ACM SIGPLAN at UIUC

The third meeting of the ACM SIGPLAN is 15 February 2012, Wednesday, 8 pm, in 1112 Siebel Center.

1 February 2012, Wednesday, 8 pm, in 1112 Siebel Center

The development of operating systems and virtual machines, and their history
The design of UNIX, plan 9, and inferno
The weaknesses of Windows and Mac OSX
The weaknesses of UNIX and Linux
The unfortunate situation of X11
The flaws of the WIMP user interface