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From: cccfrog@castor.ucdavis.edu (0058;0000021037;300;9999;93;)
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Subject: Artificial Insanity
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Date: 7 Sep 89 21:25:45 GMT
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Reply-To: cccfrog@castor.ucdavis.edu (Wayne Jackson)
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Hello!  I'm a first-time poster and thought that this might the most 
appropriate group.  I am looking for any information that can be found about
the `artificial insanity' program RACTER (can't remember what the initials
stand for).  I last heard about this program more than a year ago, and 
recall that my reference may have stated that RACTER was available for 
UNIX and perhaps IBM DOS.

I'm most interested in distribution and publication information, but would
be fascinated by discussion of the data-manipulation required for such a 
program and the free-association inherent to casual human conversation.

"And they shall have typewriters and eat lettuce!"  -- RACTER

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