[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > This project paid for a large number of full-time IBM programmers > under their Federal Systems Division who were working at this > facility near Houston, among whom were the two original developers > of HASP, Tom Simpson and Bob Crabtree. HASP evolved into JES2, > recently discussed in another thread. > > I don't think it is conspiratorial if you try accurately to predict > the national economy 6 to 12 months into the future. I think it is > better referred to as realism. If your predictions happen to be > based on real facts that are unknown to or disbelieved by the > masses, then so be it.
my wife did a stint in jes group reporting to crabtree ... working on architecture ... took a look at how to merge jes3 mutli-system operation with jes2 multi-access spool (there was even a period where executive direction that there would be no new jes2 development ... it would all go into jes3). this was before she got con'ed into going to be pok to be in charge of loosely-coupled architecture. some past collected hasp-related postings http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hasp there was a thread in a totally different n.g. in the mid-90s that was looking at doing economic predictions for 2020 (25 years out). a shorter term item looked at as part of this was that y2k remediation work was looming with requirements for significant additional resources. however, it happened to correspond to the internet bubble ... which was siphoning off all available resources into high flying internet jobs. not a lot of people were paying attention that somewhat as a result, a lot of legacy bread & butter work was going offshore (at least not until much later after it was already a fait accompli). i had the misfortune to predict that the company would go into the red ... about the time the corporate committee was predicting world-wide revenues were going to double from $60b to $120b ... and were spending enormous amounts on adding additional manufacturing capacity. i don't think they really understood the shift going on in computing processing to open & commodity priced hardware. the scenario was somewhat a continuation of the economic analysis that had been behind some of the justification for future system ... some collected fs postings http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#futuresys ... note, i hadn't faired much better with FS ... at the time, i would periodically draw analogies between the FS project and a cult film that had been playing continuously for several years down in central sq (which didn't exactly make friends with enormous number of people backing FS). one reference mentioning FS http://www.ecole.org/Crisis_and_change_1995_1.htm from above: IBM tried to react by launching a major project called the 'Future System' (FS) in the early 1970's. The idea was to get so far ahead that the competition would never be able to keep up, and to have such a high level of integration that it would be impossible for competitors to follow a compatible niche strategy. However, the project failed because the objectives were too ambitious for the available technology. Many of the ideas that were developed were nevertheless adapted for later generations. Once IBM had acknowledged this failure, it launched its 'box strategy', which called for competitiveness with all the different types of compatible sub-systems. But this proved to be difficult because of IBM's cost structure and its R&D spending, and the strategy only resulted in a partial narrowing of the price gap between IBM and its rivals. ... snip ... part of the subject was the advent of clone controllers. when i was an undergraudate ... i got involved in project to reverse engineer the ibm channel interface and build our own controller ... someplace there was a write-up blaiming us for inception of clone controller business http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#360pcm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
