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From: low@melair.UUCP (Rick Low)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Origin of term "Emacs"
Summary: I was waiting for this!
Keywords: Etymology, Emacs
Message-ID: <284@melair.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 89 18:16:15 GMT
References: <2481@orion.cf.uci.edu> <491@imokay.dec.com> <253@seti.inria.fr> <5503@thor.acc.stolaf.edu>
Organization: MEL Defence Systems Ltd., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <5503@thor.acc.stolaf.edu>, mike@thor.acc.stolaf.edu
(Mike Haertel) writes:
[stuff 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.)

How about 
	Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
or
	Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift ?

Is it time to replay all those definitions I saw on Usenet
a few years ago?

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Rick Low
MEL Defence Systems Limited, Ottawa, Canada
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