if Winston was Dave, then his reason for leaving CSY might be, that he is
afraid of being "killed or fired" by HAL?
would make a nice story.
Can we survive from 2006 until 2010 when "HAL" comes back to life?
I think, we could.
Michael
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 21:00:51 -0500, Ron Horner
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>As we learned from 2010, HAL was not defective. HAL was not given all of
>the information required to complete the given mission. Simply put, HAL
was
>lied to and didn't understand what being lied to is.
>
>Kind of like how HP so quickly decided that the HP3000 could not be sold to
>the existing customer base. At the same time, HP made no effort to go
>outside the current client base. What was the final straw that broke that
>camel's back? What was the signal that said, "STOP"? Maybe if we were
told
>the entire history behind the decision, we would know to save MPE.
>
>Little food for thought.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
Of
>Bill Cadier
>Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 5:54 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: OT: MPE 2001
>
>Greg writes
>
>> 2001 is the year that the new hp announced EOL for the 3000. This list
has
>> seen posts discussing the underlying mythology of 2001, the movie. How
>about
>> 2001 as a metaphor for the discontinuance of MPE? They misunderstand HAL,
>> and tried to kill it, even though there are those who cannot live without
>> it. That would make CSY the ship, right? I guess this would make Winston
>> Prather our Dave. Isn't it in 2010 that they bring HAL back to life?
>>
>> If we can avoid the usual bitterness and vitriole, we could probably have
>> quite a bit of fun with this idea...
>>
>> Greg Stigers
>> http://www.cgiusa.com
>
>But... wasn't HAL defective? Killing off the crew and all that?
>
>I suppose the monolith would be the enlightenment of open MPE :-)
>
>Bill
>
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