On the floor of summer USENIX 83
Brad Templeton
bstempleton at watmath.UUCP
Sat Jul 16 09:36:59 AEST 1983
Moments from USENIX for those who could not make it:
(probably not in the procedings)
- A nasty session with the AT&T rep. Hissing whenever he said that
some new system was "truly a sophisticated ....", which he did,
several times. Alex White asked why they didn't send anybody real,
he got a round of applause.
- "Sex, Drugs and UNIX(TM)" buttons were a hot item. You did not get
these from people at HCR, and they were not worn by non-hcr high-ups
whose initials are not M.T. or R.B.
- Also popular were the old Waterloo "There's only 1 TRUE brace style"
buttons and ones that said "If SOURCE is outlawed, then only outlaws
will have SOURCE". A person very similar to me had on a button that
said "Nuke Lady Arwen for Christ". No offense to L.A.
- A good reception at the Science Centre. With this great fancy place
to explore, several people could think of nothing better to do than
to look at the Science Centre's Vax. A rather interesting laser display,
where Usenauts, pretending they were from the great unwashed, suggested
you would make a laser lens out of wood, very small rocks or a duck.
- Two Andy Tannenbaums, which caused some confusion. If the one from
Vrije (sp) university had not worn a BTL badge, it might have helped
clear things up. I made this mistake myself.
- Not at all a complete set of unix box vendors at the show.
- B NEWS SUCKS buttons, even one for Mark Horton, although I'm not sure
he put it on.
- Good IMAX show at the Cinesphere. All the standard ones plus a few
I had not seen. Hail Columbia was quite good. David Yost of Fortune
gave alb at harpo a Hail Columbia button at the show. Many die-hards stayed
to 3 am. I hope they did not show up at the 8:30 am session!
Thanks to Fortune systems. Renting the Cinesphere must have cost them one.
IMAX may become a regular USENIX feature.
We learned that Americans and Canadians are both capable of making
strongly moralistic IMAX documentaries.
- The balance of the sexes in the UNIX community is getting better, but
only slightly. Only a couple of women were at Gred Wood's net.singles
party.
- Only one vicious session, that on "cat -v considered harmful" by
Rob Pike of BTL. The UCB vs. BTL split in the unix community seems to
be getting nastier!
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Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ont. (519) 886-7304
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