Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!gould!sjl From: sjl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Steve J Lacey) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: HELP : looking for a good program name Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 90 16:21:36 GMT References: Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Distribution: comp Organization: Department Of Computing, Imperial College, London. Lines: 27 In-reply-to: kdr@doc.ic.ac.uk's message of 29 Nov 90 15:17:42 GMT In article kdr@doc.ic.ac.uk (K D Rigotti) writes: kdr> My final year project is a distributed whotsit that looks after your diary, kdr> arranges meetings with other people's whotsits, tells you when your whotsit kdr> has a meeting booked that you are going to be late for if you don't shift kdr> yourself .... etc,etc. It's basically a diary manager but just for the hell of kdr> it it has no centrally stored data or any central control so does everything kdr> by message passing and distributed searching type stuff ... kdr> ... thats the background. Now, what do I call it? I've been trying to find the kdr> name of a god of timekeeping or something along that line but nothing kdr> appropriate has popped up. How about Chronos ? kdr> Kevin Steve. -- -- Steve J Lacey, Systems Group. (In my opinion, my opinions are just that.) Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7. Phone : 071 589 5111 x5085, Fax : 071 581 8024 Email : sjl@doc.ic.ac.uk, ..!ukc!icdoc!sjl, sjl@athena.mit.edu --- All lines lead to Mornington Crescent ---