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Re:Why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer ... by bboreham on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @02:01PM (#15603816)
FWIW shared phone lines and long waits were standard in the UK too, prior to ~1980.

I believe a combination of digital exchanges coming in and the privatisation of British Telecom fixed it.

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