4 Nov
1997
4 Nov
'97
10:04 a.m.
At 06:13 PM 11/3/97 +0300, you wrote:
I wouldn't be so sure about the military part...
their MIS seems to either
have gone to school and got a degree in dentistry or learned on the
Eniac.... corporate will always be faster than military. There is no
"secret operations" that deal with these areas of computers. But maybe a
Wrong. For a while (in the early 90's) I subscribed to a magazine called
Defense Electronics. The military had things like 50ns RAM available then.
They are way ahead in many areas; they can afford to (or used to be able to,
anyway) throw money at things, and they often got first dibs.
I mean, if you had developed a spiffy new toilet seat, and were going to
sell it for $50 each, but the military guys showed up and said "we'll buy
10,000 of them for $10,000 each, but you can't tell anyone about them", what
would you do?
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