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Another z10 source:
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machine-readable - HTML - form on the Internet might have persuaded the
TinyBrains that making
the PDF text non-selectable wasn't working - but no, they've done it again.
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instructions foro
use exclusively by IBM's compilers.
Down at metal level it's quite a different architecture. I wouldn't be
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production of genuinely smaller machines with low
prices accompanied
by lower productionn costs and thus more profit and interest by IBM - as
distinct from
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accept the overall performance claims, I'll be interested to
see variations
between workloads. The LSPR guys have likely been having a fun time.
And it's the small ones that will really be interesting. Let's see what the
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granularity is like.
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Somehow, that never happened.
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e with its code dependency on Itanium - so it went to
NEC. A good
product, but a very different support model. HP is on every street corner in
Europe - in
Germany, for example, there is only one main NEC office.
When PSI lost HP, it lost a LOT more than the hardware platform.
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I understand certain invitations are about to be issued. They won't have
crinkly edges,
engraved lettering and gold blocking, though.
I think Americans call them 'subpoenas'.
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words take a z in
the noun form. Oddly enough, the alternate spelling 'utilise' is one of them.
Time, perhaps, for the OED to be updated. 'Utilisation' appears in Google ten
times as often
as the (correct) 'utilization'.
ew with
OS/360 running.
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and the file
masks permitted all seeks within a cylinder - even to the other dataset.
The /50 set a file mask to inhibit all seeks - thus each track format cost two
revolutions.
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enses, and I was the first one certified by him in
two languages.
XML would be an excellent and platform-independent way to build something
analogous to the
Component Generator for live in-storage facilities.
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I've long since forgotten. One thing I _do_ know - it wouldn't have been with
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of OS/360, the parm field was not protected from write access by the
program.
Under the MFT option, it was. Is this a PCP-MFT compatibility issue?
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supported on an
IBM mainframe. ECPS:VSE? And there's other stuff - networking, printer
emulation, FakeTape,
etc. Every time I ask these questions about zPDT, I just get
The text of my 'curt' response to Ed:
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see you debugging
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against it.
Closing roads to keep them private? Yup - common in the UK. There's at least
one road
locally that levies a toll of 1p per person passing on Maundy Thursday.
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Simon Awde) threatened to sue and
they believed
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above page -
paragraph 176) that there is a "confidential version" of the PoP? Their words,
not mine.
And linked this to IBM's commitments under the 1984 EEC Undertaking?
Read the words VERY carefully.
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So there we go. The Vole is in the frame.
Oooops.
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creates that
impression and many reporters have picked up on it - but I'd rather hear it
from the Vole.
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And woe betide anyone who got in the way of the operator. The "someone else"
mentioned above
managed it, though - they've now got grandchildren.
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The fun starts if PSI is right. If the information is indeed there, how did it
get there? And
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rs in the world
capable of
running a compiler. Now there are probably hundreds of millions. That's a
huge 'cloud' of
potentially competent programmers - if one in a million has a bright idea.
that's hundreds of
ideas.
But they won't be having them in the z/OS envirome
nd thence to both UMX and PSI.
Given that PSI has asserted as part of its defence that this information is in
Hercules, it
would not surprise me one jot if IBM decided to inquire more closely now as to
how it got
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eone try to sell a mobile phone with the caveat that it
can't be used
between 03:00 and 04:00 on Sundays because the network goes down for
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for the
Hercules crowd if IBM wins some of the points.
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Yeah - it's in Blue Pages.
But with Microsoft joining Platform Solutions' financial backers today, he may
be just a
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And I notice my offer of z6 Performance and Pricing Predictions at UK GSE
hasn't been taken
up. I wonder why?
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Yeah, rght!
Anyone fancy forming a _really_ _independent_ user group? You can surely
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n a few years back a
question was asked
directly of an executive - there was a slightly muffled noise and the
facilitator came back
with: "Well, I'll ask xyz to answer that one instead." I strongly suspect the
original target
was
thought at least one more generation viable (zFuture) but the economic
environment and IBM's
FLEX-ES stupidity ...
They just won't admit the flight of ISVs.
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her to the
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She didn't say why.
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generations of machine in
the UK market that IBM was trying to address - e.g., the KDF9 - were also stack
machines.
You can turn any feature or the lack of a feature into a benefit with enough
marketing. Look
at the inanity surrounding the very ordinary iPhone.
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I had a word with Gene Amdahl about it once - he said the word 'algebraic' in
the BXLE/BXH
definition was the biggest mistake in the /360 design and the ultimate reason
XA was only
31-bit.
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four times in my lifetime.
Working - as I now do much of the time - with malformed websites, I've learnt
to use another
obscure word.
Deprecated.
It's used to describe HTML features that are really obsolete and have been
replaced by better
ways of doing things.
H
elf - "IBM Confidential" at
the bottom of a
page effectively means "Please turn over". Those familiar with my dispute with
IBM's aßhole
lawyer will know I sent them 13 (thirteen) warnings about the z890 data before
using it. And
being shat on for my trouble.
I'
ISTR one of their number taking hte list down a while back ...
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anyone had said
that to him.
IMO IBM works too much to its own internal goals and not enough to industry
benchmark goals.
Many expect the Baby z6 to have much finer granularity with an entry level
system having much
lower product costs than a z9 BC
ng ago.)
17?
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w generations, the key metric will be the MIPS/MSUs ratio.
And that's
purely a marketing decision.
The open question is whether IBM will be able to connect a reasonable
(non-tricky, non-quirky)
software pricing plan to the "baby" z6 expected in 3Q08. There is actually a
major
o
> MIPS charts are available from a variety of sources some free, some will cost
> you
(www.watsonwalker.com)
Not yet for z6/zNext - haven't sent them over yet.
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I've also got a whole load of stuff on z6 (or zNext, or whatever) and even
zFuture. What
price an IFL when you can have a real Intel chip sniffing around prefixed
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specific adresses. The only way you could talk back was via
sense
switches. Flick 'A' on, press start - that kind of thing. Not a console "in a
conventional
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hat from an
emulator.
Back then, the operators used to reuse tape trimmings by taping them to the
tops of all grey
boxes so the fans made them stream upwards. If you saw one down, the fan had
failed - call
your friendly CE.
We gave CEs free parking spots, free canteen meals, free coffee. Nev
6,500
servers using Microsoft System Center.
THEY GOT THEMSELVES INTO THAT MESS, AND THEY'RE _PROUD_ OF IT ?!?
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"demanding money
with menaces" - which is a very serious offence. I keep reporting them to
Google and Nominet,
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> maintenance!"
"Some techie yelled it over the cubicle walls: IBM´Link has come down for
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in the _IBM_ versus _PSI_ lawsuit. Indeed, I've commented several times on the
deafening
silence from Fremont (and Ann Arbor).
Hercules references are a bad joke in this context and I just wish people would
GROW UP and
stop making them.
A lot more care is needed, guys.
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They also pull a
fair bit of current - it would be that that worried me, rather than the weight.
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Alexander Thom has pointed out that the "Hill o' many Stanes" in mid-Clyth can
be used to
solve the general equation of the parabola.
Circa 1500BCE.
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I remember a Software CE ordering a copy for us back in 1969 and getting
something unuseable.
I was present when he called home and said: "No, I want it for a /360".
It was a very small and very useful little deck.
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Amazon got a sweetheart deal to get the case off the table and clear the way
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IGS is 300,000 people, which means the other 55,766 IBMers must be working
pretty hard to do
all the things I see IBM do.
I'd suggest giving these guys calculators, but that would be like giving Cheney
a loaded duck
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have curled up its toes. I've been messing around with
XHTML and
multi-media CSS - it looks like a huge proportion of modern handheld devices
support this,
sometimes better than the "classic" browsers like IE.
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Forget PSI. Forget Fundamental. And forget PWD.
It's about zSeries End of Life, and how to control the collapse.
http://www.isham-research.co.uk/ibm_vs_psi.html
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you know what it's really like
watching paint dry.
Literally HOURS.
I always though COS stood for Card Operating System. ISTR it was very similar
in practical
ways to the BPS card loader, but 8 cards instead of 6. You just loaded the 8
cards, and then
it watched for not-ready t
ess for over a
century. Very, very few technology companies can claim that. What it does has
worked so
far - telling IBM it is wrong requires some depth of proof.
And http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/01/spado_vs_watsons/
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get snowed under
with
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. Which is
what PSI
normally uses.
(You have to download
http://www.platform-solutions.com/news/Itanium_Alliance_Final.pdf and
open it from a hard drive to see PSI's PDF creator.)
I'm not at all sure this is a bona fide document. Was it only released to the
venture
capitalists?
After all, the punch
card we've only
recently retired stemmed from the 1880s - could you tell if a given card was
punched by a
Hollerith operator on a manual from or by a 3525?
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exposures in the implementation unless they certify each implementation and any
patches to
that implementation - an expensive business?
This is starting to look like a long-drawn out business.
There's also a chance this
ntion iSeries (and pSeries) than zSeries.
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If in doubt, ask him first. I must confess I've seen no promotional activity
that I would
object to for a very long time.
We are a bit embattled in this space - those who try and keep it going should
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BM's latest quarterly SEC
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For the nine months ended 30 September 2006 IBM's gross margin on software was
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ned and pay only the CE time (hours) involved.
At that time IBM charged $200,000 to open the doors.
British Telecom, once advised of this policy, went _NUTS_. We called it "Lego
bricks" -
hardly a week went by without a request to take an engine out of box X and put
it in box Y
which means
opening your
company's books to the court.
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really ought to.
Between writing this and sending it - cited from the PSI web site:
"PSI Open Mainframes are the first mainframe servers that can run the z/OS,
Linux, Windows and
UNIX on a single server foorprint."
Bolleaux. Even some configurations of the late unlamented IBM xSeries
lation
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It's likely more
about the damage it's doing to the market, especially the continual "we're not
far from
shipping, honest" that's been going on for more than two years now. If IBM can
get a summary
judgement next week, at least it will have the monkey of
ouble width and I could spread out. It's an axiom of system programmers'
lives that you can
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27;ll
be shipping in January is very likely causing real harm to IBM's 4Q06 business.
Hence the
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a
duck, too. PSI
has repeatedly denied that its system was an emulator - they'll now have a
chance to convince
a court.
It took IBM from 29 March 2004 to 9 August 2004 to grant the licence. That's a
fair length of
time - enough for IBM to have determined that it was an emulation sys
/imagesap/ibmpsiex1.pdf
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akeTape, printer emulation, ECPS:VSE and so on that make
Flex-ES so valuable,
over and above simple zArchitecture emulation.
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can't make it
work by several orders of magnitude. I just don't know why they started.
I'd love to know what they told their VC. We may not have seen the last
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