Perhaps we could get Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo to offer a short refresher
course.  They are, of course, the acknowledged experts in this area.

BTW, the computer that got all this discussion started was "Deep Thought."

Wayne





Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]> on 04/07/99 07:54:58 PM

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>> 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