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AT&T announced the creation of the '''UNIX Software Operation''' (USO) – a separate and distinct AT&T business unit responsible for the development, marketing, and licensing of UNIX System V software – in January 1989.<ref name="signals-91">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UY0-AQAAIAAJ | magazine=Signals | date=1991 | pages=61–66| title=Signals }}</ref> This was done, as a subsequent press release stated, "in order to separate AT&T's UNIX System source code business from its computer systems business,"<ref name="pr-rosetta"/> the latter a reference to [[AT&T Computer Systems]]. USO included the AT&T Data Systems Group organizations responsible for UNIX product planning and management, licensing, and marketing.<ref name="pr-uso"/> [[Peter J. Weinberger]] was named chief scientist of USO while also retaining his job in the computing science research center at [[Bell Labs]]; no other Bell Labs assets were transferred to USO.<ref name="pr-uso">{{cite press release | url=http://tech-insider.org/unix/research/1989/0104.html | title=AT&T Names President Of Unix Software Operation | publisher=PR Newswire | date=January 4, 1989 | access-date=March 28, 2021 | archive-date=January 19, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170119060705/http://tech-insider.org/unix/research/1989/0104.html | url-status=live }}</ref> The head of USO was Larry Dooling, who had been a vice-president in sales and marketing in the AT&T Data Systems Group.<ref name="pr-uso"/>

Unlike the original Unix work, which had been done in the Bell Labs facility in [[Murray Hill, New Jersey|Murray Hill]], USO and the commercialization work was done a few miles away in [[Summit, New Jersey]],<ref. name="negus"/><refThis name="lat-novell"/>AT&T Bell Labs ___location was known as SF for Summit Facility.

in a building located off a [[Cloverleaf interchange|

cloverleaf-like interchange]] among [[New Jersey Route 24]], [[New Jersey Route 124]], and [[County Route 649 (Essex County, New Jersey)|John F. Kennedy Parkway]] and across from [[The Mall at Short Hills]]

and near the [[Passaic River]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/190+River+Rd,+Summit,+NJ+07901/@40.7382219,-74.3690207,678m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c3af0574c6126d:0x73e4759951790c2d!8m2!3d40.7377586!4d-74.3691024 | title=190 River Rd, Summit NJ 07901 | publisher=Google Maps | access-date=April 1, 2018}}</ref> This AT&T Bell Labs ___location was known as SF for Summit Facility.

UNIX System Laboratories, Inc., came into being as a separate subsidiary of AT&T in November 1989 and was assigned all U.S.-based AT&T Unix and USO assets.<ref name="pr-rosetta"/>