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TIL When the US denied India supercomputers due to sanctions imposed after India's nuclear test, India made its Supercomputer "Param 8000" which proved to be the world's second-fastest computer defeating the USA. It slowly started eating th US market being 23 times cheaper than the US "CDC 6600"

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