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Re: 20 Gflop NEC machine

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From: Rostyk Lewyckyj
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1989 20:52
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In article <3216@eos.UUCP>, eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes:
> I don't know which Government agencies are going to get "forced" into
> buying this machine, it won't be us, we don't get "forced," but we would
> certainly like to know who.
> 


I don't understand this statement at all.
Who will do the forcing? why? how? and why would forcing of any kind
be necessary? 
I thought the quiet word was buy USA technology, just as they quietly
discourage buying US high tech items in Japan.
I hope that you will explain, in public or private.
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From: urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP (Rostyk Lewyckyj)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 20 Gflop NEC machine
Summary: forced?
Keywords: Vector supercomputer NEC
Message-ID: <6833@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 89 20:52:22 GMT
References: <14173@duke.cs.duke.edu> <3216@eos.UUCP>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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