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Tehuti is a Daewoo 7400 sub-notebook. He's used for the same purposes as Athena, more or less. He's retrofitted with an AMD 5x86-PR75 running at 100 MHz (higher frequencies overheated the system when it works hard). There are 20 Mb of RAM and 4.3 Gb of HDD. Tehuti connects to the LAN through a Xircom CEM-56 PCMCIA multi-function card (10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet and 56 kbps modem). He runs Debian Linux, like most of the BedroomLAN machines. This is a very cure little notebook, given its age.

Tehuti is one of the possible renditions of the name of the Egyptian god whom the Greeks knew as Thoth. Other possible pronunciations of the name are Djehuti, Zehuti and Djhowtey. Tehuti is a moon god, a relatively rare occurrence. Like Athena he's god of wisdom, and by extension music, writing, astronomy, medicine, cartography, geometry, drawing and magic. He's associated with the ibis and the baboon. Egyptian mythology has Tehuti/Thoth as a minor underworld deity, too: depending on whom you listen to, he either records the judgments on the souls of the dead, or weighs the souls and makes the judgments himself. In his aspect as god of magicians, Tehuti was later renamed to Hermes Trismegistos (a relatively new aspect of the Greek god Hermes). Hermes Trismegistos was the protector of magicians and alchemists well beyond the middle ages: in fact, Thoth was still known and worshiped in this century by members of certain cults.