From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: MVS Group Wrath Date: 29 Jun 2021 Blog: FacebookI've mention when I transferred to San Jose, I was allowed to wander around most IBM and customer datacenters in the area. One of the places was disk engineering and product test (bldgs 14&15) across the street that were doing 7x24, around the clock, prescheduled mainframe testing. They said that they had recently tried MVS, but MVS had 15min mean-time-between-failure in that environment. I offered to rewrite input/output supervisor to be bullet proof and never fail so that they could do any amount of concurrent on-demand testing greatly improving productivity. I wrote an internal IBM report on the work and happened to mention the MVS MTBF which brings down the wrath of the MVS group on my head (informally I was told they tried to have me separated from the company, when that didn't work they would try and make my career as unpleasant as possible ... the joke was on them, I had already been told multiple times that I had no career at IBM). Downside was when engineers were having problems, I would get a call ... and have to go diagnose the situation which invariably turned out to be some hardware issue.
I had rewritten a lot of CP67 code as undergraduate in the 60s ... including implementing a dynamic adaptive resource manager (which IBM picked up and shipped in the product). In the morph of CP67->VM370, there was lots of code simplified and/or dropped (things like SMP multiprocessor support ... as well as a lot of my stuff, including dynamic adaptive resource manager). during Future System period (totally different than 360/370 and was going to completely replace 370), there was internal politics that was killing off 370 activity (lack of new IBM 370 during the FS era is credited with giving clone 370 system makers market foothold) ... however I continued work on 360/370, including periodically ridiculing FS. Then when FS imploded, there was mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 product pipelines (including quick & dirty 3033 and 3081 kicked off in parallel). One of my hobbies after joining IBM was enhanced production operating systems for internal datacenters ... and some of it was picked up and included for VM370 Release 3.
The 23june1969 unbundling announcement had started charging for lots of stuff including (application) software ... however they managed to make the case that operating system software should still be free. In the failure of FS, there was decision to transition to charging for operating software (as countermeasure to the rise of 370 clone competition) and my dynamic adaptive resource manager was selected as guinea pig. During the process, some expert from corporate reviewed it and said he wouldn't sign off unless I had manual turning parameters (which was the current state of the art, like MVS which had enormous array of manual tuning parameters, old IBM joke about "featuring" bugs).
I tried to explain dynamic adaptive, but it fell on deaf ears ... so I added tuning parameters implemented with a "SRM" command and implemented in a "SRM" module (part of ridiculing MVS "SRM"). The formulas were documented and code implementation published ... few people caught the "joke". From OR (operation resource), the range of the SRM values were less than the dynamic adaptive values (which were implemented in "STP" ... a take-off on the "racer's edge" from the car additive TV adverts) ... which then could compensate for any manual SRM value settings .... "SRM" to ridicule MVS and racer's edge "STP" where it all really happened.
resource management & scheduling posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
getting to play disk engineer posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
23jun1969 unbundling posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundling
recent posts mentioning wrath of the MVS group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#78 IBM Disk Engineering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#90 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#52 Some IBM Research RJ reports
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#16 IBM RAS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#78 z/VM Live Guest Relocation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#33 IBM Disks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#24 Online Computer Conferencing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#53 S/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#107 IBM HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#6 3880 & 3380
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#28 IBM Cottle Plant Site
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#30 Departure Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#62 IBM / How To Stuff A Wild Duck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#23 IBM Zcloud - is it just outsourcing ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#40 IBM Mainframe
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM ESCON Experience Date: 30 Jun 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
bus&tag was half-duplex with lots of back&forth protocol chatter
... where the protocol chatter latency started to dominate as the
bandwidth significantly increases. what I did in 1980 for
channel-extender was download the channel programs and run them at the
remote end while the extender connection ran full-duplex (eliminating
the enormous half-duplex protocol chatter latency as the data rate and
distance increased). This was used by NCAR (boulder) in the mid-80s
for supercomputer NAS filesystem using 370 "server" mainframe and IBM
disks. The supercomputer would request some data, which may or may not
have to be staged from tape to disk ... then doing "3rd party
transfer" ... where data was directly transferred (reads&writes)
between the IBM disks and the requesting supercomputer. That
implementation was also part of the fibre channel standard (FCS)
... which POK layered their heavy-weight high latency chatter protocol
on top of FCS for FICON.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICON
Note that Hursley did something similar originally for their
harrier/9333 disks that ran over serial copper (initially full-duplex
serial 80mbit/sec copper, 16mbyte/sec aggregate, later doubled to
160mbit/sec, 32mbyte/sec aggregate), that similarly downloaded
packetized SCSI I/O programs. I wanted to tweak the Hursley protocol
to be 1/8, 1/4 interoperable FCS able to run through FCS (64port
non-blocking) switches & connections ... but instead it became (IBM,
non-interoperable with FCS) ... note the following says SSA was "over
taken" by FCS ... even tho FCS predated SSA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Storage_Architecture
In HA/CMP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_High_Availability_Cluster_Multiprocessing
we used both FCS and (IBM) 9333 in our (IBM) HA/CMP product ... but
after cluster-scale-up was transferred (announced as IBM supercomputer
for technical/scientific *ONLY*) and we were told we couldn't work
with anything having more than four processors ... we leave IBM (and
9333 becomes SSA).
ESCON (Enterprise Systems Connection)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESCON
channel-extender posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
FICON posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
HA/CMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
specific posts mentioning harrier, 9333, serial storage architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#60 S/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#57 HA/CMP, HA/6000, Harrier/9333, STK Iceberg & Adstar Seastar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#75 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#73 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#95 Retrieving data from old hard drives?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#69 Fibre Channel is still alive and kicking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#19 Fibre Chanel Vs FICON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#53 IBM 'major announcement' points to deal on chip manufacturing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#18 1950: Northrop's Digital Differential Analyzer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#99 SHARE Blog: News Flash: The Mainframe (Still) Isn't Dead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#96 SHARE Blog: News Flash: The Mainframe (Still) Isn't Dead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#22 Assembler vs. COBOL--processing time, space needed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#2 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#30 X86 server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#80 360/20, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#77 ESCON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#69 ESCON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#13 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#46 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#31 "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#62 Article says mainframe most cost-efficient platform
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#61 IBM to announce new MF's this year
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#63 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#7 What was the historical price of a P/390?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#44 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#31 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#32 Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#49 big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#52 Serial vs. Parallel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#43 Barbless
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#20 cluster-in-a-rack
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#47 "25th Anniversary of the Personal Computer"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#55 54 Processors?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#46 IBM's mini computers--lack thereof
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005m.html#35 IBM's mini computers--lack thereof
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#50 something like a CTC on a PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003o.html#54 An entirely new proprietary hardware strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#15 Unisys A11 worth keeping?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#11 Climate, US, Japan & supers query
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#69 Block oriented I/O over IP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#18 Disk caching and file systems. Disk history...people forget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#12 Small IBM shops
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#15 tcp/ip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13 SSA
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM ESCON Experience Date: 30 Jun 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
... somewhat totally unrelated trivia: Communication group was fiercely fighting off distributed computing and client/server (trying to preserve their dumb terminal paradigm) and GPD/ADStar was starting to claim that the communication group was going to be the cause of GPD/ADStar demise ... which was seeing drop in disk sales with data being migrated to more distributed computing friendly platforms. GDP/ADStar had come up with a number of solutions, but they were constantly being vetoed by the communication group (because they had corporate strategic responsibility for everything that crossed datacenter walls).
Somewhat as last resort the GPD/ADStar software executive started
investing in distributed computing startups that would used IBM
disks. In the 80s, US competiveness was all the rage and congress
modifies some laws that allow national labs to spinoff technology as
commercial products. LANL spins off their filesystem as DATATree, LLNL
spins off their filesystem as UNITree, and NCAR spins off their
filesystem as Mesa Archival. We are asked to get involved in all three
(especially Mesa Archival). DATATree/UNITree ref:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113582
we were also actively involved with both LLNL & NCAR seeing their filesystems running on HA/CMP.
trivia: more than decade earlier I had implemented CMSBACK at SJR and it was deployed at a number of IBM datacenters in silicon valley, including the US Consolidated (sales&marketing support) online HONE system up in Palo Alto. CMSBACK then gets client support and is released to customers as workstation datasave (WSDF) which morphs into ADSM and then TSM.
HA/CMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
datatree, unitree, and/or mesa archival posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#63 Distributed Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#52 IBM CEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#116 Next Generation Global Prediction System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#60 S/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#57 HA/CMP, HA/6000, Harrier/9333, STK Iceberg & Adstar Seastar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#41 The Rise and Fall of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#47 Think you know web browsers? Take this quiz and prove it
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#63 SABRE after the 7090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#50 Can anyone remember "drum" storage?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#73 Demolishing the Tile Turtle
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#25 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#73 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#67 Zero-copy write on modern motherboards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#63 Zero-copy write on modern motherboards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#26 [Poll] Computing favorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#47 GRS Control Unit ( Was IBM mainframe operations in the 80s)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#68 30 yr old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#15 Quixotically on-topic post, still on topic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#9 3270s & other stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#46 Slackware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#54 IBM, Lawrence Livermore aim to meld supercomputing, industries
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#47 IBM, Lawrence Livermore aim to meld supercomputing, industries
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#27 NASA unplugs their last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#34 Last Word on Dennis Ritchie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#58 Other early NSFNET backbone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#85 3270 Emulator Software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#71 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#69 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#42 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#38 big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#58 Disksize history question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#51 Barbless
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008l.html#20 IBM-MAIN longevity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#47 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#16 V2X2 vs. Shark (SnapShot v. FlashCopy)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#35 V2X2 vs. Shark (SnapShot v. FlashCopy)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#32 V2X2 vs. Shark (SnapShot v. FlashCopy)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#31 V2X2 vs. Shark (SnapShot v. FlashCopy)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#30 V2X2 vs. Shark (SnapShot v. FlashCopy)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#3 Why so little parallelism?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#20 cluster-in-a-rack
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#10 What's a mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#27 Why so little parallelism?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#20 Why so little parallelism?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#19 Why so little parallelism?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#29 CRAM, DataCell, and 3850
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#19 Device and channel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#16 Device and channel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#15 Device and channel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#12 Device and channel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#29 FW: Is FICON good enough, or is it the only choice we get?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#75 DASD Architecture of the future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#53 A Dark Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#6 IBM says AMD dead in 5yrs ... -- Microsoft Monopoly vs. IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#31 360/370 disk drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#29 360/370 disk drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#31 general networking is: DEC eNet: was Vnet : Unbelievable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#61 GE 625/635 Reference + Smart Hardware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#46 What goes into a 3090?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#66 commodity storage servers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#22 Disk caching and file systems. Disk history...people forget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#21 Disk caching and file systems. Disk history...people forget
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades Date: 30 Jun 2021 Blog: FacebookBig oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades. Now they may pay the price. Via an unprecedented wave of lawsuits, America's petroleum giants face a reckoning for the devastation caused by fossil fuels
The climate crisis is a crime that should be prosecuted. Fossil fuel
companies lied for decades about climate change, and humanity is
paying the price. Shouldn't those lies be central to the public
narrative?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/30/climate-crisis-crime-fossil-fuels-environment
In Video, Exxon Lobbyist Describes Efforts to Undercut Climate
Action. On the tape, made in a Greenpeace sting, he described working
with "shadow groups" to fight climate science, and detailed efforts to
weaken President Biden's proposals to burn less oil.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/climate/exxon-greenpeace-lobbyist-video.html
misc. past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#61 Why Republicans Aren't Mentioning the Real Cause of Rising Prices at the Gas Pump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#30 Senators Who Voted Against Ending Big Oil Tax Breaks Received Millions From Big Oil
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#43 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#27 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#42 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#104 OT: article on foreign outsourcing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#43 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#5 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#112 NASA chief says he changed mind about climate change because he 'read a lot'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#59 How climate change skepticism held a government captive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#77 How climate change skepticism held a government captive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#15 POGO Testimony on Holding the Oil and Gas Industry Accountable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#25 POGO Testimony on Holding the Oil and Gas Industry Accountable
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Donald Rumsfeld, The Controversial Architect Of The Iraq War, Has Died Date: 30 Jun 2021 Blog: FacebookDonald Rumsfeld, The Controversial Architect Of The Iraq War, Has Died
CIA Director Colby wouldn't approve the "Team B" analysis (exaggerated
USSR military capability) and Rumsfeld got Colby replaced with Bush,
who would approve "Team B" analysis (justifying huge DOD spending
increase), after Rumsfeld replaces Colby, he resigns as white house
chief of staff to become SECDEF (and is replaced by his assistant
Cheney)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
Then in the 80s, former CIA director H.W. is VP, he and Rumsfeld are
involved in supporting Iraq in the Iran/Iraq war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
including WMDs (note picture of Rumsfeld with Saddam)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
... roll forward ... Bush2 is president and presides over the huge cut
in taxes, huge increase in spending, explosion in debt, the economic
mess (70 times larger than his father's S&L crisis) and the forever
wars, Cheney is VP, Rumsfeld is SECDEF and one of the Team B members
is deputy SECDEF (and major architect of Iraq policy).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz
Before the Iraq invasion, the cousin of white house chief of staff
Card ... was dealing with the Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence
that WMDs (tracing back to US in the Iran/Iraq war) had been
decommissioned. the cousin shared it with (cousin, white house chief
of staff) Card and others ... then is locked up in military hospital,
book was published in 2010 (4yrs before decommissioned WMDs were
declassified)
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
NY Times series from 2014, the decommission WMDs (tracing back to US
from Iran/Iraq war), had been found early in the invasion, but the
information was classified for a decade
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html
note the military-industrial complex had wanted a war so badly that
corporate reps were telling former eastern block countries that if
they voted for IRAQ2 invasion in the UN, they would get membership in
NATO and (directed appropriation) USAID (can *ONLY* be used for
purchase of modern US arms, aka additional congressional gifts to MIC
complex not in DOD budget). From the law of unintended consequences,
the invaders were told to bypass ammo dumps looking for WMDs, when
they got around to going back, over a million metric tons had
evaporated (showing up later in IEDs)
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
The Danger of Fibbing Our Way into War. Falsehoods and fat military
budgets can make conflict more likely
https://web.archive.org/web/20200317032532/https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2020/01/the-danger-of-fibbing-our-way-into-war/
The Day I Realized I Would Never Find Weapons of Mass Destruction in
Iraq
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/magazine/iraq-weapons-mass-destruction.html
... 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, VP Bush in the 80s
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 extremist Islam/Wahhabi loosened on the world ... bin
Laden & 15of16 9/11 were Saudis (some claims that 95% of extreme Islam
world terrorism is Wahhabi related)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism
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.
... 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 ...
"team b" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
WMD posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say Date: 01 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookIBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say. Thousands struggle with intermittent failure of multiple messaging services
IBM ACS
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs.html
Amdahl ACS/360 ... shutdown after IBM was afraid that it would advance
computer state of art too fast and IBM would loose control of the
market, Amdahl then leaves and starts his own company (at the bottom,
some of the stuff shows up more than 20yrs later in ES/9000)
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
Future System disaster in the 70s ... from Ferguson & Morris,
"Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World", Time Books, 1993
http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Wars-The-Post-IBM-World/dp/1587981394
.... reference
to the "Future System" project 1st half of the 70s:
... and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr
of free and vigorous debate was replaced with *SYNCOPHANCY* and *MAKE
NO WAVES* under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that thereafter, IBM
lived in the shadow of defeat
... But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management,
F/S took years to kill, although its wrong headedness was obvious from
the very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism
became politically dangerous," recalls a former top executive.
... snip ...
During FS, internal politics was shutting down 370 efforts (FS was
going to completely replace 370) and the lack of new IBM 370 during
the FS period is credited with giving clone 370 makers market foothold
(i.e. sales&marketing had to seriously fall back on enormous amounts
of FUD). After FS imploded, there was mad rush to get "stuff" back
into the 370 product pipelines, including kicking off quick&dirty 3033
& 3081 efforts in parallel
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
In the late 70s and early 80s, I was blamed for online computer
conferencing (precursor to modern social media) on the internal
network (non-SNA, larger than arpanet/internet from just about the
beginning until sometime mid/late 80s). Folklore is that when the
corporate executive committee was told, 5of6 wanted to fire me. It
really took off after I distributed a trip report about visiting Jim
Gay at Tandem (claims upwards of 25,000 were reading) ... from
IBMJargon:
http://www.comlay.net/ibmjarg.pdf
Tandem Memos - n. Something constructive but hard to control; a fresh
of breath air (sic). That's another Tandem Memos. A phrase to worry
middle management. It refers to the computer-based conference (widely
distributed in 1981) in which many technical personnel expressed
dissatisfaction with the tools available to them at that time, and
also constructively criticized the way products were [are]
developed. The memos are required reading for anyone with a serious
interest in quality products. If you have not seen the memos, try
reading the November 1981 Datamation summary.
... snip ...
six copies of something like 300 pages were printed, packaged in
TANDEM 3-ring binders and mailed to the executive committee ... part
of the summary to the executive summary:
To give the reader an overview of what follows, I include here the
most important points. It is impossible to do justice to the entire
discussion in such a short summary of a summary
• The perception of many technical people in IBM is that the company
is rapidly heading for disaster. Furthermore, people fear that this
movement will not be appreciated until it begins more directly to
affect revenue, at which point recovery may be impossible
• Many technical people are extremely frustrated with their management
and with the way things are going in IBM. To an increasing extent,
people are reacting to this by leaving IBM.
• Most of the contributors to the present discussion would prefer to
stay with IBM and see the problems rectified. However, there is
increasing skepticism that correction is possible or likely, given
the apparent lack of commitment by management to take action
• There is a widespread perception that IBM management has failed to
understand how to manage technical people and high-technology
development in an extremely competitive environment.
... snip ...
online computer conferencing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
IBM downfall/downturn posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ibmdownfall
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM 370 Date: 01 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookWithin year after taking intro to computers/fortran, univ. hires me fulltime to responsible for 360 system (had been sold 360/67 to replace 709 tape->tape w/1401 frontend for unit record originally for TSS/360, which never came to production fruition ... so ran as 360/65 w/os360. I was then hired fulltime into a small group in Boeing CFO office to help with the formation of Boeing Computer Services (consolidate all dataprocessing into independent businness unit to better monetize the investment) ... I thot Renton datacenter was possibly largest in the world, $200M-$300M in ibm 360s. I was being told about upcoming 370s ... so when I graduate, I join IBM cambridge science center (instead of staying at Boeing). One of the early things was spending 3months on 370 TOD clock, architecture specified it started at first of the century ... and the question was does the century start at 1jan1900 or 1jan1901 (found lots of internal shops were setting start to 1jan1970). Also one of my hobbies was enhanced production operating systems for internal datacenters (including the online sales & marketing HONE system that became to spread worldwide).
HONE system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
Decade ago, a customer (on bit.listserv.ibm-main discussion) asked if
I could track down the justification for moving all 370s to virtual
memory. Tracked down somebody staff to one of the executives
... basically MVT storage management was so bad that typical region
sizes had to be four times larger than actually used, so typical
1mbyte 370/165 could only run four regions ... moving to 16mbyte virtual
memory would allow increasing # regions by four times with little or
no paging ... some of his reply in this archived post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
much of Ludlow's AOS prototype (referenced in archived post) for VS2 release 1 (SVS) was much like running MVT in a CP67 16mbyte virtual machine ... except the virtual address table was built by MVT and any (infrequent) page interrupts were handled by MVT. The biggest code was borrowing CP67 CCWTRANS and crafting it into EXCP/SVC0 handling (application channel programs now were passing pointers to channel programs that had "virtual addresses", CCWTRANS was what made a copy of the channel program and converted all virtual addresses to real addresses).
Early on Endicott formed joint effort with science center to add 370 virtual machine support to CP67 ... that supported the simulation of the extra 370 instructions and the 370 virtual memory architecture. This was up and running regularly a year before the first engineering 370 with virtual memory was operational. Because the science center had users that were staff, professors and students from local univs ... a CP67L (that they saw) ran on the real 360/67, CP67H (that supported 370 virtual machines) ran in a CP67L virtual 360/67 (that they couldn't see) ... and CP67I modified for 370 virtual memory ran in a CP67H 370 virtual machine.
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
A couple 145 stories, when first engineering 370 (a 145) with virtual memory hardware was finally operational, CP67I was ipled as a test and it failed. Turned out the engineers had reversed two of the B2 opcodes ... the bug was quickly diagnosed and the CP67I code patched to conform to the (incorrect) hardware and retried. Also the roller panels on 145s had "XLATE" identifying a PSW bit (aka virtual memory mode) and customers were asking what it was (before 370 virtual memory was announced)
Later three people from San Jose added 3330 & 2305 hardware support to CP67I which became CP67SJ. Most of the internal 370s with virtual memory ran CP67SJ (long before VM/370 became available).
One of the issues was original 370 virtual memory architecture definition had a number of features and 370/165 was starting to complain that if they had to implement all the features, it would delay virtual memory announce by six months. The POK favorite son operating system (MVT heading for VS2) said they didn't care ... so the additional features were dropped to avoid delaying announce (and all the hardware platforms that had already implemented the additinal features and software implemented to use those features ... all had to be redone).
As undergraduate, I managed to make a large number of pathlength and
algorithm enhancements to CP67, which IBM picked up and included in
the product. In the morph from CP67->VM370 ... a great deal was
simplified and/or dropped, including CP67 multiprocessor support and
most of the stuff I had done as undergraduate. During the Future
System period, 370 activity was being suspended and/or shutdown (FS
was completely different than 370 and was going to completely replace
it) ... I continued to work on 360/370 stuff all during FS period,
even periodically ridiculing FS (which wasn't exactly a career
enhancing activity). Then when FS implodes, there is mad rush to get
stuff back into the 370 product pipelines ... including kicking off
the quick&dirty 3033 & 3081 efforts in parallel ... some reference
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
past posts mentioning decision to make all 370s virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#10 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#102 Fifty Years of nitpicking definitions, was BASIC,theProgrammingLanguageT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#33 Univac 90 series info posted on bitsavers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#69 Could this be the wrongest prediction of all time?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#50 Connecting memory to 370/145 with only 36 bits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#69 A New Performance Model ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#90 IBM Embraces Virtual Memory -- Finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#45 Resurrected! Paul Allen's tech team brings 50-year-old supercomputer back from the dead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#98 A Christmassy PL/I tale
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#101 Multitasking question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#8 BSAM vs QSAM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#81 GREAT presentation on the history of the mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#75 Mainframe operating systems?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#5 TSS/8, was A Whirlwind History of the Computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#19 MVT doesn't boot in 16mbytes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#33 MVS vs HASP vs JES (was 2821)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#56 What is the most epic computer glitch you have ever seen?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#101 SEX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#96 thrashing, was Re: A Computer That Never Was: the IBM 7095
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#13 Now Hear This-Prepare For The "To Be Or To Do" Moment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#18 IBM assembler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#78 370 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#92 MVS Boney Fingers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#94 MVS Boney Fingers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#25 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#120 IBM Acronyms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#63 Early Computer Use
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#2 Colours on screen (mainframe history question)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#39 IBM 370/155
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#32 Univac 90/30 DIAG instruction
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Donald Rumsfeld, The Controversial Architect Of The Iraq War, Has Died Date: 02 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebooklynn writes:
Rumsfeld on Iraq's WMDs, 2003
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/01/rumsfeld-on-iraqs-wmds-2003/
The War Crimes Case Against Donald Rumsfeld
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/01/the-war-crimes-case-against-donald-rumsfeld/
Donald Rumsfeld dies, ex-Pentagon chief in Iraq, Afghanistan wars
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/7810730002
Rehabilitating Rumsfeld, Erasing Empire: On All Those U.S. War Crimes
in Iraq
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/02/rehabilitating-rumsfeld-erasing-empire-on-all-those-u-s-war-crimes-in-iraq/
How Donald Rumsfeld Micromanaged Torture
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/07/02/how-donald-rumsfeld-micromanaged-torture/
Donald Rumsfeld: A master bureaucratic infighter who led America into
the abyss of Iraq.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/07/donald-rumsfeld-obituary-iraq.html
"team b" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#team.b
WMD posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
some recent desert storm posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#28 Army Releases a Critical History of the War in Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#48 Iran Payments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#89 16 years ago, the US invaded Iraq -- CIA agents already on the ground knew it would be a disaster
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#83 Collins radio and Braniff Airways 1945
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#73 General Dynamics F16
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#20 Fighting to Go Home: Operation Desert Storm, 30 Years Later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#21 Fighting to Go Home: Operation Desert Storm, 30 Years Later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#22 Fighting to Go Home: Operation Desert Storm, 30 Years Later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#26 Fighting to Go Home: Operation Desert Storm, 30 Years Later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#8 A Discourse on Winning and Losing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#40 The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#51 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Donald Rumsfeld, The Controversial Architect Of The Iraq War, Has Died Date: 02 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Remembering Rumsfeld: A Complicated Legacy for a Complicated Man
https://news.clearancejobs.com/2021/06/30/remembering-rumsfeld-a-complicated-legacy-for-a-complicated-man/
Ghost Riders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the
Surge
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Riders-Baghdad-Soldiers-Civilians-ebook/dp/B014PWVUAC/
pg111/loc2179-82:
The backstory to all this is well reported. The Bush administration
appointed hundreds of politically loyal neoconservative bureaucrats to
run postwar Iraq, including the top civilian official--L. Paul
Bremer. Bremer, heavily influenced by Iraqi exiles like Ahmed Chalabi
and supported by Vice President Dick Cheney, implemented a policy of
de-Baathification.
pg111/loc2193-95:
On 16 April 2003, Bremer, against the advice of Colin Powell's State
Department and the Central Intelligence Agency, disbanded the Iraqi
Army. 16 This seemingly simple decision placed a few hundred thousand
unemployed young men back on the street with no effective
reintegration strategy.
pg171/loc3246-49:
All this talk of "what-ifs" and lost Surge opportunities ignores one
salient, if uncomfortable, fact: ISIS is an outgrowth of our own
invasion. Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF--as we gleefully named it) was
more than just an awful euphemism; it spelled catastrophe--and
chaos--for most Iraqis.
... snip ...
Claims were that Baqubah was worse than Fallujah, possibly because administration claims that things were much better, it didn't get the same coverage
Battle for Baqubah: Killing Our Way Out
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Baqubah-1SG-Robert-Colella/dp/1469791064/
The Battle for Baqubah: Killing Our Way Out is a firsthand account-and
sometimes a minute-by-minute tale-of a raw, in-your-face street fight
with Al Qaeda militants over a fifteen-month span in the volatile
Diyala Province of Iraq. This story is presented through the eyes of a
first sergeant serving with B Company 1-12 Cavalry (Bonecrushers), 1st
Cavalry Division, out of Fort Hood, Texas. The author takes the reader
into the midst of the conflict in and around Baqubah-Iraq's "City of
Death"-a campaign that lasted most of 2007. The author and his fellow
Bonecrushers watched as the city went from sectarian fighting amongst
the Shiite and Sunnis, to an all-out jihad against the undermanned and
dangerously dispersed US forces within Baqubah and the outlying areas.
... snip ...
loc5243-54:
I was overwhelmed at the amount of destruction that surrounded me. The
sterile yard was about 150 meters wide by about 100 meters deep, and
it was packed full of destroyed vehicles (words can't describe what I
saw). Apache Company's blown-up and burned M88 was down there and
barely recognizable. Several M1 tanks sat where they had been dragged
in and dropped in place. Some still had the tow bar hooked up to
them. They sat on their belly armor because their road wheels and
track were blown off. They rested in the dirt crooked and in awkward
positions, their heavy steel track rolled up and placed on top of
their turrets, which housed their once-proud 120mm gun tubes that now
sagged and pointed down to the ground. I saw row after row of
Bradleys, some sitting as the tanks were and others that were not even
recognizable. The Bradleys burned so violently from the stored
ammunition and the 175 gallons of fuel that they melted to the point
where the turret collapsed in on itself and came to rest on the bottom
of the vehicle's armored floor. The only thing truly recognizable was
the heavy steel fluted gun barrel of the 25mm that protruded out of
the melted rubble like a flag pole without a flag. I saw other
Bradleys and M1 Abrams main battle tanks, the pride of the 1st Cavalry
Divisionvehicles that, if back at Fort Hood, would be parked
meticulously on line, tarps tied tight, gun barrels lined up, track
line spotless, not so much as a drop of oil on the white cement. What
I saw that day was row after row of mangled tan steel as if in a
junkyard that belonged to Satan himself.
... snip ...
... note Abrams, with flat bottoms, were so vulnerable to IEDs, that they took to running the routes first before taking M1s out for a drive.
WMD posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
past posts mentioning Baqubah
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#89 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#82 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#96 tablets and desktops was Has Microsoft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#81 What the Gulf War Teaches About the Future of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#12 Predicting the future in five years as seen from 1983
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#73 A-10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#2 WW II cryptography
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#68 Ghost Riders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#10 The General Who Lost 2 Wars, Leaked Classified Information to His Lover--and Retired With a $220,000 Pension
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#115 When It Comes to the War in the Greater Middle East, Maybe We're the Bad Guys
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#103 Iraq, Longest War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#20 Military Contractors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#42 Profitable Companies, No Taxes: Here's How They Did It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#40 Stop Believing in the Many Myths of the Iraq Surge
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#86 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#102 Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#81 The baby boomers' monumental quagmire in Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#11 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#50 A National Infrastructure Program Is a Smart Idea We Won't Do Because We Are Dysfunctional
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#88 The Pentagon's Pricey Culture of Mediocrity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#50 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#33 The wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were lost before they began, not on the battlefields
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#78 New hard drive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#43 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#76 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#37 C.I.A. Is Said to Have Bought and Destroyed Iraqi Chemical Weapons
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#16 Keydriven bit permutations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#48 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#36 The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#69 Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#68 Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#36 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#38 Can America Win Wars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#79 Army Modernization Is Melting Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#61 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#47 McCain: Send Petraeus back to Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#42 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#13 Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#10 Why the Death of the Tank Is Greatly Exaggerated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#48 John Boyd's Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#10 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#60 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#52 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#79 As an IBM'er just like the Marines only a few good men and women make the cut,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#5 Lessons Learned from the Iraq War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#38 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#30 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#86 A Matter of Mindset: Iraq, Sequestration and the U.S. Army
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#49 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#54 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#64 Early use of the word "computer"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#8 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#2 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#21 The Age of Unsatisfying Wars
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Miami Building Collapse Could Profoundly Change Engineering Date: 02 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookMiami Building Collapse Could Profoundly Change Engineering. To pin down causes of the structure's failure, investigators will probably gather its original design drawings, test its remains and run simulations of how well it could withstand forces
When we lived in Annapolis we use to walk around the inside perimeter of the academy a couple times a week ... spring/summer 2013 there was major project to rebuild the 30-40yr old concrete sea walls that were rapidly deteriorating ... from 2013 post:
... past couple months there has been lots of divers doing repair work
on the seawall on the perimeter of the naval academy ... workers say
that the concrete has significant erosion. Its only something like
30-40yrs old ... this compares to sea structures made from Roman
concrete that have survived for 2000yrs "Ancient Roman Concrete Is
About to Revolutionize Modern Architecture"
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-14/ancient-roman-concrete-is-about-to-revolutionize-modern-architecture
The most common blend of modern concrete, known as Portland cement, a
formulation in use for nearly 200 years, can't come close to matching
that track record, says Marie Jackson, a research engineer at the
University of California at Berkeley who was part of the Roman
concrete research team. "The maritime environment, in particular, is
not good for Portland concrete. In seawater, it has a service life of
less than 50 years. After that, it begins to erode," Jackson says.
.... snip ...
Roman Seawater Concrete Holds the Secret to Cutting Carbon Emissions
http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2013/06/04/roman-concrete/
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Miami Building Collapse Could Profoundly Change Engineering Date: 02 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
We're Kind of Overwhelmed by Biden's Infrastructure Plan. It's
massive. It's ambitious. How much of it makes sense?
https://slate.com/business/2021/03/biden-infrastructure-speech-american-jobs-plan-its-huge.html
On Wednesday, the Biden administration unveiled its $2 trillion
infrastructure and economic modernization bill, designed to fix the
country's crumbling roads and bridges, speed the transition away from
carbon, fund research and development in high-tech industries, provide
home care for the elderly and disabled, and, well, the list goes on.
... snip ...
... quote attributable to Volcker from Confidence Men: Wall Street,
Washington, and the Education of a President
https://www.amazon.com/Confidence-Men-Washington-Education-ebook/dp/B0089LOKKS/
pg290:
Well, I said, 'The trouble with the United States recently is we spent
several decades not producing many civil engineers and producing a
huge number of financial engineers. And the result is s**tty bridges
and a s**tty financial system!'
... snip ...
... the discussion sort of started out chicken&egg ... no infrastructure projects results in not hiring civil engineers, no jobs, no students, which contributes to the disappearing civil engineering univ programs. From the law of unintended consequences, Obama stimulus "shovel ready" projects were resorting to hiring Chinese civil engineering companies.
posts mentioning Volcker
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#34 Obama Was Always in Wall Street's Corner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#97 How capitalism is reshaping cities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#71 Bill Black: The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One (Part 1/9)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#22 We're Kind of Overwhelmed by Biden's Infrastructure Plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#74 Eric Holder is the Official Missing from Discussions of the Bidens' Ukrainian Efforts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#38 World Bank, Dictatorship and the Amazon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#29 The Coming Economic Crash -- And How to Stop It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#5 Don't Blame Capitalism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#40 When Dead Companies Don't Die - Welcome To The Fat, Slow World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#38 Did The 'B-Team' Overplay It's Hand On Iran?
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#83 Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#37 You elected them to write new laws. They're letting corporations do it instead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#85 LUsers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#56 Economic Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#43 Billionaire warlords: Why the future is medieval
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#42 Army Special Operations Forces Unconventional Warfare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#15 TARP Funds and Noncompliant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#13 China's African debt-trap ... and US Version
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#113 Trump asking advisers if he can legally fire Fed chief
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#66 Economic Mess Prosecution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#56 Too Rich to Jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#10 Why Dodd-Frank Is A Protection Racket For Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#4 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#111 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#21 Bankers Hate the Volcker Rule. Now, It Could Be Watered Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#18 Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#104 Tax Cut for Stock Buybacks
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/2018.html#52 How a Misfit Group of Computer Geeks and English Majors Transformed Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#44 Predicting the future in five years as seen from 1983
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#61 What if the Kuomintang Had Won the Chinese Civil War?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#54 Testing Progressives, Centrist Dems Team Up with GOP to Deregulate Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#60 When Working From Home Doesn't Work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#38 Bullying trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#1 Any definitive reference for why the PDP-11 was little-endian?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#2 Trump is taking the wrong approach to China on tech, says ex-Reagan official who helped beat Soviets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#108 Jamie Dimon: You Make Us Embarrassed to be Americans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#106 Jamie Dimon: You Make Us Embarrassed to be Americans
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#47 The rise and fall of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#72 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#44 [CM] cheap money, was What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#48 Janet Yellen debunks Trump's case for killing Dodd-Frank
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#4 OT: Trump Moves to Roll Back Obama-Era Financial Regulations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#95 Trump, Wall Street and the "banking caucus" ready to rip apart Dodd-Frank
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#26 Milton Friedman's Cherished Theory Is Laid to Rest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#17 Destruction of the Middle Class
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#41 Are We Nearing a Cyber Sarbanes-Oxley?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#15 BREAKING: Trump Announces Big Gift To Banks Despite His Campaign Rhetoric Against Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#10 Wall Street Preparing Dodd-Frank Rule Workaround
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#9 Wall Street Preparing Dodd-Frank Rule Workaround
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#8 Wall Street Preparing Dodd-Frank Rule Workaround
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#50 A National Infrastructure Program Is a Smart Idea We Won't Do Because We Are Dysfunctional
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#4 Decimal point character and billions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#48 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#76 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#75 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#80 HP splits, again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#105 only sometimes From looms to computers to looms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#33 War or Jobs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#43 Royal Pardon for credit unions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#48 Citigroup is the Real Reason We Need the Volcker Rule
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#30 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#55 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#42 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#19 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#3 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#29 Jedi Knights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#12 Does the IBM System z Mainframe rely on Security by Obscurity or is it Secure by Design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#40 Core characteristics of resilience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#36 Race Against the Machine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#6 Good article. Friday discussion type
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#77 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#64 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#46 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#45 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#38 Other Than In Computers, Civilization Basically Stopped Progressing In The 1960s
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#37 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#31 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#56 Why Hasn't The Government Prosecuted Anyone For The 2008 Financial recession?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#48 Owl: China Swamps US Across the Board -- Made in China Computer Chips Have Back Doors, 45 Other "Ways & Means" Sucking Blood from US
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#30 24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#16 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#10 Accidentally Released - and Incredibly Embarrassing - Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#9 JPM LOSES $2 BILLION USD!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#67 Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#86 CISPA legislation seen by many as SOPA 2.0
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#63 The Economist's Take on Financial Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#54 PC industry is heading for more change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#39 Greek knife to Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#19 Occupy the SEC Pitches An Extreme Makeover of Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#5 Too big not to fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#2 Occupy the SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#47 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#43 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#11 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#88 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#72 Chris Dodd's SOPA crusading
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#44 Who originated the phrase "user-friendly"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#91 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#83 Heading For World War III | Gerald Celente Trends Blog
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#73 A question for the readership
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#79 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#71 Don't Dump the Volcker Rule Just Because It's Not Perfect
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#68 Who is Really to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#66 the Federal Reserve, was Re: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#49 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#47 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#46 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#35 70 Years of ATM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#25 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#20 U.K. lags in information security management practices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#51 On whom or what would you place the blame for the sub-prime crisis?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#71 Bush - place in history
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Miami Building Collapse Could Profoundly Change Engineering Date: 02 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
America's trillion-dollar concrete bill is coming due
https://www.axios.com/us-trillion-dollar-concrete-bill-coming-due-a0beb890-bc7a-4622-9f3b-9cd1526d8e4b.html
The first John Boyd briefing I sponsored, was just Patterns of Conflict, but he was working on Organic Design for Command and Control and subsequently wanted to brief both in single (long) day. In "organic design" he would comment that former military officers, steeped in rigid, top-down command and control were starting to contaminate US business culture. However, this was in the early 80s when articles were (also) starting to appear that MBAs (business schools and financial engineering) were starting to destroy US corporations with their myopic focus on near term returns.
Boyd posts & URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our
Future
https://www.amazon.com/Price-Inequality-Divided-Society-Endangers-ebook/dp/B007MKCQ30/
pg35/loc1169-73:
In business school we teach students how to recognize, and create,
barriers to competition -- including barriers to entry -- that help
ensure that profits won't be eroded. Indeed, as we shall shortly see,
some of the most important innovations in business in the last three
decades have centered not on making the economy more efficient but on
how better to ensure monopoly power or how better to circumvent
government regulations intended to align social returns and private
rewards
... snip ...
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
... then in the 90s, articles were starting to appear that executives
were maximizing their bonuses by redirecting funds from other purposes
(planning on being long gone, leaving it to others in the future to
deal with the problems created). For instance, stock buybacks use to
be illegal because it easily allowed executives to manipulate the
market; example turning IBM into financial engineering company (on
steroids) Stockman in "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of
Capitalism in America"
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Deformation-Corruption-Capitalism-America-ebook/dp/B00B3M3UK6/
pg464/loc9995-10000:
IBM was not the born-again growth machine trumpeted by the mob of Wall
Street momo traders. It was actually a stock buyback contraption on
steroids. During the five years ending in fiscal 2011, the company
spent a staggering $67 billion repurchasing its own shares, a figure
that was equal to 100 percent of its net income.
pg465/loc10014-17:
Total shareholder distributions, including dividends, amounted to $82
billion, or 122 percent, of net income over this five-year
period. Likewise, during the last five years IBM spent less on capital
investment than its depreciation and amortization charges, and also
shrank its constant dollar spending for research and development by
nearly 2 percent annually.
... snip ...
stock buyback posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
In 2010 there were articles about at least one trillion dollars in deferred infrastructure maintenance that needed to be dealt with (like bridges getting failing safety grades).
False Profits: Reviving the Corporation's Public Purpose
https://www.uclalawreview.org/false-profits-reviving-the-corporations-public-purpose/
I Origins of the Corporation. Although the corporate structure dates
back as far as the Greek and Roman Empires, characteristics of the
modern corporation began to appear in England in the mid-thirteenth
century.[4] "Merchant guilds" were loose organizations of merchants
"governed through a council somewhat akin to a board of directors,"
and organized to "achieve a common purpose"[5] that was public in
nature. Indeed, merchant guilds registered with the state and were
approved only if they were "serving national purposes."[6]
... snip ...
... almost from the beginning of the US as a country, there was
extensive lobbying efforts to allow corporations to operate in
self-interest. Corruption of the corporation as institution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#70 The Rise and Fall of an American Tech Giant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#46 Under God
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#27 Why We Need to Democratize Wealth: the U.S. Capitalist Model Breeds Selfishness and Resentment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#26 Why We Need to Democratize Wealth: the U.S. Capitalist Model Breeds Selfishness and Resentment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#36 How the Billionaires Corporate News Media Have Been Used to Brainwash Us
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#75 The "Innocence" of Early Capitalism is Another Fantastical Myth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#25 Huawei 5G networks
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#148 Why big business can count on courts to keep its deadly secrets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#82 Prying Open The Overton Window
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#61 What Gandhi Believed Is the Purpose of a Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#41 Corporations Are People
... trivia: 2002, congress lets the fiscal responsibility act lapsed, required that spending couldn't exceed revenue, on its way to eliminating all federal debt. 2010 CBO report that 2003-2009, spending had increased by $6T and tax revenue had decreased by $6T (for a $12T gap compared to the fiscal responsibility act), first time that taxes were cut to not pay for two wars. Sort of confluence of FEDRES and TBTF (too big to fail) needed huge federal debt, special interests wanting huge tax cut and military-industrial complex wanting huge spending increase.
fiscal responsibility act posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
... other trivia: We were having a X9 financial standards meeting held
in the new "W" hotel in Seattle. All of the X9 participants were
invited to the grand opening celebration that included most of Seattle
dignitaries and officials. Outside the windows could see the WTO
demonstrators marching by ... vandalism was limited to much further
down the street (nothing around the new "W" where the party was going
on).
https://blog.ansi.org/2017/05/ansiasc-x9-financial-services-industry-standards/
ASC X9 is also the US Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to the
International Technical Committee on Financial Services ISO/TC 68
under the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), of
Geneva, Switzerland. The US TAG can submit ASC X9 developed American
National Standards to TC 68 to be considered for adoption as
international standards or the US TAG can work with other members of
TC 68 to develop new international standards.
... snip ...
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The fracking boom is over. Where did all the jobs go? Date: 04 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookThe fracking boom is over. Where did all the jobs go?
commodity markets used to require participants to have significant
participation because speculators resulted in wild, irrational price
swings. summer of 2008 huge spike in oil/gas prices were by identified
speculators (pump&dump on the way up and short on the way down,
constantly mininng the induceed volatility) ... instead of the press
vilifying the speculators, they crucified people that leaked names of
those responsible
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#griftopia
fracking posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#42 The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#26 Fighting to Go Home: Operation Desert Storm, 30 Years Later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#22 The Saudi Connection: Inside the 9/11 Case That Divided the F.B.I
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#143 "Undeniable Evidence": Explosive Classified Docs Reveal Afghan War Mass Deception
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#114 Post 9/11 wars have cost American taxpayers $6.4 trillion, study finds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#105 OT, "new" Heinlein book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#85 Just and Unjust Wars
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#67 Profit propaganda ads witch-hunt era
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#26 Radical Muslim
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#65 Doubts about the HR departments that require knowledge of technology that does not exist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#5 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#24 Frieden calculator
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#40 Here's The New Study The Fracking Industry Doesn't Want You to See
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#43 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#54 The Jeb Bush Adviser Who Should Scare You
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#83 Wastewater well suspended after "frackquakes" rock Colorado
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: NYT Ignores Two-Year House Arrest of Lawyer Who Took on Big Oil Date: 04 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookNYT Ignores Two-Year House Arrest of Lawyer Who Took on Big Oil
... then there is "Merchants of Doubt"
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured-ebook/dp/B003RRXXO8/
https://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
some of the same scientists payed by the tobacco industry to write articles down playing the link between smoking and lung cancer, later showup in "Team B" studies inflated Soviet military and then down playing climate change.
merchant of doubt posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#merchants.of.doubt
recent "big oil" posts.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#3 Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#25 POGO Testimony on Holding the Oil and Gas Industry Accountable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#15 POGO Testimony on Holding the Oil and Gas Industry Accountable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#89 How climate change skepticism held a government captive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#77 How climate change skepticism held a government captive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#59 How climate change skepticism held a government captive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#123 'Deep, Dark Conspiracy Theories' Hound Some Civil Servants In Trump Era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#30 Scientists Just Laid Out Paths to Solve Climate Change. We Aren't on Track to Do Any of Them
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#112 NASA chief says he changed mind about climate change because he 'read a lot'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#114 Chevron's lawyer, speaking for major oil companies, says climate change is real and it's your fault
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#21 Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Did Whistleblower Reprisal Help Set the Stage for a January 6 Intelligence Failure? Date: 04 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookDid Whistleblower Reprisal Help Set the Stage for a January 6 Intelligence Failure?
whistleblower posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
some jan 6 insurrection posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#40 National Guard deployment in DC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#46 Barbarians Sacked The Capital
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#47 Barbarians Sacked The Capital
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#51 Sacking the Capital and Honor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#48 'We're Gonna Murder You and Then Them'
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Whistleblowers Expose Corruption in EPA Chemical Safety Office Date: 04 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookWhistleblowers Expose Corruption in EPA Chemical Safety Office. EPA managers removed information about the risks posed by dozens of chemicals, according to whistleblowers.
whistleblower posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
some recent EPA posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#27 We must stop calling Trump's enablers 'conservative.' They are the radical right
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#20 Trickle Down Economics Started it All
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#5 Book: Kochland : the secret history of Koch Industries and corporate power in America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#4 Bots Are Destroying Political Discourse As We Know It
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: Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades Date: 30 Jun 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Exxon Mounts Feeble Walkback After Lobbyist Caught on Camera Telling
Truth About Anti-Climate Agenda. The oil giant would like you to know
that statements from its "Senior Director for Federal Relations" in no
way represent its position on federal climate policy
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/caught-on-camera-exxonmobil-lobbyist-touts-anti-climate-actions-1192057/
ExxonMobil Lobbyist Reveals Big Oil Secrets on Plastics and PFAS
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/exxonmobil-lobbyist-keith-mccoy-greepeace-video-1192383/
... then there is "Merchants of Doubt"
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured-ebook/dp/B003RRXXO8/
https://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
some of the same scientists payed by the tobacco industry to write articles down playing the link between smoking and lung cancer, later showup in "Team B" studies inflated Soviet military and then down playing climate change.
merchant of doubt posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#merchants.of.doubt
some other past posts mentioning exxon and/or "big oil"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#21 Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#114 Chevron's lawyer, speaking for major oil companies, says climate change is real and it's your fault
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#112 NASA chief says he changed mind about climate change because he 'read a lot'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#30 Scientists Just Laid Out Paths to Solve Climate Change. We Aren't on Track to Do Any of Them
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#123 'Deep, Dark Conspiracy Theories' Hound Some Civil Servants In Trump Era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#77 How climate change skepticism held a government captive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#89 How climate change skepticism held a government captive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#25 POGO Testimony on Holding the Oil and Gas Industry Accountable
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: iBM System/3 FORTRAN for engineering/science work? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 13:39:18 -1000Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> writes:
I took two semester hr intro to fortran/computers, univ. ran 709 tape->tape with tapes moved between 709 and 1401 that ran as front-end for unit record (card->tape, tape->printer/punch). Student fortran jobs (30-60 cards) ran under second elapsed time.
Univ. was sold 360/67 originally for tss/360, but never quite came to production fruition and so ran as 360/65 with os/360. within year of taking intro class, I was hired fulltime responsible for the ibm mainframe.
Initially student jobs ran well over a minute three step fortran G, compile, link-edit, go/execute. I then installed HASP which cut elapsed time about in half (nearly all job step overhead and file open/close). First os/360 sysgen I did was release 9.5. I then started tearing apart stage2 sysgen and reorganizing the cards to optimize placement of files and PDS members for arm seek and PDS directory multi-track search which improved student jobs by nearly another 2/3rds ... 12.9sec elapsed ... approx. 4.3sec/job-step.
It wasn't until installed single step, batch WATFOR monitor that student jobs ran faster than 709. WATFOR ran approx. 20,000 card(statements) per min (333/sec) on 360/65. Typically a card tray (2000+ cards, 30-60 student jobs) would be batched in single step ... 4.3sec/single-step + 2000/333 secs ... 10.3sec elapsed for batching 30-60 student jobs ... around .2secs/job. WATFOR would have still been slower than 709 (i.e. 4.5sec/job) if it wasn't for batching multiple jobs per single-step execution (and w/o my careful sysgen and hasp, it would be more like 20secs if ran single student job per invokation).
One of the guys up at IBM palo alto science center (that had done much of the work for the 370/145 APL microcode assist ... got APL throughput up close to 370/168) ... did a lot of optimization work on Fortran H that originally was available inside IBM as Fortran Q ... and eventually released to customers as Fortran HX.
recent watfor posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#43 IBM Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#33 Univac 90/30 DIAG instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#32 Univac 90/30 DIAG instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#21 Univac 90/30 DIAG instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#19 Univac 90/30 DIAG instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#37 April 7, 1964: IBM Bets Big on System/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#64 Early Computer Use
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#26 What's Fortran?!?!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#19 All programmers that developed in machine code and Assembly in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s died?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#28 CICS Turns 50 Monday, July 8
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#51 System/360 consoles
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: IBM email migration disaster Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 14:24:02 -100000000047540adefe-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.UA.EDU (Bill Johnson) writes:
It was hard to get exact hardware figures because they started expressing in sales change since previous year. If you rolled back to year with actually numbers and then rolled foward with % changes, revenue was approx. equivalent 14 max. configure EC12 sales or 56 on an anualized basis.
ec12 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#68 Amdahl
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#17 The Pentagon still uses computer software from 1958 to manage its contracts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#83 Term "Open Systems" (as Sometimes Currently Used) is Dead -- Who's with Me?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#19 Linux Foundation Launches Open Mainframe Project
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#83 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#155 IBM Continues To Crumble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#144 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#71 Decimation of the valuation of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#56 This Chart From IBM Explains Why Cloud Computing Is Such A Game-Changer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#24 Unisys CEO ousted, shares slip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#87 Demonstrating Moore's law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#68 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#8 Demonstrating Moore's law
In the early 90s, there was all these articles about what the killer
micros were doing to IBM ... had driven it into the red and IBM was in
the process of being reorged into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation
for breaking up the company, gone behind paywall but mostly lives
free at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
may also work
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,977353-1,00.html
... then the board hires a new CEO who reverses the breakup.
IBM downfall/downturn posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ibmdownfall
All the low-hanging fruit moved ... it was mostly high value operations like financial where there was significant risk in total rewrite. In the mid-90s, financial industry spent a few billion on software rewrite to move to killer micros. The issue was financial was becoming increasingly online, but the core processing, settlement from 60s & 70s was still being done in the overnight batch windows. With increases in workload and globalizing cutting the length of the window ... it was becoming more difficult to do complete settlement.
The billions were being spent on rewrites to do straight through processing (leveraging large number of parallel processing on killer micros). The issue was that the implementations were using off-the-shelf parallelization libraries ... and they ignored warnings that they had 100 times the overhead of batch cobol. It wasn't unti major pilots that things went up (down?) in giant flames (increase in parallelization overhead totally swamping any anticipated throughput increases with large number of parallel killer micros) ... and projections that with all the executive scars before it would be tried again.
A decade later, there was a different approach that showed a lot of promise but there was still significant resistance left over because of the major failures from the 90s. A high-level business language was developed that generated fine-grain SQL commands for execution (rather than attempting to rewrite standard procedural language from scratch). It leveraged the enormous work that the vendors (including IBM) had put into large RDBMS cluster throughput processing ... the fine-grain SQL commands being able to get enormous parallelization. They demonstrated to industry groups, applications that performance the work of several major mainframe applications that had several times the throughput of the largest mainframe configurations. They had initial acceptance, but then came the brick wall resistance because of the 90s failures.
It also had the side-effect of significantly reducing maintenance & change since it was specified as business rules & processes rather than procedural language.
straight through processing and/or overnight batch window:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#61 MAINFRAME (4341) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#4 Killer Micros
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#155 Book on monopoly (IBM)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#80 IBM: Buying While Apathetaic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#11 mainframe hacking "success stories"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#62 Cobol
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#85 Douglas Engelbart, the forgotten hero of modern computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#33 The Pentagon still uses computer software from 1958 to manage its contracts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#30 Bottlenecks and Capacity planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#57 When did the home computer die?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#37 Tech: we didn't mean for it to turn out like this
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#3 Somewhat Interesting Mainframe Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#32 OFF TOPIC: University of California, Irvine, revokes 500 admissions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#11 The Mainframe vs. the Server Farm: A Comparison
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#39 The Pentagon still uses computer software from 1958 to manage its contracts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#6 ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#63 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#82 The ICL 2900
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline - unless it learns to migrate itself Date: 06 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookBig Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline - unless it learns to migrate itself. Quit financial engineering and go back to your roots, IBM
re:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#5 IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#18 IBM email migration disaster
First half of the 70s, IBM had the "Future System" project to
completely replace 370s (and internal politics was shutting down 370
efforts; lack of new 370 products is credited with giving 370 clone
makers a market foothold). I continued to work on 360/370 stuff all
during this period, even periodically ridiculing FS activity (not
exactly career enhancing). from Ferguson & Morris, "Computer Wars: The
Post-IBM World", Time Books, 1993
http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Wars-The-Post-IBM-World/dp/1587981394
.... reference to the "Future
System" project 1st half of the 70s:
and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr of
free and vigorous debate was replaced with *SYNCOPHANCY* and *MAKE NO
WAVES* under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that thereafter, IBM lived
in the shadow of defeat
...
But because of the heavy investment of
face by the top management, F/S took years to kill, although its wrong
headedness was obvious from the very outset. "For the first time,
during F/S, outspoken criticism became politically dangerous," recalls
a former top executive.
... another side effect, middle management and lower level executives
learned to carefully manage the flow of information up. Other FS info
(with some reference to demise of FS, and getting stuff back into 370
product pipeline, quick&dirty 303x and 3081 efforts kicked off in
parallel)
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
IBM downfall/downturn posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ibmdownfall
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline - unless it learns to migrate itself Date: 06 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
In the late 70s & early 80s, I had been 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/late 80s. Folklore is that when corporate executive
committee was told about it, 5of6 wanted to fire me. It really took
off after I distributed a trip about visiting Jim Gay at Tandem
(claims upwards of 25,000 were reading) ... from IBMJargon:
http://www.comlay.net/ibmjarg.pdf
Tandem Memos - n. Something constructive but hard to control; a fresh
of breath air (sic). That's another Tandem Memos. A phrase to worry
middle management. It refers to the computer-based conference (widely
distributed in 1981) in which many technical personnel expressed
dissatisfaction with the tools available to them at that time, and
also constructively criticized the way products were [are]
developed. The memos are required reading for anyone with a serious
interest in quality products. If you have not seen the memos, try
reading the November 1981 Datamation summary.
... snip ...
six copies of something like 300 pages were printed, packaged in
TANDEM 3-ring binders and mailed to the executive committee ... part
of the summary to the executive summary:
To give the reader an overview of what follows, I include here the
most important points. It is impossible to do justice to the entire
discussion in such a short summary of a summary
• The perception of many technical people in IBM is that the
company is rapidly heading for disaster. Furthermore, people fear that
this movement will not be appreciated until it begins more directly to
affect revenue, at which point recovery may be impossible
• Many technical people are extremely frustrated with their
management and with the way things are going in IBM. To an increasing
extent, people are reacting to this by leaving IBM.
• Most of the contributors to the present discussion would prefer
to stay with IBM and see the problems rectified. However, there is
increasing skepticism that correction is possible or likely, given the
apparent lack of commitment by management to take action
• There is a widespread perception that IBM management has failed
to understand how to manage technical people and high-technology
development in an extremely competitive environment.
... snip ...
online computer conferencing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
note it wasn't quite so rapidly ... taking another decade (1981-1992)
... "13 baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the company
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
may also work
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,977353-1,00.html
we had left but get a call from bowels of Armonk asking if we could
help with the breakup of the company. Lots of business units were
using MOUs to leverage supplier contracts in other units, which would
be in different corporations after the breakup. All these MOUs would
have to be cataloged and turned into their own contracts
We also get email from former coworkers complaining that top
executives weren't paying attention to running the business but
totally focused on moving expenses from the following year to the
current year. We ask our contact in Armonk. He says top executives
won't get a bonus for the current year, but the way the bonus plan is
written if they can move enough expenses from the following year,
nudging it even slightly into the black, they will get a bonus more
than twice as large as any previous bonus (aka, getting rewarded for
having taken the company into the red)
before we get started, a new CEO is brought in and reverses the breakup
"13 baby blues" trivia ... "Barbarians at the Gate" article ... AMEX
was in competition with KKR for (private equity) LBO of RJR and KKR
wins. KKR runs into trouble and hires away AMEX president (before he
became CEO) to help with RJR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fall_of_RJR_Nabisco
Then IBM was being reorganized into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation
for breaking up the company .... when IBM Board hires away the AMEX
ex-president as CEO who reverses the breakup and uses some of the PE
techniques used at RJR (gone 404 but lives on at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019074906/http://www.ibmemployee.com/RetirementHeist.shtml
... and IBM turned into financial engineering company (on steroids)
Stockman in "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in
America"
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Deformation-Corruption-Capitalism-America-ebook/dp/B00B3M3UK6/
pg464/loc9995-10000:
IBM was not the born-again growth machine trumpeted by the mob of Wall
Street momo traders. It was actually a stock buyback contraption on
steroids. During the five years ending in fiscal 2011, the company
spent a staggering $67 billion repurchasing its own shares, a figure
that was equal to 100 percent of its net income.
pg465/loc10014-17:
Total shareholder distributions, including dividends, amounted to $82
billion, or 122 percent, of net income over this five-year
period. Likewise, during the last five years IBM spent less on capital
investment than its depreciation and amortization charges, and also
shrank its constant dollar spending for research and development by
nearly 2 percent annually.
... snip ...
IBM downfall/downturn posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ibmdownfall
stock buyback posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
Gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
Pension posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#pensions
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline - unless it learns to migrate itself Date: 06 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Starting in early 80s, one of my projects was HSDT, T1 & faster
computer links and working with the director of NSF. We were suppose
to get $20M to interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers, but then
congress cuts the budget, some other things happen and finally an RFP
is released (in part based on what we already had running). IBM
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 gov. agencies, but that just makes the internal politics worse. Old post
with preliminary announcement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#12
The OASC has initiated three programs: The Supercomputer Centers
Program to provide Supercomputer cycles; the New Technologies Program
to foster new supercomputer software and hardware developments; and
the Networking Program to build a National Supercomputer Access
Network - NSFnet.
... snip ...
as regional networks connect in, it becomes 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
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
The last product we did at IBM was HA/CMP, it originally started out
as HA/6000 for NYTimes to enable them porting their newspaper system
(ATEX) from VAX/Cluster to IBM. When I started doing
technical/scientific cluster scale-up with national labs and commercial
cluster scale-up with RDBMS vendors, I renamed it HA/CMP (High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing). Old reference
to Jan1992 meeting on commercial cluster scale-up in (Oracle CEO)
conference room (16-way by mid-1992, 128-way by ye1992).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
Within a few weeks, cluster scale-up is transferred, announced as IBM Supercomputer (for technical/scientific *ONLY*) and we are told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors. We leave IBM a few months later. Some of the same people blocking our NSF bidding, also involved in cluster scale-up transfer
HA/CMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
Supercomputers started evolving into massive numbers of clustered commodity processors ... and then the large cloud operators started leveraging the same technology for massive cloud megadatacenters as well as leveraging the NSFNET technology for accessing supercomputer datacenters.
megadatacenter postings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#megadatacenter
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: What America Didn't Understand About Its Longest War Date: 06 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookWhat America Didn't Understand About Its Longest War. That the war went on so long may be tragic, but it is hardly surprising.
The Daily 202: Biden takes steps to rein in 'forever wars' in
Afghanistan and Iraq
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/15/daily-202-biden-takes-steps-rein-forever-wars-afghanistan-iraq/
Boyd quote
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 ...
A People's Guide to the War Industry
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/05/24/a-peoples-guide-to-the-war-industry/
A People's Guide to the War Industry -2: Profits &
Deception. Christian Sorensen maps out the global system of weapons
mongering. Second in a series of five articles on the
U.S. military-industrial-congressional complex.
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/05/26/a-peoples-guide-to-the-war-industry-2-profits-deception/
A People's Guide to the War Industry -3: Bribery & Propaganda. When
war is your business, peace is your enemy, writes Christian
Sorensen. Third in a five-part series on the
military-industrial-congressional complex.
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/05/28/a-peoples-guide-to-the-war-industry-3-bribery-propaganda/
A People's Guide to the War Industry -4: The New BOSS
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/05/31/a-peoples-guide-to-the-war-industry-4-the-new-boss/
A People's Guide to the War Industry -5: Portfolio of Conflicts
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/06/02/a-peoples-guide-to-the-war-industry-5-portfolio-of-conflicts/
... very much Smedley Butler's "War Is A Racket"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
... and "perpetual war" is preferred over actually winning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war
Smedley Butler, retired USMC major general and two-time Medal of Honor
Recipient
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
John Boyd posts and URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: report writer alternatives Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2021 19:30:31 -10004th generation language drift ....
even before SQL (& RDBMS) originally done on vm370/CMS (at IBM San Jose research) there were other "4th Generation Languages", one of the original 4th generation languages, Mathematica made available through one of the 60s commercial virtual machine online service bureau spinoffs from the IBM cambridge science center (cp67/cms, precursor to vm370/cms)
http://www.decosta.com/Nomad/tales/history.html
One could say PRINT ACROSS MONTH SUM SALES BY DIVISION and receive a
report that would have taken many hundreds of lines of Cobol to
produce. The product grew in capability and in revenue, both to NCSS and
to Mathematica, who enjoyed increasing royalty payments from the sizable
customer base. FOCUS from Information Builders, Inc (IBI), did even
better, with revenue approaching a reported $150M per year. RAMIS moved
among several owners, ending at Computer Associates in 1990, and has had
little limelight since. NOMAD's owners, Thomson, continue to market the
language from Aonix, Inc. While the three continue to deliver 10-to-1
coding improvements over the 3GL alternatives of Fortran, Cobol, or
PL/1, the movements to object orientation and outsourcing have stagnated
acceptance.
... snip ...
other history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramis_software
When Mathematica makes Ramis available to TYMSHARE for their VM370-based
commercial online service (and others), NCSS does their own version
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomad_software
and then follow-on FOCUS from IBI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOCUS
Information Builders's FOCUS product began as an alternate product to
Mathematica's RAMIS, the first Fourth-generation programming language
(4GL).
National CSS (NCSS), a Time-sharing vendor, licensed rights to make
RAMIS available on its VP/CSS system.[4]
At some point Mathematica changed its licensing price.[5]
The interested parties were:[4]
NCSS, which was marketing RAMIS (and other products) for use on their
time-sharing system
Mathematica, owner of RAMIS
Key developers/programmers of RAMIS
some stayed with Mathematica
others left to form the company that became Information Builders, known
for its FOCUS product
... snip ...
4th gen programming language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_language
this mentions "first financial language" done at another 60s early
commercial online (virtual machine) spinoff from the IBM cambridge
science center
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102658182
as an aside, a decade later, person responsible for FFL joins with
another to form startup and does the original spreadsheet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
online virtual machine commercial service bureaus (first two were
spin-off of cambridge science center)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#timeshare
some past posts mentioning 4th gen, Nomad, ramis, focus
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#67 RDBMS, SQL, QBE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#29 System/R, QBE, IMS, EAGLE, IDEA, DB2
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#4 IBM Midrange today?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#45 DEC introduces PDP-6 [was Re: IBM introduces System/360]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#3 Has Microsoft commuted suicide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#85 z/VM Live Guest Relocation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#24 1963 Timesharing: A Solution to Computer Bottlenecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#83 Ferranti Atlas paging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#39 The complete history of the IBM PC, part two: The DOS empire strikes; The real victor was Microsoft, which built an empire on the back of a shadily acquired MS-DOS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#29 Db2! was: NODE.js for z/OS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#85 Great mainframe history(?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#28 {wtf} Tymshare SuperBasic Source Code
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline - unless it learns to migrate itself Date: 07 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Haven't looked a lot lately ... a couple years with all the press from IBM about shifting to the CLOUD ... showed that the amount IBM was touting for its CLOUD investment was tiny portion of what major CLOUD operations were investing each year. Also for EC12 mainframe ... IBM had stopped releasing mainframe hardware sales ... just change from prior years ... ran it from when they did release numbers and showed it was only 1-2% of total earnings ... however total mainframe group (including software and services) earnings were 25% of total and mainframe group profit was 40% of total profit (aka still milking that declining market). Hard to separate it out from all the IBM puffery.
(2013) New IBM Buyback Plan Is For Over 10 Percent Of Its Stock
http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2013/10/29/new-ibm-buyback-plan-is-for-over-10-percent-of-its-stock/
(2014) IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate
Fudge; Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
https://web.archive.org/web/20140623003038/http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-21/ibm-asian-revenues-crash-adjusted-earnings-beat-tax-rate-fudge-debt-rises-20-fund-st
The company has represented that its dividends and share repurchases
have come to a total of over $159 billion since 2000.
... snip ...
(2016) After Forking Out $110 Billion on Stock Buybacks, IBM Shifts
Its Spending Focus
https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/04/25/after-forking-out-110-billion-on-stock-buybacks-ib.aspx
(2018) ... still doing buybacks ... but will (now?, finally?, a
little?) shift focus needing it for redhat purchase.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-30/ibm-to-buy-back-up-to-4-billion-of-its-own-shares
(2019) IBM Tumbles After Reporting Worst Revenue In 17 Years As Cloud Hits Air Pocket
https://web.archive.org/web/20190417002701/https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-16/ibm-tumbles-after-reporting-worst-revenue-17-years-cloud-hits-air-pocket
stock buyback posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
other IBM posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#55 Stock Buybacks Threaten Economic Growth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#72 IBM revenue has fallen for 20 quarters -- but it used to run its business very differently
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#64 IBM Tumbles After Reporting Worst Revenue In 17 Years As Cloud Hits Air Pocket
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#2 After Forking Out $110 Billion on Stock Buybacks, IBM Shifts Its Spending Focus
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#18 Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#104 Tax Cut for Stock Buybacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#49 The 50 Largest Stashes of Cash Companies Keep Overseas
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#17 There's No Such Thing as Corporate DNA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#111 The Decline and Fall of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#80 IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#69 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#54 IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#48 IBM hopes new chip can turn the tables on Intel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#77 Why IBM Is Tumbling: BRIC Sales Plunge, Total Revenue Lowest Since 2009
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#75 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#91 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#55 Maximizing shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#54 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#24 IBM sells Intel server business, company is doomed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#101 Defense Department Needs to Act Like IBM to Save Itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#93 Maximizing shareholder value: The Goal that changed corporate America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#79 Shocking news: Execs do what they're paid to do
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#48 IBM Dumps Its Server Business On Lenovo For $2.3B
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#34 IBM sells x86 server business to Lenovo (was Levono)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#25 IBM Asian Revenues Crash, Adjusted Earnings Beat On Tax Rate Fudge; Debt Rises 20% To Fund Stock Buybacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#16 IBM to invest 1.2B into Cloud Data Centers
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Execute and IBM history, not Sequencer vs microcode Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2021 08:15:18 -1000Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> writes:
trivia: a decade ago, I was asked to track down decision to move all
370s to virtual memory and found guy was staff to one of the execs.
Basically MVT storage management was so bad that "region" sizes had to
be four times larger than actually used ... as a result typical one
mbyte, 370/165 could only run four concurrent regions. Going to 16mbyte virtual memory
memory would allow number of concurrent regions to be increased by a
factor of four times with little or no paging. old archived post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
VS2 Release 1 (SVS) was essentailly very much like running MVT in a CP67 16mbyte virtual machine ... except the build of the address table was done by MVT and a little bit paging code added. The biggest effort was CP67 CCWTRANS was hacked into EXCP/SVC0 to do the copy of passed (I/O) channel programs, substituting the virtual address with real address. However, the CSECT/RLD convention still continued ... which then had the downside of all the program pages still had to be preloaded by the program loader and all pages with address pointers where now modified/changed (and would have to be paged out). It was not possible to just page map the virtual memory to the program image on disk.
TSS/360 (official virtual memory operating system for 360/67) had solved that problem by moving the RLD equivalents to a separate system table ... and program invokation just required prebuilding that table ... and then mapping virtual memory to program image on disk (w/o preloading) and invoking the program. This also had the advantage in that several application address spaces could have concurrent shared image of the same program ... concurrently (even located at different virtual addresses, in different address spaces).
Some of the MIT CTSS people went the 5th flr to Project MAC to do MULTICS, others went to the ibm science center on the 4th flr and did CP40/CMS (CP40 ran on 360/40 that had been modified with virtual memory hardware). CP40/CMS morphs into CP67/CMS (precursor to VM370/CMS) when 360/67 standard with virtual memory becomes available.
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
I had done a virtual paged mapped filesystem for CP67/CMS (and later moved to VM370/CMS) ... and would comment that I learned what not to do by observing TSS/360 implementation. One of the TSS/360 performance issues was that it just paged mapped the programs (everthing 4k page fault at a time, no read-ahead or multiple 4k transfers in single operation) ... so loading required multiple (potentially large number) individual 4k synchronous page faults. I did a lot of work on being able to schedule preload & read-ahead as much as possible (given amount and contention for real storage). This met much of the program could be loaded with single I/O operation (rather than 4k at a time with separate I/O operations) ... and program execution could be started before the whole program was available in memory.
mmap (page-mapped) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
The downside was CMS used a lot of OS/360 compilers that generated CSECTS with the RLD convention. I had to go through a lot of effort to create program images on disk that could be page mapped and be shared concurrently in multiple different addresses spaces ... even at different virtual address locations (like in TSS/360).
adcon/RLD issues for cms page-mapped filesystem posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#adcon
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline - unless it learns to migrate itself Date: 08 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
... reflects poorly here
https://www.ibm.com/kyndryl
Kyndryl designs, runs and manages the most modern, efficient and
reliable technology infrastructure that the world depends on every day
... snip ...
IBM insiders say CEO Arvind Krishna downplayed impact of email
troubles, asked for a week to sort things out. Behind the curtain:
Server crashes, thumbs down on Slack, staff compared to shoemaker's
kids, and more
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/08/ibm_arvind_email/
A third IBM insider suggested it was more like 100,000 people having
trouble accessing their email as of Tuesday and likened the situation
to an outage affecting an entire country. This individual
characterized the situation as a major embarrassment for a company
that handles IT systems for a living.
IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a
disaster, sources say
IBM email fiasco complicates sales deals, is worse than biz is letting
on - sources
Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline - unless it learns
to migrate itself
Age discrimination case against IBM leaks emails, docs via bad
redaction
... snip ...
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM Fan-fold cards Date: 09 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookI manage to keep whole pile of fan-fold cards, green, yellow, orange, blue, etc ... up until the latest downsizing 2yrs ago. blue 360/67 (from "M" that invented "GML" in 1969, i.e. "GML" chosen from 1st letters of the three inventors) and vmshare user card ... TYMSHARE CMS-based online computer conferencing that they started providing to IBM user group SHARE starting in Aug1976, archive here
67 blue card & vmshare card
there was a cms ios3270 (part of) "green card" ... i've done a q&d
conversion from ios3270 to html
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/gcard.html
it didn't have all of green/yellow card ... but I had "back in the
day" added (some device sense info) from 360/67 "blue card". IOS3270
trivia: The 3090 service processor started out as 4331 running highly
modified version of VM370 release 6 ... but got upgraded to pair of
4361s ... 3092
https://web.archive.org/web/20230719145910/https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP3090.html
... comment requires two (FBA) 3370 disks (one for each 4361) ... even
MVS 3090 systems which have never had FBA support (IBM mainframes
still requiring CKD DASD, even tho haven't been made for decades,
simulated on industry standard fixed-block disks).
and old archived email from 3092 group:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#email861031
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#email861223
Very early days of REX(X) (well before even being released to customers), I wanted to demonstrate that it wasn't just another pretty scripting language and decided to rewrite IPCS (very large assembler program) ... objective was do it in under 3months half time with ten times the function and running ten times faster (slight of hand for interpreted REX). I finished early ... so started do an automated diagnostic library that look for common failure signatures. I thought it would be released (replacing existing IPCS) but never happened (it included simple decompiler and automated storage formating ... with maclib member name specified) ... possibly because it was during height of OCO-wars (IBM decreed it would no longer ship program source and customers were bitterly complaining). Later, local management did approve my presenting how I did the implementation at user group meetings ... and within a few months, non-IBM implemented versions started appearing. Some discussion of the OCO-wars can be found in VMSHARE archives.
DUMPRX (IPCS replacement) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dumprx
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Execute and IBM history, not Sequencer vs microcode Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2021 12:28:36 -1000re:
this has discussion of assembler generating RLD (ESD, TXT, etc) cards
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/370/asm/SC26-3759-1_OS_Assembler_H_Programmers_Guide_Jun72.pdf
this has discussion of linkedit processing RLD (ESD, TXT, etc) card
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/os/R21.0_Mar72/GC28-6538-9_OS_Linkage_Editor_and_Loader_Release_21_Jan72.pdf
i.e. before starting execution, link editor fiddles all the information to force address constants to their "real" (and then later virtual) address corresponding to the location that it has been loaded
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Execute and IBM history, not Sequencer vs microcode Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2021 12:01:50 -1000John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> writes:
APL\360 was all interpreted ... so didn't actually execute ... it was code in the fixed supervisor that executed. Typical APL/360 had two 16kbyte swap regions and could swap out and swap back into either swap regions ... and then apl\360 just had register(s) that pointed to the specific workspace region.
Note APL\360 did no storage allocation on every assignment ... and when it exhaused available storage (in 16kbyte workspace region), it would garbage collection and condense all used space to contiguous area. When science center ported it to CP67/CMS for CMS\APL wih larrge virtual memory (demand paged) workspaces ... it would cause enormous amount of page thrashing ... guarenteed to repeatedly & quickly touch every available virtual memory page ... and then garbage collect and start again ... even relatively small program with lots of assignments would repeatedly traverse all available pages in the virtual address space. This had to be completely reworked for demand page large virtual memory workspaces.
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
HONE and/or APL posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Execute and IBM history, not Sequencer vs microcode Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2021 12:40:33 -1000John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> writes:
Some of the MIT CTSS people went to the 5th flr and Project MAC to do MULTICS and others went to science center on the 4th flr and did cp40/cms ... which morphs into cp67/cms when 360/67 standard with virtual memory becomes available.
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
When I joined the science center, I figured I could do anything the multics people were doing, so wrote a page-mapped filesystem for CMS and provided support for location independent execution (even having r/o sharing of same executable image at different virtual addresses in different virtual address spaces).
page-mapped filesystem support posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
To actually support R/O shared (segment) location independence (since the underlying stuff borrowed from os/360 didn't), I had to manually rewrite application inline code to support sharing and use relative offsets (rather than RLD processing, which would have also modified storage violating R/O shared) ... managed to do it for major, high-use applications ... editors, shell/execs, various other applications and utilities.
location independent executable support posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#adcon
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM Programming Projects Date: 09 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookVLSI tools group at the Los Gatos lab did a number of languages with Metware's TWS ... and then does Pascal (IBM eventually releases as VS/Pascal) which is used for a number of applications (including mainframe TCP/IP that ships to customers).
After the troubles in the early 90s and reprieve from being split into
the "13 baby blues", many of the internal tools were being spun off to
a industry company. Since much of the VLSI industry ran on SUN servers
and workstations ... a requirement was all these applications had to
run on SUN. After I left IBM, I got an IBM contract to port a Los
Gatos VLSI 50,000 statement pascal application to SUN. I somewhat came
to the conclusion that SUN Pascal may have never been used for much
more than education purposes (no major application) and in retrospect
it may have been easier to have rewritten it in C. Complicating
matters was SUN had outsourced PASCAL to an organization 12 time zones
away ... while it was easy to drop into SUN hdqtrs, it didn't do much
good since the Pascal group was now on the opposite of the planet
(that group had previously been involved in putting up the space
station). Porting to SUN Pascal posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#30 perceived forced conversion from cp/m to ms-dos in late 80's
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#42 Infiniband - practicalities for small clusters
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#19 Top 10 Cybersecurity Threats for 2009, will they cause creation of highly-secure Corporate-wide Intranets?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#71 New HD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#36 Quote on Slashdot.org
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#93 Curious observation: lack of a simple optimization in a C program
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#24 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#43 The most important invention from every state
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#37 IBM HA/CMP Product
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#41 CADAM & Catia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#95 What's Fortran?!?!
Earlier, the communication group was fiercely fighting off
client/server, distributed computing and releasing mainframe TCP/IP
support ... when the lost the TCP/IP battle, they changed tactics and
said since the communication group had corporate strategic "ownership"
for everything that crosses datacenter wall ... TCP/IP had to be
released through them. What shipped got 44kbyte/sec aggregate
throughput using nearly whole 3090 processor. I then did the changes
to support RFC1044 and in some tuning tests at Cray Research between
4341 and Cray got sustained 4341 channel throughput using only modest
amount of 4341 processor (something like 500 times improvement in
number of bytes moved per instruction executed). RFC1044 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
Just recently posted comment about rewriting (large assembler) IPCS
(dump reader) application in REX (very early REX days, well before
renamed REXX and released to customers). DUMPRX posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dumprx
Shortly after joining IBM, I had written a PLI program that read
360&370 assembler listings ... creating flow diagram and register use
table ... that looked for "dead code" and possible register "use
before set" issues ... also would spit out a psuedo-Pascal
representation of the assembler code. past posts about app that tried
to analyze assembler listsings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#57 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#80 Languages
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#97 ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#25 Is it a lost cause?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#69 [Poll] Computing favorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#49 "How do you feel about 'gotos'"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#65 You know you've been Lisp hacking to long when
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#57 Translation of IBM Basic Assembler to C?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#64 IBM System/360 DOS still going strong as Z/VSE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#35 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#32 To RISC or not to RISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#31 To RISC or not to RISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#1 Greatest Software Ever Written?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#32 transputers again was: The demise of Commodore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#45 IBM's POWER6
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#16 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#35 Shipwrecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#36 Assembly language formatting on IBM systems
Did some amount of APL-coding after science center ported APL\360 to
CP67/CMS for CMS\APL ... had to rework internal APL storage management
that was a disaster in large virtual memory workspaces ... also added
APIs for system services, like file I/O ... enabling real world
applications ... typical APL\360 was swapped 16kbyte
workspaces. science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
Did lots of operating system architecture, design and implementations
... after joining IBM, one of my hobbies was enhanced production
operating systems for internal datacenters ... including online
sales&marketing support HONE systems, which were long customers. HONE
&/or APL posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline - unless it learns to migrate itself Date: 09 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Whitehurst fallout: 'The future IBM we will probably never see'
https://www.wraltechwire.com/2021/07/08/whitehurst-fallout-the-future-ibm-we-will-probably-never-see/
Technology columnist Timothy Prickett Morgan is harshly critical of
Jim Whitehurst's departure as president of IBM, writing:
"Someone at the company forgot what being named president
of the IBM Company means. Or no longer cared."
... snip ...
from Ferguson & Morris, "Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World", Time
Books, 1993
http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Wars-The-Post-IBM-World/dp/1587981394
.... reference to the "Future System" project 1st half of
the 70s:
... and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr
of free and vigorous debate was replaced with *SYNCOPHANCY* and *MAKE
NO WAVES* under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that thereafter, IBM
lived in the shadow of defeat ... But because of the heavy investment
of face by the top management, F/S took years to kill, although its
wrong headedness was obvious from the very outset. "For the first
time, during F/S, outspoken criticism became politically dangerous,"
recalls a former top executive.
... snip ...
... another side effect, middle management and lower level executives
learned to carefully manage the flow of information up. Other FS info
(with some reference to demise of FS, and getting stuff back into 370
product pipeline, quick&dirty 303x and 3081 efforts kicked off in
parallel)
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
... any success Learson may have had was obliterated in the FS failure
(and IBM bureaucracy kills off wild ducks)
Management Briefing
Number 1-72: January 18,1972
ZZ04-1312
TO ALL IBM MANAGERS:
Once again, I'm writing you a Management Briefing on the subject of
bureaucracy. Evidently the earlier ones haven't worked. So this time
I'm taking a further step: I'm going directly to the individual
employees in the company. You will be reading this poster and my
comment on it in the forthcoming issue of THINK magazine. But I wanted
each one of you to have an advance copy because rooting out
bureaucracy rests principally with the way each of us runs his own
shop.
We've got to make a dent in this problem. By the time the THINK piece
comes out, I want the correction process already to have begun. And
that job starts with you and with me.
Vin Learson
... and ...
+-----------------------------------------+ | "BUSINESS ECOLOGY" | | | | | | +---------------+ | | | BUREAUCRACY | | | +---------------+ | | | | is your worst enemy | | because it - | | | | POISONS the mind | | STIFLES the spirit | | POLLUTES self-motivation | | and finally | | KILLS the individual. | +-----------------------------------------+ "I'M Going To Do All I Can to Fight This Problem . . ." by T. Vincent Learson, Chairman... snip ... "We are convinced that any business needs its wild ducks. And in IBM we try not to tame them." - T.J. Watson, Jr.
"How To Stuff A Wild Duck", 1973, IBM poster
https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18618011/
IBM downfall/downturn posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ibmdownfall
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline - unless it learns to migrate itself Date: 09 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
In the late 70s & early 80s, 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/late 80s) ... folklore is that when corporate
executive committee was told, 5of6 wanted to fire me (claims were
upwards of 25,000 were reading). It really took off after distributed
a trip report visiting Jim Gray at Tandem ... from IBMJargon:
http://www.comlay.net/ibmjarg.pdf
Tandem Memos - n. Something constructive but hard to control; a fresh
of breath air (sic). That's another Tandem Memos. A phrase to worry
middle management. It refers to the computer-based conference (widely
distributed in 1981) in which many technical personnel expressed
dissatisfaction with the tools available to them at that time, and
also constructively criticized the way products were [are]
developed. The memos are required reading for anyone with a serious
interest in quality products. If you have not seen the memos, try
reading the November 1981 Datamation summary.
... snip ...
six copies of something like 300 pages were printed, packaged in
TANDEM 3-ring binders and mailed to the executive committee ... part
of the summary to the executive summary:
SUMMARY OF THE SUMMARY
To give the reader an overview of what follows, I include here the
most important points. It is impossible to do justice to the entire
discussion in such a short summary of a summary
• The perception of many technical people in IBM is that the company
is rapidly heading for disaster. Furthermore, people fear that this
movement will not be appreciated until it begins more directly to
affect revenue, at which point recovery may be impossible
• Many technical people are extremely frustrated with their management
and with the way things are going in IBM. To an increasing extent,
people are reacting to this by leaving IBM.
• Most of the contributors to the present discussion would prefer to
stay with IBM and see the problems rectified. However, there is
increasing skepticism that correction is possible or likely, given
the apparent lack of commitment by management to take action
• There is a widespread perception that IBM management has failed to
understand how to manage technical people and high-technology
development in an extremely competitive environment.
... snip ...
... note it wasn't quite so rapidly ... taking another decade, IBM is
being reorganized into the 13 "Baby Blues" in preparation for breaking
up the company (gone behind paywall, but mostly living free at wayback
machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
may also work
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,977353-1,00.html
IBM downfall/downturn posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ibmdownfall
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM Fan-fold cards Date: 09 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Kingston Common System(?) had collected lots of VM370 changes from internal datacenters around the company. One of the analysis was that Common system had was more collected lines-of-code add-on (twice as much) to VM370 than was in the base system ... and about same number of lines of code as in the SHARE WATERLOO tape ... with a lot of overlap in functions between what was in the Common System and what was on the WATERLOO tape. Part of the issue was that in the morph from CP67->VM370, lots of things were greatly simplified and/or dropped ... the CP67 multiprocessor support was dropped as well as a lot of CP67 stuff I had done as an undergraduate in the 60s (that had been picked up and shipped by IBM).
I eventually got around to migrating a lot of the CP67 stuff to VM370
for internal distribution (some competition/overlap with Common). Old
email about my CSC/VM initially on VM370 Release 2.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
Note: CSC had joint project with Endicott to add 370 architecture support to CP67, CP67L was enhanced 360/67 system, CP67H added virtual memory 370 virtual machine support and CP67I was modified to run on 370 architecture (instead of 360/67 architecture). Three people from San Jose then added 3330 & 2305 device support for CP67SJ. CP67I was in regular operation a year before the 1st engineering 370 with virtual memory support and CP67I (or CP67SJ) was running on internal 370 virtual memory real machines long before VM370 was available. Then internal 370 systems started moving to VM370 (and away from my internal CP67 systems) ... until I got around to migrating to VM370.
Note my initial CSC/VM was on release 2 base ... didn't have the CP67 multiprocessor support, but did include the CP67 kernel/logic (re)org for multiprocessor operation. I then added hardware multiprocessor support on a release 3 base ... initially for the consolidated US HONE system up in palo alto. It had been enhanced for single system image (loosely-coupled), eight processor complex all accessing large 3330 disk farm (with load balancing and fall-over support). CSC/VM on release 3 base with multiprocessor support allowed them to add a 2nd 168-3 processor to each system, for 16processors total. other trivia: I had also done a page-mapped filesystem for CP67/CMS ... which I also migrated to VM370
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
csc/vm (&/or sjr/vm) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#cscvm
multiprocessor, smp, and/or compare&swap
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
hone (&/or APL) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
page mapped filesystem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
posts mentioning CP67L, CP67H, CP67L, CP67SJ
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#6 IBM 370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#5 Z/VM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#28 Science Center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#49 DEC introduces PDP-6 [was Re: IBM introduces System/360]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#45 DEC introduces PDP-6 [was Re: IBM introduces System/360]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#18 IBM Profs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#87 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#57 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#71 New HD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#62 Any cool anecdotes IBM 40yrs of VM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#72 IBM Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#69 Boeing Plant 2 ... End of an Era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#31 Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#23 Item on TPF
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#51 Source code for s/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#17 old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#3 "Portable" data centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#16 when was MMU virtualization first considered practical?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#3 IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#1 Materiel and graft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#38 Is VIO mandatory?
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Cloud computing's destiny Date: 10 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookCloud computing's destiny: operating as a single global computer, enabled by serverless. The next phase for cloud is coalescing public and private data centers across the globe into a 'single infinitely powerful computer' that is easy to access and use. IBM has a roadmap.
a couple years ago with all the press from IBM about shifting to the CLOUD ... showed that the amount IBM was touting for its CLOUD investment was tiny fraction of what major CLOUD operations were investing each year.
Starting in early 80s, one of my projects was HSDT, T1 & faster computer links and working with the director of NSF. We were suppose to get $20M to interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers, but then congress cuts the budget, some other things happen and finally an RFP is released (in part based on what we already had running). IBM 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.
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
Old post with preliminary announcement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#12
The OASC has initiated three programs: The Supercomputer Centers
Program to provide Supercomputer cycles; the New Technologies Program
to foster new supercomputer software and hardware developments; and
the Networking Program to build a National Supercomputer Access
Network - NSFnet.
... snip ...
as regional networks connect in, it becomes the NSFNET backbone,
precursor to modern internet (and the access to large supercomputer
datacenters also has morphed into access to large cloud
megadatacenters)
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401444/grid-computing/
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
internet/internetworking protocol posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
The last product we did at IBM was HA/CMP, it originally started out
as HA/6000 for NYTimes to enable them porting their newspaper system
(ATEX) from VAX/Cluster to IBM. When I started doing
technical/scientific cluster scale-up with national labs and commercial
cluster scale-up with RDBMS vendors, I renamed it HA/CMP (High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing). Old reference
to Jan1992 meeting on commercial cluster scale-up in (Oracle CEO)
conference room (16-way by mid-1992, 128-way by ye1992).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
Within a few weeks, cluster scale-up is transferred, announced as IBM Supercomputer (for technical/scientific *ONLY*) and we are told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors. We leave IBM a few months later. Some of the same people blocking our NSF bidding, also involved in cluster scale-up transfer
HACMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
Supercomputers started evolving into massive numbers of clustered commodity processors ... and then the large cloud operators started leveraging the same technology for massive cloud megadatacenters as well as leveraging the NSFNET technology for accessing supercomputer datacenters (for cloud access).
co-worker at the cambridge science center was responsible for the
internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from nearly the
beginning until sometime mid/late 80s) ... technology was also used
for the corporate sponsored univ network BITNET (also larger than
arpanet/internet for a time)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
BITNET (&/or EARN) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
In 1977, we both transfer to IBM San Jose research .. "IBM'S MISSED
OPPORTUNITY WITH THE INTERNET" (gone behind paywall but lives free at
wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20000124004147/http://www1.sjmercury.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg092499.htm
also Edson (passes Aug2020)
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/
megadatacenter postings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#megadatacenter
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Cloud computing's destiny Date: 10 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
.. the press when APPLE switched to Intel was because that IBM wasn't designing power efficient chips for portable device battery life (focusing on higher margin server chips). The APPLE most recent switch was Intel wasn't keeping up with power efficient chips.
Apple unleashes M1
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-unleashes-m1/
With industry-leading performance, powerful features, and incredible
efficiency, M1 is Apple's first chip designed specifically for the Mac
... snip ...
Apple M1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1
The M1 has four high-performance 'Firestorm' and four energy-efficient
'Icestorm' cores, providing a hybrid configuration similar to ARM
DynamIQ and Intel's Lakefield and Alder Lake processors.[6] This
combination allows power-use optimizations not possible with previous
Apple-Intel architecture devices. Apple claims the energy-efficient
cores use one-tenth the power of the high-performance ones.[7] The
high-performance cores have 192 KB of L1 instruction cache and 128 KB
of L1 data cache and share a 12 MB L2 cache; the energy-efficient
cores have a 128 KB L1 instruction cache, 64 KB L1 data cache, and a
shared 4 MB L2 cache.
... snip ...
Apple M1 Chip: Everything You Need to Know
https://www.macrumors.com/guide/m1/
The M1 chip and beyond: The present and future of Apple silicon on the
Mac Everything you need to know about Apple's homegrown Mac chips.
https://www.macworld.com/article/234860/apple-silicon-m1-system-on-chip-macbook-air-macbook-pro-mac-mini-imac-m1x-specs-features-intel-apps-rosetta-2.html
... the large cloud operators have been claiming for over a decade that they assemble their own systems for 1/3rd the cost of brand name servers. About the time the major server chip makers were saying they were shipping at least half their server chip product directly to large cloud operators (to do their own assembly), IBM sold off its (brand name) server business.
... large cloud operators have also been pressuring Intel regarding chip power efficiency for their large megadatacenters (including switching to different architectures), each with over half million systems. As they have drastically cut server costs, power&cooling has increasingly become a major part of their operation costs
megadatacenter postings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#megadatacenter
Apple, Power/PC, Intel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#3 Will The Cloud Take Down The Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#111 Online Timsharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#36 When did the home computer die?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#103 SEX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#9 The Mainframe vs. the Server Farm: A Comparison
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#94 Migration off Mainframe to other platform
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#17 The Pentagon still uses computer software from 1958 to manage its contracts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#6 How do BIG WEBSITES work?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#55 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#57 Economics of Mainframe Technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#86 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#78 Over in the Mainframe Experts Network LinkedIn group
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#24 IBM sells Intel server business, company is doomed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#22 US Federal Reserve pushes ahead with Faster Payments planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#34 IBM sells x86 server business to Lenovo (was Levono)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#27 IBM sells x86 server business to Levono
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#14 IBM to invest 1.2B into Cloud Data Centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#50 Mainframe On Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#70 How internet can evolve
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#57 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#51 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#45 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#38 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#35 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#28 Reports: IBM may sell x86 server business to Lenovo
IBM sell off server business
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#47 Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#27 PC Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#109 JSF/F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#65 Is AMD Dooomed? A Silly Suggestion!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#29 Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor bil ling by 15 percent (our else)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#45 IBM hopes new chip can turn the tables on Intel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#70 architectures, was Open source software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#6 OT? IBM licenses POWER architecture to other vendors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#72 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#15 System/360--50 years--the future?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#94 Time to competency for new software language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#2 Significant Bits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#12 OS/400 and z/OS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#44 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#19 The Development of the Vital IBM PC in Spite of the Corporate Culture of IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#43 Numa-Q Information
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005r.html#11 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#40 Intel strikes back with a parallel x86 design
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM Programming Projects Date: 11 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
note I was in research, but LSG let me have part of a wing with offices and labs
from long ago and far away
IBM Palo Alto Scientific Center Report, March 1983 "A Comparison of Modula-2 and Pascal/VS" by A. Hassitt HASSITT@PALOALTO
A very interesting paper. They are making the case that, while Pascal/VS does have its shortcomings, most of Pascal/VS' shortcomings in the areas vital for using it for programming SCPs have been or can be readily overcome. (The issue of source level debugging was not really addressed although mention was made of execution time debugging.)
... snip ...
Recent refs to HSDT (T1 and faster computer links)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#35 Cloud computing's destiny
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#36 Cloud computing's destiny
more HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
One of the issues with HSDT RSCS/VNET use was it relied on VM spoolfile system for file storage ... using synchronous DIAGNOSE interface it could do 4k read/write transfers ... but on heavily loaded VM370 ... it would be lucky to get 5-8 transfers/sec, 20k-30k bytes/sec (and blocked from execution during the transfers) or 200kbit-300kbit. For full-duplex T1, HSDT needed it to be able to do 3mbit/sec per link.
I rewrote VM spoolfile system in Pascal/VS running in virtual address space with lots of huge enhancements, contiguous allocation for bigger files, large multiple block transfers, read-ahead, write-behind, asynchronous operation (so RSCS/VNET could continue executing overlapped with transfer) ... looking for up to 3mbyte/sec sustained ... aka possibly ten concurrent T1 links. There were misc. other pathlength fixes, standard spool did sequential search for spool files, I did red/black tree implementation which significantly cut spool file cpu processing for systems with large thousands of spool files.
I also made available re-implemented spool file utilities for vanilla VM systems done in pascal/vs.
some archived posts mentioning HSDTSFS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#57
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#24
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#81
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#77
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#91
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#24
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#23
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#18
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#29
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#25
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#26
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#12
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#63
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#22
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#21
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#28
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#38
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#19
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#63
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#26
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#44
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#43
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Cloud computing's destiny Date: 11 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
RISC vs. CISC Is the Wrong Lens for Comparing Modern x86, ARM CPUs
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/323245-risc-vs-cisc-why-its-the-wrong-lens-to-compare-modern-x86-arm-cpus
A Simplified History of the Parts People Agree On
RISC is a term coined by David Patterson and David Ditzel in their
1981 seminal paper "The Case for a Reduced Instruction Set Computer."
The two men proposed a new approach to semiconductor design based on
observed trends in the late 1970s and the scaling problems encountered
by then-current CPUs. They offered the term "CISC" -- Complex
Instruction Set Computer -- to describe many of the various CPU
architectures already in existence that did not follow the tenets of
RISC.
This perceived need for a new approach to CPU design came about as the
bottlenecks limiting CPU performance changed. So-called CISC designs,
including the original 8086, were designed to deal with the high cost
of memory by moving complexity into hardware. They emphasized code
density and some instructions performed multiple operations in
sequence on a variable. As a design philosophy, CISC attempted to
improve performance by minimizing the number of instructions a CPU had
to execute in order to perform a given task. CISC instruction set
architectures typically offered a wide range of specialized
instructions.
... snip ...
... I would claim that John did (801) RISC in the 70s as a counter to the horrible complexity of Future System.
801/risc, iliad, romp, rios, pc/rt, rs/6000, etc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: iBM System/3 FORTRAN for engineering/science work? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2021 13:58:39 -1000Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> writes:
os/360 release 13 was 1st (2nd?) with MVT ... we had skipped from release 11 directly to 14 ... then to combined release 15/16.
boeing huntsville had got a duplex 360/67 for tss/360 to drive 2250
graphic CAD work ... tss/360 never came to production fruition ... so
they tried running os/360 MVT (as two separate 360/65s) ... but as
mentioned here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
the primary justification for moving all 370s to virtual memory was that
MVT storage management was so bad ... that regions typically had to be
four times larger than actually used (typical 1mbyte 370/165 was
nominally limited to four concurrent regions) ... going to 16mbyte virtual memory
memory (16mbyte virtual address space) could increase the number of
regions by factor of four with little or no paging.
MVT storage management disaster increased the longer jobs ran ... and long running 2250 graphic CAD work was nearly impossible. So boeing huntsville added some virtual memory support to MVT (starting with release 13) ... didn't do any paging ... the amount of virtual memory was same as real storage ... but it addressed the enormous MVT storage fragmentation problem for longer running jobs ... being able to reorg addressable memory to create contiguous storage locations (aka part of the same reason motivating moving all 370s to virtual memory).
first os/360 sysgen I did after being hired fulltime at the univ was release 9.5 (mentioned upthread). Then for release 11, I tore apart stage2 sysgen deck and reorganized all the cards to optimize placement of files and pds members for optimized arm seek (and PDS directory multi-track search) ... and stared doing as much as possible new system build in production job stream (instead of stand-alone starter system). Most notable thing I remember about release 15/16 is formating disk, you could specify the cylinder location for vtoc (instead of always cyl0, requiring seek to vtoc/cyl0 for any file lookup) ... allowing placement of vtoc in the middle of files on both sides ... cutting avg arm seek distance for high activity vtoc operations.
Then before I graduate, Boeing hires me fulltime into a small group in the CFO office to help with formation of Boeing Computer Services (move all dataprocessing into independent business unit to better monetize the investment, including offering services to non-Boeing entities). I thot Renton datacenter was possibly largest in the world ... something like $200M-$300M in 360s (majority fortran engineering/scientific work) ... when I was hired, 360/65s were arriving faster than they could be installed, boxes constantly being staged in the hallways around the machine room.
Machine room did have one 360/75 that did some classified work. When classified work was running there was black rope around the perimeter of the system complex with guards stationed at corners ... and heavy black velvet cloth draped over the front console lights and the 1403 printer front window and rear stacker.
some past BCS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#6 IBM 370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#78 The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#57 "Hollywood model" for dealing with engineers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#80 Amdahl
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#54 Learning PDP-11 in 2021
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#62 Early Computer Use
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#5 Availability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#78 Interactive Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#41 CADAM & Catia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#32 IBM TSS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#29 Online Computer Conferencing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#10 "This Plane Was Designed By Clowns, Who Are Supervised By Monkeys"
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#151 OT: Boeing to temporarily halt manufacturing of 737 MAX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#60 IBM 360/67
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#80 TCM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#51 System/360 consoles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#54 IBM bureaucracy
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Why do people hate universal health care? It turns out -- they don't Date: 11 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookWhy do people hate universal health care? It turns out -- they don't. A new survey of 150,000 Americans finds private health care consistently ranks lower than public options.
Yale Study Says Medicare for All Would Save U.S. $450 Billion, Prevent
Nearly 70,000 Deaths a Year
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/19/lancet_report_medicare_for_all
A New Congressional Budget Office Study Shows That Medicare for All
Would Save Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Annually
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/medicare-for-all-singler-payer-health-insurance-cbo
Seems Like a Good Policy!' CBO Shows Medicare for All Could Cover
Everyone for $650 Billion Less Per Year. The analysis shows that
administrative costs under a single-payer healthcare system "will be
lower than what even the most rabid Medicare for All supporters have
traditionally claimed."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/11/seems-good-policy-cbo-shows-medicare-all-could-cover-everyone-650-billion-less-year
Koch-backed study finds 'Medicare for All' would save
U.S. trillions. An estimated cost of $32.6 trillion over 10 years is
less than the US would spend over the next 10 years under the current
system.
https://thinkprogress.org/mercatis-medicare-for-all-study-0a8681353316/
Koch-Backed Think Tank Finds That "Medicare for All" Would Cut Health
Care Spending and Raise Wages. Whoops. A Koch brothers-backed
economist makes a $3 trillion error, but still finds that "Medicare
for All" reduces costs and boosts wages.
https://theintercept.com/2018/07/30/medicare-for-all-cost-health-care-wages/
Study: 'Medicare for all' projected to cost $32.6 trillion
https://apnews.com/09e06d686a1a481fa76e3fd91f3fcbc2
The Koch Brothers Commissioned a Survey of Americans and Found Most
Like a $15 Minimum Wage, Free College, and Universal Health
Care. Where the Koch brothers see government tyranny, most Americans
see common-sense solutions to basic problems, it turns out.
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/09/koch-brothers-health-care-free-college/
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
Is private equity helping or hurting healthcare?
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20180710/NEWS/180719998/is-private-equity-helping-or-hurting-healthcare
How Private Equity Is Ruining American Health Care. Investors
have been buying up doctor's offices, cutting costs, and, critics say,
putting pressure on physicians in ways that hurt patients. The
pandemic could make things even worse.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-05-20/private-equity-is-ruining-health-care-covid-is-making-it-worse
Private equity keeps buying up health care companies. Should
patients worry?
https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2018/06/20/private-equity
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
"medicare for all" and/or "single payer" posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#5 Book: Kochland : the secret history of Koch Industries and corporate power in America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#64 Mystery of the Underpaid American Worker
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#35 OT: Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#103 Barb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#100 Barb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#66 Doubts about the HR departments that require knowledge of technology that does not exist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#29 free, huh, was Bitcoin confusion?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#41 Disregard post (another screwup)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#2 Single Payer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#20 Why a Single-Payer Health Care System is Inevitable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#12 Why a Single-Payer Health Care System is Inevitable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#30 HP splits, again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#6 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#100 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#38 Royal Pardon For Turing
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Miami Building Collapse Could Profoundly Change Engineering Date: 11 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Quest for "green" cement draws big name investors to $300B
industry. Startups and venture capitalists are joining concrete makers
against a hard problem.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/quest-for-green-cement-draws-big-name-investors-to-300b-industry/
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM Token-Ring Date: 13 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookOne of the things that the communication group did was kneecap the PS2 microchannel cards (part of fiercely fighting off distributed computing and client/server trying to preserves its dumb terminal paradigm), Austin AWD had come out with 801/risc PC/RT (originally for displaywriter follow-on, when that was canceled, they pivot to using it for workstation). For the PC/RT (& its 16bit PC/AT bus), AWD did their own 4mbit Token-Ring card. Follow on was RS/6000 with microchannel and corporate mandated AWD use only PS/2 microchannel cards (and could no longer do their own cards). It turns out that the PS/2 microchannel cards had been kneecapped by the communication group to conform to their paradigm of dumb terminal emulation (fighting off client/server and distributed computing) ... for network cards that was something like 300+ stations on LAN all sharing the same bandwidth. It turns out that the PS/2 16mbit token-ring card had lower per-card throughput than the PC/RT 4mbit token-ring card (i.e. a RS/6000 "server" using a 32bit microchannel 16mbit token-ring card was slower than a PC/RT "server" with its 16bit AT-bus 4mbit token-ring card).
As a "work-around" to the communication group kneecapping of PS/2 cards (and corporate mandates to only use PS/2 microchannel cards), AWD somewhat came out with RS6000/730 with a VMEbus ... and since IBM wasn't making VMEbus cards, AWD had to use industry standard high performance VMEbus cards. There was a joke that RS/6000 forced to use only PS/2 cards, for many things, RS/6000 wouldn't have any better performance than PS/2 (disks, displays, lan, etc).
Also, mid-80s, new Almaden Research bldg was heavily provisioned with CAT4, assuming token-ring ... however they found that 10mbit ethernet had higher aggregate LAN throughput, lower latency, and the 10mbit ethernet cards had much higher per card throughput (than IBM 16mbit token-ring and 16mbit token ring cards).
Marketing used enormous amount of FUD and fabrication telling customers otherwise (over the years, repeatedly told that in IBM, business ethics is an "oxymoron")
As I've periodically mentioned, disk senior engineer got a talk scheduled at internal, annual, world-wide communication group conference supposedly on 3174 performance ... but opened the talk with the communication group was going to be responsible for the disk division demise. The disk division was seeing customers moving data to more distributed computing and client/server friendly platforms with drop in disk sales. They had come up with number of solutions that the communication group was constantly vetoing (with their corporate strategic ownership of everything that cross datacenter walls).
Note communication group also tried to fight off availability of TCP/IP mainframe support. When they lost that battle, they changed tactics and said they have corporate strategic ownership of everything that crossed datacenter walls, it had to be released through them. What shipped got 44kbytes/sec aggregate using nearly whole 3090 processor. I did the RFC1044 enhancements and in some tuning tests at Cray Research between 4341 and Cray, got sustained 4341 channel media throughput using only modest amount of 4341 processor (something like 500 times improvement in bytes moved per instruction executed).
... after seeing an especially egregious example of IBM FUD, I submit a rewrite of part of the business conduct guidelines (all employees each year must sign that they had read it) ... it wasn't accepted
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
HA/CMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
online computer conferencing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
RFC1044 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
801, risc, iliad, romp, rios, pc/rt, rs/6000, etc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
some recent posts specifically mentioning cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#38 Cloud computing's destiny
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#36 Cloud computing's destiny
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#35 Cloud computing's destiny
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#24 Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline - unless it learns to migrate itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#21 Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline - unless it learns to migrate itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#99 IQ tests can't measure it, but 'cognitive flexibility' is key to learning and creativity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#87 Mainframe mid-range computing market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#41 IBM Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#32 IBM HSDT & HA/CMP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#30 IBM HSDT & HA/CMP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#23 IBM Zcloud - is it just outsourcing ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#22 IBM Zcloud - is it just outsourcing ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#18 IBM Zcloud - is it just outsourcing ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#16 IBM Zcloud - is it just outsourcing ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#68 Amdahl
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#25 rather far from Univac 90/30 DIAG instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#58 Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#55 Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#48 Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#47 Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#46 Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#5 Availability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#4 Killer Micros
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#3 Will The Cloud Take Down The Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#2 Will The Cloud Take Down The Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#1 Will The Cloud Take Down The Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#0 Will The Cloud Take Down The Mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#0 IBM "Wild Ducks"
and some posts mentioning NSFnet preliminary announcement (some repeats from above):
The OASC has initiated three programs: The Supercomputer Centers
Program to provide Supercomputer cycles; the New Technologies Program
to foster new supercomputer software and hardware developments; and
the Networking Program to build a National Supercomputer Access
Network - NSFnet.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#35 Cloud computing's destiny
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#21 Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline - unless it learns to migrate itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#87 Mainframe mid-range computing market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#54 Switch over to Internetworking Protocol
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#30 IBM HSDT & HA/CMP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#29 Quic gives the internet's data transmission foundation a needed speedup
and posts with some of the "summary of the (executive) summary" to
"Tandem Memos" (again some repeats)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#33 Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline - unless it learns to migrate itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#20 Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline - unless it learns to migrate itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#5 IBM's 18-month company-wide email system migration has been a disaster, sources say
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#55 3380 disk capacity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#31 IBM HSDT & HA/CMP
and some posts mentioning bringing down the wrath of the MVS group
(some repeats)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#0 MVS Group Wrath
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#40 IBM Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#23 IBM Zcloud - is it just outsourcing ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#62 IBM / How To Stuff A Wild Duck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#30 Departure Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#28 IBM Cottle Plant Site
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#6 3880 & 3380
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: iBM System/3 FORTRAN for engineering/science work? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 18:19:29 -1000undefined Hancock-4 <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> writes:
motivation for 370/165 (and all other 370s) to virtual memory took hold before FS took over the company. Initial OS/VS2 release 1 was SVS ... little different from running MVT in a CP67 16mbyte virtual machine ... except MVT built the virtual address table and was able to do page faults (but not efficiently or optimized, since they expected little or no page faults) ... biggest issue was fitting CP67 CCWTRANS into EXCP/SVC0 channel program processing ... which created a copy of the passed channel program replacing CCW virtual addresses with real.
part of discussion from archived post (from bit.listserv.ibm-man, could
also be found in the google newsgroup archives)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
Of course, the estimates for OS/VS were based on a misperception. The
Kingston estimate for OS/VS2 Release 1 (SVS) had an estimate for the
work needed for Release 2 (MVS), but it was couched as release 1 cost
plus a delta - in other words, the same cost as release 1 plus some
more. Since the IBM Kingston resources were being redeployed to FS, that
meant that there weren't going to be enough people to do both. Since MVS
was supposed to be the glide path for FS (which would be OS/VS2 Release
3), this was unwelcome news. xxxxx and yyyyy modified the plan to reuse
some of the SVS resources plus people transitioning from OS/360. Bob
Evans did his part by cutting a year off the MVS development schedule.
... snip ...
I continued to work on 360/370 all through the FS period ... even periodically ridiculing what they were doing, which wasn't exactly a career enhancing activity (lot of stuff was never really worked out ... just pie-in-the-sky waving hands).
long winded discussion of FS ... including when it finally imploded,
quick&dirty 3033 and 3081 efforts were kicked off in parallel
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
Note that 370 virtual memory architecture had a whole bunch of features ... however the 165 hardware people complained that if they had to implement all the architecture features ... it would delay virtual memory announce by six months ... as a result features were dropped to get 370/165 virtual memory back on schedule ... and other platforms that had already implemented the full architecture had to remove the dropped features and any software developed that used the dropped features had to be rewritten.
Future System disaster in the 70s ... from Ferguson & Morris,
"Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World", Time Books, 1993 .... reference
to the "Future System" project 1st half of the 70s:
... and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr
of free and vigorous debate was replaced with *SYNCOPHANCY* and *MAKE
NO WAVES* under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that thereafter, IBM
lived in the shadow of defeat
... snip ...
Major motivation for Future System was clone controllers ... an objective was to make the interfaces so complex that the clone makers wouldn't be able to follow ... some folklore was that 37x5 telecommuncation box was one of the few that tried to still meet the FS objective (with VTAM & NCP).
Note, during FS, internal politics were shutting down 370 projects ... and the lack of new 370 products during the FS period is credited with giving the clone processor makers (like Amdahl) their market foothold (effort to thwart clone controllers enabled clone processor makers).
clone trivia: At the univ. I had taken a two semestor hr intro to
fortran/computers ... then within a year, univ. hires me fulltime to
be responsible for ibm mainframe system (306/67, but ran as 360/65
with os/360). Then three people from science center came out in
jan1968 and installed cp67 and univ. let me play with it on
weekends. Original terminal support had 2741 & 1052 terminal
support with automagic terminal type identification. Univ. had tty 33s
and a 35 ... so I added tty/ascii terminal support and extended
automagic terminal type support to tty/ascii. I then wanted to have
single dialin phone number for al terminals ... single "hunt group"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_hunting
didn't quite work ... IBM took shortcut in the terminal controller, why it was possible to change the terminal type port interface with the SAD CCW ... couldn't change the line speed (aka work for leased lines). This help prompt the univ. to do a clone controller project ... build a channel interface board for a Interdata/3 programmed to emulate a ibm telecommuncation controller ... with the addition of being able of doing dynamic line speed determination. This was then updated with an Interdata/4 for the channel interface and clusters of Interdata/3 handling the ports. Interdata starts selling it as a clone controller and four of us get written up (for some part of) IBM clone controller business. Perkin-Elmer buys Interdata and continues to sell the box under their own logo.
clone controller posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360pcm
IBM downfall/downturn posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ibmdownfall
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: iBM System/3 FORTRAN for engineering/science work? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 18:50:15 -1000undefined Hancock-4 <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> writes:
OS/360 systems had huge setup/teardown overhead ... including each file open/close was enormous overhead (I discuss in more detail in the FORTG->WATFOR in this thread). It was why CICS was so popular ... it tried to require all its resources at startup (including large blocks of storage where it ran its own storage allocation algorithms) ... including doing all file open at startup ... and then trying its best to make minimum use of OS/360 ... mostly excp for doing actual file i/o.
mid-70s, I also started to pontificate that while systems were getting
faster ... disk performance wasn't increasing as fast ... as well as
there being huge amount of bloat. In the early 80s, I was writing that
relative system disk performance had declined by an order of magnitude
from early 360 days to the early 80s (i.e. disks got 3-5 faster while
rest of system got 40-50 times faster). Disk executives took exception
and assigned the division performance group to refute my claims
... they came back after a few weeks and basically said I had slightly
understated the problem. They then respun the analysis for a (IBM user
group) SHARE presentation on how to configure disks to improve system
throughput.... 16Aug1984, Share 63, B874. old posts with some
intro/summarry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#18
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#3
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#68
I had compared a 360/67 with 768kbytes memory, 2314 disks and 2301 paging device ... to 3081 with 32mbytes, 3380 disks and 2305 paging devices ... even tho processor and memory increased 30-50 times, the number of users only increased four times (which was about the change in number of random access from 2314 to 3380), if disks had kept with up the rest of the system, number of users should have increased by factor of 30-50 times ... instead of only four times.
trivia: previous post in thread mentions univ. hires me fulltime. along the way Univ. library got ONR (office naval research) grant to do online catalog ... some of the money went to getting IBM 2321 datacell. Effort was also selected to be betatest site for the original CICS product ... which was added to my tasks. Took awhile but shot a problem where CICS didn't document it had hardcoded some BDAM file options and it turned out the library had created BDAM files with different options ... and CICS would fail on startup not able to open the files.
lots of CICS history, gone 404 but lives on at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20050409124902/http://www.yelavich.com/cicshist.htm
and
https://web.archive.org/web/20071124013919/http://www.yelavich.com/history/toc.htm
CICS &/or BDAM posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#cics
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Cloud computing's destiny Date: 14 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
A commercial online service offering virtual machine online service
was TYMSHARE. In AUG1976, TYMSHARE started offering its CMS-based
online computer conferencing system free to the IBM user group SHARE
as VMSHARE ... archives online here
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
I cut a deal with TYMSHARE to get a monthly tape dump of all VMSHARE files for putting up on internal systems and network. The most difficult problem were the lawyers that were worried that internal employees would be contaminated by exposure to customer information.
online virtual machine commercial service bureaus (first two were
spin-off of cambridge science center)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#timeshare
In the late 70 and early 80s, I was blamed for online computer
conferencing on the internal network, folklore is that when the
corporate executive committee was told about it, 5of6 wanted to fire
me. Jim Gray left IBM for Tandem in the fall of 1980 and some us would
periodically drop by to see him. The computer conferencing really
spiked spring of 1981, after I distributed a trip report of one such
visit (claims upwards of 25,000 were reading). from IBMJargon:
http://www.comlay.net/ibmjarg.pdf
Tandem Memos - n. Something constructive but hard to control; a fresh
of breath air (sic). That's another Tandem Memos. A phrase to worry
middle management. It refers to the computer-based conference (widely
distributed in 1981) in which many technical personnel expressed
dissatisfaction with the tools available to them at that time, and
also constructively criticized the way products were [are]
developed. The memos are required reading for anyone with a serious
interest in quality products. If you have not seen the memos, try
reading the November 1981 Datamation summary.
... snip ...
six copies of something like 300 pages were printed, packaged in
TANDEM 3-ring binders and mailed to the executive committee ... part
of the summary to the executive summary:
To give the reader an overview of what follows, I include here the
most important points. It is impossible to do justice to the entire
discussion in such a short summary of a summary
• The perception of many technical people in IBM is that the company
is rapidly heading for disaster. Furthermore, people fear that this
movement will not be appreciated until it begins more directly to
affect revenue, at which point recovery may be impossible
• Many technical people are extremely frustrated with their management
and with the way things are going in IBM. To an increasing extent,
people are reacting to this by leaving IBM.
• Most of the contributors to the present discussion would prefer to
stay with IBM and see the problems rectified. However, there is
increasing skepticism that correction is possible or likely, given
the apparent lack of commitment by management to take action
• There is a widespread perception that IBM management has failed to
understand how to manage technical people and high-technology
development in an extremely competitive environment.
... snip ... note it wasn't quite so rapidly ... taking another decade
(1981-1992) ... "13 baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the
company
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
may also work
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,977353-1,00.html
we had left but get a call from bowels of Armonk asking if we could
help with the breakup of the company. Lots of business units were
using MOUs to leverage supplier contracts in other units, which would
be in different corporations after the breakup. All these MOUs would
have to be cataloged and turned into their own contracts (new CEO
reversed the breakup before we got started).
cmc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
IBM downfall/downturn posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ibmdownfall
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: 6-10Oct1986 SEAS Date: 14 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookOld archived post about SEAS OCT 6-10 1986, JERSEY
more recent archived posts with more detail, copies of old email, and
that I was repeating the presentation at WashDC Hillgang meeting
16Mar2011 (decade ago)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#72
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#74
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#79
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#81
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#82
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#87
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#90
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#92
and copy of that presentation, originally given SEAS, 7Oct1986
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/hill0316g.pdf
other VM Performance History refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#61
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#5
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#4
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#38
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#52
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#18
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#25
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#22
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#14
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#44
recent related on part of the subject
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#37
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#61
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#58
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: 6-10Oct1986 SEAS Date: 14 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
other SEAS trivia: old email from somebody that had recently transferred to Paris
to setup EARN (BITNET in Europe) ... and was looking for networking
apps
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#email840320
BITNET/EARN posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
recent posts going into history about the NSF supercomputer access
network evolving into NSFNET backbone, precursor to modern internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#36
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#38
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#45
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The F-35 Fighter Jet Program Must be Grounded to Protect Pilots and Tax Dollars Date: 14 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookThe F-35 Fighter Jet Program Must be Grounded to Protect Pilots and Tax Dollars
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
recent F-35 articles:
GAO Warns of Ballooning F-35 Sustainment Costs, Need for Plan to Cut
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/07/08/gao-warns-of-ballooning-f-35-sustainment-costs-need-plan-cut-billions.html
Watchdog group finds F-35 sustainment costs could be headed off
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2021/07/07/watchdog-group-finds-f-35-sustainment-costs-could-be-headed-off-affordability-cliff/
Deployment-Worn Theodore Roosevelt to Change Homeports, Get F-35
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/07/06/deployment-worn-theodore-roosevelt-change-homeports-get-f-35-upgrade.html
Smith slams F-35 lifecycle costs: 'We can do a hell of a lot better'
https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2021/06/29/smith-slams-f-35-lifecycle-costs-in-latest-salvo/
First ABMS Buy: KC-46 Pods To Link F-22, F-35
https://breakingdefense.com/2021/06/first-abms-buy-kc-46-pods-to-link-f-22-f-35/
Two reasons Britain could slow its purchase of the F-35
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2021/06/23/two-reasons-britain-could-slow-its-purchase-of-the-f-35/
F-35 Pilot on Why Elon Musk Is Wrong About End of Fighter-Pilot Era
https://www.businessinsider.com/f35-pilot-elon-musk-wrong-about-end-of-fighter-pilots-2021-6
http://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202106/21/WS60cfd355a31024ad0baca3ab.html
Lockheed Martin To Build Up To 139 F-35s This Year - Breaking Defense
https://breakingdefense.com/2021/06/lockheed-martin-to-build-up-to-139-f-35s-this-year/
US Air Force wish list includes more F-15EX jets but no F-35s
https://www.defensenews.com/congress/budget/2021/06/02/air-force-asks-for-more-f-15ex-jets-in-fy22-unfunded-wish-list-not-f-35s/
F35 Deal With UAE Deal Runs Into U.S. Demands, Red Line On China:
https://www.investors.com/news/f35-arms-deal-with-uae-runs-into-us-demands-red-line-on-china/
F-35 Sale to U.A.E. Imperiled Over U.S. Concerns About Ties to China
https://www.wsj.com/articles/f-35-sale-to-u-a-e-imperiled-over-u-s-concerns-about-ties-to-china-11621949050
The F-35's Painful Lessons Must Inform Future Programs
https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2021/05/f-35s-painful-lessons-must-inform-future-programs/174166/
Air Force F-35 Stealth Fighters Now Outnumber its F-15s, A-10s
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/05/08/air-force-f-35-stealth-fighters-now-outnumber-its-f-15s-10s.html
SitRep: Is the F-35 officially a failure?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/sitrep-is-the-f-35-now-officially-a-failure/
US Stealth Fighter Jets Like F-35, F-22 Raptors 'No Longer Stealth'
https://eurasiantimes.com/us-stealth-fighter-jets-like-f-35-f-22-raptors-no-longer-stealth-in-front-of-new-russian-chinese-radars/
F-35 posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#88 The Bunker: More Rot in the Ranks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#46 SitRep: Is the F-35 officially a failure? Cost overruns, other issues prompt Air Force to look for "clean sheet" fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#35 US Stealth Fighter Jets Like F-35, F-22 Raptors 'No Longer Stealth' In-Front Of New Russian, Chinese Radars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#18 Did They Miss Yet Another F-35 Cost Overrun?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#77 Cancel the F-35, Fund Infrastructure Instead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#0 THE PENTAGON'S FLYING FIASCO. Don't look now, but the F-35 is afterburnered toast
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#82 The F-35 and other Legacies of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#102 The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#100 The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#118 Pentagon: The F-35 breaks down too often and takes too long to repair
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#53 Stealthy no more? A German radar vendor says it tracked the F-35 jet in 2018 -- from a pony farm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#104 F-35
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/2018d.html#20 Navy's Top-Dollar Stealth Fighter May Not Go the Distance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#109 JSF/F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#108 F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#76 Why the F-35 Isn't Good Enough for Japan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#74 The F-35 has a basic flaw that means an F-22 hybrid could outclass it -- and that's a big problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#68 The F-35 has a basic flaw that means an F-22 hybrid could outclass it -- and that's a big problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#63 The F-35 has a basic flaw that means an F-22 hybrid could outclass it -- and that's a big problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#117 F-35: Still No Finish Line in Sight
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#78 F-35 Multi-Role
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#44 F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#93 F35 Program
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#55 How to Kill the F-35 Stealth Fighter; It all comes down to radar ... and a big enough missile
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#58 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#51 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#46 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#44 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#43 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#42 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#14 With the U.S. F-35 Grounded, Putin's New Jet Beats Us Hands-Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#36 The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#31 The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#96 Lockheed Martin F-35 Jet's Software Delayed, GAO Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#47 Stolen F-35 Secrets Now Showing Up in China's Stealth Fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#66 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#51 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#40 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#0 Pentagon to Withold Lockheed F-35 Payments Over Tracking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#57 Pentagon to Withold Lockheed F-35 Payments Over Tracking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#56 Update on the F35 Debate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#10 UAV vis-a-vis F35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#20 UAV vis-a-vis F35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#4 UAV vis-a-vis F35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#63 UAV vis-a-vis F35
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: 6-10Oct1986 SEAS Date: 14 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
I did enhanced production system for bldg14 (disk engineering) and
bldg15 (product test) that had a bullet proof, never fail input/output
supervisor ... so they could do any amount of on-demand concurrent
testing. Bldg15 would get latest engineering processor models
(frequently #2, #3, or #4) ... and had a 3033 and 4341 ... which I had
pretty much unlimited use (since I/O testing took only percent or two
of processor, downside I was increasing asked to play disk hardware
engineer). Then SJR also got me my own 4341 that was put up as SJRVM3
... and one of the things I putup/installed on SJRVM3 was Paltry. from
long ago and far away:
:READ PALTRY MEMO
PALTRY -- A Computer Conferencing System
xxx x. xxxx yyyyyy
May 6,1980
(This document contains a description of the network interface to
PALTRY. See PALT MEMO for information about the PALT EXEC as a user
interface to PALTRY. For more nitty gritty, see PALTRY ASSEMBLE.)
The PALTRY module manages the communication between conferees in a
computer conference. Conferees (hereafter 'Users') submit files
containing PALTRY commands and their contribution to the conference to
the PALTRY machine over the network. PALTRY recieves the files and
adds them to the conference data base. Users can request copies of
any of the contributions to the system. Users who participate in a
conference are called subscribers, and are send copies of new entries
to their conferences as they are entered in the data base.
HOW TO SUBMIT A DOCUMENT TO PALTRY:
... snip ... top of post, old email index
... note this was all before "Tandem Memos" and getting blamed for
online computer conferencing on the internal network in the late 70s
and early 80s (aka folklore is when corporate executive committee were
told, 5of6 wanted to fire me). One of the outcomes of "Tandem Memos"
was task force to investigate it which included inviting Hiltz &
Turoff ... authors of "network nation"
https://www.amazon.com/Network-Nation-Human-Communication-Computer/dp/B002V1CI92/
a researcher was also hired to study how I communicated ... the sat in the back of my office for nine months taking notes on my face-to-face and telephone conversations, got copies of all my incoming and outgoing email and logs of all my instant messages. The results were used for papers and books, as well as Stanford PHD (joint between language and AI ... winograd was advisor on AI side).
computer conferencing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
disk engineering posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Who Authorized America's Wars? And Why They Never End Date: 15 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookWho Authorized America's Wars? And Why They Never End
What America Didn't Understand About Its Longest War.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#22 What America Didn't Understand About Its Longest War
"perpetual war" is preferred over actually winning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war
Boyd quote
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 ...
note the military-industrial complex had wanted a war so badly that
corporate reps were telling former eastern block countries that if
they voted for IRAQ2 invasion in the UN, they would get membership in
NATO and (directed appropriation) USAID (can *ONLY* be used for
purchase of modern US arms, aka additional congressional gifts to MIC
complex not in DOD budget). From the law of unintended consequences,
the invaders were told to bypass ammo dumps looking for WMDs, when
they got around to going back, over a million metric tons had
evaporated (showing up later in IEDs)
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
... very much Smedley Butler's "War Is A Racket"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
Smedley Butler, retired USMC major general and two-time Medal of Honor
Recipient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
In the 80s, former CIA director H.W. is VP, he and Rumsfeld are
involved in supporting Iraq in the Iran/Iraq war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
including WMDs (note picture of Rumsfeld with Saddam)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
Before the Iraq invasion, the cousin of white house chief of staff
Card ... was dealing with the Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence
that WMDs (tracing back to US in the Iran/Iraq war) had been
decommissioned. the cousin shared it with (cousin, white house chief
of staff) Card and others ... then is locked up in military hospital,
book was published in 2010 (4yrs before decommissioned WMDs were
declassified)
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
NY Times series from 2014, the decommission WMDs (tracing back to US
from Iran/Iraq war), had been found early in the invasion, but the
information was classified for a decade
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html
Boyd posts and URLs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
WMD posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Intel rumored to be in talks to buy chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries for $30B Date: 16 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookIntel rumored to be in talks to buy chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries for $30B
shutdown of ACS-360, executives were afraid that it would advance the
state-of-the-art too fast and IBM would loose control of the market,
bottom of article, some of the features show up more than 20yrs later
with ES/9000 (Sidebar: ES/9000 high-end processors)
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
... and:
Management Briefing
Number 1-72: January 18,1972
ZZ04-1312
TO ALL IBM MANAGERS:
Once again, I'm writing you a Management Briefing on the subject of
bureaucracy. Evidently the earlier ones haven't worked. So this time
I'm taking a further step: I'm going directly to the individual
employees in the company. You will be reading this poster and my
comment on it in the forthcoming issue of THINK magazine. But I wanted
each one of you to have an advance copy because rooting out
bureaucracy rests principally with the way each of us runs his own
shop.
We've got to make a dent in this problem. By the time the THINK piece
comes out, I want the correction process already to have begun. And
that job starts with you and with me.
Vin Learson
... snip ...
+-----------------------------------------+ | "BUSINESS ECOLOGY" | | | | | | +---------------+ | | | BUREAUCRACY | | | +---------------+ | | | | is your worst enemy | | because it - | | | | POISONS the mind | | STIFLES the spirit | | POLLUTES self-motivation | | and finally | | KILLS the individual. | +-----------------------------------------+"We are convinced that any business needs its wild ducks. And in IBM we try not to tame them." - T.J. Watson, Jr.
"I'M Going To Do All I Can to Fight This Problem . . ." by T. Vincent Learson, Chairman
"How To Stuff A Wild Duck", 1973, IBM poster
https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18618011/
any success that Learson may have achieved appeared to have been
obliterated with Future System ...from Ferguson & Morris, "Computer
Wars: The Post-IBM World", Time Books, 1993 .... reference to the
"Future System" project 1st half of the 70s:
... and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr
of free and vigorous debate was replaced with *SYNCOPHANCY* and *MAKE
NO WAVES* under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that thereafter, IBM
lived in the shadow of defeat ... But because of the heavy investment
of face by the top management, F/S took years to kill, although its
wrong headedness was obvious from the very outset. "For the first
time, during F/S, outspoken criticism became politically dangerous,"
recalls a former top executive.
... snip ...
... another side effect, middle management and lower level executives
learned to carefully manage the flow of information up. Other FS info
(with some reference to demise of FS, and mad rush to getting stuff
back into 370 product pipeline (internal politics had been killing off
370 efforts during FS, lack of new products during FS is credited with
giving clone 370 system makers their market foothold and IBM marketing
resorting to using enormous amount of FUD), quick&dirty 303x and 3081
efforts kicked off in parallel)
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
In the late 70s & early 80s, I had been 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/late 80s. Folklore is that when corporate executive
committee was told about it, 5of6 wanted to fire me. It really took
off after I distributed a trip about visiting Jim Gay at Tandem
(claims upwards of 25,000 were reading) ... from IBMJargon:
http://www.comlay.net/ibmjarg.pdf
Tandem Memos - n. Something constructive but hard to control; a fresh
of breath air (sic). That's another Tandem Memos. A phrase to worry
middle management. It refers to the computer-based conference (widely
distributed in 1981) in which many technical personnel expressed
dissatisfaction with the tools available to them at that time, and
also constructively criticized the way products were [are]
developed. The memos are required reading for anyone with a serious
interest in quality products. If you have not seen the memos, try
reading the November 1981 Datamation summary.
... snip ...
six copies of something like 300 pages were printed, packaged in
TANDEM 3-ring binders and mailed to the executive committee ... part
of the summary to the executive summary:
To give the reader an overview of what follows, I include here the
most important points. It is impossible to do justice to the entire
discussion in such a short summary of a summary
• The perception of many technical people in IBM is that the company
is rapidly heading for disaster. Furthermore, people fear that this
movement will not be appreciated until it begins more directly to
affect revenue, at which point recovery may be impossible
• Many technical people are extremely frustrated with their management
and with the way things are going in IBM. To an increasing extent,
people are reacting to this by leaving IBM.
• Most of the contributors to the present discussion would prefer to
stay with IBM and see the problems rectified. However, there is
increasing skepticism that correction is possible or likely, given
the apparent lack of commitment by management to take action
• There is a widespread perception that IBM management has failed to
understand how to manage technical people and high-technology
development in an extremely competitive environment.
... snip ...
computer conferencing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
note it wasn't quite so rapidly ... taking another decade (1981-1992)
... "13 baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the company (gone
behind paywall, mostly free at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20101120231857/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977353,00.html
may also work
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,977353-1,00.html
we had left but get a call from bowels of Armonk asking if we could help with the breakup of the company. Lots of business units were using MOUs to leverage supplier contracts in other units, which would be in different corporations after the breakup. All these MOUs would have to be cataloged and turned into their own contracts. before we get started, a new CEO is brought in and reverses the breakup
IBM downfall/downturn posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ibmdownfall
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The Case Against SQL Date: 18 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookThe Case Against SQL
95 SQL Reunion ... and other references
http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/
past posts mentioning "System R" (original SQL/RDBMS done VM/145 at
San Jose Research)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
tiriva: I con'ed into helping with "System R" implementation and the tech. transfer to Endicott (for SQL/DS) ... "under the radar" so to speak, while the company was preoccupied with the next great DBMS implementation, "EAGLE". When EAGLE imploded there was a request about how fast "System R" could be ported to MVS ... which was eventually released as DB2 ... originally for decision support only.
The VLSI tools group out in Los Gatos was also doing a implementation of Sowa's semantic network DBMS (Sowa was down at STL at the time) and I got con'ed into helping with its implementation. They had also done a language, IDEA (that addressed some of SQL short comings ... like better NULL handling).
old (2003) post in comp.databases.theory group comparing SQL ... which
didn't handle NULLS (and 3-value logic) while IDEA did ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#40
IDEA also some other things better than SQL.
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Hawaii Date: 18 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookMy wife was there with her family in the 50s... her dad was posted there, they had quarters on the shore in ft armstrong across from aloha tower ... ft armstrong now container depot, homeland security , pier two, etc. He had been military advisor to chiang kai-shek and the family had lived in nanking. trivia
When a son was stationed at Schofield... we use to fly over at least once a quarter for a couple days and stay at hale koa (had enormous number of miles from business trips). On our IBM business trips to far east, we would always stop over in Hawaii on our way back. We now live here
other trivia ... past Hawaii TMT (ten, not thirty) related (IBM
Retiree) post here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#88 5 milestones that created the internet, 50 years after the first network message
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#60 IBM CEO
mentions another TMT from 1986
hsdt posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
nsfnet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
some past posts mentioning family was evacuated from Nanking
in Army cargo plane when the city was ringed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#11 tablets and desktops was Has Microsoft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#42 HA/CMP Marketing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#94 OT, "new" Heinlein book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#77 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#29 IBM 1401 emulation on 360 processors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#58 RR songs, was Re: e50th/60th anniversary of SABRE--real-time airline reservations computer system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#29 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#60 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#11 a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#36 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#0 I actually miss working at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#58 China overtakes U.S. as top Web market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#86 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#19 Message To America's Students: The War, The Draft, Your Future
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Republicans Have Taken a Brave Stand in Defense of Tax Cheats Date: 19 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookRepublicans Have Taken a Brave Stand in Defense of Tax Cheats
not the first time:
spring 2009, IRS announced that it was going after $400B in taxes on money illegally stashed overseas by 52,000 wealthy americans (over and above the new tax loopholes that allowed trillions to be legally stashed overseas since the start of the century) ... then little or nothing in the news.
spring 2011 the new speaker of the house has press conference where he says he is cutting the budget for the IRS department responsible for recovering the $400B. Since then there has been periodic news about the banks and financial advisers have been fined a few billion for their part in facilitating illegally stashing trillions overseas (again, over and above the trillions that congressional tax loopholes allowed to be stashed overseas "legally") ... but almost nothing about recovering the $400B in taxes owed on the money illegally stashed overseas.
also spring 2011, the (same) new speaker of the house on local DC
radio interview commented that he was placing the new "tea party"
party darlings on the tax and revenue committee because those
committee members get the most "contributions" from special interests
(one of the reasons that congress is called the most corrupt
institution on earth).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boehner
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/04/john-boehner-memoir-review.html
... and 2002 congress lets the financial responsibility act lapse (spending can't exceed revenue, on its way to eliminating all federal debt). By 2005, comptroller general was including in speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle school arithmetic (for how badly they were savaging the budget). 2010 CBO report 2003-2009 tax revenue cut by $6T and spending increased by $6T for $12T gap compared to fiscal responsible budget (first time taxes were cut to not pay for two wars). Sort of confluence of FEDRES and TBTF (too big to fail) needed huge federal debt, special interests wanting huge tax cut and military-industrial complex wanting huge spending increase.
"legal" tax avoidance
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How
the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax
Tax details of US super-rich allegedly leaked
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57383869
Bezos, Musk and other billionaires pay next to nothing in income
taxes, report says
https://www.cnet.com/news/bezos-musk-and-other-billionaires-pay-next-to-nothing-in-income-taxes-report-says/
Rich Americans Like Bezos, Musk, Buffett Avoided Income Tax
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/us/politics/income-taxes-bezos-musk-buffett.html
How the US super-rich avoid paying taxes
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/08/politics/what-matters-income-taxes/index.html
Why Are Billionaires Presumed Innocent? After an IRS leak, corporate
media says there's nothing to see here because billionaire tax
avoidance must be legal -- even though it occurred during a crime
spree.
https://www.dailyposter.com/why-are-billionaires-presumed-innocent/
The Ultrawealthy Have Hijacked Roth IRAs. The Senate Finance Chair Is
Eyeing a Crackdown. Sen. Ron Wyden, chair of the Senate Finance
Committee, said he planned to rein in tax breaks for gargantuan Roth
retirement accounts after ProPublica exposed how the superrich used
them to shield their fortunes from taxes
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-ultrawealthy-have-hijacked-roth-iras-the-senate-finance-chair-is-eyeing-a-crackdown
Leading Manhattan DA Candidate Has Repeatedly Paid Virtually No
Federal Income Taxes
https://www.propublica.org/article/leading-manhattan-da-candidate-has-repeatedly-paid-virtually-no-federal-income-taxes
ProPublica's Tax Revelations Lead to Calls for Reforms -- and
Investigation
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublicas-tax-revelations-lead-to-calls-for-reforms-and-investigation
The Secret IRS Files Short Form: A Quick Guide to What We Uncovered
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-short-form-a-quick-guide-to-what-we-uncovered
"older"
12/11 Everything We've Learned About Modern Economic Theory Is Wrong
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-11/everything-we-ve-learned-about-modern-economic-theory-is-wrong
12/19 Ten billionaires reap $400bn boost to wealth during pandemic
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/19/ten-billionaires-reap-400bn-boost-to-wealth-during-pandemic
12/09 U.S. Billionaire Wealth Surges Past $1 Trillion Since Beginning
of Pandemic -- Total Grows to $4 Trillion
https://ips-dc.org/u-s-billionaire-wealth-surges-past-1-trillion-since-beginning-of-pandemic/
12/16 Market Capitalism
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/12/market-capitalism.html
When you have America's epitome of independent experts, McKinsey,
going from scandal to scandal, and not even ashamed of its rap sheet,
it's hard to see experts as anything other than intellectual
mercenaries, ready to serve the highest bidder. For a long time now,
capitalism has provided both the rationale and method for continuing
the status quo; it granted the wealthy the right to employ the power
of their wealth to control a nation's wealth, and more. Of late, the
US Supreme Court has ruled that this right to power extends to
politics and beyond
... snip ...
Study of 50 Years of Tax Cuts For Rich Confirms 'Trickle Down' Theory
Is an Absolute Sham
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/12/study-of-50-years-of-tax-cuts-for-rich-confirms-trickle-down-theory-is-an-absolute-sham.html
Fifty Years of Tax Cuts for Rich Didn't Trickle Down, Study Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/fifty-years-of-tax-cuts-for-rich-didn-t-trickle-down-study-says
A huge study of 50 years of tax cuts for the wealthy suggests
'trickle-down' economics makes inequality worse
https://www.businessinsider.com/tax-cuts-rich-trickle-down-income-inequality-study-2020-12
posts mentioning tax evasion, tax fraud, tax avoidance, tax loopholes, tax havens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
posts mentioning fiscal responsibility act
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act
posts mentioning Comptroller General
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general
posts mentioning Too Big To Fail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
posts mentioning the fed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.reserve
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Why Not Use Self-Driving Cars as Supercomputers? Date: 19 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookWhy Not Use Self-Driving Cars as Supercomputers? Autonomous vehicles use the equivalent of 200 laptops to get around. Some want to tap that computing power to decode viruses or mine bitcoin.
... 2011 radar tutorial mentioned to do realtime stealth aircraft targeting required more computer power than currently available.
... 2015 DOD clamped export restrictions on latest computer technology
... ye2017 article said that self-driving cars had computer power that was 100 times required to do realtime stealth aircraft targeting mentioned in the 2011 radar tutorial
past posts mentioning 2011 radar tutorial
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#39 Why China's New Supercomputer Is Only Technically the World's Fastest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#46 Watch AI-controlled virtual fighters take on an Air Force pilot on August 18th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#100 The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#35 US Stealth Fighter Jets Like F-35, F-22 Raptors 'No Longer Stealth' In-Front Of New Russian, Chinese Radars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#60 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The Case Against SQL Date: 20 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
reposted 20Jul2020 memory ... referencing (Sowa's) semantic network (graph) SNDBMS ... besides easily handling things like NULLS ... for more complex information structures that required table JOINS in RDBMS ... IDEA could run orders of magnitude faster ... however RDBMS where all data was uniform, single index (like account number) ... and all (related) fields in the same record, RDBMS could easily beat IDEA (like ATM/financial transaction)
In IDEA, the graph links were exposed as semantic names ... nodes were semantic names and links (or relations) were semantic names ... queries would be complex combination of named nodes and named links (including supporting "wild stars" ... any/multiple nodes and/or any/multiple links) ... aka could ask for all sons of a person ... or all possible genetic direct relations to other persons ... or all possible direct male relations.
Beyond NoSQL: The case for distributed SQL. What if the main problem
with relational databases was the back end and not the front end?
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3564543/beyond-nosql-the-case-for-distributed-sql.html
Around the same time as scale-out NoSQL, graph databases emerged. Many
things are not "relational" per se, or not based on set theory and
relational algebra, but instead on parent-child or friend-of-a-friend
relationships. A classic example is product line to product brand to
model to components in the model. If you want to know "what
motherboard is in my laptop," you find out that manufacturers have
complicated sourcing and the brand or model number may not be
enough. If you want to know what-all motherboards are used in a
product line, in classic (non-CTE or Common Table Expression) SQL you
have to walk tables and issue queries in multiple steps. Initially,
most graph databases didn't share at all. In truth, many types of
graph analysis can be done without actually storing the data as a
graph.
... snip ...
original sql/relational, System/R
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
past posts mentioning IDEA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#23 report writer alternatives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#76 IBM OS/2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#67 RDBMS, SQL, QBE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#30 Departure Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#31 System/R, QBE, IMS, EAGLE, IDEA, DB2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#29 System/R, QBE, IMS, EAGLE, IDEA, DB2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#28 System/R, QBE, IMS, EAGLE, IDEA, DB2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#13 Graph database on z/OS?
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Rust in the Linux kernel Date: 20 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookRust in the Linux kernel: Why it matters and what's happening next. Rust for Linux? The move to make Rust a second language for developing the Linux kernel is gathering momentum. But there are still challenges ahead.
past posts related to memory programming errors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#buffer
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The Storm Is Upon Us Date: 20 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebook"The Storm Is Upon Us"
... as I was reading it (although I skimmed quite a bit of it), I was
strongly reminded of kids playing (sort of virtual reality) "Pokemon
GO"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Go
Pokemon Go Is Still Great, Actually. After half a decade, I'm still
trying to catch 'em all.
https://slate.com/culture/2021/07/pokemon-go-fest-2021-still-great.html
recent articles/references to conspiracies and Qanon
House Cancels Session After Threat of Militant Capitol Breach
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/house-cancels-session-threat-capitol-breach-qanon-1136380/
White House suppressed coronavirus reports and downplayed virus, House
panel says
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/31/white-house-suppressed-coronavirus-reports-and-downplayed-virus-house-panel-says.html
Police Violence Was a Problem In Portland Long Before Federal Agents
Arrived
https://theappeal.org/portland-protests-federal-agents-local-police-violence/
Capitol attack underscores white supremacist infiltration of police,
military
https://publicintegrity.org/inside-publici/newsletters/watchdog-newsletter/capitol-attack-underscores-white-supremacist-infiltration/
Fact check: Trump shares White nationalist's video in retweet falsely
blaming Black Lives Matter for 2019 subway assault
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/31/politics/fact-check-trump-subway-assault-black-lives-matter-antifa/index.html
100 days of warning: inside the Boogaloo killings of US security
personnel
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/15/boogaloo-killing-facebook-dave-patrick-underwood-police
Facebook removes one of largest QAnon conspiracy groups after false
posts
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-qanon/facebook-removes-one-of-largest-qanon-conspiracy-groups-after-false-posts-idUSKCN2530H6
Outgoing Capitol Police chief: House, Senate security officials
hamstrung efforts to call in National Guard
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sund-riot-national-guard/2021/01/10/fc2ce7d4-5384-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html
FBI Had Intelligence of Plans for Violence at Capitol: Report
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fbi-capitol-storming-violence-intelligence-1113335/
An AI Tool Can Tell a Conspiracy Theory from a True Conspiracy
https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/11/ai-tool-can-tell-conspiracy-theory-true-conspiracy/170315/
Are Conspiracy Theories Good For Facebook? : Planet Money
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/08/04/898596655/are-conspiracy-theories-good-for-facebook%5C
Facebook removes QAnon conspiracy group with 200,000 members
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53692545
Is QAnon the Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theory of the 21st Century?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/opinion/qanon-conspiracy-theory-arg.html
The real threats to American law and order are Trump's craven enablers
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/29/the-real-threats-to-american-law-and-order-are-trumps-craven-enablers
Ted Cruz's Hearing on Anarchist Violence Was a Farce
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/05/ted-cruz-hearing-antifa/
Fauci says coronavirus cure video shared by Trump 'isn't true'
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fauci-says-video-trump-promoted-claiming-drug-coronavirus-cure-isn-n1235222
QAnon believer who plotted to kill Nancy Pelosi came to D.C. ready for
war
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/13/qanon-nancy-pelosi-murder-plot-458981
Who is Q? HBO QAnon documentary Q: Into the Storm has an answer. One
of the subjects of the documentary may have slipped and revealed his
role as Q. But will that matter to believers of the hoax?
https://www.cnet.com/news/who-is-q-hbo-qanon-documentary-q-into-the-storm-has-an-answer/
Congress Can Expel Members Who Supported Riot
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/josh-hawley-ted-cruz-expulsion_n_5ffcac52c5b6c77d85e91801
Ethics complaint filed against Biggs, Cawthorn and Gosar over Capitol
riot
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/535443-ethics-complaint-filed-against-biggs-gosar-and-cawthorn-over-capitol-riot
How the Mercers Funded Election Unrest
https://theintercept.com/2021/01/14/capitol-riot-mercers-election-unrest/
Michael Olenick: Nothing Godly About Racism or Fascism: Where
Evangelicals Went Way Wrong
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/01/michael-olenick-nothing-godly-about-racism-or-fascism-where-evangelicals-went-way-wrong.html
Republican members led 'reconnaissance' tours of US Capitol one day
before pro-Trump riot: congresswoman
https://www.alternet.org/2021/01/capitol-riot-2649923460/
Republicans who aren't willing to act against sedition are complicit
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/11/passivity-is-complicity/
The 'civil war' for the soul of the GOP is over before it began. Trump
won -- again.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/29/civil-war-soul-of-gop-over-trump-won/
The QAnon Delusion Has Not Loosened Its Grip
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/opinion/qanon-conspiracy-theories.html
Trump's attempt to snag the election appears ham-handed and ludicrous,
but that doesn't mean it can't work
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/19/just-because-an-attempt-steal-an-election-is-ludicrous-ham-handed-doesnt-mean-it-cant-work/
Dems outraged as Trump administration scales back election security
briefings
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/29/odni-to-scale-back-election-security-briefings-404919
Millions of Americans Believe Donald Trump Is Fighting Literal Demons
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/10/trump-evangelicals-charismatics-paula-white-demons/
Facebook completely bans QAnon and labels it a 'militarized social
movement'
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/6/21504887/facebook-qanon-ban-all-apps-pages-groups-instagram-accounts
The military has a hate group problem. But it doesn't know how bad
it's gotten.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/11/military-right-wing-extremism-457861
The U.S. must punish sedition -- or risk more of it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-must-punish-sedition--or-risk-more-of-it/2021/01/11/97907746-5438-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html
D.C. police, FBI on alert ahead of QAnon's 'true Inauguration Day'
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/dc-police-fbi-alert-ahead-qanons-true-inauguration-day-rcna331
How Quack Doctors And Powerful GOP Operatives Spread Misinformation To
Millions
https://news.yahoo.com/how-quack-doctors-and-powerful-gop-operatives-spread-misinformation-to-millions-213923648.html
Trump Emails Supporters to Say, "The Left HATES YOU"
https://theintercept.com/2020/11/18/defeated-trump-campaign-tells-supporters-left-hates-fundraising-emails/
As defeats pile up, Trump tries to delay vote count in last-ditch
attempt to cast doubt on Biden victory
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-strategy/2020/11/18/94fbe50e-29c9-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html
Opinion: Donald Trump's horrifying QAnon dodge
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/16/opinions/trump-qanon-dodge-ghitis/index.html
Trump's election power play: Persuade Republican legislators to do
what U.S. voters did not
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-strategy/trumps-election-power-play-persuade-republican-legislators-to-do-what-u-s-voters-did-not-idUSKBN27Z30G
How Trump Managed to Lead the World with the Worst Response to the
COVID Pandemic
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/how-trump-managed-to-lead-the-world-with-the-worst-response-to-the-covid-pandemic/
Trump at Penn: Secretly recorded audio of Trump's sister prompts call
for investigation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-secret-recordings-sat-penn/2020/08/27/ea7a6640-e892-11ea-a414-8422fa3e4116_story.html
One Person Dead in Portland After Clashes Between Trump Supporters and
Protesters
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/portland-trump-rally-shooting.html
Presidential Transition: Georgia Completes Full Recount, Reaffirming
Biden's Win
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/19/us/joe-biden-trump-updates/georgia-completes-its-full-recount-reaffirming-bidens-victory
A Game Designer's Analysis Of QAnon
https://medium.com/curiouserinstitute/a-game-designers-analysis-of-qanon-580972548be5
Does HBO's QAnon Documentary Reveal Who Q Is? Assessing the latest
evidence in a Trump-era mystery.
https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/qanon-q-hbo-documentary-ron-watkins.html
Checked by reality, some QAnon supporters seek a way out
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/checked-reality-qanon-supporters-seek-75546696
Fact-checking the craziest news conference of the Trump presidency
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/19/fact-checking-craziest-news-conference-trump-presidency/
'We All Got Played': QAnon Followers Implode After Big Moment Never
Comes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2021/01/20/we-all-got-played-qanon-followers-implode-after-big-moment-never-comes/
A Colorado Republican tweeted about Pelosi's location during the
Capitol siege. She's now facing calls to resign
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/12/nation/colorado-republican-tweeted-about-pelosis-location-during-capitol-siege-shes-now-facing-calls-resign/
A Half-Century After Wallace, Trump Echoes the Politics of Division
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/us/politics/trump-wallace.html
Did you see photos of officers supposedly injured last weekend in NW
cities? The facts don't check out
https://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2020/08/did-you-see-photos-of-officers-supposedly-injured-last-weekend-in-nw-cities-the-facts-dont-check-out.html
Former QAnon supporter to Cooper: I apologize for thinking you ate
babies
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/01/30/anderson-cooper-former-qanon-supporter-special-report-sot-ac360-vpx.cnn
Mitch McConnell says he will NOT start Donald Trump's trial in time to
remove him from office
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9143029/House-starts-debate-impeaching-Donald-Trump-incitement-insurrection.html
QAnon Is More Important Than You Think
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/
QAnon Is Trump's Last, Best Chance
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/opinion/trump-qanon-convention.html
The GOP stood firm behind Trump and against the Legitimacy of Biden:
that's how Iraq Split up in 2014
https://www.juancole.com/2021/01/gop-trump-iraq.html
Trump's favorite doctor is homophobe using 'alien DNA' as cure
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8569147/Trump-promotes-Dr-Stella-Immanuel-homophobic-doctor-preacher-uses-alien-DNA-cure.html
Trump's vile tweetstorm reveals the ugly core of his 'law and order'
campaign
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/31/trumps-vile-tweetstorm-reveals-ugly-core-his-law-order-campaign/
What Comes Next For QAnon Followers
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-comes-next-for-qanon-followers/
... then there is "Merchants of Doubt"
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured-ebook/dp/B003RRXXO8/
https://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
some of the same scientists payed by the tobacco industry to write articles down playing the link between smoking and lung cancer, later showup in "Team B" studies inflated Soviet military and then down playing climate change.
merchant of doubt posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#merchants.of.doubt
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Report: Prosecutors Have Obtained Damning Information Allegedly Implicating Trump in His Company's Crimes Date: 20 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookReport: Prosecutors Have Obtained Damning Information Allegedly Implicating Trump in His Company's Crimes
... goes back at least to trump being mob'ed up
Trump's bid for Sydney casino 30 years ago rejected due to 'mafia
connections'. Cabinet documents reveal police warned NSW government
about approving a 1986-87 plan to build city's first casino in Darling
Harbour
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/16/trumps-bid-for-sydney-casino-30-years-ago-rejected-due-to-mafia-connections
Trump's 'Mafia Connections' Excluded Him From An Australian Casino
Deal
https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/09/06/trumps-mafia-connections-excluded-him-from-an-australian-casino-deal_a_23199578/
Donald Trump's 'mafia connections' blocked his bid to open Sydney
casino 30 years ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/16/trump-mafia-connections-blocked-bid-to-open-sydney-casino-30-years-ago.html
Trump's Alleged "Mafia Connections" Lost Him a Bid to Build Sydney's
First Casino
https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-alleged-mafia-connections-sydney-casino-651352
Report: Queasy Aussies Killed Trump's Casino Bid Over "Mafia
Connections". Government documents label Trump's Atlantic City
operations "dangerous."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/report-queasy-aussies-killed-trumps-casino-bid-over-mafia-connections/
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM Zcloud - is it just outsourcing ? Date: 21 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
one of the things that major cloud operators have done with their (multiple) cloud megadatacenters (each with half million or more systems, each system with ten times, or more, max configured ibm mainframe) started early on to assembling their own systems, drastically cutting their system cost ... enabling porvisioning for ten times or more nominal load. The system costs were so radically cut, that power&cooling was increasingly becoming major cost. They then start heavily pressuring server chip vendors for 1) chips that draw zero power when idle, but instantly on and running "on demand" and 2) significantly increased processor execution power use efficiency.
This showed up in parallel with increasing use of chips originally
designed for portable battery power efficiency. Shows up in Apple's
recent move to ARM. Also Japan's ARM-Based 'Fugaku' System Now the
World's Fastest Supercomputer
https://www.pcmag.com/news/japans-arm-based-fugaku-system-now-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer
megadatacenter postings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#megadatacenter
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: IBM HSDT & HA/CMP Date: 22 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
I had HSDT project with T1 and faster computer links and was working
with NSF director and was suppose to get $20M to interconnect the NSF
supercomputing centers (then congress cuts the budget, some other
things happen and finally an RFP is released, in part based on what we
already had running, internal politics prevent us from bidding). NSF
had given UC $120M dollars supposedly for UCB supercomputer center (but
the UC regents plan for next new bldg was San Diego, so it magically
became UCSD supercomputer center). I was asked to give talks at
Berkeley about NSF supercomputer center interconnect ... and then
(apparently because of the talks) got asked to look at the Berkeley
10M telescope project (this was 1983). They were doing prototype
testing of some of the technology up at Lick Observatory (east of San
Jose) as part of transition from film to CCD. The observatory was
planned for Mauna Kea and they wanted to be able to do observing from
base of the mountain (issues with altitude sickness) as well as the
mainland. Along the way they get $80M from the Keck foundation and
Berkeley 10M becomes the Keck 10M.
https://www.keckobservatory.org/
archived supercomputer center program preliminary release
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#12
The OASC has initiated three programs: The Supercomputer Centers
Program to provide Supercomputer cycles; the New Technologies Program
to foster new supercomputer software and hardware developments; and
the Networking Program to build a National Supercomputer Access
Network - NSFnet.
... snip ...
The software program, in part spawns MOSAIC browser and the network program evolves into the NSFNET backbone (as regional networks connect in, precursor to modern internet).
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
past posts mentioning Keck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#60 IBM CEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#25 Too much for one lifetime? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#25 IBM Recruiting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#88 5 milestones that created the internet, 50 years after the first network message
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#50 Hawaii governor gives go ahead to build giant telescope on sacred Native volcano
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#47 Astronomy topic drift
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#71 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#22 A Tea Party Movement to Overhaul the Constitution Is Quietly Gaining
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#76 George Lucas reveals his plan for Star Wars 7 through 9--and it was awful
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#89 Earth's atmosphere just crossed another troubling climate change threshold
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#51 Stopping the Internet of noise
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#71 Under Hawaii's Starriest Skies, a Fight Over Sacred Ground
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#97 power supplies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#20 Spaceshot: 3,200-megapixel camera for powerful cosmos telescope moves forward
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#19 Spaceshot: 3,200-megapixel camera for powerful cosmos telescope moves forward
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#75 Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#50 Revamped PDP-11 in Honolulu or maybe Santa Fe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#76 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#8 We're About to Lose Net Neutrality -- And the Internet as We Know It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#55 360/20, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#10 Slackware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#9 Hawaii board OKs plan for giant telescope
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#58 Other early NSFNET backbone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#24 Program Work Method Question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#60 TV Big Bang 10/12/09
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#55 TV Big Bang 10/12/09
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#85 ATMs by the Numbers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#82 ATMs by the Numbers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#80 A Super-Efficient Light Bulb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#50 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#20 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#12 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005l.html#9 Jack Kilby dead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#9 CCD technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#8 CCD technology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004h.html#7 CCD technology
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: New Algorithm Flies Drones Faster than Human Racing Pilots Date: 23 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookNew Algorithm Flies Drones Faster than Human Racing Pilots
other
New Algorithm May Help Autonomous Vehicles Navigate Narrow, Crowded Streets
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/new-algorithm-may-help-autonomous-vehicles-navigate-narrow-crowded-streets
related (AI-controlled virtual fighters)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#46 Watch AI-controlled virtual fighters take on an Air Force pilot on August 18th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#45 Watch AI-controlled virtual fighters take on an Air Force pilot on August 18th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#44 Watch AI-controlled virtual fighters take on an Air Force pilot on August 18th
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#43 Watch AI-controlled virtual fighters take on an Air Force pilot on August 18th
other past posts mentioning drone, autonomous vehicles, &/or self-driving posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#55 Why Not Use Self-Driving Cars as Supercomputers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#60 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#35 US Stealth Fighter Jets Like F-35, F-22 Raptors 'No Longer Stealth' In-Front Of New Russian, Chinese Radars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#5 The Plane Paradox: More Automation Should Mean More Training
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#80 OSS in China: Prelude to Cold War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#11 Air Force thinking of a new F-16ish fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#10 Air Force thinking of a new F-16ish fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#100 The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#104 F-35
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/2019c.html#49 IBM NUMBERS BIPOLAR'S DAYS WITH G5 CMOS MAINFRAMES
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#83 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#50 OT: Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#108 F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#63 The F-35 has a basic flaw that means an F-22 hybrid could outclass it -- and that's a big problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#60 11 crazy up-close photos of the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jet soaring through the air
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/2018b.html#86 Lawmakers to Military: Don't Buy Another 'Money Pit' Like F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#39 Why China's New Supercomputer Is Only Technically the World's Fastest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#78 F-35 Multi-Role
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#44 F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#90 Old hardware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#14 Perry Mason TV show--bugs with micro-electronics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#51 F-35 Replacement: F-45 Mustang II Fighter -- Simple & Lightweight
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#40 The F-22 Raptor Is the World's Best Fighter (And It Has a Secret Weapon That Is Out in the Open)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#47 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#82 "Computer & Automation" later issues--anti-establishment thrust
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#8 What Does School Really Teach Children
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#55 How to Kill the F-35 Stealth Fighter; It all comes down to radar ... and a big enough missile
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#39 Virtual Memory Management
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#9 The Planet's Best Stealth Fighter Isn't Made in America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#36 IBM CEO Rometty gets bonus despite company's woes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#18 NYT on Sony hacking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#16 NYT on Sony hacking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#11 NYT on Sony hacking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#10 NYT on Sony hacking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#116 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#82 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#78 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#47 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#68 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#31 The Designer Of The F-15 Explains Just How Stupid The F-35 Is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#22 Has the last fighter pilot been born?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#90 A Drone Could Be the Ultimate Dogfighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#1 Obama to Kill Tomahawk, Hellfire Missile Programs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#97 The Planet's Best Stealth Fighter Isn't Made in America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#29 Broadband pricing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#24 Why IBM chose MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!' made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#23 Why IBM chose MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!' made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#15 Boyd Blasphemy: Justifying the F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#101 Boyd Blasphemy: Justifying the F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#27 US Air Force Converts F-16 Fighters into Drones
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#25 Work long hours (Was Re: Pissing contest(s))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#25 Linchpin Pro-Austerity Paper Rife with Errors; Recomputed Results Show No Growth Hit from High Government Debt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#38 Russia to buy no more foreign drones
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#5 Cultural attitudes towards failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#76 Kopp paper is a warning to U.S. leadership
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#43 A lesson from history about wasted valor, for which a price might be asked of us
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#50 Is there a connection between your strategic and tactical assertions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#19 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#9 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#38 Invention of Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#24 Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#22 Death From Above
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#42 Drones now account for one third of U.S. warplanes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#10 UAV vis-a-vis F35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#7 John R. Opel, RIP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#20 UAV vis-a-vis F35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#19 DefDog: Drones Kill US Forces - Once Again, BAD IDEA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#4 UAV vis-a-vis F35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#50 Itanium at ISSCC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#70 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#16 comp.arch has made itself a sitting duck for spam
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#42 Mission Control & Air Cooperation -- Part I
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#16 USAF officers slammed for pranging Predators on manual
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#52 Current Officers
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Rising Rents Threaten to Prop Up Inflation Date: 24 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookRising Rents Threaten to Prop Up Inflation. Officials at the Federal Reserve and White House thought fast price gains would pass. Rent increases could make it a slow fade.
from a decade ago
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
at the time there were attempted counters by using graph of rising family income ... obfuscating the fact of transition from single earning families to both parents working (it wasn't wages increasing, families were earning more because there were more workers).
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/
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Private Equity Now Buying Up Primary Care Practices Date: 24 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookPrivate Equity Now Buying Up Primary Care Practices
over last decade or so, lots of articles about PE move into health care, doctor&dentist practices, hospital systems, assisted living & nursing homes, etc
More Evidence That Private Equity Kills: Estimated >20,000
Increase in Nursing Home Deaths, 160,000 Life Years Lost Due to Cuts
in Care
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/02/more-evidence-that-private-equity-kills-estimated-20000-increase-in-nursing-home-deaths-160000-life-years-lost-due-to-cuts-in-care.html
Is private equity helping or hurting healthcare?
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20180710/NEWS/180719998/is-private-equity-helping-or-hurting-healthcare
How Private Equity Is Ruining American Health Care. Investors
have been buying up doctor's offices, cutting costs, and, critics say,
putting pressure on physicians in ways that hurt patients. The
pandemic could make things even worse.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-05-20/private-equity-is-ruining-health-care-covid-is-making-it-worse
Private equity keeps buying up health care companies. Should
patients worry?
https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2018/06/20/private-equity
The History of Junk Bonds and Leveraged Buyouts
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221256711501504X
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
recent posts mentioning financialization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#63 Rising Rents Threaten to Prop Up Inflation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#81 How capitalism is reshaping cities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#23 Best of Mankiw: Errors and Tangles in the World's Best-Selling Economics Textbooks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#21 ESG Drives a Stake Through Friedman's Legacy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#18 Trickle Down Economics Started it All
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#25 Huawei 5G networks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#15 The Other 1 Percent": Morgan Stanley Spots A Market Ratio That Is "Unprecedented Even During The Tech Bubble"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#2 Office jobs eroding
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#99 Is America ready to tackle economic inequality?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#31 Milton Friedman's "Shareholder" Theory Was Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#100 Destruction of Middle Class
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#88 CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#73 Wage Stagnation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#68 Wage Stagnation
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: IBM HSDT & HA/CMP Date: 24 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
misc. HSDT (& precursor to HA/CMP) email from 1985
Date: 85/01/17 16:25:47
To: WHEELER
Lynn,
If you recall the last time I was out in San Jose I mentioned that I
would like you to give the pitch on "High Speed Data Transport" to my
up and coming class on Survey of Computer Networks. We can cover
travel and will arrange for a hotel for you. Would you be available
Feb. 7 or 12? I currently have other dates but would like to have this
early in the course.
... snip ... top of post, old email index, HSDT email
... Besides HSDT, also had cluster scale-up project, cram as many
processors as possible in rack, and then connect as many racks
together as possible. In 1985, was double booked for cluster scale-up
meeting in (TJ Watson) Yorktown and presenting current HSDT to NSF
director.
Date: 03/12/85 12:51:18
From: wheeler
Univ. of Cal. has gotten a $120m NSF grant to set-up a super computer
regional center in San Diego. I've been asked to make a pitch to them
at Berkeley ... getting lots of data into & out of the center
... apparently this work is beyond the leading edge of anything else
out there.
As a political move, in the past two days, a presentation was set-up
with the head of NSF for next Tuesday so he can get the pitch before
UofC sees it.
... snip ... top of post, old email index, HSDT email
... as previous mentioned, it originally was suppose to be for
Berkeley, but the regents changed it to San Diego
Date: 03/13/85 10:32:58
From: wheeler
you've haven't said much recently .. i'll be in ykt at least next
thursday ... if not weds. also. I'll be in wash. dc on tuesday for NSF
pitch in the afternoon.
... snip ... top of post, old email index, HSDT email
.. eventually I had to get somebody else to do the pitch to NSF
director so I could do the processor cluster meetings in YKT
Date: 03/14/85 12:25:05
From: wheeler
going to be here on monday? going to dc for nsf meeting on tuesday?
I figure I can take red-eye to NY monday night & get a flight to DC in
time for the nsf meeting. can be back in ykt some time on weds
did i blow enuf smoke on processor clusters?
... snip ... top of post, old email index, HSDT email
Date: 09/30/85 17:27:27
From: wheeler
re: channel attach box; fyi;
I'm meeting with NSF on weds. to negotiate joint project which will
install HSDT as backbone network to tie together all super-computer
centers ... and probably some number of others as well. Discussions
are pretty well along ... they have signed confidentiality agreements
and such.
For one piece of it, I would like to be able to use the cambridge
channel attach box.
I'll be up in Milford a week from weds. to present the details of the
NSF project to ACIS management.
... snip ... top of post, old email index, HSDT email
... and it all hiccuped when congress cut the budget, and then when subsequent RFP was released, internal IBM politics wouldn't let us bid
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
HA/CMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The Case Against SQL Date: 24 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
After leaving IBM, reimplemented SNDBMS from scratch and used it for
numerous things, including merged taxonomies & glossaries that I put
up on website (during the 90s, it seemed that the major webcrawlers,
like google, were hitting multiple times a day ... possibly as
regression tests ... they had enormous ratio of hrefs to total
characters ... also various gov. agencies, not just US). summer 2002
we get a call to respond to unclassified BAA (by IC-ARDA, since
renamed IARPA) about to close, basically said that they didn't have
the needed tools ... we got response in and had couple meetings (some
what strained since don't have clearance) showing that could do what
was needed ... and then nothing (BAA principle was apparently known
for being able to do 40+ clause SQL queries). Really didn't figure out
what was going on until success of failure reporting
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
PE operations were buying up gov. contractors and beltway bandits and
hiring prominent politicians to lobby congress to outsource to the
companies they owned
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/10/barbarians-capitol-private-equity-public-enemy/
"Lou Gerstner, former ceo of ibm, now heads the Carlyle Group, a
Washington-based global private equity firm whose 2006 revenues of $87
billion were just a few billion below ibm's. Carlyle has boasted
George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and former Secretary of State James
Baker III on its employee roster."
... snip ...
more money in series of failures, intelligence 70% of budget and half
the people
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us
also used SNDBMS with various IETF (internet) RFC standards and (RFC
Editor) Postel used to let me help
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel
nothing to do with SNDBMS, long ago and far away, after graduating and
joining IBM was being asked to teach computer&security classes at
gov. agencies, didn't have clearance then or since ... but they would
sometimes treat me as if I did ... I had to periodically remind them I
didn't want to know ... old reference gone 404, but lives on at
wayback machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml
a little later IBM got a new CSO, previously gov. service (at one time head of presidential detail) and I was asked to run around with him, talking about computer security (and a little bit of physical security rubs off).
funny coincidence ... IBM had formed SBS with two other partners ... which had office bldg in tysons corner. IBM liquidated SBS and the bldg was acquired by beltway bandit (wich was later acquired by Carlyle), who gutted it to the walls and totally redid the inside. I had done some financial industry standards and prototype chips for secure transactions ... and one of their executives (formally agency director and claimed credit for clipper chip) wanted to talk to us about the work. My wife had gone to SBS and then returned to IBM when SBS was liquidated ... however her office was on the same floor and had occupied the same physical area as his office.
clipper chip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
Earlier, lead technical director reporting to DDI for Information
Assurance Directorate was doing panel discussion in the trusted
computing track at Intel Developors Forum in ... asked me to talk
about my prototype chips for secure transactions (gone 404, but lives
on at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20011109072807/http://www.intel94.com/idf/spr2001/sessiondescription.asp?id=stp%2bs13
... during talk in the TCPA track, the guy responsible for TPM chip was in the front row ... and I had to comment that I was glad to see that the TPM chip design was beginning to look more and more like my secure prototype chips .... and his response was I didn't have a committee of 200 people trying to help me.
success of failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
AMEX, Private Equity, IBM related Gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
other SNDBMS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#40 Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#78 locks, semaphores and reference counting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#11 Microprocessors with Definable MIcrocode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#26 Misc. more on bidirectional links
a couple posts mentioning new tenet in former SBS bldg
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#31 Colossal Cave Adventure in PL/I
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#35 Cybersecurity Today: The Wild, Wild West
posts mentioning clipper chip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#10 Encryp-xit: Europe will go all in for crypto backdoors in June
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#25 FBI wants 'legislative fix' on device encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#32 Surveillance Reform Theater
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#74 How the NSA Manipulates Language To Mislead The Public
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#20 Louis V. Gerstner Jr. lays out his post-IBM life
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#85 Key Escrow from a Safe Distance: Looking back at the Clipper Chip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#48 Data Center Theft
posts mentioning Intel developer's forum
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#87 Bizarre Career Events
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#20 The Rise of the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#21 IBM Recruiting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#24 Microsoft says mandatory password changing is "ancient and obsolete"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#32 12 Russian Agents Indicted in Mueller Investigation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#51 EMV: Why the US migration didn't happen sooner
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#110 Making Computers Secure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#88 IBM Mainframe Ushers in New Era of Data Protection
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#78 Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#31 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#92 Old hardware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#10 Encryp-xit: Europe will go all in for crypto backdoors in June
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#41 History of Mainframe Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#39 History of Mainframe Cloud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#11 Rogue sysadmins the target of Microsoft's new 'Shielded VM' security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#63 Missile Defense
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#40 Misc. Success of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#8 Intel spyware chip?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#55 Institutional Memory and Two-factor Authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#66 Catching Up on the OPM Breach
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#43 Ransomware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#43 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#20 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#72 Do we really?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#83 Winslow Wheeler's War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#26 Whole Earth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#55 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#42 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#24 UEFI?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#41 Special characters for Passwords
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#55 "NSA foils much internet encryption"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#88 NSA and crytanalysis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#66 German infosec agency warns against Trusted Computing in Windows 8
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#77 Insane Insider Threat Program in Context of Morally and Mentally Bankrupt US Intelligence System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#63 history of Programming language and CPU in relation to each other
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#58 2012 History Conference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#53 The secret's out for secure chip design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#48 Hello?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#72 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#24 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#59 RISCversus CISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#11 Credit cards with a proximity wifi chip can be as safe as walking around with your credit card number on a poster
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#73 From OODA to AAADA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#72 Orientation - does group input (or groups of data) make better decisions than one person can?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#50 The Credit Card Criminals Are Getting Crafty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#53 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#9 Far and near pointers on the 80286 and later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#74 Is Security a Curse for the Cloud Computing Industry?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#63 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#38 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#34 "Unhackable" Infineon Chip Physically Cracked
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#7 "Unhackable" Infineon Chip Physically Cracked - PCWorld
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#48 Hacker charges also an indictment on PCI, expert says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#5 Moving to the Net: Encrypted Execution for User Code on a Hosting Site
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#58 Price Tag for End-to-End Encryption: $4.8 Billion, Mercator Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001c.html#20 Something wrong with "re-inventing the wheel".?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay6.htm#idf Intel Developer's Forum ... fyi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm5.htm#asrn1 Assurance, e-commerce, and some x9.59 ... fyi
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Does America Like Losing Wars? Date: 27 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookDoes America Like Losing Wars?
... not actually losing, just never winning means perpeatual wars and
the money continuues to flow ... Boyd quote
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 ...
... very much Smedley Butler's "War Is A Racket"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
... and "perpetual war" is preferred over actually winning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war
Smedley Butler, retired USMC major general and two-time Medal of Honor
Recipient
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
Military-industrial complex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex
The Bush Team's Desperate Hunt for an Iraq Link to 9/11
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/05/iraq-911-saddam-hussein-no-link-cia-bush-cheney-wolfowitz.html
The very crew that backed the invasion of Iraq to the Washington
foreign policy scene.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-hawks-new-hero-arthur-vandenberg/
A People's Guide to the War Industry
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/05/24/a-peoples-guide-to-the-war-industry/
A People's Guide to the War Industry -2: Profits &
Deception. Christian Sorensen maps out the global system of weapons
mongering. Second in a series of five articles on the
U.S. military-industrial-congressional complex.
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/05/26/a-peoples-guide-to-the-war-industry-2-profits-deception/
A People's Guide to the War Industry -3: Bribery &
Propaganda. When war is your business, peace is your enemy, writes
Christian Sorensen. Third in a five-part series on the
military-industrial-congressional complex.
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/05/28/a-peoples-guide-to-the-war-industry-3-bribery-propaganda/
A People's Guide to the War Industry -4: The New BOSS
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/05/31/a-peoples-guide-to-the-war-industry-4-the-new-boss/
A People's Guide to the War Industry -5: Portfolio of Conflicts
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/06/02/a-peoples-guide-to-the-war-industry-5-portfolio-of-conflicts/
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
WMD posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
CIA Director Colby wouldn't approve the "Team B" analysis (exaggerated
USSR military capability) and Rumsfeld got Colby replaced with Bush,
who would approve "Team B" analysis (justifying huge DOD spending
increase), after Rumsfeld replaces Colby, he resigns as white house
chief of staff to become SECDEF (and is replaced by his assistant
Cheney)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B
Then in the 80s, former CIA director H.W. is VP, he and Rumsfeld are
involved in supporting Iraq in the Iran/Iraq war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Iraq_War
including WMDs (note picture of Rumsfeld with Saddam)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_war
VP and former CIA director repeatedly claims no knowledge of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair
because he was fulltime administration point person deregulating
financial industry ... creating S&L crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
along with other members of his family
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan
and another
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260
In the early 90s, H.W. is president and Cheney is SECDEF. Sat. photo
recon analyst told white house that Saddam was marshaling forces to
invade Kuwait. White house said that Saddam would do no such thing and
proceeded to discredit the analyst. Later the analyst informed the
white house that Saddam was marshaling forces to invade Saudi Arabia,
now the white house has to choose between Saddam and the Saudis.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Strange-Journey-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B004NNV5H2/
... roll forward ... Bush2 is president and presides over the huge cut
in taxes, huge increase in spending, explosion in debt, the economic
mess (70 times larger than his father's S&L crisis) and the
forever wars, Cheney is VP, Rumsfeld is SECDEF and one of the Team B
members is deputy SECDEF (and major architect of Iraq policy).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz
S&L crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#s&l.crisis
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
Before the Iraq invasion, the cousin of white house chief of staff
Card ... was dealing with the Iraqis at the UN and was given evidence
that WMDs (tracing back to US in the Iran/Iraq war) had been
decommissioned. the cousin shared it with (cousin, white house chief
of staff) Card and others ... then is locked up in military hospital,
book was published in 2010 (4yrs before decommissioned WMDs were
declassified)
https://www.amazon.com/EXTREME-PREJUDICE-Terrifying-Story-Patriot-ebook/dp/B004HYHBK2/
NY Times series from 2014, the decommission WMDs (tracing back to US
from Iran/Iraq war), had been found early in the invasion, but the
information was classified for a decade
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html
note the military-industrial complex had wanted a war so badly that
corporate reps were telling former eastern block countries that if
they voted for IRAQ2 invasion in the UN, they would get membership in
NATO and (directed appropriation) USAID (can *ONLY* be used for
purchase of modern US arms, aka additional congressional gifts to MIC
complex not in DOD budget). From the law of unintended consequences,
the invaders were told to bypass ammo dumps looking for WMDs, when
they got around to going back, over a million metric tons had
evaporated (showing up later in IEDs)
https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-War-Lockheed-Military-Industrial-ebook/dp/B0047T86BA/
The Danger of Fibbing Our Way into War. Falsehoods and fat military
budgets can make conflict more likely
https://web.archive.org/web/20200317032532/https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2020/01/the-danger-of-fibbing-our-way-into-war/
The Day I Realized I Would Never Find Weapons of Mass Destruction in
Iraq
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/magazine/iraq-weapons-mass-destruction.html
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Four Officers Rip Into Trump, Give Moving Testimony About January 6 Riot Date: 27 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookFour Officers Rip Into Trump, Give Moving Testimony About January 6 Riot
Heroes on Jan. 6, law officers became truth seekers about who was responsible for the Capitol attacks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/heroes-on-jan-6-law-officers-became-truth-seekers-about-who-was-responsible-for-the-capitol-attacks/2021/07/27/8a20bc4a-ef0d-11eb-a452-4da5fe48582d_story.html
Five takeaways from gripping officer testimony at the first January 6 hearing
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/27/politics/takeaways-january-6-committee/index.html
'A hit man sent them.' Capitol Police officers testify as the Jan. 6 inquiry begins.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/us/jan-6-inquiry.html
Capitol riot committee holds first hearing
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/jan-6-house-select-committee-hearing-07-27-21/h_d1983ceee22a12466bc38aef1020ec87
other insurrection posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#58 The Storm Is Upon Us
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#14 Did Whistleblower Reprisal Help Set the Stage for a January 6 Intelligence Failure?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#48 'We're Gonna Murder You and Then Them'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#51 Sacking the Capital and Honor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#47 Barbarians Sacked The Capital
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#46 Barbarians Sacked The Capital
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#40 National Guard deployment in DC
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Mainframe mid-range computing market Date: 27 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
As Future System was imploding, IBM was looking for lots of quick&dirty efforts to get stuff back into 370 product pipelines (internal politics had been killing off 370 efforts during FS and lack of new 370 during the period is credited with giving clone 370 makers their market foothold). I get con'ed into helping Endicott do microcode assists for 138/148. Visits during the period seem that former large manufacturing floors had been turned into programmer cubicles (this was before seeing 4331&4341 in 1979).
old microcode assist posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#28 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#27 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21 370 ECPS VM microcode assist
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
Then late 70s, a new multi(4-5?)-story brick building appears and seemed to be occupied by the Iliad/risc people that was planned for 4361/4381 ... i.e. big effort to move lots of internal microprogrammed cisc microprocessors from low/mid range 370s, controllers, etc to 801/risc. I get con'ed into helping write white paper that CISC chips had gotten to the point where it was possible to implement nearly the whole 370 architecture directly in silicon ... giving much better price/performance than continuing to implementing 370 in microprogramming (even if on 801/risc Iliad chips). For various reasons most of those early 801/risc efforts floundered and things returned to CISC (some of those 801/risc engineers leaving for risc projects at other vendors)
810/risc, iliad, romp, rios, pc/rt, power, power/pc, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
Rockefeller (Nelson) Sworn In as Vice President
https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/nelson-a-rockefeller-sworn-in-as-vice-president-video
... shortly after joining IBM, they started asking me to teach computer and security classes at gov. agencies. Later at all day class at one such agency ... large full classroom in the basement, half the class quietly gets up and walks out. I looked perplexed and one of the guys in the front says I can look at it one of two ways, 1) half the class went upstairs to listen to the VP in the auditorium or 2) half the class stayed to listen to me. Somewhere in this time-frame, IBM also got a new CSO (formally in gov. service, at one time head of presidential detail) and I'm asked to run around with him for awhile talking about computer security (while a little bit of physical security wears off on me).
past posts mentioning new CSO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#66 The Case Against SQL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#16 IBM Zcloud - is it just outsourcing ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#57 Hacking, Exploits and Vulnerabilities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#84 Bizarre Career Events
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#0 IBM "Wild Ducks"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#37 Early mainframe security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#66 Facebook Knows More About You Than the CIA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#67 Economic Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#0 The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#99 IBM 5100
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#75 Running unsupported is dangerous was Re: AW: Re: LE strikes again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#88 IBM Story
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#90 Ransomware on Mainframe application ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#54 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#60 Bridgestone Sues IBM For $600 Million Over Allegedly 'Defective' System That Plunged The Company Into 'Chaos'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#53 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#8 Plug Your Data Leaks from the inside
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#3a The Great Cyberheist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009g.html#24 Top 10 Cybersecurity Threats for 2009, will they cause creation of highly-secure Corporate-wide Intranets?
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 18:12:59 -1000undefined Hancock-4 <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> writes:
from response (included in the above):
Note to Lynn - I have always given zzzzz the credit for turning Bob
Evans around. For reasons unknown to me, the TSO group had the flip
charts and wallboard zzzzz used. The clincher was the ability to run 16
initiators simultaneously on a 1 megabyte system, taking advantage of
the fact that MVT normally used only 25% of the memory in a
partition. The resulting throughput gain (compared to real hardware) was
substantial enough to convince Bob. It helped that Tom Simpson and Bob
Crabtree had hosted an MFT II system TSS-Style and shown similar
performance gains. Of course, since CP67 was a pickup group they weren't
considered and we had the OS/VS adventure instead.
... snip ...
trivia: within year after taking two semester hr intro to computers/fortran, the univ. hired me responsible for os/360 systems. Sometime later, univ. library got an ONR (office of naval research) grant to do online catalog ... part of the money went for a IBM 2321 (datacell) ... the univ. library was also selected to beta test site for original CICS product ... one of the early bugs I had to diagnose ... was there were some (undocumented) hardcoded BDAM file operations and the univ had created BDAM files with different options ... and CICS would fail on startup.
past CICS/BDAM posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#cics
more CICS lore ... gone 404, but still lives on at wayback michine
https://web.archive.org/web/20050409124902/http://www.yelavich.com/cicshist.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20071124013919/http://www.yelavich.com/history/toc.htm
OS/360 was enormously disk intensive ... with all the fragmented module loads ... that I did very careful system generations ... arranging sysgen statements to carefully place files&modules to optimize disk arm seek and PDS directory multi-track search. I've frequently mentioned that student fortran programs ran less than second on 709 tape->tape ... but initial move to OS/360 (360/67 running as 360/65) student fortran took over a minute, installing HASP ... cut that in half. Initial careful sysgens cut it almost by 2/3rds (most of it still furious disk activity). Didn't get to better than 709 until single step WATFOR montor (batched multiple jobs in single execution). Single step startup overhead was still over 4secs ... but batching 40-60 student jobs running at (watfor) 20,000 cards/min (333 cards/sec) ... student jobs 30-60 cards, so 4sec startup/shutdown spread over 50 batched jobs 4sec/50=.08sec/job plus 50cards/333=.15sec/job ... avg .23sec.
... note that ACP/TPF was highly optimized code and was really difficult to add hardware multiprocessor support. 3081 was originally going to be multiprocessor only machine and IBM was afraid that the whole ACP/TPF market would move to clone mainframe makers ... that were coming out with new, faster single processor machines (high-end single proceessor Amdahl had nearly the same processing as two processor 3081k ... and two processor high-end Amdahl was twice that ... better than the four processor 3084). Eventually IBM did come out with 3083 ... a 3081 with one of the processors removed (initially for the ACP/TPF market). It took a while longer and whole lot of effort before had ACP/TPF supporting real multiprocessor operation.
past SMP, multiprocessor, compare&swap, etc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
... trivia: problem for CICS was even worse ... above referenced cics history table of contents ... doesn't have multiprocessor exploitation until 2004.
... other CICS trivia: CICS had a slight of hand work around, running multiple instances with workload partitioned across the different instances. I visited a datacenter around the turn of the century that claimed it was concurrently running 120-130 CICS instances on their system.
recent posts mentioning (single processor) 3083
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#44 IBM Powerpoint sales presentations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#66 ACP/TPF 3083
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#23 IBM Recruiting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#74 Airline Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#72 Airline Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#29 IBM History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#44 IBM 9020
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#80 TCM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#22 Online Computer Conferencing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#77 How many years ago?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#38 long-winded post thread, 3033, 3081, Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#62 The IRS Really Needs Some New Computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#60 SABRE after the 7090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#39 IBM etc I/O channels?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#33 Bad History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#56 What is the most epic computer glitch you have ever seen?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#94 GREAT presentation on the history of the mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#84 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#20 {wtf} Tymshare SuperBasic Source Code
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 18:49:26 -1000re:
other ACP/TPF trivia ... while ACP/TPF didn't have (tightly-coupled) multiprocessor support ... it had done a lot of work for loosely-coupled multiprocessor (shared dasd, cluster). Standard OS/360 mechanism was reserve/release whole device ... ACP/TPF improved on that by putting a logical "symbolic" lock manager in the 3830 disk controller (for 3330 disks) ... which supported four channel interface connecting to four different systems.
old email from jim gray looking for ACP/TPF locking experience ... for
input to (original sql/relational) system/r
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#email800325
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#94 It's 1983: What computer would you buy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#42 What are mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#9 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#76 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#33 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011j.html#0 program coding pads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#77 program coding pads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#39 Amercian Airlines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001.html#26 Disk caching and file systems. Disk history...people forget
disk division later tried to have them move away ... since the strategic direction was string switch ... allowing two 3830 controllers for string of 3330 disks ... each with four system connect for total eight systems total ... the problem was that controller based logical lock manager didn't work across multiple (3830) controllers.
loosely-coupled/cluster HONE trivia: One of my hobbies after joining IBM was enhanced production operating systems for internal datacenters ... and HONE was long-time customer ... online world-wide sales&marketing support system. In the mid-70s, the US HONE datacenters were consildated in Palo Alto (later when FACEBOOK 1st moves into silicon valley, it is into a new bldg built next door to the former HONE datacenter) ... and system enhanced for 8-way loosely-coupled operation (eight indendent systems sharing same disk farm with load-balancing and fall-over).
since it was 8-way ... needing two controllers ... so couldn't use the ACP/TPF controllere logical locking ... put it needed something significantly better than the standard (os/360) device reserve/release. The implmentation used was a channel-program sequence that did search data equal ... and if matched ... would do update ... basically simulating the (SMP) 370 compare&swap instruction (charlie had invented compare&swap when he was doing fine-grain CP67 multiprocessor kernel locking at the science center, CAS originally chosen because they are charlie's initials, which got added to 370).
In the morph of CP67->VM370 product, they simplified and/or dropped a lot of stuff (including a bunch of my stuff as well as the CP67 tightly-coupled multiprocessor support). HONE applications were heavily APL-based and even with eight 168-3s for US HONE, it was still CPU limited. I had gotten around to significantly enhanced VM370 ... including a lot of stuff from CP67. I then got around to putting in the CP67 (tightly coupled) multiprocessor support ... so HONE could add a 2nd CPU to each system for 16 processors
HONE (&/or APL) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
SMP, tightly-coupled, and/or compare&swap posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
cambridge science center (4th flr, 545tech sq) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
system/r posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: It's Time to Call Out Big Oil for What It Really Is Date: 28 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookIt's Time to Call Out Big Oil for What It Really Is
Big Oil's lies about climate change--a climate scientist's take
https://thebulletin.org/2021/07/big-oils-lies-about-climate-change-a-climate-scientists-take/
Climate crimes: a new series investigating big oil's role in the
climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/29/climate-crimes-about-this-series
Climate crimes
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/series/climate-crimes
merchants of doubt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#merchants.of.doubt
past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#16 Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#13 NYT Ignores Two-Year House Arrest of Lawyer Who Took on Big Oil
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#12 The fracking boom is over. Where did all the jobs go?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#3 Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#77 How climate change skepticism held a government captive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#22 The Saudi Connection: Inside the 9/11 Case That Divided the F.B.I
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#67 Profit propaganda ads witch-hunt era
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#26 Radical Muslim
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#112 NASA chief says he changed mind about climate change because he 'read a lot'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#65 Doubts about the HR departments that require knowledge of technology that does not exist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#5 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#24 Frieden calculator
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#40 Here's The New Study The Fracking Industry Doesn't Want You to See
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#43 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#54 The Jeb Bush Adviser Who Should Scare You
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#27 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#83 Wastewater well suspended after "frackquakes" rock Colorado
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#43 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#30 Senators Who Voted Against Ending Big Oil Tax Breaks Received Millions From Big Oil
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#61 Why Republicans Aren't Mentioning the Real Cause of Rising Prices at the Gas Pump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#67 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Electronic Signature Date: 28 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookIndustry tried for a long time to force "digital signatures" into meaning "done with digital certificate" ... that industry had business plan of $20B/yr requiring $100/annum/person. We were brought in to help wordsmith some cal. state legislation ... at the time, they were working on "electronic signature", data breach notification" and "opt-in personal information sharing" legislation. The "digital certificate" industry was lobbying hard to try and have the legislation mandate "digital certificates" for signatures. Managed to help thwart those efforts.
Was at a technical conference on the show floor and IBM executive squiring around CEO of one of the major digital certificate corporations came up and wanted to introduce me to the CEO. The CEO asked me what I did, I said my objective was to obliterate all "digital certificates" from the face of the earth ... they both quickly walked away.
I was also rep to the financial industry X9 standards body
https://x9.org/
and the digital certificate industry was trying to mandate digital signatures/certificates for every financial electronic transaction. I then showed that it would require increasing the standard transaction size by a factor of at least 100 times ... gargantuan bloat for little or no benefit (many point-of-sale still ran at 2400 baud, taking minutes instead of seconds). So the group formed a new X9 work item to specify "compressed certificates". I then wrote an item that mandated appending "compressed" digital signature/certificates (to every transaction) that had been compressed to zero bytes.
digital/electronic signature posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
transaction bloat posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#bloat
trusted transactions w/o certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#certless
privacy posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#x959
data breach notification posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Electronic Signature Date: 28 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
mostly mid-90s (after "electronic commerce" at mosaic/netscape) until
2006 ... lots in x9a10, but also x9a2, a9a11, x9a12. x9f3 ... some
x9f1, x9f4, x9f5, and x9f6 ... me and anoter wrote privacy standard,
interviewed a lot of gov agency privacy officers for x9WG1 (used some
wording that i used in cal. legislation). a little of the stuff
archived from the x9a10 & ansi-epay mailings list
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/ansiepay.htm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay2.htm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay4.htm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay5.htm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay6.htm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay7.htm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay8.htm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay9.htm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay10.htm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay11.htm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay12.htm
I was accused of being "parsimonious" for eliminating unnecessary enormous "bloat"
company working for also had us work with small legal patent lawfirm
in atlanta on some of the work ... when we had 50+ draft patents, law
firm said it would be over hundred before we were done. Executives
claimed about the filling fees and directed that all the claims be
repackaged into nine patents. Later the USPTO came back and said they
were getting tired of enormous patents where the patent fee didn't
even cover the cost of reading the claims and directed that claims had
to be repackaged in 2-3 dozen. referrence to the patents (all
"assigned")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadssummary.htm
other refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsmail.htm
some overview
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsover.htm
digital/electronic signature posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
transaction bloat posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#bloat
trusted transactions w/o certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#certless
privacy posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#x959
data breach notification posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Electronic Signature Date: 29 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
... late 90s, I did a secure transaction chip for one of the X9
financial transaction standards ... part of recent post in another
post/thread:
Part of SBS liquidation, many of the (former IBM) employees return to
IBM and the building (tyson's corner) is sold to a beltway bandit (IBM
CEO from the 90s had gone to running a private-equity company that
buys that beltway bandit). The building is gutted to the walls and
completely remodeled and an identical bldg is built next to it
... with a large one story connecting the two office bldgs. After we
leave IBM, we were doing a lot of advanced financial security work and
one of their executives (former head of agency up corner of 32 and
wash/balt parkway, also claimed credit for the clipper chip) wanted a
meeting to talk to us about it. Turns out his office was on the same
floor and included the space of my wife's SBS office. Our advanced
financial security work had so commoditized security, he concluded
that he couldn't figure any way of making profit from it (downside of
security being too good in an environment where there was lots of
fraud and people making profit providing security services, nobody was
interested in commoditized security that eliminated majority of the
fraud ... and profit)
clipper chip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
... snip ...
... we did some demo chips ... used standard industry chipcard
microprocessor ... programmed to emulate my chip design ... had booth
for the chipcard at 1999 BAI world-wide retail banking show in Miami
(later got prototype chips done at new secure chip fab in Dresden that
had been certified by multiple gov. agencies, including US. ... got
requested to do security audit of the Dresden fab is another story)
... old posts with BAI press release
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#217 AADS/X9.59 demo & standards at BAI (world-wide retail banking) show
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsmore.htm#x959demo AADS & X9.59 demos at BAI (annual world-wide retail banking) show in miami next week
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/ansiepay.htm#x959bai X9.59/AADS announcement at BAI
...IBM trivia ... one of the companies in the press release was a
startup doing KERBEROS commercialization ... including a contract with
m'soft to implement it for their platforms (becomes active directory)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/security/kerberos/kerberos-authentication-overview
former IBMer (had been head of mainframe POK and then head of boca)
was CEO (was working as CEO "for hire" and had been brought in by the
VCs) ... and we would have meetings with him a few times a month.
and from a related post mentioning the chip:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#66 The Case Against SQL
... lead technical director reporting to DDI for Information Assurance
Directorate was doing panel discussion in the trusted computing track
at Intel Developors Forum in ... asked me to talk about my prototype
chips for secure transactions (gone 404, but lives on at wayback
machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20011109072807/http://www.intel94.com/idf/spr2001/sessiondescription.asp?id=stp%2bs13
... during talk in the TCPA track, the guy responsible for TPM chip
was in the front row ... and I had to comment that I was glad to see
that the TPM chip design was beginning to look more and more like my
secure prototype chips .... and his response was I didn't have a
committee of 200 people trying to help me.
... snip ...
digital/electronic signature posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#signature
transaction bloat posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#bloat
trusted transactions w/o certificates
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#certless
privacy posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#x959
data breach notification posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#data.breach.notification.notification
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Electronic Signature Date: 29 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
... more trivia ... in prior life, my wife was in gburg jes group and
one of the catchers for jes3/asp ... the future "CEO for hire" (when
he 1st left IBM, he was hired as Perot CEO to take it public), cons
her into coming to POK to be in charge of loosely-coupled architecture
... while there she does Peer-Coupled Shared Data architecture
... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata
... but doesn't last long because 1) constant battles with communication group trying to force her into using VTAM for loosely-coupled operation and 2) little uptake (except for IMS hot-standby ... until much later with SYSPLEX & parallel SYSPLEX).
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: CIA Drove Spike in Media Leak Investigation Requests Under Trump Date: 29 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookCIA Drove Spike in Media Leak Investigation Requests Under Trump. Records released by the Department of Justice provide new details about Trump's campaign against whistleblowers and leakers.
leaks & whistleblower posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#whistleblower
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Fox Hosts Hit Peak Bizarro World: Tucker Lies, Says Fauci 'Created' Covid Date: 29 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookFox Hosts Hit Peak Bizarro World: Tucker Lies, Says Fauci 'Created' Covid. Cavuto Calls Him a 'Good Doctor,' 'Vilified' Like 'Lex Luthor'. Fauci's truth-telling when Trump was in office seems to have triggered disagreement at the network
... then there is "Merchants of Doubt"
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured-ebook/dp/B003RRXXO8/
https://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
some of the same scientists payed by the tobacco industry to write articles down playing the link between smoking and lung cancer, later showup in "Team B" studies inflated Soviet military and then down playing climate change.
merchant of doubt posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#merchants.of.doubt
past posts mentioning covid &/or fauci
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#64 Private Equity Now Buying Up Primary Care Practices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#58 The Storm Is Upon Us
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#40 Why do people hate universal health care? It turns out -- they don't
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#17 Jamie Dimon: Some Americans 'don't feel like going back to work'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#94 Drug Industry Money Quietly Backs Media Voices Against Sharing Vaccine Patents
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#73 'Government Money That's Gone Into Vaccine Development Is Being Privatized by a Handful of Companies'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#70 Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#48 'Our Lives Don't Matter.' India's Female Community Health Workers Say the Government Is Failing to Protect Them From COVID-19
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#0 Patients With Long Covid Face Lingering Worrisome Health Risks, Study Finds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#44 More Evidence That Private Equity Kills: Estimated >20,000 Increase in Nursing Home Deaths
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#82 What The Media Isn't Telling You About Texas Blackouts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#52 Luxembourg Investigations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#35 HONE story/history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#86 IBM Auditors and Games
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#28 We must stop calling Trump's enablers 'conservative.' They are the radical right
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Want Quick Progress on Climate Change? Clean Up 'Hyper-Polluting' Coal Plants Date: 29 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookWant Quick Progress on Climate Change? Clean Up 'Hyper-Polluting' Coal Plants. Just 5 percent of the globe's power plants generate nearly 75 percent of the carbon pollution from electricity
... then there is "Merchants of Doubt"
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured-ebook/dp/B003RRXXO8/
https://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
some of the same scientists payed by the tobacco industry to write articles down playing the link between smoking and lung cancer, later showup in "Team B" studies inflated Soviet military and then down playing climate change.
merchant of doubt posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#merchants.of.doubt
posts mentioning climate change &/or fossil fuel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#72 It's Time to Call Out Big Oil for What It Really Is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#16 Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#13 NYT Ignores Two-Year House Arrest of Lawyer Who Took on Big Oil
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#12 The fracking boom is over. Where did all the jobs go?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#3 Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#25 POGO Testimony on Holding the Oil and Gas Industry Accountable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#15 POGO Testimony on Holding the Oil and Gas Industry Accountable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#89 How climate change skepticism held a government captive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#77 How climate change skepticism held a government captive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#59 How climate change skepticism held a government captive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#42 The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#77 Meet the "New Koch Brothers"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#26 Fighting to Go Home: Operation Desert Storm, 30 Years Later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#83 Capital in the Twenty-First Century
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#60 The Dumbest Business Idea Ever. The Myth of Maximizing Shareholder Value. The dominant business philosophy debunked
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#24 Promtheus' Fire: Climate Change in the Time of Willful Ignorance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#22 The Saudi Connection: Inside the 9/11 Case That Divided the F.B.I
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#5 Book: Kochland : the secret history of Koch Industries and corporate power in America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#150 How Trump Lost an Evangelical Stalwart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#143 "Undeniable Evidence": Explosive Classified Docs Reveal Afghan War Mass Deception
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#123 'Deep, Dark Conspiracy Theories' Hound Some Civil Servants In Trump Era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#114 Post 9/11 wars have cost American taxpayers $6.4 trillion, study finds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#105 OT, "new" Heinlein book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#100 Is America ready to tackle economic inequality?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#85 Just and Unjust Wars
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#67 Profit propaganda ads witch-hunt era
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#31 Milton Friedman's "Shareholder" Theory Was Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#26 Radical Muslim
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#116 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#97 David Koch Was the Ultimate Climate Change Denier
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#86 The Hottest July, How Climate Change is Breaking Temperature Records in 2019
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#54 Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#50 Recent climate and heat news
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#64 How to fight desertification and reverse climate change
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#0 How Harvard Business School Has Reshaped American Capitalism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#117 What Minimum-Wage Foes Got Wrong About Seattle
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#64 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#30 Scientists Just Laid Out Paths to Solve Climate Change. We Aren't on Track to Do Any of Them
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#112 NASA chief says he changed mind about climate change because he 'read a lot'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#89 Earth's atmosphere just crossed another troubling climate change threshold
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#115 Chevron's lawyer, speaking for major oil companies, says climate change is real and it's your fault
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#114 Chevron's lawyer, speaking for major oil companies, says climate change is real and it's your fault
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#65 Doubts about the HR departments that require knowledge of technology that does not exist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#45 More Guns Do Not Stop More Crimes, Evidence Shows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#27 Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#46 How Economists Turned Corporations into Predators
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#60 When Working From Home Doesn't Work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#55 How Economists Turned Corporations into Predators
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#13 Merchants of Doubt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#59 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#22 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#14 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#5 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#103 Trump to sign cyber security order
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: How Walgreens and Walmart's new banking ventures will shake up finance Date: 29 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookHow Walgreens and Walmart's new banking ventures will shake up finance. Incumbent banks will have to innovate their digital and mobile strategies to compete with two of the country's biggest retailers.
... at one point, the rhetoric on the floor of congress was that the
primary purpose of GLBA was make sure that Walmart (& Microsoft)
couldn't become a bank.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93Bliley_Act
past GLBA posts referencing primary purpose was to block new
competitors getting into banking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#119 Google, Fitbit, Banking: Big Tech's Bust Out?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#4 Noncompliant: A Lone Whistleblower Exposes the Giants of Wall Street
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#115 Trump asking advisers if he can legally fire Fed chief
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#102 Can we learn from financial lessons of 90 years ago?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#4 Ron Paul On 'The Dollar Dilemma': Where To From Here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#64 Here's every time Amazon has made a play for banking services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#78 The Next New Military Specialty Should Be Software Developers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#8 Too big to fail was Malicious Cyber Activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#51 Penn Central PL/I advertising
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#19 Banking; The Book That Will Save Banking From Itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#55 Clearly I'm Not Reading This Right
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#98 Convicted Fraudster Jonathan Hay, Harvard's Man Who Wrecked Russia, Resurfaces in Ukraine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#17 Cromnibus cartoon
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#55 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#49 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#47 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#46 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#37 Sale receipt--obligatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#84 Support Senator Warren's Postal Banking Proposal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#48 Mainframe on NCIS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#37 Married Couples and the Financial Mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#76 Did these tech and telecom companies assess the risk and return with respect to Anti-Money Laundering challenges?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#21 Thomas Piketty Is Right About the Past and Wrong About the Future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#9 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#20 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#28 Why Asian companies struggle to manage global workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#41 Why Are the Fed and SEC Keeping Wall Street's Secrets?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#16 Wonder if they know how Boydian they are?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#68 Memory versus processor speed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#0 Revolution Through Banking?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#28 The men who crashed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#77 How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#52 Civilization, doomed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#71 Don't Dump the Volcker Rule Just Because It's Not Perfect
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#73 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#53 50th anniversary of BASIC, COBOL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#18 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#7 Home prices may drop another 25%, Shiller predicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#55 Are Americans serious about dealing with money laundering and the drug cartels?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#48 On Protectionism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#41 On Protectionism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#19 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#45 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#29 The Mobile Device Is Becoming Humankind's Primary Tool
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#76 e-commerce smackdown as PCI standards revised
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#53 The Credit Card Criminals Are Getting Crafty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#38 Google scares Aussie banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#7 taking down the machine - z9 series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#77 Favourite computer history books?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#63 Wal-Mart to support smartcard payments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#62 blasts from the past -- old predictions come true
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#52 Our Pecora Moment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#32 In the News: SEC storms the 'Castle'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#86 Oldest Instruction Set still in daily use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#82 Oldest Instruction Set still in daily use?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010.html#70 Post Office bank account 'could help 1m poor'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#77 Financial Regulatory Reform - elimination of loophole allowing special purpose institutions outside Bank Holding Company (BHC) oversigh
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#19 Does anyone know of merchants who have successfully bypassed interchange costs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#11 Toyota Sales for 2007 May Surpass GM
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: EMV migration compliance for banking from IBM (1997) Date: 30 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookEMV migration compliance for banking from IBM (1997)
related comments in this thread about digital signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#76 Electronic Signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#75 Electronic Signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#74 Electronic Signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#73 Electronic Signature
and Facebook july 30, 2016 memory:
Specification is from 1996 targeted solely for POS.
About the same time we were asked to participate in X9A10 financial
standard working group (because we had done electronic commerce) which
had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the
financial infrastructure for *ALL* retail payments" (aka not just POS,
*ALL*). Part of the standards effort was hardware token that suffered
from none of the security vulnerabilities of their specification, was
nearly 100 times faster and nearly 100 times less expensive (late
90s)..
There was large pilot deployment of their specification in the US
around the turn of the century ... in their "YES CARD" vulnerability
period. At the 2003 ATM Integrity task force meeting ... an federal
LEO went into some detail ... and there was comment from the audience
that they managed to spend billions of dollars to prove that chips are
less secure than magstripe.
In the wake of the "YES CARD" problems, all evidence of the large
pilot appeared to disappear w/o a trace. There was speculation that it
would be a long time before it was tried again in the US ... while
they worked out more of the kinks in other jurisdictions.
The chip card transition in the US has been a disaster
https://qz.com/717876/the-chip-card-transition-in-the-us-has-been-a-disaster/
... snip ...
I warned the large east coast pilot about the security issues before they started the pilot deployment (around the turn of century) ... but apparently they had been so mesmerized with the chip promotion ... that they couldn't process the information ... so they had to learn the hard way ... and then the pilot evaporates w/o a trace.
ref to IBM SDA chip&pin ("YES CARD") deployment for Safeway UK in 1997
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm Fraudwatch - Chip&PIN one-sided story, banks and deception and liability shifts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#33 Google Architecture
original IBM artcile gone 404 ... but lives on at wayback machine: EMV
migration compliance for banking from IBM
https://web.archive.org/web/20061106193736/http://www-03.ibm.com/industries/financialservices/doc/content/solution/1026217103.html
and some comment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#55 UK Detects Chip-And-PIN Security Flaw
"YES CARD" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
Reference to "YES CARD" presentation cartes2002 in this trip report
(gone 404 but lives on at wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20030417083810/http://www.smartcard.co.uk/resources/articles/cartes2002.html
I didn't make cartes 2002, but those doing the "YES CARD" presentation came by to review their analysis and left me a copy of the presentation ... but it has "proprietary" on every page.
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: EMV migration compliance for banking from IBM (1997) Date: 30 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
... some financial make "risk adjusted" decision ... part of doing
chip with no known vulnerabilities ... including allowing for
end-to-end security processes (part of where "yes card" fell down)
... was to register integrity characteristic of each kind of chip
... as technology advances and new kinds of vulnerabilities appeared
... it was possible to make security proportional to risk
transaction decisions based on the end-to-end threats (including kind
of chip used) and the size of the transactions. This was something
that chip industry wasn't providing for either gov. or financial. I
did some number of security proportional to risk presentations to
both gov. and financial ... some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#security.proportional.to.risk
trying to interest them in including it in standards.
... part of what got me into security proportional to risk was that institutions said they had to issue chipcards because they couldn't trust chipcards presented by the public ... so users would require a chipcard for every institutions. the question was what did institution need to be able to trust a person presented chipcard. Once into that solution, the next was can trust be dynamically determined based on the chipcard characteristics as well as other end-to-end characteristics (for instance is being in a bank lobby more trusted than a internet cafe pc located in a country on the other side of the world) and can compensating processes be supported.
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Trump Pressured DOJ to Declare Election Corrupt and 'Leave the Rest to Me' Date: 30 Jul 2021 Blog: FacebookTrump Pressured DOJ to Declare Election Corrupt and 'Leave the Rest to Me'. "You guys may not be following the internet the way I do," Trump told Justice Department officials who insisted there was not widespread fraud, according to handwritten notes released by the House Oversight Committee
House Republicans meet with Trump to discuss overturning election
results. Trump loyalists are planning a last stand Jan. 6. (21DEC2020)
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/21/trump-house-overturn-election-449787
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) -- who is spearheading the long-shot push to
overturn the election results in Congress -- organized the trio of
White House meetings, which lasted over three hours and included
roughly a dozen lawmakers. The group also met with Vice President Mike
Pence, who will be presiding over the joint session of Congress when
lawmakers officially certify the Electoral College votes on Jan. 6, as
well as members of Trump's legal team.
... snip ...
recent posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#68 Four Officers Rip Into Trump, Give Moving Testimony About January 6 Riot
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#14 Did Whistleblower Reprisal Help Set the Stage for a January 6 Intelligence Failure?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#48 'We're Gonna Murder You and Then Them'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#71 Let's Be Honest About What Trump Wanted on January 6
other posts mentioning trump:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#78 Fox Hosts Hit Peak Bizarro World: Tucker Lies, Says Fauci 'Created' Covid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#77 CIA Drove Spike in Media Leak Investigation Requests Under Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#59 Report: Prosecutors Have Obtained Damning Information Allegedly Implicating Trump in His Company's Crimes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#58 The Storm Is Upon Us
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#82 Giuliani's Law License Is Suspended Over Trump Election Lies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#39 'Bipartisanship' Is Dead in Washington
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#5 What My Mobster Grandfather Understood About American Capitalism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#1 'Madman ... racist, sexist pig': new book details Obama's real thoughts on Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#95 Larry Summers, the Man Who Won't Shut Up, No Matter How Wrong He's Been
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#77 How climate change skepticism held a government captive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#42 The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#7 IBM100 - Rise of the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#65 Apple, Amazon and Google slam 'discriminatory' voting restriction laws
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#54 America's biggest corporations paid no federal income taxes last year
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#31 Does HBO's QAnon Documentary Reveal Who Q Is?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#27 The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#4 The GOP's Fake Controversy Over Colin Kahl Is Just the Beginning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#94 How Ike Led
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#93 How 'Owning the Libs' Became the GOP's Core Belief
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#81 Russia, not China, tried to influence 2020 election, says US intel community
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#79 Racism's Loud Echoes in America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#43 Just 15% of Americans say they like the way that Donald Trump conducts himself as president
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#30 The Supreme Court Finally Lets the Light Shine on Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#27 US intelligence report finds Saudi Crown Prince responsible for approving operation that killed Khashoggi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#24 US intelligence report finds Saudi Crown Prince responsible for approving operation that killed Khashoggi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#23 When Nazis Took Manhattan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#66 Democracy is a threat to white supremacy--and that is the cause of America's crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#51 Sacking the Capital and Honor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#46 Barbarians Sacked The Capital
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#44 American Fascism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#40 National Guard deployment in DC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#35 Washington DC Rioting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#30 Trump and Republican Party Racism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#29 How the Republican Party Went Feral. Democracy is now threatened by malevolent tribalism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#28 We must stop calling Trump's enablers 'conservative.' They are the radical right
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#27 We must stop calling Trump's enablers 'conservative.' They are the radical right
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#24 Trump Tells Georgia Official to Steal Election in Recorded Call
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#20 Trickle Down Economics Started it All
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#19 Trickle Down Economics Started it All
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#21 Saudi ruler aimed to 'silence' Washington Post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#6 Onward, Christian fascists
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#5 Book: Kochland : the secret history of Koch Industries and corporate power in America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#152 US lost more tax revenue than any other developed country in 2018 due to Trump tax cuts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#150 How Trump Lost an Evangelical Stalwart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#143 "Undeniable Evidence": Explosive Classified Docs Reveal Afghan War Mass Deception
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#142 Trump is deconstructing the government, one agency at a time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#128 Republicans abandon tradition of whistleblower protection at impeachment hearing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#127 The Barr Presidency
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#124 'Deep, Dark Conspiracy Theories' Hound Some Civil Servants In Trump Era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#123 'Deep, Dark Conspiracy Theories' Hound Some Civil Servants In Trump Era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#122 For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class last year
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#93 Trump Administration Scaling Back Rules Meant to Stop Corporate Inversions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#78 Retired Marine Gen. John Allen: 'There is blood on Trump's hands for abandoning our Kurdish allies'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#74 Eric Holder is the Official Missing from Discussions of the Bidens' Ukrainian Efforts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#72 CIA's top lawyer made 'criminal referral' on complaint about Trump Ukraine call
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#66 Four Takeaways on Trump's New Medicare Executive Order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#59 Acting Intelligence Chief Refuses to Testify, Prompting Standoff With Congress
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#57 Homeland Security Dept. Affirms Threat of White Supremacy After Years of Prodding
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#52 Why Trump Tweeted About Civil War
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#50 Economic Mess and Regulations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#46 Acting Intelligence Chief Refuses to Testify, Prompting Standoff With Congress
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#36 Trump's Deference to Saudis in Setting Terms for How U.S. Shoul Respond to Attacks Touches a Nerve
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#34 The U.S. Forgot What Antitrust Is For
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#26 Radical Muslim
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#23 Radical Muslim
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#112 Trump tells Republicans he may begin cutting social security and Medicare if he wins in 2020
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/2019d.html#102 Trump tells Republicans he may begin cutting social security and Medicare if he wins in 2020
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/2019d.html#95 The results of Facebook's anti-conservative bias audit are in
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/2019d.html#58 China's VT5 tank adds 'active protection'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#57 Newsflash: Trump and DeVos Do Not Want to Get Government Out of For-Profit College Industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#55 The Trump Administration Is Using the Full Power of the U.S. Surveillance State Against Whistleblowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#54 Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#53 Those 'rat infested' places in Baltimore? They're owned by Trump's son-in-law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#50 Recent climate and heat news
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#38 Trump's Message to U.S. Intelligence Officials: Be Loyal or Leave
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#34 The Great Hack tells us data corrupts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#33 The Great Hack tells us data corrupts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#57 Forget China - it's America's own economic system that's broken; US weakness is inbuilt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#21 Mitch McConnell has done far more to destroy democratic norms than Donald Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#74 Why the Infamous Trump Tower Meeting Didn't Take Down Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#70 Russia Hacked Clinton's Computers Five Hours After Trump's Call
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#65 The Government is Hard at Work Keeping Tax Preparation Complicated and Expensive
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#1 Billions From Deutsche Bank Despite Trump's Bankruptcies, Defaults, and Financial Malfeasance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#86 Trump's tax law threatens charities. The poor will pay
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#20 Trump CFPB Plans Obscene Change to Payday Lender Rule
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#116 Trump asking advisers if he can legally fire Fed chief
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#115 Trump asking advisers if he can legally fire Fed chief
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#114 Trump asking advisers if he can legally fire Fed chief
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#113 Trump asking advisers if he can legally fire Fed chief
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#101 U.S. Cash Repatriation Plunges 50%, Defying Trump's Tax Forecast
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#88 Trump administration appointee quits lobbying for Saudi Arabia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#73 Trump is reportedly not worried about a massive US debt crisis as he'll be out of office by then
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#56 Too Rich to Jail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#40 America's electoral system gives the Republicans advantages over Democrats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#38 The U.S. Needs to Crack Down on White-Collar Crime
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#35 OT: Postal Service seeks record price hikes to bolster falling revenues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#1 Pigs Want To Feed at the Trough Again: Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson Use Crisis Anniversary to Ask for More Bailout Powers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#108 The United States' Perpetual War in Afghanistan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#89 White-Collar Criminals Got Off Scot-Free After the 2008 Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#87 White-Collar Criminals Got Off Scot-Free After the 2008 Financial Crisis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#82 Why Is the White House Trying to Block a Key Election Security Bill?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#80 Art Laffer's Chinese Curve Ball
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#67 Donald Trump, Gun-Runner for Hire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#50 OT: Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#42 Bill Black: Trump Sees Europe as a "Foe" Because of Key Misinformed Advisor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#36 OT: Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#35 OT: Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#32 12 Russian Agents Indicted in Mueller Investigation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#11 OT: Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#115 Trump IRS pick faces massive IT challenge
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#114 Trump IRS pick faces massive IT challenge
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#105 tablets and desktops was Has Microsoft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#101 The Persistent Myth of U.S. Precision Bombing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#91 Having learned 20yrs earlier, and both Bush1 & Bush2 as example, move to non-gov email servers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#80 Former NSA And CIA Director Michael Hayden: The 'Golden Age Of Electronic Surveillance' Is Ending
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#78 Insiders Want Trump To Pardon Junk Bond "King" Michael Milken
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#59 Tariffs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#50 OCC Covering Up for Wells Fargo Type Abuses at Other Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#26 House sends bill loosening banking regulations to Trump's desk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#14 Bill Black: Trump Admin Halts Investigation of For-Profit Colleges
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#105 Trump to Drop Call for Medicare to Negotiate Lower Drug Prices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#101 Barb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#99 Trump to Drop Call for Medicare to Negotiate Lower Drug Prices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#34 The First E-mail Scandal, Long Before Hillary Clinton: Iran/Contra
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#3 These are the last days of Trump. Next: the rise of Pence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#0 Congress Is About to Do a Big Favor for Private Equity Predators
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/2018b.html#71 Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#60 Revealed - the capitalist network that runs the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#30 free, huh, was Bitcoin confusion?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#24 Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#23 Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#109 The Man From Sullivan & Cromwell
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#67 Pushing Out Immigrants Isn't About the Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#25 Trump's Infrastructure Plan Is Actually Pence's--And It's All About Privatization
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: EMV migration compliance for banking from IBM (1997) Date: 30 Jul 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
reference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#55 UK Detects Chip-And-Pin Security Flaw
... this has more detailed, long-winded discussion of several issues.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm24.htm#1 UK Detects Chip-And-PIN Security Flaw
as mentioned, x9a10 had been given the requirement to preserve the integrity of the financial infrastructure for *ALL* retail payments (not just internet or point-of-sale, but *ALL*, face-to-face, unattended, internet, etc) ... and presumed was asked to participate because of having worked on "electronic commerce' at mosaic/netscape. As part of x9a10 we did detailed end-to-end study of exploits and vulnerabilities ... for how standard needed to deal with all of them.
as result, the above post also references being asked to give tutorial in London with principles of Lloyd's of London syndicates involved in insuring (brick & mortar) point-of-sale retail payment fraud discussing numerous threat models and countermeasures ... they then had us to luncheon with the chairman of Lloyd's
risk, fraud, exploit, threat, vulnerability posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#fraud
man-in-the-middle attachposts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#mitmattack
assurance posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#assurance
x959 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#x959
misc. other posts mentioning x9a10 & x9.59
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay10.htm#65 eBay Customers Targetted by Credit Card Scam
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay11.htm#53 Authentication white paper
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay11.htm#73 Account Numbers. Was: Confusing Authentication and Identiification? (addenda)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay12.htm#0 Four Corner model. Was: Confusing Authentication and Identification? (addenda)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay2.htm#fed Federal CP model and financial transactions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay2.htm#intuition AADS/X9.59 cost sharing intuition
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay3.htm#aadsnwi AADS NWI vote
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay6.htm#dsdebate Digital Signatures Spark Debate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay6.htm#ecomich call for new measures: ICH would be glad to help
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay7.htm#nonrep0 non-repudiation, was Re: crypto flaw in secure mail standards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay7.htm#nonrep6 non-repudiation, was Re: crypto flaw in secure mail standards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay7.htm#3dsecure4 3D Secure Vulnerabilities? Photo ID's and Payment Infrastructure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay7.htm#3dsecure3 financial payment standards ... finger slip
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/ansiepay.htm#reconsid2 X9.59 Reconsideration Ballot
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/ansiepay.htm#reconsid X9.59 Reconsideration Ballot
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/ansiepay.htm#anxclean Misc 8583 mapping cleanup
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/ansiepay.htm#x959ansr Comments from 2nd LB on DSTU X9.59
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsmore.htm#killer3 Killer PKI Applications
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Remarks by President Biden Laying Out the Next Steps in Our Effort to Get More Americans Vaccinated and Combat the Spread of the Delta Variant Date: 03 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookRemarks by President Biden Laying Out the Next Steps in Our Effort to Get More Americans Vaccinated and Combat the Spread of the Delta Variant
... lots of comments recently about with freedom also comes responsibilities ... something that children are suppose to learn as they grow up ... those that don't are sometimes also referred to as sociopaths and predators that prey on others.
also
Fox Hosts Hit Peak Bizarro World: Tucker Lies, Says Fauci 'Created' Covid
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#70"> Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows
Vaccinated America Has Had Enough. In the United States, this pandemic
could be almost over by now. The reasons it's still going are pretty
clear.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/vaccinated-america-breaking-point-anti-vaxxers/619539/
Spreading vaccine fears. And cashing in.
https://publicintegrity.org/health/coronavirus-and-inequality/spreading-fears-cashing-in-anti-vaccine
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
past posts mentioning sociopaths
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#37 Big Tech Meets Its Pecora Commission: Why Google's Toughest Opponent Is Now Congress
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#97 David Koch Was the Ultimate Climate Change Denier
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#19 Does Capitalism Kill Cooperation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#90 Study Confirms Most Psychopaths Live in Washington D.C
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#55 Should Bankers Be Forced to Put Some Skin in the Game?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#22 Dotcom Bubble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#92 pneumatic cash systems was Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#24 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#74 Trump delay of the 'fiduciary rule' will cost retirement savers $3.7 billion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#43 when to get out???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#19 Banking; The Book That Will Save Banking From Itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#7 Study: Cost of U.S. Regulations Larger Than Germany's Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#3 For those who like to regress to their youth? :-)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#10 25 Years: How the Web began
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#22 rationality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#15 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#15 Banking Culture Encourages Dishonesty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#37 Income Inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#39 Sale receipt--obligatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#1 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#1 IBM Sales Fall Again, Pressuring Rometty's Profit Goal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#76 Crowdsourcing Diplomacy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#53 Retirement Savings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#14 What Makes a Tax System Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#53 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#84 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#16 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#91 Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#1 Spontaneous conduction: The music man with no written plan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#99 New theory of moral behavior may explain recent ethical lapses in banking industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#16 Interview of Mr. John Reed regarding banking fixing the game
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#30 Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#4 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#80 How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and the U.S. Economy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#30 Have you ever wondered why some people seem to get rich easily
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#24 AMERICA IS BROKEN, WHAT NOW?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#77 Madoff Whistleblower Book
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The lost history of the electric car - and what it tells us about the future of transport Date: 03 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookThe lost history of the electric car - and what it tells us about the future of transport
One of the stories is that Ford went against conventional wisdom of
electric cars and chose to do gas cars (gas cars were enormously heavy
and engines barely able to move them along). Ford lucked out when he
eventually discovered "French Steel" (new process w/vanadium developed
in Europe that tripled the strength of steel) ... allowing the weight
of the vehicle to be cut significantly (which played major role given
how little power was available from gasoline engines of the period).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium
Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently
https://www.amazon.com/Iconoclast-Neuroscientist-Reveals-Think-Differently/dp/1422115011
pg125/loc1324-28:
The Model T became possible only when Ford heard about a new type of
steel that was being smelted in France. French steel contained a
secret ingredient, vanadium, which made it three times stronger than
regular steel. This changed everything for Ford. As with other
iconoclasts, his perception of the automobile instantly changed when
he saw what could be done with a vehicle that weighed a third
less. Now, little gas engines that struggled to pull a heavy car
suddenly weren't so anemic anymore. A little engine could do a lot
with a car that didn't weigh very much. The Model T was released in
1908, and within the first year, Ford had sold 10,607 of them, more
than any other manufacturer.
... snip ...
a few past posts on the horse manure subject
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#15 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#68 The Costs of Bad Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#88 NASA proves once again that, for it, the impossible is not even difficult
a few past posts mentionin Ford and french steel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#91 This is Ford's first electric pickup truck, the F-150 Lightning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#73 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#19 OT for sidd about physics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#102 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#69 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#7 Looking for a real Fortran-66 compatible PC compiler (CP/M or DOSor Windows
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The Bunker: Follow All of the Money. F-35 Math 1.0 Another portent of problems Date: 04 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookThe Bunker: Follow All of the Money. F-35 Math 1.0 Another portent of problems
The F-35 and other Legacies of Failure
https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2021/03/the-f-35-and-other-legacies-of-failure/
F22 hangar empress (2009)
http://nypost.com/2009/07/17/cant-fly-wont-die/
Pilots call high-maintenance aircraft "hangar queens." Well, the
F-22's a hangar empress. After three expensive decades in development,
the plane meets fewer than one-third of its specified
requirements. Anyway, an enemy wouldn't have to down a single F-22 to
defeat it. Just strike the hi-tech maintenance sites, and it's game
over. (In WWII, we didn't shoot down every Japanese Zero; we just sank
their carriers.) The F-22 isn't going to operate off a dirt strip with
a repair tent.
But this is all about lobbying, not about lobbing bombs. Cynically,
Lockheed Martin distributed the F-22 workload to nearly every state,
employing under-qualified sub-contractors to create local financial
stakes in the program. Great politics -- but the result has been a
quality collapse.
... snip ...
... F22 was finally canceled but process switched to F35
Tale of rapidly spreading "Sucess of Failure" with gov. contractors,
beltway bandits, and military-industrial complex (more money from
series of failures)
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
Boyd quote
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 ...
also results in the "perpetual war" strategy ... never actually want to win a war, see it over, and go home (and the money stop)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war
success of failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
recent posts mentioning F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#48 The F-35 Fighter Jet Program Must be Grounded to Protect Pilots and Tax Dollars
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#88 The Bunker: More Rot in the Ranks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#46 SitRep: Is the F-35 officially a failure? Cost overruns, other issues prompt Air Force to look for "clean sheet" fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#35 US Stealth Fighter Jets Like F-35, F-22 Raptors 'No Longer Stealth' In-Front Of New Russian, Chinese Radars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#18 Did They Miss Yet Another F-35 Cost Overrun?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#77 Cancel the F-35, Fund Infrastructure Instead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#0 THE PENTAGON'S FLYING FIASCO. Don't look now, but the F-35 is afterburnered toast
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#82 The F-35 and other Legacies of Failure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#11 Air Force thinking of a new F-16ish fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#8 Air Force thinking of a new F-16ish fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#102 The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#100 The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#118 Pentagon: The F-35 breaks down too often and takes too long to repair
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#53 Stealthy no more? A German radar vendor says it tracked the F-35 jet in 2018 -- from a pony farm
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/2019d.html#104 F-35
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/2019c.html#74 Packard Bell/Apple
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#49 IBM NUMBERS BIPOLAR'S DAYS WITH G5 CMOS MAINFRAMES
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/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/2018f.html#83 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#52 Chinese Government Hackers Have Successfully Stolen Massive Amounts Of Highly Sensitive Data On U.S. Submarine Warfare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#37 Imagining a Cyber Surprise: How Might China Use Stolen OPM Records to Target Trust?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#20 Navy's Top-Dollar Stealth Fighter May Not Go the Distance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#109 JSF/F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#108 F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#76 Why the F-35 Isn't Good Enough for Japan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#74 The F-35 has a basic flaw that means an F-22 hybrid could outclass it -- and that's a big problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#68 The F-35 has a basic flaw that means an F-22 hybrid could outclass it -- and that's a big problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#63 The F-35 has a basic flaw that means an F-22 hybrid could outclass it -- and that's a big problem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#60 11 crazy up-close photos of the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jet soaring through the air
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#14 Air Force Risks Losing Third of F-35s If Upkeep Costs Aren't Cut
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/2018b.html#117 F-35: Still No Finish Line in Sight
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#86 Lawmakers to Military: Don't Buy Another 'Money Pit' Like F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#17 Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Mexico sues US gun-makers over flow of weapons across border Date: 04 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookMexico sues US gun-makers over flow of weapons across border
... not long after "economic mess" some number of too big to fail (financial institutions) were found to be doing money laundering for drug cartels and terrorists ... major enabler of being able to buy military grade equipment and the rise in violence on both sides of the Mexican border. Apparently since the gov. was already leaning over backwards to keep them in business ... TBTF were asked if they would please stop (sometimes fined, but amounts were trivial compared to what they were making off the money laundering, joking that it just became part of cost of running fraudulent business). At the time, there were articles claiming that the TBTF money laundering (for drug cartels) were turning Mexico into another Colombia.
past money laundering posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
too big to fail (too big to prosecute & too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Keeping old (IBM) stuff Date: 04 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookI kept everything possible electronic and archived. I had software, source and email from 60s up thru 1977 on a tape ... which was periodically moved to new media. In mid-80s, I had it replicated on three tapes ... unfortunately all in the Almaden research tape library .. when they had an operations problem mounting random tapes as scratch ... I lost ten tapes including all three replicated tapes of lots of stuff from mid-60s thru 1977. Fortunately I had archived copies of a lot of stuff post 1977 at alternate places in addition to Almaden... I lost a lot of trust in ibm backup/ archive after that ... I started keeping multiple copies at multiple locations. ... including on rs6000 530 at home (but that is another story)
... trivia: in he late 70s I did CMSBACK for internal datacenters ... it went thru a number of internal releases and then enhanced with support for clients (PCs and workstations) and released to customers as workstation datasave facility ... later picked up by GPD/AdStar and morphs into ADSM ... then TSM, now Spectrum Protect
backup posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#backup
past posts referencing Almaden tape library
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#22 Almaden Tape Library
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#86 History of Virtualization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#18 IBM Profs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#76 git, z/OS and COBOL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#87 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#88 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#98 After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#28 System/360 celebration set for ten cities; 1964 pricing for oneweek
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#59 write rings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#19 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#60 Bridgestone Sues IBM For $600 Million Over Allegedly 'Defective' System That Plunged The Company Into 'Chaos'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#9 IBM ad for Basic Operating System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#61 32760?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#61 Google Patents Staple of '70s Mainframe Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#22 The Invention of Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#16 Dennis Ritchie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#12 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#4 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#3 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#39 1971PerformanceStudies - Typical OS/MFT 40/50/65s analysed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#45 Is email dead? What do you think?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010p.html#19 The IETF is probably the single element in the global equation of technology competition than has resulted in the INTERNET
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#65 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#17 old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#66 Evolution of Floating Point
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Was E-mail a Mistake? The mathematics of distributed systems suggests that meetings might be better. Date: 04 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookWas E-mail a Mistake? The mathematics of distributed systems suggests that meetings might be better.
When I was undergraduate in the 60s and doing a lot of CP/67 enhancements, the agency was a CP/67 user ... although I didn't learn about them until much later ... when I was asked to teach computer/security classes there.
In the 80s, the agency had moved on to VM370 and eventually 3081 multiprocessor. IBM then had a VM370 release that had a lot of multiprocessor changes tailored for running ACP/TPF on 3081 in virtual machine (3081 originally was suppose to be a multiprocessor only machine, and ACP/TPF didn't have multiprocessor support and IBM was concerned that the whole ACP/TPF market might migrate to faster clone machines, the latest Amdahl single processor machine had about the same processing power as aggregate of the two 3081 processors), but noticeably degraded throughput for almost all other VM370 multiprocessor customers. An attempt to mask the degraded throughput of the latest VM370 for multiprocessor customers, some tweaks was made to 3720 terminal support to improve response time. The problem for the agency was it had all glass teletype ASCII terminals (the 3720 terminal response tweaks did nothing to mask the degraded multiprocessor throughput at the agency).
I got called into to see if I could do any quick&dirty fixes for them. I had done some tweaking to CMS console handling ... normal CMS was writing each line with a separate I/O requiring dropping from queue, adding to queue ... so something that wrote a full screen to ASCII terminal could involve twenty SIOs, along with 20 queue drop&adds. I hacked CMS console I/O handling to write all pending lines in a single start I/O ... cutting 20 queue drop/adds to one (regardless of the real terminal type) ... below referenced 1983 email references it cut overall avg queue drop/adds from 65/sec to 43/sec.
Note in the morph from CP67->VM370, the development group
significantly dropped and/or simplified a lot of CP67 features ... but
in a few cases took something that was enormously simple and made it
enormously complex. In the science center transition to VM370, I had
added back in a lot of dropped/simplified CP67 features. However, here
was a change to add back one more. CP67 & VM370 would drop from queue
things that appeared to be in wait state pending a long-wait terminal
I/O ... based on the device type. In CP67 there was a count of real
device, high-speed pending I/Os, incremented when it started,
decremented when it finished ... if the count was not zero, don't drop
from queue when in wait state. In the morph to VM370, they changed the
logic that on every entry to wait state ... it would scan the complete
virtual device configuration looking for some active I/O for a
"high-speed" virtual device. This was a lot more over head than just
checking for a non-zero count. But things got worse when there was a
miss-match between a "slow-speed" virtual terminal device mapped to a
"high-speed" 3270 terminal device (where I/Os could complete in
similar elapsed time as disk I/O). It this case, somebody at IBM had
noticed that there was this really fast queue drops/adds that
shouldn't be happening ... but didn't really realize why. I just put
the CP67 high-speed count logic in (eliminating the overhead of the
virtual device configuration scan). old email from long ago and far
away (with agency reference) ... describing the low-speed/high-speed
device mismatch anomaly in more detail
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#email830420
in this post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#57
the agency was also very active in (IBM customer mainframe ser group)
SHARE and on VMSHARE in the 70s & 80s (TYMSHARE had made their
CMS-based online computer conferencing system available to SHARE for
free starting in AUG1976) ... archives here:
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
multiprocessor posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
some recent posts mentioning ACP/TPF and the 3081 multiprocessor issue,
which eventually resulted in releasing 3083 (3081 with one of the
processors removed) ... originally primarily for the ACP/TPF market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#70 the wonders of SABRE, was Magnetic Drum reservations 1952
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#44 IBM Powerpoint sales presentations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#66 ACP/TPF 3083
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#23 IBM Recruiting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#74 Airline Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#72 Airline Reservation System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#29 IBM History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#44 IBM 9020
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#80 TCM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#22 Online Computer Conferencing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#77 How many years ago?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#38 long-winded post thread, 3033, 3081, Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#62 The IRS Really Needs Some New Computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#60 SABRE after the 7090
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#39 IBM etc I/O channels?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#33 Bad History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#56 What is the most epic computer glitch you have ever seen?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#94 GREAT presentation on the history of the mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#84 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#20 {wtf} Tymshare SuperBasic Source Code
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Was E-mail a Mistake? The mathematics of distributed systems suggests that meetings might be better. Date: 04 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
late 90s, doing financial standards work ... on crypto we mostly talked to the people up at ft. meade and nist people ... but one visit we had to make to the agency and checking in at the visitor bldg ... noticed that the day's visitor list was printed on fan-fold paper with vm370 separator page.
some recent posts mentioning financial standards work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#11 Miami Building Collapse Could Profoundly Change Engineering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#87 Bizarre Career Events
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#3 How an obscure British PC maker invented ARM and changed the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#157 American Cities Are Becoming Shell Companies for the Rich
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#48 Economic Mess and Regulations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#101 vendor distributes their private key
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#24 Microsoft says mandatory password changing is "ancient and obsolete"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#54 Misinformation: anti-vaccine bullshit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#104 Netscape: The Fire That Filled Silicon Valley's First Bubble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#36 Banking via home computers/internet is a disaster for the computer world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#22 A Tea Party Movement to Overhaul the Constitution Is Quietly Gaining
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#117 The rich want to use money to solve problems, except the problems that made them rich
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#4 Ron Paul On 'The Dollar Dilemma': Where To From Here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#97 George Lucas reveals his plan for Star Wars 7 through 9--and it was awful
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#90 Study Confirms Most Psychopaths Live in Washington D.C
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#47 This 1966 Article About 'Computer Danger' Predicted a Bleak Future of Bank Crimes and Info Leaks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#26 House sends bill loosening banking regulations to Trump's desk
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#25 Congress Approves First Big Dodd-Frank Rollback
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#28 Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#10 Graph database on z/OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#11 Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#110 Making Computers Secure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#94 Predicting the future in five years as seen from 1983
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#17 NSA's top talent is leaving because of low pay, slumping morale and unpopular reorganization
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Was E-mail a Mistake? The mathematics of distributed systems suggests that meetings might be better. Date: 05 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
some of the 7094/CTSS people went to the 5th flr for Project MAC and MULTICS, others went to the IBM science center on the 4th flr and did virtual machines, interactive apps, monitoring&performance, internal network, invented GML in 1969 (decade later morphs into international standard SGML and after another decade morphs into HTML at CERN).
CTSS EMAIL history
https://www.multicians.org/thvv/mail-history.html
https://www.multicians.org/thvv/anhc-34-1-anec.html
past CTSS EMAIL refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#54 PROFS, email, 3270
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#31 1963 Timesharing: A Solution to Computer Bottlenecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#21 Congratulations IBM for 'inventing' out-of-office email. You win Stupid Patent of the Month
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#39 [CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#51 The Invention of Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#15 Authorized functions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#12 Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#10 Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#81 The PC industry is heading for collapse
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#49 OT The inventor of Email - Tom Van Vleck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#44 OT The inventor of Email - Tom Van Vleck
CSC posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
GML posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: A top spreader of coronavirus misinformation says he will delete his posts after 48 hours. Date: 05 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookA top spreader of coronavirus misinformation says he will delete his posts after 48 hours.
... then there is "Merchants of Doubt"
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured-ebook/dp/B003RRXXO8/
https://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
some of the same scientists payed by the tobacco industry to write articles down playing the link between smoking and lung cancer, later showup in "Team B" studies inflated Soviet military and then down playing climate change.
merchant of doubt posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#merchants.of.doubt
other recent misinformation posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#58 The Storm Is Upon Us
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#82 Giuliani's Law License Is Suspended Over Trump Election Lies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#1 'Madman ... racist, sexist pig': new book details Obama's real thoughts on Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#77 How climate change skepticism held a government captive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#70 Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#40 The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#43 Just 15% of Americans say they like the way that Donald Trump conducts himself as president
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#46 Holy wars of the past - how did they turn out?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#44 American Fascism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#24 Trump Tells Georgia Official to Steal Election in Recorded Call
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all Date: 05 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookA Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all
other recent coup &/or insurrection posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#83 Trump Pressured DOJ to Declare Election Corrupt and 'Leave the Rest to Me'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#68 Four Officers Rip Into Trump, Give Moving Testimony About January 6 Riot
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#59 Report: Prosecutors Have Obtained Damning Information Allegedly Implicating Trump in His Company's Crimes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#58 The Storm Is Upon Us
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#14 Did Whistleblower Reprisal Help Set the Stage for a January 6 Intelligence Failure?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#48 'We're Gonna Murder You and Then Them'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#51 Sacking the Capital and Honor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#47 Barbarians Sacked The Capital
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#46 Barbarians Sacked The Capital
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#44 American Fascism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#40 National Guard deployment in DC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#24 Trump Tells Georgia Official to Steal Election in Recorded Call
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The War Was Won Before Hiroshima--And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It Date: 05 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookThe War Was Won Before Hiroshima--And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It. Seventy years after the bombing, will Americans face the brutal truth?
Hull Note
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_note
Story that Harry Dexter White was also operating on behalf of Stalin
... Stalin had sent White draft of ten demands to include in ultimatum
hoping to provoke Japan into opening a war with US ... Stalin was
already dealing with 3/4ths of German military in the west and was
worried that Japan would open a second front in the east.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White#Venona_project
More Venona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/venona/
Benn Stein in "The Battle of Bretton Woods" spends pages 55-58 discussing "Operation Snow".
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Bretton-Woods-Relations-University-ebook/dp/B00B5ZQ72Y/
pg56/loc1065-66:
The Soviets had, according to Karpov, used White to provoke Japan to
attack the United States. The scheme even had a name: "Operation
Snow," snow referring to White.
... snip ...
also: Another example of White acting as an agent of influence for the Soviet Union was his obstruction of an authorized $200 million loan to Nationalist China in 1943, which he had been officially instructed to execute. ... contributing to Nationalist loosing China.
There is folklore that US used the bombs to warn off Soviets. Supposedly Roosevelt didn't feel that US could defeat Japan alone and had understanding with Stalin that the Soviets would attack Japan after Germany was defeated. Stalin sent in 1.5M soldiers into Manchuria and quickly defeated million Japanese and was supposedly within three days of invading the Japanese homeland ... compared to US attacked Okinawa with 600,000 military and battleships to defeat 76,000 Japanese ... and might be months away from invading Japanese homeland.
past posts mentioning "Harry Dexter White" &/or "Hull Note"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#91 OSS in China: Prelude to Cold War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#30 The Shape of Things to Come: Why the Pentagon Must Embrace Soft Power to Compete with China
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#29 The Shape of Things to Come: Why the Pentagon Must Embrace Soft Power to Compete with China
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#18 When Nazis Took Manhattan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#32 Fascism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#62 Profit propaganda ads witch-hunt era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#60 Reviewing The China Mission
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#78 Bretton Woods Institutions: Enforcers, Not Saviours?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#76 The Coming of American Fascism, 1920-1940
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/2019c.html#66 The Forever War Is So Normalized That Opposing It Is "Isolationism"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#107 Post WW2 red hunt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#82 The Redacted Testimony That Fully Explains Why General MacArthur Was Fired
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#35 Olympics opening ceremony
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#49 1963 Timesharing: A Solution to Computer Bottlenecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#71 Russia Invaded Japanese Islands With U.S. Ships -- After Japan Surrendered
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#5 The 1970s engineering recession
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#3 Pearl Harbor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#36 Tech: we didn't mean for it to turn out like this
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#24 What if the Kuomintang Had Won the Chinese Civil War?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#87 WW II cryptography
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#81 WW II cryptography
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#79 WW II cryptography
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#28 WW2 Internment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#105 Iraq, Longest War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#18 5 Naval Battles That Changed History Forever
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#55 Should America Have Entered World War I?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#90 Economist, Harry Dent Hints: Global Banks Facing a Serious Crisis in Months Ahead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#80 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#94 The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#49 Fateful Choices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#74 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#39 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#70 God No, the U.S. Air Force Doesn't Need Another Curtis LeMay
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#55 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#54 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#51 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#45 The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Heatwave causes massive melt of Greenland ice sheet Date: 05 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookHeatwave causes massive melt of Greenland ice sheet
The Greenland ice sheet experienced a massive melting event last
week. This could have short-term and long-term implications for
sea-level rise.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/08/05/greenland-melt-event-season-2021/
A critical ocean system may be heading for collapse due to climate
change, study finds 'The consequences of a collapse would likely be
far-reaching'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/08/05/change-ocean-collapse-atlantic-meridional/
some past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#79 Want Quick Progress on Climate Change? Clean Up 'Hyper-Polluting' Coal Plants
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#72 It's Time to Call Out Big Oil for What It Really Is
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#3 Big oil and gas kept a dirty secret for decades
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#25 POGO Testimony on Holding the Oil and Gas Industry Accountable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#15 POGO Testimony on Holding the Oil and Gas Industry Accountable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#89 How climate change skepticism held a government captive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#77 How climate change skepticism held a government captive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#59 How climate change skepticism held a government captive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#77 Meet the "New Koch Brothers"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#83 Capital in the Twenty-First Century
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#60 The Dumbest Business Idea Ever. The Myth of Maximizing Shareholder Value. The dominant business philosophy debunked
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#24 Promtheus' Fire: Climate Change in the Time of Willful Ignorance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#5 Book: Kochland : the secret history of Koch Industries and corporate power in America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#150 How Trump Lost an Evangelical Stalwart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#123 'Deep, Dark Conspiracy Theories' Hound Some Civil Servants In Trump Era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#100 Is America ready to tackle economic inequality?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#31 Milton Friedman's "Shareholder" Theory Was Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#116 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#97 David Koch Was the Ultimate Climate Change Denier
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#86 The Hottest July, How Climate Change is Breaking Temperature Records in 2019
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#54 Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#50 Recent climate and heat news
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#21 A Deadly Heat Wave After the Hottest June On Record: How the Climate Crisis Is Creating 'a New Normal'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#64 How to fight desertification and reverse climate change
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: A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all Date: 05 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Judge sanctions lawyers looking to overturn 2020 election with "copy and paste" lawsuit. Federal judge calls pair's dubious class-action filing as "the stuff of which violent insurrections are made"
https://www.salon.com/2021/08/05/judge-sanctions-lawyers-looking-to-overturn-2020-election-with-copy-and-paste-lawsuit/
MyPillow magnate Mike Lindell's latest election conspiracy theory is his most bizarre yet
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/politics/mike-lindell-mypillow-ceo-election-claims-invs/index.html
Rudy Giuliani claims he made up 'gossip' about FBI probe of Clinton emails days before 2016 election: DOJ
https://www.rawstory.com/rudy-giuliani-hillary-clinton/
The other Big Lie: How a self-destructive ideological fever engulfed America's foreign policy establishment
https://www.rawstory.com/the-other-big-lie-how-a-self-destructive-ideological-fever-enveloped-america/
DOJ probe fails to find source of FBI leaks or evidence Giuliani had inside information about Hillary Clinton investigation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/fbi-leaks-giuliani/2021/08/05/8b9cfec8-f5fa-11eb-a49b-d96f2dac0942_story.html
Not patriots, not political prisoners -- U.S. judges slam Capitol riot defendants at sentencing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/capitol-riot-political-prisoners/2021/08/04/9b6adb84-f54d-11eb-9068-bf463c8c74de_story.html
Republicans will defend their Caesar but new revelations show Trump's true threat
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/01/republicans-caesar-donald-trump-justice-memos-tax-returns-6-january-committee-cheney-kinzinger
other recent coup &/or insurrection posts:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#83 Trump Pressured DOJ to Declare Election Corrupt and 'Leave the Rest to Me'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#68 Four Officers Rip Into Trump, Give Moving Testimony About January 6 Riot
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#58 The Storm Is Upon Us
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#14 Did Whistleblower Reprisal Help Set the Stage for a January 6 Intelligence Failure?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#48 'We're Gonna Murder You and Then Them'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#51 Sacking the Capital and Honor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#47 Barbarians Sacked The Capital
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#46 Barbarians Sacked The Capital
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#44 American Fascism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#40 National Guard deployment in DC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#24 Trump Tells Georgia Official to Steal Election in Recorded Call
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Heatwave causes massive melt of Greenland ice sheet Date: 05 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Greenland articles so far in 2021
Greenland melting likely increased by bacteria in sediment
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-greenland-bacteria-sediment.html
Microbes fuelled by wind-blown mineral dust melt the Greenland ice
sheet
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-microbes-fuelled-wind-blown-mineral-greenland.html
Increasing ocean temperature threatens Greenland's ice sheet
https://phys.org/news/2021-01-ocean-temperature-threatens-greenland-ice.html
Earth is now losing 1.2 trillion tons of ice each year. And it's going
to get worse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/01/25/ice-melt-quickens-greenland-glaciers/
Greenland review: A great comet disaster movie on Amazon Prime
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2266751-greenland-review-a-great-comet-disaster-movie-on-amazon-prime/
CO2 dip may have helped dinosaurs walk from South America to Greenland
https://phys.org/news/2021-02-co2-dip-dinosaurs-south-america.html
Why Did Greenland's Norse Colonies Mysteriously Vanish? Walrus Bones
Hold the Clues
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/why-did-greenlands-norse-colonies-mysteriously-vanish-walrus-bones-hold-the
New 'Meltdown' film: A different kind of Greenland ice documentary
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/02/new-meltdown-film-a-different-kind-of-greenland-ice-documentary/
Greenland ice loss may have begun as early as the mid-'80s
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-greenland-ice-loss-begun-early.html
Traces of Earth's early magma ocean identified in Greenland rocks
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-earth-early-magma-ocean-greenland.html
Scientists stunned to discover plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-scientists-stunned-beneath-mile-deep-greenland.html
Ancient Magma From Earth's Early Days Discovered in Rocks From
Greenland
https://www.sciencealert.com/rocks-in-greenland-still-bear-traces-of-a-time-when-earth-was-a-molten-blob
Ancient Plants Buried a Mile Under Greenland's Ice Are a Grim Warning
From The Past
https://www.sciencealert.com/preserved-plant-matter-has-been-discovered-buried-beneath-the-greenland-ice
Ancient leaves preserved under a mile of Greenland's ice a freezer for
years - hold lessons about climate change
https://news.yahoo.com/ancient-leaves-preserved-under-mile-190707994.html
Scientists stunned by fossils found deep beneath Greenland's ice sheet
https://www.cnet.com/news/scientists-stunned-by-fossils-found-deep-beneath-greenlands-ice-sheet/
Scientists stunned to discover plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice:
Long-lost ice core provides direct evidence that giant ice sheet
melted off within the last million years and is highly vulnerable to a
warming climate
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210315165639.htm
Icy ocean worlds seismometer passes further testing in Greenland
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-icy-ocean-worlds-seismometer-greenland.html
Greenland's ice melted away at least once in last million years
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-greenland-ice-million-years.html
Greenland landscape history preserved under ice sheet
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-greenland-landscape-history-ice-sheet.html
Building electronics that can survive under Greenland's ice sheet
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/building-electronics-that-can-survive-under-greenlands-ice-sheet/
Lakes on Greenland Ice Sheet can drain huge amounts of water, even in
winter
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-lakes-greenland-ice-sheet-huge.html
Lakes on Greenland Ice Sheet can drain huge amounts of water, even in
winter
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uoc-log033021.php
Greenland caves: Time travel to a warm Arctic
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-greenland-caves-arctic.html
How Greenland election could cut Australia's access to critical rare
earth minerals
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9439347/How-Greenland-election-cut-Australias-access-critical-rare-earth-minerals.html
A Row Over Rare-Earth Deposits Could Bring Down Greenland's Government
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/06/984768012/a-row-over-rare-earth-deposits-could-bring-down-greenlands-government
Greenland goes to the polls in rare earth mining election
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/06/greenland-goes-to-the-polls-in-rare-earth-mining-election
Greenland's elections just bolstered China's tech world domination
plan
https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/08/chinabacked_mining_project_for_tech/
New study: Thick sea-ice warms Greenland fjords
https://phys.org/news/2021-04-thick-sea-ice-greenland-fjords.html
Modeling past and future glacial floods in northern Greenland
https://phys.org/news/2021-04-future-glacial-northern-greenland.html
New study: Thick sea-ice warms Greenland fjords
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-04/su-nst040921.php
Ocean-bottom sediments tell a story about ancient Greenland summers
https://phys.org/news/2021-05-ocean-bottom-sediments-story-ancient-greenland.html
Fibre-optics used to take the temperature of Greenland Ice Sheet
https://phys.org/news/2021-05-fibre-optics-temperature-greenland-ice-sheet.html
Greenland becoming darker, warmer as its snow ages and changes shape
https://phys.org/news/2021-05-greenland-darker-warmer-ages.html
Part of the Greenland ice sheet may be close to a tipping point
https://phys.org/news/2021-05-greenland-ice-sheet.html
Blinken 'Confirms' US Won't Buy Greenland Amid Climate Talks
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/blinken-confirms-us-wont-buy-greenland-amid-climate-talks.html
Researchers find Greenland glacial meltwaters rich in mercury
https://phys.org/news/2021-05-greenland-glacial-meltwaters-rich-mercury.html
Greenland's ice sheet is releasing huge amounts of mercury into rivers
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2278370-greenlands-ice-sheet-is-releasing-huge-amounts-of-mercury-into-rivers/
US no longer wants to buy Greenland, Blinken confirms
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/21/us-no-longer-wants-to-buy-greenland-blinken-confirms
US confirms it doesn't want to buy Greenland from Denmark after former
president Donald Trump's unsolicited proposal
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-21/us-not-seeking-to-buy-greenland-from-denmark/100154858
Greenland's Melting Glaciers Are Polluting Coasts With Shocking
Amounts of Mercury
https://www.sciencealert.com/greenland-s-melting-glaciers-are-polluting-coastal-ecosystems-with-mercury
Slushy iceberg aggregates control calving timing on Greenland's
Jakobshavn Isbræ
https://phys.org/news/2021-05-slushy-iceberg-aggregates-calving-greenland.html
The Ghost of Ancient Earth's Magma Oceans Found in Greenland Rocks
https://singularityhub.com/2021/03/14/the-ghostly-trace-of-earths-magma-oceans-found-in-greenland-rocks/
To catch deep-space neutrinos, astronomers lay traps in Greenland's
ice
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/catch-deep-space-neutrinos-astronomers-lay-traps-greenland-s-ice
Greenland Bans Future Oil Exploration Over Climate Concerns
https://time.com/6080933/greenland-bans-oil-exploration/
Greenland to halt all oil exploration as it 'takes climate change
seriously'
https://www.euronews.com/2021/07/16/greenland-to-halt-all-oil-exploration-as-it-takes-climate-change-seriously
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Democratic senators increase pressure to declassify 9/11 documents related to Saudi role in attacks Date: 05 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookDemocratic senators increase pressure to declassify 9/11 documents related to Saudi role in attacks
9/11 Had Nothing to Do with Afghanistan
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/06/9-11-had-nothing-to-do-with-afghanistan/
past posts mentioning 9/11 victims allowed to sue saudi gov. for 9/11
responsibility
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#42 The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#26 Fighting to Go Home: Operation Desert Storm, 30 Years Later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#22 The Saudi Connection: Inside the 9/11 Case That Divided the F.B.I
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#143 "Undeniable Evidence": Explosive Classified Docs Reveal Afghan War Mass Deception
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#114 Post 9/11 wars have cost American taxpayers $6.4 trillion, study finds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#105 OT, "new" Heinlein book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#85 Just and Unjust Wars
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#67 Profit propaganda ads witch-hunt era
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#26 Radical Muslim
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#65 Doubts about the HR departments that require knowledge of technology that does not exist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#24 Frieden calculator
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#39 JOINT INQUIRY INTO INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES BEFORE AND AFTER THE TERRORIST ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#50 Iraqi WMDs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#12 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#54 The Jeb Bush Adviser Who Should Scare You
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#78 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#73 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#27 What were the complaints of binary code programmers that not accept Assembly?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#72 George W. Bush: Still the worst; A new study ranks Bush near the very bottom in history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#64 IBM Data Processing Center and Pi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#51 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#89 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#38 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#14 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#103 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#99 Reducing Army Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#42 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#13 Al-Qaeda-linked force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#11 NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#83 NSA surveillance played little role in foiling terror plots, experts say
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#51 U.S. Sidelined as Iraq Becomes Bloodier
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The Murder of the U.S. Middle Class Began 40 Years Ago This Week Date: 05 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookThe Murder of the U.S. Middle Class Began 40 Years Ago This Week. Reagan's firing of striking air traffic controllers was the first huge offensive in corporate America's war on everyone else.
a few other refs:
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/
latest update July 2019
http://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
The Limping Middle Class
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/jobs-will-follow-a-strengthening-of-the-middle-class.html
The Destruction of Middle Class
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/09/04/opinion/04reich-graphic.html
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
a few recent posts mentioning income/pay inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#63 Rising Rents Threaten to Prop Up Inflation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#54 Republicans Have Taken a Brave Stand in Defense of Tax Cheats
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#51 In Biden's recovery plan, an overdue rebuke of trickle-down economics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#18 Trickle Down Economics Started it All
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#25 Huawei 5G networks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#15 The Other 1 Percent": Morgan Stanley Spots A Market Ratio That Is "Unprecedented Even During The Tech Bubble"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#2 Office jobs eroding
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#99 Is America ready to tackle economic inequality?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#56 The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#31 Milton Friedman's "Shareholder" Theory Was Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#100 Destruction of Middle Class
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#88 CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#27 Someone Else's Computer: The Prehistory of Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#68 Wage Stagnation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#117 What Minimum-Wage Foes Got Wrong About Seattle
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#107 Politicians have caused a pay 'collapse' for the bottom 90 percent of workers, researchers say
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#20 A Tea Party Movement to Overhaul the Constitution Is Quietly Gaining
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#83 Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#18 Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#104 Tax Cut for Stock Buybacks
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The War Was Won Before Hiroshima--And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It Date: 06 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Mythmaking and the Atomic Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/06/mythmaking-and-the-atomic-destruction-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/
Reality: Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed to prevent the Soviets
from making a contribution to the victory against Japan, which would
have forced Washington to allow Moscow to participate in the postwar
occupation and reconstruction of the country. It was also the
intention to intimidate the Soviet leadership and thus to wrest
concessions from it with respect to the postwar arrangements in
Germany and Eastern Europe. Finally, it was not the destruction of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but the Soviet entry into the war against
Japan, which caused Tokyo to surrender.
... snip ...
Blinded by the Light: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Age of
Normalized Violence
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/06/blinded-by-the-light-remembering-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-in-the-age-of-normalized-violence/
past posts mentioning Soviets defeating Japanese in Manchuria
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#59 WW2 Strategic Bombing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#19 When Nazis Took Manhattan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#68 Profit propaganda ads witch-hunt era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#82 The War Was Won Before Hiroshima--And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#72 This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#66 The Forever War Is So Normalized That Opposing It Is "Isolationism"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#19 A Tea Party Movement to Overhaul the Constitution Is Quietly Gaining
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#74 meanwhile in eastern Asia^WEurope, was tablets and desktops was Has Microsoft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#102 The Persistent Myth of U.S. Precision Bombing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#98 tablets and desktops was Has Microsoft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#89 The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#107 Post WW2 red hunt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#82 The Redacted Testimony That Fully Explains Why General MacArthur Was Fired
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#45 Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Democratic senators increase pressure to declassify 9/11 documents related to Saudi role in attacks Date: 06 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
9/11 families tell Biden to stay away from memorial service if he
doesn't authorize release of records related to attacks
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/06/politics/joe-biden-9-11-records-memorial-service/index.html
"The 9/11 families deserve justice and closure. Matter of fact, all
Americans deserve to know the truth behind what the Saudi Arabanian
government's role was in 9/11. And there's significant evidence. The
FBI has it. The DOJ doesn't deny that it exists," Eagleson told CNN's
Michael Smerconish on "Cuomo Prime Time" Friday.
... snip ...
... 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, VP Bush in the 80s
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 extremist Islam/Wahhabi loosened on the world ... bin
Laden & 15of16 9/11 were Saudis (some claims that 95% of extreme Islam
world terrorism is Wahhabi related)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism
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.
... 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 ...
WMD posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
perpetual war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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