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- From: xexeo@dxcern.cern.ch (Geraldo Xexeo)
- Subject: Re: Machines named by Tolkien's characters
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.194213.27031@dxcern.cern.ch>
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- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
- References: <1992Nov23.112228.19073@kth.se> <watson.722533088@bellatrix.sce.carleton.ca>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:42:13 GMT
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- Here is the chart of quantity of hosts with a certain name:
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- 384 venus 204 mac4 172 mac9 155 pollux 138 chaos
- 356 pluto 201 hobbes 172 mac11 155 frodo 136 bart
- 323 mars 201 hermes 170 mac8 153 helios 135 pc5
- 288 jupiter 198 thor 169 phoenix 152 mac17 135 larry
- 286 saturn 198 sirius 169 mac12 151 vega 135 cs
- 285 pc1 196 gw 169 hal 151 mac18 133 odin
- 282 zeus 195 calvin 168 snoopy 150 falcon 131 tiger
- 262 iris 194 mac5 168 mac13 150 bach 131 sparky
- 260 mercury 191 mac10 167 mac15 146 castor 131 ariel
- 259 mac1 190 fred 167 mac14 145 sol 130 sneezy
- 258 orion 189 titan 167 grumpy 145 dopey 128 mac
- 254 mac2 189 pc3 163 gandalf 144 mac20 127 sun1
- 240 newton 186 opus 162 pc4 144 mac19 127 rocky
- 234 neptune 186 mac6 160 uranus 142 spock 126 pc6
- 233 pc2 185 charon 159 mac16 142 euler 125 hydra
- 224 gauss 185 apollo 158 sleepy 141 mickey 125 homer
- 222 eagle 179 mac7 158 io 141 atlas 124 isis
- 213 mac3 179 athena 157 earth 140 maxwell 123 moe
- 209 merlin 177 alpha 156 europa 140 happy 123 delta
- 207 cisco 172 mozart 155 rigel 140 doc 122 pc10
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- Gandalf is number 52. But, before saying "it is not enough, please note:
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- venus (and probably pluto, mars, jupiter, saturn, mercury and neptune) are
- standard names for Sun workstations. If you install you network without
- any chagen you get venus... (cut 7)
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- mac<n> and pc<n> are pretty stupid names (cut 17).
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- cisco is from cisco machines (boxes), cut 1
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- Now, we are left with some greek gods, some scientists (newton, gauss).
- gw (???), etc...
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- The only modern fiction names in front of Gandalf are:
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- calvin, hobbs, hal, snoopy (grumpy?).
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- Maybe also fred (for Fred Flintstone?).
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- At position 63 comes frodo.
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- Even spock and mickey are behind.
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- If bart is for Bart Simpson, he is doing quite well.
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- So, here you had the 100 bests, quoted from
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- RFC1296
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- Cheers,
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- Jerry
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