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Here’s another example of their theft: smuggling of IBM, DEC, and Intel systems, reverse engineering them, and making clones that worked with varying success/fa
by TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
Here’s another example of their theft: smuggling of IBM, DEC, and Intel systems, reverse engineering them, and making clones that worked with varying success/failure
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_computing_technology_smuggling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_computing_technology_...
- ch4s3 4y agoYou're exactly right, it's frustrating that there's a particular brand of technophilic tankie who loves to talk up Soviet computing and denies how much of it was based on stolen devices and schematics.