From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 16:57:05 -0700 (PDT)
To: 3umoelle@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Ulf Möller )
Subject: Re: Militarily Critical Technologies
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At 10:37 PM 4/20/97 GMT+0200, you wrote:
>>  Unique Equipment: Computers of 10,000 CTP, or greater,
>
>Pardon my igorance: What is CTP?
>Who is the author of that list?
>

CTP is an acronym for Composite Theoretical Performance, 
a definition of computer capability used in the Export 
Administration Regulations. See EAR Section 740.7 
Computers (CTP) at:

   http://jya.com/740.htm

The US Department of Defense, Office of the Under Secretary 
of Defense for Acquisition and Technology, is the author of 
the Militarily Critical Technologies List (MCTL). See 
attribution at:

   http://jya.com/mctl08.htm

This should not be contrued to mean that I'm not also ignorant
of what I quote and quack about weird lists of holy-shit technology.