RIP USENIX ATC
Bryan and Adam discuss the recent announcement of the discontinuation of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), reminiscing about their own visits to the ATC and the impact of the conference. Long-time Oxide Friend, Tom Lyon, joined to dial the reminiscence back a couple more decades!
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
- Bryan's blog 2025: RIP USENIX ATC
- OxF s1e13: Put the OS back in OSDI
- Bryan's Lisa 2011 talk: Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos
- Bryan's USENIX 2016 talk: A Wardrobe for the Emperor
- USENIX 2004
- USENIX Summer 1994
- WSJ 2006 Technology Innovation Awards
- 0xF s1e18: Dijkstra's Tweetstorm
- BoF session
- Freenix
- Rik Farrow ;login: editorial on USENIX 2016
- Bryan's blog 2004: Wither USENIX?
- Systems We Love
- Adam's blog 2004: nohup -p
- OxF s1e4: from /proc to proc_macro
- Things that don't work as advertised
- Adam's blog 2009: Triple-Parity RAID-Z
- Rob Pike 2000: Systems Software Research is Irrelevant
- ZFS paper
- Living Computer Museum (now-dead)
- SDF
- All the Chips that Fit by Tom Lyon
- OxF s2e22: RIP Optane
- History of Programming Languages Conference
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