For some pictures of the Kronos 2.6 WS, see the Science Museum Group page about their machine:<p><a href="https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8565007/kronos-2-6-ws-32-bit-workstation-computer-russian-academy-of-science" rel="nofollow">https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co85650...</a>
That's a cute architecture. Very 1980s.
Stack-oriented, sort of like byte code. Kind of like Burroughs machines, with some influence from the Intel iAPX 432.<p>Vanilla architecture won out over all that machine-level cleverness.
To give you some context, it was a local research (not mass produced) project seemingly arbitrarily financed by being hooked as a trail car to some government space program workstation development contract in turbulent late '80s and early '90s. That explains both high (interesting choices) and low (not even bothering to compete with mainstream) points.
Sounds a little bit like a similar attempt with a different approach from Intel the iAPX 432 that also tried to support high level languages in hardware and was a market failure.