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From: tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: GNU story wanted!
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Date: 15 Jul 89 23:38:42 GMT
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In article <7362@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?
|
|
|Thanks
|Leung

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enjoy -len