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  2. From: doneill@cipc1.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Dick O'Neill)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
  4. Subject: Re: BUNCH companies
  5. Message-ID: <593@cipc1.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
  6. Date: 27 Jan 93 21:46:40 GMT
  7. References: <2648@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
  8. Organization: NCR Corporation - Dayton, OH USA
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  11. In article <2648@blue.cis.pitt.edu> wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell) writes:
  12. >
  13. >   Back in simpler times, there was an acronym for those fairly large
  14. >computer companies, which clustered (in size, though not neccessitarily
  15. >in quality!) after IBM and DEC.  They were called the BUNCH companies.
  16. >Does anyone know what each letter stood for?
  17. >Burroughs
  18. >Univac (Sperry)
  19. >NCR
  20. >C (maybe the C in NCR?)
  21.  
  22. Control Data
  23.  
  24. >Hewlett-Packard
  25.  
  26. Honeywell
  27.  
  28. I believe those are the missing names.
  29.  
  30. >Anyone know if this is right?
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  32.  
  33. -- 
  34. Dick O'Neill                                            
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