Difference between revisions of "System naming"

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

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

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 * 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