jr@foros1.UUCP (John Rogers) (08/06/84)
Table of Contents for Microsystems, Aug-84 (vol 5 number 8) ARTICLES: "Philosophy of Local Area Networking" by Leo Harty. "For Networks and Multiuser Systems - TurboDOS" by Ron Fowler. "The Networking Capabilities of TurboDOS" by Michel Simon and William Poole. "Graphics Subroutines in C for NAPLPS" by Dave McCune. "Declarative Languages Under UNIX" by John Malpas and Kathy O'Leary. [YACC, MAKE, and Prolog. I guess the idea of "language" depends on your point of view; I certainly wouldn't classify MAKE as a language.] "The NCR Personal Computer" by David Fournier. "Mindset: Fast High-Resolution Graphics" by Christopher Hatton. "TurboDOS Spans the [North Star] Horizon" by Karl Sterne. "Leverage Database Manager" by Ian F. Darwin. [The Leverage list manager, for many versions of UNIX, $385.] COLUMNS: "The S100 Bus" by Dave Hardy. [Multiprocessing on the S100 bus; max 16 processors per bus; list of companies selling boards/systems.] "The MS-DOS Window" by Hank Kee. [XT/370, direct memory mapping.] "The UNIX File" by Ian F. Darwin (ihnp4!darwin!ian). [Various uses of the "sort" command; using "tr" for simple ciphers; getting a carriage return into L.sys] "The CP/M Bus" by Randy Reitz. [Double density disks - lots of technical info on how to start using them.] "The Graphics Palette" by Dave McCune. [X3.64 graphics has possibilities, but standard is pretty vague.] "In The Public Domain" by Chris Terry. [reviews of books that discuss public domain software - "Computer Communications Techniques", "Microcomputer Communications: A Window on the World", "The Complete Handbook of Personal Computer Communications", "Free Software for the IBM PC", "A Guide to Free Software".] Happy hacking! -- JR (John Rogers) ...ihnp4!fortune!foros1!jr also fortune!jr and proper!jr
ian@utcs.UUCP (Ian F. Darwin) (10/24/84)
From: jr@foros1.UUCP (John Rogers) Subject: TOC for Microsystems, Oct-84 (volume 5 issue 10) Keywords: Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, "Evolution of UNIX" TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR Microsystems, Oct-84 (volume 5 number 10) [NOTE: This article is being posted to net.unix-wizards because I think this issue of Microsystems will interest lots of people. Read on!] [NOTE 2: I've heard that Microsystems is going defunct. I dunno. This issue arrived in the mail a few weeks ago, like always, so it's probably available in the store too.] Alas, the bad news is true. You heard it here last. Microsystems is indeed being closed down. Ziff-Davis installed new management in their computer division, and they decided to close this magazine. November, 1984 will be the final issue. (biased comment: the good die young). ARTICLES: "The Worlds of UNIX", by Mark Rollins "The Evolution of the UNIX Timesharing System", by Dennis Ritchie [Dennis who? :-) This is a reprint of an article from the Symposium on Language Design and Programming Methodology in 1979, I think. It's *very* interesting.] The final issue, in November, has a follow-on article which I (modestly) hope you will also find very interesting, covering roughly the time period 1975 to 1979. This was to have been part 1 of an n-part article; with the demise of the magazine I will be looking for alternate publishers for parts 2-n. "A Conversation with [Dennis] Ritchie and [Ken] Thompson" [an interview done in August, which talks about the split between the research and development groups at Bell Labs. Good reading, although it doesn't have too much meat. No details about the 8th Edition; oh, well...] I agree with your analysis. Rollins & Terry [the interviewers] did what they could, but the interview was not intended to be too technical. The interviewers' background is in various mini- and micro-computer systems, and they did not pretend to be UNIX experts; nor did the magazine cater exclusively to UNIX (though it was moving to an increased emphasis on same). COLUMNS: "The UNIX File", by Ian Darwin [Reviews "A Practical Guide to the UNIX System", complains about too many introductory books on UNIX.] [Other columns omitted as being too boring.] Thanks for not omitting mine! -- Ian Darwin, Toronto ihnp4!darwin!ian