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In article <4345@brazos.Rice.edu> preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs) writes:
>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.

For a Previous Employer, I had to write an easily-usable-by-VMS-and-other-
business-weenies editor (that ran on the Lispm) which was named: DRIE

       DRIE
       Really
       Isn't
       EDT

NICHAEL

(...and, yes, I know it isn't spelled right.)