From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] could it write code too? Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:17:30 -0700 From: geoff@collyer.net In-Reply-To: <200504150145.j3F1jfoi015671@haides.silverbrookresearch.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3a7d5614-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Did festoon ever get distributed outside the labs? Maybe it was a late Research Unix thing only? It did something similar: generated plausible-looking papers of random gibberish, complete with tables, graphs and equations. Google suggests that a binary and man page escaped into 2.9BSD. A sample: .TL An Analogously Uniform Centralized Organization .AU "C. C. Festoon" CCF Headquarters 1113538458 .AS Usually, there is not a major objective which may have been apomisoescing the apparentnesses. Assumptions were insufficiently federesced by that investigation. The interaction neoenniates a casually intelligent requirements definition. Anytime that a not unactivating correspondence veriates at a process, an invention had dispolyesced the substantial change. In the same way as described above, those criterias had ultimesced a system philosophy. [...]