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Gecos field

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The gecos field, or GECOS field is an entry in the /etc/passwd file on Unix, and similar operating systems. [1]

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Bell Labs

Nokia Bell Labs (formerly named AT&T Bell Laboratories, Bell Telephone Laboratories and Bell Labs) is an American research and scientific development company, owned by Finnish company Nokia.

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Fax

Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (the latter short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device.

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General Comprehensive Operating System

General Comprehensive Operating System (GCOS,; originally GECOS, General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor) is a family of operating systems oriented toward mainframe computers.

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GNUstep

GNUstep is a free software implementation of the Cocoa (formerly OpenStep) Objective-C frameworks, widget toolkit, and application development tools for Unix-like operating systems and Microsoft Windows.

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Internet Relay Chat

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an application layer protocol that facilitates communication in the form of text.

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Irssi

Irssi () is an IRC client program for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Microsoft Windows.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.

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Pager

A pager (also known as a beeper) is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages.

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Passwd

passwd is a tool on most Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to change a user's password.

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Personal name

A personal name or full name is the set of names by which an individual is known and that can be recited as a word-group, with the understanding that, taken together, they all relate to that one individual.

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Spooling

In computing, spooling is a specialized form of multi-programming for the purpose of copying data between different devices.

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Telephone number

A telephone number is a sequence of digits assigned to a fixed-line telephone subscriber station connected to a telephone line or to a wireless electronic telephony device, such as a radio telephone or a mobile telephone, or to other devices for data transmission via the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or other private networks.

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Unix

Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

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XChat

XChat is an Internet Relay Chat client.

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ZNC

ZNC is an IRC network bouncer or BNC.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecos_field

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