On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
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>> Back in the days of 4MB SPARC machines (and 68K machines) we joked
>> ​ ​
>> that EMACS stood for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping.
>>
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> ​To me the good news is was if you could laugh at yourself I think it was
> pretty sign.  There were a bunch of them... two more I can remember:
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> LISP -- Lots of Insipidly Silly Parens
> Multics - Many Unbelievably Large Tables In Core Simultaneously ​
>
>
PCMCIA - 'People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms"

-- Charles
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