[ih] Why the Soviet Internet Failed

[Johan Helsingius]

I still remember the first (and last) Soviet UNIX conference in 1990
or 1991. Bill Joy from Sun was there, and Sun was donating a big batch
of obsolete Sun 3 machines.

In one session, a bunch of Soviet/Russian academics were debating how
to port UNIX to some big Russian mainframe computer, and Bill Joy
stepped up to the mic and commented "you do realize that any of those
Sun 3:s will run circles around that mainframe".

https://www.osti.gov/biblio/458760

	Julf

On 10/09/2023 11:26, Frantisek Borsik via Internet-history wrote:
> I have visited Akademgorodok, so called “Soviet Silicon Valley”, a few
> years ago.
> 
> It was one of the centers of technology/Internet development in the Soviet
> Union.
> 
> https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200625-the-ussrs-secret-siberian-democracy
> 
> https://www.britannica.com/place/Akademgorodok
> 
> https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1956-2/akademgorodok/
> 
> https://www.ewdn.com/category/regions-and-cities/akademgorodok-novosibirsk/
> 
> 
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Frank
> Frantisek (Frank) Borsik
> 
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> 
> On Sun, 10 Sep 2023 at 4:32 AM, Dave Taht via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
>> Today I stumbled across a channel that talks about failed computer research
>> results worldwide, from the 1950s through the 70s,  and this one shed light
>> on why the USSR computing environment developed how it did.
>> It intersects with the arpanet in 1969 about 2/3s of the way through:
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLOD5f-q0as
>>
>> ... but doesn't make it all the way to the Kremvax.
>>
>>
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>> Oct 30:
>> https://netdevconf.info/0x17/news/the-maestro-and-the-music-bof.html
>> Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos
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