[comp.sys.transputer] why LINDA?

chf@cs.hull.ac.uk (FREEMAN-C) (06/06/89)

Dear all,

     Can anyone help to settle an (admittedly somewhat frivolous) argument
between a friend and myself!

     The question is why was "LINDA" so named? Does it have anything to do
with "ADA"?

     Thanks in anticipation.


Chris Freeman.
Computer design group.
University of Hull.
Hull.

         E-mail:       chf@daphne.cs.hull.ac.uk

chapman@compsci.bristol.ac.uk (Paul Chapman) (06/06/89)

This is a piece of computer humour (?), ADA is named after Ada Lovelace who
was an assistant or biographer or something of Charles Babbage. LINDA is
named after another Lovelace of more notorious fame, as in the old joke :

   Linda Lovelace eat your heart out - my Granny went down on the Titanic

I hope this solves your arguement!!

Paul Chapman
Dept Comp Sci, Bristol University, UK.

les@unicads.UUCP (Les Milash) (06/07/89)

In article <8906061249.aa24920@kukini.CompSci.Bristol.ac.uk> chapman@compsci.bristol.ac.uk (Paul Chapman) writes:
>[...] LINDA is named after another Lovelace of more notorious fame

that's funny!  can somebody out there tell us how NBI got it's name
(I heard it once but couldn't repeat it well)
.
you know i never wondered about this but now I Feel So Enriched.

what does this have to say about LINDA's ioio performance?