From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 29 8: 5: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44E0137B443 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:05:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3400 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2001 16:04:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Nov 2001 16:04:59 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011129025129.B18351@over-yonder.net> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:04:46 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Freddie Cash Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 <>< 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