Path: utzoo!attcan!sobmips!roe
From: roe@sobmips.UUCP (r.peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: What does "USG" mean?
Message-ID: <1990Feb2.163706.12245@sobmips.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 90 16:37:06 GMT
References: <1677@ctisbv.cti-software.nl>
Organization: Sobeco Group - Montreal, Canada
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From article <1677@ctisbv.cti-software.nl>, by pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen):
> This may be a silly question, but I could not find the answer elsewhere:
> 
> Lots of software wants me to #define USG to indicate
> I am compiling on a SYSV box (or on a SYSIII box,
> for that matter). What does USG mean?

Holdover from old System III days - Unified (or United) Systems Group.
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