On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Gyan Mathur wrote:
> In response to Philip Hazel:
>
> > It was "EXperimental Internet Mailer" in fact.
>
> In the interests of historical context, is this the first major piece
> of software written at Cambridge University _not_ to be named after an
> actual or mythical bird? I'd assumed, without giving it much thought,
> that it was an avian acronym in the way that GCAL was.
No. The prime counter-example must surely be BCPL, but I'm sure there
are many others.
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