21 Mar
2020
21 Mar
'20
5:03 a.m.
On Sat, 21 Mar 2020, Rob Pike wrote:
I believe Festoon was covered in a Sci Am article by
Dewdney. It
included Mark V Shaney, some computer-generated poetry, and other
horrors, including computer-generated Baudrillard.
Ahhh... Mark V Shaney... I knew Bruce Ellis, and I wheedled the source
code out of him (with the proviso that I never use it on Usenet) in order
to use it on a victim on another medium (Amateur packet radio).
Skilfully forging his callsign (and the path), his colleagues thought that
he was drunk :-)
Source code now lost, dammit...
-- Dave