leful...@sbcglobal.net (Lloyd Fuller) writes:
And this product is called NOMAD from Select Business Solutions. It
has only been available since 1976 or thereabouts.
And you can even MIX hierarchical and RDBMS if you want.
recent post in thread on cloud killing traditional hardware
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#47
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#61
NSA Revelations Kill IBM Hardware Sales In China
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/wolf-richter-nsa-revelations-kill-ibm-hardware-sales-in-china.html
from above:
But there was nothing to spin in
edgould1...@comcast.net (Ed Gould) writes:
http://nypost.com/2013/10/05/ibm-now-employs-more-workers-in-india-
than-us/
This reminds me of the comic strip Pogo: I have seen the enemy and he
is us (or word to that effect).
there were similar news from spring of 2012 ... and at the time had
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#36 Quote on Slashdot.org
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#38 Quote on Slashdot.org
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#41 Quote on Slashdot.org
multics (5th flr, 545 tech sq) also managed to ship the first relational
DBMS product.
nha...@ca.ibm.com (Neil Haley) writes:
There still is a very active IBM VM list (The IBM z/VM Operating System
ib...@listserv.uark.edu)
note that while outbound ibm-main mailing list is gatewayed to usenet
(and therefor also shows up in google groups becuase of the usenet
archiving) ... its
shmuel+...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
Every generation believes that it invented sex. I won't guaranty that
ALGOL 60 was first, but it was certainly before PL/I.
this has some PL/I history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I
in the 70s ... lots of the languages were in
l...@garlic.com (Anne Lynn Wheeler) writes:
for the fun of it I did a rewrite in pascal of a major portion of the
VM370 kernel (done in assembler) ... and demonstrated it running
(faster) in virtual address space interacting with a smaller vm370
kernel. part of the issue was that mainframe
jwgli...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes:
What I think of Pascal and our disagreement are not themselves
important; but such differences strongly suggest that discussions of
the relative merits of different statement-level procedural languages
is an all but futile undertaking unless the
wjipho...@gmail.com writes:
Only one week? that must be in the US. Here in Europe it is mostly at
least 2 weeks. That requires you to document your stuff so that
someone else can fix any problems that may arise with your products
while your are away. Scary thought - maybe they actually can do
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#16 Work long hours (Was Re: Pissing
contest(s))
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#25 Work long hours (Was Re: Pissing
contest(s))
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#31 Work long hours (Was Re: Pissing
contest(s))
for other drift, part of the
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za (Elardus Engelbrecht) writes:
I have occassionaly done a full night work, especially during
emergencies like botched installation, upgrade or big changes.
as undergraduate in the 60s, the univ would shutdown the datacenter from
8am sat until 8am monday ... and let
ip4w...@gmail.com (J.P.) writes:
Would just like to add what I've heared from several sources:
Crypto is mostly solid, but implementations are weak.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#55 NSA foils much internet encryption
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#56 NSA foils much internet
l...@garlic.com (Anne Lynn Wheeler) writes:
locations around the globe. As a result, I've periodically commented
that even if the globe was buried under miles of information hiding
encryption, that it would stop information leakage.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#10
oops, finger
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#0 UK NHS £10bn project failure
a little x-over from financial cryptography blog
The Anatomy of an NSA intervention -- NIST RSA fingered as breached
http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001446.html
from above:
It is now almost good enough to
jwgli...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes:
I want to add, with as much urgency as I can muster, that
high-security encryption must be used to provide this protection. No
encryption scheme endorsed by Five Eyes provides any protection
against them or indeed against similar Chinese groups.
I,
Robert Wessel robertwess...@yahoo.com writes:
While that's mostly true, the 3174, amongst other things, kept a copy
of the terminal buffer in local storage (obviously for CUT mode
devices only), and only sent updates down the wire. So the extra
chattiness was largely a non-issue. That did
shmuel+...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
If the count is exactly 258 the the loop is a single MOV with a repeat
prefix. You need additional instructions if you don't know the length
to be a multiple of 8.
But your point remains valid, and is stronger if you look at the long
ip4w...@gmail.com (J.P.) writes:
Maybe this gets their attention back? (hopefully few of the list usual
readers also:)
Been reading a bit on the subject, and one detail caught my eye...
... NSA is pushing ecliptic curves since 2009 as the next best thing (guess
why;)
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#55 NSA foils much internet encryption
other trivia ... ECC original invented Miller at IBM Yorktown
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_S._Miller
followed by Koblitz at UofW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Koblitz
Miller had been in the Yorktown 801
kerne...@absoftwareconsultants.com (AbsKerneels) writes:
You are assuming the following :
a) You are talking and responding to an educated question/crowd
b) That the mainframe can compete price wise with what
DROPBOX's/Google Drive/YOUTUBE etc. etc. can do.. and I have not seen
that any
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#50 Mainframe on Cloud
latest from IBM
IBM launches NeXtScale, packs more cores in racks; Summary: The
NeXtScale System can pack up to 84 x86 systems and 2,016 cores in a
standard 19-inch one unit (1U) rack.
jperr...@pacbell.net (Jon Perryman) writes:
Comparing MIPS (or BIPS) for different platforms is useless where
instruction sets are so diverse. While you say the E5-2600 is 10.5
times the BIPS of the z196, the reality is they are probably close to
the same workload. Consider MVC versus MOV
l...@garlic.com (Anne Lynn Wheeler) writes:
... which saw little uptake until sysplex ... except for IMS
hot-standby. The lack of uptake contributed to her not staying long ...
however also there were the re-occuring battles with the communication
group trying to force her into using SNA
Robert Wessel robertwess...@yahoo.com writes:
The managed to reintroduce type-ahead on 3174s with the Entry
Assists feature. A major change in the 3174s was a much faster CPU
than in the 3274s, and a vast increase in memory, so there was room to
add those features. The terminal itself, nor
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#20 Teletypewriter Model 33
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#21 Teletypewriter Model 33
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#22 Teletypewriter Model 33
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#23 Teletypewriter Model 33
l...@garlic.com (Anne Lynn Wheeler) writes:
How ASCII Came About
http://www.bobbemer.com/ASCII.HTM
HOW ASCII GOT ITS BACKSLASH
http://www.bobbemer.com/BACSLASH.HTM
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#33 Teletypewriter Model 33
for other drift
Bob's history index
http
ba...@mxg.com (Barry Merrill) writes:
You have not lived until you have used a Texas Instruments Silent 700
at 300 baud to watch a SAS PROC PLOT, when you can see each and every
dot being laid down, and definitely not left to right nor top to
bottom, and not speedily. That was my TSO access
john.archie.mck...@gmail.com (John McKown) writes:
I used keypunches in college. I then graduated to a hardcopy terminal, but
not a KSR-33 or ASR-33. The school had some really nice DECWriters for the
non-IBM DEC System 20. And 2741s for the IBM. I adored the 2741s, which
were basically an IBM
m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com (Tom Marchant) writes:
And in another post he mentioned MTS (Michigan Terminal System),
written to run on the System/360 model 67.
In MTS the terminal driver was called TSFO. I've been told that its
name was an acronym for Twenty Seven Forty One.
How about that for
ba...@mxg.com (Barry Merrill) writes:
Did you have the same fun and games I had with Southwestern Bell,
during the 70s-80, as each time I got a faster modem, I was the first
customer with that speed, and their engineers had to come out and
measure which of my 6 lines was sufficiently quiet to
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#20 Teletypewriter Model 33
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#21 Teletypewriter Model 33
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#22 Teletypewriter Model 33
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#23 Teletypewriter Model 33
the cp67 changes i did at the
gerh...@valley.net (Gerhard Postpischil) writes:
The installations I worked at offered Wylbur, as it was much more
productive. On our 360/65, IBM had a recommendation to keep active TSO
users below 10-12; by comparison, Wylbur could handle several dozens
without degradation in response. Also
quasar.chunawa...@gmail.com (Quasar Chunawala) writes:
I work as an application programmer with a leading bank on CICS/Cobol for
the past 4 years. Whilst I know, that data on the mainframe is stored on
disks and tapes, I have never walked in to a data-center. At any mainframe
data-center, what
shmuel+...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
The wiki chip articles since at least Z196 have been about the
entire processor complex rather than about the chips themselves. I
wish that some of the IBM chip designers would be willing to take on
the task of editing those articles.
john.archie.mck...@gmail.com (John McKown) writes:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTQzMDM
Kind of interesting. Hope people don't mind the fact that it is not about
the z.
Folklore is that Apple moved to Intel because IBM decided to focus on
servers and weren't keeping up
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#59 Mainframe vs Server - The Debate
Continues
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#60 Mainframe vs Server - The Debate
Continues
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#62 Mainframe vs Server - The Debate
Continues
also, as mentioned before ... part
kerne...@absoftwareconsultants.com (AbsKerneels) writes:
Note: On the back of the last weeks Economist ? Oracle claims they can
give you TWICE the performance at 33% of the cost of an IBM true BLUE
solution.
note that tpc benchmarks include total cost numbers per operation ... if
the mainframe
mike.a.sch...@gmail.com (Mike Schwab) writes:
Umm, isn't that the Internet? Mainframes, Servers, and PCs able to
access almost anything.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013j.html#59 Mainframe vs Server - The Debate
Continues
major forces attempted to prevent it from happening ... and when
jcew...@acm.org (Joel C. Ewing) writes:
If one were into wild conspiracy theories, then obviously the government
spy agencies are trying to encourage expansion of the Amazon cloud
services because they believe they will be able monitor everyone else's
cloud activities more easily if they are
l...@garlic.com (Anne Lynn Wheeler) writes:
not any I saw ... we use to feed 2741 terminals with greenbar paper
reversed ... printing on the backside which was white.
HONE systems ... some past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
were setup shortly after 23Jun69 unbundling
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#71 Future of COBOL based on RDz policies
was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
2nd hand about testimony in the gov. legal action ... claim that top
executive from one of the seven dwarfs testified that by the late 50s
every computer company realized
sipp...@sg.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples) writes:
Power servers are a good example of a success. IBM is the leader in the
distributed UNIX server market and by quite a margin. Yet rewind the clock
a couple decades and *nobody* would have predicted that. IBM doggedly,
persistently focused on
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#71 Future of COBOL based on RDz policies
was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#73 Future of COBOL based on RDz policies
was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#74 Future of
john.archie.mck...@gmail.com (John McKown) writes:
Java initially runs intepreted JVM byte code. As the program runs, the JVM
invokes a just in time compiler to transform the byte code into native z
series instructions. As I understand it, the common back end that is being
discussed for COBOL,
charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) writes:
I could picture a very 21st century, electronic PoP that presented an
index to the detailed descriptions in the form of a table that could be
sorted on name, on mnemonic, on hex opcode, etc.
triva ... PoPs was one of first major IBM pub to move to CMS
jwgli...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes:
The elephant in the room is being studiously ignored.
The crucial objection to C's nul-delimited strings of 'conceptually
unlimited' length has so far gone unmentioned here. They have been
the all but exclusive foci of security breaches, thousands of
paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
You have, in the past, deprecated nanny languages, those which
enforce compile time or run time validity constraints. Yet Wheeler is
praising Pascal for so protecting against security breaches.
It's as easy in C as in assembler to check for
jwgli...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes:
Sammet, Jean E. Brief survey of languages used for systems
implementation. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. Vol. 6. No. 9. ACM, 1971.
A Google Scholar search using Jean Sammet as the search argument
yielded 768 references, a number of which any decently informed
rjkins...@hotmail.com (Roland Kinsman) writes:
So, this is going to sound extremely naïve, but I wonder if having
EBCDIC instead of ASCII helped make IBM mainframe OS less penetrable
to hackers.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#3 Ported Tools - Unix
1) lots of attacks are
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#3 Ported Tools - Unix
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#10 EBCDIC and the P-Bit
of course there was also some amount of rivalry between the 5th flr
(multics) and 4th flr (cp/67). they (also) had a lot of very security
oriented customers.
recent
efinnel...@aol.com (Ed Finnell) writes:
I remember the 'security paper' CIA published after MVS got B1 rating.
There was a tuning paper that came out about the same time. One was green and
one was yellow. Anyway, long story short, last paragraph in security report
says
if it's
gerh...@valley.net (Gerhard Postpischil) writes:
Unless one is in the possession of detailed data, unlikely to become
public, it is difficult to judge why a company makes decisions. It is
doubtful that clinical kainophobia is pertinent; more likely factors
are cash flow, risk aversion, sales
jwgli...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes:
Other, sublethal examples abound. John Cocke invented RISC as an IBM
employee/fellow. IBM did not quite ignore it, but it was left to
others to exploit it (as something more than a sea anchor to windward)
until its much later reincarnation as
wayn...@gmail.com (Wayne Bickerdike) writes:
When I left IBM my manager asked what I was going to work on. I told
him, micro computers, non-IBM stuff, XENIX, CP/M, Apple IIs,
Cromemco, Altos, Northstar. He said, I don't ever see IBM getting
into those markets. A couple of years later the PC
jwgli...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes:
The classic business-school analysis of DEC's misfortunes makes them
an instance of the effects of disruptive technology: microprocessors
replacing mnicomputers.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#76 DataPower XML Appliance and RACF
paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
I hate EBCDIC!
old reference that EBCDIC was one of the biggest goofs for 360 ... was
supposed to have been ascii ... EBCDIC and the P-Bit (The Biggest
Computer Goof Ever)
http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
--
virtualization experience starting
shmuel+...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
It didn't help that the MVS address space was painfully small compared
to the VAX. It wasn't until MVS/ESA that IBM caught up.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#76 DataPower XML Appliance and RACF
jwgli...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes:
We are in a situation much like that of the atomic-energy industry
some years ago. The original Hanford, Washington, gaseous-diffusion
facility for the separation of uranium isotopes was designed by Enrico
Fermi, slide rule in hand. It then came
donb...@gmail.com (Don Williams) writes:
It does not actually matter whether their systems are open or not; just
different from IBM. Yes, the total cost is less expensive, because they are
smaller. Yes, the cost per transaction is higher. However, the cost per
transaction may be out weighted
stars...@mindspring.com (Lizette Koehler) writes:
http://tk3.limewebs.com/Vintage_Manuals.html
bitsavers has lots of manuals (and software) with some mirrors
around the world
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/
360
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360
and 370
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360
also share
shmuel+...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
Yes, IBM used to give schools deep discounts without requiring that
the systems be used only for classwork.
education/univ discounts and programs were significantly cut back with
the legal actions and the unbundling announced 23jun1969.
l...@garlic.com (Anne Lynn Wheeler) writes:
In the transition from MVT to OS/VS2 (aka virtual memory), the same
problem showed up. The original implementation involved putting a little
bit of code to create 16mbyte virtual address space for MVT, but the
major effort was hacking CCWTRANS (from
shmuel+...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
That's not the Multics model. The Multic model is that segment numbers
are dynamically assigned as needed, and that in general two processes
will use different numbers for the same segment. IBM had something
similar in TSS, but
l...@garlic.com (Anne Lynn Wheeler) writes:
it never made it as part of release product ... in part because of the
bad rep that single-level-store got from the FS effort ... even though
I could show 3times the throughput/efficiency compared to standard CMS
filesystem (both CDF EDF
edja...@phoenixsoftware.com (Ed Jaffe) writes:
In every presentation I've seen where a statistic like this was
presented, it was always qualified as business data. In that
context, it implied data bases of core customer, account, transaction,
billing, and inventory data (et al) maintained by
poit...@pobox.com (Don Poitras) writes:
I don't know what IBM uses under the covers, but it's probably the same
thing that SAS/C did. Calculate the CCHHR from the byte offset and use
EXCP to read the block directly. No need to use POINT. FBS is guaranteed
not to have any short blocks, so the
sthomp...@us.ibm.com (Steve Thompson) writes:
I have been using google, and other search lists. The amount of false
positive hits is astounding.
What I am looking for is an equivalent to IBM Main for VM/CMS.
The only link I found to such was for an entity in North Carolina that now
gives
jcew...@acm.org (Joel C. Ewing) writes:
If the final verdict has not yet been reached on whether or not there
is any increased health risk from having a cell-phone transmitter next
to your head for prolonged periods, the idea of having a permanent RF
transmitter internally or attached to my
mike.a.sch...@gmail.com (Mike Schwab) writes:
There are car thieves who get a pair of transmitters. One is held
near the car and sends the car's query signal to the other receiver.
The other receiver is near the person leaving the car. It get's the
car's query and responds. This is sent
I took liberty of x-posting URL to (linkedin open) Old Geeks
http://lnkd.in/YzVS6A
and (linkeding closed) IBM Historic Computing
note that NJE/NJI ... used left over entries in the 255 entry psuedo
unit record table to define network nodes ... typically around 160
... however the internal network
sipp...@sg.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples) writes:
I must take issue with the BIPS measurement and the cross-architecture
comparisons presented in this discussion. They're extremely misleading at
best. MIPS and BIPS are perilous enough within zEnterprise capacity
estimations, but they go haywire
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#5 SAS Deserting the MF?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#7 SAS Deserting the MF?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#9 SAS Deserting the MF?
one of the claims about x86 performance increase in BIPS over the past
decade has been attributed to
Dan Espen des...@verizon.net writes:
z/OS still has LPA.
The term for modules that are sharable is reentrant.
Everything in LPA is _not_ mapped into every address space.
Just the modules used.
so LPA came up in one of my virtual memory arguments with the POK
favorite son batch operating
paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
... is killing traditional ... is a paraphrase of progress. In the 1950s
you might have heard The electronic computer is killing traditional
punched card tabulators. Or in the 1960s The transistor is killing
traditional vacuum tube computers.
I reposted to a.f.c. and linkedin groups ... some comments
one might claim that amdahl's clone was more IBM 360 than the 3081
Amdahl wanting to do ACS-360
http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
but canceled because it would have advanced computing too fast,
endangering IBM's control of
Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com writes:
The native FCS has complete I/O requests being sent down the outbound
path effectively as data ... and then actual data occuring
asynchronously ... with minimal end-to-end handshaking latency. This
dates back at least to the work I did on HYPERChannel
mellonb...@yahoo.com (Bill Johnson) writes:
If they are embracing x86 servers it seems to be a bad move. Isn't IBM
trying to sell their x86 business? (to Lenovo) Mainly because the
sales are dropping.
all hardware sales ... and x86 has the lowest profit margin, however
I.B.M., Missing
shmuel+...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
It may be true for simulation of the S/370 on Intel, but a real
370/168 handled it in the I-unit.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#65 Linear search vs. Binary search
high-end machines were horizontal microcode with lots of
paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
This is similar to credit card skimmers in ATMs. It's *theoretically*
possible
but entirely implausible that some such person replace the entire z with a
counterfeit look-alike ...
early in the century there was a large pilot deployment of EMV
charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) writes:
LOL. Thanks. No, I really can't remember. Maybe too many illegal substances
in the 1970's.
I remember some of the places I bought time: Bayer in Emeryville, Central
Bank Computer Bureau in Oakland, ..., but it was neither of those. (Man,
those were
shmuel+...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
A normal reading of diff3 allows a 3 way merge would be that there
are options to diff3 that cause it to perform the merge. Did you read
it as diff3 creates output that you are allowed to feed into an
external program in order to do
paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
Was your trivial program made available to end customers, or were
they compelled to reinvent it?
I've done most of these operations using SuperC with the UPDCMS8
option in place of your program; the UPDMVS8 option is practically
worthless for
p...@voltage.com (Phil Smith) writes:
I did an internal Brown Bag a year or so ago, in which I outlined the
VM CNTRL/AUX/update theology, to a room full of bewildered-looking
distributed folks. I did preface it with Obviously the following
isn't going to change how we do anything, but it might
paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
The PARMDD rules, like much of JCL, (will) fall squarely in category
(2). Circa 1964, there was an excuse: IBM was in a desperate
rush to get OS/360 out the door and into revenue. Things _should_
be different in the 21st Century. z/OS is vastly
charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) writes:
Culture is a key here.
IBM's background was in punched cards. IBM's strength in punched card
tabulating is what transferred over to their success in computer data
processing. They never forgot that.
Many other computer systems' analog of the punched
shmuel+...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_multiprocessing and
360/65MP (370MP) had (symmetric) shared memory but had dedicated
channels on both processors. fully symmetric was simulated by having
twin-tail controllers configured on
jayare...@hotmail.com (J R) writes:
Correct. Hardware Security Module is the more generic term.
Host Security Module is the Racal/Thales offering. Many still use the term
generically.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#1 IBM Mainframe (1980's) on You tube
Last decade, I had
l...@garlic.com (Anne Lynn Wheeler) writes:
http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#19 Query for Destination z article --
mainframes back to the future
end of above article has two sidebars ... one on multithreading and
the other that some
shmuel+...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
When did LCS come out?
I do google and many of the references are various of my old posts
(either in this mailing list and/or in a.f.c. usenet group) mentioning
ampex lcs box
old ibm-main lcs disucssion (from 2008) archived at google
clementcla...@ozemail.com.au (Clem Clarke) writes:
When the first IBM 65 was wheeled into Shell Oil Melbourne, I think it
had 256K of memory. And I believe it did cost a million or so. Of
course, it was made from core memory with real wires. Very expensive
to thread those wires, I suspect!!!
l...@garlic.com (Anne Lynn Wheeler) writes:
Later I would sponsor Boyd's briefings at IBM. Various of his
biographies mention him doing stint in charge of spook base (about the
same time I was at Boeing) ... claiming it to be a $2.5B windfall for
IBM (nearly ten times renton). Boyd would
g...@gabegold.com (g...@gabegold.com) writes:
My first year-end retirement account statement -- for 1971! -- listed
my projected retirement date as the incredibly distant, unimaginable,
science-fiction-like date of February 1, 2012. So back then at least
TIAA-CREF understood time windows
l...@garlic.com (Anne Lynn Wheeler) writes:
more detail here:
http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.htm
oops ... missing trailing l
http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html
--
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
edgould1...@comcast.net (Ed Gould) writes:
Just wondered if anyone had heard of any other Y2K hacks?
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#90 Query for Destination z article --
mainframes back to the future
for other trivia ... somewhat tenuous long-winded relationship between
IBM and
paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
Don't underestimate the future.
The Y2K crisis might have been mitigated if more designers
had said, Hey, pretty soon we're going to need 4-digit years.
Let's provide them now. I made such a suggestion for a product
we were working on in 1987.
edgould1...@comcast.net (Ed Gould) writes:
I worked a DC in downtown Chicago in the 70's and 80's and we were
supposedly 24X7 shop. We had power problems+ and we could not afford a
UPS in fact at the time we would have needed a HUGE UPS to get us
through power outages. I guess these were
arno...@us.ibm.com (Todd Arnold) writes:
IBM had three channel-attached crypto units for the mainframes.
1977 – IBM 3845 DES encryption unit
1979 – IBM 3848 DES encryption unit - faster than the 3845, and added
Triple-DES
(yes, IBM already had Triple-DES in its products in 1979!)
1989
martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com (Martin Packer) writes:
Interesting you mention Jupiter Project...
... In the late 1980's as a young SE I supported one of the Jupiter
Council customers in their roll out of what something called Jupiter
turned into: DFSMS.
I'm wondering if your mentioned SSD was
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#11 Article for the boss: COBOL will
outlive us all
more cobol related trivia ... other spin-offs from the science center
were companies that started offerring cp67 as commercial online service
... recent post in a.f.c
paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
That matches my old recollection of an Old Timer's recounting
his astonishment at having read a dump in which a Protection
Exception appeared to have been taken on a fetch instruction.
I believe (with no good evidence) that it was controlled by
a
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