Hal

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hal \Hal\ (h[^a]l), prop. n.
     Harold; -- a nickname.
     [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  HAL \HAL\ (h[^a]l), prop. n.
     The name of an intelligent computer in the movie 2001,
     directed by Stanley Kubrick.
     [PJC]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  HAL
       Hardware Abstraction Layer (Windows NT)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  HAL
       Hard Array Logic
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  HAL
       Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer (2001)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  HAL
       
          1.  HAL 9000, the murdering computer on the
          spaceship in the science fiction classic "2001, A Space
          Odyssey" by Arthur C. Clark.
       
          "HAL" is "{IBM}" with each letter changed to the one before
          and there is an unconfirmed rumour that 9000 is the sum of the
          various IBM computer numbers that were in service at the time.
          However, in the sequel "2010", Clarke emphatically denies that
          HAL's name is supposed to be "one step ahead of IBM".  It is,
          rather, short for "heuristic algorithm".
       
          2.  {Hardware Abstraction Layer}.
       
          (1995-11-09)