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From: spl@mcnc.org (Steve Lamont)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Emacs
Message-ID: <6108@alvin.mcnc.org>
Date: 19 Jan 90 23:50:30 GMT
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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?  

It is one of those clever recursive acronyms:

	EMACS Makes All Computers Slow

:-)

							spl (the p stands for
							press
							ctrl-meta-left-elbow
							to change all
							occurrences of foo to
							bar...)
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