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| 1 (More than half of the following acronyms are from a Sep 85 message | |
| 2 from harvard!topaz!BLUE!BRAIL@mit-eddie and anonymous friends.) | |
| 3 | |
| 4 Even a Master of Arts Comes Simpler | |
| 5 Emacs Manuals Are Cryptic and Surreal | |
| 6 Energetic Merchants Always Cultivate Sales | |
| 7 Each Manual's Audience is Completely Stupified | |
| 8 Emacs Means A Crappy Screen | |
| 9 Eventually Munches All Computer Storage | |
| 10 Even My Aunt Crashes the System | |
| 11 Eradication of Memory Accomplished with Complete Simplicity | |
| 12 Elsewhere Maybe Alternative Civilizations Survive | |
| 13 Egregious Managers Actively Court Stallman | |
| 14 Esoteric Malleability Always Considered Silly | |
| 15 Emacs Manuals Always Cause Senility | |
| 16 Easily Maintained with the Assistance of Chemical Solutions | |
| 17 EMACS MACRO ACTED CREDO SODOM | |
| 18 Edwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins | |
| 19 Extended Macros Are Considered Superfluous | |
| 20 Every Macro Accelerates Creation of Software | |
| 21 Emacs Allows Customised Screwups | |
| 22 Excellent Manuals Are Clearly Suppressed | |
| 23 Emetic Macros Assault Core and Segmentation | |
| 24 Embarrassed Manual-Writer Accused of Communist Subversion | |
| 25 Extensibilty and Modifiability Aggravate Confirmed Simpletons | |
| 26 Emacs May Annihilate Command Structures | |
| 27 Easily Mangles, Aborts, Crashes and Stupifies | |
| 28 Extraneous Macros And Commands Stink | |
| 29 Exceptionally Mediocre Algorithm for Computer Scientists | |
| 30 EMACS Makes no Allowances Considering its Stiff price | |
| 31 Equine Mammals Are Considerably Smaller | |
| 32 Embarrasingly Mundane Advertising Cuts Sales | |
| 33 Every Moron Assumes CCA is Superior | |
| 34 Exceptionally Mediocre Autocratic Control System | |
| 35 EMACS May Alienate Clients and Supporters | |
| 36 Excavating Mayan Architecture Comes Simpler | |
| 37 Erasing Minds Allows Complete Submission | |
| 38 Every Male Adolescent Craves Sex | |
| 39 Elephantine Memory Absolutely Considered Sine que non | |
| 40 Emacs Makers Are Crazy Sickos | |
| 41 Eenie-Meenie-Miney-Mo- Macros Are Completely Slow | |
| 42 Experience the Mildest Ad Campaign ever Seen | |
| 43 Emacs Makefiles Annihilate C- Shells | |
| 44 Eradication of Memory Accomplished with Complete Simplicity | |
| 45 Emetic Macros Assault Core and Segmentation | |
| 46 Epileptic MLisp Aggravates Compiler Seizures | |
| 47 Eleven thousand Monkeys Asynchronously Crank out these Slogans | |
| 48 Evenings, Mornings, And a Couple of Saturdays | |
| 49 Emacs Makes All Computing Simple | |
| 50 Emacs Makes All Computers Slow | |
| 51 Evil Manifestation Also Called Satan | |
| 52 Eats Memory And Compromises Security | |
| 53 Eventually Mallocs All Computer Storage | |
| 54 Eight Megs And Continuous Swapping | |
| 55 Escape Meta Alt Control Shift | |
| 56 Eerie Men Acting Computer Science | |
| 57 Emacs Means A Crummy Screen | |
| 58 Ego Maniacs Addicted to Control Sequences | |
| 59 Easy Man's Advanced Consciousness System | |
| 60 Emacs Masquerades As a Comfortable Shell | |
| 61 Emacs Macht Alle Computer Schoen | |
| 62 Eating Memory And Cycle Sucking | |
| 63 Elvis Masterminds All Computer Software | |
| 64 | |
| 65 From <sys/errno.h>: | |
| 66 | |
| 67 #define ENOSR 74 /* Out of streams resources */ | |
| 68 #define ENOMSG 75 /* No message of desired type */ | |
| 69 #define EMACS 76 /* Editor too large */ | |
| 70 | |
| 71 --- And other descendants: | |
| 72 | |
| 73 GNU's Not Unix | |
| 74 Mince Is Not a Complete Emacs | |
| 75 Fine Is Not Emacs | |
| 76 Thief Isn't Even Fine | |
| 77 Eine Is Not Emacs | |
| 78 Zwei Was Eine Initially | |
| 79 Drei - Really Emacs Inside | |
| 80 Sine is Not Eine | |
| 81 Generally Not Used Except by Aged Computer Scientists | |
| 82 Elle Looks Like Emacs | |
| 83 INSTITUTE's Name Shows That It's Totally Unrelated To EMACS | |
| 84 | |
| 85 ----------------------- | |
| 86 > From: ncramer@bbn.com (Nichael Cramer) | |
| 87 > Subject: Re: Emacs | |
| 88 > Date: 19 Jan 90 14:54:58 PST (19 Jan 90 22:54:58 GMT) | |
| 89 > Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA | |
| 90 > | |
| 91 > For a Previous Employer, I had to write an easily-usable-by-VMS-and-other- | |
| 92 > business-weenies editor (that ran on the Lispm) which was named: DRIE | |
| 93 > | |
| 94 > DRIE Really Isn't EDT | |
| 95 > | |
| 96 > (...and, yes, I know it isn't spelled right.) | |
| 97 | |
| 98 ----------------------- | |
| 99 > From: wdh@well.UUCP (Bill Hofmann) | |
| 100 > Subject: Re: Emacs | |
| 101 > Date: 23 Jan 90 20:52:15 PST (24 Jan 90 04:52:15 GMT) | |
| 102 > Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA | |
| 103 > | |
| 104 > I'd believe that excruciatingly detailed history of EMACS. | |
| 105 > However, I think that the influence of ice cream on computer systems, | |
| 106 > especially around MIT, can't be underestimated. EMACS was the text editor, | |
| 107 > and the document formatter was known as BOLIO. Now, at the time, one of | |
| 108 > the better known premium ice cream places was Emac and Bolio's. Let's not | |
| 109 > forget mixins in Lisp Machine Lisp (or flavors).... | |
| 110 > | |
| 111 > =Bill= | |
| 112 | |
| 113 ----------------------- | |
| 114 > From: nhess@dvlseq.oracle.com (Nate Hess) | |
| 115 > Subject: Re: Emacs | |
| 116 > Date: 01 Feb 90 19:08:10 PST (2 Feb 90 03:08:10 GMT) | |
| 117 > | |
| 118 > % ls -l /usr/local/bin/gnu/emacs /usr/ucb/vi /bin/ed /bin/cat | |
| 119 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 nhess 1350975 Jan 20 18:18 /usr/local/bin/gnu/emacs | |
| 120 > -rwxr-xr-x 6 root 155648 Nov 16 1988 /usr/ucb/vi | |
| 121 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 40960 Nov 16 1988 /bin/ed | |
| 122 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 9476 Nov 16 1988 /bin/cat | |
| 123 > | |
| 124 > It just keeps getting better and better, or worse and worse, depending | |
| 125 > on how you look at it. | |
| 126 | |
| 127 ----------------------- | |
| 128 > From: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz) | |
| 129 > Subject: Re: Emacs | |
| 130 > Date: 02 Feb 90 14:30:50 PST (2 Feb 90 22:30:50 GMT) | |
| 131 > | |
| 132 > Well, there's always | |
| 133 > | |
| 134 > % ls -l /usr/bin/adb | |
| 135 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 114688 May 25 1989 /usr/bin/adb | |
| 136 > | |
| 137 > (emacs can't yet edit something the size of a decent filesystem). | |
| 138 | |
| 139 ----------------------- | |
| 140 > From: igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) | |
| 141 > Subject: Re: Cryptic comments | |
| 142 > Date: 02 Feb 90 04:39:31 PST (2 Feb 90 12:39:31 GMT) | |
| 143 > | |
| 144 > As barmar confirmed, many of the comments in Multics' Emacs by Bernie | |
| 145 > Greenberg were in Latin. Most of the code was as well: | |
| 146 > | |
| 147 > (buffer-est-delenda-p ...) | |
| 148 > | |
| 149 > and all the fenestra code. Plus jeter-les-gazongas! | |
| 150 > | |
| 151 > ian |