taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (04/24/87)
- - CONVENTION UNIX '87 5 - 7 May, 1987 Palais des Congres PARIS Organised by the AFUU This is the annual technical conference of the AFUU ( Association Francaise des Utilisateurs d'UNIX). It consists of a three day technical conference, with a parallel session of workshops. There is also a (large) associated exhibition organised by Network Events in association with the AFUU. The official language of the event is french, although certain presentations will be made in the natural language of the presenter (normally english). There will be no translation facilities available. For further details, registration, etc. Contact: Anne Garnery AFUU c/o SUPELEC Plateau de Moulon 91190 Gif sur Yvette France Tel. (+33) (1) 60 19 10 13 Email: anne@afuu.fr The following is a brief summary of the technical conference timetable: Tuesday, 5th May, 1987 09:00 Opening remarks by Dominique Maisonneuve, president of the AFUU. 09:15 A general presentation on the state of the UNIX market in France. 09:45 Discussion (questions and answers) on the above presentation. 10:30 Operating systems for work stations. 11:15 Internal and external communications for UNIX. A state of the art appraisal and an overview of the associated market. 12:00 LUNCH 14:00 X/OPEN - Your guide to portability 14:45 Europeanisation of UNIX applications. A prenetation by AT&T - UNIX Europe Ltd. 15:30 ANSI C standardisation. 16:15 After UNIX ? (NASH, Andrew, GNU ?) 17:00 FINISH Wednesday, 6th May, 1987 09:00 IBM 6150 (IBM PC/RT) workstation. Presentation by IBM France. 09:45 Performance evaluation of UNIX workstations. 10:30 Man - machine interface architectures under UNIX. 11:15 ICON interfaces under UNIX. 12:15 LUNCH 14:00 Ultrix 32w - multi window system for Ultrix 32 Presentation by DEC France. 14:45 Porting X-Windows - experiences of porting. 15:30 NeWS, a multi-window system. 16:16 EMERAUDE - a multi-window system. 17:00 FINISH Thursday, 7th May, 1987 09:00 Network Computing System (NCS). New generations of systems architecture. 09:45 STREAMS: Communications with S5. 10:30 X400 on S5. Implementation and interconnection. 11:15 XENIX on the 386. A presentation by the Santa Cruz Operation. 12:00 LUNCH 14:00 RTU - Real time UNIX from MASSCOMP. A presentation by MASSCOMP. 14:45 TX - Tolerant Systems UNIX, and on-line transaction processing. 15:30 System V on the 1000 series. A presentation by Texas Instruments. 16:15 Subject to be defined. 17:00 FINISH