What is the definition of a "BUNCH"?

[mamisano]

I am on a mailing list that posted some technical information. Someone asked a trivia question asking what a BUNCH is or was.

Here is all I can come up with doing a search....
http://www.pa.msu.edu/hep/d0/ftp/l1/framework/hardware/sm/per_bunch_programming.txt

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=per-bunch+programming+definition


Thanks

 

[jasonroehm]

I remember back in high school a teacher telling me that a "bunch" was a mathematical term for some enormous quantity, but I've not heard of it since.

 

[Smilin]

What is the definition of "Quality", Feydra?

 

[Yomicron]

Bunch Theory

 

[Bowfinger]

Originally posted by: mamisano
I am on a mailing list that posted some technical information. Someone asked a trivia question asking what a BUNCH is or was.

May be a different BUNCH, but it was an acronym in the mid-80's or so to refer to the second-tier, big-iron computer companies: Burroughs, Unisys (or maybe Univac, don't know when they changed their name), NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell. If memory serves, "BUNCH" was coined after "the seven dwarves" dropped to five through consolidation (as in IBM and the seven dwarves). Or maybe it was a bad dream, but I think this is right.

Hope that helps.