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From: ewoods@hemel.bull.co.uk (Eoin Woods)
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Subject: Re: Doctor!
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Date: 26 Nov 90 17:15:15 GMT
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marx@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL (Michael M. Marx) writes:

>About 20 years ago, there were the Alpha-Micro computers, nice computers,
>today considered...primitive,
>anyhow - with those computers came a bundle of softwares, and one of them
>was called "Doctor", this Lisp or Snobol program was a stupid psychiatrist
>expert system, a somewhat humoristic program.

>Did anyone bother to re-write it for Unix, VMS or for the PC?
>does anyone at least got the source?

I've seen it on a few UNIX systems - Pyramids among others - I don't know
where the source is.

Eoin.
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