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From: "Peter Hend�n" <phenden@algonet.se>
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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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> In article <9t6srn$nbro$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de>, Nick Roberts says...
> >
> >Does anyone else -- outside the context of Windows -- make earnest use of
> >the term HAL?
>
> Not that I've ever heard. I think most reasonable CS types would prefer to
avoid
> any assoication with their work and the beserk computer from 2001. :-)

http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/docs-1.2.1/ref/ecos-ref/the-ecos-hardware-abs
traction-layer-hal.html

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3576

http://www.aero.polimi.it/projects/rtai/

Personally I heard it some 20 years ago in a definitely non-Microsofty CS
environment. The term HAL may have originated at Digital, but thats just
a guess based on the fact that most computers in that environment were
DEC PDP-11s, 10s and 20s.

/Peter H.