phil@osiris.UUCP (06/02/87)
[Posted also to comp.org.usenix because I felt it would be of interest] As something of a sidebar to all the talk about the Usenix vendor systems all hooked together on a provided LAN... I just got an announcement in the mail from /usr/group for the February 88 UniForum in Dallas, whose theme is to be "Connectivity, Connectivity, Connectivity". An unauthorized excerpt from the flyer: "... [the conference] focuses on the intersystem communications advantages inherent in all UNIX systems..." Think they'll have a vendor LAN? I suppose we'll just have to wait and see. Anyway, this is pretty quick work; the discussion has only been going on for a couple of weeks now... :-) ...!decvax!decuac!\ Phil Kos ...!seismo!mimsy!aplcen!osiris!phil The Johns Hopkins Hospital ...!allegra!/ Baltimore, MD
geoff@eagle_snax.UUCP ( R.H. coast near the top) (06/05/87)
In article <1132@osiris.UUCP>, phil@osiris.UUCP (Philip Kos) writes: > ... I just got an announcement in the > mail from /usr/group for the February 88 UniForum in Dallas ... > > Think they'll have a vendor LAN? Nothing new in this. There were vendor LANs at Anaheim ('86) and Washington ('87). I missed '85, but I know Sun, Pyramid and Gould showed NFS at that one, so there must have been some kind of net. { Actually, I found that the vendor LAN gave me a real edge in PC-NFS demos. When things got loaded down in the Sun booth, I could always switch to using a nearby Convex as a server..... ;-) } -- "You want a disclaimer form? Next window, please..." Geoff Arnold, Sun Microsystems East Coast Division (home of PC-NFS) UUCP: {ihnp4,decwrl,...}!sun!garnold ARPA: garnold@sun.com
jsq@im4u.UUCP (06/06/87)
Both USENIX and UniForum have had ether cables on the floor of their
vendor exhibits for years. USENIX did it first; /usr/group publicised
it first. DECUS always has one, also.
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John Quarterman, jsq@longway.tic.com, jsq@sally.utexas.edu
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