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Article #256Re: What does "usg" stand for?
From: John Mashey
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1986 07:01
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1986 07:01
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> The original UNIX Support Group was a group
> chartered to take research UNIX and PWB UNIX
> and Columbus UNIX and put them all together
> into a standard package for use within BTL.
> It sort of grew.
> Joseph L. Wood, III
Actually, it was chartered to make a common UNIX for operations support
systems (especially), including Columbus among others. My March 1974 phone
book shows Joe Maranzano as the supervisor of the (2-person!) group in
Berk Tague's dept, long before the 1977 merger with PWB that led to
UNIX/TS (1.0), PWB 2.0, System III, etc. From small acorns....
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-john mashey
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