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In 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 betwee
by TheOtherHobbes 5y ago
In 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