From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: charles.unix.pro@gmail.com (Charles Anthony) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 09:34:54 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] Un-released/internal/special UNIX versions/ports during the years? In-Reply-To: References: <20170225141738.f3uauxhasru7gsb3@ancienthardware.org> <20170225143255.GH21761@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Clem Cole wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Larry McVoy wrote: > >> Back in the days of 4MB SPARC machines (and 68K machines) we joked >> ​ ​ >> that EMACS stood for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping. >> > > ​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: > > LISP -- Lots of Insipidly Silly Parens > Multics - Many Unbelievably Large Tables In Core Simultaneously ​ > > PCMCIA - 'People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms" -- Charles -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: