re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#52 Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#55 Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss...
part of the 3270 terminal & terminal emulation ecology was the long runs of coax cables from the datacenter all over the building to each 3270 ... for some large buildings the weight of the coax cables were approaching building safe loading limits. a lot of the effort that went into token-ring by the communication group was to use token-ring to replace coax cables (significantly reducing the weight) for terminal emulation. Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/09/metcalfe_on_ethernet/ from above: Bob Metcalfe: How Token Ring and 'IBM's arrogance' nearly sank Big Blue When Bob Metcalfe, the prime mover behind the invention of Ethernet, recently visited the site of that invention, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), The Reg had the opportunity to sit down with him to discuss the history of Ethernet, its advantages over Token Ring, and IBM's perfidy. ... snip ... as referenced, the communication group was producing an enormous amount of mis-information regarding token-ring comparisons with ethernet. recent posts regarding above (also references the battles attempting to preserve the terminal emulation install base, fighting off client/server, 3tier networking architecture, distributed computing, etc ... significant factor contributing to corporation going into the red in early 90s) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#31 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#32 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#33 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#34 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#40 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth also google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/102794881687002297268/posts/YSSBbAaC5Ec and a couple (open) linkedin discussion groups http://lnkd.in/SMzJrv IETF http://lnkd.in/xJrYGh Old Geek -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
