misc.

[Henry Musikar]

Trintignant! But that change can't have been without purpose, so for what
might CARL be an acronym? 

Henry Mu
Sr. IT Consultant
http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20/ 

From: Mark Kohut

Yea... I remember learning that from one of you precocious kids.......
Good point.
 
Take That, you French filmwatchers....................

Only one problem. We precocious kids figured out that if you took the
letters of the alphabet immediately following those in H-A-L, you came up w/
IBM, which I am sure was intentional on Arthur C. Clark's part.

This reminds me, in the dubbed French release of 2001 : L'Odyssée de
l'espace, HAL 9000 is renamed CARL, and speaks with the voice of
Jean-Louis Trintignant ...