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Subject: IP: oh well , another down -- U.S. BUYS SUPERCOMPUTER FROM

From: Dave Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 10:40:53 -0400

U.S. BUYS SUPERCOMPUTER FROM JAPAN
The National Science Foundation has chosen a NEC supercomputer for its
Colorado weather research center, the first time the U.S. government has
bought such a machine from a Japanese company.  U.S. supercomputer company
Cray Research had lobbied hard against the purchase, saying that NEC was
unfairly offering the machine below cost.  (Tampa Tribune 19 May 96 A8)