dag (02/15/83)
Yet another remembering... We wanted to name our two VAXen (Running VMS, alas and nowhere near the USENET (Though on what we at DEC call the E-NET)) ROCKY and BLWNKL (We were restricted to 6 letters...), we ended up with LAUREL and HARDY. My 11/23 system at home is called BARNHOUSE because the interference and noise it puts out could melt the polar caps. (The name comes from a Kurt Vonnegut Jr. story called "The Barnhouse Effect", which I read in the collection "Welcome to the Monkey House".) There are several groups of systems on the DEC E-Net that have names based on a common theme- COOKIE - KERMIT - GROVER - OSCAR - ERNIE - BURT - BIGBRD AURTHR - TRILLI - VOGON - MARVIN - ZARNI - KRIKIT - ZAPHOD - EDDIE - ROOSTA - PREFCT - QRNPLN (Quarnpleen) CASTOR - POLLUX QUASAR - STAR - GALAXY - MOON - PLANET - NEBULA - METIOR BILBO - SAURON - FRODO - GOLLUM - GAMGEE - RING - MORDOR - BLKRDR - GANDLF - ELROND - STRIDR - ROHAN - GILGLD - SHIRE - MERRY - PIPPIN - THOREN - SMAUG - DURIN - BALROG DUNGON - DRAGON TOWER - BABEL - EIFEL EVE - EDEN - ADAM - CAIN - ABLE - GARDEN - MOSES - SNAKE REX - PRNSYS - SQUIRE - PRINCE - KNIGHT - KING - CHESS - PAUPER - PAWN - ROOK - QUEEN - BISHOP CAR - CDR - CONS - EVAL Theses are not all of the groupings, and not all of the machines listed in a grouping belong to related groups. Some of the machine names listed are no longer in use, but they belong to the grouping. Daniel Glasser ...!decvax!sultan!dag
jdd (02/16/83)
When we start getting a lot of personal UNIX systems here in my Laboratory, we'll probably name them after their users, for simplicity. Cheers, John ("...!allegra!jdd!jdd") DeTreville Bell Labs, Murray Hill
anton (02/19/83)
OK so its not actually a machine, but in England there actually IS a computer (personal, what else ?) called... Cirrius Cybernetics Corporation Ltd. this information brought to you courtesy of.. /anton aylward ..hcr!hcrvax!anton