USENIX BOARD OF DIRECTORS 25 YEARS AGO Communicate directly with the PETER H. SALUS USENIX Board of Directors by writing to [email protected]. [email protected] It was October 1980. PRESIDENT ;login: carried an article headed: USENIX Michael B. Jones, “Microsoft Xenix Operating Sys- [email protected] tem.” With all the to-do over who did what to whom when in UNIX notes (see http://www.groklaw.net), I VICE PRESIDENT thought I’d read it and quote USENIX MEMBER BENEFITS Clem Cole, from it. [email protected] “The XENIX* Operating System Members of the USENIX Associa- from Microsoft is a microprocessor tion receive the following benefits: SECRETARY adaptation of Bell Laboratories’ FREE SUBSCRIPTION to ;login:, the Associ- Version 7 UNIX* operating system. Alva Couch, ation’s magazine, published six times With the XENIX operating system, a year, featuring technical articles, [email protected] Microsoft is bringing the power system administration articles, tips of the UNIX OS to microcomput- and techniques, practical columns on such topics as security, Perl, Java, and TREASURER ers. The XENIX Operating System will be released in versions that operating systems, book reviews, and Theodore Ts’o, run on the Zilog Z8000, Motorola summaries of sessions at USENIX [email protected] conferences. M68000, Intel 8086, and the DEC PDP-11*.” A C CESS TO ;LOGIN: online from October DIRECTORS 1997 to this month: www.usenix.org/ That’s how it began. It continued: Matt Blaze, publications/login/. “The XENIX system is an interac- [email protected] ACCESS TO PAPERS from USENIX confer- tive, multi-user, multi-tasking op- ences online: www.usenix.org/ Jon “maddog” Hall, erating system with a flexible user publications/ library/proceedings/ [email protected] interface. THE RIGHT TO VOTE on matters affecting Geoff Halprin, “Microsoft is committed to sup- the Association, its bylaws, and elec- [email protected] porting the XENIX system as an tion of its directors and officers. Marshall Kirk McKusick, environment for program develop- DISCOUNTS on registration fees for all [email protected] ment that will be identical on all USENIX conferences. the popular 16-bit microproces- sors. Different CUs, as well as dif- DISCOUNTS on the purchase of proceed- EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ings and CD-ROMs from USENIX ferent hardware boards for the conferences. Ellie Young, same CU, will be supported. .” [email protected] SPECIAL DISCOUNTS on a variety of prod- Interestingly, even 25 years ago, it ucts, books, software, and periodi- “sounds” like Microsoft: “backed cals. For details, see www.usenix.org/ by Microsoft’s experience and ex- membership/specialdisc.html. pertise in producing quality system software.” “Microsoft is committed FOR MORE INFORMATION regarding membership or benefits, please see to having a version of the XENIX www.usenix.org/membership/ system for every popular 16-bit mi- or contact offi[email protected]. croprocessor by the end of 1981.” Phone: 510-528-8649 Go talk to “Bob Greenberg, XENIX Product Manager,” should you have any questions. Oh. Those asterisks. There’s a 4- line footnote about TMs. 48 ;LO GIN: V OL. 30, NO. 5 WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS SAGE UPDATE Perrine, Stephen Potter, and Pat The October 1985 ;login: carried Wilson. seven papers from the December CHRIS PALMER Then, from July 29th to the 31st, 1984 Graphics Workshop, held in [email protected] the new Board met for a strategic planning session and first Board Monterey. In Atlanta, in June Since the writing of the August meeting of the new SAGE. We 1986, Reidar Bornholt accosted me SAGE update, many of the transi- elected our officers: Tom Perrine is with questions about the “pro- tional arrangements necessary to now the president, Pat Wilson the ceedings” for the 1985 workshop. form a new, independent SAGE vice president, and Andrew Hume When I got back to El Cerrito have come to pass. First and fore- is secretary/treasurer. We then (where the USENIX office was most, we held elections for the spent nearly all of our time plan- then situated), I asked, and a dusty new Board. The SAGE Board con- ning for the short and medium manila envelope was produced. A sists of Geoff Halprin, Trey Harris, term, and doing preliminary long- photo-offset Proceedings was Doug Hughes, Andrew Hume, term brainstorming. available by September. It was the Chris Palmer, David Parter, Tom first workshop so memorialized. ;LOGIN: OCTOBER 2005 USENIX NOTES 49.