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Re: Origin of the 'E' in SAGE.

To: "Marc W. Mengel" <mengel@fnal.gov>, Graham Dunn <gdunn@ineural.com>
Subject: Re: Origin of the 'E' in SAGE.
From: chuck <chuck@Yerkes.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 19:35:57 -0500
Cc: sage-members@usenix.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9901181704560.629-100000@bel-kwinth.fnal.gov>; from Marc W. Mengel on Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 05:09:46PM -0600
References: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9901181715240.9889-100000@admin3.ineural.com> <Pine.LNX.4.05.9901181704560.629-100000@bel-kwinth.fnal.gov>
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It's the "e" that should have been in "creat(2)"


Quoting Marc W. Mengel (mengel@fnal.gov):
> 
> 
> On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Graham Dunn wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know ? It's been bugging me for some time. I mean, 'SAG' is a
> > pretty awful acronym.
> 
> SAG is already the Screen Actors Guild, and while an honorable bunch
> in their own right, the E in ours was to distinguish us from them, I
> think.
> 
> I suppose it could be *made* to stand for something, like "Extrordinaire",
> but moste things I can think of sound either silly or pretentious (or
> both)...
> 
> Marc

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