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August 1998, Week 3

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Nick Demos <[log in to unmask]>
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Nick Demos <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 17 Aug 1998 17:31:53 -0400
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Therm-O-Link wrote:
>
> Eric Bender writes:
>
> >All this reminiscing about Burroughs reminds me that when I began work in
> >the EDP (whoops, IT) field in the mid-'60's, the mainframe world (and
> there
> >really was no other then) was said to consist of Big Blue and the Seven
> >Dwarfs. Big Blue of course was (and is) IBM. I believe 6 of the 7 dwarfs
> >consisted of the following:
> >
> >Burroughs
> >Univac
> >NCR
> >Honeywell
> >GE
> >RCA
> >
> >Do I have this right and what was the 7th?
>
OK, then the seventh dwarf was CDC.

Nick D.

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