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Organizational meeting--LITA Unix Interest Group
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tdowling@lib.washington.edu)
Fri Jun 19 15:46:54 1992
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1992 10:18:54 CDT
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From: tdowling@lib.washington.edu
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Organizational Meeting--LITA Unix IG
I am testing the waters to determine the level of interest for a LITA
Unix Interest Group. I anticipate that this group will explore the
role of Unix as a library computing environment for:
Local Area Networking
Internet Access/Organization-Wide Connectivity
Graphical User Interfaces
Distributed Computing
Staff Desktop Computing
...and numerous other issues in this age of interoperability,
open systems, and general uncertainty about Your Next
Computing Environment.
For several reasons, not least being the purpose of LITA Interest
Groups, I do not anticipate that this group would become a
how-to-use-Unix group. Instead, I see it as an issues-oriented forum
for addressing how an increasingly common (and increasingly powerful)
tool is being used.
Due to the shortage of space in San Francisco, I'm asking interested
people to meet in the lobby of the Holiday Inn-Civic Center from
5:00-6:00, Friday evening, June 26. Depending on the hotel's
scheduling needs, we may be able to use a meeting room there, or we may
retire to a local eatery. Regardless, this won't be a formal meeting
as much as a get-together to determine the interest level in forming a
Unix IG.
If you can make it, I'll see you there. If not, please feel free to
drop me a note, either via e-mail before the conference or at the
message center at the conference.
Thomas Dowling
University of Washington Engineering Library
tdowling@u.washington.edu / tdowling@milton.bitnet
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Unix is a computer operating system that runs on virtually every kind
of computer, from laptops, to personal workstations, to network
servers, to mainframes and supercomputers. It can run on Macintoshes,
and several versions exist for PC's (with a couple more on the way).
It is unusual among operating systems in being so hardware-independent
and vendor-independent. It is a multiuser, multitasking operating
system that supports not one but several command-line interfaces
(shells), and not one but several graphical user interfaces.
