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Subject: Re: "USG" was Support, not Systems
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Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 00:02:50 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  4 00:02:50 1987
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> System 3 to SVR3.2.3.1  What does "USG" stands for?

Back in the '70s at BTL ( which has since become ATT/BL or ATTIS )
there was a group lead by Berkley Tague ( not Berkeley :)
which put out the Unix Support Group version of Unix/tm.
It has since become the Unix Operating System Department,
the Unix Development Laboratory, and may be a whole
division by now.  The curious thing is that the number of mts ( Member of
Technical Staff ) working on the technical side seemed to be (mostly) constant,
with more planners, testers, documenters, integraters added.

	"Just when we were starting to work well with our cohorts,
	they reorganized us in to new legions"
		paraphrase of ancient roman quote posted after each reorg

	mhtsa!sms