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From: bill@trotter.usma.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: DAEMONs -- what does GCOS mean anyway ?
Message-ID: <1000@trotter.usma.edu>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 11:56:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: trotter.1000
Posted: Tue Oct 13 11:56:57 1987
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References: <1131@nrcvax.UUCP> <3550002@hplsdla.HP.COM> <392@xios.XIOS.UUCP> <748@ea.ecn.purdue.edu>
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Summary: the other GCOS (I think)

In article <748@ea.ecn.purdue.edu>, davy@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Dave Curry) writes:
> 
> 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.

Having looked thru my more ancient UNIX documentation I find on the page
covering troff(1) the following passage:

.....for printing on a Graphics Systems C/A/T phototypesetter;

further down under the -g option it says:

Prepare output for a GCOS phototypsetter .....


So it looks like we are talking about two different GCOS's.  And it would
appear from the first line that this is where "cat" might have come from.

Now, lets have someone who really knows come back with the definitive 
answer.  :-)

bill gunshannon


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