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From: esf00@amdahl.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: DAEMONs -- what does GCOS mean anyway ?
Message-ID: <15912@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 21:42:14 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  9 21:42:14 1987
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References: <1131@nrcvax.UUCP> <3550002@hplsdla.HP.COM> <392@xios.XIOS.UUCP> <1129@ark.cs.vu.nl> <748@ea.ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: esf00@amdahl.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank)
Organization: The Beige Building Full of Bright Engineers, Inc.
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GECOS (later GCOS after GE got out of the computer business) was the
General Electric Comprehensive Operating System.

I don't get how `cat' is a pun on GECOS.
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