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{{Short description|1970s computer workstation}}
The '''NuMachine''', or '''Nu Machine''', is an early [[microprocessor]]-based [[workstation|computer workstation]] designed to interface with [[local area network]]s. It was developed in the late 1970s at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]'s [[Laboratory for Computer Science]] (LCS) by Professor [[Steve Ward (computer scientist)|Steve Ward]] and his research group in concert with [[Western Digital]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.csail.mit.edu/user/1517 |title=Steve Ward {{!}} CSAIL |access-date=2011-01-08 |archive-date=2011-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927073435/http://www.csail.mit.edu/user/1517 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Western-Digital-Corp-Company-History.html Western Digital Corp. Company History]</ref> The NuMachine is [[Motorola 68010|68010]]-based running at 10 MHz.<ref name="techsumary" /> The project included the development of [[TRIX (operating system)|TRIX]], a [[Unix]] operating system variant.

The NuMachine was first developed commercially by Western Digital, but they decided not to enter the workstation business.<ref name="techsumary">{{cite book |title=Nu Machine Technical Summary |date=1982 |publisher=Texas Instruments |url=https://bitsavers.org/pdf/lmi/LMI_Docs/HARDWARE_1.pdf}}</ref> It was bought by [[Texas Instruments]] in 1983.<ref>[http://www.unlambda.com/lisp/e3.page The Explorer III Project (historical)]</ref> Texas Instruments dropped the NuMachine development in 1985 in favor of the [[TI Explorer]].<ref>''[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-03-12-fi-34359-story.html Irvine-Based NuMachine to Close by June]'', [[Los Angeles Times]] 1985-03-12</ref>

Its main legacy is a bus architecture called [[NuBus]] that was later adopted by [[Apple Inc.|Apple Computer]] for its [[Macintosh II]] and by [[NeXT]], and influenced the design of the [[Peripheral Component Interconnect|PCI bus]]. The TRIX operating system was used by the [[GNU Project]] for its first attempt at an operating system [[Kernel (operating system)|kernel]].

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