peter@usenix.UUCP (Peter Salus) (08/06/87)
The USENIX Association is pleased to announce that beginning early in 1988 it will be publishing a quarterly COMPUTING SYSTEMS The USENIX Association Journal Michael D. O'Dell, Maxim Technologies, will serve as Editor-in-Chief. This journal will be dedicated to the analysis and understanding of the theory, art, design, engineering, and implementation of advanced computing systems, with an emphasis on systems inspired or influenced by the UNIX tradition. Articles concerning operating systems, architecture, networking, programming languages, and sophisticated applications are of interest. Papers will reflect a mix of theory and practical experience. Submissions, in nroff/troff format should be sent to {uunet,ucbvax,...}!usenix!peter until the beginning of September; thereafter to usenix!journal. Hard copy submissions should be supplied in five (5) copies and mailed to Computing Systems USENIX Association PO Box 2299 Berkeley, CA 94710 The Association hopes to have a rapid turnaround, with only 6-8 months between submission and publication. Peter H. Salus Executive Director and Managing Editor
gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (08/07/87)
In article <90@usenix.UUCP> peter@usenix.UUCP (Peter Salus) writes:
- COMPUTING SYSTEMS
-The Association hopes to have a rapid turnaround, with
-only 6-8 months between submission and publication.
Perhaps the name should be changed to "UNIX Historical Journal".
taylor@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Dave Taylor) (08/10/87)
Doug Gwyn replies to Peter Salus' announcement of COMPUTING SYSTEMS with: > Peter Salus writes: >> COMPUTING SYSTEMS >> The Association hopes to have a rapid turnaround, with >> only 6-8 months between submission and publication. >Perhaps the name should be changed to "UNIX Historical Journal". I think that is quite an unreasonable comment, Doug. Historically, the higher quality the journal the longer the lead time on articles. Since "Computing Systems" is designed to supplement "login" rather than replace it, I think it is quite a fast turnaround time instead. Consider - the typical article I write for "Computer Language" has a turnaround time of about 9 months total (if not more - I still have an article floating around Miller Freeman from last December with nary a word from 'em). Articles for the Communications of the ACM often have turnaround times of a year and a half or more. I envision the organization of the two journals being: login - short pithy articles, fun hacks, news bulletins, product announcements of relevance to the Usenix community, book reviews, software reviews, etc etc. Computing Systems - more detailed articles, results of research into various areas of computer science, and other formal journal articles. I further expect that CS will have a review board that will function more like an ACM or IEEE review board (login is fairly lax in thier standard for publishing (they published something I wrote, after all ;-) which is good and appropriate for it, but not appropriate for the area CS is aimed at). In summary, I wish Computnig Systems great success and hope that they can get the turnaround time on their high-quality professional journal articles *down* to 6-8 months. Writer at large, and so on... -- Dave Taylor