jmason@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Jamie Mason) (05/31/91)
I hope this is the right place to ask this. I want to join a sig about operating systems. I notice SIGOPS, but the form says SIGOPS -- Operation Systems Does this mean the same (i.e. Operation Systems == Operating Systems), or is it something entirely different? Jamie ... Segmentation fault (core dumped) Written On Friday, May 31, 1991 at 01:46:06am EDT
gdtltr@brahms.udel.edu (gdtltr@limbo.org (The Befuddled One)) (05/31/91)
In article <1991May31.054905.16456@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> jmason@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Jamie Mason) writes: => => I hope this is the right place to ask this. I want to join a sig =>about operating systems. I notice SIGOPS, but the form says => =>SIGOPS -- Operation Systems => => Does this mean the same (i.e. Operation Systems == Operating =>Systems), or is it something entirely different? => I think it was just a typo. SIGOPS is about Operating Systems; its journal is "Operating Systems Review". =>Jamie ... Segmentation fault (core dumped) =>Written On Friday, May 31, 1991 at 01:46:06am EDT Gary Duzan Time Lord Third Regeneration -- gdtltr@brahms.udel.edu _o_ ---------------------- _o_ [|o o|] To be is to be networked. [|o o|] |_o_| Disclaimer: I have no idea what I am talking about. |_o_|
JMASON@UTORGPU.BITNET (Jamie Mason) (06/01/91)
> Jamie, > SIGOPS is the SIG for Operating Systems. Could you please > let us know *what* form said 'Operation Systems'? I think we will > need to correct a typo somewhere. Thank you. > /Beth Olson, ACM HQ I think you will need to correct a typo which has propogated to lots of places. Apart from CACM, I think it is on most stand-alone membership application forms. I have *never* seen SIGOPS written as "Operating Systems". When I first joined the ACM last fall, the little 'take one' pamphlet said 'Operation Systems'. If it had said 'operating systems', I would have joined it on the spot. As it is, I joined the AI sig instead, who I will drop at the end of the year, having received *nothing* from them. I have CACMs from Jan 91 to May 91 (which I just got *yesterday*). (ACM publications seem to arrive sporadically up here in the great white north :-) In *each one*, the backside of the "membership aplication" which lists the sigs has said "SIGOPS (Operation Systems)". May I draw your attention to: Jan 1991: p. 122 Feb 1991: p. 98 Mar 1991: p. 108 Apr 1991: p. 128 May 1991: p. 106 Jamie ... Segmentation fault (core dumped) Written On Friday, May 31, 1991 at 10:21:07pm EDT