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!

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Tom Lyon.

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
- Gnutella not Nutella
- USENIX DTrace paper
USENIX Summer 1994
- Slab Allocator
- NFSv3
WSJ 2006 Technology Innovation Awards
0xF s1e18: Dijkstra's Tweetstorm
- Meeting Dennis Ritchie
BoF session
- Birds of a feather flock together
Freenix
- 2003
- 2004
Rik Farrow ;login: editorial on USENIX 2016
Bryan's blog 2004: Wither USENIX?
- blog comments from Werner Vogels
Systems We Love
Adam's blog 2004: nohup -p
- illumos source
OxF s1e4: from /proc to proc_macro
Things that don't work as advertised
- Diffracting trees
- Cold Fusion
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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