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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: GCOS field
Message-ID: <9024@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 30 Nov 88 20:41:13 GMT
References: <17641@adm.BRL.MIL> <8980@smoke.BRL.MIL> <8516@elsie.UUCP> <8990@smoke.BRL.MIL> <8517@elsie.UUCP> <9003@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1257@vsedev.VSE.COM> <7996@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <7996@dasys1.UUCP> jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
>In article <1257@vsedev.VSE.COM> logan@vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III) writes:
>>Does anyone know what GCOS really stands for and where it came from?
>In my flavor of unix, that's described as the "Comment" field.

That's what it has evolved to, since most current UNIX systems don't
spool printer output etc. to Honeywell (formerly GE) systems.