a Cambridge pub called the Eagle

Well, it's still there (it's been there since Tudor times in fact), and it's quite a good pub but gets very crowded. Plus it's right in the centre of town, so isn't very handy for Empeg Towers unless we're going out in town that evening anyway -- it's very close to popular cheap'n'cheerful eating place the Eraina Taverna.

The old Computer Laboratory mainframe, Phoenix, used to have a command called "eagle" which worked a bit like the Unix command "top" -- basically, it let you see how many other users were running jobs on the system, and thus whether you had time to nip out for a cheeky pint before your job finished.

Peter