With apologies to Dave Harvey (Dave, QUICK! use your delete key NOW!):
From the Emacs FAQ: (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-faq.text)
"
4.1 Where does the name “Emacs” come from?
Emacs originally was an acronym for Editor MACroS. RMS says he
“picked the name Emacs because was not in use as an abbreviation on
ITS at the time.” The first Emacs was a set of macros written in 1976
at MIT by RMS for the editor TECO (Text Editor and COrrector,
originally Tape Editor and COrrector) under ITS on a PDP-10. RMS had
already extended TECO with a “real-time” full-screen mode with
reprogrammable keys. Emacs was started by Guy Steele
as a project to unify the many divergent TECO
command sets and key bindings at MIT, and completed by RMS."
RMS would be Richard Stallman. I hate it when history gets garbled, even
when it is the history of something as irrelevent as an editor.
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