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- From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.095039.15225@ukw.uucp>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 09:50:39 GMT
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- hobbit@ac.dal.ca writes:
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- >What I'm curious about, is how do you folks pronounce 'GNU'?
- >'Nu' is proper (for the animal, anyway) but i've never heard anything
- >but 'ge-nu' used for the software.
-
- From the introduction to the GNU Emacs Manual, Sixth Edition, Version
- 18, March 1987, by RMS himself:
-
- You are about to read about GNU Emacs, the GNU incarnation
- of the advanced, self-documentin, customizable, extensible
- real-time display editor Emacs. (The `G' in `GNU' is not silent.)
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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