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From: adrianb@queets.stat.washington.edu (Adrian Baddeley)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Origin of term "Emacs"
Keywords: Etymology, Emacs
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Date: 13 Aug 89 04:38:39 GMT
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In article <2525@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> robert.g.robillard writes:
>Can anyone out there give me the defintive relationship between the
>name "Emacs" and the Boston Ice Cream parlour "Emac and Bolio's"?

While we're at it, is it true that the Australian email gateway 
`munnari' is named after a coffeeshop in Bourke Street, Melbourne?

So _that's_ where all these names come from...

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