
- 2008f.html#19 Fantasy-Land_Hierarchal_NUMA_Memory-Model_on_Vertical
- 2008f.html#21 Fantasy-Land_Hierarchal_NUMA_Memory-Model_on_Vertical
- 2008h.html#70 New test attempt
- 2008h.html#79 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
- 2008h.html#84 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
- 2008k.html#32 squirrels
- 2008k.html#34 squirrels
- 2008k.html#80 How to calculate effective page fault service time?
- 2008m.html#7 Future architectures
- 2008m.html#13 Yet another squirrel question - Results (very very long post)
- 2008m.html#34 Future architectures
- 2008r.html#21 What if the computers went back to the '70s too?
- 2009g.html#74 308x Processors - was "Mainframe articles"
- 2009l.html#12 August 7, 1944: today is the 65th Anniversary of the Birth of the Computer
- 2009r.html#54 While watching Biography about Bill Gates on CNBC last Night
- 2010c.html#6 Queing theory paper
- 2010d.html#60 LPARs: More or Less?
- 2010d.html#78 LPARs: More or Less?
- 2010f.html#85 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++
- 2010f.html#89 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++
- 2010f.html#90 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++
- 2010f.html#91 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++
- 2010g.html#016:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++
- 2010g.html#2 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++
- 2010g.html#22 Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape
- 2010g.html#23 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++
- 2010g.html#42 Interesting presentation