3 Feb
2017
3 Feb
'17
6:59 p.m.
I am not sure if I remember this or if I was told it later, but mcvax was a very important
machine for people in Europe (like me) as it was a big gateway (for usenet? I forget).
Its name was in lots of people's heads and probably lots of scripts &c. So at
some point they got a new machine which, obviously, was a Sun. So, at that point they had
two choices:
- keep the old name, even though it wasn't a VAX any more;
- rename it to something which was platform-neutral so the pain would only happen once.
And they took the third option: rename it, but wire-in the platform *again* thus causing
pain now and more pain later. Oh dear.
On the subject of hostnames, has anyone mentioned prep / prep.ai.mit.edu? All the GNU
software came from that in the mid 1980s, anyway. I think 'prep' meant
'document preparation', I don't know what it was.
--tim
On 1 Feb 2017, at 22:54, Jacob Goense
<dugo(a)xs4all.nl> wrote:
- mcvax, mcsun
Suitable for anything related to europe.