GCOS field

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

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.

In volume 1 of the Unix Programmer's Manual, the old green books, that
field was listed as
	GCOS job number, box number, optional GCOS user-id
and the manual page went on to state:
	The GCOS field is used only when communicating with that system,
	and in other installations can contain any desired information.

Elsewhere in the old green books, I get the implicit, not explicit,
information that GCOS referred to a typesetting system at Murray Hill at
the time that Osanna & Co. were inventing troff.
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