18 Mar
2003
18 Mar
'03
11:52 p.m.
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On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 09:12 Uhr, SZIGETI Szabolcs wrote:
Unix. (Incidentally, I wish once someone wrote the
history of how the
Eastern Block countries managed to clone western machines and get
software
for it. I've heard a lot of fascionating stories, involving some really
genious work, which of course the Western countries didn't appreciate
at all
then.)
I think the "Communications of the ACM" had some articles about
computing in the Eastern Block in June 1991.
had. It was a Russian port of the 7th edition, only
maybe a couple of
years
after 7th ed. were created. So they concluded that all the COCOM and
other
export control regulations weren't really effective :-)
Are you aware of the "KGB hackers" case in Germany? German hackers
broke into systems, downloaded all data they could get, went to East
Berlin, and sold it to the Russians. There's a nice German movie about
the whole case, called "23". I don't know if it's been synchronized to
other languages, but that movie is really worth watching. Full of
historic hardware. :-)
Regards,
Andreas
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