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From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: UUCP - USSR
Message-ID: <549@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 11:31:04 EST
Article-I.D.: mcrware.549
Posted: Tue Oct 27 11:31:04 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Oct-87 07:16:18 EST
References: <11217@orchid.waterloo.edu> <1622@cognos.UUCP>
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Ia.
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Summary: Ryad (USSR 360 clone) is indeed VERY clonish

In article <1622@cognos.UUCP>, roberts@cognos.uucp (Robert Stanley) writes:
> The first, and to the best of my knowledge still, the mainstay of
> Soviet mainframe computing is a clone of the IBM/360 architecture.
> Indeed, it is a sufficiently well reverse-engineered beast that at
> one point it was running a standard IBM operating system.

There was an article or two in *Computing Surveys* some years back about
computing in the USSR.  I was highly amused to see a news clip in the
Discovery Network's encore showing of highlights of the Soviet TV shows
they ran against *Amerika* which showed some people sitting at a Ryad,
sure enough with the IBMoid terminal.  The system messages were in
English, so as of the time those pictures were taken, they were probably
running a stock IBM OS without even translating the text of the error
messages.

		James Jones