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From: dje@imokay.dec.com ( Secure Systems)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Origin of term "Emacs"
Keywords: Etymology, Emacs
Message-ID: <491@imokay.dec.com>
Date: 11 Aug 89 15:12:16 GMT
References: <2481@orion.cf.uci.edu>
Reply-To: ellis@ultra.enet.dec.com (David Ellis - Secure Systems)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Secure Systems Group
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Steve Wooldridge (swooldri@orion.cf.uci.edu) asks:

> I am trying to track down the orgin of the term "emacs." Is it an
> acronym for something?

As far as I know, EMACS stands for "Editor MACroS".  The first incarnation
of EMACS was a set of TECO editor macros that ran on ITS (the Incompatible
Timesharing System) at MIT.

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