[tech] Mermaid re-animated

[David Manchester]

> On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 05:09:48PM +0800, David Manchester wrote:
> > 1) HDD for Moray. That's right, moray. It still whinges. Its -the- most
> > 2) HDD for Mako. Ben wants his back, Ben wrote FMS. Be nice to Ben.
> > 3) RAM for Moray. 16MB is tight.
> > 4) SCSI cables. It'd be nice to be able to use the 8mm drives Nick and I
> > 5) 100MB/s NICs. Cheap DEC Tulip cards like the Netgears and Dlinks would
> 6) 4 port dumb serial card for moray so as to centralise the evil dispense

> I'd just like to make another plea for naming scheme sanity - by the time
> a machine gets a new MB, CPU, RAM, I/O controller and HDD it probably
> should have a new name... ::-/ If it happens one by one over years,
> that's one thing, but still...

Similarly though - names have become indicative of roles.
i.e. Moray's a trusted services box. Marlin's a backup services & general
user machine. 

IF we build a new moray, its still moray.
Moray and Marlin the PC have had at least 4 motherboards between them
since I've been about the club..

Cheers
/dave
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