Name a machine I'm getting

[bhtooefr]

So, I'm trying to figure out what to name a new machine I'm adding to my network.

The machine is an RS/6000 Model 250, which is a small pizzabox machine, which will be housing a P/390 Adapter/A card and the associated 96 MiB RAM upgrade card. (The P/390 Adapter/A is an S/390-compatible CPU and 32 MiB RAM on a MCA card.)

The theme I'm trying to go for is, "something that is normally huge, but in this case is quite small".

It looks like AIX 4.3 has a 32 character hostname length limit, although many utilities have a 16 character limit, so that is one constraint. That's not the most important one, though.

Both VM and MVS have an 8 character hostname length limit.

Right now, I'm thinking of using bonsai as the hostname, it meets the theme, although it has an issue in that BONSAIMVS is an invalid MVS hostname. (Given that the specific version of MVS will be OS/390 V2R10, I could do BONSAIOS, leaving off the 390 part, though. And, I may not run OS/390 anyway.)

Any other suggestions?

[Muirium]

If bonsai can be too long, homunculus isn't going to be any better…

[kps]

The theme I'm trying to go for is, "something that is normally huge, but in this case is quite small".

That's what she said.

[kbdfr]

I have no clue what you're talking about, but I would suggest GolVid - from Goliath and David.

[matt3o]

"Neb" of course.

[Halvar]

MOORE (refering to Moore's law)
PIZZA (for obvious reasons and because I'm hungry right now)

[bhtooefr]

Actually, I can make bonsai work... there's three OSes intended for this config:

VM/ESA - BONSAIVM, easy enough
OS/390 (a descendant of OS/360, the MVT version of which became OS/VS2, which became OS/VS2 MVS, which became MVS/XA, then MVS/ESA, which was later renamed OS/390 (and later, z/OS) - BONSAIOS makes sense in context
VSE/ESA (a descendant of DOS/360, which evolved into DOS/VS, and was extended into DOS/VSE... you can see where this is going) - BONSAIVS

For the AIX host, bonsaiaix will work fine - the TCP/IP subsystems of the mainframe OSes don't need to talk to AIX, and even if they did, compatibility follows DNS rules, not the mainframe OS rules.

I don't think I particularly care for NEB as the hostname, though. (Besides, I don't recall that ship actually being particularly small.)

Re: the PIZZA one, maybe TOTINO? Then again, it's not the pizzabox that's particularly small (I mean, it's small, but not amazingly small), it's what's inside of it...

[bhtooefr]

New choice: KORORA.

Māori for the Little Penguin (also known as the Little Blue Penguin), which is the smallest penguin species. Penguins being a species that can get pretty big, as far as birds go (the Emperor Penguin is the fifth largest bird species). And, there's that whole "little blue" thing, given that we're talking about Big Blue hardware.

Edit: Yeah, it'll be KORORA.

[Half-Saint]

Just name it Pygmy and be done with it