Talk:General Comprehensive Operating System/Archives/2020

Name GECOS redux
I just took a look at some manuals from bitsavers. The first has the title GE-635 Comprehensive Operating Supervisor but the text uses the name General Comprehensive Operating Supervisor. Similarly, the next edition has the title GE-635 Comprehensive Operating Supervisor but the text uses the name General Comprehensive Operating Supervisor. In a Honeywell manual the text uses the name GE-600 Line Comprehensive Operating Supervisor (GECOS III). Given the above, what is appropriate to say about the original name? Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 18:48, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

A further issue is that General Comprehensive Operating Systemsays "The GECOS-II operating system was.", but GECOS II came later; as of July 1964 it was still GECOS. Two sources show GECOS I on April 1965 and GECOS II on November 1965. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 01:24, 7 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Also this manual from 1980 says “supervisor”.


 * Every primary source I have says Supervisor, but I don't have any manuals from Bull. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 23:13, 20 June 2020 (UTC)