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From: tkevans@fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: High Performance Computing Act
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Date: 19 Apr 91 13:41:07 GMT
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In <18APR91.19204942@uc780.umd.edu> cs450a03@uc780.umd.edu writes:

>I happened to notice that the House passed its version of the High
>Performance Computing Act today (H.R. 656, if I remember right).

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>Supposedly, the net is supposed to be in operation by 1996.  The cost
>estimate is just a hair under 2 billion dollars.

Yeah, but the real question is whether there's money in the budget to
finance it.  Congress frequently "authorizes" stuff, but financing it
is a separate step, which sometimes doesn't get taken.
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