Naming Computers [was: A Momentous Decision]

Well, I've seen enough and can't hold back... Back at Purdue, the machines in the main machine room were all named after Arthurian legend. Of course, the VAX8800 was Arthur. The Suns we had in the OS lab were named after trees. IIRC the ones running SunOS were named after hardwoods and the ones running XINU were named after softwoods. When I started teaching at Rhodes, I named our new network machines after intelligent computers from SciFi. They included: hal, sal, colossus, guaridan, zen, harlie, p1, mcp, joshua (ok, I forgot I really should have called it wopr), m5 and skynet I now have most of those machines here at home. The laptop I'm using now is nomad and my gateway machine is orac. Of course, my daughter insisted that I name her machine fluffy after the three-headed dog in Harry Potter. My wife's machine is called Taliesin (another Arthurian reference). Brian L. Stuart