From: m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Tue, 10 May 94 14:11:54 PDT
To: Dave Otto (the Wizard of TOTOSoft) <dave@marvin.jta.edd.ca.gov>
Subject: Re: A CC of my letter to Gelernter@cs.yale.edu
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Dave Otto (the Wizard of TOTOSoft) writes:
 > Mike McNally says:
 >  > a chip whose production is subsidized by the government would probably
 >  > be pretty cheap.         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 > 
 > Your tax dollars at work.

True, of course, but looking at things as they are today a lot of my
tax dollars are long gone into the pockets of the contractors and NSA
people who did the design.  A commercial product not using Clipper is
at a disadvantage from the get-go.  Seems to me this is already true,
and short of exploiting the "investment gap" created in the Clipper
project by the inherent waste and inefficiency of Government-driven
projects, it'd be tough.  Certainly, there's a tremendous marketing
problem (which, I realize, our evangelism might help ameliorate).

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