Floppy Drive Gone NOT SOLVED
Mike McCarty
mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jul 26 01:58:42 UTC 2005
BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
>
> --- Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
[snip]
>>Generally, a HAL is a Hardware Abstraction Layer.
>>Can anyone verify this
>>is the meaning in Fedora Core?
>>
>>Mike
>>--
>
>
> Hum... and I thought it ment:
> HAL = shiftleft( "IBM", 1-BYTE);
>
> :-)
>
Oh, man, does THAT take me back! But IIRC, that's not
actually the origin of the name of the computer in
2001. I think it was just a coincidence. It stood for
(I think) Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer.
Mike
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