🚀 go-pugleaf

Charles Bertsch wrote:

> With General Electric, the assembler was call "GEMAP", Generalized
> something something.  When Honeywell bought the operation, they
> changed
> the name to GMAP, as well as producing GLOAD from GELOAD.  The OS had
> been
> named GECOS, Generalized Comprehensive ...  I really think that
> Honeywell
> should have called it "HOCUS" rather than GCOS.

   Yes, it was GCOS on the 6000, and the Level 66 and later the DPS
range of machines.
GCOS stood for General Comprehensive Operating System (but we preferred
to call it God's Chosen Operating System).  I cut my teeth on these
machines and have very fond memories of them.

It seems everything started with a G or a GE, a hang over from the
General Electric origins.  Remember the MME's?  MME GEBORT, MME GELOAD,
etc....

GCOS was a really neat OS, and way ahead of it's time.  True
multitasking on multi CPUs, timesharing support, a powerful file sysetm
(FMS), virtual memory support and lots of other features.

Those were the days......

Jim Macura