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[Jim Manley]

Starting in 1987, future Mac product circuitry and VLSI designs were run on
a Cray X-MP/48 for hardware and software simulations under Unicos Cray’s
licensed version of Unix System V:  Apple was the first company that Cray
allowed to access their Network Systems Corporation (Minneapolis) developed
high-speed channel, operating at 850Mbits per second, which Cray called its
HSX channel.

https://www.cbronline.com/news/apple_uses_cray_x_mp_and_unix_to_design_your_next_macintosh/



On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 8:16 PM Ethan O'Toole via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> > He didn't know of anyone doing much other with it either.  I think it
> was
> > bought before there was a unix type OS under the Macos.
> > thanks
> > Jim
>
> https://wiki.c2.com/?AppleCrayComputer
>
> They bought it to use to design the next Macintosh CPU I thought (break
> away from the 68000 but never did), but that page talks about electronics
> layout.
>
>                 - Ethan
>