dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (04/05/84)
Interesting that whoever did this (well done, by the way!) picked
"vax" as the machine suffix. Don't you know what happens to VAXen
that try to go to the USSR? (They get stopped in Sweden and it makes
headlines in North America.)
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Dave Sherman
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{allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsrgv!daverandy@utcsrgv.UUCP (Randall S. Becker) (04/05/84)
Have you ever considered the profession of private investigator? Good Show!
zrm@mit-eddie.UUCP (05/02/84)
Not all VAXen get stopped. While the netnews addresses were a fine joke, I would like to point out that lots of big, heavy computing equi[ment does make it to the Soviet Union, including VAXen and Unix sources. I used to work at an oufit called the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, near Vienna, Austria. One reason why this country no longer directly supports U.S. scientists at the IIASA is that just too much blatant technology filching went on there. Some of it was even quite comical: one incident involved an East European "spy" paying off a West European "scientist" for North Sea oil data that was quite publicly available and unclassified. It was also quite amusing (since I was technical support staff) to watch a bunch of mostly second-rate scientific staff wring their hand over detent. I got to see country-club liberalism at its worst, and a country club it was: I shared a large corner office with one other programmer. It had floor-to-cieling french windows and overlooked a several-acre large lawn on which deer would frolic in the early morning. The biulding used to be a Hapsburg summer palace and was on the edge of a huge park. Oh those public sector jobs! -Zig