[Info-vax] Cluster Nomenclature

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In article <gp1qvt$i0q$1 at pechter.motzarella.org>, pechter at bandit.pechter.dyndns.org.pechter.dyndns.org (Bill Pechter) writes:
>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

Only complete lamers would name VMS nodes after Star Trek characters.


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