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From: barad@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (Herb Barad)
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Subject: Re: ancient versions from emacs [TECO]
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Date: 11 Dec 90 04:48:40 GMT
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In article <MAYER.90Dec10132807@porky.Acuson> mayer@porky.Acuson (Ronald &) writes:
>
>From the gnu-emacs Frequently Asked Questions file:
>>25: Where does the name "Emacs" come from?
>>  
>>  EMACS originally was an acronym for Editor MACroS.  The first Emacs was
>>  a set of macros written by Richard Stallman for the editor TECO (Tape
>>  Editor and COrrector {Text Editor and COrrector?}) on a PDP-10.
>>  (Amusing fact: many people have told me that TECO code looks a lot like
>>  line noise.)

It's been years, but I seem to remember that TECO stood for

	Type Every Character Over

Herb Barad	[Signal & Image Processing Laboratory]
		[Electrical Engineering Dept. - Tulane Univ.]
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