> - Commodore 64 (6510 @ ~1 MHz)
> - ZX Spectrum (Z80 @ 3.5 MHz)
> - Pentium I @ 66 MHz
> - Pentium II @ 233 MHz
> - Pentium III @ 500 MHz
> - Pentium IV @ 4.0 GHz
> - Intel Core 2 Quad @ 3.0 GHz

No idea about the processing power of those, but yesterday I saw a 
Cray-1 supercomputer.

I say "supercomputer"... According to Wikipedia:

- 80 MHz clock.
- 160 MIPS theoretical peak.
- 136 MFLOPS typical.
- 250 MFLOPS peak (for heavily vectorised workloads).
- 8 MB RAM max.
- 5.5 tons.
- 115 kW for the basic system (NOT including cooling).

I'm having great difficulty finding numbers, but I'm told modern 
computers are measured in multiple GFLOPS rather than MFLOPS. And 
certainly they seem to hit tens of thousands of MIPS (although for 
radically different instruction sets that's not a teffically meaningful 
comparison).

It seems likely that my old laptop is more powerful that this 5.5-ton 
Freon-cooled monster.

I'm now trying to find out if my laptop out-powers the Cray-2. I still 
have a book somewhere claiming this to be "the world's most powerful 
computer"...

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