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josefritzishere • last Friday at 10:10 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I've never heard of this before. This is wild. More here: https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3351

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quuxplusone • last Friday at 10:43 PM

And that book is (naturally enough) borrowable on archive.org. :)

https://archive.org/details/policemansbeardi0000unse/page/n2...

buescher • last Friday at 11:16 PM

I first learned of it in Douglas Hofstadter’s Metamagical Themas, I think.

You can run it here: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Racter_1984