OT Re: Naming Computers (strategy, and WHY)

From: Eric Dittman <dittman_at_dittman.net>
Date: Wed Oct 23 21:47:00 2002

> > I had some VMS systems that I named SKITZO, PSYCHO, and PHLEGM.
> > I was limited to six characters for the name due to DECnet. I
> > was going for odd names. I was going to name the next one
> > SMEGMA, but the order was cancelled.
>
> I guess it would've been worse if you'd gotten to JISM.

Part of the plan called for using all six characters. I would
have had to spelled it differently.
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