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Re:Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the ... by fsckboy on Saturday September 26, 2026 @12:31PM (#49858103)
>Then their ancient Honeywell(?) mainframes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE-600_series from the 36-bit era which turned out to be a sweet-spot for Lisp; also "famous" for running Multics (old joke flipped: "which was many of whatever unix is one of")

GE sold it's division to Honeywell, and from there to Group Bull (French) and then to NEC (Japan)

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Re:Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the ... by DonHopkins on Saturday September 26, 2026 @07:05PM (#49861448)
Moltix would have been a better name than OpenClaw.
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Re:Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the ... by jasomill on Saturday September 26, 2026 @08:19PM (#49861950)
Also immortalized as the name of the "gecos" field in the UNIX passwd(5) file, described in the v7 man page[1] as "GCOS job number, box number, optional GCOS user-id" (GCOS = GECOS after the Honeywell acquisition).

[1] https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=passwd&apropos=0&s...

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