Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 02:51:29 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Freddie Cash <fcash@bigfoot.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <20011129025129.B18351@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <3C057B40.23958.2A498E7@localhost>; from fcash@bigfoot.com on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 12:03:12AM -0800 References: <022901c178ab$8b12cb50$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C057B40.23958.2A498E7@localhost>
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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. > No, it's not a coincidence. Yes it is. --- For many years I have been embarassed by the -- totally unfounded -- rumor that the name HAL was derived by one letter displacement from IBM. In an attempt to exorcise this computer-age myth, I even went to the trouble of getting Dr. Chandra, HAL's incentor, to deny it in _2010: Odyssey Two_. -- Arthur C. Clarke, "Acknowledgements", _3001: The Final Odyssey_ --- -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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