carl@nrcaero.UUCP (Carl P. Swail) (04/17/85)
The Interchange meeting is open to all P-E users, the majority of which are
using P-E's OS/32 operating system, however the number of UNIX users attending
has been growing rapidly in the last two years. I have found the meetings to
be quite useful. I have attended two USENIX meetings in the past (Toronto
and Boston) and will be attending the next one in Portland. The USENIX
conferences are excellant sources of information on UNIX in general, however
a large majority of those attending run on 4.2BSD, so alot of what is said
is not directly usable to me. Also, for we binary licensees, mods to the
source code cannot be made, we can only lobby with P-E. Which brings us to
the Interchange meeting. This meeting is really the only way users have to
interact directly with the P-E development people and make known to them your
wishes and complaints. The Interchange meeting is also much smaller than
USENIX (~300 total in 85) and, I think, allows for better contact between
users.
Enough of the selling job. I will be posting a tentative outline for the
next Interchange 86 meeting in a few weeks, you can decide if you want to
go.
One final note. As I mentioned above I will be attending the USENIX conference
in Portland in June. Is anyone else going? If so, we should try to get
together some time or, if there are enough, I will try to arrange a BOF.
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