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- From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
- Subject: Re: Machines named by Tolkien's characters
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC
- References: <By5ux5.6Jy@lut.fi> <1992Nov23.103143.2343@solace.hsh.se>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:43:14 GMT
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- In <By5ux5.6Jy@lut.fi> reinikka@kraiti.cc.lut.fi (Timo Reinikka) writes:
-
- >What I would like to know is that how common is it that computers in
- >networks (ie. internet) are named by the characters found in Tolkien's
- >books ?
-
- I don't recall seeing any Tolkein-ish names on the top 50 machine
- names list that gets posted monthly by the folks at nisc.sri.com, but
- I don't have the list handy just now.
-
- My machine wouldn't qualify exactly but should fit in spirit. Folks
- locally couldn't figure out the name, but then I'm the only linguist
- in the house and folks here are more into the future that never will
- be (i.e. Sci-Fi) than in the past that never was (i.e. Middle Earth).
-
- Ran
- atkinson@tengwar.itd.nrl.navy.mil
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