Just to be clear, this article is about an attempt to reimagine the <i>peripherals</i> (so that several people in a household could use the same computer at the same time), not the computer itself, as in balanced-ternary SETUN, or the ferrite/diode systems in which the Soviets held the lead in the early 01960s until they were finally obsoleted by transistors getting cheaper.<p>The article doesn't touch on the architecture of the actual computer at all, but we can presume that, like most designs of the era (both Soviet and non-), it followed industry standards.