> a pet child of Ronald Reagan in the cold war Funny side note: In the AI Lab, the names of the Symbolics machines started as dead rock stars. (Sinatra too,

> a pet child of Ronald Reagan in the cold war Funny side note: In the AI Lab, the names of the Symbolics machines started as dead rock stars. (Sinatra too, I think.) After they ran out of those, dead movie stars were used for names. RR was not too popular in those parts (he was president at the time), so he was one of the machine names too. It was all fun and games until some D/ARPA reviewers walked through the machine room and put it together.