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The Soviets used to reverse engineer and clone DEC VAX computers. When the DEC engineers heard about this, they added a message in Russian to one of their CVAX
by scrlk 3y ago
The Soviets used to reverse engineer and clone DEC VAX computers. When the DEC engineers heard about this, they added a message in Russian to one of their CVAX CPUs: "VAX - when you care enough to steal the very best"
https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
- bewaretheirs 3y agoThe message was no doubt a parody of the Hallmark (greeting card company) advertising tagline of "When you care enough to send the very best".
- xattt 3y ago«Когда вы заботите довольно воровать настоящий лучшей» Doesn’t parse grammatically, but close enough.
- Throw73747 3y agoSoviets replicated all sort of stuff, 8bit controllers, all the way up to i386.
- greenyoda 3y agoThey even cloned IBM mainframes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES_EVM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES_EVM
- 486sx33 3y agoMaybe you touched upon the real meaning here.. attention competitors DONT MESS WITH TEXAS (bang!)