So next, let's run Windows on a DEC PDP-10? Why DEC PDP-10? Gates and Allen had neither an interpreter nor even an Altair system, for their first Altair BASIC

So next, let's run Windows on a DEC PDP-10? Why DEC PDP-10? Gates and Allen had neither an interpreter nor even an Altair system, for their first Altair BASIC product of Microsoft. However, Allen had written an Intel 8008 emulator for their previous venture Traf-O-Data that ran on a PDP-10 time-sharing computer. [1] Another fun fact, Apple used Cray XMP supercomputers to design Apple hardware [2] while Seymour Cray used an Apple desktop some of the time when designing the Cray-2 [3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC [2] http://wiki.c2.com/?AppleCrayComputer http://wiki.c2.com/?AppleCrayComputer [3] "Cray and Apple, seemly at opposite ends of the computer spectrum, do have some subtle links. It was known that Seymour Cray used an Apple desktop some of the time when designing the Cray-2. It is also known that Apple had a sequence of Cray machines starting in March 1986 with an XMP/28 followed by another XMP in Feb 1991. A YMP-2E arrived later in 1991 and finally an EL from Dec 1993 to Jun 98. It is said that Apples first XMP was bought by Steve Jobs after he just walked into the Cray facility in Mendota Heights." http://wiki.c2.com/?AppleCrayComputer http://wiki.c2.com/?AppleCrayComputer