joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) (12/31/86)
I got a good laugh out of this one. It reminds me of the joke
about how to make a horse and rabbit stew: take one horse and
one rabbit.
John Sculley ... said Apple had recently
bought a [Cray] supercomputer for about
$14.5 million and was using it to develop
its next-generation Apple.
[Cray's chief executive John] Rollwagen
said he hadn't wanted Apple to think this
was a one-way street. So, he said, "since
they were good enough to buy one of our
machines, some of us have bought a few
of theirs."
Rollwagen also said he told Seymour Cray
... about how Apple was using the machine.
"There was a pause on the other end of the
line," [he] recalls, "and Seymour said, 'That's
interesting, because I'm designing the next
Cray with an Apple.' "
Quoted from the Wall Street Journal, (c) 1986 Dow Jones & Co.
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