From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Burton Samograd Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: bug#12621: Emacs 24.1 crashing on Windows 7 Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 18:01:59 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <871uep3308.fsf@samograd.ca> References: <1355394162.15171.YahooMailNeo@web171306.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> <83ip85omkv.fsf@gnu.org> <1355424070.10437.YahooMailNeo@web171305.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> <82hanognh8.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <560B7AE533FA4C0B968812EA968AAA09@us.oracle.com> <874njlwnll.fsf@rosalinde.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355707215 18343 80.91.229.3 (17 Dec 2012 01:20:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:20:15 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 17 02:20:29 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TkPNX-0006uG-OJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:20:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33424 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TkPNK-0002Oq-Ay for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:20:10 -0500 Original-Received: by 10.180.86.201 with SMTP id r9mr2250770wiz.4.1355706909903; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:15:09 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!m1no4548798wiv.0!news-out.google.com!i11ni196187wiw.0!nntp.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!82.197.223.108.MISMATCH!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!94.232.116.11.MISMATCH!feed.xsnews.nl!border-1.ams.xsnews.nl!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: x8k3KC6E0RodHmQi2ZnN7g.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:3y6ziELhmGlzPAOb9R/Zbd015YA= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.bug:94979 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:68622 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Stephen Berman 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