[talk] NYC*BUG Wednesday: OS the underlying overhead of computation

[Robert Menes]

I won't be able to make it to this meetup. Will it be recorded for
posterity?

--Robert

On Jan 30, 2017 12:53 PM, "George Rosamond" <george at ceetonetechnology.com>
wrote:

> Other upcoming:
>
> AsiaBSDCon (.org) March 9-12, Tokyo, Japan
> BSDCan (.org) Jun 9-10, Ottawa, Canada
> EuroBSDCon (.org) September 21-24, Paris, France
>
> ****
>
> February 1, Wednesday
> OS : The underlying overhead of computation
> Antti Kantee
> 18:45, Suspenders, 103 Greenwich Street, 2nd Floor, Manhattan
> Notice: Location Change
>
> Abstract
>
> An operating system is a piece of code intended to help computer
> operators load punch cards -- hence "operating". The timesharing system
> was created to allow interactive shared access to the handful of
> computers which existed at the time. We will examine what is in the
> interactive punch card loader in 2017, what actually belongs in there,
> and why things are the way they are. Like science, the talk is highly
> religious. Unlike computer science, the talk is grounded in reality.
> Discussions, heretical opinions, and questions are encouraged.
>
> Speaker Bio
>
> Antti Kantee has been a NetBSD committer since the 1900's and has
> managed to do many sorts of damage. He is probably best (or worst,
> depending on who you ask) known for his decade-long workhaul on rump
> kernels. Antti very recently moved to the Princeton area, so in case he
> appears particularly absent during his talk, he got lost on the way to
> the venue.
>
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