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Article #195Re: New York Times article on BBS's
From: Life...
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:11
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:11
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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.)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
So is it ga-new, gun-ooh, gee-new, or gee-en-you? :-)
>| ...!unido!ukw!lupe (German EUNet, "bang") | Disclaimer: |
>| lupe@ukw.UUCP (German EUNet, domain) | As I am self-employed, |
>| suninfo!alanya!lupe (Sun Germany) | this *is* the opinion |
"No gnews is good gnews with Gary Gnu."
-- gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Life...)
/// ____ \\\ "Sorry, did I say something wrong? Pardon me for
| |/ / \ \| | breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't even
\\_|\____/|_// know why I bother to say it oh God I'm so depressed.
\_)\\/ Here's another one of those self-satisfied doors.
`-' Life... don't talk to me about life...."
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc,alt.folklore.computers Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!unlinfo.unl.edu!cse!gberigan From: gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Life...) Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's Message-ID: <1992Jul27.161138.25116@unlinfo.unl.edu> Sender: news@unlinfo.unl.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: cse.unl.edu Organization: Ursa Minor Beta, 402-476-8047 @ 2400 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 16:11:38 GMT Lines: 30