USENIX 1998 Conference FREENIX Track


Technical Sessions FREENIX Track [Wed, June 17] [Thurs, June 18] [Fri, June 19] [Refereed Papers & Invited Talks]
Thursday, June 18 9:00am - 10:30am Joint Session: Historical UNIX
	Reflections on the `73 CACM Paper Dennis Ritchie, Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories Dennis Ritchie will "desconstruct" the original CACM paper -what have we learned, what we got right, what did we overlook. Computing has changed in the past 25 years and the ideas of distribution and networking were less central then than they are today. Clearly, modern systems have been impacted by UNIX and the ideas presented in the original paper. But how has UNIX been impacted by our changes in thinking? 20th Anniversary of the First Port of UNIX Steve Johnson, Transmeta; Richard Miller, Miller Research; and Juris Reinfelds, New Mexico State University Nowadays, the portability of UNIX is taken for granted. The first ports of UNIX were audacious projects. Two teams independently succeeded with ports of UNIX at about the same time, only to find out about each other when the ports were finished. Both teams used different techniques for porting, and these talks will present the strategies used and how they hold up to current porting practice. The UNIX code was so well designed that it could be picked up and ported without any consultations with the authors of the code. Reinfelds and his research team ported UNIX to Interdata 7/32 at the University of Wollongong in Australia, where Richard Miller proposed an innovative implementation of the port and proved its effectiveness by single handedly porting the kernel code and most applications. The Wollongong port later became the first computer vendor-supported UNIX. Johnson and Ritchie were doing the port at Bell Labs on Interdata 8/32. Porting Unix required that C "get serious" about portability. Portability concerns led directly to such innovations as separate name spaces for structure members, sizeof, and indirectly to tools such as lint and social conventions such as the use of header files. This talk will also dicuss places where we were less successful, notably alignment, byte order, and bit fields.

Technical Sessions FREENIX Track

[Wed, June 17] [Thurs, June 18] [Fri, June 19] [Refereed Papers & Invited Talks]

Thursday, June 18 9:00am - 10:30am Joint Session: Historical UNIX

Reflections on the `73 CACM Paper
Dennis Ritchie, Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories

Dennis Ritchie will "desconstruct" the original CACM paper -what have we learned, what we got right, what did we overlook. Computing has changed in the past 25 years and the ideas of distribution and networking were less central then than they are today. Clearly, modern systems have been impacted by UNIX and the ideas presented in the original paper. But how has UNIX been impacted by our changes in thinking?

20th Anniversary of the First Port of UNIX
Steve Johnson, Transmeta; Richard Miller, Miller Research; and Juris Reinfelds, New Mexico State University

Nowadays, the portability of UNIX is taken for granted. The first ports of UNIX were audacious projects. Two teams independently succeeded with ports of UNIX at about the same time, only to find out about each other when the ports were finished. Both teams used different techniques for porting, and these talks will present the strategies used and how they hold up to current porting practice.

The UNIX code was so well designed that it could be picked up and ported without any consultations with the authors of the code. Reinfelds and his research team ported UNIX to Interdata 7/32 at the University of Wollongong in Australia, where Richard Miller proposed an innovative implementation of the port and proved its effectiveness by single handedly porting the kernel code and most applications. The Wollongong port later became the first computer vendor-supported UNIX.

Johnson and Ritchie were doing the port at Bell Labs on Interdata 8/32. Porting Unix required that C "get serious" about portability. Portability concerns led directly to such innovations as separate name spaces for structure members, sizeof, and indirectly to tools such as lint and social conventions such as the use of header files. This talk will also dicuss places where we were less successful, notably alignment, byte order, and bit fields.

Thursday, June 18 10:30am - 11:00am Break

Concurrent Sessions
Thursday, June 18 11:00am - 12:30pm see [Refereed Papers & Invited Talks]
Design and Implementation of a SCSI Subsystem Justin T. Gibbs, Pluto Technologies International, Inc. Multimedia Driver Support James Lowe, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and Luigi Rizzo, Università di Pisa		ISC DHCP Distribution Ted Lemon, Internet Software Consortium Heimdal: I18N Free Kerberos Implementation Johan Danielsson, Royal Institute of Technology and Assar Westerlund, Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Thursday, June 18 12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch (on your own)
Concurrent Sessions
Thursday, June 18 2:00pm - 3:30pm see [Refereed Papers & Invited Talks]
FreeBSD Operating System Jordan K. Hubbard, The FreeBSD Project		NEdit: Modern Text Editor Joy Kyriakopulos, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Weblint: Just Another Perl Hack Neil Bowers, Canon Research Centre Europe
Thursday, June 18 3:30pm - 4:00pm Break
Thursday, June 18 4:00pm - 5:30pm see [Refereed Papers & Invited Talks]

	Linux Operating System Theodore Ts'o, MIT and Linus Torvalds, Transmeta
Thursday, June 18 6:00pm - 7:30pm FREENIX BoF
	The Free Software Foundation: Projects and Futures Richard Stallman, The Free Software Foundation
Thursday, June 18 7:30pm - 9:00pm FREENIX BoF
	Licensing Jon "maddog" Hall, Linux International

[Wed, June 17] [Thurs, June 18] [Fri, June 19] FREENIX Track
[Wed, June 17] [Thurs, June 18] [Fri, June 19] Refereed Papers & Invited Talks Tracks


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