OT Re: Naming Computers (strategy, and WHY)

From: Frank Palazzolo <palazzol_at_comcast.net>
Date: Thu Oct 24 15:17:00 2002

Back in the late 80's I worked in a lab at Michigan State with a dozen or so SunOS
Workstations, 2 Sun Fileservers, and a VAX8600 running Ultrix.

All the Sun machines had odd, short names:
bubo, mala, typh, pock, etc.

It turns out the admin had named them all after diseases, but the management thought
it was too much, so they all became 4-letter truncated diseases :)

The VAX was renamed from sniffles to eecae (an acronym) at the same time.

-Frank
Received on Thu Oct 24 2002 - 15:17:00 BST