[43898] in Cypherpunks
Re: Sun rumor [WAS Re: real life problems with ITAR (was Spam the Sign!)]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Fri Nov 24 16:41:51 1995
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 13:41:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: Michael Froomkin <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
Cc: attila <attila@primenet.com>, jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>,
cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951124152336.28283G-100000@viper.law.miami.edu>
On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Michael Froomkin wrote:
>
> I've heard this story several times from many different people. Anyone
> have any evidence that it's true? (My friends at Sun say they haven't
> heard the story, but don't work in the parts that would have necessarily
> heard it.)
It sounds like something I heard from John Gage, though the rumors may be
getting conflated with Suns purchace of the entire Soviet super-computer
industry in (I think) '92.
