LOL @ "kremvax", "mcvax" and "moskvax"! I recall programming on a DEC VAX in FORTRAN many years ago, coaxing it to do complicated astronomical coordinate conversion calculations a damn sight faster than I could do them by hand. I got it to process the entire Catalog of Nearby Stars, Third Edition (Gleise and Jahreiss) from equatorial to galactic coordinates in all 3 dimensions in about 30 seconds - that's 3803 stars - and when we installed a VAX II to replace the original, the VAX II could do the whole thing in about 3 seconds!
Whoulda thunk the Soviet Kremlin could get their grubby mitts on a VAX?
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Whoulda thunk the Soviet Kremlin could get their grubby mitts on a VAX?
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake