Why Did Soviet Computers Fail? - /g/ (#105838595) [Archived: 542 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/8/2025, 5:39:23 PM No.105838595
soviet
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 5:40:19 PM No.105838607
soviet/russia
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 5:41:08 PM No.105838612
>>105838595 (OP)
They focused on heavy industries and not some virgin nerd computers.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 5:41:53 PM No.105838615
>>105838595 (OP)
They did give the world Tetris, so they have that going for them, which is nice.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 5:48:35 PM No.105838699
Communism doesn't value innovation.
Capitalism also doesn't, but money is better than "prestige" in the party.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 5:54:48 PM No.105838789
Retarded, drunk mongol rape babies.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 6:11:33 PM No.105838996
>>105838595 (OP)
idk what did it say?
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 6:55:06 PM No.105839437
>>105838699
As we can clearly see now, capitalism is about to kill all the remaining innovation we have with AI and cheap shitskins on H1B visas.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 7:00:56 PM No.105839495
>>105838699
Centralization kills inovation one way or another.
Biggest amount of real inovation was achieved in 19 century by small family companies. Coorporate and goverment bureaucrats kill inovation.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 7:05:07 PM No.105839534
>>105838699
communism leads to innovation. if everyones a neet poorfag that leads to innovation. it just gets stiffled by the party.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 7:25:20 PM No.105839737
>>105839495
The reason the USSR didn't have an Internet is because every university had its own intranet and so did the military.
It's basically the same thing in other western countries with the postal service/universities/whoever else having their shitty competing intranets.
Unlike the USA which had ARPA bureaucrats to subsidize and centralize everything.
The amount of retardation in your post is astonishing.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 7:26:31 PM No.105839751
>>105838595 (OP)
feet
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 7:30:34 PM No.105839795
>>105838595 (OP)
Because it turned out that it was more profitable for Soviet bureaucrats to sell resources than to invest in science. Because Soviet bureaucrats of the 1980s were completely incompetent.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 7:32:52 PM No.105839812
>>105839737
>Unlike the USA which had ARPA bureaucrats to subsidize and centralize everything.

At best a boost to one inovation that would come anyways maybe 5 years later with less tehnical debt. Have you ever looked at how shitty and retarded computer networking is?
bureaucrats killed milions of ideas in start. Their purpose is to prevent distruptive inovations and keep current elites in power. Artifical scarcity is also not possible without bureaucrats.

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 7:37:56 PM No.105839855
>>105838595 (OP)
Communists are only good scaling up the current technology. Cheap and slave labor. They can't develop.
You can see what happened the first years after the war ended when they captured german rocket scientists.
After they returned germans, they failed on all heavy rockets, N1 and Energia.
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 7:52:31 PM No.105839980
>>105838595 (OP)
>why something related to Russia fails
Villas in the French Riviera
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 8:06:55 PM No.105840104
>>105838595 (OP)
you can only make a fair amount of electronics engineers every year, soviet focused on power and radio electronics based on many semiconductors, while the west focused on digital electronics based on silicon. both copied each other advantaged designs where possible
also computers were not that generalized when the urss collapsed, people compared different timeframes weirdly
riga had an advanced radio electronics fab, non silicon based one, GaAs i think, but that was demolished and replaced by a fucking mall. only lately with the needs of 5g we developed a similar enough tech...
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 8:12:54 PM No.105840153
>>105838595 (OP)
Ultimately it's because they were bound by their command economy, so they never had the big private sector push for more/better/cheaper general purpose computers that the west benefited from.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 8:13:40 PM No.105840161
>>105838595 (OP)
>why did soviet computers fail
Why did Soviet Russia fail? RETARD
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Anonymous
7/8/2025, 8:18:44 PM No.105840208
>>105838699
Communism values innovation well enough, it's just that the innovation needs to align with the regime's goals. If the regime wants aeronautical engineers and doesn't give two shits about computer nerds, then all the smart people will become aeronautical engineers pushing the boundaries in aeronautics and you'll have very few computer nerds making innovations in computers.

Capitalism values innovation just as much, it's just that the driving force for innovation is money (i.e. creating stuff that's generally useful to others) rather than the whims of bureaucrats and politicians.
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 8:26:21 PM No.105840281
>>105838595 (OP)
watch the video tard
Anonymous
7/8/2025, 11:45:05 PM No.105842069
>>105838595 (OP)
Love that channel. This guy's research is insane
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 12:02:48 AM No.105842204
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>>105838595 (OP)
Because government agencies lack of the economical incentives of the market, basically they have an infinity amount of resources provided by taxpayers.
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 12:24:48 AM No.105842384
>>105838595 (OP)
Because of #badfeet. Very shameful display
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 12:31:53 AM No.105842427
>>105839855
So who did they copy their space program from? The Venus landings?
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:00:10 AM No.105842682
Computers were a very open ended technology, it required thousands of companies to experiment, try different things and survival of the fittest would ensure the best ideas were iterated on. A command economy isn't fit for it, unlike something with a simpler goal, e.g. get a rocket into space.
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:05:32 AM No.105842728
The material science never got there. On the networking and software side, OKBs played like cutthroat capitalists wouldn't play nice with each other. The crypto commie hippies at Bell Labs were ideologically aligned with the idea of a worldwide web.

tl;dr - communists acted like capitalists and failed, capitalists acted like communists and succeeded
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:43:37 AM No.105843026
76i6789
76i6789
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>>105838595 (OP)
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:50:26 AM No.105843071
regardless the computer industry in eastern europe is dead now. It got replaced by femboys. The end.
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 1:55:29 AM No.105843100
>>105843026
Chat, are those videos real???
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 2:13:13 AM No.105843210
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>>105839534
What the fuck are you talking about? No one is a neet, work is not optional.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 2:15:30 AM No.105843228
>>105843100
SPVA got banned yesterday.
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 2:16:42 AM No.105843235
>>105843210
yes but its light work. You know like working for the government is light work these days. Although idk a lot of paperwork i hate paperwork. You know like tgey say communism is when the whole country turns into the dmv.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 2:21:04 AM No.105843264
>>105843235
You think everyone does paperwork under communism? Are you genuinely brain damaged? It's not light work, you dumbass. The entire system is so inefficient that everyone has to work to stay barely afloat.
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Anonymous
7/9/2025, 2:21:57 AM No.105843267
>>105838595 (OP)
Why ask a question whose answer was given in the video whose thumbnail you posted?
>Command economy can't keep up with rapidly evolving tech and market
>Economic woes of late Soviet Union dragging the projects down
>Late to understand full potential of computers
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 2:22:01 AM No.105843268
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>>105838595 (OP)
Failed? Ternary computing, a soviet-era idea might solve "AI / LLM heavy requirements for stable operation" question today. (Picrel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
Like it was ahead of its time or something.
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 2:25:16 AM No.105843294
>>105843264
ive been to cuba hmph
Anonymous
7/9/2025, 4:47:51 AM No.105844124
>>105840161
Because they ran out of money dealing with the chernobyl cleanup. Because they lost all face on the global stage due to chernobyl. They never recovered