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From: root@uel.uel.co.uk (Admin)
Newsgroups: eunet.general
Subject: SOFTWARE DEVELOPER CONFERENCES ON UNIX SYSTEM V RELEASE 4.0
Keywords: SYSTEM V, BSD, XENIX, SUNOS, UNIFICATION
Message-ID: <1033@uel.uel.co.uk>
Date: 22 Mar 89 09:21:16 GMT
Expires: 10 May 89 00:00:00 GMT
Organization: AT&T Unix Europe, London, UK
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPER CONFERENCES ON UNIX SYSTEM V RELEASE 4.0

Three conferences are being sponsored by AT&T's newly formed UNIX Software
Operation and will be delivered in Europe during April and May.

SCHEDULE

Date of week	Location

April
13-14		Frankfurt
25-26		London

May
9-10		Paris

Details follow on conference objectives, target audience, topics, schedule,
and who to contact to get further information or to register.

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES

The primary objective for the conference is to encourage software developers
to migrate to a single UNIX System standard -- UNIX System V Release 4.0.

AUDIENCE

We want UNIX developers within software development organisations. The agenda
is technical in orientation and assumes that the attendees know UNIX.

TOPICS

Basic Operating System Services

	New/changed commands, real-time scheduling, asynchronous I/O,
	signal handling, the virtual file system, STREAMS enhancements,
	interprocess communication, internationalisation, Standards
	compliance (POSIX, ANSI C, XPG).

Application Development Environment

	Programming tools, ANSI C migration, shared libraries,
	dynamic linking, extensible linking format

Networking

	Remote resource sharing (RFS, NFS), DARPA and BSD networking,
	client/server model, Remote Procedure Call mechanism,
	External Data Representation, Transport Layer Interface,
	Sockets compatibility

User Interfaces

	OPEN LOOK, merged X11/NeWS server, OPEN LOOK X and NeWS
	Development Environment toolkits, and other elements of
	the UNIX System V Graphical User Interface Architecture

System Operations, Administration, and Maintenance

	Software installation and removal, Configuration management,
	backups and restore, administrative user interface,
	Distributed file system administration

Application Binary Interfaces

	Definition of, formats and environment, and how to use

FOR REGISTRATION/INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

AT&T Unix Europe, International House, Ealing Broadway, London W5 5DB
Tel: +44 1 567 7711 Fax:  +44 1 567 2420
Telex: 914054       E-mail: ..!mcvax!ukc!uel!sdc-request