From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 29 12:21:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D1C37B41B for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:21:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 26758 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2001 20:21:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 29 Nov 2001 20:21:34 -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: <02c801c1790f$f83d45c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:21:03 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Anthony Atkielski Subject: Origin of HAL 9000 Cc: Freddie Cash , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Matthew D. Fuller" 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 Anthony Atkielski wrote: > John writes: > >> Do you have proof that that is not where HAL's >> name came from? > > The author's own repeated denial's are pretty good evidence. Of course, you > can't prove a negative. Well, if that's what the author claims, you can't find a more authoritative source. Sure makes for good folklore though. Did the author say where the name did come 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