Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: eugene@cse.ucsc.edu (Eugene Miya)
Subject: NGM: Re: Why is comp.parallel FAQ structured the way it is?
Organization: UC Santa Cruz CIS/CE
Date: 27 Jan 1997 14:21:07 GMT
Message-ID: <5cidkj$fhm@server1.ctc.com>

News group maintenance.

I got email:

> What's all this sally and amelia story ? (even a few words will
> constitute pointers to a complete answer).

Amelia was an 8 processor SGI 4D/380 which I helped purchase
(I did the benchmarking by spending 3 weeks one October,
when 380s first came out).
[I remember burritos at La Costenia {Mexican market not far from SGI in
Mountain View} on Halloween {American pseudo-holiday}] in Building 7 at SGI).
I also spent time at Convex (Richardson, TX), DEC, etc. etc.
but I was a running joke at the SGI Cafeteria by my friends who worked
there ["Oh, are you working here now?"]. 

She (amelia) posted the FAQ until just this past December when
a new machine (Sally) was purchased to replace her.
Amelia (E-hart) and Sally (Ride) were named after noted aviators
by NAS staff (the NFS-cross mounted {important} 380s replaced
VAX-11/780s named after the Wright Brothers and Fred Noonan
(Amelia's navigator and co-pilot).  I need to fix the headers (no time)
to reflect that change; the Reply-To: was instrumented to separate FAQ mail,
and other information.  I was not involved in Sally's purchase, and I
doubt Dr. Ride knows that this computer (like many others) is named
after her.  And the 380s being multiprocessors ran PVM, and other apps
and software, etc.

I inserted these little trivial pieces of bait to troll for a response
that Mike not only sent the message out, but also that it propagated.
Your message tells me that my message got propagated by Mike
to the East of Pittsburgh.

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