[Info-vax] Cluster Nomenclature

[Jerry.Eckert at gmail.com]

On Mar 5, 5:59 pm, moro... at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney)
wrote:
> jayne.aub... at gmail.com writes:
> >At the last place I did VMS admin I inherited a pair of 7620's names
> >Kirk and Spock. I managed to get a follow on machine named Scotty but
> >after that management insisted on "functional" names.  Memory fails to
> >recal what they were.
>
> When I was at Digital, there were lots of clusters or groups of systems
> run by groups that had themes for their names, esp. in the early days
> before managers started insisting on "functional" names as you put it.
>
> My group had a VAX named JON:: and originally a PDP-11 named GARFLD.
> Being in the infamous "Mill", a group had 'bug' systems such as SPIDER::
> and BEE::, and, of course, MILRAT::.  I knew of a KIRK:: and SPOCK:: at
> minimum in a cluster, I'm pretty sure there were other Trekkie names in
> that cluster.  DECnet area routers were DALEK:: and TARDIS::, with a
> DRWHO:: in the same lab.  The VMS STAR cluster had celestial objects.
> More obscure was VMS's EVMS cluster for developing the Alpha side of
> things.  Some members were Alpha instructions (ZAPNOT, LOADQ, ORNOT)
> others were African national parks (ETOSHA, TSAVO, ARUSHA, CHOBE).

Dave Cutler's group in Bellevue, WA (DECwest) had the DECWET cluster:
MOLD, MILDEW, RUST.

At one time the VMS team (it wasn't open then... ;) ) at the CSC in
Colorado used a beer theme: COORS, KILIAN, THREE2.  Either the RSX or
RSTS team had a PDP-11 named LABATT.