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From: b-davis@utah-cs.UUCP (Brad Davis)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: Soviet Computer Science?
Message-ID: <3849@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Jul-86 13:01:02 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 10 13:01:02 1986
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References: <359@nike.UUCP> <309@argus.UUCP>
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In article <309@argus.UUCP> ken@argus.UUCP writes:
>Of course this is only one person, but a person who used to work here
>had just came from the Soviet Union, and she was quite knowledgeable
>in 360 assembler and Fortran.  Obviously they have the equivalent of
>IBM over there.

I have read that the Soviets got a hold of a 360 and OS/360 back in the
late 60's or early 70's and were able to clone it.  For a long time the
operating system was the copied OS/360 and much of the hardware research
that the Eastern Block did was on trying to speed up their 360 clone.  I
think that this was true up until the 80's (and still may be true).

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Brad Davis	{ihnp4, decvax, seismo}!utah-cs!b-davis	
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