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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: GNU story wanted!
Summary: GNU is Not Unix
Message-ID: <3319@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 26 Jun 89 17:52:18 GMT
References: <7364@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <7364@cs.Buffalo.EDU> ugleung@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Leung Lee) writes:
?I have one fundamental question.  What is the story concerning the
?frequent use of "GNU" as a prefix to many Unix programs, such a emacs,
?troff, etc.  I realized this probably has its origin in the American
?culture!  Is this correct!  Can anyone give some kind of historical
?insights?

GNU is Not Unix, which is both true and recursive.

-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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