PDP1 3614
Not back then. Now the West is doing what they did...restricting knowledge distribution. Why do you think I keep harping about the...
It's not really a good parallel because none of those polities allowed their "kids" to play, especially the grown up kids.
This I find asounding. There had to have been something in the way they did their biz to have prevented this from happening. Could tie back to their ability to reverse engineer rather than create new engineering?
The Eastern bloc wasn't allowed. How long did it take them to allow science to be science rather than an extension of their religious beliefs? Given all that, JMF was very glad they didn't get our hardware when he looked at what those people did to with spit, vinegar and rare distributions of duct tape. I often wonder what Russia could have accomplished if they hadn't been hellbent on their religion spread.
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Oh, actually it's a better case than most people realize. The West is coasting on it. "All of us knew we were looking at something important, but I'm amazed...
Right. To "control" people, they got compartmentalized and were not allowed to yak. Bullpoo sessions had to be religious praying (their communism was a religion) rather than freely exchanging ideas. Every body had to be afraid of any kind of speculation until the ideas were "approved" by the leaders as not sinful.
I would doubt that portability was completely off their list of sanity checks. If all computing services and gear is made by one company (in this case the Russian govenment), no one would worry about portability of compebreastors; there were none. Since the religion had, as its first buttumption, that all Western products were sinful and would not exist after victory, compatibility talk about all of that stuff could get you end.
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