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  |          UNIX - all things UNIX                                         |
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  |        HEALTH - computers and medicine.                                 |
  |     EDUCATION - computers and education.                                |
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  |           PEN - pen computing                                           |
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  | SUPERCOMPUTER - all issues and developments related to super-           |
  |                    computers, parallel processing, etc.                 |
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