Discussion about Distributed System/Advanced Operating Systems

This post is for sharing knowledge about topics in distritbuted systems or advanced operating systems such as time synchornization, naming, deadlocks, distributed mutual exclusion, distributed coordination.

Background of Naming Things (As why intel named as intel?)

The history of brands sometimes present you the inovations and sometimes dumminess of the inventer. It will be very exciting to search about the reasons of branding any thing to be presented to public.

For example: i have seen the following right now.

1) Intel: abbreviated from Integrated Electronics
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel

2) Google: Comes from word Googol which is a mathematical term means 1 followed by 100 zeros. it relects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web. Google was assigned mistakenly at the time of domain registration.
Ref: http://www.google.com.pk/intl/en/corporate/index.html

So, share your knowledge also and provide brand reasoning as much as you can. It was a very exciting discussion, just belive me.