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Article #260Re: What does "usg" stand for?
From: J.WOOD
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1986 15:25
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1986 15:25
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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....
> --
> -john mashey
> UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!mips!mash
> DDD: 415-960-1200
> USPS: MIPS Computer Systems, 1330 Charleston Rd, Mtn View, CA 94043
I stand corrected by one who was a participator rather
than myself who was a fairly distant observer and
user.
Joseph L. Wood, III
AT&T Information Systems
Laboratories, Middletown
(201) 957-5475
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site ariel.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!akguc!mtunh!ariel!jlw From: jlw@ariel.UUCP (J.WOOD) Newsgroups: net.bugs.usg Subject: Re: What does "usg" stand for? Message-ID: <1046@ariel.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Jan-86 10:25:25 EST Article-I.D.: ariel.1046 Posted: Sat Jan 18 10:25:25 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jan-86 02:19:11 EST References: <298@gargoyle.UUCP> <343@hjuxa.UUCP> <1036@ariel.UUCP> <290@mips.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: AT&T-ISL, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 29