Bilbo: - Who decided on that name - I like it.
We had servers/disks on a mainframe in the early 80's called
Bilbo - for students
Frodo - for staff
Gandalf - business
Gollum - misc. work for testing
Some people though it was not "business like" for that college to have
their disk storage systems named after Lord of the Rings characters, but
half of the IT people loved it and they kept saying it would take a lot
of time and effort to change things so that they would not be affected
by the name changes. That was "bull" but the top managers did not know
a thing about mainframe systems and programming.
I miss those days of dealing with that set of DEC PDP-11 equipment.
More than half of the places I went to school and work had them, while
the others had IBM systems. That was before PC came out.
So
yes - I like the name and maybe I will re-read the Hobbit and Lord of
the Rings books again [been 3+ years]. Have the movies [including
animated version of the Hobbit].
.
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