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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: EMACS=? (was Re: Origin of term "Emacs")
Keywords: Etymology, Emacs
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Date: 9 Sep 89 03:54:58 GMT
References: <2481@orion.cf.uci.edu> <491@imokay.dec.com> <253@seti.inria.fr> <5503@thor.acc.stolaf.edu>
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In-reply-to: mike@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Mike Haertel)

In article <5503@thor.acc.stolaf.edu>, mike@thor (Mike Haertel) writes:
[wonderfully accurate tale deleted...]
| (I've always thought that Emacs, if it stands for anything, stands
| for "Eventually Munches All Computer Storage."  Certainly it does on
| my machine, which has only a measly 2MB of RAM.)

No, no, no, the best explanation I've heard for what "EMACS"
stands for is:

Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift

Yeahhh.
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