GCOS field

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <7996 at dasys1.UUCP> jpr at dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
>In article <1257 at vsedev.VSE.COM> logan at vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III) writes:
>>Does anyone know what GCOS really stands for and where it came from?
>In my flavor of unix, that's described as the "Comment" field.

That's what it has evolved to, since most current UNIX systems don't
spool printer output etc. to Honeywell (formerly GE) systems.