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Definition of a Super Computer – 1984

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Wow! My cell phone has 128meg of ram. I guess it doesn’t have 4 processors. It’s hard to imagine that something so cool as a Cray-XMP only has a fraction of the processing power of first gen XBox (a 700mhz Pentium).

PS: The image above was borrowed (stolen) without permission from a talk by Herb Sutter. You can download the presentation slides for his talk from his website.

  • Arty the Alligator

    Notice the date, 1984. You’re putting a red bar and circle through a guy’s face because he said that 27 years ago? “WOW.. my phone is better than a phone from 1984!”. What a surprise.