The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
there seems to be some hiccup with this recent post (I did twice) between the mailing list and usenet (missing on usenet, but I finally checked mailing list archive; I read on usenet, but post to the mailing list). http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#99 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article) also small ending piece snipped from previous email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#email790429 Date: 04/29/79 16:39:03 From: wheeler << lots & lots of stuff snipped >> One more thing about Endicott, their datacenter production VM system is so backlevel, they asked about SJRL's VM system. There were tentative plans made for some Endicott people to come out to SJRL and pick up our floor system for installation in Endicott. Some of this in light of the hardware error recovery that we have been adding, especially in response to the problems in the DASD engineering labs but also to normal problems we have here. ... snip ... old email (year later) about sjr/vm distribution http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#email800429 in this post (also contains several other old email pieces) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#26 Assembler question other past references to SJR/VM system http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007b.html#51 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007c.html#12 Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#46 Whitehouse Emails Were Lost Due to "Upgrade" http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#39 The Internet's 100 Oldest Dot-Com Domains http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#35 SEs & History Lessons they let me play engineer over in bldgs. 14&15 ... some past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk they had been running stand-alone testing of engineering/development hardware (several dedicated, stand-alone 370s). At one time they had tried to use MVS in the environment, but had experienced 15min MTBF. I undertook to completely rewrite i/o supervisor so that it would never fail and they could concurrently test several devices (on demand, instead of the around-the-clock stand-alone testing that they were doing). Mentioning the 15min MTBF in a purely internal-only report, brought the wrath of the MVS group down on my head ... but seems small in comparison to the effort to cut allocation to endicott for building 4341s. in any case, endicott datacenter people never came out, i think somebody got around to how would it look if endicott datacenter was running one of my vm systems. I've mentioned before that after demise to future system, http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys there was mad rush to get stuff (hardware & software) back into the 370 product pipeline ... as well as getting around to kicking off XA effort (eventually "811" from the date on the hardware architecture documents). POK then made the case to corporate that in order to make the mvs/xa ship schedule, had to kill vm370, shutdown the vm370 development group and move all the people to POK ... a couple recent posts: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#37 Happy DEC-10 Day http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#44 sysout using machine control instead of ANSI control Endicott eventually managed to save the vm370 product mission (seeing the leading edge of what was to become the vm midrange explosion), but had to reconstitute a group from scratch. By the time of the above email, they were still ramping up. misc. other posts in this thread: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#87 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#88 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#96 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#97 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#98 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article) -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
