On 2/4/05 5:53 PM, "Reg Whitely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ken
On 2 Apr 2005, at 5:15pm, Ken Woods wrote:
Now I feel silly, of course you all know I meant HAL :-)
There's a website somewhere where you can/could download screen pics
and appearances and turn your Mac or win beast into a HAL lookalike.
You know of course that HAL is one letter ahead of IBM?
Hmmmm, coincidence, I wonder...
Well, I believe Clarke always claimed it stood for Heuristic Algorithmic Logic.
There was similar discussion about Windows NT being one letter after VMS :)
Have fun,
Shay
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