The only word from an IBM employee was that USS had never been an official acronym for Unix System Services. This was in the context of my complaint about IBM overloading acronyms.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Edward Finnell <0000000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2019 6:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OpenSSH / Ported Tools / Co:Z http://secure-web.cisco.com/1bMQLqDhhKLKnJQywizr6Gwe_iGSi0lP4SGSMxO66HTplCl4r9QMwrC3PrFe8CMIyoD6TuByClAp0FUfR7UiOYdkjcKYqADAdRMeewLNtwzyYvds9siazjoXAnTs7aZ5U9hxPwhSxQmemTZlAJdEGcctXwbvSSkCcJNitpMLrpS7Dw08uWYx9QoJSmsCBGJ3JIVWSw7UQqALa4w1fbObQBapmwKK1JPYKrScQwDP3TUhW27uM4U3yrh5S88XMmUQchtjJmc-XDYjYMzZrHr4z5O4YFNdXwzl2_zGHjkW5L6benS-tdwUuqDdiUS3veFwid2CBlnsgwGDsBgJG11XCe6AEPILodj175gtm7WS6XuBMggGNrRPIJq8UmRQ2dHxhwtBb26Fw_Y3kxl_mgc2n92aT3LNNiW5XEutN40Hf_tsmkuicDrjeiBnub8OKg3ab/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stuhenderson.com%2FHandouts%2FSTUuss01.pdf IIRC MVS/OE rolled in with 4.3. After a few iterations it became USS and was presented in several SHARE sessions and IBM documents. There were threads back and forth on this list as to whether it was or wasn't. I don't know the final answer. It may be like the psychology test "we don't change the questions, just the answers".In a message dated 3/18/2019 5:07:22 PM Central Standard Time, jesse1.robin...@sce.com writes: So what's all the fUSS? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
