[Plug] Maddog's in town --- Linux Wizard to speak --- October 21 1999]

["William H. Magill" <magill@isc.upenn.edu>]

Avenue of the Technology---Brown Bag Lunch Series
Presents John "maddog" Hall
Computer Science and Linux (interested)

Linux Wizard to speak --- October 21 1999
1:00 PM Drexel University Nesbitt College
Stein Auditorium at 33rd and Market Streets
(Local Area University CS departments invited)

Topic: From Hell to Eternity or "We never had it so good".

So you "suffer" from only having 32 Megabytes of main memory in your
PC? Your disk drive is so small it can only hold 15 or twenty MPEG-3
songs? Your graphics card is so old that it only does 1024x768 at
256 colors? You gripe to your parents because your 100 MHZ pentium
system will only allow you to recompile your computer project fifteen or
twenty times a day?

Listen as a Drexel Alumni speaks of the days before Computer Science,
in the days of "Computer Black Magic", when (and if) you spoke of a
Megabyte of main memory, it cost over a hundred thousand dollars (and
that was when a hundred thousand dollars meant something). The days
when getting one compile a day meant that you were doing well.

Hear how modern day PCs and the Linux Operating System will
revolutionize the teaching of computer science.  Send email for Jon for Bio

Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus
Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world. Linux is an
independent POSIX implementation and includes true multitasking, virtual
memory, shared libraries, demand loading, proper memory management, TCP/IP
networking, and other features consistent with Unix-type systems. Developed
under the GNU General Public License, the source code for Linux is freely
everyone. 

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Additionally, Maddog will be joining us at the fall kickoff meeting of  our
local DECUS user group later in the afternoon/evening 4-7pm at the Comapq
office in bluebell. Drop me a note if you want more info.

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                ===<Tru64 UNIX-SIG Chair>===
                     www.tru64unix.org
T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill                          Senior Systems Administrator
Information Services and Computing (ISC)   University of Pennsylvania
Internet: magill@isc.upenn.edu             magill@acm.org
          magill@upenn.edu                 http://pobox.upenn.edu/~magill/

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