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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: net.cse
Subject: Re: Re: Soviet Computer Science?
Message-ID: <382@argus.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Jul-86 01:22:05 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 25 01:22:05 1986
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In article <299@hdsvx1.UUCP>, hoffman@hdsvx1.UUCP (Richard Hoffman) writes:
> In article <359@nike.UUCP>, watson@nike.UUCP (John S. Watson) writes:
> > Being a curious soul I've often wonder what computer language (systems)
> > is used by a typical Soviet computer scientist.   
> The June '78 issue of _ACM_Computing_Surveys_ stated:
> 
>     During the past ten years the Soviet Bloc has deigned, developed
>     and put into operation a series of upward compatible, third
>     generation computers known as the Unified System, or Ryad.  This
>     family is effectively a reverse engineering of the IBM S/360
>     system.

Heck, I hear they even duplicated the bugs in the original 360
instruction set!

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