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In article <3321@mindlink.UUCP>, a80@mindlink.UUCP (Greg Goss) writes:
> Perhaps it's considered too obvious to a bunch of Unix hacks, but the recursive
> name of GNU is interesting.  Some of us are fascinated by recursion.
> 
> GNU stands for Gnu is Not Unix, where GNU stands for ...

Yup, people who implement UNIX-clones seem obsessed with
this. There's also XINU, from the book by Douglas Comer
(Yup, it stands for "Xinu Is Not UNIX". Also, try reading
it backwards...) Then there's MINIX, from the Tannenbaum
book, although I don't recall that that is anything clever
and can't find anything in the book.

Here's a related question, what's the most deeply nested
acronym you've heard of, barring recrusive acronyms with
no stopping condition (obviously, the recursive stuff
like GNU nests forever, or until your stack overflows :-)

One I've already mentioned was HASP - "Houston Automated
Spooling Program", where SPOOL is "Simultaneous Peripheral
Operatopns On Line" or some such.

So that's two levels deep. I was told by a mainframe type
that this was the _only_ nested acronym, which is
obviously rubbish, but what is the _deepest_ non-recursive
acronym? Anyone know one better than two?


			- peterd

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