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Name GECOS redux

I just took a look at some manuals from bitsavers. The first[1] has the title GE-635 Comprehensive Operating Supervisor but the text[2] uses the name General Comprehensive Operating Supervisor. Similarly, the next edition[3] has the title GE-635 Comprehensive Operating Supervisor but the text[4] uses the name General Comprehensive Operating Supervisor. In a Honeywell manual[5] the text[6] 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 System#Historysays "The GECOS-II operating system was ....", but GECOS II came later; as of July 1964[2] it was still GECOS. Two sources[7][8] 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)

References

  1. ^ "GE-635 Comprehensive Operating Supervisor" (PDF), The Compatibles/600, General Electric, July 1964, CPB-1002
  2. ^ a b "Introduction to GECOS", CPB-1002 (PDF), p. I-1, GECOS - - General Comprehensive Operating Supervisor - - is the name given to the executive program ...
  3. ^ "GE-625 / 635 Comprehensive Operating Supervisor" (PDF), The Compatibles/600, General Electric, January 1965, CPB-1002A
  4. ^ "Introduction to GECOS", CPB-1002A (PDF), p. I-1, The General Comprehensive Operating Supervisor (GECOS) is the executive program ...
  5. ^ "GECOS TIME-SHARING SYSTEM GENERAL INFORMATION MANUAL" (PDF), Honeywell SERIES 600, Honeywell Information Systems Inc., July 1971, CPB-1643A
  6. ^ "General", CPB-1643A (PDF), p. 1, The GE-600 Line Time-Sharing System operates under the direction of the GE-600 Line Comprehensive Operating Supervisor (GECOS III),
  7. ^ GE Information Systems
  8. ^ Ed Thelen, General Electric Computer Department from the bottom up 1961 through 1965
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