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From: m.tiernan@pro-angmar.UUCP (Michael Tiernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Cray to design Mac (was 6502 *IS* RISC)
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Date: 11 Oct 90 01:11:36 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU

No doubt that my message will just join the fray of those messages whom one is
inclined to comment "He doesn't know what he's talking about..."
I remember when the whole thing happened too.  Being an electronics student, I
was inclined to read the trades heavily and the article in one of those mags
said that when the first order for a Cray was placed, someone of the VPs
called Mr Cray and told him that "Apple just placed an order, they're going to
use it to design their new computers on it".  At that point, he responed with
"It seems only fair, I designed mine on theirs."  The software use was a
simulator for logic analysis whom I can't remember quite but I used to have a
pirate copy of it (Untill I got religion).  It was run on an Apple ][+ with
64K, two 5.25" drives.

On that note, has anyone ever read any articles about Burt Rutan?  The guy
that designed the Voyager not to mention all those neat looking (and kinda
wierd) private kit style airplanes?  He still uses his original A][ with one
drive (as I remember) and a obscure zenith monitor to design the airfoils that
he uses.  TO THIS DAY!  HE STILL USES IT!

Last one, care to take a trivia quiz?  What was the FIRST "Personal Computer"
in space?  An Apple ][+!

Well, 'nuff wasted bandwith.  See everyone later.


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