On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:53:30 -0600, Paul Gilmartin 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>In a recent note, Tom Marchant said:
>
>> Date:         Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:11:03 -0500
>>
>> USS is Unformatted System Services, and it has been documented in VTAM
>> manuals since long before Open Edition was announced.  Why they decided
>> to change the name of Open Edition to Unix System Services is a mystery.
>>
>Trademark contention, IIRC.
>
What I meant to say is that it's a mystery to me why they chose Unix
System Services for the new name when USS was already a well established
acronym.

BTW, I do call it USS, but don't like the ambiguity of it.

Tom Marchant

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