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Those wishing to be plecec on the eaEnas: should con- tact Steve Holmgren és soon 2S BOSS SDLe Since very little, Df any, of the discussions et meetings in fact ‘involves "“disclosure", it was decided; at the lest Harvard meeting, \ a thet we would not ber non-licensees from our meetings. . If there is ncea for @ session at which "disclosure" does take Plece, the program committee will schedule a "closed" meeting. . The next issue,of this newsletter will be posted no later than May 5th in New York so it should arrive during the following week everywhere. It will contain the final notice of the meeting and the preliminary agenda. Reservations for lodging should be made as soon és possible. NEW BOOK Your attention is called to the book announced in the letter from New South Wales. Orders should be sent és soon as possible So they may Getermine their print order. Ken Thompson has seen the first ver- sion of the book and reports: that it is a good job. LICENSED MATERIALS We have just received a new list of available licensed materials from Western Electric. The list will appear in the May issue since we want to keep this newsletter and its sequel small to speed Gelivery. Among the items listed are mini-UNIX (previously announced) and “PHO- TOTYPESETTER VERSION 7" which is new. Tt operates under UNIX and ‘in- Cludes text formatting and mathematical processing. For further de~- tails contact Dick Shehpazian 919-697-2661. aM res UNIVERSITY 1 [" 400 Soo 600 | 1300 1200 1100 1000 360] 3 1 ed 3 \ It ezawors — J t jp] reco } t } } a = | 3 buamenig g wane 3! | my J STOUGHON a = 3 3 i SPaNGRELO a Rare im i l : HEALEY } | Det ae ath teenth UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS og) | tewccrebowece PL) |p oO; } he i} iy URBANA~ CHAMPAIGN CAMPUS 214 | q haze "TS aREEW i bs Sha | i rf 2 ee SL! allel ni 3 pests ch S| TORN STUBENT SERVICE: { i = || -aReeee = rc 3 ur ae) 3| | Pees: ral at expainerr | ceareR 3 | CC ! 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GARNER 20.MESTON 15, HOPKINE University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Groduate College CENTER FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATION Urbana, fitinois 61801 March 15, 1977 Prof, Mel Ferentz Department of Physics Brooklyn College of CUNY Brooklyn, New York 11210 Dear Mel: This letter is to confirm that they Unix Users’ Meeting will be held aL the Coordinated Science Lab, in the Main Lecture hall on Thursday, Priday, and Saturday, May 19-21, location, Enclosed is a map of the campus showing the lab People who fly into Champaign-Urbana can take « limousine co Campus for about $3.00, Accommodations: 217/384-2100 217/333-1241 Century 21 Hotel lini Union 203 E. John Those are both within walking distances of the Lab. News on the particular sessions to follew. Tf you have any questions please call 217/333-8469. Cheers, | WO Gar Lippe s Steve Holmgren SH/sb Enclosure CL TELEPHONE: 692 1122 BASSER DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE School of Physics (Building A728), University of Sydney, N.S.W. 2006 . 22nd March, 1977 Professor Melvin Ferentz, Physics Department, Brooklyn College at CUNY, Brooklyn, NEW YORK. 11216 Dear Professor Ferentz: We are in the process of evaluating a system to support student terminal usage as the practical part of their computer science course. Naturally enough we are concentrating our hopes on a UNIX system running on a POP 11/70. Our benchmark tests are somewhat restricted by the lack of large 11/70 configuration in our area, and we are hoping that someone somehwere has some pertinent information already available. We are thinking in the range of 32+ terminals, most of whose users will be running the same program at any one time. Has anybody any figures for this type of load - response tine, disk traffic, memory size? What sort of line printers are suitable - with/without DMA controllers? How many disk controllers/drives - RP06, RPO4, or of other manufacture? What are the bottlenecks, if any? Have there been problems with reliability? We would very much appreciate details of real experience, Help us get free of KRONOS! Yours singerely, jae ~ Piers Dick-Lauder PS. We are hoping you can include “this plea for information in the next issue of UNIX News. Nee ge (ae THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES P.O. BOX 1 + KENSINGTON + NEW SOUTH WALES + AUSTRALIA + 2033 THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES P.O. BOX 1 + KENSINGTON + NEW SOUTH WALES * AUSTRALIA + 2033 } TELEPHONE 6630351 deceerone Ustin [ess | SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, San: EXTN. PLIASE QUOTESL AM PLEASE Quote JLEAM jet) ith, March, 1977. n = th, March, | late . Professor Melvin Ferentz, ‘ . Brooklyn College of CUNY, SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING. e ’ Brooklyn, N.Y. U.S.A. 11210 Dear Professor Ferentz, ” Professor Helvin Ferentz, Brooklyn College of CUNY, | wish to announce the existence of a detatled commentary on the UNIX Brooklyn, N.Y. : operating system (i.e, the UNIX resident nucleus), which | have written and, 3 U.S.A. 11210 which should be of Interest to many UNIX users. The commentary was prepared orlginally to enable my students to use unix as an operating system case study, wherein the complete squrce of the resident code ts Investigated. The first version of the commentary Is now being revised and extended and the second version will be issued in book form, The provisional A second meeting of UNIX users in Australla was held on February 18th. publ }cation date Is Hay, 1977. at the University of- New South Wales, with an attendance of about 30 people. Oetalls Dear Professor Ferentz, There are two volumes of approximately 100 pages each, They will be 4 produced by offset printing on size A4 paper after a 25% reduction from \I" x 14" originals printed on a computer terminal. During the six months since the first meeting, progress in adapting UNIX to our needs has been steady but, for the most part, not spectacular, - With most installations being used to capacity, future progress will be very much tled to further hardware acquisitions. The news about UNIX is The first volume, "UNIX Operating System Source Code, Level Six" is an spreading and we know of several other University groups who are currently edited version of the resident code appropriate to a PDPII/40 with RKOS _ corresponding with Western Electric, disks, PCIt paper tape reader/punch, LPI} line printer and KLII/DLIT terminal interfaces. A cross-reference is included. F There was one Item of business which will be of general Interest. The The second volume, "Notes on the UNIX Operating System'', contains a detailed Department of Computing Science at the University of Wollongong which Bi possesses an Interdata 7/32 computer, has recently discovered the true path, commentary onthe contents: or the Fifst:voldme.: ulkere.are twenty: s!x . . chapters, including a review of the PDP-11 architecture, a tutorial In and Richard Miller reported on his progress in adapting UNIX to run on their Path Pacha: reading "'C" programs, and some suggestions for student exercises. Two " Indices are included for reference purposes. H.00 Stage One, to adapt the "'C" compiler to produce Interdata object code The cost for a single set (two volumes) will be $ AIO. 00, plus postage. has been successful, and apart from the compiler itself, the editor was Postage costs from Australia based on a packet weighing 650 grams are as follows: the first program recompiled and put Into service. In stage two the _ F normal UNIX environment for user programs was instituted on a “simulated el Lote! Leola acount eles)" s Sar o10 Bee a H , Surface Alr Lifted (two to three weeks delivery time, to U.S.A. machine" running under the Interdata OS/HT operating system, Stage Three, . a Pee UK, West Germany and Italy onty) : $A3.40 “377 which will eliminate the remaining vestages of Interdata software, should be Surface mati (hot recommended) $02.15 completed within about two months. The one really significant problem m * 5 remaining wlll be how to liberate aJ] those programs still written In r 1 would Invite anyone covered by a UNIX licence who is intérested In uS Assembler. tte therefore appears that UNIX may soon have a new clalm . obtaining a copy, to write to me as soon as possible so that the size of the print to fame as a portable operating system. 5 order can be determined, Prepayment is requested, with cheques made out to ant “School of Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales", Currently, By general agreement the meeting was successful and the third of the $A) .00 = $US1,10. A declaration that the recipient Is covered by a UNIX licence Series will be held in July or August, should be Included. Reduced prices for bulk orders should be possible if the total demand Is large enough. Yours sincerely, Yours sincerely, Mine Yes John Lions. john Lions. scaet a t ‘ Q th