From: Robert Myers on
On Nov 13, 6:06 pm, "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <ag-n...(a)patten-glew.net>
wrote:

> Perhaps not forbidden.  Very strongly discouraged.  VERY strongly
> discouraged.

I remember a comment here by an Intel employee that just cut through
so much BS. It explained so many things in just a few words, but I
suppose it was also very revealing of what Intel was concerned about
at the time. I wonder how much he paid for that gem of a comment.

Or maybe it was ok. Who knows. All he did was to point out what
really mattered in all the smoke that was pouring out of the Intel
marketing machine. I wish there were more of that. Can't remember
hearing any more from that particular employee here.

Robert.

From: Del Cecchi on

"Mayan Moudgill" <mayan(a)bestweb.net> wrote in message
news:4qednYDST8vPbGDXnZ2dnUVZ_r2onZ2d(a)bestweb.net...
> Andy "Krazy" Glew wrote:
>> Noob wrote:
>>
>>> Andy "Krazy" Glew wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm so glad that I'm out of Intel. I was starving,
>>>> intellectually,
>>>> technically. Even just being able to post to comp.arch is
>>>> liberating.
>>>
>>>
>>> Are Intel employees forbidden to post to Usenet?
>>>
>>> Even when they speak for themselves?
>>>
>>> Is Intel afraid they might leak trade secrets?
>>> Or, worse, clarify a patent claim? ;-)
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>
>>
>> Perhaps not forbidden. Very strongly discouraged. VERY strongly
>> discouraged.
>
> Also, Andy was not in Intel R&D; it might be different there. At
> IBM, T.J. Watson was quite different from the product organizations;
> there used to be a lot more people on Usenet from there.

That is because watson research had the only news server in the
company for a long time and you had to jump through hoops to get
through the firewall as well if you weren't in research division. But
if you did you could post. And nobody ever said anything to me about
it.
Besides IBM had an internal system of forums that pretty much filled
the needs of the internal folks, "in the divisions" as the phrase
went. Dave Chess was the guy for those as I recall.
del


From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler on

"Del Cecchi" <delcecchiofthenorth(a)gmail.com> writes:
> That is because watson research had the only news server in the
> company for a long time and you had to jump through hoops to get
> through the firewall as well if you weren't in research division. But
> if you did you could post. And nobody ever said anything to me about
> it.
> Besides IBM had an internal system of forums that pretty much filled
> the needs of the internal folks, "in the divisions" as the phrase
> went. Dave Chess was the guy for those as I recall.
> del

one of the virtual machine based commercial time-sharing service bureaus
(tymshare) had developed online computer conferencing ... and made a
"VMSHARE" service free to the SHARE (ibm user group) organization in
Aug76 (predating usenet). archives:
http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/

I got to dialin/access directly ... some old photos of one of my
home offices (over the years), cdi minitterm, fiche viewer, corporate
phone (at home)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#oldpict

a lot of this was easy in the bay area ... sjr, disk division, stl
(database and language development), pa science center, consolidate us
hone datacenter, lots of customers, tymshare, monthly user group
meetings at SLAC. I was allowed to visit and/or help at around the
area. Periodically there was joke about four shift workweek, 1st shift
in sjr, 2nd shift getting to play disk engineer in bldgs 14&15, 3rd
shift in stl, and 4th shift/weekends at hone.

I also made a deal with tymshare to get monthly tape dump of all files.
I put them up on sjr vm system and HONE system ... and also offered
other locations on the internal network the monthly updates. in the
process of deploying other places internally ... somebody asked me what
made me think that I could convince HONE to host a copy of the VMSHARE
files (HONE was world-wide sales & marketing support applications hosts
on virtual machine systems ... originally cp67 and then migrated to
vm370). I reminded them that one of my hobbies for nearly the whole
time HONE had been in existance was building and supporting highly
enhanced virtual machine systems for hone (in the early days of
propogating hone clones around the world ... i even did some of the
installas personally). misc. past posts mentioning hone
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone

the bigger problem i had was dealing with lawyers who raised issues like
if allowing internal corporate employees to read what customers were
writting, might corrupt the employees.

i also got blamed for computer conferencing on the internal network
during this period. corporate hdqtrs eventually did investigation and
somewhat outcome of that was TOOLSRUN EXEC and officially sanctioned
computer conferencing (with moderators that would terminate unauthorized
discussions). site could set up toolsrun and host specific discussion
groups. ytk setup early IBMVM (& VMTOOLS) and then later IBMPC (&
pctools). it was possible for individuals to subscribe to toolsrun
.... effectively mailing list (listserv-like) mode. it was also possible
for other sites to setup toolsrun and operate their own discussion
groups. it was also possible to configure toolsrun for distributed
operation (i.e. much more like usenet with local copies). (at least)
endicott set up VMPERF (for vm performance) and raleight setup IBMCOMM
(communication). The "high-speed" (56kbit) networking discussion
announcement mentioned in this recent post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#59 MasPar compiler and simulator

was IBMCOMM.

sjr did put in the original corporate gateway to csnet ... announcement
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm#email821022
in this post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm#0

later awd (workstation divison) in austin had its own usenet feed.

after leaving in '92, i did a gig for a usenet satellite feed, writing
drivers for their modem ... for windows, dos, and a couple unixes
.... and co-authored article that appeared in boardwatch (BBS) magazine
.... so got a "free" (full) usenet satellite feed to my house (downlink
only ... when i posted, i had to do have telephone connection).

--
40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970
From: Del Cecchi on

"Anne & Lynn Wheeler" <lynn(a)garlic.com> wrote in message
news:m34ooxm293.fsf(a)garlic.com...
>
> "Del Cecchi" <delcecchiofthenorth(a)gmail.com> writes:
>> That is because watson research had the only news server in the
>> company for a long time and you had to jump through hoops to get
>> through the firewall as well if you weren't in research division.
>> But
>> if you did you could post. And nobody ever said anything to me
>> about
>> it.
>> Besides IBM had an internal system of forums that pretty much
>> filled
>> the needs of the internal folks, "in the divisions" as the phrase
>> went. Dave Chess was the guy for those as I recall.
>> del
>
> one of the virtual machine based commercial time-sharing service
> bureaus
> (tymshare) had developed online computer conferencing ... and made a
> "VMSHARE" service free to the SHARE (ibm user group) organization in
> Aug76 (predating usenet). archives:
> http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/
>
> I got to dialin/access directly ... some old photos of one of my
> home offices (over the years), cdi minitterm, fiche viewer,
> corporate
> phone (at home)
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#oldpict
>
> a lot of this was easy in the bay area ... sjr, disk division, stl
> (database and language development), pa science center, consolidate
> us
> hone datacenter, lots of customers, tymshare, monthly user group
> meetings at SLAC. I was allowed to visit and/or help at around the
> area. Periodically there was joke about four shift workweek, 1st
> shift
> in sjr, 2nd shift getting to play disk engineer in bldgs 14&15, 3rd
> shift in stl, and 4th shift/weekends at hone.
>
> I also made a deal with tymshare to get monthly tape dump of all
> files.
> I put them up on sjr vm system and HONE system ... and also offered
> other locations on the internal network the monthly updates. in the
> process of deploying other places internally ... somebody asked me
> what
> made me think that I could convince HONE to host a copy of the
> VMSHARE
> files (HONE was world-wide sales & marketing support applications
> hosts
> on virtual machine systems ... originally cp67 and then migrated to
> vm370). I reminded them that one of my hobbies for nearly the whole
> time HONE had been in existance was building and supporting highly
> enhanced virtual machine systems for hone (in the early days of
> propogating hone clones around the world ... i even did some of the
> installas personally). misc. past posts mentioning hone
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone
>
> the bigger problem i had was dealing with lawyers who raised issues
> like
> if allowing internal corporate employees to read what customers were
> writting, might corrupt the employees.
>
> i also got blamed for computer conferencing on the internal network
> during this period. corporate hdqtrs eventually did investigation
> and
> somewhat outcome of that was TOOLSRUN EXEC and officially sanctioned
> computer conferencing (with moderators that would terminate
> unauthorized
> discussions). site could set up toolsrun and host specific
> discussion
> groups. ytk setup early IBMVM (& VMTOOLS) and then later IBMPC (&
> pctools). it was possible for individuals to subscribe to toolsrun
> ... effectively mailing list (listserv-like) mode. it was also
> possible
> for other sites to setup toolsrun and operate their own discussion
> groups. it was also possible to configure toolsrun for distributed
> operation (i.e. much more like usenet with local copies). (at least)
> endicott set up VMPERF (for vm performance) and raleight setup
> IBMCOMM
> (communication). The "high-speed" (56kbit) networking discussion
> announcement mentioned in this recent post
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#59 MasPar compiler and
> simulator
>
> was IBMCOMM.
>
> sjr did put in the original corporate gateway to csnet ...
> announcement
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm#email821022
> in this post
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm#0
>
> later awd (workstation divison) in austin had its own usenet feed.
>
> after leaving in '92, i did a gig for a usenet satellite feed,
> writing
> drivers for their modem ... for windows, dos, and a couple unixes
> ... and co-authored article that appeared in boardwatch (BBS)
> magazine
> ... so got a "free" (full) usenet satellite feed to my house
> (downlink
> only ... when i posted, i had to do have telephone connection).
>
> --
> 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since
> Mar1970

Yes. Austin had a news server, which I thought was a satellite to
Hawnews but may have been independent. Rochester also had one,
starting somewhat later, until the guy that maintained it retired or
got RA'd. You had to have an austin or awd account to access the
austin server.

As I recall, most of the toolsrun thing was master slave, with a
master usually in YKT and the shadows (slaves) remote, along with
references to the scifi "7 princes in amber" or something like that.
Reading was done from the local shadow. posting went to the master
and was reflected back to the shadow.

del



From: "Andy "Krazy" Glew" on
Mayan Moudgill wrote:
> Andy "Krazy" Glew wrote:
>> Noob wrote:
>>
>>> Andy "Krazy" Glew wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm so glad that I'm out of Intel. I was starving, intellectually,
>>>> technically. Even just being able to post to comp.arch is liberating.
>>>
>>>
>>> Are Intel employees forbidden to post to Usenet?
>>>
>>> Even when they speak for themselves?
>>>
>>> Is Intel afraid they might leak trade secrets?
>>> Or, worse, clarify a patent claim? ;-)
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>
>>
>> Perhaps not forbidden. Very strongly discouraged. VERY strongly
>> discouraged.
>
> Also, Andy was not in Intel R&D; it might be different there. At IBM,
> T.J. Watson was quite different from the product organizations; there
> used to be a lot more people on Usenet from there.

I was in Intel R&D 1995-2001. In 1995 I helped set up Intel's
Microprocessor Research Labs: I was the first manager of the Oregon
computer architecture research group, for a year before I went back to
school to try to get my Ph.D. (which I gave up when my daughter was born).

The rest of my career at Intel was spent in product groups, although
from 2005-2009 I was in Advanced Development.