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Re: Strange and wonderful prog names

#4839
From: BQT
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 1990 16:53
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In article <3321@mindlink.UUCP>, a80@mindlink (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 ...

Well, this is older than UNIX (I suspect).

You had two editors, long lost in the mist of time by now.
(I've never seen them).
They were reputedadly called:

EINS (Which meant Eins Is Not ???? (Don't remember what S stood for,
      SOS manybe)).
then came
ZWEI (Zwei Was Eins Initially)

There are surely more of these...

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Everybody know that the DECstation	- I'm on a bus
is a pdp8, which is a RISC, but		- on a psychodelic trip,
where did MIPS computers get into it?	- reading murder books
					- and tryin' to stay hip.

	- Johnny Billquist		- Billy Idol

D89.JOHNNY...@AIDA.CSD.UU.SE
D89.JOHNNY...@CARMEN.DOCS.UU.SE
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Subject: Re: Strange and wonderful prog names
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