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Article #175Re: New York Times article on BBS's
From: Kriston J. Rehberg
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:06
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:06
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In article <1992Jul25.095039.15225@ukw.uucp> 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.) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ But "GNUS", the Emacs NNTP newsreader, must be pronounced "news" - ie, the G is silent in this case. Weird! >| ...!unido!ukw!lupe (German EUNet, "bang") | Disclaimer: | Kris -- Kriston J. Rehberg, POD Consultant consp03@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu Binghamton University Computing Services CONSP03@BINGVAXA.BITNet #include <stddisclaimer.h> "Labra lege: Hackito ergo sum" "Your lack of common decency reminds me of a computer" - emacs M-x flame
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc,alt.folklore.computers Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sarah!newserve!bingnews!consp03 From: consp03@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Kriston J. Rehberg) Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's In-Reply-To: lupe@ukw.uucp's message of 25 Jul 92 09: 50:39 GMT Message-ID: <CONSP03.92Jul26160606@bingsunm.cc.binghamton.edu> Sender: usenet@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu (Mr News) Nntp-Posting-Host: bingsunm.pod.binghamton.edu Organization: Binghamton University Computing Services - The POD Staff References: <rdippold.711661229@cancun> <mtpins.711668470@icaen.uiowa.edu> <14kv1kINNg06@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1992Jul23.184014.14135@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <1992Jul24.165041.6652@ac.dal.ca> <1992Jul25.095039.15225@ukw.uucp> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:06:06 GMT Lines: 30