[neuromantik8086]

Just as a bit of a nitpick the Connection Machine:

a) Wasn't manufactured by Cray. It was made by Thinking Machines Corporation in the greater Boston area.

b) Didn't have anything to do with neural nets, as it was developed during the period of time when GOFAI / symbolic AI was still in vogue (although by the late 80s the Japanese had revived connectionism / neural nets), and thus had far more in common with a LISP machine.

c) Was mostly about developing a decent SIMD architecture.