[TUHS] Names of famous, historical UNIX machines?

William Pechter pechter at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 07:50:49 AEST 2017


Another source was the comp.mail.maps newsgroup for UUCP maps. 

I loved the Pyramid Technologies names pace - - all host names started with pyr. 

Pyramid->pyrnj->pyrite to my home in get. 

The one that killed me was pyrgynt.

Bill


-----Original Message-----
From: "Michael Kjörling" <michael at kjorling.se>
To: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
Sent: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 16:42
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Names of famous, historical UNIX machines?

On 1 Feb 2017 16:20 -0500, from jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa):
> Google for a old Host file, that's a good source if you want to know more.

That's a good idea, I'll definitely give that a try later. Thanks for
the tip!

(Oh, and I didn't mean to imply a restriction to the 1970s; that was
only to indicate what little I'd been able to find.)

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