The Gang of Nine was a group of IBM competitors who came together in 1988 to create the Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus, to compete with IBM's MicroChannel Architecture (MCA). International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (in practice almost always shortened to EISA and frequently pronounced "eee-suh" is a bus standard for IBM compatible Micro Channel Architecture (in practice almost always shortened to MCA) was a proprietary 16- or 32-bit parallel Computer bus These companies were AST Research, Compaq Computer, Epson, Hewlett-Packard, NEC, Olivetti, Tandy, WYSE, and Zenith Data Systems. AST Research Inc was a Personal computer manufacturer founded in Irvine, California in 1980 by Albert Compaq Computer Corporation was an American Personal computer company founded in 1982 and is now a brand name of Hewlett-Packard. or Epson, is a Japanese company and one of the world's largest manufacturers of inkjet, dot matrix and Laser printers scanners is a Japanese multinational IT company headquartered in Minato Tokyo, Japan. Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA, known as Olivetti, is an Italian manufacturer of Computers printers and other business machines Tandy Corporation was a family-owned Leather goods company based in Fort Worth Texas, which is best known for purchasing and giving its name to the Fort Worth WYSE (970 AM) is a Radio station located in Canton North Carolina, that simulcasts WISE 's Sports talk format from Asheville Zenith Data Systems (ZDS was a division of Zenith founded in 1979 after Zenith acquired Heathkit, who had at that time recently entered the personal computer market The name "Gang of Nine" is in reference to the notorious Gang of Four, who were Chinese communist officials who fell into disfavor after the death of Mao Zedong. The Gang of Four ( was the name given to a leftist political faction composed of four Chinese Communist party officials Mao Zedong ( 26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976) was a Chinese Military and political leader who led
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