<s>
The	O
METEO	B-General_Concept
System	I-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
system	I-Application
specifically	O
designed	O
for	O
the	O
translation	O
of	O
the	O
weather	O
forecasts	O
issued	O
daily	O
by	O
Environment	O
Canada	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
then	O
,	O
a	O
competitor	O
program	O
has	O
replaced	O
METEO	B-General_Concept
System	I-General_Concept
after	O
an	O
open	O
governmental	O
bid	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
system	O
was	O
developed	O
by	O
John	O
Chandioux	O
and	O
was	O
often	O
mentioned	O
as	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
few	O
success	O
stories	O
in	O
the	O
field	O
of	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
METEO	B-General_Concept
System	I-General_Concept
was	O
in	O
operational	O
use	O
at	O
Environment	O
Canada	O
from	O
1982	O
to	O
2001	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
stems	O
from	O
a	O
prototype	O
developed	O
in	O
1975-76	O
by	O
the	O
TAUM	B-General_Concept
Group	I-General_Concept
,	O
known	O
as	O
TAUM-METEO	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
prototype	O
was	O
ready	O
after	O
a	O
few	O
months	O
,	O
with	O
basic	O
integration	O
in	O
the	O
workflow	B-Operating_System
of	O
translation	O
(	O
source	O
and	O
target	O
bulletins	O
travelled	O
over	O
telex	B-Application
lines	O
at	O
the	O
time	O
and	O
MT	O
happened	O
on	O
a	O
mainframe	B-Architecture
computer	I-Architecture
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
system	O
(	O
METEO	O
1	O
)	O
went	O
into	O
operation	O
on	O
a	O
Control	O
Data	O
CDC	B-Device
7600	I-Device
supercomputer	O
in	O
March	O
1977	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Chandioux	O
then	O
left	O
the	O
TAUM	B-General_Concept
group	I-General_Concept
to	O
manage	O
its	O
operation	O
and	O
improve	O
it	O
,	O
while	O
the	O
TAUM	B-General_Concept
group	I-General_Concept
embarked	O
on	O
a	O
different	O
project	O
(	O
TAUM-aviation	O
,	O
1977	O
–	O
81	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
three	O
years	O
,	O
METEO	O
1	O
had	O
demonstrated	O
the	O
feasibility	O
of	O
microcomputer-based	O
machine	B-Application
translation	I-Application
to	O
the	O
satisfaction	O
of	O
the	O
Canadian	O
government	O
's	O
Translation	O
Bureau	O
of	O
Public	O
Works	O
and	O
Government	O
Services	O
Canada	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
METEO	O
1	O
was	O
formally	O
adopted	O
in	O
1981	O
,	O
replacing	O
the	O
junior	O
translators	O
in	O
the	O
workflow	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
Until	O
that	O
time	O
,	O
the	O
MT	O
part	O
was	O
still	O
implemented	O
as	O
a	O
sequence	O
of	O
Q-systems	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Q-systems	B-General_Concept
formalism	O
is	O
a	O
rule-based	O
SLLP	O
(	O
Specialized	O
Language	O
for	O
Linguistic	O
Programming	O
)	O
invented	O
by	O
Alain	O
Colmerauer	O
in	O
1967	O
as	O
he	O
was	O
a	O
postdoc	O
coopérant	O
at	O
the	O
TAUM	B-General_Concept
group	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
He	O
later	O
invented	O
the	O
Prolog	B-Language
language	I-Language
in	O
1972	O
after	O
returning	O
to	O
France	O
and	O
becoming	O
a	O
university	O
professor	O
in	O
Marseille-Luminy	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
the	O
engine	O
of	O
the	O
Q-systems	B-General_Concept
is	O
highly	O
non-deterministic	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
manipulated	O
data	O
structures	O
are	O
in	O
some	O
ways	O
too	O
simple	O
,	O
without	O
any	O
types	O
such	O
as	O
string	O
or	O
number	O
,	O
Chandioux	O
encountered	O
limitations	O
in	O
his	O
efforts	O
to	O
raise	O
translation	O
quality	O
and	O
lower	O
computation	O
time	O
to	O
the	O
point	O
he	O
could	O
run	O
it	O
on	O
microcomputers	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1981	O
,	O
Chandioux	O
created	O
a	O
new	O
SLLP	O
,	O
or	O
metalanguage	O
for	O
linguistic	O
applications	O
,	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
same	O
basic	O
algorithmic	O
ideas	O
as	O
the	O
Q-systems	B-General_Concept
,	O
but	O
more	O
deterministic	O
,	O
and	O
offering	O
typed	O
labels	O
on	O
tree	O
nodes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Following	O
the	O
advice	O
of	O
Bernard	O
Vauquois	O
and	O
Colmerauer	O
,	O
he	O
created	O
GramR	O
,	O
and	O
developed	O
it	O
for	O
microcomputers	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1982	O
,	O
he	O
could	O
start	O
developing	O
in	O
GramR	O
a	O
new	O
system	O
for	O
translating	O
the	O
weather	O
bulletins	O
on	O
a	O
high-end	O
Cromemco	O
microcomputer	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
METEO	O
2	O
was	O
the	O
first	O
MT	O
application	O
to	O
run	O
on	O
a	O
microcomputer	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
last	O
known	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
system	O
,	O
METEO	O
5	O
,	O
dates	O
from	O
1997	O
and	O
ran	O
on	O
an	O
IBM	B-Device
PC	I-Device
network	O
under	O
Windows	B-Device
NT	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
translated	O
10	O
pages	O
per	O
second	O
,	O
but	O
was	O
able	O
to	O
fit	O
into	O
a	O
1.44Mb	O
floppy	B-Device
disk	I-Device
.	O
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