jwgli...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes: > I am prepared to concede that IBM evolves. Some of this evolution is > admirable, some not; but it is important to remember that not > corporations buy people write text. Some write English or another > language well, and some do not. Merriam-Webster takes the view that > usage is all, that current usage is a fortiori legitimate usage.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#39 Why does IBM keep saying things like this: in the 70s, IBM got a wide-spread reputation for FUD ... part of that is obfuscation and misdirecting the discussion away from principle issues (raising issues extraneous to subject at hand). this and several other references that search engines turn up http://changingminds.org/techniques/resisting/fud.htm reference is it really gaining hold with IBM marketing people in the 70s as countermeasure to Amdahl's clone processors. This discusses Amdahl's advanced computer project at IBM. IBM executives shut it down because they were afraid that it would advance computing too fast and they would loose control of the market (bottom of the article discusses features from ACS showing up more than 20yrs later in es/9000): http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html Amdahl leaves and starts his clone processor company. IBM then starts the Future System project that was going to completely replace 370 (and completely different and incompatible with 370). During the FS period ... 370 efforts were being suspended and/or killed off. The lack of new 370 products during the FS period is credited with giving clone processors a market foothold. That also explains marketing having to finely tune its FUD skills .... because of the lack of competitive products. posts mentioning FS http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys When FS implodes (after spending billions of dollars w/o even being announced), there is mad rush to get products back into the 370 product pipelines. One of these is 303x ... 3031 is 158-3 with new covers, 3032 is 168-3 with new covers, 3033 is 168-3 logic remapped to 20% faster chips ... originally being developed for FS. In parallel with 3033, 370-xa and 3081 work starts. 3081 is leveraging some other poorly performing left over FS technology. This discusses how really badly 3081 compared to competition http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/memo125.htm It wasn't until you get to 3090 that you have really new technology ... and it isn't until es/9000 that you get back to advanced computing. During much of this time, about the only thing that marketing had to fall back on was developing and practicing its FUD skills. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
