Some of the other list participants can probably explain this better,
but most of the AT&T machines were named with a location code, a function
code, and a unique id to differentiate multiple machines. At least,
that was the idea, although to an outsider it didn't always seem to be
that way.
Thus, ihnp4 was Indian Hill Network Processor #4
mh was Murray Hill. ak was the Atlanta Wire Works, sb was Southern
Bell, cb was Columbus (Mark Horton was mark@cbosgd for a long time)
plus others.
Then there were the machines in the lab that had (and have) names like
bonnie, clyde, ulysses, research, allegra, lento, harpo, chico, etc.
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