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Makes All Computing Simple became popular; this fit in with the growing use of recursive acronyms for other versions of EMACS. (See below.) Stallman picked the name Emacs "because was not in use as an abbreviation on ITS at the time." An apocryphal hacker koan alleges that the program was named after Emack & Bolio's, a popular Boston ice cream store. The first operational

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