What does GECOS mean in Unix?
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General Electric Comprehensive Operating System
This is the name of a field in the /etc/passwd file of linux and can store information other than just the users full name.The /etc/passwd file is used to store the user informations in the linux operating system
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What does GECOS mean?
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- General Comprehensive Operating System (GCOS, ; originally GECOS, General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor) is a family of operating systems oriented toward the 36-bit GE/Honeywell mainframe computers.The original version of GCOS was developed by General Electric beginning in 1962. The operating system is still used today in its most recent versions (GCOS 7 and GCOS 8) on servers and mainframes produced by Groupe Bull, primarily through emulation, to provide continuity with legacy mainframe environments. GCOS 7 and GCOS 8 are separate branches of the operating system and continue to be developed alongside each other.
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