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|| [[image:320px-ClavierLinotype_20041006-163300.jpg link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ClavierLinotype_20041006-163300.jpg"]] ||~   || **ETAOIN SHRDLU**,
a chess program by [[Garth Courtois Jr.]] from the [[Michigan State University]]. ETAOIN SHRDLU ran on a [[Nova#1200|Nova 1200]] minicomputer <ref>[[http://www.ababsurdo.com/?p=2235|GG Says, August 7th, 2008]] from [[http://www.ababsurdo.com/|ababsurdo.com]]</ref> and competed at the [[ACM 1975]] becoming Third, and the [[ACM 1976]].

ETAOIN SHRDLU is the approximate order of frequency of the twelve most commonly used letters in the English language and was used as the two first columns of keys on a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine#Keyboard|Linotype machine keyboard]] <ref>[[http://www.hpricecpa.com/typewriterinfo14.html|The Chestnut Ridge Typewriter Museum: Smith Premier 10 Linowriter, ca. 1910]]</ref> . ||
|| A [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine|linotype keyboard]] <ref> [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine|linotype keyboard]] , Self-published work by Emdx, October 06, 2004, Copyright 2006 Marc Dufour for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons|Wikimedia Commons]], [[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.en|CC BY-SA 2.5]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETAOIN_SHRDLU|ETAOIN SHRDLU from Wikipedia]]</ref> ||~   ||^   ||
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=Selected Games=
 [[ACM 1975]], round 4, [[Awit|Wita]] - [[Etaoin Shrdlu]] <ref>[[David Levy]] (ed.) (**1988**). //[[Computer Chess Compendium]]//. Chapter 9.1 Games from the ACM Tournaments</ref>
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[Event "ACM 1975"]
[Site "Minneapolis, MN"]
[Date "1975.10.21"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Wita"]
[Black "Etaoin Shrdlu"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.c4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Bc5 5.Nf5 g6 6.Ng3 Nf6 7.Bg5 Bxf2+ 8.Kxf2 Ng4+ 
9.Kf3 Qxg5 10.h4 Qe3+ 11.Kxg4 d5+ 12.Nf5 Bxf5# 0-1
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=External Links= 
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETAOIN_SHRDLU|ETAOIN SHRDLU from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/ETAOIN_SHRDLU|ETAOIN SHRDLU - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia]]
* [[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2777/whats-the-origin-of-the-mysterious-phrase-etaoin-shrdlu|The Straight Dope: What's the origin of the mysterious phrase "etaoin shrdlu"?]]
* [[http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-eta1.htm|World Wide Words: Etaoin shrdlu]]
* [[http://www.css.washington.edu/emc/title/4558|Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu]]
* [[http://somewhereelse.com.au/?p=340|Somewhere Else » Blog Archive » Etaoin Shrdlu]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU|SHRDLU from Wikipedia]]
* [[http://hci.stanford.edu/%7Ewinograd/shrdlu/|SHRDLU]] a program for understanding natural language, written by [[Mathematician#TWinograd|Terry Winograd]] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]

=References= 
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=What links here?= 
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