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Wine acronym (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (5 children)

my favorite fact about Wine is that they could've named it Pine, Dine, Fine, Line, etc

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pine was already taken by an email reader. One of the early ascii email readers was called elm, for ELectronic Mail. Pine was made after elm and it stands for Pine Is Not Elm.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'm starting to get the impression that most software older than me is defined more by what it isn't than by what it is.

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