[Info-vax] Cluster Nomenclature

[Alan Frisbie]

jayne.aubrie at gmail.com wrote:

> At home I went with science fiction authors for OpenVMS systems so I
> have Asimov, Blish, Clarke, Gordon (Dickson), JudyL and Lester
> (DelRey), Niven, Pohl and Zelazny.  OS/X systems get Elvish names:
> Galadriel, Arwen, Legolas, Elrond, Celeborn.  Everything else gets
> boring functional names.

I went with evil characters from Lord Of The Rings: Balrog,
Sauron, Smaug, Gollum, Nazgul.   I seem to have run out of
them, so I am switching to insulting names starting with "S".
The first (an Alpha XP1000) is Slug.   Next up will be Slime,
Slut, or Skunk.

Alan