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So the result is then that you need something running underneath the LISP system to you catch these errors, and give the user the ability to keep on running, and debug what happened to him. Finally I concluded that if I was going to have to have a operating system at a lower level, I might as well make a good operating-system&mdash;that it was a choice between an operating system and the lisp, or just an operating system; therefore I should do the operating system first, and I should make it compatible with Unix. Finally when I realized that I could use the most amusing word in the English language as a name for this system, it was clear which choice I had to make. And that word is of course GNU, which stands for &ldquo;Gnu's Not Unix&rdquo;. The recursive acronym is a very old tradition among the hacker community around MIT. It started, I believe, with an editor called TINT, which means: &ldquo;Tint Is Not Teco&rdquo;, and later on it went through names such as &ldquo;SINE&rdquo; for &ldquo;SINE Is Not Emacs&rdquo;, and FINE for &ldquo;Fine Is Not Emacs&rdquo;, and EINE for &ldquo;Eine Is Not Emacs&rdquo;, and ZWEI for &ldquo;Zwei Was Eine Initially&rdquo;, and ultimately now arrives at GNU.