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Re:Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90 by Elfan on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @08:23PM (#140371) 

    "Is it true, Dr. Chandra, that you chose the name HAL to be one step ahead of IBM?"

    "Utter nonsense! Half of us come from IBM and we've been trying to stamp out that story for years. I thought that by now every intelligent person knew that H-A-L is derived from Heuristic ALgorithmic."
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