From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The modern education system was designed to teach future factory workers to be "punctual, docile, and sober" Date: 02 Jan 2020 Blog: FacebookThe modern education system was designed to teach future factory workers to be "punctual, docile, and sober"
How to Break Free of Our 19th-Century Factory-Model Education
System. A technology and education entrepreneur gazes into the future
of the classroom
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/05/how-to-break-free-of-our-19th-century-factory-model-education-system/256881/
Why Our Industrial-Age Schools Are Failing Our Information-Age Kids
https://www.qualitydigest.com/inside/quality-insider-column/why-our-industrial-age-schools-are-failing-our-information-age-kids
The One Type of Game That Kills Creativity and Innovation. There are
two types of games. One kills creativity and the other is for kids...
https://www.inc.com/stephen-shapiro/why-your-business-needs-more-kid-games-fewer-adult-games.html
Everyone is born creative, but it is educated out of us at school
https://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2016/may/18/born-creative-educated-out-of-us-school-business
US education system in general focused on stamping out creativity and
enforcing conformity. Teachers Don't Like Creative Students
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/12/teachers-dont-like-creative-students.html
Even bullying has been standard technique in US education as pat of
enforcing conformity ... former coworker at cambridge science center
and san jose research;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks
"It's Cool to Be Clever: The Story of Edson C. Hendricks, the Genius
Who Invented the Design for the Internet"
https://www.amazon.com/Its-Cool-Be-Clever-Hendricks/dp/1897435630/
permeates nearly all levels of US education system ... even extending
to military academies ... reference to study of German and US the
first half of 1900s ... including reference to George Mashall (WW2
chief of staff) was badly injured in a bullying/hazing incident that
almost had to drop out
https://www.amazon.com/Command-Culture-Education-1901-1940-Consequences-ebook/dp/B009K7VYLI/
again lots tracing to "industrial age education" ... Industrial Age
Education Is a Disservice to Students
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/industrial-age-education-_b_2974297
AETC Focused on Breaking Away From Industrial-Age Thinking
https://www.airforcemag.com/AETC-Focused-on-Breaking-Away-From-Industrial-Age-Thinking/
Lessons in learning
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/study-shows-that-students-learn-more-when-taking-part-in-classrooms-that-employ-active-learning-strategies/
Similar capitalism and social democracy ... have pros & cons and can
be used for checks & balances ... example, On War
https://www.amazon.com/War-beautifully-reproduced-illustrated-introduction-ebook/dp/B00G3DFLY8/
loc394-95:
As long as the Socialists only threatened capital they were not
seriously interfered with, for the Government knew quite well that the
undisputed sway of the employer was not for the ultimate good of the
State.
... snip ...
the government needed general population standard of living sufficient
that soldiers were willing to fight to preserve their way of
life. Capitalists tendency was to reduce worker standard of living to
the lowest possible ... below what the government needed for soldier
motivation ... and therefor needed socialists as counterbalance to the
capitalists in raising the general population standard of living. Saw
this fight out in the 30s, American Fascists opposing all of FDR's
"new deals" The Coming of American Fascism, 1920-1940
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172004
The truth, then, is that Long and Coughlin, together with the
influential Communist Party and other leftist organizations, helped
save the New Deal from becoming genuinely fascist, from devolving into
the dictatorial rule of big business. The pressures towards fascism
remained, as reactionary sectors of business began to have significant
victories against the Second New Deal starting in the late 1930s. But
the genuine power that organized labor had achieved by then kept the
U.S. from sliding into all-out fascism (in the Marxist sense) in the
following decades.
... snip ...
aka "Coming of America Fascism" shows socialists countered the "New
Deal" becoming fascist ... which had been the objective of the
capitalists ... and possibly contributed to forcing them further into
the Nazi/fascist camp. When The Bankers Plotted To Overthrow FDR
https://www.npr.org/2012/02/12/145472726/when-the-bankers-plotted-to-overthrow-fdr
The Plots Against the President: FDR, A Nation in Crisis, and the Rise
of the American Right
https://www.amazon.com/Plots-Against-President-Nation-American-ebook/dp/B07N4BLR77/
June1940, Germany had a victory celebration at the NYC Waldorf-Astoria
with major industrialists. Lots of them were there to hear how to do
business with the Nazis
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Called-Intrepid-Incredible-Narrative-ebook/dp/B00V9QVE5O/
loc1925-29:
One prominent figure at the German victory celebration was Torkild
Rieber, of Texaco, whose tankers eluded the British blockade. The
company had already been warned, at Roosevelt's instigation, about
violations of the Neutrality Law. But Rieber had set up an elaborate
scheme for shipping oil and petroleum products through neutral ports
in South America.
... snip ...
Later somewhat replay of the 1940 celebration, conference of 5000
industrialists and corporations from across the US at the
Waldorf-Astoria, except in part because they had gotten such a bad
reputation for the depression and supporting Nazis, so attempting to
refurbish their horribly corrupt and venal image, they approved a
major propaganda campaign to equate Capitalism with Christianity.
https://www.amazon.com/One-Nation-Under-God-Corporate-ebook/dp/B00PWX7R56/
part of the result by the early 50s was adding "under god" to the
pledge of allegiance. slightly cleaned up version
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance
Corporatism is an American, Bipartisan Scourge. Matt Stoller's Goliath
recalls when workers' rights became 'consumer advocacy,' and we all
lost the language of anti-monopoly.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/corporatism-is-an-american-bipartisan-scourge/
Stoller also delves into the secret production compacts between
American and Nazi producers delivering a timeless lesson that
corporate giants will nearly always pursue profit above morality in
their dealings with authoritarian regimes.
... snip ...
Goliath
https://www.amazon.com/Goliath-Monopolies-Secretly-Took-World-ebook/dp/B07GNSSTGJ/
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
racism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#racism
recent bullying &/or conformit posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#48 1963 Timesharing: A Solution to Computer Bottlenecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#60 Senate Democrats Join Hands With Republicans to Sell You Out to Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#45 More Guns Do Not Stop More Crimes, Evidence Shows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#46 Think you know web browsers? Take this quiz and prove it
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#83 Elizabeth Warren Slams Democrats for Helping Gut Financial Regulations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#117 F-35: Still No Finish Line in Sight
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#2 FY18 budget deal yields life-sustaining new wings for the A-10 Warthog
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#14 Air Force Risks Losing Third of F-35s If Upkeep Costs Aren't Cut
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#19 How China's New Stealth Fighter Could Soon Surpass the US F-22 Raptor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#73 Army researchers find the best cyber teams are antisocial cyber teams
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#108 F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#21 Bankers Hate the Volcker Rule. Now, It Could Be Watered Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#44 Mission Command Is Swarm Intelligence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#106 Everyone is born creative, but it is educated out of us at school
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#111 The story of the internet is all about layers; How the internet lost its decentralized innocence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#31 Supersonic speeds could cause big problems for the F-35's stealth coating
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#67 Range
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#90 DNS & other trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#35 The People Who Invented the Internet: #Reviewing The Imagineers of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#3 The One Type of Game That Kills Creativity and Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#49 Economic Mess and Regulations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#86 5 milestones that created the internet, 50 years after the first network message
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#141 IBM and Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#142 Trump is deconstructing the government, one agency at a time
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: QE4 Started Date: 02 Jan 2020 Blog: FacebookA Major Bank Admits QE4 Has Started, And That Stocks Are Rising Because Of The Fed's Soaring Balance Sheet
Morgan Stanley Sees Melt-Up Lasting Until April, After Which Markets
Will "Confront World With No Fed Support"
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/morgan-stanley-sees-melt-lasting-until-april-after-which-markets-will-confront-world-no-fed
One Bank Finally Admits The Fed's "NOT QE" Is Indeed QE... And Could
Lead To Financial Collapse
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/one-bank-finally-admits-feds-not-qe-indeed-qe-and-could-lead-financial-collapse
You better believe the Fed is doing quantitative easing -- and here
are the beneficiaries
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/you-better-believe-the-fed-is-doing-quantitative-easing-and-here-are-the-beneficiaries-2019-11-20
But if the Fed's balance sheet is growing and so are excess reserves
in the banking system, it becomes the very definition of QE.
... snip ...
The Fed's $4 trillion experiment is growing
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/11/investing/fed-qe-powell-balance-sheet/index.html
Given the slowing American economy, the actions are reminiscent of the
bond buying programs known as quantitative easing. The Fed resorted to
QE, and eventually QE2 and QE3, to keep borrowing costs ultra-cheap
once it ran out of room to cut interest rates in 2008.
... snip ...
The Fed seems to have halted a potential crisis in the overnight
lending market -- for now
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/30/the-fed-seems-to-have-halted-a-potential-crisis-in-the-repo-market.html
The Fed has been walking a tightrope through the process, particularly
since the announcement that it would resume the expansion of its
balance sheet just two years after it started reducing the holdings on
what had then been a $4.5 trillion level. The balance sheet is
composed mostly of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities the Fed
had acquired during and after the financial crisis.
... snip ...
Year-End Repo "Crisis" Ends With A Whimper Amid Massive Liquidity Glut
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/year-end-repo-crisis-ends-whimper-amid-massive-liquidity-glut
It was supposed to usher in a market crisis that would prompt the Fed
to launch QE4 according to repo guru Zoltan Pozsar. In the end, the
preemptive liquidity tsunami unleashed by the Fed in mid-December
which backstopped just shy of $500 billion in liquidity, proved enough
to keep any latent repo market crisis at bay.
... snip ...
Helicopter Money Is Here: How The Fed Monetized Billions In Debt Sold
Just Days Earlier
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/helicopter-money-here-how-fed-monetized-billions-debt-sold-just-days-earlier
The Price Of Year-End Market Stability: $414 Billion
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/price-year-end-market-stability-414-billion
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
FED chairman posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
quantitative easing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#77 A new global system is coming into existence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#64 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#26 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#41 Danger as stock-market "Greedometer" flashes red
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#73 The Federal Reserve: Masters Of The Universe Or Trapped Incompetents?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#49 OT: swiss franc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#70 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
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/2017c.html#56 Wall Street Vs. Main Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#83 How the world's greatest financial experiment enriched the rich
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#11 Bernanke Beliefs Busted: New Research Foretells QE Domination
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Office jobs eroding Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 16:20:19 -1000googlegroups jmfbahciv <jmfbah102162@gmail.com> writes:
Destruction of Middle Class
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/jobs-will-follow-a-strengthening-of-the-middle-class.html
The Real Reason Wages Have Stagnated: Our Economy Is Optimized For
Financialization
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-08/real-reason-wages-have-stagnated-our-economy-optimized-financialization
How GE, GM, Coca-Cola And Kodak Put Shareholders Ahead Of Employees
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2017/06/29/how-ge-gm-coca-cola-kodak-put-shareholders-ahead-of-employees/
... from here, productivity/pay gap (updated July2019)
http://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
in the 80s, corporations with large number of workers were being
reorganized into parent company, subsidiary company with most of the
workers, and a different subsidiary where most of the profit was booked
(part of union negotiating tactic). auto shifted to making its money
from loans, airlines shifted profit into computerized ticketing (with
operations near break even). In the early 90s, there was period where
airline operations were operating at a loss (spike in fuel costs), but
parent company was showing significant profit ... profit from selling
tickets more than offset the loss from airline operations. Airline
even declared bankruptcy on operations and offloaded all its
pensions on PBGC (and benefits take 2/3rd cut)
https://www.pbgc.gov/
After turn of century, they discovered that they could move the
corporation where all the profit is booked, to offshore tax haven.
https://www.icij.org/investigations/luxembourg-leaks/
poster child is US maker of heavy equipment that sold and delivered in
the US. They then created a distributorship in offshore tax haven
... the equipment is transferred to the distributorship books at cost
then sells to US customers and all the profit is booked offshore, but
the equipment (and money) never actually leaves the US.
recnt reference after turn of century, large corporations bringing
large number of illegal works ... that helps drive down wages
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#47 king sized ash tray "the good life" 1967 job ad
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
some past posts mentioning PBGC
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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#83 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#98 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#98 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#4 [CM] What was your first home computer?
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent's Stealth Takeover of America Date: 07 Jan 2020 Blog: FacebookMeet the Economist Behind the One Percent's Stealth Takeover of America. Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean
Charles Koch Speech: "Anti-Capitalism and Big Business" and How the
Powell Memo Did Not Go Far Enough
https://kochdocs.org/2019/06/07/charles-koch-anti-capitalism-big-business/
Kochland review: how the Kochs bought America - and trashed it
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/07/kochland-review-koch-brothers-pollution-congress-republicans
Wendy Gramm
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wendy_Gramm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Lee_Gramm
Head of CFTC and exempted (ENRON) energy derivatives from regulation, six days later resigns and joins ENRON board and its audit committee and then chair at (Koch) Mercatus Center of GMU.
Later (new) head of CFTC proposes regulation of derivatives (and is
replaced) while (Wendy's husband) Phil Gramm passes legislation preventing
derivative regulations ... for which he is #2 on times list of those
responsible for the economic mess (1st decade of the century)
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877330,00.html
although he is now better known for GLBA (and repeal of
Glass-Steagall, enabling too big to fail, too big to
prosecute, and too big to jail
ENRON posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#enron
too big to fail (too big to prosecute too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
glass-steagall (&/or Pecora) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#Pecora&/orGlass-Steagall
Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
https://www.amazon.com/Kochland-History-Industries-Corporate-America-ebook/dp/B07P5HCQ7G/
pg113/loc1898-1903:
The Libertarian Party sought to abolish a vast set of government
agencies and programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security
(which would be made voluntary), the Department of Transportation (and
"all government agencies concerned with transportation," including the
Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees airplane safety), the
Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, the Food
and Drug Administration, and the Consumer Product Safety
Commission. And this is just a partial list. The party also sought to
privatize all roads and highways, to privatize all schools, to
privatize all mail delivery. It sought to abolish personal and
corporate income taxes and, eventually, the "repeal of all taxation."
... snip ...
past posts mentioning charles koch, koch brothers, koch industry, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#72 Public misperception about scientific agreement on global warming undermines climate policy support
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#4 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#31 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#107 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#17 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#6 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#47 Retirement Heist: How Firms Plunder Workers' Nest Eggs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#84 The Warning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#45 More Guns Do Not Stop More Crimes, Evidence Shows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#82 The Real Reason the Investor Class Hates Pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#83 Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#91 Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#11 Hell is ... ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#77 Nassim Nicholas Taleb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#64 Mystery of the Underpaid American Worker
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#11 A Tea Party Movement to Overhaul the Constitution Is Quietly Gaining
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#37 Democracy in Chains
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#41 Family of Secrets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#43 Billionaire warlords: Why the future is medieval
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#45 What is ALEC? 'The most effective organization' for conservatives, says Newt Gingrich
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#68 IBM revenue has fallen for 20 quarters -- but it used to run its business very differently
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#84 If Current Laws Prosecuting Bankers Aren't Used, What Can Warren Change?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#91 SS Trustees Report Summary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#47 Day of Reckoning for KPMG-Failures in Ethics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#23 A Deadly Heat Wave After the Hottest June On Record: How the Climate Crisis Is Creating 'a New Normal'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#46 SS Trust Fund
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#48 Here's what Nobel Prize-winning research says will make you more influential
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#77 Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#97 David Koch Was the Ultimate Climate Change Denier
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#103 David Koch Was the Ultimate Climate Change Denier
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#110 Trump tells Republicans he may begin cutting social security and Medicare if he wins in 2020
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#31 Milton Friedman's "Shareholder" Theory Was Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#50 Economic Mess and Regulations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#61 What Gandhi Believed Is the Purpose of a Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#64 Capitalism as we know it is dead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#158 Goliath
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Bots Are Destroying Political Discourse As We Know It Date: 07 Jan 2020 Blog: Facebookre:
Bots Are Destroying Political Discourse As We Know It. They're
mouthpieces for foreign actors, domestic political groups, even the
candidates themselves. And soon you won't be able to tell they're bot
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/01/future-politics-bots-drowning-out-humans/604489/
Disinformation For Hire: How A New Breed Of PR Firms Is Selling Lies
Online. One firm promised to "use every tool and take every advantage
available in order to change reality according to our client's
wishes."
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/disinformation-for-hire-black-pr-firms
goes back to tobacco, then in 80s US military budget and climate
change, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the
Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured-ebook/dp/B003RRXXO8/
https://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
merchants of doubt posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#merchants.of.doubt
Koch Brothers
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america
With Koch's money and enthusiasm, Buchanan's academic school evolved
into something much bigger. By the 1990s, Koch realized that
Buchanan's ideas -- transmitted through stealth and deliberate
deception, as MacLean amply documents -- could help take government
down through incremental assaults that the media would hardly
notice. The tycoon knew that the project was extremely radical, even a
"revolution" in governance, but he talked like a conservative to make
his plans sound more palatable.
... snip ...
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth
Plan for America
https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Chains-History-Radical-Stealth-ebook/dp/B01EH1EL7A/
pgxxvii/loc293-97:
it was training operatives to staff the far-flung and purportedly
separate, yet intricately connected, institutions funded by the Koch
brothers and their now large network of fellow wealthy donors. These
included the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, Citizens for a
Sound Economy, Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks, the Club for
Growth, the State Policy Network, the Competitive Enterprise
Institute, the Tax Foundation, the Reason Foundation, the Leadership
Institute, and more, to say nothing of the Charles Koch Foundation and
Koch Industries itself.
pgxxviii/loc317-22:
I was able to do so because Koch's team had since moved on to a vast
new command-and-control facility at George Mason called the Mercatus
Center, leaving Buchanan House largely untended. Future-oriented,
Koch's men (and they are, overwhelmingly, men) gave no thought to the
fate of the historical trail they left unguarded.
... snip ...
Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
https://www.amazon.com/Kochland-History-Industries-Corporate-America-ebook/dp/B07P5HCQ7G/
pg113/loc1898-1903:
The Libertarian Party sought to abolish a vast set of government
agencies and programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security
(which would be made voluntary), the Department of Transportation and
all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the
Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees airplane safety), the
Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, the Food
and Drug Administration, and the Consumer Product Safety
Commission. And this is just a partial list. The party also sought to
privatize all roads and highways, to privatize all schools, to
privatize all mail delivery. It sought to abolish personal and
corporate income taxes and, eventually, the repeal of all taxation.
... snip ...
However, back to founding fathers and Federalists in presidential
campaign, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, loc6457-59:
For Federalists, Jefferson was a dangerous infidel. The Gazette of the
United States told voters to choose GODAND A RELIGIOUS PRESIDENT or
impiously declare for "JEFFERSON-AND NO GOD."
.... Jefferson targeted as the prime mover behind the separation of
church and state. Also Hamilton/Federalists wanting supreme monarch
(above the law) loc5584-88:
The battles seemed endless, victory elusive. James Monroe fed
Jefferson's worries, saying he was concerned that America was being
"torn to pieces as we are, by a malignant monarchy faction." 34 A
rumor reached Jefferson that Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists
Rufus King and William Smith "had secured an asylum to themselves in
England" should the Jefferson faction prevail in the government.
... snip ...
Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak 'shows global manipulation is out of
control'. Company's work in 68 countries laid bare with release of
more than 100,000 documents
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/04/cambridge-analytica-data-leak-global-election-manipulation
New Cambridge Analytica Leak Reveals A Lot More About Global Manipulation
https://fossbytes.com/new-cambridge-analytica-leak-global-manipulation/
Anew trove of over 100,000 documents related to the defunct Cambridge
Analytica has started to leak online via the Twitter handle
@HindsightFiles. According to The Guardian, the documents first
surfaced on New Year's day; they are revealing information about how
the firm operated in over 68 countries and manipulated voters on 'an
industrial scale.'
... snip ...
Exclusive: PH was Cambridge Analytica's 'petri dish' - whistle-blower
Christopher Wylie. The Canadian whistle-blower says Strategic
Communication Laboratories, Cambridge Analytica's parent company,
found the Philippines an ideal target and used proxies here.
https://www.rappler.com/technology/social-media/239606-cambridge-analytica-philippines-online-propaganda-christopher-wylie
Massive Cambridge Analytica leak reveals global election manipulation:
Malaysia, Kenya and Brazil
https://boingboing.net/2020/01/06/the-great-hack.html
New Cambridge Analytica Leaks Uncover Election Influence In 68
Countries
https://www.pymnts.com/facebook/2020/new-cambridge-analytica-leaks-uncover-election-influence-in-68-countries/
New Cambridge Analytica Leaks to Expose Election Manipulation in 68
Countries
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/6/headlines/new_cambridge_analytica_leaks_to_expose_election_manipulation_in_68_countries
Exclusive: New leaks identify JDU MP Tyagi as Cambridge Analytica
client
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/exclusive-new-leaks-identify-jdu-mp-as-cambridge-analytica-client-1634175-2020-01-05
Cambridge Analytica posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#98 The Cambridge Analytica scandal is what Facebook-powered election cheating looks like:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#33 The Great Hack tells us data corrupts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#34 The Great Hack tells us data corrupts
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Book: Kochland : the secret history of Koch Industries and corporate power in America Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 11:06:32 -1000hancock4 writes:
Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent's Stealth Takeover of
America. Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of
the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian
Nancy MacLean
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america
With Koch's money and enthusiasm, Buchanan's academic school evolved
into something much bigger. By the 1990s, Koch realized that Buchanan's
ideas -- transmitted through stealth and deliberate deception, as
MacLean amply documents -- could help take government down through
incremental assaults that the media would hardly notice. The tycoon knew
that the project was extremely radical, even a "revolution" in
governance, but he talked like a conservative to make his plans sound
more palatable.
... snip ...
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Chains-History-Radical-Stealth-ebook/dp/B01EH1EL7A/
pgxxvii/loc293-97:
it was training operatives to staff the far-flung and purportedly
separate, yet intricately connected, institutions funded by the Koch
brothers and their now large network of fellow wealthy donors. These
included the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, Citizens for a
Sound Economy, Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks, the Club for
Growth, the State Policy Network, the Competitive Enterprise
Institute, the Tax Foundation, the Reason Foundation, the Leadership
Institute, and more, to say nothing of the Charles Koch Foundation and
Koch Industries itself.
pgxxviii/loc317-22:
I was able to do so because Koch's team had since moved on to a vast
new command-and-control facility at George Mason called the Mercatus
Center, leaving Buchanan House largely untended. Future-oriented,
Koch's men (and they are, overwhelmingly, men) gave no thought to the
fate of the historical trail they left unguarded.
... snip ...
David Koch Got What He Paid For. The late Koch brother bought
influence using PACs and other proxies. A prank call to Scott Walker
revealed the truth about how the Kochs had their way with Republican
politicians. (gone 404)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190823205808/https://www.thenation.com/article/david-koch-americans-for-prosperity-scott-walker/
It Turns Out the Koch Brothers Took an Interest in the VA Hospital System
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a42938/koch-brothers-va-hospitals/
Inside the Koch Brothers' Toxic Empire. Together, Charles and David Koch
control one of the world's largest fortunes, which they are using to buy
up our political system. But what they don't want you to know is how
they made all that money
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/inside-the-koch-brothers-toxic-empire-164403/
Revelations Over Koch Gifts Prompt Inquiry at George Mason University
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/us/koch-george-mason-university.html
Toxic Avenger: Did EPA Appointee Do Industry Employer's Bidding? This is
why EPA ethics officials allowed David Dunlap, former head of regulatory
policy for Koch Industries, to participate in selecting which chemicals
to evaluate for health dangers after Dunlap started work as the
number-two administrator of the EPA's main science office last October.
https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2019/05/toxic-avenger-did-epa-appointee-do-industry-employers-bidding/
How a Trojan Horse Project to Rewrite Our Constitution Could Actually
Happen if Trump Wins in 2020. It's looking more and more like the
endgame here for Trump--and the right-wing billionaires who support him
and the GOP--is not just to get reelected, but to actually rewrite our
Constitution and end the American experiment
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/07/17/how-trojan-horse-project-rewrite-our-constitution-could-actually-happen-if-trump
Koch-Funded Economist Wants "Less Democracy"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/27/koch-funded-economist-wants-less-democracy/
The Koch Brothers' Dirty War on Solar Power. All over the country, the
Kochs and utilities have been blocking solar initiatives -- but nowhere
more so than in Florida
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-koch-brothers-dirty-war-on-solar-power-193325/
David Koch Was the Ultimate Climate Change Denier. How a playboy
billionaire built a political army to defend his fossil fuel empire.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/opinion/sunday/david-koch-climate-change.html
Koch-Backed Think Tank Finds That "Medicare for All" Would Cut Health
Care Spending and Raise Wages. Whoops.
https://theintercept.com/2018/07/30/medicare-for-all-cost-health-care-wages/
Koch brothers' higher-ed investments advance political goals
https://publicintegrity.org/2015/10/30/18684/koch-brothers-higher-ed-investments-advance-political-goals
Why the Koch brothers find higher education worth their money
https://publicintegrity.org/federal-politics/why-the-koch-brothers-find-higher-education-worth-their-money/
other Koch posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#72 Public misperception about scientific agreement on global warming undermines climate policy support
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#4 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#31 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#107 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#6 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#47 Retirement Heist: How Firms Plunder Workers' Nest Eggs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#84 The Warning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#45 More Guns Do Not Stop More Crimes, Evidence Shows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#83 Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#91 Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#11 Hell is ... ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#77 Nassim Nicholas Taleb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#64 Mystery of the Underpaid American Worker
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#47 Day of Reckoning for KPMG-Failures in Ethics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#97 David Koch Was the Ultimate Climate Change Denier
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#103 David Koch Was the Ultimate Climate Change Denier
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#116 David Koch Was the Ultimate Climate Change Denier
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#3 Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent's Stealth Takeover of America
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Onward, Christian fascists Date: 08 Jan 2020 Blog: FacebookOnward, Christian fascists. Trump's legacy will be the empowerment of Christian totalitarians
racism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#racism
recent federalist posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#4 Bots Are Destroying Political Discourse As We Know It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#161 Fascists
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#158 Goliath
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#150 How Trump Lost an Evangelical Stalwart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#127 The Barr Presidency
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#10 The 16919 Project
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#43 Actually, the Electoral College Was a Pro-Slavery Ploy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#44 People are Happier in Social Democracies Because There's Less Capitalism
recent fascits (and/or equating capitalism w/christianity) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#0 The modern education system was designed to teach future factory workers to be "punctual, docile, and sober"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#161 Fascists
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#158 Goliath
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#145 The Plots Against the President
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#144 PayPal, Western Union Named & Shamed for Overcharging the Most on Money Transfers to Mexico
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#112 When The Bankers Plotted To Overthrow FDR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#107 The Great Scandal: Christianity's Role in the Rise of the Nazis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#96 OT, "new" Heinlein book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#91 OT, "new" Heinlein book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#63 Profit propaganda ads witch-hunt era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#62 Profit propaganda ads witch-hunt era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#61 What Gandhi Believed Is the Purpose of a Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#43 Corporations Are People
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#41 Corporations Are People
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#30 OT, "new" Heinlein book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#23 Radical Muslim
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#98 How Journalists Covered the Rise of Mussolini and Hitler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#76 The Coming of American Fascism, 1920-1940
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#75 The Coming of American Fascism, 1920-1940
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#74 Employers escape sanctions, while the undocumented risk lives and prosecution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#51 The global economy is broken, it must work for people, not vice versa
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#5 Don't Blame Capitalism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#92 Holocaust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#65 The Forever War Is So Normalized That Opposing It Is "Isolationism"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#58 Forget China - it's America's own economic system that's broken; US weakness is inbuilt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#37 Is America A Christian Nation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#36 Is America A Christian Nation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#17 Family of Secrets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#29 How corporate America invented 'Christian America' to fight the New Deal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#81 LUsers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#44 People are Happier in Social Democracies Because There's Less Capitalism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#43 Billionaire warlords: Why the future is medieval
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#34 The Rise of Leninist Personnel Policies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#0 How Harvard Business School Has Reshaped American Capitalism
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM timesharing terminal--offline preparation? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:05:46 -1000hancock4 writes:
1052 was more data entry (like later 3278) ... and 2741
adapted for interactive computing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741
CTSS/7094 ... this mentions supporting 1052
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System
following, 2741 home terminal, CTSS & Multics (I didn't get 2741 at home
until March 1970 for CP67)
https://multicians.org/terminals.html
I got my first home terminal in 1967, when I was working on Multics at
Project MAC. It was an IBM 2741, the standard machine for the
programming staff. Like the 1050, the 2741 had a Selectric mechanism
built into a desk, but one smaller than the 1050's, and with a slimmer
electronics box and fewer switches. The original 2741s were designed as
"inquiry" terminals: the keyboard was normally locked, and the user was
supposed to hit the ATTN button to get the attention of the computer,
which would unlock the keyboard and let the user type one line, and then
lock the keyboard on carriage return. This mode of operation was no good
for time-sharing use, and we had to have two special features installed
on the 2741's for CTSS (and later Multics) use. The 2741 used paper with
perforations on each side, like printer paper, and had a tractor feed
that kept the paper from going crooked and jamming. Annoyingly, the 2741
platen was a little narrower than the 14 7/8 inches wide regular line
printer paper, and so Operations had to stock two sizes of paper, and
more than once I brought home a box of the wrong size.
... snip ...
note that 2741 used tilt-rotate codes ... and standard golfball characters were what defined for EBCDIC ... with translate between EBCDIC and the golfball tilt-rotate codes ... however it was possible to get other golfballs ... like APL. In theory it should have been possible to have ASCII character set golfball ... and translate between ASCII and golfball tilt-rotate codes.
The bottom above webpage references
https://history.computer.org/pioneers/bemer.html
Bemer's web page that 360 originally was suppose to be ASCII (gone 404)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
I was myself in charge of such "Logical Systems Standards" for IBM at e he time, and have written 20 papers about ASCII. One doesn't get the sobriquet "Father of ASCII" for nothing.
The culprit was T. Vincent Learson. The only thing for his defense is that he had no idea of what he had done. It was when he was an IBM Vice President, prior to tenure as Chairman of the Board, those lofty positions where you believe that, if you order it done, it actually will be done. I've mentioned this fiasco elsewhere.
... snip ...
more of his history
https://web.archive.org/web/20180513184025/http://www.bobbemer.com/HISTORY.HTM
wiki age
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Bemer
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM timesharing terminal--offline preparation? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:32:38 -1000David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> writes:
within a year after taking intro to computers/fortran, univ. hired me fulltime to be responsible for ibm mainframe system (academic & administration) ... had gotten 360/67 (to replaced 709/1401) ... originally for tss/360 ... which never came to production fruition ... and ran as 360/65 with OS/360 production ... initially MFT and then MVT.
Three people from the science center came out last week of Jan1968 to
install CP/67 ... I got to mostly play with it on weekends (datacenter
was shutdown from 8am sat to 8am monday ... and I could have the whole
place to myself for 48hrs) and rewrote lots of CP/67 during 1968.
Part of presentation on performance related rewrites at fall 1968
(mainframe user group) SHARE:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#18 CP/67 & OS MFT14
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
Original CP/67 had 1052 & 2741 terminal support ... including dynamical
terminal type identification ... switching terminal controller port
scanner type with CCW SAD command (to match terminal type). The
univ. had a bunch of TTY/ASCII terminals ... so I added support for TTY
terminals ... incorporating it into dynamic terminal logic. I then
wanted to have a single dial-in number ... single "HUNT GROUP"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_hunting
which didn't quite work ... while could switch port scanner type for
each line ... IBM took shortcut and hardwired port-line speed (1052/2741
134.5, TTY 110). This was part of motivation for univ. to start clone
controller project ... initially built 360 channel interface board for
Interdata/3 programmed to emulate mainframe terminal controller ... with
the added feature that it would (also) do dynamic line speed. Later
upgraded to Interdata/4 for mainframe channel interface and cluster of
Interdata/3s for line/port scanner. This box was sold by Interdata (and
later Perkin/Elmer) as mainframe clone communication controller (and
four of us are written as responsible for some part of the clone
controller business).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdata
terminal controller posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
Start of the century, I ran across one of the (later) boxes in financial datacenter handling majority of the card-swipe point-of-sale terminals in US east of Mississippi.
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM timesharing terminal--offline preparation? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:44:23 -1000Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
science center pickedd up my tty support (as well as a bunch of my other
stuff) and included it in official distribution. This is post about MIT
USL which was datacenter in another tech sq. bldg (across courtyard from
545tech sq that had Multics and IBM science center)
https://www.multicians.org/thvv/360-67.html
My tty support used one byte length value, 255, since tty lines weren't longer than 80. Above description has somebody hacking CP67 to change TTY max line length to 1200 (but didn't change the one byte games) ... for some sort of plotter(?) device down at Harvard ... resulting in 27 CP/67 crashes in a short period of time.
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: "This Plane Was Designed By Clowns, Who Are Supervised By Monkeys" Date: 10 Jan 2020 Blog: Facebook"This Plane Was Designed By Clowns, Who Are Supervised By Monkeys" - Shocking Boeing Emails Reveal Contempt For Management, FAA
The 100yr, 2016 Boeing "century" publication had article that the "merger" with M/D nearly took down Boeing and might yet still. More recent articles about senior safety engineers resigning after the M/D takeover
The Coming Boeing Bailout?
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-coming-boeing-bailout
Unlike Boeing, McDonnell Douglas was run by financiers rather than
engineers. And though Boeing was the buyer, McDonnell Douglas
executives somehow took power in what analysts started calling a
"reverse takeover." The joke in Seattle was, "McDonnell Douglas bought
Boeing with Boeing's money."
Boeing's travails show what's wrong with modern
capitalism. Deregulation means a company once run by engineers is now
in the thrall of financiers and its stock remains high even as its
planes fall from the sky
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/11/boeing-capitalism-deregulation
Crash Course
https://newrepublic.com/article/154944/boeing-737-max-investigation-indonesia-lion-air-ethiopian-airlines-managerial-revolution
Sorscher had spent the early aughts campaigning to preserve the
company's estimable engineering legacy. He had mountains of evidence
to support his position, mostly acquired via Boeing's 1997 acquisition
of McDonnell Douglas, a dysfunctional firm with a dilapidated aircraft
plant in Long Beach and a CEO who liked to use what he called the
"Hollywood model" for dealing with engineers: Hire them for a few
months when project deadlines are nigh, fire them when you need to
make numbers. In 2000, Boeing's engineers staged a 40-day strike over
the McDonnell deal's fallout; while they won major material
concessions from management, they lost the culture war. They also
inherited a notoriously dysfunctional product line from the
corner-cutting market gurus at McDonnell.
Former Boeing Engineers Say Relentless Cost-Cutting Sacrificed Safety
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-09/former-boeing-engineers-say-relentless-cost-cutting-sacrificed-safety
At Boeing, C.E.O.'s Stumbles Deepen a Crisis. Dennis Muilenburg's
handling of the 737 Max grounding after two fatal crashes has angered
lawmakers, airlines, regulators and victims' families.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/business/boeing-dennis-muilenburg-737-max.html
disclaimer: within year of taking two semester hr intro to fortran/computers was hired fulltime by the univ. to be responsible for their ibm mainframe systems. then before I graduate, I'm hired fulltime into a small group in the Boeing CFO office to help with the formation of Boeing Computer Services (consolidate all dataprocessing into an independent business unit to better monetize the investment, including offering services to non-Boeing entities). 747#3 was flying the skies of seattle getting FAA flt certification and tour of 747 cabin mockup (a little south of boeing field) would claim that a 747 would be serviced by a minimum of four jetways (because the large number of people carried by the plane).
There was battle between the CFO (which had just 360/30 at the time for payroll) and the head of renton datacenter ... which had $200M-$300M (60s $$$) in IBM 360s ... 360/65s were arriving faster than they could be installed, boxes constantly staged in the hallways around the machine room (I thot Boeing had the largest machine room in the world). There was a disaster/recovery plan (Mt. Rainier heats up and the resulting mud slide takes out the renton datacenter) to build a duplicate of Renton up at new 747 plant at Paine Field in Everett.
recent posts mentioning Boeing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#22 The American Military Sucks at Cybersecurity; A new report from US military watchdogs outlines hundreds of cybersecurity vulnerabilities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#54 IBM bureaucracy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#69 Digital Planes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#38 Reminder over in linkedin, IBM Mainframe announce 7April1964
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#39 Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#51 System/360 consoles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#69 Contractors Are Giving Away America's Military Edge
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#80 TCM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#25 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#2 Rise and Fall of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#16 The amount of software running on traditional servers is set to almost halve in the next 3 years amid the shift to the cloud, and it's great news for the data center business
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#20 The Coming Boeing Bailout?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#39 The Roots of Boeing's 737 Max Crisis: A Regulator Relaxes Its Oversight
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#42 Defense contractors aren't securing sensitive information, watchdog finds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#60 IBM 360/67
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#118 Armed with J-20 stealth fighters, China's future flattops could 'eventually fight US carriers'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#33 Boeing's travails show what's wrong with modern capitalism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#34 The U.S. Forgot What Antitrust Is For
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#39 Crash Course
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#64 Capitalism as we know it is dead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#77 Collins radio 1956
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#84 Collins radio and Braniff Airways 1945
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#110 ROMP & Displaywriter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#151 OT: Boeing to temporarily halt manufacturing of 737 MAX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#153 At Boeing, C.E.O.'s Stumbles Deepen a Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#158 Goliath
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: "This Plane Was Designed By Clowns, Who Are Supervised By Monkeys" Date: 10 Jan 2020 Blog: Facebookre:
'I Honestly Don't Trust Many People at Boeing': A Broken Culture
Exposed. A trove of internal employee communications shows that the
aviation giant's troubles go beyond one poorly designed plane.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/business/boeing-737-employees-messages.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&
Boeing Employees Mocked FAA In Internal Messages Before 737 Max
Disasters
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/09/795123158/boeing-employees-mocked-faa-in-internal-messages-before-737-max-disasters
It's Not Just Software: New Safety Risks Under Scrutiny on Boeing's
737 Max. The company and regulators are looking into everything from
the wiring on the plane to its engines.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/05/business/boeing-737-max.html?fbclid=IwAR0cUX17Xpkv6x9dFGj2dB-Jj20Qzd1YmPReWn3R8EIsILZYwfNQc3KogOQ
Goliath, Note over 100 years ago ... transportation company run by
financiers with little or no interest in safety
https://www.amazon.com/Goliath-Monopolies-Secretly-Took-World-ebook/dp/B07GNSSTGJ/
pg27/loc590-97:
But Brandeis was right. The New Haven was grossly mismanaged. It
invested little in safety equipment, and its board of directors
comprised financiers so busy they paid no attention to the
company. Soon, grisly accidents led to dozens of deaths on a regular
basis. After one particularly deadly accident in Wallingford,
Connecticut, "a disastrous wreck even in the history of that
disastrous road," a reporter tried to ask J. P. Morgan's son, who
inherited the firm from his famous father, what could be
done. "Mr. Morgan cannot see you," said his butler. "He says he can do
nothing about it and does not care to be annoyed." 66 By 1912, the
press had turned on Morgan and the New Haven. The railroad was, as the
Interstate Commerce Commission later called it, "one of the most
glaring instances of maladministration revealed in all the history of
American railroading."
... snip ...
recent Goliath ref
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#158 Goliath
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
racism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#racism
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Loathed Lean? Date: 12 Jan 2020 Blog: FacebookBoyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Loathed Lean?
I would say favored efficient (not necessarily lean) ... and especially against the enormous bloat (graft and corruption) at the pentagon
In briefings Boyd would talk about needing decisions pushed to the lowest level possible, to the people next to the problems (most knowledgeable about the immediate issue). In the early 80s, he would talk about former military officers, steeped in rigid, top-down, command&control (a legacy of WW2, leverage few experienced resources "managing" millions of new soldiers), were starting to contaminate US corporate cultures (not about the same time, articles were starting to appear that MBAs were starting to destr0y US corporations with their myopic focus on quarterly numbers).
He would contrast US with Guderian's Verbal Orders Only for the Blitzkrieg ... that he (Guderian) wanted the commander on the spot making the decisions, not having to worry about higher authority and/or after action reviews.
Consistent with this "How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers"
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/how-toyota-turns-workers-into-problem-solvers
To paraphrase one of our contacts, he said, "It's not that we don't
want to tell you what TPS is, it's that we can't. We don't have
adequate words for it. But, we can show you what TPS is."
We've observed that Toyota, its best suppliers, and other companies
that have learned well from Toyota can confidently distribute a
tremendous amount of responsibility to the people who actually do the
work, from the most senior, experienced member of the organization to
the most junior. This is accomplished because of the tremendous
emphasis on teaching everyone how to be a skillful problem solver.
... snip ...
... and enormous bloat ... "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 ...
Boyd had example of others twisting his opinions to their own
purpose. He talked about being against the original introduction of
the heads-up display in the F16 ... which was scrolling digital
numbers. Boyd would point out that pilots became less efficient trying
to convert the scrolling digital numbers into meaning. He would say
that his detractors would characterize him as "Luddite" (for his
heads-up opposition). This discounts his E/M theory used for fighter
design and YF16 being the first fighter with relaxed stability and
requiring the use of "fly-by-wire"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting_Falcon#Negative_stability_and_fly-by-wire
A New Conception of WAR, John Boyd, The U.S. Marines, and Maneuver
Warfare
https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/ANewConceptionOfWar.pdf
loc1783-88:
Boyd's collaboration with associate Pierre Sprey on the development of
the A-10 close air support (CAS) aircraft sparked his exploration of
history. The project was Sprey's, with Sprey consulting Boyd on
performance analysis, E-M Theory, and views on warfare in
general. When designing the A-10, Sprey had to determine what aircraft
features provided the firepower and loiter time required by ground
forces, while also granting survivability against the enemy ground
fire that would inevitably be directed against it.4The German
Wehrmacht had pioneered both the design and employment of dedicated
CAS aircraft in World War II.
loc1792-95:
From this, the inquiring mind that had developed the Aerial Attack
Study and E-M Theory again went into action. Sprey had focused on the
aircraft and tactics that made German CAS missions
successful. Building on that, Boyd, in his first year of retirement,
broadened the scope to examine German tactics and strategy in World
War II, and then worked his way back to the time of Sun Tzu as he
studied history's most successful military commanders.6
... snip ...
Saving Democracy From the Managerial Elite. To heal our deep social
and political divisions, urban professionals must start sharing power
with the working class.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/saving-democracy-from-the-managerial-elite-11578672945
Boyd posts (&/or URLs)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Office jobs eroding Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 10:35:33 -1000J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
This has moved a couple times (and/or unavailable) since originally
posted ... so from wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20090421013132/http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/oppd/hdm/hdmtoc.htm
pavement engineering
https://web.archive.org/web/20090411065841/http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/oppd/hdm/pdf/chp0600.pdf
603.1 Introduction
The primary goal of the design of the pavement structural section is to
provide a structurally stable and durable pavement and base system
which, with a minimum of maintenance, will carry the projected traffic
loading for the designated design period. This topic discusses the
factors to be considered and procedures to be followed in developing a
projection of truck traffic for design of the "pavement structure" or
the structural section for specific projects.
Pavement structural sections are designed to carry the projected truck
traffic considering the expanded truck traffic volume, mix, and the axle
loads converted to 80 kN equivalent single axle loads (ESAL's) expected
to occur during the design period. **The effects on pavement life of
passenger cars, pickups, and two-axle trucks are considered to be
negligible**.
Traffic information that is required for structural section design
includes axle loads, axle configurations, and number of
applications. The results of the AASHO Road Test (performed in the early
1960's in Illinois) have shown that the damaging effect of the passage
of an axle load can be represented by a number of 80 kN ESAL's. For
example, one application of a 53 kN single axle load was found to cause
damage equal to an application of approximately 0.23 of an 80 kN single
axle load, and four applications of a 53 kN single axle were found to
cause the same damage (or reduction in serviceability) as one
application of an 80 kN single axle.
... snip ...
past posts/refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#41 Transportation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#42 Transportation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#7 OT Global warming
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#56 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#57 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#59 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#60 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#61 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#62 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#0 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#6 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#8 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#11 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#23 The Pankian Metaphor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#48 fraying infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#68 Historian predicts the end of 'science superpowers'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#36 dollar coins
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#61 Idiotic cars driving themselves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#39 Central vs. expanded storage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#52 TCM's Moguls documentary series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#5 Home prices may drop another 25%, Shiller predicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#80 A Close Look at the Perry Tax Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#83 A Close Look at the Perry Tax Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#28 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#29 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#47 Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#76 IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#12 1970--protesters seize computer center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#109 Minimum Wage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#70 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#31 Disregard post (another screwup; absolutely nothing to do with computers whatsoever!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#42 Predicting the future in five years as seen from 1983
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#44 Predicting the future in five years as seen from 1983
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#26 Bitcoin confusion?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#103 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Book on monopoly (IBM) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 10:58:25 -1000re:
Goliath
https://www.amazon.com/Goliath-Monopolies-Secretly-Took-World-ebook/dp/B07GNSSTGJ/
Mellon description (SECTREAS for 3 administrations) during the
20s and early 30s seems to have a lot of similarities with description
in Kochland and large diversified conglomerate with monopoly (or near
monopoly) and huge political leverage. Also opaque, complex ownerships
to obscure scope of the interlocking businesses., recent posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#5 Book: Kochland : the secret history of Koch Industries and corporate power in America
book
https://www.amazon.com/Kochland-History-Industries-Corporate-America-ebook/dp/B07P5HCQ7G/
racism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#racism
Mellons "self-dealing" also is similar to current day descriptions
of administration graft and corruption. It also starts to get
into oligarch affinity for fascism that increased during
the 20s&30s (as well as US industry&corporation support
for Hitler and Germany during the period).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#63 Profit propaganda ads witch-hunt era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#91 OT, "new" Heinlein book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#96 OT, "new" Heinlein book
other recent fascist references:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#17 Family of Secrets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#36 Is America A Christian Nation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#75 The Coming of American Fascism, 1920-1940
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#94 The War Was Won Before Hiroshima--And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#43 Corporations Are People
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#106 OT, "new" Heinlein book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#107 The Great Scandal: Christianity's Role in the Rise of the Nazis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#112 When The Bankers Plotted To Overthrow FDR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#145 The Plots Against the President
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#161 Fascists
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#0 The modern education system was designed to teach future factory workers to be "punctual, docile, and sober"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#6 Onward, Christian fascists
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The Other 1 Percent": Morgan Stanley Spots A Market Ratio That Is "Unprecedented Even During The Tech Bubble" Date: 12 Jan 2020 Blog: FacebookThe Other 1 Percent": Morgan Stanley Spots A Market Ratio That Is "Unprecedented Even During The Tech Bubble"
... note other reports show worker compensation going flat around 1980 ... about the time Milton Friedman taking hold. This was also about the time press started appearing that MBAs were destroying US corporations with their myopic focus on quarterly numbers.
Income inequality in America is the highest it's been since Census
Bureau started tracking it, data shows. In the midst of the nation's
longest economic expansion, the separation between rich and poor is at
a five-decade high
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/09/26/income-inequality-america-highest-its-been-since-census-started-tracking-it-data-show/
Politicians have caused a pay 'collapse' for the bottom 90 percent of
workers, researchers say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/12/17/politicians-have-deliberately-eroded-workers-power-resulting-collapse-pay-bottom-percent-researchers-say/
Destruction of Middle Class
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/jobs-will-follow-a-strengthening-of-the-middle-class.html
The Real Reason Wages Have Stagnated: Our Economy Is Optimized For Financialization
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-08/real-reason-wages-have-stagnated-our-economy-optimized-financialization
How GE, GM, Coca-Cola And Kodak Put Shareholders Ahead Of Employees
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2017/06/29/how-ge-gm-coca-cola-kodak-put-shareholders-ahead-of-employees/
... from here, productivity/pay gap (updated July2019)
http://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
Meet the Economist Behind the One Percent's Stealth Takeover of America
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/05/meet-economist-behind-one-percents-stealth-takeover-america.html
Bad Ideas; Reknowned economist James K. Galbraith, one of our expert
panelists, pulls no punches in talking about the damage wrought by
financial innovation
https://www.gfmag.com/magazine/june-2017/bad-ideas
Center for Public Integrity launches inequality team
https://publicintegrity.org/inside-publici/center-for-public-integrity-launches-inequality-team/
U.S. Inequality Reached Highest Level in 50 Years: Census
https://us.glbnews.com/09-2019/52780394201778/
Census: US inequality grew, including in heartland states
https://apnews.com/bfa51032ee27470c9f908914328eea99
United States Income Inequality Continues to Surge
https://johnhively.wordpress.com/2019/09/27/united-states-income-inequality-continues-to-surge/
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Loathed Lean? Date: 12 Jan 2020 Blog: Facebookre:
(NOT) Fuhrerprinzip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrerprinzip
(German for "leader principle") prescribed the fundamental basis of
political authority in the governmental structures of the Third
Reich. This principle can be most succinctly understood to mean that
"the Führer's word is above all written law" and that governmental
policies, decisions, and offices ought to work toward the realization
of this end.[1] In actual political usage, it refers mainly to the
practice of dictatorship within the ranks of a political party itself,
and as such, it has become an earmark of political fascism.
... snip ...
Command Culture ... compares German & US military education the first
half of last decade
https://www.amazon.com/Command-Culture-Education-1901-1940-Consequences-ebook/dp/B009K7VYLI/
Boyd would say that tiger had 10:1 kill ratio over Sherman ... but the US could easily tolerate such losses. 3/4s of German military were fighting the Soviets on the eastern front. What was left was used to deal with the US and the rest of the allies.
From Guderian's Panzer Leader
https://www.amazon.com/Panzer-Leader-Heinz-Guderian-ebook/dp/B07KTBSD1L/
loc2902-3:
Hitler then said: 'If I had known that the figures for Russian tank
strength which you gave in your book were in fact the true ones, I
would not--I believe--ever have started this war.'
loc2903-6:
He was referring to my book Achtung! Panzer!, published in 1937, in
which I had estimated Russian tank strength at that time as 10,000;
both the Chief of the Army General Staff, Beck, and the censor had
disagreed with this statement. It had cost me a lot of trouble to get
that figure printed; but I had been able to show that intelligence
reports at the time spoke of 17,000 Russian tanks and that my estimate
was therefore, if anything, a very conservative one.
loc2262-64:
At this time our yearly tank production scarcely amounted to more than
1,000 of all types. In view of our enemies' production figures this
was very small. As far back as 1933 I had visited a single Russian
tank factory which was producing 22 tanks per day of the
Christie-Russki type.
... snip ...
Tanks in the German Army
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_in_the_German_Army
First encountered on 23 June 1941,[24] the T-34 outclassed the
existing Panzer III and IV.[25] At the insistence of General Heinz
Guderian, a special Panzerkommision was dispatched to the Eastern
Front to assess the T-34.[26] Among the features of the Soviet tank
considered most significant were the sloping armor, which gave much
improved shot deflection and also increased the effective armor
thickness against penetration, the wide track, which improved mobility
over soft ground, and the 76.2 mm gun, which had good armor
penetration and fired an effective high-explosive round.
... snip ...
The british referred to Shermans as Tommy Cookers because crews were being sent out to be slaughtered; Boyd's briefings had German's with 10:1 kill ratio (10 Shermans killed for every German tank, even inferior to the Russians), US was planning on winning with battle of attrition; Germans would run out of tanks and crew before the US (even at 10:1)
http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/m4-sherman-vs-german-panther/
The Sherman was at a disadvantage. Although it mounted 75mm cannon, it
was of a low-velocity type. The Sherman's designers felt that a
low-velocity gun would last longer than a high-velocity one. They
failed to realize that few Shermans would ever last long enough in
combat to wear out their barrels. Later versions would have an
upgraded high-velocity gun, but they would not reach front-line units
until late November 1944, five months after the Normandy invasion. The
armor, at 81mm, was considerably thinner than the Panther's and unable
to withstand its armor-piercing ammunition.
... snip ...
Sand&Steel
https://www.amazon.com/Sand-Steel-Invasion-Liberation-France-ebook/dp/B07PPVG8HG/
pg19/loc992-a98:
However, OB West's remaining twenty-three Bodenständige (static
position) divisions were either immobile or reserve infantry
formations, with low Kampfwert (combat effectiveness) ratings. They
were assessed as incapable of taking on offensive missions, and
suitable only for limited defence. For the latter's transportation
needs, in Rundstedt's domain there were 115,000 military horses on
strength, a stark reminder of how reliant on these creatures the
German armed forces were in 1944 - by contrast, the Allies would bring
with them not a single equine. 3 A year earlier, roughly twenty-five
per cent of officers stationed in France had fought in Russia; by
1944, this figure had almost doubled to sixty per cent. This did not
necessarily reflect a reinforcement of the west, but a higher
proportion of wounded and convalescing leaders.
pg38/loc1415-18:
It still comes as a surprise to many that the German Army in Normandy
was predominantly horse-drawn. When Second Lieutenant Bob Sheehan of
the US 60th Chemical Company (an outfit responsible for smoke weapons)
breasted a rise over the dunes of Omaha on 7 June, he saw ‘a
mind-shattering sight that convinced me the war was as good as won. It
was a dead horse. The poor animal was still attached to the wagon it
had been pulling.
pg47/loc1600-1604:
The stature of the Nazi war machine, forged in North Africa, Italy and
on the Eastern Front, was still feared in 1944, though demonstrably
hollowed out. It also helped Berlin that the Western Allies,
particularly the 21st Army Group, were also excessively cautious,
which played to the German inclination - despite their convoluted
command - of tactical speed of reaction. Finally, it also suited many
Allied commanders after the war to talk up the prowess of their
opponents, making the achievement of subduing them all the greater.
... snip ...
Boyd posts (& URLs)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
military-industrial complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The Other 1 Percent": Morgan Stanley Spots A Market Ratio That Is "Unprecedented Even During The Tech Bubble" Date: 12 Jan 2020 Blog: Facebookre:
The Dismal Forecasts of the Dismal Scientists. How economists keep
getting things wrong and not learning from their mistakes
https://prospect.org/economy/the-dismal-forecasts-of-the-dismal-scientists/
James Galbraith's memoir of lifelong struggles to make economics a
force for good
https://diem25.org/james-galbraiths-memoir-of-lifelong-struggles-to-make-economics-a-force-for-good/
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: How many ways can one sentence be wrong dept Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 13 Jan 2020 20:54:03 -0800remember no real CKD devices have been made for decades ... all being simulated on industry standard fixed-block ... need a fair amount electronics and processing between the emulated CKD layer and the real fixed-block hardware (whether fixed-block spinning disks or fixed-block SSD).
a lot of the CKD optimization work ... may actually have little or no meaning by the time things reach the fixed-block physical device.
matt@HOGSTROM.ORG (Matt Hogstrom) writes:
Out of curiosity, its been a while since I did storage admin but it
occurred to me that for the most part a lot of the work in defragging,
worrying about disk geometry and other issues are really not / less of
an issue with cache and SSD technologies. So, perhaps naive on my
part, but it would seem to me the work to "defrag" is really more to
keep up the legacy z/OS concepts like # of extents, CKD processing for
PDS', etc. Are there benefits to defragging these days apart from the
consequences of the limitations from older architectures and paradigms
like directory blocks and member placement?
posts mentioning FBA, CKD, multi-track search, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd
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From: lynn@GARLIC.COM (Lynn Wheeler) Subject: Re: What is a mainframe? Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: 14 Jan 2020 11:33:44 -0800z.schdlr@GMAIL.COM (z/OS scheduler) writes:
I then did the enhancements to support RFC044 and in tuning tests at Cray Research between a Cray and 4341 ... got channel speed sustained throughput using only modest amount of 4341 processor (something like 500 times improvement in bytes moved per instruction executed).
rfc1044 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
Later the communication group hired a silicon valley contractor to implement TCP/IP support directly in VTAM. He initially demonstrated TCP/IP running significantly faster than LU6.2. He was then told that *everybody* knows that a *valid* TCP/IP implementation runs significantly slower than LU6.2 and they would only be paying for a *valid* TCP/IP implementation.
After leaving IBM, I was brought in as consultant to small client/server startup that wanted to do payment transactions on their server (two Oracle people that I had worked with at IBM when we were doing IBM's HA/CMP product were then at startup responsible for something called "commerce server). The startup had invented this technology they called "SSL" they wanted to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce". I had complete responsibility for the server to payment networks ... but could only make recommendations on the client/server side ... some of which were almost immediately violated ... continues to account for some number of exploits.
At the time, internet exploits were about half C-language related programming problems and half social enginnering ... with a few misc. other items. Then at 1996 m'soft moscone MDC conference, all the banners said "Internet" ... but the constant refrain in every session was "protect your investment" ... aka Visual Basic applications embedded in data files that would be automagically executed. They were going to transition from the safe, small closed LANs network environments to the wild anarchy of the Internet w/o any additional countermeasures. By the end of the decade over 1/3rd of "internet" exploits were these automagically executed code snippets (the numbers of the other exploits didn't decrease, there was just an explosion of this new category of exploits).
Early part of the century I did some work on categorizing exploits in the NIST CVE exploit database ... and tried to get MITRE to require additional information in exploit reports. At the time MITRE said that they had hard enough time getting reports to have any information ... and additional requirements would just inhibit people writing anything.
Some archived posts about CVE exploit categrizing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#43
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#0
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#67
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#20
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
c-language related exploits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#buffer
old posts about IBM evaluation of the 30yr old gov. MULTICS security
evaluation ... implemented in PLI and having none of the
exploitable bugs typical in C-lanugage implementations.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#42
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002l.html#44
The copy of the IBM paper was originally on IBM website ... but all such websites have since disappeared and I had to find copy at other locations.
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: 32 Misinformation Schemes & Other Tactics Used by Wall Street, Corporate America & the Media Date: 14 Jan 2020 Blog: Facebook32 Misinformation Schemes & Other Tactics Used by Wall Street, Corporate America & the Media, as Pointed Out Hilariously by WOLF STREET Commenters
stock/share buyback posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
private-equity, LBOs. etc, posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Saudi ruler aimed to 'silence' Washington Post Date: 23 Jan 2020 Blog: FacebookSaudi ruler aimed to 'silence' Washington Post. The heir to the Saudi throne is believed to have personally sent malware via the messaging application Whatsapp
Who honestly has a crown prince in their threat model? UN report
officially fingers Saudi royal as Bezos hacker
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/22/saudi_bezos_phone_hack/
A timeline of events surrounding the Bezos phone hack
https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-timeline-of-events-surrounding-the-bezos-phone-hack/
How Saudi Arabia allegedly hacked Jeff Bezos's phone
https://www.fastcompany.com/90454667/how-saudi-arabia-allegedly-hacked-into-jeff-bezos-phone
also Khashoggi was journalist for Washington Post, owned by Bezos ... and the president has frequently expressed dislike for both the Post and Bezos numerous times in the past.
Trump sold nuclear tech to Saudis in secret after Khashoggi
killing. The Trump administration secretly approved the transfer of
nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia after the killing of Jamal
Khashoggi without informing Congress.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trump-sold-nuclear-tech-to-saudis-in-secret-after-khashoggi-killing-9q39glhwc
Report: Trump Secretly Sold Nuclear Technology To Saudi Arabia
https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/report-trump-secretly-sold-nuclear-technology-to-saudi-arabia-ghyRWpmKKk-Odo-zLzR9vg
The Saudi Crown Prince Plans to Make Us Forget About the Murder of
Jamal Khashoggi Before the US Election
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/18/the-saudi-crown-prince-plans-to-make-us-forget-about-the-murder-of-jamal-khashoggi-before-the-us-election/
Kushner allowed Saudis to arrest Khashoggi
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20191104-kushner-allowed-saudis-to-arrest-khashoggi/
Jared Kushner advised Saudi prince on how to 'weather' Khashoggi
slaying, report says
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/09/jared-kushner-advised-saudi-prince-after-khashoggi-murder-report-says/2257098002/
What is Trump trying to cover up about his Saudi phone calls and Jamal
Khashoggi's murder?
https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/trump-jamal-khashoggi-murder-cover-up-saudi-arabia-mbs-20191001.html
White House calls claim that Jared Kushner gave Saudi ruler permission
to arrest Jamal Khashoggi before journalist was killed and dismembered
'false nonsense'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7646171/Jared-Kushner-claim-greenlit-arrest-Jamal-Khashoggi-phone-call-Saudi-Prince-nonsense-White-House.html
In Death, Khashoggi Exposes the Corruption of Kushner and
Trump. There's a word for what may be going on here: espionage
https://medium.com/s/story/in-death-khashoggi-exposes-the-corruption-of-kushner-and-trump-236c85e659aa
A report released yesterday by the CIA concluded that Jamal Khashoggi,
a prominent Saudi journalist who was living in the United States, was
assassinated on direct orders from Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), crown
prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom dispatched a 15-man
"death squad" to Istanbul, comprised of members of MbS's own security
detail, to make the hit. On Oct. 2, the assassins concocted a reason
to lure Khashoggi into the consulate. There, they spent seven full
minutes torturing him, slicing off his fingers and other body parts
while he was still alive. Then they killed him and hacked up the
remains with a bone saw.
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The Saudi Connection: Inside the 9/11 Case That Divided the F.B.I. Date: 23 Jan 2020 Blog: FacebookThe Saudi Connection: Inside the 9/11 Case That Divided the F.B.I. A small team of agents spent years investigating whether one of Washington's closest allies was involved in the worst terror attack in U.S. history. This is their story.
from truth is stranger than fiction and law of unintended consequences
that come back to bite you, much of the radical Islam & ISIS can be
considered our own fault, (Bush) Family Secrets
https://www.amazon.com/Family-Secrets-Americas-Invisible-Government-ebook/dp/B003NSBMNA/
pg292/loc6057-59:
There was also a calculated decision to use the Saudis as surrogates
in the cold war. The United States actually encouraged Saudi efforts
to spread the extremist Wahhabi form of Islam as a way of stirring up
large Muslim communities in Soviet-controlled countries. (It didn't
hurt that Muslim Soviet Asia contained what were believed to be the
world's largest undeveloped reserves of oil.)
... snip ...
Saudi radical Islam/Wahhabi loosened on the world ... bin Laden & 15 of 9/11 were Saudis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism
The majority of Sunni and Shia Muslims worldwide disagree with the
interpretation of Wahhabism, and many Muslims denounce them as a
faction or a "vile sect".[7] Islamic scholars, including those from
the Al-Azhar University, regularly denounce Wahhabism with terms such
as "Satanic faith".[33] Wahhabism has been accused of being "a source
of global terrorism",[34][35] inspiring the ideology of the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL),[36] and for causing disunity in
Muslim communities by labelling Muslims who disagreed with the Wahhabi
definition of monotheism as apostates[37] (takfir) and justifying
their killing.[38][39][40] It has also been criticized for the
destruction of historic shrines of saints, mausoleums, and other
Muslim and non-Muslim buildings and artifacts.[41][42][43]
... snip ...
Mattis somewhat more PC (political correct)
https://www.amazon.com/Call-Sign-Chaos-Learning-Lead-ebook/dp/B07SBRFVNH/
pg21/loc349-51:
Ayatollah Khomeini's revolutionary regime took hold in Iran by ousting
the Shah and swearing hostility against the United States. That same
year, the Soviet Union was pouring troops into Afghanistan to prop up
a pro-Russian government that was opposed by Sunni Islamist
fundamentalists and tribal factions. The United States was supporting
Saudi Arabia's involvement in forming a counterweight to Soviet
influence.
pg96/loc1373-75:
On the other hand, invading Iraq stunned me. Why were we fighting them
again? I was unaware of the discussions in Washington linking Al Qaeda
to Saddam. There was broad consensus among international intelligence
agencies that he possessed chemical weapons.
... snip ...
and internal CIA
https://www.amazon.com/Permanent-Record-Edward-Snowden-ebook/dp/B07STQPGH6/
pg133/loc1916-17:
But al-Qaeda did maintain unusually close ties with our allies the
Saudis, a fact that the Bush White House worked suspiciously hard to
suppress as we went to war with two other countries.
... snip ...
In May2017, Fareed has segment on Saudi Arabia is supporting world wide wahhabism ... which is "extreme" version of Islam ... including ISIS ... also something like 96% of world-wide extreme Islam terrorism is Wahhabi related and that Iran is one of the major forces fighting Wahhabi extremism (highlighting US war on terror supporting Saudi and opposing Iran).
You Can't Understand ISIS If You Don't Know the History of Wahhabism
in Saudi Arabia
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/isis-wahhabism-saudi-arabia_b_5717157.html
Initially, families of 9/11 victims were prohibited suing the Saudi gov for 9/11 responsibility. That was changed in fall of 2013 ... apparently because of big uptic in fracking and getting off Saudi oil dependency.
9/11 Families 'Ecstatic' They Can Finally Sue Saudi Arabia
http://news.yahoo.com/9-11-families-39-ecstatic-39-finally-sue-222121660--abc-news-topstories.html
Inside the Saudi 9/11 coverup
http://nypost.com/2013/12/15/inside-the-saudi-911-coverup/
Murdoch's NY Post Backs Michael Moore's Bush-Saudi 9/11 Claims
http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/12/16/murdochs-ny-post-backs-michael-moores-bush-saudi-911-claims/
US chooses to invade the countries fighting extreme radical Wahhabi ... instead of the country responsible.
recent Wahhabi related posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#41 Family of Secrets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#43 Billionaire warlords: Why the future is medieval
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#45 Jeffrey Skilling, Former Enron Chief, Released After 12 Years in Prison
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#48 Iran Payments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#17 How Iran Won Our Iraq War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#56 U.S. Has Spent Six Trillion Dollars on Wars That Killed Half a Million People Since 9/11, Report Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#15 Don't forget how the Soviet Union saved the world from Hitler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#65 The Forever War Is So Normalized That Opposing It Is "Isolationism"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#7 You paid taxes. These corporations didn't
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#32 William Barr Supported Pardons In An Earlier D.C. 'Witch Hunt': Iran-Contra
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#47 Declassified CIA Document Reveals Iraq War Had Zero Justification
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#54 Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#65 What Happened to Aung San Suu Kyi?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#77 Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#79 Bretton Woods Institutions: Enforcers, Not Saviours?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#99 Trump claims he's the messiah. Maybe he should quit while he's ahead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#15 Before the First Shots Are Fired
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#18 Before the First Shots Are Fired
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#22 Radical Muslim
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#23 Radical Muslim
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#25 Radical Muslim
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#26 Radical Muslim
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#58 Homeland Security Dept. Affirms Threat of White Supremacy After Years of Prodding
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#67 Profit propaganda ads witch-hunt era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#70 Since 2001 We Have Spent $32 Million Per Hour on War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#85 Just and Unjust Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#105 OT, "new" Heinlein book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#113 Post 9/11 wars have cost American taxpayers $6.4 trillion, study finds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#124 'Deep, Dark Conspiracy Theories' Hound Some Civil Servants In Trump Era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#135 Permanent Record
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#143 "Undeniable Evidence": Explosive Classified Docs Reveal Afghan War Mass Deception
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: when sorting was important, If a compiler could compile itself... Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 11:08:48 -1000John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> writes:
problem was transition to virtual memory operating system ... channel programs required "real" addresses and now all of user space was virtual. EXCP0 now had to create a copy of the passed channel programs (from user space), replacing the passed addresses with "real" addresses (and "pin" the associated virtual pages in real storage until the I/O completed).
Initial transition was effectively the POK favorite-son batch operating system, MVT running in the equivalent of a CP67 virtual machine, 16mbyte virtual memory ... with a little bit of code dropped into MVT to build its own virtual memory tables and handle page faults. The largest amount of code needed in MVT for the transition was a copy of CP67's CCWTRANS ... hacked into EXCP0 to build channel program copies with real addresses.
The virtualized EXCP0 has been doing that for 50yrs.
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Promtheus' Fire: Climate Change in the Time of Willful Ignorance Date: 25 Jan 2020 Blog: FacebookIn Greek lore, knowledge & wisdom raised man above other animals,
In Christianity, knowledge & wisdom is evil and got man kicked out of garden of eden. In Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon blames the fall on Christianity, sapping the Roman martial spirit and in combination with the corruption and infighting of the 1800 christian bishops, made Rome vulnerable to barbarians, leading to the dark ages. Part of the description of Christianity becoming the official Roman religion is that they had to rewrite history to blame the crucifixion on Jews (rather than Rome).
a couple recent refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#29 How corporate America invented 'Christian America' to fight the New Deal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#17 Family of Secrets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#36 Is America A Christian Nation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#37 Is America A Christian Nation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#58 Forget China - it's America's own economic system that's broken; US weakness is inbuilt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#62 The Fall of the Roman Empire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#65 The Forever War Is So Normalized That Opposing It Is "Isolationism"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#92 Holocaust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#5 Don't Blame Capitalism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#51 The global economy is broken, it must work for people, not vice versa
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#75 The Coming of American Fascism, 1920-1940
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#98 How Journalists Covered the Rise of Mussolini and Hitler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#23 Radical Muslim
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#30 OT, "new" Heinlein book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#41 Corporations Are People
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#61 What Gandhi Believed Is the Purpose of a Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#62 Profit propaganda ads witch-hunt era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#107 The Great Scandal: Christianity's Role in the Rise of the Nazis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#112 When The Bankers Plotted To Overthrow FDR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#125 'Deep, Dark Conspiracy Theories' Hound Some Civil Servants In Trump Era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#145 The Plots Against the President
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#150 How Trump Lost an Evangelical Stalwart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#158 Goliath
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#161 Fascists
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#0 The modern education system was designed to teach future factory workers to be "punctual, docile, and sober"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#6 Onward, Christian fascists
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#14 Book on monopoly (IBM)
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Huawei 5G networks Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2020 17:11:09 -1000hancock4 writes:
Supreme Court was scammed to give corporations "person rights" under the
14th amendment. For-profit, self-interest corporations pushing for
"people" rights under the constitution
https://www.amazon.com/We-Corporations-American-Businesses-Rights-ebook/dp/B01M64LRDJ/
pgxiv/loc74-78:
Between 1868, when the amendment was ratified, and 1912, when a
scholar set out to identify every Fourteenth Amendment case heard by
the Supreme Court, the justices decided 28 cases dealing with the
rights of African Americans--and an astonishing 312 cases dealing with
the rights of corporation.
pg36/loc726-28:
On this issue, Hamiltonians were corporationalists--proponents of
corporate enterprise who advocated for expansive constitutional rights
for business. Jeffersonians, meanwhile, were populists--opponents of
corporate power who sought to limit corporate rights in the name of
the people.
pg229/loc3667-68:
IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, CORPORATIONS WON LIBERTY RIGHTS, SUCH AS
FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND RELIGION, WITH THE HELP OF ORGANIZATIONS LIKE
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
... snip ...
Why the "Maximizing Shareholder Value" Theory of Corporate Governance is
Bogus; One mantra you see regularly in the business and popular press
goes something along the lines of "the CEO and board have a fiduciary
duty to maximize shareholder value."
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/why-the-maximizing-shareholder-value-theory-of-corporate-governance-is-bogus.html
If you review any of the numerous guides prepared for directors of
corporations prepared by law firms and other experts, you won't find a
stipulation for them to maximize shareholder value on the list of things
they are supposed to do. It's not a legal requirement. And there is a
good reason for that. Directors and officers, broadly speaking, have a
duty of care and duty of loyalty to the corporation. From that flow more
specific obligations under Federal and state law. But notice: those
responsibilities are to the corporation, not to shareholders in
particular.
... snip ...
Some Thoughts On the Business Roundtable's Statement of Corporate
Purpose
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2020/02/05/some_thoughts_on_the_business_roundtables_statement_of_corporate_purpose_104069.html
The BRT has scrapped its longstanding view (since 1997) that "the
paramount duty of management and of boards of directors is to the
corporation's stockholders...The interests of other stakeholders are
relevant as a derivative of the duty to stockholders." In its place,
the BRT stipulates that U.S. companies should consider the interests of
numerous stakeholders - including employees, customers, and communities
in which the company operates, along with shareholders when making
corporate decisions. Underlying the Roundtable's new view is its belief
that companies have a social responsibility that transcends their role
as producers of goods and services in a freely competitive economy.
... snip ...
there has been lots written about effects of milton friedman,
deregulation and corporate governance (and pension plans) in the 80s
... that have since turned out to have been disastrous.
https://www.amazon.com/Economists-Powerful-Convenient-Distorted-Economics-ebook/dp/B01B4X4KOS/
loc1193-95:
According to economists' estimates, such collusion between asset
management firms and companies is robbing a large proportion of the
retirees of the company of a noticeable share of their retirement
benefits. Losses for investors in small fund families with large
401(k) plans can reach more than 13 percent (Cohen and Schmidt 2009).
loc1200-1206:
There are plenty of examples from other countries to copy:
the US individual retirement account system is based on the Chilean
pension reform of 1980/81 that in turn was based heavily on proposals
made in the book Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman. In response
to the Chilean system facing a likely collapse in a few decades time, it
was substantially overhauled in 2008 to require mandatory participation
of all citizens in exchange for universal pension coverage.
... snip ...
more on IBM specific effects (from Retirement Heist book) ... recently
gone 404, but lives on at wayback machines
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
Some of the articles from the 90s was that wallstreet heavily backing the pension changes ... large corporate pension managers were (mostly) tightly controlling how much wallstreet could make from the huge amounts in the funds. Wallstreet reasoned that they could skim off enormous amounts from 401K because most of the individuals were much less sophisticated than the large pension managers.
recent articles are that Friedman was wrong about just about everything
... unless taking the objective as corporations taking much bigger
slice.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/milton-friedman-shareholder-wrong/596545/
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/high-finance-is-wrecking-the-economy-and-the-planet-but-it-wont-reform-itself-banking-wall-street-city-of-london
studies show around 1980 (as Friedman's influence was increasingly felt) workers compensation (including pension and other benefits) went nearly flat, while productivity increased
Destruction of Middle Class
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/jobs-will-follow-a-strengthening-of-the-middle-class.html
The Real Reason Wages Have Stagnated: Our Economy Is Optimized For
Financialization
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-08/real-reason-wages-have-stagnated-our-economy-optimized-financialization
How GE, GM, Coca-Cola And Kodak Put Shareholders Ahead Of Employees
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2017/06/29/how-ge-gm-coca-cola-kodak-put-shareholders-ahead-of-employees/
... from here, productivity/pay gap (updated July2019)
http://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
recent friedman posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#37 Democracy in Chains
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#68 Wage Stagnation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#73 Wage Stagnation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#48 Here's what Nobel Prize-winning research says will make you more influential
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#78 Bretton Woods Institutions: Enforcers, Not Saviours?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#100 Destruction of Middle Class
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#14 Chicago Theory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#31 Milton Friedman's "Shareholder" Theory Was Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#32 Milton Friedman's "Shareholder" Theory Was Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#34 The U.S. Forgot What Antitrust Is For
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#50 Economic Mess and Regulations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#51 Big Pharma CEO: 'We're in Business of Shareholder Profit, Not Helping The Sick
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#64 Capitalism as we know it is dead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#149 Why big business can count on courts to keep its deadly secrets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#158 Goliath
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: What's Fortran?!?! Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 17:45:30 -1000Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
watfor was single step monitor ... loaded once and ran thru multiple student jobs ... student fortran typically ran 40-60 cards per job and univ typically collected a tray of cards (over 2000 cards) or about 40 student jobs for a single watfor run. i had got single step overhead to about 4seconds (i.e. 1/3rd 12.9) and watfor compiled at about 20,000/min on 360/65 (hasp spool->spool) or about 333cards/sec (student execution was typically negligible) or around 6-7seconds for tray of cards aka 10-11seconds with system job step overhead ... or about quarter of second/job ... finally beating 709.
old post with part of presentation that I did at (ibm user group)
SHARE meeting fall1968.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#18
decade later I was at IBM San Jose Research and Backus office was just down the hall.
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: What's Fortran?!?! Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 17:59:52 -1000John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> writes:
From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: 50 years online at home Date: 01 Mar 2020 Blog: Facebook50 years online at home
IBM 2741 terminal (selectric mechanism) ... with wooden box modem
... lift the lid and put the phone handset and close the lid. Had one
at office desk for a couple years before that, but didn't get one at
home until March1970
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741
Didn't have dedicated phone line until 1977 when installed ibm timeline in the house
... launched on my online life ... late 70s and early 80s (40+years ago) I was blamed for online computer conferencing (precursor to modern social media) on the internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime mid-80s). Folklore is that when the corporate executive committee was told about online computer conferencing (and the internal network) ... 5of6 wanted to fire me.
There was lots of discussion about how the company was run and what was wrong ... people from all over the world sent me examples and details
Kicked off when I distributed a trip report after visiting Jim Gray at
Tandem ... and it came to be referred to as "Tandem Memos" (some
amount comparing Tandem & IBM ... especially from the viewpoint of
technical people). I had transferred to San Jose Research after most
of the 70s at IBM Cambridge Science Center (responsible for virtual
machines, internal network, lots of online apps, invented GML in 1969
(morphs into ISO international standard SGML a decade later, after
another decade morphs into HTML at CERN) ... lot of other stuff
... and Jim cons me into helping with System/R (original relational
database). When Jim leaves for Tandem he tries to palm off more
System/R stuff, helping Bank of America who were going to install 60
branch VM/4341s for System/R, consulting with the IMS group in STL,
etc. ... and from IBM Jargon:
Tandem Memos - n. Something constructive but hard to control; a fresh
of breath air (sic). That's another Tandem Memos. A phrase to worry
middle management. It refers to the computer-based conference (widely
distributed in 1981) in which many technical personnel expressed
dissatisfaction with the tools available to them at that time, and
also constructively criticised the way products were [are]
developed. The memos are required reading for anyone with a serious
interest in quality products. If you have not seen the memos, try
reading the November 1981 Datamation summary.
... snip ...
system/r posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
... possibly one of the reasons not fired was one of my hobbies after joining IBM was enhanced production operating systems for internal datacenters ... including the world-wide online sales&marketing HONE systems from its inception (but with five that wanted to fire me, the campaign to give me promotion would never be approved ... lots of discussion about the positions had become mostly political anyway)
In any case, we packaged up 300 printed pages from the online discussions, wrote an executive overview and then a one page executive overview of the executive overview, packaged them in Tandem 3-ring binders and sent one to each of the corporate executive committee.
online computer conferencing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
In mid-70s, CERN did a SHARE report comparing MVS/TSO and VM370/CMS that was readily available from SHARE ... but copies inside IBM were stamped IBM Confidential - Restricted, on a need to know basis only (2nd highest IBM security classification, after Registered IBM Confidential) ... aka didn't want most IBMers to know what customers were really saying.
In Aug1976, TYMSHARE started providing their CMS-based online computer
conferencing "free" to (ibm mainframe user group) SHARE ... archives
here
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
I had cut a deal with TYMSHARE to get a monthly tape copy of all VMSHARE (and later PCSHARE) files for making available on internal online systems (including world-wide online sales&marketing support HONE system) and internal network ... the biggest hurdle was with IBM lawyers that were concerned internal employees would be contaminated by customer information.
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Online Computer Conferencing Date: 01 Mar 2020 Blog: FacebookI had just posted this to an IBM group about 40+yrs ago ... I was blamed for online computer conferencing (precursor to modern social media) on the IBM internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime mid-80s) in the late 70s and early 80s (40+yrs ago) ... folklore is that when corporate executive committee was told about online computer conferencing (and internal network), 5of6 wanted to fire me. There was some topic drift to non-business related subjects ... but people usually responded well to criticism about such comments. However, corporate really objected to any critique and/or criticism of IBM business. This eventually led to corporate sanctioned discussions with moderators (that filtered unwanted/undesirable comments). From IBM Jargon:
Also had "HSDT" program and in early 80s, we were working with
director of National Science Foundation and were suppose to get $20M
to interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers. Then congress cuts the
budget, some other things happen and eventually NSF releases RFP (in
part based on what we already had running) ... old post with 28Mar1986
preliminary release.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#12
Internal politics prevent us from bidding, NSF director tries to help
by writing IBM a letter 3Apr1986, NSF Director to IBM Chief Scientist and IBM Senior VP and director of Research, copying IBM CEO) with support from other agencies ... but that just makes the internal politics worse
(further aggrevated along the way with comments that what we already
have running was at least 5yrs ahead of all RFP responses). The iBM
communication group was internally distributing enormous amounts of
(SNA) misinformation (including to the corporate executive committee)
about the (non-SNA) internal network, NSF networking, customer demand
for high-speed, etc. Somebody collected a lot of the misinformation
email (communication group executives) and forwarded it to us. In the
past, I posted to (usenet) a.f.c. an heavily clipped and redacted
subset (to protect the guilty). As regional networks connected into
the centers, it grows into the NSFNET backbone (precursor to modern
internet)
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
NSF posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
online computer conferencing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
In the late 80s, there was uptic with new college freshman at start of fall semester discovering online groups and realizing they sometimes could get online to do their homework. Then with the advent of AOL in the early 90s ... came "eternal september" ... students of all grades trying year around to get others to do their homework.
More than decade earlier, I had taken 2hr into to computers/fortran and within a year, the univ. hires me fulltime to be responsible for the IBM productin mainframe systems. Then before I graduate, I'm hired fulltime into small group in the Boeing CFO's office to help with the formation of Boeing Computer Services (consolidate all computers into a independent business unit to better monetize the investment, including offering services to non-Boeing entities). Big battles with the head of the Renton datacenter ... which I thought was possibly largest in the world ($200M-$300M, 60s$$$, in IBM mainframes). When I graduate, instead of staying at Boeing, I join IBM science center at MIT campus.
Early 80s, I'm (also) introduced to John Boyd and would sponsor his
briefings.
http://radio-weblogs.com/0107127/stories/2002/12/23/genghisJohnChuckSpinneysBioOfJohnBoyd.html
other refs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_(military_strategist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-Maneuverability_theory
https://www.amazon.com/Warfighting-Maneuver-Warfare-Marine-Corps/dp/1853671983
https://www.professionalmilitaryeducation.com/episode-eleven-john-boyd-maneuver-warfare-and-mcdp-1/
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/40-years-of-the-fighter-mafia/
http://www.aviation-history.com/airmen/boyd.htm
https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/ANewConceptionOfWar.pdf
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/john-boyds-art-of-war/
He had story about being very vocal that the electronics across the
trail wouldn't work. Possibly as punishment, he is put in command of
"spook base" (about the same time I'm at Boeing) some refs:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Igloo_White
One of Boyd's biographies has "spook base" a $2.5B windfall for IBM
(again 60s$$$, ten times Renton).
boyd postings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Main memory as an I/O device Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 12:00:39 -1000MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> writes:
within year of taking intro to computers/fortran, univ hired me fulltime to be responsible for mainframe systems. They had replaced 709/1401 with (768kbyte) 360/67 for TSS/360 ... which didn't quite come to production fruition ... so spent it time running as 360/65 with os/360.
Univ. shutdown dataceenter on the weekends and I could have the whole place mostly to myself ... although sometimes I had to share a litte with IBM SE that played with TSS/360.
Some people came out from cambridge science center and installed CP67/CMS (virtual machines) the last week of Jan1968 ... but it was also limited to playing with on weekends. Spring 1968, the IBM SE and I created a synthetic benchmark, fortran edit, compile, load, and execute. Running 35 synthetic users on CP67/CMS got much better response and throughput than TSS/360 got running running four synthetic users (TSS/360 was really a large lumbering hog).
Early 1970s, I wrote a page-mapped filesystem (memory as I/O device) for CMS, which was deployed inside IBM (but never shipped to customers), that had three times throughput of standard CMS filesystem for moderate I/O benchmarks ... and scaled-up with heavy loads much better than the standard file system. I would claim I learned how not to implement a paged-mapped filesystem by observing TSS/360.
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
page mapped filesystem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
Early 80s, I wrote some number of tomes about the increase in number of users over previous decade from CP67/CMS with 80 users on 360/67 to 300 users with VM370/CMS on 3081 ... was almost exactly proportional to increase in disk throughput ... cpu & memory increased by nearly a factor of 50 while disk throughput only increased by a factor of 3-5 times (aka relative system throughput had declined by a factor of ten times ... rather than having 4000 users, only had 300).
Top disk division executive took exception and assigned the division performance group to refute my claims, after a few weeks they basically came back and said I had slightly understated the problem.
getting to play disk engineer posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Main memory as an I/O device Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 12:36:35 -1000Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:
The problem is that OS/360 heritage made enormous use of multi-track search in its disk I/O ... mid-60s tradeoff of scarce real memory so filesystem structure was kept on disk and used I/O to linearly search the structure for data locations. Multi-track search locked up the channel, the controller, and the drive (all other devices on the same channel or controller were locked out). A 3330 multi-track search could take 1/3rd second elapsed time. By the mid-70s the trade-off had switched ... for OS/360 descendents, multi-track search was so embedded that they continued to use it for decades.
In any case, one of the horrible response problems for MVS/TSO was anything that involved any file I/O would be severely degraded by these 1/3rd second I/Os.
In the case of the problem the morning of this particlar problem ... while MVS/TSO uses had become accustomed to horrible respose ... having a MVS pack ... doing these multi-track search ... on a VM370/CMS string was locking out CMS user file accesses ... resulted in an immediate severe gradation in response (that they weren't use to).
Operations first said that they would wait until 2nd shift to move the MVS pack off the VM370 string. We then got a 3330 pack with a customized VS1 (another os/360 descendent) that was highly optimized for running under VM370 and mounted it a MVS string drive ... and started it doing lots of multi-track search operations .... that so degraded MVS throughput (including the use of the MVS pack on the VM370 string ... alleviating much of the CMS response problems). The issue was that it was possible to have a highly optimized VS1 system running in a virtual machine on a heavily loaded VM370 370/158-3 (about 1mip) outperform a MVS running on a real 370/168-3 (about 3mips). In any case, operations immediately said they would move the MVS pack if we would move the VS1 pack.
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM TSS Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 12:36:19 -1000David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> writes:
univ had 709 with 1401 for unit record front end when I took two semester hour intro to computers/fortran. the univ. was talked into replacing 709/1401 with 360/67 for tss/360. at the end of the semester the 1401 was (temporarily) replaced with 360/30 (as part of transition to 360/67) and I got programming job to redo 1401 MPIO (tape<->unit record) on 360/30 (they could have just ran 1401 MPIO on 360/30 in 1401 hardware emulation mode, but they apparently wanted to get some 360 experience). I got to design & implement my own monitor, commands, device drivers, interrupt handlers, error recovery, storage management, etc. Univ. shutdown datacenter on weekends and I (mostly) had datacenter all to myself (although 48hrs w/o sleep could make monday morning classes difficult). Within about ten weeks, I had 2000 card assembler program that took 30mins to assemble under os/360 on 360/30 ... for stand-alone version loaded with BPS loader ... or 60mins for version that ran under OS/360 (DCB macros took 5-6 mins elapsed time each).
768kbyte 360/67 then replaced 709 & 360/30 ... and mostly ran os/360 ... tss/360 never quite coming to product fruition. Few months later, I was hired fulltime to be response of os/360 system. On weekends I sometimes had to share the machine with IBM SE who was playing with TSS/360.
Last week Jan1968, three people from the IBM science center came out and installed CP67/CMS. The IBM SE and I put together a simulated edit-compile-load-execute benchmark that I ran with 35 simulated users under CP67 and he ran four simuulated users under TSS/360; the CP67 with 35 users had better interactive response and throughput thatn TSS/360 with four users. TSS/360 was enormous CPU and real storage hog ... IBM did some TSS/360 1mbyte, single processor benchmarks compared to 2mbyte, two processor benchmarks which got 3.8 times the throughput of the single processor. IBM tried to spin that TSS/360 was so sophisticated that its algorithms got nearly four times the thoughput with just twice the hardware ... when realisticly TSS/360 needed over mbyte of real storage just to handle the kernel before it could start getting any user work done.
Before I graduate, I'm hired fulltime into small group in the Boeing CFO office to help with the formation of Boeing Computer Services (consolidate all dataprocessing into independent business unit to bettern monitize the investment, even offering services to non-Boeing entities). I thought Renton was possibly largest datacenter in the world, something like $200M-$300M in 360 gear (60s dollar), 360/65s were arriving faster than they could be installed, boxes constantly staged in the hallways around the machine room. They get me a 1mbyte single process 360/67 to play with and they bring up the dual processor 360/67 to Seattle from Boeing Huntsville (that had been configured as two 360/65 running OS/360).
When I graduate, instead of staying at Boeing, I join the cambridge science center. I do a page-mapped filesystem for CP67/CMS (later ported to VM370/CMS) that never ships to customers but I get it deployed at a lot of installations (one of my hobbies after joining IBM was production operating systems for internal datacenters, including the online world-wide sales&marketing HONE systems). In moderately heavy filesystem benchmarks get three times the throughput of standard CMS filesystem ... I would say I learned what *NOT* to do for paged-mapped filesystem from TSS/360.
page mapped filesystem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
TSS/370 finally starts to come into production quality ... a lot of performance work was done after they cut the organization from 1200 people to 20 people and they start getting 370/168 machines with 4mbytes of memory (enough to start running applications w/o heavy page thrashing). I had interactions off and on with the group through the mid-80s.
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM TSS Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 20:51:07 -1000David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> writes:
there was project with AT&T to port UNIX on top of TSS kernel as moving to 370 ... started before Amdahl's GOLD/UTS.
Issue was that both IBM & Amdahl UNIX ran in VM370 virtual machine ... because the field maintenance engineers required mainframe (real hardware) error recovery and recording ... and to add that (mainframe hardware error recovery/recording) to "native" UNIX was several times larger than the straight forward 370 port.
SSUP was stripped down TSS/370 kernel (with mainframe error recovery/recording) with UNIX APIs layered on top.
Although SSUP+UNIX had significant better performance (especially with multiprocessor) than Amdahl UTS ... but there apparently was politics inside AT&T. I would see Amdahl people fairly regularly at Stanford SLAC sponsored monthly mainframe meeting ... and we would go out afterwards to the Oasis (which has since closed) on El Camino ... just north of stanford shopping center ... and they would tell lots of the internal Amdahl politics. Simpson, from Houston HASP, had left IBM and was with Amdahl in Dallas recreating "RASP" ... sort of mainframe MFT+ with real paged mapped filesystem, contrasted to MVS which was MVT with separate virtual address space for each application, but kept the OS/360 filesystem) ... and there was rivalry between him and the people in silicon valley. I tried talking them into making truce with Simpson and sort of doing UTS on stripped down RASP ... similar to what IBM was doing with SSUP, a stripped down TSS with UNIX on top.
I also got email from the Dallas TSS/370 about the internal politics that seemed to be going on inside of AT&T with SSUP and Unix on top.
past posts mentioning TSS/370 SSUP:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#69 Operating systems are old and busted
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#17 Senior Java Developer vs. MVS Systems Programmer (warning: Conley rant)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#61 (slightly OT - Linux) Did IBM bet on the wrong OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#44 someone smarter than Dave Cutler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#2 TSS (Transaction Security System)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#0 Hashing for DISTINCT or GROUP BY in SQL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#73 Speed of Old Hard Disks - adcons
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#96 History of copy on write
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#85 SV: USS vs USS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#67 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#28 which one came first
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#34 Regarding Time Sharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#24 Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#92 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#74 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#17 The SDS 92, its place in history?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#20 {wtf} Tymshare SuperBasic Source Code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#76 Mainframe operating systems?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#80 Mainframe operating systems?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#82 Mainframe operating systems?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#102 SEX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#66 A Computer That Never Was: the IBM 7095
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#93 tablets and desktops was Has Microsoft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#121 IBM Acronyms
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: CR or LF? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 15:04:57 -1000Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
when cp67/cms was installed at the univ (last week Jan1968), it had automagic terminal type identification for 2741 and 1052 terminals and would use the controller "SAD" ccw to switch the type of scanner ... trying operations until it got the scanner that worked for that terminal type.
the univ. had some number of ASCII TTY 33&35 terminals ... and so added ascii support ... extending the automagic logic of switching type of scanner until got the one for the type of terminal.
I wanted to have a single dial-up number for all terminals (single "hunt group") ... which almost worked ... except that while IBM allowed the type of line scanner to be switched for each port ... the line speed was hardwired ... aka 2471 & 1052 were same line-speed ... so could share a common "hunt group" ... but TTY had slower line-speed and would only reliably work on ports that had been wired for that speed.
That was part of motivation for the univ. clone controller project, build channel interface board for Interdata/3, programmed to simulate IBM terminal controller ... with the addition that line-speed was (internally) software controlled and could change speed for each line/port.
Two early "bugs" ... 1) this was 360/67 with "high" resolution timer that updated storage on each tic. When the interface acquired the memory bus for data transfer ... if it held it for too long, the timer storage update would redlight and stop the machine. 2) turns out standard ibm terminal controller convention reversed the bit order in each byte ... leading bit went into low-order bit position (instead of high position). We had overlooked that detail until we were trying to figure out why data in memory was all garbage.
Later this was enhanced to Interdata/4 handling the IBM channel interface and a cluster of Interdata/3s to handle the line/port interfaces. Interdata (and later Perkin/Elmer) sells the boxes as clone controllers and four of us got written up for (some part of) IBM clone controller business.
In 80s, supporting UNIX on mainframe, IBM provided a Series/1 front end terminal controller, programmed to handle wider range of ascii character interrupting (and full-duplex) options
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Who introduced named files? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 15:18:45 -1000Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:
7094/CTSS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System
The Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) was one of the first
time-sharing operating systems; it was developed at the MIT Computation
Center. CTSS was first demonstrated on MIT's IBM 709 in November 1961;
service to MIT users began in the summer of 1963 and was operated until
1973.[1] During part of this time, MIT's influential Project MAC also
ran a CTSS service, but the system did not spread beyond these two
sites.
some of the 7094/CTSS people went to 5th to do multics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics
others went to IBM science center to do virtual machines, online
applications, performance, work profile and capacity planning, invented
GML in 1969 (morphs into international SGML after decade and after
another decade mophs into HTML at CERN).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_CP/CMS
Experimental Time-Sharing System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System#Experimental_Time-Sharing_System
John Backus said in the 1954 summer session at MIT that "By time
sharing, a big computer could be used as several small ones; there would
need to be a reading station for each user".[2] Computers at that time,
like IBM 704, were not powerful enough to implement such system, but at
the end of 1958, MIT's Computation Center nevertheless added a
typewriter input to its 704 with the intent that a programmer or
operator could "obtain additional answers from the machine on a
time-sharing basis with other programs using the machine
simultaneously".[3]
CTSS filesystem implementation (CP40/CMS & CP67/CMS inherited some
similarities)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System#File_system
scientific center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
GML/SGML/HTML posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM S/360 - 370 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 18:59:46 -1000Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> writes:
However, there were still a lot of system services that were outside the kernel, now resident in their own separate virtual address space. To invoke it, the application made kernel call, which swapped address space pointers and entered the non-kernel system services. The problem was that those system services know had pointer to parameters back in the caller's address sapce (not in the non-kernel system services address space). A stop gap was they created "common segment area" ... a one mbyte area that was mapped in every virtual address space (reducing application to 7mbytes out of 16mbyes) ... API parameters would be allocated in the CSA so that same parameter data area appeared in both the application and the non-kernel system services address spaces at the same address.
Problem was by 3033, late 370 ... MVS bloat required CSA size somewhat proportional to number of concurrent applications and number of non-kernel system services ... the CSA was now "common system area" ... typically 5-6 mbytes at many installations (leaving 2-3mbytes for applications) and threatening to increase to 8mbytes (leaving zero mbytes for applications).
370/xa PC created hardware referenced kernel table with entries for every (non-kernel system service) callable routine ... that included the system service address space. PC would save the caller's address space pointer, load the system services address space pointer and enter the system service at specified address.
To go along with PC ... there were instructions where the system service could fetch/store data from the callers address space ... rather than addressing the system services address space.
It allowed moving all sorts of servicee & library code out of the application address space ... and made the address space swap in hardware (rather than kernel call) as well as allowing the system service to access data in the caller's (different) address space.
PR then returned to the calling application address space (swapping address space pointers in hardware rather than kernel call software). Library routines in different address spaces could now be called almost as fast as if they were in the same address space.
Program Call, pg 10-57
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/sites/default/files/inline-files/SA22-7832-00.pdf
(Program Call) PC-number translation, starts on pg 5-27 and then
continues with the entry-table entry 5-30, and then (more) PC-number
translation 5-31, then linkage-table looking and entry-table lookup
(5-33)
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/sites/default/files/inline-files/SA22-7832-00.pdf
now "home-address" and up to 15 "AR-specified address spaces), pg 3-16
and goes on for more than you would ever want to know
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/sites/default/files/inline-files/SA22-7832-00.pdf
trivia: MVS also had another kind of bloat in 3033 area ... where real storage requirements were exceeding 16mbytes (and system could page thrash). real & virtual addressing was 24bit/16mbytes ... they came up with hack for 3033 to use two unused bits in the page table entry ... to prefix the 12bit 4kbyte page number ... allowing to "address" up to 64mbytes of 4kbyte pages. Instruction addressing was still limited to 24bit/16mbyte ... but a 24virtual address could be translated into a 26bit/64mbyte real address.
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Early mainframe security Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 12:25:56 -1000Within a year of taking two semester hr intro to computers/fortran, I was hired fulltime by the univ to be responsible for mainframe systems. Last week some of the people came out from the science center to install CP67. I rewrote lot of the code and sometimes IBM would suggest things to rewrite ... in retrospect, some of the suggestions could have originated with gov. agencies ... I didn't learn about these guys until much later (gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine).
When I graduate, I join the science center. The science center had ported APL\360 to CP67/CMS as CMS\APL ... had to redo the storage management and garbage collection for large demand page virtual memory ... also added API to systems services (like file read/write) ... enabling lots of real-world applications.
One of the remote online CMS\APL early users were the business planners in Armonk corporate hdqtrs that installed the most holiest of corporate assets on the cambridge system (detailed customer information) to do business modeling. We had to demonstrate a very high level of security since the system also had profs, staff, and students online users from some of the univ. in the boston/cambridge area.
Then company got a new CSO that had come from gov. service (at one time head of presidential detail) and I got asked to run around with him and talk about computer security (while a little bit of physical security rubs off on me).
there is MVS folklore about one of the agencies looking at installing MVS ... but before they wanted the "exact" source for all the components they would be running (for review). Company spent $5M investigating the problem before deciding that it was practical.
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Early mainframe security Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 12:58:03 -1000re:
some of the CTSS people had gone to the 5th flr to do Multics and others went to the science center and did virtual machines, the internal network (technology also used for the corporate sponsored BITNET), invented GML in 1969, bunch of online stuff. Somewhat as a result, there was a little friendly rivalry between the 4th and 5th flrs.
One area the gov. and military installation
https://www.multicians.org/sites.html
including
https://www.multicians.org/site-afdsc.html
spring 1979, got a call that some AFDS people wanted to come by to talk
about getting 20 vm/4341 ... they never made it to fall 1979 ... at
which time it had grown 210 (distributed) vm/4341s (large customers
started ordering hundreds of vm/4341s at a time, sort of the leading ege
of the coming distributed computing tsunami). archived multics posting
with old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#email790404
archived afc posting with same old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#email790404b
It had possibly started from early 1979 when I got con'ed into doing
some benchmarks on engineering 4341 for one of national labs (4341 had
yet to ship to customers) ... they were looking at getting 70 4341s for
a compute farm (sort of the leading edge of the coming cluster
supercomputing tsunami). old archived afc posts with some of benchmark
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#0
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: If Memory Had Been Cheaper Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2020 16:10:13 -1000Terry Kennedy <terry-groups@glaver.org> writes:
As undergraduate, I had done a lot of work on CP67 to reduce its fixed
real memory requirements to improve it running on 256kbyte 360/67 ...
including making parts of the kernel pageable (while lot of other stuff
I did as undergraduate shipped in standard CP67, pageable kernel pieces
didn't ship until VM370). In the morph from CP67->VM370, they simplified
and/or dropped a lot of stuff (including all my dynamic adaptive
resource management and scheduling). However, they still managed to
greatly bloat the vm370 fixed real memory (even with pieces of the
kernel pageable). It was so bloated that it wasn't even announced for
(370/125) 256kbyte memory. I get con'ed into getting vm370 running on
370/125 for a Scandinavian ship company (cutting back on the vm370 real
memory bloat).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
I then get con'ed into design of 5-way 370/125 multiprocessor ... up to
five of the 125 microprocessors (which never announced/shipped) ... I
define a microcoded queued interface for dispatching and disk I/O ... VM
kernel puts things on the dispatching list ... but microprocessors pull
things off the dispatching list for execution ... when done ... they
place request block on queue for kernel execution. Do something similar
for disk i/o requests (disk controller, can pull things off for optimal
disk servicing throughput ... not FIFO).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#bounce
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
About the same time I do the 5-way 370/125 effort, Endicott con's me
into doing a lot of work for 138/148 ECPS microcode. Told that 370
instructions drop into microcode on about a byte-for-byte basis with ten
times speed up. There is 6kbytes of available microcode storage and need
to identify the 6kbytes of highest kernel execution pathlengths. Old
archive post that identified the 6kbytes of highest executed kernel
pathlengths accounted for 79.55% of kernel exeuction time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21
I also established that all the 138/148 ECPS changes could also be done for the 125 5-way multiproceessor. However, then Endicott complained that the 125 5-way multiprocessor would overlap the throughput of the 148. In the escalation meetings I had to do the arguments for both sides of the table ... however corporate decided that the 125 5-way multiprocessor wouldn't get announced.
Note that first half of the 70s, internally there was the Future System
project ... that was completely different than 370 and was going to
completely replace 370s original motivation was to signficantly raise
barrier for clone controllers (370 efforts were being killed off and the
lack of new 370 stuff during the period is credited with giving clone
370 processor makers market foothold). When FS imploded, there
was a mad rush to get stuff back into 370 product pipelines ...
and quick & dirty 3033 and 3081 efforts were kicked off in parallel
some more details
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
Head of POK managed to convince corporate to kill off the vm370 product, shutdown the vm370 group (burlington/mass), and transfer all the people to POK to work on MVS/XA (or otherwise MVS/XA wouldn't be able to ship on time). Eventually Endicott managed to save the vm370 product mission, but had to reconstitute a VM370 development group from scratch. Endicott also tried to have VM370 integrated into every 138/148 shipped (something like current LPAR) ... but they weren't able to get that through corporate.
trivia: POK wasn't going to tell the VM370 group until the last minute to minimize the number of people that manage to escape. The information leaked and there was a witch hunt for who leaked the information (fortunately for me, nobody leaked who it was). This was in the early days of DEC VMS and one of the jokes is that the head of (IBM) POK was one of the largest contributors to VMS.
By the 80s, there was significant more bloat for both VM370 and CMS. They send me an early XT/370 to play with and do a lot of benchmarks showing page thrashing with its 384kbyte 370 memory. Endicott blames me for a six month slip in announce and ship to customers while they upgrade 370 memory from 384kbyte to 512kbyte. The XT/370 processor doesn't do any device I/O ... everything is interprocessor communication with application running on 8088 ... doing I/O to the PC/XT devices. The page thrashing and throughput was aggrevated by all CP paging & CMS file I/O was done to the XT hard disk at 100ms per record. I also contributed a page replacement algorithm that was more effective ... especially in constrained memory environment.
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: If Memory Had Been Cheaper Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2020 16:29:31 -1000drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) writes:
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#39 If Memory Had Been Cheaper
note error in the above ... it was done at the palo alto science center (not los gatos lab) ... trivia: palo alto science center also did the 370/145 APL microcode assist (roughly ran apl applications at throughput of 370/168 w/o microcode). topic drift ... nearly all low & mid range 360s & 370s implemented in native microcode in avg ten native microcode instructions per 360/370 instruction. other drift: I had part of Los Gatos wing with offices and labs.
similar but different, not far from palo alto science center (on page
mill), SLAC (on sandhill, in combination with CERN) did 168E in late
70s... hardware processor that implement problem state 370 for fortran
program execution with throughput of 370/168 ... placing at sensors
along the accelerator for initial data reduction. then in the early
80s, replaced/upgraded with 3081E
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/getdoc/slac-pub-3069.pdf
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/getdoc/slac-pub-3680.pdf
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/getdoc/slac-pub-3753.pdf
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: If Memory Had Been Cheaper Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2020 11:04:02 -1000Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
Original CP67 was FIFO, at the univ. as undergraduate in the 60s, I changed it to ordered seek ... also did chained requests for paging in one channel program (ordered by rotation, if didn't require seek) ... instead of separate channel program/SIO for every page (which was one of the things retained for vm370, but a lot of other stuff was dropped and/or at least drastically simplified).
for 370/125 ... the controller had real-time rotational position, there was delay for rotation and delay for seek arm ... there were some situations where could do a further seek delay might be less than closer arm rotation delay ... it was possible because the whole I/O request queue was exposed to the controller ... and could do real-time reordering ... not only knowing the disk arm position but also the real-time rotational position.
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: If Memory Had Been Cheaper Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2020 12:03:06 -1000Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> writes:
cp67 peaked around 80 page I/O transfers per second with 2301 fixed head drums. with rotational chaining got it up to 270 page I/O transfers per second (nine transfer per two rotations, drum formatted nine 4k pages per pair of tracks with one of the 4k records spanning the end of one track and the start of the next).
2301 & 2303 fixed head drums, except 2301 read/wrote on four heads in parallel, 1/4 the number of "tracks", each track four times larger, and four times the transfer rate of 2303 ... 60 revs/second, 9 page transfers per pair of revolutions; (60/2)*9 = 270/sec.
CP67 had a special CHFREE function ... that was invoked by the interrupt handler has soon as device handler got past initial phase ... which drastically cut the device redrive latency (for queued requests).
One of the things that got simplified in morph to VM370 ... queued request redrive wasn't checked until previous device interrupt had been completely handled ... significantly increasing latency for starting queued requests.
After transfer from cambridge science center to san jose research in later part of the 70s ... I got to wander around most IBM and customer locations in silicon valley ... including bldg14 (disk engineering) and bldg15 (disk product test) across the street from SJR. At the time 14/15 were running dedicated, prescheduled, stand-alone mainframe testing, 7x24. The had recently tried MVS (for some concurrent testing), but MVS had 15min mean-time-between failure in that environment. I offerred to rewrite input/output supervisor to make in bullet proof and never fail ... so they could do any amount of on-demand concurrent testing (creatly improving productivity).
Downside was they started pointing the figure at my software when ever there was a problem ... and I spent a lot of time playing disk engineer shooting their hardware problems. I had also effectively reimplemented CHFREE in VM370 ... significantly cutting redrive latency.
This turned up another problem in the new 3880 disk controller. While it supported 3mbye/sec transfer with special hardware bypass ... everything else was handled by a really slow JIB-prime processor (making everything but actual data transfer much slower than 3830 controller that had a fast horisontal microprogram processor). Trying to mask how slow the 3880 had become they tried to present end of channel program interrupt ... before the 3880 was actually done ... hoping that the extra processing would be hidden between the 3880 queued the end-of-operation interrupt and the time the system tried to redrive a new I/O.
Bldg15 product test got #2 or #3 operational engineering processor for doing disk i/o channel testing and had the first 3033 outside POK and the first 4341 outside Endicott. Since product channel i/o testing used trivial amounts of CPU ... we put up private online service on the 3033 with a 3830 and two spare strings of 3330 (16) drives.
Early monday morning, I got irate call from bldg15 asking what I had done to the online service software ... online response had horribly deteriorated. They repeatedly denied making any change ... until I tracked down that they had swapped the 3830 controller for a test 3880 controller. 3880 was presenting ending interrupt ... I was almost immediately responding with SIOF for queued request, because 3880 was still busy, it responded with cc=1, SM+BUSY (controller busy), and i had to requeue the request and wait for the CUE (control unit busy end) interrupt before retrying the request again. This was six months before any 3880s shipped to customers and they came up with some 3880 microcode changes that tried to do a better job of masking the problem.
I write an IBM internal only report about the work for bldg14&15 and happen to mention the MVS 15min MTBF ... for which the MVS group attempts to get me separated from the company ... we that fails, they try and make my career in IBM irritable in other ways.
getting to play disk engineer posts in 14&15
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
Note that 3090 had design number of channels based on total channel busy for each channel assuming 3830 controller performance, However, when they started real live testing ... they found 3880 drastically increased channel busy for each operation ... and as a result 3090 had to significantly increase the number of channels (trying to achieve desired total system throughput). The increase in number of channels required an extra TCM ... and 3090 product group semi-facetiously claimed that the 3880 product group had to credit 3090 group for the manufacturing cost of the additional TCM for each 3090.
Note IBM marketing then respun the significant increase in number of 3090 channels as it being a marvelous I/O throughput machine (rather than the increase in channels to compensate for the enormous increase in channel busy caused by the slow 3880 controller).
Other channel trivia: In 1980, STL was bursting at the seams and planning on moving 300 people from the IMS group to offsite bldg, with dataprocessing service back to STL datacenter. The people had tried remote 3270 support and found the human factors totally unacceptable. I get con'ed into doing channel extender support so they can have local channel attached 3270 controllers at the offsite bldg (weren't able to see response difference between offsite and in STL).
channel-extender posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
Hardware vendor tries to get IBM to approve allowing them to ship my support ... but there is group in POK playing with some serial stuff that gets releasing my stuff vetoed (they were afraid that if it was in the market, it would make it more difficult to ship their stuff).
In 1988, I'm asked to help LLNL standardize some serial stuff they are playing with that quickly becomes Fibre Channel Standard (including some of the stuff I had done in 1980). Then in 1990, the POK people get their stuff released with ES/9000 as ESCON (when it is already obsolete). Then some of the POK people become involved with Fibre Channel Standard and define an extremely heavy weight protocol that drastically reduces the native throughput ... which is eventually released as FICON. The most recent mainframe PEAK IO benchmark I've found is Z196 that used 104 FICON to get 2M IOPS. At that time, there was a Fibre Channel announced for E5-2600 blade claiming over million IOPS (two such Fibre Channel have higher throughput than 104 FICON running over 104 Fibre Channel).
FICON posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Watch AI-controlled virtual fighters take on an Air Force pilot on August 18th Date: 12 Aug 2020 Blog: FacebookWatch AI-controlled virtual fighters take on an Air Force pilot on August 18th
disclaimer: I was introduced to John Boyd in the early 80s and would sponsor his briefings at IBM. The first time I tried to do it thru (san jose) plant site employee education, at first they agreed. Then as I provided more information ... especially how to prevail in a competitive situation ... they changed their mind, saying that IBM spends a great deal of money educating managers on how to deal with employees ... and sponsoring Boyd could be considered not in the best interests. They suggested that I restrict audience to senior members of competitive analysis departments. The first presentation was in the San Jose Research auditorium, open to all.
John has story about using E/M theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_(military_strategist)#Military_theories
to redo the original F15 design, cutting the weight nearly in half. Then he was responsible for YF16 and YF17 (which becomes F16 and F18). F16 had relaxed stability design
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxed_stability
which required computer controlled fly-by-wire (pilot provides intention, and computers decide how to do it).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-by-wire
How the F-16 Became the World's First Fly-By-Wire Combat Aircraft
http://www.f-16.net/articles_article13.html
... note in 89/90 time-frame, the Commandant of the Marine Corps leverage Boyd for a corps makeover (same time that IBM was also desperately in need of makeover)
John Boyd - USAF. The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of Air Warfare
http://www.aviation-history.com/airmen/boyd.htm
During the 1950s, John Boyd dominated fighter aviation in the U.S. Air
Force. His fame came on the wings of the quirky and treacherous F-100;
the infamous "Hun." Boyd was known throughout the Air Force as
"Forty-Second Boyd," because he had a standing offer to all pilots
that if they could defeat them in simulated air-to-air combat in under
40 seconds, he would pay them $40. Like any gunslinger with a name and
a reputation, he was called out many times. As an instructor at the
Fighter Weapons School (FWS) at Nellis AFB, he fought students, cadre
pilots, Marine and Navy pilots, and pilots from a dozen countries, who
were attending the FWS as part of the Mutual Defense Assistance Pact.
... he never lost ... he always did it within 20secs ... asked why he specified 40sec, he replied that there might be somebody in the world almost as good as he was and he might need the extra time.
Boyd was equally famous in the classroom where he developed the "Aerial Attack Study." Until Boyd came along, fighter pilots thought that air combat was an art rather than a science; that it could never be codified. Boyd proved them wrong when he demonstrated that for every maneuver there is a series of counter maneuvers. And there is a counter to every counter. Afterwards, when fighter pilots attacked (or were attacked), they knew every option open to their adversary and how to respond. After the study was declassified, foreign pilots passing through Nellis took it home where it changed the way every air force in the world flies and fights. Even today, more than 40 years later, nothing substantial has been added to the Aerial Attack Study.
Boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Watch AI-controlled virtual fighters take on an Air Force pilot on August 18th Date: 12 Aug 2020 Blog: Facebookre:
much of my career (starting long before I met Boyd), frequently the first thing I did when I woke up each morning was to ask myself if I was still willing to bet my job today. Starting early at IBM, I would be periodically told I had no career and could expect no promotions or raises. Something I could easily relate to; by the time that Boyd passes in 1997, the USAF had pretty much disowned him and it was the Marines at Arlington. Something of a surprise then that USAF dedicated Boyd Hall in 1999 (they may have felt safe?, now that he had passed). From 1999 dedication:
There are two career paths in front of you, and you have to choose
which path you will follow. One path leads to promotions, titles, and
positions of distinction.... The other path leads to doing things that
are truly significant for the Air Force, but the rewards will quite
often be a kick in the stomach because you may have to cross swords
with the party line on occasion. You can't go down both paths, you
have to choose. Do you want to be a man of distinction or do you want
to do things that really influence the shape of the Air Force? To be
or to do, that is the question. Colonel John R. Boyd, USAF 1927-1997
From the dedication of Boyd Hall, United States Air Force Weapons
School, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. 17 September 1999
... snip ...
A Boyd acolyte, graduate of the 1st USAF Academy class and on fast
track to general when he says Boyd destroyed his career by challenging
to do what was right. At the time, Burton was in Pentagon procurement
and dealing with Bradley ... later wrote a book about experience.
https://www.amazon.com/Pentagon-Wars-Reformers-Challenge-Guard-ebook/dp/B00HXY969W/
HBO turned into movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars
related NYT article: Corrupt from top to bottom
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/03/books/corrupt-from-top-to-bottom.html
We've continued to have Boyd strategy conferences at Marine Corps
Univ. in Quantico ... and the battle still rages between the
attritionists and the reform maneuverists ... one conference, I was
seated next to one the "anonymous" authors of this satire
https://fabiusmaximus.com/2011/05/11/27461/
originally published 2010 in Marine Corps Gazette
https://mca-marines.org/magazine-category/attritionist-letter/
Boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Watch AI-controlled virtual fighters take on an Air Force pilot on August 18th Date: 12 Aug 2020 Blog: Facebookre:
and another Boyd story ... USAF asked Boyd to review the latest USAF air-to-air missile, they show him documentation and a film showing the missile hitting flares on a drone every time. Boyd says it will be lucky to hit 10% of the time and asks them to replay the film and asks them to stop just before it hits the flare. He asks what kind of guidance does it have and eventually gets them to say heat-seeking, he then asks what kind of heat-seeking and eventually they say pin-point heat-seeking, he then asks them what is the hottest part of a jet plane and they say engine. He says nope, its in the plume 30yrds behind the plane. The only time the missile will hit is when it is being shot straight up the tail-pipe. They gather up all their stuff and leave w/o saying a further word.
Roll forward to Vietnam and he is proved right. The USAF one star in Vietnam grounds all USAF fighters and have the USAF missiles replace with Navy sidewinders that have better than twice the hit rate of the USAF missile. He lasts 3months before he is replaced and called on the carpet back in the pentagon. He had violated fundamental rules of the pentagon ... he had reduced USAF budget share by not using USAF missiles and worst of all had increased Navy budget share by using Navy missiles (the war viewed from the distance of the pentagon only involved money and service rivalry).
and another ... he says that he spent 18months making sure
there was written authorization for everything presented to congress
... however SECDEF still tried to prosecute for the time article
(taken from the congressional hearing) ... gone behind paywall, but
mostly lives free at wayback machine (may have to select individual
pages no, rather than just "next", to get around missing pages).
https://web.archive.org/web/20070320170523/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953733,00.html
also
https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,953733,00.html
at the time Boyd also had cover in congress ... which wouldn't exist in this day and age.
Boyd was very critical of F111 and the original F15 swing-wing design ... before he eliminated the swing wing and cut the weight nearly in half. The weight of the swing wing pivot infrastructure more than offset any swing advantage
I've also pointed out that Boeing came to same conclusion in its SST
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_2707 A key design feature of the
2707 was its use of a swing wing configuration. During development the
required weight and size of this mechanism continued to grow, forcing
the team to start over using a conventional delta wing. Rising costs
and the lack of a clear market led to its cancellation in 1971 before
two prototypes had been completed.
... i took two semester hr intro to computers/fortran and within a year was hired fulltime by the univ. to be responsible for univ. academic & administration mainframe systems. Then before I graduate I'm hired fulltime into a small group in the Boeing CFO office to help with the formation of Boeing Computer Services (consolidate all dataprocessing into independent business unit to better monetize the investment). 747#3 was flying skies of Seattle getting FAA flat certification. There was a 747 cabin mockup in bldg south of Boeing Field ... many of the early press photos were taken in that mockup. In the tour they would claim that 747 would be served by no fewer than four jetways (because of the number of people ... although I don't remember ever seeing even four). Got to hear a lot of 747 folklore from 747 engineers.
I thought Renton datacenter was possibly largest in the world with something like $200M-$300M (60s dollars) in IBM 360s; 360/65s were arriving faster than they could be installed with boxes constantly staged in the hallways around the machine room. There was a disaster plan to replicate Renton datacenter up at the new 747 plant in Everett ... Mt. Rainier could heat up and the resulting mud slide would take out Renton datacenter. When I graduate, I join the IBM Cambridge Science Center (instead of staying at Boeing).
Boyd tells about being very vocal that the electronics across the
trail won't work ... so possibly as punishment they put him in command
of "spook base" (about the same time I'm at Boeing) ... "spook base"
reference, gone 404 but lives on at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Igloo_White
Boyd biography says that "spook base" was a $2.5B "windfall" for IBM (60s dollars).
Boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
Science Center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Watch AI-controlled virtual fighters take on an Air Force pilot on August 18th Date: 12 Aug 2020 Blog: Facebookre:
AI wins flawless victory against human F-16 fighter pilot in DARPA
dogfight
https://taskandpurpose.com/military-tech/darpa-artificial-intelligence-dogfight-competition
around 1980, the author of REXX did a multi-user 3270 spacewar game ... involved a server with clients on the same machine or different machines (used the internal IBM SPM modification, which was supported over the internal network). Almost immediately "robot" players appeared that were dominating all the human players ... making movements much faster than human players. To somewhat level play field, movements faster that nominal human response, energy use was increased non-linearly
F-16 first (computer controlled) fly-by-wire ... humans don't have fast enough reaction time to control relaxed-stability airframe .. AI could just be taking it one step further.
SPM was originally done by the IBM Pisa Scientific Center for CP67 ... which was then ported to VM370. It was a superset of combination of the later VMCF+IUCV+SMSG ... in fact the original product VNET/RSCS shipped with SPM support ... even tho SPM support never shipped in VM370.
I had done the autolog command as porting lots of my changes to VM370
... originally done for automated benchmarking ... automatigically
spawning specific benchmarks ... but quickly also become used for
automated operator and service virtual machines. old email about my
migration from cp67->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
Some of the stuff from my enhanced production systems for internal datacenters was picked up for vm370 release 3. Other stuff was part of my separately changed for dynamic adaptive resource manager ... and other stuff in vm370 release 4 multiprocessor support.
long winded archived post that has some SPM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#16
Round One: Machine beats man in air-combat exercise
https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/future-of-warfare/machine-beats-man-in-air-combat-simulations/
F16 fly-by-wire is already computer controlled ... human provides intention, but computer figures out how to do it .... human response isn't capable of handling relaxed stability airframe
F16 had relaxed stability design
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxed_stability
which required computer controlled fly-by-wire (pilot provides
intention, and computers decide how to do it).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-by-wire
How the F-16 Became the World's First Fly-By-Wire Combat Aircraft
http://www.f-16.net/articles_article13.html
Round One: Machine beats man in air-combat exercise
https://publicintegrity.org/national-security/future-of-warfare/machine-beats-man-in-air-combat-simulations/
A Dogfight Renews Concerns About AI's Lethal Potential. Alphabet's
DeepMind pioneered reinforcement learning. A California company used
it to create an algorithm that defeated an F-16 pilot in a simulation.
https://www.wired.com/story/dogfight-renews-concerns-ai-lethal-potential/
... google was re-orged with Alphabet as parent company for a lot of things that weren't directly search related ... quantum, AI, self-driving, etc ... a lot required computers fast enough to do things in "real-time" (or faster) ... as in example from a 2011 radar tutorial that said to do real-time targeting of stealth aircraft it needed more computing than available at the time. YE2017 article about self-driving cars was they had hundred times that amount of computing.
Boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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