No, HAL is a fictitious computer that appears in the Arthur C. Clark book and Stanley Kubrick movie 2001 a Space Odyssey. No such machine exists nor is one likely to ever exist.
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In 1968, Intel was formed. For the first time, a computer (HAL 9000) co-starred in a movie -- Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey." While the computer's memory was unplugged, it sang "Daisy Bell.
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No. HAL 9000 is a fictitous computer series from the movie and book 2001: A Space Odyssey.
HAL 9000 was the artificial intelligence on the space ship and responsible for killing the crew after going a bit schizophrenic. Famous for his quote "I'm sorry Dave I can't do that!". In the film the name was never explained but it has become to be an acronym of "Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer ", tho' some people think it is a jibe at IBM, since if you use the next letter over in the alphabet from IBM you get HAL.
Yes , the HAL 9000 computer did murder the crew of the spaceship Discovery .