Paul Winalski wrote:
The first
Emacs was written in TECO.
Which is how it got its name, of course. Emacs =
"Editor MACroS".
So the story goes. But I'm not sure sure. In November 1976, the name
went from ? and ?MACS to E and EMACS. Maybe "editor" was implied, but
it doesn't come up in the email conversation.