The Pankian Metaphor 3144

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somewhat along the theme of metrics, instrumentation, analysis, benchmarking, being able to correlate projected results with actual outcomes, auditing, etc ... recent article

Decision-Support Systems: Lessons from the Military

which then drifts into a Boyd story about critique of new heads-up display for F16 security both crypto and non-crypto?

misc. past posts mentioning boyd misc. post from around the web mentioning boyd.

i've mentioned before there was extensive instrumentation and metrics in support of implementing the dynamic adaptive resource control algorithms. also, as i've mentioned there was also extensive measurement and benchmarking calibrating and validating the operation of the resource management product. One sequence of 2000 benchmarks in preperation for product release took 3 months elapsed time to run

misc. recent posts

a lot of the work I had done as an undergraduate in the 60s were incorporated into cp67. However, some amount of that work was dropped in the morph from cp67 to vm370. It was re-introduced in the resource management product ... 30th anniversary of the product announce coming up on May 11th

the resource manager also had the distinction for guinee pig for charging for kernel software. charging for (application) software sort of started with the unbundling announcement on 23jun1968 plus 1. However, the explanation to the gov was that kernel software was required for the correct operation of the hardware therefor remained bundled (i.e. "free"). Because of a number of factors (that i've discussed before), by the mid-70s, atbreastudes were changing towards charging also for kernel software. misc. past posts on the subject