Warp wrote:

>   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.

Oh, sure, not debating that. It's just impressive to see how far we've come.

People still talk about requiring a "Cray supercomputer" to perform a 
given task. But it seems that the famous Cray-1 and Cray-2 were actually 
far less powerful than a typical desktop today. (My dad saw me looking 
at the Cray-1 and suggested using it just for POV-Ray. It seems to be 
this would actually be a rather bad idea...)

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