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   Colin McMillen (colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 05:21:42 JST Colin McMillen

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     • बुद्धीविनाषक् भेड़ मीपर् [Meeper]
     @pernia @colin_mcmillen @meeper Computers as an institutional thing were researched heavily in the 50s, 60s, 70s. Lots of original designs during the early part of that period but the Soviet bureaucrats eventually decided to just copy the IBM 360, various DEC iron, and the IBM PC. Once perestroika came around a number of smaller machines proliferated, usually cloning the Spectrum or doing something equally as simple (aside from oddities like the Elektronika BK being a PDP-11 based home computer). I used to have a bunch of good resources about this on hand, but for now I'll just say Ware 1959 is pretty good at explaining the early years, https://archive.org/details/ppr-cccp is a good overview of the supercomputing side of things, and translations of articles from Soviet trade periodicals are somewhere in the CIA's digitized archives.
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     þernia (pernia@cum.salon)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 11:26:33 JST þernia

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     @meeper @colin_mcmillen i dont know much about that, other than terniary computers. were computerd as prevalent as capitalist countries at the time?
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     बुद्धीविनाषक् भेड़ मीपर् [Meeper] (meeper@udongein.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 11:26:34 JST बुद्धीविनाषक् भेड़ मीपर् [Meeper]

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     @pernia @colin_mcmillen soviets had cool computers
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     þernia (pernia@cum.salon)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 11:26:36 JST þernia

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     @colin_mcmillen meanwhile communism: no computers
     
     niggerbros we're cooked!!!!
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     @pernia @colin_mcmillen @meeper also cybernetics and the soviet culture war around automated economic planning ties somewhere into this but that's another post for another day
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 22:23:41 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @colin_mcmillen well yes (don't you just love Intel?)
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     • meso [netzsphaere era]
     @meso @pernia @colin_mcmillen @meeper What about it? I know Bulgaria was a big hub for electronics in COMECON but unlike the USSR or East Germany I know pretty much nothing about the specifics of the industry there.
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     meso [netzsphaere era] (meso@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 01:10:37 JST meso [netzsphaere era]

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     • बुद्धीविनाषक् भेड़ मीपर् [Meeper]
     @allison @pernia @colin_mcmillen @meeper mention Pravetz
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     @pernia @meso @colin_mcmillen @meeper http://codeberg.org/ngn/k I certainly can't argue with the results
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     þernia (pernia@cum.salon)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 06:51:35 JST þernia

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     @allison @meso @colin_mcmillen @meeper bulgaria was given sand and they ate it
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     @pernia @meso @colin_mcmillen @meeper no but a bulgarian (nick nickolov) created the best free implementation of it
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     þernia (pernia@cum.salon)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 07:37:23 JST þernia

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     @allison @meso @colin_mcmillen @meeper did bulgarians create k?
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     @pernia @meso @colin_mcmillen @meeper it's like apl but suckless, alternatively, https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242
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     þernia (pernia@cum.salon)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 07:42:28 JST þernia

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     @meso @allison @colin_mcmillen @meeper explain to me what k is and why its unique
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     meso [netzsphaere era] (meso@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 07:42:29 JST meso [netzsphaere era]

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     @pernia @allison @colin_mcmillen @meeper yes