What does "USG" mean?

r.peterson roe at sobmips.UUCP
Sat Feb 3 03:37:06 AEST 1990


>From article <1677 at ctisbv.cti-software.nl>, by pim at 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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