The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Logan) writes: > Sorry for the slightly off-topic question, but how come this persons posts > are always so complicated to work through with all of the pieces and URL > links? Is it the function of how they are posting (i.e. perhaps online with > certain options), or is this a manual effort? > > I'm hoping to not spark a long debate. I'm hoping it's just a "one or the > other" answer. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#63 How does ATTACH pass address of ECB to child? some of it overlaps http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#27 Re-hosting IMB-MAIN and some of it explained in these recent postings http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#57 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#64 starting in the late 70s, i had been doing semi-automated discussion groups and mailing lists on the internal network http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#internalnet which was larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until approx the summer of '85. then somebody packaged up about 300pgs of hardcopy of the discussions, put them in 3ring tandem binders and sent them to everybody on the executive committee (ceo, pres, senior vps). there was also a article in datamation. i got blaimed for all of it. the result was a whole lot of corporate churn and investigations into this new phenonoma. part of results were internal tools deployed to "officially" support electronic online discussion. major tool could operate both in usenet kind of mode as well in mailing list kind of mode simultaneously (end user could select the option). as noted this was on the internal network and distinct from both bitnet/earn http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet ... although the subsequent listserv on bitnet had some similarities the internal tool. for other topic drift ... old email from the person setting up earn (in europe) looking for computer conferencing tools: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#email840320 as previously referenced listserv history not started until '86 in europe/earn: http://www.lsoft.com/corporate/history_listserv.asp i have this old joke about in the early 70s, going over to paris to set up a HONE clone (i.e. internal online computing system) ... misc. past posts mentioning HONE http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone as part of the corporate EMEA hdqtrs move from ny to paris ... and having some difficulty reading my email back in the states. one of the other outcomes was that there was a researcher paid to study how i communicate ... they sat in the back of my office for nine months, went to me to meetings, took notes on face-to-face, phone, and electronic communication. they also had softcopy of all my incoming and outgoing email as well as logs of all instant messages. the resulting research was also used as a stanford phd thesis (joint with computer ai and language) as well as subsequent papers and books. misc. past posts related to computer mediated conversation http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.htm#cmc lots of past posts over the last dozen years or so discussing compare&swap instruction and/or multiprocessor implementations http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp for slightly related drift as to references, URLs and posting technollgy ... again go back to early days at the science center http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech not only did the compare&swap instruction originate at the science center, but also virtual machine systems, a lot of interactive computing facilities as well as the internal network technology. one of the other things that were invented at the science center was gml (letters chosen for the first letter of the last names of the three people ... although most people are more familiar with generalized markup language) in 1969. gml has subsequently morphed into sgml, html, xml, etc. reference to work at cern morphing sgml into html http://infomesh.net/html/history/early and reference to first webserver outside europe on the slac vm system (cern sister location) http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/history.shtml for another reference there was this article in ibm systems mag. 3 years ago .... although some of the details are slightly garbled: http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/marchapril05/stoprun/10020p1.aspx there is also old joke at share circa 1974 ... when cern presented a paper about the results of a cms/tso bakeoff. the company couldn't restrict customer copies of the report ... but internal copies were marked confidential/restricted ... i.e. available on a need-to-know only (wouldn't want to contaminate employees with detailed TSO vis-a-vis CMS comparison). in any case, i've been doing online for almost as long as i've been using cp67 ... 40yrs this week when three people came out the last week jan68 from the science center to install cp67 at the univ ... and a lot of what i use/do predate many of the current facilities that didn't show up until decades later. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
