Re: HAL, Holly or Deep Thought ?

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From: Robert Billing
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 00:00

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In article <5lq9qj$m35$1@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk>
           paul.mcilroy@bt-sys.bt.co.uk "Paul McIlroy" writes:

> If you were asked to develop a computer like HAL from 2001, Holly from
> Red Dwarf or Deep Thought from the Hitch-hikers Guide to the Universe,
> and to complete it within 10 years could you do it ? Would you be first
> across the finishing line, or would someone else beat you? Where would
> you start?  And where would you end up?

 Perhaps, yes, here, insane, in that order.

> - author of BT's first Future Technology Calendar, 1990-2030.                  

 Spot the leap years. (AAAAAAGH!)

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From: Robert Billing <unclebob@tnglwood.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: HAL, Holly or Deep Thought ?
Date: 1997/05/19
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