RE: system names

Is it not similar to:

HAL IBM
MS NT

Of course it should hav been LR MS (LR = Last Resort, Last Record, Least 
Reliable)

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler

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On 20-10-05 at 10:27 Jones, John \(US\) wrote:

>Nice Try.
>Not Today.
>Next Time?
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>[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+john.jones=am.jll.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>Of Lapeyre, Francis
>Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 10:16 AM
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>Subject: RE: system names
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>And here I am thinking "NT" stood for "Never Tested"..
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>Francis Lapeyre
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
>michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:54 AM
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>Subject: RE: system names
>
>And supposedly Windows NT (WNT) got its name because it's one letter
>less than DEC's VMS, and the architect of VMS went to work for Microsoft
>as the NT architect.
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: RE: system names
>> From: "Harvell, Joel" <jbharvell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Thu, October 20, 2005 10:44 am
>> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> Speaking of HAL does anyone else know where Arthur C. Clark got the 
>> name "HAL"???
>> 
>> Joel B. Harvell
>> Food Lion, LLC
>> (704) 633-8250 x2709
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan
>> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 10:17 AM
>> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
>> Subject: Re: system names
>> 
>> Most shops I've seen have been fairly unimaginative, usually the 'S'
>> followed by the serial number.
>> 
>> Here, we use EAGLE. We've got some "lesser" birds for our PC servers.
>> 
>> Wonder if anyone's got one out there named HAL?
>> 
>> - Dan
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