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From: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
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Subject: Re: Cray to design Mac (was 6502 *IS* RISC)
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Date: 28 Sep 90 17:21:18 GMT
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In <1990Sep28.112108.165@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Joel Sumner) writes:

>Here is an interesting little tale:
>  At the unveiling of one of the Macs long ago (Gee, there have been so many, I
>can't keep up), Apple proudly announced that 'they used a Cray computer to 
>design their latest Macintosh computer'.  Semour Cray happened to be in the
>audience and stood up and said, 'That's funny, I used a Mac to design my
>latest Cray...'

Ah, the way I heard it back when it had come out was istead of
Macintosh, they had said Apple II.  Course it's been awhile, they
might have said just 'Apple' which could (and almost always does
anymore) mean Mac.

-k