Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!mcvax!steven From: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Question about International Unix System V Message-ID: <5977@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Sep-84 09:46:32 EDT Article-I.D.: mcvax.5977 Posted: Mon Sep 17 09:46:32 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 08:30:29 EDT References: <56@sdcsvax.UUCP> <4624@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 19 > If the latter, why are we bothering about their regulations, or is this some > sort of acquiescence by AT&T to foreign telecommunications authorities? I hope this remark doesn't reflect the degree of xenophobia that it suggests. "Other countries have different standards? Well serve them right to suffer!" Acquiescence??? Anyone would think it was a war! The USA has different voltages to Europe. Should DEC then sell VAXes that only run to the USA standard? Of course not. Actually though, as it happens, the reason that Unixes leaving the US have to be changed, is because of the Reagan administration's fear that we'll only go and sell the encryption algorithms to the Commies! True fact. But he was too late, cos we've got the algorithms anyway. And know what? We still haven't sent them to the Reds! (Though if you don't get those Cruise missiles out, we will do, so be warned! :-) Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam. steven@mcvax.