At a Bamboo meeting I met a man who felt there was a difference between "infrastructure" and "supplies" and who felt strongly that that difference was signficant. Alas, in the dance of a workshop where we move from table to table I didn't get the chance to pursue the distinction so I have to make it up, again, out of whole cloth. So, let me rephrase the question, What is computing infrastructure in humanities research and how is it different from supplies?
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