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From: bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: USSR Microcomputers: Behind who?
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Date: 6 May 89 01:04:36 GMT
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From: Ted Holden, HTE
 
Darin Johnson, of  Lockheed AI Center, Menlo Park, writes:
 
 
>>I was visiting the Space Research Institute in Moscow a little over
>>a year ago.  At least there, they have standardized on one kind
>>of computer: IBM clones.
 
>At least we don't have to worry them getting any technical
>advantage over us.
 
I'm not the least bit worried about the Russkies gaining any technical
edge over American private industry;  the U.S. government, however, may
be another story.  Picture flying an F-30, all of its systems programmed
in Ada by one of the nifty companies which regularly make headlines for
their dealings with the U.S. military, along with an appropriate mix of
8-A subs, against a MIG-45 programmed in Borland's Turbo C 2.0 or Zortech's
C++ (either of which said Russkies might have for roughly $100)...  Care
to bet who'ld win??
                                      
Ted Holden
HTE