10 Sep
2012
10 Sep
'12
11:13 a.m.
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Paul Anderson wrote:
> I'm trying to remember and locate a chatterbot
program from the heyday
> of DOS. I think it was called "jabber". What made it particularly
> interesting is that you could feed three text files of stuff (like
> novels, scientific papers, etc) and then control the proportions of how
> much of each input file made it to the output. When all were set to
> zero, it would just emit "jabber" over and over.
>
> Google isn't particularly helpful in finding this. I'm getting false
> hits on the Jabber IM protocol and denial of service attacks.
Any chance it was jabberwacky?
http://www.jabberwacky.com/
No. It didn't engage in conversation.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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