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From: fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: a few questions
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Date: 30 May 88 21:40:41 GMT
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In January of 1984, the USENIX and UniForum conferences (and the
/vendor/show) were all held in the same hotel in Washington, D.C.
Needless to say, there was extreme culture clash between the
marketroids and the UNIX wizards. USENIX and UniForum have not been
co-located in the same building any time since, although when asked
in survey in the fall of 1985, the USENIX membership favored having
USENIX and UniForum happen in the same city at the same time.

I presume this is so that, if they so choose, wizards attending
USENIX can still go over to the UniForum vendor show, look at/play
with the new toys, and poke fun at the marketroids.

	:-)

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu

P.S.	I prefer wearing jeans at USENIX too.