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From: funkstr@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Larry Hastings)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Emacs acronyms (please no fire)
Keywords: emacs
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Date: 8 Dec 90 12:49:46 GMT
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+-In article <7700@hub.ucsb.edu>,
| 6600phnx@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Phoenix / Fig) wrote:
|
| A friend asked me the other day what EMACS stood for, as a joke I told
| him the two pseudo expansions that I know: Emacs Make All Computing
| Simple and Escape Meta Alt Control Shift.
|
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A friend of mine came up with this beauty:

"EMACS: Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping"
		--Adam Margulies


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larry hastings, the galactic funkster, funkstr@ucscb.ucsc.edu

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