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IBM fined $8M for seling RS6000 to Russia

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday August 02, 1998 @06:43AM from the naughty-big-blue dept.

Kevin Forge sent us a link to an InfoWorld story where you can read that IBM was fined $8M for selling RS6000 to Russia. How long before beowulf falls victim to the same restrictions? Soon we won't be able to export pentium chips because *gasp* if someone gets a thousand of them and Beowulf, they can build a supercomputer...

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