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I have no idea what you're smoking, but I'd like some of that, please. If they had developed their own system, they would be absolutely incompatible with standa
by anon4 11y ago
I have no idea what you're smoking, but I'd like some of that, please. If they had developed their own system, they would be absolutely incompatible with standard systems and have to reinvent everything, while now they can just build on what's already there. The slight specific advantage of doing one or two things differently is massively overshadowed by the advantage of being able to coöperate and exchange data easily with the rest of the world.
- tov_objorkin 11y agoThis one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer incompatible with everything ahaha
- ommunist 11y agoof course you do not have idea of what I am smoking. I smoked a lot of technical documentation in the 90-ies. The USSR had some sort of the Internet over radio for antiaircraft missiles distributed squadrons. Completely original. It had global ultra long wave system for submarines communication. And of course it had original competing computer architectures. That was not competition as you know it. Normally state financed a bunch of perspective tech, but only few best suited for economical situation went to series. Most of educational IT came from Bulgaria and East Germany, and there was colossal own production in Minsk. Minsk still produces a hell of cheap chips for watches by the way. But military applications and industrial IT was in many cases original, especially in nuclear energy production and space.
- dTal 11y agoLove that you assume the "rest of the world" would have gone with the American solution.