    FILE NAME, ACTUAL TITLE, AND EXPLANATION OF FILES IN
                   USGovt/Bills/Computing/

pl-102-194.txt

The High Performance Computing Act

   The House-Senate compromise version of S. 272, which
   passed the House on November 20, 1991, the Senate on
   November 22, 1991 and signed by the President, 1991.
 
   This act came out of a bill nicknamed the "Gore bill" because of
   sponsorship by Senator Albert Gore, et. al.

sr387-101.txt

Report of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation on S.1067, High-Performance Computing Act of
1990.

   The "Report" summarizes and analyzes the High-Performance Computing Act
   of 1990, includes its legislative history, and explains and details
   changes to the initial proposal.  The report was issued in July 1990.
   The 1990 bill has been superceded by subsequent versions. The Report is
   included here to provide background or legislative history.

   (The "sr" stands for Senate report, 387 is the actual report number,
   101 is the congressional term number).


Testimony/<abbreviation>-s272.txt

Numerous organizations have given testimony in hearings on the Senate bill
272.  Which became public law 102-194 through a House Senate compromise bill
when signed by the president on December 9, 1991.

Files of this testmony given on March 1991 have been identified
individually through name or organization abbreviations in the Testimony
subdirectory:

filenames          Testimony of...

ala-s272.txt       American Library Association
arl-s272.txt       Association of Research Libraries
convex-s272.txt    Convex Computer Corporation
cspp-s272.txt      Computer Systems Policy Project, Apple Computer Inc.
ctc-s272.txt       Cornell Theory Center
gao-s272.txt       United States General Accounting Office
git-s272.txt       Georgia Institute of Technology
gore-s272.txt      Albert Gore, United States Senate
hollings-s272.txt  Ernest P. Hollings, United States Senate
lilly-s272.txt     Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company
ostp-s272.txt      Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive
                   Office of the President (U.S.)
sprint-s272.txt    Government Systems Division, U.S. Sprint Communications
                   Company Limited Partnership
ums-s272.txt       The University of Maryland System,
                   (Chancellor, Donald N. Langenberg)
