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A comment on SHRDLU (1971).

Re:SHRDLU (1971) by Retr0spectrum on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @03:37PM (#14352569)
For anyone wondering, I assume the name is a reference to the frequency distribution of english characters - when sorted by average frequency, you get "ETAOINSHRDLU..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etaoin_shrdlu

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Re:SHRDLU (1971) by mipmap04 on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @04:12PM (#14352881)
This is pretty much correct. It has to do with linotype keyboard[0].

http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/shrdlu/name.html

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