(For more about the legendary foo counters, see [TMRC].) This definition used Bill Holman's nonsense word, only then two decades old and demonstrably still live in popular culture and slang, to a [ha ha only serious] analogy with esoteric Tibetan Buddhism. Today's hackers would find it difficult to resist elaborating a joke like that, and it is not likely 1959's were any less susceptible. Almost the entire staff of what later became the MIT AI Lab was involved with TMRC, and the word spread from there.

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