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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
- Path: 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
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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
-