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This list of animal (and a few cartoon or other) code names for Prime hardware is drawn from a variety of sources. A partial list can be found at the end of this page. This list was collated by Dennis Boone, 1986-2019.

The Animals

Adder                   2301 (Cipher streamer drive or controller)
Alvin                   P2850
Ape                     P850
Aphrodite               Something power-related
Beaver                  Remote EAGLE, connected via Hawk
Beluga                  SMD disk drive
Bobcat, horizontal      P5340
Bobcat, horizontal slow P5320
Bobcat, vertical        P5330
Bobcat, vertical slow   P5310
Camel                   P9950 (cf Fox, name changed during dev)
Chipmunk                May be a "Fat 2450" cabinet for 2850/2950
Cougar (Uni-)           P6450
Cougar (Dual-)          P6650
Curley                  P2950 (CPU type 33)
Dolphin                 P9750
Eagle                   ICS2
Elf                     Adapter to a general purpose secondary I/O bus
Falcon                  Remote Hawk with 8 async lines (remote ICS1?)
Fox                     P9950 (cf Camel, name changed during dev)
Ferret                  VCP II
Garfield                P55xx ('Toons series, abandoned at close)
Gorilla                 P750
Hawk                    (proposed serial "packet-plexor")
Iguana                  Intelligent controller (LHC)
Jackrabbit?             P2550; may be a BORIS localism
Jaguar                  P6150
Koala                   IDC1 disk controller
Larry                   P2455 (CPU type 32)
Leopard                 P6350
Lizard                  Ring 3 test program
Lynx                    ICS1
Mink                    VCP 4 (Diagnostic Processor)
Minnow                  2382 (SCSI ctrl for skinny 2x5x machines)
Mole                    P550
Moe                     P2755 (CPU type 31)
Panther                 P6550
Penguin                 P9955-II
Pickeral                SMD disk drive
Pip                     P4450 (Penguin-in-Possum, 9955-II cpu in a 4050 cab)
Possum                  P4150
Puffer                  Kennedy? tape drive
Rabbit                  P2250
Remora                  P2455
Shamrock                Telex tri-density 9track drive?
Shark                   P2755
Simon                   P2950
Sloth                   P4050
Stallion                P5370
Swordfish               SDTC (TLA10406)
Terrapin                P2450   (CPU types 20, 35, 36, 37) (Tortoise?)
Thor                    LHC
Tigger                  P9955-T (9955 with 32MB memory support, special)
Toons                   P55x0 (x=# of cpus)
Turtle                  P2350
Vole                    P9650
Weasel                  VCP 3
Wombat                  P9955
Wren                    PST100

Note: "CPU types" numbers above do not seem to correspond to the values returned by the cpuid$() call.

Sources

  • Something found in antiquity
  • cpuid$.ins.pl1 r23.3.0
  • Something in the Prime Australia utilities
  • comp.sys.prime FAQ
  • BOOT source
  • comp.sys.prime
  • PE-T-930
  • UPINFO 21.0