Secret Identity of the Koopman!!!

[james armstrong]

On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, Marshall Joseph Armintor wrote:

> Actually Paul, the possibility of RACTER-as-Koopman did cross my mind a couple
> months ago, when a couple of surly people resisted his posts for good or ill...
> it brought back memories of sitting in front of the old Apple IIe and having
> RACTER rant at me...there are differences though.  RACTER's algorithm begins
> to show after a while, his surrealistic nattering becomes predictable, and his
> vocabulary is more limited than Koopman's.  However, RACTER's writings have,
> at the very least, some intelligibility and narrative thrust, no matter how
> warped. Koopman's posts display little of the former and none of the latter.
> That is, of course, a compliment.

Maybe it's some sort of combination?  Human slant of computer (or vice 
versa) 


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