west@gargoyle.UUCP (Steve Westfall) (01/11/86)
OK, I give up! I know from the content of net.bugs.usg that it has to do with System V Unix, but what does the "usg" mean??? Steve Westfall uucp: ihnp4!gargoyle!west Infotronx, Inc. 159 W. Roosevelt Rd. Phone: 312-231-6054 (ofc) West Chicago, IL 60185
wcl@hjuxa.UUCP (Bill Loeffler) (01/12/86)
In article <298@gargoyle.UUCP>, west@gargoyle.UUCP (Steve Westfall) writes: > OK, I give up! I know from the content of net.bugs.usg > that it has to do with System V Unix, but what does the > "usg" mean??? > > "Unix Support Group" located in BTL Summit NJ. -- Bill Loeffler Digital Equipment Corp., Holmdel NJ 07733 uucp: ...!{decvax,ihnp4}!hjuxa!wcl
jlw@ariel.UUCP (J.WOOD) (01/13/86)
> In article <298@gargoyle.UUCP>, west@gargoyle.UUCP (Steve Westfall) writes: > > OK, I give up! I know from the content of net.bugs.usg > > that it has to do with System V Unix, but what does the > > "usg" mean??? > > > > > > "Unix Support Group" located in BTL Summit NJ. > > -- > Bill Loeffler > Digital Equipment Corp., Holmdel NJ 07733 > uucp: ...!{decvax,ihnp4}!hjuxa!wcl Actually it's a division now and has been in AT&T Information Systems for more than a year. 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 AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Middletown (201) 957-5475 <ariel!>titania!jlw
steve@jplgodo.UUCP (Steve Schlaifer x3171 156/224) (01/13/86)
> OK, I give up! I know from the content of net.bugs.usg > that it has to do with System V Unix, but what does the > "usg" mean??? > > > Steve Westfall uucp: ihnp4!gargoyle!west > Infotronx, Inc. > 159 W. Roosevelt Rd. Phone: 312-231-6054 (ofc) > West Chicago, IL 60185 maybe UNIX support group at ATT? ...smeagol\ Steve Schlaifer ......wlbr->!jplgodo!steve Advance Projects Group, Jet Propulsion Labs ....group3/ 4800 Oak Grove Drive, M/S 156/204 Pasadena, California, 91109 +1 818 354 3171
mash@mips.UUCP (John Mashey) (01/17/86)
> 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
dpb@laidbak.UUCP (Darryl Baker) (01/17/86)
In article <298@gargoyle.UUCP> west@gargoyle.UUCP (Steve Westfall) writes: >OK, I give up! I know from the content of net.bugs.usg >that it has to do with System V Unix, but what does the >"usg" mean??? The USG does stand for UNIX Support Group, and calling the ATT unix this came from a comment in sysent.c reserving a system call for usg. This group was based in Murray Hill NJ and was notorious for not returning calls or giving out misinformation. When ATT made UNIX a commercial product they formed a new support group in IL. These are the people who support UNIX System V on VAX, PDP, and the 3B line. I was a member of USG in IL for 2 years. Darryl Baker ihnp4!laidbak!dpb
jlw@ariel.UUCP (J.WOOD) (01/18/86)
> > 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 <ariel!>titania!jlw
guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) (01/19/86)
> >OK, I give up! I know from the content of net.bugs.usg > >that it has to do with System V Unix, but what does the > >"usg" mean??? > > The USG does stand for UNIX Support Group, and calling the ATT unix this > came from a comment in sysent.c reserving a system call for usg. No, calling System III UNIX and System V UNIX that ("ATT UNIX" is redundant; all UNIX systems, as opposed to UNIX "lookalikes", come ultimately from AT&T, even 4.xBSD, Xenix, etc.) comes from the fact that some organization possibly called the USG put those versions of UNIX out. (Those versions are descendants of UNIX/TS 1.0, which was basically a slightly pre-V7 UNIX with a lot of PWB/UNIX stuff added in.) > When ATT made UNIX a commercial product they formed a new support group > in IL. These are the people who support UNIX System V on VAX, PDP, and > the 3B line. 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. (I think they should hack up a PDP-1 instead, so that the porting base is a 18-bit one's complement machine. They should also change it to support 19-bit character pointers and not to have a location 0 in its address space. *That* should beat the portability bugs out of UNIX but good....) Guy Harris
gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) (01/19/86)
> 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".