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From: ritchie@hpldola.HP.COM (Dave Ritchie)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Re: DAEMONs -- what does GCOS mean anyway ?
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Date: Sun, 11-Oct-87 23:32:54 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 11 23:32:54 1987
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>"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
>----------

  I think that the 'n' stands for new (wasn't there a roff in V6? or I am
completely off base?) 
  OK... what is the pun in 'cat'? I started out on GCOS (my high school 
timeshared an Honeywell 635?) but that was many moons ago.

				Dave Ritchie
				hplabs!hp-lsd!ritchie