[Info-vax] Cluster Nomenclature

[Gremlin]

For a large mining company in the 1980s, we had:

PORT::
SHIRAZ::
CABSAV::
WHISKY::
MERLOT::

There seemed to be a theme there too.....


Bill Pechter wrote:
> 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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