Re: [COFF] [TUHS] History of m6? (fwd) - COFF

16 Nov 2019

Meant to go to the list...

-- Dave

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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 07:23:19 +1100 (EST)
From: Dave Horsfall &lt;dave(a)horsfall.org&gt;
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: &quot;tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org&quot; &lt;tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org&gt;
     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