Re: [TUHS] Names of famous, historical UNIX machines?

Oh, I've got some. Not that old, 80's. UW-Madison slovax - 11/750 that had the BSD sources on it. Spent many a happy hour reading there and I've always had a personal machine called slovax ever since. mcvoy.com internally is slovax. speedy - 8600 that was the main research/faculty machine. Also ...!uwisc!rsch Tokoyo Institute of Technology (TIT) So the back story here is I was one of the Unix geeks doing a Unix port to the ETA-10. TIT was taking delivery of a big liquid cooled machine and of course we weren't ready. I got sent over with 3 tapes, one was the baseline that was sort of checked in, one was my port of Lachman (who bought it from I think Convergent)'s TCP/IP stack, and one was some VM thing, I think big pages but I'm not sure. They sent me over there with a small replica of our development environment (Sun 3/260 file / compute server and 2 3/50 workstations) and told me "Merge this stuff and install it, TIT wants all of it". So I get to Tokoyo and the machines show up and I'm installing SunOS and I have to name them: 3/260: BigTIT 3/50: LeftTIT 3/50: RightTIT and I even put them physically how you would imagine. It only lasted until they figured out what it meant but I didn't get in trouble. Because a different story had just happened that had made the Japanese sales guys bust up in laughter and they had taken me out we all got shit faced a few days before I had to rename the machines. Happy to share that story if anyone is still reading :) Sun The source machines that held the SCCS history before they went to NSE/NSElite/Teamware: Argon Radon Krypton That's all I can think of for now, not sure if any of it is actually that all interesting. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm