From: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 09:23:09 GMT
Subject: Re: The meaning of "GNU"

Darcy Brockbank <samurai AT amber DOT hasc DOT ca> wrote:-

> 1. acronym: `GNU's Not UNIX!', see recursive acronym* ...
> 2. Noted UNIX hacker John Gilmore <gnu AT toad DOT com> ...
3. Some sorts of African antelope: the commonest is the wildebeest
   (Connochaetes). The word comes from the African Hottentot language and
   seems to be, like many animal and bird names in many languages, an imitation
   of the noise it makes.

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