System naming: Difference between revisions
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* Turing (Bitfolk VM) | * Turing (Bitfolk VM) | ||
* [[Babbage]] (Server in the space) | * [[Babbage]] (Server in the space) - ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage source]) | ||
* [[Lovelace]] (Workstation - [[Makerbot]]) | * [[Lovelace]] (Workstation - [[Makerbot]]) - ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace source]) | ||
* [[Flowers]] (Media PC) | * [[Flowers]] (Media PC) - ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harold_Flowers source]) | ||
* [[Postel]] The SGI O2 | * [[Postel]] The SGI O2 - ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel source]) | ||
* [[Bell]] The door/building management controller | * [[Bell]] The door/building management controller | ||
Revision as of 09:06, 30 September 2010
The naming scheme of systems in the hackspace (hostname) is "people involved in computing". However, pronunciation issues rule out names like Dijkstra, Kay and Hoare.
Old names
Names used on systems no longer in use.
- Knuth
Current names
- Turing (Bitfolk VM)
- Babbage (Server in the space) - (source)
- Lovelace (Workstation - Makerbot) - (source)
- Flowers (Media PC) - (source)
- Postel The SGI O2 - (source)
- Bell The door/building management controller
See Laboratory 24/Network for details on these machines.
Potential names
- Booch
- Boole
- Borg
- Church
- Cray
- Denning
- Draper
- Hamming
- Hopper
- Kohonen
- Lamarr or Hedy (sp?)
- Perlman
- Shannon (sp?)
- Wilson
Potential names on the edge of the scheme
- Armstrong - FM
- Asimov
- Bell
- Beer - Regulatory systems
- Black - Feedback amp
- Brown - Servomechanics
- Dirac - Quantum mechanics
- Edison - Electrical engineering
- Erwin - Userfriendly character
- Faraday
- Flood - Prisoner's dilemma, travelling salesman problem
- Gray - Music synth
- Heron - Automata
- Marconi - Radio telegraph
- Maxwell - Electromagnetic theory
- Moog
- Norton - Circuit analysis
- Pitts - Neural Networks
- Reeves - PCM
- Simon - AI
- Smith - RF analysis
- Tesla
Potential names not from the scheme
- Pong/Ping
- Micropig/Spiderpig
- Bubbles, Buttercup & Blossom
