[libreoffice-website] Bilbo - Who decided on that name - like it

Bilbo: - Who decided on that name - I like it.

We had servers/disks on a mainframe in the early 80's called

Bilbo - for students
Frodo - for staff
Gandalf - business
Gollum - misc. work for testing

Some people though it was not "business like" for that college to have 
their disk storage systems named after Lord of the Rings characters, but 
half of the IT people loved it and they kept saying it would take a lot 
of time and effort to change things so that they would not be affected 
by the name changes.  That was "bull" but the top managers did not know 
a thing about mainframe systems and programming.

I miss those days of dealing with that set of DEC PDP-11 equipment.  
More than half of the places I went to school and work had them, while 
the others had IBM systems.  That was before PC came out.

So
yes - I like the name and maybe I will re-read the Hobbit and Lord of 
the Rings books again [been 3+ years].  Have the movies [including 
animated version of the Hobbit].

.

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