LISP Machines had all this long before

http://fare.tunes.org/LispM.html
LISP Machine will automatically discover its configuration, finding its network address, the namespace server, etc. CHAOS probably had all this long before DHCP first appeared in 1996

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Lisp was pretty niche in the US too. Anyway, you have pretty wrong idea about how science and engineering was conducted in the SU. Think of modern China if you want an idea how such things progress. One major disadvantage SU had for it was the externally imposed isolation, which is not something today's China has, and it's why it leads in certain areas.