"Sunrise" of the programmer

The author of the book lived and worked in the USSR and after its collapse. The book has a lot of data on the history of the development of computers and information technology. The operating systems and some programming languages ​​of the last century are popularly described. Many pages are dedicated to the unique institute of the Research Institute of Sunrise. This institution was engaged in the creation of information and computing systems for the highest state governance bodies.
Without claiming special objectivity, the author represents his point of view on the merits and disadvantages of the country"s structure under the Soviet government and after the country"s transition to another social structure.
The author had to begin to program immediately in large projects for creating information and computing systems with non-trivial architecture. The book pays attention to the features of programming those years and the experience of creating large systems