GCOS field

Dave Turner dmt at ptsfa.PacBell.COM
Sat Dec 3 04:03:27 AEST 1988


In article <5544 at edsews.EDS.COM> charette at edsews.EDS.COM (Mark A. Charette) writes:
>
>Not so farfetched. GCOS did stand for General Electric Comprehensive
>Operating System, but changed to General Comprehensive Operating System
>after Honeywell bought the GE computer division. Multics ran on the

Almost right. I have a Honeywell ad from about 10 years ago that says
that GCOS means:

	General Comprehensive Operating Supervisor





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