From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 09:21:36 -0800re:
another in the on-going saga of "deferred prosecution" and nobody held responsible ... money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists
Report on HSBC's rocky road to reform in US to be made public
http://www.icij.org/blog/2016/01/report-hsbcs-rocky-road-reform-us-be-made-public
money laundering posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
the joke is that fines in "deferred prosecution" are so small compared to the amounts involved ... it is becoming viewed as cost of running criminal operation.
some past "deferred prosecution" posts (I'm still working
on getting garlic webpages updated since 17apr2015).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#10 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#80 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#23 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#44 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#47 Do we REALLY NEED all this regulatory oversight?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#36 Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#37 LIBOR: History's Largest Financial Crime that the WSJ and NYT Would Like You to Forget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#57 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#61 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#31 Talk of Criminally Prosecuting Corporations Up, Actual Prosecutions Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#44 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#47 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#65 Economic Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#10 25 Years: How the Web began
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: 3270 based ATMs Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 2 Feb 2016 10:47:22 -0800re:
other trivia:
A Brief History of the ATM
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/a-brief-history-of-the-atm/388547/
The company seemed poised to overwhelm its competitors until executives
decided to deploy a new model "the IBM 4732 family" which were
incompatible with previous models, including the already-successful and
widely deployed IBM 3624.
...
IBM's move soured banks, inadvertently, opening the ATM market to new
cashpoint manufacturers. Eventually, IBM abandoned payment-technology
systems entirely.
...
IBM's returns fell short of its expectations, in part due to the growth
in local processing architectures, which had invalidated IBM's strategy
to link ATMs to its expensive mainframes.
... snip ...
There are articles about OS/2 lingering on in ATM market long after it
had disappeared elsewhere
The ticking time bomb inside your bank ATM
http://www.fiercefinanceit.com/story/ticking-time-bomb-inside-your-bank-atm/2013-07-31
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 13:05:03 -0800Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
and everybody slamming on their brakes as people are cut off.
no they do it on purpose .... get as far as possible in the outside lane
and cut across at the last moment. simplest version is to stay in
through lane and then cut in at the very last moment of the off-ramp
lane. past discussion in a.f.c. on the characterristic is that it only
takes less than one percent of people doing this to change (heavy)
traffic from near speed limit to stop&go. in past, there has been news
about road rage and shootings because of such behavior. some localities
have gone to enormous trouble to engineer highway off-ramps to inhibit
such behavior because it has such disastrous effects on highway
efficiency and throughput (like "through" lanes with physical barrier
separating "local access" lanes with off-ramps)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#66 When/why did "programming" become "software development?"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#4 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#7 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#5 sorting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#12 sorting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#18 Traffic Jam Mystery Solved By Mathematicians
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#5 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#52 Current Officers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#64 Shockwave traffic jam recreated for first time
Shockwave traffic jam recreated for first time
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13402-shockwave-traffic-jam-recreated-for-first-time.html
from above:
The mathematical theory behind these so-called "shockwave" jams was
developed more than 15 years ago using models that show jams appear from
nowhere on roads carrying their maximum capacity of free-flowing traffic
- typically triggered by a single driver slowing down.
... snip ...
and frequently what forces that driver to slow down/brake is an aggresive driving lane change right in front.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 13:15:07 -0800re:
note this one percent aggressive drivers can be sociopaths whos objective in life are to play win/loose (beat the other guy, weaving in&out of traffic and other areas of life) ... find it almost impossible to play win/win (like being responsible for dramatic switch from free-flowing to "shock-wave" accordian stop&go).
other posts mentioning sociopaths
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#77 Madoff Whistleblower Book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#24 AMERICA IS BROKEN, WHAT NOW?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#30 Have you ever wondered why some people seem to get rich easily
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#80 How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#4 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#30 Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#16 Interview of Mr. John Reed regarding banking fixing the game
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#99 New theory of moral behavior may explain recent ethical lapses in banking industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#1 Spontaneous conduction: The music man with no written plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#91 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#16 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#84 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#53 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#14 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#53 Retirement Savings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#76 Crowdsourcing Diplomacy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#1 IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#1 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#39 Sale receipt--obligatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#37 Income Inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#15 Banking Culture Encourages Dishonesty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#15 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#22 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#10 25 Years: How the Web began
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Cyberdumb Date: 03 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookCyberdumb .... cyber security have leaked details on the major weapons systems last decade
Report: U.S. Weapons System Designs Breached by Chinese Cyber Attacks
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2013/05/28/us-weapons-compromised-chinese-cyberspies/
... continuing
Pentagon can't check F-35 maintenance thanks to insecure database
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/03/pentagon_cant_check_f35_maintenance_thanks_to_insecure_database/
references DOD report, dated Jan2016
http://www.dote.osd.mil/pub/reports/FY2015/pdf/other/2015DOTEAnnualReport.pdf
cyberdumb also
Pentagon Test Report Points to F35 Combat Limits
http://aviationweek.com/defense/test-report-points-f-35-s-combat-limits-0
Unready for War: America's F-35 Gets a Bad Report Card
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/unready-war-americas-f-35-gets-bad-report-card-15092
Pentagon's Office Of Testing And Evaluation: 'The F-35 Has Too Many
Bugs'
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2016/02/pentagons-office-of-testing-and.html
The F-35's Terrifying Bug List
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/02/f-35s-terrifying-bug-list/125638/?oref=DefenseOneTCO
Another F-35 setback
http://www.businessinsider.com/f-35-setback-2016-2
aggressive outsourcing to private-equity companies last decade, today
OPM says it needs to hire 1,000 cyber security experts
http://www.fedcyber.com/2016/02/03/help-wanted-1000-cybersecurity-jobs-at-opm/
OPM Contractor's Parent Firm Has a Troubled History
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/24/opm-contractor-veritas/
but also "Spies like Us"
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
references Snowden affair and outsourcing to (especially
private-equity) "for profit" companies:
So despite the promise of the cyber warfare and cloud capabilities
Booz Allen is now marketing not just to Uncle Sam but also to Mideast
governments and US banks and energy producers, resist the urge to buy
the "Snowden dip." Booz Allen is an "Spiinvestment that works best for
senior insiders and their paymasters at Carlyle. Everyone else is
dispensable. Security risk is just one of the risks of this security."
also
Just this week, the NSA director testified that the agency would be
implementing a "buddy system" requiring two authorizations for the
download of classified information onto portable media.
... snip ...
note that "buddy system" was standard security requirement by at least the 80s. In the 90s, I designed a (payment) security chip and did an audit of a gov. certified chip foundry for security chips (that would build the chips) ... and it required "pairs of eyeballs" (nearly all actions required pairs of people as countermeasure to insider threats).
private-equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
and rapidly spreading culture of making more profit off failures (than
successes), Success Of Failure
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
Success Of Failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow
Government (Mike Lofgren), pg38/loc630-31:
The Deep State Is More Than Just the Military-Industrial Complex
... snip ...
military-industrial complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/lets-face-it-its-the-cyber-era-and-were-cyber-dumb-30a00a8d29ad
Trivia: AMEX is in competition with KKR for private-equity take-over
of RJR and KKR wins. KKR then runs into trouble with RJR and hires
away the AMEX president to turn around RJR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
IBM has gone into the red and is in the process of being broken up
into the 13 "baby blues". The board then hires away the former
president of AMEX to reverse the breakup and resurrect IBM. Uses some
of same techniques at IBM that had been used at RJR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
Later the former president of AMEX leaves IBM and becomes head of another large private-equity company which does LBO (among others) of company that will employ Snowden.
gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
When recent director of CIA resigned in disgrace, he is hired by KKR.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The Deep State Date: 03 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookThe Deep State
pg77/loc1257-59:
When Rubin left to cash in on the repeal of Glass-Steagall, Clinton
nominated Lawrence Summers to fill the post and reappointed Ayn Rand
fanboy Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
pg77/loc1259-60:
When Brooksley Born, Clinton's chairman of the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, proposed to regulate the derivatives market, she
was crushed by the troika of Greenspan, Rubin, and Summers.
... snip ...
#2 on times list of those responsible for financial mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
Responsible for GLBA and repeal of Glass-Steagall, Brooksley Born was quickly replaced by Gramm's wife blocking CDS regulation while Gramm got provision added that prevented CDS regulation (described as favor for Enron). She then resigns and joins ENRON board and the audit committee.
posts mentioning glass-steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
posts mentioning ENRON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
VP (former replacement CIA director) ... claims no knowledge of such activities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
and another presides over the financial mess, 70 times larger than S&L crisis.
pg57/loc931-33:
It only remained for his Republican successor, George W. Bush, to push
through further tax cuts and anesthetize the Securities and Exchange
Commission by appointing as chairman a useful idiot, former Republican
congressman Chris Cox, for the completion of the deregulation process.
... snip ...
Big change for tax cuts was in 2002 when congress allowed fiscal
responsibility act (spending couldn't exceed tax revenue) to
expire. 2010 CBO report was that then tax revenue cut by $6T and
spending increased by $6T (for $12T budget gap compared to fiscal
responsible budget).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAYGO
fiscal responsibility act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
#4 on times list of those responsible for financial mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877323,00.html
Rhetoric in Congress was that Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee that executives and auditors did jail time, but it required that SEC do something. Possibly because even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing anything, it started doing reports of fraudulent public company financial filines, even showing increase after SOX goes into effect (and nobody doing jailtime).
sarbanes-oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
In the congressional Madoff hearings, they had the person that had
tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC do something about
Madoff.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 20:41:09 -0800"Blanco" <rko4410@gmail.com> writes:
Relaxed stability
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxed_stability
Fly-by-wire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-by-wire
ARTIFICIAL STABILITY & FLY-BY-WIRE CONTROL
http://www.ausairpower.net/AADR-FBW-CCV.html
Technology and the F-16 Fighting Falcon Jet Fighter
https://www.nae.edu/Publications/Bridge/CentennialofAviation/TechnologyandtheF-16FightingFalconJetFighter.aspx
Because of the fly-by-wire, all-electronic, computer-based flight
control system, some have called the F-16 the "electric jet" or "an
airplane wrapped around a computer." I don't feel comfortable with that;
I want the "smarts" to remain in the cockpit, to be vested in the
pilot. The pilot uses his natural, inherent intellect to govern the
airplane; he (or she) makes the airplane "obedient." It responds with
minimum commands to the pilot's needs.
In conjunction with the fly-by-wire flight control system, we changed
the dynamics of the airplane, which dramatically enhanced its
capabilities. We adopted what we called relaxed static stability, which
meant that, with the center of lift forward of the center of gravity
instead of aft of it, the airplane would be statically unstable. No
matter, though. With artificial stability, the airplane would be much
more dynamic - as much as two and one-half times as dynamic as the F-4C
Phantom. Relaxed static stability allowed the airplane to achieve an
initial pitch rate of 5 g's per second with "deadbeat" damping-no
overshoot. Maneuvers could be instantaneously initiated and precisely
controlled - a very important factor.
... snip ...
Tribute To John R. Boyd
http://www.codeonemagazine.com/f16_article.html?item_id=156
Over the next six years, I participated in many all-night sessions in
Washington DC with Boyd and his small elite group. The group came to be
known as the "Fighter Mafia" because of its close-knit underground
operation. The mafia dissected and analyzed every facet of air combat
and its relevance to aircraft parameters. In the process, we defined a
concept for what became known as the Lightweight Fighter, progenitor to
the F-16.
... snip ...
This is tribute written for USNI Proceedings after Boyd passes ... for
non-members it is also here
http://radio-weblogs.com/0107127/stories/2002/12/23/genghisJohnChuckSpinneysBioOfJohnBoyd.html
past posts and URLs from around the WEB
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: For those who like to regress to their youth? :-) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 21:13:08 -0800re:
goes into more history
F-16 Fighting Falcon
http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/f-16.htm
Boyd had a lot of stories about the internal Air Force political trying to block the fighter mafia's threat to the F15.
posts & URL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Cyberdumb Date: 03 Feb 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
The Pentagon's New List of F-35 Bugs Is Predictably Awful
http://gizmodo.com/the-pentagons-new-list-of-f-35-bugs-is-predictably-awfu-1756826707
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The Deep State Date: 03 Feb 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
How Corruption Cripples America's Military
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-03/how-corruption-cripples-americas-military
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: What Will the Next A-10 Warthog Look Like? Date: 03 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookWhat Will the Next A-10 Warthog Look Like?
Air Force has been about strategic bombing ... '43 Strategic Bombing Program had all money going to bombers. British observation was that Battle of Britain demonstrated the need for long-range fighters for bombing programs ... but the US insisted on relearning the lesson the hard way. F35 designed as "bomb truck" ... assuming F22 flying cover, handling air superiority role.
Burton (Pentagon Wars) talks about A10 follow-on, five barrel gun,
smaller, simpler, cheaper, large numbers, capable being forward
deployed, serviced/maintained ... however would now more likely be
drone ... analogous to Army version of Predator
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/29/young_usaf_predator_pilot_officer_slam/
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
some past posts Burton & A10:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#83 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#36 IBM Historic computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#46 The Pentagon Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#68 A-10 Attack Jets Rack Up Air-to-Air Kills in Louisiana War Game
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#90 A Drone Could Be the Ultimate Dogfighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#31 The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#98 Friden Flexowriter equipment series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#68 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#59 A-10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#42 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#43 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#88 The Pentagon's Pricey Culture of Mediocrity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Bill Black: How Many Lies Can the WSJ Pack into a Chart on Liar's Loans? Date: 05 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookBill Black: How Many Lies Can the WSJ Pack into a Chart on Liar's Loans?
and
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2016/02/lenders-lies-liars-loans-rigorous-underwriting.html
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2016/02/many-lies-can-wsj-pack-chart-liars-loans.html
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2016/02/long-take-wsj-lie-liars-loans-two-sentences.html
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2016/02/liars-loans-plus-loan-brokers-equals-fraud-heaven.html
Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to
obfuscate fraudulent mortgages. In the late 90s, I was asked to try
and help prevent the coming economic mess by looking at improving the
integrity of supporting documents as countermeasures. Then
lenders were securitizing loans&mortgages and paying for triple-A
ratings. Triple-A rating trumps supporting documentation and they can
start doing no-documentation liar loans. Being able to pay for
triple-A eliminated any reason for loan originators to care about loan
quality, they could sell off (all loans as fast as they could be made)
to customers restricted to dealing in "safe" investments, largely
enabling over $27T done 2001-2008. In the Oct2008 congressional
hearings into the role that the rating agencies played, there was
testimony that both the rating agencies and the sellers paying for the
triple-A ratings, knew that they weren't worth triple-A.
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
posts (triple-A) toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
#2 on times list of those responsible for financial mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
Responsible for GLBA and repeal of Glass-Steagall; Brooksley Born (for suggesting CDS regulation) was quickly replaced by Gramm's wife blocking CDS regulation while Gramm got provision added that prevented CDS regulation (described as favor for Enron). She then resigns and joins ENRON board and the audit committee.
posts mentioning glass-steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
posts mentioning ENRON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
Rhetoric in Congress was that Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee that executives and auditors did jail time, but it required that SEC do something. Possibly because even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing anything, it started doing reports of fraudulent public company financial filines, even showing increase after SOX goes into effect (and nobody doing jailtime).
sarbanes-oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
In the Madoff congressional hearings, they had the person that had tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC to do something about Madoff. SEC's hands were forced when Madoff turned himself in (later speculation was that Madoff had defrauded some unsavory characters and turned himself in looking for gov. protection).
Madoff posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
Not as well known, Sarbanes-Oxley also required SEC to do something
about the rating agencies (selling triple-A rating was the major
factor in doing over $27T 2001-2008) ... and SEC didn't do anything
about that either.
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
Recent "Deep State" explanation for SEC not doing anything,
pg57/loc931-33:
It only remained for his Republican successor, George W. Bush, to push
through further tax cuts and anesthetize the Securities and Exchange
Commission by appointing as chairman a useful idiot, former Republican
congressman Chris Cox, for the completion of the deregulation process
... snip ...
Hillary, the Banksters Committed "Fraud" not "Shenanigans"
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2016/02/hillary-banksters-committed-fraud-not-shenanigans.html
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Thanks Obama Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 11:25:56 -0800Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
2010 CBO did an analysis since the act expired, tax revenue was cut by
$6T and spending increased by $6T (for $12T budget gap compared to the
fiscal responsibility budget). They also looked at the increase in
spending for DOD & two wars; finding that besides the other increases,
there was also a DOD increase of little over $1T that couldn't be accounted
for ... somehow disappearing into the pockets of the military-industrial
complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
That doesn't include things like the $60B+ in pallets of shrink wrapped $100 bills air lifted to Iraq that disappears.
More recent the long term costs of the two wars is between $5T and $6T (and it is the only time that taxes were reduced to not pay for the wars rather than increasing taxes to pay for wars).
In the 90s, congress passed a bill requiring all agencies pass financial audits ... it is two decades since all other agencies pass audits ... but not DOD. There was some speculation that DOD might have passed a financial audit in 2017, but there is increasing doubts that will happen.
The first major bill after the fiscal responsibility act was allowed to expire, was medicare part-d. CBS 60mins did an expose of the 18 repulicans & staff responsible for shepherding the bill. At the last minute they insert a one line sentence that prevents competitive bidding and prevent CBO from distributing a report analysing the effects of the change. CBS 60mins show identical drugs under part-D and competitive bidding that are 1/3rd the cost (of those under part-D). After it passes, all 18 have resigned and are on drug industry payroll.
part-D posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#medicare.part-d
middle of last decade, US Comptroller General starts including in
speeches that nobody in congress can do middle school arithmetic (for
how badly they were savaging the budget) and that part-d comes to be a
long term $40T totally swamping all other budget items (enormous
congressional gift to the drug industry).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
Besides the trillions increase in "legal" tax evasion created last
decade ... there has also been a big increase in the illegal tax
evasion. Spring of 2009, IRS says that it is going after $400B in
taxes on illegal income stashed offshore by 52,000 wealthy
individuals. In 2011, the new congress says that it was cutting the
budget on the IRS department responsible for recovering those
funds. Since then there have news reports of a few billion in fines on
the too big to fail institutions reponsible for enabling that
illegal tax evasion, but nothing about the recovery of the $400B.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
too big to fail have a increasing list of illegal activities for
which they haven't been prosecuted ... giving rise to the references
to too big to prosecute and too big to jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
One of the growing federal budget items is the interest paid on the federal debt. Middle of last decade, there was article explaining why Federal Reserve also backed getting rid of the fiscal responsibility act. As a gift to too big to fail, Federal Reserve would provide tens of trillions in ZIRP funds, the too big to fail could then turn around and buy treasuries (federal debt) getting an "easy" $300B/year.
There is an estimate that the too big to fail have been fined an
aggregate of $300B since 2008 for their illegal activity .... but
besides the enormous profits on illegal activity, it is more than offset
by the $300B/annum they can make with ZIRP funds off federal debt.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Ancient History (OS's) - was : IBM Destination z - What the Heck Is JCL and Why Does It Look So Funny? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 5 Feb 2016 12:01:36 -0800blester@OFIGLOBAL.COM (Lester, Bob) writes:
other trivia ... after 64, commodore did amiga ... which ran ARexx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARexx
ARexx is an implementation of the REXX language for the Amiga, written
in 1987 by William S. Hawes, with a number of Amiga-specific features
beyond standard REXX facilities. Like most REXX implementations, ARexx
is an interpreted language. Programs written for ARexx are called
"scripts", or "macros"; several programs offer the ability to run ARexx
scripts in their main interface as macros.
... snip ...
more trivia ... acorn group in Boca kept claiming that they wouldn't going to do any software and an IBM group was formed in silicon valley to write software for acorn. Then at some point the Boca group changed their mind and wanted responsibility for all software ... if necessary contracting with outside groups (some viewed as eliminating internal competition).
some past mentioning acorn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#79 Coulda, Woulda, Shoudda moments?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#19 PC history, was PDP10 and RISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#24 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#8 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#29 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#5 Is computer history taugh now?
reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer#Project_Chess
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Ancient History (OS's) - was : IBM Destination z - What the Heck Is JCL and Why Does It Look So Funny? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 5 Feb 2016 22:11:48 -0800linda.lstsrv@COMCAST.NET (Linda) writes:
In the 70s, I started trying to get IBM to let me put all the VMSHARE files up on internal systems ... including the world-wide sales&marketing support HONE system. One of the biggest battles I had with IBM was the lawyers were afraid that customer information would contaminate IBM employees.
My brother was Apple regional marketing rep at the time (largest physical region in CONUS) and I started trying to get him to setup up an apple that would do terminal emulation for copying all the files down from TYMSHARE ... he never quite got around to doing it ... although over the years ... when he would come into town for business meetings I would get invited to dinners ... and even got to argue with the MAC developers about design (before MAC was announced).
I eventually had to resort to getting montly tapes mailed from TYMSHARE
... that dumped all VMSHARE files (later added all PCSHARE
files). misc. old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmshare
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: DEC and The Americans Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 11:12:22 -0800jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
Retail Merchant Assocation sued the card associations for it and eventually won .... getting several billion in damages (aka retail merchants were being forced to paying enormously larger fees when debit transaction ran througgh as signature debit through the credit card networks ... than they had to pay when it ran as pin debit through the debit networks). However, nearly all debit cards now have little (credit) card association logo on them ... enabling them for signature debit, running over the credit network and subject to credit transaction fees.
The other issue with credit transaction fees was that they were heavily prorated based on associated fraud rates. Introduction of strong anti-fraud technologies was resisted because it would eliminate the fraud surchange which was up to 90% of fees (cutting it to close to pin debit). A difference between EU and US is that in EU, these fees account for less than 10% of bank bottom line ... but for many major banks in the US, it accounts for 40-60% of their bottom line (the fraud surcharge has an enormous profit component).
To anticipate eventually having to deploy strong anti-fraud technologies, they have spent much of the last decade on "cash back" programs .... for electronic transactions ... the bank profit margin on the "cash back" fees charged merchants designed to replace the enormous profit on fraud surchanges ... that can be drastically reduced with deployment of strong anti-fraud technologies (periodically in the 90s and last decade, there have been discussions on how banks love card fraud because they've used it to justify such huge profits).
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Ancient History (OS's) - was : IBM Destination z ... Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 7 Feb 2016 11:18:03 -08000000000433f07816-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.UA.EDU (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: IBM Destination z - What the Heck Is JCL and Why Does It Look So Funny? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 7 Feb 2016 17:27:43 -0800tom@TOMBRENNANSOFTWARE.COM (Tom Brennan) writes:
I've periodically mentioned Kildall working with CP/67-CMS at NPG school, before doing CP/M, which then morphs at Seattle Computing, and leads to ms/dos.
os/360 assumed batch ... and had to provide increasing about of contingency handling capability ... while conversational started out assuming responsible human was there to handle the contigency cases.
we were working with director of NSF and were suppose to get $20M to tie
together the NSF supercomputer centers. Then congress cuts the
budget, some other things happen, and then they release an RFP ... but
internal politics prevent us bidding on the RFP (director of NSF tries
to help by writing the corporation a letter, but that just makes
internal politics worse). As regional networks tie into the centers, it
morphs into NSFNET backbone, precursor to modern internet some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
We do get TCP/IP product for mainframe but there are quite a few issues
... getting 44kbytes/sec using near full 3090 processor. I do the
enhancements to support RFC1044 and in some tuning tests at Cray
Research get full sustained channel speed throughput between 4341 and a
Cray, using only a modest amount of 4341 (possibly 500 times improvement
in bytes moved per instruction executed). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#rfc1044
Late 80s, a senior disk engineer gets a talk scheduled at annual,
world-wide, internal communication group conference, supposedly on 3174
performance ... but opens the talk with statement that the communication
group was going to be responsible for the demise of the disk
division. The issue was that the communication group had strangle hold
on datacenters with corporate strategic ownership of everything crossing
the datacenter walls, and were fiercely fighting off distributed
computing and client/server (trying to preserve their dumb terminal
paradigm and install base). The disk division was starting to see data
fleeing the datacenter to more distributed computing friendly platforms
with drop in disk sales. The disk division had come up with a number of
solutions to reverse the process, but were constantly being vetoed by
the communication group. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
In the late 60s, increasing number of cp/67-cms customers were extending to 7x24 availability (including some number of commercial online service bureaus). One of the issues in the 60s mainframes were rented and initially, it was hard to promote offshit use enough to recover system costs. There was a lot of work done to reduce system costs (especially offshift). Part of system rental costs were based on the system meter that ran whenever the processor or any channel was running. All processor and channel activity had to be quiet for at least 400ms before system meter would stop. Special terminal CCWs were created to allow channel to stop ... but immediately start ondemand when characters were coming in ... some of the stuff sort of analogous being done for on-demand cloud computing (trivia long after mainframes had converted from rental to sales, MVS still had timer task that woke up every 400ms ... making sure that system meter never stopped).
Other stuff to further minimize offshift costs was eliminating operator requirements. Another early CP/67 enhancement in the 60s was automatic re-ipl after failure (system come up and available w/o needing any human intervention). In the early 70s, as environments became more complex, increasing amount of CP/67 services were provided by service virtual machines (analogous to demons ... the current cloud virtual machines are referring then to virtual appliances) that are not connected to any real terminal. In the early 70s, I do the autolog command for CP/67 ... which is used for a wide variety of automation ... including automatically bringing up service virtual machines at an automatic IPL (w/o human intervention).
At the IBM Pisa Science Center they implemented SPM for CP/67 ... which
allowed software running in virtual machine to handle all interactions
that would normally involve real terminal. This was used in conjunction
with service virtual machines to implement automated operator. This
was moved to VM/370 ... but for some reason was never released to
customers. Over time, various VM/370 features were released to customers
like IUCV and SMSG ... but in aggregate they are still a subset of the
full SPM facility. A trivial example was that the author of REXX wrote a
multi-user spacewar game that relied on SPM ... and since the internal
network software supported SPM ... any number of players around the
network could play. There was a problem that some number of people
started writing player 'BOTs that would beat the human players. The game
was then enhanced so that energy use increased non-linearly as time
between moves decreased below some (human) threshold ... trying to level
the playing field between BOTs and humans. old email about moving lots
of stuff from CP/67 to VM/370 including SPM and autolog
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
By the early to mid-70s, vm/370 automated operator facilities and service virtual machines were getting increasingly sophisticated.
We leave IBM in the early 90s and later are brought in as consultants to a small client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on the server (the two people responsible for the "commerce server", we had previously worked with when they were at Oracle and we were at IBM), the startup had also invented this technology called "SSL" they wanted to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce". I had absolute authority on the server to payment network side ... but could only make recommendations on the browser side. A big part of my time was developing compensating processes to do various kinds of contingency automation (a lot of which were decades old from mainframe environment)
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: IBM Destination z - What the Heck Is JCL and Why Does It Look So Funny? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 7 Feb 2016 18:43:21 -0800harris152@GMAIL.COM (Graham Harris) writes:
in the morph from CP/67 to VM/370 there was a lot of things dropped and simplified ... including all the scheduling stuff.
At the science center during the FS period, I continued to work on 360 &
370 stuff ... even periodically ridiculing the FS activity.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
with death of FS, there was mad rush to get stuff back into 370 product pipelines .... which contributed to decision to release some amount of the stuff I had been doing. Some of it was shipped in standard release.
Note that earlier in the 23Jun1969 unbundling announcement, ibm started
to charge for se services, maintenance, (application) software ... but
made the case that kernel software should still be free.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
During the FS period, the lack of 370 products is credited with given clone processors a market foothold. So part of resuming 370 efforts, the decision was made to also transition to start charging for all kernel software (likely motivated by 370 clone makers getting market foothold). The decision was made to make the scheduling work a guinee pig as separate charged-for kernel product (I had to spend a lot of time with lawyers and business people about kernel charging policies). After the transition was complete to charging for all kernel software in the 80s ... the next step was the OCO-wars (aka only shipping object code).
As part of the product review process somebody in Armonk said he wouldn't approve it unless it had customer setable parameters because everybody knew that the state of the art was setable performance parameters (MVS would have this huge array of setable parameters ... there would be lots of SHARE presentations about various tests of random walks of all the setable parameters with various workloads). I tried to explain to him what dynamic adaptive management met ... but eventually had to implement some customer setable parameters. However, there was a joke that I took from operations research and "degrees of freedom". The range of values for the manually setable parameters was less than what the dynamic adaptive calculations could do ... so effectively the dynamic adaptive calculations could compensate for human selected values.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Does Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion? Date: 07 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookDoes Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion?
and
https://plus.google.com/+LynnWheeler/posts/6nihxSU6WJU
Part of it is distractions from the tens of trillions looted by
wallstreet and part of it is distraction that military-industrial
complex is cyberdumb and have lost details of military weapons systems
(some worth trillion) to cyber-attacks
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2013/05/28/us-weapons-compromised-chinese-cyberspies/
Over a decade ago, somebody gave a talk in the middle east and happened to mention that cybercrime was more than drug crime. This resulted in 15mins. of fame and generated online arguments that reverberated around the world. That night, I got an email request from the speaker to find non-classified source for the information. I tried the major law enforcement websites around the world, Pretty uniformly the sites had readily available stats on drug crime ... but all references to cybercrime required restricted authenticated access. I eventually found a univ. professor academic paper referencing a Lexis-Nexis article about cybercrime more than drug crime.
One issue is that some of the biggest cybercrime amounts have involved financial institutions who are extremely publicity shy about such events. at the financial critical infrastructure protection sessions, the biggest concern was about information sharing ISACs not being subject to FOIA ... crooks shared such details but they didn't want the public finding out.
past Cyberdumb posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#3 Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#47 Stolen F-35 Secrets Now Showing Up in China's Stealth Fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#49 Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#0 Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#32 The dark side of digital banking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#82 The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#90 A Drone Could Be the Ultimate Dogfighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#18 After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#25 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#31 The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#49 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#90 Friden Flexowriter equipment series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#12 Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#20 US No Longer Tech Leader in Military War Gear
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#22 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#23 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#28 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#34 UN to Five Eyes nations: Your mass surveillance is breaking the law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#65 New Military Gear Doesn't Have to Cost a Fortune
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#102 A-10 Warthog No Longer Suitable for Middle East Combat, Air Force Leader Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#8 Super Cane's Computers run Windows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#32 Univac 90 series info posted on bitsavers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#43 Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#45 Is coding the new literacy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#76 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#6 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#10 NYT on Sony hacking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#11 NYT on Sony hacking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#55 Do we really?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#75 How Russia's S-400 makes the F-35 obsolete
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#9 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#20 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#21 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#34 The joy of simplicity?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#42 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#75 American Gripen: The Solution To The F-35 Nightmare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#4 Cyberdumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#8 Cyberdumb
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: DEC and The Americans Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 10:01:19 -0800scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
F35 original design as bomb truck with stealth primarily optimized
forward, assuming F22 flying cover and providing air superiority
... lots of the software my be vaporware given all the claims that they
are now trying to make for F35. more details than you may ever want to know
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-JSF-Analysis.html
diagram 4 has stealth optimization at different frequencies and directions
http://www.ausairpower.net/XIMG/JSF-RCS-Qualitative-A-XLVHF.png
from this paper
http://ausairpower.net/APA-2009-01.html
one of the issues is that latest generation of high performance chips are able to extract real-time location and targeting info from multi-band radar (even with real stealth planes). A year ago, DOD put export control on such chips ... at supercomputer conference last fall, China showed that they were now producing their own (lots of the chips are also used in supercomputers and china currently has the largest).
also analysis is that such chips can enable reducing the 2000
transmit/receive pairs in F22 AESA radar by nearly factor of 100 w/o
loss of capability (which would also reduce power requirement)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/APG-77
military-industrial complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
past cyberdumb posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#3 Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#47 Stolen F-35 Secrets Now Showing Up in China's Stealth Fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#49 Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#0 Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#32 The dark side of digital banking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#82 The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#90 A Drone Could Be the Ultimate Dogfighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#18 After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#25 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#31 The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#49 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#90 Friden Flexowriter equipment series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#12 Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#20 US No Longer Tech Leader in Military War Gear
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#22 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#23 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#28 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#34 UN to Five Eyes nations: Your mass surveillance is breaking the law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#65 New Military Gear Doesn't Have to Cost a Fortune
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#102 A-10 Warthog No Longer Suitable for Middle East Combat, Air Force Leader Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#8 Super Cane's Computers run Windows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#32 Univac 90 series info posted on bitsavers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#43 Let's Face It--It's the Cyber Era and We're Cyber Dumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#45 Is coding the new literacy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#76 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#6 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#10 NYT on Sony hacking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#11 NYT on Sony hacking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#55 Do we really?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#75 How Russia's S-400 makes the F-35 obsolete
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#9 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#20 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#21 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#34 The joy of simplicity?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#42 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#75 American Gripen: The Solution To The F-35 Nightmare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#4 Cyberdumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#8 Cyberdumb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#19 Does Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: DEC and The Americans Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:45:21 -0800re:
and of course ... their "tributes" to John Boyd
Fast Forward 'Fast Transients': John Boyd, the F-22 and F-35 in 2016
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-131210-1.html
Briefings - Colonel John R. Boyd, USAF
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-Boyd-Papers.html
I use to sponsor Boyd's presentations at IBM ... past
posts and URLs from around the web
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
Boyd also wrote the fighter pilot training manual that was used by the US ... and then by many of the countries around the world. He told story about CIA getting a copy of the Soviet manual ... who claimed it was Boyd's translated to Russian and measures changed to metric.
military-industrial complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: How Many Raspberry PI's Would It Take To Emulate The Human Brain's Neural Network? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 13:01:51 -0800Emergent Chip Vastly Accelerates Deep Neural Networks
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM's 3033; "The Big One": IBM's 3033 Date: 08 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookIBM's 3033; "The Big One": IBM's 3033
FS was going to completely replace 370 and was completely different
During the FS period, they were killing off 370 efforts and the lack
of 370 products is credited with giving clone processors market
foothold. When FS imploded, there was mad rush to get products back
into 370 pipeline. 303x and 3081 were kicked off in parallel; 3033 was
remap of 168 logic to 20% faster chips from FS and 3081 used other
left-over technology from FS ... more detailed analysis
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
The 370 emulator minus the FS microcode was eventually sold in 1980
as as the IBM 3081. The ratio of the amount of circuitry in the 3081
to its performance was significantly worse than other IBM systems of
the time; its price/performance ratio wasn't quite so bad because IBM
had to cut the price to be competitive. The major competition at the
time was from Amdahl Systems -- a company founded by Gene Amdahl, who
left IBM shortly before the FS project began, when his plans for the
Advanced Computer System (ACS) were killed. The Amdahl machine was
indeed superior to the 3081 in price/performance and spectaculary
superior in terms of performance compared to the amount of
circuitry.]
... snip ...
3033 was more like 1.5 times 168-3 ... the 20% faster chips had ten times the circuits/chip ... and they redid some logic to optimize more on chip operations. to get up to 1.5times.
Initial 3081D was 2processors was suppose to be same speed as 2processor 3033 ... but was more like 20% slower for many benchmarks. They doubled cache for 3081K got it up to about same as 2processor 3033. 3084 was two 3081s (4 processors total) but it took a big hit with 4-way performance.
The first new system was 3090.
oh, and reference to end of advanced computer system
https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
there was issue that executives thought it might advance the state of the art too fast and they would loose control of the market. Bottom of the article it goes into ACS features that show up in ES/9000 more than 20yrs later.
3090 was much more follow-on hardware to 165/168 (modulo the side-step to do the quick&dirty 3033) ... and 3081 was filler machine using whatever stuff they happened to have handy.
At the time of the 3033, I had gotten involved in a 16-way SMP 370
machine that everybody thot was fantastic. We even suckered the
processor engineers doing the 3033 to work on it in their spare time
(which was lot more interesting that the 168-3 logic remap). That is
until somebody mentioned to the head of POK that it might be decades
before the POK favorite son operating system, MVS had effective 16-way
SMP support. Then several of us were told to never visit POK again
... and the 3033 processor engineers to get nose to the grindstone and
don't do anything else until 3033 was out the door. some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
some of the 3090 processor engineers (previously 3033, & 168) complained about vector being pure marketing. They said they had worked very hard to make 3090 scalar floating point run as fast as the memory bus. one of the motivations for vector in the past was that floating point units were so slow ... that standard memory bus could keep large number of (vector) floating point units fed. (trivia the processor engineers would let me sneak into POK even tho I had been directed to never visit POK again)
the other thing added to 3090 was expanded store. to get all the memory they wanted, physical packaging increased access latency larger than processor profile. They created a very wide memory bus for expanded store that moved 4k bytes very efficiently with synchronous instructions between expanded store and (normal) processor memory.
Lots of scientific&vector market had moved to HIPPI (100mbyte/sec standards version of cray channel) and disk arrays. 3090 channels couldn't handle the 100mbyte/sec disk arrays ... the only thing that was fast enough was the expanded store bus ... so they kluged a HIPPI peak/poke API into the side of of expanded store with reserved addresses for doing HIPPI I/O data transfers.
I had gotten sucked into some industry efforts into different kind of
channels in 1980. Then industry tried to get IBM to release the
support to customers ... but there was a group in POK that objected
(because they were afraid it might interfere releasing some stuff they
were working on). Then I got sucked into some of the LANL
standardization stuff for HIPPI and then in 1988 was asked to help
LLNL standardize some serial stuff they had ... which quickly becomes
fibre-channel sttandard (including some stuff from 1980). Finally the
POK stuff is released with ES/9000 as ESCON when it is already
obsolete.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#adcon
Then some channel engineers become involved with defining a heavy weight protocol for fibre-channel that enormously cuts the native throughput that is eventually released as FICON.
More recently IBM published a mainframe peak I/O throughput benchmark
that got 2M IOPS using 104 FICON (running on 104 fibre-channel). About
the same time, a fibre-channel was announced for e5-2600 blade
claiming over 1M IOPS native throughput (two such fibre-channel have
higher throughput than 104 fibre-channel running as FICON). some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
The 3081 was suppose to be multiprocessor only. However ACP/TPF didn't have tightly-coupled SMP multiprocessor support and they were afraid that all the ACP/TPF customers would move to clone processors that were coming out with faster single processor machines. Finally they were forced to come out with 3083 (a 3081 with one of the processors removed). There was enormous amount of tweaking done for 3083 trying to make it attractive to the ACP/TPF market (although others also ordered it).
It turns out that the easiest would have been to remove the 2nd processor ... but it was in the middle of the box, which would have made the box dangerously top-heavy. They had to move the top processor to the middle of the box and do the appropriate rewiring.
In part because had been sucked into doing some fast I/O industry
stuff in 1980 ... then also got con'ed into working with the director
of NSF to interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers in the early 80s
... and was suppose to get $20M from NSF. Some old email from period
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
Then congress cut the budget, some other things happen and finally
they release RFP (based on what we already had running, including
requirement for T1 links). Internal politics prevent us from
bidding. The director of NSF tries to help and writes the corporation
a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) ... but that just makes the internal politics
worse (including comments that what we already had running was at
least 5yrs ahead of RFP responses). The winning bid puts in
440kbit/sec links and then to make it look like they meet the RFP
requirements, they put in T1 trunks with telco multioplexors running
mulltiple 440kbit/sec links over T1 trunks. As regional networks
connect into the centers, it morphs into the NSFNET backbone precursor
to modern internet. some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
The original mainframe TCP/IP product has some issue and only gets
44kbytes/sec using nearly whole 3090 cpu. I do the changes to support
RFP1044 and in some tuning tests at Cray Research between Cray and
4341, get 4341 channel media sustained throughput using only modest
amount of 4341 processor (about 500 times improvement in bytes moved
per instruction executed) Some Some past RFC1044 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
POK considered 4341 such a threat to 3033 that at one point they got corporate to cut the allocation of critical 4341 manufacturing component in half. A datacenter cluster of 4341 had more processing and I/O capacity than 3033, was way cheaper and much smaller environmental and space footprint. The small environmental & space footprint also resulted in big explosion being placed out in departmental areas ... the leading edge of the distributed computing tsunami.
I was con'ed into playing disk engineer in bldgs 14&15. Bldg. 15 disk
product test lab tended to get first engineering machines after the
processor engineers, they had ver early 3033 and 4341. some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
Because I did a lot of work for bldgs 14&15, I got a lot of privileges
to play with their equipment ... In the 70s, I got con'ed into doing
4341 benchmarks (because I had better machine access than most of the
people in Endicott) for national lab that was looking at getting a compute
farm of 70 4341s (sort of leading edge of the new supercomputer
paradigm). some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
Later MVS wanted to play in the exploding distributed computing market ... however MVS only supports CKD (to this day even though there hasn't been real CKD manufactured for decades). The high-end disk was 3380 & CKD ... but the only mid-range disk for departmental areas was FBA 3370. They finally had to come out with 3375 simulated CKD on 3370. MVS still had hard time playing in the market, each MVS system requiring several humans for care&feeding .... while the distributed market was looking at large number of systems per human (rather than large numbers of humans per system).
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: AW: Re: You thought IEFBR14 was bad? Try GNU's /bin/true code Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 11 Feb 2016 11:53:58 -0800dlc.usa@GMAIL.COM (David L. Craig) writes:
where SQL does 2-value, true/false logic. It created big problem for unknowns and/or null values. Old discussion that null values in SQL tended to produce the opposite of the expected results ... making it all the more dangerous.
about the same time, I was brought in to do some of a different kind of relational implementation ... which had interface language that directly supported unknowns/null with 3-value logic.
old post in DBMS group discussing the dangers of unknowns/nulls in SQL
and how it was handled in 3-value logic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#40 How to cope with missing values - NULLS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#41 How to cope with missing values - NULLS?
Earlier in the first part of the 70s, I had written a PLI program to ingest assembler listing ... analyze the statements, creating higher level representation ... code paths, logic processes, "dead" code, possible register use before set, etc ... and generate representation using a psuedo-pascal statements.
some highly optimized cp67 kernel tmade liberal use of 3&4-way logic with branch conditions and would appear very straight forward ... the psuedo-pascal true/false if/then/else type logic could look very convoluted with nesting that could go 15-levels deep.
iefbr14
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14
got fixed with SR, then with eyecatcher name, also a couple other
nits, "IEFBR14" on "END" statement, and "RENT" & "REUSE" in linkedit
http://hercules390.996247.n3.nabble.com/IBM-program-naming-question-td27674.html
from above:
Two more ...
First, because the RENT linkedit option wasn't specified.
Second, because the REUSE linkedit option wasn't specified.
... snip ...
past posts mentioning 70s PLI program
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#12 360 "OS" & "TSS" assemblers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#36 Assembly language formatting on IBM systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#52 Review of Steve McConnell's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#24 mainframe question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#34 Macros and base register question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#21 REXX still going strong after 25 years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#52 Where should the type information be?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#32 transputers again was: The demise of Commodore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#1 Greatest Software Ever Written?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#9 32 or even 64 registers for x86-64?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#31 To RISC or not to RISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#64 IBM System/360 DOS still going strong as Z/VSE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#48 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#32 Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#37 Language first, hardware second
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#49 "How do you feel about 'gotos'"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#69 [Poll] Computing favorities
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: SS Trust Fund Date: 12 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookBaby Boomer (bubble) is four times larger than previous generation (and twice as large as following generation). While Baby Boomers were paying into SS Trust Fund, they were building up principal for their retirement. However, congress has been looting the fund for all excess over annual payouts (administration even increased SS payments in the 80s, so there was more to loot for military-industrial complex spending). With baby boomers retiring, the annual payments into the SS Trust Fund will be less than the annual benefits (which should be coming out of the accumulated principal ... unfortunately have been looted). To make up the difference, the general taxes on the following generation will have to be increased. The missing funds now amount to $2.8T
The other problem is in 2002, congress let the fiscal responsibility act expire (required spending not exceed tax revenue). In 2010, CBO did report that congress then cut tax revenue by $6T and increased spending by $6T for $12T budget gap (compared to the fiscal responsible budget, some references that last decade was the first time taxes was cut to not pay for wars rather than increasing taxes to pay for wars). By the middle of last decade, the US Comptroller General was including in speeches that nobody in congress is capable of middle school aritimatic (for how badly they are savaging the budget). The drastic cut in tax revenue (and increase in spending) has also resulted in debt payment pushing half trillion/year.
fiscal responsibility act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
US comptroller general
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
One analysis attributed to Greenspan, was he wanted huge federal debt (and eliminating fiscal responsiblity act) as gift to too big to fail ... Federal Reserve provides tens of trillions in ZIRP funds to the too big to fail (aka loans at effectively zero interest), who then can turn around and buy treasuries (federal debt) ... making extra hundreds of billions.
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
After Bernanke replaces Greenspan, he has press conference where he
said that he assumed that too big to fail would use the tens of
trillions in ZIRP funds to lend to mainstreet, when they didn't he had
no way to force them to help mainstreet (but that didn't stop the ZIRP
funds). However, supposedly one of the reasons that Bernanke was
selected was he was student of the '29 crash and the great depression
.... but the same thing happened then, so he should have had no
expectations that anything different would happen this time.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
posts mentioning federal reserve chairman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
Disclaimer: Jan2009, I was asked to HTML'ize the Pecora Hearings (30s Senate Hearings into '29 crash that resulted in Glass-Steagall and criminal convictions) with lots of internal x-refs and URLs corresponding to what happened this time and what happened then (comments that the new congress might have appetite to do something). I work on it for awhile and then get a call that it won't be needed after all (comments about capital hill totally buried under enormous mounds of wallstreet cash, somebody references that there may be only three honest members of congress).
posts mentioning Pecora Hearings &/or Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
recent posts mentioning SS Trust Fund
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#4 Mandated Spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#7 Mandated Spending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#40 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#41 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#108 Occupy Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#62 Medicare Part B premiums increasing up to 30%
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#66 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#68 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#75 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#82 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#37 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#64 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#75 prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#27 Federal Subsidies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#48 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#4 Decimal point character and billions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#48 Protecting Social Security from the Thieves in the Night
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#54 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#22 I Feel Old
posts mentioning ZIRP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#4 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#10 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#89 Forbes perspective on IBM's troubles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#94 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#95 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#2 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#3 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#4 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#6 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#11 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#23 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#29 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#43 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#58 Wall Street is Taking Over America's Pension Plans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#75 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#99 US Debt In Public Hands Doubles Under Barack Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#17 Cromnibus cartoon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#28 Bernie Sanders Proposes A Bill To Break Up The 'Too Big To Exist' Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#69 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#70 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#76 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#41 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#43 Poor People Caused The Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#44 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#82 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#93 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#96 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#16 Interactive Data Corp taps banks for sale or IPO -sources
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#27 Federal Subsidies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#36 Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#53 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#16 Federal Deficits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#20 After 6 Years Of QE, And A $4.5 Trillion Balance Sheet, St. Louis Fed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#25 After 6 Years Of QE, And A $4.5 Trillion Balance Sheet, St. Louis Fed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#49 seveneves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#50 seveneves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#56 The long, slow death of the rule of law in America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#57 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#65 Michael Hudson's New Book: Wall Street Parasites Have Devoured Their Hosts -- Your Retirement Plan and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#70 AIG freezes defined-benefit pension plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#81 Now the DOJ Admits They Got it Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#86 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#19 Bernanke: Some Wall Street executives should've gone to jail over financial crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#25 Hillary Clinton's Glass-Steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#44 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#46 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#47 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#48 Protecting Social Security from the Thieves in the Night
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#50 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#51 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#53 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#78 The Global Financial Crisis: Analysis and Policy Implications
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#8 Too Big To Fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#26 1970--protesters seize computer center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#12 Thanks Obama
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Big computers, big hair: the women of Bell Labs in the 1960s Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 09:47:08 -0800Big computers, big hair: the women of Bell Labs in the 1960s -- in pictures
so picture is front panel of 360/50, not so large, largest memory size was 512kb, so either description is wrong or they had some sort of special add-on to get the other 512kb (IBM LCS 2361 came in 1mbyte increments)
360-50 functional characteristic
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ibm/360/functional_characteristics/A22-6898-1_360-50_funcChar_1967.pdf
648MB ... would be three 8drive 2314 strings assuming 2314 drive is 27mbytes.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 19:28:08 -0800hancock4 writes:
part of the issue is that memory latency when measured in count of processor cycles ... is comparable to 60s disk access when measured in count of 60s processor cycles.
earlier press is that half the per processor improvement from z10 to z196 is introduction of features like out-of-order execution, branch prediction, etc. that have been in other chips for decades ... aka masking/compensation for increasing mismatch between memory latency and processor speed. per processor z196 to ec12 has more features.
e5-2600v1 blade about concurrent with z196 ... 400-500+ BIPS (depending on model). A e5-2600v3 blade is rated at 2.5 times a e5-2600v1 blade, and e5-2600v4 blade is rated at 3.5 times a e5-2600v1 blade ... or over 1.5TIPS (single e5-2600v4 blade with processing power of fifteen max. configured latest z13 mainframes?)
4341 was leading edge of distributed computing tsunami (large
corporations ordering hundreds at a time for placing out in
departmental areas) as well as datacenter 4341 clusters had much more
processing power and I/O capacity, much lower price, much less
physical and environmental footprint. At one point head of POK felt it
was such a threat to 3033, that he convinced corporate to cut
allocation of critical 4341 manufacturing component in half. Before
4341s first shipped, I was con'ed into doing a benchmark on 4341
engineering machine in disk product test lab (bldg. 15) for LLNL who
was looking at getting 70 for compute farm (leading edge of new
supercomputing and cloud computing paradigm). some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
past posts getting to play disk engineer in bldgs14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
in 1980, IBM STL was growing fast and had to move 300 people from the
IMS group to offsite building (with computer access back into the STL
datacenter). They looked at "remote" 3270 support ... but found the
human factors totally unacceptable. I got sucked into do channel
extension support for local channel attached 3270 controllers at the
remote building. Optimization with downloading channel programs to the
remote end for execution help eliminate enormous latency in channel
protocol chatter ... and they didn't notice between "local" 3270
channel operation at the remote end ... and "local" 3270 channel
operation in STL. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
The hardware vendor tried to get IBM to release my support for the channel extender ... but there was group in POK that objected ... they were afraid that it would make it harder to justify getting some serial stuff they were playing with, released.
In 1988, I'm asked to help LLNL get some serial stuff they had standardized, which quickly morphs into fibre-channel standard ... including lots of stuff to minimize round-trip protocol chatter latency.
Then the POK engineers (from 1980) finally get their stuff released as
ESCON with ES/9000 when it is already obsolete. some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#adcon
Later some POK engineers get involved in fibre-channel standard and
define a heavy-weight protocol that drastically reduces native
throughput, which is finally released as FICON. IBM publishes a "peak
i/o" benchmark for z196 that uses 104 FICON (over 104 fibre-channel)
getting 2M IOPS. About the same time, there is a fibre-channel
announced for e5-2600v1 blade claiming over 1M IOPS (two such
fibre-channel have higher throughput than 104 FICON running over 104
fibre-channel). some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
old posts referencing jan1992 meeting in Ellison's conference room on
(commercial/DBMS) cluster scale-up
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
also was working with national labs (including LLNL) on cluster
scale-up for numeric intensive and filesystems ... some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
within a month of the ellison meeting, cluster scale-up is transferred,
we are told we can't work on anything with more than four processors
and it is announced as supercomputer, 17Feb1992 article announcement
for scientific and technical "only"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
11May1992 article that national lab interest in cluster scale-up caught
company by "surprise" (modulo going back to 1979 and 4341 compute
farm/cluster)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
recent posts mention e6-2600:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#35 [CM] IBM releases Z13 Mainframe - looks like Batman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#36 [CM] IBM releases Z13 Mainframe - looks like Batman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#39 [CM] IBM releases Z13 Mainframe - looks like Batman
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#46 Why on Earth Is IBM Still Making Mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#78 Is there an Inventory of the Inalled Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#82 Is there an Inventory of the Installed Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#29 IBM Z13
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#30 IBM Z13
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#93 HONE Shutdown
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#39 Remember 3277?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#14 Clone Controllers and Channel Extenders
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#0 What are some of your thoughts on future of mainframe in terms of Big Data?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#5 Can you have a robust IT system that needs experts to run it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#35 Moving to the Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#93 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#19 Linux Foundation Launches Open Mainframe Project
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#42 20 Things Incoming College Freshmen Will Never Understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#93 HP being sued, not by IBM.....yet!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#96 TCP joke
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#2 More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#108 25 Years: How the Web began
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#110 Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#114 Between CISC and RISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#15 Dilbert ... oh, you must work for IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#19 Fibre Chanel Vs FICON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#23 IBM's 3033; "The Big One": IBM's 3033
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 09:48:05 -0800David Wade <dave.g4ugm@gmail.com> writes:
went to the 5th flr and did Multics (some bell labs people were also
involved, but then went back home a did unix ... billed as a simplified
multics), others went to the science center on the 4th flr and did
cp40/cms (on modified 256kbyte 360/40 with virtual memory hardware added), and
then cp67/cms (when standard virtual memory 360/67 became available),
GML, and bunch of other stuff. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
CP67/cms eventually morphs into vm370/cms (changing name of cambridge monitor system to conversational monitor system). for quite some time, default virtual memory size for cms was 256kbyte ... and originally cms would run on 256kbyte real 360 (w/o cp40 or cp67).
before ms/dos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
there was seattle computer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products
before seattle computer there was cp/m,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M
before doing cp/m, kildall worked with cp67/cms (precursor to vm370) at npg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Postgraduate_School
some cp67/cms ran on 256kbyte 360/67, but more typically 512kbyte or 768kbyte. cp67 kernel was getting a little bloated ... and i did modifications the summer of 1969 to make part of the cp67 kernel pageable ... reducing fixed real storage requirements, making it more efficient on smaller real memory machines (but never shipped in the standard cp67/cms to customers). Morph to vm370/cms simplified a bunch of cp67/cms and dropped many of the things I had done in the 60s ... but did pick up the pageable kernel changes ... however, other things bloated, so that it was only officially approved for minimum 512kbyte machines. For some 370/125 customers, I did do some of the additional cp67/cms pageable kernel changes that made it run better in 256kbyte machine.
Les sent me paper copy of his cp40 presentation at 1982 SEAS that
I scanned and converted to text
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/cp40seas1982.txt
some wiki history with lots of refs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_CP/CMS
This is a little confused since IDC formed after NCSS by several people
from MIT Lincoln Labs (which had been the 2nd cp67/cms installation after
the science center, univ. I was at in the 60s was the 3rd)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_CP/CMS#1964.3F.E2.80.9372.3F:_IDC.27s_use_of_CP.2FCMS
this references that I continued working on CP67 and then VM370 all
during the Future System period (even ridiculing FS activity) and had
two co-op students from BU helping.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
After FS imploded
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
and mad rush to get stuff back into 370 product pipeline contributed to
decision to pick up a lot of the stuff that I had been doing and release
in standard product ... except for CMS paged mapped filesystem some of
the more complex stuff moving managing virtual memory, including moving
additions vm370 data structures structures to paging store. One of the
BU students graduates and joins IDC where he re-implements the page
mapped filesystem, virtual memory management and moving VM370 kernel
data structures to paging store. He also did added single system image
cluster support and the ability to migrate running CMS users between
loosely-coupled systems in cluster complex. This was in the days when
IBM scheduled maintenance required taking systems offline ... migrating
running users made it possibly to have 7x24 operations and
non-disruptive take systems offline for maintenance.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#online
both NCSS and IDC had quickly moved up value chain offering financial
services. I've commented that IDC was briefly mentioned in Jan2009 when
there was still the fiction that TARP funds were to buy too big to
fail off-book toxic assets and IDC would help value those assets ...
however, only $700B had been appropriated for TARP and just the four
largest too big to fail were still carrying $5.2T at the end of 2008
(wasn't enough to buy at face value, almost enough to buy at the going
rate of 22cents on the dollar, but then all those institutions would
have to be declared insolvent and be liquidated).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
some of the stuff mentioned done by NCSS for VP/CSS, I had already done
for CP67/CMS as undergraduate at the univ.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_CP/CMS#1968.E2.80.9386.3F:_VP.2FCSS
Summer of 1968, the science center gives a week cp67/cms class in Century City (california) which the univ. sends me to. Primary person to give CP67 classes gave notice the friday before that he was leaving to join NCSS. When I arrive on Sunday, science center asks me to give part of the cp67 class.
another early virtual machine based online commercial service was
Tymshare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare
in Aug1976, they make their CMS-based online computer conferencing
systems free to (ibm user group) SHARE as VMSHARE ... archives
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
sometimes(?) "404" ... but also at wayback machine
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 10:15:14 -0800Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
However, the 370 applications still tended to be relatively disk instensive (even w/o page thrashing) ... running on xt/370 compared poorly with applications implemented for the pc/xt environment. A CMS disk i/o required interprocessor message to cp88 which then did the i/o on the native XT 100ms/access hard drive. Applications native for PC/XT optimized for much less disk i/o per operation.
MVS/TSO was significantly more bloated than VM370/CMS, much longer pathlengths, much less efficient system algorithms. CMS had some number of much more efficient native applications like editor ... but the compilers and assemblers were just ported to CMS from os360/MVS.
CMS (& CP67 & vm370) I/O was much more efficient than OS360/MVS (but applications mainframe disks were much faster than PC disks ... so applications weren't as sensitive to optimization).
Late 70s, IBM San Jose Research had environment with MVS 370/168 and VM370 370/158 with all 3330 disk strings connected to both machines ... but strict rules that MVS 3330 disks would never be mounted on vm370 "strings". One day they accidentally violated the rule and the datacenter almost got phone calls from users complaining about CMS response horribly degraded. The issue is os360/MVS environment makes heavy use of multi-track search ... which can tie-up channel, controller and disks for up to 1/3sec at a time. MVS multi-track search on VM370 string will lockout the vm370 "dedicated" controller ... having disastrous effects on CMS response. We immediately demanded that the MVS 3330 disk be moved to MVS string ... and MVS operations said they would do it 2nd shift (this was around 10am).
We had enormously optimized VS1 for running under vm370 ... that ran faster under loaded vm370 on 370/158 than MVS ran on 370/168. We put its 3330 up on MVS string and were able to bring the MVS system to its knees with multi-track searches (and CMS response almost returns to normal). MVS operations then agreed to immediately move the MVS 3330, if we moved the VS1 3330.
Besides all the significant performance issues with MVS/TSO ... a
significant part of TSO response is significantly hurt by the underlying
MVS use of multi-track search. Some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 12:01:41 -0800from
from Melinda's vm370 history
http://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda#VMHist
footnote on 360/67 SLT instruction
"The 360/67 SLT instruction RPQ was designed at Lincoln by Jack
Nolan. He was interested in using it for database list processing. Once
it was implemented, IBM found use for it to process lists in the CP
nucleus. I don't know if it was ever used by TSS or for any applications
program." (J.M. Winett, private communication, 1990.)
... snip ...
footnotes on two cp67 commercial timesharing companies (Arnow was
director of computing at Lincoln):
Almost immediately after that, two "spinoff" companies were formed by
former employees of Lincoln Lab, Union Carbide, and the IBM Cambridge
Scientific Center, to provide commercial services based on CP/CMS. Dick
Bayles, Mike Field, Hal Feinleib, and Bob Jay went to the company that
became National CSS.
Harit Nanavati, Bob Seawright, Jack Arnow, Frank Belvin, and Jim March
went to IDC (Interactive Data Corporation). Although the loss of so many
talented people was a blow, the CSC people felt that the success of the
two new companies greatly increased the credibility of CP-67
... snip ...
Bob Seawright was from Union Carbide and his wife was IBM SE on the
account, they both are assigned to Cambridge Science Center for
CP67/CMS. Bob does a customized version os/360 for running in cp67
virtual machine ... somewhat CMS'ized with some cms-style commands and
interactions at the os/360 "operetor's console".
Disk Balyes, Mike Field, and Harit Nanavati were at science center.
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
cms originally could run on real 256kbyte 360/40 machine w/o cp/40 or
cp/67.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Putin holds phone call with Obama, urges better defense cooperation in fight against ISIS Date: 14 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookPutin holds phone call with Obama, urges better defense cooperation in fight against ISIS
How Harvard lost Russia; The best and brightest of America's premier
university came to Moscow in the 1990s to teach Russians how to be
capitalists. This is the inside story of how their efforts led to
scandal and disgrace.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160325154522/http://www.institutionalinvestor.com:80/Article/1020662/How-Harvard-lost-Russia.html
Mostly, they hurt Russia and its hopes of establishing a lasting
framework for a stable Western-style capitalism, as Summers himself
acknowledged when he testified under oath in the U.S. lawsuit in
Cambridge in 2002. "The project was of enormous value," said Summers,
who by then had been installed as the president of Harvard. "Its
cessation was damaging to Russian economic reform and to the
U.S.-Russian relationship."
... snip ...
Russian Military Politics and Russia's 2010 Defense Doctrine
https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=1050
it sounds straight out of "Economic Hit Man" ... how US treats the
rest of the world (when it can), "victimize and loot":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
and
"War is Racket" by Smedley Butler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
note Summers also active in gov. "swinging door", characterized as
protegee of Robert Rubin who played factor in economic mess (part of
joke that Dept. of Treasury is Goldman Sachs branch office in
Washington through numerous administrations) ... also shows up here
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2014/04/21/140421crbo_books_lepore?currentPage=all
Larry Summers explains Washington to Elizabeth Warren in one sentence:
"In the spring of 2009, after the panel issued its third report,
critical of the bailout, Larry Summers took Warren out to dinner in
Washington and, she recalls, told her that she had a choice to
make. She could be an insider or an outsider, but if she was going to
be an insider she needed to understand one unbreakable rule about
insiders: 'They don't criticize other insiders.'"
... snip ...
posts mentioning Summers:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#51 On whom or what would you place the blame for the sub-prime crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#25 Senator Sherrod Brown Drops a Bombshell in Mary Jo White's Hearing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#42 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#30 Why DOJ Deemed Bank Execs Too Big To Jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#35 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#57 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#13 Jack Lew Shows His True Colors By Forcing Deregulation of Derivatives on the CFTC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#52 Lehman Brothers collapse: was capitalism to blame?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#64 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#2 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#21 Thomas Piketty Is Right About the Past and Wrong About the Future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#98 Convicted Fraudster Jonathan Hay, Harvard's Man Who Wrecked Russia, Resurfaces in Ukraine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#1 do you blame Harvard for Puten
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#2 do you blame Harvard for Putin
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#5 Swiss Leaks lifts the veil on a secretive banking system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#6 do you blame Harvard for Putin
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#8 Shoot Bank Of America Now---The Case For Super Glass-Steagall Is Overwhelming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#32 Larry Summers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#30 Analysis: Root of Tattered US-Russia Ties Date Back Decades
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#44 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#73 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#5 The Deep State
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Query: Will modern z/OS and z/VM classes suffice for MVS and VM/370 Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 15 Feb 2016 18:43:07 -0800RichA@LIVINGCOMPUTERMUSEUM.ORG (Rich Alderson) writes:
vast majority of 4341s were shipped with FBA disks ... you would need some sort of CKD disks in order to bring up MVS.
huge percentage of 4341s went out into departmental areas with 3370 FBA disks, sort of leading edge of distributed computing tsunami ... not requiring datacenter provisioning.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM's 3033; "The Big One": IBM's 3033 Date: 15 Feb 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
4341 was leading edge of distributed computing tsunami (large corporations ordering hundreds at a time for placing out in departmental areas) as well as datacenter 4341 clusters had much more processing power and I/O capacity, much lower price, much less physical and environmental footprint. At one point head of POK felt it was such a threat to 3033, that he convinced corporate to cut allocation of critical 4341 manufacturing component in half. Before 4341s first shipped, I was con'ed into doing a benchmark on 4341 engineering machine in disk product test lab (bldg. 15) for LLNL who was looking at getting 70 for compute farm (leading edge of new supercomputing and cloud computing paradigm).
Late 80s, a senior disk engineer got a talk scheduled at communication
group world-wide internal annual conference supposedly on 3174
performance ... however he opened the talk with the statement that the
communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the
disk division. The issue was that the communication group had strangle
hold on datacenters with its corporate strategic ownership of
everything that crossed the datacenter wall and was fighting off
distributed computing and client/server trying to preserve its
(emulated) dumb terminal paradigm and install base. The disk division
was seeing data fleeing to more distributed computing friendly
platforms with drop in disk sales. The disk division had come up with
a number of solutions to reverse the trend, but they were constantly
vetoed by the communication group. A few short years later the company
has gone in the red and was being reorganized into the 13 "baby blues"
in preparation for breaking up the company (the board then brings in
new CEO to resurrect the company and reverse the breakup).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#emulation
towards the mid-80s one of the POK executives gave presentation that 11,000 vax sales should have been 4341. Note however (as mentioned upthread), POK had felt that 4341 clusters in datacenters were such a threat to 3033s, at one point they convinced corporate to cut allocation of critical 4341 manufacturing component in half (4341 cluster had much more processing power & I/O capacity than 3033 at much lower cost as well as significantly less floor space and environmental requirements).
Old post with email about AFDS early in 79 looking for 20 4341s but by
that fall it grows to 210 4341s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#15
other 4341 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Here's Why (And How) The Government Will "Borrow" Your Retirement Savings Date: 15 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookHere's Why (And How) The Government Will "Borrow" Your Retirement Savings
Which is interesting since after congress allows the fiscal
responsibility act to expire in 2002, they radically cut taxes ($6T
2003-2010; at same time increasing spending for wars, $12T budget gap
2003-2010 compared to fiscal responsibility budget, those taxes have
yet to be restored, possibly only time taxes were cut to not pay for
wars instead of increasing taxes to pay for them).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAYGO
In spite of the huge amount of legal tax evasion, in 2009 IRS said
that they were going after 52,000 wealthy Americans guilty of $400B in
(illegal) tax evasion by hiding income overseas. In spring of 2011,
the new congress said that it was cutting the IRS budget for
recovering that $400B. Since then there has been reports of the too
big to fail paying several billions in fines for illegally moving
trillions overseas (but nothing about recovery of $400B in unpaid
taxes on those trillions).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 12:48:28 -0800scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
They scavanged the two unused pagetable bits and prefixed it to the page number to get 14bit page number of 64mbytes real storage. They then used fullword IDALs ... which were originally introduced to get around timing problem with scattere/gather ... IBM channel protocol specified no CCW prefetch and CCW only had 24bit address field ... it CCW was executed synchronously before chaining to the next CCW. 360 used chained data to scatter/gather ... but had lots of timing issues. Move to all virtual memory resulted in nearly every CCW that previously was contiguous could no morph into scatter/gather because of crossing virtual page boundary ... and the virtual pages not contiguous in real memory. IDALs addresses could be prefetched to eliminate the timing problems with synchronous data chaining CCWs. Fortunately for 64mbyte feature, IDALs were fullword so it was easy to extend to doing I/O in the >16mbyte area.
There was still an issue that the actual CCWs (and IDALs) had to reside in the <16mbyte area ... but could do I/O (especially paging) into the >16mbyte area.
Each virtual address space was still limited to 16mbytes ... and virtual & real addresses were limited to 16mbytes ... but pagetables could morph a 24bit/16mbyte virtual address into a 26bit/64mbyte real address ... but there could be a large number of different virtual address spaces.
VM370 had an issue since the kernel still had issue with accessing parts of virtual address pages in kernel real address mode ... and it would be unable to access contents of virtual page in the >16mbyte area. The vm370 group developed a "bring-down" strategy where they would move a virtual page from >16mbyte area below the line to the <16mbyte area ... by writing the page out (above the line) to disk and then reading it back in below the 16mbyte line. I then gave them a hack which filled in a dummy pagetable with address of the page above the 16mbyte line and page below the 16mbyte line ... dropped into virtual mode and MVCL of the page from above the line to below the line and then returned to real mode. More complicated was hack to play games with kernel accessing in virtual mode the virtual page information.
They also had other problems modifying how they treated the above and below line areas for page replacement.
base architecture for 370-xa had 31bit virtual addressing and access registers ... which allowed code running in one address space to access areas in other address spaces. Eventually a subset of access registers was also retrifitted to 3033 as "dual-address space mode".
past posts mentioning above >16mbyte line:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#2 Why is there only VM/370?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#82 "all-out" vs less aggressive designs (was: Re: 36 to 32 bit transition)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#23 Linux IA-64 interrupts [was Re: Itanium benchmarks ...]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#38 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#19 address space
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#30 HASP/ASP JES/JES2/JES3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#13 VM maclib reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#2 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#27 Old Hashing Routine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#23 Multiple mappings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#39 Wylbur and Paging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#56 CSA 'above the bar'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#71 308x Processors - was "Mainframe articles"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#74 308x Processors - was "Mainframe articles"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#67 ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#84 locate mode, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#87 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#87 'smttter IBMdroids
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#126 Deja Cloud?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#18 Memory versus processor speed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#48 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#22 Complete 360 and 370 systems found
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#46 Connecting memory to 370/145 with only 36 bits
past posts mentioning dual-address space mode:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#17 Black magic in POWER5
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#18 Black magic in POWER5
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#51 Handling variable page sizes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#57 Handling variable page sizes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#53 Reviving Multics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#69 unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#13 Page Table - per OS/Process
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#29 SR 15,15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#53 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#26 PCIe as a chip-to-chip interconnect
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#54 CKD Disks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#18 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#57 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#3 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#53 The mid-seventies SHARE survey
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#63 intel's Vanderpool and virtualization in general
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#62 Misuse of word "microcode"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#7 new Enterprise Architecture online user group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#57 Moving assembler programs above the line
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#18 address space
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#19 address space
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#41 Instruction Set Enhancement Idea
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#48 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#39 What happens if CR's are directly changed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#25 Multiple address spaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#28 Multiple address spaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#0 About TLB in lower-level caches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006i.html#33 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#10 What part of z/OS is the OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#26 A Day For Surprises (Astounding Itanium Tricks)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#32 MIPS architecture question - Supervisor mode & who is using it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#42 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#23 threads versus task
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#23 Multiple mappings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#16 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#39 Multiple mappings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#59 IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#14 Some IBM 3033 information
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#27 user level TCP implementation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#28 IBM 360 Model 20 Questions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#71 IBM 360 Model 20 Questions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#10 IBM 8000 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#21 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#68 Direction of Stack Growth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#56 CSA 'above the bar'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#16 segmentation or lack thereof
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#75 T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#33 New Opcodes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#35 New Opcodes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#69 Regarding the virtual machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#14 Kernels
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#33 IBM Preview of z/OS V1.10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#60 Different Implementations of VLIW
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#29 DB2 & z/OS Dissertation Research
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#52 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#45 z/OS BIND9 DNS Vulnerable to Cache Poisoning Attack Problem?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#83 old 370 info
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#53 Old XDS Sigma stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#40 Opsystems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008q.html#31 TOPS-10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#59 Why do IBMers think disks are 'Direct Access'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#74 Best IEFACTRT (off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#58 Rudd bucks boost IBM mainframe business
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#41 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#81 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#75 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#76 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#83 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#2 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#10 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#13 OS/400 and z/OS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#68 PL/1 as first language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#21 Dataspaces or 64 bit storage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#72 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#17 New job for mainframes: Cloud platform
https://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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#61 Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#45 segments and sharing, was 68000 assembly language programming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#100 5 Byte Device Addresses?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#57 How will mainframers retiring be different from Y2K?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#26 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#27 Simulated PDP-11 Blinkenlight front panel for SimH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#21 8-bit bytes and byte-addressed machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#30 Regarding Time Sharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#26 Mainframes are still the best platform for high volume transaction processing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#22 Is Microsoft becoming folklore?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#81 Still not convinced about the superiority of mainframe security vs distributed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#62 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#71 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made 30 years agotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#62 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#22 Complete 360 and 370 systems found
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#82 Do we really need 64-bit DP or is 48-bit enough?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#46 Connecting memory to 370/145 with only 36 bits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#116 Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Ransomware Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:43:39 -0800usenet@only.tnx (Questor) writes:
... was that policy decisions tended to be indirectly connected with activities ... they used indications that were only loosely correlated with activity ... which tended to work one way when the correlation held and totally different ways when there were small changes and the relationships weren't valid.
I spent a lot of time making sure that the policy decisions were based on direct measures of activity ... which went a long ways towards eliminating random results.
Work was picked up and shipped in standard cp67. In the morph of cp67 to vm370, a lot of stuff was simplified and dropped from cp67 ... including my dynamic adaptive resource management.
I continued to work on 360/370 stuff all during the FS period ... even
periodically ridiculing FS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
and eventually migrated a bunch of stuff from cp67 to vm370 ... some
old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
I also did a whole lot of work on automated benchmarking so I could
specify a huge variety of different kinds of workloads and
configurations to validate everything was working correctly
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#benchmark
there was a whole lot of other performance related activity,
modeling, simulation, algorithms, workload profiling, etc at the science
center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
some of it eventually evolves into capacity planning. another part was
analytical performance model implemented in APL. A version of this was
made available on the worldwide online sales&marketing support HONE
system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
as the performance predictor ... a IBM customer support person could enter chatacterization of the customer's workload and configuration ... and enter what-if scenarios about what happens when the configuration and/or workload changes.
With the failure of FS, there was mad rush to get things back into 370 product pipelines ... which contributed to picking up some of the stuff I had been doing and releasing to customers. Part of the stuff was picked up and shipped in standard vm370 version 3.
The 23Juna1969 unbundling announcement started to charge separately
for lots of stuff, including software ... however they managed to
make the case that kernel software should still be free
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
The lack of products during the FS period is credited with giving the clone processor makers a market foothold. With death of FS (mid-70s) and resumption of 370 products (and rise of clone processors) there was decision to transition to charging for kernel software. My dynamic adaptive resource management was selected to be guinea pig for this ... packaged as a separately charged for kernel component.
As part of getting reading for release of this "resource manager" we ran a set of 2000 benchmarks that took three months elapsed time. To start with a complex array of observed internal and customer configurations and workloads was defined ... sort of represented as a multiple axis irregularly shaped sphere. We chose regular set of configurations and workloads that regularly covered the inside of this sphere plus a large number of configurationn+workloads that were way outside all observed points ... for the first 1000 benchmarks. All of this was feed into a modified version of performance predictor ... which would compare its predicted benchmark results against the measured results. Then performance predictor was modified to chose the final 1000 configuration+workload benchmarks ... based on results of the previous benchmarks ... searching for possible anomolies.
trivia: early in the vm370 automated benchmarking with initial convesion from cp67 ... the extreme benchmarking with configuration&workloads way outside normal operations would regularly crash vm370. I had to completely rewrite the vm370 serialization mechanisms before I was able to reliable run extreme vm370 benchmarks (which was included in the "resource manager" product when it shipped).
other trivia: doing some performance work at a (very) large mainframe customer (several dozen of max. configurated IBM mainframes) around the turn of the century ... I ran into somebody that was using a descendant of the performance predictor in performance consulting business. After IBM problems of the early 90s, IBM was spinning off all sorts of things. This person had obtained the rights to a descendant of the performance predictor and ran it through a APL->C language convertor.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Ransomware Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 18:09:52 -0800Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Ransomware Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 18:39:35 -0800Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
Somewhat for having done "electronic commerce", in the mid-90s we were
asked to be on the x9a10 financial standard working group that had been
given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the financial
infrastructure for all retail payments. as part of that effort we did
end-to-end threat and vulnerability analysis on number of different
kinds of payments. We eventually came up with a financial transaction
standard that slightly tweaked the current paradigm and eliminated the
ability to use information from previous electronic transaction to
perform fraudulent financial transactions ... and therefor eliminated
the need to encrypt or hide that information as well as threat of
information being stolen in breaches (I've periodically posted here
possible explanations about why it has yet to be deployed).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#x959
Since then we were tangentially involved in the (original) cal state breach notification legislation ... we had been brought in to help wordsmith the cal. state electronic signature act and lots of the players were heavily involved in privacy issues and had done detailed public surveys.
The #1 issue was fraudulent financial transactions (as result of breaches, skimming, etc taken from previous transactions) about which little or nothing was being done. The issue is institutions normally take security and countermeasures in self-defense ... however in this case, the institution wasn't at risk, it was the public. It was hoped that the (adverse) publicity from the breach notifications would motivate corrective action.
dating back to well into last century, there have been cases of criminal organizations compromising makers of POS terminals and ATM cash machines and inserting skimming at time of manufacture.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Failure as a Way of Life; The logic of lost wars and military-industrial boondoggles Date: 17 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookFailure as a Way of Life; The logic of lost wars and military-industrial boondoggles
URL and posts mentioning Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
... and the rapidly growing Success Of Failure culture has lots on
the list
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
20yrs ago we had effectively consulted (almost) for free with Census on dataprocessing modernization for yearr 2000 census (when they got audited, I had to stand up in front of the room all day answering questions). We then offered to do something similar for Veterans ... we met with the head congressional staffer for VA ... VA was just coming off couple billion dollar failed dataprocessing modernization effort and gearing up for another. However, such offers can be one of the greatest threats to beltway bandits.
In 2002, we get a call asking us to respond to unclassified BAA released by IC-ARDA (since renamed IARPA) which was closing that day and had no other responses; basically said that none of the tools they had did the job. We get in a response and then have a number of meetings demonstrating that we could do what was required (a little stilted since I don't have a clearance) ... and then all goes quiet, no more communication. Later when Success Of Failure comes out, we figure we were on the "wrong" side of the issue.
Director shelves working $3M ThinThread for multi-billion dollar
Trailblazer that doesn't work
http://www.whistleblower.org/bio-william-binney-and-j-kirk-wiebe
MIC wanted a war so badly that corporate reps were telling former
eastern block countries that if they voted for IRAQ2 invasion in the
UN, they would get membership in NATO and (directed appropriation)
USAID (for purchase of modern US arms).
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
then there is Chuck's Domestic Roots of Perpetual War (sort of along
the lines of Eisenhower's warnings about Military-Industrial complex)
http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/p/domestic-roots-of-perpetual-war.html
and economic "hit man"
https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-Man-ebook/dp/B001AFF266
perpetual war posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
which has an large overlap with "is Harvard responsible for rise of
Putin": John Helmer: Convicted Fraudster Jonathan Hay, Harvard's Man
Who Wrecked Russia, Resurfaces in Ukraine
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/convicted-fraudster-jonathan-hay-harvards-man-who-wrecked-russia-resurfaces-in-ukraine.html
If you are unfamiliar with this fiasco, which was also the true
proximate cause of Larry Summers' ouster from Harvard, you must read
an extraordinary expose, How Harvard Lost Russia, from Institutional
Investor. I am told copies of this article were stuffed in every
Harvard faculty member's inbox the day Summers got a vote of no
confidence and resigned shortly thereafter.
... snip ...
How Harvard lost Russia; The best and brightest of America's premier
university came to Moscow in the 1990s to teach Russians how to be
capitalists. This is the inside story of how their efforts led to
scandal and disgrace.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160325154522/http://www.institutionalinvestor.com:80/Article/1020662/How-Harvard-lost-Russia.html
Mostly, they hurt Russia and its hopes of establishing a lasting
framework for a stable Western-style capitalism, as Summers himself
acknowledged when he testified under oath in the U.S. lawsuit in
Cambridge in 2002. "The project was of enormous value," said Summers,
who by then had been installed as the president of Harvard. "Its
cessation was damaging to Russian economic reform and to the
U.S.-Russian relationship."
... snip ...
there is "Smedley Butler"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
with "War Is a Racket"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
from member of congress a century ago: Triumphant plutocracy; the
story of American public life from 1870 to 1920
http://archive.org/details/triumphantpluto00pettrichhttp://archive.org/details/triumphantpluto00pettrich
loc6265-74:
XXX. THE LEAGUE TO PERPETUATE WAR The war has just begun. I said that
when the Armistice terms were published and when I read the Treaty and
the League Covenant I felt more than ever convinced of the justice of
my conclusion. The Treaty of Versailles is merely an armistice -- a
suspension of hostilities, while the combatants get their wind. There
is a war in every chapter of the Treaty and in every section of the
League Covenant; war all over the world; war without end so long as
the conditions endure which produce these documents.
... snip ...
perpetual war
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
John Foster Dulles played major role in rebuilding Germany's economy and military during 20s&30s. The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War,
loc865-68:
In mid-1931 a consortium of American banks, eager to safeguard their
investments in Germany, persuaded the German government to accept a
loan of nearly $500 million to prevent default. Foster was their
agent. His ties to the German government tightened after Hitler took
power at the beginning of 1933 and appointed Foster's old friend
Hjalmar Schacht as minister of economics.
loc873-79:
Sullivan & Cromwell floated the first American bonds issued by the
giant German steelmaker and arms manufacturer Krupp A.G., extended
I.G. Farben's global reach, and fought successfully to block Canada's
effort to restrict the export of steel to German arms makers.
loc905-7:
Foster was stunned by his brother's suggestion that Sullivan &
Cromwell quit Germany. Many of his clients with interests there,
including not just banks but corporations like Standard Oil and
General Electric, wished Sullivan & Cromwell to remain active
regardless of political conditions.
loc938-40:
At least one other senior partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, Eustace
Seligman, was equally disturbed. In October 1939, six weeks after the
Nazi invasion of Poland, he took the extraordinary step of sending
Foster a formal memorandum disavowing what his old friend was saying
about Nazism
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Here's The New Study The Fracking Industry Doesn't Want You to See Date: 17 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookHere's The New Study The Fracking Industry Doesn't Want You to See
n 1970, I did customer call at oil company datacenter in colorado. Local news articles were that they were discontinuing pumping liquid into ground as part of oil recovery because of the earthquakes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing
Hydraulic fracturing began as an experiment in 1947, and the first
commercially successful application followed in 1950.
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Massive hydraulic fracturing (also known as high-volume hydraulic
fracturing) is a technique first applied by Pan American Petroleum in
Stephens County, Oklahoma, USA in 1968
... snip ...
Magnitude-5.1 northern Oklahoma quake produces aftershocks over a surprisingly broad 5 by 8 mi area
http://blog.temblor.net/oklahoma_472/?ct=t%28Oklahoma2_13_2016%29
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Ransomware Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:15:17 -0800"hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Nobody saw the economic mess coming last decade Date: 17 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookSomebody on Bloomberg this morning commented that nobody saw the economic mess coming last decade.
Securitized mortgages had been used during the S&L crisis to obfuscate
fraudulent mortgages (posterchild were office bldgs in Dallas/Ft.Worth
area that turned out to be empty lots). In the late 90s, I was asked
to try and help avoid the coming economic mess by looking at improving
the integrity of supporting documents as countermeasures (FED LEOs
explained that many of the investment bankers walking away clean from
the S&L crisis were then involved in manipulating Internet IPOs and
were predicted to get into mortgages next). Then loan originators were
securitizing loans&mortgages and paying for triple-A ratings (when
both the sellers and the rating agencies knew they weren't worth
triple-A, from Oct2008 congressional testimony). Triple-A rating
trumps supporting documentation and they can start doing
no-documentation liar loans. Being able to pay for triple-A eliminated
any reason for loan originators to care about borrowers'
qualifications or loan quality, they could sell off (all loans as fast
as they could be made) to customers restricted to dealing in "safe"
investments (like large pension funds, claim is it accounts for 30%
loss in funds and trillions shortfall for pensions), largely enabling
the more than $27T done 2001-2008
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
In the early part of the century, rhetoric in congress was that
Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee that
executives (and auditors) did jail time, however it required SEC to do
something. Possibly because even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing
something, it started doing reports of public company fraudulent
financial filings, even showing uptic after SOX goes into effect (and
nobody doing jailtime). SOX also required that SEC to do something
about the rating agencies (major factor in creating economic mess),
but SEC did about as much about the rating agencies as they did about
public company fraudulent financial filings.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
Jan2009 (a decade after being asked to try and help prevent the coming
economic mess), I was asked to HTML'ize the Pecora Hearings (30s
senate hearings into the '29 crash, resulted in Glass-Steagall
and lots of criminal convictions) with lots of internal cross-refs and
URLs between what happened then and what happened this time (comments
that the new congress might have appetite to do something). I work on
it for awhile and then get a call that it won't be needed after all
(reference to capital hill totally buried under enormous piles of
wallstreet cash, and there now be only 3 honest members in congress).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
S&L crisis had 30,000 criminal referral and 1,000 criminal convictions. The economic mess was 70 times larger than the S&L crisis has had no criminal convictions (proportionally there should have been 70,000 criminal convictions).
Last decade, the administration regulatory agencies turned blind eye to all the criminal behavior. This decade the whole federal infrastructure is pretending it didn't exist. Local DC press will now sometimes refer to congress as Kabuki Theater ... what you see publicly is just facade (including party bickering) and has little to do with what is really going on.
i've familiar with lots of stuff related of the "Big Short"
book. however it glosses over some of the stuff. There was over $27T
in (triple-A rated) toxic CDOs done 2001-2008 (when sellers
were paying for triple-A ratings even when both seller and the rating
agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A).
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
Initially the triple-A rating eliminated any reason to care about borrowers qualifications or loan quality (one way or another). But then they realize that they could specifally design toxic CDOs to fail, buy triple-A rating, sell to their victims and then take out CDS gambling bets that they would fail (creating enormous demand for dodgy loans).
When things imploded the sec. of treasury supposedly convinced congress to allocate $700B for TARP funds to purchase toxic assets. However, at the end of 2008, just the four largest too big to fail were still carrying $5.2T in toxic assets "off-book" (that had been selling at 22cents on the dollar). The $700B doesn't even come close to buying the $5.2T at face value ... and if bought at 22cents on the dollar, the institutions would have to be declared insolvent and forced to be liquidated.
Also note that the largest holder of CDS gambling bets was AIG and negotiating to pay off at 50cents on the dollar, when the sec. of treasury steps in, says that they have to sign a document that they can't sue those making the bets and forced to take TARP funds to pay off at face-value. The largest recipient of TARP funds is AIG and the largest recipient of face-value payoffs is the firm formally headed by the sec. of treasury (which may have been the purpose of TARP funds all along).
To real bailout was the Federal Reserve loaning the too big to
fail tens of trillions in ZIRP funds (zero interest) and buying
their trillions in off-book toxic assets at 98cents on the dollar.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
There was something of head fake in Jan2009 when there was still a facade that they would use TARP to buy the off-book toxic assets. They were complaining that it was enormously difficult to value CDOs because the number of complicated mortgages all packaged together. But one of the biggest reasons that they were hard to "value" was that they were no-documentation, liar loans ... and w/o documentation it is almost impossible to figure out what it is you are dealing with.
The Deep State
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-State-Constitution-Shadow-Government-ebook/dp/B00W2ZKIQM/
pg77/loc1257-59:
When Rubin left to cash in on the repeal of Glass-Steagall, Clinton
nominated Lawrence Summers to fill the post and reappointed Ayn Rand
fanboy Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
pg77/loc1259-60:
When Brooksley Born, Clinton's chairman of the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, proposed to regulate the derivatives market, she
was crushed by the troika of Greenspan, Rubin, and Summers.
... snip ..
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
#2 on times list of those responsible for financial mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
Responsible for GLBA and repeal of Glass-Steagall, Brooksley Born was quickly replaced by Gramm's wife blocking CDS regulation while Gramm got provision added that prevented CDS regulation (described as favor to ENRON which was playing with CDS at the time). She then resigns and joins ENRON board and the audit committee. CDS gambling was later responsible for changing triple-A rated toxic CDOs from not caring about loan quality to designing toxic CDOs to fail and taking out CDS gambling bets that they would fail.
VP (former replacement CIA director) ... claims no knowledge of such
activities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
and another presides over the financial mess, 70 times larger than S&L crisis.
pg57/loc931-33:
It only remained for his Republican successor, George W. Bush, to push
through further tax cuts and anesthetize the Securities and Exchange
Commission by appointing as chairman a useful idiot, former Republican
congressman Chris Cox, for the completion of the deregulation process.
... snip ...
Big change for tax cuts was in 2002 when congress allowed fiscal
responsibility act (spending couldn't exceed tax revenue) to
expire. 2010 CBO report was that then tax revenue cut by $6T and
spending increased by $6T (for $12T budget gap compared to fiscal
responsible budget, first time that taxes were cut to not pay for wars
rather than increasing taxes to pay for war).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAYGO
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
#4 on times list of those responsible for financial mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877323,00.html
Rhetoric in Congress was that Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee that executives and auditors did jail time, but it required that SEC do something. Possibly because even GAO didn't believe SEC was doing anything, it started doing reports of fraudulent public company financial filines, even showing increase after SOX goes into effect (and nobody doing jailtime).
In the congressional Madoff hearings, they had the person that had
tried unsuccessfully for a decade to get SEC do something about Madoff
(SEC's hands were forced when Madoff turned himself in, later
speculation was that Madoff had defrauded some very unsavory
characters and was looking for gov. protection).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
regulatory capture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#regulatory.capture
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Ransomware Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:58:12 -0800re:
Yes, the feds can hack your iPhone. No, it isn't easy.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2016/02/17/the-fbi-wants-to-set-a-legal-precedent-not-break-into-an-iphone/
It's possible, of course, for authorities to physically open the
phone, pull out the computer chips and bombard them with lasers or radio
frequencies to get at the information they need
...snip ...
pealing chips and using scanning electron microscope for reverse engineering has been an issue for a number of decades. Past couple decades discussions have been about using the technique for attacks to compromise security chips. IBM Los Gatos VLSI lab had originally pioneered the technique for debugging chips (as opposed to reverse engineering). trivia, long ago and far away, I use to have a wing of offices and labs at the Los Gatos lab.
Ex-NSA, CIA chief Michael Hayden sides with Apple in FBI iPhone
encryption fight
http://theweek.com/speedreads/606641/exnsa-cia-chief-michael-hayden-sides-apple-fbi-iphone-encryption-fight
trivia: 90s, I was saying that I would take a $500milspec chip, cost
reduce it by 2-3 orders of magnitude while making it more secure. I
was on panel discussion with several CSOs in ballroom standing room
only at:
https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/conference-paper/1998/10/08/proceedings-of-the-21st-nissc-1998
then top technical director for the information assurance directorate
DDI (reporting to Hayden) is chairing panel discussion in the trusted
computing track at the Intel Developer's Conference asks me to be on the
panel to talk about my security chip work
https://web.archive.org/web/20011109072807/http://www.intel94.com/idf/spr2001/sessiondescription.asp?id=stp%2bs13
Earlier in the 90s, the gov. was pushing hard for Key Escrow ... all keys had to be registered. I was member of the Key Escrow committee ... one of the last meetings was where I showed that private keys for digital signature use couldn't be escrowed because it would violate fundamental "PAIN" requirements, their response was people could cheat and use digital signature private keys for encryption. That was about the end of Key Escrow effort.
past los gatos scanning electron microscope reference/posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm#2 Crypto to defend chip IP: snake oil or good idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000.html#16 Computer of the century
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#55 Multics hardware (was Re: "Soul of a New Machine" Computer?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#3 Ping: Anne & Lynn Wheeler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#54 An entirely new proprietary hardware strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#16 US fiscal policy (Was: Bob Bemer, Computer Pioneer,Father of ASCII,Invento
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#29 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#39 My Dream PC -- Chip-Based
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#47 My Dream PC -- Chip-Based
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#53 Drums: Memory or Peripheral?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#7 "Unhackable" Infineon Chip Physically Cracked - PCWorld
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#3 "Unhackable" Infineon Chip Physically Cracked - PCWorld
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#83 Notes on two presentations by Gordon Bell ca. 1998
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#43 Interesting presentation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#50 The Credit Card Criminals Are Getting Crafty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#7 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#94 Silicoin
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#0 By Any Other Name
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#24 UEFI?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:30:53 -0800Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Ransomware Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:53:45 -0800Ibmekon <Ibmekon> writes:
recently still 70% of the budget and over half the employees:
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Early Unixes requirements. Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 20:34:29 -0800"Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> writes:
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From: lynn@garlic.com Subject: Re: ASCII vs. EBCDIC (was Re: On sort options ...) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 11:57:30 -0800 (PST)0000000a2a8c2020-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.UA.EDU (Tom Marchant) writes:
There as been problems with my ISP this weekend, so apologize if this shows up multiple times
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 11:52:03 -0800Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> writes:
I've periodically mentioned that in the 90s that billions were spent to move off overnight Cobol batch settlement to straight through processing with large numbers of "killer micros" (motivated by globalization both increasing the workload and decreasing the size of overnight window). Turns out these implementations were using standard parallization libraries that had 100 times the overhead (compared to cobol batch). I got to point this out to some large implementations but was totally ignored. In general they all waited to pilot implementations before seeing them go down in flames (overhead totally swamped anticipated throughput improvements with large numbers of killer micros).
Middle of last decade ... I got involved with some new technology that involved high level definition of business rules that they generated fine grain SQL statements that were parallelized by cluster RDBMS implementations (most RDBMS had done enormous work on efficient cluster RDBMS parallelization) ... was able to show mirrored transactions as straight through processing from large ibm mainframe operations that used dozens of max configured mainframe systems doing cobol batch ... in less elapsed time. These efficient cluster RDBMS implementations included significant amounts of redundancy and all sorts of recovery.
We took it to major financial industry associations and initially got lots of positive interest ... then all stopped and hit a brick wall. We were finally told that there were still quite a few executives that bore the scars of the 90s failures and were quite risk adverse ... it would take another generation before new attempts would be made.
tribute for somebody I worked with at IBM Research
https://web.archive.org/web/20080616153833/http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/IPRO/JimGrayTribute/pressrelease.html
Gray is known for his groundbreaking work as a programmer, database expert and Microsoft engineer. Gray's work helped make possible such technologies as the cash machine, ecommerce, online ticketing, and deep databases like Google.
... snip ...
i.e. DBMS ACID properties gave auditors increased assurance that they
could trust computer records.
http://www.tpc.org/information/who/gray.asp
lots past posts mentioning moving off overnight batch failures:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#51 Transactions for Industrial Strength Programming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#40 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#31 Quote from comp.object
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#15 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#20 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#36 Future of System/360 architecture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#19 Distributed Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#21 Distributed Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#37 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#44 Distributed Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#61 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#19 Education ranking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#27 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#64 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#69 Controlling COBOL DDs named SYSOUT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#72 whats the world going to do when all the baby boomers retire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#81 Tap and faucet and spellcheckers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#74 Too much change opens up financial fault lines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#92 CPU time differences for the same job
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#30 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#31 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#73 Price of CPU seconds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#87 Berkeley researcher describes parallel path
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#89 Berkeley researcher describes parallel path
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#55 performance of hardware dynamic scheduling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#50 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#56 Long running Batch programs keep IMS databases offline
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#26 What is the biggest IT myth of all time?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#30 Automation is still not accepted to streamline the business processes... why organizations are not accepting newer technolgies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#7 If you had a massively parallel computing architecture, what unsolved problem would you set out to solve?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#87 Cleaning Up Spaghetti Code vs. Getting Rid of It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#43 Business process re-engineering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#14 Legacy clearing threat to OTC derivatives warns State Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#55 Cobol hits 50 and keeps counting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#1 z/Journal Does it Again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#2 z/Journal Does it Again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#21 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#23 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX? (Are settlements a good argument for overnight batch COBOL ?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#26 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#30 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#38 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#43 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX? (Are settlements a good argument for overnight batch COBOL ?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#60 In the USA "financial regulator seeks power to curb excess speculation."
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#57 IBM halves mainframe Linux engine prices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#81 A Faster Way to the Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#13 UK issues Turning apology (and about time, too)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#81 big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#57 MasPar compiler and simulator
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#67 Now is time for banks to replace core system according to Accenture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#35 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#47 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#77 Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#16 How long for IBM System/360 architecture and its descendants?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#19 STEM crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#77 Madoff Whistleblower Book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#56 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#37 16:32 far pointers in OpenWatcom C/C++
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#47 COBOL - no longer being taught - is a problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#78 Software that breaks computer hardware( was:IBM 029 service manual )
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#41 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#3 Assembler programs was Re: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#14 Age
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#13 Is the ATM still the banking industry's single greatest innovation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#37 A Bright Future for Big Iron?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#71 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#48 WikiLeaks' Wall Street Bombshell
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#19 zLinux OR Linux on zEnterprise Blade Extension???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#42 Looking for a real Fortran-66 compatible PC compiler (CP/M or DOSor Windows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#35 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#15 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#19 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#91 Mainframe Fresher
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#93 Itanium at ISSCC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#32 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#5 Home prices may drop another 25%, Shiller predicts
https://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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#25 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#52 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#15 Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#70 New IBM Redbooks residency experience in Poughkeepsie, NY
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#71 Don't Dump the Volcker Rule Just Because It's Not Perfect
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#1 Banks Awash in Cash, Which Isn't Good News
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#10 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#23 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#9 John R. Opel, RIP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#79 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#8 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#12 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#49 No internet in 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#13 Study links ultrafast machine trading with risk of crash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#25 Goldman Sachs P.R. Chief's Accidental Exit Interview
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#49 US payments system failing to meet the needs of the digital economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#0 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#24 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#69 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#77 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#19 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#31 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#47 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#18 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#24 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#42 Professor Coffee Hits a Nerve at SEC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#42 COBOL will outlive us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#57 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#64 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#6 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#50 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#30 'Big four' accountants 'use knowledge of Treasury to help rich avoid tax'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#42 The Mainframe is "Alive and Kicking"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#49 Internet Mainframe Forums Considered Harmful
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#35 Why is the mainframe so expensive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#80 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#29 Royal Pardon for credit unions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#81 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#83 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#22 US Federal Reserve pushes ahead with Faster Payments planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#90 Why do bank IT systems keep failing ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#10 Can the mainframe remain relevant in the cloud and mobile era?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#69 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#78 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#14 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#38 Meet Cobol's hard core fans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#76 This Was the Very First Website In the US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#71 Decimation of the valuation of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#119 Holy Grail for parallel programming language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#170 IBM Continues To Crumble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#78 Is there an Inventory of the Inalled Mainframe Systems Worldwide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#65 A New Performance Model ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#2 More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#112 Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#25 1976 vs. 2016?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Corporate malfeasance Date: 21 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookJune1940, Germany had a victory celebration at the Waldorf-Astoria with major industrialists. Lots of them were there to hear how to do business with the Nazis, Intrepid:
They had gotten such a bad reputation for the depression and supporting Hitler and Nazis, at national conference held later that year, there is proposal for big propaganda campaign to equate corporations and Christianity
How Corporate America Invented Christian America; How one reverend's
big business-backed crusade altered the political landscape.
https://www.amazon.com/One-Nation-Under-God-Corporate-ebook/dp/B00PWX7R56/
In December 1940, as America was emerging from the Great Depression,
more than 5,000 industrialists from across the nation made their
yearly pilgrimage to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City,
convening for the annual meeting of the National Association of
Manufacturers.
... snip ...
"Under God" added to the pledge of allegiance Summer 1954
... coincides with McCarthy (& Nixon) "red scare" witch hunts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance
Industrialists and Wallstreet during the 20s&30s
How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
John Foster Dulles played major role in rebuilding Germany's economy
and military during 20s&30s. The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen
Dulles, and Their Secret World War, loc865-68:
In mid-1931 a consortium of American banks, eager to
safeguard their investments in Germany, persuaded the German
government to accept a loan of nearly $500 million to prevent
default. Foster was their agent. His ties to the German government
tightened after Hitler took power at the beginning of 1933 and
appointed Foster's old friend Hjalmar Schacht as minister of
economics.
loc873-79:
Sullivan & Cromwell floated the first American bonds issued by the
giant German steelmaker and arms manufacturer Krupp A.G., extended
I.G. Farben's global reach, and fought successfully to block Canada's
effort to restrict the export of steel to German arms makers.
loc905-7:
Foster was stunned by his brother's suggestion that Sullivan &
Cromwell quit Germany. Many of his clients with interests there,
including not just banks but corporations like Standard Oil and
General Electric, wished Sullivan & Cromwell to remain active
regardless of political conditions.
loc938-40:
At least one other senior partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, Eustace
Seligman, was equally disturbed. In October 1939, six weeks after the
Nazi invasion of Poland, he took the extraordinary step of sending
Foster a formal memorandum disavowing what his old friend was saying
about Nazism
... snip ...
For the 1943 US Strategic Bombing Program of Germany, they needed military and industrial target locations, they got locations and detailed plans from wallstreet.
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Thyssen (from Prescott Bush references) ... my wife's father was
command of engineering combat group and out in front towards the end
(frequently ranking officer in enemy territory, had collection of
German officer daggers from surrenders ... all his WW2 stuff
disappeared in a home breakin a few years ago). I found his WW2 status
reports in National Archives (College Park, his China reports seem to
be some other location):
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
WEHRMACHT.
... snip ...
The purpose of patents in the constitution was to promote innovation and protect individuals from institutions attempting to preserve the status quo. Increasingly large institutions have perverted the patent system to preserve their status quo and protect monopolies.
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Prosperity-ebook/dp/B0058Z4NR8
pg33:
Between 1820 and 1845, only 19 percent of patentees in the United
States had parents who were professionals or were from recognizable
major landowning families. During the same period, 40 percent of those
who took out patents had only primary schooling or less, just like
Edison. Moreover, they often exploited their patent by starting a
firm, again like Edison. Just as the United States in the nineteenth
century was more democratic politically than almost any other nation
in the world at the time, it was also more democratic than others when
it came to innovation. This was critical to its path to becoming the
most economically innovative nation in the world.
... snip ...
inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: A National Infrastructure Program Is a Smart Idea We Won't Do Because We Are Dysfunctional Date: 21 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookA National Infrastructure Program Is a Smart Idea We Won't Do Because We Are Dysfunctional
Most of the money is disappearing into US pockets (even money that
first goes overseas but then comes back ... sort of a version of
legal? money laundering). A civil engineering professor is talking to
Volcker about (long term) disappearing civil engineering programs in
US universities because of the lack of infrastructure work and lack of
work means no jobs, and no jobs mean no students are signing up for
civil engineering, From "Confidence Men":
"Well, I said, 'The trouble with the United States recently is we
spent several decades not producing many civil engineers and producing
a huge number of financial engineers. And the result is s*tty bridges
and a s*tty financial system!'"
... snip ...
it approx. coincides with this graph starting around 79/80
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic.html
US companies that recently did some infrastructure projects with stimulus funds were having to hire Chinese civil engineering firms
inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
Recently I posted "How to Build a Culture of Originality"
https://hbr.org/2016/03/how-to-build-a-culture-of-originality
which includes a Boyd book in the recommended list. I use to sponsor Boyd's briefings at IBM and he would talk about a plane he would like to do. When he was head of lightweight fighter plane at the Pentagon, he was behind redesign of the F15 (cutting weight in half and vastly improving performance, F16, F18, and A10). The F16 became heavier and less performance than he wanted. He talked about a much less expensive, simpler, less maintenance per flying time ... something like 10times the flying hrs per dollar (combination of more fighters per dollar and more flying hrs/fighter). Later the F20/Tigershark that comes close to matching his requirement. They knew that USAF would never buy it, but figured that they sell it overseas. However, for every candidate country, the military-industrial complex got congress to approve "directed appropriation" USAID that could only be used to buy F16s. The countries would say that the F20 would be much better for their purposes, but the choice was either using their own money to buy F20s or get F16s "for free" (with USAID).
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War; pg9/loc205-11:
The grass was wet and the air was clean and sweet. The crowd gathered
at Section Sixty, grave site number 3,660. The Marine colonel took
from his pocket a Marine Corps insignia, the eagle globe and
anchor. He marched out of the crowd, kneeled, and placed the insignia
near the urn containing Boyd's ashes. Someone took a picture. In that
frozen moment the light of the flash sparkled on the eagle globe and
anchor, causing it to stand out sharply against the bronze urn and
green grass. The black insignia drew every eye. As one, and without a
command to do so, the young lieutenants snapped to attention. Placing
the symbol of the U.S. Marine Corps on a grave is the highest honor a
Marine can bestow. It is rarely seen, even at the funeral of decorated
combat Marines, and it may have been the first time in history an Air
Force pilot received the honor.
... snip ...
The shrines in the lobby of Gray Research Center - Library of the
Marine Corps, Boyd's is the only non-Marine
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1640474247359&set=a.1064746094515.10882.1101890183
URL and posts mentioning Boyd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
"The Fall of the Roman Empire",
https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Roman-Empire-Barbarians-ebook/dp/B000SEI0JQ
It has region got so big it divided into administration
centers/capitals ... rome was symbolic/ceremonial pg28:
As late as AD 249 there were still only 250 senior bureaucratic
functionaries in the entire Empire. By the year 400, just 150 years
later, there were 6,000. Most operated at the major imperial
headquarters from which the key frontiers were supervised: not in
Rome, therefore, but, depending on the emperor, at Trier and/or Milan
for the Rhine, Sirmium or increasingly Constantinople for the Danube,
and Antioch for the east. It was no longer the Senate of Rome, but the
comitatensian commanders, concentrated on key frontiers, and the
senior bureaucrats, gathered in the capitals from which these
frontiers were administered, who settled the political fate of the
Empire.
... snip ...
vandals/alans cross into western africa from spain at gilbralter and
then over a period of years made their way towards Carthage
(apparently undetected), pg273:
Carthage and its agricultural hinterland were responsible for feeding
the bloated capital of Empire. But keeping the capital fed was no more
than a specific application of a much more general point. By the
fourth century AD, North Africa had become the economic powerhouse of
the Roman west
... snip ...
At a point when most of the military had been pulled from Carthage for some campaign ... the vandal/andals take advantage to take Carthage and the west's food basket and economic engine. The west then had to sign a treaty to keep up the flow of food ... but lost the taxes. They had been using Carthage finances to pay tribute/bribes to tribes on the northern boundaries as well as pay for mercenaries stationed on the northern border, as well as eliminate taxes on the 1%. With the fall of Carthage, they lost all that revenue and had to try and renew taxes on the 1%. It wasn't enough to keep up the tribute/bribes and pay for mercenaries.
In the Iraq war, they air shipped $60B in shrink-wrapped pallets of $100 bills for tribute, bribes and mercenary pay ... but a lot of it also disappeared into US pockets, however tribute/bribes/mercenaries account for some reduction in hostilities during the "surge".
My son-in-law 1st tour was foot patrol 2004-2005 Fallujah and then 2nd tour was "mounted" 2007-2008 in Baqubah which is described as much worse than Fallujah. However, since the official line was that things were much better, it didn't get much coverage.
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Windows 10 forceful update? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:40:38 -0800hancock4 writes:
Long ago and far away, we were brought into consultants to small client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their server, they had also invented this technology called "SSL" they wanted to use, the result is now frequently referred to as "electronic commerce". The bldg next door was a warehouse and the small client/server startup had put in cubicles full of AA (consulting) programmers.
Turn of the century, rhetoric in congress was that Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent future ENRONs and guarantee that executives (and auditors) did jailtime ... however it required SEC to do something. Joke at the time was Sarbanes-Oxley with its increased audit requirements was really a gift to the audit indusry ... nothing would actually change. Possibly because even GAO didn't believe that SEC was doing anything, it starts doing reports of public company fraudulent financial filings, even showing the reporting fraud increased after Sarbanes-Oxley goes into effect (and nobody doing jailtime)
ENRON posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
Sarbanes-Oxley posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
Fraudulent Financial Filing post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
#2 on times list of those responsible for the financial mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
GLBA that includes repeal of glass-steagall, posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
However, when the chair of CFTC suggests regulating CDSes (heavily used by ENRON), the chair is quickly replaced by Gramm's wife, until Gramm can get legislation passed that prevents regulation of CDSes, then his wife resigns and joins the ENRON board and audit committee (characterized as gift to ENRON).
Later of course, the sellers of triple-A rated (that were paid for
even when rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A) CDOs go
from not caring about loan quality and borrower's qualifications to
doing triple-A rated CDOs designed to fail, pay for triple-A, sell to
their victims, and then take out CDS gambling bets that they would
fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Turns out that Sarbanes-Oxley also calls for SEC to do something about rating agencies, but SEC did about as much about rating agencies as they did about the public company fraudulent financial filings.
The largest holder of the CDS gambling bets was AIG and is negotiating to pay off at 50cents on the dollar when the secretary of treasury steps in and says that they have to sign a document that they can't sue those making the gambling bets and forced to take TARP funds to pay off the CDS gambling bets at face value. The largest recipient of TARP funds is AIG and the largest recipient of face value payoffs is the firm formally headed by the secretary of treasury.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: MVS Posix Date: 22 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookMainframe hardware had been bringing in 4% of the revenue ... but whole mainframe division (with software and services) have been bringing in 25% of revenue and 40% of the profit.
I remember GPD/AdStar vp of software funding a lot of MVS POSIX work as well investing in non-IBM solutions for mainframe use (he would periodically invite us in to discuss companies he was interested in). Issue was he was in intense battle with the communication group (and was into all sort of work arounds to corporate politics)
Late 80s, a senior disk engineer gets a talk scheduled at annual,
world-wide, internal communication group conference, supposedly on
3174 performance ... but opens the talk with statement that the
communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the
disk division. The issue was that the communication group had strangle
hold on datacenters with corporate strategic ownership of everything
crossing the datacenter walls, and were fiercely fighting off
distributed computing and client/server (trying to preserve their dumb
terminal paradigm and install base). The disk division was starting to
see data fleeing the datacenter to more distributed computing friendly
platforms with drop in disk sales. The disk division had come up with
a number of solutions to reverse the process, but were constantly
being vetoed by the communication group.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Trump Is Right, Bush Lied: A Little-Known Part of the Bogus Case for War Date: 22 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookTrump Is Right, Bush Lied: A Little-Known Part of the Bogus Case for War
MIC wanted a war so badly that corporate reps were telling former
eastern block countries that if they voted for IRAQ2 invasion in the
UN, they would get membership in NATO and (directed appropriation)
USAID (for purchase of modern US arms).
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
military-industrial complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
The Jeb Bush Adviser Who Should Scare You
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/jeb-bush-adviser-paul-wolfowitz
When director of CIA won't agree to "Team B" Soviet analysis
justifying huge increase in military spending, he is replaced by
somebody that would
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
Rumsfeld white house chief of staff (74-75), after replacing CIA
director he becomes SECDEF (75-77), and replaced by one of his
staffers, Dick Cheney. He is again SECDEF 2001-2006
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld
When Rumsfeld was white house chief of staff 74-75, Cheney was on his
staff. Cheney then becomes white house chief of staff when Rumsfeld
becomes SECDEF. Cheney is then SECDEF from 89-93 and VP 2001-2009
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney
another "Team B" member
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz
He is a leading neoconservative.[4] As Deputy Secretary of Defense, he was "a major architect of President Bush's Iraq policy and ... its most hawkish advocate."[5] In fact, "the Bush Doctrine was largely [his] handiwork."
Team B was also involved in supplying Saddam with weapons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
including WMDs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
team b posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
NY Times series from 2014 (the decommission WMDs had been found a
decade earlier, but the information was classified)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html
Reached recently, Mr. Duelfer agreed that the weapons were still a
menace, but said the report strove to make it clear that they were not
"a secret cache of weapons of mass destruction."
"What I was trying to convey is that these were not militarily
significant because they not used as W.M.D.," he said. "It wasn't that
they weren't dangerous."
... and ...
The publicly released information also skirted the fact that most of
the chemical artillery shells were traceable to the West, some tied to
the United States.
These shells, which the American military calls M110s, had been
developed decades ago in the United States. Roughly two feet long and
weighing more than 90 pounds, each is an aerodynamic steel vessel with
a burster tube in its center
... snip ...
part of the issue is by destroying the government ... any responsible control over these decommissioned weapons was lost (as well as more recent consequences)
one of the documents referenced by Oct2014 article (dated 1996)
"Iraq's Disclosed of Chemical Weapons Findings to U.N."
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/iraqs-disclosure-of-chemical-weapons-findings-to-un.html
last decade, cousin of Bush White House chief of staff Card ... was
dealing with the Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence that WMDs had
been decommissioned. She wrote a book about then getting locked up in
Texas military hospital when she tried to take it public.
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: CMS\APL Date: 22 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookAs part of virtual machines, cp40/cms, cp67/cms, gml, script and lots of other stuff, science center also ported apl360 to cms for cmsapl.
Before the 23june1969, SEs got training as part of large groups at
customer sites ... which went away with unbundling.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
In response, DPD put in several cp67 datacenters for branch office SEs
to run operating systems online in virtual machines (HONE).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
They also start deploying CMSAPL based sales and marketing support tools. One of the issues is that apl360 was typically limited to 16kbyte workspaces and no system service API's like file i/o. CMSAPL open workspace to virtual memory size and added system service API ... including file i/o ... opening up CMSAPL to a lot of real world applications. Eventually sales and marketing support came to dominate all HONE activity ... and virtual operating system use dwindles away. HONE migrates to vm370 ... but there are constant battles for decades with failed attempts to migrate HONE to MVS, periodically blaming me because I provide HONE with enhanced cp67 and vm370 systems that no MVS can match.
science center had also done a lot of performance technology, monitoring, simulation, analytical modeling, workload & configuration profiling ... some of which turns into capacity planning. One of the APL-based analytical models then is enhanced and becomes the Performance Predictor on HONE. Customer support people could enter customer's workload&configuration information and then ask "what-if" questions about what happens if workload and/or configuration is changed.
In the mid-70s the US HONE datacenters are consolidated in Silicon Valley (trivia, when facebook moves into silicon valley, it is into a new bldg, next door to the old HONE datacenter). By the late 70s, HONE VM370 is enhanced to be single-system image loosely-coupled cluster of large mainframe multiprocessors (largest in the world) with fall-over and load-balancing. Another incarnation of the APL-based analytical model is used to make the load balancing decisions for front-end login routing.
I had done dynamic adaptive resource management as undergraduate in
the 60s, which was picked up and shipped in CP67 product.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
In the simplification morph from cp67 to vm370, a lot of things were
dropped including my dynamic adaptive resource management. First part
of 70s, there was Future System project which was different than
360/370 and going to completely replace 370 ... and internal politics
was shutting done 370 activity. I continued to work on 360/370 stuff
during the FS period, even periodically ridiculing FS activity.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
In the 23June1969 unbundling, they start to charge for (application) software, but manage to make the case with the government that kernel software should still be free. The lack of 370 products during FS is credited with giving clone processor makers a market foothold. When FS implodes, there is mad rush to get stuff in 370 product pipelines including decision to release a bunch of stuff I had been doing all during FS period. Some of my stuff goes into vm370 release 3. The market foothold of clone processors results in decision to start charging for kernel software ... my dynamic adaptive resource manager then becomes separate kernel component as guinea pig for transition to charging for all kernel software.
I had also done automated benchmarking and as part of product release
do 2000 benchmarks that take 3 months elapsed time. The first 1000
benchmarks are defined to cover all points on the domain of observed
customer workload and configurations with a another modified version
of the (apl-based) Performance Predictor ... predicting what the
results will be and then comparing its predicted results with each
benchmark actual result. For the last 1000 benchmarks the Performance
Predictor dynamically selects workload&configuration based on all
previous results ... looking for possible anomalous operating
conditions.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#benchmark
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: How to Kill the F-35 Stealth Fighter; It all comes down to radar ... and a big enough missile Date: 23 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookHow to Kill the F-35 Stealth Fighter; It all comes down to radar ... and a big enough missile
Claims are that the latest chips can do signal processing for real
time tracking and targeting, even reducing the number of
transmitter/receiver pairs in F22 AN/APG-77
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/APG-77
by nearly a factor of 100 times w/o loss of capability ... also
reducing power requirements and making it much easier to operate in
missiles (above claims 20kW peak power for AN/APG-77). A year ago last
spring, DOD puts the chips on export control list, last fall China
demonstrates their own at Supercomputer conference (such chips are
also used in large scale supercomputers, which China has the largest).
The other side is DOD has flagged a major threat is that increasingly the electronics it needs for advanced weapon systems are being built in china.
... implication is that both sides have advanced radar state-of-the-art to the point that F35 stealth is obsolete.
The analysis is that F35 was significant cost reduced bomb truck
... assuming that F22 flying cover to handle threats. The F35 stealth
optimized forward but compromised in most other directions.
http://www.ausairpower.net/XIMG/JSF-RCS-Qualitative-A-XLVHF.png
subject is F35 stealth and it would take much less effort "to kill"
than real stealth
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-2009-01.html
More Ambiguous F-35 Remarks by USAF's Gen. Hostage
http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/154510/usaf%E2%80%99s-gen-hostage-speaks-again-on-f_35.html
Gen. Hostage, head of the US Air Force's Air Combat Command, gained
some fame earlier this year when he said that "If I do not keep that
F-22 fleet viable, the F-35 fleet frankly will be irrelevant [as] the
F-35 is not built as an air superiority platform. It needs the F-22."
... snip ...
Reference to F35 RCS is less than F22 ... can be from the front just because F35 is smaller airframe ... but has more problems from every other direction.
Gen. Hostage reference says he would need eight F35 with advanced networking to do the job of two F22. Also F35 advanced networking can be a vulnerability. That is possibly reason for the most recent scenario using a very large airframe loaded with huge number of missiles to compensate for F35 limitations.
digital signal processing is basically well-understood, straight-forward number of calculations ... doing it in real-time then is calculations/second ... and for particular environments, calculations/watt (along with time-power tradeoffs). Significant technology advances have spilled over into areas other than tracking/targeting ... like self-driving cars and autonomous drone swarms.
Well there is the extraordinarily long lead times and delays for the F35 and opponents have danced through our networks several times extracting detailed designs for advanced weapon systems (including F35). Numerous times and ways it has been stated that F35 isn't air superiority (for enemy area penetration role), requires F22 to fly cover, future will be purely long-range missiles and targeting technologies (also the theme of massive airframe with huge numbers of missiles to compensate for F35 deficiencies). In the enemy area penetration role, it isn't one-to-one dog fight ... its up against enemy defense infrastructure ... including advanced networked, multi-band/frequency tracking & targeting systems.
military-industrial complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: History of Computing 1944 and the evolution to the System/360 Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 24 Feb 2016 22:24:26 -0800charlesm@MCN.ORG (Charles Mills) writes:
c30 8kbytes d30 16kbytes dc30 24kbytes e30 32kbytes f30 64kbytes
....
univ had 709/1401 and was sold 360/67 replacement (for tss/360) ... pending delivery of 360/67, transition replaced 1401 with 64kbytes 360/30 ... gave univ. chance to get acquated with 360 ... but 360/30 could be also be run in 1401 hardware emulation mode.
tss/360 never quite came to production fruition ... so 360/67 ran most of the time as 360/65 with os/360.
IBM offered 2361 large capacity storage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2361_Large_Capacity_Storage
models came in 1mbyte and 2mbyte for models 50, 65, and 75.
i also remember ampex (and other vendors) offering LCS up to 8mbytes, also additional memory for 30s & 40s.
search engine turns up other vendors offering addon semiconductor/monolithic memory for 360s in the 70s with larger sizes at cheaper prices.
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: Introducing the New z13s: Tim's Hardware Highlights Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 24 Feb 2016 22:45:15 -0800edgould1948@COMCAST.NET (Ed Gould) writes:
os/360 significant pointer passing API paradigm was making 16mbyte virtual address space limit a problem. Transition from SVS to MVS gave each application its own 16mbyte virtual address space ... but pointer passing API paradigm required 8mbyte image of the MVS kernel in each application virtual address space. Then because subsystems services were in their own virtual address space, pointer passing API required 1mbyte CSA (in each virtual address space) for passing parameters. CSA size requirements were proportional to subsystems and applications ... for large 3033s was 5-6mbytes and threatening to become 8mbytes (leaving none for applications). Subset of "access registers" was then retrofitted to 3033 as dual-address mode (allowing subsystems to access application virtual address space w/o needing CSA).
problem was that 4341 clusters had more processing power than 3033, more aggregate memory and I/O throughput, much lower cost and significantly less physical and environmental footprint. Folklore is that head of POK felt so threatened that corporate was convinced to cut allocation of critical 4341 manufacturing component in half.
4341 had significant improvement price/performance as well as physical and environmental footprint resulted in corporations ordering hundreds at a time for placing out in departmental areas ... sort of the leading edge of distributed computing tsunami.
Before 4341s shipped, I got roped into benchmarking engineering 4341 for national labs for big compute farm ... sort of the leading edge of the coming supercomputer paradigm
internet+distributed computing+compute farms ... evolves into cloud with hundreds of thousands of systems and millions of processors in each cloud megadatacenter (system&software costs have dropped to such a level that power&cooling are starting to dominate cloud costs).
old email about air force data systems coming out to talk about 20
4341s, spring of 1979 (they had a few mainframes in their datacenter),
but by the time they got around to caming out fall of 1979, it had
jumped to 210 4341s.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#email790404
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#email790404b
other 4341 related email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#4341
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Wall Street strikes back against Bernie Sanders Date: 24 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookWall Street strikes back against Bernie Sanders
Gramm #2 on times list of those responsible for the financial mess,
including GLBA & repeal of Glass-Steagall
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
However, when the chair of CFTC suggests regulating CDSes (heavily
used by ENRON), the chair is quickly replaced by Gramm's wife, until
Gramm can get legislation passed that prevents regulation of CDSes
(characterized as gift to ENRON), then his wife resigns and joins the
ENRON board and audit committee. posts mentioning ENRON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
Later of course, the sellers being able to buy triple-A rating for
mortgage backed CDOs (even when rating agencies knew they weren't
worth triple-A, from Oct2008 congressional testimony, largely enabling
over $27T done 2001-2008), go from not caring about loan quality and
borrower's qualifications to doing triple-A rated CDOs designed to
fail, pay for triple-A, sell to their victims, and then take out CDS
gambling bets that they would fail (creating enormous demand for bad
loans) posts (triple-A) toxic CDOs
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
Rhetoric in congress was that Sarbanes-Oxley would prevent future
ENRONs and guarantee that executives (and auditors) would do jail
time, but it requires SEC to do something. Possibly because GAO
doesn't believe SEC is doing anything, it starts doing reports of
fraudulent public company financial filings, even showing increase
after SOX goes into effect (and nobody doing jail time).Turns out that
Sarbanes-Oxley also calls for SEC to do something about rating
agencies, but SEC did about as much about rating agencies as they did
about the public company fraudulent financial filings. sarbanes-oxley
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#sarbanes-oxley
financial report fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#financial.reporting.fraud.fraud
The largest holder of the CDS gambling bets was AIG and is negotiating to pay off at 50cents on the dollar when the secretary of treasury steps in and says that they have to sign a document that they can't sue those making the gambling bets and forced to take TARP funds to pay off the CDS gambling bets at face value. The largest recipient of TARP funds is AIG and the largest recipient of face value payoffs is the firm formally headed by the secretary of treasury.
Jan2009 I'm asked to HTML'ize the Pecora Hearings (senate hearings
from the 30s into '29 crash that resulted in criminal convictions and
Glass-Steagall, had been scanned fall of 2008) with lots of internal
xrefs and URLs between what happened this time and what happened then
(comments that the new congress might have appetite to do
something). I work on it for awhile and then get a call that it won't
be needed after all (comments that capital hill is totally buried
under enormous piles of wallstreet cash). posts mentioning
glass-steagall
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
They were told that they could afford the no-down, no-documentation liar loans. The largest fines so far have been for the robo-signing mills to produce documents for fraudulent foreclosures, those $50B plus fines were suppose to go to operations setup to help the victims of the fraudulent foreclosures. However, most of the operations setup somehow manage to vanish most of the money ... little making it to the victims.
Since the crash, the too big to fail have been fined something like
a total of $300B .... however, it wasn't just for the CDOs (over $27T
2001-2008), CDSs (with CDOs designed to fail) and foreclosures. but
also a lot of other criminal activity, money laundering for drug
cartels and terrorists, LIBOR and commodity manipulation, facilitating
criminal tax evasion, etc. Lack of prosecution gave rise to the too
big to fail also being considered too big to prosecute and too big
to jail. The lack of prosecution also referred to as "moral hazard"
where the individuals and institutions see little downside to dealing
in extensive criminal activity.
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
money laundering posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
LIBOR posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#libor
tax evasion posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
Besides "moral hazard", the joke is that because the $300B aggregate in fines is so small compared to the too big to fail criminal activity, it is just being viewed as the cost of doing criminal business.
Some of the same people originating loans were also speculating in real estate (one of the similarities between the economic mess and the 29 crash). A no-down, no-documentation, liar loan with 1% variable rate mortgage, would see 2000% ROI in some of the hot markets that were seeing 20% inflation (with the speculation further driving the hot inflation(. The slight difference between what they were doing in manipulating commodities ... was they could pump&dump on the way up ... but then turn around at short sell ... when they change to driving the price down (instead of up). Their move into commodities required driving volatility.
Griftopia has chapter on CFTC had rule that required significant
commodity position to play because speculators resulted in wild,
irrational price swings. Then there were 19 secret letters that went
out allowing certain speculators to play ... results included the huge
spike in oil (and gas) prices summer of 2008. Later Sanders releases
the transaction details showing which speculators caused the huge
spike in oil. Sanders then gets lambasted in the press for violating
the privacy of the institutions doing the speculation responsible for
the huge irrational price swings (which were the major too big to
fail institutions involved in economic mess last decade).
Griftopia posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#griftopia
The other issue is TARP was originally justified for buying the too
big to fail toxic assets being carried "off-book", but only $700B was
allocated ... while just the four largest too big to fail were
carrying $5.2T in off-book, toxic assets the end of 2008. TARP is then
used for other purposes (which may have been what was intended all
along), and the federal reserve is bailing out the too big to fail
with tens of trillions in ZIRP funds and buying the toxic assets at
98cents on the dollar (when the toxic assets had been doing for
22cents on the dollar fall of 2008; they could have used all the TARP
funds for that @.22cents/dollar but then the institutions would have
been declared insolvent and had to be liquidated). A little while
later, Bernanke holds a press conference and says he original thought
that the too big to fail would use the ZIRP funds to lend to
mainstreet, but when they didn't, he had no way to force them (but
that didn't stop the ZIRP funds). They were using ZIRP funds to buy US
treasuries and making $300B/year (compared to all total fines since
the economic mess of $300B). Now supposedly Bernanke was selected in
part because he was a depresssion era scholar. However, the federal
reserve tried the same thing in the depression with the same exact
results, so he shouldn't expected them to do anything different this
time. federal reserve posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
ZIRP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
Glass-Steagall prevented risky investment houses (and off-book toxic assets) from being merged with federally regulated depository institutions. Once that happens, the federal government not only has to keep the federally regulated depository institutions alive ... but also their toxic, criminal businesses.
One of the analysis is that Greenspan backed letting the fiscal
responsibility act expire in 2002 (spending couldn't exceed tax
revenue). 2010 CBO analysis was that by then, tax cuts had reduced
revenue by $6T and increase in spending was $6T for $12T budget gap
(compared to fiscal responsible budget). Since then there has been
nothing to restore the tax cuts and only small dents in the spending
increases .... so that interest on the federal debt is now pushing
half trillion dollars/yr ... making it possible for a $300B/yr subsidy
to the too big to fail (i.e. too big to fail use the tens of
trillions in federal reserve ZIRP funds to buy treasuries). If the
fiscal responsibility act had been left in place, there would be no
federal debt to run the scam. fiscal responsibility act posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:11:21 -0800"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> writes:
past posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#61 Health Care
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#14 Health Care
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#19 Another "migration" from the mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#7 what does xp do when system is copying
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#34 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#35 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#98 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#17 Michigan industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#71 "Rat Your Boss" or "Rats to Riches," the New SEC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#34 The 2010 Census
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#37 WHAT, WHY AND HOW - FRAUD, IMPACT OF AUDIT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#12 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#31 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#37 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#6 We are on the brink of a historic decision [referring to defence cuts]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#69 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#81 Should the IBM approach be given a chance to fix the health care system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#86 Should the IBM approach be given a chance to fix the health care system?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#66 General Mills computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#89 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#64 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#38 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#44 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#45 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#48 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#107 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#108 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#6 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#77 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#49 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: When Did AMD Fall Behind? Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 14:14:16 -0800"Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> writes:
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 17:08:33 -0800sidd@situ.com (sidd) writes:
AMEX is in competition with KKR for LBO/private-equity take-over of RJR and
KKR wins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
the industry had gotten such a bad reputation during the S&L crisis
that they change the name to private equity (and junk bonds become
high-yield bonds)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
IBM has gone into the red and is in the process of being reorged into
the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breakup. The board then hires
away the former president of AMEX to reverse the breakup and resurrect
IBM. Uses some of same techniques at IBM that had been used at RJR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
Later the former president of AMEX leaves IBM and becomes head of
another large private-equity company which does LBO of company that will
employ Snowden:
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
over half corporate defaults have been companies currently or
previously owned by private equity
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
Recent director of CIA left in disgrace is hired by KKR.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The NSA's back door has given every US secret to our enemies Date: 28 Feb 2016 Blog: FacebookJOHN MCAFEE: The NSA's back door has given every US secret to our enemies
We were tangentially involved in this, but didn't know it at the time,
beltway bandits have found that they make more money off series of
failures
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
success of failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
70percent of intelligence budget and over half the people outsourced
to mostly private-equity subsidiaries ... including Snowden's employer
(OPM contractor's parent, and some number companies that had
subcontracted clearances that were found to just filling out the
paperwork and not actually doing background checks)
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Director shelves working $3M ThinThread for multi-billion dollar
Trailblazer that doesn't work
http://www.whistleblower.org/bio-william-binney-and-j-kirk-wiebe
whistleblower
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
OPM Contractor's Parent Firm Has a Troubled History
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/24/opm-contractor-veritas/
How Private Contractors Have Created a Shadow NSA; A new cybersecurity
elite moves between government and private practice, taking state
secrets with them (also references oil rig company that was
transformed into one of the largest defense contractors after former
SECDEF and future VP becomes CEO, including no-bid contracts in Iraq)
http://www.thenation.com/article/how-private-contractors-have-created-shadow-nsa/
2002 we get a call ... there is unclassified BAA (by IC-ARDA since renamed IARPA) that nobody has responded to and we are asked to write a response before it closes that day. Basically the BAA says that none of the tools they have do the job. We get in a response and then have meetings demonstrating that we can do what is needed ... and then we don't hear anymore. It isn't until the Success Of Failure article that we figure we had got called in on the loosing side.
triva ... companies in the private-equity mill are under enormous
pressure to cut corners and generate revenue for their parent every
way possible ... not just with government contracts. This is account
of over half the corporate defaults are by firms that are currently or
previously in the private-equity mill
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
I use to sponsor John's briefings at IBM, Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who
Changed the Art of War pg281/loc4905-6:
He stalked the office, staring at his underlings, then suddenly
walking up to them, sticking a bony finger into their chest, and
saying things such as, "If your boss demands loyalty, give him
integrity. But if he demands integrity, then give him loyalty."
past posts and URLs from around the WEB
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic - lies about Medicare Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 21:04:33 -0800Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
crypto museum use to have a video on MLS ... and I asked them if I could
get a copy because I wanted to do a voice over parady/ridicule
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cryptologic_Museum
As I've noted before, some of the CTSS people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System
went to the 5th flr and did multics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
.... others went to the science center on the 4th flr ... some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
and did virtual machines, the internal network, gml and a whole bunch of other stuff.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 22:06:33 -0800"Sangmo" <ju410@gmail.com> writes:
middle of last decade, US Comptroller General was starting to include in
speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle school arithmetic
for how badly they were savaging the budget.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
in addition to the tax evasion that was legalized last decade, in 2009,
IRS announced there was still another $400B in unpaid taxes on money
illegally hidden off-shore and were going after the 52,000 wealthy
americans responsible. Then in 2011, the new congress announces it was
cutting the budget of the IRS department responsible for recovering the
funds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
since then there has been no news about recovering any
of the $400B ... but there has been announcement about
a couple billion in fines on the too big to fail
that facilitated the tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
20 years of data reveals that Congress doesn't care what you think
http://www.upworthy.com/20-years-of-data-reveals-that-congress-doesnt-care-what-you-think
Their study took data from nearly 2,000 public-opinion surveys and
compared what the people wanted to what the government actually
did. What they found was extremely unsettling: The opinions of the
bottom 90% of income earners in America has essentially no impact at
all.
...
How could it be that our government, designed to function as a
representative democracy, is only good at representing such a small
fraction of the population? Just follow the money.
Why? Because purchasing political influence is 100% legal
... snip ...
inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 08:58:00 -0800Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
Early spring 2011, new speaker of the house on local DC radio interview commented that he was placing new "tea party" party darlings on the tax and revenue committee because those committee members get the most "contributions" from special interests.
Still the Best Congress Money Can Buy
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/opinion/28rich.html
The Best Congress Money Can Buy
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/03/15/best-congress-money-can-buy
The Best Congress Money Can Buy?
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2012/04/16/the_best_congress_money_can_buy__99617.html
The Best Congress the Banks' Money Can Buy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-moyers/the-best-congress-the-ban_b_1412451.html
The Best Congress Money Can Buy
http://ericmargolis.com/2015/03/the-best-congress-money-can-buy/
I've referenced before televised round table at annual economist conference proposing "flat tax" as remedy to the enormous corruption in washington (major reason behind congress being considered the most corrupt institution on earth). The "flat tax" discussion was that besides eliminating the enormous corruption by special interests for tax exemptions, it would also save around 6% in GDP ... 3% because of non-optimal business decisions made to conform with tax code and 3% in overhead lost in dealing with the enormously (and growing) complex tax code.
"tax avoidance", "tax havens", "tax loopholes", "tax evasion"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
past posts about economist round table & justification for "flat tax"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#39 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#88 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#14 Rare Apple I computer sells for $216,000 in London
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#20 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#80 A Close Look at the Perry Tax Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#4 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#14 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#70 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#79 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#80 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#33 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#57 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#14 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#3 HP splits, again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#1 weird apple trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#133 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#52 Report: Tax Evasion, Avoidance Costs United States $100 Billion A Year
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#48 These are the companies abandoning the U.S. to dodge taxes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#80 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#96 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#10 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#13 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#13 1970--protesters seize computer center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#18 1970--protesters seize computer center
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Catching Up on the OPM Breach Date: 29 Feb 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
Catching Up on the OPM Breach
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/catching-up-on-the-opm-breach/
The audit also found that multi-factor authentication (the use of a
token such as a smart card, along with an access code) was not
required to access OPM systems. "We believe that the volume and
sensitivity of OPM systems that are operating without an active
Authorization represents a material weakness in the internal control
structure of the agency's IT security program," the report concluded.
... snip ...
Disclaimer, end of last century i design a security chip for
multi-factor authentication token. I'm on panel discussion in
standing-room only ballroom at
https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/conference-paper/1998/10/08/proceedings-of-the-21st-nissc-1998 and make semi-facetious
and reference to taking a $500 milspec part, cost reduce it by 2-3 orders of magnitude while increasing its integrity and security.
I also get into some dustup with some in gov. over the chips selected for the CAC-card
Later at 2001 Intel IDF I'm asked by TD to DDI (information assurance
directorate) to describe it in detail in panel discussion in the
trusted computing track ... URL gone 404 but lives on at wayback
machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20011109072807/http://www.intel94.com/idf/spr2001/sessiondescription.asp?id=stp%2bs13
some number of related patents (all assigned)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadssummary.htm
refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aads
Jim (worked with him at IBM SJR) and I are keynotes at NASA dependable
computing meeting ...
https://web.archive.org/web/20011004023230/http://www.hdcc.cs.cmu.edu/may01/index.html
then Jim cons me into interviewing for chief security architect in Redmond. The interview drags on for a couple weeks, but we can't quite come to agreement.
poats mentioning assurance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#assurance
private-equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 10:12:36 -0800Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> writes:
"tax avoidance", "tax havens", "tax loopholes", "tax evasion"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
"kabuki theater"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#kabuki.theater
John Boyd's Art of War; Why our greatest military theorist only made
colonel.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/john-boyds-art-of-war/
Here too Boyd had a favorite line. He often said, "It is not true the
Pentagon has no strategy. It has a strategy, and once you understand
what that strategy is, everything the Pentagon does makes sense. The
strategy is, don't interrupt the money flow, add to it."
... snip ...
Not only applies to Pentagon but also Congress,
military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Boyd posts & URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
One of the scenarios that saw enormous upswing last decade is outsourcing to for-profit companies (especially owned by private-equity firms) ... it is illegal to contribute/lobby congress by agencies ... but private companies have less restrictions (it is illegal to use funds from gov. contracts to lobby congress ... but they have all sorts of ways to cook their books, it is one reason beltway bandits and other gov. contractors need to have at least one source of revenue that doesn't come from the gov).
70% of intelligence budget and over half the people now
outsourced to for-profit companies
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
especially those owned by private-equity firms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
The subsidiary revenue may all come from the gov., but its private-equity owner can have other sources of revenue ... and the private-equity owner does the lobbying.
As referenced in the "spies like us" article, security checks had been outsourced to for-profit subsidiaries of private-equity firms and were just filling out the paper work and not actually doing the background checks.
OPM Contractor's Parent Firm Has a Troubled History
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/24/opm-contractor-veritas/
After huge OPM hack, Pentagon budgets $615m for new background check IT
system; The Pentagon is looking to spend about $615m on a new IT system
that will manage and protect government security-clearance data.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/after-huge-opm-hack-pentagon-budgets-615m-for-new-background-check-it-system/
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Eric Hunsader Explains To CNBC That "Markets Are Always Rigged" Date: 01 Mar 2016 Blog: FacebookEric Hunsader Explains To CNBC That "Markets Are Always Rigged" And What He May Spend His $750,000 Prize On
Winning $750,000 Whistleblower Award http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-01/congratulations-prominent-anti-hft-critic-eric-hunsader-winning-750000-whisteblower
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
.. i.e. HFT Whistleblowing award ... but then before HFT really took off ...
Cramer reveals a bit too much
http://nypost.com/2007/03/20/cramer-reveals-a-bit-too-much/
... "the strategy - while illegal - was safe enough" ...
whistleblower
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
some past HFT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#54 Pensions, was Re: Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#82 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#89 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#28 Royal Pardon for credit unions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#29 Royal Pardon for credit unions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#43 Royal Pardon for credit unions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#56 Royal Pardon for credit unions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#65 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#7 N.Y. Barclays Libor Traders Said to Face U.K. Charges
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#93 New York seeks curbs on high-frequency trading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#18 FBI Investigates High-Speed Trading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#60 FBI Investigates High-Speed Trading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#72 Three Expensive Milliseconds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#3 Three Expensive Milliseconds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#20 HFT, computer trading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#25 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#41 System Response
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#70 Obama Administration Launches Plan To Make An "Internet ID" A Reality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#1 HFT is harmful, say US market participants
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#54 Has the last fighter pilot been born?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#64 HFT is harmful, say US market participants
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#107 The SEC's Mary Jo White Punts on High Frequency Trading and Abandons Securities Act of 1934
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#109 SEC Caught Dark Pool and High Speed Traders Doing Bad Stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#64 Dark Pool Greed Drove Barclays to Lie to Clients, N.Y. Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#106 only sometimes From looms to computers to looms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#132 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#58 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#26 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#36 IBM CEO Rometty gets bonus despite company's woes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#17 Robots have been running the US stock market, and the government is finally taking control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#28 Bernie Sanders Proposes A Bill To Break Up The 'Too Big To Exist' Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#78 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#47 Do we REALLY NEED all this regulatory oversight?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#53 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#46 seveneves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#47 seveneves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#48 seveneves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#53 seveneves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#66 Michael Hudson's New Book: Wall Street Parasites Have Devoured Their Hosts -- Your Retirement Plan and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#23 It A "Liquidity Mirage": New York Fed Finally Grasps How Broken The Market Is Due To HFTs
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Fibre Channel is still alive and kicking Date: 01 Mar 2016 Blog: LinkedInFibre Channel is still alive and kicking
In 1980, I was con'ed into doing support for channel extender for STL
that was moving 300 people from the IMS group to offsite bldg with
remote access back into the STL datacenter. The vendor then tried to
get IBM to release my support, but there was group in POK working on
some serial stuff that block it because they were afraid that it would
make it more difficult getting their stuff released.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
In 1988 (almost 30yrs ago) I was asked to help standarize some serial
stuff that LLNL was working with which quickly becomes fibre-channel
standard (including stuff from 1980). In 1990, the POK serial stuff is
finally released as ESCON when it is already obsolete. Then some POK
engineers become involved and define a heavy-weight protocol for
fibre-channel that drastically cuts the native throughput which is
eventually released as FICON.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
9333 was done in Hursley with 80mbit serial copper. We used them in
HA/CMP (last product we did at IBM)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
and wanted them to evolve into inter-operable with fibre-channel
.... instead they evolved into non-inter-operable SSA. Old post about
HA/CMP cluster scale-up meeting in Ellison's conference room in Jan1992
(also mentioning SSA)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
within a few weeks of the Ellison meeting, cluster scale-up is
transferred, announced as IBM supercomputer
(for
scientific and technical only
)
and we are told we can't work with anything that
has more than four processors. We had been working with national labs
on scientific and technical ... but also with RDBMS vendors on
commercial. Some old email for the period
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa
we then decide to leave.
Early in the RS/6000, one of the engineers took the ESCON technology, tweaked it with number of enhancements (full-duplex, 220mbits/sec, etc) and it ("SLA") was released about the same time ESCON shipped. Problem was that it was incompatible with ESCON and everything else in the world. We then convinced him to join the fibre-channel standards group (rather than doing 800mbits/sec version of "SLA").
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:13:16 -0800Testimony in the Oct2008 congressional hearings into the pivotol role that the rating agencies played in the economic mess last decade ... was that they were selling triple-A ratings on toxic CDOs when they knew they weren't worth triple-A.
TV news commentator during the hearings said that it would be unlikely that the rating agencies would ever be federally prosecuted because they were able to blackmail the federal government with downgrading the government credit rating.
Other testimony was that it is enormously more difficult to regulate something when it is incented to do the wrong thing. Prevously rating agencies were paid by the buyer ... so it was in the interest of the rating agencies to do as good as a job as possible for the benefit of the buyer. Then the rating agencies changed to the seller paying for the ratings ... and they become susceptable to the seller willing to pay more to get a higher rating.
The triple-A ratings largely enabled being able to do over $27T
2001-2008 .... and also enalbed opened up being able to sell to
operations restricted to only dealing in "safe" investments like large
pension funds (claims that it accounts for 30% loss in many funds and
trillions shortfall in being able to pay pension benefits).
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
There is the joke if you use a gun to steal several hundred ... its a felony and you can be put away for a long time. But if its wallstreet stealing trillions of dollars and ruining tens of millions of lives ... you can buy congress and walk away free.
There is problem now with for-profit prisons resulting in the US having
the highest incarceration rate in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate
The issue is the for-profit prison industry has heavily lobbied for large numbers of non-violent offenders getting long prison sentences ... they get paid per head and non-violent offenders having the lowest prison overhead/expense costs. When that isn't enough they bribe judges to send them lots of non-violent juvenile offenders (even lower overhead/expense cost/head).
There is also gimmicks being used for effectively doing debtors prison
which are theoretically not legal in the US ... but non-violent, not
being able to pay is also attractive to the for-profit prison industry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debtors%27_prison#United_States_of_America
past posts mentioning (for-profit) prison lobby:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#51 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#43 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#82 copyright protection/Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#10 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#85 prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#27 OT: efforts to repeal strict public safety laws
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#4 Decimal point character and billions
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:45:44 -0800Ibmekon <Ibmekon> writes:
The problem then is that they find they can pay the rating agencies for
triple-A rating (when both the sellers and the rating agencies know they
weren't worth triple-A from Oct2008 congressional testimony) on toxic
CDOs; triple-A rating trumps supporting documentation and they can start
doing no-documentation, liar loans.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
during the first part of the century up through the crash ... there are periodic industry articles about how complex the math is to correctly value these products ... which is largely obfuscation since valuation is dependent on valid supporting documents ... which they didn't have. During this period there were periodic comments about the enormous amounts of money to be made playing the game ... but it was a little like musical chairs ... you had to know when to get out just before the music stops (they knew it would meltdown, it wasn't if, it was when).
from the law of unintended consequences ... the biggest fines on the
too big to fail (for all this) have been for the robo-signing mills
that were fabricating the documents for the no-documentation liar loans
... in order to file foreclosers. Note they were able to scam that also.
They setup the firms that were supposed to administer the fines for the
benefit of the foreclosure victims ... and little of the money actually
make it to the victims.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
When the chair of CFTC suggests regulating derivatives, the forces
are marsheled and the chair is replaced with the wife of #2 on times
list of those responsible for the financial mess
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
while the senator gets law passed prevented regulating derivatives
(billed as gift to ENRON who is heavily playing in derivatives), the
wife then resigns and joins the ENRON board and audit committee.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
Originally triple-A rating on toxic CDOs eliminated any reason to care about borrower's qualification or loan quality. Then they realize that they can design toxic CDOs to fail, pay for triple-A, sell to their customer victims, and take out CDS/derivative gambling bets that they would fail (they now have reason to care about loan quality, they want large numbers that are as bad as possible)
The largest holder of the CDS gambling bets was AIG and is negotiating to pay off at 50cents on the dollar when the secretary of treasury steps in and says that they have to sign a document that they can't sue those making the gambling bets and forced to take TARP funds to pay off the CDS gambling bets at face value. The largest recipient of TARP funds is AIG and the largest recipient of face value payoffs is the firm formally headed by the secretary of treasury.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:27:36 -0800Late 80s, calculations on CITIs ARM mortgage portfolio shows that minor rate changes can result in bringing the bank down. At the time, CITI was the largest player in the market, it then gets out of the mortgage market, sells off its portfolio and requires private bailout (Saudi prince) to stay in business. old long-winded post touching on it and other subjects from Jan1999
Black-Scholes is major model for calculating risk for these triple-A
rated toxic CDO ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-Scholes
the person responsible for the CITI portfolio calculations publishes a number of industry articles in 2006 time-frame showing the Black-Scholes calculations aren't accounting for the various kinds of CDO risk (not even taking into account that the triple-A ratings aren't accurate/correct and the lack of documentation on which to base risk calculations).
Despite CITIs experience from late 80s ARM mortgage portfolio, last
decade, CITI is one of the four largest too big to fail players
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
some more of citi
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2012/08/the-untold-story-of-the-bailout-of-citigroup/
Earlier, president of AMEX "wins" competition to be the next CEO. The
looser takes their protegee and leave, going to Baltimore taking over
what is described as loan sharking business. They make some number of
other acquisitions and eventually take-over CITI in violation of
glass-steagall. some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
Greenspan gives them an exemption while they lobby congress for
repeal. some Greenspan (and other FED chairman) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#greenspan
They get lots of help from the then secretary of treasury (and former head of goldman sachs) with repeal of glass-steagall ... who resigns afterwards and joins CITI, at the time described as co-CEO. The protegee then leaves and becomes CEO of another of the four largest too big to fail.
AMEX is in competition with KKR for LBO, private-equity take-over of
RJR and KKR wins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
the industry gets such a bad reputation during the S&L crisis
that they change the industry name to private equity (and
junk bonds become "high yield" bonds), some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
KKR then runs into trouble and hires away the president of AMEX to turn
it around. IBM has gone into the red and is being reorganized into the
13 "baby blues" in preparation to breaking up the company. The board
then hires away the former president of IBM to reverse the breakup
and resurrect the company ... using some of the same techniques
used at RJR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 01:02:58 -0800Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
Reports are Greenspan supported congress letting fiscal responsibility
act (spending can't exceed tax revenue) expire in 2002 because he was
concerned about effect it would have had eliminating all federal
debt. 2010 CBO report has tax revenue cut by $6T and spending increased
by $6T for $12T budget gap (compared to fiscal responsibility
act). Since then the tax revenue hasn't been restored and only modest
efforts on reducing the spending ... so federal debt has further
balooned and interest on federal debt is approaching half trillion.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
Note that just the four largest too big to fail were still holding
$5.2T in off-book toxic assets the end of 2008 ... so there was no
possibility that the $700B appropriated for buying toxic assets in TARP
would make more than small dent in the problem. Instead TARP is used for
other purposes ... and the Federal Reserve is buying toxic assets at
98cents on the dollar and providing tens of trillions in ZIRP funds.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Bernanke holds a press conference not long after the Federal Reserve
looses the long drawn out legal proceedings to force it to divulge what
it was doing for bailout (including ZIRP funds) ... and says that he
assumed that the too big to fail would use the ZIRP funds to lend to
mainstreet, but when they didn't, he had no way to force them
... instead they were buying treasuries (federal debt) and taking in
avg. of $300B/annum (compared to aggregate of $300B in fines for all
illegal activity since economic mess). Supposedly one of the choices of
Bernanke (to replace Greenspan) was he was a depression era scholar, but
the FED had tried something similar then with the same results, so
Bernanke should have had no expectations that they would do something
different this time. In any case, w/o the explosion in the federal debt,
the too big to fail wouldn't have safe place to park ZIRP funds for
the $300B/annum.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
latest in the deferred prosecution sagas (gov. & HSBC fighting to prevent disclosure of all the charges & settlement) ... part of the reason that too big to fail are now also referred to as too big to prosecute and too big to jail ... and the fines (small compared to the amounts involves) are viewed as the cost of doing criminal business
How The U.S. Government And HSBC Teamed Up To Hide The Truth From A
Pennsylvania Couple
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-02/how-us-government-and-hsbc-teamed-hide-truth-pennsylvania-couple
including money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
older case
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-wachovia-laundered-billions-in-mexican-drug-money-2011-4
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/04/wachovia-paid-trivial-fine-for-nearly-400-billion-of-drug-related-money-laundering.html
past posts mentioning deferred prosecution:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#10 Instead of focusing on big fines, law enforcement should seek long prison terms for the responsible executives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#80 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#23 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#44 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#47 Do we REALLY NEED all this regulatory oversight?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#36 Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#37 LIBOR: History's Largest Financial Crime that the WSJ and NYT Would Like You to Forget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#57 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#61 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#31 Talk of Criminally Prosecuting Corporations Up, Actual Prosecutions Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#44 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#47 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#65 Economic Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#10 25 Years: How the Web began
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#0 Thanks Obama
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Fibre Channel is still alive and kicking Date: 03 Mar 2016 Blog: LinkedInre:
Stuff I did in 1980 was totally unrelated to what became ESCON (and in
fact the POK serial people did their best to block what I was
doing).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
The stuff at LLNL (national lab) was done in the mid-80s w/o
any knowledge of the serial stuff going on in POK (which became ESCON,
or the enhanced SLA version for RS/6000).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
Most recent peak i/o benchmark published by IBM was for z196 that got
2M IOPS using 104 FICON (running over 104 fibre-channel). About the
same time as the z196 peak I/O benchmark, a fibre-channel was
announced for e5-2600 blade claiming over million IOPS ... two such
fibre-channel have higher throughput than 104 FICON (running over 104
fibre-channel).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
In the early/mid 80s, LANL (a different national lab) does standardized version of 100mbyte/sec cray channel as HIPPI. Somewhat in parallel with fibre-channel, the HIPPI group is working on standardization of fiber serial version of HIPPI channel (all at time when the already obsolete ESCON is announced).
Besides serial-HIPPI and fibre-channel, about same time (Stanford) SLAC is standardizing (serial fiber) SCI (scalable coherent interface) ... defined for SCI is multiprocessor memory bus (used by DG, HP/CONVEX, Sequent, SGI) ... but SCI also has a scsi disk i/o protocol defined. All of these are running gbit full-duplex (concurrent transfers in both direction, aggregate 2gbit) at time ESCON is announced. ESCON is 200mbit half-duplex (full-duplex would be 400mbit but half-duplex isn't even 200mbit because overhead of handshake protocol latency, the RS/6000 SLA version was full-duplex 220mbit, capable of 440mbit).
The SCI scsi I/O work influences both future i/o and next generation
i/o which evolves into infiniband
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand#History
I had been involved with LLNL, LANL, and SLAC.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Another Private-Equity LBO Queen Bites the Dust Date: 03 Mar 2016 Blog: FacebookAnother Private-Equity LBO Queen Bites the Dust
private equity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
Lehman was raiding state employee pension funds. Lehman paid Jeb Bush
$1.4M consulting contract for help with Florida state employee pension
funds and Kasich was Lehman guy in Ohio after the Ohio state employee
pension funds
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2010/04/21/lehman-holdings-cost-ohio-pensions-480m.html
http://www.examiner.com/article/huge-lehman-brother-payouts-report-recalls-ohio-gov-kasich-s-time-at-the-firm
Former Congressman John Kasich clearly was not a banker, but he found
a home at Lehman nonetheless. As a one-time Ohio State Senator and
then as a Congressman for 18 years, Kasich had easy access to many
doors. Among them were doors to Ohio pension funds.
According to published reports at the time, Kasich opened doors for
Lehman Brother's private equity department and investment officials at
the Ohio Police & Fire Pension and the Ohio Public Employees
Retirement System in 2002. Kasich made the case that Lehman would be a
good broker for real estate and other investments.
... snip ...
The industry got such a bad reputation during the S&L crisis that they changed the industry name to private equity (and junk bonds become "high yield" bonds).
more private equity ...
Mitt Romney Is The Real Super-Fraud: Here's The Proof, Chapter And Verse
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/mitt-romney-is-the-real-super-fraud-heres-the-proof-chapter-and-verse/
During his 16-years at Bain Capital, fully one-fourth or $600 million
of the firms cumulative $2.5 billion of profits were scalped from
companies which went bankrupt soon after Mitt and his partners got out
of town with the loot.
... snip ...
AMEX is in competition with KKR for LBO (private-equity) take-over of
RJR and KKR wins. KKR then runs into trouble with RJR and hires away
the AMEX president to turn around RJR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
IBM has gone into the red and is in the process of being reorged into
the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breakup. The board then hires
away the former president of AMEX to reverse the breakup and resurrect
IBM. Uses some of same techniques at IBM that had been used at RJR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
He then leaves IBM to head up the private-equity company that does LBO
take-over of the company that will employ Snowden
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
gerstner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic - lies about Medicare Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 20:36:05 -0800hancock4 writes:
The univ. had a number of TTY/ascii terminals ... so one of my tasks was to add TTY support to CP67 ... including extending the automatic terminal identification (using SAD command to select between the three different types of linescanners for each port).
I then wanted to have single dialup phone number with "hunt group" allowing any kind of terminal come into any line. It turns out that IBM had taken a shortcut ... while it was possible to switch the linescanner for every port/line ... but the line speed for a a port/line was hardwired. So some ports/lines would be hard wired for 110baud and other lines for 134baud ... and could switch 2741 linescanner for 110baud line ... but couldn't change the line speed. As a result had to have one dialup number with pool of lines for 134baud hunt group and a different dialup number with pool of lines for 110baud hunt group.
Somewhat as a result, the univ. started a clone controller project built a channel interface board for a Interdata/3 programmed to emulate the IBM terminal controller ... but the Interdata/3 could dynamically determine terminal speed for each line and adjust accordingly. Later it evolved into an Interdata/4 for the channel interface and a cluster of Interdata/3s for the port/line interfaces. Four of us get written up as responsible for (some part of) clone controller business. Later Perkin-Elmer buys interdata and sells the boxes under the PE logo. In the late 90s, I ran into one of these boxes in a large datacenter handling majority of the dial-up point-of-sale terminals for the eastern part of the country.
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic - lies about Medicare Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 09:59:07 -0800Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
I was still undergraduate at the univ (before I joined Boeing and then IBM). Close as I can tell they hardwired the line speed to each port on purpose ... because there was no easy way to dynamically change line speed. The interdata was programmed to strobe the signal rise/fall to determine terminal speed.
standard IBM operating system support (other than cp67) didn't even bother with dynamic termeinal type identification ... "sysgen" required terminal type explicitly defined for each line/port.
getting written up as responsible for (some part of) the clone
controller business.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
note that the description of ibm's (failed) future system project here
https://www.ecole.org/en/session/49-the-rise-and-fall-of-ibm
says that the major motivation for FS, was the rise of clone controllers.
internal politics during the FS era was shutting down 370 efforts,
which is credited with given clone processors market foothold
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
Then as FS was failing, Ferguson/Morris 1993 "Computer Wars: The
Post-IBM World"
https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Wars-The-Post-IBM-World/dp/1587981394
has account of the effects of the failure of the future system effort in the 70s resulted in shift in the culture with top executives trying to save face (make no waves and sycophancy under Opel and Akers, in place of open debate of the Watsons), thereafter IBM lived in the shadow of that defeat.
After the failure of FS, there was mad rush to get stuff back into the
370 product pipelines, including some of the 360/370 stuff that I had
been doing all during the FS period (including periodically ridiculing
FS activities, which wasn't exactly career enhancing) some old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
The 23Jun1969 unbundling announcement started charging for software
(and other things). However they made the case with the government
that kernel software should be free.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
The rise of clone processors then first results in starting to charge for kernel software and then later object-code-only (eliminating community access to source, a long time major source of innovation and growth) trying to protect the status quo (a combination of trying to protect both executive and corporate status quo).
Some of my stuff went into standard product release, put the dynamic
adaptive resource manager was selected to be separately packaged as
kernel add-on and guinea pig to start charging for kernel softare.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
For a period kernel software was the "free base" with increasing amount of charged-for kernel add-ons ... until they finished the transition and all kernel software was charged-for.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Microcode Date: 06 Mar 2016 Blog: FacebookThe architecture "red book" was one of the first IBM documents moved to CMS script. The full document could be printed or with a command line parameter just the "Principles of Operation" subset. The full "red book" had lots of engineering notes and implementation trade-offs ... overall and sections for each instruction. Implementation trade-offs included stuff about how implementation might be different on different current models and possibly in the future ... as well as alternatives and justifications.
Low & mid-range machines were vertical microcoded ... sort like the
Hercules 370 emulator implemented in native I86 instructions. High-end
machines were horizontal microcode, much faster ... butt also
significantly more difficult to program. FS was going to completely
replace 370 and during the FS period, 370 efforts were being shutdown
... which is credited with giving clone processors a market
foothold. After FS implodes there is mad rush to get stuff back into
370 product pipeline. POK kicks off 3033 (remap of 168-3 logic to 20%
faster chips) and 3081 in parallel. Some more discussion here
(including describing how non-competitive they were)
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
Somewhat in response to clone competition, they start making little incompatible tweaks to 3033 hardware with new releases only being able to run with those tweaks. Clone competition getting tired of constantly having to deal with the tweaking ... develop a new implementation strategy called "macro-code" ... looks a lot like 370 assembler but is possible to implement constant flow of new IBM processor tweaks with significantly less effort than what is required doing in horizontal microcode.
They then use the capability to implement the hypervisor function (precursor to modern LPAR) .... and it takes a long time before 3090 is able to respond with PR/SM because it has to be done in native horizontal microcode.
Part of Endicott response to the death of FS is first 138/148 ... as added feature they migrate part of kernel supervisor pathlengths into (vertical) microcode. These machines are avg. ten native instructions (microcode) per 370 instruction. I get con'ed into doing studies of what system software pathlengths are redone in native (microcode) .... getting 10:1 speedup. I'm told that I have 6kbytes of microcode instruction space available ... but finally am able to identify the parts of kernel operating system pathlengths that account for nearly 80% of kernel execution time that will fit in 6kbytes of microcode (and get a 10:1 speedup). This approach doesn't work for the 3033, since it is already avg. one 370 instruction per machine cycle (in horizontal microcode).
I was involved in 370 16-way multiprocessor effort and we con some of the 3033 processor engineers into working on it in their spare time. Everybody thot it was great until somebody tells the head of POK that it might be decades before the POK favorite son operating system had effective 16-way support and then some of us are told to never visit POK again (they still let me sneak in and go bike riding with the processor engineers). After the 3033 is out the doors ... the 3033 engineers move over to 3090 (trout1.5) in parallel with the continuing 3081 effort.
SIE on 3081 was never intended to be used for customers ... purely for internal operating system development. As a result, the implementation was pretty horrible. The 3081 only had a limited amount of extra microcode space .... and so the SIE microcode had to be paged/swapped.
By the time 3090 rolls around, it was established that SIE was part of
standard customer production .... and would be eventually enhanced
with PR/SM layered on top (basis for modern LPARs). old email
discussing some of the diff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#email810630
(including to trout/3090 not paging its microcode). and discussion of
trout1.5/3090 cache
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#email831118
Note that part of the (3033 & 3081) Q&D efforts there was the 303x channel director. It was the 158 integrated channel microcode w/o the 370 microcode. A 3031 is then a 158 engine with the 370 microcode and no integrated channel microcode and a 2nd 158 engine with the integrated channel microcode (and no 370 microcode). A 3032 is 168-3 configured to use channel director for external channels. A 3033 is 168-3 logic remapped to 20% faster chips (with a little extra optimization) and 1-3 channel directors for external channels.
I'm then at IBM San Jose Research ... and they let me play disk engineer across the street in bldgs 14 (disk engineering) and 15 (disk product test). Bldg 15 usually gets the 3rd or 4th engineering processor machine to start disk i/o testing (they get the 3rd 3033 engineering machine). I'm doing some disk I/O latency tests and as might be expected the channel director (being 158 integrated channel microcode) is much slower than the original 168 external channels
trivia: high-end 360/370s and 3830 disk controller had horizontal microcode tended to try and have multiple concurrent things going on. as such 370 efficiency tended to be measured in machine cycles per instruction. this is compared to low & mid-range machines that had vertical microcode ... which looks very much like standard assembler/machine instructions (like the hercules 370 emulator implemented on I86 processors). 165 avg. 2.1 machine cycles per 370 instruction. 168-1 got faster memory and optimization, 168-3 doubled the processor cache size and more optimization and was down to 1.6 machine cycles per 370 instruction. 3033 started out as 168-3 logic mapped to 20% faster chips ... but also got additional optimization that got it down to close to one machine cycle per 370 instruction (reaching approx 1.5 times throughput of 168-3)
The 138/148 and 4331/4341 did ECPS ... moving highly used operating
system pathlengths into microcode on approx 1:1 basis getting 10:1
speedup. However that approach didn't work for 3033 since the
microcode implementations were so different. However, for 3033 they
did a series of "microcode" tweaks anyway that were required by latest
versions of software as countermeasure to clone processors (even in
cases where the microcode tweak might be slower than the original 370
code). Reference to selecting code paths selected for ECPS, 6kbytes
accounted for 79.55% of kernel processing time.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
In late 70s, there was the internal Iliad/801 project ... converge the
large number of different internal CISC microprocessors (s/38
follow-on, as/400, low-end & mid-range 370s, controllers, etc) to
common Iliad/801 chips where all the "microcode" was native 801 risc
instructions. For various reasons the Iliad/801 efforts floundered and
company returned to doing traditional CISC (microcode) microprocessor
chips (and saw various 801/risc chip engineers going to other vendors
to do RISC projects).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
disclaimer: the 4341 follow-on was the 4381 and originally was going to be one of these Iliad/801/RISC implementations. However I helped with the analysis that showed VLSI state-of-the art had advanced to the point where nearly all of 370 could be directly implemented in VLSI chip needing very little microcode.
Somewhere inbetween IBM processors and clone makers there was SLAC&CERN (sister high-energy physics labs) did 168E circa 1979 followed by 3081E. These were processors that implemented 370 problem state instructions sufficient to run Fortran H. Large numbers of these were placed at sensors along the accelerator line for initial data reduction.
Early in REX(X) (before shipping to customers), I wanted to
demonstrate that it wasn't just a another pretty scripting
language. IBM had large application, IPCS that was used for debugging
software, and examining system dumps diagnosing problems/failures
.... which was implemented in large amount of assembly/machine
language. My REX(X) demonstration was to implement an IPCS
implementation in REXX taking half-time over three months that had ten
times the function and ran ten times faster (some trick since REXX is
interpreted and normal IPCS was bare metal). Turns out that I finished
early, so I started doing automated library that would look/diagnose
for majority of common failure modes.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dumprx
I had expected that it would be released to customers ... but some reason that it wasn't ... even tho it came to be used by majority internal datacenters and customer support PSRs. I eventually got approval to describe "DUMPRX" at various user group conferences ... and afterwards, customer implementations started appearing within a few months.
One of the features was pseudo decompile ... could have assembler dsect macro and would format area of storage according to the dsect macro ... also resolve addresses symbolicly
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Asynchronous Interrupts Date: 06 Mar 2016 Blog: FacebookCheck sorter had timing dependent interrupt processing ... couldn't work with MVS because pathlength was too long. .... even in standard channel end appendage
After I transferred SJR, they let me wander around San Jose area including the disk engineering lab and STL development lab.
In the disk engineering lab they were running stand-alone testing with development disks, pre-scheduled 7x24 with a variety of mainframes. They had once tried MVS to get some concurrent testing but found MVS had 15min MTBF requiring manual re-ipl in that environment. I offered to rewrite the I/O supervisor so it was bullet proof and never fail enabling them to do on-demand, concurrent testing ... greatly improving productivity.
Later I wrote a (internal only) report of what needed to be done and
the increase in productivity ... unfortunately I happened to include a
reference to the MVS 15min MTBF ... which brought the wrath of the MVS
group down on my head. They weren't able to get me fired, but they
promised to do everything else they could ... including petty stuff
like not signing off on any sort of corporate award for the disk
engineering work. getting to play disk engineer in bldgs 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
The other result is that disk engineers would have a tendency to blame my software if things weren't working correctly ... which resulted in my having to shoot a lot of their hardware development bugs.
One problem that turned up was that in the change from the 3830 disk controller (with "fast" horizontal microcode) to 3880 disk controller, they decided to move to a much slower "JIB-prime" vertical microcode processor. IBM had requirement that new boxes shouldn't be more than 10-15% slower than old boxes. Turns out that at end of channel program, 3880 was taking much longer to finish up before presenting interrupt. To try and fake it, the decided to present ending interrupt early, before 3880 had actually finished ... then if 3880 discovered a problem, it now had to present a "UNIT CHECK" error ... but it had already signaled end-of-operation .... so they tried presenting an "unsolicited unit check interrupt" ... which violates channel architecture. They claimed they didn't do anything wrong ... I had to diagnose what they were doing and then explain it was a violation of channel architecture .... after that they insisted that I had to sit in on conference calls with POK channel engineers (even tho I wasn't even in their division).
The other problem was they figured that early "finish" interrupt, that the 3880 controller could actually get finished before the software could redrive it with queued requests. When I did the I/O supervisor rewrite to be bullet proof and never fail, I also drastically cut the pathlength. The product test lab was also running the system and used it to put up an inhouse online service on their engineering 3033, that could run concurrently with device testing. They had 3830 with 16 3330 drives. One weekend they replaced the 3830 with 3880 and monday morning called to complain that I had done something over the weekend to the software because online throughput had gone into the dumpster. I eventually found out that they replaced the 3830 controller (after claiming they had made no changes). It turns out that my superfast pathlength would also try and restart any queued I/O after an interrupt .... faster than the 3880 could finish its cleanup work. As a result, under load, nearly every I/O operation was requiring two SIOs and two interrupts.
controller would signal ce+de after end of disk data transfer .... but before the 3880 controller finished all its channel program overhead processing (3830 controller would wait until its completely finished with final channel program operational overhead, not just end of data transfer). The 3880 people were hoping that signalling CE+DE early, it could overlap the 3880 controller overhead operations before the mainframe software could try and redrive the device with the next queued request. I would get CE+DE, do initial interrupt processing, dequeue a queued request and issue SIOF, the 3880 controller hadn't finished controller cleanup so it would respond CC=1, CSW stored with SM+BUSY (controller busy), i would have to requeue the request and wait for the CUE interrupt (indicating the 3880 had actually finished its internal controller overhead), at which point I would have re dequeue the queued request and try a 2nd SIOF (two interrupts, two SIOFs).
Now earlier, there were certain kinds of errors that would be identified during controller cleanup processing and the 3880 was now stuck with reflecting a unit check interrupt after it had already reflected an early CE+DE (before all of the controller operation overhead had finished ... trying to fake out that it was almost as fast as 3830 controller). If the mainframe was fast enough it could try to redrive and the 3880 could reflect the unit check as part of CC=1, CSW STORED. However, if there was no immediate next queued operation and everything went idle, they tried reflecting a unsolicited unit check ... which violated channel architecture. They eventually changed to only reflecting the "dangling" unit check to the next SIO (when it eventually happened) as CC=1, CSW STORED.
Note that in the late 70s, it was recognized that MVS interrupt/redrive overhead had gotten so horrible ... that disks were spending increasing percentage of the time idle (between the finish interrupt and start of next SIO) and as a result, lower throughput. SSCH part of 370xa was specifically part of trying to address this increasing MVS problem. Since I had already been told that the wrath of the MVS group had dropped on me, it didn't bother me to ridicule them about how horrible their pathlength was ... and it was requiring hardware architecture to compensate for the problem.
Note, I'm referring to having rewritten the operating system I/O supervisor and doing disk device I/O redrive of a queued request after ending CE+DE interrupt. The reasons for queued requests could be an application doing overlapped multiple buffering or totally different applications queuing requests for the same shared disk
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Asynchronous Interrupts Date: 06 Mar 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
In the mid-80s, I got asked if I could help IMS hotstandby. IMS hotstandby would shadow everything to standby so if there was outage ... the standby system could immediately take-over with no downtime ... or at least almost. The problem was SNA/VTAM had extremely high session startup and didn't do anything until one system had failed before it would try and do the session startup for the TP devices ... not only was SNA/VTAM session startup excessive ... but after IMS hot-standby, SNA/VTAM trying to do restart all at once, the overhead increased non-linearly ... in some IMS hotstandby fall-over cases, the SNA/VTAM startup could take 90mins.
Another kind of asynchronous processing is application wait/post ... like applications doing there own multitasking/multithreading. BDAM read/write with wait/post, CICS doing its own asynchronous processing, etc.
Charlie had invented compare&swap (chosen because CAS are his
initials) instruction when he was doing fine-grain multiprocessing
locking for CP67 at the science center. We then tried to get it added
to 370 architecture and it was originally rebuffed.The POK favorite
son operating system people claimed it wasn't needed because test&set
was sufficient. The 370 architecture owners said that to get it added to
370, we had to come up with justification other than multiprocessing
locking, thus was born the descriptions (still in principles of
architecture appendix) how it can be used for multiprogramming by
applications like CICS and large DBMS implementations (significantly
more efficient than SVC operating system calls, used whether running
on single processor or multiprocessor configurations). Later in the
80s, you find most other platforms running large DBMS implementing
instructions with similar semantics.
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DZ9AR004/A.6?SHELF=EZ2HW125&DT=19970613131822
mnemonic was changed from CAS to CS & CDS
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DZ9AR004/A.6.2?SHELF=EZ2HW125&DT=19970613131822&CASE=
smp, compare&swap, multiprocessing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
disclaimer: when I was undergraduate, the university hires me fulltime
to be support for mainframe system. The univ. library gets an ONR
grant to do online catalog, the univ uses part of the money to get a
2321 datacell. The project is also selected to be one of the betatest
sites for the original CICS product .... and I get tasked to (also)
support CICS. One of the CICS bugs I had to shoot was in its original
implementation at a customer site, there was some hardcoded support
for a specific combination of BDAM parameters ... and the library had
specified a different set of BDAM parameters.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#cics
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Asynchronous Interrupts Date: 06 Mar 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
This article has recently generate lots of discussion in (closed) "Mission Command" military discussion group, I post a response related to the 3880 JIB-prime decision
The Office Hierarchy Is Officially Dead
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-03/the-office-hierarchy-is-officially-dead
Early 80s, first time I sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM, he (just) did Patterns of Conflict ... the next briefing he wanted to do both Patterns of Conflict and Organic Design For Command and Control (which he was developing) on the same day. He would talk about WW2 required to deploy massive numbers with little or no experience and needed rigid top-down command&control to leverage few experienced resources available (as well as heavily, logistic based campaign). He would describe how US corporate culture was being contaminated as these former military officers climbed the corporate ladder (with their rigid top-down command&control training). At the time, we were having raging discussion about how some high level executives with accounting & MBA backgrounds were making engineering decisions with disastrous results. Disclaimer: I was blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime mid-80s) in the late 70s and early 80s. Folklore was that when the corporate executive committee were told about online computer conferencing (and the internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me.
Boyd also referred to the WW2 US military needed something like 4-5 times the number of officers for its rigid, top-down command&control compared to the WW2 german military. However, more important was that the rigid, top-down command&control fostered a culture that assumed only those at those at the very top knew what they were doing (and everybody else needed rigid supervision, semi-independent from the levels of management). Boyd would frequently refer to pushing decisions to the people that were closest and knew most about the problem.
IBM trivia: about the same time I was at Boeing, Boyd had been
assigned command of "spook base" (possibly as punishment), Boyd
biographies refer to "spook base" as a $2.5B windfall for IBM (in 1970
dollars). Reference to "spook base" gone 404 but lives on at the
wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
above even has reference to 2250 (except the picture is of no 2250 I ever saw). Boyd would refer to "spook base" having the largest air conditioned building in that part of the world.
boyd postings & URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
online computer conferencing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic - lies about Medicare Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 17:26:07 -0800Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
270x boxes were precursor to 3705. Up thread I refer to having done
clone controller box as undergraduate in the 60s using interdata
minicomputers. "UC" processor selected for 3705 was really slow and
lacked feature/function. Science center suggested that they use
(series/1) Peachtree processor for 3705 ... 3705 announced Mar1972
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3705_Communications_Controller
which was well before series/1 was announced in nov1976
https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/vintage/vintage_4506VV4024.html
I also had a project started in the early 80s that I called HSDT
... that was doing T1 and faster speed links ... while 37x5 boxes were
limited to 56kbit links. In 1986 I was having some equipment built on
the other side of the pacific, the friday before I was leave for a
visit, CPD sent out announcement for new online "high-speed" discussion
group with the following definitions:
low-speed <9.6kbits
medium-speed 19.2kbits
high-speed 56kbits
very high-speed 1.5mbits
the following monday morning on the wall of conference room
low-speed <20mbits
medium-speed 100mbits
high-speed 200-300mbits
very high-speed >600mbits
hsdt postings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
CPD had generated a report for corporate executive committee that customers wouldn't be needing T1 speeds until well into the 90s. Their report was based on survey of customers using 37x5 "fat pipes" multiple 56kbit lines operated in parallel as single logical link. They found no customers using more than five 56kbit links in a "fat pipe". What they didn't know (or conveniently ignored) was that typical telco tariff for T1 was about the same as 5 or 6 56kbit links. By the time customer needed more than 5*56kbit, they would switch to full T1 and use a non-IBM controller. HSDT did trivial customer survey that found 200 T1 links connected to IBM mainframes.
HSDT was also working with the director of NSF and was supposed to get $20M to interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers. Then congress cuts the budget, some other things happens and finally they release an RFP (largely based on what HSDT already had running, including requirement for T1 links). Internal IBM politics prevents us from bidding, the director of NSF tries to help writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) including references to what we already have running is at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP responses, but that just makes the internal politics worse. As regional networks connect into the centers, it morphs into the NSFNET backbone (precursor to the modern internet). As an aside the "winning" RFP response puts in 440kbit/sec links (not full T1/1.5mbit/sec).
nsfnet postings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
communication group was generating lots of mis-information internally
... they were also generating mis-information that sna/vtam could be
used for tying together the NSF supercomputer centers. Somebody
collected their mis-information about SNA/VTAM and forwarded it to us
(heavily snipped and redacted to protect the guilty)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
communication group issues don't just stop with 37x5 boxes limited to 56kbit/sec speed links. VTAM processing had significant issue with only allowing a limited number of bits in transit/flight. They eventually come out with 3737 to support a T1 link that spoofs VTAM as local channel-to-channel box. A 3737 has several 68k microprocessors and a whole boatload of buffer memory. The 3737 is constantly spoofing the local VTAM that the data has arrived so it will keep feeding it data. The local 3737 then is transmitting the data over the T1 link to remote 3737 (while the local VTAM thinks it has already arrived). The remote 3737 then is doing the spoof in reverse for the remote VTAM. A US T1 @1.5mbits/sec is aggregate full-duplex 3mbits/sec, A EU T1 @2mbits/sec is aggregate full-duplex 4mbits/sec. The enormous 3737 spoofing overhead limits it to about 2mbits/sec aggregate ... even with all the 68k processors.
old 3737 reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#75 We list every company in the world that has a mainframe computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#77 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
with
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#email880130
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#email880606
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#email881005
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic - lies about Medicare Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 11:57:31 -0800jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> writes:
because they weren't reinvesting and keeping up with technology ... they
start to see downturn (from competition) ... but it was accelerated
because of pensions being paid out of current revenue. in downturn, it
is possible for revenue to drop below the unfunded pension
obligations. Having previously looted fully-funded pension obligations
as profits ... then in any downturn they could reduce the number of
current employees ... but they couldn't reduce past pension
obligations. They eventually declare bankruptcy based on the unfunded
pension obligation ... dumping the obligation off onto PBGC (no
"clawbacks" of previous payouts as profit instead of funding pensions).
http://www.pbgc.gov/
dumping the obligations on the federal government is similar to employers paying below living wages and relying on government social programs to make up the difference.
another gimmick that industries used was changing the corporate structure so that profit was moved from heavy people intensive part of the business to subsidiary that required relatively few people. airline industry did this by structuring airline operations as break-even and moving profit to ticket (mostly computerized) subsidiary. The airline operations can be showing no profit while the parent company shows significant overall profit because the way it is booked with ticket sales. Showing no profit or even loss gives advantage in union/employee negotiations (even when parent company still shows significant profit because of the way books are done). They can even declare bankruptcy for the airline operations and dump the employee pension obligations on PBGC. A number of years ago, the parent company of one of the auto big three showed 5% of its profit from making cars, but 95% of its profit from financing the selling of cars (it was even possible for the making of cars shows loss while parent company is still showing significant profit).
the books are cooked so the profit from operation that involves large number of people making something are moved into a different subidiary ... so the people-intensive operation shows break-even or loss.
The latest gimmick is that the subsidiary (where the profits are being
booked) is moved offshore ... so the profit shows up in an extremely
attractive tax haven.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
in other times and places ... most of these activities could have been viewed as scams.
a few past PBGC posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#65 As Expected, Ford Falls From 2nd Place in U.S. Sales
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#24 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#46 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#8 weird apple trivia
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Trump vs. Hillary Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 14:05:16 -0800Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
congress lets fiscal responsibility act expire in 2002, if left in place
all federal debt would have been gone by 2010. 2010 CBO report has that
between end of the act and 2010, tax revenue was cut by $6T and spending
increased by $6T for $12T budget gap (compared to fiscal responsibility
act). Since then there has been no restoration of the tax revenue and
only small dents in the spending ... so interest on the debt is now
pushing half-trillion.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
middle of last decade, US comptroller general was including in speeches
that nobody in congress knew how to do middle school arithmetic for
how badly they were savaging the budget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
reports are that Greenspan wanted the act to expire because he favored
significant federal debt and gov. paying interest on treasuries.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#greenspan
TARP was supposedly to bail out the too big to fail by buying their
toxic assets ... but with only $700B it was maybe 10% needed (just the
four largest too big to fail had $5.2T end of 2008).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
... and TARP was used for other things and the Federal Reserve did real
bailout behind the scenes (FED lost a long drawn out legal battle
attempting to prevent making public what it was doing) ... buying toxic
assets at 98cents on the dollar and providing tens of trillions in ZIRP
funds, with too big to fail also making something like $300B/year off
buying treasuries with ZIRP funds. W/o the enormous federal debt,
couldn't run the treasury interest/ZIRP scam.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
In addition to all the other scams, too big to fail were using the new
tax loophools to squirral enormous amounts away offshore (major factor
in the enormous drop in tax revenue)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic - lies about Medicare Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 08:18:33 -0800Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
Democrats and Republicans Are Quietly Planning a Corporate Giveaway --
to the Tune of $400 Billion
http://www.thenation.com/article/democrats-and-republicans-are-quietly-planning-a-corporate-giveaway-to-the-tune-of-400-billion/
one of the poster child is heavy equipment maker that makes, sells,
and delivers in the US; it changes to selling at cost to a new
distributor subsidiary in Luxembourg, which sells to the buyers in the
US (the equipment never leaves the US, delivered directly from US
plant to US buyer). The difference is nearly all the profit is booked
with the distributor in Luxembourg (where trivial tax has been
negotiated)
http://www.icij.org/project/luxembourg-leaks
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Cloud Computing Date: 07 Mar 2016 Blog: FacebookThere were a number of services expanding CP67/CMS into 7x24 online operations ... including a number of commercial service bureaus. Expanding CP67/CMS into 7x24 required a number of cost saving operations, being able to operate "dark room" w/o operators, stopping the system meter when there were no active users. This is somewhat analogous to current day cloud, system prices have dropped to such a point that power&cooling has become major cloud operational cost, provisioning for large number of "on-demand" (idle) processors required cloud operations pressuring chip makers to design processors to cut power to near zero when idle but come up to full operation instantaneous.
Some of the CP67/CMS equivalent was back then processors were leased and monthly charges were based on system meter ... that ran whenever processor and/or any channel was running. CP67 done special programming to cut the processing & channel when nothing was going on ... but be able to accept incoming characters. System meter did require that both processor and channels had to be all stopped for at least 400ms before it would stop. Note that MVS, long after market had moved to sales, had a timer event that woke up every 400ms guaranteeing that system meter never stopped.
science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
virtual machine online service bureaus
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#online
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Computers anyone? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 07:27:52 -0800Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> writes:
19yrs ago, John Boyd, January 23, 1927 - March 9, 1997, tribute in USNI
Proceedings, for those w/o membership ... it is also here
http://radio-weblogs.com/0107127/stories/2002/12/23/genghisJohnChuckSpinneysBioOfJohnBoyd.html
He used it to re-design the F-15, changing it from an 80,000-pound,
swing-wing, sluggish behemoth, to a 40,000-pound fixed-wing,
high-performance, maneuvering fighter. His crowning glory was his use of
the theory to evolve the lightweight fighters that eventually became the
YF-16 and YF-17 prototypes--and then to insist that the winner be chosen
in the competitive market of a free-play flyoff. The YF-16, which won,
is still the most maneuverable fighter ever designed. The production
successors, the not-so-lightweight F-16 (Air Force) and the F/A-18 (the
Navy-Marine Corps aircraft that evolved from the YF-17), together with
the F-15, dominate the skies today.
... snip ...
by the time John passes, the air force has pretty much disowned him, it was the Marines that were at Arlington. Boyd had story how the F15 forces knew he was working on YF-16 design and tried to get the Air Force to charge him with theft of several million in gov. property; aka supercomputer time used for YF-16 design, however an audit of gov. computers failed to turn up the evidence. Hugh Laurie (TV House) wrote a novel about military-industrial-complex and how egregious MICC can be (and references Boyd).
disclaimer: I sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War; pg9/loc205-11:
The grass was wet and the air was clean and sweet. The crowd gathered
at Section Sixty, grave site number 3,660. The Marine colonel took
from his pocket a Marine Corps insignia, the eagle globe and
anchor. He marched out of the crowd, kneeled, and placed the insignia
near the urn containing Boyd's ashes. Someone took a picture. In that
frozen moment the light of the flash sparkled on the eagle globe and
anchor, causing it to stand out sharply against the bronze urn and
green grass. The black insignia drew every eye. As one, and without a
command to do so, the young lieutenants snapped to attention. Placing
the symbol of the U.S. Marine Corps on a grave is the highest honor a
Marine can bestow. It is rarely seen, even at the funeral of decorated
combat Marines, and it may have been the first time in history an Air
Force pilot received the honor.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Computers anyone? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 16:42:54 -0800Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> writes:
http://www.ausairpower.net/Profile-F-15A-D.html
The idea of an air-air fighter was under consideration as early as
1965, but the subsequent FX study generated by USAF Systems Command
created the concept of a 60,000 lb swing wing machine much like the
F-111, already under criticism for its inability to do what it wasn't
built for.
At this stage a Major John Boyd was appointed to rework the FX study and
generate a workable solution. Boyd was an outstanding air combat
tactician and the originator of the concept of energy
manoeuvrability. The concept revolves about the necessity for an
aircraft to maintain a maximum amount of kinetic/potential energy in a
dogfight, to be able to retain as much agility as possible.
... snip ...
http://www.flightsimbooks.com/jfs/page1.php
The FX program (Fighter eXperimental) was the result. The first FX
proposals were very heavy (60,000 pounds) and employed the
then-fashionable swing-wing design. This being too much like the
ill-fated F-111 design, the momentum swung in the other direction, until
in 1967 the conceived aircraft was down to 30,000 pounds.
...
boyd posts & URL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
after redoing the original FX (swing-wing) design for what becomes F15 ... he then starts on yf16/f16 (anticipating that the f15 forces would come after him and try and have him thrown in Leavenworth for the rest of his life, he leaves no trail of his supercomputer use involved in yf16 design).
The yf16/f16 is non-stable & fly-by-wire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_Falcon#Negative_stability_and_fly-by-wire
The F-16 was the first production fighter aircraft intentionally
designed to be slightly aerodynamically unstable, also known as "relaxed
static stability" (RSS), to improve maneuverability.[66] Most aircraft
are designed with positive static stability, which induces aircraft to
return to straight and level flight attitude if the pilot releases the
controls; this reduces maneuverability as the inherent stability has to
be overcome. Aircraft with negative stability are designed to deviate
from controlled flight and thus be more maneuverable. At supersonic
speeds the F-16 gains stability (eventually positive) due to aerodynamic
changes
...
Unlike the YF-17, which had hydromechanical controls serving as a backup
to the FBW, General Dynamics took the innovative step of eliminating
mechanical linkages between the control stick and rudder pedals, and the
flight control surfaces. The F-16 is entirely reliant on its electrical
systems to relay flight commands, instead of traditional
mechanically-linked controls, leading to the early moniker of "the
electric jet". The quadruplex design permits "graceful degradation" in
flight control response in that the loss of one channel renders the FLCS
a "triplex" system.[72] The FLCC began as an analog system on the A/B
variants, but has been supplanted by a digital computer system beginning
with the F-16C/D Block 40.[73][74] The F-16's controls suffered from a
sensitivity to static electricity or electrostatic discharge (ESD). Up
to 70-80% of the C/D models' electronics were vulnerable to ESD.[75]
... snip ...
ARTIFICIAL STABILITY & FLY-BY-WIRE CONTROL
http://www.ausairpower.net/AADR-FBW-CCV.html
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Computers anyone? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 17:14:57 -0800"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
random other bits
Edwards prepares for F-16 radar upgrade testing
http://www.afmc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123457520
F22 AESA radar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/APG-77
As yet unconfirmed sources suggest that APG-77 has a 'typical' operating
range of 193 km (120 mi) and is specified to achieve an 86% probability
of intercept against a 1 m2 target at its maximum detection range using
a single radar paint
... snip ...
Note last spring, DOD put advanced processing chips on export control list. Last fall, at supercomputer conference, china demonstrated that they were starting to make their own chips (besides used in advanced radar, enormous numbers are also used in large supercomputers).
There is estimate that latest generation of chips, the number of transmit/receiver pairs in the F-22 AESA radar could be reduced by nearly two orders of magnitude w/o loss of capability.
this is primary analysis of JSF (F-35) ... but towards the bottom shows
some graphs for f-22, f-16, mig29, f-18, f-35 & f-15
http://www.ausairpower.net/jsf.html
another JSF analysis
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-JSF-Analysis.html
F-35 from monday
http://www.pogo.org/straus/issues/weapons/2016/the-f-35-still-failing-to-impress.html
Straus Military Reform Project at POGO was Boyd inspired
http://www.pogo.org/straus/issues/military-reform/
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Boyd postings &/or URLs from around the web
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Computers anyone? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 17:35:37 -0800Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
a little more topic drift (one of the most critical has to do
software) ,,, original plan was that f-35 would be ready for combat in
2010 ... now it might now be until 2022:
The report's candor about the airplane's problems is unique among the
DoD's other reports about the performance of the F-35. It only exists
because Congress created an independent operational testing office in
1983 to report only to the Secretary of Defense and Congress. Without
this office, significant F-35 problems might never be revealed until
failure in actual combat.
As damning as this report is, the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program
Office quickly issued a statement disagreeing with the report's emphasis
-- but acknowledging that every word of it is "factually accurate."
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Computers anyone? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 20:25:36 -0800"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
This is F-22: Can't Fly Won't Die
http://nypost.com/2009/07/17/cant-fly-wont-die/
Pilots call high-maintenance aircraft "hangar queens." Well, the F-22's
a hangar empress. After three expensive decades in development, the
plane meets fewer than one-third of its specified requirements.
...
Anyway, an enemy wouldn't have to down a single F-22 to defeat it. Just
strike the hi-tech maintenance sites, and it's game over. (In WWII, we
didn't shoot down every Japanese Zero; we just sank their carriers.) The
F-22 isn't going to operate off a dirt strip with a repair tent.
But this is all about lobbying, not about lobbing bombs. Cynically,
Lockheed Martin distributed the F-22 workload to nearly every state,
employing under-qualified sub-contractors to create local financial
stakes in the program. Great politics -- but the result has been a
quality collapse.
... snip ...
finally ended F-22 ... but used same tactics with F-35 process.
http://www.dailytech.com/Defense+Secretary+Gates+Proposes+Ending+F22+Fighter+VH71+Helicopter+Production/article14776.htm
Originally F-35 design did cost(?) reduced compromise as bomb truck assuming F-22 flying cover and provide air superiority role.
this has long detailed discussion changes from original prototype and
"true" stealth (analysis done before F-22 was terminated)
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-2009-01.html
diagram 4 has F-35 radar signature at different wavelengths. VHF/L can
find/track but difficult for targeting. latest processing chips with
multi-band radar ... for tracking&targeting.
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-2009-01.html#mozTocId269596
This is separate from design/weight penalty for enabling (F-35B) Marine corp version (short take-off/land).
besides "cyberdumb" in problems with the F-35 program
http://www.pogo.org/straus/issues/weapons/2016/the-f-35-still-failing-to-impress.html
there is lots of "cyberdumb" with adversaries dancing
through our networks taking detailed designs of advanced
weapons
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2013/05/28/us-weapons-compromised-chinese-cyberspies/
The designs included those for the advanced Patriot missile system,
known as PAC-3; an Army system for shooting down ballistic missiles,
known as the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD; and the
Navy's Aegis ballistic-missile defense system. Also identified in the
report are vital combat aircraft and ships, including the F/A-18 fighter
jet, the V-22 Osprey, the Black Hawk helicopter and the Navy's new
Littoral Combat Ship, which is designed to patrol waters close to
shore. Also on the list is the most expensive weapons system ever built
-- the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which is on track to cost about $1.4
trillion.
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Computers anyone? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:04:31 -0800Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
Part of F-22 "hangar empress" is stealth coating ... there are other
references that now the coating maintenance bays are working around the
clock overtime.
http://www.tyndall.af.mil/News/Features/Display/tabid/6651/Article/669883/lo-how-the-f-22-gets-its-stealth.aspx
and then regarding the tight embrace with congress & politics
This Map Shows Why The F-35 Has Turned Into A Trillion-Dollar Fiasco
http://www.businessinsider.com/this-map-explains-the-f-35-fiasco-2014-8
Flawed F-35 Too Big to Kill as Lockheed Hooks 45 States
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-02-22/flawed-f-35-fighter-too-big-to-kill-as-lockheed-hooks-45-states
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Google joins Facebook's game-changing project that's eating the $140 billion hardware market Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:24:11 -0800Big cloud megadatacenters have been claiming for over a decade that they assemble their own systems for 1/3rd the price of brand name systems ... this is further accelerating the commoditizing of computing
Google joins Facebook's game-changing project that's eating the $140
billion hardware market
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-joins-facebook-open-compute-project-2016-3
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Computers anyone? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 13:17:08 -0800Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> writes:
dates off by nearly a decade.
FX early to mid-60s, all designs swing-wing and 60,000lbs or more , Boyd design early 1967, MD included in 1967 2nd phase selection using Boyd design/spec, MD final selection dec1969, 1st flt july 1972, full-rate production six months later
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15_Eagle
An official requirements document was finalized in October, and sent out
as a request for proposals (RFP) to 13 companies on 8 December
1965. Eight companies responded with proposals. Following a downselect,
four companies were asked to provide further developments. In total,
they developed some 500 design concepts. Typical designs featured
variable-sweep wings, weighed over 60,000 pounds (27,000 kg), included a
top speed of Mach 2.7 and a thrust-to-weight ratio of 0.75.[12] When the
proposals were studied in July 1966, the aircraft were roughly the size
and weight of the TFX, and like that aircraft, a design that could not
be considered an air superiority fighter.[13]
...
This led to John Boyd's Energy-Maneuverability (E-M) theory, which
stressed that extra power and maneuverability were key aspects of a
successful fighter design, and these were more important than outright
speed. Through tireless championing of the concepts, and good timing
with the "failure" of the initial F-X project, the "fighter mafia"
pressed for a lightweight day fighter that could be built and operated
in large numbers in order to ensure air superiority.[16] In early 1967,
they proposed that the ideal design had a thrust-to-weight ratio of near
1:1, a maximum speed further reduced to Mach 2.3, a weight of 40,000
pounds (18,000 kg) and a wing loading of 80 lb/ft².[17]
http://www.boeing.com/history/products/f-15-eagle.page
McDonnell Aircraft formalized the concept for the F-15 in 1967 when the
company was selected to enter the second phase of the U.S Air Force's FX
competition. Competing against Fairchild Hiller and North American
Rockwell, McDonnell used lessons learned during the Vietnam War on the
changing nature of jet age air-to-air combat, given that the F-4 Phantom
II was earning its reputation as a formidable fighter. On Dec. 23, 1969,
after more than two years of intensive testing and evaluation, the Air
Force awarded McDonnell Douglas the F-15 Advanced Tactical Fighter
contract. The McDonnell Douglas team had placed first among the three
competitors in all phases of the competition and had the lowest contract
price.
On June 26, 1972, James S. McDonnell, founder of McDonnell Aircraft,
christened the F-15 "Eagle." Test pilot Irv Burrows took the first F-15
Eagle to the air on July 27, 1972, at Edwards Air Force Base in
California. Six months later, the Air Force approved the Eagle for
full-rate production.
...snip ...
for a whole lot more, declassified
F15 origins and development
1964-1972
http://www.afhso.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-120516-036.pdf
Boyd E/M discussion pgs.18-21 ...
"By the spring of 1967, through the
efforts of Boyd and others, a 40,000-point F-X aircraft was 'popped
out'".
pg28,
Point Design Studies, Meanwhile, the Air Force on 11 August 1967
had solicited bids from seven aerospace companies for second round of
studies.
pg37, F-15 Demonstration Milestones ... starting Dec1969
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Computers anyone? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 13:44:18 -0800Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
not only are there lots vulnerabilities associated with extreme
complexity of maintenance
http://www.tyndall.af.mil/News/Features/Display/tabid/6651/Article/669883/lo-how-the-f-22-gets-its-stealth.aspx
there is also vulnerabilities from loads of advanced electronic counterfeit parts
Probe finds 'flood' of fake military parts from China in U.S. equipment
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/22/probe-finds-flood-of-fake-military-parts-from-china-in-u-s-equipment/
Flood of fake Chinese parts in US military gear - report
http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-defense-counterfeit-idUSL1E8GMMCV20120522
Fake Parts are Everywhere
http://www.defensetech.org/2012/05/22/fake-parts-are-everywhere/
there is also vulnerabilities where the advanced electronic parts aren't counterfeit ... they are sourced and produced in china ... that US military has to rely on.
Richard Clarke: All U.S. Electronics From China Could Be Infected
http://www.defensetech.org/2012/03/29/richard-clarke-all-u-s-electronics-from-china-could-be-infected/
and separate from the other cyberdumb issues.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Computers anyone? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:28:10 -0800Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
another issue with F-35 ... even if it had no problems and worked as advertized and didn't have big budget and schedule overruns ... it was designed as a bomb truck with F-22 flying cover and providing air superiority
More Ambiguous F-35 Remarks by USAF's Gen. Hostage
http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/154510/usaf%E2%80%99s-gen-hostage-speaks-again-on-f_35.html
Gen. Hostage, head of the US Air Force's Air Combat Command, gained some
fame earlier this year when he said that "If I do not keep that F-22
fleet viable, the F-35 fleet frankly will be irrelevant [as] the F-35 is
not built as an air superiority platform. It needs the F-22."
... snip ...
other
Fast Forward "Fast Transients": John Boyd, the F-22 and F-35 in 2016
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-131210-1.html
declassified "Aerial Attack Study" by (then) Capt. John Boyd, 1Nov1963
http://www.dnipogo.org/boyd/pdf/boydaerialattack.pdf
Joint Strike Fighter; includes graph compares F-22A, T-50, J-20, F-35A,
SU-35S
http://www.ausairpower.net/jsf.html
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Boyd posts & URL
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Computers anyone? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:37:31 -0800"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
problem is latest generation of advanced chips with multi-band radar can track & target stealth.
the B-52 hasn't been overlooked ... there are proposals using large flock of F-35s out in front trailed by fleet of B-52 stuffed entirely full ... with the F-35s providing targeting for the arsenal carried by the B-52s. I posted a snarky comment about the spin in the B-52 proposal wording as "complement/supplement the F-35" ... as opposed to "compensate for the F-35 shortcomings".
since the F-35 payload is so small, the trailing B-52s would provide the air-to-air and air-to-ground arsenal needed for the mission.
Pentagon "Arsenal Plane" Likely to be Modified B-52
http://www.scout.com/military/warrior/story/1650624-pentagon-arsenal-plane-likely-to-be-b-52
The Pentagon Is Building the "Arsenal Plane," a Giant Flying Battlewagon
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/news/a19262/pentagon-announces-arsenal-plane-platform/
In theory, the F35 are manned "scouts" and the arsenal plane could be a drone (all part of justifying F35 and keeping it from being killed off).
This Map Shows Why The F-35 Has Turned Into A Trillion-Dollar Fiasco
http://www.businessinsider.com/this-map-explains-the-f-35-fiasco-2014-8
Flawed F-35 Too Big to Kill as Lockheed Hooks 45 States
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-02-22/flawed-f-35-fighter-too-big-to-kill-as-lockheed-hooks-45-states
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
More realistic would be swarms of drone scouts with any humans back in the arsenal plane.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#87 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#88 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#89 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#90 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#91 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#92 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#94 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#95 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#96 Computers anyone?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic - lies about Medicare Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:40:00 -0800Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
Ministers agree to new EU rule to curb corporate tax dodging
http://www.icij.org/blog/2016/03/ministers-agree-new-eu-rule-curb-corporate-tax-dodging
cooking the books so that profit is moved offshore into subsidiary
for tax evasion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
... but can also play gimmicks where human intensive operations are
manipulated so that they have little or no profit ... which plays
factor in benefit negotiations ... but can also setup for declaring
bankruptcy and dump the pension obligations on the government
http://www.pbgc.gov/
even while the parent company is making record profits.
and now they are working on congress being able to bring the offshore
trillions back home with little or no taxes
http://www.thenation.com/article/democrats-and-republicans-are-quietly-planning-a-corporate-giveaway-to-the-tune-of-400-billion/
private equity (industry got such bad reputation during S&L crisis that they changed the industry name to private equity and junk bonds became "high-yield" bonds).
They borrow the money to buy company, put the money on the victim
company books, loot the company and then sell it off (make enormous
profits even if they sell the company for less than they paid). Analogy
to house flipping ... except they don't have to pay off the original
loan (it now belongs to the victim company). Over half corporate
defaults are companies currently or formaly owned by private equity
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/economy/05simmons.html?_r=0
They make out with enormous profits and in addition also bought special
tax loopholes from congress for the scam (and the defaulted loans for
some reason never show up in the credit rating of the private equity
firms).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY") Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:04:42 -0800from data file
i then distributed executable on the internal network inside ibm ... and would send source to anybody that acquired all points.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Ray Tomlinson, inventor of modern email, dies Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:09:18 -0800hancock4 writes:
A little later, FDC corporate hdqtrs is lopped off and the remaining
FDC is taken private by KKR in the largest reverse-IPO/LBO up until
that time.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
Much earlier, AMEX and KKR had been in competition for LBO of RJR and
KKR wins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
KKR runs into trouble with RJR, and hires away the president of AMEX to turn it around.
IBM has gone into the red and is in the process of being reorged into
the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breakup. The board then hires
away the former president of AMEX to reverse the breakup and resurrect
IBM. Uses some of same techniques at IBM that had been used at RJR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
posts referencing pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
Later the former president of AMEX leaves IBM and becomes head of
another large private-equity company which does LBO of company that
will employ Snowden:
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
As mentioned above, companies in the private-equity mill are under intense pressure to generate income any way possible, including those that security clearances have been outsourced to ... which were found to be just filling out the paperwork and not doing the background checks (although as periodically mentioned, victim companies in the private-equity mill account for over half of corporate defaults).
Note it is illegal for (including beltway bandit) companies to use money from gov. contracts to lobby congress. However, a private-equity firm could lobby on behalf of their subsidiary which might not have any income other than gov. contracts (theoretically using money from other private-equity operations).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY") Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:37:08 -0800Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
For most of the 70s I had 2741 @134 (including one at home) replaced
with 300 baud CDI miniterm (for a couple yrs)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/miniterm.jpg
and then to 1200 baud 3101 (ibm glass teletype, for a couple yrs)
... which included some stuff skipping long blank runs with cursor
positioning ... internally also included being able to switch between
glass teletype and 3270 simulation.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/home3101.jpg
Then got IBM/PC with 2400 baud modem and ran internal "pcterm"
3270 simulator. The PC & host side did bit compression on the
transmission and also kept character string caches ... it could
transmit string location in cache as opposed to the actual
(compressed) string.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/homepc.jpg
as miniterm picture shows, I had compact microfiche reader ... at work, it was possible to direct computer output (like large source listings, documentation, etc) to microfiche printer.
PC was at original announce on the employee purchase plan ... however by the time they started deliverying PCs on the employee purchase plan, the street price had dropped to less than the employee discount (I would have payed less if I had avoided the employee purchase plan and got it sooner).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:02:31 -0800hancock4 writes:
this details change of national "chamber of commerce" late 90s and then some number of local "chamber of commerce" cut ties with national
The Influence Machine: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate
Capture of American Life
https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Machine-Commerce-Corporate-American-ebook/dp/B00NDTUDHA/
other past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
"The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the
West"
https://www.amazon.com/Failure-Laissez-Capitalism-Economic-Dissolution-ebook/dp/B00BLPJNWE/
This goes into lots of detail about how "globalization" was fabricated
for offshoring industries to sell goods back into the US (as opposed to
various claims that it increases world market for things made in the US
and increasing US jobs). It also talks about fabricating the unfilled
jobs number to justify H1B visas which are really a scam to replace US
workers with lower paid foreign workers. Part of it is large special
interests tying up economists in various ways ... highlighted by Inside
Job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Job_(2010_film)
Large multinational corporations (like IBM) have made extensive use of
this. Also cites major lobbying on part of special interests including
Chamber of Commerce, Council on Competitiveness, and Business
Roundtable. loc1762-64:
The reformulation of trade theory achieved by Ralph Gomory and William
Baumol was published by MIT Press six years prior to Porter's report,
but there is no mention of this seminal work in Porter's report. Just as
Porter's report ignored the empirical evidence, it ignored the
reformulation of trade theory.
... snip ...
Ralph Gomory is mentioned several times in the book, who before joining
MIT Sloan School had been IBM senior VP and president of IBM Research.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_P._Sloan_Foundation#Gomory_and_Joskow_presidencies_.281989.E2.80.93present.29
In the early 80s, we had been working with the Director of NSF and were
supposed to get $20M to interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers. Then
congress cuts the budget and some number of other things happen, and
finally NSF releases an RFP (largely based on what we already had
running). Internal politics prevent us from bidding; the NSF director
tries to help by writing the company a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) ... but that just makes the internal politics worse (as does comments that what
we already have running is at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP responses). As
regional networks connect into the centers it becomes the NSFNET
backbone, precursor to modern internet. old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet
As an aside, after the Director of NSF steps down, he goes to Council on Competitiveness (one of the K-street lobbying operations), and we would periodically drop by and talk to him there.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY") Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 18:02:36 -0800"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
Claim was that at least half the per processor throughput improvement from z10->z196 was the introduction of cache miss compensation features that have been in other architectures for decades, out-of-order execution, branch prediction, speculative execution, etc. Further refinements supposedly contributes to further throughput improvement in EC12.
z196-era e5-2600v1 blade have ratings 400-500+ BIPS depending on model ... 16 processors (25BIPS-33BIPS/processor).
Current e5-2600v4 blade supposed to be 3-4 times e5-2600v1 ... somewhere around 1500BIPS (possibly 15 times that of z13)
e5-2600 blade can go for a couple thousand compared to around $30M for the mainframe.
e5-2600 can be configured with comparable configuration to z10, z196, ec12, z13, etc ... with fibre-channel with much higher throughput than mainframe FICON (running over fibre-channel) and industry fixed block disks as used by mainframes where they have overhead of CKD emulation on same industry fixed block disks
comparable e5-2600 server should have signifciantly better throughput than mainframe server at 1/10,000 (or less) the cost.
for unloaded PC to run 100 times slower than heavily loaded mainframe would have to mean that there are other factors at play.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY") Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 09:20:09 -0800"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
don't run windows, the cloud megadatacenters with servers mostly run linux, hundreds of thousands of systems with millions of processors in a cloud megadatacenters.
it has been long time since industry standard TPC & SPEC numbers manage
to leak out for mainframe. IBM still publishes TPC numbers for
non-mainframe but it has been ages since any numbers for mainframe
http://www.tpc.org/
similarly for SPEC
https://www.spec.org/
largely motivated by cloud megadatacenters benchmarks are starting to include energy efficiency per operation. system costs have been so commoditized, that for the cloud megadatacenters power & cooling has increasingly become major cost.
when there use to be mainframe TPC DBMS transaction benchmarks manage to leak out, unix&linux systems got ten times throughput or more than mainframe (and cost/transaction was off the chart).
most recent, there was peak i/o benchmark numbers leaked out for z196
... it got 2M IOPS using 104 FICON (running on 104
fibre-channel). about the same time there was a single fibre-channel
for e5-2600 blade claiming over million IOPS (two such fibre-channel
having higher throughput than 104 FICON running on 104 fibre-channel).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
z196 has 14 system support processors dedicated for off loading some of the i/o processing (these are in addition to the "80" processors for execution). Published numbers are that all 14 processors run 100% busy doing 2.2M/sec SSCH (i/o) instructions ... however recommend operational characteristics is to keep the system support processors to 75% busy or 1.5M/sec SSCH.
So far I've only seen EC12 throughput expressed in approx. some percent more than z196, and similarly z13 throughput expressed in approx. some percent more than EC12 ... but no actual benchmarks ... and for z13, not even the previously quoted BIPS numbers.
really long ago and far away, did compare NFS 8kbyte packet transfer in UNIX at aggregate/total 5k instructions and equivalent operation in MVS with LU6.2 was 160kbyte instructions (at a time when MVS tcp/ip pathlength through VTAM was longer than the SNA pathlength through VTAM). At the time MVS pathlength for just interrupt processing was 10k instructions ... some part of which have since been offloaded to the system support processors (i.e. UNIX could completely do two NFS 8kbyte packet transfers in the instructions that it took MVS to just do processing for single interrupt; the MVS instructions didn't actually go away, just been offloaded into extra dedicated processors).
The one place that mainframe does have some advantage ... is calls between applications and subsystems. unix/linux have always been multiple different address spaces and operations had to be message passing through kernel calls. MVS history has forever been pointer passing API in the same address space (from os/360 days). This was an enormously tramantic moving to MVS with everything in different address space. Eventually they defined access registers and program call/return instructions. There are hardware tables for program call for the defined subsystems ... including their address space information. Access registers allow for multiply defined active virtual address spaces, primary and some number of alternates. The program call instruction will swap the application address space into a non-primary access register and load the called subsystem into the primary access register. The subsystem than has instructions to load/store from the non-primary (calling application) virtual address space. Then program return instruction will move the calling application virtual address space from non-primary virtual address space access register back into the primary virtual address space access register.
In non-mainframe hardware, a call to subsystem in different address space will require kernel call with lots of processing in the kernel (which is moved into hardware architecture in mainframe). For this to dominate in benchmark ... it would have to be nearly all kernel processing time (handling message passing calls back & forth between address spaces) ... since all the other MVS processing is taking significantly larger number of instructions on significantly slower processor.
past posts mentioning "access registers" (or the "dual address space"
subset retrofitted to 3033):
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/98.html#36 What is MVS/ESA?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#84 Is a VAX a mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#28 RS/6000 vs. System/390 architecture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#58 Why not an IBM zSeries workstation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#28 Very CISC Instuctions (Was: why the machine word size ...)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#73 Most complex instructions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001i.html#13 GETMAIN R/RU (was: An IEABRC Adventure)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#16 Minimalist design (was Re: Parity - why even or odd)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#51 Hardest Mistake in Comp Arch to Fix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#17 Black magic in POWER5
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#18 Black magic in POWER5
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#57 Handling variable page sizes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#58 IBM S/370-168, 195, and 3033
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#74 Everything you wanted to know about z900 from IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#1 Linux paging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003c.html#13 Unused address bits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#53 Reviving Multics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#69 unix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#0 Resolved: There Are No Programs With >32 Bits of Text
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#12 Resolved: There Are No Programs With >32 Bits of Text
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#13 Page Table - per OS/Process
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#29 SR 15,15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#6 If the x86 ISA could be redone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#27 [Meta] Marketplace argument
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#53 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#26 PCIe as a chip-to-chip interconnect
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#54 CKD Disks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#18 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#57 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#3 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#53 The mid-seventies SHARE survey
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#63 intel's Vanderpool and virtualization in general
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#62 Misuse of word "microcode"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#7 new Enterprise Architecture online user group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#41 Moving assembler programs above the line
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#57 Moving assembler programs above the line
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#18 address space
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#19 address space
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#41 Instruction Set Enhancement Idea
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#48 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#39 What happens if CR's are directly changed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#25 Multiple address spaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#28 Multiple address spaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006i.html#33 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#10 What part of z/OS is the OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#26 A Day For Surprises (Astounding Itanium Tricks)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#32 MIPS architecture question - Supervisor mode & who is using it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#42 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#23 threads versus task
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#23 Multiple mappings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#39 Multiple mappings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#39 Wylbur and Paging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#59 IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#14 Some IBM 3033 information
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#27 user level TCP implementation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#28 IBM 360 Model 20 Questions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#71 IBM 360 Model 20 Questions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#10 IBM 8000 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#21 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#68 Direction of Stack Growth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#56 CSA 'above the bar'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#16 segmentation or lack thereof
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#75 T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#33 New Opcodes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#35 New Opcodes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#14 Kernels
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#33 IBM Preview of z/OS V1.10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#60 Different Implementations of VLIW
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#29 DB2 & z/OS Dissertation Research
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#52 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#45 z/OS BIND9 DNS Vulnerable to Cache Poisoning Attack Problem?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#83 old 370 info
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#53 Old XDS Sigma stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#73 Addressing Scheme with 64 vs 63 bits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#40 Opsystems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#59 Why do IBMers think disks are 'Direct Access'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#74 Best IEFACTRT (off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#58 Rudd bucks boost IBM mainframe business
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#41 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#81 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#75 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#83 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#2 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#3 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#8 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#10 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#13 OS/400 and z/OS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#21 Dataspaces or 64 bit storage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#72 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#17 New job for mainframes: Cloud platform
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#20 New job for mainframes: Cloud platform
https://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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#11 History of byte addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#61 Joint Design of Instruction Set and Language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#45 segments and sharing, was 68000 assembly language programming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#66 M68k add to memory is not a mistake any more
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#100 5 Byte Device Addresses?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#57 How will mainframers retiring be different from Y2K?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#26 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#27 Simulated PDP-11 Blinkenlight front panel for SimH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#80 Slackware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#21 8-bit bytes and byte-addressed machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#30 Regarding Time Sharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#26 Mainframes are still the best platform for high volume transaction processing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#22 Is Microsoft becoming folklore?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#81 Still not convinced about the superiority of mainframe security vs distributed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#71 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made 30 years agotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#62 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#40 The mainframe turns 50, or, why the IBM System/360 launch was the dawn of enterprise IT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#22 Complete 360 and 370 systems found
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#36 1950: Northrop's Digital Differential Analyzer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#82 Do we really need 64-bit DP or is 48-bit enough?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#46 Connecting memory to 370/145 with only 36 bits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#60 ou sont les VAXen d'antan, was Variable-Length Instructions that aren't
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#116 Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#35 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#57 Introducing the New z13s: Tim's Hardware Highlights
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Computers anyone? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 12:37:09 -0800latest in discussion groups
finally somebody has decided to use
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/ov-10-broncos-were-sent-to-fight-isis-and-they-kicked-a-1764407068
Instead of providing light support aircraft loaded with technology like
the OV-10 Bronco, we spent billions fighting men in mud huts carrying
rusty AK-47s with F-16s and F-15s costing tens of thousands an hour to
operate. We literally flew the wings off our fighter fleet in the
process.
...
the latest flavor
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/12/28/after-delays-a29-attack-aircraft-to-arrive-afghanistan-2016.html
of course there isn't trillions of dollars for the
military-industrial(-congressional) complex. Part of the current cry
is no matter how bad the F-35 is ... it is the only thing there is ...
and if they can wear-out the current air fleet, it will accelerate
the spending of trillions on the F-35.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
One of the comments was picture/reference to RAF&Rhodesian Hunter crews in 1954 practiced by shooting holes in trash can (which is comparable to what they are using F15s&F16s now).
GAO air power analysis of Desert Storm (42 days, only last 100hrs involved land warfare). One of the most effective were A10 with 30mm ... used a million 30mm @$13 ... or $13M (and enormously so in effectiveness/$$) ... one of the reasons that MICC doesn't like the A10.
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#87 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#88 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#89 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#90 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#91 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#92 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#94 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#95 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#96 Computers anyone?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#97 Computers anyone?
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Computers anyone? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 18:34:14 -0800hancock4 writes:
1996 MSDC at Moscone had banners saying "Internet" all over the place, but the slogon in all the sessions was "protect your investment" .... this was all the automated (basic) applications developed for the small/safe business environment carried over to the internet ... basically the same network support for local small/safe business network ... was expanded to support tcp/ip (and the anarchy of the internet) ... w/o any additional safeguards or countermeasures.
up until mid-90s, the major internet threat/vulnerabilities was buffer
length exploits in c-language implemented softare. Going into the
late 90s, the MS "automated execution" exploits grew until they
were as common as the buffer length exploits.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#buffer
old 2004 post with some analyses did on CVE database, at the time I
talked to the Mitre people about requiring classification keywords
in the CVE reports, but they said that they were lucky to get the
details they do get, if they started asking for better detail, some
people might not bother with generating CVE at all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#43 security taxonomy and CVE
past '96 MSDC posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001l.html#49 Virus propagation risks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#45 Computer programming was all about:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#22 Why did TCP become popular ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#34 Next generation processor architecture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#51 Specifying all biz rules in relational data
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#50 DOS C prompt in "Vista"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#18 Oddly good news week: Google announces a Caps library for Javascript
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#87 CompUSA to Close after Jan. 1st 2008
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#26 realtors (and GM, too!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#43 The 50th Anniversary of the Legendary IBM 1401
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#63 who pioneered the WEB
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#66 What is the protocal for GMT offset in SMTP (e-mail) header
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#37 (slightly OT - Linux) Did IBM bet on the wrong OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#36 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#9 The IETF is probably the single element in the global equation of technology competition than has resulted in the INTERNET
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#40 The Great Cyberheist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#50 IBM and the Computer Revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#58 IBM and the Computer Revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#15 Identifying Latest zOS Fixes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#57 Are Tablets a Passing Fad?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#18 John R. Opel, RIP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#59 The lost art of real programming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#141 With cloud computing back to old problems as DDos attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#81 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#93 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#18 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#32 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#37 Simulated PDP-11 Blinkenlight front panel for SimH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#93 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#97 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#45 New HD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#68 Steve B sees what investors think
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#10 It's all K&R's fault
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#11 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#23 weird trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#87 On a lighter note, even the Holograms are demonstrating
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#35 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#90 These hackers warned the Internet would become a security disaster. Nobody listened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#35 [Poll] Computing favorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#39 [Poll] Computing favorities
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic - lies about Medicare Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 10:14:14 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
other drift
It Turns Out the Koch Brothers Took an Interest in the VA Hospital
System
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a42938/koch-brothers-va-hospitals/
We consulted on dataprocessing modernization (replacing what was used
for 1980 & 1990 census) for the 2000 census (essentially for
out-of-pocket expenses). When census had all day audit on the effort,
I was asked to stand in front of the room and answer all the
questions. We then made an offer to do something similar for the VA,
meeting with the head VA staffer on the hill ... VA was just coming
off a multiple billion dollar dataprocessing modernization failure and
gearing up for the next one. Turns out that such offers are major
threat to the beltway bandits and their Success Of Failure culture
(not limited to intelligence agencies)
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
Last decade there was massive privatization going on ... intelligence
saw 70% of the budget and over half the people (in addition to the
rapidly expanding Success Of Failure culture)
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/
Few may remember but a major plank in the original campaign of the current administration was to reverse the enormous privatization that occurred with the previous administration. It seems to have slowed down or stopped, but little evidence of being reversed. The "spies like us" makes reference to security clearances having been outsourced to subsidiaries of private-equity operations ... in the wake of the Snowden affair they were found to be filling out the paperwork, but not actually doing the background checks (operations in the private-equity mill are under extreme pressure to produce revenue). There were recent articles that there is an attempt to bring some of that back in-house. The contractor involved in the OPM breach was also a subsidiary of a private-equity operation ... but it is not clear that they just changed contractors.
private-equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
A big part of the problem was the MICC was actively lobbying that
majority of the money go to large for-profit industry. MICC wanted a
war so badly that corporate reps were telling former eastern block
countries that if they voted for IRAQ2 invasion in the UN, they would
get membership in NATO and (directed appropriation) USAID (for
purchase of modern US arms).
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
But Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex didn't bother with increasing appropriations for taking care of the current and former members of the military. VA Administrative bonuses was based on things like service wait time. Unfortunately service wait times were exploding because congress failed to provide the necessary funding. While administrators starting fiddling the figures to get their bonuses, the enormously more egregious failing was congress not providing necessary funding in the first place. Now you see reports of industry lobbying in congress to make all sorts of cuts in military benefits because they want that money too.
military-industrial complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
This report on "corruption" primarily comes down to administrators
fiddling the numbers ... which can be considered obfuscation and
misdirection, since it fundamentally comes to insufficient funding
from congress to provide appropriate level of service.
http://time.com/2809158/veterans-affairs-scandal-eric-shinseki/
They lied about the numbers and got their bonuses. However, if they told the truth about the numbers and didn't get their bonuses ... it still would have made no difference in the service delays.
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Qbasic Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 11:25:32 -0700Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
... but nothing about recovering the $400B. given the record on funding recovery of the $400B in tax evasion, what is the chance of this (recovery $134 for every dollar appropriated):
GAO to lawmakers: Spend money with us to save money governmentwide
http://federalnewsradio.com/hearingsoversight/2016/03/gao-lawmakers-spend-money-save-money/
and to further upset the military-industrial-congressional complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
Pentagon Watchdog Changed Files Ahead of GAO Audit
http://www.pogo.org/straus/issues/military-reform/2016/letter-to-pentagon-watchdog.html
A Guaranteed Taxpayer Rip-Off?
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2016/03/a-guaranteed-taxpayer-ripoff.html
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#65 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#67 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#83 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#84 Trump vs. Hillary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#85 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#98 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#107 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Bimodal Distribution Date: 07 Mar 2016 Blog: FacebookEl-Erian is discussing bimodal distribution. The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse (Mohamed A. El-Erian)
loc3334-36:
Remember the dominance of IBM on the eve of the personal computer (PC)
revolution. The company had by far the most powerful brand in
technology. Each year it deployed a large R&D budget. And it was
profitable. By these metrics, it was in a very strong position to
dominate the PC revolution.
loc3336-39:
Research shows that IBM executives were aware of the "disruptive
technology" aspect of the PC. They discussed the issues involved,
recognizing the potential for a bimodal outcome for mainframe
customers, their bread-and-butter clientele. Some would be lost
permanently to the PC while others would be interested in mainframe
upgrades to support new requirements.
loc3340-41:
But when it came to implementation, IBM appeared to fall into the
"active inertia" trap. Rather than pivot decisively to the new
approach, they allowed their much more familiar historical behavior to
overinfluence their future actions.
... snip ...
Late 80s, a senior disk engineer gets a talk scheduled at annual,
world-wide, internal communication group conference, supposedly on
3174 performance ... but opens the talk with statement that the
communication group was going to be responsible for the demise of the
disk division. The issue was that the communication group had
stranglehold on datacenters with corporate strategic ownership of
everything crossing the datacenter walls, and were fiercely fighting
off distributed computing and client/server (trying to preserve their
dumb terminal paradigm and install base). The disk division was
starting to see data fleeing the datacenter to more distributed
computing friendly platforms with drop in disk sales. The disk
division had come up with a number of solutions to reverse the
process, but were constantly being vetoed by the communication group.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
Trivia: The science center had developed a lot of performance
technologies, monitoring, simulation, analytical modeling,
workload&system profiling (evolves into capacity planning), etc.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
One of the APL-based analytical models was enhanced and offered on
the world-wide online sales&marketing support system HONE
as Performance Predictor, sales support could enter
workload&system profiles and ask change "what-if" questions.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
I had done dynamic adaptive resource management as undergraduate in
the 60s, which was picked up and shipped in CP67.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
In the morph from CP67 to VM370 there was a lot of simplification and many features were dropped. During the FS period I continued to work on 360/370 stuff (even periodically ridiculing FS activity). VM370 customers were lobbying for re-introduction of my dynamic adaptive resource management and the with the implosion of FS and the mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 product pipelines, contributed to decision to (re-)release my "Resource Manager".
I had also developed some automated benchmarking tools that could vary
workload & configuration. As part of the release of the "Resource
Manager", 2000 automated benchmarks were run that took 3months elapsed
time. The first 1000 benchmarks were selected to methodically cover
possible workload and configuration profiles. The last 1000 benchmarks
workload&configuration profiles was selected by a modified version of
the Performance Predictor which was fed results of all previous
benchmarks. It would select workload/configuration, predict the
results and then compare the benchmark results with the predicted. It
would also search for optimal workload+configurations doing "hill
climbing" searching for maximums and also attempting to differentiate
from "local" maximums verses "real" maximums. This assumes that there
might be an arbitrary number of optimal maximum solutions somewhat
analogy to multi-modal (not just bimodal) distribution.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#benchmark
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The Koch-Fueled Plot to Destroy the VA Date: 14 Mar 2016 Blog: Facebookre:
The Koch-Fueled Plot to Destroy the VA
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/03/koch-fueled-plot-destroy-va
Bottom line: there were some problems in Phoenix, where employees had
gamed the system for recording wait times. However, there was no
evidence that this problem was widespread; there was no evidence that
it caused any deaths; and there was no evidence that care had been
compromised. In fact, a Rand study concluded that with the exception
of patient communication with doctors and nurses, the VA performed as
well as or better than private health care on nearly every measure:
...
VA outpatient care outperformed non-VA outpatient care on almost all
quality measures. VA hospitals performed the same as or better than
non-VA hospitals on most inpatient quality measures, but worse on
others. VA performed significantly better, on average, on almost all
16 outpatient measures when compared with commercial, Medicare, and
Medicaid HMOs. On average, VA hospitals performed the same or
significantly better than non-VA hospitals on 12 inpatient
effectiveness measures, all six measures of inpatient safety, and all
three inpatient mortality measures, but significantly worse than
non-VA hospitals on two effectiveness measures and three readmission
measures. On most measures, Veteran-reported experiences of care in
VA hospitals were worse than patient-reported experiences in non-VA
hospitals.
... snip ...
Last decade the DOD budget was increased a couple trillion to send
soldiers off to war ... but little for when they came back. In 2012 a
neighbor in the mental health care profession, mentioned that VA
finally got extra funding for mental health care which amounted to
hiring every available person in the profession they could find. Their
comment was it would take at least couple years to train the people to
meet the demand. However VA is fighting with large arms merchants that
want VA&benefits cut to provide them with more money. One of Colonel
John Boyd quotes:
"People say the Pentagon does not have a strategy. They are wrong. The
Pentagon does have a strategy; it is: Don't interrupt the money flow,
add to it."
One of the side-effects of the lack of sufficient mental health care
professionals is that they are prescribing highly addictive
"maintenance" drugs that they may be on for the rest of their life
(which seems to just be fine with the drug industry).
2002 congress let the fiscal responsibility act expire (spending
couldn't exceed tax revenue). 2010 CBO report has in the interirm
taxes were cut by $6T and spending increased by $6T for $12T budget
gap compared to fiscal responsibility act (which also had all previous
federal debt paid off by 2010). Since then the taxes haven't been
restored and only few dents in the spending to interest on the debt is
approaching half trillion.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
First major bill after fiscal responsibility act as allowed to expired
was medicare part-d. CBS 60mins did expose that 18 republicans
responsible for the bill added one line sentence just before final
vote and prevents CBO from distributing report on effect of the change
(which prevents competitive bidding). Within six months after bill
passes, all 18 have resigned and are on drug industry payroll. 60mins
show drugs under medicare part-D that are three times the price of
identical drugs from the VA (which allows competitive bidding).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#medicare.part-d
By 2005 the US Comptroller General is including in speeches that
nobody in congress is capable of middle school arithmetic (for how
badly they savage the budget) and part-D comes to be a long term $40T
item totally swamping all other budget items.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
Billions in waste is bad ... but last decade they were doing tens of trillions ... 10,000 times (four orders of magnitude) as much.
There are similar numbers for the economic mess. Freddy & Fannie did
something under $500B. However the too big to fail securitized
mortgages designed to fail, paid for triple-A rating (when the rating
agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A) ... enabling them to sell
over $27T .... including to funds restricted to dealing in "safe"
investments (like large pension funds which lost something like 30% of
their value). The non-GSE did between 50-100 times as much as the GSEs
(Freddy & Fannie) but obfuscation and misdirection tries to divert
attention to the role of the GSEs ... when nearly 100 times as much
were done by too big to fail ... not involving the GSEs at all. End
of 2008, just the four largest too big to fail were still holding
$5.2T in toxic assets (of their own making) "off-book".
Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With 'Fools' Born to Buy Debt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-27/evil-wall-street-exports-boomed-with-fools-born-to-buy-debt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
In 2010, CBO also looked at the DOD budget increase 2002-2009 ... which included a little over $1+T that they can't identify what it was used for. Of the budget increase that they can identify, it includes $60B in pallets of shrink-wrapped $100 bills that were airlifted to Iraq ... and apparently evaporated once it got there. Remember that the original justification the administration used for the Iraq war included it would not cost more than $50B ... and it is now well over trillion and counting (enormous amounts evaporating into the pockets of the military-industrial complex).
This only details $40B of it
http://www.cnbc.com/id/45031100
Part of the issue was with four largest TBTF carrying $5.2T end of
2008, the $700B in TARP funds for toxic asset purchase couldn't dent
the problem. They came up with other ways to use the money and it was
left to the Federal Reserve to do the real bailout. The FED fought
long hard legal battle to prevent disclosure of what is really going
on (with tens of trillions in ZIRP funds and buying toxic assets at
98cents on the dollar). Shortly after disclosure, Bernanke holds press
conference and says that he had expected that the TBTF would use the
tens of trillions to help mainstreet, but when they didn't he had no
way to force them. Supposedly Bernanke was selected in part because he
was a depression era scholar, however the FED had tried the same thing
then with the same results, so Bernanke shouldn't really expected
anything different this time.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
AIG was negotiating to payoff the CDS gambling bets at 50cents on the dollar when the SECTREAS steps in and forces them to sign a document that they can't sue those making the bets and to take nearly $200B in TARP funds to payoff the gambling bets at face value. AIG is the largest recipients of TARP funds and the firm formally head by SECTREAS is the largest recipient of facevalue payoffs.
So to try and aid the rest of the country, $787B; Tax Cuts - $288,
Healthcare - $147.7, Education - $90.9, Environment - $7.2, Social
Welfare - $82.5, Infrastructure - $80.9, Energy - $61.3, Housing -
$12.7, Research - $8.9, Other investments - $18.1
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/american-recovery-and-reinvestment-act.asp
I can find that Hanford got $2B in stimulus funds that went to CH2M
Hill for cleanup, but there were massive schedule and cost overruns
... seems to be Hanford problems with CH2M Hill going back to 1999.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ch2m-hill-hanford-group-inc-admits-criminal-conduct-parent-company-agrees-cooperate-ongoing
Between 1999 and 2008, CH2M Hill had a Department of Energy contract
to manage and clean 177 large underground storage tanks containing
mixed radioactive and hazardous waste at the Department of Energy's
Hanford Nuclear Site in southeastern Washington (the Tank Farms
Contract)
... snip ...
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY") Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 17:17:40 -0700Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> writes:
trivia ... 360/67 single processor was basically 360/65 with hardware address relocation (virtual memory).
360/65 multiprocessor was basically two single processor 360/65 with memory laid out as single entity ... but both processors had their own dedicated channels. all channels and both processors would contend for memory access. SMP I/O would be simulated by having two channel controllers ... that would be configured at same address on channels going to the two different processors.
360/67 multiprocessor had multi-ported memory
original 360/60 & 360/70 were going to have 1mic, interleaved memory. before they ship, memory is improved to 750ns (8byte) interleaved memory and the models are changed to 360/65, 360/67, and 360/75.
GA27-2719-2,
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/360/functional_characteristics/GA27-2719-2_360-67_funcChar.pdf
pg29:
Four independent storage buses can be attached to the 2365-12: one from
each CPU and Channel Controller in a full duplex system.
pg36, figure8, model 67-1 has single bus to storage units
pg37, System Data Flow
In a Model 67-2 system, each CPU and each Channel Controller is
connected, with separate bus, to each storage unit in the system. For
example, a system with two CPUs and two Channel Controllers has four
buses. Each bus can connect to as many as eight storage units. Conflicts
that occur among the several buses connected to each storage unit are
resolved at the storage unit.
pg38, figure10, model 67-2 two processors, four buses to storage units
pg47, Instruction Times goes into detail about additional latency added when storage isn't in the first 512kbytes (1st two storage units).
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY") Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 19:31:35 -0700Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> writes:
360/67 had segment and page tables ... 1mbyte segements and psw-mode controlled whether it was 24bit (16mbyte) or 32bit (4gbyte) addressing (and tables).
os/360 "relocatable" were RLD records which gave location of the address constant within the program that had to be "swizzled" after loading but before execution could begin.
Official system for 360/67 was tss/360 ... which created location independent execution image. Address space tables could be setup to point to the executable image on disk ... and at arbitrary, dynamically chosen virtual address ... w/o having to preload the image and swizzle all the RLD address constant.
science center did (virtual memory) cp/40 and cms on 360/40 that had been modified with virtual memory hardware. cms ran "stand-alone" on 360/40 in standard 360 mode. CMS was developed in parallel with development of cp/40 ... and some of it reflected the experience that many had on MIT's CTSS (some of the CTSS went to the 5th flr and did multics and others went to the science center on the 4th flr)
CTSS reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System
cp/40 history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/cp40seas1982.txt
past posts mentioning the science center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
when science center is able to replace their modified 360/40 with
360/67, cp/40 morphs into cp/67. Melinda has a lot more of that
history ("VM History" about half-way down)
http://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda#VMHist
One of the issues with CMS, was the science center adopted a lot of os/360 applications ... and needed to provide os/360 system services simulation in CMS ... and also acquired a lot of os/360 RLD address constant conventions. Every CMS had its own virtual address space and ran in a 360 virtual machine doing I/O with SIOs and channel programs (ran the same way on stand alone 360/40 as it did in cp/40 or cp/67 virtual machine). It did do a executable image that had all the ADCONS pre-swizzled ... but it resulted in them having to be loaded a fixed address.
Jan1968, three people came out and installed CP/67 at university where I
was undergraduate. Over the next several months, I rewrote large parts
of the CP/67 kernel code (including significantly reducing pathlengths)
... and presented some results at the '68 SHARE meeting ... part of that
presentation:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/97.html#22 Pre S/360 IBM Operating Systems?
I also did dynamic adaptive resource management, added TTY terminal
support, added order-seek disk arm queuing, dynamically chaining
multi-I/O requests in single channel program for disks and 2301 drum
(2301 optimized for maximum transfer per revolution), and redid the page
replacement algorithm and page thrasing control operation. some posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#wsclock
After graduating and joining the science center ... I did a paged-mapped
filesystem for CMS ... which had significantly higher throughput than
the standard CMS filesystem ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
I also redid the CP/67 shared segment infrastructure ... so that could
dynamically have multiple shared things at arbitrary locations in the
virtual address space. Standard CMS executables transferred from
standard filesystem to page mapped filesystem would have to be mapped at
the pre-established fixed virtual address. For code to reside in shared
segment (appear concurrently at different virtual address spaces) I
usually had to do some amount of rewrite. For typical code that
would be address independent (similar to tss/360), i usually had
to do a whole lot more work. Lots of past posts about pain to
get location independent and/or shared code for CMS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#adcon
Note that for CP/67 virtual machine SIO ... CCWTRANS would scan the channel program in the virtual machine, fixing/pinning the virtual pages involved in the I/O in real storage, and creating a copy of the channel program with the real page addresses (as opposed to the virtual page addresses), start the I/O with the copy channel program and when it finishes, "unpin" the virtual pages.
When they did OS/360 MVT for virtual memory OS/VS2 SVS, they initially borrowed CP/67's CCWTRANS and worked it into EXCP/SVC0 processing. MVT mobing to 16mbyte virtual memoy had to accept application channel programs built in virtual address space and passed in EXCP/SVC0 and do the same processing that CP/67 did for virtual machine SIO operation. That was by far the biggest amount of code that tehy needed in going from MVT to OS/VS2 SVS (OS/VS2 SVS startup would build a single 16mbyte virtual address space and fix MVT to believe it was running on 16mbyte real machine, then there was a little bit of code to handle page fault, page replacement and page i/o operation).
Note: since virtual memory was handled on individual 4k page basis, tasks could be dropped from queue and its pages replaced by some other activated task while I/O simulation was in progress (only the virtual pages actually involved in I/O were fixed, and they would be unpinned and become available as soon as i/o completed) ... dropping from queue can be done whether or not there was simulated I/O in progress.
During the early 70s, there was the internal Future System effort that
was completely different than 360/370 and was going to completely
replace it.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
I continued to work on CP/67 and would periodically ridicule FS. Part of
this FS was doing some of the worst of tss/360 "single-level-store" and
I would claim that I learned what not to do for my page-mapped CMS
filesystem from IBM SE that would play with tss/360 at the univ (even
tho tss/360 did location independent executable images
correctly). During FS they were killing off 370 efforts, which is
credited with giving clone processors market foothold. When FS implodes,
there is mad rush to get stuff back into 370 product pipelines
... which contributes to decision to release a lot of stuff I had been
doing. Old email about having migrated my stuff from cp67 to vm370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
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