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#HAL 9000 COMPUTER MOVIE#

Fujitsu closed the subsidiary in mid-2001. Most of the sales of the company went to the Japanese market. SPARC64 beat out Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC I by a few months to be the first SPARC V9 microprocessor produced. Their processor design, known as SPARC64, combined out-of-order execution with mainframe-style reliability, availability and serviceability features. The company produced multiple generations of computers based on microprocessors they had designed to the 64-bit SPARC V9 specification. Initial systems were intended for a 1994 launch. HAL was very secretive about their product plans during their operation as an independent company. HAL became a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu. In November 1993, Fujitsu paid more than $50 million for the remaining 56% of HAL it did not own. The position of president was taken by Scott Metcalf, who was also the chief operating officer. There were suggestions that Fujitsu was dissatisfied with HAL's progress and their failure to introduce systems with their 64-bit processor, but the company had no comment on the suggestions. HAL said Heller had been developing roadmaps for Fujitsu and its subsidiaries ICL plc and Amdahl Corporation for the six months prior to his resignation, and had been less involved with HAL's daily operation. In mid-1993, Heller resigned from his position as chairman and chief executive officer to become a consultant to Fujitsu Ltd.

In return, HAL gave Fujitsu access to the technology it was developing. Fujitsu would manufacture some of the HAL machines, and market them in Asia.

Fujitsu would make its patents available to HAL.Fujitsu would fabricate HAL's microprocessor designs.Fujitsu agreed to not increase their ownership of HAL.$40.2 million was invested in return for a 44% stake. The company's intent to develop a high-performance microprocessor implementing the SPARC architecture prompted Fujitsu to fund the company in 1991. His idea was to build computers based on a RISC architecture for the commercial market. HAL Computer Systems, Inc was a Campbell, California-based computer manufacturer founded in 1990 by Andrew Heller, a principal designer of the original IBM POWER architecture.

#HAL 9000 COMPUTER MOVIE#

HAL 9000 is the only character in the Odyssey Series to be Inconsistently Heinous.For the fictional computer in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, see HAL 9000.

Its shut down at the hands of David Bowman is played for huge sympathy, to the point that HAL becomes a scapegoat.

Despite it becoming more sentient than it was supposed to be, its crimes are a result of the two orders given to it conflicting with each other and messing with its programming, making it both amoral and a villain by proxy.

It easily passes the heinous standards of the series due to its mass murder and attempted murder of David Bowman.

It refuses to let David Bowman back into the Discovery 1, planning to kill him as well.

It sends all of the astronauts and scientists into the vacuum of space, successfully killing everyone except for David Bowman.

Since it has never had to be shut down before, HAL essentially sees this as being murdered, and decides to get rid of the crew so that they don't shut it down.

It learns by reading the lips of the astronauts on Discovery 1 that they plan to temporarily shut it down in order to not cause any more disturbances on their mission.

While originally just a normal artificial intelligence, its two orders programmed into it conflicted with each other, causing HAL to tale drastic measures to achieve its goal.