NuMachine

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The NuMachine was developed in the late 1970s at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) by Professor Steve Ward and his research group. It was a project to design a computer workstation that interfaced with local area networks using microprocessors. It was never released. It included a new operating system called Trix, which the GNU Project used for its first attempt at an operating system kernel.

Its main legacy was a bus architecture called NuBus that was later adopted by Apple Computer for its Macintosh II and by NeXT, and influenced the design of the PCI bus.