An interesting question I already thought of myself. A quick search with Google revealed the following links:
o An ACM article
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-3/soviet.html
o An article about a mainframe called BESM-6 (interesting technical details)
http://www.mailcom.com/besm6
o Again something about BESM-6
http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/text/triumph.htm
o A byte column with some notes about russion soft and hardware
http://www.byte.com/column/monitor/BYT19990722S000 4
o Some history (including inventors, starts about midpage)
http://www-scm.tees.ac.uk/users/a.clements/History /History.htm
http://www.byte.com/column/monitor/BYT19990722S000 4
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An interesting question I already thought of myself. A quick search with Google revealed the following links: o An ACM article http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-3/soviet.html o An article about a mainframe called BESM-6 (interesting technical details) http://www.mailcom.com/besm6 o Again something about BESM-6 http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/text/triumph.htm o A byte column with some notes about russion soft and hardware http://www.byte.com/column/monitor/BYT19990722S000 4
o Some history (including inventors, starts about midpage)
http://www-scm.tees.ac.uk/users/a.clements/History /History.htm
http://www.byte.com/column/monitor/BYT19990722S000 4
Why spending money on apple doing that. At todays stage of the desktop, everybody can choose a theme he likes best. I agree that CDE is awful, though.