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From: ccplumb@rose.uwaterloo.ca (Colin Plumb)
Subject: Re: A (one-letter) step ahead of IBM
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.045101.17431@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 91 04:51:01 GMT
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shair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair) wrote:
>Is it generally accepted that Clarke picked HAL by taking one step
>back from IBM, or is that only believed within IBM?

Clarke has denied it a hundred times, saying he didn't notice until others
pointed it out to him.  And in 2010 the book, Chandra (Hal's designer)
denies it quite vigorously.

I don't think Clarke would bother lying so often.
-- 
	-Colin
