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Re:How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the So... by fredgrott on Monday May 02, 2016 @05:01PM (#11615579)
how does this compare to an overlooked success of Soviet Tech ie CDMA..which was their invention..
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Re:How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the So... by bjp210 on Monday May 02, 2016 @09:44PM (#11617230)
Great lead. Glushkov's network ideas are definitely overlooked, but the parallel with the CDMA in weak. Perhaps a stronger parallel is with, say, Lashkaryov's p-n junction, which became an important innovation (semiconductor) but thanks to others elsewhere. Loren Graham's Lonely Ideas is a great book for more on the larger history of brilliant ideas and halting innovations.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/lonely-ideas

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