29 Jun
1999
29 Jun
'99
9:37 a.m.
Anyway the reason I am mailing is that I have just
been given the
chance to take home a decomissioned Meiko CS2 from work.
Basically, the United States sucks.
Why is it that overseas decomissioned supercomputers (albeit a rather
small one in this instance) are easy to obtain, but trying to pry one out
of a stateside installation is basically impossible? The government, and
some rather outdated "security" issues have something to do with it.
Damn, I would drive half way across the continent to pick up an older
Cray, ETA, CM, KSR, Maspar, NEC, etc..
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org