[TUHS] Re: ATC'25 is the last ATC?

[Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>]

On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 07:11:26PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith via TUHS wrote:
> On 5/6/25 15:52, Dan Cross wrote:
> >I just heard that, after ATC'25, USENIX will be sunsetting the annual
> >technical conference: this will apparently be the last one.
> >
> >I can't find any reference for it, though, and the web site mentions
> >ATC'26 in Seattle?
> 
> See https://www.usenix.org/blog/usenix-atc-announcement

I might regret this in the morning but I'd like to share when Usenix
ceased to matter to me.  I was the program committee chair for the 1999
Linux Expo which was a Usenix alternative.

Before I go on, there is some back story.  I reviewed papers for Usenix
a bunch.  One of the best papers I ever reviewed is this one:

http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/papers/rtlmanifesto.pdf

It got rejected, not on merit, but because Victor was not in the club, he
was an unknown.  Rob Gingell, someone I feared and respected, said he 
rejected it "because it wasn't posix".  Not Rob's best day, the whole
point was posix couldn't do what Victor did.  Read that paper, it did
real time right, nobody else has come close to do real time and time
sharing.  They fight each other.

In 1999 when I was going to that conference, Ellie reached out to me
and begged me to bring Linux to Usenix.  She said I could have whatever
I wanted, on the program committee for life, whatever I wanted.

I asked for blind peer reviews.  She said no.

I used to love Usenix, I've written papers that were published there,
but Usenix is dead to me.  They did it to themselves.
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Larry McVoy           Retired to fishing          http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat