The sophistication claimed for the program was likely exaggerated, as could be seen by investigation of the template system of text generation. The program originally was written for an OSI which only supported file names at most six characters long, causing the name to be shorted to Racter and it was later adapted to run on a CP/M machine where it was written in "compiled BASIC on a Z80 micro with 64K of RAM." This version, the program that allegedly wrote the book, was not released to the general public. The existence of the program was revealed in 1983 in a book called The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed ( ISBN 1-2), which was described as being composed entirely by the program. Racter, short for raconteur, was written by William Chamberlain and Thomas Etter. Racter, The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed
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