Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!bstempleton From: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: net.usenix Subject: On the floor of summer USENIX 83 Message-ID: <5520@watmath.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jul-83 19:36:59 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.5520 Posted: Fri Jul 15 19:36:59 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Jul-83 00:54:01 EDT Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 50 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@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! -- Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ont. (519) 886-7304