Names
There’s an ancient tradition in computing which says that computers should be named according to a theme. For example, long ago when I was in college, the NeXT workstations in the computer music department were named dobro
, lucille
, lespaul
, and silvertone
(brands of guitars, or in Lucille’s case, specifically B.B. King’s guitar). The computer science department had a room full of Sun workstations with names like rise
, beam
, burn
, dae
, dial
, and dry
; and another room full of NeXT workstations named week
, door
, inline
, ofkin
, and so forth. At one of my first jobs in the 1990s all of the testing computers were named after Marvel superheroes.