Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 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).

  On the other hand, we are talking about 1976 here. With regular desktop
computers we were talking about KMIPS and KFLOPS and a few kB of RAM at
most.

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                                                          - Warp

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