Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ptsfa!dmt
From: dmt@ptsfa.PacBell.COM (Dave Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: GCOS field
Message-ID: <4604@ptsfa.PacBell.COM>
Date: 2 Dec 88 18:03:27 GMT
References: <7996@dasys1.UUCP> <4400001@mrevox.UUCP> <5544@edsews.EDS.COM>
Reply-To: dmt@ptsfa.PacBell.COM (Dave Turner)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <5544@edsews.EDS.COM> charette@edsews.EDS.COM (Mark A. Charette) writes:
>
>Not so farfetched. GCOS did stand for General Electric Comprehensive
>Operating System, but changed to General Comprehensive Operating System
>after Honeywell bought the GE computer division. Multics ran on the

Almost right. I have a Honeywell ad from about 10 years ago that says
that GCOS means:

	General Comprehensive Operating Supervisor





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