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> When your country struggles to produce basic things like energy, and your scientists are routinely jailed based on a dictator's whims The best I can guess is
by eps 5y ago
> When your country struggles to produce basic things like energy, and your scientists are routinely jailed based on a dictator's whims
The best I can guess is that you are referring to Korolev's work on the rocket-powered artillery during the WW2, when his entire crew was forced to work from a Siberian labour camp. So the gratituos jailing of engineers is off by 40 years from when this CPU was created.
The remark on struggling to produce energy is also a weird one. No idea where you got this from and how it relates to the CPU power profile.
I can relate to the need to crap on all things Soviet, but at least keep it factually correct and relevant.
- cft 5y ago> gratituos jailing of engineers is off by 40 years from when this CPU was created. Sakharov, the father of Russian hydrogen bomb was exiled for 7 years. He lived under house arrest, sick when this CPU was made: https://history.aip.org/exhibits/sakharov/from-exile.html https://history.aip.org/exhibits/sakharov/from-exile.html
- huhtenberg 5y agoCertainly, but that's not what the GP implied. Sakharov was persecuted by the state because of his political views, not because of his underwhelming engineering track record.
- flohofwoe 5y agoAndrei Tupolew was also jailed during the Great Terror [1] (and some of his close colleagues were executed), all too common story under Stalin. They even had their own prison just for aircraft designers! But I guess you're right, that's off by 40 years in this case. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Tupolev#Sharashka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Tupolev#Sharashka