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>Or you ould call it ALAN, anmed after the man who wrote the first machine
>code programme.

I _really_ like this one. There is a bit of respect for the computer
industry's history in this one. It also sounds like a name that someone
would name a computer that could be used to flatten out bumps in 18" thick
concrete floors.

>I could go on, but I will bore you all.

I could call it Lovalace, after Babbages friend that is fabled to have been
the first programmer (have a look at
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~rburnley/babbage/ada.html -- They have another cut on
the story). I think, though, that if I called it lovelace, people would look
at me wierd when I talked about a computer named Lovalace.

The story I gave a link to above suggests that the first programmer was
Babbage, followed by his assistant and eldest son, Herschel. Too long for a
computer name. :)

- Keelan Lightfoot