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From: "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc AT alltel DOT net>
To: "Greg Matheson" <lang AT ms DOT chinmin DOT edu DOT tw>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin as an acronym? (Was Re: Official List of cygwin Acronyms)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 21:38:31 -0500
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Greg Matheson wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> > "To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion"
> 
> Am I slow? I just realized where the name Cygnus came from.
> cyGNUs. Get it?
> 
> Playing on the idea of ugly ducklings, swans and ugly
> stepsisters, what about: <dah-dah>
> 
> Cinderella Your GNU Windows Something Something.
> 

Cygnus - Cyborg Gnus not Windows so let us assimilate you instead.

;-)

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J. Lambert


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