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From: harvard!topaz!BLUE!BRAIL@mit-eddie
Date: 9 Sep 85 17:25:27 EDT
Subject: EMACS -- What does it mean?
To: mit-prep!info-gnu-emacs@TOPAZ.RUTGERS.EDU
EMACS may stand for "Editing MACroS," but some friends of mine
suggested some more creative definitions. Here they are. Anyone have
any additions?
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Even a
Master of
Arts
Comes
Simpler
Emacs
Manuals
Are
Cryptic and
Surreal
Energetic
Merchants
Always
Cultivate
Sales
Each
Manual's
Audience is
Completely
Stupified
Emacs
Means
A
Crappy
Screen
Eventually
Munches
All
Computer
Storage
Even
My
Aunt
Crashes the
System
Eradication of
Memory
Accomplished with
Complete
Simplicity
Elsewhere
Maybe
Alternative
Civilizations
Survive
Egregious
Managers
Actively
Court
Stallman
Esoteric
Malleability
Always
Considered
Silly
Emacs
Manuals
Always
Cause
Senility
Easily
Maintained with the
Assistance of
Chemical
Solutions
EMACS
MACRO
ACTED
CREDO
SODOM
Edwardian
Manifestation of
All
Colonial
Sins
Generally
Not
Used
Except by
Middle
Aged
Computer
Scientists
Extended
Macros
Are
Considered
Superfluous
Every
Mode
Accelerates
Creation of
Software
Elsewhere
Maybe
All
Commands are
Simple
Emacs
May
Allow
Customised
Screwups
Excellent
Manuals
Are
Clearly
Suppressed
Emetic
Macros
Assault
Core and
Segmentation
Embarrassed
Manual-Writer
Accused of
Communist
Subversion
Extensibilty and
Modifiability
Aggravate
Confirmed
Simpletons
Emacs
May
Annihilate
Command
Structures
Easily
Mangles,
Aborts,
Crashes and
Stupifies
Extraneous
Macros
And
Commands
Stink
Exceptionally
Mediocre
Algorithm for
Computer
Scientists
EMACS
Makes no
Allowances
Considering its
Stiff price
Equine
Mammals
Are
Considerably
Smaller
Embarrasingly
Mundane
Advertising
Cuts
Sales
Every
Moron
Assumes
CCA is
Superior
Exceptionally
Mediocre
Autocratic
Control
System
EMACS
May
Alienate
Clients and
Supporters
Excavating
Mayan
Architecture
Comes
Simpler
Erasing
Minds
Allows
Complete
Submission
Every
Male
Adolescent
Craves
Sex
Elephantine
Memory
Absolutely
Considered
Sine que non
Emacs
Makers
Are
Crazy
Sickos
Eenie-Meenie-Miney-Mo-
Macros
Are
Completely
Slow
Experience the
Mildest
Ad
Campaign ever
Seen
Emacs
Makefiles
Annihilate
C-
Shells
Eradication of
Memory
Accomplished with
Complete
Simplicity
Emetic
Macros
Assault
Core and
Segmentation
Epileptic
MLisp
Aggravates
Compiler
Seizures
Eleven thousand
Monkeys
Asynchronously
Crank out these
Slogans
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From: ihnss!warren@mit-eddie (Warren Montgomery)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: EMACS -- What does it mean?
Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 09:14:24 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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Someone at a luncheon suggested it meant:
Evenings,
Mornings,
And a
Couple of
Saturdays
(In reference to the odd hours that went into the creation of my
implementation).
--
Warren Montgomery
ihnss!warren
IH ((312)-979) x2494
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 85 10:11:04 edt
From: inmet!tower@inmet.inmet (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) <inmet!tower@cca-unix>
Subject: Re: EMACS -- What does it mean?
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/* Written 6:48 pm Sep 14, 1985 by gml@ssc-vax in inmet:net.emacs */
/* ---------- "Re: EMACS -- What does it mean?" ---------- */
Pleeeeeeeze!!! Nice try on the meaning of EMACS. I believe the
correct acronym is:
Emacs
Makes
All
Computing
Simple
Thank you, and Good Night
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From: ho95e!wcs@mit-eddie (Bill.Stewart.4K435.x0705)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: EMACS -- What does it mean?
Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 21:43:54 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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> > very interesting, but what does GNU stand for ?
> GNU = Gnu's Not UNIX. There is also MINCE, for Mince Is Not a Complete Emacs.
> More recursive acronyms, anyone?
Many people have also seen FINE Is Not Emacs, but the one that has
character is THief Isn't Even Fine.
--
## Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs
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From: edison!ta2@mit-eddie (tom allebrandi)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Re: EMACS -- What does it mean?
Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 18:11:55 EDT
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> GNU = Gnu's Not UNIX. There is also MINCE, for Mince Is Not a Complete Emacs.
>
> More recursive acronyms, anyone?
>
For the DEC-system-10/20: FINE - Fine Is Not Emacs.....
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 85 01:38:12 edt
From: inmet!tower (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) <inmet!tower@cca-unix>
Subject: more names
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/* Written 12:20 pm Oct 14, 1985 by rs@mirror.UUCP in inmet:net.emacs */
SINE: Sine Is Not Emacs
(MIT Architecture Machine Group)
EINE: Eine is Not Emacs
(MIT Lisp Machine)
ZWEI: Zwei Was Eine Initially
("rev2" of EINE)
--
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From: ulysses!pajb@mit-eddie (Paul Bennett)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Here we go again ...
Date: Sat, 19-Oct-85 17:26:49 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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> EINE: Eine is Not Emacs
> (MIT Lisp Machine)
>
> ZWEI: Zwei Was Eine Initially
> ("rev2" of EINE)
DREI: DREI - Really Emacs Inside
(Exists only in my head)
Paul.
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