Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:04:46 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Freddie Cash <fcash@bigfoot.com> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <XFMail.011129080446.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011129025129.B18351@over-yonder.net>
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On 29-Nov-01 Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:03:12AM -0800 I heard the voice of > Freddie Cash, and lo! it spake thus: >> > Mike writes: >> > > Which is why WNT has the same relation to >> > > VMS that HAL has to IBM. >> >> > None at all, you mean? I agree. >> >> V --> W >> M --> N >> S --> T > > I won't argue this. > > >> H --> I >> A --> B >> L --> M > > I will argue this. Err, this isn't HAL as in NT's Hardware Abstraction Layer, this is for the HAL 9000 from _2001: A Space Odyssey_ and is quite common folklore at least. Do you have proof that that is not where HAL's name came from? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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