festoon (looking for source to..)
G. Bogatko
cim1 at pyuxv.UUCP
Mon Mar 24 09:01:07 AEST 1986
Many moons ago, on the New York University PDP-11, there was a
joke program called 'festoon'.
Festoon, when fed a seed number, representing the percentage of
made-up nouns, would spit out a wonderfully turgid memorandum, ready for
(n/t)roff using the 'mm' macros. The output seemed to be readable, and
you found yourself trying to make sense of the phrases. That's how good it
was.
Alas, the PDP-11 was shut down, and my contact there doesn't have
any idea where the program went.
Soooo, if anybody out there has a lead to the program, please post
it or send me a copy. (My boss keeps bugging me for status reports).
Thanks,
G. B. Bogatko
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