Edsger #Dijkstra, a classic software engineer who visited the U.S.S.R in the late 1970s, said in a public speech defivered in the Grand Hall of the Academy of Sciences in Leningrad that he regarded the fact that the U.S.S.R. produced #IBM computers as the biggest U.S. victory in the #ColdWar. (i a) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1991