From: "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.FrankLho@rcn.com>
Subject: Re: "HAL" acronym (was Re: Thought this was interesting)
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 07:11:42 -0400
Date: 2002-09-03T11:11:34+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <al25d6$hec$1@bob.news.rcn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: caa2756a.0209022139.3d87dc7e@posting.google.com
"Manny Apalisok" <manuel@hkpc.org> wrote in message
news:caa2756a.0209022139.3d87dc7e@posting.google.com...
> I read somewhere that HAL is a pun on the word IBM. Shift each letter
> one position and you get IBM.
That was a popular story about why "HAL" was the name of the psychotic
computer in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey". Arthur C. Clark, however,
denies this.
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-23 19:10 Thought this was interesting Darren New
2002-08-24 23:01 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-25 1:04 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-08-26 0:45 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-26 1:05 ` Darren New
2002-08-26 5:12 ` Pat Rogers
2002-08-26 16:01 ` Jerry Petrey
2002-08-26 16:21 ` Pat Rogers
2002-09-02 15:10 ` "HAL" acronym (was Re: Thought this was interesting) Ben Brosgol
2002-09-03 5:39 ` Manny Apalisok
2002-09-03 11:11 ` Frank J. Lhota [this message]
2002-08-26 17:34 ` Thought this was interesting Robert A Duff
2002-08-26 20:18 ` Jerry Petrey
2002-08-26 14:20 ` Ted Dennison
2002-08-26 18:09 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-08-25 3:23 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-26 10:29 ` Florian Weimer
2002-08-26 10:30 ` Florian Weimer
2002-08-25 3:27 ` tmoran
2002-08-25 14:48 ` Thought this was interesting (They Write the Right Stuff) Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-25 19:48 ` Thought this was interesting Darren New
2002-08-26 14:01 ` Marin D. Condic
2002-08-27 16:13 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-08-27 20:07 ` Thought this was interesting (OT) Chad R. Meiners
2002-08-27 20:21 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-08-27 21:48 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-28 9:23 ` AG
2002-08-28 9:33 ` AG
2002-08-28 15:05 ` Dan Andreatta
2002-08-28 16:50 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-08-28 15:07 ` Dan Andreatta
2002-08-29 17:12 ` Thought this was interesting (Bounds Checking!) Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-29 18:57 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-29 18:31 ` Ryan
2002-08-28 13:29 ` Thought this was interesting (OT) Frank J. Lhota
2002-08-27 22:24 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-08-28 2:52 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-08-28 13:26 ` Gautier
2002-08-28 4:01 ` Pat Rogers
2002-08-28 8:06 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2002-08-28 2:52 ` SteveD
2002-08-28 11:09 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-28 7:58 ` Thought this was interesting Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2002-08-28 9:41 ` AG
2002-08-29 1:23 ` Jeffrey Creem
2002-08-29 3:02 ` SteveD
2002-08-29 7:30 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2002-09-03 15:49 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-08-27 18:48 ` tmoran
2002-08-28 3:10 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-08-26 14:29 ` Ted Dennison
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