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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: About 2001 ,Hal and IBM ?!...
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Date: Tue, 18-Oct-83 01:28:24 EDT
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I believe that Arthur C. Clarke denies the rumors that the name HAL was
defined by taking the letters previous to IBM.  I assume that he denies
it, because he has one of the characters in "2010" vehemently deny it to
one of the other characters in the book.
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			Barry Margolin
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