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- From: del@giant.INTraNet.COM (G. Del Merritt)
- Subject: re: Huh?
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 04:35:07 GMT
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- In-reply-to: UUCP%"amorgan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU" 's message of 22-JUL-1992 19:08:47.78
- >Whilest browsing through a list of acronyms I came across
- >
- >INSTITUTE INSTITUTE's Name Shows That It's Totally Unrelated To EMACS
- >
- >No doubt. Does anyone have any idea what INSTITUTE *is*? Is it one of
- >the FINE, JOVE, FRED family of editors? Is it something even more
- >sadistic?
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- I would posit that it is derived from Emacs's(/Stallman's) long time haunt:
- The Massachussetts INSTITUTE of Technology
-
- which is indeed, in the opinion of many of its alumni, quite sadistic.
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- But don't believe everything you read...
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