From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Four Officers Rip Into Trump, Give Moving Testimony About January 6 Riot Date: 06 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
(from 7jan2021) tv program last week claimed that all members of the mob that breached the capital (a felony) are now guilty of first degree murder (with the death of capital police)
Capitol Police officer on life support after pro-Trump riot, union official says
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/politics/capitol-police-officer-riot
What an analysis of 377 Americans arrested or charged in the Capitol
insurrection tells us
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/06/capitol-insurrection-arrests-cpost-analysis/
"They Sought to Convert Us": Officers' January 6 Testimony Reveals the
Riot's Dark Righteousness
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/07/officers-january-6-testimony-reveals-the-riots-dark-righteousness
Felony Murder Doctrine
https://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=741
n. a rule of criminal statutes that any death which occurs during the
commission of a felony is first degree murder
... snip ...
Felony murder rule
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_rule
The rule of felony murder is a legal doctrine in some common law
jurisdictions that broadens the crime of murder: when an offender
kills (regardless of intent to kill) in the commission of a dangerous
or enumerated crime (called a felony in some jurisdictions), the
offender, and also the offender's accomplices or co-conspirators, may
be found guilty of murder.
... snip ...
... crime TV programs have get-away drivers, that had been promised that there would be no violence, getting convicted of felony 1st degree murder, when somebody dies during a robbery ... if applied in this case, all members of the mob that breached the capital are guilty of felony 1st degree murder ... as well as all the people that help them before and after the event, including all elected officials and gov. employees that were in any way involved.
some 6jan2021 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#97 A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#94 A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all
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: Cloud computing's destiny Date: 07 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
might be interested in this "Rise and Fall of IBM"
https://www.ecole.org/en/session/49-the-rise-and-fall-of-ibm
Since "Tandem Memos" started to spike in spring of 1981 and package for the corporate executive committee was summer of 1981, most of my attitudes couldn't be blamed on John Boyd ... who I didn't meet until afterwards, but felt an immediate affinity and would sponsor his briefings at IBM.
Note in 89/90, the commandant of the marine corps leverages Boyd for a corps make-over ... at a time when IBM was all desperately in need of a make-over (at the time, Marine Corps & IBM had approx. same number of people) ... 92, IBM has gone into the red and was being re-organized into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the company
We've continued to have Boyd conferences at Marine Corps Univ (in
Quantico). Long winded post on "Martial Arts OODA-loop from two
months ago
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#37 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#47 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#51 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#58 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#60 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
has some number of Boyd stories in the comments
Boyd had passed in 1997, by which time the USAF had pretty much disowned him (it was the marines at Arlington) ... even tho he had gone from being possibly the best fighter pilot in the world to inventing E/M theory and using it to redo the original F15 design, cutting weight nearly in half, then responsible for YF16 and YF17 (which becomes F16 and F18) and then helping with A10. It was then a surprise that USAF named "Boyd Hall" at USAF Weapons School in 1999 (they possibly thought he was gone and could no longer plague them).
note also reference (in post) to putting up VMSHARE files on internal
systems and network ... and biggest problems about internal employees
would be contaminated by being exposed directly to customer
information (rather than what executives were telling them)
... archive
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
Turns out that one of my hobbies after joining IBM was enhanced production operating systems for internal datacenters ... including the world-wide, online sales&marketing HONE systems (where I also provided full VMSHARE copies) ... possibly contributing to the executive committee not firing me
computer conferencing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
IBM downfall/downturn posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ibmdownfall
HONE system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
John Boyd posts & refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: The Disturbing Rise of the Corporate Mercenaries Date: 07 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookThe Disturbing Rise of the Corporate Mercenaries
Another example was the OPM website hack/breach ... which had been
outsourced to another private-equity owned company. OPM Contractor's
Parent Firm Has a Troubled History
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/24/opm-contractor-veritas/
Founded in 1992 by the late investment banker Robert McKeon, Veritas
Capital grew quickly by buying up government contractors and forming
close ties with former senior government officials. Of the many
defense-related investments made by the company, the most famous has
been the 2005 purchase of DynCorp International, a scandal-plagued
company that played a pivotal role in the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
... snip ...
The Shock Doctrine, The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism
https://www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitalism-ebook/dp/B003KVKQB4/
pg482/loc7253-58:
So while the reconstruction of Iraq was certainly a failure for Iraqis
and for U.S. taxpayers, it has been anything but for the disaster
capitalism complex. Made possible by the September 11 attacks, the war
in Iraq represented nothing less than the violent birth of a new
economy. This was the genius of Rumsfeld's 'transformation' plan:
since every possible aspect of both destruction and reconstruction has
been outsourced and privatized, there's an economic boom when the
bombs start falling, when they stop and when they start up again -- a
closed profit-loop of destruction and reconstruction, of tearing down
and building up. For companies that are clever and farsighted, like
Halliburton and the Carlyle Group, the destroyers and rebuilders are
different divisions of the same corporations.
pg540/loc8105-8:
While the disaster capitalism complex does not deliberately scheme to
create the cataclysms on which it feeds (though Iraq may be a notable
exception), there is plenty of evidence that its component industries
work very hard indeed to make sure that current disastrous trends
continue unchallenged. Large oil companies have bankrolled the
climate-change-denial movement for years; Exxon-Mobil has spent an
estimated $16 million on the crusade over the past decade.
... snip ...
... there was enormous uptic in Private Equity buying up beltway
bandits and government contractors after the turn of the century
... and corresponding huge uptic in outsourcing to PE-owned companies
... PE-firms were hiring prominent politicians to lobby on behalf of
the companies they owned ... there are heavy restrictions on using
money from gov. contracts for lobbying ... but it appears to be
"laundered" when passed up to a PE-owner.
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 ...
Intelligence, 70% of the budget and half the people
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us
also had huge uptic in the rapidly spreading success of failure
culture ... a series of failures met more money to push up to their
PE-owners
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
"John Boyd's Art of War; Why our greatest military theorist only made
colonel":
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/john-boyds-art-of-war/
"Here too Boyd had a favorite line. He often said, 'It is not true the
Pentagon has no strategy. It has a strategy, and once you understand
what that strategy is, everything the Pentagon does makes sense. The
strategy is, don't interrupt the money flow, add to it.'"
... snip ...
"perpetual war" is preferred to actual winning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war
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
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
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
AMEX, Private Equity, IBM related Gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
Boyd posts and URL refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
posts mentioning dyncorp
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#129 Republicans abandon tradition of whistleblower protection at impeachment hearing
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#115 Post 9/11 wars have cost American taxpayers $6.4 trillion, study finds
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#35 book "Glass House"
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#49 Declassified CIA Document Reveals Iraq War Had Zero Justification
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#7 You paid taxes. These corporations didn't
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/2017i.html#9 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#20 Military Contractors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#78 This Afghan War Plan By The Guy Who Founded Blackwater Should Scare The Hell Out Of You
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#78 New hard drive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#16 Federal Deficits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#76 Pentagon remains stubbornly unable to account for its billions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#91 Fed agency blames giant hack on 'neglected' security system
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Cloud computing's destiny Date: 07 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
In the morph of CP67->VM370, the development group dropped and/or
greatly simplified a lot of stuff, including SMP multiprocessor
support and a lot of stuff I had done as an undergraduate in the
60s. Old email about starting to migrate a lot of CP67 stuff to VM370
for internal CSC/VM (as mentioned, one of my hobbies after joining IBM
was enhanced production operating systems for internal datacenters).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
In the mid 70s, the US internal (sales&marketing support) HONE datacenters were consolidated in palo alto (trivia: when facebook 1st moved into silicon valley, it was into a new bldg built next door to the old US HONE datacenter). Loosly-coupled support was implemented so could do eight 168 systems in single-system image sharing the same disk farm, with load balancing and fall-over. HONE sales&marketing support applications were heavily APL-based and compute intensive. I then added SMP support (back) into vm370 release three so they could add a 2nd processor to each of the eight systems (for 16 processors).
HONE posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
The 23jun1969 unbundling announcement started to charge for services,
(application) software, maintenance, etc ... but they managed to make
the case that kernel (operating system) software should still be
free. Then during the FS period in the 1st half of the 70s (complete
different and completely replace 370), 370 work was being shutdown
... the lack of new IBM 370 products in the period is credited with
giving clone 370 makers their market foothold. I continued to do
360/370 work all through the period and even periodically ridicule FS
(which wasn't exactly a career enhancing activity). 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 ...
other FS detail
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
With the implosion of FS there was a mad rush to get stuff back into the product 370 pipeline ... which apparently contributed to picking up some of my stuff for base vm370 release 3. Then apparently because the rise of clone makers, it was decided to transition to start charging for kernel software and my resource manager ("wheeler scheduler") was selected as guinea pig for separate, charged-for, add-on component (released in the middle of release 3 time-frame). I included in the resource manager a whole bunch of other code ... including the reorganization of the kernel structure for tightly coupled multiprocessor ... but not the actual multiprocessor support.
Then the company decided to release multiprocessor support as part of VM370 release 4 ... but ran into a big problem. Early part of transition to kernel software charging, was all direct hardware support was "free". However, to release multiprocessor support, they needed my kernel reorg from the charge for "resource manager". Eventually the decision was made to move approx. 90% of the release 3 "resource manager" code into the base free "release 4" base ... so the free release 4 (hardware) multiprocessor support didn't have a dependency on a charge-for kernel add-on.
Resource Manager posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
SMP (&/or compare&swap) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Getting the lead out: a quirky tale of saving the world Date: 08 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookGetting the lead out: a quirky tale of saving the world
then there is Freakonomics ... which found reducing unwanted babies,
reduced crime (over the same period)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakonomics
http://freakonomics.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Freakonomics-Rev-Ed-Economist-Everything-ebook/dp/B000MAH66Y/
20yrs of updated data, Abortion and Crime, Revisited (Ep. 384)
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/abortion/
past posts referencinging freakonomics:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#94 Fecalnomics
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#12 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#3 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#27 OT: efforts to repeal strict public safety laws
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#74 prices, was Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#46 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#12 The Secret Consensus Among Economists
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#57 a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#57 speculation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#30 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#88 NASA proves once again that, for it, the impossible is not even difficult
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#53 What do you think about fraud prevention in the governments?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#55 ANN: Microsoft goes Open Source
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Getting the lead out: a quirky tale of saving the world Date: 08 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
The Neurological Differences Between Psychopaths and Sociopaths. The
labels "psychopath" and "sociopath" are often used interchangeably,
but they're not the same. Here's a few of the traits that render these
disorders unique.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/the-neurological-differences-between-psychopaths-and-sociopaths
Both psychopaths and sociopaths are severe types of an antisocial
behavior, capable of extreme violence and a disregard for the feelings
and experiences of other individuals. While they both undoubtedly
present a danger to society, they also have significant differences,
which start to manifest at birth.
"The psychopath is born with a psychopathic brain, which ... doesn't
function properly to allow for normal social experiences," explains
Scott Johnson, a psychologist and independent consultant who provides
forensic mental health training to law enforcement and
prosecutors. "The sociopath, on the other hand, we believe is born
with normal brain, but something goes wrong during their nurturing."
Childhood neglect and abuse is a major predictor for serious
antisocial behaviors such as sociopathy in later life. That isn't to
say that everyone - or even most people - who were abused as a child
go on to become a sociopath, but studies have consistently shown that
sociopaths are more likely to have been a victim of child abuse than
the general population. Psychological trauma as a child is thought to
interfere with proper brain development, which may explain why this a
link, says Johnson.
... snip ...
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
past posts mentioning sociopaths
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#85 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
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/2011b.html#59 Productivity And Bubbles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#77 Madoff Whistleblower Book
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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: 08 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
A terrifying new theory: Fake news and conspiracy theories as an evolutionary strategy. Social scientist Michael Bang Petersen on why people believe outrageous lies -- as a tool in violent group conflict
https://www.salon.com/2021/08/08/a-terrifying-new-theory-fake-news-and-conspiracy-theories-as-an-evolutionary-strategy/M/
The Lucrative Business of Spreading Vaccine Misinformation is Being Crowdfunded
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/08/08/161231/the-lucrative-business-of-spreading-vaccine-misinformation-is-being-crowdfunded
YouTube Just Demonetized Anti-Vax Channels
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/youtube-just-demonetized-anti-vax-channels
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Spreads Anti-vaxxer Disinformation Using Facebook
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/05/how-robert-f-kennedy-jr-became-anti-vaxxer-icon-nightmare
The Sneaky New Way Vaccine Conspiracists Are Raising Cash
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-sneaky-new-way-vaccine-conspiracists-are-raising-cash
Russia May Be Spreading Vaccine Misinformation to Undermine Efforts to Immunize People
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/08/07/1533234/russia-may-be-spreading-vaccine-misinformation-to-undermine-efforts-to-immunize-people
Russian Disinformation Targets Vaccines and the Biden Administration
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/us/politics/covid-vaccines-russian-disinformation.html
Russian disinformation targets vaccines and the Biden administration
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/russian-disinformation-targets-vaccines-and-the-biden-administration/
... 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 vaccine, anti-vax, and/or mis-information
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#93 A top spreader of coronavirus misinformation says he will delete his posts after 48 hours
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#90 'Government Money That's Gone Into Vaccine Development Is Being Privatized by a Handful of Companies'
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/2019e.html#150 How Trump Lost an Evangelical Stalwart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#95 The results of Facebook's anti-conservative bias audit are in
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#54 Misinformation: anti-vaccine bullshit
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: A terrifying new theory: Fake news and conspiracy theories as an evolutionary strategy Date: 08 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookA terrifying new theory: Fake news and conspiracy theories as an evolutionary strategy. Social scientist Michael Bang Petersen on why people believe outrageous lies -- as a tool in violent group conflict
... 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: 'Climate change is going to cost us': How the US military is preparing for harsher environments Date: 09 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebook'Climate change is going to cost us': How the US military is preparing for harsher environments
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 posts mentioning "climate change"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#7 A terrifying new theory: Fake news and conspiracy theories as an evolutionary strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#6 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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#2 The Disturbing Rise of the Corporate Mercenaries
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#98 Heatwave causes massive melt of Greenland ice sheet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#93 A top spreader of coronavirus misinformation says he will delete his posts after 48 hours
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#78 Fox Hosts Hit Peak Bizarro World: Tucker Lies, Says Fauci 'Created' Covid
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#58 The Storm Is Upon Us
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#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/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: 'Climate change is going to cost us': How the US military is preparing for harsher environments Date: 09 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Climate Change Is a 'Hammer Hitting Us on the Head,' Developing
Nations Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/climate/climate-change-UN-report.html
IPCC climate change report: Earth is warming faster than scientists
previously thought scientists say, and the window is closing to avoid
catastrophic outcomes
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/09/world/global-climate-change-report-un-ipcc/index.html
Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/paris-global-climate-change-agreements
A Hotter Future Is Certain, According to U.N. Climate Report
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/climate/climate-change-report-ipcc-un.html
Earth already experiencing irreversible impacts of climate change,
IPCC report says
https://www.cnet.com/news/earth-already-experiencing-irreversible-impacts-of-climate-change-ipcc-report-says/
Key takeaways from the IPCC report on the climate crisis
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/09/world/ipcc-climate-key-takeaways/index.html
The U.N. IPCC climate change report is bleak but hopeful.
https://slate.com/technology/2021/08/climate-change-report-bleak-hopeful.html
Global Warming UN Report IPCC
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-global-warming-un-report-ipcc-1d89d5183583718ad4ad311fa2ee7d83
Humans have pushed the climate into 'unprecedented' territory,
landmark U.N. report finds
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/08/09/ipcc-climate-report-global-warming-greenhouse-gas-effect/
The Latest IPCC Report Is a Catastrophe
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/latest-ipcc-report-catastrophe/619698/
IPCC Report: My Climate Tipping Point
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/ipcc-report-my-climate-tipping-point/619700/
Yet another major heat wave is brewing in the Pacific Northwest
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/08/09/pacific-northwest-heatwave-fires-california/
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: Analysis: Why Refusing the COVID-19 Vaccine isn't Just Immoral - it's 'un-American' Date: 10 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookAnalysis: Why Refusing the COVID-19 Vaccine isn't Just Immoral - it's 'un-American'. America's founders accepted the reality of human selfishness. But, they also said people were capable of thinking for the good of the whole, which is necessary for a free society.
re: lead, abortions, psychopaths and sociopaths
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#5 Getting the lead out: a quirky tale of saving the world
Twitter again suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for COVID
misinformation. The suspension is the third such for the Georgia
representative, and will last a week.
https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-again-suspends-marjorie-taylor-greene-for-covid-misinformation/
Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene temporarily for spreading
vaccine misinformation
https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/10/marjorie-taylor-greene-mjt-twitter-suspension/
Lauren Boebert's midnight run: Capitol tour happened after she
attended "Stop the Steal" rally. Boebert was in D.C. to attend
"Million MAGA March" when she took her family on unexplained midnight
Capitol tour
https://www.salon.com/2021/08/10/lauren-boeberts-midnight-run-capitol-tour-happened-after-she-attended-stop-the-steal-rally/
USA Today reported on Jan. 4 that Boebert and another new member of
Congress, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., had "co-signed" the
Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" rally. Boebert was added to the speaker lineup
on Dec. 29, shortly after the event website was launched. She did not
in fact speak at the Jan. 6 rally, but as Salon had reported, attended
the event that morning with her mother and can be seen in photographs
with event organizers.
... snip ...
'Wild' protests: Police brace for pro-Trump rallies when Congress
meets Jan. 6 to certify Biden's win
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/31/elections-protest-dc-police-brace-donald-trump-demonstrators/4097472001/
insurrection posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#0 Four Officers Rip Into Trump, Give Moving Testimony About January 6 Riot
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#97 A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#94 A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all
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/2021b.html#71 Let's Be Honest About What Trump Wanted on January 6
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: Democratic senators increase pressure to declassify 9/11 documents related to Saudi role in attacks Date: 10 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
U.S. Signals It Will Release Some Still-Secret Files on Saudi Arabia
and 9/11. The F.B.I. said it would review some long-classified
documents for possible disclosure, a decision that followed a push by
families of the attacks' victims.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/us/politics/sept-11-saudi-arabia-biden.html
In a court filing in long-running litigation brought by the victims'
families against Saudi Arabia, the Justice Department said that the
F.B.I. "recently" closed a portion of its investigation into the
terrorist attacks and was beginning a review of documents that it had
previously said must remain secret with an eye toward disclosing more
of them.
... snip ...
other recent posts mentioning wahhabi
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#4 Donald Rumsfeld, The Controversial Architect Of The Iraq War, Has Died
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#95 Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#71 Inflating China Threat to Balloon Pentagon Budget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#65 Biden takes steps to rein in 'forever wars' in Afghanistan and Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#59 White House backs bill to end Iraq war military authorization
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#22 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
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: In Pursuit of Clarity: the Intellect and Intellectual Integrity of Pierre Sprey Date: 10 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookIn Pursuit of Clarity: the Intellect and Intellectual Integrity of Pierre Sprey
A New Conception of War
https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Marine-Corps-University-Press/Books-by-topic/MCUP-Titles-A-Z/A-New-Conception-of-War/
PDF->kindle, loc835:
In this case, Boyd busied himself with two side projects. In the
first, he became the E-M sounding board for his associate, defense
analyst Pierre Sprey, who worked on the contentious A-X project for
the Air Force at the Pentagon. A-X--the Air Force's effort to design a
dedicated close air support (CAS) airframe--was a schizophrenic
project. Air Force leaders were not enthusiastic about the CAS
mission, as it took resources away from their real missions of air
superiority and nuclear weapons delivery; but they did not want the
Army to take over that mission, because that would also cost the Air
Force money, not to mention the humiliation of losing a core mission
to a different Service branch. 61 Boyd helped Sprey validate the
maneuverability calculations for the aircraft that became the
Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II. Boyd's immediate impact on the
A-X project proved less important than what he took away from it:
namely, an interest in German tactics during World War II that arose
from his interviews with former Luftwaffe pilots in the course of
developing the A-X. This interest would pay dividends in Boyd's work
on conflict theory, which is discussed later.
loc1783-88:
Boyd's collaboration with associate Pierre Sprey on the development of
the A-10 close air support (CAS) aircraft sparked his exploration of
history. The project was Sprey's, with Sprey consulting Boyd on
performance analysis, E-M Theory, and views on warfare in
general. When designing the A-10, Sprey had to determine what aircraft
features provided the firepower and loiter time required by ground
forces, while also granting survivability against the enemy ground
fire that would inevitably be directed against it.4The German
Wehrmacht had pioneered both the design and employment of dedicated
CAS aircraft in World War II.
... snip ...
Boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
posts mentioning Sprey
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#40 The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#48 MAINFRAME (4341) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#12 Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Loathed Lean?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#130 Republicans abandon tradition of whistleblower protection at impeachment hearing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#83 Collins radio and Braniff Airways 1945
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#81 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#80 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#57 Shout out to Grace Hopper (State of the Union)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#10 NYT on Sony hacking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#98 Friden Flexowriter equipment series
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#38 Maneuver Warfare: German Experiences in WWII
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#83 11 Years to Catch Up with Seymour
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#40 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#78 Has the US Lost Its Grand Strategic Mind?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#74 What Makes collecting sales taxes Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#29 Jedi Knights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#97 What a Caveman Can Teach You About Strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#75 Excellent and recommended
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: 'A Kleptocrat's dream': US real estate a safe haven for billions in dirty money, report says Date: 10 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebook'A Kleptocrat's dream': US real estate a safe haven for billions in dirty money, report says. Based on a review of more than 100 money-laundering cases, a new study finds that the U.S. has become a preferred destination for those looking to stash illicit funds through property.
... not long after the "economic mess", some Too Big To Fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail) were found to be money laundering for terrorists and drug cartels. Possibly because the gov. was already leaning over backwards to keep them afloat, they had their hands slapped and asked to please stop (rather than being shutdown and jail time). Claims were all that money was enabling purchase of military-grade equipment&arms and the rise of violence on both sides of the border. One article claimed it was responsible for turning Mexico into another Colombia.
money laundering posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#money.laundering
TBTF (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: Enemies, conspiracies, misinformation, psychopaths, sociopaths, and cults Date: 10 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookrecent sample
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#10 Analysis: Why Refusing the COVID-19 Vaccine isn't Just Immoral - it's 'un-American'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#7 A terrifying new theory: Fake news and conspiracy theories as an evolutionary strategy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#6 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
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#5 Getting the lead out: a quirky tale of saving the world
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#97 A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#93 A top spreader of coronavirus misinformation says he will delete his posts after 48 hours
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#85 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
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#58 The Storm Is Upon Us
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/2021d.html#31 Does HBO's QAnon Documentary Reveal Who Q Is?
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#40 National Guard deployment in DC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#32 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: Four Officers Rip Into Trump, Give Moving Testimony About January 6 Riot Date: 10 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Judge asks why Capitol rioters are paying just $1.5 million for
attack, while U.S. taxpayers will pay more than $500 million
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/capitol-riot-costs-defendants-pay/2021/08/09/ff05f4b0-f923-11eb-9c0e-97e29906a970_story.html
Judge suggests feds are too lenient toward Jan. 6 defendants. The
chief judge of the federal court in Washington raised questions about
why pleading guilty to a misdemeanor was permitted to resolve certain
cases.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/09/judge-feds-lenient-jan-6-503052
As mountain of video evidence grows, Capitol riot trials are pushed to
2022 and beyond
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/capital-riot-evidence-cost/2021/07/16/d5e81bdc-e404-11eb-8aa5-5662858b696e_story.html
what happened to "felony murder"?
Felony Murder Doctrine
https://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=741
n. a rule of criminal statutes that any death which occurs during the
commission of a felony is first degree murder
... snip ...
Felony murder rule
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_rule
The rule of felony murder is a legal doctrine in some common law
jurisdictions that broadens the crime of murder: when an offender
kills (regardless of intent to kill) in the commission of a dangerous
or enumerated crime (called a felony in some jurisdictions), the
offender, and also the offender's accomplices or co-conspirators, may
be found guilty of murder.
... snip ...
other refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#14 Enemies, conspiracies, misinformation, psychopaths, sociopaths, and cults
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#10 Analysis: Why Refusing the COVID-19 Vaccine isn't Just Immoral - it's 'un-American'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#97 A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#94 A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all
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
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: In Pursuit of Clarity: the Intellect and Intellectual Integrity of Pierre Sprey Date: 11 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
F-35 Pierre Sprey vs (ret.) Lt Col David 'Chip' Berke debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pgiq-TlmSo
I also got dragged into some other of Sprey's critiques of F-35
... and had dustups with F-35 fanboys ... about the time there were
articles that found some pro-F35 social media types were being paid to
strongly post/reply to all criticism of F-35. One of the scenarios was
it started out that F-35 was stealth ... then it went to "low
observable" ... then it somewhat ended with a response that I
shouldn't be allowed to post such details/analysis (even though they
all came from open source). Can't find them at the moment on facebook
... some of my replies archived here
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#40 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#66 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#42 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#43 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#44 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#51 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#58 No, the F-35 Can't Fight at Long Range, Either
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#89 China builds world's most power computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#61 5th generation stealth, thermal, radar signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#76 The F-35 Stealth Fighter Is Politically Unstoppable----Even Under President Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#77 Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can't Dogfight
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#93 F35 Program
John Boyd posts & refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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: In Pursuit of Clarity: the Intellect and Intellectual Integrity of Pierre Sprey Date: 11 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
F35 fanboys were also claiming most other could be eliminated, f15,
f16, f18, a10s, growlers, etc ... because radar couldn't see the
f35. compare to original prototype, there was a lot of cost reduction
compromises ... stealth radar signature primarily kept for forward and
downward ... f35 originally designed as bomb truck with (air
superiority) F22 flying cover. The growler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_EA-18G_Growler
argument was since radar couldn't see the f35, growler radar jamming
wasn't required. don't hear anything more about that ... most recent
news is about new growler radar jamming pods for three different
frequency ranges, traditional radar frequency, mid-frequency, and
low-frequency.
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/2019d.html#104 F-35
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#108 F-35
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: Whatever Happened to Six Sigma? Date: 11 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Whatever Happened to Six Sigma? As GE began its long, slow decline, so
did the popularity of the once dominant management system.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/whatever-happened-to-six-sigma
previous reply, last time this was posted ... optimizing/perfecting duplicating/repetitive operation ... part of bureaucracy preserving status quo over decades & centuries ... arch-enemy of innovation and adaptation.
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970
to the Present
https://www.amazon.com/Age-Greed-Triumph-Finance-Decline-ebook/dp/B004DEPF6I/
pg187/loc3667-70:
When Welch took over GE in 1980, it was the ninth most profitable
company in the nation. Now it was first, second, or third. Shareholder
value reached $500 billion, more than any other company in
America. The stock price was Welch's personal measure of achievement,
though he later denied it. The boom of the late 1990s on balance sent
the wrong message to American managers: cut costs rather than
innovate. Despite its appeal, In Search of Excellence had little true
staying power.
pg191/loc3754-60:
In 1977, GE Capital, as it was later called, generated $67 million in
revenue with only seven thousand employees, while appliances that year
generated $100 million and required 47,000 workers. He hired better
managers and supplied GE Credit with a lot of capital, and he had
built-in scale--meaning large size--due to GE's assets size and
triple-A credit rating. In time, GE Capital became a full-fledged
bank, financing all kinds of commercial loans, issuing mortgages and
other consumer loans, and becoming a leader in mortgage-backed
securities. By the time Welch left in 2000, GE Capital's earnings had
grown by some eighty times to well more than $5 billion, while the
number of its employees did not even double. It provided half of GE's
profits.
pg192/loc3777-79:
In a few brief sentences, Welch had defined a new age for big
business. He introduced short-run profit management to GE,
understanding that stock market investors trusted little so well as
rising profits every calendar quarter. It became the best indication
of a company's quality, making it stand out in good times and bad.
.... basically the new corporate mantra was financial engineering
... more financial engineering
pg199/loc3919-25:
Over his tenure, he cut back significantly on research and
development--by some 20 percent in the 1990s. In 1993, he told
BusinessWeek, "We feel that we can grow within a business, but we are
not interested in incubating new businesses." GE Capital itself was
built through countless acquisitions. As the CNNMoney writers put it,
"Consider first what the company really is. Its strength and curse is
that it looks a lot like the economy. Over the decades GE's well-known
manufacturing businesses--jet engines, locomotives, appliances, light
bulbs--have shrunk as a proportion of the total. Like America, GE has
long been mainly in the business of services. The most important and
profitable services it offers are financial."
pg200/pg3935-41:
He mostly stopped trying to create great new products, hence the
reduction in R&D. He took the heart out of his businesses, he did not
put it in, as he had always hoped to do. What made his strategy
possible, and fully shaped it, was the rising stock market--and the
new ideology that praised free markets even as they failed.
... GE Capital & its securitized mortgages took down the company ... also
pg199/loc3909-13:
GE Capital also enabled GE to manage its quarterly earnings, engaging
in the last couple of weeks of every calendar quarter in various
trades that could push earnings up on the last day or two before the
quarter's end. It was an open secret on Wall Street that this was how
Welch consistently kept quarterly earnings rising for years at a
time. "Though earnings management is a no-no among good governance
types," wrote two CNNMoney financial editors, "the company has never
denied doing it, and GE Capital is the perfect mechanism."
.... snip ...
How to spot a dodgy company - never trust a high achiever (gone 404,
but lives on at waybackmachine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20171015201012/http://moneyweek.com/how-to-spot-bad-stocks-beware-high-achiever-ceo/
Rarely enforced SEC rules may give green light to earnings
manipulation
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/past-enforcement-suggests-proposed-clawback-rules-lack-teeth-2015-09-28
... note "financial engineering", similar to IBM's mantra this
century, 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 ...
... note/disclaimer: in Jan1999 I was asked to try and help prevent the coming economic mess (we failed).
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
stock buyback posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#stock.buyback
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Wealthiest Netted Billions From Trump Tax Cut They Helped Write: Report Date: 11 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookWealthiest Netted Billions From Trump Tax Cut They Helped Write: Report. ProPublica's new investigation reveals how the pass-through businesses deduction benefited the nation's richest.
posts mentioning tax evasion, tax fraud, tax avoidance, tax loopholes, tax havens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion
specific posts mentioning Trump tax cuts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#97 A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#30 The Supreme Court Finally Lets the Light Shine on Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#19 Trickle Down Economics Started it All
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#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/2019d.html#7 You paid taxes. These corporations didn't
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#50 You paid taxes. These corporations didn't
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#86 Trump's tax law threatens charities. The poor will pay
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#38 The U.S. Needs to Crack Down on White-Collar Crime
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#71 Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Hospitals Face A Shortage Of Nurses As COVID Cases Soar Date: 11 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookHospitals Face A Shortage Of Nurses As COVID Cases Soar
... and
US Has Lowest Life Expectancy, Worst Health Care Out Of 11 Richest
Nations, Analysis Finds
https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/06/us-healthcare-system-ranked-last-commonwealth-fund/
U.S. Last Among 11 Wealthy Countries For Health Care, Study
Says. Despite spending more of its gross domestic product on health
care than its peers, the U.S. ranked last in a new study comparing
care among 11 wealthy nations.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2021-08-09/us-ranks-last-among-11-wealthy-nations-for-health-care-study-says
U.S. health care system ranks last among 11 wealthy countries, report
finds
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-trails-behind-other-countries-in-health-care-145243663.html
U.S. health-care system ranks last among 11 high-income countries,
researchers say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/05/global-health-rankings/
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
private equity posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#private.equity
PE posts specifically mentioning
nursing/health/medical/hospital/doctor systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#64 Private Equity Now Buying Up Primary Care Practices
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/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/2021c.html#44 More Evidence That Private Equity Kills: Estimated >20,000 Increase in Nursing Home Deaths
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#7 More Evidence That Private Equity Kills: Estimated >20,000 Increase in Nursing Home Deaths
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#35 book "Glass House"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#21 Private Equity and Surprise Medical Billing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#43 Private Equity: The Perps Behind Destructive Hospital Surprise Billing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#83 Americans Die Younger Despite Spending the Most on Health Care
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#89 How Private Equity Is Turning Public Prisons Into Big Profits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#68 IBM revenue has fallen for 20 quarters -- but it used to run its business very differently
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#42 Capitalism Gone Wild
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#41 Capitalism Gone Wild
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#37 Democracy in Chains
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#1 As a grocery chain is dismantled, investors recover their money. Worker pensions are short millions
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#100 Barb
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#69 Has Microsoft commuted suicide
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#34 free, huh, was Bitcoin confusion?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#31 free, huh, was Bitcoin confusion?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#29 free, huh, was Bitcoin confusion?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#55 How Economists Turned Corporations into Predators
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#41 Disregard post (another screwup)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#99 United Air Lines - an OODA-loop perspective
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#94 A 40-year "conspiracy" at the VA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#110 The top 50 hospitals that gouge patients the most
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#97 In American Towns, Private Profits From Public Works
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#63 GOP introduces plan to massively cut Social Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#65 A call for revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#53 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#107 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#77 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#30 HP splits, again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#42 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#18 Before the Internet: The golden age of online services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#106 Royal Pardon For Turing
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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: 11 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Biden faces an uncomfortable future after the latest revelations about
Trump. 'Given the chronic lying of the Trump administration and the
detachment from reality of many Trump supporters, there is a real risk
here'
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/biden-merrick-garland-trump-justice-department-b1900762.html
Trump's post-election corruption
https://www.alternet.org/2021/08/trump-doj-2654637129/
Giuliani admits you can't believe him
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/11/trump-lawyer-admits-you-cant-believe-him-again/
Former U.S. Attorney Says Trump Wanted to Fire Him For Not Backing
Election Fraud Claims
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/11/us/politics/byung-pak-trump-atlanta-election-fraud.html
'The stuff of which violent insurrections are made'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/colorado-sanctions-trump-lawsuit/2021/08/04/704dec92-f53a-11eb-a49b-d96f2dac0942_story.html
'A one-man scam Pac': Trump's money hustling tricks prompt fresh
scrutiny
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/02/donald-trump-fundraising-schemes-campaign-finance-scrutiny-criticism
Oops: The Trump Organization Kept Literal Spreadsheets of Its Crimes
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/07/allen-weisselberg-trump-organization-spreadsheets
Dominion lawsuit against Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Lindell
can go forward after judge rejects arguments
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/11/dominion-powell-giuliani-lindell-lawsuits/
Giuliani to Justice Dept. agents probing 'big surprise': It's okay to
'throw a fake'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/giuliani-fbi-surprise-fake/2021/08/11/754e9b4c-fabc-11eb-9c0e-97e29906a970_story.html
other trump posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#10 Analysis: Why Refusing the COVID-19 Vaccine isn't Just Immoral - it's 'un-American'
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#1 'Madman ... racist, sexist pig': new book details Obama's real thoughts on Trump
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/2021.html#44 American Fascism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#24 Trump Tells Georgia Official to Steal Election in Recorded Call
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#150 How Trump Lost an Evangelical Stalwart
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/2018e.html#42 Bill Black: Trump Sees Europe as a "Foe" Because of Key Misinformed Advisor
9Jul2020, President Trump has made more than 20,000 false or
misleading claims. It took President Trump 827 days to top 10,000
false and misleading claims in The Fact Checker's database, an average
of 12 claims a day. But on July 9, just 440 days later, the president
crossed the 20,000 mark -- an average of 23 claims a day over a
14-month period
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/13/president-trump-has-made-more-than-20000-false-or-misleading-claims/
5May2020, Trump Is Lying More Than Ever: Just Look At The Data
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidmarkowitz/2020/05/05/trump-is-lying-more-than-ever-just-look-at-the-data/
20Jan2020, President Trump made 16,241 false or misleading claims in
his first three years
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/20/president-trump-made-16241-false-or-misleading-claims-his-first-three-years/
other insurrection
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#0 Four Officers Rip Into Trump, Give Moving Testimony About January 6 Riot
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/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: Neoliberalism: America Has Arrived at One of History's Great Crossroads Date: 12 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookNeoliberalism: America Has Arrived at One of History's Great Crossroads
The 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.
https://theintercept.com/2021/08/06/middle-class-reagan-patco-strike/
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
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
some of recent posts mentioning middle class
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#100 The Murder of the U.S. Middle Class Began 40 Years Ago This Week
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#63 Rising Rents Threaten to Prop Up Inflation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#18 Trickle Down Economics Started it All
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
some recent posts mentioning Milton Friedman
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/2021.html#21 ESG Drives a Stake Through Friedman's Legacy
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/2019e.html#158 Goliath
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#149 Why big business can count on courts to keep its deadly secrets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#64 Capitalism as we know it is dead
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#34 The U.S. Forgot What Antitrust Is For
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#32 Milton Friedman's "Shareholder" Theory Was Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#31 Milton Friedman's "Shareholder" Theory Was Wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#14 Chicago Theory
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#73 Wage Stagnation
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/2018e.html#115 Economists Should Stop Defending Milton Friedman's Pseudo-science
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#83 Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#81 What Lies Beyond Capitalism And Socialism?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#87 Where Is Everyone???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#82 The Real Reason the Investor Class Hates Pensions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#25 Trump's Infrastructure Plan Is Actually Pence's--And It's All About Privatization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#31 Milton Friedman's Cherished Theory Is Laid to Rest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#29 Milton Friedman's Cherished Theory Is Laid to Rest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#26 Milton Friedman's Cherished Theory Is Laid to Rest
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#24 Destruction of the Middle Class
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#17 Destruction of the Middle Class
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server Date: 12 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookNOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server. It happened 30 years ago on a NeXTStation: Tim Berners-Lee turned on a World Wide Web server -- and the internet would never be the same again.
trivia: SLAC VM370 system 1st webserver in the US (sept1991, month
later)
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit/early-web-chronology-and-documents-1991-1994
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
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/
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
BITNET (&/or EARN) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
some of the CTSS/7094 people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System
went to Project MAC on the 5th flr to do MULTICS. Others went to
the IBM science center on the 4th flr and did virtual machines,
internal network, monitoring, modeling, performance work, interactive
applications, CTSS RUNOFF was redone on CMS as SCRIPT, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TYPSET_and_RUNOFF
In 1969, GML was invented at the science center and GML tag
processing added to SCRIPT. A decade later, GML morphs into ISO
standard SGML, after another decade, SGML morphs into HTML at CERN.
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
GML, SGML, HTML posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
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 (and the access to large supercomputer
datacenters also has morphed into access to large cloud
megadatacenters)
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
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server Date: 12 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
.... Ed gave paper on scalable interconnect networking at EU conference in mid-70s that Vint Cerf was at.
trivia: after leaving IBM, RFC editor Postel use to let me help with
the periodically rereleased STD1 ... also sponsored my talk at ISI &
USC on "Why Internet Isn't Business Critical Dataprocessing" (based
on compensating procedures I had to do for connecting webservers doing
financial transactions through the internet to financial industry
payment networks).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server Date: 12 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
folklore is that when his father was in congress, he was instrumental in getting funding bill passed for interstate highway ... His son then was instrumental in getting funding for NII passed (online/information super highway).
NII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Information_Infrastructure
The National Information Infrastructure (NII) was the product of the
High Performance Computing Act of 1991. It was a telecommunications
policy buzzword, which was popularized during the Clinton
Administration under the leadership of Vice-President Al Gore.[1]
... snip ...
some old refs on morph from NSFNET to commercial
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#73 When the Internet went private
also refs High-Performance Computing Act, 20nov91-9dec91
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#74 When the Internet went private
and
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#75 When the Internet went private
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#76 When the Internet went private
The High-Performance Computing and High Speed Networking Applications
Act of 1993, sponsored by Rep. Richard Bouche, expands the Gore bill
to also include access to health care facilities and schools at
all levels.
... snip ...
some more
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#77 Is Al Gore The Father of the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#78 When the Internet went private
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#79 When the Internet went private
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#80 When the Internet went private
old email ... possible hours before (HA/CMP) cluster scale-up is
transferred, announced as IBM supercomputer, and we are told we
couldn't work on anything with more than four processor (we leave IBM
a few months later)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email920129
I was double booked and couldn't make the NII meeting at LLNL ... so one of the vendors stood in for me, and then came by the office to fill me in on the details (also some of the other players wanted other meetings with me).
News articles mentioning Gore in post about NSFNET RFP kickoff meeting
John Markoff, NY Times, 29 December 1988, page D1
Paving way for data 'highway' Carl M Cannon, San Jose Mercury
News, 17 Sep 89, pg 1E
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#10 Is Al Gore The Father of the Internet?
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
Internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
HA/CMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Whatever Happened to Six Sigma? Date: 12 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
I frequently reference when telling John Boyd stories: How Toyota
Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/how-toyota-turns-workers-into-problem-solvers
To paraphrase one of our contacts, he said, "It's not that we don't
want to tell you what TPS is, it's that we can't. We don't have
adequate words for it. But, we can show you what TPS is."
We've observed that Toyota, its best suppliers, and other companies
that have learned well from Toyota can confidently distribute a
tremendous amount of responsibility to the people who actually do the
work, from the most senior, experienced member of the organization to
the most junior. This is accomplished because of the tremendous
emphasis on teaching everyone how to be a skillful problem solver.
... snip ...
some amount of agile references Boyd's OODA-loop ... example
OODA-Loop Offers a Solid Framework for Agile, Fast-Moving Companies
https://www.bluwave.net/OODA-loop-offers-solid-framework-agile-fast-moving-companies/
I was introduced to Boyd in the early 80s and would sponsor his
briefings at IBM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_(military_strategist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_of_Conflict
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/john-boyds-art-of-war/
1997 tribute to John
http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1997-07/genghis-john
for those w/o subscription
http://radio-weblogs.com/0107127/stories/2002/12/23/genghisJohnChuckSpinneysBioOfJohnBoyd.html
also "Fingerspitzengefuhl"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspitzengef%C3%BChl
and Coup d'oeil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C5%93il
and EFBAS
https://slightlyeastofnew.com/2014/12/23/another-candidate-for-ebfas/
... trivia: Commandant of the Marine Corps leverages Boyd in 89/90 for a Corps make-over (at a time when IBM was desperately in need of make-over)
boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
other past posts mentioning six sigma
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#33 Boeing's travails show what's wrong with modern capitalism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#13 ISO9000, Six Sigma
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#7 ISO9000, Six Sigma
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#10 Xerox company sold
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#3 Xerox company sold
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#2 GE's $31 billion pension nightmare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#19 In Praise of Hierarchy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#9 Six Sigma
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#47 z9 / z10 instruction speed(s)
otherr posts mentioning Toyota TPS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#12 Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Loathed Lean?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#30 Coup D'Oeil: Strategic Intuition in Army Planning
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#20 The Book of Five Rings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#55 Bureaucracy and Agile
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#5 One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#65 Why General Motors Is Cutting Over 14,000 Workers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#60 Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#50 OT: Trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#25 Why You Should Trust Your Gut, According to the University of Cambridge
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#82 Quality Efforts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#44 Mission Command Is Swarm Intelligence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#8 How to become an 'elastic thinker' and problem solver
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#45 Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#24 The Ultimate Guide to the OODA-Loop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#32 progress in e-mail, such as AOL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#2 Mission Command: The Who, What, Where, When and Why An Anthology
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#8 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#100 Why CEO pay structures harm companies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#93 The U.S. Military Believes People Have a Sixth Sense
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#59 Deconstructing the "Warrior Caste:" The Beliefs and Backgrounds of Senior Military Elites
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#54 Boyd's OODA-loop
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Whatever Happened to Six Sigma? Date: 12 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
1970s, congress passed import quotas on foreign cars, reducing foreign competition and giving US makers enormous profits that they were supposed to use to completely remake themselves. Japanese makers determine that with the quota limits, they can sell that many high priced cars ... switching their product line from low-end to upscale ... import quotas and the foreign move to upscale market significantly reduced price competition further allowing US price increases (and enormous more profits). From the law of unintended consequences, the pricing met moving from 36m loans to 60m & 72m loans ... but financial institutions were resistant because quality of US cars wouldn't last the loan lifetime. However, US makers, rather than remaking themselves, they just pocketing the profits and continued business as usual ... in the first half of the 80s, there was call for 100% unearned profit tax on US makers ... since the profits came as result of the congressional import quotas and weren't being used for the "intended" purpose.
1990, there was an US auto industry "C4" task force to look at (finally?) complete make-over and because they were planning on making extensive use of IT technology, they asked IT companies to send representatives to the task force ... I was one of the members from IBM (representing the AWD/workstation/rs6000 side of the company). One of the issues was that US was taking 7-8yrs elapsed time to role out a new car model (typically with two efforts running in parallel, offset by 3-4yrs so it looked like something more often ... with cosmetic changes in intervening yrs). Foreign makers had cut that elapsed time in half during the 80s (to 3-4yrs) and were in the process of cutting it in half again (18m-24m) ... allowing them to respond to technology changes and customer preferences much more quickly. One example used was tight space tolerances in Corvette ... where supplier parts changed over 7-8yr interval, resulting in parts no longer fitting in original design ... with expensive redesign and delay. Offline, I would chide mainframe brethren about what could they figure to contribute since they suffered some of the same problems. As later seen with the bailouts nearly two decades later, US still continued business as usual (even though it was clear everything that needed to be done).
C4 taskforce posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#auto.c4.taskforce
trivia: I've mentioned several times having HSDT project doing T1 and faster computer links ... HSDT was also having custom designed communication hardware built on the other side of Pacific and would periodically go over to check on things. The companies also liked to show off some of the advance technology stuff they were doing in conjunction with their auto industry.
The friday before one such visit, Raleigh sent out announcement for a new online computer communication discussion group with the following definitions: low-speed 9.6kbits/sec, medium speed 19.2kbitts/sec, high-speed 56kbits/sec, and very high-speed 1.5mbits/sec. On monday morning on wall of conference room on the other side of pacific, there were these definitions: low-speed <20mbits/sec, medium speed 100mbits/sec, high-speed 200mbits-300mbits/sec, very high-speed >600mbits/sec
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Massive infrastructure spending has a dark side. Yes, there is such a thing as dumb growth. Date: 13 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookMassive infrastructure spending has a dark side. Yes, there is such a thing as dumb growth.
Railroaded ... transcontinental railroad was massive scam
http://phys.org/news/2012-01-railroad-hyperbole-echoes-dot-com-frenzy.html
and
https://www.amazon.com/Railroaded-Transcontinentals-Making-America-ebook/dp/B0051GST1U
pg77/pg1984-86:
By the end of the summer of 1873 the western railroads had, within the
span of two years, ended the Indian treaty system in the United
States, brought down a Canadian government, and nearly paralyzed the
U.S. Congress. The greatest blow remained to be delivered. The
railroads were about to bring down the North American economy.
pg510/loc10030-33:
The result was not only unneeded railroads whose effects were as often
bad as beneficial but also corruption of the markets and the
government. The men who directed this capital were frequently not
themselves capitalists. They were entrepreneurs who borrowed money or
collected subsidies. These entrepreneurs did not invent the railroad,
but they were inventing corporations, railroad systems, and new forms
of competition. Those things yielded both personal wealth and social
disasters
pg515/loc10118-22:
The need to invest capital and labor in large amounts to maintain and
upgrade what had already been built was one debt owed to the past, but
the second one was what Charles Francis Adams in his days as a
reformer referred to as a tax on trade. All of the watered stock,
money siphoned off into private pockets, waste, and fraud that
characterized the building of the railroads created a corporate debt
that had to be paid through higher rates and scrimping on service. A
shipper in 1885 was still paying for the frauds of the 1860s.
... snip ...
wasn't just fraud by the those running the railroad scam
In the 1880s, Supreme Court were scammed (by the railroads) to give
corporations "person rights" under the 14th amendment.
https://www.amazon.com/We-Corporations-American-Businesses-Rights-ebook/dp/B01M64LRDJ/
pgxiii/loc45-50:
IN DECEMBER 1882, ROSCOE CONKLING, A FORMER SENATOR and close
confidant of President Chester Arthur, appeared before the justices of
the Supreme Court of the United States to argue that corporations like
his client, the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, were entitled to
equal rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. Although that provision
of the Constitution said that no state shall "deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" or "deny to
any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws,"
Conkling insisted the amendment's drafters intended to cover business
corporations too.
... snip ...
... testimony falsely claiming authors of 14th amendment intended to
include corporations
pgxiv/loc74-78:
Between 1868, when the amendment was ratified, and 1912, when a
scholar set out to identify every Fourteenth Amendment case heard by
the Supreme Court, the justices decided 28 cases dealing with the
rights of African Americans--and an astonishing 312 cases dealing with
the rights of corporations.
pg36/loc726-28:
On this issue, Hamiltonians were corporationalists--proponents of
corporate enterprise who advocated for expansive constitutional rights
for business. Jeffersonians, meanwhile, were populists--opponents of
corporate power who sought to limit corporate rights in the name of
the people.
pg229/loc3667-68:
IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, CORPORATIONS WON LIBERTY RIGHTS, SUCH AS
FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND RELIGION, WITH THE HELP OF ORGANIZATIONS LIKE
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
... snip ...
and corporations used to be for organizations that did things in the
public interest. Almost from the start there has been efforts to allow
corporations to operate in self-interest and then to give corporations
"rights" (as people). "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 ...
capitalism posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#capitalism
past posts mentioning railroaded
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/2021e.html#36 How the Billionaires Corporate News Media Have Been Used to Brainwash Us
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#71 Comanche Empire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#144 PayPal, Western Union Named & Shamed for Overcharging the Most on Money Transfers to Mexico
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#44 Corporations Are People
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#75 Packard Bell/Apple
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#43 How a Right-Wing Attack on Protections for Native American Children Could Upend Indian Law
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#81 China Retools Vast Global Building Push Criticized as Bloated and Predatory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#71 IBM revenue has fallen for 20 quarters -- but it used to run its business very differently
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#47 Union Pacific Announces 150th Anniversary Celebration Commemorating Transcontinental Railroad's Completion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#19 Does Capitalism Kill Cooperation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#9 England: South Sea Bubble - The Sharp Mind of John Blunt
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#8 Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#3 Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#60 Grant (& Conkling)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#72 Top CEOs' compensation increased 17.6 percent in 2017
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#52 We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#42 Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#39 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#37 Income Inequality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#73 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#1 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#76 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#62 Railroaded
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#57 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: More than a Decade After the Volcker Rule Purported to Outlaw It, JPMorgan Chase Still Owns a Hedge Fund Date: 13 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookMore than a Decade After the Volcker Rule Purported to Outlaw It, JPMorgan Chase Still Owns a Hedge Fund
Why Dodd-Frank Is a Protection Racket for Banks
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/09/dodd-frank-protection-racket-banks.html
How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform; It's bad enough that the
banks strangled the Dodd-Frank law. Even worse is the way they did it
- with a big assist from Congress and the White House
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-wall-street-killed-financial-reform-20120510
For Dodd-Frank, industry lobbyists were providing drafts to be included in Dodd-Frank, some basic principles were to make it massive and complex, creating impossible task for regulatory bodies to turn into regulations. However other lobbyist drafts were submitted for Dodd-Frank, leaked, and then industry would have press releases how ridiculous the draft provisions were (part of "false flag" program discrediting the process)
Bank Lobbyists Writing the Rules for Wall Street (gone 404, but lives
on at waybank machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180317171543/http://www.pogo.org/blog/2013/05/bank-lobbyists-writing-the-rules-for-wall-street.html
Banks' Lobbyists Help in Drafting Financial Bills
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/banks-lobbyists-help-in-drafting-financial-bills/
President Obama's Wall Street problem
https://www.politico.com/story/2012/05/obamas-wall-street-problem-076259
"Confidence Men"
https://www.amazon.com/Confidence-Men-Washington-Education-ebook/dp/B0089LOKKS/
pg430:
But they were fighting on too many fronts. Carl Levin of Michigan and
Jeff Merkley of Oregon had discovered that Dodd had discreetly gutted
the Volcker Rule, and the two set to work trying to counteract Dodd's
efforts. The Merkley-Levin Amendment articulated Volcker's idea fully
-- and wrote it as law. No regulatory backsliding, once everything
settled down.
... snip ...
also has several references that essentially wallstreet was using the EHM (economic hit men) debt strategy against the American public. Other references were about new president having to choose between the economic A-team (Volcker et al) and the B-team. The A-team was instrumental in getting him elected, but the A-team would have held wallstreet and the too-big-to-fail accountable, which would have likely taken down most of those institutions (so new president chooses the b-team that wasn't going to hold anybody responsible).
EHM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
too big to fail (too big to prosecute too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
some recent posts mentioning Dodd-Frank
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#34 Obama Was Always in Wall Street's Corner
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#49 Economic Mess and Regulations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#97 David Koch Was the Ultimate Climate Change Denier
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#85 Yes, the Tech Giants Are a Big Problem--But the Untamed Finance Industry Could Still Blow Up the Economy
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/2018f.html#10 Why Dodd-Frank Is A Protection Racket For Banks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#35 How Two House Democrats Defended Helping the GOP Weaken Dodd-Frank Financial Regulations
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/2018d.html#21 Bankers Hate the Volcker Rule. Now, It Could Be Watered Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#83 Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#0 Congress Is About to Do a Big Favor for Private Equity Predators
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#83 Elizabeth Warren Slams Democrats for Helping Gut Financial Regulations
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/2017j.html#64 Wages and Productivity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#58 Wall Street Wants to Kill the Agency Protecting Americans From Financial Scams
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#72 When Working From Home Doesn't Work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#47 Retirement Heist: How Firms Plunder Workers' Nest Eggs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#38 Bullying trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#108 Iraq, Longest War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#101 The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins
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#85 How can we stop algorithms telling lies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#87 Dodd-Frank Was Designed to Fail - and Trump Will Make it Worse
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#13 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#11 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/2017b.html#4 OT: Trump Moves to Roll Back Obama-Era Financial Regulations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#3 Trump, Wall Street and the "banking caucus" ready to rip apart Dodd-Frank
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#96 Trump, Wall Street and the "banking caucus" ready to rip apart Dodd-Frank
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#95 Trump, Wall Street and the "banking caucus" ready to rip apart Dodd-Frank
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server Date: 12 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
the communication group fought hard battle to prevent mainframe tcp/ip from being announced ... when they lost, they changed their tactic, since they hd strategic ownership of everything that crossed the datacenter walls, it had to be done through them. What was released got 44kbytes/sec aggregate using nearly whole 3090 processor. I then did the rfc1044 support and in some tuning tests at Cray Research between 4341 and Cray, got sustained 4341 channel speed throughput using only modest amount of 4341 processor (something like 500 times improvement in bytes moved per instruction executed)
rfc1044 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
The communication group was also spreading enormous amount of SNA
misinformation internally (even in presentations to the corporate
executive committee) ... claiming SNA could be used for NSFNET and
that the internal network had to be converted to SNA (or it would stop
working). Somebody collected a lot of the communication group NSFNET
SNA fabrication email and forwarded it to us ... previously posted
... heavily clipped and redacted to protect the guilty:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email870109
other SNA/VTAM misinformation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#email870302
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#email870306
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
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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: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 09:49:38 -1000undefined Hancock-4 <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> writes:
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Graphical Workstation Date: 13 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookFacebook post where I have long-winded comments started with CATIA at Boeing.
note that AWD had done their own cards for PC/RT (had PC/AT 16bit bus), but for RS/6000 with (32bit) microchannel was told they had to use cards & devices from other parts of business (there were PC/RT cards that had higher throughput than the microchannel cards that AWD was forced to use for RS6000). There was joke that if Rs6000 was forced to use all the kneecapped cards, for most things, it wouldn't have any better throughput than PS2/486. This carried over also to forced to use 5081. There is folklore that head of AWD left IBM after telling IBM executive SVP over what he thought of the policy and the 5081. Supposedly as a work around AWD came out with RS6000/730 with VMEbus ... so it could have a better graphical workstation. however, that wasn't the only issue
801/risc, iliad, romp, pc/rt, rios, rs/6000, power, power/pc, etc
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
Date: 07 Aug 89 15:25:34
From: lynn
To/CC: <redacted>
Subject: RIOS Graphics Machine& Connectivity
As you can see a graphics workstation, or a high-performance technical
workstation ... or almost any sort of workstation isn't going to be
succesful without industry standard interoperability and
bandwidth. Standalone workstations don't cut it for the market
anymore. Producing a 1985 workstation with faster processor and
display screen isn't the dimensions that the product set has expanded
into.
I was afraid two years ago when I started doing some of the system
analysis (system in terms of all the components that a customer would
have installed to do work) that we could get into finger pointer
between hardware and software. While the hardware in several areas
isn't great, they can always turn around and say that fixing the
hardware problems won't improve the situation much because the
software is in so much worse shape.
... snip ... top of post, old email index
other past posts mention CADAM & Catia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#110 ROMP & Displaywriter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#53 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#47 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006e.html#28 MCTS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#56 Why not an IBM zSeries workstation?
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM/PC 12Aug1981 Date: 13 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookIBM/PC 12Aug1981
Total share: 30 years of personal computer market share figures
https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/
and has graph of personal computer sales 1975-1980
https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/3
and graph from 1980 to 1984 ... with the only serious competitor to PC
in number of sales was commodore 64
https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/4
and then from 1984 to 1987 the ibm pc (and clones) starting to
completely swamp
https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/5
I bought one on employee plan when it was 1st announced .... by the time it was delivered, the street price had dropped to less than what I paid in the employee plan (I could have gotten one sooner and for less money if I had skipped the employee plan).
long ago and far away, home office, IBM/PC with extra memory board and software using some of extra memory for electronic disk, mouse, two external floppy disks, cover over two internal disks designed to cut noise, ibm tieline, printer, two monitors, internal 2400 baud IBM encrypting modem
the IBM encrypting modem would act as hayes compatible ... but internal "home terminal" program would require encrypting mode. with an (3270 terminal simulation) application "pcterm" running in the PC ... where pcterm kept large buffer of what had been on the screen. For pcterm, PVM kept state of the buffers at the PC ... transmission was huffman encoded ... but compression could also be pointers into stuff that was already in the pcterm buffer. PVM used the software 3270 simulation interface on the host.
... well before IBM/PC & HLLAPI, there was PARASITE/STORY (done by
VMSG author, very early prototype VMSG was used by PROFS group for
email client, PARASITE/STORY was coding marvel) ... creating simulated
3270s on the same mainframe or via PVM, creating simulated 3270s
elsewhere on the internal network. Description of parasite/story
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#35
STORY example to log onto RETAIN and automagically retrieve PUT Bucket
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001k.html#36
some past pcterm posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#101 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#60 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#25 another question about TSO edit command
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#11 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#71 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#49 Before the Internet: The golden age of online service
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#20 Writing article on telework/telecommuting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#6 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008n.html#51 Baudot code direct to computers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#74 What do YOU call the # sign?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#66 The use of "script" for program
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#0 Why so little parallelism?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#44 Mainframe Emulation Solutions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003n.html#7 3270 terminal keyboard??
Home IBM/PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/homepc.jpg
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server Date: 13 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Internally, I started shadowing all the RFCs from SRI on mainframe
.... and then Postel moved to ISI and shadowed them from there. I
still maintain copy of RFCs shadowed from ISI ... but only make my RFC
index available publicly
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM/PC 12Aug1981 Date: 14 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
My first IBM "personal computer" started with 64kbyte 360/30. Within a year of taking two semester hr intro to fortran/computers, univ. hired me fulltime responsible for mainframe systems. The univ. shutdown the datacenter from 8am sat until 8am mon and I had the place dedicated for 48hrs straight ... although 48hrs w/o sleep could make a monday morning class difficult. The 360/30 was quickly replaced with 360/67 (which became my weekend "personal computer")... originally intended for tss/360 .... which never came to production fruition, so ran as 360/65 with os/360.
Then before I graduate, I'm hired fulltime into small group in the Boeing CFO office to help with the formation of Boeing Computer Services, consolidate all dataprocessing into an Independent Business Unit to better monetize the investment, including offering services to non-Boeing entities. I thought Renton datacenter possibly largest in the world, something like $200m-$300m in IBM mainframes, 360/65s were arriving faster than they could be installed, boxes constantly staged in hallways around the machine room.
CFO office just had 360/30 for Boeing payroll and there were all sort
of wars with director of Renton datacenter about taking it over and
moving it to IBU. They did expand the CFO's 360/30 machine room and
added a 1mbyte 360/67 for me to play with ... however, when I
graduate, I leave Boeing and join the IBM Cambridge Science Center
(hoping to have even more computers to play with, one of my hobbies
after joining IBM was enhanced production operating systems for
internal datacenters). science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
Later in the 80s, I'm introduced to John Boyd and would sponsor his
briefings at IBM. One of his stories was about being very vocal that
the electronics across the trail wouldn't work ... so (possibly as
punishment) they put him in command of "spook base" (about the same
time I'm at Boeing). Boyd biography claims "spook base" was $2.5B
"windfall" for IBM (ten times Renton). "Spook Base" ref, gone 404, but
still lives on at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Igloo_White
Boyd posts & refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server Date: 14 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
... other trivia: IBM San Jose Research had first gateway into CSNET
... just before the great cutover over from ARPANET & IMPs to
Internetworking protocol on 1jan1983 ... old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm#email821022
more on the cutover
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#email821230
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#email830202
The later NSFNET (originally as supercomputer access network) was federal gov. funding and the issue was raised about using it for commercial purposes ... and so came the AUP (aka non-commercial use only). However, folklore is that the RFP funding only covered less than quarter of resources ... the rest "donated" by commercial interest that were in chicken&egg situation. To encourage use of the faster technology, they needed newer higher-bandwidth applications which required needing to significantly drop usage rates ... but that would mean that they would have to operate at a loss for several years (while new applications that used the faster technology were created). What effectively happened is institutions contributed resources to the NSFNET backbone that were greater than four times the winning RFP bid ... and got stipulation that could only be used for non-commercial activity (lots of AUPs, acceptable use policies) ... encouraging the growth of the new generation of high-bandwidth applications ... theoretically w/o damaging their commercial revenue (rate/use structure to cover their fixed run rate).
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
some past posts mentioning AUPs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#79 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#3 We need to talk about TED
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#18 z/OS is antique WAS: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#52 Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet, 1974
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#89 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#88 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#78 The culture of the pre-commercial Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#78 What is the protocal for GMT offset in SMTP (e-mail) header
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#33 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#25 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#19 IBM-MAIN longevity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#56 Grilled Turkey
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#45 Arpa address
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#80 Al Gore and the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#29 Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn and their political opinions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#59 Is Al Gore The Father of the Internet?
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server Date: 15 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
another ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm12.htm#23 10 choices that were critical to the Net's success
... a couple pieces from a silicon valley news article from 8Sep2002
6) CSNET, an early network used by universities, connects with the
ARPANET, the Internet precursor network operated by the Pentagon's
Advanced Research Projects Agency. ARPA funded much of the early
technical work on what later became the Net. ARPANET use had been
restricted solely to government-funded individuals. The connection was
for e-mail only, but it led to much more university research on
networks and a more general understanding among students, faculty and
staff of the value of internetworking. When students graduated, they
sought employers that had the technology.
7) The NSF requires users of the NSFNET to use TCP/IP, not competing
protocols. This decision about the NSFNET, which was originally
created to connect supercomputer centers, forced wider availability of
the TCP/IP protocol, and helped prevent a wasteful ''proliferation of
miscellaneous transport protocols for the Internet,'' Bradner says.
... snip ...
late '84 (after 1jan1983 conversion from host/imps to
internetworking), bitnet 435, arpanet 1155, csnet 104, VNET (aka IBM)
1650, EasyNET 4200, UUCP 6000, USENET 1160 (excluding UUCP)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#26
at the 1jan1983 cutover to internetworking ... ARPANET/internet had approx 255 host and 100 IMP network nodes when the internal network was rapidly approaching 1000 nodes ... 4-5 yrs later IBM communication group was internally spreading lots of misinformation as part of justifying conversion of internal network to SNA/VTAM.
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: $10,000 Invested in Defense Stocks When Afghanistan War Began Now Worth Almost $100,000 Date: 16 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebook$10,000 Invested in Defense Stocks When Afghanistan War Began Now Worth Almost $100,000. Was the Afghanistan War a failure? Not for the top five defense contractors and their shareholders.
What America Didn't Understand About Its Longest War. That the war
went on so long may be tragic, but it is hardly surprising.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/07/06/afghanistan-war-malkasian-book-excerpt-497843
Why did we lose? I've been trying to answer that question for 12
years, starting in 2009 when I was a civilian officer in the far-off
district of Garmser in Helmand Province. I continued to ponder the
question in 2013 and 2014, when I served as political adviser to
Gen. Joseph Dunford, commander of all U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and
later as Dunford's senior adviser when he was chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. As I traveled the country with senior U.S. military
commanders, I saw that in battle after battle, numerically superior
and better-supplied soldiers and police were being defeated by poorly
resourced and unexceptionally led Taliban -- a dynamic certain to
eventually doom the Afghan government unless the United States were to
stay indefinitely.
... snip ...
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
"perpetual war" is preferred over actually winning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war
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
Boyd posts & web refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
The True Cost of 9/11 -- Includes 18 Veteran Suicides a Day
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/09/joseph-stiglitz-the-true-cost-of-911-include-18-veteran-suicides-a-day/
Stiglitz's "Three Trillion Dollar War" references that if public
company was run like DOD, it would be brought up on SEC charges.
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Trillion-Dollar-War-ebook/dp/B0041OTAY8
Report: Nearly $5 Trillion Spent on Iraq and Afghanistan Wars So Far
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/09/13/report-nearly-5-trillion-spent-on-iraq-afghanistan-wars-so-far.html
Iraq and Afghanistan: The U.S. $6T Bill for America's Longest War Is
Unpaid
http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2017/05/26/iraq_and_afghanistan_the_us6_trillion_bill_is_unpaid_111462.html
U.S. Has Spent Six Trillion Dollars on Wars That Killed Half a Million
People Since 9/11, Report Says
https://www.newsweek.com/us-spent-six-trillion-wars-killed-half-million-1215588
Post 9/11 wars have cost American taxpayers $6.4 trillion, study finds
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/post-9-11-wars-have-cost-american-taxpayers-6-4-trillion-study-finds-1.607157
American taxpayers have spent some $6.4 trillion in nearly two decades
of post-9/11 wars, which have killed some 800,000 people worldwide,
the Cost of Wars Project announced Wednesday.
.... snip ...
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Republicans delete webpage celebrating Trump's deal with Taliban Date: 16 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookRepublicans delete webpage celebrating Trump's deal with Taliban
Republicans delete webpage celebrating Trump's deal with Taliban. Page touting former president's 'historic peace agreement' disappeared over the weekend
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rnc-trump-kabul-taliban-deal-b1903364.html
The RNC deleted a webpage hailing Trump's Taliban deal as fighters swept Afghanistan, but says it was part of routine web maintenance
https://news.yahoo.com/gop-quietly-removed-webpage-hailing-111358281.html
RNC post on Trump peace deal with Taliban among pre-2021 items offline during site maintenance
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/568008-rnc-post-trump-peace-deal-taliban-pre-2021-items-offline-during-site-maintenance
The RNC deleted a webpage hailing Trump's Taliban deal as fighters swept Afghanistan, but says it was part of routine web maintenance
https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-removes-page-hailing-trump-taliban-deal-2021-8
GOP Removes Page Praising Donald Trump's 'Historic' Peace Deal With Taliban
https://www.newsweek.com/gop-removes-webpage-praising-trumps-historic-peace-deal-taliban-1619605
What the elusive RNC statement on Afghanistan actually said
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/what-elusive-rnc-statement-afghanistan-actually-said-n1276904
disappeared over the weekend but still at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20210615230810/https://gop.com/president-trump-is-bringing-peace-to-the-middle-east-rsr/
other posts this year mentioning trump
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#21 A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#19 Wealthiest Netted Billions From Trump Tax Cut They Helped Write: Report
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#18 Whatever Happened to Six Sigma?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#15 Four Officers Rip Into Trump, Give Moving Testimony About January 6 Riot
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#10 Analysis: Why Refusing the COVID-19 Vaccine isn't Just Immoral - it's 'un-American'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#0 Four Officers Rip Into Trump, Give Moving Testimony About January 6 Riot
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#98 Heatwave causes massive melt of Greenland ice sheet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#97 A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#94 A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all
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#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#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#20 Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline - unless it learns to migrate itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#11 Miami Building Collapse Could Profoundly Change Engineering
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#57 "Hollywood model" for dealing with engineers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#55 3380 disk capacity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#48 'We're Gonna Murder You and Then Them'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#39 'Bipartisanship' Is Dead in Washington
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#24 IBM Remains Big Tech's Disaster
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#6 Financial Engineering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#5 What My Mobster Grandfather Understood About American Capitalism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#4 Study: Are You Too Nice to be Financially Successful?
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/2021b.html#95 Capital in the Twenty-First Century
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#71 Let's Be Honest About What Trump Wanted on January 6
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#7 IBM & Apple
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
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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: 17 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
The Golden Age of the Electric Vehicle (The first one.)
https://slate.com/technology/2021/08/tom-standage-brief-history-of-motion-electric-cars.html
other past posts mentioning electric card, french steel, vanadium
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/2019d.html#14 Packard Bell/Apple
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: IBM Acronyms Date: 18 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookIBM Jargon has few acronyms ... copy available online here
80s, unix workstation, using emacs for email client (and other things) ... had optional feature that would add signature line to outgoing email ... randomly selected entry from file with lines from "Zippy the pinhead" comics. Early 80s, we had modified the (mainframe) 6670 printer driver ... had colored paper in the alternate paper drawer used to print output "separator" page ... was mostly blank so would print a random selection from group of files to fill up the page; one of the files was IBM Jargon ... other files from a number of sources. I converted all those 6670 files to "yow" format and modified "yow" processing to select from the original "Zippy the pinhead" or one of the 6670 files. Sill have those files.
Early 80s, corporate security was doing audit of san jose research
(before move up the hill to almaden) and we were having argument about
their insistence that all games had to be removed from the system. At
the time, most IBM 3270 logon screens carried "For IBM Business
Purposes Only" ... ours carried "For IBM Management Approved Use"
(which included these "demo" programs). Corporate security was also
doing after hours sweeps looking for classified material left
unsecured ... and/or on 6670 printers. They managed to find one 6670
output that had (on the separator page)
[Business Maxims:] Signs, real and imagined, which belong on the walls of the nation's offices:
1) Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing; It Wastes Your Time and It Annoys the Pig.
2) Sometimes the Crowd IS Right.
3) Auditors Are the People Who Go in After the War Is Lost and Bayonet the Wounded.
4) To Err Is Human -- To Forgive Is Not Company Policy.
and complained to management that we placed it out on purpose to
ridicule them
past posts mentioning "Auditors Are the People"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#85 IBM Auditors and Games
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#103 1956 -- circuit reliability book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#67 IMPI (System/38 / AS/400 historical)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#57 Displaywriter, Unix manuals added to Bitsavers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#6 Some fun with IBM acronyms and jargon (was Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#95 Burroughs B5000, B5500, B6500 videos
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#26 Strategy subsumes culture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#45 You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#21 program coding pads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#62 Mixing Auth and Non-Auth Modules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#89 Make the mainframe work environment fun and intuitive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#49 GML
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#1 Does this count as 'computer' folklore?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#71 Password Rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#69 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#68 Blinkenlights
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#37 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#36 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#51 1403 printers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004l.html#61 Shipwrecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#61 arrogance metrics (Benoits) was: general networking
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Afghanistan Down the Drain Date: 18 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookThe Bunker: Afghanistan Down the Drain
... 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 ...
and
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 ...
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
... more from truth is stranger than fiction and law of unintended
consequences; 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/
WMD posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Afghanistan Down the Drain Date: 18 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
An Afghanistan Apportionment
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/18/an-afghanistan-apportionment/
Two decades of American sacrifice was too few years for them.
2,448 American military deaths (plus 20,149 wounded in action,
hundreds of thousands with unseen wounds, plus 3,846 US contractor
deaths) was not enough blood and tragedy for them.
Up to $2.6 trillion (including $92.7 billion in military security aid,
$28.4 billion in economic and development aid, plus $22.2 billion in
governance assistance all directly to Afghanistan, plus approximately
$800 billion for US military operations) was too miserly for them.
307,000 Afghanistan soldiers and police trained and armed by the US
were not enough to hold 60,000 Taliban fighters (who had no air force,
artillery or armor) at bay.
Literally millions of US strikes and support sorties, incompletely
reported publically by the Pentagon over just seven of the
war's 20 years, were not enough for them.
Why did it all fail?
... snip ...
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
including various recent posts mentioning afghanistan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#42 Afghanistan Down the Drain
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#39 Republicans delete webpage celebrating Trump's deal with Taliban
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#38 $10,000 Invested in Defense Stocks When Afghanistan War Began Now Worth Almost $100,000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#2 The Disturbing Rise of the Corporate Mercenaries
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#102 Democratic senators increase pressure to declassify 9/11 documents related to Saudi role in attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#99 Democratic senators increase pressure to declassify 9/11 documents related to Saudi role in attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#22 What America Didn't Understand About Its Longest War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#7 Donald Rumsfeld, The Controversial Architect Of The Iraq War, Has Died
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#4 Donald Rumsfeld, The Controversial Architect Of The Iraq War, Has Died
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#95 Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#71 Inflating China Threat to Balloon Pentagon Budget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#66 Biden takes steps to rein in 'forever wars' in Afghanistan and Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#65 Biden takes steps to rein in 'forever wars' in Afghanistan and Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#64 Biden takes steps to rein in 'forever wars' in Afghanistan and Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#59 White House backs bill to end Iraq war military authorization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#42 The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#82 The Pentagon's Favorite Crowbar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#22 Fighting to Go Home: Operation Desert Storm, 30 Years Later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#30 Trump and Republican Party Racism
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: OoO S/360 descendants Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 11:02:40 -1000anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
z900, 16 processors, 2.5BIPS (156MIPS/proc), Dec2000
z990, 32 processors, 9BIPS, (281MIPS/proc), 2003
z9, 54 processors, 18BIPS (333MIPS/proc), July2005
z10, 64 processors, 30BIPS (469MIPS/proc), Feb2008
z196, 80 processors, 50BIPS (625MIPS/proc), Jul2010
EC12, 101 processors, 75BIPS (743MIPS/proc), Aug2012
z13, 140 processors, 100BIPS (710MIPS/proc), Jan2015
z14, 170 processors, 150BIPS (862MIPS/proc), Aug2017
z15, 190 processors, 190BIPS* (1000MIPS/proc), Sep2019
• pubs say z15 1.25 times z14 (1.25*150BIPS or 190BIPS)
trivia: mid-70s got sucked into project to do 16 processor SMP 370, we even sucked the 3033 processor engineers working on it in their spare time, lot more interesting than remapping 168-3 to 20% faster chips ... lots thot that it was really great ... until somebody informed the head of the POK lab that it could be decades before POK favorite son operating system had effective 16-way support ... then some of us got invited to never visit POK again (& 3033 processor engineers to totally focus on 3033). z900 finally appears with 16-way ... more than 20yrs later.
for comparison z196 era blade was e5-2600 benchmarked at 500 BIPS (industry standard benchmark based on number of iterations compared to 370/158-3 assumed to be 1MIP). Max configured z196 (50BIPS) had IBM price around $30M or $600,000/BIPS while IBM base list price (before IBM sold off that server business) was $1815 for E5-2600 blade (or $3.60/BIPS).
other trivia: 1980, IBM STL was bursting at the seams and moving 300 people from IMS DBMS development group to offsite bldg with dataprocessing back to STL datacenter. They had tried "remote" 3270s and found human factors totally unacceptable. I get con'ed into doing channel-extender support, placing channel attached 3270 controllers at offsite bldg with no difference in human factors compared to 3270s inside STL.
Hardware vendor tried to get IBM to release my support, but group in POK working on some serial stuff get it blocked (afraid if it was in the market place, it would make it more difficult to get their stuff released). In 1988, I'm asked to help LLNL standardize some stuff they are playing with which quickly becomes fibre channel standard (including some stuff I had done in 1980). The POK group finally get their stuff released in 1990 with ES/9000 as ESCON when it is already obsolete.
Then some POK engineers become involved in fibre channel standard and define a heavy weight protocol that drastically cuts the native throughput that is eventually released as FICON. The most recent public numbers I've been able to find is Z196 "peak i/o" benchmark getting 2M IOPS using 104 FICON (running over 104 fibre channel standard). About the same time there was fibre channel standard announced for e5-2600 blade claiming over million IOPS (two such FCS getting higher throughput than 104 FICON).
more trivia: IBM had been touting lots of mainframe I/O pathlength&processing offloaded to dedicated "system assist processors" (SAP) ... max configured z196 with max. number of 14 SAPs were all 100% busy at 2.2M SSCH/sec (2.2M I/O operations) but recommends keeping SAPs cpu at 70% or less (1.5M SSCH/sec) for I/O responsiveness.
SMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
channel-extender posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender
FICON posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: OoO S/360 descendants Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 11:25:30 -1000anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
other triviia: about same time as getting asked to play with LLNL on FCS ... also asked to participate with SLAC/Gustavson activity spawning SCI ... 64-way port cache interface. Sequent and Data General did 256-way ... 64 shared cache boards with four Intel processors each ... Convex did 128-system, 64 shared cache boards with two HP snake processors each.
SCI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Coherent_Interface
Different versions and derivatives of SCI were implemented by
companies like Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, Convex, Data General
AViiON (using cache controller and link controller chips from
Dolphin), Sequent and Cray Research. Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
implemented a PCI and PCI-Express connected derivative of SCI that
provides non-coherent shared memory access. This implementation was
used by Sun Microsystems for its high-end clusters, Thales Group and
several others including volume applications for message passing
within HPC clustering and medical imaging. SCI was often used to
implement non-uniform memory access architectures. It was also used by
Sequent Computer Systems as the processor memory bus in their NUMA-Q
systems. Numascale developed a derivative to connect with coherent
HyperTransport.
... snip ...
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Dynamic Adaptive Resource Management Date: 19 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookwithin a year of taking 2 semester hour intro to computers/fortran, univ. hired me fulltime to responsible for mainframe system. They had gotten a 360/67 originally for tss/360 ... which never came to production fruition ... so ran as 360/65 with os/360. The univ. shutdown the datacenter from sat 8am until mon 8am and I got the whole place to myself, although 48hrs w/o sleep could make mon morning classes hard ... but over the weekends I got to do a lot of stuff reworking os/360 to increase throughput. Then in jan1968, three people from the science center came out and installed (virtual machine) cp67/cms ... which I could play with on weekends ... got to rewrite lots of cp67 code, drastically reducing pathlength and a lot of algorithm work (ordered seek queueing, page replacement, dynamic adaptive resource management, etc).
Before I graduate, I'm hired fulltime into small group in the Boeing CFO office to help with the formation of Boeing Computer Services, move all dataprocessing into independent business unit to better monetize the investment (including offering services to non-Boeing entities). Then when I graduate, I join the science center (instead of staying at Boeing)
Note, 23jun1969, IBM makes unbundling announcement, starting to charge for SE services, maintenance, (application) software (but managed to make the case that operating system software should still be free. For 370s, there is VM370 group formed and morphs CP67/CMS into VM370, but they drop and/or greatly simplify a lot of stuff (including most of my work as undergraduate in the 60s ... as well as dropping CP67 multiprocessor support). Also in the first half of the 70s, there is Future System, completely different than 370 and going to completely replace 370 (during FS, internal politics was shutting down 370 efforts, the lack of new 370 during the FS period is credited with giving clone 370 makers their market foothold). However, I continued to work on 360/370 stuff all during FS period ... even periodically ridiculing what they were doing. Then when FS implodes, there is a mad rush to get 370 (hardware & software) stuff back into product pipelines.
One of my hobbies after joining science center, was enhanced
production operating systems for internal datacenters (including the
world-wide, online sales&marketing support HONE systems was long time
customer) ... including moving the dropped CP67 work to VM370. Old
email about move from enhanced CP67 to the production CSC/VM for
internal datacenters (initially on vm370 release 2 base).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
The implosion of FS (and mad rush to get stuff back into 370 product pipeline), contributes to decision to release a lot of (my internal) CSC/VM in VM370 Release 3. The rise of clone 370s also results in decision to transition to charging for all (new) operating system (kernel) software ... and a lof of my (60s undergraduate) algorithm work was selected to be the guinea pig for charged for add-on kernel components (for VM/370 Release 3). Some expert from corporate reviewed the Resource Manager and said he wouldn't sign-off because it didn't have any manual tuning parameters). "Performance state-of-the-art was manual tuning parameters" (like POK favorite son operating system, MVS which had enormous array of manual tuning parameters and lots of IBM SHARE presentations about huge numbers of benchmarks with essentially random combination of changes and effect on different workload types). I tried to explain what dynamic adaptive resource management was ... but it fell on deaf ears. So I created a set of manual tuning parameters in module xxxSRM (as spoof on MVS implementation) and documented formulas and code ... but I didn't mention "degrees of freedom" (from operation research) ... xxxSRM values would be compensated for by the dynamic adaptive code in xxxSTP (from the 60s/70s TV commercials "the racer's edge").
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
unbundling posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
FS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
dynamic adaptive resource manager posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Dynamic Adaptive Resource Management Date: 19 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
note: TYMSHARE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare
started oferring their CMS-based online computer conferencing system
free to (IBM mainframe user group) SHARE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARE_(computing)
in AUG1976 as VMSHARE ... archives 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 IBM systems and network (including internal online world-wide sales&marketing support HONE system) ... biggest problem I had was with IBM lawyers afraid that customer information would contaminate internal employees (and/or would not correspond with what IBM executives were claiming that customers were saying).
In late 70s and early 80s, I was blamed for online computer
conferencing on the internal network (larger than arpanet/internet
from just about the beginning until sometime mid/late 80s). Jim Gray
left IBM research in fall of 1980 for Tandem and we would periodically
visit him. Internal online computer conferencing really took off after
I distributed Gray trip report spring of 1981 ... some claims that
25,000 IBMers were reading. Folklore is that when corporate executive
committee were told about it, 5of6 wanted to fire me. From IBMJargon:
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 ...
Some of the results were officially sanction online computer conferencing software and sanctioned & moderated discussion groups. Other result was researcher hired to study how I communicated, sat in the back of my office and took notes on my face-to-face and phone conversations, got copies of all my incoming and outgoing email and logs of all my instant messaging ... results were IBM reports, books and conference papers and Stanford PhD (joint with language and computer AI, winograd was advisor on AI side).
At various times it was claimed that I was periodically responsible for 1/3rd of the traffic on the ibm world-wide internal network ... and complaints that sometimes officially sanctioned and moderated internal forums became wheeler'ized (when I accounted for more postings than the whole rest of the corporation)
IBM internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
online computer conferencing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Dynamic Adaptive Resource Management Date: 20 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
TSS/360 had paged-mapped, single-level store, but it serialized a whole bunch of stuff ... radically cutting ability to do concurrent I/O and resulting throughput. I did some benchmarks at the univ. with the TSS SE on the weekends ... basically simulated users doing Fortran program edit, compile, and executed. I ran 35 simulated CP67/CMS users and got better throughput, response, etc ... than TSS running four users. One of the death knells (among several) for Future System was it adopted similar design and implementation for disk file i/o. After joining IBM ... I implemented a page-mapped filesystem for CP67/CMS and claimed I learned what not to do from observing TSS. However, it wasn't the only issues plaguing FS. Houston Science Center did detailed analysis of processor execution and found that a FS machine built of the fastest technology available ... running 370/195 applications would have throughput of 370/145 (about a factor of 30 times slow down). The folklore was some of the FS people retreated to Rochester and did S/38 with all the same issues ... but performance and throughput weren't issue in that market (even factor of 30 times cut in throughput) ... simplification of operation was much more important.
trivia: early 80s my brother was regional Apple marketing rep (largest physical region CONUS) ... when he came into town for Apple corporate meetings, I would get invited to business dinners and was even argue MAC design with the developers (before it was even announced). One of things my brother figured out was how to remotely dial into the S/38 that ran apple to track manufacturing and delivery schedule.
Other trivia: a decade ago, one of IBM mainframe customers asked me if
I could track down the decision to move all 370 to virtual
memory. Basically file I/O was increasingly becoming a bottleneck for
OS/360 and compensation was to run increasing number of concurrent
programs (regions). However, MVT storage management was so bad that it
typically required specifying regions four times larger than actually
used ... which limited standard 1mbyte 370/165 to four
regions. Studies showed that it was possible to map MVT into 16mbyte
virtual address space and increase number of regions by a factor of
four times while doing little or no paging. Old archived post with
answer from person involved
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
above mentions that Simpson (from HASP fame) had done a page-mapped filesystem for MFT II similar to my CMS implementation. However that wasn't what was used for VS2 ... basically it kept the system libraries that built channel programs in the application space and then invoked SVC0/EXCP for execution. The move to virtual memory met that EXCP had to create a copy of the passed channel programs, replacing all the (application) virtual addresses with the real addresses. This was the major amount of code to move MVT to VS2 ... and as mentioned Ludlow borrowed CCWTRANS from CP67 (that performed the same function) and hacked it into OS/360 EXCP.
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
paged mapped (cms) filesystem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
other archiveed posts mentioning the MVT storage management
issue:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#25 Execute and IBM history, not Sequencer vs microcode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#6 IBM 370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#59 370 Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#92 MVS Boney Fingers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#18 IBM assembler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#84 VS/Repack
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#59 64 bit addressing into the future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#112 You count as an old-timer if (was Re: Origin of the phrase "XYZZY")
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#40 OS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#18 A Brief History of Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#47 Making mainframe technology hip again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#73 Storage paradigm [was: RE: Data volumes]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#47 Storage paradigm [was: RE: Data volumes]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#42 history of Programming language and CPU in relation to each
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#21 8-bit bytes and byte-addressed machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#19 How to get a tape's DSCB
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#55 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#17 5 Byte Device Addresses?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#16 5 Byte Device Addresses?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#115 Start Interpretive Execution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011o.html#92 Question regarding PSW correction after translation exceptions on old IBM hardware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#15 Any candidates for best acronyms?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#72 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#16 Region Size - Step or Jobcard
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#45 PROP instead of POPS, PoO, et al
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#61 Evolution of Floating Point
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#59 Why do IBMers think disks are 'Direct Access'?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#0 FBA rant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#31 Is VIO mandatory?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#54 CKD Disks?
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Dynamic Adaptive Resource Management Date: 20 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
trivia: I've mentioned several times having HSDT project doing T1 and faster computer links ... HSDT was also having custom designed communication hardware built on the other side of Pacific and would periodically go over to check on things. The companies also liked to show off some of the advance technology stuff they were doing in conjunction with their auto industry. The friday before one such visit, Raleigh sent out announcement for a new online computer communication discussion group with the following definitions: low-speed 9.6kbits/sec, medium speed 19.2kbitts/sec, high-speed 56kbits/sec, and very high-speed 1.5mbits/sec. On monday morning on wall of conference room on the other side of pacific, there were these definitions: low-speed <20mbits/sec, medium speed 100mbits/sec, high-speed 200mbits-300mbits/sec, very high-speed: >600mbits/sec
mid-80s, Raleigh was both working on T1 1.5mbits/sec "very high speed" prototype (i.e. US T1, EU T1 is 2mbits/sec full-duplex, 4mbits/sec aggregate) and telling the corporate executive committee that customers wouldn't be wanting T1 support before well into the 90s. For the corporate executive committee they collected data on customers using 37x5 "fat pipe" support, multiple parallel 56kbit/sec links operating as single logical link. They showed number of customers as number of 56kbit/sec parallel links increased ... dropping to zero customer for six 56kbit/sec links. What they didn't show (or didn't know) was telco tariffs for T1 (1.5mbit/sec) links was about the same as five or six 56kbit/sec links ... aka at 5 or 6 links, customers just moved to full T1 and used non-IBM hardware (trivial survey found 200 customers using full T1 links).
In any case, they eventually come out with 3737 "T1 support" for
customers ... old archived email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#email880130
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#email880606
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#email881005
in these posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#75
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#77
SNA/VTAM had windowing pacing algorithm and would stop sending when it reached the maximum number of unacknowledge RUs ... even short-haul terrestrial, low latency T1s were (relatively) so fast that SNA/VTAM would constantly reaching max RUs and suspending transmission waiting for responses from the other end. 3737 had boatload of memory and Moto 68k processors ... implementing a mini-VTAM that would spoof CTCA adapter to local VTAM ... immediately responding that the RU had been received (before even transmission) ... and then using non-VTAM protocol between the local 3737 and the remote 3737. Even with tremendous amount of resources spoofing the host VTAMs ... it was still limited to about 2mbit/sec aggregate throughput (T1 1.5mbits/sec full-duplex is 3mbits/sec aggregate).
To handle that issue, HSDT had long previously went to dynamic adaptive rate-based pacing algorithm that adapted from low-latency short haul channel speed to high-latency channel speed geo-sync satellite links.
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
OSI & HSP work, including writing rate-based pacing into standard
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#xtphsp
There is infamous story about STL (cal) and Hursley (england) working on load sharing project (utilizing computers during the others' offshift period). They original brought up 56kbit double hop geo-sat link (west coast up to the sat and down to each coast, then up to sat over atlantic and down to hursley) ... round trip latency was around 2secs and worked fine with VNET. Then they tried it with JES2 and wasn't able to establish link (2sec exceeded initial max connect handshake delay). They then went back to VNET and it worked fine. The guy running the project then explained that VNET was too dumb to know that the link wasn't working (even though valid data was flowing through the whole time).
other posts mentioning 3737
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#14 The Rise of the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#97 What's Fortran?!?!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#83 IBM SNA/VTAM (& HSDT)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#117 IBM HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#35 Transition to cloud computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#16 Tandem Memo
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#110 IBM Token-RIng
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#109 IBM Token-Ring
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#9 Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#35 IBM Shareholders Need Employee Enthusiasm, Engagemant And Passions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#35 Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor billing by 15 percent (our else)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#57 TV Show "Hill Street Blues"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#75 Dinosaurisation of we oldies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#72 Dinosaurisation of we oldies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#82 Qbasic - lies about Medicare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#42 20 Things Incoming College Freshmen Will Never Understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#31 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#2 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#47 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#66 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#46 Resistance to Java
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#16 z/OS is antique WAS: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#66 OSI: The Internet That Wasn't
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#47 PC/mainframe browser(s) was Re: 360/20, was 1132 printerhistory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#24 Does the IBM System z Mainframe rely on Security by Obscurity or is it Secure by Design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#89 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#87 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#4 A joke seen in an online discussion about moving a box of tape backups
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#57 VM Workshop 2012
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#23 VM Workshop 2012
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#92 How do you feel about the fact that India has more employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#19 Inventor of e-mail honored by Smithsonian
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#20 Writing article on telework/telecommuting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#41 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#103 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#54 Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (Part One)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#2 WHAT WAS THE PROJECT YOU WERE INVOLVED/PARTICIPATED AT IBM THAT YOU WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#0 We list every company in the world that has a mainframe computer
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: PROFS Date: 20 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebooksome from the thread
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
so CP67/CMS was doing email back in the 60s (well before morph to VM370/CMS).
Note the PROFS group were collecting internal applications and packaging them with menus ... for the less computer literate in the company. They had picked up a very early version of VMSG for the PROFS email client. When the VMSG author offered them a much enhanced version, they attempted to get him separated from the company. Things quiet down when the VMSG author demonstrates his initials are in every PROFS email (in non-displayed field). After that, the author only shares his source with me and one other person.
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
profs/vmsg posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#33 IBM/PC 12Aug1981
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#30 Departure Email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#48 Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#65 IBM Computer Literacy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#37 HA/CMP Marketing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#108 IBM HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#96 PROFS and Internal Network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#20 Internal Telephone Message System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#75 CP67 & EMAIL history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#54 PROFS, email, 3270
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#25 LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#5 DOS & OS2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#15 Old word processors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#20 IBM Profs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#18 IBM Profs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#27 little old mainframes, Re: Was it ever worth it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#114 EasyLink email ad
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#67 What is the most epic computer glitch you have ever seen?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#74 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#98 360 & Series/1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#8 IBM email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#76 PROFS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#43 PL/I advertising
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: OoO S/360 descendants Newsgroups: comp.arch Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 12:04:13 -1000Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> writes:
reference to shutdown of ACS-360
https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
claim was executives felt that it would advance state-of-art too fast
and shut it down ... Amdahl leaves IBM shortly later. Also mentions some
of the features don't show up until ES9000 in the 90s. Also references
invention for hyperthreading.
trivia: 370/195 had out-of-order and 64 instruction pipeline, but didn't have branch prediction and conditional branches drained the pipeline. 370/195 could hit 10MIPS but most codes ran at 5MIPS (because of conditional branches). 370/195 sucked me into helping them implementing hyperthreading ... emulating two processor SMP (which never got announced or shipped, in part the shift 370 to virtual memory and that would have required effectively new machine for 195).
more trivia: Future System in the 1st half of the 70s was completely different from 370 an was going to completely replace 370 ... and internal politics was killing off 370 projects. The lack of new 370 during FS is credited with giving the 370 clone makers (Amdahl) their market foothold.
When FS imploded, there was mad rush to get stuff back into 370 product
pipelines ... 3033 (remap 168-3 logic to 20% faster chips) and 3081 were
quick&dirty projects kicked off in parallel. some more details
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
I had gotten sucked into helping with 16-processor 370 SMP and lots of people thot it was really great ... we also got the 3033 processor engineers to work on it in their spare time (lot more interesting than remapping 168-3 logic). Then somebody told the head of their lab that it might take the POK favorite son operating system (MVS) decades before they had effective 16-way support (z900 w/16way released more than 20 years later). Then some of us were invited to never visit POK again (and 3033 processor engineers were told to focus totally on 3033).
With 3033 out the door the 3033 processor engineers start on 3090 (trout, trout1.5, etc). The 3090 processor engineers complained when vector processing was announced ... they claimed that in the past, big issue for vector was it was so slow, that memory could easily keep dozen of units fed but they had got scalar up to running at memory speed ... trying to run multiple FP units concurrently would be memory limited.
SMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
acs_end & hyperthreading posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#28 IBM 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#62 IBM 370/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#73 Backwards compatibility
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#62 instruction clock speed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#80 BYTE Magazine Pentomino Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#46 Temporary Data Sets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#39 360/95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#26 Multitasking, together with OS operations
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#3 Is multiprocessing better then multithreading?
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#44 Resurrected! Paul Allen's tech team brings 50-year-old supercomputer back from the dead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#7 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#65 Dinosaurisation of we oldies?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#37 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#110 Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#89 First Single-Chip Out-of-Order Microprocessor?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#82 IBM Automatic (COBOL) Binary Optimizer Now Availabile
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#23 A Modest Proposal (for avoiding OOO)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#69 A New Performance Model ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#61 ou sont les VAXen d'antan, was Variable-Length Instructions that aren't
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#164 Slushware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#105 IBM 360/85 vs. 370/165
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#97 The SDS 92, its place in history?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#14 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#64 Optimization, CPU time, and related issues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#62 Imprecise Interrupts and the 360/195
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#67 relative speeds, was What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#96 Indirect Bit
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: PROFS Date: 21 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Early on CTSS RUNOFF was re-implemented on CP67/CMS as SCRIPT. Then
GML was invented at the science center in 1969 and GML tags were added
to SCRIPT. A decade later morphs into ISO standard at SGML ... after
another decade SGML morphs into HTML ... a little history
http://infomesh.net/html/history/early/
GML, SGML, HTML posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
first webserver in the US was on SLAC VM370 system
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit
https://ahro.slac.stanford.edu/wwwslac-exhibit/early-web-chronology-and-documents-1991-1994
recent web posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#23 NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#24 NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#25 NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#30 NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#34 NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#36 NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#37 NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server
In 1970s, I started maintaining email name/address file ... eventually growing to almost 30,000. Jim Gray and I also started the internal online telephone books, collection and redistribution. We were sitting around drinking friday night and speculating what might help attracting computer illiterate employees and executives into using computers. We decided to do online telephone books, Jim's task was to do name lookup application that would always run faster than it took somebody to pick up a paper version and find name. My task was to acquire machine readable versions and the applications that would reformat the various formats into our standard online format (each of our efforts would take less than 40hrs, one week, of our time). I then started attempting to merge entries in my email name/address file with entries in the phone books. Somewhere along the way, local operations also started adding email addresses to their files (used to generate paper copies).
In the late 80s, an executive that I one time directly reported to, was leaving IBM and asked if I would send out his goodby email. I incorrectly selected an email distribution list with over 25,000 addresses. Got lots of feedback from complaining ... who was the person leaving IBM and who was I sending the email.
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: PROFS Date: 21 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Internal network trivia:
One of the earliest use was distributed development project between cambridge science center and endicott ... to enhance CP67 (running on 360/67) to have 370 virtual memory machines. Base production system on 360/67 was my CP67L system. Then was set of updates for CP67H which added support for 370 virtual machines (in addition to 360 and 360/67 virtual machines). Then was set of updates for CP67I which was a version of CP67 that ran on 370 architecture (rather than 360/67 architecture). These were all regularly running a year before the first engineering 370(/145) with virtual memory support was operational.
science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
After Future System project imploded in the mid-70s (was completely different and was going to completely replace 370, internal politics was shutting down 370 efforts and lack of new 370s is credited with giving 370 clone makers their market foothold) ... there was a mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 product pipelines. The head of POK also managed to convince corporate to kill the VM370 product, shutdown the VM370 group and move all the people to POK to work on MVS/XA ... claiming that otherwise MVS/XA wouldn't be able to ship on time in the 80s (Endicott eventually managed to save the VM370 product mission but had to reconstitute a development group from scratch)
future system posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
At the time both JES2 and VM370 was attempting to announce networking. With the corporate decision to kill VM370, there was no chance of getting VNET announced. JES2 had a different problem ... even though JES2 networking had been inherited from HASP implementation done at a univ ("TUCC" in cols. 68-71 of the source), they couldn't make the revenue case necessary for charged-for software products. Eventually JES2 invented a joint JES2/VNET product announce, where the VNET revenue covered the JES2 networking costs.
Internally, there were several major problems with using JES2 networking. The TUCC code mapped network nodes in the unused entries in the 255 pseudo device table (around 160-180 max nodes) ... at the time when the number of internal network nodes was already 500 (If JES2 saw any traffic, origin or destination, involving nodes not in its table, the traffic was discarded). At the time of the 1JAN1983 cut-over of ARPANET (HOST/IMPS) to internetworking protocol (TCP/IP), it had 100 IMP nodes and 255 hosts ... at a time when the internal network was rapidly approaching 1000 nodes (which it passes a few months later).
Old archived post with list of IBM world-wide locations that added one
or more networking nodes during 1983:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8
and JES2 was still limited to its 160-180 network definitions ... which met it had to be carefully restricted to edge nodes in the internal network.
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
HASP, ASP, JES2, JES3, NJI/NJE, etc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: PROFS Date: 21 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Original CP67 (and VM370) only provided an interface for "r/o shared
pages" with the IPL command. I've mentioned before that I did a
page-mapped filesystem for CP67/CMS and then moved it to VM370 as part
of migrating huge amount of feature/function dropped in the
CP67->VM370 morph by the development group. Old email refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
science center refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
csc/vm (&/or sjr/vm) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#cscvm
paged mapped (cms) filesystem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
then with the implosion of Future System and mad rush to get stuff
back into the 370 product pipeline, they decided to ship some of my
CSC/VM system in VM370 Release3. Part was the enhancement for R/O
sharing w/o the CMS page mapped filesystem (they called DCSS) and
bunch of CMS code I had modified for running in R/O shared memory. Old
email with the IOS3720/FULIST/BROWSE author about modifying the code
for working in R/O shared memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#email781010
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#email781011
from this archived post
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#9
other posts mentioning ios3270, fulist, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#27 IBM Fan-fold cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#44 Blank 80-column punch cards up for grabs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#39 Blank 80-column punch cards up for grabs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#2 What's Fortran?!?!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#58 MAINFRAME (4341) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#9 IBM 1403 printer carriage control tape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#120 maps on Cadillac Seville trip computer from 1978
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#0 IBM HONE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#70 2301, 2303, 2305-1, 2305-2, paging, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#80 TCM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#76 How many years ago?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#53 Updated Green Card
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#48 IPCS, DUMPRX, 3092, EREP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#6 S/360 addressing, not Honeywell 200
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#96 S/360 addressing, not Honeywell 200
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#43 VSAM usage for ancient disk models
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#56 What is the most epic computer glitch you have ever seen?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#16 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#89 GREAT presentation on the history of the mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#88 GREAT presentation on the history of the mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#81 GREAT presentation on the history of the mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#80 Great mainframe history(?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#50 Mainframes after Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#37 IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#98 360 & Series/1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#86 3033
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#93 Is it a lost cause?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#100 IBM's 96 column punch card (was System/3)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#40 Expand-down v. expand-up stack
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#39 1950: Northrop's Digital Differential Analyzer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#82 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#22 23Jun1969 Unbundling Announcement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#14 23Jun1969 Unbundling Announcement
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#31 Hardware failures (was Re: Scary Sysprogs ...)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#30 GUI vs 3270 Re: MVS Quick Reference, was: LookAT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#40 Reader Comment on SA22-7832-08 (PoPS), should I?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#32 Getting at the original command name/line
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#27 Getting at the original command name/line
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#26 Getting at the original command name/line
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#89 What Makes code storage management so cool?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#25 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#24 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#58 ISO documentation of IBM 3375, 3380 and 3390 track format
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#64 Should you support or abandon the 3270 as a User Interface?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#99 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#93 S/360 I/O activity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#76 END OF FILE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#73 END OF FILE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#42 The IBM "Open Door" policy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#12 IEBPTPCH questions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#53 Image if someone built a general-menu-system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#55 Just for a laugh... How to spot an old IBMer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#52 M68k add to memory is not a mistake any more
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#21 Supervisory Processors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#18 Is the magic and romance killed by Windows (and Linux)?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#70 History of byte addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#42 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/2011f.html#31 TCP/IP Available on MVS When?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#71 IBM and the Computer Revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#33 IBM S/360 Green Card high quality scan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#43 IBM 3883 Manuals
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#44 PROP instead of POPS, PoO, et al
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#27 OS idling
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010i.html#26 Idiotic programming style edicts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#72 1130, was System/3--IBM compilers (languages) available?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#49 IBM 029 service manual
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#22 history of RPG and other languages, was search engine history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#21 paged-access method
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#43 What was old is new again (water chilled)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#45 sysout using machine control instead of ANSI control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#44 sysout using machine control instead of ANSI control
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#49 "Portable" data centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#18 "Portable" data centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#47 Z/VM support for FBA devices was Re: z/OS support of HMC's 3270 emulation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009k.html#44 Z/VM support for FBA devices was Re: z/OS support of HMC's 3270 emulation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#34 Cobol hits 50 and keeps counting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#77 Z11 - Water cooling?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#22 Evil weather
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#18 Magnetic tape storage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#42 IBM 029 keypunch -- 0-8-2 overpunch -- what hex code results?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#80 Microsoft versus Digital Equipment Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#33 IBM Preview of z/OS V1.10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#77 Usefulness of bidirectional read/write?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008.html#17 Usefulness of bidirectional read/write?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#63 An old fashioned Christmas
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#51 Education ranking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#46 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#38 Education ranking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#1 IBM mainframe history, was Floating-point myths
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007t.html#75 T3 Sues IBM To Break its Mainframe Monopoly
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#71 IBM System/3 & 3277-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#69 IBM System/3 & 3277-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#65 Direction of Stack Growth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#36 Writing 23FDs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#59 IBM System/360 DOS still going strong as Z/VSE
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#0 IBM 360 Model 20 Questions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#25 IBM 360 Model 20 Questions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#5 Even worse than UNIX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#78 What happened to the Teletype Corporation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#65 History - Early Green Card
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#64 FBA rant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#39 FBA rant
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#45 SVCs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#25 What is "command reject" trying to tell me?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007.html#18 IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006x.html#24 IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#31 MB to Cyl Conversion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#46 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#39 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#31 Why magnetic drums was/are worse than disks ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#26 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#45 Was FORTRAN buggy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#44 Was FORTRAN buggy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#27 A Day For Surprises (Astounding Itanium Tricks)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#8 should program call stack grow upward or downwards?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#21 The System/360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#19 Improving 360 Addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#8 Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#6 Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#13 Track capacity?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#8 Track capacity?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#5 Track capacity?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#62 Large Computer Rescue
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#51 other cp/cms history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#50 TSO and more was: PDP-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#2 Mount a tape
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#15 S/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#0 EREP , sense ... manual
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#49 FULIST
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#48 FULIST
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#47 What is written on the keys of an ICL Hand Card Punch?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#45 FULIST
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#44 FULIST
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#43 FULIST
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#42 FULIST
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#41 FULIST
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#40 FULIST
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005t.html#39 FULIST
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#14 Where should the type information be: in tags and descriptors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#63 creat
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#10 RISCs too close to hardware?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004f.html#23 command line switches [Re: [REALLY OT!] Overuse of symbolic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#12 Why are there few viruses for UNIX/Linux systems?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#32 Alpha performance, why?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#20 Alpha performance, why?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#40 Linux paging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#25 Early computer games
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#79 Fw: HONE was .. Hercules and System/390 - do we need it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#5 What goes into a 3090?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#8 Theo Alkema
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#83 Z/90, S/390, 370/ESA (slightly off topic)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#76 Is a VAX a mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000b.html#50 VM (not VMS or Virtual Machine, the IBM sort)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#108 IBM 9020 computers used by FAA (was Re: EPO stories (was: HELP IT'S HOT!!!!!))
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#61 Living legends
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#60 Living legends
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/96.html#41 IBM 4361 CPU technology
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: even an old mainframer can do it Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 13:16:07 -1000robhbridges@GMAIL.COM (Bob Bridges) writes:
I thot that it would be released to customers ... for whatever reason it wasn't (possibly because this was in the early 80s during the OCO-wars period and I had included code that would map storage using DSECT marcos and interpret executable code, as well as being done in interpreted REX requiring full source had to be shipped) ... even though it came to be used by nearly every internal datacenter and customer PSRs. I eventually got permission to present how I did the implementation at a number of user group meetings (SHARE, BAYBUNCH, etc) and within a few months other similar implementations started to appear.
Note the 3090 service processor, 3092 was a pair of 4361s running a
highly modified version of VM370/CMS Release 6 ... and requiring two
3370 FBA (even for MVS installations which never had FBA support).
Old email with the service processor group wanting to ship DUMPRX
as part of 3092
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#email861031
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#email861223
trivia: all 3092 service processor screens were done in CMS IOS3270.
posts mentioning DUMPRX
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dumprx
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Afghanistan Down the Drain Date: 21 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
One Lesson to Learn from the Withdrawal from Afghanistan...And One Not
to Learn
https://theconstitutionalist.org/2021/08/20/one-lesson-to-learn-from-the-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-and-one-not-to-learn/
Opinion: US failure in Afghanistan: What lessons for Africa?
https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-us-failure-in-afghanistan-what-lessons-for-africa/a-58909935
The Entirely Predictable Failure of the West's Mission in Afghanistan
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-trillion-dollar-illusion-the-entirely-predictable-failure-of-the-west-s-mission-in-afghanistan-a-0193fa9c-aa
Will Americans Who Were Right on Afghanistan Still Be Ignored?
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/08/will-americans-who-were-right-on-afghanistan-still-be-ignored.html
Where Did We Go So Wrong in Afghanistan?
http://www.ipsnews.net/2021/08/go-wrong-afghanistan/
Why the debate on Afghanistan is so distorted
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/20/why-debate-afghanistan-is-so-distorted/
The Root Cause of the Afghanistan Crisis? U.S. Domestic Politics
https://www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/the-root-cause-of-the-afghanistan-crisis-us-domestic-politics
Afghanistan Was Always About American Politics
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/afghan-war-was-about-us-politics-by-james-k-galbraith-2021-08
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
other recent posts mentioning Afghanistan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#39 Republicans delete webpage celebrating Trump's deal with Taliban
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#38 $10,000 Invested in Defense Stocks When Afghanistan War Began Now Worth Almost $100,000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#2 The Disturbing Rise of the Corporate Mercenaries
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#102 Democratic senators increase pressure to declassify 9/11 documents related to Saudi role in attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#99 Democratic senators increase pressure to declassify 9/11 documents related to Saudi role in attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#22 What America Didn't Understand About Its Longest War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#7 Donald Rumsfeld, The Controversial Architect Of The Iraq War, Has Died
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#4 Donald Rumsfeld, The Controversial Architect Of The Iraq War, Has Died
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#95 Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#71 Inflating China Threat to Balloon Pentagon Budget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#66 Biden takes steps to rein in 'forever wars' in Afghanistan and Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#65 Biden takes steps to rein in 'forever wars' in Afghanistan and Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#64 Biden takes steps to rein in 'forever wars' in Afghanistan and Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#59 White House backs bill to end Iraq war military authorization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#42 The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#82 The Pentagon's Favorite Crowbar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#22 Fighting to Go Home: Operation Desert Storm, 30 Years Later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#30 Trump and Republican Party Racism
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Generation of Vipers Date: 22 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookGeneration of Vipers. The Original Sin and Continuous Crimes of America's Involvement in Afghanistan
... 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 ...
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 wahhabi posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#42 Afghanistan Down the Drain
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#11 Democratic senators increase pressure to declassify 9/11 documents related to Saudi role in attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#102 Democratic senators increase pressure to declassify 9/11 documents related to Saudi role in attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#4 Donald Rumsfeld, The Controversial Architect Of The Iraq War, Has Died
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#95 Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#71 Inflating China Threat to Balloon Pentagon Budget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#65 Biden takes steps to rein in 'forever wars' in Afghanistan and Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#59 White House backs bill to end Iraq war military authorization
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#22 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
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From: Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com Subject: Mexico sues US gun-makers over flow of weapons across border Date: 22 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
US Court Admits Mexican Gun Trafficking Lawsuit
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/US-Court-Admits-Mexican-Gun-Trafficking-Lawsuit-20210820-0018.html
The lawsuit, accepted by the Federal Court in Massachusetts and which
could last several years, accuses 11 manufacturing and distribution
companies of prom
... snip ...
... 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 criminal enterprise). 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: Generation of Vipers Date: 22 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Collapse in Afghanistan: Early Insights from RAND Researchers
https://www.rand.org/blog/2021/08/collapse-in-afghanistan-early-insights-from-rand-researchers.html
Afghanistan 20/20: The 20-Year War in 20 Documents
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/afghanistan/2021-08-19/afghanistan-2020-20-year-war-20-documents?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=b91ddb01-ce3a-41b5-a180-3eae3f834bee
From Forever Wars to Great-Power Wars: Lessons Learned From Operation
Inherent Resolve
https://warontherocks.com/2021/08/from-forever-wars-to-great-power-wars-lessons-learned-from-operation-inherent-resolve/
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: PROFS Date: 22 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Early 80s ... 3270 terminal allocation was still part of annual budget process ... but then there was rapidly spreading rumor that some of the corporate executive committee using email to communicate resulting in mad rush by other executives and middle management redirecting 3270 allocation to their desks to create a facade that they were computer literate (3270 redirection was taking away from development projects that they had been justified for). However, the majority of the upper level management getting 3270s for their desks would just turn them on in the morning and off at night resulting in the PROFS memu being burned into to the screen (some not even logging on, the vm370 logo burned into their screen).
Saw it in development projects with their missing terminals. Later it was combination of status symbol and computer literacy facde ... where large screen ps2/486 machines intercepted from development to live their lives on management desk as 3270 terminal emulation with profs being burned into the screen
... and circa 1980 when 3270 allocations was part of fall annual budget plan required VP signoff ... did analysis that 3270 terminal cost spread over 3yr/36months was about same monthly as office telephone that was everybody's desk as matter of course (w/o requiring VP signoff)
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Starting Salary Date: 22 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookSummer of my freshman year, I was hired as foreman on construction job ... three nine man crews. They had really wet spring so project was behind schedule and we started doing 80+ hr weeks, time&half for 41-60, double time for over 60. It was a long time at IBM before my monthly earning exceeded that summer. A good part of my job was supply chain .. making sure all the supplies and deliverables were available for each day's work (some stuff was up to 2week lead time).
I had been at IBM a year ... and there was lot of new hiring and anybody that been around more than a few months was being asked to be a manager. I asked to take the manager's manual home over the weekend and read it. I came back on Monday and said I wouldn't make a very good IBM (white collar) manager ... my management expertise was resolving employee issues in the parking lot.
In the early 80s, I wrote an opendoor claiming I was significantly underpaid with all sort of supporting documentation. I got back a written response from the head of HR saying that after a complete review of my whole career, I was making just what I was suppose to. I took the written response and original opendoor and wrote a cover letter pointing out that I was being asked to interview new hires for a new group that would operate under my direction and they were being offered starting salary 30% more than I was making. I never got a written response, but a few weeks later I got a 30% raise (putting me on level playing field with the new hire offers). Lots of people reminding me that in IBM, Business Ethics was an oxymoron.
posts mentioning 30% raise
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#15 IBM Internal Network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#86 Bizarre Career Events
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#40 Teaching IBM class
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#12 IBM "811", 370/xa architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#49 IBM Career
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#78 IBM Disk Engineering
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#47 IBM Programmer Aptitude Test
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#81 The Tragedy of Rapid Evolution?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#35 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#65 IBM layoffs strike first in India; workers describe cuts as 'slaughter' and 'massive'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#42 The IBM "Open Door" policy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#28 How to Stuff a Wild Duck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#12 Clone Processors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#2 WHAT WAS THE PROJECT YOU WERE INVOLVED/PARTICIPATED AT IBM THAT YOU WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#82 search engine history, was Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#50 "Portable" data centers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#74 My Vintage Dream PC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#0 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#75 IBM Unionization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#48 time spent/day on a computer
About the same time, I was introduced to John Boyd and use to sponsor his briefings at IBM. Trivia: in 89/90 period, the commandant of the marine corps leverages Boyd for a corps makeover (at a time when IBM was desperately in need of a makeover, both organizations had approx. same number of people at the time). There continued to be Boyd meetings at Marine Corps Univ (even after he passes in 1997)
Boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
posts about being told I had no career, promotions, raises in IBM because
I would coverup for good sailing buddy of IBM CEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#66 Amdahl
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#63 IBM / How To Stuff A Wild Duck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#85 Bizarre Career Events
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#66 IBM CEO Story
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#37 Some CP67, Future System and other history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#82 Kinder/Gentler IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#138 Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#29 IBM History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#68 IBM Suits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#27 Wearing a tie cuts circulation to your brain
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#6 Workplace Advice I Wish I Had Known
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#27 Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#55 Now Hear This--Prepare For The "To Be Or To Do" Moment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#49 IBM Career
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#86 Computer/IBM Career
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#95 IBM History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#72 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#22 Teletypewriter Model 33
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#19 Selectric Typewriter--50th Anniversary
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#19 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#4 While watching Biography about Bill Gates on CNBC last Night
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: An Un-American Way of War: Why the United States Fails at Irregular Warfare Date: 23 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookAn Un-American Way of War: Why the United States Fails at Irregular Warfare
... however that assumes that the US wants to succeed at war
... objective actually being forever wars that never end ... perpetual
war posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
and
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 ...
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
John Boyd posts & refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
An Afghanistan Apportionment
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/18/an-afghanistan-apportionment/
... then there is whether they even had justification for what they were doing.
recent posts that saudi wahhabi responsible:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#57 Generation of Vipers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#42 Afghanistan Down the Drain
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#11 Democratic senators increase pressure to declassify 9/11 documents related to Saudi role in attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#102 Democratic senators increase pressure to declassify 9/11 documents related to Saudi role in attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#4 Donald Rumsfeld, The Controversial Architect Of The Iraq War, Has Died
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#95 Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#71 Inflating China Threat to Balloon Pentagon Budget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#65 Biden takes steps to rein in 'forever wars' in Afghanistan and Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#59 White House backs bill to end Iraq war military authorization
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#22 Fighting to Go Home: Operation Desert Storm, 30 Years Later
... and Iraq was pure fabrication and had been fighting against Al-Qaeda
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#2 The Disturbing Rise of the Corporate Mercenaries
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#67 Does America Like Losing Wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#50 Who Authorized America's Wars? And Why They Never End
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#7 Donald Rumsfeld, The Controversial Architect Of The Iraq War, Has Died
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#69 Inflating China Threat to Balloon Pentagon Budget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#40 The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#10 George W. Bush Can't Paint His Way Out of Hell
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#89 What the Iraq Invasion Revealed About How America Works
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#82 The Pentagon's Favorite Crowbar
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#20 Fighting to Go Home: Operation Desert Storm, 30 Years Later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#101 Three Wars, No Victory - Why?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#135 Permanent Record
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#113 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/2019e.html#24 Radical Muslim
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#15 Before the First Shots Are Fired
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#77 Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#47 Declassified CIA Document Reveals Iraq War Had Zero Justification
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#32 William Barr Supported Pardons In An Earlier D.C. 'Witch Hunt': Iran-Contra
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#7 You paid taxes. These corporations didn't
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#5 Don't Blame Capitalism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#51 Dissecting Strategic Decision Making: #Reviewing Leap of Faith
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#38 Did The 'B-Team' Overplay It's Hand On Iran?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#13 This One Paragraph Tells Us How Wrong the Pentagon Was About Invasion of Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#56 U.S. Has Spent Six Trillion Dollars on Wars That Killed Half a Million People Since 9/11, Report Says
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#55 Most Corrupt Institution on Earth
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#18 How Iran Won Our Iraq War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#17 How Iran Won Our Iraq War
WMD posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#wmds
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: Programs that work right the first time. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 09:41:39 -1000smetz3@GMU.EDU (Seymour J Metz) writes:
a couple old patents mentioning "submarine" patents
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#25 Gutting Dodd-Frank
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#88 Microsoft, IBM lobbying seen killing key anti-patent troll proposal
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: WWII Pilot Barrel Rolls Boeing 707 Date: 23 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookWWII Pilot Barrel Rolls Boeing 707
I had taken two semester hr intro computers/fortran and then within a year, univ hires me fulltime responsible for IBM systems. Then before I graduate, I'm hired fulltime into small group in the Boeing CFO office to help with the formation of Boeing Computer Services (consolidate all dataprocessing into independent business unit to better monetize the investment, including offering services to non-Boeing entities). I thot Renton datacenter was largest in the world, something like $200M-$300m in IBM 360 systems. Story I was told was 707 was fitted with 50gal barrels and water plumbing system as part of getting flt. certification. Barrels could be filled for uniform heavy load and/or any possible non-uniform loading (either side, front or back, etc). The roll tore a lot of that testing interior loose.
Other trivia: I was introduced to John Boyd in early 80s and use to
sponsor his briefings. One of his stories was he was very vocal that
the electronics across the trail wouldn't work ... so (possibly as
punishment?) he was put in command of spook base (about the same time
I'm at Boeing). Boyd biography claims "spook base" was $2.5B
"windfall" for IBM (ten times Renton). "Spook Base" ref, gone 404, but
still lives on at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Igloo_White
Another story was when he was instructor at USAF weapons school (and
possibly best fighter pilot in the world) was known as 40sec Boyd,
John Boyd - USAF. The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of Air Warfare
http://www.aviation-history.com/airmen/boyd.htm
During the 1950s, John Boyd dominated fighter aviation in the U.S. Air
Force. His fame came on the wings of the quirky and treacherous F-100;
the infamous "Hun." Boyd was known throughout the Air Force as
"Forty-Second Boyd," because he had a standing offer to all pilots
that if they could defeat them in simulated air-to-air combat in under
40 seconds, he would pay them $40. Like any gunslinger with a name and
a reputation, he was called out many times. As an instructor at the
Fighter Weapons School (FWS) at Nellis AFB, he fought students, cadre
pilots, Marine and Navy pilots, and pilots from a dozen countries, who
were attending the FWS as part of the Mutual Defense Assistance Pact.
Boyd was equally famous in the classroom where he developed the
"Aerial Attack Study." Until Boyd came along, fighter pilots thought
that air combat was an art rather than a science; that it could never
be codified. Boyd proved them wrong when he demonstrated that for
every maneuver there is a series of counter maneuvers. And there is a
counter to every counter. Afterwards, when fighter pilots attacked (or
were attacked), they knew every option open to their adversary and how
to respond. After the study was declassified, foreign pilots passing
through Nellis took it home where it changed the way every air force
in the world flies and fights. Even today, more than 40 years later,
nothing substantial has been added to the Aerial Attack Study.
... snip ...
he always won within 20secs, asked why "40secs" ... he said that there might be somebody in the world almost as good as he was and he might need the additional time.
Boyd posts & refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: CSC, Virtual Machines, Internet Date: 23 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookSome of the CTSS people went to the Project MAC on the 5th flr for MULTICS, others went to the IBM science center on the 4th flr and did virtual machines, internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime mid/late 80s). Original CP40/CMS virtual machine was done on 360/40 with hardware modifications for virtual memory. When 360/67s becomes available CP40/CMS morphs into CP67/CMS (later morphs into VM370/CMS).
CP67/CMS group splits off from the science center and takes over the IBM Boston Programming Center on the 3rd flr. The telco closet on the 3rd flr was on the IBM side (bldg. directory listed law office on other side), however the telco panels in the closet were clearly labeled IBM and CIA. When the group outgrows their side of the 3rd flr, they move out to the old/vacant SBC bldg at Burlington Mall.
Within a year of taking 2hr intro to fortran/computers, the univ. hires me fulltime to support IBM mainframe systems. They had been sold a 360/67 to replace 709/1401 to run TSS/360 ... but TSS/360 never came to production fruition ... so ran as 360/65 with OS/360. The univ. shutdown the datacenter from sat8am to mon8am ... and I had the place all to myself ... although 48hrs w/o sleep could make Monday morning classes a little hard. I got to redo a lot of OS/360 during this period.
Last week of Jan1968, three people from IBM CSC came out and installed
CP67 (3rd installation after CSC and MIT Lincoln Labs) ... and it was
mostly limited to my playing with it on weekends (I got to rewrite a
whole lot of code). CP67 came with 2741 & 1052 support and did
automagic terminal type setting the correct line scanner for a port
with the controller SAD command. The univ had some number of
ASCII/TTY33, so I added ascii terminal support to CP67 and then wanted
a single number ... hunt group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_hunting
for all terminals. Didn't quite work since I could switch line scanner
for each port, IBM had took short cut and hard wired line speed for
each port. Thus was born univ. project to do a clone controller, built
a mainframe channel interface board for Interdata/3 programmed to
emulate mainframe controller with the addition it could also do
dynamic line speed determination. Later it was enhanced with
Interdata/4 for the channel interface and cluster of Interdata/3s for
the port interfaces. Interdata (and later Perkin/Elmer) sell it
commercially as IBM clone controller. Four of us at the univ. get
written up responsible for (some part of the) clone controller
business.
IBM csc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
trivia: MIT Lincoln Labs had done LLMPS which was in the SHARE user
group program library. MTS folklore is that initial implementation was
scaffolded off LLMPS. Some information about LLMPS
https://web.archive.org/web/20221216212415/http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/discussions/anecdotes-comments-observations/8-1someinformationaboutllmps
Did anything of LLMPS remain as part of UMMPS?
https://web.archive.org/web/20221216212415/http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/discussions/anecdotes-comments-observations/8didanythingofllmpsremainaspartofummps
MTS did something similar for IBM controller with PDP8
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery7.html
other MTS lore
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery8.html
In 1977 the CSC person responsible for the ibm internal network (not
SNA, technology also used for the corporate sponsored univ. BITNET)
and I transfer to IBM San Jose research, "IBM'S MISSED OPPORTUNITY
WITH THE INTERNET" (gone behind paywall but lives free at wayback
machine) IBM's missed opportunity with the Internet
https://web.archive.org/web/20000124004147/http://www1.sjmercury.com/svtech/columns/gillmor/docs/dg092499.htm
I had HSDT project (T1 and faster speed computer links) starting in
the early 80s. I was then working with the NSF director and was
supposed to get $20M to interconnect the NSF supercomputer centers,
then congress cuts the budget, some other things happen and eventually
an RFP is released (in part based on what we already had
running). Internal politics prevent us from bidding and the NSF
director writes a the company 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 (as does
comments that what we already had running was at least five years
ahead of all RFP responses). Old archived 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 grows into 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/
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: CSC, Virtual Machines, Internet Date: 24 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Oct. 1982, IBM SJR got the first/only (IBM) gateway to CSNET just
before the great cutover over from ARPANET & IMPs to Internetworking
protocol on 1jan1983 ... old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm#email821022
more on the cutover
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#email821230
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#email830202
The later NSFNET (originally as supercomputer access network) was federal gov. funding and the issue was raised about using it for commercial purposes ... and so came the AUP (aka non-commercial use only). However, folklore is that the RFP funding only covered less than quarter of resources ... the rest "donated" by commercial interest that were in chicken&egg situation. To encourage use of the faster technology, they needed newer higher-bandwidth applications which required needing to significantly drop usage rates ... but that would mean that they would have to operate at a loss for several years (while new applications that used the faster technology were created). What effectively happened is institutions contributed resources to the NSFNET backbone that were greater than four times the winning RFP bid ... and got stipulation that could only be used for non-commercial activity (lots of AUPs, acceptable use policies) ... encouraging the growth of the new generation of high-bandwidth applications ... theoretically w/o damaging their commercial revenue (rate/use structure to cover their fixed run rate).
some past archived posts mentioning AUPs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#79 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#3 We need to talk about TED
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#18 z/OS is antique WAS: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#52 Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet, 1974
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#89 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#88 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#78 The culture of the pre-commercial Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#78 What is the protocal for GMT offset in SMTP (e-mail) header
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#33 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#25 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#19 IBM-MAIN longevity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#56 Grilled Turkey
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#45 Arpa address
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#80 Al Gore and the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#29 Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn and their political opinions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#59 Is Al Gore The Father of the Internet?
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
At the time of the great cutover (1Jan1983) there were approximately
100 IMPs and 255 connected host at the time the internal network was
rapidly approaching 1000 hosts spread all over the world (which it
passes a few months later). In some sense ARPANET was limited by
requiring (gov) IMPs. The equivalent limiting factor for the internal
network was corporate required all links be encrypted ... which
greated issues with gov. agencies, especially when links crossed
national boundaries. Circa 1985, one of the major link encryptor
companies claimed that the internal network had more than half of all
link encryptors in the world. Old archived post with list of corporate
sites around the world that added one or more networked hosts during
1983:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
In HSDT, I hated what I had to pay for T1 (1.5mbits/sec full-duplex, 3mbits/sec aggregate) link encryptors and faster link encryptors were almost impossible to find. I got involved in building link encryptors that supported up to 3mbytes/sec and cost less than $100 to make. The corporate crypto body initially claimed that it radically reduced the strength of the crypto standard. It took me three months to figure out how to explain that rather than weaker, it was actually stronger than the crypto standard. It was hallow victory, I was then told there was only one organization in the world allowed to use such crypto, I could make as many units as I wanted but they all had to be sent to an address in Maryland.
hsdt posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
At Interop '88 I had a PC/RT w/megapel screen in (not-IBM) booth in
the corner of main area at right angles to the SUN booth. Case was in
the SUN booth demo'ing SNMP ... got him to install also on the
PC/RT. Sunday before the show starts and the floor nets were crashing
... turns out many machines were connected to multiple floor nets and
were all acting as gateways and causing packet flooding. Gave rise to
RFC1122:
An Internet host that includes embedded gateway code MUST have a
configuration switch to disable the gateway function, and this switch
MUST default to the non-gateway mode. In this mode, a datagram
arriving through one interface will not be forwarded to another host
or gateway (unless it is source-routed), regardless of whether the
host is single-homed or multihomed. The host software MUST NOT
automatically move into gateway mode if the host has more than one
interface, as the operator of the machine may neither want to provide
that service nor be competent to do so.
... snip ...
Old archived email from another research co-worker about obtaining
class-a nine-dot address ... following interop 88 and in process of
leaving IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#email881216
Interop '88 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#interop88
The (SNA/VTAM) communication group was fighting hard to prevent the release of mainframe TCP/IP support ... when they lost that battle they changed their strategy. Since they had corporate strategic ownership of everything that cross the datacenter walls, the product had to be release through them. What shipped got 44kbytes/sec throughput using nearly a whole 3090 processor. I then did the enhancements for RFC1044 support and in some tuning tests at Cray Research between a Cray and 4341 got sustained channel media throughput using only modest amount of 4341 support (around 500 times improvement in bytes moved per instruction executed)
RFC1044 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#1044
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: CSC, Virtual Machines, Internet Date: 24 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
trivia: one of my hobbies after joining IBM was enhanced production operating systems for internal datacenters ... initially CP67 and later VM370. The development group in the morph from CP67->VM370 simplified and/or dropped a lot of features (not only multiprocessor support, but also a lot of stuff I had done as undergraduate in the 60s).
Note: Charlie invented compare&swap instruction at the science center when he was working on fine-grain multiprocessor locking (name chosen since CAS are Charlie's initials). Then CSC tried to get the 370 architecture owners to include it in 370. Initially it was rebuffed, they said the POK favorite son operating system people (MVT 360/65MP) said that test&set was sufficient. They said that additional justifications were needed besides kernel serialization ... thus was born the examples for multi-threaded applications (even running on single processor machines) that still appear in mainframe principles of operation.
old email about migrating from CP67->VM370 and staring to provide
CSC/VM for internal datacenters.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
one of my long time customers were the online sales&marketing support HONE systems (heavily APL-based application) ... initially just US and then clones all over the world. In the mid-70s, the US HONE datacenters were consolidated in Palo Alto (trivia, when FACEBOOK 1st moved into silicon valley, it was into a new bldg built next door to the old HONE datacenter) ... and expanded to eight 370/168s systems in loosely-coupled configuration sharing the same disk farm (with single system image load-balancing and fall-over). In part because of the extensive use of APL-base application that were CPU intensive, I migrated tightly-coupled multiprocessor support to VM370 so they could upgrade each of the eight loosely-coupled systems with a 2nd 168 processor.
CSC posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
csc/vm (&/or sjr/vm) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#cscvm
SMP, multiprocessor, compare&swap posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
HONE posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: TYMSHARE, VMSHARE, and Adventure Date: 24 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
TYMSHARE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare
started offering their CMS-based online computer conferencing system
to (ibm mainframe user group) SHARE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARE_(computing)
free starting in Aug1976, archives here
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare
I cut a deal with them to get a monthly tape copy of all files for putting up on internal network and systems ... the biggest problem I had was with the lawyers afraid that internal employees might be contaminated exposed to customer information.
After transferring to SJR, I got to wander around lots of places, internal datacenters (including HONE) as well as customer locations and other places. One of the times I dropped into TYMSHARE they demonstrated a copy of ADVENTURE ... that they had copied from Standfor PDP10 to their PDP10 and then ported to VM370/CMS. I got a copy and started making available inside IBM.
online computer conferencing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
some past posts mentioning ADVENTURE:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#14 adventure ... nearly 20 years
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#57 The next big things that weren't
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#18 The History of Computer Role-Playing Games
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#15 "Atuan" - Colossal Cave in APL?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#12 New machine code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#16 looking for IBM's infamous "Lab computer"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#75 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#82 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#83 3270 Emulator Software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#88 Baby Boomer Execs: Are you afraid of LinkedIn & Social Media?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#89 Make the mainframe work environment fun and intuitive
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#33 A brief history of CMS/XA, part 1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#41 Colossal Cave Adventure in PL/I
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#85 The first personal computer (PC)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#66 Is the IBM Official Alumni Group becoming a ghost town? Why?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#1 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Graphical Workstation Date: 24 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Co-worker and good friend at Research left IBM and was doing lots of consulting work in Silicon Valley ... lots of optimization work on HSPICE ... also lots of work for senior engineering VP for large VSLI company. He did a lot of work on AT&T C compiler for IBM mainframe, fixing lots of bugs and significantly improving code optimization for mainframe ... and then ported a lot of the Berkeley VLSI tools from unix to mainframe. One day the IBM marketing rep stopped by and asked him what he was doing ... he said mainframe ethernet support for SGI graphics stations as front-end to IBM mainframes. The market rep said he should be doing token-ring instead or otherwise they might find their mainframe service not as timely as in the past. I then get a call and have to listen to an hour of four letter words. The next morning, the senior engineering VP has a press conference and says they are replacing all the mainframes with SUN servers. IBM then has whole slew of taskforces studying why silicon valley is moving off mainframes ... but they weren't allowed to considering how offensive IBM marketing reps were
past posts mentioning replacing IBM mainframes with sun servers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#77 IBM Tokenring
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#68 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#53 IBM Sales & Marketing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#64 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Research, Adtech, Science Center Date: 24 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookActually science center 1st did CP40/CMS on a 360/40 that they had modified with virtual memory hardware. It wasn't until 360/67 standard with virtual memory was available that CP40/CMS morphs into CP67/CMS.
Then came 370 which didn't have any virtual memory. Decade ago,
customer asked if I could track down the decision to add virtual
memory to all 370s. The decision was based on needing much higher
multiprogramming level for MVT (processors were getting much faster
than disks were getting faster) ... however MVT storage management was
so bad that region sizes needed to be four times larger than actually
used. A typical 1mbyte 370/165 would only have four regions.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#73
Putting MVT in a 16mbyte virtual address space would allow increasing number of regions by four times with little or no paging ... not all that different from running MVT in a CP67 16mbyte virtual machine. Add a little bit of code to MVT to create its own 16mbyte virtual address space and little bit of (little used) code to handle paging. The biggest effort was channel programs were created by applications (or system libraries running in application space) and then invoking SVC0/EXCP to perform I/O. Moving to VS2 met all those channel programs had virtual addresses which needed to be converted to real addresses. A copy of CP67 CCWTRANS (which created copy of channel programs that had real addresses) was crafted into EXCP processing.
The plan was then for VS2 Release 2 (MVS) on the way to Future System VS2 Release 3 ... which never happened, FS imploded before things got that far. That left an enormous problem for MVS ... which gave every application 16mbyte virtual address space. However, OS/360 was extensive pointer-passing API and called routines (in kernel and subsystems in other address spaces) had to be able to access the parameters in the calling application virtual address space. The kernel issue was handled by mapping an 8mbyte kernel image into each application 16mbyte space (leaving 8mbytes for application). The subsystem issue was defining the "COMMON SEGMENT" that appeared in *every* address space for parameter lists ... where both the applications and the called subsystems could access (leaving 7mbytes for applications).
However, the size of the common segment area needed to be somewhat proportional to the number of subsystems and number of concurrent applications ... but since nobody planned on MVS being around that long ... it wasn't expected to be a problem. However, with the imploding FS ... now stuck with real problem. By late 70s, customer MVS 3033 systems had expanded to needing 5-6 megabytes for (parameter list) COMMON SEGMENT (renamed CSA, common system area) leaving only 2-3mbytes for applications ... and on the cliff of needing to increase to 8mbytes ... leaving no space for application.
FS planned to replace all 370 ... so during FS, internal politics was
starting to kill off 370 efforts and the lack of 370 products during
the FS period is credited with giving 370 clone system makers their
market foothold. With the implosion of FS, there was mad rush to
get stuff back into the 370 product pipelines ... including kick off
the 3033 & 3081 quick and dirty efforts in parallel ... some detail
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
... however, the mad rush for deliverable 370 products also threw most of the adtech groups into the development breach ... and it was several years before much adtech activity started to reappear.
Lot more history minutia in Melinda's Varian history at this website
(scroll down to "VM History")
https://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda#VMHist
VM and the VM Community: Past, Present, and Future (1997)
https://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda/25paper.pdf
1991 version
https://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda/neuvm.pdf
small piece of Melinda's history
"Lincoln had a role in the design of the time-sharing machine. I have
a copy of IBM's response to Lincoln's Request for Quotation, which
specified a Model 66. This machine was later to become the 360/67, but
I don't know why the model number changed. A group of six sites
(Lincoln Lab, University of Michigan, Carnegie University, Bell Labs,
General Motors, and Union Carbide, I believe) had a non-disclosure
agreement for the development of the 360/66. This group was called the
'Inner Six'. At one meeting in Yorktown Heights, we met with IBM
people to discuss relocation hardware. We discussed whether an address
should be 31 or 32 bits. We eventually voted and recommended 31
bits. We also discussed the design of the relocation register and had
some heated discussions with the IBM team. The Inner Six met with IBM
representatives behind closed doors at a SHARE meeting. We six sites
discussed various features of TSS and made recommendations to
IBM. This was the beginning of the SHARE TSS Project." (J.M. Winett,
private communication, 1990.)
... snip ...
Science Center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
Future System posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
some comon segment/system area posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#63 Early Computer Use
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#36 IBM S/360 - 370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#115 Assembler :- PC Instruction
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#94 MVS Boney Fingers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#38 long-winded post thread, 3033, 3081, Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#23 VS History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#92 S/360 addressing, not Honeywell 200
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#48 64 bit addressing into the future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#40 Mainframe Family tree and chronology 2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#78 Mainframe Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#116 Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#90 IBM Embraces Virtual Memory -- Finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#60 ou sont les VAXen d'antan, was Variable-Length Instructions that aren't
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#46 Connecting memory to 370/145 with only 36 bits
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#40 OS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#82 Do we really need 64-bit DP or is 48-bit enough?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#39 1950: Northrop's Digital Differential Analyzer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#36 1950: Northrop's Digital Differential Analyzer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#86 z/OS physical memory usage with multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#83 Costs of core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#62 Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#71 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made 30 years agotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#15 What Makes code storage management so cool?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#51 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#22 Is Microsoft becoming folklore?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#30 Regarding Time Sharing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#21 8-bit bytes and byte-addressed machines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#75 PDP-10 system calls, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#80 Word Length
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#33 My Vintage Dream PC
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Research, Adtech, Science Center Date: 25 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Within a year after taking intro to fortran/computers, univ hires me
fulltime to be responsible for mainframe systems ... they had been
sold 360/67 to replace 709/1401 for TSS/360 ... but TSS/360 never
quite came to production fruition ... so ran as 360/65 with
os/360. Univ. datacenter shutdown from sat8am to mon8am and I had the
whole place to myself for 48hrs straight, although 48hrs w/o sleep
could make monday morning classes difficult ... but I got to redo a
lot of OS/360 during those periods. Early on, the IBM TSS/360 SE was
stil around and sometimes I had to give up some of the weekend time
... while he attempted to show that TSS/360 was improving. Then 3rd
week in JAN1968, 3 people from science center came out and installed
CP67 (3rd installation after CSC and Lincoln Labs) ... and I got to
play with it on weekends and rewrite lots of the code. Early on
(before rewriting any of CP67 code) did a benchmark comparison with
TSS/360 ... simulated edit, compile and execute ... he did it with
TSS/360 with four simulated users and I did it with 35 simulated users
and CP67 had better throughput and response time for 35 users than
TSS/360 only running four users. Later that spring and summer rewrote
lots of CP67 code and gave presentation on results at fall1968 SHARE
meeting. Part of that presentation (in this old archived post)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#18
Original CP67 856-322=534 secs for running OS/360 benchmark, by that fall, I had got reduced to 435-322=113 secs ... rewrite of large portions of CP67.
CSC posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
Along the way, the univ library got an ONR (office naval research)
grant to do an online catalog, part of the money went for 2321
datacell and the effort was also selected to be betatest site for CICS
product and that got added to my tasks. Early problem was CICS
wouldn't come up ... and w/o source it took me a couple days to track
down the problem. Turns out CICS had hard coded some BDAM file options
... and the library had created their BDAM files with different set of
options (and file opens were failing, the required BDAM file options
hadn't been documented). Lots of CICS lore (gone 404 but lives on at
wayback machine).
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
CICS/BDAM posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#cics
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Research, Adtech, Science Center Date: 25 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
At Interop 88 ... there were lots of booths with OSI apps ... parts of federal gov. had mandated Internet be eliminated and moved to GOSIP. I was also on the XTP Technical Advisory Board (despite enormous efforts by the communication group to block it). There were several gov. projects participated and they wanted an official ISO standard ... so started pitching to ANSI X3S3.3 (US sanctioned ISO standard group for networking) as HSP (high-speed protocol). Eventually X3S3.3 claimed that weren't allowed to standardize anything that didn't conform to OSI ... and XTP/HSP failed for 3 reasons: 1) XTP supported internetworking (which didn't exist in OSI), 2) XTP skipped the (OSI) transport/network interface and 3) XTP went directly to the MAC layer interface (which doesn't exist in OSI, sitting somewhere in the middle of layer3).
XTP did define reliable delivery in minimum of 3packet exchange (compared to TCP minimum of 7packet exchange). After leaving IBM and consulting at NETSCAPE ... doing the webserver to financial payment networks over internet (implementing electronic commerce) ... tried to interest them in XTP reliable ... rather than the overhead of TCP reliable.
Interop 88 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#interop88
XTP/HSP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#xtphsp
trivia: after leaving IBM, Postel would let me help with some of the RFC stuff. He also sponsored my talk on "Why Internet Isn't Business Critical Dataprocessing" (based on compensating procedures I had to do for electronic commerce at Netscape) at ISI & USC.
recent "Why Internet Isn't Business Critical Datarocessing"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#24 NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#113 Internet and Business Critical Dataprocessing
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: A War's Epitaph. For Two Decades, Americans Told One Lie After Another About What They Were Doing in Afghanistan Date: 26 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookA War's Epitaph. For Two Decades, Americans Told One Lie After Another About What They Were Doing in Afghanistan
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 posts specifically mentioning Afghanistan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#62 An Un-American Way of War: Why the United States Fails at Irregular Warfare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#59 Generation of Vipers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#57 Generation of Vipers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#56 Afghanistan Down the Drain
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#43 Afghanistan Down the Drain
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#42 Afghanistan Down the Drain
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#39 Republicans delete webpage celebrating Trump's deal with Taliban
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#38 $10,000 Invested in Defense Stocks When Afghanistan War Began Now Worth Almost $100,000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#2 The Disturbing Rise of the Corporate Mercenaries
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#102 Democratic senators increase pressure to declassify 9/11 documents related to Saudi role in attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#99 Democratic senators increase pressure to declassify 9/11 documents related to Saudi role in attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#22 What America Didn't Understand About Its Longest War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#7 Donald Rumsfeld, The Controversial Architect Of The Iraq War, Has Died
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#4 Donald Rumsfeld, The Controversial Architect Of The Iraq War, Has Died
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#95 Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#71 Inflating China Threat to Balloon Pentagon Budget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#66 Biden takes steps to rein in 'forever wars' in Afghanistan and Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#65 Biden takes steps to rein in 'forever wars' in Afghanistan and Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#64 Biden takes steps to rein in 'forever wars' in Afghanistan and Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#59 White House backs bill to end Iraq war military authorization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#42 The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#82 The Pentagon's Favorite Crowbar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#22 Fighting to Go Home: Operation Desert Storm, 30 Years Later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#30 Trump and Republican Party Racism
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#135 Permanent Record
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: "Safe" Internet Payment Products Date: 26 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookinternet posts
Early in the century (20+ yrs ago) there was a number of "safe" internet payment products being pitched to major merchants (accounted for 70-80% of all internet financial transactions). Merchants had been indoctrinated for decades about fraud surcharge for merchants with higher fraud rate ... and internet was one of the higher surcharges ... merchants were anticipating that "safe" products would result in 90% cut in what they were paying for electronic transactions. Then came the cognitive dissonance ... the financial institutions then said that instead of eliminating the fraud "surcharge" for safe internet payment products, that wanted to add a safe "surcharge" on top of the existing fraud "surcharge" ... and the whole thing falls apart (somewhat for decades financial institutions were providing products that weren't fraud safe, and charging the merchants for the fraud ... then they wanted to introduce "safe" products ... continue the fraud surcharge and them be rewarded for introducing safe products). Part of the issue, the fraud surcharges came to represent a significant part of their bottom line for those institutions (they came to realize that they make enormous profit off fraud).
the other issue was card financial fraud was low hanging fruit *AND* the financial institutions could bill the merchants for it (at a profit), eliminating that fraud, crooks would move to next which was opening new accounts with fraudulent identification. If it was real identity theft, they could foist the cost off onto the real person (although it would be also violation of federal "know your customer" mandates) ... but increasingly it has been synthetic fraudulent identification, not associated with any real person and the financial institutions would have to bear the costs.
Risck, fraud, exploit, threats, vulnerabilities, etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#fraud
Another compounding problem was about the same time, industry tried to extend their POS (at the time "YES CARD") chipcards to consumer market (for "safe" internet) .. even giving away "free" (serial port) chipcard readers. In the mid-90s, at industry conference, financial institutions were giving presentations that they were moving "dial-up" banking to the Internet. The major motivation was the enormous customer support problems with serial port modems ... typical was inventory of >60 device drivers for different modems, different operating systems, different releases ... and still after market installation could result in bricking the customer system requiring reinstallation. Moving to the Internet allowed foisting all those problems off onto the ISP. It was only a few years later that somebody got fire sale on serial port card readers that they were giving away free to consumers ... and the resulting enormous support problems (all industry knowledge about serial port issues apparently having evaporated) resulting in rapidly spreading rumor in the financial industry that chipcards weren't feasible in the consumer market. It was also about this time that m'soft canceled its smartcard efforts.
dialup banking posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#dialup-banking
Note: we had done one of the "safe" products, I was co-author of X9.59 electronic financial standard and had designed a supporting chip. My wife pulled together a conference in redmond with debit card network operators, m'soft people that been involved in smartcard efforts, some m'soft security people and some others to see if there was anyway could turn the rumor tide ... that the chipcard problem in the consumer market wasn't the chipcards but the serial port readers. We previously had Compaq lined up to start shipping all their PCs with a chipcard reader integrated into their keyboards along with one of my chipcards. All that collapses with pullback by the financial industry from chipcards in the consumer market.
X9.59 posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#x959
chip posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/x959.html#aadsstraw
further compounding problem were industry POS chips, ref to IBM SDA
chip&pin ("YES CARD") deployment for Safeway UK in 1997, 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
There was a large POS pilot deployment of "YES CARD" on the east coast
and I tried to warn them of the problems ... but they were so
myopically focused on chip integrity, they couldn't recognize the
introduction of a system vulnerability ... and needed to learn it the
hardway. In the wake of the "YES CARD", all evidence of the pilot
disappears w/o a trace and it was forecast that it would be many years
before it was tried in the US again. 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. At the 2003 ATM (cash card) Integrity Task Force meeting, a Federal LEO gave a detailed presentation about "YES CARD" and associated fraud. During the presentation, somebody in the audience made the comment that "they managed to spend billions of dollars to prove chips were less secure than magstripe").
"yes card" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#yescard
Note lead technical director reporting to DDI for Information
Assurance Directorate was doing a panel in the Trusted Computing track
at IDF ... and asked me to give a talk on my chip (the guy running
trusted computing TPM was in the front row so I quipped that it was
nice to see his chip looking more and more like mine, he quipped back
that I didn't have a committee of 200 people helping me) ... gone 404,
but lives on at the wayback machine (had none of the vulnerrabilities
of the industry chips)
https://web.archive.org/web/20010801203303/http://www.intel94.com/idf/spr2001/sessiondescription.asp?id=stp%2bs13
NACHA had also done a pilot with some chips programmed to emulate my design (July 23, 2001)
https://web.archive.org/web/20070706004855/http://internetcouncil.nacha.org/News/news.html
details
https://web.archive.org/web/20070706004855/http://internetcouncil.nacha.org/docs/ISAP-Pilot-Final.doc
trusted computing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#trusted.computing
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some "safe" internent payment specific posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#7 Credit card fraud solution coming to America...finally
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#12 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#78 Greedy Banks Nailed With $5 BILLION+ Fine For Fraud And Corruption
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#58 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014l.html#55 LA Times commentary: roll out "smart" credit cards to deter fraud
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#17 Is it time for a revolution to replace TLS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#77 In a Cyber Breach, Who Pays, Banks or Retailers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#60 Target Offers Free Credit Monitoring Following Security Breach
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#32 Use another browser - Kaspersky follows suit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#3 Quitting Top IBM Salespeople Say They Are Leaving In Droves
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#71 Password shortcomings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#15 Wicked Problems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#39 ISBNs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#38 ISBNs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#56 Does outsourcing cause data loss?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#58 Pipeline and Network Security: Protecting a Series of Tubes
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/2010o.html#39 Compressing the OODA-Loop - Removing the D (and maybe even an O)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#48 Is the United States the weakest link when it comes to credit card security?
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: China Is Serving Up for America. Beijing's push to build an entire industry from scratch helps inform how the White House should proceed. Date: 26 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookChina Is Serving Up for America. Beijing's push to build an entire industry from scratch helps inform how the White House should proceed.
... note, fall 2008 (before Obama administration), SECTRES pressures Congress to appropriate TARP funds to buy TBTF (too big to fail) off-book toxic assets ... however just the four largest TBTF were still carrying $5.2T in offbook toxic assets YE2008 and the $700B would barely touch the problem ... the TBTF was left to the Federal Reserve, buying trillions in offbook toxic assets at 98cents on the dollar and providing tens of trillions in ZIRP fund.
Things had started out with securitizing mortgages and loans and paying rating agencies for triple-A rating (when the rating agencies knew they weren't worth triple-A, from Oct2008 congressional testimony), enabling selling off over $27T 2001-2008 into the bond market. Then they realized they could design securitized instruments to fail, pay for triple-A, and sell off into the bond market, and take out bets they would fail. AIG was the largest holder of the CDS gambling bets and was negotiating to pay off at 50cents on the dollar when the SECTRES steps in, forces them to take TARP funds to pay off at face value (and sign a document that they can't sue those making the bets). The largest recipient of TARP funds was AIG and the largest recipient of face-value payoffs was the firm formally headed by the SECTRES.
economic mess posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
toxic CDO posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
ZIRP fund posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#zirp
Federal Reserve and fedres chairman posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fed.chairman
1970s, congress passed import quotas on foreign cars, reducing foreign competition and giving US makers enormous profits that they were supposed to use to completely remake themselves. Japanese makers determine that with the quota limits, they can sell that many high priced cars ... switching their product line from low-end to upscale ... import quotas and the foreign move to upscale market significantly reduced price competition further allowing US price increases (and enormous more profits). From the law of unintended consequences, the pricing met moving from 36m loans to 60m & 72m loans ... but financial institutions were resistant because quality of US cars wouldn't last the loan lifetime. However, US makers, rather than remaking themselves, they just pocketing the profits and continued business as usual ... in the first half of the 80s, there was call for 100% unearned profit tax on US makers ... since the profits came as result of the congressional import quotas and weren't being used for the "intended" purpose. Other TARP funds were then springled around various places somewhat for show.
1990, there was an US auto industry "C4" task force to look at (finally?) complete make-over and because they were planning on making extensive use of IT technology, they asked IT companies to send representatives to the task force ... I was one of the members from IBM (representing the AWD/workstation/rs6000 side of the company). One of the issues was that US was taking 7-8yrs elapsed time to role out a new car model (typically with two efforts running in parallel, offset by 3-4yrs so it looked like something more often ... with cosmetic changes in intervening yrs). Foreign makers had cut that elapsed time in half during the 80s (to 3-4yrs) and were in the process of cutting it in half again (18m-24m) ... allowing them to respond to technology changes and customer preferences much more quickly. One example used was tight space tolerances in Corvette ... where supplier parts changed over 7-8yr interval, resulting in parts no longer fitting in original design ... with expensive redesign and delay. Offline, I would chide mainframe brethren about what could they figure to contribute since they suffered some of the same problems. As later seen with the bailouts nearly two decades later, US still continued business as usual (even though it was clear everything that needed to be done).
auto industry C4 task force posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#auto.c4.taskforce
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: "Safe" Internet Payment Products Date: 26 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
In late 90s & early century ... all sorts of technology companies wanting to get into payments taking a dollar or two off every transaction (except micropayments) ... but didn't want any liability or responsibility ... some part of the more than bare bones cost of performing a transaction was financial institutions taking financial responsibility (aka tech companies that wanted the profits with none of the liability).
There were a number of EU chip programs that I was asked to size, design, and cost transaction processing infrastructures for ... but going into the business cases further found that some were skimming the funds in various ways.
Several were "stored value" chip cards that advertised cost savings by being able to do offline transactions ... but they were really there to skim the float on the unspent deposited funds. Many of them evaporated after the EU central bank mandated that they only got to keep the float as part of covering startup costs ... after that they would have to start paying interest on the unspent money (sort of treating unspent "stored value" as if it was savings account) ... after which most of them disappeared.
various old posts mentioning "stored value"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#44 Methods of payment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#43 Methods of payment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#39 Methods of payment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004j.html#12 US fiscal policy (Was: Bob Bemer, Computer Pioneer,Father of ASCII,Invento
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#33 RSA vs AES
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#54 Smartcards and devices
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#47 Disk capacity and backup solutions
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#34 YKYBHTLW
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002n.html#14 So how does it work... (public/private key)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#55 Beware, Intel to embed digital certificates in Banias
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#19 A new e-commerce security proposal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002m.html#17 A new e-commerce security proposal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#69 Digital signature
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#40 e-commerce future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#35 Security and e-commerce
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#34 Security and e-commerce
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#23 Opinion on smartcard security requested
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#22 Opinion on smartcard security requested
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#18 Opinion on smartcard security requested
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#14 EMV cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#41 Why?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002c.html#36 economic trade off in a pure reader system
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002c.html#24 Opinion on smartcard security requested
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002c.html#23 Opinion on smartcard security requested
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002c.html#22 Opinion on smartcard security requested
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#4 Smart Card vs. Magnetic Strip Market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay12.htm#0 Four Corner model. Was: Confusing Authentication and Identification? (addenda)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay11.htm#70 Confusing Authentication and Identiification? (addenda)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay11.htm#69 Confusing Authentication and Identiification?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay11.htm#28 Solving the problem of micropayments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay11.htm#27 Solving the problem of micropayments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay10.htm#65 eBay Customers Targetted by Credit Card Scam
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay10.htm#10 InfoSpace Buys ECash Technologies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsmore.htm#eleccash re:The Law of Digital Cash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm9.htm#smallpay Small/Secure Payment Business Models
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm9.htm#cfppki12 CFP: PKI research workshop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm7.htm#idcard2 AGAINST ID CARDS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm7.htm#pcards4 FW: The end of P-Cards?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm6.htm#pcards2 The end of P-Cards? (addenda)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm6.htm#terror12 [FYI] Did Encryption Empower These Terrorists?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm6.htm#digcash IP: Re: Why we don't use digital cash
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#49 Price point
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#1 2008: The year of hack the vote?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#42 The bank fraud blame game
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#15 307 digit number factored
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#51 The One True Identity -- cracks being examined, filled, and rotted out from the inside
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#48 Governance of anonymous financial services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm26.htm#44 Governance of anonymous financial services
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm#31 On-card displays
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm24.htm#52 Crypto to defend chip IP: snake oil or good idea?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#56 UK Detects Chip-And-PIN Security Flaw
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#23 Payment systems - the explosion of 1995 is happening in 2006
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#19 Petrol firm suspends chip-and-pin
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm22.htm#10 thoughts on one time pads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm21.htm#12 Payment Tokens
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm21.htm#1 Is there any future for smartcards?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm19.htm#44 massive data theft at MasterCard processor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm19.htm#39 massive data theft at MasterCard processor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm19.htm#38 massive data theft at MasterCard processor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm19.htm#17 What happened with the session fixation bug?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm18.htm#39 Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm18.htm#38 How to store the car-valued bearer bond? (was Financial identity...)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm16.htm#12 Difference between TCPA-Hardware and a smart card (was: example: secure computing kernel needed)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#6 x9.59
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#5 Is cryptography where security took the wrong branch?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#3 Is cryptography where security took the wrong branch?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#0 invoicing with PKI
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm14.htm#35 The real problem that https has conspicuously failed to fix
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm14.htm#33 An attack on paypal
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm14.htm#30 Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm14.htm#28 Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm14.htm#17 Payments as an answer to spam (addenda)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm13.htm#35 How effective is open source crypto? (bad form)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm13.htm#27 How effective is open source crypto?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm12.htm#51 Frist Data Unit Says It's Untangling Authentication
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm12.htm#31 The Bank-model Was: Employee Certificates - Security Issues
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm11.htm#29 Proposal: A replacement for 3D Secure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm2.htm#straw AADS Strawman
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM XT/370 Date: 27 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookEndicott sent me PC/XT with the attached XT/370 board/case. I did quite a few performance and throughput studies. CP67/CMS used to run in 256kbte 360/67 ... and XT/370 had 384kbyte 370 memory ... but in over 15yr period, vm370 and CMS got significantly bloated. Part of the bloat was masked because processors and disks got so much faster. XT/370 did all its I/O via interprocessor communication with the 8088 which then did the actual I/O ... with disk i/o running at 100ms access (10/sec) for both CMS file i/o and paging ... adversely affected by many cms applications page thrashing in the 384kbyte memory. I did some rewrite of kernel and paging algorithms for the memory constrained environment ... which helped a little.
Endicott then blames me for slip in announce/delivery schedule upgrading the memory to 512kbyte which help some.
Note in the late 70s (well before IBM/PC), an IBM SE in LA reimplements CMS SCRIPT (document formater "dot" commands and GML) for Radio Shack ... and does it w/o the significant program size bloat and disk intensive file I/O that was increasing characteristic of mainframe software.
paging algorithm posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#wsclock
a few post posts mentioning xt/370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#39 If Memory Had Been Cheaper
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#28 XT/370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#48 IBM NUMBERS BIPOLAR'S DAYS WITH G5 CMOS MAINFRAMES
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#19 68k, where it went wrong
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#82 A Computer That Never Was: the IBM 7095
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#81 A Computer That Never Was: the IBM 7095
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#7 SC/MP (1977 microprocessor) architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#29 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#18 June 1985 email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#48 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015b.html#28 The joy of simplicity?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014k.html#24 1950: Northrop's Digital Differential Analyzer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#67 Is coding the new literacy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013o.html#8 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#31 model numbers; was re: World's worst programming environment?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#30 model numbers; was re: World's worst programming environment?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#18 "Highway Patrol" back on TV
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#10 AMC proposes 1980s computer TV series Halt & Catch Fire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#8 AMC proposes 1980s computer TV series Halt & Catch Fire
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#79 zEC12, and previous generations, "why?" type question - GPU computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#77 zEC12, and previous generations, "why?" type question - GPU computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#74 zEC12, and previous generations, "why?" type question - GPU computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#53 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#42 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012b.html#27 M68k add to memory is not a mistake any more
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#64 JCL CROSS-REFERENCE Utilities (OT for Paul, Rick, and Shmuel)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011h.html#27 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Internal network Date: 27 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebook1000 nodes, vnet 1983 ibm
... old, archived post of corporate locations that added one or more
nodes during 1983
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8
part of it was the explosion in vm/4341 systems.
one of the rex historical references (gone 404 but lives on at wayback
machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20050309184016/http://www.computinghistorymuseum.org/ieee/af_forum/read.cfm?forum=10&id=21&thread=7
By far the most important influence on the development of Rexx was the
availability of the IBM electronic network, called VNET. In 1979, more
than three hundred of IBM's mainframe computers, mostly running
the Virtual Machine/370 (VM) operating system, were linked by
VNET. This store-and-forward network allowed very rapid exchange of
messages (chat) and e-mail, and reliable distribution of software. It
made it possible to design, develop, and distribute Rexx and its first
implementation from one country (the UK) even though most of its users
were five to eight time zones distant, in the USA.
... snip ...
part of 1977 map
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/vnet1977.jpg
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
re: VNET also had support for the internal SPM interface which enabled
(among other things) instant messaging communication around the
internal network. SPM was originally implemented by the Pisa
scientific center on CP67 and then migrated to VM370 ... old email of
having included SPM in my internal enhanced CSC/VM (moved from CP67 to
VM370 ... including lots of stuff that had been dropped by the
development group in the morph to VM370).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
SPM was a superset of (later product) combination of VMCF, IUCV and
SMSG. Old archived description of CMS SPMS (to use SPM) ... also used
in conjunction with various automated system implementations like
automated operator.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#16
a couple other archived SPM posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#104 The (broken) economics of OSS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#42 1969 networked word processor "Astrotype"
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Internal network Date: 27 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
the references for CP67->VM370 migration for my internal CSC/VM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430
... also included the "autolog" command that I had originally done for
automated benchmarking ... but became enabler for a lot of automation
and service virtual machines and was picked up with misc. other
pieces from CSC/VM for inclusion in VM370 release 3 ... posts
mentioning automated benchmarking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#benchmark
misc past posts mentioning service virtual machine
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/2018e.html#104 The (broken) economics of OSS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017k.html#37 CMS style XMITMSG for Unix and other platforms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016g.html#62 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#82 Honeywell 200
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#77 Honeywell 200
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#17 IBM Destination z - What the Heck Is JCL and Why Does It Look So Funny?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#25 another question about TSO edit command
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#93 Costs of core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#85 Costs of core
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#86 Is end of mainframe near ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#49 Before the Internet: The golden age of online service
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#18 "Death of the mainframe"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#2 Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#1 Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#38 1969 networked word processor "Astrotype"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#17 a clock in it, was Re: Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#7 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#64 Typeface (font) and city identity
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/2011g.html#56 VAXen on the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011g.html#49 My first mainframe experience
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011f.html#48 A brief history of CMS/XA, part 1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#35 Was VM ever used as an exokernel?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#33 Was VM ever used as an exokernel?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#26 Was VM ever used as an exokernel?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#25 Was VM ever used as an exokernel?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#0 What is the protocal for GMT offset in SMTP (e-mail) header time-stamp?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#74 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#73 LPARs: More or Less?
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Warthog/A-10 Date: 27 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookThe Warthog's GAU 8 Gatling Gun Is Bad-Ass Lethal Weapon-Watch It In Action. The A-10's "flying cannon" and its 30mm shells makes it a friend to U.S. ground troops and a nightmare to the enemy.
A New Conception of War
https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Marine-Corps-University-Press/Books-by-topic/MCUP-Titles-A-Z/A-New-Conception-of-War/
PDF->kindle, loc835:
In this case, Boyd busied himself with two side projects. In the
first, he became the E-M sounding board for his associate, defense
analyst Pierre Sprey, who worked on the contentious A-X project for
the Air Force at the Pentagon. A-X--the Air Force's effort to design a
dedicated close air support (CAS) airframe--was a schizophrenic
project. Air Force leaders were not enthusiastic about the CAS
mission, as it took resources away from their real missions of air
superiority and nuclear weapons delivery; but they did not want the
Army to take over that mission, because that would also cost the Air
Force money, not to mention the humiliation of losing a core mission
to a different Service branch. 61 Boyd helped Sprey validate the
maneuverability calculations for the aircraft that became the
Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II. Boyd's immediate impact on the
A-X project proved less important than what he took away from it:
namely, an interest in German tactics during World War II that arose
from his interviews with former Luftwaffe pilots in the course of
developing the A-X. This interest would pay dividends in Boyd's work
on conflict theory, which is discussed later.
loc1783-88:
Boyd's collaboration with associate Pierre Sprey on the development of
the A-10 close air support (CAS) aircraft sparked his exploration of
history. The project was Sprey's, with Sprey consulting Boyd on
performance analysis, E-M Theory, and views on warfare in
general. When designing the A-10, Sprey had to determine what aircraft
features provided the firepower and loiter time required by ground
forces, while also granting survivability against the enemy ground
fire that would inevitably be directed against it.4The German
Wehrmacht had pioneered both the design and employment of dedicated
CAS aircraft in World War II.
... snip ...
Boyd passes in 1997 and Pierre passes earlier this month.
In Pursuit of Clarity: the Intellect and Intellectual Integrity of Pierre Sprey
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/10/in-pursuit-of-clarity-the-intellect-and-intellectual-integrity-of-pierre-sprey/
My friend Pierre Sprey, who died suddenly on August 4, is being justly
commemorated for his leading role in forcing the US air force, much
against its will, to produce two weapons, the F-16 fighter and A-10
ground support plane, that perform their missions effectively, and at
low cost. These were indeed remarkable victories over an entrenched
bureaucracy more intent on protecting its own perceived interests
rather than defending the country. More importantly, they served to
illustrate Pierre's extraordinary strengths in intellect and
character, which he applied to far more than the design of weapons.
... snip ...
POGO Remembers Pierre Sprey, Pentagon Provocateur and Mentor
https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2021/08/pogo-remembers-pierre-sprey-pentagon-provocateur-and-mentor/
Another Boyd acolyte, was graduate of first USAF academy class when he
says Boyd destroyed his career by challenging him to do what was
right, ... later wrote a book
https://www.amazon.com/Pentagon-Wars-Reformers-Challenge-Guard-ebook/dp/B00HXY969W/
HBO turned into movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars
related NYT article: Corrupt from top to bottom
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/03/books/corrupt-from-top-to-bottom.html
GAO Air Effectiveness Study
http://www.gao.gov/products/NSIAD-97-134
says that A10s fired one million 30mm shells in Desert Storm, that
they were so effective taking out Iraqi tanks that their crews were
walking away from them (as sitting ducks). The stories of horrific
tank battles with coalition forces taking no damage, don't mention if
the Iraqi tanks had anybody home. Burton has said that he got 30mm
shells cut from nearly $100/shell to $13 (the one million shells would
be $13M, least expensive of all Desert Storm). Burton in the past has
suggested a mini-A10 with only a five barrel gun (that could be
forward deployed and maintained), but these days would more likely be
UAV.
Gulf War, 1991 17Jan-28Feb, only last 100hrs was land war, Boyd has
been credited with the (land) battle plan. There have been lots of
explanations and excuses why Boyd's left hook failed and the Army M1
Abrams weren't in position to trap the retreating Republican Guard
... I would say that can add that Boyd possibly didn't realize how
tightly tethered the M1 Abrams were to their supply and maintenance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_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 ...
another Boyd quote/saying:
There are two career paths in front of you, and you have to choose
which path you will follow. One path leads to promotions, titles, and
positions of distinction.... The other path leads to doing things that
are truly significant for the Air Force, but the rewards will quite
often be a kick in the stomach because you may have to cross swords
with the party line on occasion. You can't go down both paths, you
have to choose. Do you want to be a man of distinction or do you want
to do things that really influence the shape of the Air Force? To Be
or To Do, that is the question
... snip ...
Boyd posts/refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
somewhat recent posts mentiong warthog/a-10:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#12 In Pursuit of Clarity: the Intellect and Intellectual Integrity of Pierre Sprey
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#1 Cloud computing's destiny
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#51 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#36 The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#40 The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#77 Cancel the F-35, Fund Infrastructure Instead
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#48 MAINFRAME (4341) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#96 IBM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2020.html#12 Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Loathed Lean?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#130 Republicans abandon tradition of whistleblower protection at impeachment hearing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#83 Collins radio and Braniff Airways 1945
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/2019.html#28 Army Releases a Critical History of the War in Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#12 Employees Come First
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#83 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/2018f.html#81 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#80 Is LINUX the inheritor of the Earth?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#57 NATO is a Goldmine for the US/Military Industrial Complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#108 F-35
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#2 FY18 budget deal yields life-sustaining new wings for the A-10 Warthog
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#79 What the Gulf War Teaches About the Future of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#48 1963 Timesharing: A Solution to Computer Bottlenecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#75 A-10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#74 A-10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#73 A-10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#38 Bullying trivia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#31 Disregard post (another screwup; absolutely nothing to do with computers whatsoever!)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#58 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#14 Fast OODA-Loops increase Maneuverability
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#1 How Desert Storm Destroyed the US Military
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#2 IBM 1970s
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Why the IBM PC Used an Intel 8088 Date: 28 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookWhy the IBM PC Used an Intel 8088. Intel was inside the first personal computer, but how and why it got picked is sometimes a matter of contention.
8bit computing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-bit_computing
The first widely adopted 8-bit microprocessor was the Intel 8080,
being used in many hobbyist computers of the late 1970s and early
1980s, often running the CP/M operating system; it had 8-bit data
words and 16-bit addresses. The Zilog Z80 (compatible with the 8080)
and the Motorola 6800 were also used in similar computers. The Z80 and
the MOS Technology 6502 8-bit CPUs were widely used in home computers
and second- and third-generation game consoles of the 1970s and
1980s. Many 8-bit CPUs or microcontrollers are the basis of today's
ubiquitous embedded systems.
... snip ...
trivia: CMS was precursor to personal computing; before ms/dos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS
there was Seattle computer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products
before Seattle computer, there was cp/m
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M
before developing cp/m, kildall worked on cp/67-cms at npg (gone 404,
but lives on at the wayback machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20071011100440/http://www.khet.net/gmc/docs/museum/en_cpmName.html
npg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Postgraduate_School
note: some of the MIT CTSS people went to the 5th flr to Project MAC to do MULTICS (which also spawns UNIX, periodically described as simplified MULTICS). Other of the CTSS people went to IBM science center on the 4th flr and did CP40/CMS (on 360/40 with hardware modifications supporting virtual memory, which morphs into CP67/CMS when 360/67 standard with virtual memory becomes available), lots of online apps, invented GML in 1969 (morphs into ISO standard SGML a decade later and after another decade morphs into HTML at CERN), bunch of performance & optimization work.
ibm science center posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
gml, sgml, html posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml
other recent IBM/PC posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#76 IBM OS/2
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#33 IBM/PC 12Aug1981
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#35 IBM/PC 12Aug1981
original article, 2011; Why the IBM PC Used an Intel 8088
https://uk.pcmag.com/opinion/111756/why-the-ibm-pc-used-an-intel-8088
2020; History of the Microprocessor and the Personal Computer, Part 3. IBM PC Model 5150 and the Attack of the Clones
https://www.techspot.com/article/893-history-of-the-personal-computer-part-3/
The original intention seems to have been to use an 8-bit processor,
which would have allowed MOS Tech's 6502, Zilog's Z80, and Intel's
8085 to be considered. However, IBM engineers favored the use of
16-bit, as did Bill Gates, who lobbied IBM to use 16-bit to fully
showcase the operating system he was developing , while the arrival of
32-bit architectures from Motorola and National Semiconductor (the
68000 and 16032 respectively) were set to enter production outside of
the one year deadline.
... snip ...
2017; The complete history of the IBM PC, part one: The deal of the
century. Bill Gates, mysterious deaths, and the business machine that
sparked a home revolution.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/06/ibm-pc-history-part-1/
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://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/07/ibm-pc-history-part-2/
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Internal network Date: 28 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
IBM internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
... and previous posted ...
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#85 Mainframe mid-range computing market
summer 1982, I spent several weeks in Europe giving one week VM/370 classes at various locations. One was at Orleans lab ... a lot of the people associated with doing (VM/)BOIS (France distributed branch office information system). I then did a trip report with quite a bit devoted to BOIS. Now I was already being sanctioned, blamed for online computer conferencing in the late 70s and early 80s on the internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime mid/late 80s) ... and apparently communication group was now also complaining I was singing the praises of distributed computing and BOIS success.
online computer conferencing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc
... and the corporate sponsored university network (using internal
network technology) and EARN in Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Academic_Research_Network
Date: 03/20/84 15:15:41
To: wheeler
Hello Lynn,
I have left LaGaude last September for a 3 years assignement to IBM
Europe, where I am starting a network that IBM helps the universities
to start.
This network, called EARN (European Academic and Research Network),
is, roughly speaking, a network of VM/CMS machines, and it looks like
our own VNET. It includes some non IBM machines (many VAX, some CDC,
UNIVAC and some IBM compatible mainframes). EARN is a 'brother' of the
US network BITNET to which it is connected.
EARN is starting now, and 9 countries will be connected by June. It
includes some national networks, such as JANET in U.K., SUNET in
Sweden.
I am now trying to find applications which could be of great interest
for the EARN users, and I am open to all ideas you may
have. Particularly, I am interested in computer conferencing.
... snip ... top of post, old email index, HSDT email
bitnet (& EARN) posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet
... also gave presentation SEAS 5-10Oct1986 (European SHARE, IBM
mainframe user group ... history of performance ... was suppose to be
an hour ... but ran over ... so spent another couple hrs that
evening. gave presentation again at (DC user group) Hillgang 16Mar2011
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/hill0316g.pdf
past posts reference SEAS &/or hillgang presentation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#46 6-10Oct1986 SEAS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#65 SHARE (& GUIDE)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#41 Teaching IBM Class
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#61 HSDT SFS (spool file rewrite)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#17 Performance History, 5-10Oct1986, SEAS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#4 Oct1986 IBM user group SEAS history presentation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#38 long-winded post thread, 3033, 3081, Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#52 Some IBM Research RJ reports
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#93 OT: Electrician cuts wrong wire and downs 25,000 square foot data centre
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#18 VM Workshop 2012
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#3 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#88 Hillgang -- VM Performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#86 If IBM Hadn't Bet the Company
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#72 A History of VM Performance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#77 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#83 Happy DEC-10 Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#40 DEC-10 SOS Editor Intra-Line Editing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#38 old modems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#17 old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#12 user group meetings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#0 tty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#74 bulletin board
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#64 terminal type and queue drop delay
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#63 tty
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#37 Hillgang user group presentation yesterday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#81 big iron mainframe vs. x86 servers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#72 tape blocking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#37 Fixed-Point and Scientific Notation
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Internal network Date: 28 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
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-system 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.
HA/CMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
Sometime later, we are brought in as consultants into a small client/server startup. Two of the former Oracle people (in the Jan1992 Ellison meeting) are there responsible for something called "commerce server" and they want to do payment transactions on the server. The startup had also invented this technology they called "SLL", they wanted to use, the result is now frequently called "electronic commerce".
I had absolute authority of everything between webservers and financial payment networks. The payment networks trouble desk for incoming leased and dialed lines which had to be extended to servicing internet connections also ... up until then they had standard for being able to do 1st level problem determination within five minutes. Early webserver pilot reported problem and after three hrs was close as NTF (no trouble found) ... not because it started working ... but because they couldn't diagnose. I then had to do a great deal of compensating and diagnostic software & procedures.
payment gateway posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#gateway
also after leaving IBM, Postel (internet RFC standards editor)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel
would let me help with some of the RFC stuff. He also sponsored my
talk on "Why Internet Isn't Business Critical Dataprocessing" (based
on compensating procedures I had to do for electronic commerce at
Netscape) at ISI & USC.
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
recent posts mentioning Postel
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#72 IBM Research, Adtech, Science Center
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#34 NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#24 NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#66 The Case Against SQL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#74 WEB Security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#56 Hacking, Exploits and Vulnerabilities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#7 IBM100 - Rise of the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#16 The Rise of the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#68 Online History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#30 IBM Recruiting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#86 5 milestones that created the internet, 50 years after the first network message
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#113 Internet and Business Critical Dataprocessing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#8 IBM TCP/IP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#3 Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#25 Are we all now dinosaurs, out of place and out of time?
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Internal network Date: 28 Aug 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 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/
nsfnet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
I've recently posted in a arpanet/internet group about the great cut-over from IMPs/host to internetworking protocol on 1/jan1983 ... where they had 100 IMP network nodes and 250 connected hosts (at time internal network was rapidly nearing 1000 nodes). One of the things inhibit arpanet nodes was needing to get a gov. IMP. Internetworking eliminated that and number nodes passed the internal network sometime mid/late 80s. One of the reasons was the appearance of TCP/IP for workstation&PC nodes while the IBM communication group was fiercely fighting to preserve their dumb terminal paradigm. The other issue was corporate required link encryptors which would run into gov. agency resistance, especially when links crossed national boundaries (major crypto link vendor claimed in 1985 that IBM internal network had half of all link encryptors in the world).
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
In HSDT, I really hated what I had to pay for T1 link encryptors and faster link encryptors were almost impossible to find ... prompting me to get involved in doing board that ran at 3mbytes/sec (not mbits) and cost less than $100 to build. At first the corporate crypto group said it seriously weakened the crypto standard. It took me three months to figure out how to explain than seriously weaker, it was significantly stronger. It was a hollow victory, they said that there was only organization in the world allowed to use such crypto, I could make as many boards as I wanted to, but they all had to be sent to an address in Maryland.
hsdt posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
some past link encryptor posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#17 The Rise of the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#57 In the 1970s, Email Was Special
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#22 IBM Recruiting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#86 5 milestones that created the internet, 50 years after the first network message
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#100 mainframe hacking "success stories"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#33 Online History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#10 Landline telephone service Disappearing in 20 States
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#69 ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#40 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#101 Internal Network, NSFNET, Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#47 T-carrier
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The SEC is Allowing 5-Count Felon JPMorgan Chase to Trade Its Own Bank Stock in its Own Dark Pools Date: 28 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookThe SEC is Allowing 5-Count Felon JPMorgan Chase to Trade Its Own Bank Stock in its Own Dark Pools
too big to fail (too big to prosecute, too big to jail)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail
Madoff posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#madoff
offbook, triple-A rated, toxic CDOs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#toxic.cdo
economic mess
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#economic.mess
posts mentioning Jamie Dimon:
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/2021f.html#14 Elizabeth Warren hammers JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on pandemic overdraft fees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#13 Elizabeth Warren hammers JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on pandemic overdraft fees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#12 Elizabeth Warren hammers JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on pandemic overdraft fees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#11 Elizabeth Warren hammers JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on pandemic overdraft fees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#112 Jamie Dimon's $13 Billion Secret--Revealed
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/2016b.html#61 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014c.html#55 Maximizing shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#93 Maximizing shareholder value: The Goal that changed corporate America
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#47 McCain: Send Petraeus back to Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#67 OT: NYT article--the rich get richer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#60 Retirement Heist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#57 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#2 IBM Relevancy in the IT World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#0 JPMorgan Caught in Swirl of Regulatory Woes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#15 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#42 More Whistleblower Leaks on Foreclosure Settlement Show Both Suppression of Evidence and Gross Incompetence
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#19 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#76 IBM Spent A Million Dollars Renovating And Staffing Its Former CEO's Office
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#35 Ex-Bailout Watchdog: JPMorgan's Actions "Entirely Consistent With Fraud"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#17 "JP MORGAN SAW ITSELF AS ABOVE THE REGULATORS" Do you agree?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#4 Live-Blogging Senate Hearing Tomorrow, When J.P. Morgan Chase Will Be Torn a New One
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#65 How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#36 JPMorgan Chase slammed by regulators for control failings after botched derivatives bet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#31 History--punched card transmission over telegraph lines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#50 The Games Played By JP Morgan Chase
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#29 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#45 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#87 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#82 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#9 JPM LOSES $2 BILLION USD!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#24 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#21 Opinions on the 'Unix Haters' Handbook'
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Research, Adtech, Science Center Date: 28 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Many TCP/IP stacks had linear search of finwait during session close. With HTTP transaction being layered on TCP for reliable ... as webserver workloads increased, there was enormous explosion in the number of closing session on the finwait list ... and started seeing webserver cpu spending 90+% of the time running the finwait list. NETSCAPE started adding more and more servers and lots of anquish over how to load balance across all the servers. Finally NETSCAPE installed a Sequent server ... which had previously addressed the finwait list scanning overhead in Dynix for other environments ... and things settled down. It was another six months or so before starting to see "fixes" for other platforms.
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
a few recent posts mentioning finwait
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#29 Quic gives the internet's data transmission foundation a needed speedup
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#74 21 random but totally appropriate ways to celebrate the World Wide Web's 30th birthday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#102 Netscape: The Fire That Filled Silicon Valley's First Bubble
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018d.html#63 tablets and desktops was Has Microsoft
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#45 learning Unix, was progress in e-mail, such as AOL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#54 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#52 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#127 Early Networking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#43 How the internet was invented
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#113 Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#96 TCP joke
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#71 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#25 The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#50 Western Union envisioned internet functionality
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015d.html#2 Knowledge Center Outage May 3rd
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#76 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#26 There Is Still Hope
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#13 Is it time for a revolution to replace TLS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#7 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
a few much earlier finwait posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000c.html#52 Does the word "mainframe" still have a meaning?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#164 Uptime (was Re: Q: S/390 on PowerPC?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#1 Early tcp development?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm#19 Hamiltonian path as protection against DOS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm25.htm#17 Hamiltonian path as protection against DOS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#21 Reliable Connections Are Not
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare Date: 28 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookThe Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
... however above is right out of Boyd's OODA-loop, Observe, Orient,
Decide, and Act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
an old Boyd story, he told them the electronics across the trail would
never work, (possibly as punishment) he was put in command of spook
base ... he said it had largest air conditioning bldg in that part of
the world. Some detail here ... gone 404, but lives on at the wayback
machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
One of Boyd's biographies claims it was a $2.5B (60s $$) windfall for
IBM. and from "Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins"
https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Chain-Rise-High-Tech-Assassins-ebook/dp/B00MSZ5BBI/
pg21/loc393-95:
To process the data Garwin, the IBM scientist, recommended the IBM-360
computer to analyze the signals, he explained, and "try to
characterize the sounds so you wouldn't be bombing birds or peasants
but convoys, trucks, or whatever." Once birds and peasants had been
eliminated, promised Garwin, the computer would order "response,
immediate response" from attack aircraft.
... snip ...
Boyd posts & refs:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
recent post, Martial Arts OODA-loop
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#37 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#47 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#51 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#58 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#60 Martial Arts "OODA-loop"
I've been having discussion in Taichi class about similarity between
OODA-loop and martial arts. Members of the class have also suggested
"five rings"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Five_Rings
and
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Five-Rings-Way-Warrior-ebook/dp/B07NDLBGT2/
also Fingerspitzengefuhl mentioned periodically by Boyd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspitzengef%C3%BChl#Related_concepts
The concept may be compared to ideas about intuition and neural net
programming. The same phenomenon, but conceptualized in a radically
different way, seems to be described by D.T. Suzuki in swordsmanship
teaching stories recounted in his Zen and Japanese Culture, and given
in analytical detail in Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis.[5]
... snip ...
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: CMSBACK, ADSM, TSM Date: 28 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
archived posts with some of the discussion
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#24 cmsback
part of the tweaks for CMSBACK version of VMFPLC was I had done a page
mapped filesystem for CMS on CP67 and then converted it to
VM370/CMS. While it would handle filesystem I/O that wasn't 4k page
aligned blocks ... things went significantly faster with 4k page
aligned. Moderate filesystem I/O benchmark on 3380s ran 2-3 times the
throughput with page-mapped than standard CMS filesystem ... and
advantage increased as load increased (all sort of scale-up
optimization). archived post with some comparison
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#25
cmsback posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#cmsback
page mapped filesystem
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Why the IBM PC Used an Intel 8088 Date: 28 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
rest of computer was 8bit, and used 8088, 8bit bus version of 16bit
8086
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8088
The original IBM PC is the most influential microcomputer to use the
8088. It has a clock frequency of 4.77 MHz (4/3 the NTSC colorburst
frequency). Some of IBM's engineers and other employees wanted to use
the IBM 801 processor, some preferred the new Motorola 68000,[e] and
others argued for a small and simple microprocessor, such as the MOS
Technology 6502 or Zilog Z80, which are in earlier personal
computers. However, IBM already had a history of using Intel chips in
its products and had also acquired the rights to manufacture the 8086
family.[f]
IBM chose the 8088 over the 8086 because Intel offered a better price
for the former and could supply more units.[16] Another factor was
that the 8088 allowed the computer to be based on a modified 8085
design, as it could easily interface with most nMOS chips with 8-bit
databuses. These were mature, and therefore economical, components.
This included ICs originally intended for support and peripheral
functions around the 8085 and similar processors (not exclusively
Intel's), which were already well known by many engineers, further
reducing cost.[g]
... snip ...
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Internal network Date: 29 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
My wife was co-author of AWP39, peer-to-peer networking architecture in the very early days of SNA definition. SNA (not a system, not a network, not an architecture) had co-opted "networking" for a communication infrastructure ... so had to qualify their network architecture with "peer-to-peer".
Later she was con'ed into going to POK in charge of "loosely-coupled" architecture where she did Peer-Coupled Shared Data architecture. She didn't remain long, in part because of 1) constant battles with communication group trying to force her to use vtam/sna for loosely-couple operation and 2) little uptake except for IMS hotstandy ... until much later for SYSPLEX and parallel SYSPLEX.
Peer-Coupled Shared Data posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#shareddata
She has joke about Vern Watts ... after work asking him who was going to ask permission of to do hot standby. He says he wasn't going to ask, he would just do it and tell them when it was all done.
posts mentioning AWP39:
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#119 IBM Acronyms
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#2 Frank Heart Dies at 89
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#1 Service Bureau Corporation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018b.html#13 Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#62 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#29 ARM Cortex A53 64 bit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#55 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#124 Early Networking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#48 PL/I advertising
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#99 Systems thinking--still in short supply
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#96 TCP joke
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#25 Microsoft Open Sources .NET, Saying It Will Run on Linux and Mac
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#15 Last Gasp for Hard Disk Drives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#99 the suckage of MS-DOS, was Re: 'Free Unix!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#26 SNA vs TCP/IP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#19 z/OS is antique WAS: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#44 What Makes code storage management so cool?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#52 PC/mainframe browser(s) was Re: 360/20, was 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#24 Does the IBM System z Mainframe rely on Security by Obscurity or is it Secure by Design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#41 Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#23 How to Stuff a Wild Duck
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#25 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#17 Hierarchy
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#41 Where are all the old tech workers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#2 Soups
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#6 What is IBM culture?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#26 computer bootlaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#73 zLinux OR Linux on zEnterprise Blade Extension???
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#29 someone smarter than Dave Cutler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#5 What is a Server?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#62 LPARs: More or Less?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#83 Small Server Mob Advantage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#7 VTAM security issue
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#3 VTAM security issue
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#26 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009e.html#56 When did "client server" become part of the language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#97 We're losing the battle
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#73 Convergent Technologies vs Sun
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#71 Interesting ibm about the myths of the Mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007v.html#53 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007r.html#10 IBM System/3 & 3277-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007q.html#46 Are there tasks that don't play by WLM's rules
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#23 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#12 JES2 or JES3, Which one is older?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#72 FICON tape drive?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#62 Friday musings on the future of 3270 applications
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#39 sizeof() was: The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007h.html#35 sizeof() was: The Perfect Computer - 36 bits?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#55 Is computer history taugh now?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#48 6400 impact printer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#9 Mainframe vs. "Server" (Was Just another example of mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#55 What's a mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#28 Assembler question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#36 The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#9 Was FORTRAN buggy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#4 Was FORTRAN buggy?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#62 Greatest Software, System R
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#45 Mainframe Linux Mythbusting (Was: Using Java in batch on z/OS?)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#4 Google Architecture
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#21 Sending CONSOLE/SYSLOG To Off-Mainframe Server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#9 Arpa address
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#31 virtual memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#52 Need Help defining an AS400 with an IP address to the mainframe
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#23 Channel Distances
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#27 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#17 DUMP Datasets and SMS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#15 DUMP Datasets and SMS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#8 EBCDIC to 6-bit and back
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004p.html#31 IBM 3705 and UC.5
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#38 RS/6000 in Sysplex Environment
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM XT/370 Date: 29 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
XT/370 was 100kips 370 ... 370/115 was 80kips and 370/125 was 120kips. VM/370 wasn't announced for 125 ... but early on I got asked to get VM/370 running on 256kbyte 125 owned by a Norway ocean ship company. A decade later VM/370 was significantly more bloated
115/125 & 138/148 trivia: in the wake of FS implosion .. FS posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
there was mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 product pipelines & quick&dirty 3033 and 3081 efforts were kicked off in parallel, as well as 370/xa and mvs/xa ... the head of POK also convinced corporate to kill the vm370, transfer all the people to POK to work on mvs/xa, and shutdown the burlington mall development group; they weren't planning on telling people until just before the move, to minimize the number that might escape. The information leaked early ... this was just when DEC VMS was starting and the joke was that head of POK was major contributor to DEC VMS. There was also a witch hunt for the source of the leak, fortunately nobody gave me up. Endicott managed to save the vm370 product mission but had to reconstitute a development group from scratch ... some customer issues vm370 code quality during the next 5-6 years.
I got con'ed into doing something for 125 as well at the same time
138/148. 115/125 had same memory bus with nine positions for
microprocessors; 115 had all the controller and 370 microprocessors
the same ... about 800kips engine. The 125 was same as 115 except the
125 370 processor was 1.2mips engine. 115, 125, 135, 145, 138, 148
... all had different microprocessors for the 370 processor and all
avg. about ten native instructions per 370 instruction emulated (aka
115 800kips->37080kips, 125 1200kps->370 120kips, etc). The work for
virgil/tully (138/148) was moving highest used code paths from the 370
kernel into microcode on approx byte-for-byte basis giving 10:1
speedup. Criteria was 138&148 had 6kbytes of microcode memory
available ... and was to choose the highest executed 6kbytes of kernel
370 code ... old archived post with analysis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#21
highest used 6kbytes of kernel executed pathlengths accounted for
79.55% of kernel execution, ECPS cut that cpu time by order of
magnitude.
For 125, they wanted me to support up to five microprocessors running 370 code (5-way SMP multiprocessor) and they would also significantly increase 370 storage. Design was to include most of work done for ECPS plus also nearly all the SMP code moved into microcode (something like the later intel i432) ... kernel code would queue tasks for execution and the microcode would pull executable tasks off the queue. Also moved pretty much all disk I/O logic into disk controller (something like a superset of later 370/xa SSCH) ... along with misc. other microcode bells & whistles.
5-way SMP posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#bounce
smp posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp
Then Endicott escalated to corporate that the 5-way 125 would overlap the 148 throughput ... and I had to sit on both sides of the table arguing justification with myself. Eventually corporate decided to kill the 125 multiprocessor.
Later MVS group thot they could do similar MVS ECPS for 3033. The 370/165 avg. 2.1 machine cycles per 370 instruction, this was optimized for 370/168 to 1.6 machine cycles per 370 instructions. 3033 start out Q&D remapping 168 logic to 20% faster chips ... which wasn't very competitive with the clones ... 370 microcode was then tweaked getting 3033 down to avg of one machine cycle per 370 instruction. Any sort of 3033 MVS ECPS wasn't going to run faster than the 370 code and in some cases ran slower.
I would give talks on how 138/148 (and for 4331/4341) ECPS was done at monthly baybunch meetings ... also attended by various Amdahl people. They said they had to resort to "macrocode" ... bascially 370 instructions that ran in microcode mode ... in order to respond to the plethora of trivial 3033 MVS microcode changes that were required in order for MVS to execute (they could reimplement them in macrocode significantly easier and faster than it took IBM to do them originally). Then Amdahl used macrocode to implement "hypervisor" ... running multiple operating systems on the same hardware (w/o needing VM370) ... it took IBM several years to respond with PR/SM & LPAR on 3090.
360/370 microcode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360mcode
macrocode posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#67 Amdahl
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#54 IBM Quota
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#52 Amdahl Computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#78 IBM Tumbles After Reporting Worst Revenue In 17 Years As Cloud Hits Air Pocket
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019.html#38 long-winded post thread, 3033, 3081, Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#30 These Are the Best Companies to Work For in the U.S
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#54 Here's a horrifying thought for all you management types
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#43 learning Unix, was progress in e-mail, such as AOL
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#46 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#37 IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#44 John Titor was right? IBM 5100
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015.html#85 a bit of hope? What was old is new again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#161 Slushware
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#100 No Internet. No Microsoft Windows. No iPods. This Is What Tech Was Like In 1984
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#19 DG Nova 1200 as console
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#20 Write Inhibit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#17 Write Inhibit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#46 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#27 World's worst programming environment?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#68 Linear search vs. Binary search
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#58 Was MVS/SE designed to confound Amdahl?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#3 Is Microsoft becoming folklore?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#102 Question on PR/SM dispatcher
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#93 Irrational desire to author fundamental interfaces
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#74 z millicode: where does it reside?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#27 CPU time/instruction table
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#26 Op codes removed from z/10
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#42 New Opcodes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#33 New Opcodes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#32 New Opcodes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#96 some questions about System z PR/SM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#74 Non-Standard Mainframe Language?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#84 VLIW pre-history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#9 Has anyone ever used self-modifying microcode? Would it even be useful?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#3 Has anyone ever used self-modifying microcode? Would it even be useful?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#1 How many 36-bit Unix ports in the old days?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#20 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#34 Assembler question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#33 Assembler question
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#42 old hypervisor email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#39 Using different storage key's
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#35 Code density and performance?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006j.html#32 Code density and performance?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#9 Mainframe Jobs Going Away
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#38 blast from the past ... macrocode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#48 POWER6 on zSeries?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#43 POWER6 on zSeries?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#40 POWER6 on zSeries?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#29 Documentation for the New Instructions for the z9 Processor
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005p.html#14 Multicores
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#24 Description of a new old-fashioned programming language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#60 Misuse of word "microcode"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#59 Misuse of word "microcode"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#56 Wild hardware idea
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003.html#9 Mainframe System Programmer/Administrator market demand?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#48 Linux paging
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#44 Linux paging
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: IBM Internal network Date: 29 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
some recent VTAM/SNA Raliegh and Hursley comments
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#49 Dynamic Adaptive Resource Management
Infamous story about Hursley and JES2 ... Internally, there were several major problems with using JES2 networking. The original TUCC code mapped network nodes in the unused entries in the 255 pseudo device table (around 160-180 max nodes) ... at the time when the number of internal network nodes was already over 256 (If JES2 saw any traffic, origin or destination, involving nodes not in its table, the traffic was discarded).
The other problem was that the TUCC intermixed the networking fields with job control fields ... and traffic between two JES2 at different releases had habit of bringing down one or both MVS systems. As a result special JES2 drivers in VNET grew up that would convert to some canonical header format and then to format required by the JES2 release on a directly connected link. San Jose GPD put up a new release that started crashing MVS systems in Hursley. Management in Hursley eventually blamed their VNET people because they hadn't anticipated the San Jose JES2 changes and appropriately installed code to keep Hursley MVS systems from crashing.
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
HASP, ASP, JES2/JES3, networking posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#hasp
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: CMSBACK, ADSM, TSM Date: 29 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
late 80s a senior disk engineer got talk scheduled at annual,
world-wide, internal communication group conference supposedly on 3174
performance ... but opened the talk with statement that the
communication group was going to be responsible for demise of the disk
division. The issue was that the communication group had strategic
ownership of everything that crossed the datacenter wall and were
fiercely fighting off client/server and distributed computing. The
disk division was seeing drop in disk sales with customers moving to
platforms more distributed computing friendly. The disk division came
up with a number of solutions, but they were constantly being vetoed
by the communication group with their strategic stranglehold on
datacenters. The communication group datacenter stranglehold not only
affected disk sales but much of the rest of computing business ... and
a couple years later, IBM goes into the red (and was being reorged
into the 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
posts mentioning communication group trying to preserve
dumb terminal paradigm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#terminal
gerstner posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#gerstner
IBM downfall/downturn posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ibmdownfall
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-system by ye1992).
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
within a couple weeks cluster scale-up is transferred, announced as
supercomputer and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more
than four processors. We leave IBM a few months later
ha/cmp posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
The ADSTAR software executive was trying several ways to circumvent
the communication group (besides ADSM) ... and asking us to cooperate
and/or help ... including asking us to help with Mesa Archival
... which was startup spinoff of the NCAR/Boulder filesystem that he
had invested in ... also working with LANL and the DataTree spinoff of
their filesystem and LLNL with the Unitree spinoff of their "Lincs"
filesystem (including funding the port of Lincs/Unitree to
HA/CMP). LANL Datatree & LLNL Unitree
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113582
This has some discussion of LINCS/Unitree at LLNL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLTSS
above mentions 3rd party transfer. It was originally done in the NCAR filesystem in 1st half of 80s using HYPERchannel boxes, 4341 kept track of data on 3330 disks, it would take incoming requests from supercomputers and if necessary stage the data to 3330, then download channel program to appropriate A515 (emulating IBM mainframe channel) and return the channel program identifier to the requesting supercomputer ... which would transfer data directly (read or write) between supercomputer and disk. I would periodically get requests from Boulder IBM branch office for help on HYPERchannel. 3rd party transfer was added to HIPPI standard so the implementation could be moved to HIPPI (and later FCS) connected disk farm and the 4341 implementation moved to HA/CMP.
3rd party transfer posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#67 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/2011b.html#58 Other early NSFNET backbone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#85 3270 Emulator Software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#63 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#23 Larrabee delayed: anyone know what's happening?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009c.html#47 Using a PC as DASD
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#43 Barbless
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004d.html#75 DASD Architecture of the future
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003p.html#46 comp.arch classic: the 10-bit byte
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#22 303x, idals, dat, disk head settle, and other rambling folklore
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003b.html#47 send/recv vs. raw RDMA
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#60 Mainframes and "mini-computers"
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#21 Disk caching and file systems. Disk history...people forget
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Hurricane Ida slammed into Louisiana and then didn't really weaken. Why? Date: 30 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookHurricane Ida slammed into Louisiana and then didn't really weaken. Why? This slow weakening is in stark contrast to a typical hurricane.
But it's not just the surface temperature of the Gulf that's important, said Joshua Wadler, a researcher with the University of Miami and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Hurricanes actually cool the ocean as they travel across it, because they stir up the water down to about 150 feet, mixing in colder water from below.
In this case, Ida traveled across water that was much warmer down to that depth. Probes sent into the water by hurricane hunter aircraft on Saturday revealed that the temperature, after it had been mixed by Ida, was about 30 degrees Celsius, or 86 degrees Fahrenheit, Dr. Wadler said.
... snip ...
What We Know About Climate Change and Hurricanes
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/29/climate/climate-change-hurricanes.html
Geoengineering marks scientific gains in U.N. report on dire climate
future
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/geoengineering-marks-scientific-gains-un-report-dire-climate-future-2021-08-10/
Hurricane Ida Wrecks Havoc in Louisiana. Here's What to Know
https://time.com/6093606/hurricane-ida-new-orleans-path/
We're Hitting the Limits of Hurricane Preparedness. Cities simply
don't have enough time to run from a storm like Ida.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/hurricane-ida-end-of-hurricane-preparedness/619926/
"merchants of doubt" posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#merchants.of.doubt
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Our "Trillion-Dollar Seven": Can We Summon the Courage to Tax Them? Date: 30 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookOur "Trillion-Dollar Seven": Can We Summon the Courage to Tax Them?
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
inequality posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#inequality
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The War in Afghanistan Is What Happens When McKinsey Types Run Everything Date: 30 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookThe War in Afghanistan Is What Happens When McKinsey Types Run Everything. An Afghan General blames defense contractors for the collapse of the Afghan army. A government inspector blames the "the pervasiveness of overoptimism" by U.S. generals. It's all that, and more.
another Boyd acolyte, was graduate of first USAF academy class and on
fast track to general, when he says Boyd destroyed his career by
challenging him to do what was right, ... later wrote a book
https://www.amazon.com/Pentagon-Wars-Reformers-Challenge-Guard-ebook/dp/B00HXY969W/
HBO turned into movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars
related NYT article: Corrupt from top to bottom
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/03/books/corrupt-from-top-to-bottom.html
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
goes along with huge uptic in the rapidly spreading success of
failure culture ... a series of failures met more money
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
Boyd posts & refs
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
success of failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: What Is a TPM, and Why Do I Need One for Windows 11? Date: 30 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookWhat Is a TPM, and Why Do I Need One for Windows 11? Microsoft says its upcoming Windows 11 operating system will require the presence of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM), which has raised a storm of doubt and uncertainty. What exactly is TPM, and does your PC already have it? Here's what you need to know.
spring 2001, 20yrs ago, lead technical director reporting to DDI for
Information Assurance Directorate was doing a panel in the Trusted
Computing track at IDF ... and asked me to give a talk on my chip (the
guy running trusted computing TPM was in the front row so I quipped
that it was nice to see his chip looking more and more like mine, he
quipped back that I didn't have a committee of 200 people helping me)
... gone 404, but lives on at the wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20011109072807/http://www.intel94.com/idf/spr2001/sessiondescription.asp?id=stp%2bs13
trusted computing posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#trusted.computing
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: CMSBACK, ADSM, TSM Date: 30 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
... topic drift from LINCS & NLTSS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLTSS
above mentions: Livermore Time Sharing System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livermore_Time_Sharing_System
Ann Hardy
https://medium.com/chmcore/someone-elses-computer-the-prehistory-of-cloud-computing-bca25645f89
Ann Hardy is a crucial figure in the story of Tymshare and
time-sharing. She began programming in the 1950s, developing software
for the IBM Stretch supercomputer. Frustrated at the lack of
opportunity and pay inequality for women at IBM -- at one point she
discovered she was paid less than half of what the lowest-paid man
reporting to her was paid -- Hardy left to study at the University of
California, Berkeley, and then joined the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory in 1962. At the lab, one of her projects involved an early
and surprisingly successful time-sharing operating system.
... snip ...
If Discrimination, Then Branch: Ann Hardy's Contributions to Computing
https://computerhistory.org/blog/if-discrimination-then-branch-ann-hardy-s-contributions-to-computing/
Much more Ann Hardy at Computer History Museum
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102717167
Ann rose up to become Vice President of the Integrated Systems
Division at Tymshare, from 1976 to 1984, which did online airline
reservations, home banking, and other applications. When Tymshare was
acquired by McDonnell-Douglas in 1984, Ann's position as a female VP
became untenable, and was eased out of the company by being encouraged
to spin out Gnosis, a secure, capabilities-based operating system
developed at Tymshare. Ann founded Key Logic, with funding from Gene
Amdahl, which produced KeyKOS, based on Gnosis, for IBM and Amdahl
mainframes. After closing Key Logic, Ann became a consultant, leading
to her cofounding Agorics with members of Ted Nelson's Xanadu project.
... snip ...
a couple past Ann Hardy refs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#27 Someone Else's Computer: The Prehistory of Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#3 New machine code
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Why the IBM PC Used an Intel 8088 Date: 31 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
801/Iliad was for a wide variety of projects that all went south for one reason or another. 801/ROMP was originally for displaywriter follow-on ... which ibm/pc word processing probably killed ... decision was to retarget ROMP for unix workstation market ... and got the company that had done the PC/IX port for IBM/PC to do one for ROMP ... which ships as AIX (and PC/RT).
As referenced in several of the articles IBM/PC was extremely price sensitive and volume ... did do 16bit processor but with 8bit bus
among other things, 801/Iliad was going to be used for the 4361&4381 (follow-on to 370 4331 & 4341) and as/400 (follow-on to combination of s/34, s/36, & s/38). I got asked to help with white paper justifying 370 CISC for 4361 & 4381 (instead of 801 with implementing 370 in microcode) ... i.e. CISC technology had gotten to the point that nearly whole 370 could be implemented directly in silicon ... rather than emulated in microcode.
801/risc, iliad, romp, rios, pc/rt, rs/6000, power/pc posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
some posts mentioning white paper for 370 CISC
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#47 Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#105 DOS descendant still lives was Re: slight reprieve on the z
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#95 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamationmade30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#82 zEC12, and previous generations, "why?" type question - GPU computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#24 Supervisory Processors
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008k.html#59 Happy 20th Birthday, AS/400
Boeblingen was doing ROMAN 3-chip CISC 370 with performance of 168-3 (3MIPS). Some how Siemans Germany (doing 370 clones) got a copy of (ibm classifed) spec. One of the Amdahl people visiting them, told them they couldn't have it ... he confiscated the document, sent it to me in Cal. for me to send back to IBM in Boelingen.
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: CMSBACK, ADSM, TSM Date: 31 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
other trivia: when MD bought TYMSHARE, I was brought in to evaluate GNOSIS (370 operating system) for spinoff KEYKOS/Key Logic (it was cleared with my IBM research management as well as local branch) ... and had contact with several of the KEYKOS players for many years.
Interesting along the way was that they redid some ACP/TPF for KEYKOS and demonstrated higher throughput than ACP/TPF on the same hardware. The scenario was that KEYKOS had much higher level of abstraction for system services and therefor had more knowledge about application objectives and could do better job with throughput as workload scaled up
other posts mentioning GNOSIS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#19 Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline - unless it learns to migrate itself
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#27 Someone Else's Computer: The Prehistory of Cloud Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#25 Rust in peace: Memory bugs in C and C++ code cause security issues so Microsoft is considering alternatives once again
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#33 IBM Future System
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018f.html#77 Douglas Engelbart, the forgotten hero of modern computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#95 The (broken) economics of OSS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#24 1963 Timesharing: A Solution to Computer Bottlenecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#41 TYMSHARE @ CHM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#61 Typesetting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#76 Mainframe operating systems?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#41 What are mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017c.html#60 [EXTERNAL] ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017b.html#59 The ICL 2900
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#100 Trump to sign cyber security order
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#28 {wtf} Tymshare SuperBasic Source Code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#110 Tymshare sold to McDonnell Douglas
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#107 some computer and online history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016d.html#12 What Would Be Your Ultimate Computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#29 1976 vs. 2016?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#43 [Poll] Computing favorities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015f.html#82 Miniskirts and mainframes
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#53 transactions, was There Is Still Hope
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#40 Named Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#53 The mainframe turns 50, or, why the IBM System/360 launch was the dawn of enterprise IT
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#44 [CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#39 [CM] Ten recollections about the early WWW and Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014b.html#84 CPU time
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#13 Bounded pointers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013n.html#6 ACA (Obamacare) website problems--article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#59 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#58 'Free Unix!': The world-changing proclamation made 30yearsagotoday
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#57 Doug Englebart
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#6 The Subroutine Call
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#33 Delay between idea and implementation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#55 Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet, 1974
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#80 Still not convinced about the superiority of mainframe security vs distributed?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#38 There can be no System Security without System Integrity
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#7 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#57 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#57 1132 printer history
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#59 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#53 Operating System, what is it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#43 Virtual address Memory Protection Unit
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#40 GNOSIS & KeyKOS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#39 Just a quick link to a video by the National Research Council of Canada made in 1971 on computer technology for filmmaking
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#55 Any candidates for best acronyms?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#42 i432 on Bitsavers?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#37 Happy 100th Birthday, IBM!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011e.html#35 junking CKD; was "Social Security Confronts IT Obsolescence"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011d.html#71 Multiple Virtual Memory
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#2 Other early NSFNET backbone
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#31 Colossal Cave Adventure in PL/I
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#63 VMSHARE Archives
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010j.html#75 What is the protocal for GMT offset in SMTP (e-mail) header
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/2010d.html#84 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009f.html#28 Opinion: The top 10 operating system stinkers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009b.html#4 Possibility of malicious CPUs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#3 New machine code
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#14 Two views of Microkernels (Re: Kernels
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#23 Doug Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008g.html#7 was: 1975 movie "Three Days of the Condor" tech stuff
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#12 Kernels
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#50 How does ATTACH pass address of ECB to child?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#24 folklore indeed
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#17 Oddly good news week: Google announces a Caps library for Javascript
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#25 LAX IT failure: leaps of faith don't work
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#26 user level TCP implementation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#16 "The Elements of Programming Style"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#11 Multiple mappings
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#42 vmshare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#7 Very slow booting and running and brain-dead OS's?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#13 What part of z/OS is the OS?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#34 PDP-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#37 PDP-1
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005s.html#12 Flat Query
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#30 Public disclosure of discovered vulnerabilities
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#13 Today's mainframe--anything to new?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#50 Secure design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#43 Secure design
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#67 intel's Vanderpool and virtualization in general
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005b.html#6 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005.html#7 How do you say "gnus"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004o.html#33 Integer types for 128-bit addressing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004n.html#41 Multi-processor timing issue
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#49 EAL5
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#29 Shipwrecks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004e.html#27 NSF interest in Multics security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#4 OS Partitioning and security
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#54 Thoughts on Utility Computing?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#26 Secure OS Thoughts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#22 Secure OS Thoughts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#19 Secure OS Thoughts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003k.html#50 Slashdot: O'Reilly On The Importance Of The Mainframe Heritage
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#20 A Dark Day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003h.html#41 Segments, capabilities, buffer overrun attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003g.html#18 Multiple layers of virtual address translation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002j.html#75 30th b'day
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002i.html#63 Hercules and System/390 - do we need it?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002h.html#43 IBM doing anything for 50th Anniv?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002g.html#4 markup vs wysiwyg (was: Re: learning how to use a computer)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#59 Blade architectures
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#10 TSS/360
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#35 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#33 Did AT&T offer Unix to Digital Equipment in the 70s?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001b.html#73 7090 vs. 7094 etc.
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000g.html#22 No more innovation? Get serious
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000f.html#69 TSS ancient history, was X86 ultimate CISC? designs)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#63 Oddly good news week: Google announces a Caps library for Javascript
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm24.htm#16 Apple to help Microsoft with "security neutrality"?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm23.htm#54 Status of SRP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm21.htm#25 Broken SSL domain name trust model
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm17.htm#31 Payment system and security conference
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm16.htm#8 example: secure computing kernel needed
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The War in Afghanistan Is What Happens When McKinsey Types Run Everything Date: 31 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebook
smedley butler trivia: american fascists invited him to lead military
overthrow of the US Gov. ... and blew the whistle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
In the last few weeks of the committee's official life it received
evidence showing that certain persons had made an attempt to establish
a fascist organization in this country. No evidence was presented and
this committee had none to show a connection between this effort and
any fascist activity of any European country. There is no question
that these attempts were discussed, were planned, and might have been
placed in execution when and if the financial backers deemed it
expedient.
... snipt ...
... aka it was not "un-american activity" ... purely an american
fascist effort, however some of the people called to testify were
unavailable out of the country
https://timeline.com/business-plot-overthrow-fdr-9a59a012c32a?gi=4a89a8a04b7d
Also implicated in the plot was Al Smith, former New York governor and
1928 Democratic presidential nominee, as well as Prescott Bush, a
banker, future Connecticut senator, and father to George H. W. Bush
and grandfather to George W. Bush.
... snip ...
... however recruiting and planning for sedition should still be sedition
other past posts mentioning Smedley Butler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#38 $10,000 Invested in Defense Stocks When Afghanistan War Began Now Worth Almost $100,000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#67 Does America Like Losing Wars?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#50 Who Authorized America's Wars? And Why They Never End
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#22 What America Didn't Understand About Its Longest War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#80 After WW2, US Antifa come home
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#21 A People's Guide to the War Industry
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#96 How Ike Led
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#91 American Nazis Rally in New York City
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#32 Fascism
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#145 The Plots Against the President
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#112 When The Bankers Plotted To Overthrow FDR
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#107 The Great Scandal: Christianity's Role in the Rise of the Nazis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#106 OT, "new" Heinlein book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#91 OT, "new" Heinlein book
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#69 Profit propaganda ads witch-hunt era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019e.html#63 Profit propaganda ads witch-hunt era
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#36 Is America A Christian Nation?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019c.html#17 Family of Secrets
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#41 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#105 [CM] What was your first home computer?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#60 The Illusion Of Victory: America In World War I
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#23 Ironic old "fortune"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#69 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#38 "I used a real computer at home...and so will you" (Popular Science May 1967)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#11 Smedley Butler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#3 Smedley Butler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#2 Smedley Butler
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#79 Qbasic
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#39 Failure as a Way of Life; The logic of lost wars and military-industrial boondoggles
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016b.html#31 Putin holds phone call with Obama, urges better defense cooperation in fight against ISIS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#31 I Feel Old
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#3 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#13 past of nukes, was Future of support for telephone rotary dial ?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#58 Singer Cartons of Punch Cards
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: An AI can simulate an economy millions of times to create fairer tax policy Date: 31 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookAn AI can simulate an economy millions of times to create fairer tax policy. Deep reinforcement learning has trained AIs to beat humans at complex games like Go and StarCraft. Could it also do a better job at running the economy?
I've periodically theorized that they used computer war gaming to come
up with the rapidly spreading success of failure culture used by
gov. contractors and beltway bandits
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/
success of failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
also motivating perpetual wars ... never actually win, drag it out for
as long as possible
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war
posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#perpetual.war
for the military-industrial(-congressional) complex
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
old 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 ...
Boyd posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: CSC, Virtual Machines, Internet Date: 31 Aug 2021 Blog: Facebookdid ascii tty33&35 terminal support for cp67
... but didn't get a terminal at home until mar1970, a ibm 2741 (selectric) terminal, had it at home until summer 1977 when it was replaced with CDI miniterm (looked a lot like silent 700, also had a portable microfiche viewer and plant site had microfiche printer and had couple hundred fiche) ... then 1979 a ibm 3101 glass teletype ... before getting ibm/pc.
miniterm
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/miniterm2.jpg
desk with miniterm & microfiche viewer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/miniterm.jpg
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/home3101.jpg
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/homepc.jpg
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Mainframe Hall of Fame Date: 31 Aug 2021 Blog: FacebookMainframe Hall of Fame
URL had gone 404, was updating my ref to use wayback machine ... four
new members added:
https://web.archive.org/web/20111223114404/http://www.mainframezone.com/blog/mainframe-hall-of-fame-four-new-members-added/
mentions "wheeler scheduler", i.e. dynamica adaptive resource managerr
... past posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
also pointed at full list
https://web.archive.org/web/20110817070419/http://www.mainframezone.com/static/mainframe-hall-of-fame
... mentions EAGLE evolved into DB2, which seems garbled. Original SQL/relational, System/R was done at San Jose Research on vm/145. Then when corporation was preoccupied with EAGLE ... managed to do technology transfer "under the radar" to Endicott for SQL/DS. Then when EAGLE "imploded", request was made how fast could System/R be ported to MVS ... which was eventually released as DB2 (originally for decision support *only*).
also reference here, 1995 SQL Reunion
https://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95.html
DB2
https://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-DB2.html
Spreading the word
https://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-Spreadin.html
Well, Santa Teresa was really paralyzed. They had this big group and
they were changing project names continuously. First it was called
VSS, and then DS/1, and then Eagle, and then Ampersand, which was the
only cute name, because Ampersand stands for a variable in the SCRIPT
language. This was supposed to be the system to replace all database
systems. It was going to replace IMS, provide new fancy interfaces,
provide all sorts of compatibility. There were three components. There
was System Services, and that is the only part that survived. Things
like logging, recovery, and locking; it's the only component that
survived in DB2. There was the Data Communication Component that
totally went away.
... snip ...
SQL/DS
https://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-SQL_DS.html
So I guess the biggest friend that System R or SQL had in this process
at Santa Teresa was Eagle. You might think of Eagle as a tremendous
resource drain, and so on, and so on, and it was, but the fact that
Santa Teresa was completely preoccupied with how to completely replace
IMS and do something much better than IMS and do many of the things
that were in FS and all this stuff, sort of kept all the guns away
from us, while we looked at what would be the best way to do what we
then called DS/2. In other words, they sort of carved out everything
but MVS and gave it to my group and said, "Well you guys go figure out
what to do for database for the VM and DOS environment, and we'll
worry about the really big `Production' problems," which was what
Eagle was going to address. So I think it was the best friend of the
whole process, in that we got to look at that in our own pace without
an awful lot of help from White Plains or local management or
Poughkeepsie or any of that. We were able to make a decision to go
ahead and use System R as the basis for SQL/DS, and without that being
a politically-incorrect decision. Which if we had tried to make that
decision at that point in time to supplant a lot of the Eagle work
with System R, I don't think it would have been possible for people to
make that decision.
... snip ...
... much later when we were doing cluster scale-up HA/CMP and working
with RDBMS vendors ... including Oracle ... one of the Oracle
executives claimed that when he was with IBM in STL, he did the
majority of the System/R & SQL/DS technology transfer to STL for DB2
... he is mentioned in this old post about HA/CMP scale-up meeting in
Ellison's conference room
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
also mentioned in the SQL Reunion index
https://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/sqlr95-Index.html
system/r posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Mainframe Hall of Fame Date: 01 Sep 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Then there is Knights of VM
http://mvmua.org/knights.html
and this article about mainframe history (although garbled some of the
details), gone 404 but lives on at wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20200103152517/http://archive.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/stoprun/stop-run/making-history/
past posts mentioning "Knights of VM"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#38 Osborne 1 with speech synthesis
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015h.html#32 (External):Re: IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#1 Time to choose the Knights of 2012
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011.html#33 IBM Historic Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#22 Old EMAIL Index
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#21 Titles for the Class of 1978
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#20 Old EMAIL Index
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#19 Old EMAIL Index
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#18 Old EMAIL Index
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#13 Old EMAIL Index
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#11 Titles for the Class of 1978
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#10 Titles for the Class of 1978
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#1 Honoree pedigrees
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#0 Old EMAIL Index
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007n.html#91 Combining VM list threads
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#27 moving on
past posts mentioning "Making History" article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#24 IBM Internal Network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019b.html#4 Oct1986 IBM user group SEAS history presentation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018e.html#22 Manned Orbiting Laboratory Declassified: Inside a US Military Space Station
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017g.html#8 Mainframe Networking problems
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017f.html#105 The IBM 7094 and CTSS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#61 Can commodity hardware actually emulate the power of a mainframe?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016c.html#25 Globalization Worker Negotiation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#80 Term "Open Systems" (as Sometimes Currently Used) is Dead -- Who's with Me?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#42 Computer museums
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#60 Retirement Heist
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#29 The agency problem and how to create a criminogenic environment
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#28 Flag bloat
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013k.html#2 IBM Relevancy in the IT World
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#87 IBM going ahead with more U.S. job cuts today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#77 IBM going ahead with more U.S. job cuts today
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#61 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#49 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#79 As an IBM'er just like the Marines only a few good men and women make the cut,
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#74 mainframe "selling" points
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#60 Today in TIME Tech History: Piston-less Power (1959), IBM's Decline (1992), TiVo (1998) and More
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#32 Does the IBM System z Mainframe rely on Obscurity or is it Security by Design?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012k.html#34 History--punched card transmission over telegraph lines
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#87 Monopoly/ Cartons of Punch Cards
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#82 How do you feel about the fact that today India has more IBM employees than US?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#57 The Myth of Work-Life Balance
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011p.html#12 Why are organizations sticking with mainframes?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011c.html#68 IBM and the Computer Revolution
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#60 I actually miss working at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#30 IBM Historic computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#62 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010l.html#36 Great things happened in 1973
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008p.html#53 Query: Mainframers look forward and back
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008j.html#28 We're losing the battle
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#66 How does ATTACH pass address of ECB to child?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#65 How does ATTACH pass address of ECB to child?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#26 garlic.com
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006i.html#11 Google is full
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006c.html#43 IBM 610 workstation computer
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#19 Blowing My Own Horn
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#14 Misuse of word "microcode"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005e.html#9 Making History
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Afghan Crisis Must End America's Empire of War, Corruption and Poverty Date: 01 Sep 2021 Blog: FacebookAfghan Crisis Must End America's Empire of War, Corruption and Poverty
The Bunker: Finished: The U.S. military leaves Afghanistan
https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2021/09/the-bunker-finished/
Al-Qaeda congratulates Taliban for 'historic victory' in Afghanistan
https://warisboring.com/al-qaeda-congratulates-taliban-for-historic-victory-in-afghanistan/
An Old Soldier's Denial on Afghanistan
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/09/01/an-old-soldiers-denial-on-afghanistan/
Nemesis: Why the west was doomed to lose in Afghanistan
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/nemesis-why-the-west-was-doomed-to-lose-in-afghanistan-911-taliban
The War in Afghanistan Ends Where It Started
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2021-08-30/the-war-in-afghanistan-ends-where-it-started
Don't Wage Economic War on Afghanistan
https://original.antiwar.com/Daniel_Larison/2021/08/31/dont-wage-economic-war-on-afghanistan/
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
success of failure posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#success.of.failuree
posts this year
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#101 The War in Afghanistan Is What Happens When McKinsey Types Run Everything
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#96 The War in Afghanistan Is What Happens When McKinsey Types Run Everything
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#73 A War's Epitaph. For Two Decades, Americans Told One Lie After Another About What They Were Doing in Afghanistan
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#62 An Un-American Way of War: Why the United States Fails at Irregular Warfare
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#59 Generation of Vipers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#57 Generation of Vipers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#56 Afghanistan Down the Drain
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#43 Afghanistan Down the Drain
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#42 Afghanistan Down the Drain
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#39 Republicans delete webpage celebrating Trump's deal with Taliban
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#38 $10,000 Invested in Defense Stocks When Afghanistan War Began Now Worth Almost $100,000
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#2 The Disturbing Rise of the Corporate Mercenaries
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#102 Democratic senators increase pressure to declassify 9/11 documents related to Saudi role in attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#99 Democratic senators increase pressure to declassify 9/11 documents related to Saudi role in attacks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#22 What America Didn't Understand About Its Longest War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#7 Donald Rumsfeld, The Controversial Architect Of The Iraq War, Has Died
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#4 Donald Rumsfeld, The Controversial Architect Of The Iraq War, Has Died
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#95 Geopolitics, Profit, and Poppies: How the CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#71 Inflating China Threat to Balloon Pentagon Budget
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#66 Biden takes steps to rein in 'forever wars' in Afghanistan and Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#65 Biden takes steps to rein in 'forever wars' in Afghanistan and Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#64 Biden takes steps to rein in 'forever wars' in Afghanistan and Iraq
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#59 White House backs bill to end Iraq war military authorization
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#42 The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#82 The Pentagon's Favorite Crowbar
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#22 Fighting to Go Home: Operation Desert Storm, 30 Years Later
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#30 Trump and Republican Party Racism
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Re: 3277 graphics Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2021 12:09:29 -10000000014ab5cdfb21-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.UA.EDU (Mike Wawiorko) writes:
i.e. highest executed 6kbytes of kernel code accounted for 79.55% of kernel cpu use ... getting 10:1 performance increase by moving to microcode. It was reimplemented for 4341.
Note 4341 was faster than 158-3 & 3031.
During the Future System period (was completely different than 370 and
was going to completely replace 370) ... 370 efforts were being shutdown
(lack of new IBM 370 was credited with giving 370 clone makers their
market foothold). When FS imploded there was mad rush getting stuff
back into the 370 product pipelines ... including kicking off
quick&dirty 3033 & 3081 efforts in parallel ... some more detail
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm
Future System posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
a little drift; 3033 started off being 168-3 logic remapped to 20% faster chips. Note 370/165 microcode started out being avg. of 2.1 machine cycles per 370 instruction, 370/168 microcode optimized to 1.6 machine cycles per 370 instruction, initial 3033 wasn't competitive with clones ... addition microcode optimization got 3033 to 1.0 machine cycles per 370 instruction ... getting 3033 to 1.5 times 168-3.
the 303x channel director was 158 engine with the 370 microcode removed and just the integrated channel microcode. a 3031 was two 158 engines, one with just the integrated channel microcode (channel director) and one with just the 370 microcode. A 3032 was 168-3 reworked to use the (158 engine) channel director for external channels.
I would give talks on how ECPS was implemented at the monthly BAYBUNCH meetings and would get lots of questions from the Amdahl people.
Jan1979, I got con'ed into doing 4341 benchmarks for national lab that was looking at getting 70 for a compute farm (sort of the leading edge of the coming cluster supercomputing tsunami). POK had lots of anxiety, a small cluster of 4341s was much cheaper than 3033, smaller physical footprint, lower power&cooling and higher throughput. Also started seeing large companies ordering hundreds at a time for putting out in department areas (sort of the leading edge of the coming distributed computing tsunami).
360/370 microcode
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#360mcode
some recent posts mentioning 4341
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#99 Why the IBM PC Used an Intel 8088
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#93 CMSBACK, ADSM, TSM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#91 IBM XT/370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#78 IBM Internal network
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#66 CSC, Virtual Machines, Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021h.html#30 NOW the web is 30 years old: When Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#69 Mainframe mid-range computing market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#49 6-10Oct1986 SEAS
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#42 IBM Token-Ring
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#31 IBM Programming Projects
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#92 Mainframe mid-range computing market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#84 Mainframe mid-range computing market
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#30 IBM HSDT & HA/CMP
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021e.html#55 SHARE (& GUIDE)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#57 IBM 370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#56 IBM 370
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#13 The Rise of the Internet
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#1 What's Fortran?!?!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#95 What's Fortran?!?!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#85 IBM SNA/VTAM (& HSDT)
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#67 MAINFRAME (4341) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#63 Distributed Computing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#62 MAINFRAME (4341) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#61 MAINFRAME (4341) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#58 MAINFRAME (4341) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#57 MAINFRAME (4341) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#56 MAINFRAME (4341) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#55 IBM CEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#50 IBM CEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#48 MAINFRAME (4341) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#47 MAINFRAME (4341) History
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#90 IBM Innovation
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#57 In the 1970s, Email Was Special
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#55 In the 1970s, Email Was Special
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#49 Holy wars of the past - how did they turn out?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#48 Holy wars of the past - how did they turn out?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#44 HA/CMP Marketing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#24 IBM Recruiting
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021b.html#9 IBM Kneecapping products
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#76 4341 Benchmarks
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#53 Amdahl Computers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#38 IBM HA/CMP Product
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021.html#6 3880 & 3380
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: Tigershark: When What Might Have Been Became What Never Was Date: 01 Sep 2021 Blog: FacebookTigershark: When What Might Have Been Became What Never Was
... there was story that the realized never be able to sell domestically so they started selling into international market ... except for every F20 candidate country, the F16 forces got congress to do "directed appropriation" USAID (that could only be spent on F16). Claim was that candidate countries would say that F20 was significantly better match for their requirements ... but would require they spend their own money, while they could get F16 (sort of) for "free".
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
posts mentioning tigershark
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021d.html#80 OSS in China: Prelude to Cold War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021c.html#8 Air Force thinking of a new F-16ish fighter
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2019d.html#91 Why F-5s Beat Out F-16s For The Navy's Latest Commercial Aggressor Contract
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#11 This is the plane that almost beat out the legendary F-16
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#73 A-10
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#57 Boyd F15, F16, F20
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/2015.html#54 How do we take political considerations into account in the OODA-Loop?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#20 US No Longer Tech Leader in Military War Gear
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#78 Has the US Lost Its Grand Strategic Mind?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#78 IBM commitment to academia
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#43 Is newer technology always better? It almost is. Exceptions?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012o.html#1 OT: Tax breaks to Oracle debated
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#45 Simulated PDP-11 Blinkenlight front panel for SimH
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#19 Interesting News Article
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012e.html#72 Sunday Book Review: Mind of War
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012c.html#56 Update on the F35 Debate
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011l.html#0 Justifying application of Boyd to a project manager
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010o.html#66 They always think we don't understand
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#51 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#63 Did anybody ever build a Simon?
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009m.html#16 comp.arch has made itself a sitting duck for spam
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#4 Expanding U.S. Tactical Aviation's "Approved Belief"
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#40 EZPass: Yes, Big Brother IS Watching You!
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#10 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#8 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#7 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#6 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#4 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#3 John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006g.html#13 News Release
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#45 Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#1 OS Workloads : Interactive etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002c.html#14 OS Workloads : Interactive etc
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/94.html#8 scheduling & dynamic adaptive ... long posting warning
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The Age of Battleships Is Dead and Long Gone Date: 01 Sep 2021 Blog: FacebookThe Age of Battleships Is Dead and Long Gone. Battleships were mighty in their day. But the advent of airplanes and missiles meant that such large, lumbering warships made no sense anymore.
The Ultimate Battleship Battle: Japan's Yamato vs. America's Iowa. It
would have been the ultimate battle on the high seas: Yamato
vs. Iowa. Who would have won?
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-ultimate-battleship-battle-japans-yamato-vs-americas-13737
recommends Parshall's Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
https://www.amazon.com/Shattered-Sword-Untold-Battle-Japanese-ebook/dp/B005NIQ8SM/
pg5/loc76-78:
The battleships wouldn't be sailing this morning. No surprise there,
joked Akagi's crewmen–they hadn't done anything during the entire
war. For them the battleships were irrelevant, nothing more than a
symbol of a bygone era. Worse yet, in the workaholic culture of the
Imperial Navy, which, popular lore had it, operated eight days a week,
the battleships were seen as slackers.
... snip ...
.. other Pearl trivia, Stalin had 500 divisions fighting nearly all of
German military and was afraid that Japan might attack from the east
... opening up a second front. Stalin wanted US to come in against
Japan (making sure Japan had limited resources to open up a 2nd front
against the Soviet Union). US assistant SECTREAS Harry Dexter White
was operating on behalf of the Soviet Union and Stalin sends White a
draft of demands for US to present to Japan that would provoke Japan
into attacking US and drawing US into the war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White#Venona_project
demands were included in the Hull Note which Japan received just prior
to decision to attack Perl Harbor, hull note
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_note#Interpretations
More Venona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
also: another example of White acting as an agent of influence for the Soviet Union was his obstruction of a authorized $200 million loan to Nationalist China in 1943, which he had been officially instructed to execute. ... contributing to Nationalist loosing China.
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 ...
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
a couple past posts mentioning shattered sword
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017i.html#85 WW II cryptography
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#113 E.R. Burroughs
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#75 Dinosaurisation of we oldies?
other posts mentioning Harry Dexter White
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021g.html#95 The War Was Won Before Hiroshima--And the Generals Who Dropped the Bomb Knew It
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/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: The Foundation of the Internet: TCP/IP Turns 40 Date: 01 Sep 2021 Blog: FacebookThe Foundation of the Internet: TCP/IP Turns 40
internet posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
... other trivia: IBM San Jose Research had first (IBM) gateway into
CSNET
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSNET
... just before the great cutover over from ARPANET & IMPs to
Internetworking protocol on 1jan1983 ... old email
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm#email821022
more on the cutover
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#email821230
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2021f.html#email830202
internal network posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
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. 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 ...
HSDT posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
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 (originally as supercomputer access network) was federal gov. funding and the issue was raised about using it for commercial purposes ... and so came the AUP (aka non-commercial use only). However, folklore is that the RFP funding only covered less than quarter of resources ... the rest "donated" by commercial interest that were in chicken&egg situation. To encourage use of the faster technology, they needed newer higher-bandwidth applications which required needing to significantly drop usage rates ... but that would mean that they would have to operate at a loss for several years (while new applications that used the faster technology were created). What effectively happened is institutions contributed resources to the NSFNET backbone that were greater than four times the winning RFP bid ... and got stipulation that could only be used for non-commercial activity (lots of AUPs, acceptable use policies) ... encouraging the growth of the new generation of high-bandwidth applications ... theoretically w/o damaging their commercial revenue (rate/use structure to cover their fixed run rate).
NSFNET posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet
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From: Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> Subject: The Age of Battleships Is Dead and Long Gone Date: 01 Sep 2021 Blog: Facebookre:
Flattop Trouble: Can American Carriers Survive the Modern Battlefield?
There are more ways to sink a carrier than ever before.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/flattop-trouble-can-american-carriers-survive-modern-battlefield-177714
Sweden's Super Stealth Submarines Are So Lethal They 'Sank' a
U.S. Aircraft Carrier
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/swedens-super-stealth-submarines-are-so-lethal-they-sank-us-18383
Gotland-class submarine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland-class_submarine
When a Chinese Submarine Appeared In The Middle Of A Carrier Battle Group
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/chinese-submarine-appeared-in-the-middle-of-a-carrier-battle-group.html
The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-492804/The-uninvited-guest-Chinese-sub-pops-middle-U-S-Navy-exercise-leaving-military-chiefs-red-faced.html
China Thinks a Nuclear Submarine Can Sink Half of An Aircraft Carrier
Battle Group
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/china-thinks-nuclear-submarine-can-sink-half-aircraft-carrier-battle-group-92491
War Games: A Swedish Stealth Submarine Sank A U.S. Aircraft Carrier
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/war-games-swedish-stealth-submarine-sank-us-aircraft-carrier-116216
some claims every major carrier group war game for last 20yrs has sunk
the carrier
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#111 The Next New Military Specialty Should Be Software Developers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018.html#7 Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016.html#51 Thanks Obama
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#175 Holy Grail for parallel programming language
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#79 LEO
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#46 How Comp-Sci went from passing fad to must have major
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#18 After the Sun (Microsystems) Sets, the Real Stories Come Out
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#66 Royal Pardon For Turing
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012p.html#2 Quagmire on the Potomac
military-industrial(-congressional) complex posts
https://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex
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