What is/was the hardware specification of HAL9000?
What was the hardware that makes up HAL9000 in the spaceship Discovery One, from Arthur C Clarke's 2001 series?
Wikipedia says that HAL became operational on 12 January 1997 and the books say 1992 and 1991. This would have been the age of the desktop PentiumMMX, and the 486 respectively.
The question was inspired by the last paragraph in this answer on Space Exploration.
I suspect this question cannot be answered, we can only conjecture.
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Here's the bare minimum specs: Deep Blue (the first computer to beat a reigning grand master at chess)
computer class: mainframe
architecture: parallel, based on SP2 technology
32 Power2 SC CPUs (135MHz, 32-bit registers, RISC, 15 million transistors)
512 Chess processors
One trillion operations per second (500,000,000 for a high-end PC in 1999)
500 computation threads, 1.2 m2 footprint
Have today's desktop PCs surpassed IBM's Deep Blue of 1997? (YES) – Super User.SE
Processing performance [of Deep Blue] was 11.38 GFLOPS
Keeping in mind that a modern video card, e.g., the
AMD Radeon R800 can achieve 3.04 TFLOPS
... it's the software that's still science fiction, not the hardware.
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Is HAL 9000 real?
HAL 9000 is a fictional artificial intelligence character and the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series.Why did HAL go crazy?
Chandra, Hal's Creator, he was told to lie to Dave and Frank by people who find it very easy to lie (the govt.), but Hal literally didn't know how to. It's a direct violation of his primary programming, the accurate processing of information, and in being made to lie, it made him unstable.What does HAL represent in 2001 A Space Odyssey?
Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey. As the brain of the spaceship Discovery, HAL is a robot that uses the mechanical, sensing, and information systems under its control. HAL is an acronym standing for "Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer." "Heuristic" and "Algorithmic" are two primary processes of intelligence.What does HAL stand for in computers?
1) In computers, a hardware abstraction layer (HAL) is a layer of programming that allows a computer operating system to interact with a hardware device at a general or abstract level rather than at a detailed hardware level. Windows 2000 is one of several operating systems that include a hardware abstraction layer.Analisi del Personaggio Hal 9000
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