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Subject: DECUS DFWLUG Oct 13 meeting notice/Newsletter
From: system@fallout.lonestar.org
Date: 6 Oct 92 22:30:15 CST
Organization: DECUS DFWLUG BBS *Dallas*TX*

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=|  ______  | THE DFWLUG                                                  =
=| / ---- \ | 10th Anniversary(*1982-1992*)                               =
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=             The DFWLUG is the Local Users Group for the                 =
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=Volume 2 Number 10                                     October 4th, 1992 =
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VOLUME 2 NUMBER 10    INDEX (in this issue)
   
PAGE 1   * The next DFWLUG meeting Info and Map (October 13th, 1992)
PAGE 2   * Greeting from the DFWLUG.
PAGE 3   * DFWLUG/DECUS Event Calendar for the rest of 1992
PAGE 4   * Digital's 1-800 Service Phone Numbers (Consulting and Sales)
PAGE 5   * Ken Olsen's last official day at Digital (Boston Globe)
PAGE 6   * Digital's Hudson Alpha plant registered for ISO 9002 Quality Std.
PAGE 7   * Sun covertly backed suit against rival group (San Jose Mercury News)
PAGE 8   * DFWLUG Contact list
PAGE 9   * DFWLUG BBS Info

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10/13/92  -- >>>>>> The October meeting agenda is as follows:

Todd Whiting - from Raxco (in Utah) will present the topic
 
          "Policy: The Foundation of a Secure System"

The security issues that confront our computer systems are not so much
a war of high tech but of low tech business decisions that have to 
be made.

Todd will discuss the role of Security Policies and their electronic 
implementation for today's computers and network systems. 

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LUG ELECTIONS WILL BE HELD THIS MEETING.

You must be present to VOTE for the new two year term of LUG Chair
and Vice Chair.

Be sure to come and participate in this spirited election of DFWLUG
staff positions 

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Robert Eden will also have the Spring/Fall 91 DECUS Symposia Software on 
9-track reel tapes.  Please Don't bring your 9 Tracks to trade, Robert 
says he has enough to just give away. (but if you would like to donate 
1 TK50 in trade...;-)

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Lon Crozier will have membership forms and DFWLUG BBS membership forms
available at the meeting.  LUG membership and meeting attendance is always
free but your $10.00/year contribution gets you a personal/private account 
on the DFWLUG BBS and helps keep the LUG moving.

Help us to help you, a little bit goes a long way.

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The library area will have copies of technical reference and update books 
for DECUS members to take home.  *Thanks DEC*

POPCORN and Soft drinks will also be be furnished courtesy of Digital. 

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*Greetings from the DFWLUG*

The DFWLUG is celebrating our 10th anniversary October 10th at 
White Rock Lake in Dallas.  As we celebrate 10 years of DECUS 
in North Texas the LUG has undergone many changes.  Members 
come and go, speakers come and go, and the computer industry 
changes but one thing has stayed the same our unopposed chairman
Stuart Renes.

Stuart is stepping downs from the reins of leadership after 10 years 
but his time with us has left us much in his debt and much changed
as DFWLUG has grown since 1982.

Stuart has stepping down in the same month as Ken Olsen but we still 
hope to use his experience, dedication and expertise as the grand 
emeritus and founder of the DFWLUG.  Old DECUS folks never really 
retire, they simply change jobs for a couple years and come back again.

Our sincere thanks and all our best Stuart, we'll miss your leadership 
but will enjoy your support as the most extra-ordinary DFWLUG member 
ever.

The picnic is going to be a legendary celebration for a legendary LUG 
chairman.  

The DFWLUG is very excited about our NEXT 10 years of DECUS and our
group's technical excellence too, but before we travel that great 
adventure we're going to celebrate our LAST 10 years in style.

BBQ, Awards, Music will start off the festivities. DFWLUG limited edition 
coffee mugs, posters, balloon animals and family fun will provide the zip
to make this a picnic to remember. 

Digital has graciously donated a 19" Color VXT2000 Xwindow terminal, 
an Infoserver, and PCs as prizes for a special DFWLUG raffle to be held 
at the picnic. (Sorry, only current DFWLUG members will be allowed to 
participate in the raffle.)

With a picnic on Saturday and our regular DFWLUG meeting on Tuesday
night we are going to get a double dose of DECUS this month -- But 
it's only once every 10 years!

See you at the picnic!

*The DFWLUG Staff*  

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             THE DFWLUG FALL/WINTER SCHEDULE OF SPEAKERS

Oct. 13 - Todd Whiting - Raxco (Utah)
	  "Policy: The Foundation of a Secure System"
Nov. 10 - Lloyd Uhler - DFWLUG member    (Dallas)
	  ICON portable string processing language (available for free)
Dec. 15 - Bill Hancock - Network-1 (New York)
	  Networking Topic 


         THE 1992 DECUS SUMMER/FALL/WINTER CALENDAR OF EVENTS
             (for Dallas/FT Worth and surrounding Areas)



Sep    9th, 1992  Fall Symposium Registration program sent to mailing
                    house.

Sep   28th, 1992  DFWLUG submission deadline for October issue.
                  

Oct 10th, 1992    DFWLUG will celebrate it's 10th anniversary
                  at a Picnic Site in the Dallas Area.  Food
                  drinks, music, prizes and fun for the DFWLUG 
                  members and their families will begin the next 
                  10 year of DECUS in North Texas. 


Oct 10-13th,1992  Local Seminars - El Passo, TX

Oct 13th, 1992    DFWLUG Meeting --
                    Speaker: Todd Whiting 
                       From: Raxco (Utah)
                      Topic: Policy: The Foundation of a Secure System

                  Special Note:  This meeting will also host elections
                                 for two DFWLUG offices (Chair and a
                                 staff position). You must be present
                                 to vote. 
                                  
Oct 20th, 1992    Session Notes submission deadline for Fall 1992
                  Symposium (in Las Vegas)

Oct 26th, 1992    DFWLUG submission deadline for November issue.
                  
Nov  4th, 1992    Early-bird Seminar/Symposium registration deadline.
Nov  4th, 1992    Fall 1992 symposium housing reservation deadline.

Nov 10th, 1992    DFWLUG Meeting -- 
                    Speaker: Lloyd Uhler
                       From: DFWLUG member
                      Topic: ICON portable string processing language

Nov 30th, 1992    DFWLUG submission deadline for December issue.
                  
Dec 5-6th, 1992   Pre-symposium seminars Las Vegas, NV

Dec 7-11th,1992   National DECUS symposium Las Vegas, NV
Dec 15th, 1992    DFWLUG meeting --
                    Speaker: Bill Hancock
                       From: Network-1 (New York)
                      Topic: Networking

Dec 28th, 1992    DFWLUG submission deadline for January issue.
                  

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           TELEPHONE NUMBERS FOR DIGITAL SUPPORT AND ORDERING

PC DESKTOP Direct (to purchase a PC or for PC configuration questions)   
1-800-722-9332

1-800-SOFTWARE    (to purchase any of 12,000 PC software products)
1-800-763-8927

DECdirect         (to purchase any non-PC product computers, network, supplies 
1-800-344-4825      or for DECdirect Prepurchasing Technical questions.)

DECdirect Modem Line 1200-2400 Baud
1-800-234-1998

Education Services hotline 
(For information on upcoming DEC classes and locations)
1-800-332-5656

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The above service numbers are free.  

The following requires a valid Digital support Contract and are available
24 hours per day.
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Colorado             Customer Support Software support under contract
1-800-354-9000

Atlanta              Customer Software Support under contract.
1-800-332-8000

Master Champs        24x7 Mission Critical Support under special contract.
1-800-345-3746

24 hour each day Customer Support to log a call with Field service 
and have something repaired

1-800-354-9000


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 Digital - K.O. speaks
	{The Boston Globe, 1-Oct-92, p. 57}
   Digital founder distances himself from his company

   On his last official day as president of Digital Equipment Corp., founder
 Kenneth H. Olsen sought yesterday to distance himself from the $14 billion
 company he founded and from his successor, who is scheduled to make his first
 public statements this morning.
   The 66-year-old Olsen has not spoken with reporters since he shocked the
 computer industry by stepping down July 16. Sitting in shirtsleeves on a bench
 outside his new office, Olsen talked for about 25 minutes during the chilly
 afternoon, speaking in reflective tones with sporadic flashes of irritability.
   "I would have like to have left after the next turnaround," said Olsen who
 refused to answer directly as to whether he had been fired by Digital's
 board. "I do not run from problems." He added that "the stories are not all
 true. But they are not the sort of thing you comment on. Once you start, the
 details go on forever."
   The nation's second-largest computer maker has has posted three straight
 quarters of operating losses, and reported a whopping loss of nearly $2
 billion for its fiscal fourth quarter, which ended June 27. The number
 included a $1.5 billion reserve that Digital has set aside for layoffs and
 plant closings. In fiscal 1992, Digital lost $2.79 billion.
   Olsen contradicted statements from Digital that he handpicked Robert B.
 Palmer, the vice president who officially ascends to president and chief
 executive officer today. "I wasn't directly involved," Olsen said, adding that
 "I don't have any negative thoughts" about the 51-year-old Palmer. Does he
 have, then, positive thoughts? "Don't ask too many hard questions," Olsen said
 flatly.
   To be sure, he did not express overwhelming confidence in Palmer, a
 seven-year veteran of Digital, or the management team he is assembling. "It's
 too early to say what they will do," Olsen said. Palmer will address a group
 of reporters and analysts at 11:30 this morning.
   Most analysts expect the 113,800-employee company to lay off around 15,000
 workers. Olsen, who ran Digital for 35 years, maintained an informal
 no-layoffs policy until 1991. "We never used the word layoffs," he said. "We
 helped people find other jobs internally or externally."
   With the insistence of the press on numbers all the time, it brutalizes the
 whole process. It was always done gently, without the humiliation and
 brutalness of reading it in the paper. But the world is different now."
   Indeed Olsen said that he hoped Digital would not completely abandon his
 style. "Sometimes the numbers have to be more large, and things can't be done
 as slowly," he conceded. Sources close to the company have said that Olsen's
 departure at least in part resulted from his unwillingness to lay off large
 numbers of employees.
   If such a layoff is in the offing, Olsen certainly went to great pains
 yesterday to make it clear that "I literally haven't been involved" in any
 aspect of Digital over the last three months. He said that his lack of
 involvement "just seemed like an obvious thing to do from everybody's point of
 view. It was never discussed."
   He said that he has written hundreds of pages of advice - covering such
 subjects as how to run meetings, picking employees and the "nature of our
 business" - mostly to Palmer. He said that Palmer has welcomed his memos, and
 encouraged him to send more. "I said that when I retired, I'd never be one of
 those who interfered, but I've probably done my share of interfering," Olsen
 said.
   But, he added, "I never had this feeling of ownership" about Digital., in
 which he owns roughly two percent of stock. "I don't at all have these
 emotional things I think you are looking for. I'm a professional manager."
   One area about which Olsen clearly does feel emotional is the circumstances
 of his departure. He said that it was "nobody's business" what goes on at
 Digital board meetings, and claimed that "I don't know a lot of things." When
 pushed further, Olsen raised his voice saying, "No, no, no, don't push. Don't
 be a pain in the neck. I said we are not going to discuss it."
   He added, "There are all kinds of implications, and they will all come out
 wrong in the Globe anyway."
   Asked about reports that he had told a group of engineers that he was fired,
 Olsen claimed that he did not remember saying it, but admitted that "senior
 people said I did." He rather cyptically [sic? - TT] added that "you're
 pushing too hard on words. There are different kinds of meanings."
   As to whether he would still like to be running Digital, he said that "from
 the start, I only asked to stay as long as I was very best."
   Apparently, that exit instinct also also applies to his role as a board
 member. In July Digital said that Olsen, who serves as DE FACTO [italics - TT]
 chairman, would serve out his term, which ends in November 1993. But on Sept.
 14 Digital announced that Olsen would step down as of today.
   Had he stayed, he said, "I would do it poorly. I know too much. The board is
 supposed to look at things at a distance and with objectivity. I know all the
 questions to ask. It's not good. I'm a nice member of other boards."
   Aside from serving on other boards, and giving speeches, Olsen did not
 elaborate on his future plans. Although he described himself as more of an
 engineer than an entrepreneur, he would not rule out starting another
 business. "I'm young, and who knows what happens in the future," he said.
   As for the immediate future - today - Olsen said that he would not appear at
 Palmer's corporate coming-out party. "It will be like any other day," said
 Olsen, who started Digital when he was 31 years old. "I've got a list of
 things to do, a list of calls to make, and a bunch of letters I'd better
 answer."
   With that, Olsen - who was happy to have gotten his fax machine repaired -
 rose and lumbered back into the house that that will now serve as his office.
 But he did allow himself one moment of sentimentality. Sort of.
   "I don't miss the hoopla. I'll miss tilting at reporters," he said, focusing
 his eyes on the one who happened to be present. "I'll miss them asking their
 dumb questions, and trying to straighten them out."

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 Digital - Hudson semiconductor manufacturing facility registered to
	international quality standards
	{Livewire, Worldwide News, 25-Sep-92}
   Digital has announced that its Hudson, Mass. semiconductor manufacturing 
 facility has been registered by the Quality Management Institute (QMI) to 
 International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard 9002.  
   Hudson is one of two Digital sites manufacturing the recently announced
 Alpha AXP family of semiconductors.
   The ISO 9000 series of international quality assurance standards is becoming
 a prerequisite for conducting business in Europe and other parts of the world.
 Registration of a quality program requires adherence to strict guidelines and 
 comprehensive auditing by a qualified external agency such as QMI. With
 Hudson's registration, all four of Digital's semiconductor facilities 
 worldwide are now registered to ISO 9002. As of Quality System Update's last 
 publication (Summer, 1992), fewer than 400 quality systems in all industries 
 are registered in the U.S.
   In a ceremony at the Hudson facility, a QMI representative presented Digital
 with a plaque signifying the Hudson site's accomplishment.
   Ed Caldwell, vice president, Semiconductor Operations, remarked, "We are 
 pleased with this recognition of our ongoing commitment to quality. With the
 European Economic Community's adoption of ISO 9000 standards, this
 certification becomes much more significant in the global marketplace."  

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San Jose Mercury News
Thursday, Sept. 24, 1992
Business


	Sun covertly backed suit against rival group
   			By Lee Gomes
     
     Sun Microsystems inc. has been secretly backing a tiny software
firm's lawsuit against a group of Sun's industry rivals, an arrangement
that one legal expert said could be unethical.
     Sun's help,. disclosed in court documents last week, was
acknowledged by Sun on Wednesday and was estimated to reach $7 million
in legal fees.
     In a brief statement, after which a spokeswoman declined to answer
additional questions, Sun said it was aiding Addamax Corp., a small
Illinois software firm, in a lawsuit against the Open Software
Foundation, a non-profit consortium of Sun's major competitors in the
workstation industry.
     The foundation is creating a version of the UNIX operating system.
Sun is endorsing a competing effort, leading to one of the fiercest
wars in the computing industry in recent years.
     Addamax filed an antitrust lawsuit in April 1991 to contest the
foundation's decision to use one of Addamax's competitors as a
subcontractor.  The suit, filed in Massachusetts, listed Addamax as the
sole plaintiff and named Hewlett-Packard Co. and Digital Equipment
Corp. as added defendants.
     Industry observers said Sun might not want to be publicly
associated with the lawsuit for public relation reasons:  It wouldn't
want to be seen as using the court system - rather than the marketplace
- - - to go after a competitor, especially one that stands for "open systems."
     Open systems is non-proprietary software that allows computers
from various manufacturers to work together.
     Addamax admitted to the assistance from Sun only last week.  It
refused to answer pre-trial questions from the foundation's lawyers
about outside help until forced to do so by the judge.
     A foundation spokeswoman said Sun "has put $7 million" into the Addamax suit.
     "We're not suggesting anything is illegal," she said.  "We're just
surprised and disappointed to find out that this is one the realities of
the case, especially when Sun says it is a proponent of open systems."
      In its brief statement, Sun said it was asked by Addamax to
provide a loan guarantee to help fund the lawsuit and "because Addamax
has been a vendor to the company and appears to be raising serious
issues of importance to the industry, we agreed to do so."
     The Sun spokeswoman declined to answer questions about the case,
and it was not clear whether Sun had given money to Addamax or simply
guaranteed a loan to cover the legal bills.
     Sun's actions were questionable,m said Barbara Babcock, a
professor at the Stanford Law School, who said they could spell trouble
for the company.
     While simply providing a loan guarantee would be considered less
offensive than actually paying Addamax's legal bills,  Sun's behavior
"raises some serious questions of ethics and deception that the court
will probably want to have answered," she said.
     Especially disturbing, Babcock said, was that Addamax refused to
divulge Sun's help until being ordered to by the judge.  "Whenever
someone reacts that way, you know they have something to hide," she said.
     Babcock said a judge would have sereveral options in handling the
matter ranging from letting it pass to levying penalties against Sun,
Addamax or Addamax's lawyers.

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                       DFWLUG Contact list

The DFWLUG Steering Committee:
  
      Chairman: Stuart Renes          Meeting      Chris Simon
                DSC COMM Corp         Coordinator: FMC Corporation
                1000 Coit Road                     1460 Round Table
                MS 131                             Dallas, TX 75247
                Plano, TX 75075                    (214) 689-7127
                (214) 519-4411

    Membership Lon Crozier              Secretary/ Jim Rodgers
  Coordinator: ARMS Inc.                Treasurer: SSC Laboratory
               5757 Alpha Road                     2550 Beckley Meade
               Dallas, Texas 75240                 MS 1011
               (214) 385-3090                      Dallas, TX 75237
                                                   (214) 708-6134
            
 DECUS Hdqtrs: Membership Processing    SW/Tape    Robert Eden
               DECUS US Chapter         Librarian: JCS Consulting Services
               333 South Street, SHR1-4/D33        5905 Beverly Dr. West #3133 
               Shrewsbury, MA 01545-4195           Fort Worth, Tx 76132        
               (508) 841-3341                      (817) 897-0491




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| John Wisniewski |         Consultant/DFW DECUS LUG Counterpart           |
| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |   Voice:             214-404-6412                      |
| |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| |    UUCP:  wisniewski@fallout.lonestar.org  (DFWLUG BBS)| 
| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | At Work:  wisniewski@dpdmai.enet.dec.com               |
| Dallas, TX  USA |                                                        |
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                        THE DFWLUG BBS SYSTEM

The DFWLUG hosts a semiprivate VAX BBS for use by it's membership, we
currently are using VMS 5.5-2, POSIX, have over a GIGbyte of storage, 
and multiple phone-lines with V.32 modem links.

The DFWLUG BBS has been in operation for over two years and hosts VAXnotes, 
ANU News (900+ newsgroups), DECUS UUCP (for E-Mail anywhere on the INTERNET), 
file exchange, and indexes of the DECUS Software libraries (with over 10,000
programs) available from our LUG Librarian.

Membership and private accounts for the BBS are available to computer 
professionals in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. 

Private accounts may be granted by joining the DFWLUG and donating 
$10.00 to the DFWLUG BBS fund. 

Accounts are available during the monthly meetings that take place every 
second Tuesday, 7:00pm at the Digital ACT (702-4400) in Dallas TX.

For more information you may dial-in to our public account:

(214) 270-3313  300-2400 Baud 8/n/1 mnp 5
(214) 270-3313 1200-9600 Baud 8/n/1 mnp 5

Use account name INFO for public access.

From: Paul.Robinson@f417.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Paul Robinson)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP