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L.I.Volkov, Head of the 4th Central Research Institute of Moscow Region
The title of the article combines the titles of two publications that appeared back in 1994 in the newspapers “Moscow Warrior” and “Krasnaya Zvezda”. The basis of the publications was an interview that military correspondent Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Bezhko took with me.
And these two publications caught my eye:
The second publication also has the subtitle “A unique computer network has been created at the research institute, but will it be in demand?”:
And it seems to me that this subtitle intersects with the excesses of today, with the hype around .
This project itself was born as our response to the American SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) and was called Anti-SDI. The work was controlled at the highest level. This can be clearly seen in the following photo:
When we started this work, nothing foreshadowed the end that is described in this interview. You can learn more about how we achieved the task and about the project itself. .
Of course, those who wish can find a reason to laugh at the terminology present in these publications, but this is not the main thing. The main thing is that this should sound like a warning today, so that we don’t step on the same old rake again and again.
I was thinking about whether or not to provide the full text of the publication and still decided to provide it (since the screenshots are still not of very high quality). Let me remind you that it was 1994 outside the window!
Our Orlan versus IBM
A unique computer network has been created at the research institute, but will it be in demand?
State tests took place in May. With a bang, as they say. In May, Colonel Vladimir Orlov and his team put into operation their brainchild - a local computer network, called it "Orlan". The customer is a very serious organization of the Russian Ministry of Defense. From the very beginning, the network showed itself brilliantly; experts noted a number of advantages even over the TRN network (the famous IBM company), widely known to programmers around the world.
It seemed that everything was possible to be proud of the victory and reap the fruits of many years of hard work. But recently, a young man approached the group leader, senior researcher, candidate of technical sciences, Colonel Orlov, with the words:
— Vladimir Nikolaevich, what are we going to do next? They don't pay, there are no orders. Who needs our brains? Let me go, they offered me a money position on local cable television.
And if this was the first such conversation. Paradox?
...Orlov became the head of a department at a reputable military research institute at the age of 32. Around the same time, in 1987, this very interesting, but also very difficult problem appeared. Only professional computer scientists can handle it. Then the men caught fire and decided to do it. And they worked furiously, regardless of anything. True... True, of those “elders” Orlov is now in the singular. And to brand his former like-minded people with shame would be, at the very least, incorrect: each of them, in market conditions, simply wants to support their family with dignity.
He, Orlov, continued to infect with the idea those in whom he saw real helpers. Mikhail Akulenok, Alexander Treshchenkov, Lev Ivanovich Volkov, Anatoly Grigorievich Boyarsky, Oleg Redko, Valery Blazhnov, Evgeny Tsalp, Mikhail Yashmanov... The military ranks of these people are from senior lieutenant to lieutenant general. But I deliberately named only first and last names, because the contribution to the common cause here is clearly not measured by the number of stars on the shoulder straps.
“Golden specialists, computer scientists from God, any world-famous company would want to have them,” Orlov characterizes his colleagues.
Everything is fine, but one thing is unclear - what will happen next with this team and with the local network it developed?
For expert reference.
Almost all ES computers, almost any PP computers from ES 1840 to PC AT/386 can be included in Orlan. The local network is XNUMX% compatible with IBM. Remote access from workstations to centralized databases is provided, and maximum protection from interference and viruses is provided.
By the way, not only our experts praised the system. Recently, American engineers and programmers came to the institute. They shook their heads and uttered enthusiastic epithets.
(My comment is that we disarmed then).
But despite all this, the work turned out to be a one-time job, for one customer. No one is talking about the series yet, although there are many people interested both among military institutions and among civilian offices, but no one has the money.
So the brains of the “golden computer scientists” are occupied not so much with how to further improve the system, but with searching for an answer to the question: “Is their work, their potential, really needed today?” And as before, unique specialists from a unique military research institute, candidates of science, are leaving to lay cables and install equipment through which an information flow of video grayness will flow through a residential area onto TV screens.
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Bezhko.
PS And our brainchild in the end . True, it also took part in .
Source: habr.com