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From: jmik@topaz.rutgers.edu (Rev. Joseph Miklojcik)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: My best guess at the origin of the name Emacs
Keywords: origin name emacs
Message-ID: <Aug.9.16.01.56.1989.7465@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: 9 Aug 89 20:02:15 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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I found this in an OLD dusty manual here at our office

"What is EMACS?  It is a tree falling in the forest with no one to
hear it.  It is a beautiful flower that smells awful."

This was the opening quote to the introduction, taken from some
unnamed source.  The manual was evidently written by James Gosling,
and is Copyright (c) 1983.  That Emacs (version 264) was being sold by a
company called Unipress Software.

DISCLAIMER: I work for Unipress Software, and whatever you can infer
from the above paragraphs are completely my own opinions and thoughts
(save the quote).  I am in all ways responsible for it.

--joe