Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-26 Thread David Stokes
. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Gesendet: Donnerstag, 26. Juli 2012 00:10 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-26 Thread David Stokes
, 26. Juli 2012 01:08 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:12:14 +, David Stokes wrote: Otoh, without Windows, who really would have been using the Internet Pretty much everybody who is now. Without windows they'd

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-26 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 07/25/2012 06:07 PM, Tom Marchant wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:12:14 +, David Stokes wrote: Otoh, without Windows, who really would have been using the Internet Pretty much everybody who is now. Without windows they'd be running, e.g., OS/2, MacOS, Linux. I remember struggling to

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-26 Thread John Gilmore
Just as I had begun to feel some sympathy for David Stokes, he managed to dissipate it at a stroke. Just what does begin extract The question was not which exact organisation decides such things, but rather whose particular political orientation will be asserting itself in such decisions, and

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-26 Thread Bill Fairchild
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 7:45 AM In another context Paul Krugman recently reminded us that conspiracy theories are dispensable, likely to be misleading, in the many

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-26 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:38:14 +, Bill Fairchild wrote: Perhaps Occam was the most devious conspirator ever. Hmmm - personally Hanlon's razor has always had (more) appeal. Shane ... (fortunately my tussles with the site seemed to have spared me most of this thread)

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-26 Thread John Gilmore
Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? Just as I had begun to feel some sympathy for David Stokes, he managed to dissipate it at a stroke. Just what does begin extract The question was not which exact organisation decides such things, but rather whose particular political orientation

AW: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-26 Thread David Stokes
John Gilmore Gesendet: Donnerstag, 26. Juli 2012 19:58 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? I also grow weary of complaints about my notionally 'exotic' vocabulary. This term once had a precise meaning. (Signage annoucing efforts at 'exotic

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-26 Thread Thomas H Puddicombe
-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date: 07/26/2012 01:58 PM Subject:Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu I also grow weary of complaints about my notionally 'exotic' vocabulary. This term once had a precise

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In E36DC330434FBA4ABA45590D5370A88B076C4CA6@INTERCHIP-SBS.interchip.local, on 07/26/2012 at 09:47 AM, David Stokes sto...@interchip.de said: Yes, well, I'm sure Wrong! and Lol! and are you a troll (not to mention look farther and are you (a) bankrobber) Sigh! Humor is such a subjective

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDGmMk8nKK=xkjinenh0qjhxaytmb_wvxi2w4vus+an...@mail.gmail.com, on 07/26/2012 at 01:58 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: I also grow weary of complaints about my notionally 'exotic' vocabulary. This term once had a precise meaning. (Signage annoucing efforts at 'exotic plant

AW: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread David Stokes
Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Anne Lynn Wheeler Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Juli 2012 23:10 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? sto...@interchip.de (David Stokes) writes: The virus vulnerability (and number

Re: AW: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In E36DC330434FBA4ABA45590D5370A88B076C4765@INTERCHIP-SBS.interchip.local, on 07/24/2012 at 12:19 PM, David Stokes sto...@interchip.de said: Yeah, right. Much better to restrict it to government and corporations who never abuse things. That's your proposal, not mine, TYVM. What would have

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 500ec8bf.5020...@acm.org, on 07/24/2012 at 11:09 AM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org said: That certainly would have been nice, but I'm not convinced anyone at the time understood the potential scope of those problems, They understood enough to warn against it, whether or not they

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cae1xxdher2jjpx0cyzr+ku8g-6afdj7n4q13ww7g+jbe-hx...@mail.gmail.com, on 07/24/2012 at 04:09 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: The scientific community made early and significant use of the DARPA predecessor of today's Internet, and almost none of the problems that afflict us today

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread David Stokes
. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Juli 2012 23:30 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: AW: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet

AW: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread David Stokes
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Juli 2012 23:51 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? In E36DC330434FBA4ABA45590D5370A88B076C4863@INTERCHIP-SBS.interchip.local, on 07/24/2012 at 08:00 PM, David Stokes sto...@interchip.de said

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 4:51 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? snip Otoh, without

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown, John) writes: What, no mention of CP/M-86? I don't think that MP/M ever had a x86 version. I do remember running Pick on my XT clone. Now that was a weird beastie. And you totally ignored things like the Amiga. I loved what I saw of that software. I wish

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread David Stokes
with such attempts. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Anne Lynn Wheeler Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2012 15:54 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? sto...@interchip.de

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread Scott Ford
John, I agree, there seems to be no sense of responsibility. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 24, 2012, at 4:09 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: The scientific community made early and significant use of the DARPA predecessor of today's Internet, and almost none of the

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
now that my boss at the time hadn't convinced me to go with an XT clone. re: http:/www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#98 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? other folklore trivia from silicon valley ... long ago and far away at some silicon valley watering hole gathering of current

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread David Stokes
obvious, I would tend to say. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Juli 2012 23:51 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
/2012j.html#98 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? majority of the internal network was vm370 ... since MVS/JES2 nodes had to be relegated to mostly boundary nodes ... JES2 was unable to define the complete network and had unpleasant characteristic of discarding traffic if the origin

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:12:14 +, David Stokes wrote: Otoh, without Windows, who really would have been using the Internet Pretty much everybody who is now. Without windows they'd be running, e.g., OS/2, MacOS, Linux. I remember struggling to get TCP/IP to work on OS/2 for our P/390. So much

Re: AW: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In E36DC330434FBA4ABA45590D5370A88B076C4A24@INTERCHIP-SBS.interchip.local, on 07/25/2012 at 12:25 PM, David Stokes sto...@interchip.de said: No. Starting ten years lat(t)er is your concept, not mine Well no, not mine. I wasn't responding to you here. Well, you were responding to Joel C.

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In E36DC330434FBA4ABA45590D5370A88B076C49FF@INTERCHIP-SBS.interchip.local, on 07/25/2012 at 12:21 PM, David Stokes sto...@interchip.de said: One really has to ask however what exactly In an anarchic fashion that opened us up to all sorts of network abuse. actually means It means not

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea0115baa1...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 07/25/2012 at 08:02 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: What, no mention of CP/M-86? It never had enough market share; DR-DOS would be more likely. And you totally ignored things like the Amiga. Did

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread Campbell Jay
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? sbire...@rocketsoftware.com (Steve Bireley) writes: About 10 years ago I was in a meeting with Vint Cerf and couple of others executive from Worldcom. One of our sales guys made a joke about Al Gore inventing the Internet

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
shmuel+...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: There's an error in that article and in the RSCS article; RSCS uses connection-oriented protocols, not connectionless protocols. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#83 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? http

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
content on remote machines or even initiate remote programs on other machines, and put the integrity management burden on end users without providing any tools to make management possible. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#83 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? http

Re: AW: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-24 Thread Ed Finnell
IBM is a large corporation. Different factions have been captivated by marketing pressures since the beginning. The RD side has always been more forth coming. For a number of years IBM-Main was accessible via INFO-Access under hardware. It was a mirror of BAMA.UA.EDU and for me was great way

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
/~lynn/2012j.html#73 Is it time to consider a stand-alone PC for online banking? past posts in this thread: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#83 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#84 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? http

Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-23 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB187239639064304577539063008406518.html WSJ mangles history to argue government didn't launch the Internet http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/wsj-mangles-history-to-argue-government-didnt-launch

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-23 Thread Mitch
you mean it wasn't Al Gore? Mitch -Original Message- From: Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Mon, Jul 23, 2012 12:47 pm Subject: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? ttp

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-23 Thread Ed Finnell
_http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18928858_ (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18928858) In a message dated 7/23/2012 2:47:37 P.M. Central Daylight Time, l...@garlic.com writes: WSJ mangles history to argue government didn't launch the Internet

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-23 Thread Steve Bireley
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mitch Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 3:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? you mean it wasn't Al Gore? Mitch -Original Message- From: Anne Lynn Wheeler l

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:57:16 -0400, Mitch wrote: you mean it wasn't Al Gore? No, he just eponymously supplied some of the algorithms. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-23 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mitch Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 3:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? you mean it wasn't Al Gore? Mitch -Original Message- From: Anne Lynn