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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:14097 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3868 rec.humor:108600 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc,rec.humor Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!jmonroy From: jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) Subject: Re: How UTTERLY Amazing! (Was Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD) Message-ID: <jmonroyCyGLAs.Hoz@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <358o3g$p95@umd5.umd.edu> <BLYMN.94Oct19193600@mallee.awadi.com.au> <38h8d5$e19@CSOS.ORST.EDU> <38hk8s$dn2@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <38k228$ksm@henri.mindspring.com> <38kvfu$b1f@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <38pgm6$j4t@rivendell.apana.org.au> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 23:59:16 GMT Lines: 85 Phil Homewood (phil@rivendell.apana.org.au) wrote: : Rafal Boni (rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote: : : If I didn't smell the sarcasm in that one, I'd have to beg to : : differ ;>. Otherwise, just making sure everyone knows that the : : real source of the name EMACS is "Eight megs and Constantly Swapping" : Actually there is some dispute over the origins of the name EMACS. : Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift : Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping : Even a Master of Arts Comes Simpler : Emacs Manuals Are Cryptic and Surreal : Energetic Merchants Always Cultivate Sales : Each Manual's Audience is Completely Stupified : Emacs Means A Crappy Screen : Eventually Munches All Computer Storage : Even My Aunt Crashes the System : Eradication of Memory Accomplished with Complete Simplicity : Elsewhere Maybe Alternative Civilizations Survive : Egregious Managers Actively Court Stallman : Esoteric Malleability Always Considered Silly : Emacs Manuals Always Cause Senility : Easily Maintained with the Assistance of Chemical Solutions : Edwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins : Generally Not Used Except by Middle Aged Computer Scientists : Extended Macros Are Considered Superfluous : Every Mode Accelerates Creation of Software : Elsewhere Maybe All Commands are Simple : Emacs May Allow Customised Screwups : Excellent Manuals Are Clearly Suppressed : Emetic Macros Assault Core and Segmentation : Embarrassed Manual-Writer Accused of Communist Subversion : Extensibility and Modifiability Aggravate Confirmed Simpletons : Emacs May Annihilate Command Structures : Easily Mangles, Aborts, Crashes and Stupifies : Extraneous Macros And Commands Stink : Exceptionally Mediocre Algorithm for Computer Scientists : EMACS Makes no Allowances Considering its Stiff price : Equine Mammals Are Considerably Smaller : Embarrassingly Mundane Advertising Cuts Sales : Every Moron Assumes CCA is Superior : Exceptionally Mediocre Autocratic Control System : EMACS May Alienate Clients and Supporters : Excavating Mayan Architecture Comes Simpler : Erasing Minds Allows Complete Submission : Every Male Adolescent Craves Sex : Elephantine Memory Absolutely Considered Sine que non : Emacs Makers Are Crazy Sickos : Eenie-Meenie-Miney-Mo- Macros Are Completely Slow : Experience the Mildest Ad Campaign ever Seen : Emacs Makefiles Annihilate C- Shells : Eradication of Memory Accomplished with Complete Simplicity : Emetic Macros Assault Core and Segmentation : Epileptic MLisp Aggravates Compiler Seizures : Eleven thousand Monkeys Asynchronously Crank out these Slogans : Evenings, Mornings, And a Couple of Saturdays : Emacs Makes All Computing Simple : Emacs Masquerades As Comfortable Shell : Emacs: My Alternative Computer Story : Emacs Made Almost Completely Screwed : (by extensive use of M-x global-unset-key) : Emacs Macht Alle Computer Schoen : (deutsch) (=Emacs makes all computers beautiful) : Each Mail A Continued Surprise : Every Mode Acknowledges Customized Strokes : (keystrokes, of course :-) : Eating Memory And Cycle-Sucking : Everyday Material Almost Compiled Successfully : Elvis Masterminds All Computer Software : Emacs Makes A Computer Slow : EMACS : MACRO : ACTED : CREDO : SODOM : Is this available in book form? -- Jesus Monroy Jr jmonroy@netcom.com Zebra Research /386BSD/device-drivers /fd /qic /clock /documentation ___________________________________________________________________________