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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: HAKMEM document
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Date: Sun, 9-Nov-86 11:22:12 EST
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In article <6877@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> brothers@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (laurence) writes:

>    ... I am looking for a copy of the HAKMEM document, which was
>originally I believe an MIT department memo or something like that.
>
>I have heard about this memo a number of times, but repeated inquiry
>at local bboards (Stanford, Columbia, Rutgers) has been fruitless.
>If HAKMEM is really interesting in any way, then it MUST be online
>all over the place, right? Well, someone must have a copy....

HAKMEM was an MIT AI Lab memo (actually a collection of memos) published,
I believe, around 1970.  I've never seen an online copy;  mine (which I
can't find right now) is a Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox.  It is indeed
a fascinating and entertaining document.
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