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From: mg@cidam.rmit.oz (Mike A. Gigante)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Origin of term "Emacs"
Keywords: Etymology, Emacs
Message-ID: <5152@cidam.rmit.oz>
Date: 23 Aug 89 09:04:57 GMT
References: <2481@orion.cf.uci.edu> <57187@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <2169@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu>
Organization: RMIT Mech & Prod Eng, Melbourne, Australia.
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In article <2169@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu>, adrianb@queets.stat.washington.edu (Adrian Baddeley) writes:
> In article <2525@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> robert.g.robillard writes:
> While we're at it, is it true that the Australian email gateway 
> `munnari' is named after a coffeeshop in Bourke Street, Melbourne?
> ----
> Adrian Baddeley, visiting Department of Statistics GN-22,

If I remember correctly, munnari is an aboriginal word for a stub-tailed
lizard in the goanna family. The name was (supposedly) chosen to bypass
the head-of-dept's dislike of the nominated hostname 'goanna'..

The name also started a tradition that all hostnames at (M)elbourne (U)niversity
start with 'mu' and are named after aboringinal words