zrm@mit-eddie.UUCP (Zigurd R. Mednieks) (02/07/84)
Ah! So we should end the most successful program we have to hobble the Soviet military: we ought to end the ban on high tech transfers. That would be stupid beyond belief. The reason we should continuue and redouble our efforts to deny technology to the Soviets is that it really does not matter if their military gets all the 4k rams they want. What matters is that designers and engineers do noot get to use jazzy cad-cam equipmment in college, thereby making a whole generation of engineers less useful than they might otherwise be. What matters is that their planners don't get to run huge simlations of supply line systems on supercomputers. What matters is that there is no widespread "compuuter literacy" in the SOviet Union so that vast amounts of talent go to waste instead of into the war machine. The DoD had always been at the forefront of communications and personal workstations becausee they know the value of a scientific community that can easily communicate. There is no reason why we should hand the Soviet Union such a situation on a silver platter.