I remember browsing in WikiPedia a year or two ago and found an interesting old computer running some UNIX or similar os, where the screenshot of the terminal was amusing because it was a computer or an account named my family name or very close to my family name ("Rosen*****"). I try to find which one it was but today having looked through all the VAX, VMS and PDP articles in Wikipedia I cannot find the one I was looking for. I'm quite sure that it was a system from 1970s or early 1980s where it was clearly seen from the screenshot of the terminal that the name of the machine was "Rosen****", Rosenholz or similar. I would like to find it if possible.
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1One of the principle designers of this interesting old computer has the surname, "Rosen." At least three different operating systems were developed for the computer, and one of those was Unix-like; But Mr. Rosen's name does not appear in the only screenshot in the Wikipedia article. – Solomon Slow Dec 13 '20 at 22:11
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If I had two computers I might call them Rosencrantz and Guildenstern... – dave Dec 13 '20 at 23:40
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@another-dave Maybe that was the real case. I'm sure there was such a screenshot of a vintage Unix system in Wikipedia but now I checked 42 of them and cannot find the one – Niklas Rosencrantz Dec 14 '20 at 06:01
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1@another-dave Found it! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/OpenVMSlogin.png – Niklas Rosencrantz Dec 14 '20 at 06:13
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I'm gratified my smart-aleck remark worked out for you! – dave Dec 16 '20 at 01:08
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Found it! "Welcome to Rosencrantz!" If this is Rosencrantz, where is Guildenstern? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/OpenVMSlogin.png
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were dead, but Rosencrantz was resurrected? – Michael Graf Dec 14 '20 at 06:56
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2@MichaelGraf It's a real family name in Denmark, Norway and Sweden and we are not fictional characters if I understand it correctly. – Niklas Rosencrantz Dec 14 '20 at 10:26
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2BTW, the Living Computer Museum unfortunately has been closed (maybe permanently), and at least some people working there have been laid off. A real loss. – dirkt Dec 14 '20 at 10:32
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"Unix or similar" - you just about got away with that, given "several common Unix and MS-DOS commands have been aliased for your convenience."... – Toby Speight Dec 14 '20 at 12:56
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2@NiklasR.— Yes, of course. That's why (as far as I understand it) Shakespeare chose these names, to add some authentic Danish flavour to Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. They then got remixed - hundreds of years later - into Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which is what I was jokingly referring to. – Michael Graf Dec 14 '20 at 13:51
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If this is Rosencrantz, where is Guildenstern? - It was common practice among DEC sysadmins to add machines to the network in small load-sharing groups, and give the nodes in a group theme-associated names. Rosencrantz was almost certainly once half of a pair of 780s so named. – A. I. Breveleri Dec 17 '20 at 21:52