ken@turtleva.UUCP (Ken Turkowski) (08/29/83)
Most of the places I've had an account already had a "ken" on the
system, so my login name has been "turk" for most of my Un*x-hacking
years. Now this didn't really change my name since I was called that
in high school. Now, I finally have a "ken" login name, and am called
"Ken" at work, whereas most other professional acquaintances call me
"Turk".
Ken Turkowski
CADLINC, Palo Alto
{decwrl,amd70}!turtlevax!kenasente@decwrl.UUCP (Paul Asente) (08/29/83)
An interesting counterexample to these theories about names changing to
avoid ambiguity occurred several years ago at Stanford. At the time,
all our account names began with "CSD." to distinguish us from
operations research ("OR."), electrical engineering, and so forth. So
my account name was "CSD.Asente" (pronounced "CSD dot Asente").
As a result of this, we all started to call each other simply "CSD",
allowing the context to disambiguate the reference. Things did get a
little difficult when you'd get a message like, "CSD called while you
were out; call him back ASAP." One person went by her middle name,
"dot." (As in "CSD dot Smith").
-paul asentekurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth) (08/30/83)
Yes people here at fluke get their login names as personal names. I know a guy here who is mostly only known as "murph the merciless" because that is the name he used on rogue back when rogue was big stuff here. I know another guy whose login name was "depraved" and he recently had it changed to plain old "dave" (we lost the guy who owned the 'dave' login). Many people still refer to him as "depraved". It has gotten so bad that our Technical Computing people have demanded people not change login names after the first of October. (You better pick a name you can live with). Kurt (~kurt) Guntheroth John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.