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22 years ago
acronyms of the day.
emacs, eine and zwei.
"stallman was notorious for writing an editor called emacs, for example, which stood simply for 'editing macros'. another hacker wrote a similar program and called it eine, for 'eine is not emacs'. eine was then almost completely rewritten and then renamed zwei, for 'zwei was eine initially'." nick moffit's $7 history of unix.