BayLISA meeting: The History of Unix

[Laura Kirk de Leon <cat.hpl.hp.com">deleon]

The BayLISA group meets monthly to discuss topics of interest for
administration of sites with more than 100 users and/or computers.
The meetings are free and open to the public.

August 18th:	Peter Salus: The History of UNIX

                In October 1973, Ken Thompson delivered the
                first paper on the UNIX operating system
                at SOSP.  The next month the 4th Edition
                manual stated that there were now 30
                installations.  By June 1974, there were
                "over 50."  In the July 1974 CACM the
                paper was published and the floodgates
                opened.  How did this unsupported and
                unadvertised OS expand and develop?  My
                reseach shows it was the users, forced into
                cooperation and development by AT&T's
                intransigence.

                Peter H. Salus is the Managing Editor of
                Computing Systems and the author of
                A Quarter Century of UNIX (Adison-Wesley).


September 15th: Steve Romig, Ohio State University: ATM Deployment


Starting this May and going through the rest of the summer, we plan
on broadcasting our meetings via MBONE. For more information, please
send email to:

	mbonebaylisa.org

BayLISA holds monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month at
7:30 PM (please do not arrive before 7:00).  We meet at Synopsys
Building C in Mountain View, California off Highway 237 at Middlefield.

To get further information on the meeting location, you can request it
from the majordomo server on baylisa.org, you can ftp it from
	
	ftp.baylisa.org:/BayLISA/location

or you can query the BayLISA mail server by cutting and pasting
the following line to your shell:

	echo "index baylisa" | mail majordomobaylisa.org

BayLISA makes video tapes of the meetings available to members.  For more
information on available videos, please send email to:

	videobaylisa.org

For any other information, please send email to:

	infobaylisa.org

If you have any questions, please contact me or the info alias listed
above.