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From: mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu (Don McGregor)
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Subject: Re: Fact or Fiction: NeXT Sells to the CIA
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Date: 30 Nov 90 05:51:48 GMT
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In article <3003@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> ppham@gmuvax2.UUCP ( ) writes:
>>NeXt selling 2500 machines to the CIA. 
> 
>Yes, I think it is true, I know for sure that "some branch" of the US
>Gov. was evaluating he machines, so I guess that it musta been the CIA.

For the application that was mentioned (digitial signal processing of 
underwater data) it sounds more likely that it would be one branch or
another of the Navy.  I believe the CIA gets more involved in the 
analysis of collected data than in crunching numbers of this type.

Don McGregor             | "I too seek the light, so long as it tastes  
mcgredo@prism.cs.orst.edu|  great and is not too filling."