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From: ingoldsb@ctycal.UUCP (Terry Ingoldsby)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: A (one-letter) step ahead of IBM
Summary: Possibly sub-conscious
Message-ID: <536@ctycal.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 91 19:13:16 GMT
References: <1991Jan27.083412.14484@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1991Jan31.045101.17431@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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In article <1991Jan31.045101.17431@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, ccplumb@rose.uwaterloo.ca (Colin Plumb) writes:
> shair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair) wrote:
> >Is it generally accepted that Clarke picked HAL by taking one step
> >back from IBM, or is that only believed within IBM?

> Clarke has denied it a hundred times, saying he didn't notice until others
> pointed it out to him.  And in 2010 the book, Chandra (Hal's designer)

The possibility still exists that he did not consciously pick HAL, but
the letters IBM may have been in his mind.  A similar, unresolvable,
argument continues about whether J.R.R. Tolkien had World War II in mind
when he wrote Lord of the Rings.  Tolkien forever denied it, but certain
resemblances are striking.

Now, back to comp.arch!



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