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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: DAEMONs -- what does GCOS mean anyway ?
Message-ID: <1129@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 14:18:16 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  8 14:18:16 1987
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References: <1131@nrcvax.UUCP> <3550002@hplsdla.HP.COM> <392@xios.XIOS.UUCP>
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <392@xios.XIOS.UUCP> greg@sdn.UUCP (Greg Franks) writes:
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\We just had a talk from Susam L. Rosenbaum from AT&T.  She was one of
\the originals on the Multics project.  Daemon is term from that system. 
\It is NOT an acronym.  The guy that created those little processes that
\run around behind your back doing useful things was into greek
\mythology.   I believe Multics predates TOPS-10 or whatever.  
\
\By the way, the name 'cat' did not originate from 'conCATenate' despite
\what the manuals say......  (Hint: its a pun on GCOS).
\
\-- 
\Greg Franks             XIOS Systems Corporation, 1600 Carling Avenue,
\(613) 725-5411          Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Z 8R8
\uunet!mnetor!dciem!nrcaer!xios!greg        "Vermont ain't flat!"

... the hint isn't enough, I guess, so... ?
To continue, what does [nt]roff stand for ? (I believe 'off' is something
like 'output format filter')
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