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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.