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Brazil’s Computer Market Reserve: Democracy, Authoritarianism, and Ruptures
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
- IEEE Computer Society
- Volume 37, Number 4, October-December 2015
- pp. 64-75
- Article
- Additional Information
Since its demise in 1990, the technological-industrial policy for manufacturing computers in Brazil during the 1970s and 1980s has generally been regarded as a capital sin. This article provides a new perspective that runs against the widespread opinion that simplistically binds the roots of the market reserve policy to the country’s authoritarian military regime, allowing for a more complex explanation.