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Wine label making software for mac3/27/2023 These were followed by Richard Stallman's GNU (GNU's Not Unix). This inspired the two MIT Lisp Machine editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not Emacs", German for one) and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially", German for two), in turn inspiring Anderson's retort SINE ("SINE is not EINE"). In 1977 came TINT ("TINT Is Not TECO"), an editor for MagicSix written (and named) by Ted Anderson. It lived on as a recursive command in the editing language TECO. Perhaps the earliest example in this context – from 1960 – is the backronym "Mash Until No Good", which was created to describe Mung, and a while later was revised to "Mung Until No Good". In computing, an early tradition in the hacker community (especially at MIT) was to choose acronyms and abbreviations that referred humorously to themselves or to other abbreviations.
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