OK, it's my turn.

Do you remember when HP named their releases following the release of 1918
in 1979?

Remember the first one?  It was named ATHENA.

Remember the second one?  It was named BRUNO.
(The third was named CHEETAH; HP skipped over D (maybe to avoid anologies to
DOG) and went directly to Q, loosely for the name of QUALITY.)

I worked at HP at the time as a Systems Engineer in the Los Angeles sales
office.  My boss, Ed Splinter, and I loved to pull the following joke at our
customer base.  We proudly stated that Ed was famous to have a file named
after him, i.e., SPLINTR.PUB.SYS (the SPL intrinsic procedure declaration
file), and that I was famous enough to have an entire OS release named after
me (my last name is BRUNO).  We really enjoyed seeing customer's reactions
to these comments!  It was even better when we visited the HP divisions and
played the joke on other lab and support engineers.

My, how things have changed.

Ben

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