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Article #184Re: New York Times article on BBS's
From: David Lemson
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 01:12
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 01:12
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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. -- David Lemson (217) 244-1205 University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson NeXTMail accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc,alt.folklore.computers Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!lemson From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's Message-ID: <Bs0wov.LB8@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana 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: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 01:12:17 GMT Lines: 24