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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:3692 comp.unix.wizards:26499 comp.unix.internals:5134 Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!uflorida!winnie!zach.fit.edu!rcs08945 From: rcs08945@zach.fit.edu (Jerome Christatos /ADVISOR Clay) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.internals Subject: RE : searching for Usenix conferences Message-ID: <4155@winnie.fit.edu> Date: 14 Aug 92 17:31:46 GMT Sender: usenet@winnie.fit.edu Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd Organization: Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne USA Lines: 45 Hello, About one week ago I send this message on comp.unix.bsd, comp.unix.internals, comp.unix.wizards : > Greetings, > > I'm searching for an ftp site where I can find the Usenix conferences. > ( If there is one ). I reply on the net because a lot of people are interested by the result. Unfortunately It appears that there is no such site. I receive only one answer advising me to look in comp.org.usenix archives, which I did. I look on "cs.dal.ca" and found a message ( Re: Papers from past USENIX conferences ) that answer to my quest. Among other things you can read : > >Usenix had hoped to include electronic versions of papers, or even abstracts, > as well as the bibliographic information. And, for a while they were > actively soliciting for donations. However, very very few > authors have been willing to make their papers available > electronically, even though they could still retain the copyright. > One can only conjecture as to the reasons. > > -- > Deborah Scherrer scherrer@mtxinu.com > Mt Xinu, Inc. ..!uunet!mtxinu!scherrer > 2560 Ninth Street > Berkeley, CA 94710 510-644-0146 > My request came after I found interesting papers on "aupair.cs.athabascau.ca" about sun and other ones on "cse.ogi.edu" about Chorus ( some of them appears in the usenix conferences ). The problem is that, to my knowledge, there is not a text book that summarize the latest advance in this field, in think especially about the new VM in SUNOS/SVR4 and threads ( BACH and LEFFLER are already obsolete ( in some sense ) and the 386BSD of Jolitz is based on MACH ). I think this a problem that this "knowledge" is not more widely available to the "average" interested programmer if he want to take advantage of these beautiful new features. ( Knowledge is power, remember ) J. CHRISTATOS ( rcs08945@zach.fit.edu )