alan_altm...@us.ibm.com (Alan Altmark) writes:
> Yet you never hear "millicode" being applied to storage controllers or
> other parts outside of the processor. And you know as well as I do
> that they aren't replacing microcode on the processor chips. They're
> replacing the OS and the applicatio
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#161 Slushware
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#163 Slushware
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#164 Slushware
as an aside ... the hardware layer from i86 instructions to risc
micro-ops for execution ... isn't serialized ... it is pipelined
oper
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
> How many layers have I neglected? Hercules is a confluent branch.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#161 Slushware
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#163 Slushware
for other hercules drift ... risc processors h
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
> It began nearly a half century ago with microcode implementation of S360
> models, and only slightly later, W. M. Waite's Mobile Programming System.
> Nowadays:
>
> microcode->millicode->PR/SM->VM->JVM->byte code
>
> How
cblaic...@syncsort.com (Blaicher, Christopher Y.) writes:
> ECKD, which is what all modern DASD is, stands for Extended Count Key
> Data. The 'Extended' refers to the channel commands you can issue,
> not the devices capabilities. All blocks written to a ECKD device
> consist of a Count field, an
002782105f5c-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Frank Swarbrick) writes:
> Does anyone know of a program/subroutine that can read "any kind" of
> MVS sequential dataset and calculate an MD5 hash on it? By "any kind"
> I am specifically meaning a file that is either FB or VB and can have
> any LREC
mitchd...@gmail.com (Dana Mitchell) writes:
> Just like buying a z CPU and only paying for the number (and capacity)
> of CPU's actually turned on via microcode. Things never change!
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#87 Death of spnning disk?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#88 Dea
t...@tombrennansoftware.com (Tom Brennan) writes:
> Me too - until just a few days ago when I happened upon a number of
> 3380's defined at a client site. All I can guess is these were still
> real 3380's at the time they needed to be moved to a DS8000. TASID
> shows them as 3380-TC3 (whatever th
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#87 Death of spinning disk?
Want a 100TB disk drive? You'll have to wait 'til 2025; Heated Dot
Magnetic Recording combines future technologies for a 10X capacity
improvement
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2852233/want-a-100tb-disk-drive-youll-have-to
sipp...@sg.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples) writes:
> Percentage/ratio cost differences are not *exactly* what drive cost-based
> decisions. To illustrate why, consider these two hypothetical scenarios:
>
> 1. A 1 TB hard disk costs $100 and a 1 TB SSD costs $1000.
> 2. A 1 TB hard disk costs $1 and a 1 T
ibm-m...@tpg.com.au (Shane Ginnane) writes:
> A company that has to be dragged kicking and screaming into
> acknowledging potential security exposures in its OCO code release(s).
> Hmmm - wonder where I've heard that before.
as undergraduate in 60s I did lots of cp67 enhancements and sometimes
IBM
gib...@wsu.edu (Gibney, Dave) writes:
> In my opinion, back in the day, there as a benefit of going to
> fewer/faster engines. But, with a deep drop off a precipice when fewer
> reached one.
>
> Never again will I willingly agree to be on a single CPU machine.
in the past, multiple engines have be
norman.hollan...@desertwiz.biz (Norman.Hollander) writes:
> Absolutely agree! I've done various tech sessions, and customer
> presentations on this for years. As long as you know what happens
> when your system runs at 100%, it's a good thing. There are NO roll
> over minutes. What you didn't us
edja...@phoenixsoftware.com (Ed Jaffe) writes:
> IIRC, "OpenEdition MVS" (aka OMVS) was introduced with MVS/ESA 4.3 ca. 1993.
I've periodic told the tale in late 80s, about senior disk enginneer
getting talk scheduled at the annual, world-wide, internal communication
group conference ... supposedl
allan.stal...@kbmg.com (Staller, Allan) writes:
> z/VM solved the nested paging issue the late 80's. Usually by making
> the guest image so large that paging never became an issue.
> There was also the "preferred guest" feature.
The problem was worse than you can ever imagine. I pontificated a lot
jcew...@acm.org (Joel C. Ewing) writes:
> If the hardware knows it has incomplete information to write an entire
> block because of some abnormal hardware condition, then something should
> be done to guarantee that any later attempt to read that block will
> produce an error indication. If that i
t...@harminc.net (Tony Harminc) writes:
> That's a not unreasonable implementation of an architected behaviour
> on the B&T/OEMI channel to CU interface, independent of power failure.
> If an I/O reset is received by the control unit while a write is in
> progress, it completes the write with zeros
john.archie.mck...@gmail.com (John McKown) writes:
> This is not about the z, per se, but is interesting. I don't think
> that any of the IBM systems have this type of "filesystem". Hum,
> perhaps the i?
original CMS filesystem from mid-60s ... was somewhat brought over from
CTSS ... would simulat
latest update on tick-tock for moore's law
PowerPoint Presentation - RH_Event_May_2014_-_Intel.pdf
http://www.emergent360.com/images/uploads/brands/RH_Event_May_2014_-_Intel.pdf
following mentions V3 is "tock" on 22nm tech and some comparison with
V4 ... a "tick" on 14nm technology ... intel curr
t...@harminc.net (Tony Harminc) writes:
> Which is why I've wondered here why IBM doesn't try to find some
> market for those chips that's different enough from the traditional
> mainframe one that it won't bite into it, but still lets them sell the
> chips for at least something.
>
> Well, maybe t
Robert Wessel writes:
> If you actually tested, cut and packaged the chips on the other
> wafers, you'd get a higher number, but you would not, of course. And
> unlike airline seats, mainframe chips are not salable by themselves -
> you have to put them in an expensive box full of other electroni
Robert Wessel writes:
> My entire point was that the *smallest* systems have the best price
> per processor chip (although that's entirely meaningless for the
> customer, since customer don't buy CPU chips, they buy performance,
> which does get better on a per-dollar basis on larger systems).
>
>
l...@garlic.com (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
> latest haswell-E @ $1k (and less)
> http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i7-5960x-haswell-e-cpu,3918.html
> http://www.extremetech.com/computing/188911-intel-haswell-e-review-the-best-consumer-performance-chip-you-can-buy-with
Robert Wessel writes:
> That number is certainly too low. EC12s have 1-4 books, each with six
> processor chips (yes that comes to 144, only 120 can be used), and
> anyone not buying a configuration topped out for the number of books
> installed will have more chips. BC12s have either one or two
l...@garlic.com (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
> intel's new 14nm fab @$5B assuming 4yr recovery of upfront costs (use
> declining as new technology fabs come online and obsolete it) and
> hypothetical 100,000 wafers/month ... would be 4.8m wafers or $1m/wafer
> ... at 138
mike.a.sch...@gmail.com (Mike Schwab) writes:
> US$3,000,000,000 / 20,000 z/CPU = $150,000
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#85 Demonstrating Moore's law
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#86 Demonstrating Moore's law
1qtr2014 mainframe revenue was equivalent of 18 max. configured ec
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
> But suppose IBM chooses a prospect and pays the $2B. The contract
> would surely include a committment to supply IBM with N chips each at
> a price of
>
> $2B/N + incremental manufacturing cost.
>
> But who pays for the
l...@garlic.com (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
> this somewhat comes up in the discussion about ibm selling its chip fab
> business ... and possibly nobody wanting to acquire the east fishkill
> and burlington fabs. in an (linkedin) ibm employee discussion, somebody
re:
http://www.gar
john.archie.mck...@gmail.com (John McKown) writes:
> That sounds good to me. But, me being me, I would caution your friend
> in one regard. That manual is most likely copyrighted. If it is, then
> scanning it and uploading it _might_ result in prosecution. Especially
> if the copyright holder objec
rto...@ceti.com.pl (Tomasz Rola) writes:
> I am sceptical to this trend, like I have written already, but
> apparently it is happenning right in the front of us, if one looks
> carefully. Also, the idea that some guy who is unable to learn other
> language will be behind software flying heavy stuff
rto...@ceti.com.pl (Tomasz Rola) writes:
> So, now the 5-6 years old anecdote about one contractor stating that
> "Ada is obsolete" makes much more sense, even though at the time I
> read it, it sounded rude and immoral. It doesn't really matter anymore
> what language will be choosen for a project
wgshi...@benekeith.com (Greg Shirey) writes:
> For these mainframe-centric businesses, the Cobol application suite
> that runs the heart of the business isn't going anywhere. "But they
> still need to deal with the declining Cobol workforce . . . to keep
> these systems viable for the next decade o
bgodfrey...@gmail.com (Bill Godfrey) writes:
> Back in the 80's I worked at a place that had an IBM 7171 ASCII Device
> Attachment Control Unit, to which we could connect terminals like
> VT100's and, ISTR, a line from a modem to which a PC running a VT100
> emulator could dial in, logon, and use I
jwgli...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes:
> Page selection and selective page rewriting operations are, or at
> least should be, entirely separable operations. Moreover gather-write
> channel programs are in my experience 1) as efficient as
> connected-block ones and 2) not notably more difficult
jwgli...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes:
> That said, Timothy Sipples is clearly right in general: The use of
> significant system-software resources to identify and share
> bit-equivalent pages, even big ones, dynamically is not likely to pay
> for itself in a z/OS environment. The major optimiz
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
> Understood. When I first explored the S/370 instruction set, it
> appeared to me that the S/360 designers had anticipated support
> for location-independent code (as envisioned by Lynn Wheeler),
> but software never realized
john.archie.mck...@gmail.com (John McKown) writes:
> Sounds a bit like a z/VM DCSS.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#85 z/OS physical memory usage with
multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
an issue with DCSS (and each virtual address space not being able t
john.archie.mck...@gmail.com (John McKown) writes:
> Sounds a bit like a z/VM DCSS.
but that isn't how i originally implemented it, first on cp67/cms and
then moved over to vm370/cms ... as part of paged mapped filesystem for
cms
http//www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#mmap
but as i've previousl
tim.zie...@aon.com (Tim Zielke) writes:
> 4. (Nth time load of a load module into the system by secondary
> address space B) When loading the module into the virtual address
> space B and physical memory, make sure any virtual pages for the load
> module that do not need to be altered for B and we
sipp...@sg.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples) writes:
> z/VM performs such magic in at least three different ways: Discontiguous
> Saved Segments, Named Saved Systems, and VM Data Spaces. These mechanisms
> are probably somewhat relevant to z/OS when it operates as a z/VM guest.
>
> I hate to disagree with
d...@lists.duda.com (David Andrews) writes:
> That tickles a neuron. Was there not a "RASP" component to OS/VS1
> JES?
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#66 z/OS physical memory usage with
multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014i.html#66 z/OS physical memory usage with
multiple copies of same load module at different virtual addresses
a little more topic drift. part of the MVT storage allocation issues was
with contiguous storage allocation.
quite a few customers were convinced to or
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
> If each ADCON is made relative to a location in the module (paired
> relocation), the entire module is location-independent and can be
> mapped to any location in various address spaces. I know of no
> z/OS facility to explo
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
> Do they plan to port iOS to zSeries?
>
> Alas, this is consigning OS X to the back burner.
ibm jointly funded mit for project athena with dec for $25M each
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Athena
ibm then funded cmu for
l...@garlic.com (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
> back before OCO (object code only) enormous amounts of innovation and
> new stuff was done by customers and/or ibm support people onsite at
> customer accounts ... which then morphs into IBM products ... CICS, IMS,
> HASP, ASP, et
edja...@phoenixsoftware.com (Ed Jaffe) writes:
> So-called "free" software is rarely, if ever, functionally competitive
> with priced offerings.
>
> For example, I know from experience that demonstrating real
> productivity gains derived from (E)JES functional superiority over the
> "free" TSO/E OU
chris_webs...@bmc.com (Webster, Chris) writes:
> I remember using full screen editors named EDGAR and FUSE prior to
> XEDIT. Don't remember which came first or their official IBM status.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#99 TSO Test does not support 65-bit
debugging?
http://www.garlic.c
l...@garlic.com (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
> people use to horrible MVS/TSO human factors would have hardly noticed
> the issues with remote 3270 support (controller running at 19.2kbits/sec
> back to datacenter) ... but was major issue for people use to vm370/cms
> interactiv
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
> That might have made sense if CMS had full capability to LINK and ACCESS
> MVS volumes, and to FILEDEF data sets via catalog lookup, and to XEDIT
> PDS (later PDSE) members. Otherwise not.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/20
edgould1...@comcast.net (Ed Gould) writes:
> Lynn:
>
> Good Point.
> I believe ISPF (formally SPF) was written at a customer site (MY
> faulty memory says it was PLAYTEX but I could be wrong).
> Another (less known was PCF) also I *THINK* SDSF was the same.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.ht
jwgli...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes:
> I think that IBM long ago concluded that it could not do everything,
> and thus that the existence of other centers of development, the ISVs,
> was and is in its best interests.
>
> The problem with the separate, individual consideration of the
> business
ba...@mxg.com (Barry Merrill) writes:
> Listening to a past NCIS, we think it may have been Season 9 Episode 13:
>
> "How did you get that voice message he had deleted from his Cell Phone?"
>
> "I used the service provider's MAINFRAME".
except possibly non-mainframe backend server.
2nd part of th
l...@garlic.com (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
> Cringely recently published: "The Decline and Fall of IBM"
> http://www.cringely.com/2014/06/04/decline-fall-ibm/
loc1630-34:
AFTERWORD What if Ginni Doesn't Listen? Here's what the IBM insider I
quoted in my introduc
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#12 Demonstrating Moore's law
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#13 Demonstrating Moore's law
in the wake of FS failure ... some past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys
there was a made rush to get stuff back into the 370 product
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014.html#16
ibm press from 17feb1992, "scientific and technical only"
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2
more ibm press 11may1992, "company caught by surprise by national lab
interest in cluster computing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#600
mitchd...@gmail.com (Dana Mitchell) writes:
> Well, yes I can, I can run it at home too
>
> My point was, when will it be uneconomical enough for IBM to quit
> producing 'real' z CPs and only offer z machines running on power
> cores?
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#9 Demonstrating
jch...@ussco.com (Chase, John) writes:
> Hmmm Might "3D Printing" be a precursor to Star Trek's
> "Replicator" technology? That could render just about everything
> "free". But then many would need bigger closets
on-demand computing ... on-demand (3d printed) clothes, when done
wearing
Report says IBM nears chip deal
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/money/companies/ibm/2014/06/11/report-ibm-deal-globafoundries/10352095/
The news that GlobalFoundries may not be interested in the plants leaves
open the prospect that IBM workers would leave the plants, a major blow
to Dutch
patrick.mul...@gwl.ca (Mullen, Patrick) writes:
> Isn't this a bit like saying that because the price of the chips in a
> 1990 Lexus vs those in a 2014 Lexus has dropped by a factor of (say)
> 1000, a 2014 Lexus should cost $50?
>
> Silly analogy I know, but more seriously, what proportion of the
>
patrick.mul...@gwl.ca (Mullen, Patrick) writes:
> Isn't this a bit like saying that because the price of the chips in a
> 1990 Lexus vs those in a 2014 Lexus has dropped by a factor of (say)
> 1000, a 2014 Lexus should cost $50?
>
> Silly analogy I know, but more seriously, what proportion of the
>
Cringely recently published: "The Decline and Fall of IBM"
http://www.cringely.com/2014/06/04/decline-fall-ibm/
loc1366-69:
THE HARDWARE PROBLEM: IBM’s hardware business has struggled the most
recently, and turned in a big loss in 2013. Its difficulties are a
direct result of Moore’s Law. Moore’s
lindy.mayfi...@sas.com (Lindy Mayfield) writes:
> It is quite clear that IBM mainframes follow Moore's law, and I wanted
> to see if I could verify that somehow.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#8 Demonstrating Moore's law
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#9 Demonstrating Moore's la
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za (Elardus Engelbrecht) writes:
> I also learned a lot thanks to you and your posts. Those posts from
> Anne and Lynn Wheeler got me wheeling around with all those
> interesting tid-bits which I'm still trying to digest... :-)
... mainframe chips now have to be made fr
l...@garlic.com (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
> missed single table with transistor count back to 1971
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count
>
> includes 4-core z196 and 6-core ec12 ... but also ibm power and cell.
>
> also various other kinds of tech
000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Ed Finnell) writes:
> Sorry I just did cut and paste from Wiki. Looked OK in composition. Think
> listserv may have intervened.
>
> Z12:
> chip measures 597.24 mm2 and consists of 2.75 billion transistors.
>
> Z10:
> The chip measures 21.7×20.0
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#2 Demonstrating Moore's law
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#4 Demonstrating Moore's law
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#5 Demonstrating Moore's law
part of the issue of applying Moore's law to mainframes was that they
had more like 7-8yr cyc
sipp...@sg.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples) writes:
> Your choice of workloads for conducting such measurements matters far
> more than anything else. If you constrain your universe of workloads
> to only those that can "conveniently" run on the oldest system, you're
> already putting your thumb on the sc
deerh...@ix.netcom.com (Bob Rutledge) writes:
> http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/history/museum-gordon-moore-law.html
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#2 Demonstrating Moore's law
370/168-3 3MIPS approx 40yrs ago, ec12 743MIPS processor, 248times,
approx. 1.23 to 1.24 times every 1
Robert Wessel writes:
> I'd be careful making that claim...
>
> A resource is:
>
> http://www.tech-news.com/publib/index.html
>
> Anyway, approximate price for a 485 MIPS 9021-9X2 in 2Q94 is $1.3M,
> for a 78,426 MIPS 2827-7A1 in 3Q12 $33.1M.
>
> In terms of MIPS growth, that's 161-fold in 18 year
zedgarhoo...@gmail.com (zMan) writes:
> Heck, your PHONE has more memory, storage, and cores than most mainframes
> in the last century. And certainly more memory than existed on the PLANET
> when most of us started in this business...
20yrs ago we were brought into the largest airline res system
l...@garlic.com (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
> There was a problem as more and more services moved into virtual
> machines (common terminology now calls it virtual applicance, but then
> was called service virtual machines) ... that even if the system auto
> re-ipl'ed w
rpomm...@sfgmembers.com (Pommier, Rex) writes:
> While I don't know when the 3390s last rolled off the assembly line, I
> believe they were all SLEDs. After that came the short-lived
> 9340/9345 subsystem which had a different track length than the 3390
> (built on 5 1/4 inch drives), then the RAM
ee...@us.ibm.com (John Eells) writes:
> It's certainly true that running the first large MVS system required a
> significant number of people (operators, production control, system
> programmers, etc.). However, the second through *n*th had far lesser
> incremental cost. I was a sysprog during th
dasdbi...@comcast.net (DASDBILL2) writes:
> I know it has been "decades" since IBM manufactured its last real CKD
> controller, but what was the exact date when the last new one was
> shipped?
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#82 Costs of core
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#83 Cos
kees.verno...@klm.com (Vernooij, CP - KLM , SPLXM) writes:
> I still remember the early 80's, on a 3031/3033 or so I think, when
> IBM decided to sell memory in 1MB units only. We needed 0.5 MB
> expansion for the next year and my manager was very angry with IBM
> about the unnecessary waste of mo
r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl (R.S.) writes:
> Let me rephrase: Memory redundancy is not unique to mainframes.
> It can be mirroring as well. Mirroring consumes more memory than RAIM,
> but non mainframe memory is dozen times cheaper, so it's still not so
> bad.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/20
ibm-m...@tpg.com.au (Shane Ginnane) writes:
> Not surprisingly, since they very earliest reports of such successes,
> there were murmurings that a large proportion of the fundamental
> research had been done/financed by organisations closely aligned to
> the former employer of a certain Mr Edward S
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#75 non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185
Terabytes on a tape.
when I got to play disk enginneer in bldgs 14&15 ... some
old posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#disk
got to work some with person that got original RAID patent
http://en.wikipedia
harris...@gmail.com (Graham Harris) writes:
> I recall Storagetek talking about RAIT around a decade ago. Not sure if
> anything came of it in the mainframe space. The concept seems to be 'out
> there' on other platforms.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#64 non-IBM: SONY new tape stora
zedgarhoo...@gmail.com (zMan) writes:
> I remember my father telling me that core -- REAL memory, a MAN'S memory
> (yeah, yeah, sexist) -- was $1/byte. Obviously that would have changed by
> the time it all went solid-state, but does anyone remember whether this was
> correct or not?
originally $1
jcew...@acm.org (Joel C. Ewing) writes:
> The RSA device that we used for remote access was user-specific and
> clock-synced. To access the corporate VPN you had to supply your
> network userid, and the user-specific pseudo-random numeric password
> displayed by your RSA card. The pseudo-random p
t...@harminc.net (Tony Harminc) writes:
> The typical challenge-response token from around 1999 looked like a
> small pocket calculator (and in many cases could run as one), and had
> a (single) DES engine in it. It could be programmed with a 32 or
> 64-bit key. The mainframe-based software would i
mike.a.sch...@gmail.com (Mike Schwab) writes:
> Posted at http://www.ahajokes.com/com065.html with one character changed.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014g.html#34 Special characters for Passwords
yes, oops, finger slip in URL:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#52
and with respect to "p
jperr...@pacbell.net (Jon Perryman) writes:
> Password expiration is still valid but for a completely different
> reason. Each person has passwords all over the internet (bank, credit
> cards, various websites, IBM, ...). The average person never changes
> most passwords. With password expiration,
charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) writes:
> I think there are two things that happen that contribute to phenomena like
> this:
>
> 1. There is a fallacy that I see a lot, particularly in public policy, that
> goes something like this: Security is a big problem. It won't help, but we
> have to DO SOM
jwgli...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes:
> The rationale for changing passwords is not that doing so makes
> brute-force attempts to determine their values more difficult.
>
> It is that these password values may come to be known in one way or
> another and that changing them periodically eliminat
paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
> I hate EBCDIC! USASCII code points are relatively stable, even outside
> the USA.
old standby ... EBCDIC was the biggest computer goof ever ... originally
360 was suppose to be ASCII machine
http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM
and
http://www.bobbemer.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#64 non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185
Terabytes on a tape
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#65 non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185
Terabytes on a tape
IBM, Fujifilm squeeze more terabytes out of tape storage; Summary: IBM's
advance means a stand
eamacn...@yahoo.ca (Ted MacNEIL) writes:
> From
> http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/8/649/ENUSA13-0568/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=null
>
> A Long Time Ago in a Data Center Far, Far Away (well, OK, just down the
> road from Poughkeepsie in East Fishkill)
l...@garlic.com (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
> 9May2011 ... TS1140, 250MB/sec physical transfer, up to 650MB/sec compressed
> transfer ... also no mention of mainfame
> http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname=iSource&supplier=87
m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com (Tom Marchant) writes:
> Maybe because they are not mainframe tape drives.
9May2011 ... TS1140, 250MB/sec physical transfer, up to 650MB/sec compressed
transfer ... also no mention of mainfame
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca&infotype=an&appname
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#49 Beyond the EC12
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.html#50 Beyond the EC12
for additional 4341 drift ... old post in (linkedin) IBM Historic
Computing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011m.html#46 From The Annals of Release No
Software Before Its Time
als
scott_j_f...@yahoo.com (Scott Ford) writes:
> Werent they developed at La Gaude ? I was there in the 90s
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014f.htm#49 Beyond the EC12
4341 was being done in Endicott, maybe thinking about (slower) 4331
that was being done in Europe (Boeblingen) on 4361 (4331 followo
aledlhug...@aol.com (Aled Hughes) writes:
> Back in the early '80s, I was told that IBM's Model Range for the 3083
> - E, B and J - used the initial letter of the Product Managers' last
> names for the models. Anyone know if this was true?
some 3083 topic drift
this account has 3081 (& 3033) usin
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes:
> Wasn't CPS a rebranded RUSH?
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014e.html#74 Another Golden Anniversary -
Dartmouth BASIC
is this your work?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen-Babcock
pg20 "RUSH as a PL/I Subset"
http://www.iron-sp
et...@tulsagrammer.com (Eric Chevalier) writes:
> Maybe not a BIG mainframe impact, but BASIC certainly had it's place
> in the mainframe sun, starting with VS BASIC, program product
> 5748-XX1. Between 1979 and 1981 I worked for Ryan-McFarland,
> developers of RM-BASIC, RM-FORTRAN and RM-COBOL. My
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 libra
Matt Simpson writes:
> I think this report is BS. After Heartbleed became public knowledge
> due to research by somebody else, Bloomberg's mysterious sources
> suddenly said "Old news, NSA has been exploiting that for years, but
> we just now decided to tattle on them".
>
> Of course, I don't tru
mike.a.sch...@gmail.com (Mike Schwab) writes:
> NSA used the Heartbeat bug for at least the last two years.
> http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/heartbleed-bug-internet-security-ssl
I would claim that this is another instance of length issues not being
handled correctly in C programming l
jcew...@acm.org (Joel C. Ewing) writes:
> The sentence where "VMS" appears has a subject of "computer firms"
> (plural), so it is possible the intended reference was to non-IBM
> software such as VAX/VMS rather than a typo. Since COBOL was supplied
> by multiple manufacturers, only two of the fou
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