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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