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It was practically mandatory in the days when Sun workstations were popular for them to have astronomical names. I thought I was being quite daring when the la
by arethuza 5y ago
It was practically mandatory in the days when Sun workstations were popular for them to have astronomical names.
I thought I was being quite daring when the lab where I worked got a load of DEC Alpha workstations and I named them after Martian surface features as I'd just read Red Mars.
- jjgreen 5y agoI worked at a place which had macho weather names for the Suns: "storm", "tempest" etc. I and another chap who started at the same time thought this was all rather silly, so we named ours "drizzle" and "damp"; this made the greybeards mutter somewhat.
- arethuza 5y agoAs a Scot I have to say that "dreich" would be a pretty good name for a machine ;-)
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoIn the 70s it was somewhat mandatory to name CS research computers after characters and locations from Lord of the Rings. But there's still a difference between SET HOST RIVENDELL and naming all your variables after hobbits.
- arethuza 5y agoIn the mid 1980s the CS department I was at was fond of High-Level Hardware Orion minicomputers which were named after deities starting with "O": Ormazd being the one I can remember... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLH_Orion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLH_Orion