Jeff Kell wrote:
>
> Jim Henry wrote:
> >
> > Joey Maxie, who used to work for computing services,
> > chose the name out of the blue one day long ago.
>
> Exactly, although there are some Poe-etic allegories there (Quoth the
> Raven...).  It was not related to the Ravens of old (back in the 70s,
> if not before, mysterious flyers would appear on campus saying "The
> Ravens will meet at the usual place at the usual time").
>
> We continued the bird theme for a bit with falcon (the Banner machine,
> now also running the Library's system) and phoenix (a newer 3000 that
> continues to run our legacy student systems).
>

falcon and phoenix are joined now by loon, the new Banner forms
processing Dell 6450 server that goes into production in Oct.

On the other hand, there is penelope, horizon, gladiator,
interpol, seaweed, among others.  We will be adding juno
before too long.

I won't bore you with all the "functionally" named servers.

Richard

> Jeff

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