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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler on 23 Mar 2010 14:05

"Del Cecchi" <delcecchi(a)gmail.com> writes:
> Don't forget that 1992 was the year that IBM damn near went belly up.
> Kingston got closed, many people at many sites got whacked. Even
> Poughkeepsie the Sacred was not spared. It was Cattle trucks and
> black helicopters. Real Mass extermination sort of event across the
> company. The stupidity of management finally stuck like that asteroid
> in mexico 65 million years ago, except this time the big dumb managers
> lived and the small nimble workers died.
>
> The fallout from that asteroid continues today where "respect for the
> individual" has been replaced with "the floggings will continue until
> the morale improves".

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#50 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#52 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#55 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#56 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#57 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking

'92 was the year it went into the red. earlier in the mid-80s there was
a lot of new plant capacity being built ... to handle the projected
(mostly mainframe related) doubling in sales (and profits) that was
suppose to happen by the early 90s. I had earlier done some simple
calculations that computing hardware was becoming increasingly
commoditized and it would put severe strain on the corporation's cost
structure & profit margin unless something significant was done. this is
sort of logical extension of major motivation behind future system
effort ... reference here:
http://www.ecole.org/Crisis_and_change_1995_1.htm

from above:

IBM tried to react by launching a major project called the 'Future
System' (FS) in the early 1970's. The idea was to get so far ahead that
the competition would never be able to keep up, and to have such a high
level of integration that it would be impossible for competitors to
follow a compatible niche strategy. However, the project failed because
the objectives were too ambitious for the available technology. Many of
the ideas that were developed were nevertheless adapted for later
generations. Once IBM had acknowledged this failure, it launched its
'box strategy', which called for competitiveness with all the different
types of compatible sub-systems. But this proved to be difficult because
of IBM's cost structure and its R&D spending, and the strategy only
resulted in a partial narrowing of the price gap between IBM and its
rivals.

.... snip ...

misc. other past posts mentioning future system
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys

in any case, in executive interview when i departed ... there was
comment that they could have forgiven me for being wrong, but they were
never going to forgive me for being right.

later in '93 a friend who worked in armonk, told the story that the
nearly 500 some executives in the corporate executive bonus plan spent a
lot of the last half of '92 shifting expenses from '93 into '92. The
issue was that '92 was already in the red ... so driving it further into
the red didn't make any difference ... but supposedly as a result, '93
showed slight improvment over '92. the claim was then that the way the
executive bonus plan worked was bonus calculated on improvement over the
prior year ... and the '93 comparison to '92 (no matter how bad it was
in absolute terms) resulted in bonuses that were more than twice as
large as any previous bonus (they actually made out better having the
company go into the red).

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From: Mike Jr on 23 Mar 2010 21:57
On Mar 23, 9:38 am, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <l...(a)garlic.com> wrote:
> Mike Jr <n00s...(a)comcast.net> writes:
[snip]

You nailed Somers. They wasted more space in hallways than most other
places had space. Pretty place though.

By chance, you wouldn't be related to Earl Wheeler? He was the guy
that brought me in.

Regarding Boyd and his decision loop you are again right on. It's
what the US military is trying to do to the Taliban.

The people I respect the most, a colonel in space command who must go
nameless and a couple-three Ph.Ds that invented GPS, all put mission
before career to the great benefit of us all.

--Mike Jr.



From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler on 23 Mar 2010 22:29

Mike Jr <n00spam(a)comcast.net> writes:
> The people I respect the most, a colonel in space command who must go
> nameless and a couple-three Ph.Ds that invented GPS, all put mission
> before career to the great benefit of us all.

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#50 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#52 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#55 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#56 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#57 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#58 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking

space command uniform patch somebody brought back from space city
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/spcommand.jpg

earl ... no relationship ... at one point he was funding internal tools
and i tried to get some money ... but never happened. just became
another hobby in my spare time ... recent posting of some old email
related to tools
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#email861031
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#email861223
in these posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#32 Need tool to zap core
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#38 Need tool to zap core

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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler on 24 Mar 2010 13:15

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#60 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking

oh, and a facebook profile picture in space forces cap
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/billcap2.jpg

Boyd would periodically make comments about having done a stint in 1970
running "spook base" ... but it wasn't until a recent Boyd biography
mentioned that "spook base: was a $2.5BILLION windfall for IBM

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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler on 24 Mar 2010 14:37

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010f.html#58 Handling multicore CPUs; what the competition is thinking

the big build-out of new manufacturing capacity in the mid-80s (massive
bldg. 50 on the san jose plant site one example) based on their
predictions that sales would double by the early 90s ... was just one of
the indications how far out-of-touch the executives had gotten with what
was going on in the dataprocessing industry.

old post show a decade of vax sales sliced and diced by year, model,
us/non-us, etc
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002f.html#0 Computers in Science Fiction

43xx machines were selling into same mid-range market in the same time
frame and saw similar big explosion in sales ... although the 43xx
machines also had very big corporate orderes that were multiple hundreds
at a time (not seen by vax). however by mid-80s, the mid-range was
starting to be overrun by workstations and large PCs and the 43xx
follow-ons (in the mid-80s) didn't see the continued large increase in
sales. misc. old 43xx email references
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#43xx

old '79 email referencing AFDS deciding to increase 43xx order from 20
to 210
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#email740404b
in this post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#15 departmental servers

it also had impact internally in early 80s ... vm/4341s were being
installed in every nook&cranny ... including conference rooms
.... contributing to making conference rooms a scarce resource at some
locations.

the internal network had been larger than the arpanet/internet from just
about the beginning until sometime late 85 or possibly early 86. in the
'83 internet saw a big boost with move off of arpanet w/IMPs to
internetworking protocol. The internal network saw a big boost in '83
with the large number of 43xx machines ... past post with some of the
'83 internal network install notices ... along with list of cities
around the world that had one or more new internal network machines
added during 1983:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#8 Arpa address

misc. past internal network posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet

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