l...@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler) writes: > 23jun69 unbundling announcement starting to charge for application > software, SE services, etc (made case that kernel/operating system was > still free). misc. past posts > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle
another result of unbundling announcement was starting to charge for SE services. Previously SE training included apprentice activity as part of large SE team onsite at customer account. With charging for SE services, they couldn't figure out how to account for the apprentice SEs. This led to the creation of several virtual machine cp67 "HONE" datacenters around the country that would allow SEs in branch office to practice their operating system skills in virtual machines. The cambridge science center (responsible for virtual machines, cp40, cp67, GML, internal network, bunch of other stuff) had also ported APL\360 to CMS for CMS\APL. There started to be a large number of online sales&marketing support CMS\APL applications deployed on HONE ... and eventually that came to dominate all HONE activity (with the guest operating system activity dwindling away) Recent FACEBOOK scam news on TV all seem to show the 1601 building sign. If you do satellite map of the address, the (older) building next door at 1501 was where the US HONE datacenters were consolidated in the mid-70s ... and I spent a large amount of time in that building (it has a different occupant now). This was possibly the largest "cloud" operation of the period ... and just like the modern day cloud mega-datacenters, clones of the HONE datacenter sprouted up all over the world. misc. past posts mentioning HONE http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone One of my hobbies in the period was providing production operating systems to internal datacenters ... and HONE was a long-time customer As part of several attempts to kill off first cp67 and later vm370 ... this is reference claiming that there would be no more high-end vm370 ... and HONE needed convert to MVS ... which would be possible if they would just recode all their APL applications in assembler. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#email790216 and http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#email790220 as mentioned in above, senior IBM executive that had made the presentation to HONE, the comments were retracted, saying he must have been using the wrong flip charts for the presentation. other old email mentioning HONE http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#hone -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
