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As a graduate student, I had what was for a while one of the fastest workstations in the department on my desk (they were allocated somewhat randomly), but pret
by microtherion 6y ago
As a graduate student, I had what was for a while one of the fastest workstations in the department on my desk (they were allocated somewhat randomly), but pretty much everybody could run remote jobs on everybody's workstation.
So I named the workstation "yggdrasil" to make it a bit harder for my colleagues to memorize & type the name…
- dhosek 6y agoThe VMS systems owned by the math department at Harvey Mudd College in the 80s/90s were given names out of Norse mythology. I'm pretty sure we had an yggdrasil (also pretty sure it was a network hub, but I couldn't say for sure).
- microtherion 6y agoI have a vague recollection that my choice of name may have been inspired by a UUCP hostname in a Usenet post, so maybe it was this particular VMS machine.
- dhosek 6y agoPossibly, but I suspect it would have been someone else's yggdrasil. The unix system, owned by the bio/cs department (in those days they had one guy who did bio full time, one guy who did cs full-time and one guy who did both) was on uucp, but all the VMS machines were exclusively BITnet until the BITnet protocol and UUCP protocols fell by the wayside with the unification of BITnet/UUCP/Arpanet as the internet.