The NuMachine, or Nu Machine, is an early microprocessor-based computer workstation designed to interface with local area networks.
It was developed in the late 1970s at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) by Professor Steve Ward and his research group in concert with Western Digital.
[3] The project included the development of TRIX, a Unix operating system variant.
The NuMachine was first developed commercially by Western Digital, but they decided not to enter the workstation business.
[4] Texas Instruments dropped the NuMachine development in 1985 in favor of the TI Explorer.