January Meeting Reminder!

[Guy W. Bzibziak]

Tired of being cooped up at home in the snow with the kids, the dog and your 
computer???

Well, get out of your rut & come to our January meeting! 

This month you can thaw out with:

Meeting Topic: Introduction to Modula-3
               Presented by Farshad Nayeri, GTE Labs
                            Geoffrey Wyant, Sun Microsystems Labs


Modula-3 is a language in the Pascal tradition, with a
          freely-available compiler from Digital, featuring:
	+ threads
	+ mutual exclusion
	+ multiprocessor-ready
	+ garbage collection
	+ exceptions
        + objects
        + single inheritance
        + opaque and partially opaque objects
        + encapsulation through the module/interface paradigm
        + genericity at the module/interface level
        + best of all, a reference manual only 56 pages long.



Who:    Boston Computer Society Linux/Unix User's Group
Date:   17 January 1996, Wednesday
Time:   7:00 pm.
Place:  MIT, Building 16, Room 134 (Dorrance Bldg)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

How to get there:
        By Car: Ames Street runs between 414 Main Street and 130
        Memorial Drive. Near M.I.T. Coop & Legal Seafood. 

        By MBTA: Take the Red Line to Kendall Square. Walk past MIT Coop
        & Legal Seafood, turn left onto Ames St., walking towards the
        Charles River. Building 66 [25 Ames St.] will be on your right
        near the bend in the road (the building is triangular or wedge shaped
        when you're standing in front of it). 

>>>>	Go in to Building 66, walk past where we had our old meeting
>>>>	room, and follow the corridor (don't worry, there WILL be signs
>>>>	pointing the way!)

Linux is a UNIX-like operating system built around POSIX standards.  From
its inception less than four years ago, it was developed over the
Internet by a group of people who (for the most part) have never seen
each other, and now runs on an (estimated) 1,000,000 computer systems. 
The operating system (and the source code for it) is free to anyone who
wants it.  This is probably the largest development project ever
accomplished using the Internet. 

	For more information on this talk, please see the URL:

>>>>  http://www.bcs.org/bcs/Groups/linux/linux.html

	or call the BCS Waltham Office at (617)290-5700.

And if that doesn't make you feel warm all over, then wait'l next month!

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