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From: viljanen@kreeta.cs.Helsinki.FI (Lea Viljanen UNIX88)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet
Keywords: russians machines embargo
Message-ID: <648@hydra.cs.Helsinki.FI>
Date: 9 Dec 88 08:31:36 GMT
References: <311@helios.prosys.se> <134@usl-pc.usl.edu>
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In article <134@usl-pc.usl.edu> elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US writes:
>In article <311@helios.prosys.se> ath@helios.prosys.se (Anders Thulin) writes:
>>The Swedish company Scandinavian Information Systems has entered a
>>joint venture agreement with a Soviet company to manufacture PC clones
>>in Moscow. The first clones are planned to be delivered in March 1989.
>[...]
>>More interesting, this deal seems to have the blessings of the US gov.
>>The article indicates that the hi tech embargo of hi tech products is
>>not going to be applied.
>
>We cynics would think that the reason for not applying the ban of
>hi-tech products is that the IBM PC, as technology that was obsolete
>when introduced in 1982, is hardly "hi-tech".
>
>Just lets us know what the Russians and Swedish think are high-tech...
>heck, in a few more years, they might even discover CP/M!

I don't know what they do think is high-tech, but if my memory serves 
me right, machines with 32 bit processors aren't allowed to be exported.

That's why two businessmen here in Finland are facing charges for selling
(or maybe trying to sell, I don't recall) VAXes to the russians. 

>--
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