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From: ljj@hjuxa.UUCP (JUDICE)
Newsgroups: soc.women,news.admin
Subject: Re: Name Derivation of sulaco.UUCP
Message-ID: <873@hjuxa.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 00:25:10 GMT
References: <7614@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <127@sulaco.UUCP> <36843CXH@PSUVMA> <234@unsvax.UUCP>
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Summary: From ALIENS...

In article <234@unsvax.UUCP>, tlhingan@unsvax.UUCP (Eugene Tramaglino) writes:
> I apologize for jumping in with a chang of subject in the middle of a
> major discussion, but---  
> 
> I am interested in the derivation of the machine (??) name sulaco.UUCP, and
> pronunciation.  Could anyone with appropriate information e-mail a reply?
> I would appreciate a forward of this message also, if appropriate.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Gene
> 







SULACO was the transport ship used in the film "ALIENS". It's
also the name of my PRO/380 on our internal DECnet. We spent a lot
of time playing the sequence of the film that BRIEFLY shows the ship
name. Finally, someone in our facility picked up a copy of the 
ALIENS novelization.

It's quite possible that SULACO was pulled from the pages of something
A
else by the writers of "ALIENS", though...

/ljj