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In seventies Soviet Union decided to stop developing own computers and just copy IBM and Intel. With big delays 8086 was copied. Then Intel released 286. Soviet
by _0w8t 5y ago
In seventies Soviet Union decided to stop developing own computers and just copy IBM and Intel. With big delays 8086 was copied. Then Intel released 286. Soviet intelligence was able to get all documents and blueprints for that processor. Yet Soviet industry failed to copy that.
So I doubt that parents will be of any use for Russia.
- zelon88 5y agoAnd once the hardware gets copied what are they going to run on it? Is the entire country going to switch to some homebrew Linux distribution? If Microsoft would just brick every Windows device (revoke license agreement) and block Github in Russia; it would be akin to wiping the majority of the computers in Russia. This conflict would be over in days. Russia would have to surrender via carrier pigeon.