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Some fun CMU computer cluster name themes from the past: * Prisons (statesville, graterford, etc.): Macs * Astronauts (resnik, white, aldrin): DECstations
by sk5t 9y ago
Some fun CMU computer cluster name themes from the past:
* Prisons (statesville, graterford, etc.): Macs
* Astronauts (resnik, white, aldrin): DECstations
* Disasters (flood, famine, humanity?): More aged DECstations
* Climates (tundra, steppe, island): SPARCstation 5s
* Characters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's
* Wood (elm, pine, smoke): Printers
- cat199 9y agoWasn't this one of the birthplaces of NextStations? any insight there?
- sk5t 9y agoHmm, I can't recall any presence whatsoever of NeXT hardware, nor commingling of NeXT software in the CMU Andrew environment. There was a certain amount of SGI Indigo gear for specialty purposes.
- cat199 9y agocheers.. IIRC I recall hearing something about this due to NeXT (and now apple's) use of CMU Mach.. but universities are big places :b
- scrumper 9y agoI had a personal SPARCstation 5 at university. I named it 'sparky'. I probably could have done better.
- zimpenfish 9y agoLong ago I had an IPX. It was called ... ipx.$domain. Then I got another one. And it was called ... ipy.$domain. You'll never guess what the third one was called...
- sk5t 9y agoBit nasty to name the machine after an obsolete layer 3 protocol, innit?