From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 15:46:21 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Names of famous, historical UNIX machines? In-Reply-To: <20170201204327.GU21797@yeono.kjorling.se> References: <20170201204327.GU21797@yeono.kjorling.se> Message-ID: Do you have access to "the Matrix" by John Quarterman. There are the UUCP maps in there with >>tons<< of host names - like ihnp4, decvax, etc... On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote: > I hope this isn't too far off topic here. > > I've been meaning to rename the few systems I administer with names > that reference famous (or at least somewhat well-known in the proper > circles) historical UNIX systems, but I have been unable to find any > lists of such names so have no real place to start. About the closest > I _was_ able to find is the ARPANET map[1] of the late 1970s that is > on Wikipedia and is occasionally circulated, but which gives mostly > architecture, location and links, not any system (host) names. > > Short of unimaginative things like calling my home router IMP[2] or > things like that, can anyone either suggest names with a bit of > background (where they were, what hardware, what time period, etc.), > or point me toward online resources where I can find lists of those? > > > [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Arpanet_logical_map,_ > march_1977.png > > [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Message_Processor > > -- > Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael at kjorling.se > “People who think they know everything really annoy > those of us who know we don’t.” (Bjarne Stroustrup) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: