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In article <9tbnrp$mok$1@green.tninet.se>, Peter Hend�n says...
>
>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.

That would explain its reappearance in NT (some of the NT designers were ex DEC
folk).

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