From: utzoo!decvax!sultan!dag
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: More System Naming Stuff...
Article-I.D.: sultan.152
Posted: Tue Feb 15 12:07:07 1983
Received: Fri Feb 18 02:49:44 1983


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
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