Number Nine

(Number Nine Visual Technology Corporation, Lexington, MA) A manufacturer of PC display adapters founded in 1982 as Number Nine Computer Corporation by Andrew Najda and Stan Bialek.

Over the years, Number Nine display adapters were highly praised for advancing the state-of-the-art. Products often began with a #9 prefix, such as #9GXe and #9FX. In 1999, the assets of Number Nine were acquired by S3 Corporation, which subsequently sold manufacturing and production rights to ASIC architects Jim Macleod and Frank Bruno, principals of the original Number Nine engineering team. The new company they formed in 2002 was Silicon Spectrum, Inc., Londonderry, NH (www.siliconspectrum.com). See SONICblue.

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Everton's number nine shirt is one that is steeped in the most illustrious tradition, and a jersey some of the finest players in the club's history all have in common.

Nobody will make more effort to EARN the shirt

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NEWCASTLE manager Steve Bruce insists new signing Joelinton is up to the challenge of wearing the club's famous number nine shirt.

Joelinton can live up to Magpies number 9, says Bruce

A record deal - [euro]40m - and the newest striker to take on the number nine shirt made so famous by legends of the game.

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The former Hoffenheim man referenced Shearer and the number nine shirt, in his first interview for Newcastle - "I know it (the number nine shirt) is a huge responsibility, the great Alan Shearer, the team's biggest idol.

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Everton boasted football's first highprofile number nine when the legendary Dixie Dean wore that number - and scored - in the 1933 FA Cup final at Wembley.

Blues will be on cloud nine with proper centre-forward

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane hailed Karim Benzema as the best number nine in world football after the French striker hit a hat-trick in the 3-0 victory over Athletic Bilbao at the Bernabeu on Sunday.

Zidane hails hat-trick hero Benzema as world's best nine

Chelsea assistant boss Gianfranco Zola says Blues boss Maurizio Sarri thought Morata could be the "perfect number nine".

Chelsea legend Zola urges Morata to step up

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