Re: bug#12621: Emacs 24.1 crashing on Windows 7

[Burton Samograd]

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 :)

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Burton Samograd