RAL and Pantone serve different market, at least from my Europe-adjacent POV. Pantone is more used in print and branded sign design (like, colored plastic) as brandbooks typically specify Pantone colors. RAL is more industrial-oriented: it's more constrained but supported by manufacturers of industrial paints and coatings. Like, you buy coated corrugated metal sheets for your roof in RAL, and often can order paints by RAL code in your hardware store.
I cancelled my subscription when it got bought by space nazis. But I actually use the cloud agent flow cos it's amazing. Subsequently I built my own software factory based loosely on the OpenAI Symphony pattern.
Microsoft started this really. In Windows 95, they built a filing system so that applications went in specific folders in the Start menu. MS Office installed all its icons in the root of the Start menu, because self-importance. Can't expect everyone else to respect the conventions after that.
I visited a university supercomputer centre in Berlin that had been a merger of East and West Berlin facilities in about 1999. In the lobby they had a PDP-11 right next to the Eastern Bloc clone with its Cyrillic writing.
There were several PDP-11 clones made in Zelenograd near Moscow. Both multi-chip and, later, single chip versions.
Most quantities were 1801VM1 and 1801VM2. Second was much faster (over 10 MHz clock frequency). Both did not have extended addressing and were limited to 64k bytes address space. Later 1801VM3 appeared, containing 22 address extension much like PDP-11/70, but slightly different so original DEC programs could work with only 18 bit (256 kbyte).
These three CPU were not copy of any real chip from DEC. But there was another 5 chip CPU clone of DEC Professional 350. This model was cloned incredibly close, and called "Electronica 85".
The single chip ones were not originally supposed to be PDP-11 compatible - but there was a push to use PDP-11 ISA and Unibus/Qbus in that specific segment, so they reworked the microcode to implement PDP-11 instructions with minimal changes to the chip itself.
That sounds a lot like the building at Takustraße 9, which is the main building of the computer science department of Freie Universität Berlin. When I studied there from 2011 to 2019 the both PDPs were still standing in front of the lecture hall. The Zuse Institut Berlin, which hosts a high performance computer is next door from it.
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