Hi Wirt :)
    But which one didn't make it?  I seem to recall that Huey was lost in an
accident?

 And yes, Wirt,  I did hear in DP101 that HAL was a bit-shift from IBM :) hehehe

Art "Always liked Huey, Dewey & Louie " Bahrs

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>From: Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: HP Webcast 4/13
>Date: Wed, Apr 7, 1999, 4:54 PM
>

>>> I heard rumour that the name of said computer was derived by left-shifting
>>> the acronymic letters used to identify the large blue one.  Also, that
>>> somebody at Micro$oft engineered the term 'Hardware Abstraction Layer' to
>>> fit said name.
>
>> Wasn't 'HAL' the name of the computer in 2001, or was it Silent Running?
>
> I am almost embarassed to be seen on the same list with people who don't know
> their movie computers and robots better than what we're seeing here. It's
> clear that we're going to have to send a significant portion of this list
> back to school to retake CS 101.
>
> HAL was most definitely the computer in 2001. Huey, Dewey and Louie were the
> little repair drones in "Silent Running."
>
> Wirt Atmar