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From: woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: What's a Usenix Conference like?
Message-ID: <7581@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 90 18:15:46 GMT
References: <1990Jun5.163222.3294@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <23924@bellcore.bellcore.com> <4496@muffin.cme.nist.gov> <1990Jun6.124826.26633@pdn.paradyne.com>
Reply-To: woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods)
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO
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In article <1990Jun6.124826.26633@pdn.paradyne.com> reggie@dinsdale.paradyne.com (George W. Leach) writes:
>In article <4496@muffin.cme.nist.gov> libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes) writes:
>>(I'll let someone else report on the hospitality suite scene.)
>
>   It has been my impression that Sun throws the best one :-)

   What ever happened to Lachman? They always used to have the best hospitality
suite. I remember last summer's conference (unfortunately I don't get to go
this time; anyone going to Interop?). Sun had the best food with the six
foot subs, but IBM had better beer (which was a surprise at the time; I still
have the "We use AIX" beer can cooler they gave out; now *there* is a good
marketing idea for USENIX types! :-) Also, Sun had their new Sparcstations
and CD Rom players demoed; they were also displaying frequency analysis
of the Pink Floyd they were playing. IBM had pictures of Ronald Raygun
on their color PC's. Typical of the image of these two companies :-)

--Greg