Russian government dumps Intel and AMD in favor of homemade processors

engadget ^ | Sharif Sakr

[GeronL]

That is a good guess.

[FreedomPoster]

Someone also mentioned military; another thought that came to mind - those things could be embedded in something like the Aegis system, or Trident II launch systems, etc.

[publius911]

Russia's policy on Western technology is clear: The country can live without it.
As long as they can copy it.

I would be surprised if the U.S. designed chip that was copied and cloned hasn't already been identified.

[GeronL]

lol, have they already cloned it?

[publius911]

I was reading about some of those hobby OS systems and a few were pretty interesting.

With the use of today's microprocessors, Basic would really scream, and was perfectly adequate for literally anyone to code a workable program in a few hours or days.

I really wish I could get my hands on an undated version of HP Basic. I actually coded literally any engineering task I wanted, text only, which at the time were the most tedious time-consuming tasks.

Coordinate Geometry, Geodesy, structural, hydraulics, statics, dynamics, all were rendered accessible to anyone in control of High school math.

I shouldn't have been surprised, but I was literally amazed when using a "toy" computer and double precision math we could replace a 5-pound book of trigonometric functions for every second of arc on the fly.
Early 1980s...