The basis platform of the project “Fault tolerant computing systems”

The author recollects the history and presents the basic ideas of development in the 80's of the last century of architecture and prototype of fault tolerant computing system (FTCS) intended for designing computer control systems after the year 2000. The project required estimation and forecasting of reliable calculations development for over 10-year period. Consequently it determined the characteristics of future FTCS at a level of the next (fourth) generation computing systems. When at last the country's leadership got concerned about that problem, the world's computer industry was successfully manufacturing the FTCS of the third generation. The article presents general information about the Soviet FTCS project that was terminated in the 80's.