Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:32:05 PST From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hostnames Message-ID: <96Feb23.153212pst.177479@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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When DEC donated a bunch of personal DECstations to PSU for their undergrad workstation lab, of course they had to come up with names for them all. Someone had the bright idea of buying a box of 64 Crayola Crayons, and wrote out all of the names of the crayons and picked names from there. The servers were named Binney and Smith, the makers of Crayola Crayons. This allows cute stunts such as creating X colors that are similar to the crayon colors. One of the lab workers actually spent a night doing this and configured XDM on each machine to have the appropriate background color. Unfortunately, they take the machine's color into account when placing them (in fact, placement was relative to length of name, what a computer-person thing to have done) so it wasn't as eye-pleasing as it could have been. Bill
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