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From: edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Cute LaserWriter Names (was "LaserWriter Startup Page...")
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Date: 17 Aug 88 18:42:15 GMT
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In article <9816@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> merchant@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Peter Merchant) writes:
>In article <137@lloyd.camex.uucp> kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes:
>>(This is your opportunity to be creative!  . . .  Or you can be more
>>traditional: The Boston Computer Society has LaserWriters named Larry,
>>Curley, and Moe.)
>
>We had a LaserWriter called "Rich & Famous".  We then called the AppleTalk
>ImageWriter "Poor & Unknown".  A pity that the military has no imagination and
>I had to change them to something dull.
>
>Anyone else ever come up with any good network names?

We had a Sun cluster with two servers going in for the Humanities department
sometime ago, so I put my two cents into the name pot and came up with the
names "Laurel" and "Harty".  They didn't think much of my names, so I came
up with "War" and "Peace".  Still no go.  (Perhaps you can tell my opinion
of Suns. Please, no flames :-)

For Unix systems at Berkeley, we tended to name things in series.  There was
the semi-precious stone series (opal, garnet, topaz, ruby, etc), the flower
series (violet, lilac, etc), the Vaxs (kim [NoVax], ernie [KoVax]), the
seven deadly Suns (lust, greed, etc).  When we ran out of semi-precious
stones that were easy to spell (like amethyst), we jokingly suggested
dirt, rubble, sand and schist.

Edward Moy				Principal Programmer - Macintosh & Unix
Workstation Support Services		Workstation Software Support Group
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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