"The DEC 10..also known for its Prolog system,..the fastest implementation at that time,"
I'm guessing this may have been used to demonstrate that deterministic parsing of English was possible with only 2 units of lookahead in the mid 80's (Marcus's Parsifal used 3 but the Edingburgh these demonstrated you only needed 2, although they could be complex items).
Another iconic bit of AI.