[HN Gopher] The Soviet 1801VM2 LSI-11 Processor (2021)
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       The Soviet 1801VM2 LSI-11 Processor (2021)
        
       Author : throwup238
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2024-01-30 19:24 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | genman wrote:
       | There was this joke at Soviet time, mimicking the usual Soviet
       | propaganda: Soviet microprocessors - the most large
       | microprocessors in the world!
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       | They made many clones of Western designs but had also number of
       | original designs
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_microprocessors
        
         | 0xcde4c3db wrote:
         | I remember reading that some version of the MicroVAX CPU had
         | etched into it, in broken Russian, something approximating
         | "VAX: When you care enough to steal the very best". I'm not
         | sure how many Soviet engineers would have been familiar with
         | the Hallmark commercials to get the joke, though.
        
           | genman wrote:
           | I think they would have gotten the point without it, given
           | that they were into stealing its design - of course the
           | subtle point might have been not familiar for them.
        
           | IndrekR wrote:
           | Yes, on CVAX:
           | https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
        
           | thriftwy wrote:
           | The broken Russian reads more like an advertisement to buy
           | the real thing. Until you have supplied that quote I had no
           | idea, even though I saw this picture.
        
           | mepian wrote:
           | DEC celebrated this in their "VMS at 20" anniversary book in
           | 1997: https://vtda.org/docs/computing/DEC/VMS/VMSat20Book.pdf
        
         | mtve wrote:
         | ... with 16 pins and two carrying handles!
        
       | kragen wrote:
       | elbrus 2000 is real power
        
       | varjag wrote:
       | I happen to have three of those: one standalone NOS chip and two
       | on Q-Bus SBCs. One however has a crack in its cerdip package.
       | Here's what one of the boards looks like:
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       | http://blog.funcall.org/hadrware%20vintage%20pdp/2017/03/14/...
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       | Boards like these were used both in DVK systems and in different
       | CNC controllers.
        
       | ruslan wrote:
       | Arh.. nostalgia. I learnt to programme in PDP-11 assembly on
       | DVK-1 and BK-0010 somewhere in 89-90. That was my second assembly
       | though. The first one was MOS 6502 on Atari 800s, they were quite
       | popular in USSR in late 80th.Funny thing is that you still can
       | purchase KM1801VM3 chips in Russia for less than a $1 in bulk. I
       | once considered building a DVK clone to play with and to teach my
       | kids some proper assembly, but then found this DVK-FPGA project
       | on Github: https://github.com/forth32/dvk-fpga
        
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