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From: obrien@aero2.ARPA (Michael O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Old-Timers' pseudo-BOF
Message-ID: <311@aero2.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 20-May-87 12:39:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: aero2.311
Posted: Wed May 20 12:39:03 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 10:17:21 EDT
Reply-To: obrien@aero2.UUCP (Michael O'Brien)
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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Henry Spencer, in jest, came up with what I think is a nice
idea.  While it's true that a real BOF for old-timers would
be a waste of BOF time (why chew the fat about days when you
were starving on a grad-student salary trying to get V5 to
quit corrupting the file system when you could be talking
about how to get rich doing a start-up company to support
X Windows?), it might be nice for real old-timers to relax
over drinks or whatever.  I do recall that some of the best
UNIX technical advice I ever heard came from Ken Thompson & Co.
at the Chambana BeerBlast held one evening of the first
truely national users' group meeting.

So, all right.  I'll be at Phoenix (my first USENIX in years).
Any interest in having a late-hours old-timers shindig?
V6 users and earlier only; V6 users get to buy drinks for
the V5 survivors! :-)

Sometime in the future a panel on what V5 was REALLY like might
be a good idea to let these whippersnappers get a sense of
perspective before all us old-timers die off.
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Mike O'Brien
obrien@aerospace.aero.org
aero!obrien