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Article #33Re: Fujitsu and America
From: Ben Cutler
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 23:25
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 23:25
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In article <1992Jul29.181851.12025@news.eng.convex.com> jgardner@convex.com (John B. Gardner) writes:
>... Relying on a foreign power for support, parts,
>maintenance, etc. of a component that would be critical in wartime would be
>extremely dangerous.
>
>Yes, I work for a U.S. manufacturer of supercomputers, so my opinion is no
>doubt biased, but the above arguement still has merit, IMHO.
Last time I checked, your company (Convex) bought most of its memory
chips from the Japanese, and you used a Japanese fab for your cpu gate
arrays for the C1 and C2 series machines. Unless I'm mistaken, the
fab you used was in fact Fujitsu's.
So, assuming your argument in favor of "American" vendors has merit, why
should the military favor Convex over Fujitsu?
Ben Cutler
cutler@equator.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.super Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psinntp!equator!cutler From: cutler@equator.com (Ben Cutler) Subject: Re: Fujitsu and America Message-ID: <1992Jul30.232538.12037@equator.com> Keywords: Supercomputer, parallel processing, foreign Sender: cutler@equator.com Organization: Equator Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA References: <1992Jul28.152513.27457@athena.mit.edu> <40173@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1992Jul29.181851.12025@news.eng.convex.com> Distribution: comp.sys.super Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 23:25:38 GMT Lines: 18