Maneuver Warfare as a Tradition. A Blast from the Past
Maneuver Warfare as a Tradition. A Blast from the Past
In briefings, Boyd would also mention Guderian instructed "Verbal Orders Only" for the blitzgrieg ... stressing officers on the spot were encouraged to make decisions without having to worry about the Monday morning quarterbacks questioning what should have been done.
one of my old posts here
Impact Of Technology On Military Manpower Requirements (Dec1980)
# Verbal orders only, convey only general intentions, delegate authority to lowest possible level and give subordinates broad latitude to devise their own means to achieve commander's intent. Subordinates restrict communications to upper echelons to general difficulties and progress, Result: clear, high speed, low volume communications,
post redone as article with long-winded internet followup and topic drift (to some comments)
coworker at cambridge science center and san jose research
In June 1975, MIT Professor Jerry Saltzer accompanied Hendricks to DARPA, where Hendricks described his innovations to the principal scientist, Dr. Vinton Cerf. Later that year in September 15-19 of 75, Cerf and Hendricks were the only two delegates from the United States, to attend a workshop on Data Communications at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 2361 Laxenburg Austria where again, Hendricks spoke publicly about his innovative design which paved the way to the Internet as we know it today.
and It's Cool to Be Clever: The Story of Edson C. Hendricks, the Genius Who Invented the Design for the Internet
Ed tried to get IBM to support internet & failed, SJMN article (behind paywall but mostly free at wayback)
additional correspondence with IBM executives (Ed passed Aug2020, his website at wayback machine)
Ed was also responsible for the world-wide internal network (larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime mid/late 80s). At the time ARPANET transition from IMPs/HOSTs (to TCP/IP) it had approx. 255 hosts while the internal network was closing in on 1000 hosts. One of our difficulties was with govs. over corporate requirement all links be encrypted ... especially gov. problems when links crossed national boundaries. Technology was also used for the corporate sponsored univ. "BITNET" (included EARN in Europe).
Ed left IBM about the same time I was introduced to John Boyd and also I had HSDT project (and hired Ed to help), T1 and faster computer links and was suppose to get $20M from the director of NSF to interconnect the NSF Supercomputer centers. Then congress cuts the budget, some other things happen and finally a RFP is released (in part base on what we already had running) ... Preliminary announce (Mar1986):
The OASC has initiated three programs: The Supercomputer Centers Program to provide Supercomputer cycles; the New Technologies Program to foster new supercomputer software and hardware developments; and the Networking Program to build a National Supercomputer Access Network - NSFnet.
IBM internal politics not allowing us to bid (being blamed for online computer conferencing (precursor to social media) inside IBM, likely contributed, folklore is that 5of6 members of corporate executive committee wanted to fire me). The NSF director tried to help by writing the company a letter (with support from other gov. agencies) ... but that just made the internal politics worse (as did claims that what we already had operational was at least 5yrs ahead of the winning bid), as regional networks connect in, it becomes the NSFNET backbone, precursor to modern internet
The last product worked on at IBM was HA/CMP. It originally started out as HA/6000 for the NYTimes to migrate their newspaper system (ATEX) from (DEC) VAXCluster to RS/6000. I rename it HA/CMP when doing technical/scientific cluster scale-up with national labs and commercial cluster scale-up with RDBMS vendors (Oracle, Informix, Ingres, Sybase). Early Jan1992 have meeting with Oracle CEO Ellison on cluster scale-up, planning 16-way mid92 and 128-way ye92. By end of Jan1992, cluster scale-up was transferred for announce as IBM Supercomputer and we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors (we leave IBM a few months later).
Some time later I'm brought in as consultant to small client/server startup. Two of the former Oracle people (in Ellison meeting) that we were working with on commercial HA/CMP, are there responsible for something called commerce server and want to do payment transactions on the server, the startup had also invented this technology they called "SSL" they want to use for payment transactions, sometimes now called "electronic commerce". I had responsibility for everything between webservers and the financial network. I would claim that it took me 3-10s the original effort for a well design&developed application to turn it into a service. Postel (IETF/Internet Editor)
would sponsor my talk on "Why Internet Wasn't Business Critical Dataprocessing" based on work (software, procedures, documents) I had to do for "electronic commerce".
Retired at Retired
1 年article from last year, intertwine Boyd and IBM https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/john-boyd-ibm-wild-ducks-lynn-wheeler/