I don't know if HAL IBM is actually a coincidence. IIRC, Clark in an
interview once made the statement that he and Kubrick made a conscious
decision to use HAL for just that reason.
On 3/9/2011 1:59 PM, John Francis wrote:
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 06:32:52PM +0100, AlunFoto wrote:
2011/3/9 John Francis<[email protected]>:
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 03:54:43PM +0100, AlunFoto wrote:
2011/3/9 Larry Colen<[email protected]>:
In case you didn't realize this, Macs run Unix.
Ah, but then again so does all current Windows incarnations. :-)
No - Windows NT and later boxes run VMS.
Thanks, John. What I didn't know, as I checked it out now, was that
VMS and UNIX has no common roots.
Ah well - that's where inside knowledge helps.
I worked at DEC for a while, including some time spent working on VMS
(to be precise, on VAX/VMS DEBUG). Dave Cutler was working on VAX C
at the time, which meant we were part of the same organisational group.
Since those days I've also worked at Unix houses (such as SGI, for one).
Both HAL::IBM and VMS::WNT are, sadly, nothing more than coincidence.
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