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I never saw the real thing, but copies of it were all over the now (fittingly) long gone BBS's I was using at the time. I don't think Gibson did the distribution. The artists book at least was done by Dennis Ashbaugh[1] and he might have been behind the software as well? The concept apparently came from the publisher, Kevin Begos Jr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ashbaugh

Another bit of recommended Gibson ephemera, if you haven't seen it already, is the documentary No Maps for these Territories[1], which certainly had lots of biographical details I didn't know about.

1: https://archive.org/details/NoMapsForTheseTerritories

I guess it tracks with him being able to write intricate and detailed sci-fi, the man knew what he was talking about. There's a reason he's still revered as one of the greatest examples of the genre.