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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