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In article <1992Jul29.181851.12025@news.eng.convex.com>, jgardner@convex.com (John B. Gardner) writes:
|> This probably belongs in a .politics newsgroup, but since it involves super
|> computing and started here, I'm puting it here...
|> 
|> In article <40173@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> gvw@epcc.ed.ac.uk (Greg Wilson) writes:
|> >In article <1992Jul28.152513.27457@athena.mit.edu>, solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
|> >> ....I know the USA will
|> >> make sure that its laws (both written and in the works) prevent its profitable
|> >> sale in the US. I'm not unhappy about that, BTW. In fact I rather like it...
|> >                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> >> Jason W. Solinsky
|> >
|> >Aah, America, the home of free enterprise ... 
|> 
|> 
|> Hold on a minute.  As easy as it would be for me to do flag waving about
|> American jobs and so forth (which I believe in), I believe there's a logical 
|> reason for the U.S. government to mandate U.S. manufactured supercomputers
|> for many installations.
|> 
|> Namely this;  A very large number of supercomputers purchased by the govt.
|> are for military or security operations (note, I don't *know* this, but I'd
|> say it's a pretty safe bet).  Relying on a foreign power for support, parts,
|> maintenance, etc. of a component that would be critical in wartime would be
|> extremely dangerous.

Personally, I prefer using the reason that we built their economy, and the
few parts we didn't build are MITI subsidized (sp?) so they have gotten far
more help than American supercomputing enterprises. Thus the American
companies deserve a little advantage. Especially when the Japanese
corporations discriminate against American electronics manufacturers to the
point of openly ignoring trade agreements.

I'd say that's pretty much the best way to put it without being inflammatory :-).

Jason W. Solinsky