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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african,comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: South Africa : Apartheid System Gets Supercomputer Technology
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Date: 26 Jun 89 23:22:00 GMT
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Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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I don't regard Transputer arrays as supercomputers, so from the standpoint
that its just another computer I don't feel to bad about this.  They aren't
going to be tagging people using these machines.  From
the standpoint that they get embargoed computers at all, this is a tragedy.
Then, most any computer can be used in the design of weapons systems, etc.

Another gross generalization from

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