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From: ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU Elisp -- Summary
Message-ID: <Jan.5.18.29.33.1989.160@ron.rutgers.edu>
Date: 5 Jan 89 23:29:34 GMT
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    ]Emacs was an ice-cream parlor around MIT where RMS (the original
    ]writer of ITS EMACS) hung out.  EMACS use to be a set of macros in
    ]ITS TECO.  It seems EMACS could also stand for Editor MACroS.
    ]The former I heard from a friend of RMS (LIZZY@AI).  The latter from
    ]the ITS EMACS Manual.

I'd discount the Ice Cream story.  Liz Sommers (LIZZY@AI) certainly never
said it.  Youre last two statements are true.  EMACS is a set of macros
in TECO to do full screen editing.  RMS wrote them.  EMACS stands for
Editor Macros.  Later on several people including Warren Montgomery,
James Gosling, and Jonathon Payne among others did their own implementations
of EMACS for UNIX machines in C, not based on TECO.   Later on after
RMS felt burned by the commercial software industry, he started up GNU
and did his own C EMACS.  Oddly enough, this resmembled Goslign's UNIX
version more than it did RMS's original ITS EMACS.

-Ron