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From: mjt@super.ORG (Michael J. Tighe)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: A Recently Heard Story About Seymour Cray
Keywords: Cray,Macintosh,Mac,Design
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Date: 20 Dec 88 23:46:13 GMT
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>In article <90@stanton.TCC.COM> donegan@stanton.TCC.COM (Steven P. Donegan) writes:
>I heard a story recently:
>Seymour Cray called Apple and noted that he had heard Apple was using a Cray
>to design future Mackintosh systems.
>He informed Apple that he was using a Mackintosh to design future Cray's.
>Truth or fiction, anyone know?

     During the 21st semi-annual Cray User Group Meeting
held April 25-29 1988, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Marcelo A.
Gamucio gave an address titled, "CRI Corporate Report". She
talked about a lot of things, but at the end she opened the
floor for questions. Here is how it went:
 
Question: This is actually more in the nature of a rumor, is
          it actually true that Apple owns a Cray machine
          and they are using that to design their new Apple
          product and Seymour owns a Macintosh and he's
          using that to design the Cray-3?
 
  Answer: That's not true. It is true Apple has an X-MP
          to design the next generation Apple, it is not
          true that Seymour has a Macintosh - Seymour has
          SIX Mac's. It's absolutely true that Seymour is
          very very positive on the Macintosh and he has had
          an opportunity to look at the architecture of the
          machine, he claims it is a contribution to
          computing. He has never seen anything like this in
          a small machine and he is the greatest fan that
          Apple could have.
 
Question: Is it possible we'll see a gallium arsenide Mac as
          a result?
 
  Answer: Who knows.
 
"Nothing good ever came out of a committee." - Seymour Cray
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