Re: Another Golden Anniversary - Dartmouth BASIC

2014-04-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 00ce01cf5528$e52d0760$af871620$@mxg.com, on 04/10/2014 at 08:53 PM, Barry Merrill ba...@mxg.com said: As the EE Lab Professor (name now forgotten, but rather aged as I recall) finished the instructions for that lab project, he said I have been instructed to read this note to all EE

Re: ISPF START command remains on the command line

2014-04-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In caodpegqgmjak7ksush0tuntynd2+64arfp3uohpjogjq5by...@mail.gmail.com, on 04/11/2014 at 07:21 AM, Itschak Mugzach imugz...@gmail.com said: at the second time, try to put before the command. The point is that by default PFK2 is set to SPLIT, not to SPLIT NEW, and won't create a third split.

Re: NSA and Heartbleed

2014-04-13 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
How the NSA shot itself in the foot by denying prior knowledge of Heartbleed vulnerability http://www.zdnet.com/institutional-failure-led-to-nsa-missing-the-heartbleed-flaw-728366/ Summary: In admitting it didn't know about a massive security flaw in one of the Web's most used encryption

Re: NSA foils much internet encryption

2014-04-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of DASDBILL2 Of course they didn't use the Heartbleed bug for at least the last two years.  How do I know?  Because the NSA said they weren't even aware of it, so how could they possibly have used it? “NSA was

Re: Testing (was 'Tesing') A SubSystem Initialization Routine

2014-04-13 Thread John Gilmore
Whether your assessment is correct correct upon whether you are willing to make use of EJ's suggestion that you zap (presumably) the last letter of your routine's name to employ a sequence 'stem'.'A', 'stem'.'B', . . . . ,'stem.'Z', 'stem.'@', 'stem.'#', 'stem'.'$' of 29 routine names, one per

Re: Another Golden Anniversary - Dartmouth BASIC

2014-04-13 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 04/11/2014 08:49 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In 00ce01cf5528$e52d0760$af871620$@mxg.com, on 04/10/2014 at 08:53 PM, Barry Merrill ba...@mxg.com said: As the EE Lab Professor (name now forgotten, but rather aged as I recall) finished the instructions for that lab project, he

Re: NSA foils much internet encryption

2014-04-13 Thread John Gilmore
The NSA employs able people entirely capable of discovering the recently identified vulnerability in OpenSSL, the so-called Heartbleed vulnerability. It says, however, that it was not aware of this particular vulnerability; and I believe it. There is 1) no need to impute omniscience to the NSA;

Re: Another Golden Anniversary - Dartmouth BASIC

2014-04-13 Thread John Gilmore
Joel is quite right. On of thr earliest 'serious' routines I wrote, circa 1950, was one that permitted EE's to continue to indulge in the fiction that they were still setting dials on pots/potentiometers in what was by then an all-digital setting. It made them happy for a time, but all or most

Re: Tesing A SubSystem Initialization Routine

2014-04-13 Thread Bob Shannon
Having stated that I wont be able to re-run the IEFSSI ADD a 2nd and 3rd and 4th time without receieving a DUPLICATE SUBSYSTEM ID. IS my assesment correct ? Correct. That's what Ed Jaffe discussed. Bob Shannon Rocket Software

Re: IEBGENER PARM='SDB=?????'

2014-04-13 Thread Walt Farrell
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:13:17 -0700, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: Does any of this apply? You can code a value like: PARM='SDB=x' on the EXEC statement. This value is effective only if the output block size is not supplied by any source. Isn't the block size of the input

Re: Testing (was 'Tesing') A SubSystem Initialization Routine

2014-04-13 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 12:02 -0400 on 04/13/2014, you wrote about Re: Testing (was 'Tesing') A SubSystem Initialization Routi:%0D I'm not quite sure what Robert Rosenberg means by a 'static location', but a sequence of directed loads to tghe same reused storage obtained once dynamically would meet your needs.

Re: Another Golden Anniversary - Dartmouth BASIC

2014-04-13 Thread Barry Merrill
Joel is correct, the G-15 was used at that time ONLY with the Differential Analyzer. Hell, that prof couldn't pronounce digital correctly! Barry -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Joel C. Ewing Sent: Sunday, April 13,