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From: mlawless@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM (Mike Lawless)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: GNU story wanted!
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Date: 28 Jun 89 13:55:36 GMT
References: <7364@cs.Buffalo.EDU> <206900127@prism>
Reply-To: mlawless@ncrwic.UUCP (Mike Lawless)
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In article <206900127@prism> ly@prism.TMC.COM writes:
>
>	The NU part is easy. 
>	What I am curious about is why GNU? why G? Anyone knows?

Probably because G is the only letter of the alphabet that can be tacked in
front of NU to form a recognizable word.

I heard of another such "recursive" acronym once.  There is a program called
MINCE, which is apparently a subset of EMACS.  It is an acronym for:

MINCE
Is
Not
Complete
EMACS

Not only does this acronym refer to itself, but two of the five letters stand
for acronymns.

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