On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:

Back in the days of 4MB SPARC machines (and 68K machines) we joked

that EMACS stood for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping.

To me the good news is was if you could laugh at yourself I think it was pretty sign. There were a bunch of them... two more I can remember:

LISP -- Lots of Insipidly Silly Parens

Multics - Many Unbelievably Large Tables In Core Simultaneously

There was a Fortran one I've forgotten that started with "Friendly Only" ..