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From: davy@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Dave Curry)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: DAEMONs -- what does GCOS mean anyway ?
Message-ID: <748@ea.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 18:03:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: ea.748
Posted: Fri Oct  9 18:03:49 1987
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References: <1131@nrcvax.UUCP> <3550002@hplsdla.HP.COM> <392@xios.XIOS.UUCP> <1129@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: davy@ea.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP (Dave Curry)
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In article <1129@ark.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>In article <392@xios.XIOS.UUCP> greg@sdn.UUCP (Greg Franks) writes:
>\
>\By the way, the name 'cat' did not originate from 'conCATenate' despite
>\what the manuals say......  (Hint: its a pun on GCOS).
>\
>... 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')
>-- 

GCOS was an operating system on the General Electric something-or-other
computer I believe... I still don't see what "cat" has to do with it
though.

"roff" was the original program, and stood for "RunOFF".  I assume the
"t" stands for "typesetter".  I've always wondered what the "n" was
for though ("non-typesetter"?).

--Dave Curry