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- From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 01:12:17 GMT
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- lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) writes:
-
- >hobbit@ac.dal.ca writes:
-
- >>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.)
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Also, I compiled several GNU pieces of software recently - I think
- it was smalltalk that included a .au file from the author that said
- "welcome to g-nu smalltalk" just in case you wondered how to
- pronounce it.
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