Silly Question

[rgbivens]

This may be a silly question but what happened to RS8???

Did somebody get carried away with their counting and skip right over the number 8 or what???



-Grant

[Thomas T]

8 is an unlucky number.

In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, eight is a holy number and is considered taboo. Eight is not safe to be said by wizards on the Discworld and is the number of Bel-Shamharoth. Also, there are eight days in a Disc week and eight colours in a Disc spectrum, the eighth one being Octarine

Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark has 8 "fits" (cantos), which is noted in the full name "The Hunting of the Snark - An Agony, in Eight Fits

8 apparitions appear to Macbeth in Act 4 scene 1 of Shakespeare's Macbeth as representations of the 8 descendants of Banquo

8 is one of the "Lost Numbers" on the television show, Lost, along with 4, 15, 16, 23, and 42

In Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, dialing an 8-chevron address will open a wormhole to another galaxy.

In the middle ages, 8 was the number of "unmoving" stars in the sky, and symbolized the perfectioning of incoming planetary energy

In China, '8' is used in chat speak as a term for parting. This is due to the closeness in pronunciation of '8' (bā) and the English word 'bye'.

In all honesty, I have absolutly no idea. I think it might be because of the change in datacenters. In the new datacenter, the first two servers were RS9 and shared9, so it might be easier to remember.