Pretty sure it stands for Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping, a literal description of its function. /s http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/E/EMACS.html http:

Pretty sure it stands for Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping, a literal description of its function. /s http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/E/EMACS.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/E/EMACS.html (which also pretty much has your definition, though it calls it "Editing MACroS".)