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  2. From: wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
  4. Subject: BUNCH companies
  5. Message-ID: <2648@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
  6. Date: 27 Jan 93 18:29:11 GMT
  7. Sender: news+@pitt.edu
  8. Organization: University of Pittsburgh
  9. Lines: 11
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  12.    Back in simpler times, there was an acronym for those fairly large
  13. computer companies, which clustered (in size, though not neccessitarily
  14. in quality!) after IBM and DEC.  They were called the BUNCH companies.
  15. Does anyone know what each letter stood for?
  16. Burroughs
  17. Univac (Sperry)
  18. NCR
  19. C (maybe the C in NCR?)
  20. Hewlett-Packard
  21. Anyone know if this is right?
  22.