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Most Soviet computers were shoddy copies of Western models. DEC even left Easter eggs in Cyrillic on their silicon to Russian reverse-engineers: https://micro.
by f00zz 6y ago
Most Soviet computers were shoddy copies of Western models. DEC even left Easter eggs in Cyrillic on their silicon to Russian reverse-engineers:
https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
- nix23 6y agoBut Computers are not everything. The US did some good tec but the SU too, it's not just black and white.
- brokenkebab 6y agoSU indeed had bright minds who had clever ideas, but its economy favored copying over own innovation. So outside of military field SU didn't have much to boast. "Made in USSR" was used mostly in sarcastic phrases by its own population.
- nix23 6y ago>So outside of military field SU didn't have much to boast. Well that was more or less the only field where money and researchers where available in huge quantities. That's kind of a interesting article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_innovation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_innovation
- notabee 6y agoThe Soviets almost built their own internet before the U.S. It was ironically killed by the bureaucrats that it would have largely made redundant. https://strelkamag.com/en/article/what-happened-to-the-soviet-internet https://strelkamag.com/en/article/what-happened-to-the-sovie...
- brokenkebab 6y agoThat's not true on any reasonable scale. One just can't claim 'almost built X' for every failed attempt to secure financial support for a research institute to work in more, or less X direction.