• el_bhm@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    The story is way more interesting. Cannot dig the article, but dropping soviet originated hardware had to do also with programming languages. Western entities started with heavy lobbing, often dressed as grass root movement, for languages that for western based systems. Not sure how well supported this thesis was, but it was interesting that preferences of engineers got used for market absorption.
    Not a new thing by today’s standards.

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      7 months ago

      I’m pretty sure there is an English language compiler for it now, but I don’t know when that became available.