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Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]> writes: > somewhat related recent post (mentions that long ago and far away my > wife had been con'ed into going to POK to be in charge of mainframe > loosely-coupled architecture) > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009h.html#1 z/Journal Does it Again > > now two of the other people that were also in that Jan92 meeting, moved > on to a small client/server startup and we brought in as consultants > because they wanted to do payment transactions on their server. The > small client/server startup had also invented this technology called > "SSL" which they wanted to use ... in any case, that work is now > frequently called "electronic commerce". re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#23 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX? (Are settlements a good argument for overnight batch COBOL ?). recent item somewhat related to "electronic commerce" ... 20 Years Ago Today: Birth of the Dot-Com Era http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/166302/20_years_ago_today_birth_of_the_dotcom_era.html from above: "In those days, the Internet consisted of regional networks, who were mostly non-profit cooperatives, and the government funded 'NSFNet' backbone which linked them up," writes Templeton, a friend of many years' standing. ... snip .... i.e. tcp/ip was the technology basis for the modern internet, NSFNet backbone was the operational basis for the modern internet (inter-networking networks), and CIX was the business basis for the modern internet. misc. past posts mentioning NSFNet: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet and some old NSFNet related email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet for other drift ... SLAC (slac vm370 system) first webserver outside cern/europe (some mainframe content): http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/history.shtml GML had been invented at the science center in 1969 and then standardized as SGML in the 70s ... misc. past posts mentioning GML, SGML, etc http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submail.html#sgml CMS script command did document formating using "dot" commands ... somewhat from similar/earlier CTSS command. After, GML was invented, support for GML tag processing was added to script. Waterloo had done a clone of the cms command ... webpage tracking evolution from GML/SGML into HTML at CERN: http://infomesh.net/html/history/early/ above includes references to Waterloo SCRIPT GML User's Guide. science center also responsible for for virtual machines ... 1st cp40 on specially modified 360/40 with virtual memory hardware and then morphed into cp67 for 360/67. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech science center also responsible for technology used for the internal network (which was larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until possibly late-85/early-86) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet -- 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
