Talk:Elbrus (computer)
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If somebody makes an article about Soviet computing, this article form Creative Computing could help. -- Error 03:07, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
How about the Strela computer - a 43 bit machine = 35 bit mantissa, 6 bit exponent 1953-1956 169.207.90.122 03:16, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
The Strela led me to the parent URL which lists some unusual architectures, including machines with base-3 logic. Clearly, like the Strela, many of these architectures were original and creative, and not carbon copies of the US machines. 169.207.90.122 03:49, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Cyrillic Name
"(ЭЛЬБРУС)" is all caps, and probably not true to the Soviet & Russian usage. --Jerzy 02:57, 2003 Dec 7 (UTC)
[edit] Grossly wrong!
The E2K was not vaporware, the design was tape-ready. They simply did not have the 100mio dollars to pay for prototyping as only a western fab could manufacture it, not any domestic russian chip plant. You can read here that Intel bought the E2K design IP rights in 2004, that's what happened to this innovative design: www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20040525031730.html
The article shoud thus be corrected!
(Also, I shall mention the rumour over IRC, that a massively parallel E2K-like architecture machine was built in the late 1990s or early 2000s and is being used for crypto cracking. Elcomsoft recently cracked the RSA-512 protecting Intuit Quicken fiscal databases, which may well be interpreted as an attack on the financial aspects of US economy and national security. A year ago Moscow's Kaspersky Lab anti-virus firm somehow cracked the 660-bit strong encryption of an Office file encasing blackmail computer worm to let users get their documents black. People on IRC claim both feats were done with a massive multi-E2K-ish domestic russkie system. 82.131.210.162 12:19, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] No, Intel did not bought rights for E2K
Because it is Russian state property. Intel "bought" Babayan team, they left the company. MCST continued to work with new managment and new team. 147.91.1.41 19:13, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
