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?

Well, the way I heard it was IBM and BUNCH, for Burroughs, Univac, 
NCR, CDC, and Honeywell.  But that was probably later than the 60's! :-0

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