Snopes on Ken Olsen

[Michael Sokolov]

Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> wrote:

> > Soviet BK0010,
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ----> COOL! :-)

Are you familiar with it?  I never thought its very existence was known
anywhere outside the former USSR!  I mean it wasn't secret or anything,
just something I can't imagine anyone else knowing about (USSR wasn't
exactly a computer exporter :-).  Well, OK, there was some Eastern Bloc
computer technology that was significant enough to be at least known
in the West (Robotron for example), but I can't imagine something as
little as BK0010 being known anywhere in the West.

Its CPU chip, K1801VM1, was really cool though: it was a complete
single-chip implementation of an LSI-11 CPU with Q-bus on its pins.
DEC never had that.

MS