Re: Emacs

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From: Bill Hofmann
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1990 04:52

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I'd believe that excruciatingly detailed history of EMACS.
However, I think that the influence of ice cream on computer systems,
especially around MIT, can't be underestimated.  EMACS was the text editor,
and the document formatter was known as BOLIO.  Now, at the time, one of
the better known premium ice cream places was Emac and Bolio's.  Let's not
forget mixins in Lisp Machine Lisp (or flavors)....

=Bill=

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