W91 USENIX in retrospect

[Barbara Dyker]

>| 3. O'Reilly and Associates.  Had a book signing for the new awk and perl
>| books; crowded as hell but good munchies and beer.  You could buy books
>| from them there; I heard they weren't selling on the Uniforum showfloor.

> No selling allowed in Uniforum.

Huh?  I know Prentice Hall sells books at InterOp and I saw them at
Uniforum assuming they would be happy to sell me a book (and bill me
for 1 cent rounding error later as they did before).

I can understand a rule not allowing selling of computer products,
but books?  Noone takes money, but you can't say there was no "selling".


...Barb
dyker at cs.colorado.edu