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They lost the war on technology long ago. What happened after was just inevitable.
by afsina 11y ago
They lost the war on technology long ago. What happened after was just inevitable.
- ommunist 11y agoDude, we had not even started. I personally recall, that IT serving РБМК1500 nuclear breeder had nothing to do with Wintel and programming was on some sort of cyrillic Assembler. I knew one of the actual programmers in Vysaginas.
- afsina 11y agoConsider that even the mighty Japan, who was ahead of US on electronics lost the game on computers and software. Soviets, where science and technology were fully controlled by state were bound to lose the fight on consumer centric products. And this was not so different for Russian Federation, no time, no human resources, no entrepreneurship.