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They also managed to almost fully clone a MicroVAX II in 1990: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotron_K_1820 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotron_K_1820 Fund
by formerly_proven 2y ago
They also managed to almost fully clone a MicroVAX II in 1990: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotron_K_1820 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotron_K_1820
Fundamentally the Soviets doctrine of only cloning meant they were fucked to begin with. MVII started development in 1982, came out in 1985, K1820 could only start by 1986 and was finished by 1990.
- flohofwoe 2y agoThe alternative (of an entirely incompatible hardware evolution) would have been much more suicidal though. The whole point of computer hardware is to run software (and mostly quite boring office or some process-controller software). And by cloning the hardware you save the software development cost (e.g. most East German productivity software were pirated copies with the trademark strings sloppily replaced).
- InDubioProRubio 2y agoAnd highly hierarchical systems suck at developing software, as they go waterfall by default and in case of a fault do not retract.