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(WARNING: crusty Sun old-timer memories follow) For those who aren't familiar with this, up until the mid-1990s or so, Sun let individual engineers name their
by smarks 11y ago
(WARNING: crusty Sun old-timer memories follow)
For those who aren't familiar with this, up until the mid-1990s or so, Sun let individual engineers name their own workstations. In fact many regarded this as a privilege. Each workstation ran its own copy of sendmail, so one's email address was login@hostname. People came up with all kinds of clever login/hostname combinations, such as what Don mentioned, eat@joes.
My all time favorite was Rich Burridge's, whose workstation was named "stard". Since his login was richb, his email address was...
richb@stard
- DonHopkins 11y agoSpeaking of rich bastards, who could forget Rich Morin's "Canta Forda Computer Laboratory"? http://www.cfcl.com/ http://www.cfcl.com/