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"Software in the Soviet Union: Progress and Problems", 1979, PDF

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. A Survey of Soviet Software
   2.1 Soviet Software before 1972
   2.2 Soviet Software since 1972

3. Systemic Factors 
   3.1 Software in the Context of the Soviet Economic System
   3.2 Internal Diffusion 
   3.3 Stages in the Software Development Process 
   3.4 Manpower Development 

4. Software Technology Transfer
   4.1 Mechanisms for Software Technology Transfer
   4.2 External Sources­
   4.3 The Control of Software Technology Transfer 

5. A Summary 
   Acknowledgments and Disclaimer 
   References

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

Probably worth reading.Will take a look.

[spamsink]

At least three different operating systems [надо думать, ОС ДИСПАК, ОС Дубна и ОС ИПМ] were developed for the BESM-6.
The multiplicity of BESM-6 system projects is partially the result of the
nontransferability of anyone system to all installations, and a lack of
communication between installations. Some of these efforts appear to
have been "crash" projects that did not permit the full utilization of the
software development talent available . All of these systems are primitive
by Western standards

The new large computers [Эльбрус] will probably be produced in small numbers and many of these will be
used at military and other restricted installations. The majority will eventually displace BESM-6s, so a BESM-6 emulator is likely to be an important element in early El'brus software offerings. By the time El'brus deliveries start, the receiving installations will have been using their
BESM-6s for up to 15 yr. There will be considerable resistance to program
conversion.

Всё правильно, кроме наивности насчет софверного эмулятора.

The CDC FORTRAN compiler was translated, line by line, into the machine language of the Soviet BESM-6 so that the applications programs could be run on this machine [the result has become known as "Dubna FORTRAN" (Saltykov and Makarenko, 1976)

Всю подноготную знают, шпионы!

Ну и в самом начале про проблемы с периферией и носителями там очень верно замечено.