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Winter UNICOM 1983
Agenda
W1 Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Address
Wednesday 8:45-10am, joint session
"Software Army on the March-Project Strategies and Tactics"
John Mashey, Bell Labs
W2 News from ...
Armando Stettner, chair
Wednesday 10:30-12noon, joint session
Lou Katz, Usenix
Bob Marsh, /usr/group
Larry K Isley, AT&T
Heinz Lycklama, /usr/group Standards Committee
Bill Joy, SUN Microsystems
Robert Fabry, UC Berkeley
Armando Stettner, DEC
W3A Performance Enhancement and Measurement
Terrence Miller, chair
Wednesday 1:30-3pm, Town and Country room
"UNIX System III and 4.1BSD; A Practical Comparison"
John Chambers, John Quarterman, University of Texas
"Contiguous Load Modules for UNIX"
Steve Zucker, INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
"Improved Schedulers for Non-Paged UNIX Systems"
Darwyn Peachey, Hospital Systems Study Group
"An implementation of the vfork system call for PDP-11 UNIX"
Michael Karels, UC Berkeley
"Handling Very Large Programs on a 16 Bit Super-micro"
Mitch Bishop, Zilog, Inc.
W3B UNIX System V
Larry K Isley, chair
Wednesday 1:30-3pm, San Diego-Golden West room
"System V Offering"
W R Guffey, AT&T
"System V Support Offering"
Dave Sandel, Western Electric
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Winter UNICOM 1983 Session W3B
"Licensing Activity and Pricing"
Larry K Isley, AT&T
W4A Networks
Greg Noel, chair
Wednesday 3:30-5pm, Town and Country room
"The Plexus Networked UNIX"
Monte Pickard, Plexus Computers, Inc.
"CSNET Status Report"
Brendan Reilley, U Delaware
"Network Access in 4.2BSD"
Sam Leffler, UC Berkeley
"SENDMAIL -- An Internetwork Mail Router"
Eric Allman, Britton-Lee, Inc.
W4B Development Tools
Bill Tuthill, chair
Wednesday 3:30-5pm, San Diego-Golden West room
"Bibliographic Database System"
Jim Moyer, UC San Francisco
"Development of Refer: Bug Fixes and Enhancements"
Bill Tuthill, UC Berkeley
"RAPID: a Tool for Building Interactive Information Systems"
Anthony I. Wasserman, David T. Shewmake, UC San Francisco
"COBOL Compiler Construction Experiences Using Lex and Yacc"
Robert E. Conant, Herbert G. Mayer, Burroughs Corp.
T1A Bell Labs Reports
Berkley Tague, chair
Thursday 8:30-12noon, Town and Country room
"The UNIX System: New Directions"
Berkley A. Tague, Bell Labs
"UNIX File System Evolution"
Larry A. Wehr, Bell Labs
"The Evolution of UNIX System Performance"
Jerome Feder, Bell Labs
"C Programming Environment"
D. J. Kretsch, Bell Labs
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Winter UNICOM 1983 Session T1A
"UNIX System Definitions and Standards"
Don Cragun, Bell Labs
Questions and Answers Panel
T1B UNIX in the Office Environment
Keith Muller, chair
Thursday 8:30-10am, San Diego-Golden West room
"A Uniform and Simple User Interface to UNIX"
Spencer Rugaber, INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
"UNIX Time-sharing Menu-driven Office System for Terminals
(UTMOST)"
James A. Neyer, Perkin-Elmer
"A Friendly Text Processing Environment"
Arthur Zemon, TRW
"Writing User Documentation for UNIX Systems"
Jean Yates and Rebecca Thomas, Yates Ventures
T2B New UNIX implementations I
David Patterson, chair
Thursday 10:30-12noon, San Diego-Golden West room
"Hewlett-Packard's Entry into the UNIX Community"
Frederick W. Clegg, Hewlett-Packard
"4.2bsd on the Sun Workstation"
Tom Lyon and Bill Shannon, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
"Experiences in Porting 4.1BSD UNIX to the 750 VLSI Develop-
ment System."
Paul Chen, Metheus Corporation
"Unix on Apollo Computers (Yet Another Unix Emulation)"
Eric R. Shienbrood, Apollo Computer, Inc.
T3A Programming Languages and Evironments
Bill Appelbe, chair
Thursday 1:30-3pm, Town and Country room
"Work in Progress: UNIX System Ada Programming Support
Environment"
J. Eli Lamb, Bell Labs
"Unix Logo"
Brian Harvey, Atari, Inc.
"LINUS (Leading Into Noticeable UNIX Security)"
Steve Kramer, MITRE Corp.
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Winter UNICOM 1983 Sessions T3A
"A Global Optimizing C Compiler"
George Powers, Zilog, Inc.
T3B Novel Applications of UNIX
Jim McGinness, chair
Thursday 1:30-3pm, San Diego-Golden West room
"UNIX Research at Lucasfilms"
Jim Lawson, Lucasfilms
"ARIEL: An Experimental UNIX-based Interactive Video Infor-
mation System"
R. C. Haight, D. B. Knudsen, Bell Labs
"Development of a Digital Simulation System in a UNIX
environment"
William E. Raves, James Cassidy, Computer Automation
"Meeting the Coming UNIX Training Challenge"
Jay R. Hosler, User Training Corp.
T4A Technical Reports
Andy Tannenbaum, chair
Thursday 3:30-5pm, Town and Country room
"UNIX for the STD bus"
Luigi Cerofolini, University of Bologna
"Ctrace - A Portable Debugger for C Programs"
J. L. Steffen, Bell Labs
"A PDP11 UNIX System with 4.1 BSD VAX11-style Filesystems"
D. Seeley, UC San Diego
"The IS/1 Workbench for VAX/VMS"
William Torcaso, INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
T4B Database Systems
Roger Sippl, chair
Thursday 3:30-5pm, San Diego-Golden West room
"Microprocessors for Biomedical Research Database Management
and Analysis"
F.W. Stitt, Clinical Data Research Services, Inc.
"The DB Relational Database Management System"
J. Robert Ward, International Institute For Applied Systems
Analysis
"The Informix Commercial DBMS for UNIX"
Laura L. King, Relational Database Systems, Inc.
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Winter UNICOM 1983 Session T4B
"The Intel Data Base Processor (iDBP) and IS/3"
John R. Levine, INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
"/rdb: A Relational Data Base Management System for UNIX"
Rod Manis, Computer Consulting
"FOCUS: A Screen Interface to TROLL Data Bases"
Tony Wasserman, University of California
F1A Graphics
Phil Cohen, chair
Friday 8:30-10am, Town and Country Room
"Device Independent Graphics Enhancements"
Greg Hidley, ITT DCD
"Terminal-Independent Plotting Packages: An Example and
Suggestions for Standards"
Don Mackay, UC San Diego
"Graphics Standards for Personal Workstations"
Michael Shantz, SUN Microsystems, Inc.
"Windows with 4.2bsd"
Steven R. Evans, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
"Animation at UCSD"
Jeff Loomis, UC San Diego
F1B New UNIX Implementations II
Joel Carter, chair
Friday 8:30-10am, San Diego-Golden West room
"REGULUS, a Real-Time UNIX Lookalike"
Bill Allen, Alcyon
"UNIX for the NS16032"
Paul Neelands, Human Computing Resources Corporation
"The Port of UNIX to the Gould 32/27"
Jack Blevins, Gould, Inc.
"UNIX Enhancements for Real-time Applications"
Kent Blackett, MASSCOMP
"EUNICE"
Ellen Williams, The Wollongong Group
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Winter UNICOM 1983 Session F2A
F2A New UNIX Implementations III
Mike O'Brien, chair
Friday 10:30-12noon, Town and Country room
"Porting UNIX"
P. Verbaeten, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
"UNIX on the National Semiconductor NS16032"
Glenn C. Skinner, Bill Jolitz, National Semiconductor
"UNIX for the Computer Automation 4/95"
Steve Pozgaj, Human Computing Resources Corporation
"Architectural Implications of UNIX"
Bill Appelbe, Greg Noel, NCR
F2B Marketing and Venture Capital
Marlene Martin, chair
Friday 10:30-12noon, San Diego-Golden West room
"Getting Venture Capital"
Henry Wilder, Dougery, Jones, and Wilder Venture Capital
"UNIX Markets and Competition"
Bob Katsive, Gnostic Concepts
"Delivering UNIX to the End-User Market"
Michael Denny, BASIS, Inc.
"Distribution and Differentiation"
Marlene Martin, The Marketing Network
"New UNIX Markets in Engineering"
Camran Elahian, Computer-Aided Engineering
F3A Portability
Mike O'Dell, chair
Friday 1:30-3pm, Town and Country room
"Portability in the Unix World"
Mike O'Dell, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
"A Tutorial on C Portability"
Michael Tilson, Human Computing Resources Corporation
"IS/3: A Compatible Extension of UNIX System III"
Steven Zucker, INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
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Winter UNICOM 1983 Session F3B
F3B Languages and Programming Environments
Joseph Yao, chair
Friday 1:30-3pm, San Diego-Golden West room
"The VMS C Compiler"
Jean Wood, DEC
"UNIX APL"
Joseph Yao, SAI
"Q'Nial: a new interactive programming system for the UNIX
community"
M. A. Jenkins, Queen's University
"SOLID - System for On-Line Information Development"
John R. Mashey, Bell Labs
F4 Standardization
Heinz Lycklama, chair
Friday 3:30-5pm, Town and Country room
"The /usr/group Standards Committee"
Heinz Lycklama, INTERACTIVE Systems
"The History and Purpose of Standards"
Eric Petersen
"Standards Organization: Levels and Measurement"
Jim Isaak, Charles River Data Systems
"Criteria for Standards"
Robert Swartz, Mark Williams Co.
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