On 24 March 2015 at 14:49, Ansar Mohammed <ansarm@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello All, what's the correct pronunciation of "gecos"?
Per... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Comprehensive_Operating_System ˈdʒiːkoʊs Thus... "G" as in "giant" or "jam" "i" or "ee" as in "fleece", "feel", "sea" "k" as in "sky" or at both start and end of "crack" "o" as in goat, coat, go, bone "s" as in sigh, mass -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
On 03/24/2015 02:49 PM, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
Hello All, what's the correct pronunciation of "gecos"?
--- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk Gee-cos g as in gee whiz cos as in cosine
It stood for General Electric Comprehensive Operating System, renamed by my then employer, Honeywell, to GenEral Comprehensive Operating System when they bought it. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain
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