[53] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: No Dice on High Performance Computing Bill
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow)
Tue Oct 30 15:25:26 1990
To: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>
Cc: kwe@buitb.bu.edu (Kent England), com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 30 Oct 90 14:24:48 -0500.
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 12:09:54 GMT
From: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow <geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
For reasons given, see the New York Times, which has an article by
Keith Bradsher on Congresses failing to act on a number of communications
bills. One such bill mentioned was the High Performance Computer Act:
"...A bill to spend $1.75 billion on the construction of a data
network to link the nation's universities and supercomputer centers
won Senate approval Thursday but never made it out of a House
subcommittee. Some Democrats contended that the planned network
would have been elitist."
Geoff
