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From: diamond@jit345.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: High Performance Computing Act
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Date: 19 Apr 91 05:34:31 GMT
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In article <18APR91.19204942@uc780.umd.edu> cs450a03@uc780.umd.edu writes:

>(Nation Research and Education Network)

Yikes!

>(*) supposedly, private industry is supposed to be kept in the action
>and there is stuff in there about user fees where practical.

That's a relief.  I was just about to say, could you imagine if the
telephone network were off-limits to private industry.

Remember how the telephone industry was started by private entrepreneurs?
(That was in the days before regulation to create a monopoly.)
One almost wonders why private entrepreneurs can't create a high-speed
data communications network.  Why even Telenet and Tymnet don't do it....

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Norman Diamond       diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com
If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.