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From: nfarrah@netcom.com (Nicholas Farrah)
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday, HAL 9000!
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In article <5dppeo$l5j@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> chivert6@cs.man.ac.uk (Thomas James Chiverton) writes:
>
>In article <32FEA9C2.4267@best.com>, Ed Barenthin <airwater@best.com> writes:
>> By the by, did you know that HAL is just IBM shifted back one letter?  
>> (So doe that make it's OS...CNR?)
>
>Thats because HAL is one step ahead of IBM <G> See the 2001 book (don't think
>it made it to film...).

Actually, the book (2010: Odyssey Two) says specifically that it is not 
the "one step ahead of IBM" thing, but that in fact HAL stands for 
Heuristic ALgorithmic.
^         ^^

Nick
