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The Soviets used to reverse engineer and clone DEC VAX computers. When the DEC engineers heard about this, they added a message in Russian to one of their CVAX CPUs: "VAX - when you care enough to steal the very best"

https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html



«Когда вы заботите довольно воровать настоящий лучшей»

Doesn’t parse grammatically, but close enough.


The message was no doubt a parody of the Hallmark (greeting card company) advertising tagline of "When you care enough to send the very best".


Maybe you touched upon the real meaning here.. attention competitors DONT MESS WITH TEXAS (bang!)


Soviets replicated all sort of stuff, 8bit controllers, all the way up to i386.


They even cloned IBM mainframes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ES_EVM




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