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From: todd@hpcuhd.HP.COM (Todd Poynor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP Code Names
Message-ID: <106910007@hpcuhd.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Oct 90 20:55:44 GMT
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Here's my collection of codenames for projects revolving around the HP-1000
and the Data Systems Division/Operation lab.  Explanations are few, I'm afraid.
I need to update this list with the info Steve Witten posted earlier.

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* HP-1000 Internal project codenames
*
* [c] = cancelled project
  
Athena          CBASIC

Bugs            Millenium processor cache chip

Crystal         ECL-based 1000, aka HP (High Performance) [c]

DS '83          NS (a.k.a. DS '84, DS '85, Millennium, OneNet/1000)

Earthling       1000-in-840-backplane [c]

Eightball       8 channel MUX Rev-D (many of the mid-80s peripherals were
		named after sports equipment)

Elsie (the cow) LC (Low Cost = L-series) CPU

Fastball        HP1000-in-a-PC [c]

FastRabbit      '84 A900 follow-on investigation, old A1200 [c]

Guardian        FST  (a.k.a. READR/SAVER-II)

Hrair		1990 Extended Virtual Memory project.  From the language of the
		rabbits in "Watership Down" by Robert Adams, meaning "many"
		(I hope I'm spelling this right).

KillerClyde     Mail/1000 (named after a plastic rat, which was named after
		an early version of the RMAIL program called M1KRC, which
 		a co-worker declared stood for "My #1 Killer Rat Clyde").

Lightning       A600 processor

Magic           A900 processor (to get a 1000 to go that fast had to be magic;
		it pulled the rabbit out of the hat, and led to the rabbit
		codenames which followed)

Millennium      A990 processor (codename also used for NS)

MudShark        Domain Name Service (BIND) investigation (the author was
		listening to the Frank Zappa song "The Mud Shark" when he
                started work on it).

Phoenix         A700 processor (rose from the ashes of Silver)

R-cubed         CDS ("Reentrant, Recursive, ROMable"), the Code and Data
		Separation enhancement to the A-series architecture.

Robin           BASIC interpreter

Roger           Millennium processor CPU chip

Rtesian         RTE-A

Silver          TTL-based 1000, aka MR (Mid-Range) [c]

Sting           Telnet

Thunder         A600+ processor

Wideword        1979-vintage HP-1000 follow-on (capabilities-based) [c]

Vision          1980 follow-on for all HP computers [c]

Yellowstone     A400 processor