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From: vis@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Tom Courtney)
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Subject: Re: alive computers (HAL_from_IBM_P)
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In article <17754@rochester.ARPA> crowl@rochester.UUCP (Lawrence Crowl) writes:
>At the time the movie came out, how many computer companies had general
>public name recognition?  DEC did not have name recognition.  VAX did not
>exist.  CBM did not have name recognition if it existed.  Probably the
>only other "name" the public would have recognized an associated with 
>computers is UNIVAC.

I Think CDC might have managed it, because of the big lawsuit (which they won) with
IBM.