OT Re: Naming Computers (strategy, and WHY)

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Oct 24 01:05:01 2002

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Eric Dittman wrote:

> > > 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.

Ok, SPOOGE.

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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