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      Yet another invitation to attend a soon to be held workshop.
If you are interested in attending, please contact me ASAP!

Joe Boykin
Custom Software Systems
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		Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems

			November 5-6, 1987

			Royal Sonesta Hotel
			Cambridge Massachussetts

	The availability of inexpensive and powerful hardware
has brought personal workstations into offices and laboratories.
Such systems include those based on the Motorola 680XX family,
the Intel 80X86 family and National Semiconductors NS32X32 family,
to name a few.  Networking technology has interconnected these
systems with Industry and ISO standard hardware and  software
(IEEE 802, TCP/IP, X.25, TP/IP, GM/MAP, etc.) It is clear that we
are moving towards integrating these systems.  Mainframes and PCs can
communicate with each other to share data and; CPU and I/O
loads can be distributed onto a machine most suited to a particular task.

	To date, the operating systems used on most of these new
systems have been ported versions of those used by
timesharing minicomputers; e.g. UNIX and VMS.
As the hardware continues to evolve, the operating system, being
tightly coupled to hardware technology, must also evolve.
This workshop will focus attention on issues such as the following:

	1) Do workstations provide an environment which
	differs from minis and  super-minis in ways that
	should be reflected in the operating system?

	2) What lessons from the mainframe world can be applied
	to this new hardware?

	3) Where are current and forthcoming workstation
	different from traditional mainframes?

	4) What is the impact and importance of the workstation
	interconnection functionality and technology?

	5) How does the operating system prototype methodology
	need to evolve to accommodate new generations of hardware?

	6) How does the system guard itself from device obsolescence?

	7) How should applications make use of a workstation
	based environment?

	8) How should recovery be dealt with in these extended environments?

	9) What are the appropriate software abstractions that
	should be presented to both users and applications
	so that synchronization and sharing can be best
	accomodated?

The registration fee is $220 and $275 for IEEE members and non-members
respectively; this includes lunch and coffee/soda breaks.

For registration information, contact:

		Joseph Boykin, Conference Chairman,
		Custom Software Systems
		P.O. Box 678
		Natick, MA  01760
		617-653-2555
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