Posted on 06/23/2014 8:38:15 PM PDT by wetphoenix
Russia's policy on Western technology is clear: The country can live without it, especially if key issues like economic sanctions, NSA spying and GPS cooperation aren't resolved to its leader's satisfaction. It looks like this tough stance extends to US-designed computer chips too, as a Russian business newspaper is reporting that state departments and state-run companies will no longer purchase PCs built around Intel or AMD processors. Instead, starting in 2015, the government will order up to one million devices annually based on the "Baikal" processor, which is manufactured by a domestic company called T-Platforms.
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Hobby my lilly white arse. Ever watch Babylon 5? that was ALL Amiga running a Video Toaster. Wintel/Mac didn’t catch up for nearly years. And at 20 times the cost.
Amiga was Unix with a GUI over it.
All things aside, read up on the Amiga. It is a fascinating story of tech way ahead of the market.
“And comrade...is powered by vodka! Is brilliant, no?”
Reminds me of a news article I read and cut out back in the early 1980s. There was a big international technology fair in Europe somewhere, and the Soviets were boasting about their own home-grown personal computers. Supposedly all Russian in design and manufacture. So a tech-savvy western reporter sat in front of the Soviet PC and tried it out. With a few keypresses he got into the system and displayed the contents of the ROM chips. All Apple-II machine code, including all the Apple copyrights embedded therein. Soviets slinked back to Moscow. Probably executed their chief computer scientist.
lol
You would think they would have rewritten that stuff
Zen question. What is the sound of one Freeper unshocked? ;)
That sounds exactly like Russian tech at its finest.
Considering the semiconductor plants are primarily in Taiwan I wish them luck.
That is the only hope going forward of independent countries wishing to remain unhacked from point of purchase. Build their own plants and tech ground up.
No, Lilly, I didn’t mean Amiga was a hobby OS.
One OS I wish would make a breakthrough is ReactOS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactos
If they could get it to work the way they wanted it would be an open source version of Windows 95 or XP.
I remember the Amiga, everything I heard was positive
Lilly. I gotta talk to Jim about changing my name. It’s who I feel I am inside... ;)
I miss my amy to this day. I had a 1200 with an accelerator board and a math coprocessor. Every morning was christmas. you set up a 3D render at 320x240 and hit start. the next morning you had a raytraced mirrorball ;)
Today my PC runs Skyrim at 1900x1700 at 60 frames a second in 24 bit color...And I remember the dreams I had of one day owning a $50,000 Silicon Graphics Onyx system...
A mighty 6 MIPS if memory serves.
lolz
Yup, programmers will do that, it's in their nature. Back in the 1970s and 1980s I was writing system code for IBM mainframes, OS/360 and up. I put back-doors in for myself. None destructive. One of them would sense if I was running a program, and give it highest priority over anything else running. Always got my results first before anything else among thousands of programs running at the same time. I left the systems group and checked ten years later, and my code was still there through various upgrades of the OS.
If people don't understand what it does, they leave the code alone. Probably true of reverse engineering chips.
lol
It is amazing the things that cost so much then would be cheap now.
I remember seeing an external CD-R for a thousand or two dollars I think, that was early 90’s I think.... now laptops have DVD-RW built in standard or have bypassed them completely.
It did everything way better cheaper and faster than wintel/mac. Graphics (Ham8 mode) smoked win 16 colors, Sound (Paula chip) made entire professional level (techno) albums in an era Wintel had Soundblaster 8). Games were years ahead of everything on the market.
What it did not have was a company with ethical officers who plundered it into bankrupcy. It could have ruled the world. SerieZly. It really did have it all techwise.
cool!
Good one. Sorta like the Iranian centrifuges that were sabotaged by infiltrated software. Tweak the parameters and boom! Major setback.
RWOW! Really held it’s value!
Well...compared to a 486 ;)
DVD? Any decent one should have Blu-ray, even nicer.
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