[Info-vax] Cluster Nomenclature

[Bill Pechter]

In article <gopp1l$6lb$1 at pcls4.std.com>,
Michael Moroney <moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com> wrote:
>jayne.aubrie 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).

Somerset New Jersey , later (Piscataway) used Star Wars... Obiwan, 
Darth for a while...

Bill



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