Incidentally Lebedev didn't want to have anything to do with the cloning project (ES), I wonder if that was a mistake as he could have done a better job of pres

Incidentally Lebedev didn't want to have anything to do with the cloning project (ES), I wonder if that was a mistake as he could have done a better job of preserving his project by doing a similar thing like Amdahl. Actually that would have been better for the Soviet Union, as they would have been able to export a competing IBM compatible design for hard currency (opposed to just copying it down to every detail). East Germany and other socialist countries were producing licensed IBM machines and they could no longer export these machines after the ES system got adopted.