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 Lines: 22 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! ;-);-);-) -- Eric Lee Green P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509 {ames,mit-eddie,osu-cis,...}!killer!elg, killer!usl!elg, etc. Only Amiga owners know what it feels like to multitask on $1K or less...