On 23Apr16:1542+, Farley, Peter wrote:
> A question out of pure curiosity: In the z16 version of PoOP (SA22-7832-13)
> there is mention in the "Summary of Changes in Fourteenth Edition" section of
> this enhancement:
>
> Mapped-I/O-addressing facility [PCI ONLY]
>
> I can find no other ref
On 23Apr16:1717+, David L. Craig wrote:
> On 23Apr16:1542+, Farley, Peter wrote:
>
> > A question out of pure curiosity: In the z16 version of PoOP (SA22-7832-13)
> > there is mention in the "Summary of Changes in Fourteenth Edition" section
> > of thi
On 23Aug27:0159-0400, David Cole wrote:
> For 50 years, I've always used the five syllable pronunciation.
The only way I could ever get it to work was to spell it
out, so I've always pronounced it ex-why-zee-zee-why.
Plugh also had to be spelled out, but it's pronunciation
was much less enigmatic
On 23Oct05:0616-0400, David Cole wrote:
> To all of you who responded to my query, I thank you.
>
> Unfortunately (well, fortunately actually) I'm on the verge of leaving for
> vacation for the month (Viking cruise, Istanbul to Venice), so I won't get a
> chance to go over everything until Novemb
On 23Oct11:0924-0400, Rick Troth wrote:
> The web burst onto the scene. Thankfully HTTP and HTML have tagging
> capabilities, so for most consumers ... well ... they have no idea the work
> the techies have gone thru.
And to think IBM's C-suite thought it was a good idea in
the early '80s to get
On 23Nov08:1703+, Schmitt, Michael wrote:
> Are we violating the "no reminiscing" rule?
No, we're providing historical data for the young'uns.
>
> What's the latest that people still used punched cards and/or paper tape?
In the 21st Century, I encountered an IOCP deck for a 3081
at a shop t
On 20Feb09:0011+, Christopher Y. Blaicher wrote:
> Having done all of this, I would suggest that you start with EXCP and then
> progress to EXPC/VR. Even with EXCP you have to know and understand the
> relationship of the CCW's you are going to use. Read carefully. Start
> simple. Build
https://engineering.virginia.edu/news/2021/04/defenseless
doesn't mention if zArchitecture is immune, but I suspect
it is not. Does anybody know for sure?
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On 17May05:1241-0400, Steve Smith wrote:
> In case you missed 1 & 2:
> https://xkcd.com/1513/
> https://xkcd.com/1695/ - my favorite
You've got to admit the concept of using different
crying emoji for variable names is stunning, though.
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On 17May25:0822-0700, Phil Smith wrote:
> A friend suggests:
> >Look for a new model coming soon from their US arm, Hitachi America Ltd, the
> >9000. Think about it.
HINO--we're talking about a platform not noted for pushing
the AI envelope. Of course, Watson might see the humor and
start pushi
On 17May25:1749+, David L. Craig wrote:
> On 17May25:0822-0700, Phil Smith wrote:
>
> > A friend suggests:
> > >Look for a new model coming soon from their US arm, Hitachi America Ltd,
> > >the 9000. Think about it.
>
> HINO--we're talking about
On 17May25:1806+, David L. Craig wrote:
> On 17May25:1749+0000, David L. Craig wrote:
> > On 17May25:0822-0700, Phil Smith wrote:
> >
> > > A friend suggests:
> > > >Look for a new model coming soon from their US arm, Hitachi America Ltd,
> > > &g
On 17May29:2346-0400, Gabe Goldberg wrote:
> It's amazing what technology can do:
> http://ericwhitacre.com/the-virtual-choir
>
> https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_whitacre_a_virtual_choir_2_000_voices_strong
>
> ...not symphony, but still remote collaboration.
>
> Timothy Sipples quoted
>
> Ste
On 17May30:1027-0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> >
> Interesting pre-pre-pre-Friday topic. I take SR's prohibition of
> superluminal communication as absolute. But can a choir be
> synchronized without transmitting information from one member
> to another? This seems to reflect the assumption for
On 17May31:1259+0800, Timothy Sipples wrote:
> In some cases more than two parts are possible: A and B1, B2, B3, etc. When
> there are more than two parts the broadcast equipment needs to add
> location-specific delays to each of the feeds before transmission in order
> to synchronize them properl
On 17Jul17:0205-0500, Parwez Hamid wrote:
> https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/52805.wss
This is a golden opportunity, IBM. Please don't blow it.
This will require better than usual marketing. Prove to us
there are no backdoors and that decrypted data cannot be
exfiltrated by SEs a
On 17Jul17:1306-0700, Phil Smith wrote:
> David L. Craig wrote:
> >This is a golden opportunity, IBM. Please don't blow it.
> >This will require better than usual marketing. Prove to us
> >there are no backdoors and that decrypted data cannot be
> >exfil
On 24Mar22:1105-0400, Rick Troth wrote:
> Why don't we teach the kids basic LOGIC in school??
Well, it seems math in general is being learned much less
well than decades ago in the USA. Maybe the solution is
a gottah-beat-it math/logic skills-based computer game.
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On 24Mar22:1105-0400, Rick Troth wrote:
> And it's not like it can't go away.
One place to start could be enable lists like this to
accept mail signatures.
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On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 12:48 AM Joe Monk <
05971158733e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> [snip]
> "Script Kiddies" is industry slang for kids who write viruses and then
> attempt to deploy them. Not all of them are malicious, but nevertheless
> they are PUPs (potentially unwated progra
On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 9:54 PM Leonard D Woren
wrote:
> This comes down to a problem with making sufficient resources
> available to developers and testers. My sandbox system is a 4-way
> sysplex under VM. There was an issue which looked like a bug but
> turned out to be an early design short
On 15Nov18:1220-0500, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
> Yes, I see that as well. Missed it before. Thanks for pointing it out.
>
> Hey IBM, why aren't these pages on a super-reliable z/OS system?
> Shoemaker's children, I guess.
Management probably determined that is too expensive. ;-)
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On 15Nov18:0951-0800, Tom Brennan wrote:
> Do I sense mainframe bigots here?? :)
Oh, I certainly hope not. This is more about a fine
sense of irony. We all wish the mainframe sales team
had been far more successful the last couple of
decades.
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On 15Nov21:0528-0500, STEVEN DAHARI wrote:
> What is to be done with the z890 that can not be
> more easily done with an Intel based machine?
Studying how the zSeries architecture works and how
to work with it is the obvious task where the Intel
machine is inadequate. No simulation is perfect.
T
On 15Nov30:1354-0600, Ed Gould wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2015, at 8:32 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
>
> >Charles Mills wrote:
> >--SNIP
> >>Shipping the source is utterly out of the question,
> >
> >Of course, you have to be crazy if you
On 16Feb10:1926+0100, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
>
> > IEFBR14 is not a TSO command.
>
> Really? I learn something new every day, that's great :-)
Indeed, it was written before there was a Time Sharing
Option (possibly even imagined). And it was APARed.
Twice, I believe.
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On 16Feb10:1517-0600, Ed Gould wrote:
> Well thats true but what does selling and trying to get people to believe in
> a unprovable being(if there is such a descriptive word) have to do with the
> thread?
The same as any other signature has to do with any thread?
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On 16Feb10:2043-0800, Steve Beaver wrote:
> The simplest code for a Br14 is
>
> LA R15,0
> BR 14
>
> It is a 2 instruction program that is as simple as it gets
No, the original was even simpler: just the BC 15,14 instruction.
Fortunately, its behavior was APAR
On 16Feb11:0945-0600, Mike Schwab wrote:
> >From A22-6821-0 S/360 Principle of Operations:
>
> CONDITION CODE SETTINGS FOR FIXED-POINT ARITHMETIC
> x'00', x'01', x'10', x'11'
> 0 (equal) 1 (<0) 2 (>0) 3 (error, overflow)
Does anyone else (Google doesn't) remember the ELHO acronym?
Equal- ma
On 16Feb15:1842-0800, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
> vast majority of 4341s were shipped with FBA disks ... you would need
> some sort of CKD disks in order to bring up MVS.
>
> huge percentage of 4341s went out into departmental areas with 3370 FBA
> disks, sort of leading edge of distributed comp
On 16Feb19:0411-0500, Aled Hughes wrote:
> Just to be the awkward one here: the use of 's for
> plural is grammatically incorrect, personally I don't
> care if it is universally accepted - it is wrong and
> should be avoided. It is on a par with the misuse
> of examples such as 'their' when meanin
On 16Feb22:0100-0600, Darren Evans-Young wrote:
> Define quality.
"Conformance to requirements" --Harold S. Geneen
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You'd better
On 16Feb24:2100-0500, zMan wrote:
>
> I remember $1/byte back in the 360 era. Amazing times.
Even more amazing: according to the https://www.minneapolisfed.org/
inflation calculator, that equates to about $7/byte in today's
dollar's purchasing power.
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On 16Mar17:1037-0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
> I notice they also claim
> "no need for recompilation of Cobol or PL/1 application programmes, no
> source code changes, or changes to operational procedures".
>
> So they have somehow managed to replicate the functional behavior of all
> the SVC and P
On 16Mar26:1059-0500, Steve Beaver wrote:
> First of all I am first and foremost an zOS Systems programmer that only
> writes in HLASM and REXX as needed.
>
> My goal is to learn Linux and then develop in Linux and then as needed port
> it to zSeries box. That being said,
>
> - I am going
On 16Mar28:2239-0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 10:35:44 -0400, Rick Troth wrote:
>
> >On 03/26/16 14:45, Tom Marchant wrote:
> >> First of all, it is GNU/Linux.
> >> That is, it is the GNU operating system with a Linux kernel.
> >> See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html
>
On 18Oct04:2011+, Rugen, Len wrote:
> Wow, a 360/91
> https://images.techhive.com/images/idge/imported/article/itw/2014/04/04/ibm-360-600x450-100520215-orig.jpg
NASA Goddard had one in Building 1. I believe many IBM media
shots were taken there.
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On 18Jan04:1030-0600, Tom Marchant wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 04:11:22 -0600, Cannaerts, Jan wrote:
>
> >This article:
> >https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.be/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html
> >
> >Mentions the following:
> >
> >> Additional exploits for other architectures ar
On 18Jan04:1603-0600, Dana Mitchell wrote:
> I assume IBM will soon patch any Intel based HMC's and SE's.
Why? Theoretically nothing can get in there to attempt
any mischief.
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On 18Jan04:1432-0800, Charles Mills wrote:
> On 18Jan04:1406-0500, David L. Craig wrote:
>
> > On 18Jan04:1603-0600, Dana Mitchell wrote:
> >
> > > I assume IBM will soon patch any Intel based HMC's and SE's.
> >
> > Why? Theoretically
On 18Jan08:0921-0600, John McKown wrote:
> https://xkcd.com/1938/
Regular hammers have their utility.
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You'd better rearrange your
On 16Nov23:1420-0500, Tony Harminc wrote:
>
> The analogy is cute, but I think it fails The problem is that in some
> circumstances that's a perfectly reasonable way to manage a car.
> Depending on the age, how much you depend on it, whether you ever
> drive a significant distance from home, etc.
On 16Dec04:1431-0500, Gabe Goldberg wrote:
> David Cole noted:
>
> In contrast, a compiler coded in its own language tends to be much
> > better, user friendly in features, than a compiler coded in any other
> language.
>
> Interesting observation.
It's certainly true of the Micro Focus COBOL
On 17Jan19:1706+, Blake, Daniel J [CTR] wrote:
>
> > Check out http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1OA12282
>
> Make sure you scroll down to Users Affected section.
Is that a Statement of Direction? ;-)
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On 14Jan28:1142-0700, Mark Post wrote:
> The U.S. Postal Service migrated a good part of
> their CICS workload to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
> on System z, running on an IFL. I'm not familiar with
> all the technical details of how it was done, but Mark
> Neft of Accenture has presented on the
On 14Jan29:1702+0800, David Crayford wrote:
> On 29/01/2014 4:49 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
> >Ed Gould wrote:
> >
> >Indeed. IBM-MAIN is alive. Oh, BTW, I have risked sending some precious
> >electrons to you to tell that! ;-D
>
> Yes, and probably the same carbon footprint it would take to
The least knowledgable sysprog should know ops better than
the best operator, IMHO, even if he's not in the call
rotation yet.
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You'
On 14Jan31:1525-0800, Skip Robinson wrote:
> Is there some other occupation or avocation that mimics what we do?
Medical doctors.
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On 14Mar26:1105-0500, Dan Skomsky wrote:
> A little OS/2 experience with IBM Marketing... Back in '94-'95 we spent
> over $500K to port a major Public Safety system from CICS MVS to CICS OS/2.
> The port was very successful. But, when we went into a major presentation
> to demonstrate our offeri
On 14Mar26:1700+, Shiminsky, Gary wrote:
> Many developers who had used OS/2 offered to rewrite any non-IBM code that
> was in OS/2 so IBM could at least release it as open source.
>
> IBM declined.
Without knowledge of the Ts and Cs in the pertinent contracts
between Microsoft and IBM regar
On 14Apr22:2243+, DASDBILL2 wrote:
> “[Television programming is a] vast wasteland…”
> [09 MAY 1961; speech to the National Association of
> Broadcasters by Newton Minow, Chairman of the
> Federal Communications Commission]
Mr. Minow would likely be at a loss for words if he
had been able to
On 14May09:0635-0500, John McKown wrote:
>
> Say! Here's a neat sleep-deprived idea: In the above scenario, keep the
> offsite repository in the NSA ultra-center in Utah! This would require a
> "commercial" aspect to the NSA. But they're going to intercept and store
> the information any way if it
On 14May10:1036-0400, David L. Craig wrote:
>
> The Chinese would appreciate the one-stop shopping for its ISV
> industrial espionage, certainly.
Actually, the Federal government already has such a
facility under DNA.probably. This might be an opportunity
to set up a nasty hone
On 14May29:1904+, Ken Porowski wrote:
> http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm
>
> 1960 $5,242,880/M IBM 1401 core memory
> 1965 $2,642,412/M IBM 360/30 core memory
> 1970 $734,003/M IBM 370/135 core memory
The handy inflation calculator at the Minneapolis Fede
On 14May29:2005-0400, David L. Craig wrote:
> On 14May29:1904+, Ken Porowski wrote:
>
> > http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm
> >
> > 1960 $5,242,880/M IBM 1401 core memory
> > 1965 $2,642,412/M IBM 360/30 core memory
> > 1970
On 14May29:2104-0400, David L. Craig wrote:
> On 14May29:2005-0400, David L. Craig wrote:
>
> > On 14May29:1904+, Ken Porowski wrote:
> >
> > > http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm
> > >
> > > 1960 $5,242,880/M IBM 1401 core memory
On 14Jun02:1049-0400, John Eells wrote:
> Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
>
> >However, MVS system
> >tended to require 10-30 people for care&feeding ... which scaled poorly
> >to hundreds of distributed departmental computers (IPL and run with
> >little or no human intervention).
>
> It's certainly
On 14Oct01:1627+0200, R.S. wrote:
>
> HMC is good example of such device. You don't install
> anything on that, you don't connect it to the Internet
> just like PC, the connection to IBM support system
> is quite different thing. While it's good to fix any
> vulnerability if possible, I wouldn't
On 14Oct01:1705+0200, R.S. wrote:
> Important: we are not talking about any possible
> vulnerability, we are talking about THIS vulnerability.
I did not understand your comment to be so limited.
Frankly I would be stupified to learn bash is installed
in any HMC and that would alarm me exceedingly
On 14Oct01:1241-0500, John McKown wrote:
>
> Well, some of the HMC's are Linux based on what is basically a
> standard Intel PC. Most Linux systems have BASH installed. So it might
> not actually surprise me to find it on the disk, if I were to remove
> it and put it in another PC.
> Now, being ab
On 13Sep23:2156-0400, John Gilmore wrote:
> The first time I encountered something like this phrase, circa 1950,
> it took the form of
>
> Don't get into a pissing match with a skunk!
>
> I suspect that the phrase and its variants have multiple etymologies,
> with much semantic cross contaminati
On 13Sep24:0729-0400, John Gilmore wrote:
> David,
>
> No. I in fact regret the lingering influence of 17th-century
> puritanism on English usage. In, say, Italian the cognate verb,
> pisciare, has always been usable even in what used to be called polite
> society. Preoccupation with avoiding
On 13Sep29:1242+, Chris Hoelscher wrote:
> Could this be another reason not to run SAP ?
Maybe, but certainly reviewing SAP security is indicated.
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On 13Oct14:1239-0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
> Guilty as charged. I got mine from Dr. Robert Rannie, at a SHARE
> paddle project session.
Indeed. I am looking at mine again, hanging from my Share 53
badge with the ASCII-art Paddle Project label affixed thereto
and the Statue of Liberty "I <3
On 13Oct17:1203+, esst...@juno.com wrote:
> Robert Hagne wrote:
> >IBM is not doing business to raise the economy of
> >poor >countries . But they should also know that ,
> >they get only what they >pay for . You make more profit
> >by paying less ,but at the >xpense of service quality .
>
>
On 13Nov07:1701+, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
> >grep stands for General Regular Expression
>
> I had always thought it was:
> Get Regular Expression and Print
No, it means global, the ed command followed by a regular
expression and a command to perform upon the set of lines
matched by said regex; e.
On 13Dec01:1758-0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
> In <0905701904337885.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu>, on
> 11/30/2013
>at 08:52 AM, Paul Gilmartin said:
>
> >Is the limit HLQ or TSO prefix?
>
> TSO limits the prefix to 7; for an explicit FQDSN it accepts an
> 8-character HLQ
On 13Dec08:0942-0800, Charles Mills wrote:
> It is a pet peeve of mine. People use "hex" sloppily
> to mean "binary" (what I think IBM means in your
> example) or "non-printable" ("does it look like a DD
> name?" "Nyah, it's a bunch of hex.").
>
> Hex is not a kind of data. It is a convenient way
On 13Dec08:1352-0500, Scott Ford wrote:
> Huh .maybe you should back to computer basics
> ...at machine level everything is binary
>
> Scott ford
> www.identityforge.com
> from my IPAD
You, sir, are the one who needs to go back--specifically
to zPOPs page 9-3:
: Hexadecimal-Floating-Point (
On 13Dec08:1428-0500, Scott Ford wrote:
> What do circuits work in ...
Sigh... I suggest you discuss it with Gene Amdahl, not me.
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On 13Dec08:0942-0800, Charles Mills wrote:
> Hex is not a kind of data. It is a convenient way of
> representing data. X'F1' is a clearer image in most
> cases than 0001 or 241. All data is potentially
> hex; that is, is representable in hex. That's the
> beauty of hex.
This is the paragraph
On 13Dec08:1647-0500, Scott Ford wrote:
> > On Dec 8, 2013, at 4:39 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
> >
> > The system/360 and its mainframe successors are largely binary
> > machines. In particular, addressing is entirely binary. They can,
> > however, do both decimal and hexadecimal arithmetic in so
On 13Dec08:1449-0800, Scott Ford wrote:
> I don't know what your profession is , but in 40+
> yrs and about 20+ shops, many in the NYC area and very
> very aggressive with their applications, including
> z/OS, VM and VSE , I never ever had to worry about it
> ..Give me an example of such a concer
On 13Dec08:1717-0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Dec 2013 18:01:01 -0500, David L. Craig wrote:
> >
> >Boolean algebra is a mathematics based upon variables
> >that can take on only two possible values. IIRC, the
> >Soviets were rumored to have probed the att
On 13Dec09:1528-0500, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
> On 12/9/2013 2:56 PM, Skip Robinson wrote:
>
> 2) That's a shame. Every programmer can benefit from familiarity
> with the hardware - write a test program using EXCP to read a
> multi-volume tape, or use XDAP to read a multi-volume DASD data set
On 13Dec11:1225-0800, Ed Jaffe wrote:
> Why would *anyone* want to run traditional CICS COBOL in the
> restricted environment of an SRB? The TCB environment is so much
> more robust!
>
> If the SRB is an Enclave SRB enabled for redirection to zIIP, then
> IMHO such use of the "zIIP enablement AP
On 13Dec11:1831-0500, Scott Ford wrote:
> Amen on that one David. I am in that swamp right
> now with a single thread legacy beast in Cobol..
Imagine you're watching The Big Bang Theory or The IT
Crowd and during a commercial you're not really paying
attention to you hear, "Is writing a COBOL pro
On 13Dec21:2313-0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
> In <20131210023525.GC6157@dlc-dt>, on 12/09/2013
>at 09:35 PM, "David L. Craig" said:
>
> >Of course, "real" MVS programmers use STARTIO
>
> Real MVS systems programmers understand the
On 15Mar09:2144-0700, Charles Mills wrote:
> On 15Mar09:2054-, Ed Gould wrote:
>>
>> Not to rain on anyone's parade, but I shared it with co-workers who promptly
>> showed it to the boss and the boss came over to me and said if they have
>> that kind of Money to throw away looks like SHARE is
On 15Mar26:0928-0500, Norbert Friemel wrote:
>
> S/360 Model 91
>
> Higher resolutions @
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/epitti/2371701458/sizes/l/in/photostream/
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/epitti/2370869637/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Inquiring minds want to know: where's the Emergency Pull?
On 15Mar27:1223-0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> But did anyone ever figure out, what OS? TPF, perhaps?
The plaque said it's from the Goddard Space Flight Center,
which was in building 3/14 and under the Flight Dynamics
Directorate, running OS/MVT/ASP IIRC. I had nothing to do
with it but I'd seen
On 15Mar27:1741-0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
> In <20150327175138.GA3765@dlc-dt>, on 03/27/2015
>at 01:51 PM, "David L. Craig" said:
>
> >The plaque said it's from the Goddard Space Flight Center, which
> >was in building 3/14 and unde
On 15Mar29:1453-0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> I still haven't seen a plausible answer; not even a guess.
> The only one tendered, "OS/MVT/ASP" strikes me as absolutely
> incredible.
Sheesh. I've sent an email to one of the primary sysprogs--
hopefully he'll speak definitively on this matter.
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On 15Mar29:1638-0400, David L. Craig wrote:
> On 15Mar29:1453-0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
> > I still haven't seen a plausible answer; not even a guess.
> > The only one tendered, "OS/MVT/ASP" strikes me as absolutely
> > incredible.
>
> Shee
On 15Mar29:1453-0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> I still haven't seen a plausible answer; not even a guess.
> The only one tendered, > "OS/MVT/ASP" strikes me as
> absolutely incredible.
>From http://voyager.gsfc.nasa.gov/Library/isee-3_book8.pdf
In the first paragraph of the Abstract: "This docume
This IBM page has solid tech notes and includes an
enlargable photo of that same console early in its
deployment. Maybe Nancy can name some of those
folks for posterity.
https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP2091.html
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On 15Mar29:1833-0400, David L. Craig wrote:
> It's interesting to see how it's been marked up to note the
> differences since the application was migrated to the 3081
> running MVS. "Nancy" is "Nancy L. Palm" who is the sysprog
> I'm trying to trac
On 13Jun19:0608-0700, Phil Smith wrote:
> This is an interesting dilemma. FWIW, in almost 30
> years as a vendor, I've never had anyone ask to see
> source code for security reasons. That doesn't mean
> it won't happen tomorrow, of course.
>
> I suspect that the general attitude is a synthesis
>
On 13Jul02:2326-0400, Rob Schramm wrote:
>
> Not sure about the "church lady" reference. Ye old brain is a bit dull
> today.
>
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 17:33:52 -0400, Rob Schramm wrote:
> >
> > >If you are feeling the need for extra paran
On 13Jul02:2324-0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 23:26:57 -0400, Rob Schramm wrote:
> >
> >Not sure about the "church lady" reference. Ye old brain is a bit dull
> >today.
> >
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Administrator_Tool_for_Analyzing_Networks
https://en.wik
On 13Jul23:1317-0700, Phil Smith wrote:
> Martin Truebner wrote:
> >anyone able to attend?
>
> I was on for 30 minutes; content-free to that
> point. I hadn't counted on them FORCING me to use a
> PC, was planning to listen while driving to another
> meeting. But since there WAS no content to tha
On 13Jul24:1022+0800, David Crayford wrote:
> It's easy to do on X86 or ARM architectures which have instructions
> for scanning, counting and reversing bits
> https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/blob/master/hphp/util/bitops.h.
> Now I'm interested in what is the most efficient way to do this o
On 16May26:1154+, van der Grijn, Bart (B) wrote:
> It's an interesting observation as I always chuckle
> when my American coworkers say parmlibe,
Here lib does not rhyme with glib, but with tribe and
is understood to be short for library. How do you
pronouce the full word?
--
May the LORD
On 15Sep14:1712-0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:28:54 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote:
> >
> >(a) The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). UEFI features
> >something called "Secure Boot." To summarize, even open source operating
> >systems must be cryptographically signe
On 15Sep14:1712-0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> So where does this leave Linux for the x86 platform? Is Microsoft trying
> to kill Linux? The FTC should have much to say about that, perhaps
> prodded by such as Google.
>
> Of course, I understand Google makes its own hardware (or contracts
> it t
On 15Oct01:0945-0600, Mark Post wrote:
> And just as an aside, I'm intrigued that at least
> one other person besides myself and John McKown knows
> about and understands the concept and is willing to
> espouse it. (I actually am more of an Open Source
> person than Free Software, but that's not
On 15Oct01:1618+, David L. Craig wrote:
> On 15Oct01:0945-0600, Mark Post wrote:
>
> > And just as an aside, I'm intrigued that at least
> > one other person besides myself and John McKown knows
> > about and understands the concept and is willing to
> >
On 15Oct14:2332-0500, Ed Gould wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/15/junk_your_it_now_before_it_drags_you_under/
>
> Legacy systems tie you to unproductive legacy thinking and lead to
> stagnation.
>
> Really?
You didn't read the comments--picture a piranha feeding frenzy.
Every once
On 15Oct16:1752+, Lance D. Jackson wrote:
> This is disturbing:
> http://www.wsj.com/articles/ibm-allows-chinese-government-to-review-source-code-1444989039
If your only concern is IP misappropriation, I understand your concern.
My concern is the possibility of backdoors in appliances like t
In 1974, we considered it, but the cost of a byte of disk storage was
enough to push the storage of each date's century toward the '90s. We
fully expected the remediation would be needed but storage would be more
affordable by then, which panned out. What everybody got wrong was
expecting the rel
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