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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/24/2015 02:49 PM, Ansar Mohammed
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<div>Hello All,</div>
<div>what's the correct pronunciation of "gecos"?</div>
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<font size="-1">Gee-cos</font><br>
g as in gee whiz<br>
cos as in cosine<br>
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It stood for General Electric Comprehensive Operating System,
renamed by my then employer, Honeywell, to GenEral Comprehensive
Operating System when they bought it.<br>
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--dave<br>
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