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From: JMASON@UTORGPU.BITNET (Jamie Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.org.acm
Subject: Re: SIGOPS
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Date: 1 Jun 91 02:24:26 GMT
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 >  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