In <d02.4e62cf50.36c44...@aol.com>, on 02/11/2009 at 10:05 AM, "(IBM Mainframe Discussion List)" <dasdbi...@aol.com> said:
>I thought that the "C" in BUNCH was Compagnie des Machines Bull. No; B.U.L.L. was a minor player at the time. >CDC made mainframe-compatible disk drives, though, I think, but not >central processors. Sic transit gloria mundi. There was a time when CDC owned the high-end market. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html