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- From: wescott@yesac.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Mike.Wescott)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
- Subject: Re: BUNCH companies
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.175626.16315@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 22:56:26 GMT
- References: <2648@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Organization: "NCR Corp, Columbia, SC"
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- In article <2648@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell) writes:
- |> Back in simpler times, there was an acronym for those fairly large
- |> computer companies, which clustered (in size, though not neccessitarily
- |> in quality!) after IBM and DEC. They were called the BUNCH companies.
- |> Does anyone know what each letter stood for?
- |> Burroughs
- |> Univac (Sperry)
- |> NCR
- |> C (maybe the C in NCR?)
- |> Hewlett-Packard
- |> Anyone know if this is right?
-
- It's not correct. C and H are Control Data Corp (CDC) and Honeywell.
- And it was before DEC was number 2. Or even number 6.
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- There was also a time when the computer companies were called Snow
- White and the Seven Dwarves. Snow White was IBM. BUNCH were five of
- the dwarves. GE and RCA were the other two.
-
- --
- -Mike Wescott
- mike.wescott@ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM
-