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Pookie · 07.11.2006, 06:23 AM

"In the years after the making of 2001, a rumor began to circulate that HAL's name was a play on the computer maker IBM—the letters H, A and L each coming one letter in the alphabet before the initials I, B and M. Arthur C. Clarke has always strenuously denied the rumor, most recently in the forward to HAL's Legacy where he writes, "the name wasn't a play on IBM—it was an acronym, of sorts, standing for the words "Heuristic ALgorithmic.""

http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/184414687

07.11.2006, 06:23 AM	#7
Pookie invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 9,877	"In the years after the making of 2001, a rumor began to circulate that HAL's name was a play on the computer maker IBM—the letters H, A and L each coming one letter in the alphabet before the initials I, B and M. Arthur C. Clarke has always strenuously denied the rumor, most recently in the forward to HAL's Legacy where he writes, "the name wasn't a play on IBM—it was an acronym, of sorts, standing for the words "Heuristic ALgorithmic."" http://www.ddj.com/dept/architect/184414687
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