Most Soviet computers were shoddy copies of Western models. DEC even left Easter eggs in Cyrillic on their silicon to Russian reverse-engineers:
But Computers are not everything. The US did some good tec but the SU too, it's not just black and white.
Re:Android Ported to RISC-V
by brokenkebab on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:44PM
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SU indeed had bright minds who had clever ideas, but its economy favored copying over own innovation. So outside of military field SU didn't have much to boast. "Made in USSR" was used mostly in sarcastic phrases by its own population.
>So outside of military field SU didn't have much to boast.
Well that was more or less the only field where money and researchers where available in huge quantities.
That's kind of a interesting article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Russian_innovation
The Soviets almost built their own internet before the U.S. It was ironically killed by the bureaucrats that it would have largely made redundant.
https://strelkamag.com/en/article/what-happened-to-the-sovie...
Re:Android Ported to RISC-V
by brokenkebab on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:38PM
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That's not true on any reasonable scale. One just can't claim 'almost built X' for every failed attempt to secure financial support for a research institute to work in more, or less X direction.
Really? The most performing rocket-engine for a long time was the Russian RD-170. The most impressive performing Fighter (aeronautic wise the Su-27) The fastest Sub also Russian, the biggest ICBM (R-36M) too and so on.
>best they managed to build were AKs, Soyuz, Chernobyl
The US did Agent Orange, Fat Man and Apollo 1, was that the best the US manged to build?