From: Burton Samograd <burton@samograd.ca>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12621: Emacs 24.1 crashing on Windows 7
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 18:01:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871uep3308.fsf@samograd.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.15500.1355705095.855.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> I think it's not entirely implausible to regard "win32" as implicitly
>> conveying the positive connotations of "win".
>
> It is not entirely implausible. But, it is real?
There was the package of rewritten unix utilities for Windows call UWIN
put out by AT&T/Bell Labs years ago, so I think that 'win' might be
taken literally in certain connotations, regretfully, along with the
true meaning as a shortening of Windows :)
--
Burton Samograd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-17 1:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-11 3:32 bug#12621: Win32 (Ver:24.2); Crashes when files from shared folders are accessed Arvind Devarajan
2012-10-11 8:38 ` bug#12621: Acknowledgement (Win32 (Ver:24.2); Crashes when files from shared folders are accessed) Arvind Devarajan
2012-10-11 17:11 ` bug#12621: Win32 (Ver:24.2); Crashes when files from shared folders are accessed Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-16 13:39 ` Arvind Devarajan
2012-10-16 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-22 10:19 ` Arvind Devarajan
2012-10-22 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-23 12:16 ` Arvind Devarajan
2012-10-23 16:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-13 10:22 ` bug#12621: Emacs 24.1 crashing on Win7 Arunas Ruksnaitis
2012-12-13 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-13 18:30 ` Arunas Ruksnaitis
2012-12-13 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-13 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-13 21:09 ` Arūnas Rukšnaitis
2012-12-14 9:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-14 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-19 18:53 ` Glenn Morris
2013-02-19 21:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-13 18:41 ` Arunas Ruksnaitis
2012-12-13 19:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-14 15:22 ` bug#12621: Emacs 24.1 crashing on Lose7 Richard Stallman
2012-12-14 18:31 ` Arunas Ruksnaitis
2012-12-15 0:36 ` bug#12621: Emacs 24.1 crashing on Windows 7 Andy Moreton
2012-12-15 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-15 19:46 ` Richard Stallman
2012-12-15 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-15 20:41 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-16 21:23 ` Richard Stallman
2012-12-15 20:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-12-16 21:23 ` Richard Stallman
2012-12-17 2:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-12-17 2:19 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-12-17 2:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-12-17 23:46 ` Richard Stallman
2012-12-16 22:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-16 22:26 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-16 22:36 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-16 23:04 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-12-17 0:04 ` Stephen Berman
2012-12-17 0:17 ` Bastien
2012-12-17 1:38 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-17 1:42 ` Drew Adams
2012-12-17 23:46 ` Richard Stallman
2012-12-18 9:35 ` Bastien
2012-12-18 18:30 ` Richard Stallman
2012-12-18 18:48 ` Bastien
2012-12-17 0:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.15500.1355705095.855.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-12-17 1:01 ` Burton Samograd [this message]
2012-12-17 2:11 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-12-17 23:46 ` Richard Stallman
2012-12-17 1:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
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