[TUHS] Russian Ancient UNIX stuff in the Archive

[Andreas Krennmair]

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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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