bunch

The BUNCH was the nickname for the group of mainframe computer competitors to IBM in the 1970s. The name is derived from the names of the five companies:  Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data Corporation, and Honeywell. These companies were grouped together because the market share of IBM was much higher than all of its competitors put together.

Bunch may refer to:

• Bunch (surname)
• BUNCH, a group of computer manufacturing companies
• Bunch (computer science), an abstract data type that can be understood as a set without the "packaging"
• Tussock (grass) or bunch grass, members of the Poaceae family
• Bunch, Oklahoma, United States of America
• The Bunch, a 1972 folk rock group
• The Brady Bunch, a TV show
• Humpback whale, sometimes called a bunch

BUNCH (deutsch Rudel) war der Spitzname einer Gruppe von fünf großen Computerunternehmen, der aus den Initialen dieser Unternehmen gebildet wurde.

Bunch ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

• Chris Bunch (1943–2005), US-amerikanischer Autor
• David R. Bunch (1925–2000), US-amerikanischer Science-Fiction-Autor
• John Bunch (1921–2010), US-amerikanischer Jazz-Pianist
• Robert Bunch (1820–1881), britischer Diplomat
• Samuel Bunch (1786–1849), US-amerikanischer Politiker
• Velton Ray Bunch, US-amerikanischer Komponist

BUNCH, acrónimo de Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell, era el término con el que se conocía en los años 1960 al grupo de empresas capaces de competir con el claro e indiscutible monopolio de IBM en el mercado de las grandes computadoras.

BUNCH é a sigla do grupo de fabricantes de computadores que competiam com a IBM na década de 1970.

BUNCH és l'acrònim de les cinc empreses d'informàtica que competien amb l'empresa IBM durant la dècada del 1970. Aquestes empreses eren: Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data i Honeywell.