It was not me ... Some more imaginative minds gave the names. I
guess it was either Antonio Castro (now in the US) or Roel Ocampo
(current Director of UP Computer Center) or both of them. -rowel
> Out at UP EEE some more pragmatic heads used a more "traditional"
> method of giving DNS names to our systems (I believe it was Rowel
> Atienza who came up with them, is that right, sir?), and hence we had
> a whole lab full of Solaris boxes with names like
> gollum.eee.upd.edu.ph, radagast.eee.upd.edu.ph, and the late and much
> lamented Sun SS20 sauron.eee.upd.edu.ph which was destroyed in a fire
> off at the UP PABX back in 1996. Most of these really old machines
> still exist and are in active service as CAD workstations for Prof.
> Louie Alarcon's microelectronics and VHDL classes...
>
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