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- From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
- Subject: Re: Fujitsu and America
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.221017.24681@athena.mit.edu>
- Keywords: Supercomputer, parallel processing, foreign
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:10:17 GMT
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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
-