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From: ralph@rtech.rtech.com (Ralph Harnden: I don't wanna badger you (ext3430))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: UNIX-PC Pseudo-BOF at USENIX?
Message-ID: <2628@rtech.rtech.com>
Date: 29 Jan 89 18:12:07 GMT
References: <429@limbic.UUCP> <465@uncle.UUCP> <570@itivax.iti.org> <708@ditka.UUCP> <7478@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
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In article <7478@ihlpf.ATT.COM> gmark@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Stewart) writes:
>In article <708@ditka.UUCP>, kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) writes:
>> In article <540@galaxia.Newport.RI.US> dave@galaxia.Newport.RI.US (David H. Brierley) writes:
>> >In article <570@itivax.iti.org> scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve C. Simmons) writes:
>> >>3 months?  It's probably too late to put together a BOF in San Diego,
>> >>but we could at least do a pseudo-BOF in my room.
>> 
>Okay, guys.  I'll bite.  What's a BOF?  Some strange satanic practice?
>A flour-based desert crust?  An enhanced ALGOL parser?
>
Good guesses!!  Your first one comes closest.  BOF stands for Birds Of a
Feather, and is a meeting about an obscure topic on the periphery of the
general conference theme.  Since BOFs deal with topics of limited interest,
they are usually scheduled outside the formal conference agenda.  Decorum
is informal.

I first heard the term at Share *many* years ago, though I don't know the
exact etymology of this acronym.  You probably missed Share -- it's a
conference of IBM mainframe users %-0

>				- Mark
>
>				G. Mark Stewart
>				ATT_BTL, Naperville, Ill. ix1g266
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