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From: mwm@VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike  Meyer, My watch has windows)
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Subject: Re: UUCP - USSR
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Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 05:32:32 EDT
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>> I suspect whatever minis or
>> mainframes they have are of very different architecture to
>> what we are used to.

I suspect otherwise. There was an article discussing computing behind
the iron curtain in Computing Surveys a couple of years ago. Seems
that most of the mainframes were clones of old large IBM boxes. The
peripherals were "badly-designed" plug compatables. All were running
off-the-shelf IBM software.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that similear things were about
the same for minis in the USSR - old PDP-11 designs, with maybe a
PDP/VAX here and there.

Anyone have more recent mainframe information, or hard mini
information?

	<mike