__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Monday 07 May 2007 19:47 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, chrisv
> <chrisv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Mon, 07 May 2007 12:07:44 -0500
> <m5nu33p1pqo2t47oc5smjml76rppnc9icn@xxxxxxx>:
>> Rex Ballard wrote:
>>
>>>The average laptop today is faster than the supercomputers of even 2
>>>years ago
>>
>> LOL
>>
>> Sure they are, Rex. The "average" laptop, even.
>>
>
> 2 decades, maybe. That would put it in the Cray-2 era
> (1985), with 2 or 4 processors, 64 megaWords RAM minimum
> (each word being 64 bits). Its clock speed was 4.1 ns
> (243.9 MHz).
>
> A little later on is the Cray Y-MP, 1988.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2
> http://people.uwec.edu/AKGUNE/CFMIT/web/computer.html
>
> A basic Dell Inspiron 1501 offers 512 MB DDR2 SDRAM RAM
> (@ 533 MHz), presumably with a 64-bit datapath, and an
> AMD64 processor clock speed of 2.0 GHz.
Maybe he meant 'super' computer, as in high-end PC. Who knows...
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