16 Nov
2019
16 Nov
'19
8:36 p.m.
Meant to go to the list...
-- Dave
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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 07:23:19 +1100 (EST)
From: Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org>
To: Paul Winalski
Subject: Re: [COFF] [TUHS] History of m6?
On Thu, 14 Nov 2019, Paul Winalski wrote:
I used to think that "Emacs" stood for
"escape-meta-alt-control-shift". :-) It's too finger-busy with all
that alt, escape, and meta stuff for my taste.
Hey, that's a bit old :-)
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 17:28:41 +0000
From: Benjamin Huntsman
To: "tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org" <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix taste (Re: terminal - just for fun)
> EMACS - eight megs and constantly swapping :)
I like my own version: "Enough Memory? A Concept
Strange!"
I thought it stood for Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift :)
I thought I came up with it independently, but obviously it was in the back of
my mind.
-- Dave