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A comment on RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990).
- Device size and computing power maps roughly to the ship size: my desktop is named after a battleship, while my Kindle is named after a destroyer.
- Servers are always named after carriers. It just made sense to me somehow.
- Like the warships, the names can eventually get reused as the devices are replaced.
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- Device size and computing power maps roughly to the ship size: my desktop is named after a battleship, while my Kindle is named after a destroyer.
- Servers are always named after carriers. It just made sense to me somehow.
- Like the warships, the names can eventually get reused as the devices are replaced.