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1 (More than half of the following acronyms are from a Sep 85 message
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2 from harvard!topaz!BLUE!BRAIL@mit-eddie and anonymous friends.)
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4 Even a Master of Arts Comes Simpler
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5 Emacs Manuals Are Cryptic and Surreal
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6 Energetic Merchants Always Cultivate Sales
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7 Each Manual's Audience is Completely Stupified
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8 Emacs Means A Crappy Screen
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9 Eventually Munches All Computer Storage
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10 Even My Aunt Crashes the System
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11 Eradication of Memory Accomplished with Complete Simplicity
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12 Elsewhere Maybe Alternative Civilizations Survive
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13 Egregious Managers Actively Court Stallman
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14 Esoteric Malleability Always Considered Silly
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15 Emacs Manuals Always Cause Senility
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16 Easily Maintained with the Assistance of Chemical Solutions
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17 EMACS MACRO ACTED CREDO SODOM
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18 Edwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins
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19 Extended Macros Are Considered Superfluous
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20 Every Macro Accelerates Creation of Software
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21 Emacs Allows Customised Screwups
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22 Excellent Manuals Are Clearly Suppressed
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23 Emetic Macros Assault Core and Segmentation
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24 Embarrassed Manual-Writer Accused of Communist Subversion
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25 Extensibilty and Modifiability Aggravate Confirmed Simpletons
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26 Emacs May Annihilate Command Structures
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27 Easily Mangles, Aborts, Crashes and Stupifies
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28 Extraneous Macros And Commands Stink
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29 Exceptionally Mediocre Algorithm for Computer Scientists
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30 EMACS Makes no Allowances Considering its Stiff price
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31 Equine Mammals Are Considerably Smaller
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32 Embarrasingly Mundane Advertising Cuts Sales
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33 Every Moron Assumes CCA is Superior
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34 Exceptionally Mediocre Autocratic Control System
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35 EMACS May Alienate Clients and Supporters
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36 Excavating Mayan Architecture Comes Simpler
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37 Erasing Minds Allows Complete Submission
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38 Every Male Adolescent Craves Sex
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39 Elephantine Memory Absolutely Considered Sine que non
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40 Emacs Makers Are Crazy Sickos
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41 Eenie-Meenie-Miney-Mo- Macros Are Completely Slow
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42 Experience the Mildest Ad Campaign ever Seen
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43 Emacs Makefiles Annihilate C- Shells
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44 Eradication of Memory Accomplished with Complete Simplicity
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45 Emetic Macros Assault Core and Segmentation
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46 Epileptic MLisp Aggravates Compiler Seizures
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47 Eleven thousand Monkeys Asynchronously Crank out these Slogans
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48 Evenings, Mornings, And a Couple of Saturdays
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49 Emacs Makes All Computing Simple
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50 Emacs Makes All Computers Slow
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51 Evil Manifestation Also Called Satan
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52 Eats Memory And Compromises Security
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53 Eventually Mallocs All Computer Storage
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54 Eight Megs And Continuous Swapping
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55 Escape Meta Alt Control Shift
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56 Eerie Men Acting Computer Science
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57 Emacs Means A Crummy Screen
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58 Ego Maniacs Addicted to Control Sequences
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59 Easy Man's Advanced Consciousness System
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60 Emacs Masquerades As a Comfortable Shell
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61 Emacs Macht Alle Computer Schoen
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62 Eating Memory And Cycle Sucking
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63 Elvis Masterminds All Computer Software
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64
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65 From <sys/errno.h>:
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66
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67 #define ENOSR 74 /* Out of streams resources */
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68 #define ENOMSG 75 /* No message of desired type */
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69 #define EMACS 76 /* Editor too large */
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70
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71 --- And other descendants:
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72
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73 GNU's Not Unix
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74 Mince Is Not a Complete Emacs
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75 Fine Is Not Emacs
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76 Thief Isn't Even Fine
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77 Eine Is Not Emacs
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78 Zwei Was Eine Initially
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79 Drei - Really Emacs Inside
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80 Sine is Not Eine
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81 Generally Not Used Except by Aged Computer Scientists
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82 Elle Looks Like Emacs
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83 INSTITUTE's Name Shows That It's Totally Unrelated To EMACS
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85 -----------------------
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86 > From: ncramer@bbn.com (Nichael Cramer)
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87 > Subject: Re: Emacs
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88 > Date: 19 Jan 90 14:54:58 PST (19 Jan 90 22:54:58 GMT)
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89 > Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
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90 >
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91 > For a Previous Employer, I had to write an easily-usable-by-VMS-and-other-
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92 > business-weenies editor (that ran on the Lispm) which was named: DRIE
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93 >
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94 > DRIE Really Isn't EDT
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95 >
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96 > (...and, yes, I know it isn't spelled right.)
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97
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98 -----------------------
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99 > From: wdh@well.UUCP (Bill Hofmann)
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100 > Subject: Re: Emacs
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101 > Date: 23 Jan 90 20:52:15 PST (24 Jan 90 04:52:15 GMT)
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102 > Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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103 >
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104 > I'd believe that excruciatingly detailed history of EMACS.
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105 > However, I think that the influence of ice cream on computer systems,
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106 > especially around MIT, can't be underestimated. EMACS was the text editor,
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107 > and the document formatter was known as BOLIO. Now, at the time, one of
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108 > the better known premium ice cream places was Emac and Bolio's. Let's not
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109 > forget mixins in Lisp Machine Lisp (or flavors)....
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110 >
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111 > =Bill=
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113 -----------------------
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114 > From: nhess@dvlseq.oracle.com (Nate Hess)
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115 > Subject: Re: Emacs
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116 > Date: 01 Feb 90 19:08:10 PST (2 Feb 90 03:08:10 GMT)
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117 >
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118 > % ls -l /usr/local/bin/gnu/emacs /usr/ucb/vi /bin/ed /bin/cat
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119 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 nhess 1350975 Jan 20 18:18 /usr/local/bin/gnu/emacs
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120 > -rwxr-xr-x 6 root 155648 Nov 16 1988 /usr/ucb/vi
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121 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 40960 Nov 16 1988 /bin/ed
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122 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 9476 Nov 16 1988 /bin/cat
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123 >
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124 > It just keeps getting better and better, or worse and worse, depending
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125 > on how you look at it.
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128 > From: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz)
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129 > Subject: Re: Emacs
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130 > Date: 02 Feb 90 14:30:50 PST (2 Feb 90 22:30:50 GMT)
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131 >
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132 > Well, there's always
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133 >
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134 > % ls -l /usr/bin/adb
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135 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 114688 May 25 1989 /usr/bin/adb
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136 >
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137 > (emacs can't yet edit something the size of a decent filesystem).
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139 -----------------------
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140 > From: igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
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141 > Subject: Re: Cryptic comments
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142 > Date: 02 Feb 90 04:39:31 PST (2 Feb 90 12:39:31 GMT)
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143 >
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144 > As barmar confirmed, many of the comments in Multics' Emacs by Bernie
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145 > Greenberg were in Latin. Most of the code was as well:
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146 >
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147 > (buffer-est-delenda-p ...)
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148 >
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149 > and all the fenestra code. Plus jeter-les-gazongas!
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150 >
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151 > ian
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