Re: What does "usg" stand for?

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From: Doug Gwyn <gwyn>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1986 08:00

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> System V is currently in the hands of AT&T Information Systems, in a group
> which, I think, used to be the UNIX System Development Laboratory in Bell
> Labs, which may have been called the UNIX Support Group before that (the
> UNIX/TS people).  That group is in Summit, NJ; I think the group in IL is
> reponsible for getting that to work on machines other than the 3B2, which is
> now the official "porting base" of UNIX.

Last time I looked at UNIX on a 3B2, several files in /usr/include/sys
had definitions for 3B2 machine-specific stuff such as memory management
unit register bit fields.  Some "porting base".

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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: What does "usg" stand for?
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Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 03:00:54 EST
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