At Mon, 16 Mar 1998 13:26:37 -0600, Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]>
wrote,
>In 1983, at the Montreal Conference, 9 other HP3000 IUG (forerunner of
>Interex) members and I duly constituted and nominated SIG Brainstorming And
>Research.  SIGBAR is in fact 15 years old this year!
>SIGFry's is perhaps not a SIG, I do believe it is a BoF (Birds of a
>Feather).  So, BofFry's is only about a year old.

I certainly remember attending SIGBAR at Anaheim in 1984 (though my
recollection of the content is, shall we say, 'hazy' :-), where I think
SIGPOOL (next door) might have enjoyed its nascent meeting!  Of course,
Programming with Object Oriented Languages was not the only possible meaning
to the acronym!

Still lurking....
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