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	As to our KL-10 plans, we absolutely need some more software and
cannot simply use TENEX and we also need some hardware in order to get
high speed i-o such as our swapping disk and TV cameras mapped into user
areas of memory.  We can make one for about $20K or replace the equipment
by D.E.C. stuff at several hundred K.  Unfortunately, ARPAs justifiable
reluctance to let us build one-of-a-kind hardware may have hardened into
a hard-and-fast rule that will cost very much more if we are to be able
to accept our free KL-10.

	As to time-sharing, I think there are new discoveries to be made in
time sharing, and ARPA can benefit DoD by sponsoring some of the research.
Specifically, DoD pays for expensive special purpose time-sharing systems
that are usually debugged by people carrying cards around.  A good universal
time-sharing system could accept these special subsystems, e.g. inventory
or command-and-control systems, and development time would be greatly
shortened.  We would like to do some of this research.