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From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: How UTTERLY Amazing! (Was Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD)
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Date: 28 Oct 1994 10:29:58 +1000
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Rafal Boni (rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: If I didn't smell the sarcasm in that one, I'd have to beg to
: differ ;>. Otherwise, just making sure everyone knows that the
: real source of the name EMACS is "Eight megs and Constantly Swapping"
Actually there is some dispute over the origins of the name EMACS.
Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift
Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping
Even a Master of Arts Comes Simpler
Emacs Manuals Are Cryptic and Surreal
Energetic Merchants Always Cultivate Sales
Each Manual's Audience is Completely Stupified
Emacs Means A Crappy Screen
Eventually Munches All Computer Storage
Even My Aunt Crashes the System
Eradication of Memory Accomplished with Complete Simplicity
Elsewhere Maybe Alternative Civilizations Survive
Egregious Managers Actively Court Stallman
Esoteric Malleability Always Considered Silly
Emacs Manuals Always Cause Senility
Easily Maintained with the Assistance of Chemical Solutions
Edwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins
Generally Not Used Except by Middle Aged Computer Scientists
Extended Macros Are Considered Superfluous
Every Mode Accelerates Creation of Software
Elsewhere Maybe All Commands are Simple
Emacs May Allow Customised Screwups
Excellent Manuals Are Clearly Suppressed
Emetic Macros Assault Core and Segmentation
Embarrassed Manual-Writer Accused of Communist Subversion
Extensibility and Modifiability Aggravate Confirmed Simpletons
Emacs May Annihilate Command Structures
Easily Mangles, Aborts, Crashes and Stupifies
Extraneous Macros And Commands Stink
Exceptionally Mediocre Algorithm for Computer Scientists
EMACS Makes no Allowances Considering its Stiff price
Equine Mammals Are Considerably Smaller
Embarrassingly Mundane Advertising Cuts Sales
Every Moron Assumes CCA is Superior
Exceptionally Mediocre Autocratic Control System
EMACS May Alienate Clients and Supporters
Excavating Mayan Architecture Comes Simpler
Erasing Minds Allows Complete Submission
Every Male Adolescent Craves Sex
Elephantine Memory Absolutely Considered Sine que non
Emacs Makers Are Crazy Sickos
Eenie-Meenie-Miney-Mo- Macros Are Completely Slow
Experience the Mildest Ad Campaign ever Seen
Emacs Makefiles Annihilate C- Shells
Eradication of Memory Accomplished with Complete Simplicity
Emetic Macros Assault Core and Segmentation
Epileptic MLisp Aggravates Compiler Seizures
Eleven thousand Monkeys Asynchronously Crank out these Slogans
Evenings, Mornings, And a Couple of Saturdays
Emacs Makes All Computing Simple
Emacs Masquerades As Comfortable Shell
Emacs: My Alternative Computer Story
Emacs Made Almost Completely Screwed
(by extensive use of M-x global-unset-key)
Emacs Macht Alle Computer Schoen
(deutsch) (=Emacs makes all computers beautiful)
Each Mail A Continued Surprise
Every Mode Acknowledges Customized Strokes
(keystrokes, of course :-)
Eating Memory And Cycle-Sucking
Everyday Material Almost Compiled Successfully
Elvis Masterminds All Computer Software
Emacs Makes A Computer Slow
EMACS
MACRO
ACTED
CREDO
SODOM
(pinched off alt.religion.emacs a while back.....)
Phil :-)
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Phil Homewood phil@rivendell.apana.org.au
APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator brisbane@apana.org.au
"Nightswimming deserves a quiet night"