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From: preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
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Subject: Re: Emacs
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Date: 19 Jan 90 21:18:17 GMT
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In article <2878@paperboy.OSF.ORG> mbrown@osf.org (Mark Brown) writes:
>In article <21743@unix.cis.pitt.edu>, nott@unix.cis.pitt.edu (nancy
>nott) writes:
>> In the same vein as all of the posts about TECO, VAX, and PDP....
>> What does Emacs mean?  
>
>Emacs
>Makes
>A
>Computer
>Slow.

Well, that's harsh!  More accurately, Extensible MACro.

My favorites were on the LISP Machine: EINE and ZWEI

	Eine
	Is
	Not
	Emacs
and
	Zwei
	Was
	Emacs (or Eine?)
	Initially

Self-recursive acronyms, plus the series iterates, in German anyway.