Date:  Wed, 2 Nov 1994 12:09:00 CST

From:  Edward Callary <TB0EXC1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MVS.CSO.NIU.EDU>

Subject: <No subject given>



Thanks to all who have written in response to my request

for information on the origin of the name of RU486. They

iterate the two stories which I have heard: first that

RU stand for the lab which developed the drug: Roussel

Uclaf of France; second that RU-486 is wordplay on they

spelling: Are You For 86; 86 for killing, stopping,

halting, aborting. Reminds one of the name of the computer

HAL in 2001. Derived cleverly from IBM or not?