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From: jourdan@seti.inria.fr (Martin Jourdan)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Origin of term "Emacs"
Keywords: Etymology, Emacs
Message-ID: <253@seti.inria.fr>
Date: 25 Aug 89 14:52:04 GMT
References: <2481@orion.cf.uci.edu> <491@imokay.dec.com>
Reply-To: jourdan@seti.UUCP (Martin Jourdan)
Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt, Le Chesnay, France
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In article <491@imokay.dec.com> ellis@ultra.enet.dec.com (David Ellis - Secure Systems) writes:
> 
> 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".  [...]

I also encountered the much nicer recursive acronym: EMACS == "Emacs
Makes All Computing Simple[r]".  But I grant that this probably is not
the true origin...
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Martin Jourdan <jourdan@minos.inria.fr>, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France.
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