From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!pdh@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: Re: Russian computers
Article-I.D.: hplabs.481
Posted: Wed Jun 23 15:19:49 1982
Received: Sun Jun 27 23:00:05 1982

Somebody touched on the important issue in the hig-tech security discussion
some time ago, and then it seems to have been forgotten.  As any serious-
thinking engineer will testify, all the hardware in the world, however
sophisticated, is useless without good software, AND vice versa!  The con-
glomeration of 68000's and 6809's, etc., etc., that I have sitting at my
house probably totals to the equivalent of a system 370.  However, it will
probably take me (and several others along with me) years to get them all
working efficiently together (not to mention individually).  You can bet
that the Russians *already* have enough American technology sitting somewhere
behind the Iron Curtain to fill a good sized machine room.  Now if only
it were quite so easy to smuggle (or coerce) humans out of the U.S.  Then
we'd have something to worry about.

				Peter