Re: Before the PC: IBM invents virtualisation (Cambridge skunkworks)

2011-07-16 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
On 07/14/11 23:16, Boyes wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/14/brief_history_of_virtualisation_par= t_2/ Somebody who actually gets it that there was a world before the PC. Few minor nits, but overall an actually decent article on the role VM played in prefiguring virtualization

HILLGANG (history) Presentation

2011-03-19 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Earlier this week I converted an old OCT86 SEAS (european share) presentation on VM History Performance from foildoc to powerpoint ... with a couple additions ... and presented it at 16Mar HILLGANG meeting. Exported PDF copy here: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/hill0316g.pdf a little discussion

Re: Central vs. expanded storage

2010-09-25 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Kris Buelens wrote: There is handshaking between Linux and VM, and even more than one flavor The fact that z/VM still likes to have some expanded storage is that the management of central and expanded are different: For expanded, CP has a time stamp and know exactly how old each page is.

Re: Central vs. expanded storage

2010-09-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:14 AM, O'Brien, Dennis L dennis.l.o'br...@bankofamerica.com wrote: I heard from a couple of performance people at SHARE that we should have 20% to 25% of the total storage in an LPAR configured as expanded storage. Naturally, that's a guideline and the proper amount

3090 service processor 370 virtual memory (long winded x-over from ibm-main)

2009-12-17 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#18 Portable data centers the modifications for vm370 release 6 to be service processor started well before 3090 came out. it was a copy of standard vm370 release 6 (predates vm/sp) and then frozen (with respect to the standard product) and then various

Re: spool file data

2009-12-01 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Another application by the VMSG author was parasite/story. It used the PVM logical device/3270 facility and had a HLLAPI type scripting language (before the advent of ibm/pc) ... it was after REX was available internally. Another remarkable thing was that the executable was small enough to fit

Re: CMS IPL ( other misc)

2009-07-15 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
On 07/14/2009 01:00 AM, IBMVM automatic digest system wrote: Version 3 was the first CMS that could not be IPLled on the iron, I think. Someone should ask Lynn Wheeler. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#67 DCSS http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#68 DCSS addenda CMS started out

Re: IBMVM Digest - 12 Jul 2009 to 13 Jul 2009 (#2009-188)

2009-07-15 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Jeff wrote: I'm definitely no substitute for Sir Lynn, but I remember DCSS and DMKSNT in VM/370 Release 3 PLC 8, which is where I started with VM. In fact, I used CMSAMS and CMSVSAM then for Unnatural Practices, or at least not for the purposes for which they were created. I was porting the

Re: More named/shared systems

2009-07-15 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Jeff wrote: I'm definitely no substitute for Sir Lynn, but I remember DCSS and DMKSNT in VM/370 Release 3 PLC 8, which is where I started with VM. In fact, I used CMSAMS and CMSVSAM then for Unnatural Practices, or at least not for the purposes for which they were created. I was porting the

Timeline: The evolution of online communities

2009-07-15 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
A history related post copied from a.f.c. ng: Timeline: The evolution of online communities http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135308/Timeline_The_evolution_of_online_communities from above: E-mail discussion lists, chat rooms, BBSs, Usenet groups and more all played a role in the

Re: DCSS

2009-07-13 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Chip Davis wrote: ... when shared segments were implemented in VM. It seems to me that it predated the VM/370 SEPP/BSEPP days when I started, but there's been many a synapse lost since then. Google, Wikipedia, ibm.com, and even Melinda's wonderful work have not been revealing, so I thought

Re: DCSS addenda

2009-07-13 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#67 DCSS Some of the other stuff in CSC/VM was released in my resource manager (which appeared with vm370 release 3 plc9) the 23jun69 unbundling announcement started charging for (application) software and se services (but they managed to make the case

20 Years Ago Today: Birth of the Dot-Com Era

2009-06-08 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
20 Years Ago Today: Birth of the Dot-Com Era http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/166302/20_years_ago_today_birth_of_the_dotcom_era.html from above: In those days, the Internet consisted of regional networks, who were mostly non-profit cooperatives, and the government funded 'NSFNet'

Re: radar interfering with computer gear

2009-05-30 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Walter wrote: When examined after each failure, the core (yes, real core) memory was always wiped clean. That computer (and its tech) was housed in a metal box (IIRC, about 6'x10', 8' high) which was transportable on the back of a 2 1/2 ton (6-by) truck, or by helicopter It was located about

Re: IBM 1401

2009-05-28 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
rschuh wrote: The smaller systems, the 360-20 and 360-30 had a 1401 emulator mode. It was= a h/w or mc based feature. I don't know whether larger machines had it. Th= ere was also a 1410 emulator mode on the -40. I do not know of any 1401 sup= port that ran under DOS, but my DOS experience is

Re: remembering PGP

2009-03-04 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
On 03/04/2009 01:02 AM, IBMVM automatic digest system wrote: Long ago, in a galaxy close to where I am this week, there was a PGP MODULE. It was built by a kind person at MIT (which is NOT close to where I am this week) and worked exactly as one would expect it to work. Maybe some day we will

Re: Seeking (former) Adventurers

2008-06-05 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
following are a couple of emails from '78 regarding getting a copy of adventure for vm370/cms http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email780405 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email780405b in this post http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#18 The History of Computer Role-Playing Games

whitehouse email

2008-05-02 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
you might find this news article interesting Whitehouse Emails Were Lost Due to Upgrade http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/04/30/1359209.shtml and The case of the missing e-mail http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/bush-lost-e-mails.ars and for some more whitehouse email from 25yrs or so ago

Re: VTAM R.I.P. -- SNATAM anyone?

2008-04-25 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Jim Bohnsack wrote: I remember the SNATAM name now. There was an Englishman, Graham Pursey, who used to attend the VNET Project Team meetings that were held once or twice a year. It seems to me that he was involved in some kind of VM based VTAM project. Was that it or was there

cp67 announced 40 yrs ago at spring 68 share in houston

2008-02-25 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
CP67 was announced 40yrs ago at spring 68 share in houston. I was invited to attend. I was undergraduate at univ where the last week of jan68, three people from the science center http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech had come out to install cp67.

40 yrs of cp67 and cms

2008-01-22 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.vmesa-l,alt.folklore.computers as well. 40 yrs of cp67 and cms ... not quite for the announce, since that happened at the spring '68 share meeting in houston. however, three people had come out from the

vm folklore, new, 40+ yr old technology

2007-12-25 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
some recent posts in other venues on the new, 40+ yr old technology https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000988.htm http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm27.htm#66 2007: year in review http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm28.htm#0 2007: year in review i've only started won on the technology

Re: ongoing rush to the new, 40+ yr old virtual machine technology

2007-11-16 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to alt.folklore.computers as well. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#40 ongoing rush to the new, 40+ yr old virtual machine technology IBM Ships 10,000th Storage Virtualization Engine

Age of IBM VM

2007-11-14 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to alt.folklore.computers as well. Marty Zimelis wrote: Bob, Right name, but I believe the wrong derivation. The 67 in CP-67 comes form the fact that it ran on the S/360 model 67, the only production model of the

Re: Oracle Introduces Oracle VM As It Leaps Into Virtualization

2007-11-14 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could you translate into layman's terms? What exactly is server virtualization software? The concept of virtual storage, as I understand it, is making an

Re: Age of IBM VM

2007-11-14 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to alt.folklore.computers as well. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#33 Age of IBM VM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#36 Oracle Introduces Oracle VM As It Leaps Into Virtualization one could claim that

Oracle Introduces Oracle VM As It Leaps Into Virtualization

2007-11-12 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
for something a little different ... also posted here http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#26 latest in the new, 40+ yr old technology Oracle Introduces Oracle VM As It Leaps Into Virtualization http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202805289 couple items from

Re: Combining VM list threads

2007-08-05 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Gabe Goldberg wrote: There's SET SHARE RELATIVE and VM's 35 Birthday Celebration and 2007 Knights of VM and SHARE: Final chairbears needed (ribbon wearer time!!) in which phsiii said So bring your family...I am! I guess he's SET SHARE RELATIVE. So should anyone using family vacation

Re: z/VM usability

2007-05-07 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Alan Altmark wrote: Well, it's been nigh on 40 years that CMS has been around. Seems like a committment to me. CMS is here to stay. If all the people with z/OS get z/VM and [re]discover CMS, who knows what might happen? Never say die! re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#41 z/VM

Does anyone know of a documented case of VM being penetrated by hackers?

2007-04-27 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.vmesa-l,alt.folklore.computers as well. George Haddad wrote: The last major hole I can recall was in the late 80s or early 90s IIRC, where it was discovered that when sending an SMSG to an SVM (I think

Re: Does anyone know of a documented case of VM being penetrated by hackers?

2007-04-26 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.vmesa-l,alt.folklore.computers as well. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#20 Does anyone know of a documented case of VM being penetrated by hackers? for a little topic drift ... a little about

Re: Historical curiosity question

2007-03-17 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Rob van der Heij wrote The mini disk is an imperfect (but cheap) implementation of a low level abstraction. The main defect is the number of cylinders, but for many purposes the virtualization is good enough because the guest can live with that. But at considerable additional cost, VM could

Re: Historical curiosity question

2007-03-16 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
McKown, John wrote: This is not important, but I just have to ask this. Does anybody know why the original designers of VM did not do something for minidisks akin to a OS/360 VTOC? Actually, it would be more akin to a partition table on a PC disk. It just seems that it would be easier to

more shared segment archeology

2007-03-12 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
One of the reasons the vm development group picked up so much from the science center http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech to ship in the (vm370 product) release 3/4 time-frame was a lot of the resources had been diverted to FS ... similar to the reference in this post

I/O in Emulated Mainframes

2007-03-02 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
oft repeated story about mainframe emulation and I/O with regard to 370/158 and integrated channels; most recent telling http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#62 Cycles per ASM instruction basically the 158 microcode engine had both microcode for emulating 370 and also for emulating channels.

Re: The Future of CPUs: What's After Multi-Core?

2006-12-20 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Brian Inglis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IME the IBM VM guys had very good ideas for interaction using the corporate products and facilities, even though it has never been funded adequately and often nearly terminated. They were much better than the batch guys at letting the users fully use all

intersection between autolog command and cmsback (more history)

2006-12-09 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Another CMSBACK status, a year later than the email referenced here http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006t.html#24 CMSBACK i.e. i had done the original CMSBACK implementation and deployment in the late 70s on sjr systems and hone ... the following refers to there additional systems where it was

Re: long ago and far away, vm370 from early/mid 70s

2006-12-08 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
ref: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#10 long ago and far away, vm370 from early/mid 70s while only a small subset of the virtual memory management stuff was released as DCSS vm370 ... and none of the cms paged mapped filesystem stuff ... a little more of the virtual memory management

more secure communication over the network

2006-12-08 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
In the following, CJNTEL was an online corporate directory that I had initially put up on SJRLVM1 that could be queried by anybody on the internal network. The following has a suggestion for registering a person's public key with CJNTEL and making (effecitvely publishing) it available for

long ago and far away, vm370 from early/mid 70s

2006-12-07 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Concurrent with the benchmarking, shared segment, page mapped filesystem, resource manager, and other misc. stuff referred to in these posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#36 Why these original FORTRAN quirks? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#7 Why these original FORTRAN quirks?

CMSBACK

2006-10-28 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to alt.folklore.computers,bit.listserv.vmesa-l as well. Anne Lynn Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: search engine even turns up one of my old pasts mentioning VOL1 and HDR1: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004q.html#20

Re: real core

2006-10-13 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Tom Duerbush wrote: So I guess the question I'm wondering... How many others have shipped dumps, online, back before high speed Internet connections? re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#16 memory, 360 lcs, 3090 extended store, etc http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006s.html#17 bandwidth of a

Re: bandwidth of a swallow (was: Real core)

2006-10-12 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Paul B. Nieman wrote: In the early 1990's we consolidated a data center from Sydney into Philadelphia. We used SYBACK to do a full dump of specific (most) minidisks to tape and shipped the tapes. We then performed daily incrementals to disk, and sent the incrementals via RSCS, via a 9600

memory, 360 lcs, 3090 extended store, etc

2006-10-11 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Schuh, Richard wrote: Yeah, but 3090 memory was not ferrite core, was it? IIRC, it was much cheaper and more reliable. I wasn't privy to the bean-counting specifics, but the rumored cost of the LCS storage on our 360 class machines was in the neighborhood or $2.5-3M per 2MB unit. And they were

Re: The Fate of VM - was: Re: Baby MVS???

2006-08-15 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#49 The Fate of VM - was: Re: Baby MVS??? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#51 The Fate of VM - was: Re: Baby MVS??? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006o.html#52 The Fate of VM - was: Re: Baby MVS??? email from long ago and far away X-To: wheeler

hardware virtualization slower than software?

2006-08-13 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Hardware virtualization slower than software? http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/06/08/12/2028223.shtml ... from above: One example given is compilation of a Linux kernel under a virtualized Linux OS. Native wall-clock time: 265 seconds. Software-assisted virtualization: 393 seconds.

Re: oops

2006-08-06 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Phil Smith III wrote: Gabe reminds me that the 360 didn't run VM; I did use it, but it was the 370/158 with 2MB that I used to use VM on. 360/67 was the only (standard) 360 with virtual memory support. it had both 24-bit and 32-bit virtual addressing options (you didn't see more than 24-bit

Re: the more things change, the more things stay the same

2006-08-04 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#52 the more things change, the more things stay the same http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#53 the more things change, the more things stay the same the following article: How Secure Is That Device? As device software joins the larger world,

Re: SEQUENCE NUMBERS

2006-08-04 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
R.S. wrote: Even some mainframe programs interpret it as data, with funny effects somtimes. For example SYSIN DD * for FTP program cannot contain the numbers. AFAIK some TCPIP config files as well. AFAIK the sequence numbers are completely useless nowadays. It was used for punched card sorter.

Re: Source maintenance was Re: SEQUENCE NUMBERS

2006-08-04 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: I'm not sure when it came along, but by VM/SE there was a somewhat more sophisticated UPDATE facility[1] with aux files, control files and update files. I'd love to see a similar facility integrated with ISPF. [1] Not only could the XEDIT editor process them, but

Re: the more things change, the more things stay the same

2006-07-23 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Savard) writes: Not surprising: the NSA's Security-Enhanced Linux includes, as its unique security feature, something called mandatory security. A file can be flagged as having restrictions on it, and then any program which accesses this file, and writes on other files,

Re: Any resources on VLIW?

2006-07-20 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Brian Inglis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Might be relevant if Lynn Wheeler could expand on the unreleased VAMPS microcode to speed up 370 SMP, and also provided logical processors with similarities to those on current zSeries LPARs, although that may just have dropped parts of 370 sequential

Re: Any resources on VLIW?

2006-07-20 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#44 Any resources on VLIW? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#47 Any resources on VLIW? as an aside ... some number of the relatively recent 370 emulators written for intel platforms have quoted avg. instruction ratio numbers around 10:1 also (have to

Re: Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron

2006-07-18 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Jim wrote: DUMPRX was one of the slickest tools available for VM sysprogs in the '80s. With the overall level of code quality at that time, it was really needed. I have always thought that the only reason it wasn't included in the product was the NIH mentality that was common in IBM at that

Re: dumprx

2006-07-17 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Jim wrote: DUMPRX was one of the slickest tools available for VM sysprogs in the '80s. With the overall level of code quality at that time, it was really needed. I have always thought that the only reason it wasn't included in the product was the NIH mentality that was common in IBM at that

Re: Old IBM protocol IBM 1006

2006-07-11 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Charles Mills wrote: Here's a good start: http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0509L=ibmvmP=8109 note in the above referenced archive ... it mentions transmission as reverse inverted • ALC is transmitted reverse inverted. For example, capital A is 0x31, but it's transmitted as

Re: Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron

2006-07-10 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well I had exposure, access, to an IBM MVT product called TESTTRAN which was sort of available on our system with assembler F and , if I remember correctly, Fortran G, both in batch and TSO. One had to compile/assemble with the TEST option,

Re: DCSS

2006-07-07 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Jim Bohnsack wrote: I had an XT/370 PC sometime in the mid-late 80's. It used PAM as it's native or default CMS file system if I remember correctly. Jim re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#53 DCSS http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#54 DCSS part of the issue was that even tho

amadeus

2006-07-03 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
jim bohnsack wrote: Colin--I was thinking about Amadeus last week anyway. I am still shaking my head in disbelief that last week, 4 years ago, I was sitting there with job offers from Amadeus, MIT, and Cornell. I have always said that in 20 years I hope that I'm not sitting in a rocking

Re: virtual memory

2006-05-23 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
0DCE 96026003OI SGTCB=1 REP 0DCE 4700NOP // -- Anne Lynn Wheeler | http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/

Re: Code density and performance?

2006-05-17 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
on macrocode the previous year (mar80). -- Anne Lynn Wheeler | http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/

Re: virtual memory

2006-05-14 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
and descriptors http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#35 Charging Time http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006.html#40 All Good Things -- Anne Lynn Wheeler | http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/

Re: virtual memory

2006-05-12 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
-- Anne Lynn Wheeler | http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/

11may76, 30 years, (re-)release of resource manager

2006-05-11 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The Pankian Metaphor http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006i.html#24 Virtual memory implementation in S/370 -- Anne Lynn Wheeler | http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/

Re: virtual memory

2006-05-11 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
% CPU is not always bad http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#13 Today's mainframe--anything to new? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#53 Performance and Capacity Planning http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005n.html#29 Data communications over telegraph circuits -- Anne Lynn Wheeler | http

Virtual memory implementation in S/370 (a.f.c x-post)

2006-05-10 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
workstation computer http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#7 Mount a tape http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006f.html#2 using 3390 mod-9s -- Anne Lynn Wheeler | http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/

Virtual memory implementation in S/370 (a.f.c x-post)

2006-05-10 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
boundaries http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006i.html#10 Hadware Support for Protection Bits: what does it really mean? -- Anne Lynn Wheeler | http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/