Talk:Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates/@comment-173.66.199.70-20120613180215/@comment-96.231.234.117-20120617013220

Jebuz, I guess everyone here is too young to have ever seen 2001: A Space Oddesy? Goddamn it, it's HAL 9000, the psycopathic computer that kills off the crew before being shut down singing "Daisy" (which is where that line in the rap comes from). His most famous line from the movie is "I'm sorry Dave, but I'm afraid I can't do that." I even saw that line parodied in a Jarrod commerical a few years ago.

He makes numerous references to computers that aren't Apples or PCs, like missle guidance systems (or that may have been a War Games refernece, or even a reference to Collosus: The Forbin Project), the IBM supercomputers Watson (who beat a player at Jeopardy) and Deep Blue (the first computer to beat a chess grandmaster under tournament conditions), etc. He also discusses AI, referencing the Turing Test of Artificial Intelligence and the Hello World program that every programmer writes as his first program when learning a new programming language.

The point of including HAL I think was to remind the Apple-vs-PC crowd that neither of them "invented" the computer and there is a lot more to the world of computers than either of them.