> What about GNU (GNU Not Unix)? My guess is that the inventors were thinking of the animal name, since the "G" is silent in that case. So it makes sense that in the acronym, the G would stand for nothing.
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> Engineers and computer people have odd senses of humor and give things weird names. I mean, calling half a byte a "nibble". ***groan***
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> --Jezzika

One of my friends is a tech support guy who once filled out a job report that just said "performed BRS reset". He later told me that he had pressed the Big Red Switch on the front of the machine.

But "EMACS" has to be the best computer jargon - Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping. I mean, how many other programs are named for the amount of memory they take up?

wintermute