The Register: China’s IT: An Inside Outsider’s View

“We had a letter from a man identifying himself only as Dr.
John who teaches at a University in China. What he had to say about
the Eastern technology revolution is something of an eye
opener:

“Over the past 4 years, I have had a chance to see the IT side
of China in a unique way. Living and working here in the Middle
Kingdom, being everything from a dialup user–hoping to get even an
Internet email page–to managing a small Linux cluster in support
of a research project. Now back to a LAN user on a university
network…”

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