Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!usl!usl-pc!jpdres10
From: jpdres10@usl-pc.usl.edu (Green Eric Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet
Message-ID: <134@usl-pc.usl.edu>
Date: 5 Dec 88 17:30:49 GMT
References: <311@helios.prosys.se>
Reply-To: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette
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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!

;-);-);-)

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