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Subject: Re: "HAL" acronym (was Re: Thought this was interesting)
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"Manny Apalisok" <manuel@hkpc.org> wrote in message
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> 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.